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|Chair:|Linda Jones CBE|||
|Treasurer:|Gai1 Lamb|Resigned|30 June 2023|
||Howard
Grant|||
||Kate Godber|||
||Barbara Johnson|Resigned|4 May 2023|
||Suzanne Packer|||
||Pritibala
Joshi|Resigned|21 June 2022|
||Helen Murray|Resigned|1 July 2022|
||Hazel Cook|Appointed|30 January 2023|
|ofthe period the follo|wing
were app|ointed
as addit|
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|Richard Clarke|Appointed|22 May 2023|
|Anne Pridmore|Appointed|22 May 2023|
|Brian Shayanewako|Appointed|31 July 2023|
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|Communit|Total Individuals||How|Have They Benefited?||
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|Carers across
Leicestershire|3,061 individual
supported.|family carers||Carer helpline
(Monday
-Friday,
Spm)|9am-|
|||||Online support
through
website,||
|||||Facebook, Twitter||
|||||Support group sessions delivered|to share|
|||||experiences
and enjoy social time.||
|||||County-wide
Forum events||
|||||Newsletters
provided
information|and|
|||||contacts||
||||~|Telephone
befriending||
|||||6,272 hours ofadvice, information,||
|||||guidance,
and one-to-one
support||
|Isolated Older
People|129||~|Social support —Community
Champions||
||||~|Befriending,
digital k telephone||
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pen pals||
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|FOR THE|FOR THE|Y|E|AR E|NDED|NDED|31MARCH 2|31MARCH 2||023||||||||
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|Communit|||||Total||Individuals|||||How|Have The||Benefited?|||
|People|needing|||help|3,960|||||||~|Passenger||journeys|||
|with transport||||||||||||||||||
|Number of
Foodbank
deliveries|||||394|||||||~|VASL social car scheme volunteers
provided
transport
for foodbank clients.|||||
|People|needing||||67|||||||~|Information|||||
|support
Mental|with their
Health|||||||||||~|Advice and||Navigation|||
|||||||||||||~|One to One||Support|||
|||||||||||||~|Befiiending|||||
|Volunteers|||||9VASL Trustees|||||||~|Supporting||all VASL Projects and|||
||||||||||||||governance||ofthe organisation|||
||||||138|VASL Volunteers||||||||||||
|Community|||Groups|||||||||~|Local Groups encouraged||||to attend|
|in Harborough|||||||||||||Community||Networking||events|
|||||||||||||~|Ad Hoc support|||||
|The Business|||and||We|worked
with many||||different|||Worked
in|partnership||with VASL to||
|Public Sectors|||||organisations
including:||||||||support
their customers|||and share||
||||||||||||||knowledge||and ideas|||
|||||||~||Leicestershire||County|||Raised their||community||profile|
|||||||||Council|||||Engaged
with businesses|||||
|||||||~||Harborough|District|||||||||
|||||||||Council||||||||||
|||||||~||NHS community|||mental|||||||
|||||||||health teams||||||||||
|||||||~||Leicestershire||PCN's||||||||
|||||||~||CCG's||||||||||
|||||||~||LLILT Group||||||||||
|||||||~||Healthwatch||||||||||
|||||||~||Waitrose||||||||||
|||||||~||Local schools,||libraries,||||||||
|||||||||adult learning||||||||||
|||||||~||GP practices|across|||||||||
|||||||||Leicestershire||||||||||
|||||||~||Primary
Care||Networks||||||||
|||||||~||Parish Councils||||||||||
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|Charities/Third
Sector/Grant
Makers|||||We worked
with many
charities
including:|||||different||~
~|Met their charitable
aims by awarding
grants to VASL for project activity
Took referrals for services fiom VASL|||||
||||||~||Market Harborough||||Bowdens||staff|||||
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VASL forums|||||
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~||Harborough
FM
LLR Community|||Foundation||~|Consulted|on project development||||
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|||Association||||||||||
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|||Leicestershire||||||||||
|Communit|Total|Individuals|||How|Have The||Benefited?||||
|The Wider
Community|||||~|Support
website|for Carers Leicestershire
provides
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||||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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|INCOME FROM:|||||||||
|Donations
and legacies|||||47,315|447,333|494,648|514,377|
|Charitable
activities||||||42,966|42,966|21,098|
|Investment
income - Bank||interest receivable|||2,257||2,257|1,715|
|Other|||||||||
|Total~|||||49,576|490,299||537,190|
|EXPENDITURE ON:|||||||||
|Charitable
activities|||||164,824|380,234|545,058|519,572|
|Total expenditure|5/|~d/A/4|„||164,824|380,234|545,058|519,572|
|Net income/(expenditure)||for the year|||(115,248)|110,065|(5,183)|17,618|
|Net transfers
between|funds||||107,984|(107,984)|||
|Net movement
in funds|||||(7,264)|2,081|(5,183)|17,618|
|Reconciliation
offunds:|||||||||
|Balances brought forward|||||198,497|181,409|379,906|362,288|
|Balances carried forward|||||191,233|183,490|374,723|379,906|
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|Current
Assets|||||||
|Debtors|||||19,272|6,932|
|Cash at bank|and in hand||||384,939|4/6, 435|
||||||404,211|423,367|
|Creditors:|||||||
|Amounts
falling due within|||one year|10|(29,488)|(43,46/)|
|Net Current|Assets/Net|Assets|||374,723|379,906|
|Funds|||||||
|Unrestricted|funds||||||
|General
funds|||||61,233|68,497|
|Designated
funds|||||130,000|130,000|
||||||191,233|198,497|
|Restricted
funds|||||183,490|181,409|
|Total Funds|||||374,723|379,906|
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|STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS|STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS|STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS||||
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|FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31MARCH 2023||||||
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|Net movement
in funds||||(5,183)|17,618|
|Interest shown
in investing|activities|||(2,257)|(1,715)|
|(Increase)/Decrease
in Debtors||||(12,340)|(885)|
|Increase/(Decrease)
in Creditors||||(13,973)|(1,206)|
|Net cash generated
by/(used
in) operating|||activities|(33,753)|13,812|
|Cash flows from investing|activities|||||
|Interest income||||2,257|1,715|
|Change
in cash and cash|equivalents|in the|year|(31,496)|15,527|
|Cash and cash equivalents|brought|forward||416,435|400,908|
|Cash and cash equivalents|carried|fonvard||384,939|4/6, 435|
|Cash and cash equivalents|comprise:|||||
|Cash at bank and in hand||||384,939|4/6, 435|
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|3|INCOME FROM DONATIONS|INCOME FROM DONATIONS||8i LEGACIES|8i LEGACIES||Unrestricted
Restricted|Unrestricted
Restricted|Unrestricted
Restricted|Unrestricted
Restricted|Total Funds|Total Funds|Total Funrls|
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||Grants received
in the year from:|||||||||||||
||Leicestershire
County Council|||||||||273,323||273,323|284,763|
||Harborough
District Council|||||||11,900||1,000||12,900|26,400|
||Big Lottery Fund|||||||||71,663||71,663|102,738|
||BBCChildren
in Need
Market Harborough k The Bowdens Charity|||||||34,664||16,560||51,224|10,000
54,914|
||NHS Leicester, Shire 8r, Rutland IDB|||||||||40,000||40,000||
||Other providers|||||||||3,500||3,500|22,800|
|||||||||46,564||406,046||452,610|501,615|
||Movement
in deferred
income|||||||||22,183||22,183|4,377|
|||||||||46,564||428,229||474,793|505,992|
||Other donations
and voluntary|income||||||751||19,104||19,855|8,385|
||Total income from donations|and||legacies||||47,315|447,333|||494,648|514,377|
||In the year ended 31 March 2022,||f457,228 ofGrants|||and K4,|134of|Other donations||and voluntary||income|related to restricted|
||funds (see Note 11).|||||||||||||
||Certain
grants
received
in the|year||are subject to performance|||conditions
which||the charity||has|to fulfil|in order to become|
||entitled to use the income. The|balance ofthe|||income deferred,||which|is included|in Creditors: Amounts
falling due within
one|||||
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||Deferred
income at the start ofthe||year|||||||25,684|||30,061|
||Net Movement
in the year|||||||||(22,183)|||(4,377)|
||Deferred income at the end ofthe||year|||||||3,501|||25,684|
|4|INCOME FROM CHARITABLE|||ACTIVITIES|||Unrestricted
Restricted||||Total Funds||Total Funds|
||||||||Funds||Funds||2023||2022|
||Contributions
from users ofthe Transport
Schemes|||||||||42,966||42,966|21,098|
||Total income from charitable|activities||||||||42,966||42,966|21,098|
|5|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES||||||Unrestricted
Restricted||||Total Funds||Total Funds|
||||||||Funds||Funds||2023||2022|
||Costs incurred
in connection|with:||||||||||||
||Governance:|||||||||||||
||Auditors'
remuneration
(including||preparation||ofaccounts)|||5,760||||5,760|5,377|
||Staff 8r, volunteers:|||||||||||||
||Gross wages and salaries|||||||68,791|278,274||347,065||354,864|
||Employers'
NI Contributions|||||||5,309||16,474||21,783|20,938|
||Pension contributions|||||||3,633||12,787||16,420|16,561|
||Staff travel and training|||||||1,317||4,688||6,005|4,647|
||Other staff costs|||||||39||6||45|65|
||Volunteers'
costs|||||||909||34,431||35,340|18,783|
||Event costs|||||||150||8,670||8,820|6,913|
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||Sub-Total carried forward|||||||85,908|355,331||441,239||428,148|
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|5|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|Total Funds|
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||Sub-Total brought
forward||||||||85,908|355,331|441,239|428,148|
||Premises
and assets:||||||||||||
||Insurance||||||||3,655||3,655|3,811|
||Other premises|costs|||||||29,588||29,588|28,545|
||||||||||33,243||33,243|32,356|
||Office, administration|&.IT:|||||||||||
||Office expenses|&,IT|||||||29,415|4,452|33,867|39,417|
||Repairs and renewals||||||||301|16|317|2,170|
||Consultancy
&professional|||||fees|||12,984|2,466|15,450|16,150|
||Publicity
and promotion|||ofcharitable|||activities||2,932|733|3,665|1,249|
||Miscellaneous|expenses|||||||41||41|82|
||||||||||45,673|7,667|53,340|59,068|
||Grants paid:||||||||||||
||HCYC - Support for||children &young||||people|||17,236|17,236||
||Total expended
on charitable||||activities||||164,824|380,234|545,058|519,572|
||Ofthe total costs incurred||in|the|year ended||31|March 2022,|5355,358 related to restricted
funds (see Note 11).||||
||The above costs are|allocated||as follows:|||||Directly||||
||||||||||attributed
to|Support|2023|2022|
||||||||||activities|Costs|Total|Total|
||Governance|||||||||5,760|5,760|5,377|
||Staff&volunteers||||||||355,331|80,148|435,479|422,771|
||Premises
and assets|||||||||33,243|33,243|32,356|
||Office, administration|&IT|||||||7,667|45,673|53,340|59,068|
||Grants paid||||||||17,236||17,236||
||||||||||380,234|164,824|545,058|519,572|
||These costs are associated||with|||the following||categories|of||||
||charitable
activity
in|the year:|||||||||||
||Carers Services||||||||188,185|57,642|245,827|262,729|
||Befriending
services||||||||101,773|37,315|139,088|111,599|
||Transport
services||||||||88,598|13,026|101,624|88,462|
||Development
ofCommunity|||Services:|||||||||
||Funded
by restricted||grants||||||1,678||1,678|1,547|
||Funded
from unrestricted||||income|||||56,841|56,841|55,235|
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|The average||number ofemployees||in the year was as follows:|2023|2022|
|Engaged|on|charitable|activities||16.33|18.42|
|Engaged|in|management|and administration||2.00|2.00|
|Totals|||||18.33|20.42|
|No person's
emoluments
exceeded f60,0|00 per annum
and the aggreg|ate
amount
paid was as follows;||
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|Salaries
Social Security Costs (net ofEmployment
Pension contributions|Allowance)|347,065
21,783
16,420|354,864
20,938
16,561|
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|Net Income/(Expenditure)|is stated|after|charging|the|following|expenses:|||2023|2022||
|Operating
lease rentals|||||||||21,351|20,|922|
|Auditors'
remuneration||||||||||||
|Edward Thomas Peirson & Sons||||For audit services|||||2,418|2,|257|
|||||For other assurance||||services|3,342|3,120||
|Edward
Thomas Peirson & Sons prepared|||and audited||the statutory||accounts.|||||
|DEBTORS|||||||||2023|2022||
|Trade Debtors|||||||||12,048||106|
|Prepayments
Other Debtors|||||||||7, 168
56|6,|700
126|
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|Debtors|||6,826||106|6,932|
|Cash at bank|and in|hand|78,930|130,000|207,505|416,435|
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due within one year|(17,259)||(26,202)|(43,461)|
|Total Net Assets|||68,497|130,000|181,409|379,906|
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operating
l|eases:|||
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|Aggregate
payments|due:|||
|Within one year||9,963|12,161|
|In two to five years|||153|
|In more than five years||||
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