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2023-03-31-accounts

Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022/23

Groundwork London

(A company limited by guarantee) 18 – 21 Morley Street London SE1 7QZ

Registered Charity No. 1121105 Registered Company No. 04212532 (England and Wales)

Contents

Page
Report of the Trustees 3
Chair’s Report 4
About Groundwork 5
Objectives and Activities 6
Public Benefit Statement 6
Strategic Report 7
Achievements and Performance 8
Financial Review 14
Future Plans 2023/24 15
Principal Risks and Uncertainties 18
Reference and Administrative Details 20
Structure, Governance and Management 21
Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities 24
Independent Auditors’ Report 25
Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities 29
Charity Statement of Financial Activities 30
Consolidated Balance Sheet 31
Charity Balance Sheet 32
Consolidated Cash Flow Statement 33
Charity Cash Flow Statement 34
Notes to the Financial Statements 35-54

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Report of the Trustees for the year ending 31 March 2023

The trustees are pleased to present their annual directors’ report together with the consolidated financial statements of the charitable company and its subsidiaries for the year ending 31 March 2023 which are also prepared to meet the requirements for a directors’ report and accounts for Companies Act purposes.

The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006, the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and 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 2019).

Groundwork London’s operational focus is primarily on London; the City of London and the 32 London Boroughs. Groundwork London is also the sole company member of Groundwork South whose operational focus is on the South East and South West regions of England, and that part of the District of Three Rivers within the Colne Valley Regional Park. Where specialist services are required, these are delivered across both Trust areas by specialist teams.

Both Trusts have a Board of Trustees who are principally responsible for the strategic oversight and governance of Groundwork activities within their operational areas. Each Trust has its own business plan defining the activities it plans to deliver in its area of operation. Each Trust will produce an Annual Report and Financial Statements. This report includes the consolidated financial statements of Groundwork London and its subsidiaries, details of charitable activities within the two operation areas will be described separately within each company’s annual report.

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Chair’s Report

Groundwork London works with communities across the capital to transform their lives and the places they live. We are operating in a city facing great social, economic and environmental challenges.

Over 2.5 million Londoners are living in deprivation, with many struggling in areas such as economic inequality, social stress, health and wellbeing, food and fuel poverty, environmental quality, and the impacts of a changing climate. Our work supports these diverse and vulnerable communities to find practical, long-term solutions too many such challenges.

Sadly, the need for our work continues to grow as communities and individuals struggle under these pressures. Last year, despite the challenges to the delivery of services, we exceeded our business plan targets significantly delivering over 600 projects to a value of £27.3m.

We did not do this on our own. The strength of our approach lies in the relationships we build and maintain with our funders and partners across the public, private, and voluntary sector, and within the communities themselves.

We offer our sincere thanks and appreciation to our staff, trustees, partners, and volunteers for all the hard work and passion they continually give to everything they do. It reminds us that we all share a vision for the future: where every Londoner can thrive and benefit from a greener, safer, healthier, and more equitable city.

We are pleased to present our 2022/23 Annual Report, demonstrating the difference we’ve made to the lives of thousands of Londoners.

As a member of the Groundwork Federation, we are proud to support our neighbouring Trust Groundwork South as our wholly owned subsidiary. Groundwork South has changed significantly in the last three years to ensure efficient and effective delivery of high quality services across the South East and South West of England, and will present its own Annual Accounts.

Whilst we take this time to reflect on our successes to date, it’s important to also look towards the future. We know that the social, economic and environmental impacts have been immense and will be felt for many years to come, and that the poorest of our communities will be the most greatly affected.

We will continue to create and deliver services to meet the changing needs of London and its most in need communities, by working to three key strategic objectives:

We thank you all and look forward to working with you.

Alan Smith

Chairman

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About Groundwork

Vision

Our vision is of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper.

Mission

Our mission is to transform lives and places in communities in need.

Our core values :

Our Approach

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Objectives and Activities

Charitable Objectives

Groundwork London’s charitable objectives are set down in its Articles of Association, they include:

Strategic Objectives

To deliver our charitable objectives we:

Public Benefit Statement

All Groundwork London’s activities contribute to the achievement of our strategic aims & objectives and are undertaken to further our charitable purposes for the public benefit. Our main activities and who we try to help are described below. We review our aims, objectives and activities each year in the Business Planning process. This review looks at what we achieved and the outcomes of our work in the previous 12 months. The review looks at the success of each key activity and the benefits they have brought to those groups of people we are established to help. The review also helps us ensure our aim, objectives and activities remained focused on our stated purposes. We have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aim and objectives and in planning our future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set.

Grant Making Policy

The Trust administers applications for various grants schemes on behalf of partnerships with local authorities and other Public Agencies. The Applications are reviewed against specific criteria and business objectives, which are set out by the grants panels and awarded to constituted groups.

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Strategic Report

Working with Groundwork South

Groundwork London is a member of the Groundwork Federation, together we are working locally and nationally to transform lives in the UK’s most disadvantaged communities. In 2017 Groundwork London agreed to provide financial support and to become the sole company member of Groundwork South, to enable the Groundwork South Trust to continue to deliver Groundwork services in areas of need.

Groundwork South continues to operate with its own identity, its own geographical focus and with its own Board of trustees as an independent charity and company limited by guarantee. We are proud to support the Trust which has undergone significant change to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency in its operations whilst continuing to deliver high quality services across the South East and South West of England.

In future years, Groundwork South will continue to operate as an independent Trust, and will benefit from both Trusts working together through executive, finance and support services functions. Groundwork South, does not currently deliver all ‘Groundwork services’ across its area, in future, highly specialised services will be provided with leadership from Groundwork London whilst delivery will continue to be embedded in local areas; and delivered by the Groundwork South team.

Groundwork South has produced its own annual accounts for 2022/23. Their annual report and accounts demonstrate the considerable contribution the Trust is making to Changing Places and Changing lives in the South East and South West of England.

Financial Review

Groundwork London has determined to voluntarily provide a Statement of Financial Activity for 2022/23, as well as the required consolidated accounts for Groundwork London and Groundwork South (as its wholly owned subsidiary) for the same period.

The consolidated statement of financial activities for Groundwork London and for Groundwork South for the year ended 31st March 2023 shows a total income of £33.160m. The consolidated balance sheet shows total Funds of £11.815m of which £3.637m is designated and restricted reserves.

Groundwork London’s subsidiary, Groundwork South, has a surplus at 31 March 2023 of £211,273. Groundwork South made financial losses in the years in and prior to 2018/19. Following a restructure of governance and management in 2018, GWS is now operating at a surplus with £211,273 confirmed in the statutory accounts for the year ending 2022/23 and previously £79,537 in 2019/20, £8,952 in 2020/21 and £191,906 in 2021/22. This has reduced the balance sheet deficit to £72,506 at 31[st] March 2023.

GWS is committed to retaining surpluses until GWS has 180 days of unrestricted reserves which we estimate will take 2 years. As explained in the Trustee Report, by virtue of the loans from GWL, GWS continues to operate as a going concern.

The remainder of this Strategic report focuses on Groundwork London.

Related Party Transactions

The Trust is supported by Groundwork UK and the national Federation of Groundwork Trusts and has strong links and collaborative working arrangements with other Trusts within the Federation. Each Trust is an independent charity, but they all share a similar ethos. Each Trust is responsible for its own management and administration, and for developing and delivering projects, that meet its objectives and core purposes.

The SORP determines that a charity is not necessarily related to another charity simply because a particular person happens to be a trustee of both. It will only be related if one charity subordinates its interests to the other charity in any transaction because of this relationship. The Federation of Groundwork Trusts and other Groundwork Trusts are therefore not considered to be related parties under the definition of the SORP and the grants made by the Federation to individual Trusts do not require separate disclosure.

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Strategic Report

Groundwork London’s principal focus is on delivering activity to meet the needs of London and Londoners.

Achievements and Performance

Groundwork was established over 35 years ago, at a time of political, social, and economic challenge, as an experiment to help communities find their own answers to the problems they face. Today, we face a myriad of similar, emerging, and new challenges, where the need for Groundwork services and support is even more critical.

2022/23 saw the UK and the world emerge to new ways of life and new ways of working, whilst wrestling with the ongoing impacts and influences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was also the year that we started to better understand and realise the impacts (both positive and negative) of the UK leaving Europe.

With London’s population approaching 10 million and with the number of Londoners living in poverty estimated to be 2.3 million people, our staff teams have worked relentlessly to deliver much needed services to communities in need. Last year, we responded by growing and delivering over 600 projects, targeting the most disadvantaged, hardest hit communities and continuing to adapt our ways of working in response to the political, social, economic, and ever-increasing environmental challenges.

Our work was delivered in partnership with Local Authorities, Housing Associations, London regional agencies, the private sector, and other voluntary organisations. We have progressed positive working relationships within the London Boroughs of Haringey, Camden, Croydon, Barnet, Brent, Islington, Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing, Hounslow, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Newham, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Enfield, the Royal Boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea, Kingston-Upon-Thames and Greenwich, and the City of Westminster.

We delivered 49 projects involving Housing Association partners last year, reflecting the needs of residents supported by Housing Associations. Our plans to continue building new and strengthening existing relationships with corporate partners, through the employee volunteering route, have continued to grow following COVID-19 as we increased our engagement with 72 corporate organisations.

We continued to build on productive relationships with regional bodies, and in particular the Greater London Authority (GLA), delivering 69 programmes involving regional support and delivery agencies. As part of our strategic work, we continued to serve on the Cross River Partnership Board, the All London Green Grid Steering Group and our Community Interest Company – Our ParkLife with Equans, Renaisi and Idverde.

Internally, we delivered several business performance and improvement measures. We retained our environmental management standard ISO14001, which we have held since 2008; and maintained our Health & Safety standard CHAS; and Achilles which covers Quality, Health & Safety, Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility. We also maintained our accreditation as ‘Disability Confident’ in our recruitment practises. We retained our Matrix accreditation in recognition of the advice and guidance we offer our trainees and volunteers; and we have maintained our Volunteer Centre and Investors in Volunteering accreditations.

During the year, most of our staff returned to field-based work, face-to-face and out in places and sites to deliver their work. As offices were equipped, other staff progressed hybrid working models with increased time spent in offices or other project-based locations.

At the end of the year, we launched the Health Shield Cash plan, which enables staff to reclaim costs against certain essential health services. We have maintained our wellbeing notice board featuring resources such as the Groundwork Employee Assistant Programme with helplines, counselling, online resources, and staff have contributed articles and photos about their work and interests to our regular staff newsletter.

We have in place a Mental Health First Aid network to support both our staff and volunteers. We have also continued to offer mental health awareness training to many senior managers and other staff across the Trust.

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In 2020, we agreed on our new Groundwork London 2025 strategy through Trust-wide engagement, seeking the input, views, and ideas from Trustees and our colleagues across the organisation. This strategy underpins our annual Business Planning and is reflected in the future plans section of this report. It also led to the establishment of Task and Finish groups, which resulted in improvements to recruitment, training & development, and induction practices. In 2022, we published our equity, diversity and inclusion survey and action plan. Overall, the findings were positive and show most participants agree or strongly agree that Groundwork is supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion. There were also lessons to be learnt and areas highlighted where improvements can be made. Our action plan focuses on 3 key areas: raising consciousness and actions for equity, diversity & inclusion; diversity in our employees and at senior levels; communications.

From a financial perspective, 2022/23 was a successful year as we continued to operate our fiscal management based on full cost recovery, achieving our target staff utilisation rate of 84% and maintaining total indirect staff and overheads at 7% of total income.

We continued to make the most of revenues from property rental income and applying these valuable resources to new programme innovation and development.

We have delivered an incredible range of work during the year, despite all the challenges of the pandemic. Our achievements, described below, are a result of the exceptional time and effort of our colleagues across the Trust adapting to new ways of working, being innovative and determined to continue to support individuals and communities in need.

Improving people’s prospects – delivering support to increase the confidence, skills, well-being, and employability of those furthest removed from the labour market, in particular, young people.

We believe that supporting people into long-term, sustainable work brings them the economic and social stability that can be life changing and is a key factor contributing to strong and thriving communities. This is why we deliver an extensive portfolio of employment and skills programmes in London. Through these programmes, we help hundreds of Londoners every year to grow in confidence, gain new skills, and take that step into work. We work with young people, people with disabilities or health conditions, refugees, and many other Londoners who are facing barriers to employment.

In partnership with our private and public sector employers, we deliver training and pre-employment programmes designed to increase the confidence, skills, and overall employability of Londoners facing the greatest barriers to employment.

2022/23 saw the start of a challenging period for the Employability industry as a whole with the cessation of EU funding at the end of 2023. All employment programmes we started during 22/23 had a very quick mobilisation period and we had no longer than twelve months to work with clients through to outcome to ensure that all monies are claimed from the EU by 31[st] December 2023.

Within this period, the volume of job vacancies for our clients continued to grow building on the increase we saw as the economy reopened post Covid-19. One of the key areas of focus has been retraining clients, particularly in hospitality, to replace the skills the industry lost, due to Brexit.

This has led to a strong performance in supporting people into training or employment, particularly with job entry.

Across our employment programmes in 2022/23 we registered just under 1,000 clients onto our programmes, moved 72 aged 16-24 into training and education, assisted 120 aged 18-24 to gain paid employment and moved over 400 clients of working age 18+ into work, some for the first time in several years.

We continued to focus on jobs in the green economy. Through our contracts from the GLA to boost growth in London’s Green Sector and launch a Green Space Skills Academy we are supporting employers to increase the skills of their workforce; supporting colleges to adapt provision; and provide more support for unemployed Londoners to access vacancies.

We continued deliver of our Green Teams and commenced a new programme, funded by Segro, creating new community green spaces in five London boroughs. Capacity increased within Rework, our domestic appliance repair workshop, as our charity retail partners reopened their stores.

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Westminster Wheels, our training, and bike refurbishment project with Westminster City Council and Cycle Confident, which opened its doors the previous year, launched its bike servicing to the public, helping increase income to aid future sustainability.

We received funding from Grosvenor’s Greener Futures programme to run our Westminster Green Team and fund the wages of trainees on the Green Team and in Westminster Wheels.

Groundworks' mental health and well-being offer to young people 0-25 in Southwark has experienced significant growth during 2022/23, the Mental Health Support Team has doubled in size to 12 full-time practitioners and The Nest has created The Nest Plus services which is responding to the communities needs by delivering mental health support services from satellite locations across Southwark such as GP surgeries, community and faith-based organisations.

We received continued funding for our parent/carer projects which are an exemplar of best practice and The Nest School Engagement Team, have provided low-level mental health interventions for schools across the Southwark. Through the Mental Health support team we interacted with over 2220 with clients, engaged over 160 young people and worked with 15 schools. At The NEST we received 475 referrals and worked with 357 clients. Feedback highlights that 80% would recommend the service to family and friends.

Other areas in the youth portfolio consisted of overseeing the delivery of two GLA multi-million pound contracts, our Achievement Coaching and Aspire Programme supported vulnerable young people at risk of not progressing to positive post 16 destinations and being vulnerable to NEET (Not in Education and Employment). Aspire Higher worked with young people in alternative provisions who were either embedded or at risk of getting involved in gangs or serious youth violence.

Our focus is on developing their educational skills to sustain in education, training and employment; helping young people manage successful transitions between key stages at school and developing career plans; improving behaviour, attendance and reducing persistent absenteeism; supporting their mental health and ability to deal with the multiple challenges of life; and enabling young people to access timely intervention support and wrap-around activities in and out of school.

Our Achievement Coaches engaged 300 young people, enabling 280 to sustain their engagement in education for 6 months; more than 220 engaging for over 12 months and 115 for 15 months.

Our Aspire Higher team engaged with 180 young people, with 173 remaining engaged for 6 months and 97 for 12 months.

Late in 2022, Groundwork was awarded funding by the Berkley Group to deliver a bespoke youth leadership programme for young adults. The 14-week programme will support over 260 disadvantaged young people in London and the Southeast of England who are at risk of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training). The course curriculum incorporates leadership skills workshops and a social action project, empowering participants to make a positive difference in their community and engage with nature, often for the first time.

The curriculum has been written in collaboration with schools and will adapt and evolve as delivery continues.

Groundwork London’s community team specialise in social integration projects with older adults, refugees and migrants. Our work focuses on building social connections, improving mental health and wellbeing and promoting inter-cultural understanding through the delivery of a wide range of sessions including orienteering, cooking skills, arts and craft, wellbeing walks and living well sessions, conversational English, gardening, food growing and carpentry. In 22/23, the Together programme for refugees and migrants delivered 641 social integration activities or workshops, attended by 2956 individuals. In a recent evaluation 95% of respondents stated their confidence had increased through the attendance of these sessions and 96% felt more settled in the UK.

Our Volunteer Centres in Kingston and Barnet continue to evolve and grow, building on the exemplary work throughout COVID. Capitalising on the profile and enthusiasm to volunteer seen throughout the pandemic, our work continues to support prospective volunteers identify volunteering opportunities in their community and build the capacity of volunteer involving organisations to develop good volunteer management practise.

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Our work often focuses on target audiences and partnerships. In Kingston we have focused on supporting disabled residents, refugees and those out of work to access volunteering. In Barnet through partnership working with Young Barnet Foundation, Inclusion Barnet and the council, Groundwork London has established the Barnet Together Alliance securing long-term funding for volunteering provision Boroughwide.

Additionally through the Barnet Together partnership, Groundwork London has led the Barnet Food Hub operations since November 2020. The hub focuses on distributing surplus food to 17 foodbanks in Barnet and 10 community-based food aid organisations each week, all working to reduce food insecurity for residents and households in the borough. During the year Groundwork London distributed 219,588 Kgs of surplus food. This is the equivalent of 531,913 meals and 832,620 kg of CO2 emissions avoided. In the month of April 2022, approximately 9000 food parcels were distributed by the Barnet Food network. In March 2023, the monthly distribution had increased to 16,000 food parcels. The Food Hub is responding by establishing new partnerships with food suppliers, including supermarkets, farmers and other growers to increase the amount of surplus food collected and distributed. Building on this success in 2022/23 Groundwork successfully secured a new contract to lead food hub operations for the Waltham Forest food Hub.

Promoting greener living & working – helping people /and businesses learn more (about their environmental impact and act responsibly to reduce natural resource use and improve their health.

Fuel poverty continues to affect London’s most vulnerable residents, with some GLA modelling showing that it could potentially impact as many as 24% of London households. It’s families with young children, the elderly and those with existing health conditions that suffer the most acute effects of this through mental stress, poor health, and wellbeing.

During 2022/23 Green Doctors supported over 3000 households in fuel poverty, helping people save £565,204 through our energy saving advice and free energy saving measures. On average we save household approximately £244.14 per year on their energy bills.

In addition to the vital financial savings which helped people through the cost of living crisis we have supported Londoners to live in more sustainable homes by provided 11,931 free energy saving measures (LED Light Bulbs, Radiator Panel, draught proofing etc.) and supporting 438 households to apply for larger energy efficiency improvements (Insulation, heat pumps, efficient boilers) to their homes. This has helped save London Households 185 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

We have also seen a rise in people requiring additional support for the replacement of household items such as washing machines, fridges, oven etc. to support these people we have successfully applied for grants for 26 households to purchase these essential items.

The service has also expanded geographically across London, and we now offer a service in 16 London boroughs with the addition of services in Enfield, Waltham Forest and City of London added in 2022/23.

Having successfully delivered resource efficiency support to small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) up until 2010, we have re-established ourselves in this field by securing a new programme to support 50 London Borough of Brent based SMEs with energy and carbon reduction audits. Alongside this we managed a Brent council grant fund for participating businesses to provide up to 60% of the cost of their audit recommendations. This saw Brent businesses installing solar panels, air source heat pumps, LED lighting, new heating systems and other green technologies.

London could face severe water stress within the next two decades, with climate change bringing hotter, drier summers and less predictable rain patterns – while water usage and population growth is also increasing in the capital. One of the solutions is for domestic properties and businesses to use, and waste, less water. Through a combination of behaviour change, water saving device fitting and leak fixes, we supported a total of 25,000 customers of Thames Water (4,000) and Affinity Water (21,000) to reduce their water consumption, as well as using our experience and expertise to begin other new contracted and pilot programmes with 3 other water companies in the South of England at the start of the 22/23 financial year.

Our Thames Water funded ‘Smarter Business Visit’ programme in London, delivered 2ML per day water savings, focusing extensively on schools and other high footfall venues in the capital. As with the domestic programmes, we deliberately targeted new commercial programmes in other water company supply areas, and have now secured business programmes with South West Water and Wessex Water, delivered through and in partnership with Groundwork South.

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Our community reuse hubs, The Loops, which we set up in 2015 on the Pembury Estate and Grahame Park Estate, as part of the EU LIFE funded REPURPOSE programme continue to provide essential services for local communities. Again, our services, collecting unwanted furniture and household appliances from residents’ homes, which are repaired and sold on to residents at low cost, have resumed. The Loop @ Grahame Park continues to be a community hub, supporting and engaging its volunteers, providing workshops and training on themes such as repair and crafts. All the money raised from sales is reinvested into the project, to buy workshop equipment, and to provide more local events and free training. These sites also provided great opportunities for engaging smaller corporate groups through employee volunteering – offering a unique insight into furniture upcycling and volunteering activity that could be delivered all year round.

We piloted a new and innovative sustainability initiative on the high street – The Good Store – which was set up on South Molton Street near to Bond Street station in the West End. The Good Store offered a unique retail experience focusing on developing the sustainability market with a catalogue of green and start-up brands providing green shopping opportunities in clothing, accessories, homeware, furniture, toys and beauty products.

Across all our programmes we diverted over 520 tonnes of waste from landfill and achieved overall savings of over 7,870 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

Our health-focussed work continues to grow on the frontline, with a team of 17 social prescribing link workers providing support to patients within GP practice across the London Borough of Hounslow. In Barnet, the previously named COVID Health Champion project has evolved to focus on wider health priorities, including childhood immunisations, mental health, living with COVID and cardiovascular diseases. 294 Health Champions attend workshops and training to build knowledge in these topics and then share resources provided by Groundwork and Barnet Public Health with their social networks, and we set up a new programme supporting vaccine grants working with communities in Barnet.

Creating better places – supporting people to work collectively to make their surroundings greener, safer, and healthier and be actively involved in the way decisions are made about services in their area.

We continued to manage a broad portfolio of grant programmes distributing £9.5m of funds on behalf of national, regional and local partners, supporting nearly 650 grass roots community organisations across the capital. We have been targeting grant funding administration opportunities to mirror the breadth of our own delivery services, where we can provide valuable insight to partners and funding beneficiaries on the co-design, effective selection and delivery of projects that improve communities through public space enhancement, tree planting, green travel choices, energy efficiency support and projects to increase integration, community safety, access to culture, skills development and employment.

The breadth of the London Landscape Team's expertise and experience is represented in its expansive project portfolio that spans much of the profession's core work areas, including: developing climate adaptation and resilience; enhancing biodiversity and water management; introducing SuDS in both new landscapes and, increasingly, more challenging retrofit schemes; seeking opportunities for planting and design schemes to enhance air quality; designing innovative natural, incidental and formalised play spaces; improving access to open and green spaces; hard and soft urban landscape design; and enhancing and revitalising historic landscapes and heritage assets.

Our approach is to co-design solutions with local communities, to ensure the designs are based on residents' aspirations and priorities.

In 22/23, Groundwork London improved 510,000 square meters of land through a range of services, including community gardening, corporate volunteering and landscape design.

Landscape projects have included a strategic review and Nature Based Solution designs being created at 4 schools and 1 community centre in LB Newham, which are located in areas of high air pollution and in climate and flood risk areas.

We continued work in the London Borough of Camden to progress a series of projects that mitigate the disruption of HS2, including SuDS systems to help alleviate flooding issues and burden on the combined sewer systems.

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We delivered a co-designed, imaginative and transformative environmental improvement programme at 5 housing estates in Hounslow. Through our unique, interdisciplinary approach we successfully brought together our Design Team’s technical expertise and creativity with residents’ local knowledge. We designed and delivered a multi staged, iterative engagement process, leading to improvements including upgrades to existing play areas, creating sensory and tactile play experiences which cater for varied ability levels; community gardens with new benches and picnic tables, and colourful, wildlife friendly planting; and trees and attractive, naturalistic planting.

The size of our community gardening team increased in 22/23, to reflect the expansion of community gardening projects. Our community gardeners work in multiple settings, including meanwhile spaces, schools, open spaces and on housing estates. They work with a wide range of participants, including children in school settings, SEN children, refugees and migrants and older adults.

The QEOP Welcoming Wellbeing Walks project trained 24 Our Parklife’s Park Champions to co-deliver Welcoming Wellbeing Walks for 45 participants with refugee status and their families. The wellbeing walks introduced the participants to the local area and all its flora/fauna, accompanying them in their integration journey to accessing green spaces and observing nature, developing language proficiency and reducing social isolation.

We have been working at sheltered housing schemes in Haringey since 2018 to encourage residents to engage with nature. The programme encompasses hands on gardening, skills development and encourages residents to form social bonds. A key aspect of the programme is to encourage residents to take ‘pronature’ actions outside of sessions. For example, by providing plant/herbs for people to take away and grow on their window sills, seed bomb-making and encouraging people to plant plants that benefit local wildlife in window boxes/hanging baskets/in their gardens.

EcoFit is a council-funded horticulture training course for adults with learning disabilities and long-term mental/physical health conditions. It has been running for 10 years, predominantly in Holland Park, and is currently structured around a six-week AQA program. GL’s community gardeners have consistently met contract targets/KPIs, including c.70 participants with mental/physical health conditions engaged per annum, delivering 46 AQA qualifications and referring 23 participants onto other volunteering/training/employment programmes.

The Federation GIS (Geographic Information System) programme allows various Groundwork Trusts to use the ESRI ArcGIS mapping platform to create and share content both internally and publicly with their stakeholders. A few projects that have been shared through this platform include: the Groundwork Manchester StoryMap, Cheshire, Lancashire & Merseyside StoryMap, and the Tesco Bags of Help grant programme web map application.

Through the ESRI ArcGIS platform, Groundwork Trusts also have access to a data store, which enables them to easily access useful, relevant data for projects and grant applications. The StoryMap helps to increase communication about ongoing and completed projects among the various organisations that make up the partnership.

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Groundwork London Financial Review

Groundwork London has determined to voluntarily provide a Statement of Financial Activity for Groundwork London 2022/23 as well as the required consolidated accounts for Groundwork London and Groundwork South (as its wholly owned subsidiary) for the same period. The financial review of the group is described earlier in this report.

Groundwork London shows income achieved in the year of £27,319,408 with expenditure of £27,293,076.

Principal Funding Sources

Funding for Groundwork London was provided by the following sources:

Local Authorities
Public and Regional Agencies
European Union
Private Sector
National Lottery		 £
6,663,845
12,338,115
3,004,524
4,847,615
465,309
27,318,408

Reserves Policy

The Board of Trustees has agreed a long term aim of holding unrestricted, free reserves equivalent to six months’ (180 days) running costs. The Board believes this is a prudent level of reserves for a Charity based in Central London and is in line with other Groundwork Trusts.

The Board has agreed that a reasonable level of reserves is required to:

The Board monitor unrestricted reserves on a quarterly basis and the Reserves Policy is reviewed on an annual basis to assess the needs of the organisation.

At the year-end unrestricted reserves shown in the balance sheet covered 190 days (2022: 155 days) running costs. The reserves days includes the consolidation of Groundwork South’s accounts into the Groundwork London accounts.

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Future Plans 2023/24

In line with our new strategy: Groundwork 2025, our ambition is continue to be a significant force for changing places and changing lives across London. During 2023/24 Groundwork London will work to three strategic objectives through which we expect to meet the challenges posed by London’s operating environment:

1. Creating and delivering services to meet the needs of London and Londoners.

Delivering high quality, innovative actions with multiple economic, social and environmental benefits will be central to all that we do. Our priorities are:

Improving people’s prospects – delivering support to increase the confidence, skills, wellbeing and employability of young people & adults.

Promoting greener living and working – helping people, organisations and businesses learn more about their environmental impact and act responsibly to reduce natural resource use; address food and fuel poverty; and improve health and wellbeing.

Creating better places – supporting people to work collectively to make their surroundings greener, more resilient, safer and healthier; and be actively involved in the way decisions are made about services in their area.

2. Building productive relationships and partnerships, influence and shape policies and share learning

The success of our work is reliant on building long-term, cross sector alliances to develop collaborative business opportunities and by adding value to local and regional strategic partnerships. We will focus on:

3. Maintaining a strong, viable business, achieving excellence in service delivery

We will continue to innovate, evolve and grow as an organisation building on our experience, our successes and learning including the positive experiences emerging through COVID-19 delivery. We will continue to improve how we plan, deliver and measure the impact of our programmes, whilst enhancing our organisational capabilities, internal systems and operations ensuring that we are:

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As we continue to evolve and grow as an organisation we build on our experiences, successes, and learning. We are committed to fostering a culture of equity and inclusion and support participative and integrated working across all staff teams. We will progress actions identified through our EDI staff and trustee survey in 2022 with a focus on; raising our consciousness and actions of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion; diversity in our employees and at senior levels; and communications. We view promoting equality in the workplace as an ongoing endeavour; we aim to ensure our approach and processes continue to be aware and responsive to continuous improvement.

We will also ensure that Groundwork activity is sustained and developed across the South of England through our wholly owned subsidiary Groundwork South. We will do this via financial support in the form of loans and through leadership and management of defined specialist activities. Groundwork South will present its own business plan focused on the communities in South East & South West England.

We will deliver:

Community spaces: Enabling community led environmental improvements to publicly accessible open spaces. We will:

Green infrastructure: Providing technical expertise in sustainable land management and climate change adaptation. We will:

Health & Wellbeing

Encouraging physical activity, improving mental health, promoting healthy eating and addressing environmental causes of health problems. We will:

Social integration

Using a community participation approach to create stronger, more cohesive communities, to improve the quality of life and opportunity. We will:

Grants Management

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Volunteering: Brokering volunteering opportunities for individuals and organisations. We will:

Employment and Skills: Providing personal advice and guidance, training, work experience and job brokerage. We will:

Youth work: Providing coaching and positive activities for young people to develop their life skills and fulfil their potential. We will:

Green Jobs: Providing practical work experience and training for sustainable employment. We will:

Resource efficiency: Reducing waste, energy and water consumption through advice and action. We will:

Climate Change: Ensuring our programmes and the support we provide to others mitigate the causes and negative effects of climate change. We will:

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Principal Risks and Uncertainties

The Board accepts its responsibility under the Charity Commission’s Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) for ensuring the major risks to which the charity is exposed are identified and reviewed and that there are systems in place to mitigate against them.

The Trust undertakes an annual review of risk, the principle risks identified during the business planning process for the forthcoming year are:

Strategic planning is central to our business management, common features that will help us address these risks are:

Financial management of projects is controlled using PIMS (Project Information Management System). The Trust has strong skills within the staff teams in its effective use. Expenditure is only made on projects once income has been secured. The amount of secured and unsecured income and the expenditure and revenue on all projects is analysed on a monthly basis. Detailed management information is imported from the system to provide up to date financial and operational performance against targets.

The Executive Team reviews income and contribution secured against business plan, team capacity and project performance together with other business information. These are also reported to the staff teams at monthly Operations and Development meetings and on a quarterly basis to the Board, to focus Trust attention on achieving Business Plan targets.

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In addition to reviewing the risk register, quarterly reports to the Board monitor income & expenditure and progress towards financial targets. Detailed management accounts are examined at each meeting. The Trust submits these accounts to Groundwork Federation on a quarterly basis and is monitored on security of income and financial stability.

Financial Instruments

Groundwork London’s financial risk management objective is broadly to seek not to make losses from exposure to any interest rate or currency fluctuations. In the year 2022/23 we have had no exposure to these fluctuations. Our policy has been to finance fixed assets through retained reserves. Other than bank charges, no interest is payable on our bank accounts.

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Reference and Administrative Details

Registered Company number Registered Charity number 04212532 (England and Wales) 1121105

Registered office of the company and principal office of the charity 18-21 Morley Street, London, SE1 7QZ

Our advisers

Auditors Hartley Fowler 4[th] Floor, Tuition House, 27/37 St George’s Road, London, SW19 4EU Bankers Lloyds Blackheath Branch, PO Box 1000, BX1 1LT Solicitors Bates, Wells & Braithwaite 61 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HA

Key management personnel: Directors and Trustees

The directors of the charity are its trustees for the purpose of charity law. The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:

Co-opted Alan Smith (Chair 1/4/14) Graham Beal Dan Davidson Phil Stokes Keith Taylor Sophie Taysom Bradley Pritchard Lanre Bello Sadaf Rasheed Tom Leake

appointed 20/02/2012 appointed 10/03/2014 appointed 08/05/2014 appointed 17/07/2014 appointed 20/03/2017 appointed 20/04/2020 resigned 09/08/2023 appointed 28/09/2020 appointed 28/09/2020 appointed 28/09/2020

Groundwork UK nominee Marilyn Baxter appointed 20/03/2017 Local Authority nominee Susan Wise appointed 01/06/2015

Company Secretary

Stuart Harrison

Key management personnel: Senior Managers

Executive Director Director, Finance & Corporate Services Director, Communities & Environmental Services Director, Development & Strategic Programmes Director, Youth, Employment & Skills

Lindy Kelly Stuart Harrison Katrina Baker Ben Coles Graham Parry

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Structure, Governance and Management

Structure

Groundwork London is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee and is governed by its Articles of Association. Groundwork London was registered as a limited company on 8[th] May 2001 under the name Groundwork London Partnership and changed its name by Special Resolution to Groundwork London on 10[th] September 2007. On 1[st] November 2007 Groundwork London merged with Groundwork Southwark & Lambeth, Groundwork South East London and Groundwork Merton. On 1[st] April 2008 Groundwork London merged with Groundwork West London and incorporated the London activities of Groundwork Federation (non-legal incorporation). Groundwork North and Groundwork East London transferred as mergers on 1[st] April 2009.

Groundwork London is a member of the Federation of Groundwork Trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, each working with partners to improve the quality of the local environment, the lives of local people and the success of local businesses in areas in need of investment and support. The Federation Membership Agreement is a bilateral agreement jointly signed by both the Trust and the Federation, setting out the obligations, defining the minimum quality and ethical standards, setting out the core values and defining the circumstances and procedures whereby Trusts may be required to leave the Federation.

Groundwork London became the sole company member of The Groundwork South Trust Ltd on the 14[th] March 2017. Groundwork South continues to operate as an independent company with its own Board.

The Members of Groundwork London

The company members are the Federation of Groundwork Trusts, Dan Davidson, Eugenie White, Alan Smith, Cate Newnes-Smith and Susan Wise.

Governance

As Groundwork London has evolved so has our Governance ensuring that it is both relevant and effective as well as being resilient to future changes in our operating environment.

Board of Trustees

The Governing body of the Trust is the Board of Trustees. The Board is responsible for major strategic decisions and has ultimate responsibility for the conduct and financial viability of the organisation, it meets formally four times a year. The Board comprises of not more than 15 Directors of whom not more than 6 are either nominated or appointed and 9 co-opted Trustees:

Trustees generally serve in terms of between 12 months and 3 years and can be reappointed by the Board. The Board has an agreed strategy to enable Board succession to occur on a rolling basis.

Committees

The Board has established a number of committees:

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Induction & Training

New members of the Board of Trustees are provided with the Groundwork London Governance handbook and other key documents and have an induction meeting with the Executive Director. The induction includes an overview of the objects of Groundwork London and its Vision and Mission, the structure, its staff and volunteers and finance. Trustees are also encouraged and supported in visiting projects.

– Community Interest Company Our Parklife

Our Parklife was formally constituted in September 2014 by company members; Equans (previously known as Engie prior to name change); Groundwork London; Renaisi and Idverde (previously known as The Landscape Group prior to acquisition). Equans appoint two members to the Board and all other members appoint one Director. Groundwork London’s has appointed two Directors who alternate, they are Graham Parry (Director, Youth, Employment & Skills) & Ben Coles (Director, Development & Strategic Programmes).

The objects of the Company are to carry on activities which benefit the community and in particular (without limitation) to promote the social, economic and environmental well-being of residents in the boroughs immediately surrounding the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford by providing opportunities in the Park:

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Management

The Board delegates day-to-day financial and managerial control of the organisation to the Executive Director. The Executive Director, together with the Executive Team, meets monthly to discuss the operational and financial status of the Trust.

Groundwork London’s professional team continues to evolve in response to changes to our organisational structure and changes to the scale of the activities across each of our thematic areas and the needs of our business operational requirements. The framework within which our teams are organised are guided by the following principles:

Projects and programmes continue to be delivered by local teams, with management organised through area management structures and specialist service. At the end of the 2021/22 we had 325 FTE employees.

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Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial

statements

The charity trustees (who are also the directors of Groundwork London for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing a trustees’ annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the charity trustees to prepare financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and the group and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable group for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and the group and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Statement as to disclosure to our auditors

In so far as the trustees are aware at the time of approving our trustees’ annual report:

By order of the board of trustees

............................................. Trustee

Date: 25[th] September 2023

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the members of Groundwork London

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Groundwork London (the 'parent charitable company') and its subsidiaries (the ‘group’) for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the consolidated statement of financial activities, the group and parent charitable company balance sheets, the consolidated statement of cash flows and the notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the Financial Reporting Council's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the ISAs (UK) require us to report to you where:

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the trustees’ annual report, including the strategic report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the members of Groundwork London (continued)

Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the group and the parent charitable company and their environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the trustees' annual report, including the strategic report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees' responsibilities statement set out in the trustees’ annual report, the trustees (who are also the directors of the parent charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the group's and the parent charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the group or the parent charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors' report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during the audit.

We identify and assess risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, and then design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, including obtaining audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the members of Groundwork London (continued)

In identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we considered the following:

As a result of these procedures, we considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud. In common with all audits we are also required to perform specific procedures to respond to the risk of management override.

We also obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework that the charitable company operates in. The key laws and regulations we considered in this context included the Charities Act 2011, UK Companies Act and tax legislation.

In addition we considered provisions of other laws and regulations that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which may be fundamental to the charitable company's ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty.

As a result of performing the above, we did not identify any key matters related to the potential risk of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations.

Our procedures to respond to risks identified included the following:

We also communicated relevant identified laws and regulations and potential fraud risks to all engagement team members and remained alert to any indication of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations throughout the audit.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the members of Groundwork London (continued)

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Jonathan Askew, FCA (Senior statutory auditor) for and on behalf of Hartley Fowler LLP Statutory Auditor Chartered Accountants Fourth Floor, Tuition House 27/37 St George’s Road London SW19 4EU

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Groundwork London

(A company limited by guarantee)

Registered Number: 04212532

Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31[st] March 2023, incorporating the Income and Expenditure account

Notes
INCOME
Investment income
3
Income from charitable
activities
4
Total Income
EXPENDITURE
Cost of raising funds
5
Charitable activities
6
Total expenditure
Net income before gains/
(losses) on investments
Net (losses)/ gains on
investment properties
14
Net gains / (losses) on cash
investments
18
Net income
Transfers between funds
23
Net movement in funds
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED
FORWARD
23		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
418,874
15,727,825
16,146,699
122,102
16,250,411
16,372,513
(225,817)
-
(254,850)
(480,664)
468,419
(12,245)
10,314,863
10,302,618		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
17,013,305
17,013,305
-
16,549,886
16,549,886
463,419
(19,717)
-
443,702
(468,419)
(24,717)
1,537,329
1,512,612		 31.3.23
Total Funds
£
418,874
32,741,130
33,160,004
122,102
32,800,297
32,922,399
237,605
(19,717)
(254,850)
(36,962)
-
(36,962)
11,852,192
11,815,230		 31.3.22
Total
Funds
£
425,124
27,747,784
28,172,908
290,662
27,484,514
27,775,176
397,732
(19,717)
305,939
683,954
-
683,954
11,168,238
11,852,192

The Statement of Financial Activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

The notes on pages 35 to 54 form part of these financial statements.

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Groundwork London

(A company limited by guarantee)

Registered Number: 04212532

Charity Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31st March 2023, incorporating the Income and Expenditure account

Notes
INCOME
Investment income
3
Income from charitable
activities
4
Total Income
EXPENDITURE
Cost of raising funds
5
Charitable activities
6
Total expenditure
Net income before gains/
(losses) on investments
Net (losses)/ gains on
investment properties
14
Net gains / (losses) on cash
investments
18
Net income
Transfers between funds
23
Net movement in funds
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED
FORWARD
23		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
424,053
12,527,037
12,951,090
122,102
13,105,874
13,227,976
(276,886)
-
(254,850)
(531,736)
308,218
(223,518)
10,598,642
10,375,124		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
14,368,318
14,368,318
-
14,065,100
14,065,100
303,218
(19,717)
-
283,501
(308,218)
(24,717)
1,537,329
1,512,612		 31.3.23
Total Funds
£
424,053
26,895,355
27,319,408
122,102
27,170,974
27,293,076
26,332
(19,717)
(254,850)
(248,235)
-
(248,235)
12,135,971
11,887,736		 31.3.22
Total
Funds
£
433,212
22,577,711
23,010,923
290,662
22,514,435
22,805,097
205,826
(19,717)
305,939
492,048
-
492,048
11,643,923
12,135,971

The Statement of Financial Activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

The notes on pages 35 to 54 form part of these financial statements.

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Groundwork London

(A company limited by guarantee)

Registered Number: 04212532

Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2023

Notes
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets
12
Intangible assets
13
Investment properties
14
TOTAL FIXED ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
17
Current asset investments
18
Cash at bank
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Creditors falling due within one year
19
NET CURRENT ASSETS
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
NET ASSETS
THE FUNDS OF THE GROUP
23
General funds
Designated funds
Fair value reserve
Restricted revaluation fund
Restricted property fund
TOTAL GROUP FUNDS		 31.3.23
£
2,217,379
-
3,522,613
5,739,992
7,881,543
2,864,282
4,852,338
15,598,163
(9,522,925)
6,075,238
11,815,230
11,815,230
6,287,975
2,125,361
1,889,282
1,040,389
472,223
11,815,230		 31.3.22
£
2,279,510
-
3,542,330
5,821,840
6,059,148
3,119,132
6,150,382
15,328,662
(9,298,310)
6,030,352
11,852,192
11,852,192
6,035,370
2,135,361
2,144,132
1,060,106
477,223
11,852,192

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 25[th] September 2023 and were signed on its behalf by:

............................................

Alan Smith - Trustee

The notes on pages 35 to 54 form part of these financial statements

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Groundwork London

(A company limited by guarantee)

Registered Number: 04212532

Charity Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2023

Notes
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets
12
Investment properties
14
TOTAL FIXED ASSETS
NON CURRENT ASSETS
16
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
17
Current assets investments
18
Cash at bank
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Creditors falling due within one year
19
NET CURRENT ASSETS
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
NET ASSETS
THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY
23
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
Fair value reserve
Restricted revaluation fund
Restricted property fund
TOTAL CHARITY FUNDS		 31.3.23
£
1,221,598
3,522,613
4,744,211
-
6,986,852
2,864,282
4,384,910
14,236,044
(7,092,519)
7,143,525
11,887,736
11,887,736
6,360,481
2,125,361
1,889,282
1,040,389
472,223
11,887,736		 31.3.22
£
1,268,959
3,542,330
4,811,289
-
5,645,833
3,119,132
5,279,795
14,044,760
(6,720,078)
7,324,682
12,135,971
12,135,971
6,319,149
2,135,361
2,144,132
1,060,106
477,223
12,135,971

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 25[th] September 2023 and were signed on its behalf by:

............................................

Alan Smith - Trustee

The notes on pages 35 to 54 form part of these financial statements

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Groundwork London

(A company limited by guarantee)

Registered Number: 04212532

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31st March 2023

Notes
Cash flows from operating activities
25
Cash flow from investing activities
Investment income received
Income from sale of investments
Purchase of fixed assets
Net cash used in investing activities
Net Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year		 31.3.23
£
(1,667,874)
418,874
-
(49,044)
369,830
(1,298,044)
6,150,382
4,852,338		 31.3.22
£
198,717
425,124
-
(20,932)
404,192
603,109
5,547,273
6,150,382

The notes on pages 35 to 54 form part of these financial statements

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Groundwork London

(A company limited by guarantee)

Registered Number: 04212532

Charity Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31st March 2023

Notes
Cash flows from operating activities
25
Cash flow from investing activities
Investment income received
Income from sale of investments
Cash inflows from new investments
Cash outflows from new investments
Purchase of fixed assets
Net cash used in investing activities
Net Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year		 31.3.23
£
(1,269,894)
424,053
-
860,000
(860,000)
(49,044)
375,009
(894,885)
5,279,795
4,384,910		 31.3.22
£
(448,773)
433,212
-
440,948
(425,000)
(20,932)
428,228
(20,545)
5,300,340
5,279,795

The notes on pages 35 to 54 form part of these financial statements

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Groundwork London

(A company limited by guarantee)

Registered Number: 04212532

Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

a) Basis of preparation and assessment of going concern

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 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

Groundwork London 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 note(s).

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern. With respect to the next reporting period, 2023-24, the most significant areas of uncertainty are the impacts on Government, Local Authority funding commitments following Brexit and COVID-19.

b) Estimates and judgements

The investment property valuations referred to in note 14 are based on the professional opinion of fair value from a qualified chartered surveyor.

c) Income

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 income receivable can be measured reliably. Grants receivable, where related to performance are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance. Where income is received in advance, recognition is deferred and included in creditors and where entitlement arises before income is received the income is accrued.

d) Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

e) Allocation of support and governance costs

Support costs have been allocated between governance costs and other support costs. Governance costs comprise all costs involving the public accountability of the charity and its compliance with regulation and good practice. These costs include costs related to statutory audit and legal fees together with an apportionment of overhead and support costs. These costs are allocated to projects based on the ration of project time incurred.

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f) Tangible fixed assets

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life. Items over £2,000 are capitalised.

Long leasehold -over the term of the lease Buildings -2% per annum Fixtures and fittings -at varying rates on cost Motor vehicles -at varying rates on cost Computer equipment -at varying rates on cost

g) Intangible fixed assets

Amortisation is provided at the following rates: Software - 20% straight line

h) Investment property

Investment property is shown at most recent valuation. Any aggregate surplus or deficit arising from changes in market value is transferred to a revaluation reserve. No depreciation or amortisation is provided in respect of freehold investment properties and leasehold investment properties with over 20 years to run.

i) Realised gains and losses

All gains and losses are taken to the Statement of Financial Activities as they arise. Realised gains and losses on investments are calculated as the difference between sales proceeds and their opening carrying value or their purchase value if acquired subsequent to the first day of the financial year.

Unrealised gains and losses are calculated as the difference between the fair value at the year end and their carrying value. Realised and unrealised investment gains and losses are combined in the Statement of Financial Activities.

j) Taxation and VAT

The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities. The company is registered for VAT and all resources expended are inclusive of irrecoverable VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is charged against the expenditure heading for which it was incurred.

k) Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the note 24 to the financial statements.

l) Hire purchase and leasing commitments

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the statement of financial activities on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

m) Consolidation

The financial statements consolidate the results of the charitable company and its wholly owned subsidiary, The Groundwork South Trust Ltd, on a line-by-line basis. A separate Statement of Financial Activities and Income and Expenditure Account for the charitable company has also been presented. The charitable company also has two dormant subsidiaries as set out in the notes to the accounts.

n) Pensions

Employees of the charity are entitled to join a defined contribution ‘money purchase’ scheme. The company pays fixed contributions, charged to the statement of financial activities in the period to which they relate. The charity contribution is restricted to the contributions disclosed in note 11.

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The money purchase plan is managed by AEGON and the plan invests the contributions made by the employee and employer in an investment fund to build up over the term of the plan.

The Trust has no liability beyond making its contributions and paying across the deductions for the employee’s contributions. A similar defined contribution scheme is operated by the subsidiary company, The Groundwork South Trust Ltd.

o) Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due. No discounts are offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid

p) Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

q) Investment policy

Investments are a form of basic financial instrument and are initially recognised at their transaction value and subsequently measured at their fair value as at the balance sheet date using the closing quoted market price. The statement of financial activities includes the net gains and losses arising on revaluation and disposals throughout the year.

The Trust aims to have a portfolio of Financial Investments consistent with a “Balanced Portfolio” profile of risk, return, and liquidity, as identified in an externally conducted assessment of attitude to risk of the trustees when investing the Trust’s assets. In order to achieve this it will select Investment Managers which are able to make informed and timely asset allocation decisions consistent with the objectives of this Investment Policy and which may include Government and Corporate Bonds (UK and Overseas), UK and overseas Equities, Property, Gold and other commodities (excluding coal) and cash.

The Trust aims to utilise returns from financial investments for its day to day operations.

The Trust wishes to keep at least 40% of total assets in investments which can be realised within three months.

A minimum of 10% of total assets should be capable of being liquidated within 7 working days.

The Trust will not invest directly in any organisation whose main business activity is:

The main form of financial risk faced by the charity is that of volatility in equity markets and investment markets due to wider economic conditions, the attitude of investors to investment risk, and changes in sentiment concerning equities and within particular sectors or sub sectors.

r) Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts available.

s) Government Grants

Government grants are recognised when the entity has reasonable assurance that conditions attached to the grant will be complied with and that the grant will be received.

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Revenue grants are recognised using the accrual model and are therefore recognised as income on a systematic basis over the periods in which the entity recognises the related costs for which the grant is intended to compensate. Revenue grants are measured at fair value, being the amount of cash receivable.

2. LEGAL STATUS

Groundwork London is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The registered office and principal place of business is 18-21 Morley Street, London, SE1 7QZ. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the charity.

3. INVESTMENT INCOME

3. INVESTMENT INCOME
Rents received
Bank and investment interest
Rents received
Bank and investment interest		 Charity
31.3.23
£
318,288
105,765
424,053		 31.3.22
£
325,167
108,045
433,212
Group
31.3.23
£
318,288
100,586
418,874		 31.3.22
£
325,167
99,957
425,124

Investment income includes income received for the leasing out of business units at Artichoke Mews, a public house adjacent to Denmark Hill railway station, income received for leasing out space at Morley Street and Lower Clapton Road, deposit interest received, income from Trust current investments and interest on loans from group undertakings.

4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Income was received for:
Communities and Environmental
Service
Landscape Design Services
Youth, Employment & Skills Training
Strategic Partnerships & Programmes		 Charity
Unrestricted
funds
£
5,914,822
2,799,515
3,723,321
89,379
12,527,037		 Restricted
funds
£
1,990,031
74,673
5,486,958
6,816,656
14,368,318		 31.3.23
£
7,904,853
2,874,188
9,210,279
6,906,035
26,895,355		 31.3.22
£
6,874,500
1,833,014
7,697,215
6,172,982
22,577,711

In 2023 the income from charitable activities was £26,895,355 (2022: £22,577,711) of which £12,527,037 (2022: £10,498,225) was income from unrestricted funds and £14,368,318 (2022: £12,079,486) was income from restricted funds.

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4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES (cont’d)

Income was received for:
Communities and Environmental
Service
Landscape Design Services
Youth, Employment & Skills Training
Strategic Partnerships & Programmes		 Group
Unrestricted
funds
£
8,834,806
3,114,858
3,723,601
54,560
15,727,825		 Restricted
funds
£
3,292,605
1,399,053
5,513,227
6,808,420
17,013,305		 31.3.23
£
12,127,411
4,513,911
9,236,828
6,862,980
32,741,130		 31.3.22
£
10,135,454
3,302,712
8,138,054
6,171,564
27,747,784

In 2023 the income from charitable activities was £32,741,130 (2022: £27,747,784) of which £15,727,825 (2022: £12,963,517) was income from unrestricted funds and £17,013,305 (2022: £14,787,267) was income from restricted funds.

Income was provided by:
Local Authorities
Public and Regional Agencies
European Union
Private Sector
National Lottery
Local Authorities
Public and Regional Agencies
European Union
Private Sector
National Lottery
Income arose from:
Sale of goods
Rendering of services
Grants
Government grants – employment programmes
Sale of goods
Rendering of services
Grants
Government grants – employment programmes		 Charity
31.3.23
£
6,663,845
12,338,115
3,004,524
4,423,562
465,309
26,895,355		 31.3.22
£
2,835,317
10,906,109
2,184,441
5,716,389
935,455
22,577,711
Group
31.3.23
£
8,831,024
12,480,979
3,123,275
7,355,421
950,431
32,741,130		 31.3.22
£
4,538,825
11,506,701
1,771,009
8,417,357
1,513,892
27,747,784
Charity
31.3.23
£
513,710
11,522,010
11,640,455
3,219,180
26,895,355		 31.3.22
£
461,407
9,524,755
12,166,758
424,791
22,577,711
Group
31.3.23
£
513,710
17,367,785
11,640,455
3,219,180
32,741,130		 31.3.22
£
461,407
14,694,828
12,166,758
424,791
27,747,784

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5. COSTS OF RAISING FUNDS

Other operating leases
Administrative expenses		 31.3.23
£
102,338
19,764
122,102		 Charity and
Group
31.3.22
£
73,443
217,219
290,662

Administrative costs relate to the management of business units at Artichoke Mews and a public house adjacent to Denmark Hill railway station, offices at Morley Street and rental space at Lower Clapton Road.

6. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS
Communities and Environmental
Services
Landscape Design Services
Youth, Employment & Skills Training
Strategic Partnerships &
Programmes		 Charity
Direct costs
£
13,475,276
2,382,647
3,068,103
6,250,369
25,176,395		 Governance
and support
costs (see
note 7)
£
803,131
80,342
1,003,936
107,170
1,994,579		 31.3.23
£
14,278,407
2,462,989
4,072,039
6,357,539
27,170,974
 31.3.22
£
7,361,671
2,003,538
7,683,438
5,465,788
22,514,435

In 2023 the expenditure on charitable activities was £27,170,974 (2022: £22,514,435) of which £13,105,874 (2022: £10,431,995) was expenditure from unrestricted funds and £14,065,100 (2022: £12,084,440) was expenditure from restricted funds.

Communities and Environmental
Services
Landscape Design Services
Youth, Employment & Skills Training
Strategic Partnerships &
Programmes		 Group
Direct costs
£
16,810,080
3,883,851
3,431,998
6,207,314
30,333,243		 Governance
and support
costs (see
note 7)
£
1,159,644
161,205
1,039,035
107,170
2,467,054		 31.3.23
£
17,969,724
4,045,056
4,471,033
6,314,484
32,800,297		 31.3.22
£
10,184,336
3,531,318
8,304,490
5,464,370
27,484,514

In 2023 the expenditure on charitable activities was £32,800,297 (2022: £27,484,514) of which £16,250,411 (2022: £12,787,930) was expenditure from unrestricted funds and £16,549,886 (2022: £14,696,584) was expenditure from restricted funds.

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7. GOVERNANCE AND SUPPORT COSTS

The Trust identifies the costs of its support functions. It then identifies those costs which relate to the governance function. Having identified its governance costs, the remaining support costs, together with the governance costs are apportioned between the thematic programme areas in the year. The costs are allocated by staff time. The breakdown of costs are as follows:

Cost type
Support
costs

£
Staff costs
1,230,967
Office and other costs
710,584
Total costs
1,941,550
Cost type
Support
costs

£
Staff costs
1,405,871
Office and other costs
1,000,655
Total costs
2,406,525
8. GOVERNANCE COSTS
Staff costs
Legal fees
Auditor’s remuneration
Total costs
9. NET INCOMING/ (OUTGOING) RESOURCES
Net resources are stated after charging
Auditors’ remuneration – audit services
Depreciation – owned assets
Operating lease payments
Government grants
Auditors’ remuneration – Groundwork London
Auditor’s remuneration – Groundwork South
Depreciation – owned assets
Amortisation of intangible fixed assets
Operating lease payments
Government grants		 Charity
Support
costs

£
1,230,967
710,584
1,941,550		 Governance
costs
£
25,963
27,066
53,029		 Total
2023
£
1,256,930
737,650
1,994,579


Total
2022
£
888,343
782,370
1,670,713
Group
Governance
costs
£
25,963
34,566
60,529		 Total
2023
£
1,431,834
1,035,221
2,467,054


Total
2022
£
1,063,247
1,056,785
2,120,032
Group
31.3.23
£
25,963
12,066
22,500
60,529		 31.3.22
£
24,398
12,066
22,500
58,964
Charity
31.3.23
£
15,000
96,405
135,258
-		 31.3.22
£
15,000
104,611
138,210
39,110
Group
31.3.23
£
15,000
7,500
111,175
-
135,258
-		 31.3.22
£
15,000
7,500
120,942
-
221,710
94,054

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10. TRUSTEES’ REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

No payments or remuneration were made to the Trustees during this year or the previous year. Reimbursement of trustee expenses incurred was £nil (2022: £nil).

11. STAFF COSTS

The average number of employees during the year was as follows:
Direct charitable
Fundraising
Governance
Direct charitable
Fundraising
Governance
Staff costs were as follows
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs		 Charity
31.3.23
311
8
2
321		 31.3.22
288
7
2
297
Group
31.3.23
462
8
2
472		 31.3.22
400
7
2
409
Charity
31.3.22
£
8,577,444
765,420
641,581
9,984,445
Group
31.3.23
£
13,301,347
1,168,178
927,978
15,397,503		 31.3.22
£
11,377,353
958,371
819,407
13,155,131

The company operated a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme were held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. Contributions payable for the year were charged to the Statement of Financial Activities.

Amount of outstanding pension contributions
Amount of outstanding pension contributions		 Charity
31.3.23
31.3.22
£
£
3,325
3,498
Group
31.3.23
31.3.22
£
£
25,961
24,498

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11. STAFF COSTS – cont’d

Number of employees whose emoluments (excluding pension contributions) exceeded £60,000 in the year:

£60,000 - £69,999
£70,000 - £79,999
£80,000 - £89,999
£90,000 - £99,999		 Charity
and
Group
31.3.23
-
1
3
1
5		 31.3.22
-
1
3
1
5

The total employer's contributions paid to defined contribution schemes for the above higher paid employees was £30,286 (2022 - £29,809). The key management personnel of the charity, the Trust, comprise the Executive Director, Director Finance & Corporate Services, Director Youth, Employment & Skills Training and Director Communities & Environmental Services. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the Trust were £554,422 (2022 £529,608).

12. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS – Group

COST
At 1stApril 2022
Additions
Disposals
At 31st March
2023
DEPRECIATION
At 1stApril 2022
Disposals
Charge for year
At 31st March
2023
NET BOOK
VALUE
At 31st March
2023
At 31stMarch
2022		 Freehold
land and
buildings
£
2,603,300
-
-
2,603,300
516,639
-
23,400
540,039
2,063,261
2,086,661		 Building
improve-
ments
£
99,266
-
-
99,266
71,802
-
9,147
80,949
18,317
27,464		 Fixtures
and
fittings
£
298,578
-
-
298,578
228,924
-
41,375
270,299
28,279
69,654		 Computer
Equip’t
£
201,063
49,044
-
250,107
170,432
-
32,603
203,035
47,072
30,631		 Motor
vehicles
£
2,706
-
-
2,706
2,706
-
-
2,706
-
-		 Floating
Classroom
£
88,350
-
-
88,350
23,250
-
4,650
27,900
60,450
65,100

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12. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS – Group

Cost
At 1 April 2022
Additions
Disposals
At 31 March 2023
Depreciation
At 1 April 2022
Disposals
Charge for year
At 31 March 2023
Net Book Value
At 31 March 2023
At 31 March 2022		 Total
Tangible
Fixed Assets
£
3,293,263
49,044
-
3,342,307
1,013,753
-
111,175
1,124,928
2,217,379
2,279,510

12. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS – Charity

COST
At 1stApril 2022
Additions
Disposals
At 31st March
2023
DEPRECIATION
At 1stApril 2022
Disposals
Charge for year
At 31st March
2023
NET BOOK
VALUE
At 31st March
2023
At 31stMarch
2022		 Freehold
land and
buildings
£
1,620,000
-
-
1,620,000
474,639
-
15,000
489,639
1,130,361
1,145,361		 Building
improve-
ments
£
99,266
-
-
99,266
71,802
-
9,147
80,949
18,317
27,464		 Fixtures
and
fittings
£
228,240
-
-
228,240
162,737
-
39,655
202,392
25,848
65,503		 Computer
Equip’t
£
182,437
49,044
-
231,481
151,806
-
32,603
184,409
47,072
30,631		 Motor
vehicles
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Total
£
2,129,943
49,044
-
2,178,987
860,984
-
96,405
957,389
1,221,598
1,268,959

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13. INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS – Group

Cost
At 1 April 2022
Subsidiary intangible assets at fair value
Disposals
At 31 March 2023
Depreciation
At 1 April 2022
Disposals
Charge for year
At 31 March 2023
Net Book Value
At 31 March 2023
At 31 March 2022		 Software
£
49,720
-
-
49,720
49,720
-
-
49,720
-
-

14. INVESTMENT PROPERTIES

Fair Value at 1stApril 2022
Net loss on revaluation
Fair Value at 31st March 2023		 **Group ** and charity
Freehold
property
2,250,000
-
2,250,000		 Short
leasehold
£
42,330
(19,717)
22,613		 Long
leasehold
£
1,250,000
-
1,250,000		 Total
£
3,542,330
(19,717)
3,522,613

Groundwork London operates out of a 21 Morley Street. This property is also used for investment income. It was determined during the 2019/20 year that 50% of the property should be treated as an investment property in accordance with SORP FRS 102. An external valuation of £1,875,000 from 2016 was assigned to the investment element of this property. The investment element of the property has been subsequently revalued at 31[st] March 2021 by Avison Young, Chartered Surveyors, with a valuation of £2.25m. In the opinion of the Trustees there have been no changes in valuation since that date.

The short and long leasehold investment properties are held in the UK. The historical cost of the properties is £373,000. Artichoke Mews was revalued for a sum of £1.25m on 31[st] March 2021 by Avison Young, Chartered Surveyors, on an open market value in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. In the opinion of the Trustees there have been no changes in valuation since that date.

The above represents investment at fair value in the following properties which were transferred from Groundwork Southwark and Lambeth on 1 November 2007 as follows:

Artichoke Mews (125 year lease from 1 July 1990) - £1.25m. Historical cost £183,000.

Denmark Hill (41 year lease from 5 June 1983) - £22,613. Historical cost £190,000.

15. SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
Shares in Group Undertakings		 Charity
31.3.23
31.3.22
£
£
2
2

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15. SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES -cont’d

The charity holds 100% of the issued ordinary share capital of Groundwork Environmental Services (West London) Limited (company number 03810135) and Groundwork Environmental Services (East London) Limited (company number 04308777). Both companies are incorporated in England and Wales. Both companies were dormant during the year.

On 14[th] March 2017 Groundwork London became the sole member of The Groundwork South Trust Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (registered co number 01982077, registered charity no. 293705) for no consideration and the Group has consolidated its accounts from that date.

The separate accounts for The Groundwork South Trust Limited show the following for the year ended 31 March 2023.

March 2023.
31.3.23 31.3.22
£ £
Total income for the year 7,590,322 6,600,345
Total expenditure for the year 7,379,049 6,408,439
Total surplus for the year 211,273 191,906
Aggregate amount of assets 2,650,717 3,041,127
Aggregate amount of liabilities 2,723,223 3,324,906
Aggregate deficit on unrestricted funds (72,506) (283,779)

16. NON CURRENT ASSETS

Loans to subsidiary undertakings Charity
31.3.23
£
-
-		 31.3.22
£
-
-

There was no Loan outstanding with The Groundwork South Trust Ltd at 31[st] March 2022 or 2023. Interest on outstanding loans is charged to subsidiary undertakings at 2.85% above the Bank of England base rate, monthly in arrears. The freehold property of the charity has been pledged as security on these funds.

17. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

Trade debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
Other debtors		 Group
31.3.22
4,293,772
1,761,740
3,636
6,059,148		 31.3.23
£
5,121,558
1,854,244
11,050
6,986,852		 Charity
31.3.23
5,947,204
1,923,289
11,050
7,881,543		 31.3.22
£
4,093,558
1,548,639
3,636
5,645,833

18. CURRENT ASSETS INVESTMENTS

18. CURRENT ASSETS INVESTMENTS
Quoted market price at start of year
Additions in year at cost
Disposals in year
Net (losses) / gains on cash investments
Quoted market price at year end		 Group and Charity
31.3.23
£
3,119,132
-
-
(254,850)
2,864,282		 31.3.22
£
2,813,193
-
-
305,939
3,119,132

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19. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

Trade Creditors
Taxation and social security
Deferred income
Other creditors		 Group
31.3.22
1,454,456

783,349
6,573,371

487,135
9,298,310
 Charity
31.3.23
933,584
851,019
7,619,232
119,090
9,522,925		 31.3.23
31.3.22
£
£
1,035,832 1,225,266
603,685
708,294
5,390,366 4,485,098
62,636
301,420
7,092,519 6,720,078

20. DEFERRED INCOME

Movements in group deferred income during the year were as follows:

Income from charitable activities Balance
at
31.3.22
Amount
release to
incoming
resources
£
6,573,371(6,573,371)		 Group
Amount
deferred
in the
year
Balance
at
31.3.23
£
£
7,619,232
7,619,232

Net incoming group resources as shown in the Statement of Financial Activities result from the following:

Income from charitable activities Group
Income
received
Transferred
from
deferred
income
Net
income
£
£
£
40,779,236
(7,619,232)
33,160,004

Movements in group deferred income during the year ended at 31[st] March 2022 were as follows:

Income from charitable activities Balance
at
31.3.21
Amount
release to
incoming
resources
£
6,604,389
6,604,389		 Group
Amount
deferred
in the
year
Balance
at
31.3.22
£
£
6,573,371
6,573,371

Net incoming group resources as shown in the Statement of Financial Activities result from the following:

Income from charitable activities Group
Income
received
Transferred
from
deferred
income
Net
income
£
£
£
37,746,279
(6,573,371)
28,172,908

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Movements in charity deferred income during the year were as follows:

Income from charitable activities Amount
release to
incoming
resources
(4,485,098)		 Charity
Balance
at
31.3.22
£
4,485,098		 Amount
deferred
in the
year
Balance
at
31.3.23
£
£
5,390,366
5,390,366

Net incoming charity resources as shown in the Statement of Financial Activities result from the following:

Income from charitable activities Charity
Income
received
Transferred
to deferred
income
Net income
£
£
£
32,709,774
(5,390,366)
27,319,408

Movements in charity deferred income during the year ended at 31[st] March 2022 were as follows:

Income from charitable activities Amount
release to
incoming
resources
(4,841,717)		 Charity
Balance
at 1 April
2021
£
4,841,717		 Amount
deferred
in the
year
Balance at
31 March
2022
£
£
4,485,098
4,485,098

Net incoming charity resources as shown in the Statement of Financial Activities result from the following:

Income from charitable activities Charity
Income
received
£
27,496,021		 Transferred
from
deferred
income
Net income
£
£
(4,485,098)
23,010,923

21. COMMITMENTS UNDER OPERATING LEASES

Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases for each of the following periods:

Not later than one year
Later than one year and not later than five
years
Later than five years		 Group
31.3.23
31.3.22
£
£
222,594
219,024
289,925
424,827
-
-		 Charity
31.3.23
31.3.22
£
£
133,665
135,258
158,017
218,182
-
-

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Future minimum lease receipts under non-cancellable operating leases for each of the following periods:

Not later than one year
Later than one year and not later than five years
Later than five years		 Group and
Charity
31.3.23
31.3.22
£
£
259,668
288,353
198,066
447,238
-
-

22. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS – Group

22. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS – Group
Fixed assets
Investment Properties
Current assets
Current liabilities
Fixed assets
Investment Properties
Current assets
Current liabilities		 Unrestricted
funds
£
2,217,379
2,250,000
15,119,879
(9,284,640)
10,302,618
Unrestricted
funds
£
2,279,510
2,250,000
14,858,887
(9,073,534)
10,314,863		 Restricted
funds
£
-
1,272,613
478,284
(238,285)

1,512,612
Restricted
funds
£
-
1,292,330
469,775
(224,776)
1,537,329		 31.3.23
Total funds
£
2,217,379
3,522,613
15,598,163
(9,522,925)
11,815,230
31.3.22
Total funds
£
2,279,510
3,542,330
15,328,662
(9,298,310)
11,852,192

22. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS – Charity

Fixed assets
Non-current assets
Investment Properties
Current assets
Current liabilities
Fixed assets
Non-current assets
Investment Properties
Current assets
Current liabilities		 Unrestricted
funds
£
1,221,598
-
2,250,000
13,757,760
(6,854,234)
10,375,124
Unrestricted
funds
£
1,268,959
-
2,250,000
13,574,985
(6,495,302)
10,598,642		 Restricted
funds
£
-
-
1,272,613
478,284
(238,285)

1,512,612
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
1,292,230
469,775
(224,776)

1,537,329		 31.3.23
Total funds
£
1,221,598
-
3,522,613
14,235,044
(7,092,519)
11,887,736
31.3.22
Total funds
£
1,268,959
-
3,542,330
14,044,760
(6,720,078)
12,135,971

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23. THE FUNDS OF THE GROUP - 2023

Unrestricted Funds
General funds
Groundwork South
Inter Group trans.
Total General funds
Designated funds
Fair value reserve
Total Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted Funds
Revaluation fund
Property fund
Programme funds
Groundwork South
Inter Group trans
Total Restricted
Funds
Total Funds		 Brought
forward
1.4.22
6,319,149
(283,779)
-
6,035,370
2,135,361
2,144,132
10,314,863
1,060,106
477,223
-
-
-
1,537,329
11,852,192		 Incoming
Resources
12,951,090
4,174,385
(978,776)
16,146,699
-
-
16,146,699
-
-
14,368,318
3,415,937
(770,950)
17,013,305
33,160,004		 Resources
Expended
(13,227,977)
(4,123,312)
978,776
(16,372,513)
-
-
(16,372,513)
-
-
(14,065,099)
(3,255,737)
770,950
(16,549,886)
(32,922,399)		 Net
gains /
(losses)
on
invest-
ments
-
-
-
-
-
(254,850)
(254,850)
(19,717)
-
-
-
-
(19,717)
(274,567)		 Transfers
In / (Out)
318,219
160,200
-
478,419
(10,000)
-
468,419
-
(5,000)
(303,219)
(160,200)
-
(468,419)
-		 Carried
Forward
31.3.23
6,360,481
(72,506)
-
6,287,975
2,125,361
1,889,282
10,302,618
1,040,389
472,223
-
-
-
1,512,612
11,815,230

23. THE FUNDS OF THE GROUP – 2022

Unrestricted Funds
General funds
Groundwork South
Inter Group trans.
Total General funds
Designated funds
Fair value reserve
Total Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted Funds
Revaluation fund
Property fund
Programme funds
Groundwork South
Inter Group trans
Total Restricted
Funds
Total Funds		 Brought
forward
1.4.21
6,098,323
(475,685)
-
5,622,638
2,145,361
1,838,193
9,606,192
1,079,823
482,223
-
-
1,562,046
11,168,238		 Incoming
Resources
10,931,437
3,430,911
(973,707)
13,388,641
-
-
13,388,641
-
-
12,079,486
3,169,434
(464,653)
14,784,267
28,172,908		 Resources
Expended
(10,722,657)
(3,329,642)
973,707
(13,078,592)
-
-
(13,078,592)
-
-
(12,082,440)
(3,078,797)
464,653
(14,696,584)
(27,775,176)		 Net
gains /
(losses)
on
invest-
ments
-
-
-
-
-
305,939
305,939
(19,717)
-
-
-
-
(19,717)
286,222		 Transfers
In / (Out)
12,046
90,637
-
102,683
(10,000)
-
92,683
-
(5,000)
2,954
(90,637)
-
(92,683)
-		 Carried
Forward
31.3.22
6,319,149
(283,779)
-
6,035,370
2,135,361
2,144,132
10,314,863
1,060,106
477,223
-
-
-
1,537,329
11,852,192

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THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY -2023

Brought
forward
at 1.4.22
Incoming
Resources
£
£
Unrestricted Funds
General funds
6,319,149
12,951,090
Designated funds
2,135,361
-
Fair value reserve
2,144,132
-
Total Unrestricted
Funds
10,598,642
12,951,090
Restricted Funds
Revaluation fund
1,060,106
-
Property fund
477,223
-
Programme funds
-
14,368,318
Total Restricted
Funds
1,537,329
14,368,318
Total Funds
12,135,971
27,319,408
THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY -2022
Brought
forward
at 1.4.21
Incoming
Resources
£
£
Unrestricted Funds
General funds
6,098,323
10,931,437
Designated funds
2,145,361
-
Fair value reserve
1,838,193
-
Total Unrestricted
Funds
10,081,877
10,931,437
Restricted Funds
Revaluation fund
1,079,823
-
Property fund
482,223
-
Programme funds
-
12,079,486
Total Restricted
Funds
1,562,046
12,079,486
Total Funds
11,643,923
23,010,923		 Resources
Expended
£
(13,227,976)
-
-
(13,227,976)
-
-
(14,065,100)
(14,065,100)
(27,293,076)
Resources
Expended
£
(10,722,657)
-
-
(10,722,657)
-
-
(12,082,440)
(12,082,440)
(22,805,097)		 Net gains
/ (losses)
on
invest-
ments
£
-
-
(254,850)
(254,850)
(19,717)
-
-
(19,717)
(274,567)
Net gains
/ (losses)
on
invest-
ments
£
-
-
305,939
305,939
(19,717)
-
-
(19,717)
286,222		 Transfe
rs In /
(Out)
£
318,218
(10,000)
-
-
308,218
-
(5,000)
-
(303,218)
308,218
-
Transfe
rs In /
(Out)
£
12,046
(10,000)
-
-
2,046
-
(5,000)
2,954
-
(2,046)
-		 Carried
Forward at
31.3.23
£
6,360,481
2,125,361
1,889,282
10,375,124
1,040,389
472,223
-
1,512,612
11,887,736
Carried
Forward at
31.3.22
£
6,319,149
2,135,361
2,144,132
10,598,642
1,060,106
477,223
1,537,329
12,135,971

24. THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY

Unrestricted Funds

General Funds

Funds available are sufficient to permit the company to continue in operation in the short term given the continued support of the funders. Should this support not continue in the longer term, further financial support would need to be sought to replace it. Where funds which are regarded as restricted are awarded based on outputs rather than actual costs any funds not applied against directly identified costs are

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transferred at the year end to unrestricted funds to cover overhead costs not directly recharged. Income that has not been fully delivered or earned is deferred.

Designated Funds

The Designated Fund represents funds transferred from the general fund for the purpose of Groundwork London development. This includes the cost of the Morley Street property less the property depreciation charges.

Fair Value Reserve

The Fair Value Reserve is a reserve for the unrealised gains and losses on the charity’s unrestricted fixed asset investments and investment property revaluations.

Groundwork South

These financial statements include the results of The Groundwork South Trust Ltd (registered co number 01982077, registered charity no. 293705) following Groundwork London becoming sole company member on 14[th] March 2017. The funds held in the group accounts represent the general funds of The Groundwork South Trust Ltd at 31[st] March 2023. Funds are transferred from unrestricted to restricted at the year-end on the basis that no restrictions exist on the income and expenditure recognised.

Restricted Funds

Revaluation Fund

A revaluation fund is required by the Companies Act 2006 where investment properties are revalued subsequent to their acquisition, or in the case of assets held prior to the mergers, transfer to the control of Groundwork London. The balance shown on the revaluation reserve in the accounts, represents the difference between the revaluation of the investment in the Denmark Hill property (in 2003) and its original cost.

Property Fund

The investment property fund represents the valuation of the properties. The properties are the public house at Denmark Hill Station, the workshops and flats at Artichoke Mews and the property at Lower Clapton Road.

The properties at Denmark Hill and Artichoke Mews are intended to be set aside so that the returns are used for the day to day expenses of the charity in relation to projects undertaken within the London Borough of Southwark. The property at Lower Clapton Road is a freehold property transferred from Groundwork East London. The trustees have set aside an amount equivalent to the value of the investment properties as designated funds. The revaluation surplus following the most recent valuation of the properties for Denmark Hill is held in a separate Revaluation Fund.

The investment income less the investment management costs are allocated to a "Property" restricted fund.

Programme Funds

Grants, which are received for specific programmes (Communities & Young People, Urban Landscapes and Open Space, Employment & Skills Training and Environmental Services), are accounted for as restricted funds. The balances on restricted funds arise from grants received for these programmes on which some expenditure is still to be incurred in the coming financial year. Where funds which are regarded as restricted are awarded based on outputs rather than actual costs, any funds not applied against directly identified costs are transferred at the year end to unrestricted funds to cover overhead costs not directly recharged. There were no restricted balances on these grant funded programmes at 31[st] March 2023.

Groundwork South

Income which is received for specific programmes (Greener Living and Working, Youth and Employment, Parks and Open Spaces) are accounted for as restricted funds. These financial statements include the results for the year of The Groundwork South Trust Ltd (registered co number 01982077, registered charity no. 293705) following Groundwork London becoming sole company member on 14[th] March 2017. The balance of funds in the group accounts at 31[st] March 2023 represent the total funds held by The Groundwork South Trust Ltd at this date.

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25. RECONCILIATION OF CONSOLIDATED NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net movement in funds
Investment income
Depreciation
(Increase) in debtors
Net loss/ (gains) on cash investments
Increase in creditors
Cash flows from operating activities
26. Analysis of changes in net debt
Cash and Cash equivalents
Cash
Overdrafts
Cash equivalents
Borrowings
Debt due within 1 year
Debt due after 1 year
Total
Cash and Cash equivalents
Cash
Overdrafts
Cash equivalents		 Group Charity
31.3.23
£
(36,962)
(418,874)
111,175
(1,822,395)
274,567
224,615
(1,667,874)		 31.3.22
£
683,954
(425,124)
120,942
(838,747)
(286,222)
944,114
198,917		 31.3.23
(248,235)
(424,053)
96,405
(1,341,019)
274,567
372,441
(1,269,894)		 31.3.22
492,048
(433,212)
104,611
(520,140)
(286,222)
194,142
(448,773)
Group
31.3.22
£
6,150,382
-
-
6,150,382
-
-
-
6,150,382
31.3.22
£
5,279,795
-
-
5,279,795		 Cash flows
£
(1,298,044)		 Other
Non-
Cash
change
£
-
-
-
-
-
 31.3.23
£
4,852,388
(1,298,044) 4,852,388
-
-		 -
-
- -
4,852,388
Charity
(1,298,044)
Cash
flows
£
(894,885)
-
-
(894,855)		 Other
Non- Cash
change
£
-
-
-
-		 31.3.23
£
4,384,910
-
-
4,384,910

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26. Analysis of changes in net debt – cont’d

At
31.3.22
£
Cash
flows
£
Borrowings
Debt due within 1 year
-
-
Debt due after 1 year
-
-
-
-
Total
5,279,795
(894,855)
27. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Financial Assets
Financial assets measured at fair value through income and expenditure
Financial assets that are debt instruments measured at amortised cost
Financial Liabilities
Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost
Financial Assets
Financial assets measured at fair value through income and expenditure
Financial assets that are debt instruments measured at amortised cost
Financial Liabilities
Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost		 Other
Non-Cash
change
£
-
-
-
-		 At 31.3.23
£
-
-
-
4,384,910
Charity
31.3.23
£
2,864,282
9,517,518
12,381,800
(1,702,153)
10,679,647		 31.3.22
£
3,119,132
9,376,989
12,496,121
(2,234,980)
10,261,141
Group
31.3.23
£
2,864,282
10,810,592
13,674,874
(1,903,693)
11,771,181		 31.3.22
£
3,119,132
10,447,790
13,566,922
(2,724,939)
10,841,983

Financial assets measured at fair value through income and expenditure comprise fixed asset investments in UK listed investments.

Financial assets measured at amortised cost comprise all cash and cash equivalent balances and debtor balances, excluding prepayments and accrued income.

Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost comprise all creditor balances except deferred income.

28. CAPITAL COMMITMENTS

At 31[st] March 2023 there were no capital commitments or contingent liabilities for Groundwork London or Groundwork South.

29. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Transactions between the charity and its wholly controlled subsidiary are not disclosed, as permitted by the exemptions set out in Section 33.1A of FRS 102 (Related Party Disclosures).

30. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Groundwork London thanks all its supporters. We have been asked specifically to acknowledge the support of the following funders

Source

BIG Lottery BIG Lottery BIG Lottery

Project

BBO ILM North BBO ILM South BBO Coast to Capital

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