|Contents ofthe Financial Statements||||
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|forthe Year Ended 31 March 2025||||
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|Chairman's Report||1||
|Report oftheTrustees|2|to|1|
|Independent Examiner's Report||12||
|Statementof Financial Activities||13||
|BalanceSheet||14||
|Cash FlowStatement||15||
|Notestothe Cash FlowStatement||16||
|Notestothe Financial Statements|17|to|26|





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|2024/25|Vale|Cardiff|
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|First Referrals|498|452|
|BenefitAmounts Secured overan|||
|18 month period|£1,028,109|£849,026|



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||2024/25|Vale|Cardiff|
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|Enquiries<br>Referrals||497<br>459|397<br>281|
|CLO Home|Visits|149|312|
|CLO Telephone Calls||1468|971|



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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||fund|funds|funds|funds|
||Notes|£|£|£|£|
|Incomeand endowments from||||||
|Donations and legacies|3|58,169||58,169|90,864|
|Charitable activities|6|||||
|Community Support<br>Information andAdvice||90,218<br>126,772|175,827<br>103,753|266,145<br>230,525|241,135<br>229,276|
|Ageing Well||96,714|19,429|116,143|112,841|
|Othertrading activities|4|1,10||1,190|4314|
|Investment income|5|17,139||17,139|17,523|
|Total||390,202|299,109|689,311|695,953|
|Expenditure on||||||
|Raising funds|7||||2|
|Charitable activities|8|||||
|Community Support<br>Information andAdvice||48,384<br>82,603|175,407<br>98,924|223,791<br>181,527|244101<br>167,657|
|Ageing Well||101,577|13,576|115,183|123,112|
|Partnership Development||184,889|420|185,309|179,956|
|Total||417,453|288,327|705,780|714,828|
|NETINCOME/(EXPENDITURE)||(27,251)|10.782|(16.469)|(18,875)|
|Reconciliation offunds||||||
|Total funds brought forward||473,923|13.625|487,548|506,423|
|Totalfunds carried forward||446,672|24,407|471,079|487,548|





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||Notes|£|£|£|£|
|Fixed assets||||||
|Tangible assets|14||1,750|1,750||
|Currentassets||||||
|Debtors|15|13,321|4,019|17,340|31,862|
|Cash at bank and in hand||460,457|21,737|482,194|569,507|
|||473778|25,756|499.534|601,369|
|Creditors||||||
|Amounts falling due within one year|16|(27.105)|(3,100)|(30,205)|(113,821)|
|Netcurrentassets||446,673|22,656|469,329|487548|
|Total assets less currentliabilities||446,673|24,406|471,079|487,548|
|NETASSETS||446,673|24,406|471,079|487,548|
|Funds|19|||||
|Unrestricted funds||||446,673|473,923|
|Restricted funds||||24,406|13,625|
|Total funds||||471,079|487.548|






|||Cash FlowStatement|||
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||forthe|Year Ended 31 March|2025||
||||2025|2024|
||Notes||£|£|
|Cash flows from operating activities<br>Cash generated from operations<br>Finance costs paid|1||(53,925)<br>(2,723)|(41,864)|
|Netcash used in operating activities|||(56,648)|(41,864)|
|Cash flows from investing activities<br>Purchase oftangible fixed assets<br>Interest received|||(2,000)<br>17.139|17.523|
|Netcash provided by investing activities|||15,139|17,523|
|Change incash and cash equivalents in|||||
|the reporting period<br>Cash and cash equivalentsatthe<br>beginning ofthe reporting period|2||(41,509)<br>523,703|(24,341 )<br>548,044|
|Cash and cash equivalentsatthe endof|||||
|the reporting period|2||482,194|523,703|





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||Reconciliation ofnetexpenditureto netcashflowf|rom operating|activities|||
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||Netexpenditure forthe reporting period (as perthe <br>FinancialActivities)|Statement of||(16,469)|(18,875)|
||Adjustments for:|||||
||Depreciation charges<br>Losses on investments|||250|2|
||Interest received<br>Finance costs|||(17.139)<br>2,723|(17.523)|
||Decrease/(increase) in debtors|||14,522|(17,378)|
||(Decrease)/increase in creditors|||(37.812)|11,910|
||Netcash used in operations|||53.925|41,864)|
|2.|Analysis ofcashand cash equivalents|||||
|||||2025|2024|
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||Cash in hand|||155|156|
||Notice deposits (less than 3 months)|||482,039|569,352|
||Overdrafts included in bank loans and overdrafts falling|due within one|year||(45,804)|
||Total cash and cash equivalents|||482,194|523,703|
|3.|Analysis of changes in netfunds|||||
|||At 1.4.24||Cash flow|At31.3.25|
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||Netcash|||||
||Cash at bank and in hand<br>Bank overdraft||569,507<br>(45,804)|(87,313)<br>45,804|482,194|
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|3.|Donations and legacies|||
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||Donations/Fundraising<br>Legacies/Trust Funds|58,169|54,164<br>13,200|
||Grants||23,500|
|||58,169|90.864|
||Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:|||
|||2025|2024|
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||Peoples Postcode Lottery||13.500|
||Garfield Weston Foundation|||
||||10,000|
||||23,500|
|4|Othertradingactivities|||
|||2025|2024|
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||Trading|1,190|4314|





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|5.|Investment income||||
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||Deposit account interest||17,139|17,623|
|6.|Income from charitable activities||||
||||2025|2024|
||Grants|Activity<br>Community Support|£<br>160,743|£<br>180,082|
||Project||||
||Donations/Fundraising<br>Fees for the Provision ofServ|Community Support|7.686|5,823|
||ices<br>Other<br>Grants|Community Support<br>Community Support<br>Information andAdvice|60,735<br>36,981<br>103,753|41,852<br>13,378<br>102,205|
||Project<br>Donations/Fundraising<br>Fees for the Provision ofServ|Information andAdvice|9,727|11,218|
||ices|Information andAdvice|117,045|115,853|
||Grants|Ageing Well|10,341|8,098|
||Project<br>Donations/Fundraising<br>Fees for the Provision ofServ|Ageing Well|5.127|1,262|
||ices<br>Other|Ageing Well<br>Ageing Well|26,200<br>74475|28,598<br>74,883|
||||612,813|583,252|
||Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:||||
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||Cardiff County Council<br>Vale ofGlamorgan Council||67,353<br>96,731|65,391<br>117,245|
||Age Cymru<br>Glamorgan Voluntary Services<br>Groundwork UK - Tesco Bags of Help||2,400<br>9,384|2,400<br>10,560<br>375|
||IndependentAge<br>Henry Smith Foundation||60,000|34.414<br>60,000|
||National Lottery Fund||4,409||
||Hodge Foundation<br>WBCAsda Foundation||34,000<br>560||
||||274,837|290,385|
|7|Raising funds||||
||Othertrading activities||||
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||Impairment losses|||2|





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|Charitable activities costs|||||
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||||Support||
|||Direct|costs (see||
|||Costs|note 9)|Totals|
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|Community Support<br>Information andAdvice||181,015<br>166,660|42776<br>14,867|223,791<br>181,527|
|Ageing Well||103,825|11,328|115,153|
|Partnership Development||181,769|3,540|185,309|
|||633.269|72,511|705,780|
|Support costs||Information|Governance||
||Management|technology|costs|Totals|
||£|£|£|£|
|Community Support<br>Information and Advice|23444|19,332<br>14,867||42,776<br>14,867|
|Ageing Well|2,104|9,224||11.328|
|Partnership Development|||3,540|3.540|
||25,548|43423|3,540|72,511|



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|Independent|Examiners' remuneration|3,540|5,994|
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|Staffcosts|||
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|Wages and salaries<br>Social security costs<br>Otherpension costs|471,617<br>30,160<br>14,812|480,885<br>28,243<br>17,357|
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|£60,001 -£70,000||1||
|Comparatives forthe statementoffinancial activities|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
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|Income and endowments from||||
|Donations and legacies|90,864||90,864|
|Charitable activities||||
|Community Support<br>Information andAdvice|61,053<br>127,071|180,082<br>102,205|241,135<br>229,276|
|Ageing Well|104,743|8,098|112,841|
|Othertrading activities|4314||4,314|
|Investment income|17,523||17,523|
|Total|405,568|290,385|695,953|
|Expenditure on||||
|Raising funds|2||2|
|Charitable activities||||
|Community Support<br>Information andAdvice|64,019<br>65,452|180,082<br>102,205|244,101<br>167,657|
|Ageing Well|115,014|8,098|123,112|
|Partnership Development|179,045|911|179,956|
|Total|423,532|291,29|714,828|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|(17.964)|(91 )|(18,875)|
|Reconciliation offunds||||
|Total funds brought forward|491,887|14,536|506,423|
|Total funds carried forward|473,923|13,625|487,548|





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|14.|Tangible fixedassets||Plant and|
|---|---|---|---|
||||machinery|
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||Cost|||
||Additions||2,000|
||Depreciation|||
||Charge for year||250|
||Netbookvalue|||
||At 31 March 2025||1,750|
||At 31 March 2024|||
|18.|Debtors: amountsfalling duewithin oneyear|||
|||2025|2024|
|||£|£|
||Prepayments and accrued income|17,340|31,862|
|16.|Creditors: amounts falling duewithin oneyear|2025|2024|
|||£|£|
||Bank loans and overdrafts (see note 17)||45,804|
||Trade creditors|12,654|9,336|
||Social security and other taxes<br>Other creditors|8,061<br>1,554|10,188<br>1,654|
||Accruals and deferred income|7.936|46,939|
|||30,205|113,821|
||Incuded within accruals and deferred income above is the following deferred income:|||
|||2025|2024|
|||£|£|
||Deferred income brought forward<br>Released toSOFA|40,780<br>(40,780)|34,974<br>(34,974)|
||Additional income deferred in the year|4,365|40,780|
|||4,365|40,780|
|17.|Loans|||
||An analysis of the maturity ofloans is given below:|||
|||2025|2024|
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||Amounts falling due within oneyear on demand:<br>Bank overdrafts||45,804|





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|Within one year<br>Between one and five years|16,605|25.870<br>2,205|
||16,605|28,075|



|Movement infunds||||
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|||movement|At|
||At14.24|infunds|31.3.25|
||£|£|£|
|Unrestricted funds||||
|General fund|473,923|(27,250)|446,673|
|Restricted funds||||
|Broker Service (CS)||5,623|5,523|
|CardiffWelfare Rights (I&A)<br>Pendoylan & St Donats Trust|13,625|2,429<br>(420)|2,429<br>13,205|
|National Lottery (AW)||3,249|3,249|
||13,625|10,781|24,406|
|TOTAL FUNDS|487,548|(16.469)|471,079|
|Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:||||
||Incoming<br>resources|Resources<br>expended|Movement<br>infunds|
||£|£|£|
|Unrestricted funds||||
|General fund|390,202|(417,452)|(27,250)|
|Restricted funds||||
|Community Volunteer Support(CS)||||
||60,000|(60,000)||
|Vale Good Neighbours (CS)<br>Advocacy and Residential Care (1&A)|30927<br>67,353|(30,927)<br>(67.353)||
|Hope Advocacy Project (18A)<br>BrokerService (CS)|2,400<br>84,999|(2,400)<br>(79.476)|5,523|
|CardiffWelfare Rights (1&A)<br>Pendoylan & St Donats Trust|34,000<br>1|(31,571)<br>(421)|2,429<br>(420)|
|Stronger Communities (AW)|12,416|(12,416)||
|National Lottery (AW)<br>Glamorgan Vale Services (AW)|4,409<br>2,604|(1,160)<br>(2,604)|3,249|
||299,109|(288,328)|10,781|
|TOTAL FUNDS|689,311|(705,780)|(16,469)|





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|||movement|At|
||At1.4.23|infunds|31.3.24|
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|Unrestrictedfunds||||
|General fund|491,887|(17,964)|473,923|
|Restricted funds||||
|Pendoylan & St Donats Trust|14,536|(911)|13,625|
|TOTAL FUNDS|506,423|(18,875)|487,548|
|Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above areas follows:||||
||Incoming<br>resources|Resources<br>expended|Movement<br>infunds|
||£|£|£|
|Unrestrictedfunds||||
|General fund|405,568|(423,532)|(17,964)|
|Restricted funds||||
|Community VolunteerSupport(CS)||||
||62,265|(62,265)||
|Vale Good Neighbours(CS)<br>Advocacy and Residential Care (1&A)|32,817<br>65,391|(32,817)<br>(65,391)||
|Hope Advocacy Project (1&A)<br>BrokerService(CS)|2,400<br>85,000|(2,400)<br>(85,000)||
|CardiffWelfare Rights (I&A)<br>Pendoylan & St Donats Trust<br>Stronger Communities (AW)|34414<br>8,008|(34.414)<br>(911)<br>(8,098)|911)|
||290,385|(291,296)|911)|
|TOTALFUNDS|695,953|(714,828)|(18,875)|
|A currentyear 12 months and prioryear 12 months combined position is as follows:||||
|||Net||
|||movement|At|
||At14.23|infunds|31.3.25|
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|Unrestrictedfunds||||
|General fund|491,887|(45,214)|446,673|
|Restricted funds||||
|BrokerService(CS)||5,523|5,523|
|CardiffWelfare Rights (I&A)<br>Pendoylan & St Donats Trust|14,536|2,429<br>(1,331)|2,429<br>13.205|
|National Lottery (AW)||3.249|3,249|
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|TOTAL FUNDS|506,423|(35,344)|471,079|





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|||Incoming<br>resources|Resources<br>expended|Movement<br>infunds|Movement<br>infunds|
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|Unrestrictedfunds||||||
|General fund||795,770|(840,984)||(45,214)|
|Restricted funds||||||
|Community Volunteer Support(CS)||||||
|||122,265|(122,265)|||
|Vale Good Neighbours (CS)||63,744|(63.744)|||
|Advocacy and Residential Care|(1&A)|132,744|(132,744)|||
|Hope Advocacy Project(I8A)<br>BrokerService (CS)||4,800<br>169,999|(4.800)<br>(164,476)||5,523|
|CardiffWelfare Rights (1&A)<br>Pendoyian &St Donats Trust||68,414<br>1|(65,985)<br>(1,332)||2,429<br>(1,331)|
|Stronger Communities (AW)||20,514|(20,514)|||
|National Lottery (AW)<br>Glamorgan Vale Services (AW)||4,409<br>2,604|(1,160)<br>(2,604)||3,249|
|||589,494|(579,624)||9,870|
|TOTAL FUNDS||1,385,264|(1,420,608)||(35,344)|
|Restricted Funds||||||
||Volunteerbefriending and support to older people in the|||||
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|Name|Nature oftransaction|2025|2024|
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|||£|£|
|WHQS Ltd|Expenditure paid to|25,328|6.624|
|Severn-bay Insurance|Expenditure paid to|6,201|1,634|



