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|Reference and administrative||details ofthe Charitable|Company,|its Trustees|and||
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|Independent<br>auditors'|report|on the financial statements||||9-12|
|Statement offinancial|activities|||||13|
|Balance sheet||||||14 - 15|
|Statement ofcash flows||||||16|
|Notes to the financial|statements|||||17-35|





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|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS OF THE CHARITABLE COMPANY,|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS OF THE CHARITABLE COMPANY,|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS OF THE CHARITABLE COMPANY,|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS OF THE CHARITABLE COMPANY,|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS OF THE CHARITABLE COMPANY,|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS OF THE CHARITABLE COMPANY,|ITSTRUSTEES AND|
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||||FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023||||
|Trustees|||Tina Powell, Chair||||
||||Gillian Colbert, Vice Chair||||
||||Judith Bastow (resigned 22 November||2022)||
||||Dominique<br>Blondel||||
||||Linda Isaac, Treasurer||||
||||Naomi Sephton||||
||||Victoria Beckwith||||
||||Naz Khan||||
|Company|registered||||||
|number|||06525343||||
|Charity registered|||||||
|number|||1124282||||
|Registered||office|PO Box548||||
||||Colchester||||
||||CO1 1YP||||
|Principal|operating||PO Box 548||||
|office|||Colchester||||
||||CO1 1YP||||
|Company|secretary and||Helen Parr||||
|CEO|||||||
|Key management|||Helen Parr and Sarah|Clementson|||
|Independent||auditors|Griffin Chapman||||
||||Statutory<br>Auditor||||
||||Chartered<br>Accountants||||
||||4 & 5The Cedars, Apex 12||||
||||Old Ipswich Road||||
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|Income from:|||||||
|Donations<br>and|grants||12,370||12,370|30,391|
|Charitable<br>activities|||489,099|880,056|1,369,155|1,179,330|
|Investments|||6,482||6,482|458|
|Other income|||4,553||4,553|4,414|
|Total income|||512,504|880,056|1,392,560|1,214,593|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Raising funds|||24,936||24,936|23,941|
|Charitable<br>activities|||471,836|842,417|1,314,253|998,318|
|Total expenditure|||496,772|842„417|1,339,189|1,022,259|
|Net movement|in funds||15,732|37,639|53,371|192,334|
|Reconciliation|offunds:||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward|||615,291|183,775|799,066|606,732|
|Net movement|in funds||15,732|37,639|53,371|192,334|
|Total funds carried forward|||631,023|221,414|852,437|799,066|





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|Investments|||13||50,001|||
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|Current assets||||||||
|Debtors|||14|11,050||14,919||
|Cash at bank and|in hand|||849,751||828,057||
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|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one|||||||
|year|||15|(58,365)||(43,911)||
|Net current assets|||||802,436||799,065|
|Total assets less|current liabilities||||852,437||799,066|
|Net assets excluding||pension asset|||852,437||799,066|
|Total net assets|||||852,437||799,066|
|Charity funds||||||||
|Restricted<br>funds|||16||221,414||183,775|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||
|Designated<br>funds|||16|200,000||200,000||
|General funds|||16|431,023||415,291||
|Total unrestricted|funds||16||631,023||615,291|
|Total funds|||||852,437||799,066|








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|Net cash used<br>in operating|activities|||21,694|199,180|
|Cash flows from investing|activities|||||
|Net cash provided<br>by investing<br>activities||||||
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|Net cash provided<br>by financing<br>activities||||||
|Change<br>in cash and cash|equivalents|in|the Year|21,694|199,180|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the beginning||ofthe Year|828,057|628,877|
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|Main|activities|489,099|880,056|1,369,155|1,179,330|
|Total|2022|451,756|727,574|1,179,330||



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|||2023|2023|2023|2022|
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|Core activities||92,337|46,578|138,915|134,849|
|Outreach<br>expenses||9,284|32,702|41,986|35,087|
|Counselling,|sessional fees and social groups|92,626|144,305|236,931|189,552|
|Wages and|salaries|277,589|618,832|896,421|638,830|
|||471,836|842,417|1,314,253|998,318|
|Total 2022||332,495|665,823|998,318||





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|Core activities|||76,417|62,498|138,915|134,849|
|Outreach costs|||41,986||41,986|35,087|
|Counselling,|sessional fees and social|groups|236,931||236,931|189,552|
|Wages and|salaries||896,421||896,421|638,830|
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|Total 2022|||934,154|64,164|998,318||



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|||||funds|funds|
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|Premises|costs|||17,392|20,468|
|Office and|administration||costs|8,605|4,902|
|Insurance||||3,552|4,281|
|IT and computer costs||||25,236|26,083|
|Bookkeeping||and financial|support|3,342|2,741|
|Audit fees||||3,840|3,750|
|Volunteer|expenses|||240|58|
|Bank charges||||291|349|
|Other support||costs|||1,532|
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|Fees payable to the Charitable||Company's||auditor|for the audit ofthe|||
|Charitable<br>Company's|annual|accounts||||3,840|3,480|
|Fees payable to the Charitable||Company's||auditor|in respect of:|||
|Other financial<br>services||||||4,016|3,150|
|Staff costs||||||||
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|Wages and salaries||||||833,901|600,051|
|Social security costs||||||70,407|49,887|
|Contribution<br>to defined|contribution||pension|schemes||17,049|12,833|
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|||/ Surplus/|6|
|||(Deficit) for||
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|Icena Limited|- year ended 31 July 2022|(34,577)|(119,720)|



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|Other debtors|||600|
|Prepayments|and accrued income|11,050|14,319|
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|Trade creditors|||23,634|18,632|
|Other taxation|and social security||21,314|13,682|
|Other creditors||||312|
|Accruals and deferred||income|13,417|11,285|
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|16.|Statement offunds|Statement offunds||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Statement offunds||-current||Year|||||
||||||||||Balance at|
||||||Balance at 1|||Transfers|31 March|
||||||April 2022|Income|Expenditure|in/out|2023|
||||||||6|6|6|
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||General funds|||||||||
||General reserves||||415,291|512,504|(496,772)||431,023|
||Total Unrestricted|funds|||615,291|512,504|(496,772)||631,023|
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||National<br>Lottery Community|||||||||
||Fund - Supporting|CARA|||41,963|166,872|(133,628)||75,207|
||Garfield Weston Foundation||||25,000||(25,000)|||
||BBCChildren<br>in Need||||13,021|41,301|(40,801)||13,521|
||Masonic Charitable|Foundation|||18,420||(18,420)|||
||Mid and South Essex|||||||||
||Community<br>Partnership<br>Fund||||5,333|40,000|(40,000)||5,333|
||Provide|||||20,000|(15,000)||5,000|
||Henry Smith Charity||||22,500|85,000|(75,000)||32,500|
||Awards<br>for All||||5,368||(4,447)||921|
||FSJCharities||||5,000||(5,000)|||
||Charles SFrench|Charitable||||||||
||Trust||||3,000||(3,000)|||
||North East Essex|Health||and||||||
||Wellbeing<br>Alliance|Community||||||||
||Safety Fund|||||20,683|(6,954)||13,729|
||PFCC Violence and|||||||||
||Vulnerability<br>Community|||Safety||||||
||Fund||||20,000||(20,000)|||
||Braintree<br>District and||Eastlight|||||||
||Community<br>Fund||||9,750|13,500|(13,125)||10,125|
||Colchester<br>City Council||||1,000|20,000|(21,000)|||
||Linklaters|||||2,000|||2,000|





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|||||||Balance at|
|||Balance at 1|||Transfers|31 March|
|||April 2022|Income|Expenditure|in/out|2023|
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|Funds||10,000|17,511|(10,000)||17,511|
|North East Essex|Mens Mental||||||
|Health<br>Fund||3,420||(3,420)|||
|Ministry ofJustice|||396,639|(396,639)|||
|Feel Well Fund|||50,000|(6,816)||43,184|
|Braintree<br>District Council|||||||
|Safer Streets Fund|||6,250|(4,167)||2,083|
|Colchester<br>Anti Loo Roll|||||||
|Brigade|||300|||300|
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|Total offunds||799,066|1,392,560|(1,339,189)||852,437|





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||||Balance at|||deferred|31March|
||||1 April 2021f|Income<br>f|Expenditure|income<br>f|2022<br>f|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||
|Designated<br>funds||||||||
|Sustainable<br>future investment||||||||
|fund|||100,000|||100,000|200,000|
|General funds||||||||
|General reserves|||384,708|487,019|(356,436)|(100,000)|415,291|
|Total Unrestricted<br>funds|||484,708|487,019|(356,436)||615,291|
|Restricted funds||||||||
|National<br>Lottery Community||||||||
|Fund - Supporting<br>CARA||||125,888|(83,925)||41,963|
|National<br>Lottery Community||||||||
|Fund - CARA Cares|||35,239||(35,239)|||
|Garfield Weston Foundation|||25,000|25,000|(25,000)||25,000|
|BBCChildren<br>in Need||||39,979|(26,958)||13,021|
|Masonic Charitable<br>Foundation|||17,883|24,380|(23,843)||18,420|
|Mid and South Essex||||||||
|Community<br>Partnership||Fund||50,000|(44,667)||5,333|
|Henry Smith Charity|||22,500|45,000|(45,000)||22,500|
|Awards for All Schools'||||||||
|animation<br>project||||9,518|(5,768)||3,750|
|Lloyds Bank Foundation|||2,940||(2,940)|||
|FSJCharities||||5,000|||5,000|
|Charles SFrench Charitable||||||||
|Trust||||3,000|||3,000|
|Awards for All|||3,045||(1,427)||1,618|
|PFCC (WCS) Fund||||20,000|||20,000|
|Braintree<br>District and|Eastlight|||||||
|Community<br>Fund|||9,750|13,000|(13,000)||9,750|
|Colchester<br>City Council||||21,000|(20,000)||1,000|
|Linklaters|||2,000||(2,000)|||





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|||Balance at|||deferred|31March|
|||1April 2021f|Incomef|Expendituref|incomef|2022f|
|Essex Community|Foundation||10,000|||10,000|
|North East Essex|Mens Mental||||||
|Health Fund||3,667|3,420|(3,667)||3,420|
|Talking Therapies|(NHS)||52,911|(52,911)|||
|Ministry ofJustice|||279,478|(279,478)|||
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|Total offunds||606,732|1,214,593|(1,022,259)||799,066|





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||||Balance at 1|||Transfers|31 March|
||||April 2022f|Income<br>f|Expenditure<br>F.|in/out|2023<br>6|
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|General funds|||415,291|512,504|(496,772)||431,023|
|Restricted|funds||183,775|880,056|(842,417)||221,414|
||||799,066|1,392,560|(1,339,189)||852,437|
|Summary|offunds|-prior Year||||||
|||||||Release ol|Balance at|
||||Balance at|||deferred|31March|
||||1 April 2021f|Income|Expendituref|incomef|2022f|
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|General funds|||384,708|487,019|(356,436)|(100,000)|415,291|
|Restricted|funds||122,024|727,574|(665,823)||163,775|
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|Current assets||639,387|221,414|860,801|
|Creditors due within one year||(58,365)||(58,365)|
|Total||631,023|221,414|852,437|
|Analysis of net assets between funds|-prior year||||
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|Current assets||659,201|183,775|842,976|
|Creditors due within one year||(43,911)||(43,911)|
|Total||615,291|183,775|799,066|



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|Net income for the year (as per Statement|||of Financial|Activities)|53,371|192,334|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||||
|Decrease/(increase)|in debtors||||3,869|(4,188)|
|Increase<br>in creditors|||||14,454|11,034|
|Investments|||||(50,000)||
|Net cash provided|by operating|activities|||21,694|199,180|





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|The following lease payments||and changes|in lease payments||have been recognised|in the|Statement<br>of|
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