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|Trustees'|Report|||1 —6|
|Statement|ofTrustee's|responsibilities|||
|Report of|the Independent||Auditor||
|Statement|of Financial|Activities|||
|8alance Sheet||||12|
|Notes to the Accounts||||13-22|





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|||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
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|INCOME FROM:||||||||||
|Donations snd legacies|||||2|5,984||5,984|29,595|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||3|528,185|236,381|764,566|389,397|
|TOTAL INCOME||||||534,169|236,381|770,660|418,992|
|EXPENDITURE ON:||||||||||
|Raising funds|||||4|24,615||24,615|15,010|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||5|242,760|272,594|515,354|345,294|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE||||||267,37S|272,594|539,989|380,304|
|Net income/(expenditure)||for|the year before|||||||
|transfers||||||266.794|(36,213)|230,581|58,SBB|
|Transfer offunds<br>in|year|||||(30,628)|30,828|||
|NET INCOMEI(EXPENDITURE)|||&NET MOVEMENT|IN||||||
|FUNDS||||||235,968|(5,385)|230,581|58,688|
|RECONCILIATION|OF FUNDS|||||||||
|Total funds brought|fonvard|||||193,057|6,526|199,583|140,895|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED||FORWARD|||12|429023|1 141|4301S4|199583|





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|FIXEDASSETS||||||||
|Investments|||||||1|
|Tangible assets||||||3,039|3~700|
|||||||3,040|3,701|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||||
|Debtors|||||to|428,215|122,699|
|Cash at bank||snd|in hand|||73,772|170,657|
|Total current assets||||||501,987|293,356|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year||||(74,863)|(97,474)|
|Net current assets||||||427,124|195,882|
|NET ASSETS|||||14|430,164|199,583|
|FUNDS OFTHE CHARITY||||||||
|Unrestricted|-|General||||354,023|148,057|
|Unrestncted|—Designated|||fund||45000|45000|
|Total unrestricted|||funds|||4211023|193,057|
|Restricted||||||I 141|6526|
|TOTALCHARITY|FUNDS||||13|610 104|161503|




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|.<br>DONATION|S<br>AND LEGACIES||||
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||Funds|Funds|Funds|
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|Donations||5,984||5,984|
|Grants|||||
|Total 2023||5,984||5,984|
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||Funds|Funds|Funds|
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|Donations||6,981|10,000|16,981|
|Grants:|||||
|Furlough|receipts|3,539||3,539|
|Postcode|Lottery||9,075|9,075|
|Total 2022||10,520|19,075|29,595|



|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Flood Risk|Support|||446,601|236,381|682,982|
|Other charitable<br>activity:|||||||
|Consultancy/training||||46,283||46,283|
|Information|Services|||7,183||7,183|
|Recovery|support|&Trailer rental||16,745||16,745|
|Expense recoveries and management|||fees|11,373||11,373|
|Total 2023||||528,185|236,381|764,568|
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|Flood Risk|Support|||298,454|34,385|332,839|
|Other charitable<br>activity|||||||
|Consultancy/training||||32,643||32,643|
|Information|Services|||8,092||8,092|
|Recovery|support|&Trailer rental||7,000||7,000|
|Expense recoveries and management|||fees|8,823||8,823|
|Total 2022||||355012|34,385|389,397|





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|Income from Charitable<br>Activities includes the follo<br>organisations:|wing<br>amounts<br>relatin|g to contrac|ts<br>with Gov|
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|Rochdale<br>Metropolitan<br>Borough Council||71,583|52,500|
|Worcestershire<br>County Council||50,000||
|Kent County Council||55,000|27,500|
|Gloucestershire<br>County Council|||9,800|
|Surrey County Council||35,802|11,900|
|Slough Borough Council||88,801|5,848|
|Shropshire<br>County Council||35,000|18,328|
|Staffordshire<br>County Council||90,860||
|Lincolnshire<br>County Council||50,000||
|Cambridge<br>County Council||29,167||
|Environment<br>Agency||50,000|55450|
|4.<br>COSTSOF RAISING FUNDS||||
|||2023|2022|
|||8|8|
|Staff costs||12,643|11,653|
|Consultants||2,490||
|Office casts||74||
|Supportcosts||9,408|3,357|
|Total||24,615|15,010|
|5.<br>COSTSOF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES||||
||Flood risk|Other|2023|
||support||Total|
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|Staff costs|258,454|2,087|260,541|
|Publicity,<br>printing<br>&postage|1,397|70|1,467|
|Consultancy,<br>training<br>&recruitment|23,932||23,932|
|Motor Vehicle Costs|436||438|
|Travel and subsistence|22,371|367|22,738|
|Office Costs|8,462|653|9,115|
|Legal &professional<br>fees|1,500||1,500|
|Conference/events|1,749||1,749|
|Total Direct Costs|318,303|3,177|321,480|
|Support and governance<br>costs|192,321|1,553|193,874|
|Total Costs 2023|510,S24|4,730|515,354|





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||||||Flood risk|Other|2022|
||||||support||Total|
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|Staff costs|||||180,950|53,546|234,496|
|Material costs|||||8,295||8,295|
|Publicity,<br>printing||& postage|||(109)|407|298|
|Consultancy,|training||and|||||
|recruitment|||||5,934|566|6,500|
|Motor Vehicle Costs||||||5,172|5,172|
|Travel and subsistence|||||7,624|3,929|11,553|
|Office Costs|||||3,094|5,745|8,839|
|Legal &professional|||fees||697||697|
|Depreciation||||||1,100|1,100|
|Conference/events|||||252|545|797|
|Total Direct|Costs||||206,737|71,010|277,747|
|Support and|governance|||costs|52,123|15,424|67,547|
|Total Costs|2022||||258,860|86434|345294|



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|.<br>SUPPORT AND|G|OVERNANCE|COSTS|||
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|||||8||
|Support costs:||||||
|Staff costs||||129,353|32,215|
|Publicity,<br>prtinting|&postage|||7,540|825|
|Consultancy,<br>training||and recruitment||380|2,540|
|Meetings/events||||1,930|460|
|Premises costs|||||962|
|Motor vehicle costs||||14,404|4,143|
|Travel and subsistence||||6,124|932|
|Depreciation||||2,015||
|Office Costs||||18084|16009|
|||||179,830|58,086|
|Governance costs:||||||
|Auditors'<br>remuneration||—statutory|audit services|3,300|2,805|
|Travel and meetings||||2,222|98|
|Insurance<br>(Trustees||liability insurance)||771|877|
|Legal &professional||fees||3.173|220|
|Office costs||||184||
|Staff costs||||13802|8818|
|||||23,452|12,818|
|Total||||203,282|70,904|
|Allocated to:||||||
|Raising funds||||9,408|3,357|
|Charitable<br>activities||||193,874|67,547|
|Total||||203,282|70,904|





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|IXEDASSET|S|||||||
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||||Computers|Fixtures|Motor||Total|
||||and|and|vehicles|&||
||||Equipment|fittings|trailers|||
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|Cost b/fwd|||7,840|11,885|75,000||94,725|
|Additions|||1 354||||1354|
|Cost c/fwd|||9,194|11885|75,000||96,079|
|Depreciation|b/fwd||4,140|11,885|75,000||91,025|
|Charge for year|||2015||||2015|
|Depreciation|c/fwd||6 155|11885|75000||93040|
|Net book value 2023|||3,039||||3039|
|Net book value 2022|||3,700||||3700|
|EBTORS: AMOUNTS|||FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||||
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|Trade Debtors|||||402,545||67,008|
|Amounts<br>owed by||subsidiary|||||582|
|Prepayments|||||1,541||1,691|
|Accrued<br>income|||||24,029||43,418|
|Loan to subsidiary||(see note 8}|||||10,000|
|Total|||||428,215||122,699|



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|REDITO|RS: AMOUNTS<br>FALLING DUE WITHIN ON|E YEAR||
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|Trade Creditors||4,051|10,273|
|Amounts|owed to subsidiary||5,420|
|Social security and other taxes||8,914|6,437|
|VAT||38,581|19,502|
|Other creditors||2,499|57|
|Deferred|Income (see Note 12}|14,333|50,000|
|Accruals||6,485|5,785|
|Total||74,863|97,474|





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|DEFERRED INCOME||||||||||||
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|Movements<br>in deferred|income||are as||follows:|||||||
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|At beginning<br>ofyear||||||||||50,000|107,370|
|Released to income|in|year||||||||(44,000)|(107,370)|
|Deferred<br>in year||||||||||8,333|50,000|
|At end ofyear||||||||||14,333|50,000|
|Deferred income relates||to funding||received||in|advance|on|contracts relating|to flood risk|support.|
|MOVEMENT<br>IN FUNDS||||||||||||
|2023:|||Funds||brf||Income||Expenditure|**f** **F**<br>d<br>Transfer<br>o<br>unds|Funds crf|
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|Unrestricted<br>Funds:||||||||||||
|General Funds||||148,057|||534,169||(267,375)|(30,828)|384,023|
|Designated<br>fund for||||||||||||
|redundancy<br>costs||||45,000|||||||45000|
|Total unrestricted<br>funds||||193,057|||||(267,375)|(30,828)|429,023|
|Restricted Funds:||||||||||||
|APPG Donation||||6,526|||||(7,017)|491||
|Yorkshire 2 Ridings|||||||9,500||(15,546)|6,046||
|Waltham<br>Forest Project|||||||50,000||(55,735)|5,735||
|Lincolnshire<br>R & I Project|||||||50,000||(53,513)|3,513||
|Slough R & I Project|||||||88,801||(67,660)||1,141|
|BRICProject|||||||38,080||53 123|15,043||
|Total restricted funds||||6,526|||236,381||(272,594)|30,828|1,141|
|Total Funds||||199,583|||770,550||(539,969)|-|430,164|





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|Unrestricted<br>Funds:||||||||
|General<br>Funds||88,827||365,532|(308,972)|2,670|148,057|
|Designated<br>fund for||||||||
|redundancy<br>costs||45|000||||45000|
|Total unrestricted|funds|133,827||365,532|(308,972)|2,670|193,057|
|Restricted<br>Funds:||||||||
|Postcode lottery||7,068||9,075||(16,143)||
|APPG Donation||||10,000|(3,474)|-|6,526|
|BRICProject<br>Total restricted<br>funds||,7|066|34,385<br>63660|(47,858)<br>~51.3j32|13,473<br> j2~670|6 526|
|Total Funds||140,895||418,992|(360,304)||199,583|



|4. ANALYSIS OF NET AS|SETS BETWEE|N FUNDS|N FUNDS||||
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|2023||Fixed Assets||Net Current|Assets|Total|
|||||Cash<br>f|Other<br>f||
|Unrestricted<br>Funds:|||||||
|General Funds|||3,040|72,631|353,352|429,023|
|Restricted<br>Funds||||1,141||1,141|
|Total Funds||||73,772|353,353|430,164|
|2022||Fixed Assets||Net Current|Assets|Total|
|||||Cash|Otherf||
|Unrestricted<br>Funds:|||||||
|General<br>Funds|||3,701|164,131|25,225|193,057|
|Restricted<br>Funds||||6,526||6,526|
|Total Funds|||3,701|170,657|25,225|199,583|
|. OPERATING LEASE COMMITMENTS|||||||
|The total future<br>minimum|lease payments|under|non-cancellable|operating|||
|leases are as follows:<br>Expiring:|||||2023<br>f|2022|
|Within one year|||||2,987|3,330|
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|.COMPARATIVE<br>|STATEMEN|T OF FINANCIAL|ACTIVITIES||||
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|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|
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|INCOME FROM:|||||||
|Donations snd legacies||||10,520|19,075|29,595|
|Charitable<br>activities||||355,012|34,355|359,397|
|TOTAL INCOME||||365,532|53,460|418,992|
|EXPENDITURE ON:|||||||
|Raising funds||||15,010||15,010|
|Charitable<br>activities||||293,952|51,332|345,294|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE||||308,972|51,332|380,304|
|Net Income for the|year before|transfers||58,S80|2,128|58,888|
|Transfer offunds<br>in|year|||2,670|(2,670)||
|NET INCOMEI(EXPENDITURE)||& NET MOVEMENT|IN FUNDS|sei230|(542)|58688|
|RECONCIUATION|OF FUNDS||||||
|Total funds brought|forward|||133,827|7,068|140,895|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||||193057|6526|199,583|



