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|Trustees'<br>annual<br>report (incorporating|||the|director's|report)||
|Independent<br>examiner's<br>report to the|||trustees|||13|
|Statement offinancial|activities|(including||income and|||
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|REFERENCE AND|REFERENCE AND|REFERENCE AND|ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS|ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS|ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS||||
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|Registered||charity|name||Unique<br>Kidz 8 Co.||||
|Charity registration|||number||1131652||||
|Company|registration|||number|06820293||||
|Principal office and|||registered||Woodhill<br>Lane||||
|office|||||Morecambe||||
||||||Lancashire||||
||||||LA4 4NW||||
|Trustees|||||||||
||||||Mrs J Halpin||||
||||||Mrs R D Armer||||
||||||Ms T Elkington||||
||||||Mr DSJSissons||(Resigned|14September 2021)|
||||||Mr D Knowles||||
||||||Mr D C Walker||(Appointed|15November 2021)|
|Company secretary|||||Mrs R D Armer||||
|Independent||examiner|||Phillip Dennison|ACA FCCA|||
||||||CWR Chartered|Accountants|||
||||||20 Mannin<br>Way||||
||||||Lancaster Business Park||||
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|Following<br>on from previous<br>years we continue<br>to collect children<br>and|Following<br>on from previous<br>years we continue<br>to collect children<br>and|young|young|adults|from the two local|from the two local|from the two local|from the two local|from the two local|
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|specialist schools and college. Transport<br>can be a major barrier to parents accessing|||||activities for their|||||
|disabled|children<br>and<br>young<br>people.<br>Staff who<br>drive<br>the<br>Minibuses<br>are "MiDAS"|||||trained<br>which||||
|includes|how to clamp wheelchairs<br>and<br>how to use the<br>lift.<br>An escort is|||always|on|the||minibus|to|
|support|the children<br>and young people. We currently<br>have two accessible minibuses||||both||ofwhich||are|
|used for school/college<br>collections<br>and<br>local trips. We have also seen an||||increase|in|young<br>people||||
|coming|to us on pre-arranged<br>transport<br>with external<br>providers<br>which|is enabling<br>more|||||children||and|
|young<br>adults to use our services.||||||||||
|ACHIEVEMENTS<br>AND PERFORMANCE||||||||||
|Achievement<br>and Performance<br>to Date||||||||||
|2010|Rated as outstanding<br>by OFSTED following<br>their first Inspection|||||||||
|2011|Trustee Denise Armer attended a reception at No.10Downing|Street||||||||
||David Morris MP tabled an Early Day Motion<br>in Parliament<br>in support|||of Unique||Kidz and Co||||
|2012|Enterprise<br>Vision Award<br>(EVA) for best New Business|||||||||
|2012|The Selnet (Social Enterprise<br>Lancashire<br>Network)<br>Small Social Enterprise||||Award|||2013 EVA||
||Award - Inspirational<br>Woman ofthe Year|||||||||
|2013|Social Enterprise<br>North West (SENW) Small Social Enterprise|Award||||||||
||National<br>Mumpreneur<br>Award for Best Supporting<br>Business|||||||||
|2014|EVA Award Best Small Business Award|||||||||
||Rated Outstanding<br>following a further OFSTED Inspection|||||||||
||Finalists<br>in the Inspiring<br>Woman Awards<br>Entrepreneur|||||||||
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||Listed in the Independent<br>on Sunday<br>Newspaper<br>Happy<br>List|||||||||
|2015|David<br>Morris MP tabled an Every Day Motion<br>in Parliament<br>in|support<br>of Unique|||||Kidz and||Co|
||Emma Pearson won the CVS Young Volunteer<br>Award|||||||||
|2016|4Ever Unique<br>—Daytime Support Service opened,<br>providing<br>daytime|||support|to young|||||
||adults<br>with disabilities ages 16to 25|||||||||
||Ofsted<br>visit - all our conditions<br>were "Met" (as we no longer<br>deliver services|||||to||the "Early||
||Years Foundation<br>Stage" our quality<br>and standards<br>are measured||differently||than|||in previous||
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||Shortlisted<br>for The Northern<br>Enterprise<br>Awards<br>Manchester<br>for|the Resilience Award||||||||
|2017|College Club opened.|||||||||
||BBCRadio Lancashire<br>Broadcast live from our Building|||||||||
|2018|Simon Antrobus,<br>CEO ofBBCChildren<br>in Need visited<br>Unique|Kidz|and Co.||He|wrote a report||||
||about<br>his time spent at the club which<br>can be found<br>on the Children<br>in Need|||||website. BBC||||
||Northwest<br>Tonight<br>did a live broadcast<br>from our building<br>celebrating|||CIN. Two of|||or team took|||
||part<br>in the Pedal for Pudsey<br>with Graham<br>Liver cycling around|the||area visiting||local Primary||||
||Schools.|||||||||
||Won "BestStand" at the first North Lanes Business Expo|||||||||
|2019|Delivered<br>disability<br>friendly<br>ice-skating<br>sessions, working<br>with Lancaster on lce.<br>Celebrated<br>Unique<br>Kidz and Co.'s 10th Birthday.|||||||||
||Won BBCRadio Lancashire<br>Community<br>Hero Award.|||||||||
|2020|Successfully<br>supported<br>families<br>in person<br>and<br>virtually<br>throughout|||the Covid-19||||pandemic.||
|2021|Purchased<br>our building<br>on Woodhill<br>Lane and the adjacent field on Acre Moss Lane.|||||||||
||Graham<br>Liver joined Unique<br>Kidz and Co as Charity<br>Patron.|||||||||





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|Income and endowments||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||5|9,270|11,876|21,146|29,885|
|Charitable<br>activities|||6|330,669|110,127|440,795|419,244|
|Other trading<br>activities|||7|27,456||27,456|7,846|
|Investment<br>income|||8|328||328|911|
|Other income|||9|2,622||2,622|564|
|Total income||||370,345|122,003|492,347|458,450|
|Expenditure||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds:||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds|||10|31,428||31,428|14,184|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable||activities|11|252,161|123,121|375,281|287,686|
|Other expenditure|||13|80|—|80||
|Total expenditure||||283,669|123,121|406,789|301,870|
|Net income||||86,676|(1,118)|85,558|156,580|
|Transfers<br>between|funds|||35,789|(35,789)|||
|Net movement<br>in funds||||122,465|(36,907)|85,558|156,580|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds||||||||
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|Total funds carried|forward|||550,418|5,327|555,745|470,187|





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|Tangible fixed assets|||18|238,407|12,229|
|Current assets||||||
|Items for resale|||19|250|250|
|Debtors|||20|51,785|35,298|
|Cash at bank and in|hand|||281,124|458,157|
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|Creditors: amounts|falling|due within one year|21|15,821|35,747|
|Net current assets||||317,338|457,958|
|Total assets less current||liabilities||555,745|470,187|
|Net assets||||555,745|470,187|
|Funds ofthe charity||||||
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|Unrestricted<br>funds||||550,418|427,953|
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||Donated goods and services|||||11,876|11,876|
||||||9,270|11,876|21,146|
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||Donations||||12,590|5,000|17,590|
||Donated goods and services|||||12,295|12,295|
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||Grants||||1,668|110,127|111,794|
||Holiday Club||fees||46,693||46,693|
||After School||Club fees||30,216||30,216|
||4Ever Unique||fees||200,189||200,189|
||LCC Breaktime<br>funding||||51,903||51,903|
||||||330,669|110,127|440,795|
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||Holiday<br>Club||fees||29,039||29,039|
||After School Club fees||||16,924||16,924|
||4Ever Unique||fees||126,020||126,020|
||LCC Breaktime<br>funding||||59,438||59,438|
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||Other fundraising|||costs|||11,352|11,352|740|?40|
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||Play and activities|||costs||||8,784|15,000|23,784|
||Vehicle costs|||||||9,135|2,609|11,745|
||Other direct|costs||||||8,598|1,222|9,820|
||Depreciation|||||||12,046||12,046|
||Support costs||—Note 12|||||100,354|21,057|121,409|
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||Play and activities|||costs||||4,876|34,644|39,520|
||Vehicle costs|||||||4,676|1,073|5,749|
||Other direct|costs||||||4,612|285|4,897|
||Depreciation|||||||6,878||6,878|
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|Premises||||36,262|29,123|
|Communications||and|IT|9,380|8,888|
|General office||||1,777|2,434|
|Finance costs||||29|1|
|Governance|costs|||1,220|1,210|
|Bookkeeping|and|payroll fees|||10,180|
|Legal and professional|||fees|7,541|9,196|
|Depreciation||||6,230|1,685|
|Other support|costs|||4,125|2,561|
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||assets held|for charity's|own use||||80|80|||
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||Depreciation|oftangible|fixed assets||||||18,278|8,563|
||Loss on disposal oftangible||||fixed|assets|||80||
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||Fees payable to the independent|||||examiner for:|||||
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|Social security costs|||9,297|3,124|
|Employer contributions|to pension|plans|3,721|1,897|
||||271,397|178,807|



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|At 1 Api 2021||52,730|27,474|22,592|18,904|121,700|
|Additions|209,283|22,077|||13,575|244,935|
|Disposals||||(4,000)||(4,000)|
|At 31 Mar 2022|209,283|74,807|27,474|18,592|32,479|362,635|
|Depreciation|||||||
|At 1 Apl 2021||49,786|25,393|19,820|14,472|109,471|
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|year||9,392|2,081|574|6,231|18,278|
|Disposals||||(3,521)|—|(3,521)|
|At 31 Mar 2022||59,178|27,4?4|16,873|20,703|124,228|
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||Prepayments|and accrued income||16,731|9,265|
||Other debtors|||269|831|
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||Accruals and deferred||income|5,476|26,303|
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|Amount|released|to income|(24,253)|(13,366)|
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|HMRC Coronavirus||Job||||||
|Retention Scheme||||1,668|(1,668)|||
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|Properly|reserve||207,000||(207,000)|||
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|HMRC Coronavirus||Job||||||
|Retention Scheme||||61,844|(61,800)|||
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|CIN —Bridging Grant|8,618|19,714|(30,421)|2,089||
|CIN —Next Steps|6,085|28,750|(28,191)|(6,644)||
|CIN —Main Grant||11,484|(6,157)||5,327|
|Global|23,834|27,471|(31,609)|(19,697)||
|LCC Income support||15,291|(7,451)|(7,840)||
|LCC Covid Infection||||||
|Control||2,410|(2,410)|||
|LCC Covid Infection||||||
|Control||4,007|(4,007)|||
|Lancaster<br>Mobility Trust||1,000|(1,000)|||
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|Kentown<br>Wizard||||||
|Foundation||5,000|(5,000)|||
|Revenue grants||||||
|Children<br>in Need||6,571|(6,571)|||
|CIN —Bridging Grant||19,714|(11,096)||8,618|
|CIN —Next Steps||40,000|(32,278)|(1,637)|6,085|
|Global|23,870|22,488|(22,524)||23,834|
|National<br>Lottery||||||
|Community<br>Support||9,295|(9,295)|||
|LCC Covid Infection||||||
|Control||11,015|(8,460)|(2,555)||
|Other revenue<br>grants||3,200|(3,200)|||
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|Current assets||327,832|5,327|333,159|
|Creditors less than|1 year|(15,821)||(15,821)|
|Net assets||550,418|5,327|555,745|
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|Current assets||427,218|66,487|493,705|
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