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2023-03-31-accounts

National Survivor User Network

A company limited by guarantee

up to 6 June 2023

A Charitable Incorporated

Organisation (CIO) from 6 June

2023

Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st] March 2023

CIO Number 1135980 Company Number 07166851 (up to 6 June 2023)

National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31[st] March 2023

Contents Page
Legal and Administrative Information 1
Trustees’ Annual Report 2–20
Independent Examiner’s Report 21
Statement of Financial Activities 22
Balance Sheet 23
Statement of Cash Flows 24
Notes to the Financial Statements 25–43

National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31[st] March 2023

Reference and Administrative Information

Charity Name: National Survivor User Network CIO Registration Number: 1135980 Company Registration Number: 1032145 (up to 6 June 2023) Registered Address: National Survivor User Network 150 Minories London EC3N 1LS Trustees: The Trustees of the CIO are its Trustees for the purposes of charity law. The Trustees who have served from 1[st] April 2022 up to the date of approval of these financial statements were as follows: Alisdair Cameron Micha Frazer-Carroll from 28[th] February 2023 Angela Newton, Chair Amy Palmer Jonathan Rackham until 15[th] November 2023 Emily Reynolds Rachel Rowan Olive Amy Rushton Aqsa Suleman from 28[th] February 2023 Tasha Suratwala Shuranjeet Takhar CEO : Akiko Hart (until 1[st] June 2023) Interim CEO : Jen Beardsley (from 1[st] June 2023) Independent Examiner: Michael Tourville, Beever and Struthers, 150 Minories, London, EC3N 1LS Principal Bankers: CAF Bank Ltd, 25 Kings Hill Ave, West Malling, ME19 4JQ Solicitors: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, 7 Pilgrim Street, London, EC4V 6LB

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

The Trustees present their report and the examined financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2023. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” in preparing the annual report and financial statements of the charity.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in notes to the financial statements and comply with the charity’s governing document, the Charities Act 2011, and the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their financial statements in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland published in October 2019.

The Charity converted from an incorporated charity to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) on the 6 June 2023. The Charity has opted for the Association model.

The Trustees who have served during the year are listed on page 1.

Objects and activities for the public benefit

The objects of the charity as set out in its governing document are to provide for the public benefit, the promotion of good health and to advance education in particular, but not exclusively, by:

  1. creating a network which will engage and support the wide diversity of mental health service users and survivors across England in order to strengthen the user voice;

  2. facilitating active links between service user groups and individuals;

  3. building capacity for service user groups; and

  4. brokering and facilitating access to service users for purposes of influencing and informing policy-makers and planners.

The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the Charity Commission’s Guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning future activities. The objects are achieved through a variety of activities, including:

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Review of Achievements and performance: How our activities delivered public benefit

National Survivor User Network (NSUN) is an England-wide network of people and groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. It is an infrastructure organisation and sector voice for user-led groups that work to support the mental health of those in their communities, who live on the intersection of multiple, compounding inequalities and marginalisations. NSUN’s aims are to create and strengthen links between individuals and groups; support and promote user-led groups and initiatives; and influence and inform policy and decision makers. All NSUN staff and Trustees have lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma which may include racial trauma.

2022/2023 Activities:

As stated in the 2021/22 Trustees’ Annual Report, NSUN’s aims for 2022/23 were to:

These aims were achieved as follows.

NSUN’s Theory of Change (https://www.nsun.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/) was launched in June 2022, and was praised by members and stakeholders for its clarity and ambition. The Annual Report is structured around its four themes: Knowledge, Collaboration, Voice and Resourcing.

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Knowledge

Building, amplifying and distributing the knowledge that is held by people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma

NSUN builds, amplifies and distributes the knowledge that is held by people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma, by platforming members’ voices in a variety of ways – through the weekly bulletin, blogs and articles, supporting members’ research, and sharing members’ work and voices in a variety of contexts.

In 2022 –2023, NSUN published twenty-three pieces from members, including book reviews, research articles, podcasts and opinion pieces. The communications team now have relationships with publishers who send over advance review copies of relevant books to share with members who wish to write reviews, for example Leila’s review of The Muslim, State and Mind . Some members have contributed interventions into debates around psychiatry, mental health, and the nature of community and solidarity – debates which are central to NSUN’s work, for instance, Heather Cobb’s “Beyond serotonin, I’ll see you there” or Harry Josephine Giles’ “Transitioning Out of Psychiatry”. Other members’ blogs consider the practices, policies and working conditions within the academic, healthcare and voluntary-sector spheres of the mental health world, such as Sohail Jannesari’s “Participatory research in mental health and migration”, Kadra Abdinasir and António Ferreira’s podcast “Lived experience work: anti-racism and mental health” and “Unionisation options for lived experience workers” by Mike McKeown.

These member publications and other relevant news, articles and opportunities are showcased in NSUN’s weekly bulletin to members. In the 2022 membership survey, the bulletin was the most common theme raised in feedback, with respondents emphasising its ability to bring the community together and act as a cohesive space to access relevant news and opportunities in the user-led and radical mental health thinking field. More than half of respondents (59%) had connected with other user-led groups, events, projects, or involvement opportunities as a result of NSUN’s communications and resources. One member shared: “Reading the resources that I have found on the NSUN bulletin has transformed my understanding of my own lived experience of distress from one of isolation and rejection to one of belonging to a political and social movement.”

Following the recommendations of NSUN’s Lived Experience Leadership 2021 report, Mind commissioned NSUN to explore how Mind and partners can support and resource lived experience leaders through lived experience hubs. This piece of work scoped the need and purpose of lived experience hubs, and Mind’s role in developing them.

NSUN is also collaborating with Mental Elf to commission a series of research blogs written by people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma. The blogs, to be published in 2023, will summarise and respond to recently published mental health research and will explore what that research means from the perspective of someone with lived experience.

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Collaboration

Creating collaborative spaces with members and partners through coalitions and networks to build momentum and sustainability for the work; building nurturing conditions within mental health work that prioritise care

NSUN creates collaborative spaces with members and partners through coalitions and networks to build momentum and sustainability for the work.

In 22–23, NSUN has thought deeply about how to communicate and collaborate. NSUN is a remote organisation and has recently focused on online events, which still make up an important part of the membership offer. For instance, the 2022 Members’ Event attracted 109 attendees for a day of online panel discussions, workshops and connection. Panels and workshops included ‘Telling the story of survivor history and activism’, ‘Re-imagining safety’, and ‘Mental health in a hostile environment’. Recordings and transcripts, as well as an online creative exhibition with contributions from the membership, have been collated on a dedicated website: https://nsunmembersevent2022.com/

After attending the 2022 Member’s Event, feedback included:

“I am already feeling the benefit of hearing all the nuanced views and lived experiences of the participants. Things I'd not thought of. This is what sharing lived experience is all about!.”

“It's just so nice to be in a room with like-minded people, where conversations about marginalisation, power imbalance and the inherently abusive structures we tend to work within are just accepted as truth and don't feel like radical things to say.”

However, in 22/23, NSUN also engaged in more face-to-face work than in previous years during the pandemic. The 2022 AGM was hosted in person in February. The membership voted to convert NSUN to a CIO, which was completed on the 6[th] June 2023. In summer 2023, a new membership offer will be developed and launched.

Face-to-face work also focused on specific localities. Through the Community Constellations programme, NSUN has developed strong relationships with Women of Colour-led groups in Yorkshire & the North East, including:

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Diversifying how NSUN collaborates has helped the organisation understand how digital exclusion, poverty and local contexts impact members’ engagement with NSUN, and has given the team insights into how to navigate these barriers.

NSUN’s collaborative work also includes hosting two grassroots collectives and networks, North East together and misery, acting as a fiscal host for UFFC, and awarding a subgrant to the 2027 Community Power Project.

North East together

In 2022 for the first time North East together carried out a series of focus groups for the new NHS ICS (Integrated Care System), looking at how best NHS 111 and Crisis Services can best respond to support people in a time of crisis. Groups were held in North Tyneside, Gateshead, Durham, and Middlesbrough.

North East together were also asked by The Northern Clinical Network to carry out further focus groups to look at mental health and inequalities, particularly on the Cost of Living Crisis and its impact on peoples’ mental health. This work was launched with a workshop at the 2023 AGM at Gateshead Clubhouse. Other focus groups were held in North Tyneside and Middlesbrough in March, with further groups to be held in the next financial year.

North East together also supported various research groups across the region on a variety of subjects including the impact of using Making Every Contact Count to support people in secure hospital wards to manage their weight better, how to improve the support for people with a mental health condition who want to stop smoking, and how to encourage people with mental health conditions to take up cancer screenings when invited to attend.

Looking forward to the coming year, North East together is delighted that, with assistance from NSUN, they have been awarded a grant from National Mind to support their work and plan to use this to increase their reach and membership across the region.

misery

Over 2022/2023, misery was a hosted project benefiting from the container of NSUN's policies, legal structure and accounts. Over the year misery successfully delivered their monthly ‘misery medicine: plant magic’ programme that saw hundreds of queer, trans, intersex, Black, people of colour (QTIBPOC) visiting, connecting, and learning about different green spaces in London and foraging for herbal remedies found there. misery also partnered with various mental health, arts, and social justice organisations and projects to deliver additional projects, including Brent Biennial, the Science Museum and Land In Our Names. In addition, misery hosted a summer sober rave at the Yard in Hackney Wick and participated in other LGBTQ music and nightlife events such as Body Movements Festival. Alongside securing their biggest grant to date (£25k) from The National Lottery Community Fund via LGBT Consortium LGBTQ+ Futures: Equity Fund, misery was also awarded a Marsh Award for Mental Health Peer Support by Mind, in particular for their contributions and innovation in creativity in peer support.

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2027 Community Power Project

In 2022/23, a sub grant was awarded to the Centre for Knowledge and Equity for the delivery of the 2027 Community Power Project, which focused on embedding lived experience within decisionmaking roles in critical local and regional institutions including NHS trusts. The goal of this research was to help map and understand the current system dynamics, blockers, opportunities and examples of good practice, as well as to identify potential partners. The data has been collected and analysed, and recommendations are being put into place.

UFFC

The United Friends and Families Campaign (UFFC) is a coalition of those affected by deaths in police, prison and psychiatric custody, and supports others in similar situations. Established in 1997 initially as a network of Black families, over recent years the group has expanded and now includes the families and friends of people from varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds. NSUN is acting as fiscal host for UFFC in order for them to access a grant of £80,000 from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

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Voice

Building an alternative approach to mental health policy work, challenging traditional silos, unjust hierarchies of evidence, and harmful demands for data and visibility. This comes at a time where the external environment is one of hostile and unjust structures, systems and legislation.

NSUN’s policy work is funded by Trust for London to take a social determinants approach to mental health, looking at poverty and precarity, and its impact on mental health. A further grant was secured from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to focus on mental health and migrant justice policy work.

This work has included

NSUN’s work on the Mental Health Act has included the following:

Coalitionary and partnership work has included membership of the Keep the Lifeline campaign on the Cost of Living Crisis, work with the Disability Benefits Consortium on legacy benefits, managed migration and further disability specific issues, and membership of the DPO Forum which includes work on disability poverty and advocacy.

NSUN has also worked on Liberty’s Safer Communities Project, a collaborative project and publication on young people and ‘serious youth violence’ for which NSUN is contributing a chapter on mental health, to be published in May 2023.

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

Single Sex Spaces

NSUN published a report, Single Sex Spaces (https://www.nsun.org.uk/resource/single-sex-spaces2023/), which explored the discrimination and harm that trans and non-binary service users experience in mental health care settings. The report is based on desk-based research and a survey and was led by a trans and non-binary researcher. It sets out recommendations for policy and practice that may help to ensure the needs of trans and non-binary service users are not undermined or neglected. The report was widely circulated and praised by LGBTQ and mental health civil society stakeholders.

Resourcing

Working with funders, and acting as a microfunder to redistribute resources to grassroots user-led groups and establish better practice

Sustaining Spaces Fund

The Sustaining Spaces Fund awarded twenty-seven small grants of between £500 and £1000, totalling £25,180, to groups facilitating community spaces where people with shared identities and experiences come together in support of one another’s wellbeing. The Fund was open to peer support, mutual aid or self-help groups, but was not limited to groups defining themselves in this way. It funded groups who were led “by and for” members of communities.

The Fund prioritised applications from:

This fund was supported by Mind’s PeerFest programme.

Training Opportunities

NSUN also supported grassroots user-led groups to access resources like funding, training, connection and support for development, so that their unique work can thrive and be sustainable. For example, in 2022 NSUN commissioned a trans awareness training session from Gendered Intelligence which twenty-one members attended. Based on the positive feedback, NSUN is commissioning further training for groups including around governance and community organising.

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Influencing Funders

NSUN’s resourcing work also involves sharing learning with other organisations to create sector-wide change. In December 23, NSUN published Funding Grassroots Mental Health Work: https://www.nsun.org.uk/resource/funding-grassroots-mental-health-work/. The report is based on a survey of 137 grassroots user-led mental health groups regarding their funding experiences. These small and often-overlooked groups do vital and urgent work to support the mental health and wellbeing of their communities in many different ways, with limited capacity and resources.

Key findings included:

The report included some action points for funders, including:

In February 2023, NSUN presented the findings to a National Lottery Community Fund learning session to explore how funding officers who are on the frontlines of grantmaking can make their funding offer work better for groups doing grassroots mental health work. One attendee described the session as “really helpful in framing how smaller grassroots orgs [. . .] stop people reaching the point of crisis further down the line. I'll remember this and will take it away in my work and in the conversations that I have both internally and externally.”

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Synergi

NSUN secured a three year grant from Lankelly Chase to host Synergi, a complex and ambitious programme of work focusing on the intersection of racial justice and mental health, from April 2022. Synergi works with grassroots groups and community organisers, and connects, amplifies, celebrates and resources this work.

In 2022/23, Synergi ran a small grants programme, which awarded thirty-seven grants of £3000 (total: £111,000) to groups led by Black people and people of colour with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma, to take action on mental health and racial justice. The grants programme was open for a month and received 307 applications. Work funded included collective care, campaigning, and change-making. The priority areas included:

Following on from this grants programme, Synergi will deliver the following workstreams over the next two years:

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Key aims for 2023/24 include:

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

Financial review

Income for the year ended 31[st] March 2022 totalled £864,417 (2021: £508,168) and increased by £356,249 from the previous year. The largest area of increase was seen in Grants and Donation which rose by £397,469 when compared with the previous year. The area which saw the greatest increase was grant income, which rose by £454,805, driven by the receipt of the first installment of a large three year grant from Lankelly Chase towards the work of Synergi with income of £445,532 in this financial year.

NSUN’s principal source of funds during 2022–23 was income from grants and totalled £773,320 (2022: 318,515) and comprises 89% of income (2022: 63%). The previous year saw an unusually low percentage income from this source driven by unusually high one-off donation income associated with the 2027 Project.

Expenditure totalled £704,954 (2021: £487,558) for the year ended 31[st] March 2023, an increase of £217,299 when compared with the previous year. This rise was driven, in the main, by costs associated with the first year of the Synergi porgramme of work, which rose by £214,396 with expenditure in 2021/22 having represented the scoping phase of the project only. Costs associated with Collaboration fell by £89,546 with 2021/22 having seen costs of £69,903 associated with the 2027 project which weren’t repeated in the 2022/23 financial year, a fall in costs associated with our Membership and Community Constellation work of £17,196 and £29,483 respectively driven by a fall in support costs. These falls were offset by new expenditure associated with misery of £42,646, which started its hosting arrangement with NSUN during 2022/23. Costs associated with Voice increased by £27,194 with the start of our JRCT funded work and the employment of our new Migration and Rights Assistant. Total costs associated with staff across NSUN have increased by £177,652 to £367,978 (2022:£190,326) due to the expansion of the team from an average full time equivalent of 7.9 from 4.9 in the 2021/22.

Support costs including governance costs, remained relatively stable overall at £132,119 (2022:£135,067). Higher staff costs by £14,390 associated with supporting the larger team was offset by a fall in non-staff governance of £21,852 as a result of lower expenditure on board training, strategic support and pro-bono legal support.

Fundraising costs totalled £20,684 (2022:18,103). Fundraising costs relate to staff time spent on grant fundraising and associated support costs and the investment saw grant income of £773,320 received from these sources. As well as funds secured in the year, investment of time in fundraising in the year also saw the award of £164,039 for the 2023/24 financial year.

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

Total funds, reserves policy and going concern

Total funds at 31[st] March 2023 were £314,621 (2022: £155,158) and comprised restricted funds of £217,093 (2022: £83,244) and unrestricted funds of £97,528 (2022: £71,914). The largest remaining restricted funds comprise funding for the Synergi programme of work (£112,054), funding from the John Ellerman Foundation towards core costs (£24,029) and funding held on behalf of misery, a hosted project (£19,410 from LGBT Futures and £20,516 of funds restricted for the project). Unrestricted funding was comprised of funding from a number of unrestricted grants towards project and core costs in the 2023/24 financial year of £56,848 and unrestricted income from donations and contracts.

The Trustees review the charity’s reserves policy annually and aim to hold three months of fixed staff and running costs plus other specific amounts in relation to: staff redundancy entitlement, provision to cover any unexpected key staff sickness, provisions against unsecured consultancy income and provision against the unrestricted grants, whose balances form part of the unrestricted reserves but where there is an expectation they will be used to fund costs in the coming year and not held as contingency reserves. As such the agreed reserves target is £164,665 including £56,848 in relation to unrestricted grants to be used in the coming year.

2023 % of
target		 2022 % of
target
Reserves Target £170,780 £143,267
Made upof
Unrestricted Grants £ 56,848 £ 38,537
Unrestricted Reserves Requirement £113,932 £104,730
Actual Free Unrestricted Reserves £94,777 £70,452
Made upof
Unrestricted Grants £56,848 £38,537
Other Unrestricted Reserves £37,929 33% £31,915 30%

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

At the 31[st] March 2023 unrestricted free reserves, excluding fixed assets, totalled £94,777. This comprised 33% of the unrestricted reserves requirement excluding grants. This compares to 30% of the unrestricted reserves requirement in the previous year. Actual reserves excluding grants saw a growth of £6,600 during the year and Trustees aim to set aside further unrestricted funds over the coming year but anticipate that it may take several years before reserves are maintained at the level set by the reserves policy due to unrestricted income making up a low proportion of NSUN’s overall income.

The Trustees have reviewed the budgets for the 2023/24 financial year, including reserves and secured income and consider there to be sufficient funding secured to prepare these financial statements on a going concern basis.

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

Grant Making Policy

NSUN’s grantmaking policy is specific to the funds being distributed and is in line with the conditions of the funder, which during the 2022/23 financial year was the Sustaining Spaces Fund, funded by Mind’s PeerFest programme, and the Synergi small grants scheme, funded by Lankelly Chase. The Trustees consider micro-grants an effective means of achieving NSUN’s charitable objectives of building capacity for user-led groups. Grants were awarded to groups in England.

Applications for both funds were invited through the weekly bulletin and advertised widely through social media channels. It is NSUN’s policy to make grants as accessible as possible and applications were made through using a light-touch form and with the offer of support from a grants officer.

For the Sustaining Spaces Fund, applications were reviewed on a first-come-first-serve basis and were shortlisted by member of the Communities and Grants team. The panel met each week for the duration of the fund and comprised the CEO, one NSUN Trustee, Mind Peerfest representation and NSUN members. Where successful, restricted grants were awarded to groups subject to agreement with the terms and conditions set out in the grant agreement. NSUN’s policy is that all grantees confirmed full expenditure of the grant in writing, and received a follow-up call with a member of the Communities and Grants team to confirm discuss impact of the funding. Grants were awarded to user-led groups or organisations, which were run, governed or delivered by people with direct experience of the kinds of challenges faced by the people they intend to help or support.

For the Synergi Grants, applications were received over a period of three weeks at the start of 2023. Applications were longlisted by teams of two Grants Officers who comprised members of the Synergi Grants Staff team, NSUN Communities and Grants team and NSUN’s Communications Team as well as a freelance associate. Longlisted applicants received a follow-up call from a grants officer and the strongest applications were shortlisted by the Grant Officer team. Shortlisted applications went to one of two panels comprising of the CEO, an NSUN board member, NSUN members and various independent parties with an interest in the work. Where successful, restricted grants were awarded to groups, subject to agreement with the terms and conditions set out in the grant agreement. NSUN’s policy is that all grantees confirmed full expenditure of the grant in writing, and received a follow-up call with a member of the Synergi team to discuss the impact of the funding. Grants were awarded to groups led by Black people and people of colour with lived experience of mental illhealth, distress or trauma, to take action on mental health and racial justice.

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

Key Risks and Uncertainty

The Trustees regularly review the principal risks and major uncertainties to which the charity may be exposed and systems and procedures have been established to manage those risks.

The Board review the risk register at every Board Meeting (at least quarterly) which lists the key risks identified together with a risk score calculated based on the probability and the potential impact of the risk concerned. A separate Synergi High Level Risk Register is also shared and discussed as a standing item, due to the size and complexity of Synergi as a hosted project, and the associated risks. Actions being taken to manage the identified risks are listed on the registers.

Key risks identified during the year are:

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

Contribution made by volunteers

We are incredibly grateful to all of the volunteers, many of whom have provided considerable probono support valued at £20,073 (2022:£32,878) and included within the financial statements. In the year ended March 2023 this support related to pro-bono legal support around the CIO conversion.

Structure Governance and Management

Up to 6 June 2023, National Survivor User Network (NSUN) was a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee with charity number 1135980 and Company number 1032145.

Following final approval at the AGM in February 2023, NSUN’s conversion to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) was completed by the charity commission on the 6[th] June 2023. NSUN’s charity number remains 1135980 and the governing document from this point is its Constitution. The charity continues to operate in England.

Trustees are elected at the Annual General Meeting or co-opted onto the Board when a serving Trustee resigns during the year. The Constitution states that the minimum number of Trustees should be three and the maximum twelve. A third of trustees must retire at each AGM which falls on or after the third anniversary of their appointment and may be reappointed.

Skills gaps at Board level are addressed by regular skills audits. New Trustees are inducted by the Chair, Vice- Chair, CEO and Head of Operations and Finance and offered training as necessary.

The Board meets at least five times a year.

Day-today management of the charity has been delegated to the CEO. The CEO is supported by staff, consultants (“Associates”) and volunteers, if applicable, and a scheme of delegation is in place.

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National Survivor User Network Trustees’ Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

Organisational Structure and Key Management Personnel

The CEO reports to the Chair of NSUN, who is responsible for convening Board meetings and ensuring correct governance of the charity with other Trustees. The Chair is also responsible for appraising the performance of the CEO and Trustees.

During the year, there were eleven other members of staff (“Associates”) who are line managed and appraised by the CEO. The staff team was supported by several freelance associates.

The Board makes use of tasks and finish groups and sub committees where needed to undertake specific tasks. In 2022/23 a group of trustees supported the Board development process, a further group of trustees supported the recruitment of new trustees and a number of trustees meet informally to review the finance papers.

The Board was also supported in it’s work around the Synergi Project by the Synergi Governance Board, which comprised six members with a specific interest in the work, including one member of the NSUN Board of Trustees. The Governance Board operates under a terms of reference approved by the NSUN Board.

The SORP considers the key management personnel of the charity to be those persons having authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the charity, directly or indirectly. The Trustees consider that the NSUN Board of Trustees and the CEO are Key Management Personnel of the charity.

The pay of the CEO is reviewed annually by the Chair and benchmarked to similar posts within the sector.

Details of Trustee expenses and related party transactions are disclosed in note twenty to the financial statements. Trustees are required to disclose all relevant interests and register them with the CEO and, in accordance with the charities policy, withdraw from decisions where a conflict of interest arises.

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National Survivor User Network Trustee’s Annual Report for the period for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements

A resolution proposing that Beever and Struthers be re-appointed as independent examiners of the charity was passed at the Annual General Meeting on the 28[th] February 2023.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in notes to the financial statements and comply with the charity’s governing document, the Charities Act 2011 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their financial statements in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland published in October 2019.

This report was approved by the Board of Trustees on 12[th] July 2023 and was signed on its behalf, by:

Angela Newton Chair

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Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of National Survivor User Network

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2023 which are set out on pages 21 to 43.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

Since the charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales which is one of the listed bodies.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records ; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the financial statements to be reached.

Michael Tourville FCA

Beever and Struthers

Chartered Accountants

150 Minories

London

EC3N 1LS

Date: 1 September 2023

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National Survivor User Network

Statement of Financial Activities (including summary income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2023

Income from:
Legacies and Donations
Grants and Donations
3
Charitable Activities
Contracts and Consultancy
Interest
Notes
Total Income
Total Charitable Activities
4
Total Expenditure
Net income/(expenditure)
Transfer between funds
Net movement in funds for the year
16b
Total funds carried forward
17
Expenditure on:
Costs of raising funds
4
Charitable Activities
Knowledge
Collaboration
Voice
Resourcing
Synergi
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward

Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
31.03.2023
156,887
707,530
864,417
196,577
311,591
508,168
18,103
-
18,103
35,272
31,208
66,480
82,970
140,144
223,114
31,876
44,219
76,095
2,652
36,058
38,710
29,095
35,961
65,056
181,865
287,590
469,455
20,684
-
20,684
9,450
54,474
63,924
8,933
124,635
133,568
61,239
42,050
103,289
30,967
16,826
47,793
-
335,696
335,696
110,589
573,681
684,270
131,273
573,681
704,954
199,968
287,590
487,558

(3,391)
24,001
20,610
-
-
-
1,848
(1,848)
-
25,614
133,849
159,463
25,614
133,849
159,463
(1,543)
22,153
20,610
73,457
61,091
134,548
71,914
83,244
155,158
97,528
217,093
314,621
71,914
83,244
155,158

All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. The Statement of Financial Activities includes all gains and losses recognised during the year. The notes on pages 25-43 form an integral part of these financial statements

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National Survivor User Network Balance Sheet As at 31 March 2023

Charity Number 1135980

Fixed Assets
Tangible assets
Total Fixed Assets
Notes
12
Current Assets
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
Total Current Assets
13
21
14
Total Assets less current liabilities
Total Net Assets
Total charity funds
17
Creditors:
Creditors falling due within one year
Net Current Assets
The Funds of the charity:
Unrestricted income funds
Restricted income funds		 Notes
12		 31.03.2023
£
2,751		 31.03.2022
£
1,462		 31.03.2022
£
1,462		 31.03.2022
£
1,462
1,462
21,920
343,204
365,124
314,621
314,621
97,528
217,093
314,621

2,751
53,254
311,870		 2,168
178,849
181,017
155,158

1,462
27,321
153,696
1,462
2,168
178,849
181,017
27,321

153,696
155,158
71,914
83,244
155,158

The financial statements set out on pages 22-43 were approved by the Trustees and authorised for issue on 12[th] July 2023 and signed on their behalf by:

Angela Newton (Chair)

The notes on pages 25-43 form an integral part of these financial statements

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National Survivor User Network Statement of Cash Flows For the year ended 31 March 2023

Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities
Notes
Change in cash in the reporting period
Cash at the beginning of the reporting period
Cash at the end of the reporting period
21
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
20		 (3,147)
275
(2,872)
31.03.2023
£
167,227
164,355
178,849
343,204		 (1,457)
0
(1,457)
31.03.2022
£
25,128
23,670
155,178
178,848

The notes on pages 25-43 form an integral part of these financial statements

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023

1. Basis of Preparation

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland issued in October 2019, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), the Charities Act 2011, and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

1.b Legal Form

National Survivor User Network was a charitable company incorporated in England under the Companies Act 2006 up to 6 June 2023, when it then converted to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £10 per member of the charity. The address of the registered office is 150 Minories, London, EC3N 1LS. The charity’s operations and principal activities are included on page 2 and 3 of the Trustees’ annual report.

1.c Going Concern

The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis. The Trustees have looked at least 12 months from the signing date of these accounts, considering the charity's cost base, reserves and secured funding and have concluded that there are no material uncertainties around the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

The accounts present a true and fair view and the accounting policies adopted are those outlined in note 2. The financial statements are presented in sterling which is the functional currency of the charity and rounded to the nearest £.

Aside from going concern set out in 1c above, there have been no other key estimates or judgements required in determining the carrying values of assets and liabilities.

2. Accounting Policies

Income

Income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:

Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the general income recognition criteria are met, generally upon receipt.

Where grants are of a performance related nature, income is only be recognised to the extent that the charity has provided the specified goods or services as entitlement to the grant only occurs when the performance related conditions are met.

The charity has received government grants in the reporting period and these are disclosed in note 3a.

2.e Tax reclaims on donations and gifts

Gift Aid receivable is included in income when there is a valid declaration from the donor. Any Gift Aid amount recovered on a donation is considered to be part of that gift and is treated as an addition to the same fund as the initial donation unless the donor or the terms of the appeal have specified otherwise.

This is only included in the SoFA once the charity has provided the related goods or services or met the performance related conditions.

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National Survivor User Network

Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

2. Accounting Policies (continued)

Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included in the SoFA as income from donations when receivable. Donated goods are measured at fair value (the amount for which the asset could be exchanged) unless impractical to do so.

Donated services and facilities are included in the SoFA when received at the value of the gift to the charity provided the value of the gift can be measured reliably.

Donated services and facilities that are consumed immediately are recognised as income with an equivalent amount recognised as an expense under the appropriate heading in the SoFA.

The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts but is described in the trustees’ annual report.

Expenditure

2.i Liability recognition

Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.

2.j Allocation of governance and support costs Support costs represent indirect charitable expenditure. In order to carry out the primary purposes of the charity it is necessary to provide support in the form of personnel development and support, financial support, insurances and IT support.

Governance costs comprise the costs involving the public accountability of the charity (including independent examination costs) and costs in respect of its compliance with regulation and good practice.

Support costs including governance costs are apportioned based on the proportion of time spent on each activity by staff.

Assets and Liabilities

Accrued income relates to gift aid receivable only.

Deferred income relates to contract income received where a proportion of the work remains incomplete.

2.m Debtors

Debtors (including trade debtors and loans receivable) are measured on initial recognition at settlement amount after any trade discounts or amount advanced by the charity. Subsequently, they are measured at the cash or other consideration expected to be received.

The charity has creditors which are measured at settlement amounts less any trade discounts.

Tangible fixed assets represent computer equipment and are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year, and cost at least £250. They are valued at cost. Assets are depreciated over 4 years on a straight-line basis.

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

3. Grants and Donations

3. Grants and Donations
Donations from Individuals and organisations
Grant Income (note 3b)
Donated gift and services (note 3c)
3b. Grant Income (including Government Grants)
We were grateful to have received Grant income from:
Be the Earth Foundation
National Lottery Community Fund- RC London and South
East Region
Kings College London- Student Mental Health Research
Network
University of Wolverhampton - SMaRteN
Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust- Core grants
John Ellerman Foundation
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust- UFFC
Lankelly Chase- Knowledge Fund
Lankelly Chase- Synergi
LGBT+ Futures: Equity Fund
Mind Peerfest- Sustaining Spaces Fund
Mind Sustaining Spaces Fund
Mind- Coronavirus Mental Health Response Fund (DHSC)
The Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust- development grant
Trust for London		 Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
£
£
2,381
27,942
30,323
75,304
120,450
652,870
773,320
318,515
20,523
-
20,523
32,878
143,354
680,812
824,166
426,697
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
£
£
-
3,600
3,600
-
-
108,213
108,213 59,614
-
-
-
1,848
1,932
-
1,932
-
-
-
-
66,000
-
30,000
30,000
30,000
30,321
-
30,321
-
1,333
-
1,333
-
31,000
-
31,000
30,000
-
445,532
445,532
38,179
-
25,000
25,000
-
-
-
-
29,920
33,864
-
33,864
-
-
-
-
2,554
22,000
-
22,000
20,000
-
-
-
5,000
- 40,525
40,525
35,400
773,320
318,515
120,450
652,870

No Government Grants were received in 2023 or 2022. As set out above funds were received from the National Lottery Community Fund totalling £108,213 (2022: £55,614).

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

3c. Donated goods, Facilities and Services

3c. Donated goods, Facilities and Services
Use of meeting rooms and office space
Membership Subscriptions
Legal Advice in relation to Articles of Association
Coaching Support for CEO
Communications Support
Consultancy
Room Hire
Waived Contributors Fees		 Total
31.03.2023
£		 Total
31.03.2022
£
-
450
20,073
-
-
-
-
-
20,523		 -
-
29,628
1,000
-
-
2,000
250
32,878

Donated services and facilities are included in the SOFA when received and are shown at the value the charity would need to pay to secure the same services, items or facilities provided that amount can be measured reliably.

There are no unfulfilled conditions or other contingencies associated with the donated services or facilities

The time given by volunteers is not recognised in the accounts however we are extremely grateful for to all NSUN volunteers

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

4. Resources expended

Direct Staff Direct Staff
Costs Direct Costs Support Costs Total Total
(Note 6) 31.03.2023 31.03.2022
£ £ £ £ £
Costs of Raising Funds 17,339 - 3,345 20,684 18,103
Charitable Activities
Knowledge
Communications 39,616 2,262 15,426 57,304 63,477
Other Projects - 4,400 - 4,400 3,003
National Elf partnership - 2,220 - 2,220 -
39,616 8,882 15,426 63,924 66,480
Collaboration
Membership 27,983 2,743 10,935 41,661 58,857
Community Constellations 26,554 400 10,034 36,988 66,471
Lived Experience Leadership - - - - 7,648
Mind Peer Support - - - 4,653
Hosted Projects- North East Together 2,015 6,902 772 9,689 7,195
Hosted Projects- Survivor Researcher Network 732 - 129 861 8,387
Hosted Projects- misery 4,720 36,255 1,672 42,647 -
Hosted Projects- 2027 Project 732 - 129 861 69,903
Hosted Projects- UFFC 732 - 129 861 -
Voice 63,468 46,300 23,800 133,568 223,114
Influencing policy work 61,428 1,850 39,236 102,514 68,956
Keeping Control - - - - 846
Other Projects - 775 - 775 6,293
61,428 2,625 39,236 103,289 76,095
Resourcing
Grants to user led groups (note 21)
NSUN Covid-19 Fund - - - - 5,237
NSUN Side by Side Fund - - - - 33,473
Sustaining Spaces 15,442 27,172 5,179 47,793 -
15,442 27,172 5,179 47,793 38,710
Synergi
Synergi Project 105,944 15,900 33,694 155,538 65,056
Synergi Small Grants Scheme 35,971 132,748 11,439 180,158 -
141,915 148,648 45,133 335,696 65,056
Total Cost of Charitable Activities 321,869 233,627 128,774 684,270 469,455
Total Costs 339,208 233,627 132,119 704,954 487,558

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

5. Resources expended in the previous year

Grants to user led groups (note 21)
NSUN Covid-19 Fund
NSUN Side by Side Fund
2,713
450
2,074
5,237
4,672
24,854
3,947
33,473
7,385
25,304
6,021
38,710
Synergi
Synergi
16,155
39,546
9,355
65,056
Direct Staff
Costs
Direct Costs
Support Costs
Total
(Note 6)
31.03.2022
£
£
£
£
Costs of Raising Funds
Charitable Activities
Collaboration
Membership
26,763
6,873
25,221
58,857
Community Constellations
27,341
13,508
25,622
66,471
Lived Experience Leadership
1,844
4,600
1,204
7,648
Mind Peer Support
619
3,700
334
4,653
Hosted Projects- North East Together
619
6,242
334
7,195
Hosted Projects- Survivor Researcher Network
1,446
6,027
914
8,387
Hosted Projects- 2027 Project
500
69,403
-
69,903
59,132
110,353
53,629
223,114
Resourcing
Total Cost of Charitable Activities
Total Costs
Knowledge
Communications
Other Projects
31,495
2,881
29,101
63,477
619
2,050
334
3,003
32,114
4,931
29,435
66,480
Voice
Influencing policy work
Keeping Control
Other Projects
37,719
1,500
29,737
68,956
-
846
-
846
608
5,150
535
6,293
38,327
7,496
30,272
76,095
11,748
-
6,355
18,103
153,113
187,630
128,712
469,455
164,861
187,630
135,067
487,558		 Direct Staff
Costs
Direct Costs
Support Costs
Total
(Note 6)
31.03.2022
£
£
£
£		 Direct Staff
Costs
Direct Costs
Support Costs
Total
(Note 6)
31.03.2022
£
£
£
£
11,748
-
6,355
18,103
31,495
2,881
29,101
63,477
619
2,050
334
3,003
32,114
4,931
29,435
66,480
59,132
110,353
53,629
223,114
37,719
1,500
29,737
68,956
-
846
-
846
608
5,150
535
6,293
38,327
7,496
30,272
76,095
2,713
450
2,074
5,237
4,672
24,854
3,947
33,473
7,385
25,304
6,021
38,710
16,155
39,546
9,355
65,056
153,113
187,630
128,712
469,455
164,861
187,630
135,067
487,558

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

6. Support Costs

6. Support Costs
Support Staff Costs, including governance (see note 7)
Direct Governance costs (see note 7)
Consultancy
Legal and Professional Fees
Storage
Use of rooms - in kind donations
Payroll, Accountancy and Bookkeeping
Website costs
Stationary, Postage, Telephones and IT costs
Insurance and HR support
Advertising, Recruitment and Subscriptions
Staff Travel and Wellness
Staff Training costs
Depreciation and profit on disposal
Other		 Total
31.03.2023
Total
31.03.2022
£
£
42,280
27,890
35,301
57,153
-
-
5,790
140
-
461
-
-
8,715
9,797
12,646
10,290
11,534
12,134
2,109
571
1,670
1,603
4,531
2,676
4,126
10,448
1,583
607
1,834
1,297
132,119
135,067

Support costs, including governance costs, are apportioned based across the activities shown in note 4 on the proportion of time spent on each activity by staff

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

7. Governance costs

7. Governance costs
Staff costs
Independent Examination
Board expenses and training
Strategic work
Legal advice - including in-kind support
Trustee Recruitment
Governance support
Governance costs are included within support costs (note 6) and comprise		 Total
31.03.2023
Total
31.03.2022
£
£		 Total
31.03.2023
Total
31.03.2022
£
£
18,017
12,731
2,600
2,160
3,213
9,174
3,000
10,790
20,073
29,628
1,067
-
5,348
5,401
53,318
69,884

8. Net expenditure for the year

8. Net expenditure for the year
This is stated after the following
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets
Profit/(loss) on disposal of Fixed Assets
Independent Examination Fees (including VAT)
- Independent Examination
- Other Services		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
1,045
607
(538)
-		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
2,600
2,266
-
480

9. Analysis of staff costs and the cost of key management personnel

Wages and Salaries
Social Security Costs
Pension Costs

The staff costs were		 325,665
174,242
28,513
12,740
13,799
3,344
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
367,977
190,326

One employee received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) for the reporting period of between £60,000 and £70,000 (2021/22: one)

National Survivor User Network operates a defined contribution pension scheme for all eligible employees. Employer contributions are included in the SOFA within staff costs as an expenses for the year ended 31 March 2023 and total £13,799 (2022:£3,344).

The key management personnel of the charity comprise the Trustees and the CEO (2021/22 Trustees and CEO). The total amount paid, including Employers National Insurance and Pension, to the CEO in the financial year ended 31 March 2023 was £71,134 (2021/22 £63,110)

No trustees received any payment for their services to the charity (2022:none) One trustee received payment for professional services to the charity totalling £3,200 (2022: £350)

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

10. Staff numbers

The average number of employees (headcount based on number of staff employed) during the year was 9.5 (2022:6) with a full time equivalent of 7.9 (2022: 4.9)

The full time equivalent across the various areas of operation was

The full time equivalent across the various areas of operation was
Management
Charitable activities
Operations and administration		 2023
2022
1
1
6
3.3
0.9
0.6
7.9
4.9

11. Taxation

National Survivor User Network is a registered charity and as such its income and gains falling within Section 471 to 489 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 are exempt from corporation tax to the extent that they are applied to its charitable objectives.

12. Tangible Fixed Assets

Depreciation
As at 1 April 2021
Charge for the year
Disposals
As at 31 March 2023
As at 31 March 2022
Net Book Value
As at 31 March 2022
As at 31 March 2023
Cost
As at 1 April 2022
Additions
Disposals		 IT Equipment
Total
£
£
2,429
2,429
3,147
3,147
(1,396)
(1,396)
4,181
4,181
967
967
1,045
1,045
(583)
(582)
1,429
1,430
1,462
1,462
2,751
2,751

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

13. Debtors

13. Debtors
Trade debtors
Prepayments
Other Debtors
Gift Aid Accrued Income		 13,400
300
2,645
1,834
1,742
-
4,133
34
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
21,920
2,168

All debtors relate to amounts owed within one year

All debtors relate to amounts owed within one year
Trade creditors
Lease Accrual
Other Creditors- Social Security
Accruals
Grants payable
Deferred Income (note 15)
14. Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year		 5,945
693
1,640
1,640
10,268
5,392
19,001
6,346
9,000
-
7,400
13,250
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
53,254
27,321

An accrual has been made for grants awarded under the Synergi grants programme but not yet paid at the year end of £9,000 (2022:£nil)

Movement in recognised grant commitments during the year

Grant commitment recognised at the start of the year
New Grant Commitments charged to the SoFA in year
Grants paid during the year
Amount of grant commitments recognised as at 31st March 2023
Balance at 1 April 2022
Released in the year
Deferred in the year
Balance at 31 March 2023
15. Deferred Income		 Grant Commitments Accrued
31.03.2023
£
31.03.2022
£
-
-
136,355
88,047
(127,355)
(88,047)
£
9,000
£
-
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
13,250
11,225
(13,250)
(11,225)
7,400
13,250
7,400
13,250

Income has been deferred in relation to agreed activities supporting Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust which had not been delivered at the year end. 2021/22 deferred income related to contracts with also relates to contracts with Mind (£7,350) and NHS Cumbria (£6,000).

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

16. Analysis of charitable funds

16a. Details of charitable funds held and movements during the current reporting period

Total Restricted Funds
Total Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Restricted funds
2027 Project
John Ellerman Foundation
Lankelly Chase- Synergi
LGBT Futures
Mind Side by Side Fund
misery
National Lottery Community Fund- RC
London and South East Region
North East Together
NSUN Small Grants Programme
The Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust- development grant
Trust for London		 Fund balance
brought
forward
Income
Expenditure
Fund balance
at
01.04.2022
31.03.2023
£
£
£
£
71,914
156,887
(131,273)
97,528
1,500
-
(1,500)
-
30,000
30,000
(35,971)
24,029
2,218
445,532
(335,696)
112,054
-
25,000
(5,590)
19,410
1,050
-
(1,050)
-
14,021
38,880
(32,385)
20,516
-
108,213
(98,143)
10,070
3,079
18,671
(6,901)
14,849
-
709
(10)
699
20,083
-
(20,083)
-
1,310
-
(1,310)
-
9,983
40,525
(35,042)
15,466
83,244
707,530
(573,681)
217,093
155,158
864,417
(704,954)
314,621

Restricted Fund

2027 Project John Ellerman Foundation Lankelly Chase- Synergi LGBT Futures Mind- NSUN Side by Side Fund misery National Lottery Community Fund- RC London and South East Region North East Together NSUN Small Grants Programme The Tudor Trust The Tudor Trust- development grant Trust for London

Purpose of fund

Funding for the 2027 project Funding towards core costs of NSUN First year of a 3-year grant for the Synergi Project Funding for the misery herbal walks programme Funding towards the costs of the NSUN Side-by-Side small grants fund Funds held towards the activities of the misery hosted project

Funding towards membership support and community constellations

Funds held to support work in the North East Restricted donations for small grants Core funding Funding towards NSUN's strategic development work Funding towards Policy Officer and Policy work

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued) 16b. Details of charitable funds held and movements during the previous reporting period

Unrestricted Funds
Restricted funds
2027 Project
City Bridge Trust- London Community
Response Fund - Wave 3
Esmee Fairbairn- Strategy Support
John Ellerman Foundation
Lankelly Chase- Synergi
Mind Side by Side Fund
Mind- Coronavirus Mental Health Response
misery
National Lottery Community Fund- RC
London and South East Region
North East Together
The Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust- development grant
Trust for London
Total Restricted Funds
Total Funds		 Fund
balance
brought
forward
Income
Expenditure Transfer
Fund balance
at
01.04.2021
31.03.2022
£
£
£
£
£
73,457
196,577
(199,968)
1,848
71,914
-
71,403
(69,903)
-
1,500
19,977
(19,977)
-
-
4,320
(4,320)
-
-
-
30,000
-
30,000
-
38,179
(35,961)
-
2,218
-
29,920
(28,870)
-
1,050
4,531
2,554
(5,237)
(1,848)
-
-
14,021
-
-
14,021
-
59,614
(59,614)
-
-
3,820
5,500
(6,241)
-
3,079
21,344
20,000
(21,261)
-
20,083
-
5,000
(3,690)
-
1,310
7,099
35,400
(32,516)
-
9,983
61,091
311,591
(287,590)
(1,848)
83,244
134,548
508,168
(487,558)
-
155,158

17. Analysis of net assets between funds

Fixed Assets
Current Assets
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year		 1,247
1,504
2,751
1,462
118,714
246,410
365,124
181,017
(22,433)
(30,821)
(53,254)
(27,321)
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total Funds
Total Funds
31.03.23
31.03.22
£
£
£
£
97,528
217,093
314,621
155,158

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18. Financial Instruments

At the Balance Sheet date the Charity held the following:

(continued) (continued) (continued)
18. Financial Instruments
At the Balance Sheet date the Charity held the following:
Measured at amortised cost:
Trade Debtors
Other Debtors
Gift Aid Accrued Income
Trade creditors
Lease Accrual
Other Creditors- Social Security
Accruals
Grants payable
Financial Assets
Measured at cost:
Cash at bank
Total Financial Assets
Financial Liabilities
Measured at amortised cost:
Total Financial Liabilities		 13,400
300
1,742
-
4,133
34
31.03.23
31.03.22
£
£
343,204
178,849		 31.03.23
31.03.22
£
£
362,479
179,183
5,945
693
1,640
1,640
10,268
5,392
19,001
6,346
9,000
-
45,854
14,071

19. Transactions with trustees and related parties

None of the trustees have been paid any renumeration or received any other benefits in relation to their role as Trustees with the charity. (2022: none)

During the year five trustees was reimbursed expenses incurred as part of their role as a Trustee totalling £761.84 (2022:£99 was reimbursed to one trustee)

During the year, training and board development costs totalling £2,219 (2022: £6,094) were paid for nine Trustees (2022:nine)

Payments totalling £3,200 (2022: £350) were paid to NSUN trustee Shuranjeet Takhar for their role on the Synergi Governance Board. These payments were made under a written agreement and agree to be in the best interest of NSUN by the Trustee board.

In 2021/22 a payment of a subgrant to the Centre for Knowledge and Equity for the 2027 Project was made totalling £69,403. One of the Project Partners under the agreement with Centre for Knowledge and Equity was Ten Years' Time where NSUN Chair Angela Newton is Managing Director. Angela Newton declared the conflict of interest, was not involved in the agreement of the project, and did not directly benefit from the agreement.

A workshop was delivered to Ten Years' Time during the year with total income of £300 (2022: £700). Angela Newton, the Chair of Trustees is also Managing Director at Ten Years' Time. The training was provided on normal commercial terms.

Consultancy delivered to Taraki Wellbeing during the year with total income of £300 (2022: £nil). Shuranjeet Takhar, a NSUN trustee is also Director at Taraki. The consultancy was provided on normal commercial terms.

During the year one trustee (2022:none) made donations to the work of NSUN totalling £525

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20. Reconciliation of net income/(expenditure) to net cash flow from operating activities

Adjustment for :
Depreciation charges
(Profit)/loss on disposal of equipment
(Increase)/decrease in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
Cash at bank
North East Together Account
North East Together Cash
Equals Money Card
PayPal
Total Cash
Net income for the reporting period ( as per the statement of financial activities)
Net cash provided by operating activities
21. Cash at bank and in hand
22. Analysis of changes in net debt
31.03.22
Short and long term loan liabilities
Total Liabilities
Cash and cash equivalents
Total net debt
-
-
178,849
178,849		 Adjustment for :
Depreciation charges
(Profit)/loss on disposal of equipment
(Increase)/decrease in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
Cash at bank
North East Together Account
North East Together Cash
Equals Money Card
PayPal
Total Cash
Net income for the reporting period ( as per the statement of financial activities)
Net cash provided by operating activities
21. Cash at bank and in hand
22. Analysis of changes in net debt
31.03.22
Short and long term loan liabilities
Total Liabilities
Cash and cash equivalents
Total net debt
-
-
178,849
178,849		 1,045
607
538
-
(19,752)
5,719
25,933
(1,808)
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
159,463
20,610
167,227
25,128
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
333,011
169,092
8,374
8,874
200
200
1,619
683
-
-
343,204
178,849

£
Cash flows
£
31.03.23
£
- -
-
-
178,849		 -
164,355
-
343,204
178,849 164,355
343,204

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23. Analysis of Grants

23. Analysis of Grants
NSUN Side by Side Fund
NSUN Sustaining Spaces Fund
Synergi Grant Fund
2027 Project Sub-Grant
Total Grants to Institutions		 -
18,644
25,355
-
111,000
-
-
69,403
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
136,355
88,047

In 2022/23 The NSUN Sustaining Space fund awarded grants of between £500 and £1,000 to groups facilitating community spaces where people shared identities and experiences come together in support of one another's wellbeing. Grants were funded by Mind's Peerfest Project.

In 2023/23 The Synergi Small Grants programme awarded 37 grants of £3,000 to groups led by Black people and people of colour with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma to take action on mental health and racial justice.

In 2021/22 The NSUN Side by Side fund awarded grants to peer support, mutual aid or self-help groups in England and Wales to connect remotely, prepare to move their activities to face-to-face, or make their group more sustainable. The grant was aimed at groups that benefit people or communities who live with mental ill-health, trauma and distress, take place in a community setting (i.e. not NHS or local authority), and are in some way led by members of the community they engage. Grants were funded by Mind's Side by Side: Peer support in the community project.

In 2021/22, a sub grant was awarded to the Centre for Knowledge and Equity for the delivery of the 2027 Project, which focuses on embedding lived experience within decision-making roles in critical local and regional institutions including NHS trusts.

No grants were awarded to individuals

No grants were awarded to individuals
Reconciliation to Direct costs (Note 4)
Grants to institutions- NSUN Side by Side Fund
Grants to institutions- NSUN Sustaining Spaces Fund
Grants to institutions- Synergi Small Grants
Direct cost of administration of funds (including Panel and Evaluation costs)
Total Direct costs of NSUN Grants		 -
18,644
25,355
-
111,000
-
23,565
20,066
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
159,920
38,710

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23. Analysis of Grants (continued)

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Al-Abbas
All about Women
Angels of Hope for Women
Be Active Recovery Group
Blue Van Armed Forces & Veterans
Borashabaa Refugee Community Organisation
Community of Cultures
Compassionate Conversations
Decolonised Network
Downham Dementia Support
Dulwich Islamic Centre
Experts by Experience
Family Unit Trust
Food Troops
Freedom4Girls
GIN LGBTQIA Indian Network
Girls Against Anxiety
GUSU
Happy and Healthy
Happy Hooves
Hong Kong Adoptee Network
Humanity Concern Projects
I Am My Sister
Inspire Women, Men and Children
Learnest CIC
Recipients of Intuitional grants
Recipients of NSUN Sustaining Space/Side by Side
Sub total carried forward to next page		 -
500
-
500
1,000
500
996
-
-
500
1,000
-
1,000
-
755
-
-
500
-
500
-
500
-
500
1,000
-
-
500
-
500
1,000
-
1,000
-
-
500
1,000
500
-
500
-
500
-
500
-
500
-
500
1,000
-
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
9,751
8,500

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23. Analysis of Grants (continued)

Recipients of Intuitional grants (continued from previous page)
Sub total from previous page
Let's Talk About Loss
Lighthouse
Manchester Roots
Marlborough Theatre Productions
MASAKHANE
Migrant Empowerment Group
Mind in Camden
Mix Up
Norwich Access Group
Organic Arts
Out in the Bay
Plushealth
People Come First
Proud North London
Renew
Rochdale Dawah Centre
Rotherham Wellness & Wellbeing Through the
Arts
SAM Recovery Swansea
Sangini
SAYiT
Shining Stars
Shropshire Epilepsy
Sporting Recovery
STAR Blackpool
Survivors' Poetry
Sub total carried forward to next page		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
9,751
8,500
-
-
-
500
-
500
180
-
1,000
-
-
500
-
500
-
500
1,000
-
-
500
-
500
1,000
-
950
-
600
-
750
-
-
500
-
500
1,000
-
-
500
-
500
1,000
-
-
500
-
500
-
500
1,000
-
144
144
18,375
15,644

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23. Analysis of Grants (continued)

23. Analysis of Grants (continued)
Abolition x Health
Across Borders
ADHD Babes
Adira
Adiyah Muslim Abortion Collective
Adoptee Futures CIC
Awaken Genius Alternative Education
Babylon Migrants Project
BARAC UK
Be Active Recovery Group
Black Muslim Women Healing Collective
Collective Futurism
DiaspoRainbow
Eritrean Community Teesside
Families in Harmony
Foundation for Renewal and Fora
Golden Careers Champions
Holding Hands North East CIC
Holding Her Space
Hummingbird Senior Citizens Club
Mr Boy Cookery School CIC
Nejma Collective
Nergiz Kurdish Women's Group
oestrogeneration
Organising our Earth Selves
Oxford Community Action
Sub total carried forward to next page
The Black Men's Consortium
The Happy Health Hub
The Lokki Foundation
The Outside Project
The Wellness Tribe
Together As One
Trans Aid Cymru
TransSober
WOC Azadi Collective
Women of Colour Peer Support
Women and Digital Exclusion
Woodenstone
Youth Ngage Kent UK
Total Recipients of NSUN Sustaining Spaces Grants/Side by Side Fund
Recipients of Intuitional grants (continued)
Sub total from previous page
Recipients of Synergi Grants		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
18,375
15,644		 Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
1,000
-
1,000
-
-
500
1,000
-
-
500
980
-
-
500
1,000
-
1,000
-
1,000
-
-
500
-
500
-
500
25,355
18,644
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
78,000
-

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National Survivor User Network Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued) Recipients of Synergi Grants Cont.

Peaks of Colour
Resistance Is Our Mother Tongue
Therapeutic Productions CIC
The Rights Collective
The Syria Families Group(now Bring British Families Home)
The Windrush Movement (UK)
The Youth Excellence Academy
Womens Lounge
York Anti Racist Collective
Yuvanis Foundation
Other
Recipients of Synergi Grants Cont.
Sub total from previous page
Total Recipients of Synergi Grants
Recipients of 2027 Project Sub-Grant
Centre for Knowledge and Equity
Total Grants to institutions		 3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
3,000
-
Total
Total
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
£
£
78,000
-
111,000
-
-
69,403
136,355
88,047

24. Operating Leases

The Charity did not have any operating leases in the year (2022: none)

25. Capital Commitments

There are no capital commitments as at 31 March 2023 (2022: Nil).

26. Contingent Liability

As at 31 March 23, there is a pending legal case against NSUN for which there is a possible liability of £5,000. This has not been recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities as at 31 March 23.

28. Events after the end of the reporting period

The Charity converted to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on the 6 June 2023.

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