## **Report of the Trustees and Unaudited Financial Statement for the Year Ended 31st March 2024 For**
**Neuro Key Formerly known as Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire Neurological Alliance**
**Registered Charity 1119043**
## **LYONS & CO LTD**
## **CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS**
**STOCKTON-ON-TEES**
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## **Neuro Key**
## **Contents of the Financial Statement For the Year Ended 31st March 2024**
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|**Reference and administration**|**2**|
|**Report of the Trustees**|**3**|
|**Accountants Report**|**4**|
|**Statement of financial activities**|**5**|
|**Balance Sheet**|**6**|
|**Notes to the accounts**|**7**|
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## **Neuro Key Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31st March 2024**
**REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity number**
1119043
## **Principal Address**
Acklam Green Centre Stainsby Road Middlesbrough TS5 4JS
## **Trustees**
Verona Butler Eric Charlton Christine Harling Giles Hudson Stephanie Kilinç Andrew Lewis David Mudd Shiela Quinn Diane Williams Gordon Williams Nikita Shepherdson
Resigned 18 January 2024 Vice Chair
Appointed 18 January 2024 Resigned 6 November 2023
Chairman Appointed 18 January 2024
## **Head of operations**
Joanne Cole
## **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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## **Neuro Key Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31st March 2024**
## **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 IMPACT**
We have sustained our focus on improving the body of knowledge for the whole neuro community to improve outcomes in the face of increasing demand, poor professional understanding, feeble communication between agencies and waiting lists.
Throughout the year, we developed a Specialist Community Navigator job description for neurodiverse people led by a google survey and focus groups for parent carers and neurodiverse adults, covering Apergers, Tourettes's, Dyslexia, ADHD, sensory disorder,ASD and FASD. Our beneficiaries wanted to improve professional understanding by promoting the need for a multi-agency approach, not isolate neurodevelopmental conditions solely to Mental Health services. We have created a collaborative 'bridge' between families and services to reduce the negative life impact on young people. From this, we have moved to improve understanding for consideration of equality of opportunity for young people in schools.
Whilst our operational data proves the need, the drive for sufficient funding was eased by donations from the closure of the Lincolnshire Neurological Alliance and an engineering company working on TeesPort. In May 2023, the HO contributed to a round table discussion for British Land, owners of a range of retail parks in the UK to ensure their premises operated at an appropriate level for neurodiverse people, quite hour now actioned in supermarkets. In December 2023, the HO delivered a presentation for the ICB event for Disability Month on our Iceberg infographic. Forty-eight people attended including a person from NHS Employers Engagement Team. We have been commissioned to deliver presentations to the NENC and Yorks and Humber Teams on neuro-disability and neurodiversity in May and July 2024. Our Iceberg infographic is now a NE-wide recognised resource but work in 2024 will continue to raise the inclusion of FASD in the strategic development of services for neurodiverse people. We enabled 3 medical students to meet some of our beneficiaries to discuss their journeys with a neurological disability, reported on 4 briefings to the Disability Unit plus 4 wider NE networks to raise awareness of weak health literacy in the NHS when beneficiaries need to navigate multiple services. We continue to work to dissipate the blame culture and negative life impact for parents and families.
Our inclusion, credibility and evidence emphasise the challenges and barriers informal carers, partners, families, parent or kinship carers must overcome in their daily lives to support neurodisabled or neurodiverse people. The neuro community is being left behind from timely diagnosis, bespoke advocacy and pragmatic support when the word neurology is not mentioned in NHS strategic documents.
We are indebted to our fund raisers, donors and supporters to maintain our objectives.
## **On behalf of the Trustee Board;**
**…………………………………………**
## **Mr D Mudd - Chair of Trustees**
**16 January 2025**
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES ON THE UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF Neuro Key For the Year Ended 31st March 2024**
We report on the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024 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
## **16 January 2025**
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## **Neuro Key Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31st March 2024**
|**Notes**
**Incoming Resources**
Donations and legacies
**1**
Charitable activities
**2**
**Total incoming resources**
**Creditors**: amounts falling due
**Resources Expended**
**Charitable activities**
Wages
Administration costs
(Volunteer and Work from home allowance)
Travelling expenses
Office consumables, IT, telephone, DBS
Publications
Room hire
Website costs
Insurance
Accountancy
**Total resources expended**
**(Deficit)/Surplus Funds for year**
Reserves brought forward
Reserves carried forward|**Restricted**
500
18,662
19,162
13,951
359
157
956
593
2,506
13
186
441
19,162
-
-
-|**Unrestricted**
**£**
11,932
6,625
18,557
18,914
359
157
515
593
-
13
186
441
21,178
(2,621)
4,099
1,478|**2024**
**£**
12,432
25,287
37,719
32,865
718
314
1,471
1,186
2,506
26
372
882
40,340
(2,621)
4,099
1,478|**2023**
**£**
8,663
19,983|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||28,646|
|||||18,840
722
383
957
240
1,992
130
319
839|
|||||24,422|
||||||
|||||4,224
(125)|
|||||4,099|
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## **Neuro Key**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2024**
|**Current assets**
Cash and bank
**Creditors**: amounts falling due
within one year
Accruals
Paye
Receipts in advance
**Net assets**
**Funds**
Balance brought forward
(Deficit)/Surplus for year|**2024**
**£**
**Unrestricted**
3,160
3,160
(882)
(800)
-
(1,682)
1,478
4,099
(2,621)
1,478|**2023**
**£**
**Unrestricted**
14,939|
|---|---|---|
|||14,939
(840)
-
(10,000)|
|||(10,840)|
|||4,099|
|||(125)
4,224|
|||4,099|
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 16 January 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:
**Mr D Mudd Chair of Trustees**
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## **Neuro Key Notes to the accounts For the year ended 31st March 2024**
|**Donations and legacies**
Groundwork (Tesco)
Graham Engineering
Membership
Other donations
**Charitable activities**
Lincolnshire Neurological Alliance
Archer Trust
Middlesbrough Council
PFC Trust
Sunderland University
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley Mental Health Trust
Teesside University
Zedra Trust|**2024**
**£**
500
10,000
200
1,732|
|---|---|
||12,432|
||3,000
2,500
8,960
125
400
7,000
2,302
1,000|
||25,287|