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Charity number: 1128709
ACCOUNTS AND REPORTS FOR THE ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2022
ACCOUNTANTS AKARAMS & CO. ACCOUNTANTS & TAX CONSULTANTS 66 KING HENRY'S WALK ISLINGTON LONDON N1 4NJ
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Contents
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| Legal and administrative information | 1 |
| Trustees’ report | 2-3 |
| Independent examiners’ report | 4 |
| Statement offinancial activities | 5 |
| Income and expenditure accounts | 6 |
| Balance sheet | 7 |
| Notestotheaccounts | 8-10 |
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Legal and administrative information
Registered number: 1128709
Trustees: Mr. Patrick Stewart Mr. Sambamwani Konzi Ms Bridget McFarlane Tehsee Sheikh Kasongo Ndjoka
Address: Voluntary Action Islington 200A Pentoville Road London N1 9JP
Bankers: Royal Bank of Scotlan Direct Business Banking 4th Floor 1 Hardman Boulevard Manchester M3 3AQ
Accountants: AKARAMS & CO. Accountants & Tax Consultants 66 King Henry's Walk Islington London N1 4NJ T: 0207 923 3226 F: 0207 923 3047
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Trustees'report and financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2022
The trustees of Universal Ease to Redress present their report and financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2022 which have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Pratice, " Accounting and Reporting by Charities issued in January 2015 (The FRSSE)
Structure, governance and management
The charity is organised so that the trustees meet regularly to manage its affairs. The day to day administration of the charity is managed by the trustees’ chair.
Governing document
Universal Ease to Redress is a charitable organisation and registered on the 20th March 2009. The charity is governed by a consitution adopted 9 June 2008 as amended by special resolution 8 March 2009 as amended on 27 Oct 2018.
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’ Our aims and objectives.
Purpose and aims
The objects of the charity are:
The charity is to promote human rights (as out in the universal declaration of human rights and subsequent United Nations Conventions and Declarations), in particular the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, throughout the world by all or any of the following means;
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Monitoring abuses of humanrights
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Obtaining redress for the victims of human rights abuse
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Relieving need among the victims of human rights abuse
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iV. Educating the public about human rights V. Eliminating infringements of human rights
Ensuring our work delivers our aims
We review our aims, objectives and activities each year. This review looks at what we achieved and the outcomes of our work in the previous 12 months. The review looks at the success of each key acitivity and the benefits they have brought to those groups of people we are set up to help. The review also helps us to ensure our aim, objectives and activities remained focused on our stated purposes.
How our activities deliver public benefit
Our main activities and who we try to help are described below. All our charitable activities focus on promoting human rights.
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a. Prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by monitoring abuses of human rights
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b. Reaching out to those that are victims of human rights abuse and obtaining redress
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c. Educating the public human rights and elimnating infringements of human rights.
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Trustees'report and financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2022 (continued).
Financial review
During the year, income of £36,386.00 (thirty six thousand, three hundred and eighty six pounds) was received as voluntary donations. The net income for the period as shown the in financial statements for the period was a deficit of £2,953. (two thousand nine hundred and fifty three pounds). This was covered by the surplus of the ealier years Responsibilities of the trustees
Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable trust as at the balance sheet and of its of its incoming resources and applications of resources, including income and expenditure, for the financial year.
In preparing those financial statements the trustees should follow best best practice and;
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
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Prepare the financial statements on the ongoing basis unless it is in appropriate to presume that the charity will continue on that basis.
The trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enables them to ensure ensure that the financial statements comply with Companies Act 2006. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Members of the board of trustees
Members of the board of trustees, and trustees | for the purpose of charity law, who served during the year and up to the date report are set out on page 1. | In accordance with charity law, as trustees, we certify that;
So far as we are aware, there is no relevant information of which the charity's accountants are unaware and as the trustees of the charity we have taken all steps that we ought to have taken in order to make ourselves aware of any relevant information and to establish that the charity's accountants are aware of that information.
The report has been prepared,
By order of trustees:
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Independent examiners' report to the members of Universal Ease to Redress
We examined the accounts and the financial statements on pages 5 to 10 which have been prepared under historical cost accounting convention and in accordance with the applicable accounting standard Board.
Respective responsibilities of directors and accountants.
As described on page 3, the company directors are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. It is our responsibility to examine the accounts and based on our examination, to report our opinion to the shareholders. Our examination was not an audit as the company directors believe that the company is exempt from an audit.
Basis of opinion.
We conducted our examination in accordance with the appropriate standards for reporting accountants issued by the Auditing Practices Board. The examination consisted of comparing the accounting records kept by the company and making appropriate inquiries of the directors of the company, as we considered necessary for the purpose of this report.
Opinion
The charity satisfied the conditions for exemption from an audit of accounts for the year according to section 477of the company Act 2006
The accounts are in agreement with those accounting records as required by the accounting standards of company Act 2006. The accounts are in agreement with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
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We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial
statements of Universal Ease To Redress. For this reason, we have not verified the
accuracy or completeness of the accounting records of information and explanations
that were given to us and we don not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory
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Statement of financial activities for the year ended 30 September 2022
| Current year | Current year | Current year | Currentyear | Currentyear | Prioryear | |
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |||
| funds | funds | funds | funds | |||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2021 | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |||
| Income & endowments from: | ||||||
| Voluntary donations | 1,500 | 36,386 | 37,886 | 32,110 | ||
| Expenditure on: | ||||||
| Charitable activities | 1500 | 39,339 | 40,839 | 28,935 | ||
| Total expenditure | 1,500 | 39,339 | 40,839 | 28,935 | ||
| Netincome forthe year | - | - | 2,953 | - | 2,953 | 3,175 |
| Netincome aftertransfers | - | - | 2,953 | - | 2,953 | 3,175 |
| Netmovement in funds | - | - | 2,953 | - | 2,953 | 3,175 |
| Total funds broughtforward | os | 6,321 | 3,146 | |||
| Totalfundscarriedforward | - | - | 2,953 | 3,368 | 6,321 |
The notes attached on pages 8 to 10 form an integral part of these accounts
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Statement of financial activities for the year ended 30 September 2022
Income and expenditure account for the ended 30 September 2022 as required by the Companies Act 2006
| Companies Act 20062006 | ||||
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| Income | ||||
| Income from operations | . | 36,386 | 32,110 | |
| Other income | 1,500 | |||
| Gross income in the year before expectional items | 37,886 | 32,110 | ||
| Gross income in the year including expectional items | 37,886 | 32,110 | ||
| Expenditure | ||||
| Charitable expenditure excluding depreciation | & amortisation | 39,561 | 27,910 | |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 1,278 | 1,025 | ||
| Total expenditure in the year | 40,839 | 28,935 | ||
| Netincome before tax in the financial year | - | 2,953 | 3,175 | |
| Tax on surplus on ordinary activities | - | - | ||
| Netincome aftertax in the financial year | - | 2,953 | 3,175 | |
| Retained surplus/deficient forthe financial | year | - | 2,953 | 3,175 |
| Allactivitiesderivefromcontinuingoperations. |
In accordance with the provisions of the Company Act 2006, the headings and subheadings used in the income and expenditure account have been adapted to reflect the special nature of the charity's activities.
The notes attached on pages 8 to 10 form an integral part of these accounts
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Balance sheet as at 30 September 2022
YR:2022 YR:2022 YR:2021 YR:2021
Notes £ £ £ £
Tangible fixed assets 3 3,063 3,075
Current assets 4
Debtors 390 2,687
Cash at hand & at bank 415 559
Total 805 3,246
Creditors: amount falling
within one year 5 500 1,025
Net current asset 305 2,221
The total net assets of the charity 3,368 5,296
The total net assets of the charity are
funded by the funds of the charity as follows;
Restricted revenue funds 6 6,321 6,321
Unrestricted funds - 2,953
Total charity funds 3,368 6,321
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For the year ended 30 September 2021 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of the accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime and in accordance with the provisions of FRS 102 Section 1A- Small Entities.
Patrick Stewart Trustee/Chair
Approved by the board of trustees on 17 December 2021
The notes attached on pages 8 to 10 form an integral part of these accounts
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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 30 September 2021
1: Accounting policies
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with applicable Accounting Standards in the United Kingdom with application of FRSSE and the Statement of Recommended Pratice, "Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (SORP 2015) issued by the Charity commission. A summary of the principal accounting policies, which have been applied consistently is set out below.
a) Basis of accounting
The financial statements are prepared under the historic cost convention and include the results of the charity's operations, which are described in the directors report, all of which are continuing.
Depreciation: . Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value, of each asset evenly over its expected useful life; as follows:
Office equipment 5 years Fixtures & fittings 5 years
2. Turnover
Turnover represents the invoiced value of services supplied by the company,
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3. Tangible fixed assets Office Fixtures
equipment & fittings Total
Cost £ £ £
At 01 October 2021 4,100 1,025 5,125
Additions oe 1,266 1,266
Disposals -
At 30 September 2022 4,100 2,291 6,391
Depreciation
At 01 October 2021 1,640 410 2,050
Charge for the year 820 458 1,278
Disposals -
At 30 September 2022 2,460 868 3,328
Net book value
At 30 September 2022 1,640 1,423 3,063
Net book value
At 30 September 2021 2,460 615 3,075
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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 30 September 2022
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|YR:2022|YR:2021|
|£|£|
|4|Current|assets|
|Debtors|390|2,687|
|Cash|at|hand|&|at|bank|415|559|
|Total|805|3,246|
|5|Creditors:|
|Amount|falling|due|within|one|year|
|Other|creditors|500|1,025|
|Total|500|1,025|
|6|Change|in|total|funds|over the year|
|Funds|Transfers|Funds|
|brought|Movement|between|carried|
|forward|infundsin|fundsin|forward|to|
|from|2021|2022|2021|2022|
|£|£|£|£|
|Resiricted|revenue|funds|6,321|6,321|
|Unrestricted|revenue|funds|-|-|-|-|
|Total|charity funds|6,321|-|-|6,321|
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|Donations|and|grants|Current yearurrent yearurrent year|Prior year|
|.|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|funds|funds|funds|funds|
|2022|2022|2022|2021|
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|Donations|and|grants|from|
|public|bodies|
|Betsy foundation|2,500|2,500|-|
|Postcode|Society|Trust|17,160|17,160|-|
|Foyle|Foundation|4,000|4,000|-|
|A/C|Community|Fund|2,500|2,500|2,500|
|Charles|S.|French|Charity Trust|—|2,000|2,000|-|
|Morris|Charitable|Trust|5,760|5,760|-|
|Percy|Bilton|Charity|466|466|-|
|Marsh|Charitable|Trust|500|500|-|
|Big|Bike|Revival|1,500|1,500|-|
|City|Bridge|Trust Wave|2|9,598|
|The|Phoenix Fund|5,000|
|Barrow Cadbury Trust|2,500|
|City|Bridge|Trust Wave 4|9,620|
|Tesco|Bags|of Help|400|
|Comic|Relief Community|Fund|492|
|Comic|Relief Capacity|Buidling|grants|1,000|
|4in-10|London's|Child|Poverty|N|1,000|
|Total|donations and|grants from|36,386|36,386|32,110|
|from|public|funds|
|Expenditure|on|charitable|activities|
|Rent,|rates|and|service|charge|2,640|2,640|2,264|
|Volunteers|5,320|5,320|9,500|
|Telephone|and|internet|120|120|150|
|Hire|and|rental|costs|1,920|1,920|-|
|Office|equipment|exp|1,266|1,266|425|
|Printing,|post &|stationery|150|150|-|
|Professional|fees|500|500|1,300|
|Advertising|& web|costs|225|225|321|
|Welfare|25,920|25,920|13,950|
|Depreciation|1,278|1,278|1,025|
|Total|charitable expenses|39.339|39.339|28.935|
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