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|Trustees'|annual<br>report (incorporating||the director's report)||||
|Independent<br>auditor's||report to the members|||||
|Statement|offinancial|activities (including||income and expenditme|account)|12|
|Statement|offinancial|position||||13|
|Statement|ofcash flows|||||14|
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|Registered|charity name|charity name|Action Foundation|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Charity registration||number|(132051|||||
|Company|registration|number|6946097|||||
|Principal|office and registered||The CastleGate|||||
|oflice|||Melbourne<br>Street|||||
||||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne|||||
||||NEI 2JQ|||||
|The trustees||||||||
||||W A Coulson|||||
||||M FHall|||||
||||D Lyall|||||
||||GSMandell (Appointed|||7 April|2022)|
||||M Mesgarnezhad|(Resigned 19January 2023)||||
||||R Naeb (Appointed||21 July 2022)|||
||||G Okai|||||
|Company|secretary &|||||||
|Chief Executive|||D McAuley|||||
|Auditor|||Stephenson<br>Coates Audit|||Limited||
||||Chartered<br>accountant||Jk statutory||auditor|
||||West 2,Asama Court|||||
||||Newcastle<br>Business Pedi|||||
||||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne|||||
||||NE4 7YD|||||
|Bankers|||Co-operative<br>Bank pic|||||
||||PO Box250|||||
||||Skelmersdale|||||
||||WNS 6WT|||||
||||Unity Trust Bank pic|||||
||||Nine Brindleyplace|||||
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|||Company<br>|Company<br>|Limited by Guarantee|Limited by Guarantee|Limited by Guarantee|||
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|||Statement||ofFinancial Activities|||||
|||(including|income||and expenditure|accoant)|||
||||31March 2023||||||
|||||||2023||2022|
|||||Unrestricted||Restricted|||
||||||funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
||||Note||||8|f|
|Income and endowments|||||||||
|Donations<br>and grants|||||422,147|222,454|644,601|838,858|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||312,472|299,805|612477|524,780|
|Other ceding activities|||||14,820||143120|9,054|
|Other income|||||52,694||52,694||
|Total income|||||802,133|522,259|1324392|1,372,692|
|Expenditure|||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds:|||||||||
|Costs ofraising donations|||8||101,649||101,649|97,179|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable||activities|9,10||718,780|659,487|1378,267|1,544,931|
|Total expenditure|||||820,429|659,487|trt79,916|1,642,110|
|Net (expenditure)<br>I|income||||(18,296)|(137428)|(155,524)|(269,418)|
|Transfers between ihnds|||||||||
|Net movement<br>in lhnds|||||(18,296)|(137,228)|((55v524)|(269418)|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||||
|Total funds brought|forward||||427,270|239,916|667,186|936,604|
|Total lhnds carried|forward||||408,974|102,688|511&662|667,186|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Fixed assets||||||||
|Tangible fixed assets||||15||340,842|342,250|
|Current<br>assets||||||||
|Debtors||||16|54,272||79,176|
|Cash at bank|sud in hand||||261,091||407,103|
||||||315863||486,279|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within|one year|17|64,189||82&739|
|Net current|assets|||||251,174|403,540|
|Total assets|less current liabilities|||||592,016|745&790|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due after|more than one|||||
|year||||18||80354|78,604|
|Net assets||||||511,662|667,186|
|Funds ofthe|charity|||||||
|Restricted<br>funds||||||102,688|239,916|
|Unrestricted|funds|||||408,974|427&270|
|Total charity fimds||||20||511,662|667,186|





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|Cash flows from operating||activities||||
|Net expenditure||||(155,523)|(269,418)|
|Adjastments fOr:||||||
|Interest payable<br>and similar||charges||2,896|3,120|
|Depreciation||||1,408|750|
|Accrued (income)<br>/ expenses||||2,104|(4,120)|
|Changes in:||||||
|Trade and other debtors<br>Trade and other creditors||||24J04<br>(16,800)|37,976<br>(31849)|
|Cash generated<br>From operations||||(141,012)|(263,041)|
|Net cash from operating<br>activities||||(141,012)|(263,041)|
|Cash flows from invesdng||activities||||
|Payrncnts<br>For the acquisition||ofProperty|||(110,000)|
|Net cash used in investing|activities||||(110,000)|
|Cash flows from financing||sctivilies||||
|Repayments<br>ofborrowings||||(5,000)|(5,000)|
|Net cash used in financing|activities|||(5,000)|(5,000)|
|Net decrease in cash and <br>Cash and cash equivalents|cash equivalents<br>at beginning||ofyear|(146,012)<br>407,103|(378,041)<br>785,144|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at end ofyear||261,091|407,103|





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|Donations||||||
|Donations|||82,452||82/52|
|GiR Aid|||17,748||17,748|
|Donated facilities|and services+||236,947||236,947|
|Grants||||||
|The Aurum<br>Charitable||Trust|35,000||35,000|
|Connected Voice||||3,350|3,350|
|Community<br>Foundation||||8,250|8,250|
|Curtin PARP||||6,980|6,980|
|Garfield Weston Foundation||||30,000|30,000|
|The National<br>Lottery||||5,500|5,500|
|The Newby Trust||||10,000|10,000|
|Newcastle<br>City Council||||16,000|16,000|
|The North East Law Centre||||12,000|12,000|
|The Paul Hamlyn|Foundation|||44,000|44,000|
|Porticus||||33,333|33,333|
|Respond<br>tk Adapt||||47,041|47,041|
|Tuixen Foundation|||35,000||35,000|
|Virgin Foundation||||3,000|3,000|
|Virgin Money Foundation|||15,000||15,000|
|Other||||3,000|3,000|
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|Donations,<br>legacies and||Grants frnsfrsaea|||||
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||||Funds|Funds|2022|
|Donations|||||||
|Donations||||76,314||76,314|
|GiR Aid||||2,969||2,969|
|Donated facilities and|services-|||248,998||248,998|
|Grants|||||||
|AB Charitable<br>Trust|||||25,000|25,000|
|Community<br>Foundation||County Durham|||6,809|6,809|
|Community<br>Foundation||for|Tyne &Wear and||1,000|1,000|
|Northurnberland|||||||
|Connected Voice|||||5,000|5,000|
|ESOL for integration|Fund»||||197,223|197,223|
|Leslie Aldridge Trusts|||||73,646|73,646|
|Lloyds Bank Foundation||for|England tt Wales||38,441|38,441|
|Newcastle<br>Fund|||||16,891|16,891|
|Newcastle<br>City Council|||||5,609|5,609|
|Opencast Charitable|||||1,500|1,500|
|The Paul Hamlyn<br>Foundation|||||40,000|40,000|
|Pea Green Boat Community|||First Fund||10,000|10,000|
|Porticus|||||33,333|33,333|
|Refugee Action|||||11,125|11,125|
|Respond a Adapt|||||15,000|15,000|
|Tuixen Foundation||||15,000||15,000|
|Virgin Money Foundation||||15,000||15,000|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Funds<br>f|Funds<br>f|2023<br>f|
|Language||35,000||35,000|
|Accommodation|Services|212,740|299,805|512&545|
|Digital inclusion||18,760||18,760|
|InterAction||45,972||45,972|
|||312,472|299,805|612,277|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||Funds<br>f|Funds<br>f|2022<br>f|
|Language||35,000||35,000|
|Accommodation|Services|174,804|249,337|424,141|
|Digital Inclusion||50,000||50,000|
|InterAction||15,639||15,639|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Funds<br>f|Funds<br>f|2023<br>f|
|Wages and|salaries|86,882||86,882|
|Employer's<br>NIC<br>Pension costs||7,976<br>3,251||7,976<br>3,251|
|Fundraising|costs|3,540||3440|
|||101,649||101,649|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||Funds|Funds|2022|
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|Wages and|salaries|83,001||83,001|
|Employer's<br>NIC<br>Pension costs<br>Fundraising<br>costs||7,620<br>3,105<br>3,453||7,620<br>3,105<br>3,453|
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|||Funds|Funds|2023<br>f|
|Language||155,557|128,008|283,565|
|Accommodation<br>InterAction|Services|365,730<br>116,630|335,290<br>90,881|701,020<br>207,511|
|Digital Inclusion||9,777|14,796|24,573|
|Data Pmjcct||2,012|90,512|92542|
|COVID-response|||||
|Support costs||69,074||69&074|
|||718,780|659,487|I878,267|
|||Unresuicted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||Funds<br>f|Funds|2022<br>f|
|Language||234,054|279,042|513,096|
|Accommodation|Services|373,576|365,906|739,482|
|InterActi on||35,902|55,787|91,689|
|Digital Inclusion||38,344|4,062|42.406|
|Data Project||18,232|22,578|40,810|
|COVID-response|||30,644|30,644|
|Supportcosts||86,804||86,804|
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|Language|||283,565|16,044|299,609|531,565|
|Accommodation||Services|701,020|32,649|733,669|778,111|
|InterAction|||207,511|7,131|214,642|97,233|
|Digital Inclusion|||24,573|3,565|28,138|48,320|
|Data Project|||92,524|1,783|94,307|43,625|
|COVID-response||||||30,644|
|Governance|costs|||7,902|7,902|15,433|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Services|||project|Inclusion|2023|2022|
|||||f|f.|f.||f||f||
|Premises||||2,862|5,513|1272||318|636|10,601|13,475|
|General oilice||||6, 157|11,378|2,737||684|1,368|22,324|19,120|
|Governance|costs|||735|1,415|326||82|163|2,721|12,950|
|Conferences|&|||1,935|3,727||860|215|430|7,167|11,585|
|training||||||||||||
|Legal &professional||||3,256|6,271|1,447||125|724|11,823|15,843|
|fees||||||||||||
|Travel||||74|142||33|8|16|273|340|
|Marketing &||||2,848|5,485|1,266||316|633|10,548|10,174|
|Pundraising||||||||||||
|Bank charges||||310|596||138|36|69|1,149|1,369|
|Misc expenses||||718||||||718|199|
|Loan interest|||||1,750|||||1,750|1,750|
|||||18,895|36,277|8,079||1,784|4,039|69,074|86,804|
|2.<br>Auditor's||remuneration||||||||||
||||||||||2023|2022||
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|Audit ofthe financial statements|||||||||1,600|1,310||
|Other accounting||||services|||||1,000|1,000||
|Total auditor's|||remuneration||||||2,600|2,310||



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|Social security costs||64,177|59,931|
|Employer contributions|to pension pleas|45326|47,115|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|Cost|||||
|As at|1 April 2022|337,000|16,471|353,471|
|Additions|||||
|Asat|31March 2023|337,000|16,471|353471|
|Depreciation|||||
|As at|1 April 2022||11,221|)1221|
|Charged in the year|||1'408|1408|
|As at|31March 2023||12,629|12,629|
|Carrying amount|||||
|As at|31 March 2023|337000|3 42|340,842|
|As at|31 March 2022|337,000|5350|342,250|





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||Trade debtors||||22,542|46,391|
||Prepayments|and accrued income|||12,680|11,487|
||Other debtors||||19,050|21,298|
||||||54,272|79,176|
|17.|Creditors: amounts||fsaing due within one year||||
||||||2023|2022|
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||Loans|||||5,000|
||Trade creditors||||2389|1,202|
||Social security and||other taxes|||I6,270|
||Other creditors<br>Accruals and deferred|||income|4,101<br>57,699|12,122<br>48,145|
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|||At|I April 2022|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|31|March 2023|
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|Restricted funds|||At|||||At|
||||I April 2022<br>f|Income|Expenditure<br>6|Transfers|31|March 2023|
|Language|||II9,167|43,437|(128,008)|||34,596|
|Accommodation|Services||15,511|331,975|(335,290)|||12,196|
|InterAction|||33,020|97,567|(90,881)|||39,706|
|Digital Inclusion|||14,796||(14,796)||||
|Data Project|||57,422|49,280|(90,512)|||16,190|
|COVID-response|||||||||
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|Accommodation|Services||101,660|368,924|(365,906)|(89,167)||15,511|
|InterAcbon|||15,187|78,767|(55,787)|(5,147)||33,020|
|Digital Inclusion|||18,858||(4,062)|||14,796|
|Data Project||||40,000|(22,578)|40,000||57,422|
|COVID-response|||30,645||(30,645)||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Tangible hxed assets|||340,842||340,842|342,250|
|Current assets|||2I2,675|102,688|315s363|486,779|
|Creditors less than|I|year|(64,189)||(64,189)|(82,739)|
|Creditors greater than||I year|(80,354)||(80,354)|(78,604)|
|Net assets|||408,974|I02,688|511,662|667,186|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|City|Church|Newcastle|45,260||49,360|||
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