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|Trustees'<br>annual<br>report (incorporating|||the|director's|report)||
|independent<br>examiner's<br>report to the|||trustees||||
|Statement<br>offinancial|activities|(including||income and|||
|expenditure<br>account)||||||14|
|Statement<br>offinancial|position|||||15|
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|REFEREN|C|E AND|ADMINISTRA|ADMINISTRA|TIVE<br>DETAILS||
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|Registered||charity|name||Unique<br>Kidz &|Co.|
|Charity registration|||number||1131652||
|Company|registration|||number|06820293||
|Principal office and|||registered||Woodhill<br>Lane||
|office|||||Morecambe||
||||||Lancashire||
||||||LA4 4NW||
|The trustees|||||Mrs J Halpin||
||||||Mrs R DArmer||
||||||Ms T Elkington||
||||||Mr D Knowles||
||||||MR D C Walker||
|Company|secretary||||Mrs R D Armer||
|Independent||examiner|||Phillip Dennison|ACA FCCA|
||||||20 Mannin<br>Way||
||||||Lancaster Business Park||
||||||Caton Road||
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|Unique<br>Kidz 8 Co.|Unique<br>Kidz 8 Co.|||||||
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|Company<br>Limited<br>by Guarantee||||||||
|independent<br>Examiner's<br>Report to the Trustees of Unique||||Kidz &Co. (continued)||||
|Year|ended 31 March 2023|||||||
|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.10 Downing||Street|||||
||David Morris MP tabled an Early Day Motion<br>in Parliament|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<br>—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|||||||
||Category|||||||
||Listed in the Independent<br>on Sunday<br>Newspaper<br>Happy<br>List|||||||
|2015|David Morris MP tabled an Every Day Motion<br>in Parliament|in|support||of Unique<br>Kidz and Co|||
||Emma Pearson won the CVS Young Volunteer<br>Award|||||||
|2016|4Ever Unique - Daytime<br>Support Service opened,<br>providing|daytime||support||to young||
||adults with disabilities ages 16to 25|||||||
||Ofsted visit - all our conditions<br>were "Met" (as we no longer|deliver services||||to the "Early Years||
||Foundation<br>Stage" our quality and standards<br>are measured|differently|||than|in previous years)||
||Shortlisted<br>forThe Northern<br>Enterprise<br>Awards Manchester|for|the Resilience Award|||||
|2017|College Club opened.|||||||
||BBCRadio Lancashire<br>Broadcast live from our Building|||||||
|2018|Simon Antrobus,<br>CEO of BBCChildren<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||||in Need||website. BBC|
||Northwest<br>Tonight<br>did a live broadcast<br>from our building<br>celebrating|||CIN. Two of our team took||||
||part<br>in the Pedal for Pudsey<br>with Graham<br>Liver cycling around||the|area visiting|||local Primary|
||Schools|||||||
||Won the "Visitor Newspaper"<br>Sunshine<br>Award for Care|||||||
||Won "BestStand" at the first North Lanes Business Expo|||||||
||Delivered<br>disability<br>friendly<br>ice-skating sessions, working<br>with Lancaster on|||||Ice||
|2019|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 Patron|||||||
|2022|Successful<br>planning<br>application<br>for a cabin adjacent to 4Ever Unique|||for service|||delivery|



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|Less unrestricted<br>fixed||assets|||(234,546)|
|Less funds|designated|to the Building|Development|Project|(150,000)|
|Less funds|designated|to the purchase|ofa Minibus||(40,000)|



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|Donations<br>and legacies|||5|29,342|5,240|34,582|21,146|
|Charitable<br>activities|||6|419925|45,121|465,046|440,795|
|Other trading<br>activities|||7|35,744||35,744|27,456|
|Investment<br>income|||8|911||911|328|
|Other income|||9|5890||5,890|2,622|
|Total income||||491,812|50,361|542,173|492,347|
|Expenditure||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds:||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds|||10|44,636|550|45,186|31,428|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|activities||11|392,960|50,826|443,786|375,281|
|Other expenditure|||13|32||32|80|
|Total expenditure||||437,628|51,376|489,004|406,789|
|Transfers<br>between<br>funds||||(688)|688|||
|Net income and net movement||in|funds|53,496|(327)|53,169|85,558|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds||||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||||550,418|5,327|555,745|470,187|
|Total funds carried forward||||603,914|5,000|608,914|555,745|





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|Tangible fixed assets||||18|234,546|238,407|
|Current assets|||||||
|Items for resale||||19|250|250|
|Debtors||||20|73,029|51,785|
|Cash at bank and|in|hand|||324,166|281,124|
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|Creditors: amounts||falling|due within one year|21|23,077|15,821|
|Net current assets|||||374,368|317,338|
|Total assets less|current||liabilities||608,914|555,745|
|Net assets|||||608,914|555,?45|
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|Restricted funds|||||5,000|5,327|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||603,914|550,418|
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|Fixtures and fittings|33'/o straight|line|
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|Donations|||29,342||29,342|
|Donated|goods and services|||5,240|5,240|
||||29,342|5,240|34,582|
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|Donated goods and services||||11,876|11,876|
||||9,270|11,876|21,146|
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|Grants||||45,121|45,121|
|Holiday<br>Club fees|||52,700||52,700|
|After School Club fees|||48,027||48,027|
|4Ever Unique fees|||258,846||258,846|
|LCC Breaktime funding||8 HAF funding|60,352||60,352|
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|Holiday|Club fees|46,693||46,693|
|After School Club fees||30,216||30,216|
|4Ever|Unique fees|200,189||200,189|
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|Play and activities costs|10,725|8,994|19,719|
|Vehicle costs|9,964||9,964|
|Other direct costs|9,484|2,930|12,415|
|Depreciation|12,472||12,472|
|Support costs|142,067|3,854|145,919|
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|Staff costs|113,244|83,233|196,477|
|Play and activities costs|8,785|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|
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|Premises||||52,611|36,262|
|Communications||and|IT|10,024|9,380|
|General office||||2,519|1,777|
|Finance costs||||156|29|
|Governance|costs|||1,510|1,220|
|Legal and professional|||fees|5,678|7,541|
|Depreciation||||6,165|6,230|
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||PAYE interest||paid||||32|32|||
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||Loss on disposal oftangible fixed|||||assets||||80|
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|Social security costs||||13,937|9,297|
|Employer|contributions|to pension|plans|8,422|3,721|
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||Additions|||7,070|5,611||2,095|14,776|
||At 31 Mar 2023||209,283|81,877|33,085|18,592|34,574|377,411|
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||At 1 Apr 2022|||59,178|27,474|16,873|20,703|124,228|
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||At 31 Mar 2023|||69,349|29,344|17,304|26,868|142,865|
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||At 31 Mar 2022||209,283|15,629||1,719|11,776|238,407|
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||Prepayments|and accrued income|||||25,151|16,731|
||Other debtors|||||||269|
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||Accruals and deferred||income||||2,692|5,476|
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|HMRC|JRS||||1,668|(1,668)|||
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|CIN —additional|funding||500|(500)||||
|Eric Wright Trust—||||||||
|Jubilee celebrations|||100|(100)||||
|Eric Wright Trust|—Toy|||||||
|Library|||5,000||||5,000|
|Arnold<br>Clark|||2,000|(2,000)||||
|Lancaster<br>Mobility Trust|||1,000|(1,000)||||
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|Revenue grants||||||||
|CIN —Bridging Grant||8,618|19,714|(30,421)|2,089|||
|GIN —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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|The Co-operative||3,697|||(3,697)|||
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|||Funds<br>F|Funds<br>f|2023<br>E|
|Tangible fixed assets||234,546||234,546|
|Current assets||392,445|5,000|397,445|
|Creditors less than|1 year|(23,077)||(23,077)|
|Net assets||603,914|5,000|608,914|
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|Tangible fixed assets||238,407||238,407|
|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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