# **REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 07229248 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1135666**
Strategic Report, Report of the Trustees and Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 April 2022 for
Voice of the Child
Voice of the Child for the Year
## Strategic Report
For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
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|---|---|
|Strategic Report|1-2|
|Report of the Trustees and Statement of Responsibilities|3 - 9|
|Independent Examiners Report|10|
|Statement of Financial Activities|11|
|Balance Sheet
|12-13|
|Statement of Cash Flows & Notes to the Financial Statements|14-21|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities
|22-23|
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Voice of the Child
Strategic Report For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
The trustees present their strategic report for the year ended 30 April 2022.
The yearend of 30[th] April 2022 has been an incredibly challenging transition from the impact of the covid19 to some kind of normality in the operations of the charity. As a Child Contact Centre set-up to provide primary services for separating families for the purposes of promoting child well being and outcome balancing the risks of disruptions and the charity’s financial capacity to operate has been difficult.
A huge number of contact centres have closed because of the financial impact of the pandemic despite a rise in the demand for contact services associated with the increase rate of domestic violence, marital tensions and relationship breakdowns during this period. Hence, with the governmental easing off the Covid 19 restrictions, our charity has experienced a record-breaking increase in referrals associated to relationships that ended during the pandemic, including families coming from further afield over a 75-mile radius. This has meant that with no government funding and limited grant and community financial support, we have struggled with staffing to meet the increase in demand which currently stands at a backlog of over 50 family referrals awaiting contact. Most of these families have been waiting for an average of approximately eight months.
We have continued to work creatively to keep the contact centre open albeit the pressure and demands with a small team of part time and fulltime workers, a couple of volunteers and trainee social workers on university placements. As a Nationally Accredited Child Contact Centre, we continue to work in collaboration with the National Association for Child Contact Centres (NACCC) guidelines, to maintain the highest levels of safety for all.
We have also considered making our services more accessible after working hours to reduce the backlog and ensure that working parents and their children can meet after hours. However, proposed opening times do not fall within the remit of our current rental contract. In addition, the current rental contract affords the organisation only one month notice to vacate the premises when required which poses some uncertainties if the landlords seek to recover their property. Thus, there is pressure to proactively look for an alternative business premises with less restrictions and a longer notice period to terminate the business premises rent contract.
Moving forward, we are challenged to explore fundraising and governmental funding support options to ensure we are proactively equipping our team to work through the backlog to deliver crucial services to vulnerable children and families and to achieve long-term sustainability.
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## Strategic Report
For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
_“The needs of children are the heart of all our work”_
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 16/01/2023 and signed on its behalf by:
Phoenix-Rises Tabot-Ojong
Trustee & Director of Services
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Voice of the Child
Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 30 April 2022
The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 April 2022. The trustees have adopted the provisions of FRS 102 Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ (effective 1[st] January 2015).
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Registered Company number**
07229248 (England and Wales)
## **Registered Charity number**
1135666
## **Registered office**
Unit 8, Beacon Tree Plaza Gillette Way Reading RG2 0BS
## **Trustees**
K Palmer- resigned on 31 March 2022 A Fomuso J Ebai Phoenix-Rise Tabot Ojong
## **Independent examiner**
Chris Sellars FCA
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.
Voice of the Child was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee on 20th April 2010 and registered as a charity on 26th April 2010. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association, which established the objects and powers of the Charitable Company and is governed by its Articles of Association.
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Voice of the Child
Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
The recruitment and retention of trustees is an ongoing process for Voice of the Child. The role is voluntary; however, it requires commitment and dedication, which makes it increasingly difficult to recruit trustees who are likely to be fully committed to their roles. The recruitment and selection process are robust enough to ensure that new trustees fully understand and commit to the responsibility assigned to them. We continue to advertise and accept applications from potential trustees with varied skills.
We also wish to acknowledge the valuable contribution made by our some very committed team of volunteers towards our work.
## **Induction and training of new trustees**
Induction of new Trustees is undertaken in a structured manner, following an initial period when potential Board members are invited to attend as guests to gain an introduction to the charity and meet other Board members. The Executive and Chairman manage the induction; training and briefings for Trustees on matters concerning the strategic, legal, and operational aspects of the charity are arranged from time to time, with inputs from external consultants as well as from the senior staff of the charity.
A skills analysis conducted on the Board informs the Trustees of specific skills and other characteristics and qualities that are needed to enhance its composition, bearing this in mind, new Trustees are currently recruited through personal and professional networks and to date these methods have been successful, although we have found that quite a few suitable. Candidates who have been approached have declined due to having too many existing commitments. Trustees are elected for three years with a third of the Board due for re-election each year.
The Board takes responsibility for all policy decisions. The minutes of Board meetings constitute the formal record of proceedings and decisions taken and approved by the Directors.
The day-to-day operations of the charity are delegated to the Managing Director, who works in close collaboration with the members of the Board of Directors, drawing upon their expertise as appropriate.
## **Organisational structure**
Voice of the Child is directed by a Board of Directors, who are known as Trustees for the purposes of charity law and throughout this report are collectively referred to as the Trustees. The Trustees are professional people drawn from various other professional sectors and appointed at the Charity's annual general meeting or formal quarterly board meetings. Their time is given voluntarily. Meetings are held quarterly, and business is conducted largely by discussion and consensus in formal meetings.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Risk management**
The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
The trustees consider the major risks to which the charity is exposed when updating its strategic plans. These include internal and external risks that, if occurring, would be likely to affect finance and resources, staffing and other aspects of the work of the charity.
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## Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 30 April 2022
The trustees are satisfied that procedures and systems are in place to monitor and control these risks, to mitigate any impact that they may have on the charity in its future operations.
The Board of Trustees held the last formal review of Voice of the Child's major risks and its contingencies and monitoring and control systems on the 15th of January 2015.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and Aims**
The Mission of Voice of the Child, which is built upon our statutory object’s clause, is:
"The promotion of good health, advancement of education and relief of poverty of children and their families, in particular but not exclusively amongst black and minority ethnic communities, by providing a community-based family support facility".
The objects of the charity may be summarised as follows:
To empower and strengthen families so they can maximise their parenting capacity, maintain positive family relationships and to improve outcomes for children and young people.
To increase the availability and accessibility of specialist resources for improve life opportunities for children and young people with special needs.
To raise awareness of the complex needs of Black and Minority Ethnic.
To support children, young people and family members through the promotion and use of culturally appropriate and sensitive resources.
To work proactively in partnership with children, young people, families and relevant organisations to raise awareness and to promote positive outcomes for children and young people.
## **Significant activities**
Child Contact Services:
Providing a safe, comfortable, secure, and supported environment where children of separated families (involved in child protection/childcare proceedings) can enjoy private quality time with significant family members a relaxed, comfortable, safe and supervised environment. It is essential for every child to have the opportunity to develop and maintain links with significant family members for long-term psychological and emotional wellbeing.
One to one support: Providing emotional support to families in need.
Advocacy: Supporting children and young people in need to have their views, wishes and feelings represented at professional meetings, to improve outcomes
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## Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## **Public benefit**
The constraints of funding continue to limit the services we provide to the residents of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and the surrounding counties although like in the previous year, we have continued to see an increase in the demand for our Family Empowerment Hub and Child Contact Services from further afield from Local Authorities, solicitors and courts beyond the South East, e.g. Wales, Swindon, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, London etc
Approximately 789 people (including Children & family members). Individuals who benefited from our services this year range from 0 - 55 years of age of which 96% are under 18 years old, albeit their parents being the main recipients of support in some cases to improve outcomes for children.
We received approximately 2799 enquiries for our services, 2595 of which related to Contacts, approximately 50% of those progressed and resulted in a total of 2950 contact sessions of which 94% were supervised contacts, 06% supported contacts.
We currently have a long waiting list of approximately 50 families waiting to use our child supervised and supported contact services.
Our ambition is to reach out to 4000 families in need in the next few years to help improve outcomes for children and young people.
In planning our projects and activities the trustees of Voice of the Child have complied with their duty in section 4 of the 2006 Charities Act to have due regard to guidance published by the Charity Commission.
## **ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE**
## **Charitable activities**
We have continued proactively respond to some the challenges and opportunities that have presented to us to this year, ensuring that our reputation grows beyond the South East and our services are accessible nationally. Voice of the Child - remains the only NACCC (National Association of Child Contact Centres) accredited contact centre offering both Supervised and Supported contact services weekdays / weekend within a 75 miles radius. This means we have a strategic position in the marketplace and there has been more opportunities to develop our brand and partnerships this year. We have grown our partnership network by a further 25% this year. This includes County Courts, Local authorities and solicitors beyond the South East who refer to clients to our services.
Unfortunately, 95% of our referrals do not come with a financial support package, hence the families are expected to pay a subsidised rate for services, and this is unaffordable for most families. This has presented some challenges for us to creatively find cost effective options to boost our resources to ensure that our services are accessible to families in need.
**Social Works Training and Practice:** Through University partnerships, we were able to offer a work-based 100 days or 70 days placement to one undergraduate social Work Student this year. This helped us to reach out to more families.
**Staffing:** We successfully recruited three Family Centre Support workers, including a Coordinator. We continue to use sessional, and contractors where required to bridge any gaps.
Voice of the Child has renewed its membership and accreditation with the National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC) during this accounting period.
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## Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 30 April 2022
that Voice of the Child has achieved all the elements required for a child contact centre offering supervised contact and is an accredited member no. 1265/5 of the National Association of Child Contact.
Consequently, the centre has become more recognised as the only Centre within a 75 miles radius and the demand of our services continues to grow, thus putting pressure on our capacity to develop and sustain growth.
Summary of our achievements based on individual projects:
## **ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE**
## **Fundraising activities**
Donation / Collection:
We are privileged to consistently receive a donation in kind of a value of approximately £43,000.00 per annum from Centric Community Projects to cover the cost of out rents. We would like to express our profound gratitude for their generosity. Not with standing, the conditions of offer raise significant anxieties for us; we are expected to vacate the property within a one-month notice period and operation hours have been reduced by 3hours (6pm close instead of 9pm). By implication, it is incredibly difficult to accommodate all school aged families who typically have contact after school / work hours during weekdays. Equally, there is a potential risk of disruption to delivery of our unique services to children and families should the contract end abruptly. We are under enormous pressure to proactively seek appropriate funding support to help us secure a more appropriate venue that allows us to operate with certainty, stability and flexibility in response to the diverse needs of vulnerable families.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Reserves policy**
It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted funds, which are the free reserves of the charity, at a level that equates to at least three months unrestricted expenditure. This provides sufficient funds to cover management, administration, and support costs, and to respond to urgent requests from overseas that may arise from time to time.
## **Financial Review**
There is an increase in income £193,117 (£148,807 in 2020/21).
Total charitable expenditure has increased to £204,906 (£182,211 in 2020/21). However, the pandemic posed further complexities for our work in terms of additional resources required to manage just a limited number of family in the centre at a given time. A bounce back loan was secured to manage staffing and organisational cost during the Covid 19 pandemic and transition to normality. The overall result is that there was a loss of £11,789 for the year.
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## **FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS**
We continue to grow our reputation as a key player in the provision of supervised contact and family support services. Our priority for the following year is to secure the funding required for us to relocate to a more permanent and easily accessible building, given that our current tenancy is not guaranteed with only
One month’s notice period and operation hours are significantly restricted. Core funding is required to sustain the organisation core staff / expenses and project funding required to make our services more accessible to families in desperate need.
## **CONSTRAINTS AND STRATEGY**
As previously highlighted, a huge number of contact centres have closed because of the financial impact of the pandemic. The charity is experiencing a record-breaking increase in referrals associated to relationships that ended during the pandemic and including families coming from further afield over a 75-mile radius. This has meant that with no government funding and limited grant and community financial support, we have struggled with staffing to meet the increase in demand which currently stands at a backlog of over 50 family referrals awaiting contact. Most of these families have been waiting for an average of approximately eight months.
Covid19 pandemic has added a layer of complexity to our work, with a huge impact staffing. The pressure posed also resulted in core staff leaving and a quick turnaround in staffing. A lack of governmental support or adequate funding has continued to threaten the organisation’s survival. Therefore, with limited funding and staffing it has become increasingly difficult to move forward with core fundraising activities required to move the organisation forward. We hope to continue to work creatively to break this cycle to explore and ensure appropriate governmental support and other available funding
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 16/01/2023 and signed on its behalf by:
Phoenix-Rises Tabot-Ojong
Trustee & Director of Services
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## Statement of Financial Activities
For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## **STATEMENT OF TRUST RESPONSIBILITIES**
The trustees (who are also the directors Voice of the Child for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards FRS 102 Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ (effective 1[st] January 2015).
.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to
- Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently.
- Observe the methods and principles of the Charity SORP.
- Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with the reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for the safeguarding assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Trustees’ report incorporating a strategic report, approved by order of the board of trustees, as the company directors, on 16/01/23 and signed on the board’s behalf by:
Phoenix-Rises Tabot-Ojong
Trustee & Director of Services
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## Independent Examiners Report For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
I report on the accounts for the year ended 30 April 2022 set out on pages 11-23.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity's trustees (who are also the directors for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act)) and that an independent examination is required.
Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under Section 145 of the 2011 Act
- to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under Section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act); and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## Basis of the independent examiner's report
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view ' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statements below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect, the requirements
- to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of Sections 394 and 395 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities
have not been met; or
- (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Chris Sellars FCA-16.01.2023
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## Statement of Financial Activities
For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
Date:
|||30.04.22|30.04.21|
|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted|Total|
|||funds|funds|
||Notes|£|£|
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**||||
|**Income from charitable activities**||||
|Donations|2|43,000|
44,000|
|Grants||19,432|46,787|
|Child Contact Services & Family Support||130,685|58,020|
|||_______|______|
|**Total Income and Endowments**||**193,117**|**148,807**|
|**EXPENDITURE ON**||||
|**Costs of generating funds**||||
|Costs of generating voluntary income|3|13,720|13,150|
|**Charitable activities**|4|||
|Administrative Staff||108,498|114,434|
|Premises cost||44,621|44,508|
|Child Contact Services &Family Support||38,067|10,120|
|**Governance costs**|**6**|-|-|
|||_______|______|
|**Total expenditure**||**204,906**|**182,211**|
|||_______|______|
|**NET INCOMING/ (OUTGOING) RESOURCES**||(11,789)|(33,404)|
|**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total**||||
|**Funds brought forward**||(74,110)|(40,706)|
|||_______|______|
|**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**||(85,899)|(74,110)|
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## Balance Sheet
For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
|Notes
**FIXED ASSETS**
£
Tangible assets
10
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors: amounts falling due within one
year
11
Cash at bank and in hand
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
12
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due after more than one
year
13
**NET ASSETS/(LIABILITIES)**
**FUNDS**
14
Unrestricted funds:
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**
|30.04.22
Unrestricted
funds
£
1,383
-
19,896
19,896
(40,235)
(20,339)
(18,956)
(66,943)
(85,899)
(85,899)
(85,899)|30.04.21
Total
Funds
£
667
-
20,737
20,737
(27,911)
(7,174)
(6,507)
(67,603)
(74,110)
(74,110)
(74,110)|
|---|---|---|
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## Balance Sheet
For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 30 April 2022.
The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 30 April 2022 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for
- (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
- (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small charitable companies and with the FRS 102 Statement of Recommended Practice.
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 16/01/2023 and were signed on its behalf by:
Phoenix-Rises Tabot-Ojong
Trustee & Director of Services
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Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## Table 1: Statement of cash flows
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Total Prior
Funds year Note
funds
£ £
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities (840) 17,123 (Table 2
below)
Cash flows from investing activities:
- -
Dividends, interest, and rents from investments
- -
Proceeds from the sale of property, plant and equipment
- -
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
- -
Proceeds from sale of investments
Purchase of investments - -
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (840) 17,123
Cash flows from financing activities:
Repayments of borrowing - -
- -
Cash inflows from new borrowing
- -
Receipt of endowment
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities - -
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting (840) 17,123
period
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the 20736 3,613 (Table 2
reporting period below)
- -
Change in cash and cash equivalents due to exchange
rate movements
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting 19,896 20,736 (Table 2
period below)
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Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
Table 2: Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities
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Current Prior
Year Year
£ £
Net movement in funds for the reporting period (as per (11,789) (26,559)
the statement of financial activities)
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charges 524 450
- -
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
-
Loss/(profit) on the sale of fixed assets
(1,240)
- -
(Increase)/decrease in stocks
- -
(Increase)/decrease in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors 11,665 10,935
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities (840) (15,490)
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Table 3: Analysis of cash and cash equivalents
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Current Prior
Year Year
£ £
Cash in hand 19,896 20,736
- -
Notice deposits (less than 30 days)
- -
Overdraft facility repayable on demand
Total cash and cash equivalents 19,896 20,736
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Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The accounts (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 (FRS102) and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.
## **Accounting convention**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, and in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and Reporting by Charities.
The financial statements are prepared, on a going concern basis, under the historical cost convention
## **Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included on the Statement of Financial Activities when the charity is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.
## **Resources expended**
Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to headings, they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
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Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
|**2.**
**VOLUNTARY INCOME**
Donations
Rent donated in the year was £43,000.
**4. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS**
Administrative staff
Premises costs
Child Contact Services & Family Support
**5. COSTS**
Cost of generating voluntary income
Administrative staff
Premises costs
Child Contact Services & Family Support
**3.**
**COSTS OF GENERATING VOLUNTARY INCOME**
Support costs|30.04.22
Unrestricted
funds
£
43,000
Direct Costs
Support Costs
£
£
92,178
16,320
-
44,621
38,067
-
130,245 60,941
Finance
Management
£
£
13,720
108,498
-
44,621
38,067 -
38,067 166,839
30.04.22
Unrestricted
funds
£
13,720|30.04.21
Total
funds
£
44,000
Totals
£
108,498
44,621
38,067
191,186
Totals
£
13,720
108,498
44,621
38,067
204,906
30.04.21
Total
funds
£
13,150|
|---|---|---|
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## Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## **SUPPORT COSTS**
|**UPPORT COSTS**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||30.04.22|30.04.21|
||Costs of|Administrative|Premises|Total|Total|
||generating|staff|costs|activities|activities|
||voluntary|||||
||income|||||
||£|£|£|£|£|
|Postage&||179|-|179|869|
|stationery||||||
|Other|10,856|8,834||19,690|20,980|
|administrative||||||
|expenses||||||
|Bank charges|2,864|||2,864|2,313|
|Telephone||2,234||2,234|2,363|
|Insurance & Rent|||44,621|44,621|44,508|
|Sundries|-|4,549||4,549|4,007|
|Staff Training||-||-|-|
|Wages& Salaries||92,178||92,178|96,602|
|Depreciation|-|524|-|524|450|
||13,720|108,498|44,621|166,839|172,091|
|||||||
|**.**
**GOVERNANCE COSTS**||||||
|||||30.04.22|30.04.22|
||||||Total|
|||||Unrestricted||
|||||funds|funds|
|||||£|£|
|Independent|examiner's fees|||
1,728|1,728|
## **6. GOVERNANCE COSTS**
## **7. NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES**
Net resources are stated after charging/(crediting):
||30.4.22|30.04.21|
|---|---|---|
||Unrestricted|Total|
||Funds|Funds|
||£|£|
|Depreciation - owned assets|524|450|
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Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## **8. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
One of the trustees received remuneration amounting to £14,530 for the year ended 30 April 2022 (£29,442 for the year ended 30 April 2021).
## **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid neither for the year ended 30 April 2022 nor for the year ended 30 April 2021.
## **9. STAFF COSTS**
|**9.**|**STAFF COSTS**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||30.04.22||30.04.21|
||||||£|£|
||Wages and salaries||||92,178|96,601|
||The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:|||
30.04.22
11||30.04.21
9|
||No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.||||||
|**10.**|**TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS**||||||
|||Plant and|Fixtures and||||
|||Machinery|fittings|||Totals|
|||£||£||£|
||**COST**||||||
||On 1 May 2021 and 30 April 2022|42,226|6,943|||48,169|
||**Additions**|1,240|-|||-|
|||**43,466**|**6,943**|||**50,409**|
||**DEPRECIATION**||||||
||On 1 May 2021|41,560|6,942|||48,502|
||Charge for year|523||1||524|
||On 30 April 2022|42,083|6,943|||49,026|
||**NET BOOK VALUE**||||||
||30 April 2022|1,383||-||1,383|
||On 30 April 2021|667||-||667|
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Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## **11. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
|||30.04.22|30.04.22|30.04.21|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||£|£|
||Other debtors|-||-|
|**12.**|**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN 1 YEAR**||||
|||30.04.22||30.04.21|
||||£
|£|
||Trade Creditors||720|-|
||Other creditors||29,515|19,206|
||Loans|10,000||8,706|
||||40,235|27,912|
Included within Other loans is a COVID bounce back loan of £10,000 (2021: £8,706), which is 100% guaranteed by the government.
## **13. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR**
||||30.04.22|30.04.21|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||£|£|
|Other loans -|1-2|years|66,943|67,603|
Included within Other loans is a COVID bounce back loan of £40,634 (2021: £41,295), which is 100% guaranteed by the government.
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Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 April 2022
## **14. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
|**14. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|||Net Movement||
||At 1.05.21|In Funds|At 30.04.22|
||£|£|£|
|**Unrestricted Funds**||||
|General Fund|(74,110)|(11,789)|(85,899)|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|(74,110)|(11,789)|(85,899)|
|Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:||||
||Income|Resources|Movement in|
||Resources|expended|funds|
||£|£|£|
|**Unrestricted funds**||||
|General fund|193,117|(204,906)|(11,789)|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|193,117|(204,906)|(11,789)|
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## Detailed Statement of Financial Activities
## for the Year Ended 30 April 2022
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities
for the Year Ended 30 April 2022|||
|---|---|---|
||30.04.22|30.04.21|
||Unrestricted funds|Total funds|
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**|£|£|
|Donations|43,000|43,000|
|**Incoming resources from charitable activities**|||
|Child Contact Services & Family Support|130,685|58,020|
|Grants|19,432|46,787|
||_______|______|
|**Total income and endowments**|**193,117**|**148,807**|
|**EXPENDITURE ON**|||
|**Charitable activities**|||
|Wages|92,178|96,600|
|Rent, Rates and Water|43,000|43,000|
|Child Contact Services &Family Support|38,067|10,120|
||_______|______|
||**173,245**|**149,720**|
|**Governance costs**|||
|Independent examiner’s fees|-|-|
|**Support costs Management**|||
|Telephone|2,234|2,363|
|Postage and stationery|179|869|
|Software|1,743|1,615|
|Subscriptions|2,814|3,886|
|Other expenditure|4,549|4,007|
|Marketing|1,150|4,641|
|Accountancy|1,417|2,915|
|Plant, machinery, fixtures and fittings- Depreciation|524|450|
|Entertainment|121|-|
|Staff training and welfare|3,006|-|
|Repairs & Maintenance|3,215|5,698|
|Travel & Subsistence|4,955|6,127|
|Legal & Professional|1,269|(3,903)|
||______|______|
||27,176|28,669|
|**Finance**|||
|Insurance|1,621|1,508|
|Bank charges|2,864|2,313|
||_______|______|
||4,485|3,821|
||_______|______|
|**Total resources expended**|**204,906**|**182,210**|
This does not form part of the statutory financial statements
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## Voice of the Child
## Detailed Statement of Financial Activities
for the Year Ended 30 April 2022
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities
for the Year Ended 30 April 2022|||
|---|---|---|
||30.04.22|30.04.21|
||Unrestricted funds|Total funds|
||£|£|
||_______|______|
|**Net incoming resources/ (outgoing resources)**|(11,789)|(34,404)|
This does not form part of the statutory financial statements
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