## People First Keighley & Craven
Charity number 1125278
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
## People First Keighley & Craven
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 7|
|Examiner's report|8|
|Statement of financial activities|9|
|Balance sheet|10|
|Notes to the accounts|11 to 16|
**Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position**
Tracey Lines Charlotte Longbottom Steven Brundle Stephen Whiteside Tom Walsh
## **Charity number**
1125278
Registered in England and Wales
## **Registered and principal address**
## **Bankers**
Room 26, Central Hall Virgin Money Alice Street 73 North Street Keighley Keighley BD21 3JD BD21 3SD
## **Independent examiner**
Simon Bostrom FCIE
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is governed by a constitution adopted on 1 April 2007, as amended 8 July 2008.
People First Keighley & Craven is governed by a Board of Trustees who are responsible for the strategic direction, governance, and financial oversight of the charity. Trustees meet regularly (every 6 weeks) to review performance, ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and support the organisation to develop. David Wilford supports the board to deliver its legal governance and charitable objectives.
The charity is led operationally by a staff team who report to the Trustees. Trustees ensure that appropriate policies, safeguarding measures, and financial controls are in place and reviewed regularly.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
To relieve the needs of people with learning difficulties including enabling them to manage a voluntary group, speak up for themselves and go on social outings.
## **The charity's main activities**
People First Keighley and Craven is a self and group advocacy organisation, and day service. Working with adults with learning disabilities and/or neurodiversity.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of education and the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
## **Achievements and performance**
## **Advocacy and Voice**
Advocacy remained central to the charity’s work throughout the year. Members were supported to take part in speaking-up activities, discussions, and engagement with local partners. Trustees observed increased confidence among members, with many actively sharing their views and representing themselves both within the organisation and externally.
The one to ones have continued to help people live the lives they want to.
We continued providing lived-experience training to Airedale Hospital and Bradford University.
We began working with Sue Ryder Care providing their CPD on supporting people with learning disabilities and/or those who are neurodivergent.
Members were reporters at the Learning Disability England Conference and did a great job of covering the important event on our podcast.
Life stories work
Meet the team, YouTube series.
## **Social, Community and Wellbeing Activities**
The charity delivered regular social activities and group sessions aimed at reducing isolation and promoting wellbeing. These activities provided safe, inclusive spaces where members could build friendships, develop peer support networks, and enjoy shared experiences. Trustees recognise the importance of these activities in supporting emotional wellbeing and community inclusion.
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Trips out of the office:**
Yorkshire Dales National Park Accessibility Assessment. Visit to Brontë Museum to support their use of accessible information. Inclusive Wellbeing Festival 2024 Bradford 2025 launch event! Co-production group event at Manningham Mills. Healthier lives meetings throughout the year. People Powered Press work, creating art using the world’s largest letter press. Modality event supporting our local GPs to do annual health checks with people with learning disabilities at Cougar Park Safer streets events. Airedale hospital PFKC event to thank us for the work we’ve done together. Community Positive Board in Keighley Library. Positivity pop up in Keighley town centre Positivity pop up at Modality event. Naidex trip and stall. Group litter picking sessions This Is Me Festival Trip. Learning Retreat to Beamsley Project. Hoot creative arts collaboration work. Beechcliffe School Information Day Summer Wellbeing Walk at Cliffe Castle Walk and Draw at Cliffe Castle
## **Events at Central Hall**
Visit from Mencap Seated Exercise Session Airedale Hospital Sensory room consultation M-Technique training Women’s health event in the office. Awards ceremony for members. PFKC Boyband video (at a request from a 1-1). Mince Pie Moment Event. Learning Disability Awareness Week Celebrations. Autism Awareness Week. Italian Day Learning Disabilities event with Wil Quick Talking Mats event- with member SB Self Care Week International Day Of Persons With A Disability. Chinese New Year Celebration Volunteer Appreciation Week celebrations. Oliver’s Outreach- donating to homeless people. McMillan Coffee Morning in memory of a member’s Grandad. Halloween video Love Workshop all about music and Love with Dr Katherine Williams and Dr Lucy Series. Makaton awareness day. Frontline wellbeing Makaton Training. Everybody’s Equal video. Vegan week Hidden disabilities official organisation week
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Social nights**
Airedale Heifer social night. PFKC Summer Bash at Bingley Rugby Club. Taylor’s on the green social night. Brontë Restaurant social night. Games Night at Central Hall! Christmas Ball. Balti House Social Night. The Inn At Eastburn social night.
## **Skills Development and Learning**
Members were supported to develop a range of skills through structured activities, creative projects, and group decision-making. Trustees note the positive impact of these opportunities on confidence, communication, and independence.
## **Training provided was:**
Mental Capacity Act Training. What is bias? training. Social media training refresher (new for recently joined members). Accessible Information Chinese New Year with Alina Makaton level one training for volunteers and new staff. National self care week workshops UN Women UK workshops with Catrina about CSW69. Try It, Like It, Do It event with Mencap and Our Active Community. This had lots of wellbeing workshops and training.
Hate crime awareness training and informational videos. Gentle Dental training at Cougar Park with Modality. Safer streets training. Anaphylaxis Awareness Training. Communication training for social workers and social work students. Wellbeing walk training at Cliffe Castle. Pride month workshop Voting passport week. Dying Matters Week
## **Inclusive Wellbeing Festival Sessions**
Innabox disability training session. Happiness Enchanters Confidence Session MissFits movement workshop InclusFit fitness session Kirran Shah wellbeing sessions JiggleFiit body positivity dance class Modality partnership mindfulness session. Eat, Move, Be Happy session. The M Technique workshop. Kate Stanforth and Chris audio movement media session
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **The People First Podcast**
The People First podcast continued to be an important platform for skills development and self-expression, enabling members to share lived experience while gaining experience in media, teamwork, and public communication.
Podcasts go out every Wednesday from February to the middle of December.
## **Here are the podcasts between April 24 – March 25:**
Interview from Future Leader Event in Bradford Interview with Jo from Bradford Talking Media Interview from Safer streets Skipton Interview with author Tiffany Yu about her book The Anti Ableist Manifesto Interview from Naidex Interview with Staveley Court, Supported Living Interview about Dying Matters Awareness Week Interview with Adam Stanton Wharmby Interview with Vicky Foxcroft. Interview with Alex Craddock Sports Interview with Pride in the Dales Interview with Sean from the Good Shepherd Centre Learning Retreat Interview with Inga Julia Reichelt Interview with Tom Howells from The Good Food Partnership Women’s Health podcast. Interview with Maggie Philbin Interview with Anton Lesser. Interview with Outside The Box. Interview with Motability Interview with Bradford Council about Waste and Recycling Interview with Brooke Millhouse of Disabled and Proud Interview with Take a Hike Interview with Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource Accessible Information Annual General Meeting coverage Interview with Ali’s sensory boxes Life Stories Learning Disability England Conference Interview with Clive Mantel Interview with local service called Magpies. Interview with SELFA Interview with Rhiannon from Rhitrition. Interview with Makaton Charity practitioners. Interview with Holibreaks, Equality Together & Janet Clarke. This Is Me Festival Podcast. Interview with Gary Bourlet Interview with Skipton Step Into Action Vegan week Hate Crime Awareness week Hallowe’en Special Voting podcast Podcast with Coach Sean who runs our football sessions Special Olympics interview. World Cerebral Palsy Day. Interview with People Powered Press Interview with facilitators from our Inclusive Wellbeing Festival
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **The People First Podcast**
The People First podcast continued to be an important platform for skills development and self-expression, enabling members to share lived experience while gaining experience in media, teamwork, and public communication.
Podcasts go out every Wednesday from February to the middle of December.
## **Communication and Public Engagement**
The charity maintained an active public presence through social media, particularly Facebook. Trustees consider this an effective way of demonstrating transparency, celebrating achievements, and raising awareness of learning disability issues. Posts throughout the year highlighted member involvement, activities, and key messages around inclusion and self-advocacy.
We were covered in Aspire Magazine for the work around the Inclusive Wellbeing Festival. We were interviewed on the Disabled And Proud Podcast.
We were interviewed on BCB radio about our Safer Streets initiative. We were featured on Able magazines website. We created our own magazine to support the Inclusive Wellbeing Festival.
We do a round up of the week that is shared on our social media and on our website so that families and friends can see what their loved ones have been working on.
Our newsletter is another great resource to see what we have been doing.
## **Financial review**
The Trustees confirm that the charity has managed its finances responsibly during the reporting period. Funds have been used to deliver activities in line with the charity’s objectives and to support members effectively. Appropriate financial controls and oversight arrangements are in place.
The net expenditure for the year was £2,775, including net income of £37,113 on unrestricted funds and net expenditure of £39,888 on restricted funds.
## **Reserves policy**
The Board of Trustees consider that they should review the level of reserves held by the charity at regular intervals. The Board of Trustees feel that reserves should equate to approximately three months running costs to ensure that adequate resources are available to allow continued furtherance of the objectives of the charity in the event of a temporary shortfall in incoming resources while alternative funds are sought. The management committee believe that holding adequate funds to cover three months operating costs would allow for an orderly winding up of the organisation and would also enable the organisation to be able to meet its obligations towards staff and creditors in the event of there being no possibility of securing alternative longer-term funding. This would equate to approximately £50,000.
The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year end were £61,762.
Approved by the board of trustees on 03/02/2026
Stephen Whiteside (Trustee)
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of People First Keighley & Craven
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 9 to 16.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- 1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records; or
- 3 the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Simon Bostrom FCIE
03/02/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Statement of Financial Activities
## (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2025
|Notes
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Income from:**
Grants, contracts and donations
(2)
4,854
Activity contributions
59,240
Fundraising
45
Day services income
85,411
**Total income**
149,550
**Expenditure on:**
Salaries NI and pensions
(3)
53,501
DBS checks
112
Freelance and sessional workers
2,308
Freelance board support, admin and finance
11,693
Events, activities and service delivery
5,092
Equipment and resources
3,021
Insurance
1,326
Memberships and subscriptions
393
Advertising and publicity
477
Food and refreshments
2,697
Rent and utilities
13,589
Repairs and maintenance
336
Room and facility hire
1,715
Stationery, printing and postage
974
Telephone and internet
2,950
Travel
1,236
Training and welfare
4,603
Independent examination
1,080
IT, support and software
2,171
Other expenses
632
Depreciation
2,531
**Total expenditure**
112,437
**Net income / (expenditure)**
37,113
**Fund balances brought forward**
27,815
**Fund balances carried forward**
(4)
64,928|2025
Restricted
funds
£
44,396
-
-
-
44,396
80,157
-
1,658
-
495
391
-
-
1,110
-
-
-
-
-
-
102
125
-
246
-
-
84,284
(39,888)
47,109
7,221|2025
Total
funds
£
49,250
59,240
45
85,411
193,946
133,658
112
3,966
11,693
5,587
3,412
1,326
393
1,587
2,697
13,589
336
1,715
974
2,950
1,338
4,728
1,080
2,417
632
2,531
196,721
(2,775)
74,924
72,149|2024
Total
funds
£
108,199
6,747
2,434
77,038
194,418
132,631
100
7,630
12,788
15,626
888
1,015
1,282
5,061
110
13,366
115
5,046
3,238
2,385
2,100
4,182
1,800
2,462
870
3,946
216,641
(22,223)
97,147
74,924|
|---|---|---|---|
All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Balance sheet
|as at 31 March 2025
2025
Unrestricted
£
**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
(5)
3,166
**Total fixed assets**
3,166
**Current assets**
Debtors and prepayments
(6)
22,536
Cash at bank and in hand
(7)
42,715
**Total current assets**
65,251
**Current liabilities:**
**amounts falling due within one year**
Creditors and accruals
(8)
3,489
**Total current liabilities**
3,489
**Net current assets / (liabilities)**
61,762
**Net assets**
64,928
**Funds**
Unrestricted funds
64,928
Restricted funds
-
**Total funds**
64,928|2025
Restricted
£
-
-
27,051
(19,830)
7,221
-
-
7,221
7,221
-
7,221
7,221|2025
Total
£
3,166
3,166
49,587
22,885
72,472
3,489
3,489
68,983
72,149
64,928
7,221
72,149|2024
Total
£
4,419
4,419
60,047
16,324
76,371
5,866
5,866
70,505
74,924
27,815
47,109
74,924|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 03/02/2026
Stephen Whiteside (Trustee)
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Notes to the accounts
## for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by 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) and with the Charities Act 2011.
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year. No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Going concern**
The trustees are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.
## **Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the resources, it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## **Grants and donations**
Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.
Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.
## **Expenditure and liabilities**
Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out the resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Tangible fixed assets costing more than £250 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Gifted assets are shown at the value to the charity on receipt. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost on a straight line basis over their expected useful economic lives as follows:
Freehold land: nil Freehold buildings: over 50 years Computers and equipment: over 4 years
## **Pensions**
The charity operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **1 Accounting policies continued**
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
## **Leases**
Rents under operating leases are charged on a straight line basis over the lease term or to an earlier date if the lease can be determined without financial penalty.
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**2 Grants, contracts and donations**
Bradford VCS Alliance
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Equality Together
Equality Together Innovation fund
Keighley Town Council
Asda Foundation
Community Chest Keighley
National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF)
Other grants and donations
**3 Staff costs and numbers**
Gross salaries
Social security costs
Employment allowance
Pensions|2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,854
4,854|2025
Restricted
funds
£
5,000
5,500
27,075
3,696
3,000
-
-
-
125
44,396|2025
Total
funds
£
5,000
5,500
27,075
3,696
3,000
-
-
-
4,979
49,250
2025
£
127,756
8,947
(5,000)
1,955
133,658|2024
Total
funds
£
-
5,000
51,645
23,580
-
400
497
27,051
26
108,199
2024
£
126,693
8,910
(5,000)
2,028
132,631|
|---|---|---|---|---|
The average number of employees during the year was 7.4, being an average of 4.9 full time equivalent (2024: 7.1, 4.9 FTE). There were no employees with emoluments above £60,000.
|**Defined contribution pension scheme**
Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year
Amount of any contributions outstanding at the year end
Amount of any contributions prepaid at the year end
**4 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
Incoming
£
£
CBMDC Wellbeing
4,786
5,000
Community Chest Keighley
298
-
CBMDC Creative
-
5,000
Innovation Fund
7,446
3,696
Lot 2 Self Advocacy
23,950
27,075
NLCF
5,629
-
CBMDC Safer streets
-
500
Keighley Town Council
-
3,000
Sovereign
5,000
-
Training grant
-
125
47,109
44,396|Outgoing
£
9,786
298
-
11,142
51,025
5,629
500
779
5,000
125
84,284|2025
£
1,955
-
-
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2024
£
2,028
-
-
Balance c/f
£
-
-
5,000
-
-
-
-
2,221
-
-
7,221|
|---|---|---|---|
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Notes to the accounts continued
## People First Keighley & Craven
for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **4 Restricted funds**
## **Fund name**
CBMDC Wellbeing Community Chest Keighley CBMDC Creative
Innovation Fund
Lot 2 Self Advocacy NLCF CBMDC Safer streets
Keighley Town Council
Sovereign Training grant
## **Purpose of restriction**
Towards the wellbeing project. Towards the cost of IT equipment.
For a project giving our members the skills to express themselves using various creative disciplines including music, creative writing, and art. Funding from Equality Together to help people plan their own day opportunities.
Lot 2 funding for self and group advocacy and peer support. To cover core costs, salaries and support learning holidays. For a project to enable us to reach out into the community to highlight the challenges our community is facing on the streets.
For a project to enable us to reach out into the community to highlight the challenges our community is facing on the streets. Towards the Your Health, My Life project. Grant towards training costs.
|**Tangible assets**
**Cost**
£
£
At 1 April 2024
-
-
Additions
-
-
At 31 March 2025
-
-
**Depreciation**
At 1 April 2024
-
-
Charge for year
-
-
At 31 March 2025
-
-
**Net book value**
At 31 March 2025
-
-
At 31 March 2024
-
-
**Debtors and prepayments**
Debtors
Prepayments
Accrued income
Other debtors
**Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
Class 3
Class 4|£
8,280
-
8,280
7,608
336
7,944
336
672
Computers|£
9,548
1,278
10,826
5,801
2,195
7,996
2,830
3,747
2025
£
21,670
425
27,051
441
49,587
2025
£
22,821
64
22,885
Equipment|Total
£
17,828
1,278
19,106
13,409
2,531
15,940
3,166
4,419
2024
£
27,674
315
31,051
1,007
60,047
2024
£
16,144
180
16,324|
|---|---|---|---|
## **5 Tangible assets**
## **6 Debtors and prepayments**
## **7 Cash at bank and in hand**
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**8 Creditors and accruals**
Creditors
Accruals|2025
£
609
2,880
3,489|2024
£
2,266
3,600
5,866|
|---|---|---|
## **9 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
## **Remuneration and benefits received by key management personnel**
The total employee benefits received by key management personnel were £28,926 (previous year: £28,926).
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Statement of Financial Activities including comparatives for all funds (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2025
|2025
2024
Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds
funds
£
£
**Income**
Grants, contracts and donations
4,854
26
Activity contributions
59,240
6,747
Fundraising
45
2,434
Day services income
85,411
77,038
**Total income**
149,550
86,245
**Expenditure**
Salaries NI and pensions
53,501
48,672
DBS checks
112
100
Freelance and sessional workers
2,308
1,529
Board support, admin and finance
11,693
5,752
Events, activities and service delivery
5,092
7,439
Equipment and resources
3,021
45
Insurance
1,326
347
Memberships and subscriptions
393
1,282
Advertising and publicity
477
3,095
Food and refreshments
2,697
52
Rent and utilities
13,589
4,740
Repairs and maintenance
336
-
Room and facility hire
1,715
1,019
Stationery, printing and postage
974
622
Telephone and internet
2,950
2,385
Travel
1,236
901
Training and welfare
4,603
4,182
Independent examination
1,080
1,800
IT, support and software
2,171
941
Other expenses
632
298
Depreciation
2,531
3,946
**Total expenditure**
112,437
89,147
**Net income / (expenditure)**
37,113
(2,902)
**Fund balances brought forward**
27,815
30,717
**Fund balances carried forward**
64,928
27,815|2025
Restricted
funds
£
44,396
-
-
-
44,396
80,157
-
1,658
-
495
391
-
-
1,110
-
-
-
-
-
-
102
125
-
246
-
-
84,284
(39,888)
47,109
7,221|2024
Restricted
funds
£
108,173
-
-
-
108,173
83,959
-
6,101
7,036
8,187
843
668
-
1,966
58
8,626
115
4,027
2,616
-
1,199
-
-
1,521
572
-
127,494
(19,321)
66,430
47,109|2025
Total
funds
£
49,250
59,240
45
85,411
193,946
133,658
112
3,966
11,693
5,587
3,412
1,326
393
1,587
2,697
13,589
336
1,715
974
2,950
1,338
4,728
1,080
2,417
632
2,531
196,721
(2,775)
74,924
72,149|2024
Total
funds
£
108,199
6,747
2,434
77,038
194,418
132,631
100
7,630
12,788
15,626
888
1,015
1,282
5,061
110
13,366
115
5,046
3,238
2,385
2,100
4,182
1,800
2,462
870
3,946
216,641
(22,223)
97,147
74,924|
|---|---|---|---|---|
16
## People First Keighley & Craven
Charity number 1125278
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
## People First Keighley & Craven
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 7|
|Examiner's report|8|
|Statement of financial activities|9|
|Balance sheet|10|
|Notes to the accounts|11 to 16|
**Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
1
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position**
Tracey Lines Charlotte Longbottom Steven Brundle Stephen Whiteside Tom Walsh
## **Charity number**
1125278
Registered in England and Wales
## **Registered and principal address**
## **Bankers**
Room 26, Central Hall Virgin Money Alice Street 73 North Street Keighley Keighley BD21 3JD BD21 3SD
## **Independent examiner**
Simon Bostrom FCIE
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
2
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is governed by a constitution adopted on 1 April 2007, as amended 8 July 2008.
People First Keighley & Craven is governed by a Board of Trustees who are responsible for the strategic direction, governance, and financial oversight of the charity. Trustees meet regularly (every 6 weeks) to review performance, ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and support the organisation to develop. David Wilford supports the board to deliver its legal governance and charitable objectives.
The charity is led operationally by a staff team who report to the Trustees. Trustees ensure that appropriate policies, safeguarding measures, and financial controls are in place and reviewed regularly.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
To relieve the needs of people with learning difficulties including enabling them to manage a voluntary group, speak up for themselves and go on social outings.
## **The charity's main activities**
People First Keighley and Craven is a self and group advocacy organisation, and day service. Working with adults with learning disabilities and/or neurodiversity.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of education and the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
## **Achievements and performance**
## **Advocacy and Voice**
Advocacy remained central to the charity’s work throughout the year. Members were supported to take part in speaking-up activities, discussions, and engagement with local partners. Trustees observed increased confidence among members, with many actively sharing their views and representing themselves both within the organisation and externally.
The one to ones have continued to help people live the lives they want to.
We continued providing lived-experience training to Airedale Hospital and Bradford University.
We began working with Sue Ryder Care providing their CPD on supporting people with learning disabilities and/or those who are neurodivergent.
Members were reporters at the Learning Disability England Conference and did a great job of covering the important event on our podcast.
Life stories work
Meet the team, YouTube series.
## **Social, Community and Wellbeing Activities**
The charity delivered regular social activities and group sessions aimed at reducing isolation and promoting wellbeing. These activities provided safe, inclusive spaces where members could build friendships, develop peer support networks, and enjoy shared experiences. Trustees recognise the importance of these activities in supporting emotional wellbeing and community inclusion.
3
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Trips out of the office:**
Yorkshire Dales National Park Accessibility Assessment. Visit to Brontë Museum to support their use of accessible information. Inclusive Wellbeing Festival 2024 Bradford 2025 launch event! Co-production group event at Manningham Mills. Healthier lives meetings throughout the year. People Powered Press work, creating art using the world’s largest letter press. Modality event supporting our local GPs to do annual health checks with people with learning disabilities at Cougar Park Safer streets events. Airedale hospital PFKC event to thank us for the work we’ve done together. Community Positive Board in Keighley Library. Positivity pop up in Keighley town centre Positivity pop up at Modality event. Naidex trip and stall. Group litter picking sessions This Is Me Festival Trip. Learning Retreat to Beamsley Project. Hoot creative arts collaboration work. Beechcliffe School Information Day Summer Wellbeing Walk at Cliffe Castle Walk and Draw at Cliffe Castle
## **Events at Central Hall**
Visit from Mencap Seated Exercise Session Airedale Hospital Sensory room consultation M-Technique training Women’s health event in the office. Awards ceremony for members. PFKC Boyband video (at a request from a 1-1). Mince Pie Moment Event. Learning Disability Awareness Week Celebrations. Autism Awareness Week. Italian Day Learning Disabilities event with Wil Quick Talking Mats event- with member SB Self Care Week International Day Of Persons With A Disability. Chinese New Year Celebration Volunteer Appreciation Week celebrations. Oliver’s Outreach- donating to homeless people. McMillan Coffee Morning in memory of a member’s Grandad. Halloween video Love Workshop all about music and Love with Dr Katherine Williams and Dr Lucy Series. Makaton awareness day. Frontline wellbeing Makaton Training. Everybody’s Equal video. Vegan week Hidden disabilities official organisation week
4
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Social nights**
Airedale Heifer social night. PFKC Summer Bash at Bingley Rugby Club. Taylor’s on the green social night. Brontë Restaurant social night. Games Night at Central Hall! Christmas Ball. Balti House Social Night. The Inn At Eastburn social night.
## **Skills Development and Learning**
Members were supported to develop a range of skills through structured activities, creative projects, and group decision-making. Trustees note the positive impact of these opportunities on confidence, communication, and independence.
## **Training provided was:**
Mental Capacity Act Training. What is bias? training. Social media training refresher (new for recently joined members). Accessible Information Chinese New Year with Alina Makaton level one training for volunteers and new staff. National self care week workshops UN Women UK workshops with Catrina about CSW69. Try It, Like It, Do It event with Mencap and Our Active Community. This had lots of wellbeing workshops and training.
Hate crime awareness training and informational videos. Gentle Dental training at Cougar Park with Modality. Safer streets training. Anaphylaxis Awareness Training. Communication training for social workers and social work students. Wellbeing walk training at Cliffe Castle. Pride month workshop Voting passport week. Dying Matters Week
## **Inclusive Wellbeing Festival Sessions**
Innabox disability training session. Happiness Enchanters Confidence Session MissFits movement workshop InclusFit fitness session Kirran Shah wellbeing sessions JiggleFiit body positivity dance class Modality partnership mindfulness session. Eat, Move, Be Happy session. The M Technique workshop. Kate Stanforth and Chris audio movement media session
5
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **The People First Podcast**
The People First podcast continued to be an important platform for skills development and self-expression, enabling members to share lived experience while gaining experience in media, teamwork, and public communication.
Podcasts go out every Wednesday from February to the middle of December.
## **Here are the podcasts between April 24 – March 25:**
Interview from Future Leader Event in Bradford Interview with Jo from Bradford Talking Media Interview from Safer streets Skipton Interview with author Tiffany Yu about her book The Anti Ableist Manifesto Interview from Naidex Interview with Staveley Court, Supported Living Interview about Dying Matters Awareness Week Interview with Adam Stanton Wharmby Interview with Vicky Foxcroft. Interview with Alex Craddock Sports Interview with Pride in the Dales Interview with Sean from the Good Shepherd Centre Learning Retreat Interview with Inga Julia Reichelt Interview with Tom Howells from The Good Food Partnership Women’s Health podcast. Interview with Maggie Philbin Interview with Anton Lesser. Interview with Outside The Box. Interview with Motability Interview with Bradford Council about Waste and Recycling Interview with Brooke Millhouse of Disabled and Proud Interview with Take a Hike Interview with Airedale and Wharfedale Autism Resource Accessible Information Annual General Meeting coverage Interview with Ali’s sensory boxes Life Stories Learning Disability England Conference Interview with Clive Mantel Interview with local service called Magpies. Interview with SELFA Interview with Rhiannon from Rhitrition. Interview with Makaton Charity practitioners. Interview with Holibreaks, Equality Together & Janet Clarke. This Is Me Festival Podcast. Interview with Gary Bourlet Interview with Skipton Step Into Action Vegan week Hate Crime Awareness week Hallowe’en Special Voting podcast Podcast with Coach Sean who runs our football sessions Special Olympics interview. World Cerebral Palsy Day. Interview with People Powered Press Interview with facilitators from our Inclusive Wellbeing Festival
6
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **The People First Podcast**
The People First podcast continued to be an important platform for skills development and self-expression, enabling members to share lived experience while gaining experience in media, teamwork, and public communication.
Podcasts go out every Wednesday from February to the middle of December.
## **Communication and Public Engagement**
The charity maintained an active public presence through social media, particularly Facebook. Trustees consider this an effective way of demonstrating transparency, celebrating achievements, and raising awareness of learning disability issues. Posts throughout the year highlighted member involvement, activities, and key messages around inclusion and self-advocacy.
We were covered in Aspire Magazine for the work around the Inclusive Wellbeing Festival. We were interviewed on the Disabled And Proud Podcast.
We were interviewed on BCB radio about our Safer Streets initiative. We were featured on Able magazines website. We created our own magazine to support the Inclusive Wellbeing Festival.
We do a round up of the week that is shared on our social media and on our website so that families and friends can see what their loved ones have been working on.
Our newsletter is another great resource to see what we have been doing.
## **Financial review**
The Trustees confirm that the charity has managed its finances responsibly during the reporting period. Funds have been used to deliver activities in line with the charity’s objectives and to support members effectively. Appropriate financial controls and oversight arrangements are in place.
The net expenditure for the year was £2,775, including net income of £37,113 on unrestricted funds and net expenditure of £39,888 on restricted funds.
## **Reserves policy**
The Board of Trustees consider that they should review the level of reserves held by the charity at regular intervals. The Board of Trustees feel that reserves should equate to approximately three months running costs to ensure that adequate resources are available to allow continued furtherance of the objectives of the charity in the event of a temporary shortfall in incoming resources while alternative funds are sought. The management committee believe that holding adequate funds to cover three months operating costs would allow for an orderly winding up of the organisation and would also enable the organisation to be able to meet its obligations towards staff and creditors in the event of there being no possibility of securing alternative longer-term funding. This would equate to approximately £50,000.
The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year end were £61,762.
Approved by the board of trustees on 03/02/2026
Stephen Whiteside (Trustee)
7
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of People First Keighley & Craven
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 9 to 16.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- 1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records; or
- 3 the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Simon Bostrom FCIE
03/02/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
8
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Statement of Financial Activities
## (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2025
|Notes
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Income from:**
Grants, contracts and donations
(2)
4,854
Activity contributions
59,240
Fundraising
45
Day services income
85,411
**Total income**
149,550
**Expenditure on:**
Salaries NI and pensions
(3)
53,501
DBS checks
112
Freelance and sessional workers
2,308
Freelance board support, admin and finance
11,693
Events, activities and service delivery
5,092
Equipment and resources
3,021
Insurance
1,326
Memberships and subscriptions
393
Advertising and publicity
477
Food and refreshments
2,697
Rent and utilities
13,589
Repairs and maintenance
336
Room and facility hire
1,715
Stationery, printing and postage
974
Telephone and internet
2,950
Travel
1,236
Training and welfare
4,603
Independent examination
1,080
IT, support and software
2,171
Other expenses
632
Depreciation
2,531
**Total expenditure**
112,437
**Net income / (expenditure)**
37,113
**Fund balances brought forward**
27,815
**Fund balances carried forward**
(4)
64,928|2025
Restricted
funds
£
44,396
-
-
-
44,396
80,157
-
1,658
-
495
391
-
-
1,110
-
-
-
-
-
-
102
125
-
246
-
-
84,284
(39,888)
47,109
7,221|2025
Total
funds
£
49,250
59,240
45
85,411
193,946
133,658
112
3,966
11,693
5,587
3,412
1,326
393
1,587
2,697
13,589
336
1,715
974
2,950
1,338
4,728
1,080
2,417
632
2,531
196,721
(2,775)
74,924
72,149|2024
Total
funds
£
108,199
6,747
2,434
77,038
194,418
132,631
100
7,630
12,788
15,626
888
1,015
1,282
5,061
110
13,366
115
5,046
3,238
2,385
2,100
4,182
1,800
2,462
870
3,946
216,641
(22,223)
97,147
74,924|
|---|---|---|---|
All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.
9
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Balance sheet
|as at 31 March 2025
2025
Unrestricted
£
**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
(5)
3,166
**Total fixed assets**
3,166
**Current assets**
Debtors and prepayments
(6)
22,536
Cash at bank and in hand
(7)
42,715
**Total current assets**
65,251
**Current liabilities:**
**amounts falling due within one year**
Creditors and accruals
(8)
3,489
**Total current liabilities**
3,489
**Net current assets / (liabilities)**
61,762
**Net assets**
64,928
**Funds**
Unrestricted funds
64,928
Restricted funds
-
**Total funds**
64,928|2025
Restricted
£
-
-
27,051
(19,830)
7,221
-
-
7,221
7,221
-
7,221
7,221|2025
Total
£
3,166
3,166
49,587
22,885
72,472
3,489
3,489
68,983
72,149
64,928
7,221
72,149|2024
Total
£
4,419
4,419
60,047
16,324
76,371
5,866
5,866
70,505
74,924
27,815
47,109
74,924|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 03/02/2026
Stephen Whiteside (Trustee)
10
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Notes to the accounts
## for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by 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) and with the Charities Act 2011.
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year. No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Going concern**
The trustees are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.
## **Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the resources, it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## **Grants and donations**
Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.
Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.
## **Expenditure and liabilities**
Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out the resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Tangible fixed assets costing more than £250 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Gifted assets are shown at the value to the charity on receipt. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost on a straight line basis over their expected useful economic lives as follows:
Freehold land: nil Freehold buildings: over 50 years Computers and equipment: over 4 years
## **Pensions**
The charity operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.
11
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **1 Accounting policies continued**
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
## **Leases**
Rents under operating leases are charged on a straight line basis over the lease term or to an earlier date if the lease can be determined without financial penalty.
12
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**2 Grants, contracts and donations**
Bradford VCS Alliance
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Equality Together
Equality Together Innovation fund
Keighley Town Council
Asda Foundation
Community Chest Keighley
National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF)
Other grants and donations
**3 Staff costs and numbers**
Gross salaries
Social security costs
Employment allowance
Pensions|2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,854
4,854|2025
Restricted
funds
£
5,000
5,500
27,075
3,696
3,000
-
-
-
125
44,396|2025
Total
funds
£
5,000
5,500
27,075
3,696
3,000
-
-
-
4,979
49,250
2025
£
127,756
8,947
(5,000)
1,955
133,658|2024
Total
funds
£
-
5,000
51,645
23,580
-
400
497
27,051
26
108,199
2024
£
126,693
8,910
(5,000)
2,028
132,631|
|---|---|---|---|---|
The average number of employees during the year was 7.4, being an average of 4.9 full time equivalent (2024: 7.1, 4.9 FTE). There were no employees with emoluments above £60,000.
|**Defined contribution pension scheme**
Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year
Amount of any contributions outstanding at the year end
Amount of any contributions prepaid at the year end
**4 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
Incoming
£
£
CBMDC Wellbeing
4,786
5,000
Community Chest Keighley
298
-
CBMDC Creative
-
5,000
Innovation Fund
7,446
3,696
Lot 2 Self Advocacy
23,950
27,075
NLCF
5,629
-
CBMDC Safer streets
-
500
Keighley Town Council
-
3,000
Sovereign
5,000
-
Training grant
-
125
47,109
44,396|Outgoing
£
9,786
298
-
11,142
51,025
5,629
500
779
5,000
125
84,284|2025
£
1,955
-
-
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2024
£
2,028
-
-
Balance c/f
£
-
-
5,000
-
-
-
-
2,221
-
-
7,221|
|---|---|---|---|
13
Notes to the accounts continued
## People First Keighley & Craven
for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **4 Restricted funds**
## **Fund name**
CBMDC Wellbeing Community Chest Keighley CBMDC Creative
Innovation Fund
Lot 2 Self Advocacy NLCF CBMDC Safer streets
Keighley Town Council
Sovereign Training grant
## **Purpose of restriction**
Towards the wellbeing project. Towards the cost of IT equipment.
For a project giving our members the skills to express themselves using various creative disciplines including music, creative writing, and art. Funding from Equality Together to help people plan their own day opportunities.
Lot 2 funding for self and group advocacy and peer support. To cover core costs, salaries and support learning holidays. For a project to enable us to reach out into the community to highlight the challenges our community is facing on the streets.
For a project to enable us to reach out into the community to highlight the challenges our community is facing on the streets. Towards the Your Health, My Life project. Grant towards training costs.
|**Tangible assets**
**Cost**
£
£
At 1 April 2024
-
-
Additions
-
-
At 31 March 2025
-
-
**Depreciation**
At 1 April 2024
-
-
Charge for year
-
-
At 31 March 2025
-
-
**Net book value**
At 31 March 2025
-
-
At 31 March 2024
-
-
**Debtors and prepayments**
Debtors
Prepayments
Accrued income
Other debtors
**Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
Class 3
Class 4|£
8,280
-
8,280
7,608
336
7,944
336
672
Computers|£
9,548
1,278
10,826
5,801
2,195
7,996
2,830
3,747
2025
£
21,670
425
27,051
441
49,587
2025
£
22,821
64
22,885
Equipment|Total
£
17,828
1,278
19,106
13,409
2,531
15,940
3,166
4,419
2024
£
27,674
315
31,051
1,007
60,047
2024
£
16,144
180
16,324|
|---|---|---|---|
## **5 Tangible assets**
## **6 Debtors and prepayments**
## **7 Cash at bank and in hand**
14
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**8 Creditors and accruals**
Creditors
Accruals|2025
£
609
2,880
3,489|2024
£
2,266
3,600
5,866|
|---|---|---|
## **9 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
## **Remuneration and benefits received by key management personnel**
The total employee benefits received by key management personnel were £28,926 (previous year: £28,926).
15
## People First Keighley & Craven
## Statement of Financial Activities including comparatives for all funds (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2025
|2025
2024
Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds
funds
£
£
**Income**
Grants, contracts and donations
4,854
26
Activity contributions
59,240
6,747
Fundraising
45
2,434
Day services income
85,411
77,038
**Total income**
149,550
86,245
**Expenditure**
Salaries NI and pensions
53,501
48,672
DBS checks
112
100
Freelance and sessional workers
2,308
1,529
Board support, admin and finance
11,693
5,752
Events, activities and service delivery
5,092
7,439
Equipment and resources
3,021
45
Insurance
1,326
347
Memberships and subscriptions
393
1,282
Advertising and publicity
477
3,095
Food and refreshments
2,697
52
Rent and utilities
13,589
4,740
Repairs and maintenance
336
-
Room and facility hire
1,715
1,019
Stationery, printing and postage
974
622
Telephone and internet
2,950
2,385
Travel
1,236
901
Training and welfare
4,603
4,182
Independent examination
1,080
1,800
IT, support and software
2,171
941
Other expenses
632
298
Depreciation
2,531
3,946
**Total expenditure**
112,437
89,147
**Net income / (expenditure)**
37,113
(2,902)
**Fund balances brought forward**
27,815
30,717
**Fund balances carried forward**
64,928
27,815|2025
Restricted
funds
£
44,396
-
-
-
44,396
80,157
-
1,658
-
495
391
-
-
1,110
-
-
-
-
-
-
102
125
-
246
-
-
84,284
(39,888)
47,109
7,221|2024
Restricted
funds
£
108,173
-
-
-
108,173
83,959
-
6,101
7,036
8,187
843
668
-
1,966
58
8,626
115
4,027
2,616
-
1,199
-
-
1,521
572
-
127,494
(19,321)
66,430
47,109|2025
Total
funds
£
49,250
59,240
45
85,411
193,946
133,658
112
3,966
11,693
5,587
3,412
1,326
393
1,587
2,697
13,589
336
1,715
974
2,950
1,338
4,728
1,080
2,417
632
2,531
196,721
(2,775)
74,924
72,149|2024
Total
funds
£
108,199
6,747
2,434
77,038
194,418
132,631
100
7,630
12,788
15,626
888
1,015
1,282
5,061
110
13,366
115
5,046
3,238
2,385
2,100
4,182
1,800
2,462
870
3,946
216,641
(22,223)
97,147
74,924|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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## People First Keighley & Craven
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of People First Keighley & Craven
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 9 to 16.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- 1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records; or
- 3 the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: …………………………………… Name: Simon Bostrom FCIE
03/02/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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