## **Report of the Trustees and Unaudited Financial Statement for the Year Ended 31st March 2021 For Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance**
## **Registered Charity 1119043**
## **LYONS & CO LTD**
## **CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS**
## **STOCKTON-ON-TEES**
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## **Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance**
## **Contents of the Financial Statement For the Year Ended 31st March 2021**
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|**Reference and administration**|**2**|
|**Report of the Trustees**|**3**|
|**Accountants Report**|**4**|
|**Balance Sheet**|**5**|
|**Detailed statement of financial activities**|**6**|
|**Notes to the accounts**|**7**|
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# **Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31st March 2021**
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity number**
1119043
## **Principal Address**
Acklam Green Centre Stainsby Road Middlesbrough TS5 4JS
## **Trustees**
Verona Butler Eric Charlton Vice Chair Christine Harling Giles Hudson Stephanie Kilinç Andrew Lewis David Mudd Chairman Diane Williams Gordon Williams
Vice Chair
## **STRUCTURE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing Document**
The Charity is governed by its governing document, a deed of Trust and constitutes an unincorporated charity.
## **RISK MANAGEMENT**
The Trustees have a duty to identify and assess the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
Aims of the Charity are;
1. To create and sustain an environment where no one will face a neurological condition alone
2. To create and sustain an environment where people with neurological conditions can engage as equal partners and make their views known
3. To be a leading creditable channel of communication, influence and support between people with neurological conditions, commissioners and service providers
4. To be a collaborative partnership to improve local services for people affected by neurological conditions
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## **Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31st March 2021**
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
To sustain a comprehensive blend of income sources from fees, donations, grants and sponsorship to deliver information, advocacy, education programme and peer support.
## **ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE**
We have doubled income on 2019-20 and improved the Head of Operations salary to ensure the survival of our beneficiaries during the Covid-19 pandemic. We have been recognised as a Disabled Persons Organisation (DPO) through a grant, but regular donations from collection boxes, events and fees from the education programme at Teesside University have been dramatically impacted by the lockdown. We have sustained our obligation to the support needs of our beneficiaries with regular bulletins, problem-solving through ‘guarantee of disability’ letters for external agencies and hidden disability visors and lanyards and moved peer support on-line. We were exceptionally pleased to receive a _thank you for our incredible support and service_ during the early months of the pandemic from her Majesty’s County Durham Lord Lieutenant, Mrs Sue Snowdon.
From lobbying about strategic inclusion of the neurological client group in the formation of the Integrated Care Systems (ICS), we are now collaborating on the mental health needs of the client group and our Open Door series of resources is recognised and included on the new ICS website. We contributed to the Youth Justice System consultation on neuro-diversity and continue to advocate for the neuro-diverse client group, particularly Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Demand for our advocacy service continues to rise, particularly for support during Personal Independence Payment application, review or appeal processes.
We had good representation at Durham, Teesside and Sunderland Universities for our lived experience sessions to over 450 students prior to the pandemic, but have delivered an on-line programme during lockdown.
We are indebted to our volunteers who have engaged with on-line training to improve delivery of peer support and achieve our objectives in the past challenging 12 months.
Thank you to all our stakeholders who have supported this very determined Charity.
## **On behalf of the Trustee Board;**
## **…………………………………………**
## **Mr D Mudd - Chair of Trustees**
## **24 February 2022**
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES ON THE UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021**
We report on the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2021 set out on pages four to seven.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is required.
Having satisfied ourselves that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is our responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under Section 145 of the 2011 Act
- to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under Section 145 (5)(b) of the 2011 Act): and
- to state whether particular matters have come to our attention.
## **Basis of the independent examiner's report**
Our examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with our examination, no material matters have come to our attention which gives us cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 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.
We 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.
Lyons & Co Ltd 23 Yarm Road Stockton-on-Tees TS18 3NJ
## **24 February 2022**
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## **Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2021**
|**Notes**
**Current assets**
Cash and bank
**Creditors:**amounts falling due
within one year
**Net assets**
**Funds**
Balance brought forward
Surplus for year
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**Total funds**|**2021**
**£**
**Unrestricted**
12,272
12,272
(780)
11,492
1,529
9,963
11,492|**2020**
**£**
**Unrestricted**
1,529
1,529
-
1,529
-
1,529
1,529|
|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 24 February 2022 and were signed on its behalf by:
## **Mr D Mudd Chair of Trustees**
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## **Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance Detailed statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31st March 2021**
|**Incoming Resources**
Voluntary Income
Contributions
Hmrc grant
Membership subscriptions
Fees
**Total incoming resources**
**Resources Expended**
Wages
Administration costs
(Volunteer and Work from home allowance)
**Other resources expended**
Travelling expenses
Office consumables, IT, telephone, DBS
Publications
Membership fees (digital fundraising)
Room hire
Website costs
Insurance
Accountancy
**Total resources expended**
**Surplus Funds**|**Restricted**
**£**
-
14,750
-
-
-
14,750
13,785
-
13,785
-
365
-
-
600
-
-
-
965
14,750
-|**Unrestricted**
**£**
11,181
500
9,400
300
380
21,761
8,837
674
9,511
68
200
849
-
260
130
-
780
2,287
11,798
9,963|**2021**
**£**
11,181
15,250
9,400
300
380
36,511
22,622
674
23,296
68
565
849
-
860
130
-
780
3,252
26,548
9,963|**2020**
**£**
3,717
11,103
-
430
1,080
16,330
10,950
1,789
12,739
1,126
494
780
72
350
450
319
-
3,591
16,330
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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## **Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance Notes to the accounts For the year ended 31st March 2021**
## **2021 £**
|**Grants received**
Hmrc grant
County Durham community foundation
Ground work UK
Albert Hunt SP
Middlebrough council
Disability action|9,400
5,000
500
1,000
5,000
3,750
24,650|
|---|---|
Grant finders recognised the problems and restrictions created by the pandemic and were happy to extend any deadlines previously imposed. All commitments to the reporting process were completed on time.