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2021-03-31-accounts

Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL)

Charity number 1139555

A company limited by guarantee number 07202588

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the year ended 31 March 2021

Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL)

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2021

Contents Page
Trustees' report 2 to 11
Examiner's report 12
Statement of financial activities 13
Balance sheet 14
Notes to the accounts 15 to 20

Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service

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Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2021

Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors

The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position Dates

Eleanor Broadbent Miriam Moss Sarah Howells Treasurer Lindsay Britton-Robertson Laura Brown Rosemary Carr Grace Sumner Alina Wahab Rosalind Weaver Alexandra Swadling Georgina Tripp Secretary Sally Dowell Treasurer Katherine Russell Kristen Dundon Sian Cosgrove

Appointed September 2020 Appointed September 2020 Appointed September 2020 Appointed September 2020 Appointed October 2020 Appointed September 2020 Appointed September 2020, resigned February 2011 Resigned September 2020 Resigned 30 June 2020 Resigned December 2020 Resigned 31 July 2020 Resigned October 2020

Registered and principal address

7 Eastgate Leeds LS2 7LY Bankers National Westminster Bank CAF Bank Shawbrook Bank Limited 8 Park Row 25 Kings Hill Avenue Lutea House Leeds Kings Hill, West Malling Warley Hill Business Park, The Drive LS1 5HD Kent. ME19 4TA Great Warley, Brentwood Essex. CM13 3BE

Independent examiner

Simon Bostrom FCIE West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

Structure, governance and management

SARSVL registered with Companies House as a Company Limited by Guarantee (Company Number: 7202588) on 25th March 2010 and with the Charity Commission (Registered Charity Number: 1139555) on 29th December 2010. SARSVL’s governing document is a Memorandum & Articles of Association.

Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees

The trustees of the charity are also the directors for the purposes of company law and are appointed by the members at the AGM.

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Volunteers

Volunteers are at the heart of SARSVL and are involved in all aspects of the organisation, through membership of the Board of Trustees, to offering direct services to women and girls and also with service support activities. We welcome new volunteers who approach the organisation in a number of ways,

including via direct recruitment for service delivery volunteers. We had four volunteer Counsellors and twelve active Helpline volunteers during this period.

Paid Staff

The staffing structure at 31 March 2021 consisted of:

The charity's objects

SARSVL’s objects as set out in the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association are:

1) To relieve the mental and physical distress of women and girls affected, or at risk of being affected, by rape and sexual violence, recognising their diverse needs;

2) To promote the education of the public and to raise awareness of rape and sexual violence and its effects; 3) To promote research into rape and sexual violence and its effects and to disseminate or publish the useful results of such research.

Aims

Objectives

SARSVL has the following objectives to achieve these aims by:

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Objectives (continued)

Trustees' Statement

As a Board we would like to express our gratitude and admiration for those who have championed SARSVL's mission and ensure that we can continue as the Rape Crisis Centre for Leeds. Without our supporters we would not be able to sustain our specialist provision for the women and girls who need us.

SARSVL is, and continues to be, a proudly independent feminist organisation, led by the women and girls we support and meeting the needs of survivors with our specialist Helpline, ISVA (Independent Sexual Violence Advocates) and Counselling services.

At our core we continue to be a group of dedicated and passionate women working together as volunteers and staff members. We are privileged to have passionate and dedicated women who give their time to us freely as Trustees, Helpline and Counselling volunteers. This is a true testament to our power as a voluntary sector organisation.

This year there were significant changes to our Board as a number of long service Trustees moved on and a recruitment campaign welcomed six new Board Members. Monthly board meetings were held via Zoom for the whole of the year due to Covid 19 restrictions. SARSVL is open to exploring how this innovation can be productively utilised once pandemic conditions are eased.

As the whole world was affected by the devastating pandemic we were presented with challenges in adapting to changing operating conditions, a challenge that was met very successfully. All staff, volunteers and service users were able to respond quickly and effectively to providing and receiving our services remotely. This was supported by various streams of funding set up in response to the lockdown, which enabled SARSVL, along with other charities to function effectively during this difficult period.

We are grateful for the opportunity to have drawn down emergency Covid funding from a lot of our current funders but also MIND large Coronavirus mental health response fund, NHS England Covid fund, CAF emergency Covid fund and the PCC Safer Communities Covid fund to enable our staff and volunteers to continue to provide our much- needed services remotely. Thanks go to the staff who identified, accessed and bid for the funding released quickly and with a rapid turnaround, the staff and volunteers who explored and implemented new and different ways of working and to our services users for coming with us in this new direction.

It is probably worth mentioning here that the learning from this experience will continue into service delivery when social distancing and lockdown have passed, the advantage being that our services have now become even more accessible for many. Indeed, the skills learnt from remote working can be extended to all parts of the organisation, enabling SARSVL to become a more flexible working environment, benefiting those who wish to work with us as well as those that are in receipt of our services.

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Trustees' Statement (continued)

This year, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, we were very fortunate to continue our relationship with the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Cllr Eileen Taylor as her Chosen Charity during the second year of her tenure. Like any small charity, we are humbled and delighted each and every time that a supporter helps to raise our profile. We are especially heartened by our continuing partnership with the Lord Mayor’s office, which represents a myriad of uniquely exciting opportunities for SARSVL and the communities of Leeds that the Lord Mayor

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The future of SARSVL, like with all Rape Crisis Centres, is at the forefront of our minds and we would like to express thanks to our key funders - the Ministry of Justice, WY Police & Crime Commissioner, Lloyds Foundation, Brelms Trust, Brook Trust, Pilgrim Trust, Henry Smith Charity and Leeds Community Foundation (Wesleyan), for their financial support and, most importantly, their recognition of the impact and need of our specialist work.

We continue to be a proud member of Rape Crisis England & Wales and benefit from the experience, resource and information sharing that our sister Centres, regionally and nationally, provide to us. We equally benefit from, and are a proud member of, the specialist West Yorkshire Sexual Violence Action Partnership. We have benefited from our relationships with the other agencies we work with whose support, advice, and engagement enriches us all. We continue to procure women interpreters from Leeds City Council's Interpretation Service, which helps us to ensure that we can support women for whom English is not a first language.

It is our belief that it is our supporters, funders, staff, volunteers and community partners that will continue to be key to our support of women affected by rape and sexual violence, both now in the uncertainty caused by the ongoing pandemic and long into the future.

The end of this year sees us moving into the first year of a new five-year Business Plan and with an organisational restructure on the horizon we look forward to meeting the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Public benefit statement

Mission Statement

SARSVL is a feminist organisation that exists to support women and girls who have been affected by sexual violence of any kind at any time in their lives. We promote their needs and rights and work towards the elimination of sexual violence.

How our activities deliver public benefit

Our main activities and who we try to help are described below. All our charitable activities focus on the support of women and girls who have been affected by rape and/or other forms of sexual violence at any time in their lives and are undertaken to further our charitable purposes for the public benefit.

Who used and benefited from our service

In 2007, the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) published the first Map of Gaps report. This study identified Leeds, the second largest district in England with a population of nearly 800,000, as one of the many areas with no specialist sexual violence provision for women and girls. SARSVL was originally set up to fill this gap.

This year our main charitable activities have been providing independent specialist advocacy support to adult women including support through the criminal justice process, specialist face to face counselling, specialist emotional support provided over the telephone, e-mail, text and face-to-face to women and girls. All services have continued on a remote face to face basis throughout the Covid 19 pandemic.

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Statistics

570 women and girls accessed SARSVL frontline services this financial year through a total of 7,285 contacts.

A breakdown of individuals accessing services and number of contacts per service are shown in the graphs below.

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Statistics (continued)

Specialist Independent Advocacy

The Independent Sexual Violence Advocacy (ISVA) Service offers emotional and practical support to women aged 16+ who are considering reporting or who have reported sexual violence to the police.

In March 2020 the Service began to operate remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Face to face sessions were replaced by telephone or online appointments. Women quickly adapted to this change to service delivery and the level of engagement remained high. There were no women who chose to defer support for when face to face delivery resumes.

The serious disruption to the Court Service as a result of the pandemic had a significant impact upon those women where charges had been authorised. Court hearings and trials were routinely cancelled, and the backlog remains at record levels. The inevitable result is that women’s support needs have increased as their mental health deteriorates, and they remain in the Service for far longer than was previously the case pre-pandemic.

In August 2020 the ISVA Service reopened to new referrals following the appointment of a new ISVA (28 hours a week). Demand for the Service has been high - for the period August 2020 to March 21 there were 93 new referrals, and a total of 137 women were supported from April 2020 to March 2021.

Despite the challenges of remote working, partnerships with other criminal justice agencies have strengthened. The most notable example is the introduction of bi-monthly case management meetings between the ISVA team and Detective Inspector Single Points of Contact from Safeguarding and CID. The meetings were introduced in May 2020 and have dramatically improved working relationships with the police, but, more importantly for the women we support, they have been instrumental in achieving positive outcomes in terms of case progression.

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Specialist Counselling

The Counselling service has run entirely remotely continuing to offer holistic, feminist, trauma-informed women-centred counselling to adult women survivors of any form of sexual violence. The service has continued to provide either 20 sessions of weekly counselling or eight weekly self-care sessions, including pre-trial therapy.

Supervision and case management of staff and volunteers has been provided remotely by the Senior Counsellor/Counselling Service Manager, ensuring that risk is managed effectively, and that staff and volunteers are well supported.

To support women whilst they wait for 1:1 counselling, the service piloted a remote pre-therapy group focussing on psychoeducation and management of trauma symptoms. Led by an experienced therapist, its success has enabled us to secure funding to roll out a continuing group programme over the forthcoming year.

We have continued to see a huge demand for our counselling service. Whilst some women have chosen to wait until we are able to offer face to face sessions again. A high proportion of women have felt able to work remotely via video conferencing or telephone, and for many women this flexible way of working has improved their access to the service. The service has provided 955 counselling sessions to 93 women this year.

All Counsellors work from different therapeutic approaches while providing holistic, trauma-informed womencentred counselling creating reach and diverse support. This year we have also been able to add the NICE recommended therapy for post –traumatic stress disorder, Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) to the range of modalities that we now offer.

Specialist Helpline Support (telephone, SMS text and email emotional support)

This report focuses on SARSVL Helpline developments from April 2020 to March 2021. This period covers the majority of the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the helpline. Previously the helpline had been operating 6 days a week during the evening, including one weekend day. By April 2020, the effect of the pandemic meant the helpline was operating on 2 weekdays only, with 2 different shift times with the majority of helpline volunteers going on a break. The pandemic reduced the pool of active volunteers from 25 volunteers to, at its lowest point in August 2020, 8 volunteers, of which 2 were Rape Crisis England and Wales Live Chat volunteers. This meant that the helpline coordinator was covering many shifts.

The focus of the helpline in this period was to first ensure it did not close and the remainder of the year has been focussed on an effort to rebuild the helpline as closely as possible to its capacity pre-pandemic.

During the year, there were a number of changes and developments on the SARSVL Helpline as follows:

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Specialist Helpline Support (telephone, SMS text and email emotional support) (continued)

Plans for Future Activities

Future plans include:

Specialist Independent Advocacy

Counselling

* To further increase the capacity of the counselling service to respond to local demand and reduce the length of time women spend on the waiting list.

Helpline

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The Board of Trustees

SARSVL Board of Trustees continued to monitor progress against the targets set in the current Business Plan which came to an end in April 2021. A new 5-year Business Plan has now been developed.

We will be working with the staff team to ensure safe return to the SARSVL premises after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, alongside ensuring that clear guidance and procedures are in place to deliver the services safely and remotely should the need arise again.

Diversity, accessibility and inclusion are values and principles fundamental to SARSVL’s practice and ethos. Our aims recognise that we need to reflect the community we serve and encompass the diversity of needs amongst the women and girls in Leeds who need us. The Board of Trustees coordinated a dedicated recruitment campaign to identify and select new women to join the Board in Autumn 2020.

Review of the year

SARSVL made a surplus of £129,989 in 2020-2021 (2020: a deficit of £62,857). Like all organisations, it proved to be an unusual year for SARSVL but a number of successful funding applications plus additional Covid funding has meant that we have been able to respond strongly to the pandemic and services have not been limited by a reduction in income.

The 2019/20 deficit reduced SARSVL’s unrestricted reserves by £42,797; they have been increased by £97,405 in 2020-21 and are now back to a more comfortable level. There have been two factors at play here – being the Lord Mayor’s Charity for an additional year and the sharp increase in donations in response to the murder of Sarah Everard.

The rest of the surplus for the year relates to restricted funds and will be spent on our services in 2021-2022.

Future Plans

2020-2021 was the final year of SARSVL’s five year business plan. A new plan is currently being finalised. We continue to operate in a difficult and challenging environment, especially in terms of funding, along with other voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations. There have been changes across the violence against women and girls’ sector, and we are noticing increased competition for funding amongst non-specialist and specialist sexual violence organisations which will have an impact on services. The need for SARSVL’s services have been highlighted by the increase in sexual violence during the pandemic and recent high profile murders.

Notwithstanding the above SARSVL has been successful in early 2021/22 in applying for additional funding to expand our services, donations are strong and the final financial outcome of a staggering £69,000 being raised by the Lord Mayor means that our short/medium term financial position is robust.

At the time of signing these accounts the charity has been impacted by the global Covid-19 virus. The trustees have reassessed the charity’s ability to continue for at least 12 months from the date that the accounts are approved and conclude that no material uncertainties exist that cast significant doubt on the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Reserves policy

In considering the reserve requirements for SARSVL the Trustees have considered the needs of the women we work with, our legal obligations and identified risk to our income and expenditure.

As an organisation that provides services to vulnerable women the Trustees believe that a level of reserves should be maintained to ensure stability and continuity of service provision and if required, a managed service closure, with time to enable alternative support provision to be arranged.

Trustees continue to hold an informal reserve of £5,000 to ensure the continuation of the Helpline service in a worst case scenario situation. The building lease is extended until 2023. A premises review is currently underway. At this point the initial contingency of £10,000 is being maintained but trustees are not increasing this in 2021/22.

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Reserves policy (continued)

The risk to sustainable funding remains. The deficit of £63,000 in 2019/20 is still in trustees’ minds and it is important that we maintain a level of reserves that allows us to have one or two lean years without a break in service. Funding has been secured for 2021/22 but longer-term funding applications are still being made. Mindful of the challenging environment in which charities operate and that monthly cash requirements are approximately £30,000, trustees would ideally like a cushion of £150,000 to £200,000 in unrestricted reserves. At 31 March 2021 unrestricted reserves are £205,418. Trustees are comfortable that these are adequate to meet the current needs of the organisation.

Statement of trustees' responsibilities

The trustees (who are also the directors for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees report and the financial statements in accordance with the applicable law and UK Accounting Standards.

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for the year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;

observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;

make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

prepare the accounts on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable 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 charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (Charities SORP (FRS102)), and in accordance with the special provisions of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Signed on behalf of the board of trustees on 25 August 2021

Sarah Howells (Trustee)

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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL)

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charitable company for the year ended 31 March 2021, which are set out on pages 13 to 20.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees of the charitable company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the charitable company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner's statement

Since the charitable company'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 ACIE 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:

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 accounts to be reached.

Simon Bostrom FCIE

6 September 2021

West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service

Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

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Statement of Financial Activities

(including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2021

Notes
2021
Unrestricted
funds
£
Income from:
Grants and donations
(2)
95,774
Sales and fees
9,301
Other income
373
Total income
105,448
Expenditure on:
Salaries
(3)
3,822
Payroll and recruitment
-
Staff travel and training
630
Volunteers expenses
-
Rent, rates and utilities
-
Repairs, renewals and cleaning
-
Depreciation
746
Telephones, mobiles and internet
375
Website and IT
-
Equipment
-
Printing and publicity
-
Stationery, postage and books
285
Insurance
-
Freelance support
795
Memberships and donations
803
Interpretation services
-
Refreshments
-
Cost of generating funds
47
Miscellaneous expenses
180
Trustee and governance costs
-
Independent examination
360
Monitoring and evaluation
-
Service user direct costs
-
HR support
-
Total expenditure
8,043
Net income / (expenditure)
97,405
Fund balances brought forward
108,013
Fund balances carried forward
(4)
205,418		 2021
Restricted
funds
£
375,324
-
-
375,324
221,370
3,759
2,602
566
45,410
3,281
-
11,579
5,785
12,449
4,342
403
2,199
15,036
1,117
1,230
126
371
69
15
1,080
990
7,887
1,074
342,740
32,584
8,264
40,848		 2021
Total
funds
£
471,098
9,301
373
480,772
225,192
3,759
3,232
566
45,410
3,281
746
11,954
5,785
12,449
4,342
688
2,199
15,831
1,920
1,230
126
418
249
15
1,440
990
7,887
1,074
350,783
129,989
116,277
246,266		 2020
Total
funds
£
209,229
13,977
561
223,767
188,323
1,572
3,134
5,366
47,605
1,507
1,807
7,083
1,483
3,069
4,386
1,096
2,129
6,280
718
2,828
458
2,887
279
363
1,080
2,381
790
-
286,624
(62,857)
179,134
116,277

All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

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Balance sheet

as at 31 March 2021
2021
Unrestricted
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
(5)
-
Total fixed assets
-
Current assets
Debtors and prepayments
(6)
40,528
Cash at bank and in hand
(7)
167,298
Total current assets
207,826
Current liabilities:
amounts falling due within one year
Creditors and accruals
(8)
2,408
Deferred income
-
Total current liabilities
2,408
Net current assets / (liabilities)
205,418
Net assets
205,418
Funds
Unrestricted funds
205,418
Restricted funds
-
Total funds
205,418		 2021
Restricted
£
-
-
5,654
35,194
40,848
-
-
-
40,848
40,848
-
40,848
40,848		 2021
Total
£
-
-
46,182
202,492
248,674
2,408
-
2,408
246,266
246,266
205,418
40,848
246,266		 2020
Total
£
746
746
14,557
118,232
132,789
2,258
15,000
17,258
115,531
116,277
108,013
8,264
116,277

For the year ending 31 March 2021 the charitable company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476. The trustees (who also the directors for the purposes of company law) acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime and with FRS 102 (effective January 2019).

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 25 August 2021

Sarah Howells (Trustee)

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Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 March 2021

1 Accounting policies

Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) and with the Charities Act 2011.

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year. No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.

Going concern

The trustees are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the resources, it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Grants and donations

Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.

Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.

Expenditure and liabilities

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

Taxation

As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets costing more than £1,000 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Gifted assets are shown at the value to the charity on receipt. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost on a straight line basis over their expected useful economic lives as follows: Fixtures and Fittings: over 5 years Office equipment: over 3 years

Pensions

The charity operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.

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Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2021

1 Accounting policies (continued)

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.

Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.

Leases

Rents under operating leases are charged on a straight line basis over the lease term or to an earlier date if the lease can be determined without financial penalty.

2 Grants and donations
Brelms Trust
Brook Trust
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
LCC Digital Inclusion
Lloyds Bank Foundation
MIND
Ministry of Justice
NHS England
Pilgrims Trust
Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW)
The Henry Smith Charity
Wesleyan Foundation
West Yorkshire PCC
Donations		 2021
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
50,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
45,774
95,774		 2021
Restricted
funds
£
4,680
15,000
8,755
1,000
8,892
40,847
163,981
4,000
15,000
-
40,000
-
73,169
-
375,324		 2021
Total
funds
£
4,680
15,000
8,755
1,000
58,892
40,847
163,981
4,000
15,000
-
40,000
-
73,169
45,774
471,098		 2020
Total
funds
£
4,000
-
-
-
25,000
1,991
64,260
-
-
12,824
-
9,838
50,000
41,316
209,229
Staff costs and numbers
Gross salaries
Social security costs
Pensions		 2021
£
207,353
10,142
7,697
225,192		 2020
£
174,838
5,647
7,838
188,323

3 Staff costs and numbers

The average number employees during the year was 10.5, being an average of 6.4 full time equivalent (2020: 10.7, 6.2 FTE). There were no employees with emoluments above £60,000.

Defined contribution pension scheme 2021 2020
£ £
Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year 7,697 7,838

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Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2021

4 Restricted funds
Wesleyan Foundation
Ministry of Justice
West Yorkshire PCC (WYPCC)
WYPCC Covid
WYPCC Safer Communities
Brook Trust
Brelms Trust
Lloyds Bank Foundation
MIND
The Henry Smith Charity
Pilgrims Trust
LCC Digital Inclusion
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
NHS England		 Balance b/f
£
8,264
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8,264		 Incoming
£
-
163,981
50,000
17,279
5,890
15,000
4,680
8,892
40,847
40,000
15,000
1,000
8,755
4,000
375,324		 Outgoing
£
8,264
163,981
50,000
17,279
5,890
12,275
4,680
8,892
30,724
12,000
15,000
1,000
8,755
4,000
342,740		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Balance c/f
£
-
-
-
-
-
2,725
-
-
10,123
28,000
-
-
-
-
40,848

Fund name

Purpose of restriction

Wesleyan Foundation Ministry of Justice

WYPCC WYPCC Covid WYPCC Safer Communities Brook Trust Brelms Trust Lloyds Bank Foundation MIND The Henry Smith Charity Pilgrims Trust LCC Digital Inclusion CAF NHS England

To help the charity to sustain helpline services for a year Towards the provision of support for adult female victims of rape and sexual abuse, and to help reduce waiting times for victims to access specialist support.

To provide emotional and practical support to victims of sexual violence. For the provision of services in the Covid pandemic To extend the helpline during the Covid pandemic To support the counselling service

To contribute towards the costs of the senior counsellor. For the provision of services in the Covid pandemic To fund a Coronavirus mental health response For provision of a specialist counselling service For provision of a specialist counselling service For costs of running the Tandem System for the helpline Funding for a response to the Covid health emergency To support victims of sexual violence during the Covid pandemic

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Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL)

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2021

5
6
7
**8 **		 Tangible assets
Cost
At 1 April 2020
Disposals
At 31 March 2021
Depreciation
At 1 April 2020
Depn reversed re. disposals
Charge for year
At 31 March 2021
Net book value
At 31 March 2021
At 31 March 2020
Debtors and prepayments
Debtors
Prepayments
Cash at bank and in hand
NatWest Current Account
CAF Account
Shawbrook bank
Petty Cash
PayPal
Creditors and accruals
Loans and overdrafts
Creditors
Accruals		 £
7,083
(7,083)
-
7,083
(7,083)
-
-
-
-
Office
equipment		 £
17,861
(9,627)
8,234
17,115
(9,627)
746
8,234
-
746
2021
£
31,422
14,760
46,182
2021
£
6,169
195,122
1,000
197
4
202,492
2021
£
80
2,328
2,408
Fixtures &
Fittings		 Total
£
24,944
(16,710)
8,234
24,198
(16,710)
746
8,234
-
746
2020
£
1,256
13,301
14,557
2020
£
13,890
34,141
70,000
197
4
118,232
2020
£
1,178
1,080
2,258

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Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL)

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2021

9 Related party transactions

Trustee expenses

During the year 2 trustees were paid a total of £10 in respect of travel (previous year: 3 trustees and £143).

Trustee remuneration and benefits

Name of trustee
Legal authority
Katherine Russell
Governing document		 2021
£
-
-		 2020
£
300
300

No trustee received any other remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.

Remuneration and benefits received by key management personnel

All the Trustees/directors of the governing body are key personnel for the charity although they are unpaid. The charity operates a flattened structure across the staff team whom work collaboratively with the Trustees/Directors. The Charity classes all of its staff team as key personnel but for the purpose of this disclosure the charity has a small senior staff team comprising of a full time Senior Counsellor, full time Senior ISVA, full time Senior Helpline Co-ordinator and 24 hour Senior HR & Financial management. Their pay is included and amounts to £151,637 (2020 £90,964).

No trustee received any remuneration or benefit in this capacity during this or the previous year.

10 Operating leases
Within one year
In the second to fifth years inclusive
Expected future minimum lease payments over the remaining
life of the lease, analysed into the period in which the
commitment falls due:		 2021
£
25,942
31,743
57,685		 2020
£
11,957
4,485
16,442

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Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL)

Statement of Financial Activities including comparatives for all funds (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2021

2021
2020
Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds
funds
£
£
Income
Grants and donations
95,774
41,316
Sales and fees
9,301
13,977
Other income
373
561
Total income
105,448
55,854
Expenditure
Salaries
3,822
47,954
Payroll and recruitment
-
391
Staff travel and training
630
1,760
Volunteers expenses
-
2,583
Rent, rates and utilities
-
22,171
Repairs, renewals and cleaning
-
1,507
Depreciation
746
1,807
Telephones, mobiles and internet
375
3,326
Website and IT
-
745
Equipment
-
163
Printing and publicity
-
4,219
Stationery, postage and books
285
469
Insurance
-
1,758
Freelance support
795
2,927
Memberships and donations
803
718
Interpretation services
-
727
Refreshments
-
299
Cost of generating funds
47
2,833
Miscellaneous expenses
180
(720)
Trustee and governance costs
-
363
Independent examination
360
1,080
Monitoring and evaluation
-
781
Service user direct costs
-
790
HR support
-
-
Total expenditure
8,043
98,651
Net income / (expenditure)
97,405
(42,797)
Fund balances brought forward
108,013
150,810
Fund balances carried forward
205,418
108,013		 2021
Restricted
funds
£
375,324
-
-
375,324
221,370
3,759
2,602
566
45,410
3,281
-
11,579
5,785
12,449
4,342
403
2,199
15,036
1,117
1,230
126
371
69
15
1,080
990
7,887
1,074
342,740
32,584
8,264
40,848		 2020
Restricted
funds
£
167,913
-
-
167,913
140,369
1,181
1,374
2,783
25,434
-
-
3,757
738
2,906
167
627
371
3,353
-
2,101
159
54
999
-
-
1,600
187,973
(20,060)
28,324
8,264		 2021
Total
funds
£
471,098
9,301
373
480,772
225,192
3,759
3,232
566
45,410
3,281
746
11,954
5,785
12,449
4,342
688
2,199
15,831
1,920
1,230
126
418
249
15
1,440
990
7,887
1,074
350,783
129,989
116,277
246,266		 2020
Total
funds
£
209,229
13,977
561
223,767
188,323
1,572
3,134
5,366
47,605
1,507
1,807
7,083
1,483
3,069
4,386
1,096
2,129
6,280
718
2,828
458
2,887
279
363
1,080
2,381
790
-
286,624
(62,857)
179,134
116,277

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