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|Chief Executive's statement|||||
|Trustees'<br>report||||3-12|
|Trustees'<br>responsibilities<br>statement||||13|
|Independent<br>auditor's|report|on the financial statements||14-17|
|Consolidated<br>statement|offinancial||activities|18|
|Consolidated<br>balance|sheet|||19|
|Charity balance sheet||||20|
|Consolidated<br>statement|ofcash flows|||21|
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|Trustees|||J Prendergast,|J Prendergast,|Chairman|Chairman|Chairman||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||DJ Entwisle (resigned||||2August 2022)||
||||EPatience||||||
||||M JWood|(resigned||24||January 2023)|
||||SA McLoughlin||||||
||||A M Watson||||||
||||H Alderson|(resigned|||2 August 2022)||
||||A R Muffitt||||||
||||R Boston (appointed|||21||March 2023)|
||||BJ Fitzgerald<br>(appointed|||||21 March 2023)|
||||SA Smith|(appointed|||21 March 2023)||
|Company|registered||||||||
|number|||04827255||||||
|Charity registered|||||||||
|number|||1119143||||||
|Registered||office|The Linskill|Centre|||||
||||I inskill Terrace||||||
||||North Shields||||||
||||NE30 2AY||||||
|Chief executive officer|||S Ripley||||||
|Independent||auditor|UNW LLP||||||
||||Chartered|Accountants|||||
||||Citygate||||||
||||StJames'|Boulevard|||||
||||Newcastle|upon|Tyne||||
||||NE1 4JE||||||
|Bankers|||Unity Trust|Bank pic|||||
||||4 Brindley|Place|||||
||||Birmingham||||||
||||B12JB||||||
|Solicitors|||Muckle LLP||||||
||||Time Central||||||
||||32 Gallowgate||||||
||||Newcastle|upon|Tyne||||
||||Tyne and Wear||||||
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|Donations<br>and legacies|||10,064|233,074|243,138|294,906|
|Charitable<br>activities|||1,156,365||1,156,365|1,045,301|
|Other trading<br>activities|||398,566||398,566|273,059|
|Total income|||1,564,995|233,074|1,798,069|1,613,266|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Raising funds|||298,676||298,676|226,090|
|Charitable<br>activities|||1,260,240|253,678|1,513,918|1,341,824|
|Total expenditure|||1,558,916|253,678|1,812,594|1,567,914|
|Net (losses)/gains|on investments|13|(4,750)||(4,750)|10,121|
|Net movement<br>in|funds||1,329|(20,604)|(19,275)|55,473|
|Reconciliation<br>of|funds:||||||
|Total funds brought|forward||553,313|702,150|1,255,463|1,199,990|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||1,329|(20,604)|(19,275)|55,473|
|Total funds carried forward|||554,642|681,546|1,236,188|1,255,463|





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|Investments||13||144,222||148,972|
|||||1,145,350||1,073,734|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks||14|7,326||5,318||
|Debtors||15|104,629||55,811||
|Cash at bank and|in hand||355,589||450,572||
||||467,544||511,701||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one||||||
|year||16|(227,124)||(154,263)||
|Net current assets||||240,420||357,438|
|Total assets less|current liabilities|||1,385,770||1,431,172|
|Creditors: amounts|falling due after more||||||
|than one year||17||(139,342)||(175,709)|
|Provisions<br>for liabilities||18||(10,240)|||
|Total net assets||||1,236,188||1,255,463|
|Charity funds|||||||
|Restricted<br>funds||19||681,546||702,150|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||19||554,642||553,313|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Tangible assets||12||947,232||881,214|
|Investments||13||144,223||148,972|
|||||1,091,455||1,030,186|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors||15|74,955||52,506||
|Cash at bank and|in hand||272,183||386,224||
||||347,138||438,730||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one||||||
|year||16|(217,871)||(138,890)||
|Net current assets||||129,267||299,840|
|Total assets less|current liabilities|||1,220,722||1,330,026|
|Creditors: amounts|falling due after more||||||
|than one year||17||(139,342)||(175,709)|
|Total net assets||||1,081,380||1,154,317|
|Charity funds|||||||
|Restricted funds||19||681,546||702,150|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||19||399,834||452,167|
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|Net cash used<br>in operating|activities||||148,672|173,138|
|Cash flows from investing||activities|||||
|Purchase oftangible<br>fixed assets|||||(233,212)|(205,636)|
|Net cash used in investing||activities|||(233,212)|(205,636)|
|Cash flows from financing||activities|||||
|Cash inflows from new borrowing|||||107,150|107,000|
|Repayments<br>of borrowing|||||(117,593)|(62,344)|
|Net cash (used in)/provided||by financing||activities|(10,443)|44,656|
|Change<br>in cash and cash||equivalents|in|the year|(94,983)|12,158|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at the beginning||ofthe year|450,572|438,414|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at the end of||the year|355,589|450,572|
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|Grants receivable||||233,074|233,074|
|Total donations||and legacies|10,064|233,074|243,138|
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|Grants receivable||||282,984|282,984|
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|---|---|---|---|
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|Room hire|279,020|279,020|313,196|
|Nursery<br>income|834,021|834,021|670,752|
|Fundraising|681|681|480|
|Solar panels|4,688|4,688|4,579|
|Consultancy|6,082|6,082|2,157|
|Miscellaneous|31,873|31,873|54,137|
|Total 2023|1,156,365|1,156,365|1,045,301|





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|Rental provision|230,536|230,536|177,686|
|Catering<br>income|123,769|123,769|74,589|
|Private events|44,261|44,261|11,328|
|Other income|||9,456|
|Total2023|398,566|398,566|273,059|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||undertaken|Support|Total|
|||||directly|costs|funds|
|||||2023|2023|2023|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||||directly|costs|funds|
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|Interest|||2,491|2,491|
|Other|||3,282|3,282|
|Audit and accountancy fees||15,000||15,000|
|Legal and other professional|costs||21,059|21,059|
|Total 2023||15,000|26,832|41,832|



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|Other||||3,696|3,696|
|Audit and accountancy|fees||7,100||7,100|
|Legal and other professional||costs||22,480|22,480|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Other non-audit||services|3,000|1,500|
|Depreciation|of|fixed assets|156,846|147,537|
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|||||Group|Group|Charity|Charity|
|||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
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|Social security costs||||54,175|38,891|54,175|38,891|
|Contribution|to defined|contribution|pension|||||
|schemes||||33,924|29,799|33,924|29,799|
|||||991,347|868,816|829,698|739,059|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||property<br>f|fittings|equipment<br>E|equipment|Total|
|Cost||||||
|At 1 April 2022|676,293|926,004|2,766|49,559|1,654,622|
|Additions||225,299||7,913|233,212|
|At 31 March 2023|676,293|1,151,303|2,766|57,472|1,887,834|
|Depreciation||||||
|At 1 April 2022|320,643|370,826|1,088|37,303|729,860|
|Charge for the year|47,644|100,048|252|8,902|156,846|
|At 31 March 2023|368,287|470,874|1,340|46,205|886,706|
|Net book value||||||
|At 31 March 2023|308,006|680,429|1,426|11,267|1,001,128|
|At 31 March 2022|355,650|555,178|1,678|12,256|924,762|





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|At 1 April 2022|676,293|816,906|2,766|49,559|1,545,524|
|Additions||206,368||7,913|214,281|
|At 31 March 2023|676,293|1,023,274|2,766|57,472|1,759,805|
|Depreciation||||||
|At 1 April 2022|320,642|305,277|1,088|37,303|664,310|
|Charge for the year|47,645|91,464|252|8,902|148,263|
|At 31 March 2023|368,287|396,741|1,340|46,205|812,573|
|Net book value||||||
|At 31 March 2023|308,006|626,533|1,426|11,267|947,232|
|At 31 March 2022|355,651|511,629|1,678|12,256|881,214|



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|---|---|
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|Cost or valuation||
|At 1 April 2022|148,972|
|Revaluations|(4,750)|
|At 31 March 2023|144,222|
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|Cost or valuation||||
|At 1 April 2022|1|148,971|148,972|
|Revaluations||(4,749)|(4,749)|
|At 31 March 2023|1|144,222|144,223|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||||||2023f|2022|
||Raw materials|||and consumables|||7,326|5,318|
|15.|Debtors||||||||
||||||Group|Group|Charity|Charity|
||||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
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||Amounts|owed||by group undertakings||||14,132|
||Prepayments||and accrued income||13,053|4,424|11,684|4,424|
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|||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
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|Other loans (note 17)||||19,423|12,396|19,423|12,396|
|Trade creditors||||13,286|27,000|11,233|24,902|
|Amounts|owed to group undertakings|||||8,144||
|Other taxation and||social security||25,945|19,533|17,995|17,986|
|Accruals|and deferred<br>income|||140,867|86,628|133,473|74,900|
|||||227,124|154,263|217,871|138,890|
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|||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
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|Resources deferred||during the year||98,079|63,285|86,541|52,972|
|Amounts|released|from previous|periods|(63,285)|(49,254)|(52,972)|(46,430)|
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|Other|loans|19,293|134,415|19,293|134,415|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|General|funds||553,313|1,564,995|(1,558,916)|(4,750)|554,642|
|Restricted funds||||||||
|Big build|||320,036||(48,005)||272,031|
|Shedders|||97,445|(3,701)|(27,449)||66,295|
|Refurbishments||8||||||
|environmental||upgrades|148,956|102,979|(26,404)||225,531|
|Covid-19|support||1,525||(858)||667|
|Community<br>development|||36,954|56,595|(56,812)||36,737|
|Children|8 young|people|38,086|63,892|(53,867)||48,111|
|Marketing|||48,584||(24,647)||23,937|
|Small capital grants|||10,564|13,309|(15,636)||8,237|
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|||||1 April 2021|Income<br>f|Expenditure|(Losses)|2022|
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|General|funds||||||||
|General|funds|||411,061|1,330,282|(1,198,151)|10,121|553,313|
|Total unrestricted|||funds|511,061|1,330,282|(1,298,151)|10,121|553,313|
|Restricted funds|||||||||
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|Shedders||||103,753|21,778|(28,086)||97,445|
|Refurbishments||8|||||||
|environmental||upgrades||95,959|72,000|(19,003)||148,956|
|Covid-19|support|||2,359||(834)||1,525|
|Community<br>development||||49,554|58,792|(71,392)||36,954|
|Children|&young|people||20,546|83,549|(66,009)||38,086|
|Marketing||||5,941|46,865|(4,222)||48,584|
|Small capital grants||||12,719||(2,155)||10,564|
|||||688,929|282,984|(269,763)||702,150|
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|||2023f|2023<br>E|2023<br>E|
|Tangible fixed assets||435,819|565,309|1,001,128|
|Fixed asset investments||144,222||144,222|
|Current assets||351,307|116,237|467,544|
|Creditors|due within one year|(227,124)||(227,124)|
|Creditors|due in more than one year|(139,342)||(139,342)|
|Provisions|for liabilities and charges|(10,240)||(10,240)|
|Total||554,642|681,546|1,236,188|



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|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Tangible fixed assets||403,797|520,965|924,762|
|Fixed asset investments||148,972||148,972|
|Current assets||330,516|181,185|511,701|
|Creditors due within one year||(154,263)||(154,263)|
|Creditors due in more than one year||(175,709)||(175,709)|
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|Adjustments<br>for:|||||||
|Depreciation<br>charges|||||156,846|147,537|
|Losses/(gains)<br>on|investments||||4,750|(10,121)|
|(Increase)/decrease|in|stocks|||(2,008)|(1,552)|
|(Increase)/decrease|in|debtors|||(48,818)|(12,703)|
|(Decrease)/increase|in|creditors|||57,177|(5,496)|
|Net cash provided|by|operating|activities||148,672|173,138|



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||||2022|Cash flows|changes|2023|
|Cash|at bank and|in hand|450,572|(94,983)||355,589|
|Debt|due within<br>1|year|(21,102)|(15,577)|(10,347)|(47,026)|
|Debt|due after 1 year||(175,709)|(2,956)|39,323|(139,342)|
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