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2022-03-31-accounts

Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock

Report of the Trustees and Unaudited Financial Statements

For the year ended 31 March 2022

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Contents Page For the year ended 31 March 2022

Report of the Trustees 3 – 6
Reference and Administrative 7
information
Independent Examiner’s Report 8
Statement of financial activities 9
Statement of financial position 10
Notes to the financial statements 11 - 17

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Report of the Trustees For the year ended 31 March 2022

The Trustees, who are also directors for the purposes of company law, have pleasure in presenting their report and the financial statements for the charitable company for the year ended 31 March 2022. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of 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 the Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objectives and aims

Livestock is an arts and community development charity. We run projects that engage with the themes of mental health and wellbeing, focused on individuals’ personal stories. We enable people to share their histories and experiences to connect and communicate with each other. Our peer support groups use creativity as a tool to empower. We work primarily with mothers and families.

The company aims to advance education for the public benefit by the promotion of the arts, especially performance, writing and art; and mental and physical wellbeing through mindfulness and food activities. We work especially with communities in the Brighton and Hove area.

The Trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, including the guidance ‘public benefit: running a charity (PB2)'.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

Significant activities

Mothers Uncovered was able to return to in person groups as well as maintaining an online offer and started groups for mothers of SEND children. We were awarded ‘Best Mothers Arts & Wellbeing Support Service’ in Sussex by Lux Magazine.

SoulFood came to the end of the three-year Children in Need funding, having had to adapt most of its sessions to online through Covid 19. It also saw a return to in person sessions before the funding had been spent. Significant work was done to support foodbanks where possible within the SoulFood remit due to the acknowledgement of significant difficulties local families were experiencing.

A change in charity description of objectives was sought and actioned via the Charity Commission to better reflect the evolved offer of services that Livestock now provides, and a new chair of Trustees was appointed. Trustees also had their first away-day with training specifically on governance in order to start strengthening their foundation knowledge.

New policies and practices were rolled out particularly in the areas of GDPR, Finance, and Recruitment, with steps made to make these areas more robust, compliant and equitable. This has meant that the wage/hourly rate of all projects now better reflect people’s work, with freelancer contracts in place and clear lines of financial accountability introduced. The Trustees were all given access to Xero, our accounting software, to maintain transparency at all times.

Livestock

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Report of the Trustees (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

Achievements

LIVESTOCK

We were pleased to run three Zoom sessions on the topic of disadvantage for children in the city, focusing on our staff’s observations, plus one for parents of SEND and one for parents of teens. The information formed part of a citywide strategy to create Family Hubs, with Brighton and Hove being one of only seven cities in the South east to receive funding for this.

We took on two new members at Livestock to assist with administration, Beth for general admin, and Cathryn specifically for Mothers Uncovered. This is a real achievement, enabling us to expand.

We have started focussing on the trustee skills and looking at gaps in our board with a view to recruit this coming year. This will enable us to create some sub-committees to address some big areas such as fundraising, equalities and business growth in future hopefully. We have already identified a trustee with equalities interests and skills, so will look to support her to take up this role in a more meaningful manner. As we move into the coming year, other areas of priority for Livestock will be to source some central, not trust or grant, funding to enable the core costs budget to grow and support the increase of the Executives’ hours. We shall also be looking at the possibility of securing funding for permanent roles on payroll, and looking at a more significant post to expand Mothers Uncovered into West Sussex with more permanence.

Mothers Uncovered

Finally, after several months of lockdown, we were able to return to real life groups. When the pandemic began, we moved our activities online to Zoom. It brought some positives: it enabled mothers from many different places to participate, or for those who are working during the day to join an evening session, which we had never run before.

We recruited two new facilitators to run sessions and also began online group for mothers of SEND (Special Education Needs & Disabilities) children. This project has evolved and been developed by two of our peer support facilitators who have lived experience of caring for children with additional needs. They understand the emotional, financial and support and discrimination difficulties parents of SEND children face, the unique challenges which take the mothering experience away from the mainstream parenting world and can cause isolation. Support for the family focuses on the child's, often complex, needs rather than the mother’s experience. When support is available is it often entwined into a course to learn about behaviour for the child. There was an enormous interest in these sessions, with many mothers reporting that they had not been able to find a group to express their experiences until we created one.

We have noticed a worrying deterioration in mothers’ mental wellbeing, which can take its toll on our peer supporters. Becoming a mother is already an unbelievable shock. To enter this new life, robbed of contact with those outside your immediate household leaving people unused to socialising and with alarming messages coming about viruses that could harm you or your family, it is no wonder they feel overwhelmed. Follow the link https://mothersuncovered.com/2021/05/19/lockdown-mums/ to read two of our facilitators’ pieces in our reflective practice session, based on all the mothers they have seen.

Maternal Health Advocacy

Mothers Uncovered director Maggie Gordon-Walker was invited to run a session for the midwifery students at the University of Brighton. She continued to make connections with other maternal wellbeing organisations such as Tommys, taking part in an Instagram Live with them and running the #PNDHour on Twitter to answer participants’ questions about maternal peer support.

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Report of the Trustees (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

SoulFood

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we delivered sessions both online with a Young Ambassadors Scheme and in-person delivering sessions and workshops to marginalised young people. One of our highlights was working with Brighton Table Tennis Club over the Christmas period to deliver sessions with a group of young people who were new to our city. Working with a language barrier is never easy, but our wonderful facilitators learnt a few words of Kurdish, and we were so inspired by the help the children gave each other so they could all access the activities.

Having moved services online, we recognised a need for strong social media links and publicity of the SoulFood brand, and therefore took on a short-term communications worker to manage our online brand. This has grown the numbers on our social media and has built awareness of SoulFood.

We also worked alongside Sussex Surplus with a ‘no waste’ agenda and also supporting food creation and distribution to families during the past year who are increasingly seeing the need for food banks, and before that delivering food to those isolated. This is an area of work we are keen to expand due to the difficulties we see in the year ahead.

The Teen Years

We were pleased to be able to run some Zoom sessions for parents of teenagers. We are well aware that teenagers found the lockdowns especially hard, curtailing their natural desire to stretch their wings, and this caused a lot of friction within their households. Mothers were grateful to find an outlet to express their feelings. This is a project that we resource lightly, and would like to spend more time attending to next year. There clearly seems to be a need, but the requirement to build up networks for effective referrals involves capacity we currently do not have. However, over the next year there is a plan to see how this can be built into future strategy.

Uncorked (formerly called M/others Uncorked)

Finally, our much delayed 'Youth Club Experience: A Slice of the 80s' was presented at Brighton Youth Centre as part of the Brighton Fringe. The audience attended as if they were youths coming to the club. They were encouraged to dress the part and they took part in typical club activities. Overseeing this were the actors, who were members of ‘youth’, dedicated to ensuring the activities were being carried out in an authentic fashion. Follow the link to read more, plus a review from our volunteer Sophie htps://www.livestock.org.uk/blog

We are hoping to run this show more regularly, as we think there would be a lot of demand and it helped people to reconnect after the isolation of lockdowns.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

For the year ending 31 March 2022, the charity recorded a net deficit of £5,294 (2021: surplus of £11,290). Total reserves now stand at £16,135 of which £14,689 is restricted.

Total income generated for the year was £34,600 (2021: income of £39,321). This is a further decrease on the previous year, largely due to a reduction in grant funding. The charity has received £30,780 in grants during the year (2021: £36,113), including £8,780 from the National Lottery Community Fund, £8,730 from Brighton and Hove Council, and £4,850 from the Chalk Cliff Trust.

Expenditure has risen, reflecting an increased level of activity. A total of £39,894 was spent (2021: £28,031). As with the previous year, investment has been made in supporting the infrastructure of the charity and ensuring appropriate controls, governance and planning processes are in place.

This has allowed the charity to more clearly allocate support costs to projects, and closely manage activities in line with budgeted costs. Support costs for the year have increased to £7,749 (2021: £3,701). This includes additional administrative resource in the core function of the Charity.

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Report of the Trustees (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

FINANCIAL REVIEW (continued)

Reserves

Livestock is committed to using its resources in pursuit of its charitable objectives. It is also committed to maintaining a level of reserves that is prudent to meeting ongoing liabilities, sufficient to ensure that all delivery commitments can be met and to protect the long-term future of Livestock’s operations. Livestock’s reserves policy seeks to balance these priorities by aiming to hold a level of general reserves which equates to approximately one month’s expenditure of the charity, based on the planned expenditure for the year.

As at 31 March 2022, general reserves stood at £16,135, which is around 5 month’s expenditure at 2021-22 levels. The increase in reserves is a positive step, providing greater resilience for the charity in a challenging economic environment.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

Livestock is a charitable company limited by guarantee; it was incorporated on 30 May 2007 and registered as a charity on 30 December 2007. Livestock was established under a Memorandum of Association, which describes the objects and powers of the charitable company; it is governed under its Articles of Association. Under those Articles, the Trustees are elected from the Company's Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting. One-third of the elected Trustees must retire at each subsequent Annual General Meeting, but may be immediately re-appointed if the Trustees agree.

The Members have guaranteed to contribute a maximum of £1 each in the event of the company being wound up. All members of the Trustee Board give their time voluntarily and received no benefits from the charity.

Any expenses reclaimed from the charity are set out in the notes to the accounts.

Risk management

The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Report of the Trustees (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Name of charity Livestock Charity registration number 1122091 Company registration number 06262852 Principal address Community Base 113 Queens Road Brighton BN1 3XG

Trustees

The Trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows: Mr Nigel James Pilkington (chair) Mr Marcus Demetrius Markou (resigned 9 February 2022) Ms Katherine Jane Vlcek Ms Birgit Rose Valeria Rohoswky-Miller Ms Sophie Sheinwald (resigned 9 February 2022) Mr Andrew Furneaux L McDonnell Claire Imogen Foss Secretary Ms Maggie Gordon-Walker

Approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by

Mr Nigel Pilkington …………………………..

31 October 2022 Date: ………….

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock

Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2022

Notes
Income and endowments
from:
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
3
Other trading activities
4
Total
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
5
Charitable activities
6/7
Total
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
14
Total funds carried forward
Unrestricted
Funds
£
5,004
558
-
5,562
248
11,022
11,270
-
(5,708)
7,154
1,446
Restricted
Funds
£
29,038
-
-
29,038
238
28,386
28,624
-
414
14,275
14,689
2022
2021
£
£
34,042
39,027
558
293
-
1
34,600
39,321
486
634
39,408
27,397
39,894
28,031
-
-
(5,294)
11,290
21,429
10,139
16,135
21,429

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Statement of Financial Position As at 31 March 2022

Notes
Tangible Fixed Assets
11
Current Assets
Debtors and prepayments
12
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
13
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Net assets
The funds of the charity
Restricted income funds
14
Unrestricted income funds
14
Total funds
2022
494
144
16,071
16,215
(574)
15,641
16,135
16,135
14,689
1,446
16,135
2021
-
1,560
20,438
21,998
(570)
21,428
21,428
21,428
14,275
7,153
21,428

The Trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime.

The notes on pages 11 to 17 form part of these financial statements.

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Board and signed on its behalf by:

…………………………………………………………..

Mr Nigel Pilkington

Chair of Trustees

Date 31 October 2022

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31 March 2022

1. Accounting policies

Basis of accounting

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, except for investments which are included at market value and the revaluation of certain fixed assets in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) ‘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 Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015)’, Financial Reporting Standard 102 the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), and the Companies Act 2006.

Livestock 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).

2. Income from donations and legacies

Donations received
Grants received
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
2022
2021
£
£
£
£
1,944
1,318
3,262
2,914
3,060
27,720
30,780
36,113
5,004
29,038
34,042
39,027

Analysis of grants received

National Lottery Community Fund
Children in Need
Brighton and Hove Council
Chalk Cliff Trust
Sussex Community Foundation
Groundwork
Local Connect
Global Feedback
Community Works
Albert Hunt
Arnold Clarke
2022
2021
£
8,780
9,500
-
14,568
8,730
-
4,850
-
4,970
5,000
390
3,510
-
2,500
-
1,035
1,060
-
1,000
-
1,000
-
30,780
36,113

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

3. Income from charitable activities

Unrestricted Funds

Unrestricted Funds
Course fees 2022
2021
£
£
558
293
558
293

4. Income earned from other activities

Unrestricted Funds

Book sales and events 2022
2021
£
£
-
1
-
1

5. Expenditure on generating donations and legacies

Unrestricted Funds
Donations
Publicity
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
£
£
96
-
96
96
152
238
390
538
248
238
486
634

A total of £508 of the expenditure in the prior year for publicity was from restricted funds.

6. Costs of charitable activity by fund type

Core
Mothers Uncovered
Soul Food
Children In Need
Support Costs
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
funds
2022
2021
£
£
£
£
7,491
-
7,491
5,189
-
13,476
13,476
16,966
-
107
107
908
-
10,585
10,585
633
3,531
4,218
7,749
3,701
11,022
28,386
39,408
27,397

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

7. Costs of charitable activity by activity type

Core
Mothers Uncovered
Soul Food
Children In Need
Analysis of support costs
Management
IT
Marketing & advertising
Training
Governance costs
Management
Office & IT Costs
Marketing & advertising
Training
Governance costs
Activities
undertaken
directly
Support
Costs
2022
2021
£
£
£
£
7,491
3,531
11,022
6,992
13,476
4,166
17,642
17,481
107
-
107
908
10,585
52
10,637
2,016
Activities
undertaken
directly
Support
Costs
2022
2021
£
£
£
£
7,491
3,531
11,022
6,992
13,476
4,166
17,642
17,481
107
-
107
908
10,585
52
10,637
2,016
31,659
7,749
39,408
27,397
Core
Mothers
uncovered
Soul
Food
Children
In Need
1,519
4,166
-
52
685
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
320
-
-
-
1,007
-
-
-
3,531
4,166
-
52
2022
2021
£
£
5,737
1,885
685
448
-
-
320
110
1,007
1,258
7,749
3,701
3,531
4,166
7,749
3,701

8. Analysis of support costs

9. Net income / expenditure for the year

This is stated after charging

2022 2021
Accountancy fees 595 570
Depreciation 45 -

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Livestock Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

10. Comparative for the Statement of Financial Activities

Income and endowments
from:
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Other trading activities
Total
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Other trading activities
Total
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
11. Tangible Fixed Assets
Cost or valuation
At 1 April 2021
Additions
At 31 March 2022
Depreciation
At 1 April 2021
Charge for the year
At 31 March 2022
Net Book Value
At 1 April 2021
At 31 March 2022
Unrestricted
Funds
£
8,848
293
1
9,142
126
6,992
-
7,118
-
2,024
5,130
7,154
Unrestricted
Funds
£
8,848
293
1
9,142
126
6,992
-
7,118
-
2,024
5,130
7,154
Restricted
Funds
£
30,179
-
-
30,179
508
20,405
-
20,913
-
9,266
5,009
14,275
Computer
Equipment
£
-
539
539
-
(45)
(45)
-
494
2021
2020
£
£
39,027
45,793
293
1,250
1
654
39,321
47,697
634
1,176
27,397
38,667
-
846
28,031
40,689
-
-
11,290
7,008
10,139
3,131
21,429
10,139
Total
£
-
539
539
-
(45)
(45)
-
494

Livestock

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

12. Debtors

12. Debtors
Amounts falling due within one year 2022 2021
£ £
Grants receivable - 1,560
Prepayments 144 -
144 1,560
13. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2022 2021
£ £
Accruals and deferred income 574 570
574 570
14. Movement in funds
Unrestricted Funds – Current Year
Balance at Incoming Outgoing Transfers Balance at
01/04/2021 Resources Resources 31/03/2022
General 7,154 5,562 (11,270) - 1,446
7,154 5,562 (11,270) - 1,446
Restricted Funds – Current Year
Balance at Incoming Outgoing Transfers Balance at
01/04/2021 Resources Resources 31/03/2022
Soul Food 1,724 - (107) - 1,617
Mothers Uncovered - 29,038 (17,881) - 11,157
Children In Need 12,551 - (10,636) - 1,915
14,275 29,038 (28,624) - 14,689

Livestock Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

For the year ended 31 March 2022

Unrestricted Funds – Prior Year

General Balance at
01/04/2020
Incoming
Resources
Outgoing
Resources
Transfers
Balance at
31/03/2021
5,130
9,142
(7,119)
-
7,153
5,130
9,142
(7,119)
-
7,153

Restricted Funds – Prior Year

Soul Food
Brighton Women’s Centre
Sussex Community Foundation
Mothers Uncovered
Children In Need
Balance at
01/04/2020
Incoming
Resources
Outgoing
Resources
Transfers
Balance at
31/03/2021
1,597
1,035
(908)
-
1,724
2,050
-
(2,050)
-
-
1,362
-
(1,362)
-
-
-
14,576
(14,576)
-
-
-
14,568
(2,017)
-
12,551
5,009
30,179
(20,913)
-
14,275

15. Analysis of net assets between funds

5. Analysis of net assets between funds
Current Year
Unrestricted Funds
General
Restricted Funds
Mothers Uncovered
Soul Food
Children In Need
Previous year
Unrestricted Funds
General
Restricted Funds
Soul Food
Children in Need
Net current
assets /
(liabilities)
Net
Assets
£
£
952
1,446
11,157
11,157
1,617
1,617
1,915
1,915
15,641
16,135
£
£
7,153
7,153
1,724
1,724
12,551
12,551
21,428
21,428

Livestock

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the year ended 31 March 2022

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Charity number: 1122091 Registered Company Number: 06262852

(England and Wales)

16. Related parties

Maggie Gordon-Walker is paid fees for delivering certain project activities, as well as carrying out administration and management activities for the charity. Ms Gordon-Walker also carries out the role of the Charity secretary. In 2021-22, Ms Gordon-Walker received £12,080 (2021: £13,985).

There were no other related party transactions during the period (2020: nil).

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