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Norris Green Community Alliance (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)

REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 06853661 (England and Wales)

REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1136867

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

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NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Limited by Guarantee)

CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31

March 2024

CONTENTS Page
Contents 2
Company & Charity Information 3
Report of the Trustees 4-10
Report of the Independent Examiner 11
Statement of Financial Activities 12
Balance Sheet 13
Notes to the Financial Statements 14-22

CHARITY & COMPANY INFORMATION

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION DETAILS

Charity Name

Norris Green Community Alliance (Limited by Guarantee)

Registered Charity Number

1136867

Registered Company Number

06853661

Registered Office

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NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Limited by Guarantee)

Norris Green Community Alliance Ellergreen Community Centre Ellergreen Road Liverpool Merseyside Lil 2RY

Trustees

J Roberts — Chairperson C Pettitt — (resigned 22 May 2023) E Williams — Secretary E Whiteside D Roberts J Healey (appointed 15 May 2023) Bankers Unity Trust Bank Plc Nine Brindleyplace Birmingham Bl 21-4B

Independent Examiner Counting for Communities Ltd 16 Holmwood Drive Liverpool, L37 IPQ

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NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Limited by Guarantee) TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT

~~For the year ended 31 March 2024~~

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 31 March 2024.

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply with the Charities Act 201 1 and the '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 (FRS 102) (effectve 1 January 2019)'.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Organisational Structure

Norris Green Community Alliance is a registered charity with The Charity Commission, Charity Number 1136867 and a registered Company Limited by Guarantee with Companies House, Company Number 06853661 on 20 March 2009.

The governing instruments under which it operates comprise the Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 20 March 2009 amended by special resolution registered with Companies House on 3 June 2010. In the event of the company being wound up members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding EIO each.

The trustees meet regularly and are responsible for the strategic direction and policy of the charitable company. Managers also attend these meetings but have no voting rights.

Risk Management

The trustees have reviewed the major risks to which the Charity is exposed. It regularly reviews the key financial information and has examined other operational and business risks which the Charity faces. It also confirms that there are established systems in place to mitigate significant risks and where necessary respond to them. Procedures are in place to ensure compliance with health and safety of staff, volunteers, service users and visitors to the premises.

PUBLIC BENEFIT

When planning and programming activities for the local residents of Norris Green, the Trustees of Norris Green Community Alliance are mindful of the Charity Commissions guidelines on Public Benefit.

HISTORY

Norris Green Community Alliance was established in 2008 by a group of residents who mobilised the wider community to tackle current and emerging issues. Despite all the challenges taking place

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at the time, there remained a strong resilient community who came together to make decisions about what their community needed to change to move the way forward. From the very beginning we recruited volunteers who were part of this group and who still remain active in their community to this day.

OBJECTIVES AND AIMS

The Charitable company's principal objectives are to develop the capacity and skills of the members of the socially and economically disadvantaged community of Norris Green in Liverpool in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society. As a local independent charity and embedded community hub we offer a range of evolving provisions that meet multiple needs. We focus however in particular upon — reliving poverty and hardship through advice, advocacy, training, working in partnership with other providers such as Feeding Liverpool and CAB, as well as offering access to social activities for participants to relive isolation and improve their wellbeing, activities for 'middle years' children and young people and building community involvement in the running of community groups. These activities give them ownership of their community and that contributes to the regeneration of such area.

ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE

Norris Green Community Alliance has continued to tackle current challenges, and adapt, diversify and support the Norris Green community. During this past year changes to our charity activities and services have resulted in us helping and supporting many more residents in several different ways.

This report gives a brief overview of some of the changes, achievements and overall performance and how we continue to maintain high quality services and the delivery of a range of diverse activities to support our community and beneficiaries to help them meet the new challenges we have seen continue with the impact of the 'Cost of Living Crisis'.

Giving support to the community helps them maintain their day to day lives and move forward in a positive manner for the benefit of themselves and their communities. All our services and new services have been welcomed by our community and this is reflected in the various additional projects and activities we have undertaken. This has seen a massive impact of our organisation and staff time.

This year has been very demanding for our staff with changes to staff leaving and new staff coming into post, and the increase in need and demand for services and activities. Key areas highlighted with most need included mental health, food and financial hardship and access to children's activities. This list is not exhaustive and priorities change regularly. We continue to work in partnership with 'Feeding Liverpool 'and the CAB (utility top ups) through the household support scheme which includes supporti ng families with weekly food parcels, community meals, further support for utilities, and debt working with Energy project Plus and Norris Green Debt advice.

We have noticed that there is an increase in the issuing of Food Bank Vouchers and additional foods from our weekly Fare Share and Food Social (additional foods and bread, pastries, vegetables). Weekly food deliveries are in the region of 585 households, with over 1183 community meals and

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offer of weekly surplus foods stuff to anyone who needs this. We have also issued 71 energy top ups. This figure is reduced as many more people and families have become eligible for the Household Support scheme through CAB. We are very thankful to have staff and committed volunteers in place to continue to deliver the food stuff, community interest activities to support and develop the ward and individuals.

Due to changes within Liverpool City Council including boundary changes and the new election of local councillors, the high-profile event the 'Norris Green Community Carnival', was unable to take place this summer. Through talks with the council members in place now they have indicated that they want this to happen later next year 2024. We continue to deliver services to meet increased demand including promotion and provision of mental health projects to support beneficiaries and a women's only Coffee Morning support group with activities.

Key achievements during this year. From April 2023 to March 2024, we have maintained the number of people we are reaching, being fortunate to work with over 1 1 ,500 (multiple users 26,751) residents in Liverpool, with over 90% residing in Norris Green L 1 1 and Sparrowhall L9. Our charity has benefited from emergency support funding and core funding support from Liverpool City Council, The Big Lottery Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund, Cobalt Housing, The Henry Smith Charity, LCVS and

CCG (Community Commission Grant NHS), Feeding Liverpool, Merseyside Play Action Council (M PAC) and the HAF programme. This has enabled us to develop ourselves to reach out with more people than we expected this year since the charity became incorporated. Throughout the year we have delivered over 600 social, community sessions including training and activities as previously recorded. (This is without the numbers we would usually reach through the Community Carnival.)

Between July 2023 and March 2024 we had a direct involvement and lead in the Norris Green community. During this time we were able to continue to support and signpost residents to other agencies such as local housing associations, CAB etc., especially those who had been affected and suffered hardship due to the 'Cost of Living Crisis'. We were also able to continue food deliveries until May 2024 through various organisations such as Big Lottery, Community Organisations Cost of Living fund, Feeding Liverpool, LCVS and Liverpool City Council. We have supported over 386 adults and 540 children this year.

As part of our development strategies to address community needs, we raised funding through the CCG (Clinical Commissioning Grant Health & Wellbeing NHS Wellbeing Project) until June 2024. Further funding for this project has been sought from the Morgan Foundation to continue the project. This has been one of the most effective use of resources and we are overwhelmed by how positively this service has affected beneficiaries and community members across all areas of charity services. We have continued to run many community sessions to support mental health in our community, as well as delivery of our listening ear one-to-one service, continued letters of support for benefit cases,

i.e. PIP, disability allowance, housing issues and a host of other areas, building on what we have developed in the previous year with known contacts of working with other agencies. There was

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also training available on Listening Ear to Mental Health to develop listening skills, one to one consultations, coping mechanisms and emotional resilience and many others.

Part of our social activities bringing people together to combat loneliness, and isolation has grown in the last year as people are wanting to get out more. There are double the figures.... and increasing. We were able to run subsidised 2 course meals weekly lunch clubs/community meals (900) with access to one a week for 10 months averaging 25 plus attendees a week, along with 40 coffee mornings, 3 Christmas meals (including one trip out of Liverpool), heavily subsidized with social bingo included. We also ran community trips. One of these trips was our very popular trip to Blackpool for families to see the lights. There were 152 people who enjoyed this trip. The Family Bingo again has seen a twofold increase in attendees with over 80 people (room limit) per session along with continuance of weekly Family Roller Discos every Friday, attendees reaching 120 per week. (This figure is capped by the sports centre) These sessions have been run by our volunteers for many years, as have many of our other activities.

The 3-day Santa Sleigh ride through Norris Green, which we managed alongside Liverpool City Council and local partners was welcomed back in early December 2023. Santa and helpers delivered over 4000 selection boxes across the streets of Norris Green. Nearly 7000 residents flocked to local roads, gardens and doorways and children and adults alike witnessed the spirit of Christmas.

Our after-school provision and out of school holiday clubs continue to flourish, operating from two centres which has maximum capacity attendance 4 days a week and made possible thanks to the HAF (Holiday Activities and Food programme) run in conjunction with Merseyside Play Action Council (MPAC) and Liverpool City Council. This fund enables us to ensure all our attendees receive free healthy meals, breakfast, lunch and snacks throughout those periods where applicable, taking part in physical and creative activities and signposting the families to other services that they may need to access. We run a full programme through every school holiday. We were also able to take children to a local panto in Liverpool One in partnership with Stephen Yip from KIND. The HAF funding enabled us to take children on residentials and other activities that are difficult to fund. On average we are offering 180 eligible places each week through the school holidays for children and young people.

We continued to support our local TRAs (Tenants and Residents Associations) with funding support; Sparrowhall TRA ran their holiday playschemes throughout the school holidays and after school provision continues with the funding that they received through the HAF Programme and Cobalt Housing, along with Coffee Mornings and Christmas Dinner for Older People. SPRING (Scargreen Park Regeneration in Norris Green) continues to look at ways to improve Scargreen Park working in partnership with the children and projects like 'Clean Sweep' with Police and young people from our club who have been working with local Police litter picking and making hanging baskets. Also looking at session discussing knife crimes and self-defence.

Cuts have been made to budgets through Liverpool City Council but there are still some projects we were still be able manage with partners that previously had been funded by Liverpool City Council. The 'Uniform' grant came back this year so 5 Norris Green Schools including one extra now within the boundary received the uniform grants this time round.

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During the autumn and winter months we continued to offer a variety of Halloween activities to keep the community engaged and use community spaces during darker, colder days and evenings. Throughout October we delivered 285 Halloween activity and food packs for families facing hardship and isolation, hosted a Halloween themed Roller Disco and a Halloween party for 176 families with food and activities. We also worked alongside other groups re anti-social behaviour preventative projects during October and November. (Mischief Night/Bonfire night)

December and the run up to Christmas/New Year is always a very busy period for the charity. We delivered over 215 food hampers to households facing food insecurity, financial hardship and isolation and, thanks to donations, and local charity Give a Child a Chance', this enabled us to deliver toys to families with children who could not afford to buy presents. We also provided pyjamas and necessities with food hampers and essentials through a local benefactor who has given these hampers for many years. With the Shoe Box appeal, we were overwhelmed by people's generosity and were able to give some boxes to other groups in the area. We organised Older Peoples Christmas Lunches, festive trips out, Christmas parties, The Men's Group (JAM) (Just Average Men) continues to meet each Monday and has increased its membership. They meet in the community centre engaging with other likeminded men offering quizzes, speakers, exercising, local trips and other ideas for its members.

It is so good to see community coming back from the challenge. The Cost-of-Living Crisis continues to affect the most vulnerable people in our community, and we are so grateful to have received funding from the Big Lottery 'Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund'. We would have been lost without

SPECIAL THANKS

The Norris Green Community Alliance would like to thank the following funders as well as partners and key community members who have contributed their time, funding, knowledge and skills that have been instrumental in our work this year. Thanks to Norris Green Ward Councillors, Merseyside Play Action Council (MPAC), Sutton Croft and Liverpool City Councillors, the delivery of the HAF (Holiday Activities and Food) Programme. The Henry Smith Charity for ongoing funding support for core costs and salaries, (we have just been awarded a further 3 years funding), Community Foundation Funding for Lancashire and Merseyside. LCVS & CCG (Clinical Commissioning Grant NHS) Norris Green Youth & Play Consortium (LCC) and Liverpool City Council LNF, Cobalt Housing and Torus Foundation for community funding for many of our projects this year. Smaller donations that have made a significant impact on our work 'The Charity Trust', Groundwork, Tesco Bags fund and our very loyal local volunteers and staff who worked with us this year and other small donations we received from the local community. It would be fair to say that without these funders and volunteers who we value so much supporting us we would not be able to manage our support in the community the way we do so THANK YOU ALL.

The Trustees of the NGCA would like to express their deepest and most sincere gratitude to the workers and volunteers of the NGCA coming out of the pandemic. They have worked tirelessly to ensure that our community received as normal a service as they could possibly provide during these uncertain times. They also ensured that those most in need received help in the form of hardship, advice, food etc. along with getting the community back into social activities and other support to

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help them post covid. We as a Board of Trustees have seen this first hand and have seen the impact on the community.

A message from the Chair of Norris Green Community Alliance Board.

This year has been busy as usual for everyone at the Norris Green Community Alliance. We had a change to the staffing in the office as our office manager started a new job, but the hard work and commitment of Denise and Miranda have ensured that the community services we provide were still provided to the highest standard.

In Maywe had local elections and 3 new Councillors were elected to represent Norris Green. Because all of the Councillors were new, they couldn't commit to funding for our annual carnival. Hopefully they will help fund some of the Christmas activities.

We still support and work in partnership with Sparrowhall though the boundary has changes, we are still providing after school clubs and summer holiday playschemes in all of our three clubs, Scargreen, Norris Green Youth Centre and Sparrowhall. We have been part of the HAF scheme again this year and it has proved to be very much needed in the clubs. We have been providing hot meals and snacks for the children and also providing food bags for some of the parents. For some of the children this is the only hot meal they will receive during the school holidays.

Our mental health coordinator, Sandra, has run quite a few courses throughout the year including bereavement counselling, mental health awareness, assertiveness courses and a listening ear service.

As Chair of the Board of Trustees I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of myself and the whole Board to thank our office staff, play staff, volunteers and partners for their hard work and dedication."

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE PERIODS

We continue to support our community in the best ways we can by ensuring our services, and will be working hard to increase our partners and referral agencies for the benefit of our community. We have been successful in being awarded a further 3 years funding from the Henry Smith Charity who have supported us tirelessly over the last 6 years. There are major changes as to how the Youth and Play Grant and Community Resources grant is to be changed into one grant going forward too. As we are very lucky to receive funds from both these grants it will be interesting in how these pans out. We have also received funds through the John Moore's Foundation next year to increase our admin support services and further funds from Feeding Liverpool. Hopefully this will give us a positive start to next year which will be quite challenging with the 'Cost of Living' crisis taking its toll on our community, new government and changes in budgets at LCC (being optimistic!). We are hoping that we receive these additional funds to enable us to continue working hard to ease the situation in our community. We are grateful for the further funds that will help support this. Whilst our community has shown great resilience in dealing with the challenges over the last 2 years we are hopeful that 2024-25 will bring just rewards for all and we hope we will all be in a better place.

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We have continued to reach out to most of the people we know and have worked with and welcome new users to engage in our activities and supporting those back into our activities. Attendance is extremely good. We have changed our directions constantly to identify, engage and accommodate more activities and projects that we feel are needed in the community and the gaps in delivery. This current year has again brought many new challenges. In the main challenges with hardship and poverty are affecting everyone and we are doing our very best to support people as much as we are able. We continue to see a rise in housing evictions, anti-social behaviour and unemployment which present further challenges. On the positive side we have maintained very close links with the local housing organisation Cobalt who are putting additional funds into the community to tackle some of these and giving further support for the community. Big shout out for all our volunteers without them we would not be able to operate on the same scale as we have their support never ceases to surprise us or diminishes.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Total income for the year was El 96,375 (2023: 254,792) of which El 84,343 (2022: €225,622) related to funding for projects upon which restrictions were placed.

Total expenditure in the year was E224,142 (2023: E267,941) leaving a deficit for the year of E27,767 (2023: deficit El 3,149). At 31 March 2024 the charity's reserves stood at E22,499 (2023: E50,266) of which El 7,874 (2023: E36,923) were restricted funds.

RESERVES POLICY

It is the policy to maintain unrestricted funds, which are free reserves, at a level to cover redundancy provisions and allow the charity to continue to run a reduced service of activities for two months should no further funding be received. At 31 March 2024 the unrestricted reserves did not meet this target and the trustees are aware that they must keep this in mind to maintain the reserves the charity needs established as free reserves.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES

Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial period that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of its income and expenditure for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the Directors are required to:

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The directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and to enable them to ensure that the financial accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD:

Eric Williams — Secretary Date

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER TO THE MEMBERS OF NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024 set out on pages 12 to 22.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity's trustees 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 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is required. It is my responsibility to:

Basis of the independent examiner's repon

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 the 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 present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent examiner's statement tn connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

le which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect, the requirements:

Signed: ..

Date: S 1 0 —zy-

Name: Stephen Leonard BA, FCCA Counting for Communities Ltd

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER TO THE MEMBERS OF NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024 set out on pages 12 to 22.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity's trustees 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 of the Charities Act 201 1 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is required. It is my responsibility to:

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 the 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 statement 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:

  2. a. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006; and

b. to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of section 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

  1. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed:

Date: PPP Poe oe Cee

Name: Stephen Leonard BA, FCCA Counting for Communities Ltd

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NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Limited by Guarantee) FINANCIAL

16 Holmwood Drive

Liverpool L37 IPQ

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES (INCORPORATING AN INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) For the Year Ended 31 March 2024

2024 2024 2024 2023
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
Note INCOMING RESOURCES E
Incoming & endowments from:
Donations and legacies 2 7,331 6,789 14,120 19,263
Charitable activities 3 Other trading activities 4 Charitable activities 3 Other trading activities 4 37 177,554 ,591 235,227
Investments 5 664 664 302
Total income 12,032 184,343 196,375 254,792
19,250 204,892 224,142 267,941
(7,218) (20,549) (27,767) (13,149)
(1,500) 1,500
(8,718) (19,049) (27,767) (13,149)
13,343 36,923 50,266 63,415
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Raising funds
Charitable activities 6 19,250 204,892 224,142 267,941
Total expenditure 7

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NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Limited by Guarantee) Net income I (expenditure) for the year before transfers

Transfer between funds

Net income/(expenditure) for the year

RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS

Total funds brought forward 13 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 4,625 17,874 22,499 50,266

There are no recognised gains or losses other than the net movement in funds for the above two financial years. All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

The notes form part of these financial statements

BALANCE SHEET

At 31 March 2024

Registration Number: 06853661

2024 2024 2024 2023
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
Note FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 9 100 100 120
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 10 ,427
Cash at bank and in hand 11 5,655 17,874 23,529 49,693
5,655 17,874 23,529 51,120
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 12 (1,130) (1,130) (974)
NET CURRENT ASSETS 4,525 17,874 22,399 50,146
ee
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES		 4,625 17,874 22,499 50,266

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FUNDS 13
Unrestricted funds 4,625 13,343
Restricted funds 17,874 36,923
TOTAL FUNDS 22,499 50,266

For the year ending 31 March 2024 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by:

Eric Williams — Secretary Date

The notes form part of these financial statements

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NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Limited by Guarantee) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the Year Ended 31 March 2024

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES Accounting convention

The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared under the historical cost convention, the Charities Act 2011 and 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice for Charities' applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019). The charity has taken advantage of the disclosure exemption in preparing these financial statements, as permitted by FRS 102, the requirements of Section 7 Statement of Cash Flows.

The accounts are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the charity and monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest E.

Going Concern

At the time of approving the accounts, the trustees have reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the accounts.

Income

Incoming recognition

All incoming resources are included on the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when the charity is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy

Incoming Resources with Related Expenditure

Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income) the incoming resources and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA

Grants and Donations

Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the Charity has unconditional entitlement to the resource.

Contractual Income and Performance Related Grants

This is only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.

Volunteer Help

The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts.

Investment Income

This is included in the accounts when receivable.

Expenditure and Liabilities

Liability Recognition

Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure.

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Governance Costs

These include costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters.

Grants and Performance Conditions

Where the charity gives a grant with conditions for its payment being a specific level of service output to be provided, such grants are only recognised in the SoFA once the recipient of the grant has provided the specific service or output.

Grants payable without Performance Conditions

These are only recognised in the accounts when a commitment has been made and there are no conditions to be met relating to the grant which remain in the control of the charity

Fixed assets and depreciation

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life. The following rates and methods are used:

Equipment 15% reducing balance

All equipment, fixtures and fittings with an original cost of less than E800, are written off in the year in which the expenditure was incurred on the basis that due to the nature of the company's activities, there is no expectation that the cost of the assets will be recovered in the way of future revenues.

Financial instruments

The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Taxation

The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities and is not registered for VAT. As a registered charity the company benefits from rates relief.

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.

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2024 2024 2024 2024 2023
Note Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
NORRIS GREENCOMMUNITYALLIANCE
2 Donations and legacies		 ALLIANCE(LimitedbyGuarantee)
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTSCONTINUED
Donations
3,848
5,429		 9,277 9,277
19,263
FortheYear Ended31March2024
West Derby Waste lands		 250 250 250
Liverpool Council 3,233 1 ,360 1 ,360
7,331 6,789 14,120 14,120
19,263
2024 2024 2024 2023
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
3 Charitable activities
Awards for Al 2,500 2,500
Big Help 400 400
Charities Trust 3, 140
Citizen Advice 5,928 5,928 23,115
Cobalt Housing 4,037 4, 790 8,827 29,570
Community Foundation 635
Groundwork 1 ,ooo
Henry Smith Charity 16,500 16,500 33,000
LCVS 16,864 16,864 38,227
Liverpool Council - City Activities 1,125 1,125 14,565
Liverpool Council - Carnival 4,500 4,500 8,750
Liverpool Council - Feeding Liverpool 6,000
Liverpool Council -LNF Fund 2,500 2,500
Liverpool
Council		 - Community 6,000 6,000 12,000
Resource
Liverpool Council - Youth & Play 9,700 9,700
Lottery Cost Of Living Fund 34,239 34,239
MNF 6,447
MPAC 26,663 26,663 10,828
Sutton Croft 35,995 35,995 39,030
Torus Foundation 1 ,500
Your Edge 6,600 6,600
Norris Green Youth & Play Norris Green Youth & Play 3,250 3,250 7,420
Consortium
4,037 177,554 181,591 235,227
2024
~~a~~		 2024
a		 a 2024 2023
ee
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total

4 Other trading activities

Other trading activities

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NORRIS GREEN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE (Limited by

Guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

CONTINUED

For the Year Ended 31 March 2024

Note

5 Investments
Bank interest receivable
6 Resources Expended
Charitable activities
Governance Costs - see below
Activities & sessional staff
Bank charges
Contribution to Hardship Funds
DBS
Depreciation
Donations to schools for uniforms
Consumables/equipment
for
activities
Fareshare
Food
Insurance
Payroll fee
Printing & stationery
Rent, rates & room hire
Sundry
Telephone & Internet
Training
Travel
Volunteer expenses Wages
Included in Governance costs
Independent examiner's fees
2024
2024
2024 2023
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total Total
664
664
302
664
664
302
2024
2024
2024
2023
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
Total
1,100
1,100
950
7,969
76,560
84,529
96,034
226
226
242
1 ,656
1 ,656
6,723
56
20
20
22
2,500
2,500
370
3,503
3,873
6,761
975
975
2,302
40
21 ,943
21,983
36,347
362
400
762
730
656
656
750
569
2,276
2,845
2,617
2,539
10,937
13,476
12,701
701
183
884
389
1 ,460
93
1,553
1 ,239
275
275
196
183
851
1 ,034
3,486
422
8,611
9,033
5,664
3,289
73,473
76,762
90,732
19,250
204,892
224,142
267,941

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1,100
1,100
Note
7Analysis of expenditure
Total expenditure in 2024
Total expenditure in 2023
Analysed as follows:
Direct Charitable Expenditure
Activities & sessional staff
Contribution to Hardship Funds
DBS
Donations to schools for uniforms
Consumables/equipment for activities
Fareshare
Food
Travel
Volunteer expenses
Wages		 1,100
1,100		 950
1,100
1,100
950
Direct
Support &
Charitable Governance
Expenditure
Costs
Total
183,154
40,988
224,142
225,422
42,519
267,941
2024
2023
84,529
96,034
1,656
2,500
6,723
56
3,873
6,761
975
2,302
21,983
36,347
1 ,034
3,486
9,033
5,664
57,571
68,049

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Support & Governance Costs
Governance Costs
Bank charges
Depreciation
Insurance Payroll fee printing
Rent, rates & room hire
Sundry
Telephone & Internet
Training
Wages		 183,154
225,422
1,100
226
20
762
656
2,845
13,476
884
1 ,553
275
19,191
950
242
22
730
750
2,617
12,701
389
1
,239
196
22,683
40,988
42,519
8Staff Costs and Employees
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension		 76,762
90,732
year)
2024 4
2
2023
5
2
6
7
2024
2023
76,608
89,721
455
154
556

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No employee earned E60,000 or more during the year (nor the previous

The average number of employees during the year was . Charitable activities

Administration

9 Fixed Assets

9 Fixed Assets
Equipment Total
Cost
At 1 April 2023 720 720
Disposals
Additions
- -
ns ——
A 31 March 2024 720 720
a ———
Depreciation
At 1 April 2023 600 600
On Disposals
Charge for year 20 20
A 31 March 2024 620 620
——$___ ns
Net Book Value
A 31 March 2024 100 100
At 31
2023		 120 120
= 1427

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Note Note 2024 2023
10 Debtors
Prepayments & accrued income 1 ,427
-
2024 2023
11 Cash at bank and in hand
Current Account 6,662 20,297
Deposit Account 16,867 29,396
23,529 49,693
—
2024 2023
12 Creditors : amounts falling due within one year
Creditors amounts falling due within one year
Accruals 1,130 974
1,130 974

13 Movenent in Funds

Cobalt Housing - Mini %vers

Unrestricted Funds General Fund

Restricted Funds

Donations

MPAC Norris Green Youth & Play Consortium

Other

Henry Smith Charity Liverpool Council - Community Resource Grant Liverpool Council - Active Norris Green Partnership Liverpool Council - I-NF Fund Liverpool Council - Hardship Liverpool Council - Carnival

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Donations Donations (1 ,500)
Feeding Liverpool Feeding Liverpool
LCVS CCGMW
Cobalt Housing
LotteryCost Of Livin Cost Of LivingFund 573 4 610
5,166 56,463 (57,512)
Total Funds 38,343 (39,438) 1 ,500 405
Balance at Balance at (585) (595)
31
Incom ing
March		 Resources
Transfers 31 31 16,500 (21 ,708)
March 5,208 12,000 (12,000)
2023 Resources Expended In In
/ (Out) 2024
£ £ £ £ £
13,343
13,343		 12,032
12,032		 (19,250)
(19,250)		 (1,500)
(1,500)		 1 ,658 4,449
4,625
4,625		 (3,695) (754) 1,658
(1 ,500 2,752 1.177 (2,548) 754 2,135
6,463 (6,463)
(2,389)
2,404
5,998 8,309 (12,057) 2,250
9,198 12,389 (17,444) 4,143
2,786 2,778 (3,616) 1
24,290 (24,290) ,948
36,923 184 , 343 (204,892) 1 ,500 17,874
50,266 196,375 (224,142) 22,499

Note

14 Trustees' Remuneration and Benefits

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2024 nor for the year ended 31 March 2023

16 Capital Commitments

The company had no capital commitments at 31 March 2024 (2023: None) either contracted for or authorised by the directors but not contracted for.

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