**Charity number: 1121619 Company number: 06051085**
**Ealing Centre For Independent Living (A company limited by guarantee)**
**Trustee's report and financial statements**
**for the year ended 31 March 2022**
## **Ealing Centre For Independent Living (A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Legal and administrative information|**1**|
|Trustee's report|**2 - 3**|
|Independent examiners' report||
|Statement of financial activities|**6**|
|Balance sheet|**7 - 8**|
|Notes to the financial statements|**9 - 12**|
## **Ealing Centre For Independent Living (A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Legal and administrative information**
|**Charity number**|1121619|
|---|---|
|**Company registration number**|06051085|
|**Registered office**|63 Mattock Lane|
||london|
||W13 9LA|
|**Trustee**|L Armstrong (Chair)|
||A Cook|
|**Accountants**|Kleinman Graham|
||Second Floor, Unicorn House|
||Station Close|
||Potters Bar|
||Hertfordshire|
||EN6 1TL|
|**Bankers**|Lloyds Bank|
||45 The Broadway|
||Ealing|
||London|
||W5 5JU|
## **Ealing Centre For Independent Living (A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Report of the trustee (incorporating the director's report) for the year ended 31 March 2022**
The trustee presents her report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022. The trustees, who are also directors of Ealing Centre For Independent Living for the purposes of company law and who served during the year and up to the date of this report are set out on page 1.
## **Objectives and activities**
ECIL is a not-for-profit organisation, whose objects are to promote independent living for disabled people and their unpaid carers. Our long-term objectives are:
1. To identify and relieve the needs of disabled people and their unpaid carers, who are living, working or studying within the London Borough of Ealing and to further their independence and full participation in society as equals.
2. Empower disabled people and unpaid carers through the provision of information, advice, counselling and advocacy.
3. To influence/change the attitudes and practices of service providers in relation to pan disability.
## _Mission Statement_
Empowering disabled people and their unpaid carers to assist them to live full and independent lives.
## **Achievements and performance**
ECIL is now a much reduced organisation based at the Lido Community Hub.
During the year we have continued to work with a large number of clients, all of whom must be known to the Ealing Community Partnership (ECP) who are our sole income providers.
Like almost every other organisation working in the third sector the COVID pandemic taught us new ways of working, relying heavily on the telephone or email, but as the impact of the pandemic has lessened our team have undertaken more face to face interviews.
The statistics clearly demonstrate that our two part time advisors are working far harder than before Covid. They continue to help clients navigate and complete official forms to obtain the benefits and allowances that they are entitled to.
The advisors also strive to help clients obtain better living conditions, help with transport issues, including getting "Blue badges" or medical aids to help with everyday living.
As Trustees we have carried out our meetings using the phone, Zoom or Microsoft Teams but we have also ensured that wherever possible we also hold weekly meetings at the Lido.
In Dec 2021 ECIL gratefully received a £2,500 donation from The Artemis Trust {a local charity} towards our work.
As the year progressed the Trustees realised that in order for ECIL to flourish going forward we would need to form stronger alliances with other ECP allied organisations.
## **Financial review**
Total income for the year ending 31 March 2022 totalled £42,500 (2021: 58,284). Expenses amounted to £39,100 (2021: 53,090) givinga net surplus for the year of £3,400 (2021: £5,194). Total charity funds at the year end were £28,435 (2021: £25,035).
## _Reserves Policy_
The existing policy of the Charity at the time was that we should maintain unrestricted funds at as high a level as possible. Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity and which have not been designated for other purposes. Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the charity for particular purposes.
## **Ealing Centre For Independent Living (A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Report of the trustee (incorporating the director's report) for the year ended 31 March 2022**
## _Public Benefit_
The Board considers the Charity to be a public benefit as it promotes independent living for disabled people and their unpaid carers. The Board complied with the duty in Section 17 Charities Act 2011, to have regard to the Public Benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission.
## **Statement of trustees' responsibilities**
The trustees (who are also directors of Ealing Centre For Independent Living for the purpose of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Small company provisions**
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions for small companies under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
On behalf of the board
L Armstrong (Chair)
## **Director**
15 November 2022
## **Ealing Centre For Independent Living (A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees on the unaudited financial statements of Ealing Centre For Independent Living.**
I report on the accounts of Ealing Centre For Independent Living for the year ended 31 March 2022 set out on pages 2 to 12.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and independent examiner**
As the trustees of the company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act'). Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2001 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Basis of independent examiner's statement**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect on the charity as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or to keep proper accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; and
2. the financial statements do not accord with those records; or
3. the financial statements do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that accounts give a 'true and fair' view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the financial statements have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
...........................................................
## **Jason Bennett**
FCA
## **Independent examiner**
2nd Floor, Unicorn House Station Close Potters Bar Hertfordshire EN6 1TL
Ealing Centre For Independent Living
(A company limited by guarantee)
## **Ealing Centre For Independent Living**
## **(A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Statement of financial activities (incorporating the income and expenditure account)**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2022**
|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**funds**
**Notes**
**£**
**£**
**Incoming resources**
Incoming resources from generating funds:
Voluntary income
2
2,500
-
Activities for generating funds
3
-
40,000
Investment income
4
-
-
**Total incoming resources**
2,500
40,000
**Resources expended**
Costs of generating funds:
Cost of generating voluntary income
5
-
33,582
Governance costs
6
300
5,218
**Total resources expended**
300
38,800
**Net incoming resources for the year /**
**Net income for the year**
2,200
1,200
Total funds brought forward
20,068
4,967
**Total funds carried forward**
22,268
6,167|**2022**
**Total**
**£**
2,500
40,000
-
42,500
33,582
5,518
39,100
3,400
25,035
28,435|**2021**
**Total**
**£**
515
57,767
2|
|---|---|---|
|||58,284|
|||45,065
8,025|
|||53,090|
|||5,194
19,841|
|||25,035|
**The notes on pages 9 to 12 form an integral part of these financial statements.**
## **Ealing Centre For Independent Living**
## **(A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Balance sheet as at 31 March 2022**
|**Notes**
**Current assets**
Debtors
9
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: amounts falling**
**due within one year**
10
**Net current assets**
**Net assets**
**Funds**
Restricted income funds
Unrestricted income funds
**Total funds**|**2022**
**£**
**£**
165
31,960
32,125
)
(3,690
28,435
28,435
6,167
22,268
28,435|**2021**
**£**
**£**
165
26,802
26,967
)
(1,932
25,035
25,035
4,967
20,068
25,035|**2021**
**£**
**£**
165
26,802
26,967
)
(1,932
25,035
25,035
4,967
20,068
25,035|
|---|---|---|---|
||||25,035|
||||4,967
20,068|
||||25,035|
The Balance Sheet continues on the following page.
**The notes on pages 9 to 12 form an integral part of these financial statements.**
## **Ealing Centre For Independent Living**
## **(A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Balance sheet (continued)**
## **Trustee statements required by the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2022**
In approving these financial statements as trustee of the company I hereby confirm:
(a) that for the year stated above the company was entitled to the exemption conferred by section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 ;
(b) that no notice has been deposited at the registered office of the company pursuant to section 476 of the Companies Act 2006 requesting that an audit be conducted for the year ended 31 March 2022.
(c) that I acknowledge my responsibilities for:
(1) ensuring that the company keeps proper accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006, and
(2) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its profit or loss for the year then ended in accordance with the requirements of sections 394 and 395, and which otherwise comply with the provisions of the Companies Act relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.
These financial statements are prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008).
The financial statements were approved by the board on 15 November 2022 and signed on its behalf by
## **L Armstrong (Chair) Director**
**The notes on pages 9 to 12 form an integral part of these financial statements.**
**Ealing Centre For Independent Living (A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022**
## **1. Accounting policies**
The principal accounting policies are summarised below. The accounting policies have been applied consistently throughout the year and the preceding year.
## **1.1. Basis of accounting**
The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008), the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' issued in March 2005 (SORP 2005) and the Companies Act 2006.
## **1.2. Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:
Voluntary income is received by way of grants, donations and gifts and is included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable. Grants where entitlement is not conditional on the delivery of a specific performance by the charity, are recognised when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant.
Donated services and facilities are included at the value to the charity where this can be quantified. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included.
Gifts donated for resale are included as incoming resources within activities for generating funds when they are sold.
Income from the charity shop is included in the year in which it is receivable.
Income from investments is included in the year in which it is receivable.
## **1.3. Resources expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
Costs of generating funds comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income and the costs of trading for fundraising purposes including the charity's shop.
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
Support costs are those costs incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity and include project management.
**Ealing Centre For Independent Living**
## **(A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022**
|**2.**
**Voluntary income**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
Donations
2,500
2,500
**3.**
**Activities for generating funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
West London HHS Trust
40,000
Trust for London
-
40,000
**4.**
**Investment income**
Bank interest receivable
**5.**
**Cost of generating voluntary income**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
Charitable activity
33,582
33,582|**2022**
**Total**
**£**
2,500
2,500
**2022**
**Total**
**£**
40,000
-
40,000
**2022**
**Total**
**£**
-
-
**2022**
**Total**
**£**
33,582
33,582|**2021**
**Total**
**£**
515|
|---|---|---|
|||515|
|||**2021**
**Total**
**£**
40,000
17,767|
|||57,767|
|||**2021**
**Total**
**£**
2|
|||2|
|||**2021**
**Total**
**£**
45,065|
|||45,065|
**Ealing Centre For Independent Living**
## **(A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022**
## **6. Governance costs**
|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
Accountancy fees
300
900
General office expenses
-
1,776
Insurance
-
213
motor & travelling costs
-
-
Communication & IT
-
2,329
300
5,218|**2022**
**Total**
**£**
1,200
1,774
213
-
2,329
5,516|**2021**
**Total**
**£**
1,057
3,296
213
85
3,374
8,025|
|---|---|---|
|**7.**
**Employees**
**Employment costs**
Wages and salaries
No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 (2021 : None).|**2022**
**£**
27,008|**2021**
**£**
29,284|
|---|---|---|
||||
## **Number of employees**
The average monthly numbers of employees (including the trustee) during the year, calculated on the basis of full time equivalents, was as follows:
|**2022**|**2021**|
|---|---|
|**Number**|**Number**|
|2|1|
## **8. Taxation**
The charity's activities fall within the exemptions afforded by the provisions of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988. Accordingly, there is no taxation charge in these accounts.
## **9. Debtors**
|**Debtors**|||
|---|---|---|
||**2022**|**2021**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Other debtors|165|165|
**Ealing Centre For Independent Living**
## **(A company limited by guarantee)**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022**
|**10.**
**Creditors: amounts falling due**
**within one year**
Accruals and deferred income
**11.**
**Unrestricted funds**
Unrestricted
**12.**
**Restricted funds**
West London NHS Trust|**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
3,690
1,932
**At**
**At**
**1 April**
**Incoming**
**Outgoing**
**31 March**
**2021**
**resources**
**resources**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
20,068
2,500
)
(300
22,268
**At**
**At**
**1 April**
**Incoming**
**Outgoing**
**31 March**
**2021**
**resources**
**resources**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
4,967
40,000
)
(38,800
6,167|
|---|---|
## **13. Company limited by guarantee**
Ealing Centre For Independent Living is a company limited by guarantee and accordingly does not have a share capital.
Every member of the company undertakes to contribute such amount as may be required not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charitable company in the event of its being wound up while he or she is a member, or within one year after he or she ceases to be a member.