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2022-03-31-accounts

Company registration number: 05562231

Charity registration number: 1118732

Camden People First

(A company limited by guarantee)

Annual Report and Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Camden People First

Contents

Reference and Administrative Details 3
Chair's Report 4
Development Manager Report 5
Trustees' Report 6 to 11
Independent Examiner's Report 12
Statement of Financial Activities 13
Balance Sheet 14
Notes to the Financial Statements 15 -22

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Camden People First

Reference and Administrative Details

Chairman Mr Jide Akinbiyi Trustees Ms Alice Etherington Gill Arnold Angela Davies Christine Mannion Raymond Reid Dave Bryan Michaela Mamara Ursula Allsopp

Secretary Frances Mostafa Principal Office 215 Eversholt Street Amthill Square Eversholt Street London NW1 1DE 215 Eversholt Street

Registered Office Amthill Square Eversholt Street London NW1 1DE The charity is incorporated in United Kingdom.

Company Registration Number 05562231

Charity Registration Number 1118732

Independent Examiner Morlai Kargbo, FCCA Manging Director Moracle Limited Chartered Certified Accountants & Registered Auditors 960 Capability Green Luton, England, LU1 3PE United Kingdom

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Camden People First

Chair's Report

My name is Jide and I am the chair of Camden People First. I have been a member of Camden People First for almost all my life. I have a learning difficulty as I do not like to say I have a learning disability. Because if I do get the right support, I can do things independently with very little help.

I have been very sad and upset because during the Covid we have not been able to meet as members and trustees of Camden People First and I really do miss my friends. I missed our discos and healthy eating lunch club.

Camden People First staff and volunteers have been working very hard to make sure people with learning difficulties like myself get the right support they need and to be able to speak up for themselves. We are very lucky to get good staff as they help to keep the office open (1) day a week during this difficult time and we plan to have the office open (3) days a week from April 2022.

Most of our members have taken the covid and flu vaccine, so we are ready to go out and start doing things that we enjoying doing best.

We are planning a lot of good things for next year and we do hope there will be no more covid to stop us from doing what we enjoy doing best.

Thank you to everyone that has supported us during this time.

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Camden People First

Development Manager Report

For this financial year, Camden People First has been successful in empowering its staff, volunteers and users involved by providing in-house on line and telephone advice, support with supervision and training pertaining to the various aspect of their job roles. My interaction with staff, users involves and volunteers increased to 55%.

As we were still partially open for direct face to face physical contact in the office due to the Covid restraints, it has been difficult to provide some of our invaluable services directly to our members, this service includes our social activities such as our quarterly discos and healthy eating lunch club. It has also been difficult for us to have our quarterly members meeting as most of our members are not fully equipped or in favour of online meetings through zoom.

As the development manager, it has also been a very trying period for me due to family bereavements and impacted health issues, hence fundraising for the organisation has not been to prioritise which has a dull impact on the organisation income generating process. I was only able to do one application to Camden council (CIL) programme for £44,314 and this was successfully awarded in April 2022 for our Easy read project.

30% of my time was also spent on attending network, partnership and collaborative meetings via zoom and teams. The introduction of Camden Council Time to Spear database (CRM) and the Advice Network saw and increase in collaboration partnership working with the advice network and 25% of my time spent on emails communication.

Overall, we have planned together with management committee to make fundraising a number (1) priority for the next financial year and since September 2002, we have been writing applications and proposal for various project funding. We have reached the second stage of our QPM kite mark and we hope to achieve the award by June 2023.

I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all those who have supported Camden People First, especially Camden community partnership team for funding our new website which is seeing a huge increase of new people visiting the site and requesting support for our advice and advocacy service.

Thank you to all the following organisations and people who have helped us throughout this financial year:

National Lottery Fund

Camden Council

Photo symbol

Potter Brookes

St Mary’s Magdalen Centre

Lesoft-wareman

Volunteers and staff

Moracle Limited

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Camden People First

Trustees’ Report

FINANCIAL REVIEW

The Charity's income was £99,650 in the year ended 31 March 2022 compared to £122,638 in the year ended 31 March 2021. The total expenditure amounted to £92,455 in the year ended to 31 March 2022 compared to 98,642 in the year ended 31 March 2021.

Camden People First ended the 2021/2022 financial year with a fund balance carried forward of £38,199 in general unrestricted funds. The Charity’s reserves policy is to maintain unrestricted reserves to cover three months’ core expenditure.

The Charity’s free reserve ( i.e. Funds not tied up in Fixed Assets or Designated) stood at £31,152 at the year end.

Reserves Policy

The organisation's current reserves policy is simply to maintain sufficient cash flow for known commitments and to:

Advice and Advocacy Project

At Camden People First , we support people with learning disabilities to gain confidential and free advice, we may also advocate on their behalf when needed for housing repairs and benefit applications. Our aim is to support people with learning disabilities to achieve independence and a full and active involvement with their community.

In total during the period 1[st] April 2021 – 31[st] March 2022 CPF supported 23 service users with learning disabilities and diverse needs and requests. (Please refer to the graphs)

We have been successful in achieving such outcomes by working alongside other local charities and agencies via Camden Council’s Advice and Network (CAN) website on the Time to Spare platform, which we joined in January 2021. The website is updated regularly with input from attending organisations Network meetings enabling each agency to monitor and record confidential information whilst maintaining privacy for our Service users.

Though we had a slow start at the beginning of 2021, engagements have steadily increased throughout the year, especially after we joined CAN (Camden Advice Network) in July 2021. This is reflected by a sharp increase in the number of Service Users engaging with our charity through the later stages of 2021, which will become more evident in the next financial year of 2022/2023.

During this financial year Covid impacted the number of service users interacting with our services, as our office and many other agencies were partially closed.

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Camden People First

Trustees’ Report (Continued)

Demography

Camden People First , (CPF) is based in an area of North West London with an above average Bangladeshi population, most of whom Bengali is their first language. To overcome this, we have one of our Trustee members volunteer as our internal translator and he has been very proficient in providing this support, usually with completing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) application forms, for Bengali parents who are applying for their children.

We also maintain via our own internal database (Excel sheets) information contact with other local agencies whom can support our Bengali client base and others that we might not be able provide support for due to resource constraints.

CPF provide support for people with learning disabilities from all walks of life. we are inclusive of all diversities, races, sexualities, cultures and beliefs.

Support provided

As shown in the graphs above we have supported many of our Service users with a variety of needs, some of which are listed below;

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Camden People First

Trustees’ Report (Continued)

Total users by requests for support

Total User
Engagements		 Drop
in		 Advice &
Advocacy		 Phone
Advice		 Female Male Ethnicity Information Benefits Appts Other
526 152 276 197 193 185 Bengali - 5 77 126 73 380
Black British -
2
English - 2
Ethiopian - 1
Portuguese - 1
Mixed - 1
Irish - 1
African - 1
Others - 9

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Camden People First

Trustees’ Report (continued)

Future Developments

CPF look forward to a bright future in continuing to support all those in need who have learning disabilities within Camden, Islington and Hampstead. Through the Cost-of-Living Crisis fund which has replaced The Household support fund, we will continue to support those in need of financial support, food, advice, and advocacy.

Easy Read Project

Throughout the past year during April 2021 and March 2022, our Easy Read team of (4) adult with a learning disability, supported by a coordinator have been quite busy.

We worked with NHS North East London helping them to put their LeDeR report into Easy Read, did some photo shoots with photo symbol, worked on our newsletters to let everyone know what we were up to and what was happening around the world, and we also put many important policies into Easy Read.

Both the Easy Read team and myself as the coordinator all enjoy working together and I am happy with the way it has been going. Members all listen to each other with respect and have improved their reading skills, helping each other out when someone is stuck and remembering not to speak over each other.

Throughout the year, members also now have confidence speak up about when something is jargon so we can change it or anything else they do not like, e.g. the chosen pictures or images.

We have been working on putting Camden People First policies and procedures into easy read so our members and learning disabilities staff and volunteers will be able to understand the policy and feel part of the work force of Camden People first.

The Easy Read policies we have worked on have helped our easy read volunteers and users involve, as it has information they need to know about, like what to do if you are worried about something or if you are being bullied at work, and who to turn to for help.

The different policies we have worked on in our Easy Read meetings also helped them to understand different things they may not have known otherwise, such as how data and personal information is protected, and what the main causes of death in people with learning difficulties were during COVID.

Our user involves volunteers in the easy read project received monthly user involvement allowance and this empowers and build their self-esteem in a working place environment.

There is nothing I would like to change about the Easy Read project because I think it runs as smoothly as it should.

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Camden People First

Trustees’ Report (continued)

Feedback from Easy Read team

How is Easy Read going?

Sanjay;

Raymond;

Michaela;

Shelim

Angela

Users involves feedbacks on the NHS North East London project

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Camden People First Trustees’ Report (continued)

Users involves feedbacks with Photoshoot

Users involves feedbacks Easy Read Policies

Users involves feedbacks on Newsletter

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Camden People First

Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Camden People First

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2022 which are set out on pages 12 to 21.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

As the charity’s trustees of Camden People First (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of Camden People First are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of Camden People First as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

  4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities [applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)].

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

.. .................................... Morlai Kargbo, FCCA Managing Director Moracle Limited Chartered Certified Accountants and Registered Auditors 960 Capability Green Luton, England United Kingdom LU1 3PE

20 December 2022

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Camden People First

Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2022 (Including Income and Expenditure Account and Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses)

Note
Income and Endowments from:
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
3
Other trading activities
4
Total income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
5
Total expenditure
Net income/(expenditure)
Net income/(expenditure)
before transfers
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
13		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
25,752
-
3,830
29.582
(25,373)
(25,373)
4,209
4,209
33,990
38,199		 Restricted
funds
£
-
70,068
-
70,068
(67,082)
(67,082)
2,986
2,986
7,365
10,351		 Total
2022
£
25,752
70,068
3,830
99,650
(92,455)
(92,455)
7,195
7,195
41,355
48,550		 Total
2021
£
15,140
85,572
21,926
122,638
(98,642)
(98,642)
23,996
23,996
17,359
41,355

All of the charity's activities derive from continuing operations during the above two periods.

The notes form part of the financial statements.

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Camden People First

(Registration number: 05562231)

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022

Note
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
11
Current assets
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year
12
Net current assets
Net assets
Funds of the charity:
Restricted funds
Unrestricted income funds
General funds
Designated funds
Total funds
13		 2022
£
-
-
97,224
(48,675)
48,549
45,549
12,180
29,322
7,047
48,549		 2021
£
374
5,560
43,270
(2,298)
40,981
41,335
7,365
13,990
20,000
41,335

For the financial year ending 31 March 2022 the charity was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. Directors' responsibilities:

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to Companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements on pages 12 to 21 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 20 December 2022 and signed on their behalf by:

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Camden People First

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

1 Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below.

These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102). They also comply with the Companies Act 2006 and Charities Act 2011.

Basis of preparation

Camden People First meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy notes.

Income and endowments

All income is recognised once the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of the income receivable can be measured reliably.

Expenditure

All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably. All costs are allocated to the applicable expenditure heading that aggregate similar costs to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of resources, with central staff costs allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges allocated on the portion of the asset’s use. Other support costs are allocated based on the spread of staff costs.

2 Income from donations and legacies

Donations and legacies;
Donations from individuals		 Unrestricted
funds
General
£
25,752
25,752		 Total
2022
£
25,752
25,752		 Total
2021
£
15,140
15,140

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Camden People First

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

3 Income from charitable activities

Covid 19 Support Fund / National Lottery
Camden Council (OMD)
City Bridge Trust – London Community
Disability Hate & Mate Crime- DHMC /National Lottery
4 Income from other trading activities
Trading income;
Other trading income		 Restricted
funds
-
2,500
564

9,117
12,180
Unrestricted
funds
General
£
36.369
36,369		 Total
2022
-
2,500
564
9,117
12,180
Total
2022
£
36,369
36,369		 Total
2021
5,161
2,500
14,203
56,208
85,572
Total
2021
£
21,926
21,926

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Camden People First

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

5 Expenditure on charitable activities
Direct Cost
Staff costs
Allocated support costs
6 Analysis of support costs
Support costs allocated to charitable
activities
Charitable Costs
Governance Costs		 - Governance
costs
£
-
2,936
2,936		 Note
6
Office Costs
£
2,655
-
2.655		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
5258
52,918
5.242
63,418
Premises costs
£
11,509
-
11,509		 Restricted
funds
£
-
14,873
14,164
29,037
Other support
costs
£
2,306
-
2,306		 Total
2022
£
5,258
67,791
19,406
92,455
Total
2022
£
16,470
2,936
19,406		 Total
2021
£
9,823
69,022
19,796
98,642
Total
2021
£
18,583
1,213
19,796

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2021

Camden People First

7 Net income/(expenditure)

Net income/(expenditure) for the year include:

Net income/(expenditure) for the year include:
2022 2021
£ £
Depreciation of fixed assets 375 375
Independent Examiner fees 1,560 1,333

8 Trustees remuneration and expenses

No trustees, nor any persons connected with them, have received any remuneration from the charity during the year.

No trustees have received any other benefits from the charity during the year.

9 Staff costs

The aggregate payroll costs were as follows:

Staff costs during the year were:

Wages and salaries including pension - £67,790 (2021: £71,622).

Average number of employees – 4 (2021: 3).

No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 during the year.

10 Taxation

The charity is a registered charity and is therefore exempt from taxation on its charitable activities.

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Camden People First

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

11 Tangible fixed assets
Cost
At 1 April 2021
At 31 March 2022
Depreciation
At 1 April 2022
Depreciation
At 31 March 2022
Net book value
At 31 March 2022
At 31 March 2021
12 Creditors: amounts falling due
within one year
Trade creditors		 Computer
equipment
£
4,473
4,473
4,099
374
4,473
-
374
2022
£
48,675		 Total
£
4,473
4,473
4,099
374
4,473
-
374
2021
£
2,298

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Camden People First

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

13 Fund summary – Current Year
General
CPF Social Enterprise
Total Unrestricted Funds
Restricted funds
National Lottery Fund - Disability Hate
& Mate Crime
City Bridge Trust
Camden Council (OMD)
Total restricted funds
Designated funds
Easy Read project
Total Designated funds
Total funds		 Balance at 1
April 2021
£
13,990
13.990

5,906
1,292
7,198
20.000
20,000
41,355		 Incoming
Resources
resources
expended
£
£
29,582
(14,250)
29.582
(14,250)
57,328
(54,118)
-
(728)
2,500
-
59,828
(54,846)
-
12,953
12,953
99.650
(92,455)		 Incoming
Resources
resources
expended
£
£
29,582
(14,250)
29.582
(14,250)
57,328
(54,118)
-
(728)
2,500
-
59,828
(54,846)
-
12,953
12,953
99.650
(92,455)		 Transfers
Balance at 31
Between funds March 2022
£
£
-
29,322
-
29,322
9,116
-
564
-
2,500
-
12,180
-
7,047
7,047
-
48,549		 Transfers
Balance at 31
Between funds March 2022
£
£
-
29,322
-
29,322
9,116
-
564
-
2,500
-
12,180
-
7,047
7,047
-
48,549		 Transfers
Balance at 31
Between funds March 2022
£
£
-
29,322
-
29,322
9,116
-
564
-
2,500
-
12,180
-
7,047
7,047
-
48,549		 Transfers
Balance at 31
Between funds March 2022
£
£
-
29,322
-
29,322
9,116
-
564
-
2,500
-
12,180
-
7,047
7,047
-
48,549		 Transfers
Balance at 31
Between funds March 2022
£
£
-
29,322
-
29,322
9,116
-
564
-
2,500
-
12,180
-
7,047
7,047
-
48,549
- 29,322
-
-
-
-		 9,116
564
2,500
12,180
7,047
7,047
48,549
12,953
(92,455)
-

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Camden People First

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2021

13.1 Fund Summary
Prior Year		 Balance
at 1		 Incoming Resources Transfers Balance
at 31
April
2020		 Resources Expended Between
Funds		 March
2021
£ £ £ £ £
General
CPF Social Enterprise 8,724 37,066 (11,799) (20,000) 13,990
Total Unrestricted Funds 8,724 37,066 (11,799) - 33,990
Restricted funds
National Lottery Fund -
Disability Hate & Mate Crime		 7,818 56,208 (57,745) - 6,281
Camden Council Advice and
Advocacy		 135 10,000 (9,968) - 167
City Bridge Trust 14,203 (12,911) - 1,292
National Lottery COVID 19
Support fund		 5,161 (5,536) - (375)
Open Space Event / Capital
Grant		 681 - (682) -
Total restricted funds 8,635 85,572 (86,842) - 7,365
Designated funds
Easy Read project - - - 20,000 20,000
Total Designated funds - - - 20,000 20,000
Total funds 17,359 122,638 (98,642) - 41,355

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Camden People First

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

14 Analysis of net assets between funds

Tangible fixed assets

Current assets

Current liabilities

Total net assets		 Unrestricted
funds
£
-
36,369
-
12,180		 Restricted
funds
£
-
60,855
(48.675)
36,369		 Total funds
£
-
97,224
(48,675)
48,549

15 Related party transactions

There were no related party transactions in the current and previous year

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