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2022-03-31-accounts

Annual Report and Accounts 2021 - 2022

Charity registration number: 1140925 Company registration number: 07436153

disAbility Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

Contents

Acknowledgements 1
Legal and Administrative Information 2
Management and People 3 - 5
Our Vision, Mission, Aims and Values 6
Foreword from the Chair of Trustees 7 - 8
Activities, Achievements and Performance 9 - 15
Chief Executive’s report 16 - 17
Structure, Governance and Management 18 - 21
Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities 22
Independent auditor’s report 23 - 26
Financial Statements 27 - 57
Contact information 58

Acknowledgements

A very special thank you to our grant funders, without whom we could not undertake our valuable work, supporting people with a long-term health condition or disability, their carers and families in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly:

BBC Children in Need

Charles Reynold Fund Cornwall Community Foundation

Cornwall Council

European Regional Development Fund

European Social Fund

Masonic Charitable Trust

NHS Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly ICB

Skills for Care

The Clare Milne Trust

The National Lottery Community Fund The Sobell Foundation

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Legal and administrative information

Charity operating name disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Charity registered name Disability Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Charity registration number 1140925 Company registration number 07436153 Governing instrument Constitution adopted 25 April 1997, amended 30 July 2003 and 6 June 2006. Memorandum and articles of association adopted 11 November 2010 Principal address Units 1G/H Guildford Road Industrial Estate Guildford Road Hayle Cornwall TR27 4QZ www.disabilitycornwall.org.uk Independent Auditor Mark Williams FCA DChA RRL LLP Peat House Newham Road Truro Cornwall TR1 2DP

Bankers CAF Bank Limited 25 Kings Hill Avenue West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ Solicitors Stephens Scown LLP Osprey House Malpas Road TR1 1UT

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Management and People

Trustees / Directors

Christine Simpson Chair Stephen Helley Vice Chair Francis Rowe Treasurer Trevor Bailey Until 31 March Joe Stinton Sharon Kilty George Le Hunte Benjamin Oliver Craig Carscadden MBE

Patron

David Wetherill

Advisers Steve Harry Nigel Walker

Staff

Core Team

Core Team
James Burrows Web Administrator
Jane Johnson MBE Chief Executive Officer
Katie Pratt Finance Manager
Amy Findlater Project Lead & Disability Alliance Secretariat
Sharon Riley Executive Support
Dr Theo Blackmore Leaders with Lived Experience
Payroll and Managed Accounts Service
Lynne Drew Care and Support Lead
Fiona Wallis Care and Support Administrator
Sharon Riley Care and Support Administrator Until Aug 2020
Christina Sandow Care and Support Administrator
Advice Services
Theresa Court Advice Services Manager
Debbie Iles Senior Independent Living Adviser (DIAL)
Jeremy Toman DIAL Adviser
Beverly Richards DIAL Adviser
Catherine Brady DIAL Adviser
Wanda Summers NHS Waiting List Project Since Jan 2022

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Carers Service

Danielle Roberts Helen Page Wellbeing Friend Cathy Galsworthy Wellbeing Friend Mary Pellow Wellbeing Friend Anne Horsefall Wellbeing Friend Keith Coleman Khiara Inglis Hannah Ali Benjamin Iles

From July 2020 From July 2020 From Nov 2020 From March 2021

Inclusion Matters

Naomi Stevenson DIAL Adviser Michael Goodenough Community Coach Caroline Law DIAL Adviser Danielle Roberts Consultation Officer

From Nov 2020

Village Works

Natalie Goldsworthy Village Spotter Adele Nankervis Disability Adviser

Wellbeing Friends

Helen Page Wellbeing Friend From July 2020 Cathy Galsworthy Wellbeing Friend From July 2020 Mary Pellow Wellbeing Friend From Nov 2020 Anne Horsefall Wellbeing Friend From Mar 2021

Happiness and Wellbeing

Vivien Taylor Bernard Tansey

Support Planning & Brokerage and Humans

Romy-Jo Johnson Support Planning & Brokerage and Humans Lead Vaughan Temby Personalised Care Lead Caroline Law Nicole Taylor From Jul 2021 Joe Tempest From Sep 2021 Tamsyn Vowden From Sep 2021 Sam Trevains From Aug 2021 Jen Walsham From Sep 2021 Leah Willoughby From Sep 2021 Sarah Braunton From Sep 2021 Bobbi-Lee Curtis From Sep 2021 Vicky Taylor From Nov 2021

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Beth Jones Kaya McLeod Gary Hawthorne Dorinda Rotchell Natalie Palmer Amy Houston

Support Broker Dec 2021 – Apr 2022 Support Broker Dec 2021 – Apr 2022 Personalised Care Lead From Dec 2021 Personalised Care Lead From Jan 2021 Personalised Care Lead From Jan 2022 Support Broker From Jan 2022

Other Honey Finbow

Office Cleaner

From March 2022

Volunteers Geoff Squibb Access Auditor

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Our Vision, Mission, Aims and Values

Vision

A fully inclusive society with equality of opportunity for all.

Mission

To R epresent, I nclude, S upport and E mpower people of any age living with a long-term health condition or disability, their carers and families.

Strategic Aims

We:

Represent our stakeholders through ensuring ‘voice’ is central to decision-making processes, taking positive action, challenging inequality and advocating best practice.

Include our stakeholders in opportunities to shape a more inclusive society through sharing their needs and aspirations.

Support our stakeholders with the information, services and practical support necessary to meet their needs, achieve potential and enjoy quality of life.

Empower our stakeholders through promoting a rights-based approach towards achieving independence, choice and control.

Values

Our values represent what is important to us as an independent, user-led organisation. They guide our actions and behaviours as we work together towards our vision of ‘a fully inclusive society with equality of opportunity for all’:

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Foreword from the Chair of Trustees

I’m grateful that compared to a year ago when writing my foreword, the height of the Covid19 Pandemic is further behind us. However we are all still undeniably feeling the effects and it seems the world has changed irreversibly because of it. The crises in our Health Care and Social Care systems have continued to worsen – something we witness daily on our frontline services and we are forging ahead with our innovative solutions to relieve some of the pressures in Cornwall which are resulting in so many people going without the care and support they need.

An overview of our activities is given further on in this report, showing the breadth and diversity of the support we deliver. The charity’s income has increased by more than two and a half times compared to the year before and our staffing has more than doubled to enable us to deliver more services to more people than ever in our 25-year history. Very well done to our fundraising staff who work so hard to ensure we can fund the vital services we deliver. We do not have the luxury of dedicated fundraising staff, so it is down to our Chief Executive and Projects Officer to secure grants and contracts alongside their day jobs.

Our biggest undertaking this year has been the continued development of Humans Cornwall – our Support Planning and Brokerage Service established in response to community need. We are passionate about personalisation within our care and support systems, ensuring people have the opportunity to shape their support. Medical model approaches do not allow for a person’s needs and wishes to be heard; instead we start with a person’s individual strengths, preferences and aspirations and allow them to have choice and control about how and when they are supported to live, maximising their chances to live independently for longer. The Humans Cornwall team started with just two staff members during the pandemic, and has since developed into a 37 strong team with its own distinct service identity, with one of the original staff members stepping up to the role of Service Lead, a role with a huge remit, from shaping the service with commissioners, to training and mentoring dozens of new staff. We will continue to put our case forward for long-term commissioning of this vital service.

We were particularly delighted this year to see our Chief Executive, Jane Johnson, awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for ‘services to disabled people’. She has worked tirelessly over a 20 year career at disAbility Cornwall and this was a much deserved recognition.

Owing to the growth in every one of our services, we have comprehensively outgrown our modest office building on an industrial estate in Hayle, which has been home to the charity for over 10 years. Staff are getting by with a combination of hybrid working, desk sharing, noise cancelling headphones, and even using the foyer/reception area as desk space. We desperately need to move to larger premises, and plans are under way to relocate to purpose built offices on the grounds of Hayle Rugby Football Club.

While some home working and remote meetings are still commonplace since the pandemic, our staff have rediscovered the value of face-to-face working, for building relationships,

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effective communication and collaboration, training new staff, increasing meaningful participation and work satisfaction. The last activity to resume in real life will be our Trustee Board Meetings, the first in-person meeting taking place in October 2022.

This will be the perfect opportunity for staff members to update the Board on all aspects of the charity’s work, and just as importantly, for the Board to thank staff in person for their hard work and dedication over the last year.

Mrs Christine Simpson, M.Phil Chair

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Activities, Performance & Achievements

Disability Information & Advice Line (DIAL)

DIAL is a free service and is the gateway to many of our other services. This year we maintained our extended opening hours and staffing which began as a Covid response and the need has continued. People receive information and advice from our team of qualified, professional advisers and case record accordingly, across the areas of:

This year we supported 1,498 people (1,426 in the prior year) through 5,594 individual actions and assisted in raising an additional £377,510 in household income for our clients (£489,344 in prior year). The majority of clients were over the age of 50. Most had a longterm health condition and for the first time ever, more people with mental health conditions rather than people with a physical disability accessed the service. 67% of enquires fell into the Money and Welfare Entitlements category, followed closely by Independent Living & Equipment, and Health and Well-being (ASC issues) both at 10%, then Housing and Home environment at 7%. Our lowest category is Training & Education (1.5%). Our annual survey of a sample of clients showed we made ‘a lot of difference’ to 93% of our clients

Inclusion Matters

We are a partner in this Cornwall Council commissioned service, providing multi-faceted oneto-one support to adults with health and wellbeing needs, to increase connections to their community and improve each person’s sense of wellbeing. In the year to 31 March 2022, our staff working on this project supported 366 clients (188 in the prior year). This project has been extended for a further 12 months will run until at least September 2023.

Village Works

We are a partner in this European Social Fund project, led by Inclusion Cornwall, providing one-to-one support to people who are economically excluded, unemployed or disadvantaged and living in rural coastal villages in targeted areas across the County. The project was extended by nine months and will run until September 2022.

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Who Dares Works

We are a welfare entitlements specialist partner in this European Social Fund and National Lottery Community Fund project, which is led by Active Plus. It is focussed on assisting people in West Cornwall to reconnect with education, training and employment. Our adviser continued to support people to complete benefit forms throughout the lockdowns, doing this over the phone and on video chat instead of face-to-face. The project has been extended and will run until June 2023.

Cornwall Carers Service

We are a delivery partner in this service, led by Cornwall Rural Community Charity with a five-year contract from Cornwall Council. The service started in July 2021 and by 31 March 2022 we supported 2,106 unpaid and informal carers (exceeding our targets), providing the Information & Advice Line for the service – available via telephone and email, including two evenings a week. We are proud of the quality service we have developed in this short time, where people accessing the Advice Line are provided with information, advice, low level advocacy and practical support.

Victim Support

The Cornwall Disability Alliance secured a grant from Victim Support Devon & Cornwall as a disability specialist partner. Our remit covers all crimes, except specialist provision for victims of murder and manslaughter, domestic abuse and/or sexual violence which are covered under other funding provisions. The service helps victims and those affected by crime to deal with the aftermath of experiencing crime, offering both practical and emotional support. Where appropriate we refer clients to another member of the Disability Alliance, to receive specialist support, for example a victim of crime with hearing loss may be referred to Hearing Loss Cornwall.

The Inclusivity Project

This is a European Regional Development Fund research project, led by Exeter University and for which we are the disability expert partner. Broadly speaking, the Inclusivity Project explores the barriers to employment for disabled and older workers, with a view to developing new policies and products to overcome them. Our main focus and responsibility is to be the conduit for the project to reach disabled people, so their voice, experience and opinions are heard to inform its ongoing work. This year our researcher Dr Theo Blackmore worked closely with the project, bringing his lived experience and years of disability research.

Training for Personal Assistants and Employers

Utilising Skills for Care’s User Led Organisation funding, our training service 5 Degrees West, trained 505 Personal Assistants (including prospective PAs looking to join the workforce) and three employers through online training sessions. Although we are strong advocates that there is no equal substitute for face-to-face training, our trainer ensured sessions were

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accessible, interactive and engaging. We saw many benefits to online training – attendance was better as people didn’t have to travel or take extra time away from the person they support. We will continue to use blended learning methods in the future, even now that restrictions have been removed. This year the sessions covered:

Humans Cornwall

Humans Cornwall is a new service that disAbility Cornwall has developed during the year, in reaction to urgent need and crisis in the Health and Social Care sectors. It started out as what we referred to in last year’s Annual Report as the Discharge to Assess service, where we were invited to join a pilot led by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and the Kernow CCG, along with other voluntary sector organisations, to enable them to transfer people home from hospital who were medically optimised, but for whom there were barriers to them going home. We did this through our Support Planning and Brokerage service, provision of short-term Personal Assistants and support from DIAL across housing, welfare entitlements, rights & discrimination, independent living equipment and more, all to help overcome barriers to returning home, bringing community support around an individual, in a personalised way, to help them readjust and stabilise their situation.

During the year we secured grant funding, firstly from Cornwall Council Public Health and the Containment Management Outbreak Fund, and later from NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to plug into this service and extend the support to ‘prevention’ cases – people in the community identified as needing extra support – instead of hospital discharges only.

We have increased staffing in the Humans Cornwall Team significantly, and our team comprises Personalised Care Leads, Support Brokers, Care Coordinators and a Direct Payment Community Support broker, and is supported and complemented by a countywide workforce comprising:

Humans is a social movement and capitalises on technological approaches for the mobilisation of people in communities and we work collaboratively across the health, social care and community system to share our learning and integrate.

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During the financial year, Humans supported 918 clients in total, these were made up of hospital Discharge Clients and Community Prevention clients. We provided £148,000 of support to clients in the form of deep cleans to their homes, and essential household items. We also managed the NHS one-off discharge grants, whereby patients and families were offered grants of up to £1,200 to facilitate a discharge from hospital.

Payroll & Managed Accounts Service

We provide affordable professional services to support people who receive a personal health budget from the NHS, or a social care personal budget from the local authority, or who selffund, to manage their own care package. They comprise payroll services for clients who employ their care staff directly, ensuring they receive all the support they need to fulfil their legal obligations as employers. We also provide a full wrap-around managed account service, where we receive and make all payments relating to the client’s personal budget on their behalf, alleviating the additional stress which managing your own funds can cause. At the end of this financial year, we had 356 active clients, 93 of whom used just the payroll service, 88 just a managed account service and 175 used both. Our payroll clients collectively employ 672 Personal Assistants as of 31 March 2022.

Have a Go Days

After a year of ‘virtual’ Have a Go Days via Zoom, real life sessions thankfully resumed in April 2021. These are free multi sports sessions for children with any kind of additional need or disability, plus their siblings or friends, aged 6-17. Our partner Shilton Soccer run these fun inclusive sessions at Bodmin Leisure Centre and Cornwall College in Redruth in all school holidays except Christmas. Last year we ran 21 sessions, 146 children attended at least one session. The coaches are experts in identifying each child’s needs and helping them to engage and get as much out of the activity as possible. This may mean joining in a large group game, or playing one-to-one with an ‘includer’. Children build positive memories and the sessions reduce isolation, build confidence and self-efficacy, improve mental and physical wellbeing, and provide much needed respite for parents.

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Cornwall Disability Alliance

This consortium of disability organisations in Cornwall has gone from strength to strength. disAbility Cornwall lead the alliance, the members are: iSight Cornwall, Hearing Loss Cornwall, Mid-Cornwall Lifestyles, Active8, Cornwall Accessible Activities Programme, Merlin MS Centre, Cornwall Mobility, Cornwall People First and the Cornwall Memory Café Network. We have been working on codesign, developments and co-producing funding applications to ensure a fair and proportionate investment in the disability community, to fill gaps and bolster service provisions to meet current needs. The Alliance secured significant funding from the Containment Outbreak Management Fund (COMF) – used towards Humans Cornwall, 50 sets of British Sign Language Counselling sessions, accessible Staying Safe Online videos, social activities for children, young people and adults, re-energising the Cornwall Memory Café Network, and providing Outreach for adults with a learning disability. The Alliance also secured Critically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) funding, which we used to employ a team of Wellbeing and Happiness Innovators to work across the alliance members, and to bring back DISCOVER Magazine, Cornwall’s only pan-disability lifestyle magazine

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ensuring people who are digitally excluded are provided with information and advice on what is happening within our communities, as well as topical articles.

Leaders with Lived Experience

This is a two-year project funded by the National Lottery that started in January 2021 investigating the experiences of Disabled Peoples’ Organisations (DPOs) across England during this Covid-19 pandemic. Project Officer Dr Theo Blackmore engaged with DPOs via a questionnaire and online forum events. He contributed to a mapping exercise, with the final DPO map due to be published on the DRUK website. And in July he hosted a DPO conference which included a speaker from the Ukrainian Assembly of People with Disabilities, to share how the war is disproportionately affecting disabled people in Ukraine.

Access Audit Advice and Consultancy

Our volunteer access auditor, Geoff Squibb, resumed delivery of the Walk, Wheel and Talk Service this year, after a break during social distancing. This included visits to Poldhu Cove and Gunwalloe commissioned by the National Trust, and Penzance Shop Mobility.

We also reviewed proposals and gave informal advice on the Truro Loops improvements and Looe Valley Trails.

Membership

As a user led organisation, our membership must comprise at least 51% disabled people. Our Board of Directors is elected from our membership and it must comprise at least 75% disabled people and / or carers. We had 326 individual members on 31 March 2022.

Websites

We manage the following websites:

www.disabilitycornwall.org.uk www.humansofthepeninsula.co.uk and App

www.everycustomercounts.co.uk (and App under development)

Social Media

We have recognised how important social media is to engaging with our stakeholders, and have kept our ‘followers’ up to date with information, opportunities and items of interest via:

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disAbility Cornwall & IoS Facebook page 4,095 followers
Humans Cornwall Facebook page 492 followers
Have a Go Days Facebook group 242 members
disAbility Cornwall & IoS LinkedIn account 171 followers
5 Degrees West Facebook page 113 followers

Weekly Round-Up Emails

The Weekly Round-Up of items posted onto our social media platforms are sent as an email weekly to the 901 people who have requested to receive them.

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Chief Executive’s report

This year should really be a celebratory one as we mark our 25th Anniversary, but sadly there feels little to be joyous about, with the impact of not just the last two years of the pandemic, but with the inequalities our stakeholders have faced with loneliness, isolation, managing without necessary protections, support or much needed therapies, and now facing the impact of the health and social care crisis, but all of which came on the heels of years of financial cuts in welfare reforms and increased conditionality for state support. Now we face a cruel winter ahead with the increased cost of living.

This year we will continue to strive to listen to the voice of our stakeholders and work with them to improve their situations. People living with a long-term health condition or disability have, unfairly, had to endure so much over the years and it’s our role to push for the rights and entitlements of our community and to further the inclusion agenda.

We certainly face a very busy year ahead at the charity with all the various programmes of work we are involved with and delivering, new and existing, and the partnerships we continue to cultivate to help us deliver on our mission.

During last winter we were delighted to really galvanise the Cornwall Disability Alliance, building on our relationships and securing Public Health funding to deliver specific programmes of work to meet the needs of our communities, and help with pandemic recovery. There is still funded work continuing from this, not least, we are yet to purchase a whole new fleet of sand chairs to enable us to access our lovely beaches, plus we secured longer term funding for staffing for the Cornwall Memory Cafe Network and for Humans Cornwall, to help with hospital pressures and ensure people are supported in the community at a time of difficulty. The support is holistic – we draw on resources from across sectors to wrap support around people, and we help maximise household income and secure grants or purchase vital household items.

We have truly loved working with our Disability Alliance partners and this coming year will see us really embed our relationships, and our position in county, and we sincerely hope to secure further funding collectively, so we can ensure it directly benefits our communities. We are currently undertaking a piece of work with the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust to ensure new developments are inclusive and accessible. We are confident we will be able to do so much more, together.

A considerable priority for us is the continued development of Humans Cornwall, this personalised and holistic service is delivered within people’s homes, and is a way of supporting people we have always wanted to see, but funding was never available for. Not only the core of the service, but the growth of the social movement will continue, and we will hopefully become CQC registered and ensure we are safe, caring, responsive, effective and well-led and NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB) is providing funding for this to continue until March 2023. We will launch our new App which will enable

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PAs and micro providers to join our movement so we can mobilise people where they are needed across our communities.

The wider system around is changing, and we hope, for the better. The new Integrated Care System is mandated in law from July and will see health trusts, adult social care and our VCSE sector work better together for placed based communities. We look forward to being able to better shape services to ensure they meet the needs of our stakeholders.

We have outgrown our offices, and we have an in-principle agreement with Hayle Rugby Football Club to create a wellbeing building that will also incorporate our offices in 1.5 acres of site, so this will certainly take precedence this year as we drive forward plans to accommodate our team and to ensure local provision to meet the needs of Hayle as our HQ locality.

While under development for many years, Every Customer Counts is finally complete, as both an App and website. This will enable businesses to sign up, self-assess the accessibility of their premises and receive a personalised accessibility report on what needs addressing and how. Businesses will then receive a rating and create an advert where we can search and find them on the desktop App by geographical location, business type or access features. Nothing like this currently exists in the country, so we are hopeful there will be a good take up, it will benefit businesses through being able to access the ‘purple pound’ (the spending power of disabled people) and will make society more inclusive for us all.

In the meantime, we will continue to connect with our stakeholders through our socials, in person and through Discover magazine.

Jane Johnson MBE

Chief Executive

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Structure, governance and management

The Trustees are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2022.

The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and 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) (effective 1 January 2015), including “Amendments to 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”.

Governing document

disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly is a company Limited by Guarantee governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association adopted on 11 November 2010. It is a registered charity with the Charity Commission.

Recruitment and induction of Trustees

The directors of the company are also charity Trustees for the purposes of charity law. Members of the charity may put themselves forward as Trustees. Their appointment is confirmed by members at the charity annual general meeting. New Trustees are inducted into the workings of the charity and given training when required.

All Trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity.

The organisation seeks Trustees who can provide advice and guidance based on experience on all aspects of disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly’s work, utilising their specific skills, knowledge and expertise in making sound decisions. They must have the following attributes:

The charity aims to provide a full induction programme for each new Trustee to absorb them quickly and effectively into their role within the organisation and make them feel informed, valued and welcome.

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Recruitment and induction of Trustees (continued)

They will be given:

Organisation

The Trustees are legally responsible for the overall management and control of the charity.

The Trustees delegate to the Chief Executive, responsibility for the day to day management of the charity and administrative control of the charitable funds.

The policy and general affairs of the organisation are directed by the full Board of Trustees who may exercise all powers of the charitable company as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Prior to each meeting the Board are presented with a briefing from the Chief Executive and financial reports from the Finance Officer including quarterly management accounts and projections. Project / service staff attend each meeting and provide an update on their area of work to the Board, which allows Trustees the opportunity to meet and consult with key staff on a regular basis.

Public benefit

The charity complies with the public benefit requirement through its charitable objectives.

The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning future activities. In particular the Trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set.

Equality and diversity

disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We aim to ensure that no job applicant, volunteer, employee or Trustee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, nor is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

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Risk management

The Trustees regularly assess the major risks to which the charitable company is exposed. A Risk Register is held and formally reviewed annually by the Board, or sooner if necessary. Potential risks are identified and scored based on likelihood and severity, and mitigating actions are taken as necessary. The Trustees will continue to review potential risks on a regular basis and will act to minimise or mitigate these risks as required.

The table below shows the principal risks identified by the Trustees as at 31 March 2022.

Risk area Key risk to disAbility
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly
Mitigating actions
Funding Shortfall in funding leading to
an inability to deliver services
at the level currently provided
to clients.
Opportunities to diversify funding streams
and control costs are constantly under
review.
An adequate level of reserves is held to
minimise the impact of a funding shortfall
in the short-term.
Human
resources
Failure to attract and retain a
sufficient level of skilled staff
and volunteers to deliver our
services.
The charity has successfully retained the
Investors in People Gold accreditation
since 2005 as a result of commitment to
excellent people management practices.
Training
and
career
development
opportunities are available, and total
reward packages are kept under review.
Operational Poor
service
or
noncompliance with terms
and conditions of grants and
contracts leading to loss of
funding and reputation.
Regular performance monitoring for each
service is undertaken by senior staff and
reported on quarterly to the Board. Service
Strategies are in place and communicated
to relevant staff and accompanied by
training
and
mentoring.
We
collect
feedback from service users and any
complaints received are investigated.
Grants and contract agreements reviewed
to
establish
specific
requirements.
Appropriate insurance in place, including
Cyber Protection for the first time this year.
Premises Outgrowing our office space. Hybrid working in place to allow staff to
work from the office for the majority of their
working hours. Plans underway to relocate
to new purpose built office on the site of
Hayle Rugby Football Club.
Health and
Social Care
Crises
National issues in health and
social
care
leading
to
increased
demand
for
services.
Funding secured to develop the Humans
Cornwall service, allowing us to continue to
implement
innovative
and
effective
solutions to providing care.

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Financial review

The results for the year show net income of £473,911 (2021: net expenditure £103,936) as detailed in the statement of financial activities.

Grant making policy

When funding is received which the charitable company is unable to use itself, it is passed to another suitable organisation to use for the purpose it was intended.

Investment policy

The Trustees have considered the most appropriate policy for investing funds. During the year we have closed a 12-month fixed rate savings account and 60-day notice account in favour of instant access accounts only. This ensures access to funds for operational purposes, and while interest rates are low, the loss of potential interest is not significant.

Reserves policy

In order that the charitable company can meet its objectives for disabled people in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, the Trustees have considered its resources and commitments. The charitable company is reliant on a combination of grant funding, contracts, self-generated income and donations, and the Trustees review the level of reserves required based on an assessment of the major financial risks to which the charity is exposed.

The Trustees consider that unrestricted reserves to cover approximately three months of the expected core running costs, plus costs of closing the charity, should be maintained. £205,000 of unrestricted funds have been designated for this purpose (2021: £145,000).

A separate future deficit reserve is held to cover a potential deficit over the next one to two years. £130,000 of unrestricted funds have been designated for this purpose.

Remuneration policy for key management

The Trustees consider the CEO, Advice Service Manager and Humans Cornwall Manager to comprise the key management personnel of the charity, to be in charge of directing and controlling, running and operating the charity on a day to day basis.

The pay of the senior staff is reviewed annually and normally increased in accordance with average earnings. In view of the nature of the charity, the Trustees benchmark against pay levels in other similar organisations.

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Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities

The Trustees (who are also directors of disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly, for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements 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 that period.

In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charitable company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Statement of disclosure to auditor

In so far as the Trustees are aware, there is no relevant information of which the charitable company’s auditor is unaware. Additionally, the Trustees have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as Trustees in order to make themselves aware of any relevant information and to establish that the charitable company’s auditor is aware of that information.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

By order of the Trustees

Units 1G/H Guildford Road Industrial Estate HAYLE Cornwall TR27 4QZ

Mrs Christine Simpson, M.Phil Chair, Trustee

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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Disability Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (the ‘charity’) for the year ended 31 March 2022 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows and the notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) .

In our opinion, the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

The impact of macro-economic uncertainties on our audit

Our audit of the financial statements requires us to obtain an understanding of all relevant uncertainties, including those arising as a consequence of the effects of macro-economic uncertainties such as Covid-19 and Brexit. All audits assess and challenge the reasonableness of estimates made by the directors and the related disclosures and the appropriateness of the going concern basis of preparation of the financial statements. All of these depend on assessments of the future economic environment and the company’s future prospects and performance.

Covid-19 and Brexit are amongst the most significant economic events currently faced by the UK, and at the date of this report their effects are subject to unprecedented levels of uncertainty, with the full range of possible outcomes and their impacts unknown. We applied a standardised firm-wide approach in response to these uncertainties when assessing the company’s future prospects and performance. However, no audit should be expected to predict the unknowable factors or all possible future implications for a company associated with these particular events.

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Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

In our evaluation of the directors’ conclusion, we considered the risks associated with the company’s business, including effects arising from macro-economic uncertainties such as Covid-19 and Brexit. We analysed how those risks might affect the company’s financial resources or ability to continue operations over the period of at least twelve months from the date when the financial statements are authorised for issue. In accordance with the above, we have nothing to report in these respects.

However, as we cannot predict all future events or conditions and as subsequent events may result in outcomes that are inconsistent with judgements that were reasonable at the time they were made, the absence of reference to a material uncertainty in this auditor's report is not a guarantee that the company will continue in operation.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the trustees’ annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:

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Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charity and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors’ report included within the trustees' report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the statement of trustees' responsibilities, the trustees, who are also the directors of the charity for the purpose of company law, are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below.

As part of our audit work, we obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks applicable to the charity and the sector in which they operate. Given the activities of the charity, we determined that the most significant laws and regulations are safeguarding regulations, charity fundraising regulations, UK tax legislation, employment law and health and safety and those that have a direct impact on the preparation of the financial statements such as the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006 and compliance with financial reporting framework FRS102 and the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice.

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The specific procedures for this engagement and the extent to which these are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We also communicate relevant identified laws and regulations and potential fraud risk to all engagement team members and remain alert to any indications of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations throughout the audit.

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/Our-Work/Audit/Audit-andassurance/Standards-and-guidance/Standards-and-guidance-for-auditors/Auditors-responsibilitiesfor-audit/Description-of-auditors-responsibilities-for-audit.aspx. This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Mark Williams FCA DChA

(Senior Statutory Auditor)

For and on behalf of RRL LLP

Peat House Newham Road TRURO TR1 2DP

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Statement of financial activities

(incorporating income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2022

Notes
Income from:
Donations and legacies
5
Charitable activities
6
Primary purpose trading
activities
7
Other trading activities
8
Investment income
9
Other income
Total income
Expenditure on:
Cost of raising funds
10
Charitable activities
11
Total expenditure
Net income for the year
13
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried
forward
Restricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
£
£
1,497,180
7,962
25,000
347,359
-
244,403
-
370
-
275
-
-
_
_

1,522,180
600,369
_
_

-
13,226
1,090,569
544,843
_
_

1,090,569
558,069
_
_

431,611
42,300
51,504
315,457
_
_

483,115
357,757

Total
2022
£
1,505,142
372,359
244,403
370
275
-
_
2,122,549
_

13,226
1,635,412
_
1,648,638
_

473,911
366,961
__
840,872
Total
2021
£
284,034
324,929
198,786
268
831
-
_
808,848
_

9,294
695,618
_
704,912
_

103,936
263,025
__
366,961

The statement of financial activities includes all gains or losses recognised in the year.

All income and expenditure are derived from continuing activities.

The statement of financial activities also complies with the requirements for an income and expenditure account under the Companies Act.

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Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2022
Notes
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
17

Current assets
Debtors
18
194,513
Cash at bank and in hand
755,338
_
949,851
Creditors: amounts falling
due within one year
19
(108,979)
_
Net current assets

Net assets
20,21

Funds of the charity
Restricted funds
22,23
Unrestricted designated
funds
24,25
335,000
Unrestricted general funds
24,25
22,757
_

Total charity funds
2022
£
£
-
_

-
44,899
331,861
_
376,760
(9,799)
_
840,872
_

840,872

483,115
275,000
40,457
_
357,757
_

840,872
2021
£
-
_
-
366,961
_
366,961
51,504
315,457
_
366,961

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Balance sheet (continued) As at 31 March 2022

The financial statements are prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act relating to small companies and constitute the financial statements required by the Companies Act 2006 and are for circulation to the members of the company.

Signed on behalf of the Trustees by:

Mrs Christine Simpson, M.Phil Chair, Trustee

Approved and authorised for issue by the Trustees on:

Company registration No. 07436153

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Cash flow statement
For the year ended 31 March 2022
2022
£
£
£
Net cash inflow from operating
activities
423,202
Cash flows from investing activities
Interest received
275
831
_
_
Net cash provided by investing
activities
275
_
Change in cash and cash equivalents in
the reporting period
423,477
Cash and cash equivalents at
1 April 2021
331,861
_
Cash and cash equivalents at
31 March 2022
755,338

Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from
operating activities
Net movement in funds
473,911
Adjustments for
Interest received
(275)
Increase/(decrease) in debtors
(149,614)
Decrease/(increase) in
creditors
99,180
_
Net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating
activities
423,202

Analysis of cash and cash equivalents
Cash in hand
755,338
2021
£
131,273
831
_
132,104
199,757
_
331,861
103,936
(831)
49,891
(21,723)
_
131,273
331,861

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

1 General information

The charity is incorporated as a company Limited by Guarantee and not having a share capital. In the event of a winding up, registered members are liable to contribute a sum not exceeding £1 per member towards the debts and liabilities of the charity and the costs and expenses of winding up. There were 326 members at 31 March 2022 (2021: 398).

2 Summary of significant accounting policies

2.1 Accounting policies

Charity information

disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly is a company incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Unit 1G/H, Guildford Road Industrial Estate, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 4QZ.

2.2 Accounting convention

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”), “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” the Statement of Recommended Practice for charities applying for FRS 102, the Companies Act 2006 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice as it applies from 1 January 2015. The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

2.3 Going concern

At the time of approving the financial statements, the Trustees have a 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 financial statements.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

2 Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

2.4 Incoming resources

Voluntary income is recognised where there is entitlement, certainty of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability. Such income is only deferred when:

Legacies are recognised in the accounts in the period to which the charity becomes entitled to the income, unless it is incapable of financial measurement.

Income from trading activities is recognised as earned as the related goods and services are provided.

Investment income is recognised on a receivable basis.

Income from charitable activities includes income received under contract and grant funding. Any income subject to specific performance conditions is recognised as the related goods or services are provided. Income included in this category funding the support of performance activities is recognised when there is entitlement, certainty of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability. Income is deferred when performance related grants are received in advance of the performances or events to which they relate.

No amount is included in the financial statements for volunteer time.

2.5 Resources expended

Expenditure is included on an accrual’s basis. The irrecoverable element of VAT is included with the item of expense to which it relates. Expenditure is recognised when a liability is incurred.

Certain expenditure is directly attributable to specific activities and has been included in those cost categories. Other costs, which are attributable to more than one activity, are apportioned across cost categories on the basis of an estimate of the proportion of time spent by staff on those activities.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

2 Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

Governance costs represent the costs of management committee expenses, audit/independent examination fees and professional fees.

2.6 Funds structure

The charity has a number of restricted income funds to account for situations where a donor requires that a donation must be spent on a particular purpose or where funds have been raised for a specific purpose.

Unrestricted funds are available to the Trustees without specific conditions. The use of these funds is entirely at the discretion of the Trustees.

Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the Trustees for particular purposes.

2.7 Fixed assets and depreciation

Depreciation is provided on fixed assets to write off the cost less the estimated residual value of the assets by equal instalments over their estimated useful economic lives as follows:

Leasehold improvements Over the period of the lease Motor vehicles 20% per annum Computer equipment 33.33% per annum

2.8 Impairment of fixed assets

At each reporting end date, the charity reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any).

2.9 Cash and cash equivalent

Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

2 Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

2.10 Financial instruments

The charity has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

Financial instruments are recognised in the charity’s balance sheet when the charity becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

2.11 Basic financial assets

Basic financial assets, which include debts, cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financial transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

2.12 Basic financial liabilities

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and bank loans are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of operations from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

2 Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

2.13 Basic financial liabilities (continued)

Derecognition of financial liabilities

Financial liabilities are derecognised when the charity’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.

2.14 Taxation

The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within section 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or Section 252 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects.

2.15 Employee benefits

The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received.

Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the charity is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.

When employees have rendered service to the charity, short-term employee benefits to which the employees are entitled are recognised at the undiscounted amount expected to be paid in exchange for that service.

2.15 Pension costs

Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.

2.16 Transfers

Transfers are made when appropriate from a specific fund to recover costs incurred not charged directly to that fund.

2.17 Operating leases

Rental charges are charged in the statement of financial activities on a straight-line basis over the life of the lease.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

3 Critical accounting estimates and judgements

In the application of the charity’s accounting policies, the Trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

4 Prior year statement of financial activities

Restricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
£
£
Income from:
Donations and legacies
246,172
37,862
Charitable activities
78,700
246,229
Primary purpose trading
activities
-
198,786
Other trading activities
-
268
Investment income
-
831
Other income
-
-
_
_
Total income
324,872
483,976
_
_

Expenditure on:
Cost of raising funds
-
9,294
Charitable activities
285,576
410,042
_
_
Total expenditure
285,576
419,336
_
_

Net income for the year
39,296
64,640
Total funds brought forward
12,208
250,817
_
_
Total funds carried
forward
51,504
315,457
Total
2021
£
284,034
324,929
198,786
268
831
-
__
808,848
_
9,294
695,618

704,912

103,936
263,025
____
366,961

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

5 Donations and legacies

Donations and legacies
Restricted Unrestricted Total Total
funds funds 2022 2021
£ £ £ £
Donations:
Cornwall Masonic - 1,000 1,000 1,000
Benevolent Charity
Masonic Charitable - 1,000 1,000 1,000
Foundation
Other small donations - 5,962 5,962 8,195
Grants:
NHS Kernow CCG 300,000 - 300,000 -
Personalised Community
Reenablement
COMF - Trialling a MDT 130,000 - 130,000 -
Approach (Cornwall
Council)
Covid Clinically Extremely 176,600 - 176,600 -
Vulnerable Welfare Grant
Funding (Cornwall
Council)
Victim Support 10,000 - 10,000 -
COMF - Support activities 617,997 - 617,997 -
for people with long-term
health conditions and
disabilities (Cornwall
Council)
CCG Dementia Support 153,000 - 153,000 -
Services
CAF Coronavirus - - - 8,200
Emergency Fund
Children in Need 9,586 - 9,586 3,800
Cornwall Community 15,000 - 15,000 -
Foundation Public Health
(Capacity Building)
Cornwall Community 2,928 - 2,928 -
Foundation Charles
Reynold Fund

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Cornwall Community
Foundation (Community
Kitchen) - - - 7,500
Cornwall Community 7,000 - 7,000 -
Foundation (Surviving
Winter)
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Advice &
Wellbeing Café) - - - 11,391
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Digital
Inclusion) - - - 9,000
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Crisis Fund) 1,500 - 1,500 500
The Clare Milne Trust 30,000 - 30,000 -
Cornwall Council inclusion
grants 3,420 - 3,420 -
Developing Skills for
Business - - - 2,000
Disability Action DPO
Covid-19 Emergency Fund - - - 3,267
Duchy Health Charity - - - 5,000
Garfield Weston
Foundation - - - 30,000
HMRC Job retention
scheme grants 6,450 - 6,450 15,672
Lloyds Bank Foundation
React Fund - - - 6,835
Local Authority
Discretionary Fund grant - - - 10,000
Masonic Charitable
Foundation - - - 3,675
South West Community
Matters - - - 1,000
The National Lottery
Community Fund
(Wellbeing Friends) 26,245 - 26,245 46,900
The National Lottery
Community Fund
(Coronavirus Community
Support Fund) - - - 61,121

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The National Lottery
Community Fund (Leaders
with Lived Experience)
The Rank Foundation
The Sobell Foundation
Grants received on behalf
of individuals
26,245
-
-
7,454
__
1,497,180
-
-
-
-
__
7,962
26,245
24,983
-
18,000
-
5,000
7,454
-
__
_
1,505,142
284,034

Government funding included above totalled £934,467.

Government funding included below in Income from charitable activities totalled £169,766.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

6 Income from charitable activities

Restricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
£
£
Contracts:
Inclusion Matters
-
123,268
The Inclusivity Project
-
21,185
Cornwall Carers Service
-
132,537
Living Options Devon
Elective Care Waiting List
-
6,010
Village Works
-
37,299
Who Dares Works
-
27,060
Performance related
grants:
Lloyds Bank Foundation
-
-
Skills for Care
25,000
-
_
_

25,000
347,359
7
Income from primary purpose trading activities
Restricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
£
£
Discharge to Assess
-
57,606
5 Degrees West
-
1,120
Access audits, focus
groups and consultancy
-
11,788
Discover Magazine sale of
adverts
-
100
Managed Accounts
-
99,610
Payroll
-
74,179
Other
-
-
_
_
-
244,403


Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
123,268
122,736
21,185
34,183
132,537
-
6,010
-
37,299
66,485
27,060
22,825
-
23,700
25,000
55,000
_
_
372,359
324,929

Total
2022
Total
2021
£
£
57,606
3,888
1,120
14,574
11,788
1,600
100
500
99,610
101,944
74,179
76,245
-
35
_ _
244,403
198,786

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

8
Income from other trading activities
Independent Living Insurance
Commission
9
Investment income
Bank interest receivable
10Cost of raising funds
Wages and salaries
Cost of raising donations and
legacies via Free Will Service
2022
2021
£
£
370
268
_ _
370
268

2022
2021
£
£
275
831

2022
2021
£
£
13,226
8,849
-
445
__
13,226
9,294

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

11 Cost of charitable activities

Salaries and pension contributions
Staff travel
Staff working from home expenses
Staff training and recruitment
5 Degrees West – training fees
Skills for Care funded training fees and expenses
Community Kitchen project costs
Have a Go Days direct project costs
Discover Magazine
Every Customer Counts direct costs
Humans Cornwall direct costs
COMF project costs (inc. PA wages)
Advice & Wellbeing Café
CEV project costs
All Terrain Wheelchairs (Cornwall Mobility)
Discharge to Assess direct costs (exc. salaries)
Other direct project costs
Access audit, focus groups and consultancy costs
Advertising and marketing
Business rates
Rent and office maintenance
Light, heat and water
Equipment and furnishings
IT maintenance
Insurance
Telephone
Postage, stationery and photocopier
Cleaning (including wages)
Professional fees
Subscriptions
Bank charges
Sundries and waste disposal
Governance (note 12)
Bad debt written off
2022
£
872,644
3,900
2,779
6,357
4,295
-
-
10,651
11,470
15,536
25,011
376,838
-
1,228
90,000
35,441
50,202
142
3,811
301
22,102
6,787
31,756
20,509
3,708
11,692
8,078
1,744
3,747
3,384
280
6,077
4,942
-
____
1,635,412
2021
£
518,345
1,952
2,814
2,311
7,770
42,660
8,087
2,169
-
8,774
3,663
-
21,102
-
-
909
949
103
1,446
301
18,778
2,910
7,429
11,546
1,795
12,241
5,321
2,042
294
2,712
69
1,958
5,133
35
__
695,618

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

12Governance costs
Restricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
£
£
Independent
examiner’s/audit fee
-
4,770
Professional fees
-
172
Management committee
expenses
-
-
_
________
-
4,942
13Net income for the year is stated after charging:
Independent examiner’s/audit fee
Depreciation
14Staff costs and numbers
_Staff costs were as follows:

Salaries
Social security costs
Pension contributions
Total
2022
£
4,770
172
-
_
4,942

2022
£
4,770
-

2022
£
821,806
61,524
15,128
____
_
898,458
Total
2021
£
2,368
2,561
204
_
5,133
2021
£
2,368
-
2021
£
482,802
35,549
8,842
___
527,193

No employee received remuneration of £60,000 or more.

The average monthly number of employees employed by the company during the year was:

Charitable activities (inc. bank staff) 2022
No
52
2021
No
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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

15 Pension contributions

Defined contribution schemes

Charge to the SOFA in respect of defined
contribution schemes
2022
£
15,128
2021
£
8,842

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme for all qualifying employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund.

Contributions amounting to £Nil (2021: £Nil) were payable to the scheme at 31 March 2022.

16 Related party transactions

No remuneration was paid to the Trustees in 2022 or 2021. Attendance fees and reimbursement of travel costs were paid to nil (2021: nil) Trustees totalling £nil for participation in disability events and not for their Trusteeship duties (2021: nil). Expenses of £nil were paid to or on behalf of 0 (2021: 5) Trustees (2021: £204).

Remuneration of key management personnel

The remuneration of key management personnel is as follows:

2022 2021
£ £
Aggregate compensation 152,916 139,099

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

17Tangible fixed assets
Leasehold
improv’ts
Computer
equipment
Motor
vehicles
£
£
£
Cost
At 1 April 2021 and
31 March 2022
53,058
5,823
-
_
_
_
Depreciation
At 1 April 2021 and
31 March 2022
53,058
5,823
-
_
_
_
Net book value
At 31 March 2022
-
-
-



At 31 March 2021
-
-
-



18Debtors
2022
£
Other debtors
192,977
Prepayments
1,536
_

194,513

19Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2022
£
Trade creditors
96,210
Other creditors
6,504
Accruals
6,265
_

108,979
Total
£
58,881
_
58,881
_
-

-

2021
£
42,800
2,099
_
44,899
2021
£
1,158
5,855
2,786
_
9,799

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

20 Analysis of net assets between funds

Restricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
£
£
Net current assets
483,115
357,757

Prior year analysis of net assets between funds
Restricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
£
£
Net current assets
51,504
315,457
Total
£
840,872
Total
£
366,961

21 Prior year analysis of net assets between funds

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

22 Restricted funds

At At 31
1 April March
2021 Income Expenditure Transfer 2022
£ £ £ £ £
Grants:
COMF - Trialling a
MDT Approach - 130,000 (130,000) - -
(Cornwall Council)
Children in Need 5,388 9,586 (12,997) - 1,977
Cornwall Community
Foundation Public
Health (Capacity
Building) - 15,000 (15,000) - -
Cornwall Community
Foundation Charles
Reynold Fund - 2,928 (2,928) - -
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Advice &
Wellbeing Café) 11,391 - (11,391) - -
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Digital
Inclusion) 9,000 - (9,000) - -
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Surviving
Winter) - 7,000 (7,000) - -
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Crisis
Fund) 471 1,500 (1,971) - -
The Clare Milne Trust - 30,000 (30,000) - -
Covid Clinically
Extremely Vulnerable
Welfare Grant
Funding (Cornwall
Council) - 176,600 (176,600) - -
COMF - Support
activities for people
with long-term health
conditions and

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disabilities (Cornwall
Council) - 617,997 (617,997) - -
Cornwall Council
Inclusion Grants - 3,420 (3,420) - -
CCG Dementia
Support Services - 153,000 - - 153,000
NHS Kernow CCG
Personalised
Community
Reenablement - 300,000 - - 300,000
Skills for Care - 25,000 (25,000) - -
Victim Support
- 10,000 (2,629) - 7,371
HMRC Job Retention - 6,450 (6,450) - -
The National Lottery
Community Fund
(Leaders with Lived
Experience) 20,254 26,245 (27,159) - 19,340
Personal Grants - 7,454 (6,027) - 1,427
The Sobell Foundation 5,000 - (5,000) - -
_ _ ___ _ _
51,504 1,522,180 (1,090,569)
-
483,115

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

22 Restricted funds (continued)

Purposes of restricted funds

COMF - Trialling a MDT
Approach (Cornwall
Council)
Relating to the provision of Containment
Outbreak Management Fund (COMF) – trialling
an multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach via
the Humans Service.
BBC Children in Need To deliver ‘Have a Go Days’
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Public
Health)
Capacity building via the funding of core
salaries.
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Charles
Reynold Fund)
To deliver ‘Have a Go Days’
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Advice &
WellbeingCafé)
To run an Advice & Wellbeing Café from our
local Rugby Club and remotely.
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Digital
Inclusion)
To fund digital inclusion training for Disability
Alliance organisations. To purchase tablets and
smartphones for digitally excluded people
returninghome from hospital.
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Surviving
Winter)
To help vulnerable people by providing grants
for energy and food.
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Crisis Fund)
To directly benefit people in crisis who are
urgently in need of small, one off amounts of
money.
The Clare Milne Trust Core salaries and overheads.
Covid Clinically
Extremely Vulnerable
Welfare Grant Funding
(Cornwall Council)
For the Cornwall Disability Alliance’s Accessible
Health and Wellbeing Innovation Project,
including ‘Happiness Innovators’ working across
the Alliance, and one edition of DISCOVER
disabilitylifestyle magazine.
Containment Outbreak
Management Fund
Support activities for people with long-term
health conditions and disabilities through the 10

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(COMF) (Cornwall
Council)
organisations of the Cornwall Disability Alliance
following the pandemic, including Support
Planningand Brokerage(Humans).
Cornwall Council
Inclusion Grants
To hire ‘includers’ for children requiring one-to-
one support at Have a Go Days.
Memory Cafes (NHS
Kernow Clinical
Commissioning Group)
Providing expertise and resources to underpin
Covid recovery and further sustainability of the
Memory Café Network. Providing an opportunity
for making Dementia Friendly Communities a
realitythroughout Cornwall.
NHS Kernow CCG
Personalised Community
Reenablement
Support Planning and Brokerage (Humans),
support to enable people to return home with a
sustainable and personalised support package
followinga stayin hospital.
Skills for care To provide training to improve the knowledge
and skills of personal assistants (PAs) and their
employers(individual employers).
Victim Support Disability specialist, helping victims and those
affected by crime to deal with the immediate
afterward of experiencing crime, offering
practical and emotional support.
HMRC Job Retention Furlough for one staff member.
The National Lottery
Community Fund
(Leaders with Lived
Experience)
A two year project investigating the experiences
of Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs)
across England during the Covid-19 pandemic,
and providing a structured peer support
programme.
Personal grants Small grants received on behalf of individuals
from various funders. Funds are then sent to the
recipient, orpurchases made on their behalf.
The Sobell Foundation To deliver 'Have a Go Days'.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

23 Prior year restricted funds

At At 31
1 April March
2020 Income Expenditure Transfer 2021
£ £ £ £ £
Grants:
CAF Coronavirus
Emergency Fund - 8,200 (8,200) - -
Children in Need 9,586 3,800 (7,998) - 5,388
Cornwall Community
Foundation
(Community Kitchen) 2,500 7,500 (10,000) - -
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Advice &
Wellbeing Café) - 11,391 - - 11,391
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Digital
Inclusion) - 9,000 - - 9,000
Cornwall Community
Foundation (Crisis
Fund) 122 500 (151) - 471
Disability Action DPO
Covid-19 Emergency
Fund - 3,267 (3,267) - -
Duchy Health Charity - 5,000 (5,000) - -
Garfield Weston
Foundation - 30,000 (30,000) - -
Lloyds Bank
Foundation - 23,700 (23,700) - -
Lloyds Bank
Foundation React
Fund - 6,835 (6,835) - -
Masonic Charitable
Foundation - 3,675 (3,675) - -
Skills for Care - 55,000 (55,000) - -
South West
Community Matters - 1,000 (1,000) - -

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The National Lottery
Community Fund
(Wellbeing Friends) - 46,900 (46,900) - -
The National Lottery
Community Fund
(Coronavirus
Community Support
Fund) - 61,121 (61,121) - -
The National Lottery
Community Fund
(Leaders with Lived
Experience) - 24,983 (4,729) - 20,254
The Rank Foundation - 18,000 (18,000) - -
The Sobell Foundation - 5,000 - - 5,000
_ _ _ _ _
12,208 324,872 (285,576)
-
51,504

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

24 Unrestricted funds

Unrestricted funds
At At 31
1 April March
2021 Income
Expenditure
Transfers 2022
£ £
£
£ £
Designated funds:
Running costs
reserve 145,000 -
-
60,000 205,000
Future deficit reserve 130,000 -
-
- 130,000
Fixed asset reserve - -
-
- -
Contracts reserves:
Inclusion Matters - 123,268
(123,268)
- -
The Inclusivity
Project - 21,185
(21,185)
- -
Village Works - 37,229
(37,229)
- -
Who Dares Works - 27,060
(27,060)
- -
_ _
_
_ _
275,000 208,742
(208,742)
60,000 335,000
General funds 40,457 391,627
(349,327)
(60,000) 22,757
_ _
_
_ _
315,457
600,369
(558,069)
- 357,757

The running costs reserve is to fund a period of approximately three months of the expected core running costs, plus costs of closing the charity. This is held to enable the charity to seek alternative funding should existing funding cease, and to close the charity if alternative funding cannot be secured.

The future deficit reserve is a fund held to cover the potential deficit over the next one to two years.

The fixed asset reserve represents the value of funds held in fixed assets owned by the charity.

The contracts reserves are for funds held for specific contracts.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

Contracts information

Inclusion Matters A Cornwall Council commissioned service
delivered in partnership, providing multi-faceted
1-2-1 support to adults with health and wellbeing
needs to increase wellbeing and connections to
their community.
The Inclusivity Project An European Regional Development Fund
research project led by Exeter University in
which we are a disability expert partner,
exploring barriers to employment for disabled
workers with a view to developing new policy
andproducts to overcome them.
Village Works A European Social Fund project delivered in
partnership, led by Inclusion Matters, providing
the very first steps to individuals who have
multiple and complex needs, targeted in rural
coastal villages.
Who Dares Works A European Social Fund and Nation Lottery
Community Fund project led by Active Plus, in
which we are a welfare entitlements specialist
partner, helping people in West Cornwall to
reconnect with education, training and
employment.

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

25 Prior year unrestricted funds

At At 31
1 April March
2020 Income Expenditure Transfers 2021
£ £ £ £ £
Designated funds:
Running costs
reserve 118,000 - - 27,000 145,000
Future deficit reserve 90,000 - - 40,000 130,000
Fixed asset reserve - - - - -
Contracts reserves:
Inclusion Matters - 122,736 (122,736) - -
The Inclusivity
Project - 34,183 (34,183) - -
Village Works - 66,485 (66,485) - -
Who Dares Works - 22,825 (22,825) - -
_ _ _ _ _
208,000 246,229 (246,229) 67,000 275,000
General funds 42,817 237,747 (173,107) (67,000) 40,457
_ _ _ _ _
250,817
483,976 (419,336) - 315,457

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Notes

(forming part of the financial statements)

26 Financial commitments

At the reporting end date, the charity had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable leases which fall due as follows:

follows:
Land and Land and
buildings buildings Other Other
2022 2021 2022 2021
£ £ £ £
Operating leases which
expire:
In one year 18,000 18,432 200 917
Between two and five years - - 320 1,088
__ __ __ __
18,000 18,432 520 2,005

27 The Inclusion Hub C.I.C.

The charity has set up a subsidiary, The Inclusion Hub C.I.C. The CIC was incorporated on 18 January 2022 and had not commenced trading at the date of approving the financial statements.

The CIC is limited by guarantee, and therefore there is no investment in share capital to include on the charity balance sheet.

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Contact us

Industrial Estate Guildford Road Hayle TR27 4QZ

Tel: 01736 759500 Email: hello@disabilitycornwall.org.uk www.disabilitycornwall.org.uk

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