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|ASC's Year.||||4|
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|An introduction
from our Chair and|||Director.|.. 4|
|What we do..|||||
|The difference we have made.||||6|
|Advocacy Support Offered||||.6|
|Service User Feedback.|||||
|Awareness
Raising||||.10|
|Influencing
Change||||.10|
|Mental Health Act Review.||||10|
|Liberty Protection Safeguards. .....||||... 10|
|Suicide Prevention
Courses. ...............||||....11|
|Applied Suicide Intervention|||Skills Training (ASIST)..|11|
|SafeTALK||||11|
|Talking Mats......||||12|
|Strategic Report.||||13|
|Our Priorities .........||||... 13|
|Advocacy Principles.||||13|
|Service User Engagement||||13|
|Data Protection .||||.14|
|Environment
and Sustainability||||.14|
|Continuous
Improvement||||.14|
|Financial Review.||||14|
|ASC's funding
for the year||||.14|
|Reserves ..||||.15|
|Key Risks and Uncertainties.||||15|
|Risk Management||||.15|
|Governance||||15|
|Financial
Risk .||||... 16|
|Legal 8 Regulatory|Risk ...|||..16|
|Brexit..||||.16|
|Changes to Mental||Health|Act IMental Capacity Act....|....16|
|Our Future
.||||17|
|The next year||||.17|
|Our Ethos.||||17|
|Equality and Inclusion.||||.17|
|Giving a Voice.||||.18|
|||||||Advocacy|
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|||||||Support|
|||||||Cymru|
||||||Empowering|people to Speak Out|
|Governance ..|||||||
|Our Structure
and Management.||||||..... 19|
|The Objects ofthe Charity.||||||..... 19|
|The Board ofTrustees.||||||19|
|Membership.||||||20|
|Statement ofTrustees Responsibilities ..||||||...21|
|Auditors.||||||22|
|Legal and Administrative
Details.||||||......23|
|Strategic Report.||||||.....23|
|Structure Governance
and Management
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|Governing
Document.||||||23|
|Reference and Administrative
Details.||||||.....23|
|Registered
Company
Number.|||||||
|Registered
Charity Number.||||||23|
|Registered
Office|||||||
|Trustees. ................ """"""""""".||||||24|
|Auditors.||||||24|
|Report ofthe Independent
Auditors to the Trustees ofAdvocacy Support|||||in Cymru|Ltd .25|
|Opinion .||||||...25|
|Basis for Opinion. .||||||25|
|Conclusions
relating to going concern||.||||......26|
|Other Information.||||||......26|
|Opinions
on other matters prescribed||by the Companies|Act 2006.....|||......26|
|Matters on which we are required|to report by exception.|||||......27|
|Responsibilities
oftrustees ..................||||||27|
|Our responsibilities
for the audit ofthe||financial statements||......,........||.....28|
|Identifying
and assessing
potential
risks related to irregularities .....||||||......28|
|Audit response to risks identified. .||||||......29|
|Use ofour report..||||||.....30|
|Financial Statements||||||.....31|
|Statement of Financial
Activities for the Year Ended 31st||||March 2023|.....|.....31|
|Balance Sheet .||||||32|
|Cash Flow Statement. .||||||......33|
|Notes to the Cash Flow Statement||||||......34|
|Notes to the Financial Statements.||||||......35|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities .||||||......43|
|Our Thanks.||||||.... .44|
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||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Notes|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
||||||6|8|f||
|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|||FROM||||||
|Donations
and legacies|||||30||30|447|
|Charitable
Activities|||||||||
|Cardiff &Vale Community|||||8,174|77,871|86,045|87,892|
|Swansea Bay Community|||||6,812|64,896|71,708|84,365|
|IMHA Central||||||||616,263|
|IMCA East|||||23,835|227,069|250,904|256,056|
|IMHA Aneurin
Bevan|||||32,906|313,469|346,375|354,748|
|IMHA West||||||||396,548|
|Third Sector Resilience Fund for|||Wales|||||5,000|
|||Phase|2 grant||||||
|IMHA Cwm Taff|||||34,691|330,478|365,169||
|Henry Smith||||||60,000|60,000||
|IMHA Swansea Bay|||||26,945|267,338|294,283||
|Independent
Dementia Advocacy|||||5,599|53,323|58,922||
|IMHA Cardiff &Vale|||||32,786|312,338|345,124||
|Other trading activities||||3|20,453||20,453|30,585|
|Other income|||||4,154|653|4,807|1,676|
|Total|||||196.385|1,707,435|2,003 82D|1,833,580|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||||||
|Charitable
Activities|||||||||
|Other trading activities||||||||9,929|
|Direct charitable
expenditure|||||55,258|1 620 692|1,675,950|1,648,624|
|Total|||||55.258|1 620 692|1.675.95D|1.058.553|
|NET INCOME|||||141,127|86,743|227,870|175,027|
|Transfers
between funds||||17|43.546|~43.5411|||
|Net movements
in funds|||||184,673|43,197|227,870|175,027|
|RECONCILLIATION|OF FUNDS||||||||
|Total funds brought|forward||||1 033636|137|1 033773|858746|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED||FORWARD|||1,218,309|43,334|1,261,643|1,033,773|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||Notes|Fundsf|Funds
5|Funds|Funds
f|
|FIXEDASSETS||||||
|Intangible assets|11|11,683||11,883|16,049|
|Tangible assets|12|1,206,569||1,206,569|1,228,898|
|||1,218,252||1,218,252|1,244,947|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Debtors|13|18,606||16,606|15,826|
|Cash at bank and in hand||471,648|43,334|514,982|429,117|
|||488,254|43,334|531,588|444,943|
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts
falling due within one year|14|(65,803)||(65,803)|(61,473)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||422,451|43,334|465,785|383,470|
|TOTAL ASSETSLESSCURRENT||1,640,703|43,334|1,684,037|1,628,417|
|LIABILITIES||||||
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts
falling due after more than one||(422,394)||(422,394)|(594,644)|
|year|15|||||
|NET ASSETS||1,218,309|43,334|1,261,643|1,033,773|
|FUNDS|17|||||
|Unrestricted
funds||||1,218,309|1,033,636|
|Restricted funds||||43,334|137|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||1,261,643|1,033,773|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Total|Total|
|||Notes|Funds|Funds|
|Cash flows from operating|activities|1|||
|Cash generated
from operations
Interest paid|||310,578
~22,967|243,838
~40,775|
|Net cash provided
by operating
activities|||287,611|203,663|
|Cash flows from investing|activities||||
|Purchase of intangible
fixed assets
Purchase oftangible fixed assets
Sale oftangible
fixed assets|||(6,255)
(27,043)
3,802|(13,375)
(1,813)
3,802|
|Net cash used
in investing
activities|||~29.496|~17.366|
|Cash flows from financing|activities||||
|Loan repayments
in year|||(172,250)|(133,959)|
|Capital repayments
in year|||||
|Net cash used
in financing
activities|||~772,250|~733,959|
|Change
in cash and cash equivalents||in the|||
|reporting
period|||85,855|58,318|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the beginning||||
|ofthe reporting
period|||429,117|370,799|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the end|ofthe|||
|reporting
period|||514,982|429,117|
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|RECONCILIA|TION
|OF NET I|NCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM O|PERATING ACTI|VITIES|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
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|Net income|for the|reporting|period (as per the Statement of|||
|Financial Activities)||||227,870|175,027|
|Adjustments|for:|||||
|Depreciation|charges|||56,151|59,580|
|Interest paid||||22,967|40,175|
|Decrease in
Decrease in|debtors
creditors|||(780)
4 370|1,715
~32.659|
|Net cash provided||by operations||310,578|243,838|
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|ANALYSIS OF CHANG|ES
IN NET DEBT||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||At01.04.22|Cash Flow|At 31.03.23|
|||F||F|
|NET CASH|||||
|Cash at bank and in hand||429,117|85,865|514,982|
|||429,117|85,865|514,982|
|Debt|||||
|Debts falling due within
1 year
Debts falling due after 1 year||(22,128)
~694044|(61)
172250|(22,189)
+4422394|
|||+8818,772|172189|~444,583|
|Total||~707.655|258.054|~70390.|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||6|
|Donations||||||||30|447|
|OTHER|TRADING ACTIVITIES|||||||||
|||||||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
||||||||||6|
|Fundraising||events||||||6,418|921|
|Training|income|||||||14,035|29,664|
|||||||||20,453|30,585|
|INCOME|FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|||||||||
|||||||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|||||Activity||||F|6|
|Grants||||Cardiff and Vale Community||||86,045|87,892|
|Grants||||Swansea
Bay Community||||71,708|84,365|
|Grants||||IMHA|Central||||616,263|
|Grants||||IMCA|East|||250,904|256,056|
|Grants||||IMHA|Aneurin|Bevan||346,375|354,748|
|Grants||||IMHA|West||||396,548|
|Grants||||Third|Sector|Resilience|Fund forWales Phase 2 Grant||5,000|
|Grants||||IMHA|Cwm Taf|||365,169||
|Grants||||Henry|Smith|||60,000||
|Grants||||IMHA|Swansea Bay|||294,283||
|Grants||||Independent||Dementia|Advocacy|58,922||
|Grants||||IMHA|Cardiff|&Vale||345,124||
|||||||||1,878,530|1,800,872|
|Grants received,||||included
in||the above,|are as follows:-|||
|||||||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|Cardiff and Vale Community||||||||86,045|87,892|
|Swansea|Bay Community|||||||71,708|84,365|
|IMHA Central|||||||||B16,283|
|IMCA East||||||||250,904|256,056|
|IMHA Aneurin|||Bevan|||||346,375|354,748|
|IMHA West|||||||||396,548|
|Third Sector|||Resilience Fund|||forWales|Phase 2 Grant||5,000|
|IMHA Cwm||Taf||||||365,169||
|Henry Smith||||||||60,000||
|IMHA Swansea||||Bay||||294,283||
|Independent|||Dementia
Advocacy|||||58,922||
|IMHA Cardiff|||8|Vale||||345,124||
|||||||||1,878,530|1,800,872|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Direct|Costs (see||
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||||||f.|6||
||Direct charitable||expenditure||1,653,889|22,061|1,675,950|
|6|SUPPORT|COSTS||||||
|||||||Governance||
||||||Other|Costs|Totals|
||||||||6|
||Direct charitable||expenditure||15459|6602|22 061|
|7|NET INCOME I||(EXPENDITURE)|||||
||Net income|7i(expenditure||is stated after charging I(crediting):-||||
|||||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|||||||6|8|
||Auditors'
remuneration|||||6,602|7,861|
||Depreciation|-owned assets||||45,570|54,907|
||Computer
software amortisation|||||10621|4,073|
|8|TRUSTEES REMUNERATION||||AND BENEFITS|||
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|STAFF COSTS|||
|---|---|---|
||31.03.23|31.03.22|
||6||
|Wages and salaries|1,154,168|1,186,445|
|Social security costs|114,382|109,072|
|Other pension costs|34,531|35,218|
||1,303.031|1 330736|
|which consist|which consist|ed ofthe|gross pay, employers'|national
insurance
and employe|
rs'
pension|
costs.|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|The average||monthly|number ofemployees|during the year was as follows:-|||
||||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|Advocacy|and Advice||||38|41|
|Governance|||||3|3|
|Marketing|and Business Development||||1|1|
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|10|COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAl.|COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAl.|ACTIVITIES|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||Funds|Funds
F|Fundsr|
||INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|FROM||||
||Donations
and Legacies||447|||
||Charitable
activities|||||
||Cardiff and Vale Community||7,320|80,572|87,892|
||Swansea Bay Community||7,320|77,045|84,365|
||IMHA Central||58,920|557,343|616,263|
||IMCA East||23,886|232,170|256,056|
||IMHA Aneurin
Bevan||31,751|322,997|354,748|
||IMHA West||40,797|355,751|396,548|
||Third Sector Resilience Fund for|Wales Phase 2 Grant|5,000||5,000|
||Other trading
activities||30,585||30,585|
||Other income||1 676||1 676|
||Total||207.702|1 625878.|.1 833580|
||EXPENDITURE ON|||||
||Charitable
activities|||||
||Other trading
activities||9,929||9,929|
||Direct charitable
expenditure||36,128|1,612,496|1,648,624|
||Total||46,057|1,612,496|1,658,553|
||NET INCOME
/ (EXPENDITURE)
Transfers between funds||161,645
72.679|13,382
~72 ~79|175,027|
||Net movement
in funds||234,324|(59,297)|175,027|
||RECONCILLIATION
OF FUNDS|||||
||Total funds brought
forward||799315|59,431|858,746|
||TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||1,033,639|134|1,033,773|
|11|INTANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS|||||
||||||Computer|
||||||Software|
||COST||||6|
||At 1 April 2022||||37,973|
||Additions||||6,255|
||At 31 March 2023||||44,228|
||AMORTISATION|||||
||At 1 April 2022||||21,924|
||Charge for year||||10,621|
||At 31 March 2023||||32,545|
||NET BOOK VALUE|||||
||At 31 March 2023||||11,683|
||At 31 March 2022||||16,049|
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|12|TANGIBLE FIXEDAS|SET|S|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Freehold|Fixtures||
||||property
f.|and fittings|Totalsf|
||COST|||||
||At 1 April 2022||1,314,398|183,012|1,497,410|
||Additions
Disposals||~3802|27,043|27,043
~3.802|
||At 31 March 2023||1,310.506|210.D55|1 52D 651|
||DEPRECIATION|||||
||At 1 April 2022||129,487|139,025|268,512|
||Charge for year||19,793|25,777|45,570|
||At 31 March 2023||14928D|164.8D2|314D82|
||NET BOOK VALUE|||||
||At 31 March 2023||1.161.316|45 253|1 206.569|
||At 31 March 2022||1 184911|43.981|1 228 808|
|13|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS|FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR||||
|||||31.03.23
f|31.03.22
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||Trade debtors|||2,574|3,262|
||Other debtors|||934|934|
||VAT|||3,801|3,801|
||Prepayments|||9,297|7,829|
|||||16,606|15,826|
|14|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS||FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||
|||||31.03.23|31.03.22
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||Other loans (see note|16)||22,189|22,128|
||Social security and other taxes|||29,235|24,822|
||Other creditors|||458|458|
||Accrued expenses|||13,921|14,065|
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||Other loans|(see note 16)|||422,394|594,644|
|16|LOANS||||||
||An analysis|ofthe matudity||ofloans is given below:-|||
||||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
||Amounts
falling due within||one year on demand:||||
||Other loans||||22,189|22,128|
||Amounts
falling between||one and two years:||||
||Other loans|- 1-2years|||22,189|22,127|
||Amounts
falling due between
two and five||||years:||
||Other loans|- 2-5years|||66,567|66,383|
||Amounts
falling due in more than five years:||||||
||Repayable|by instalments:|||||
||Other loans|more than 5yrs||instal|333,638|506,134|
||The RBSloan is repayable|||in instalments|over 25years at a fixed interest rate of3.79%|per annum.|
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|MOVEMENT|IN FUNDS||||||
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|||||movement|between||
|||At01.04.22
f||in funds
F|funds|At 31.03.23|
|Unrestricted|funds||||||
|Unrestricted||1,033,636||141,127|43,546|1,218,309|
|Restricted funds|||||||
|Swansea
Bay Community||||3,356|(2,171)|1,185|
|Cardiff &Vale Community|||89|2,824|(1,983)|930|
|IMCA East||||9,045|(6,311)|2,734|
|IMHA Central|||12|||12|
|IMHA Aneudin|Bevan||18|9,989|(5,149)|4,858|
|IMHA West|||18|||18|
|IMHA Cwm Taf||||8,199|(5,486)|2,713|
|Henry Smith||||23,949|(1,353)|22,596|
|IMHA Swansea Bay||||13,081|(8,741)|4,340|
|Independent
IMHA Cardiff|Dementia Advocacy
&Vale|||668
15,632|(657)
~77.695|11
3,937|
||||137|66.743|~43,546|43,334|
|TOTAL FUNDS||1 033|773|227 870||1 261 643|
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|Net movement|in funds, includ|ed
in the ab|ove are as follow|s:||||
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|||||Incoming|Resources||Movement|
|||||resources|expended||in funds|
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|Unrestricted|funds|||||||
|Unrestricted||||196,385|(55,258)||141,127|
|Restricted funds||||||||
|Swansea Bay Community||||64,896|(61,540)||3,356|
|Cardiff &Vale Community||||77,913|(75,089)||2,824|
|IMCA East||||227,104|(218,059)||9,045|
|IMHA Aneurin|Bevan|||313,517|(303,528)||9,989|
|IMHA Cwm Taf||||330,528|(322,329)||8,199|
|Henry Smith||||60,000|(36,051)||23,949|
|IMHA Swansea Bay||||267,338|(254,257)||13,081|
|Independent|Dementia Advocacy|||53,323|(52,655)||668|
|IMHA Cardiff|&Vale|||312,816|+2297.184||15,632|
|||||17D7435|~1020692||86743,|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||1.9D3.820|~.
750,975|0|227.870|
|Comparatives|for movement|in funds||||||
|||||Net|Transfers|||
|||||movement|between|||
||||At 01.04.21|in funds
8|funds
f|At 31.03.22||
|Unrestricted|funds|||||||
|Unrestricted|||799,315|161,642|72,679||1,033,636|
|Restricted funds||||||||
|Swansea Bay Community|||1,335|(763)|(572)|||
|Cardiff &Vale Community|||14,164|(9,073)|(5,002)||89|
|IMCA East||||8,946|(8,946)|||
|IMHA Central||||28,809|(28,797)||12|
|IMHA Aneurin
IMHA West|Bevan||6,289
37643|10,334
~24.868|(16,605)
~72 757||18
18|
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|TOTAL FUNDS|||858,746|175027|||1 033773|
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|net movement
in funds,
includ|ed
in the above are as follows:|||
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|||resources|expended|in funds|
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|Unrestricted|funds||||
|Unrestricted||207,702|(46,060)|161,642|
|Restricted funds|||||
|Swansea Bay|Community|77,045|(77,808)|(763)|
|Cardiff &Vale|Community|80,574|(89,647)|(9,073)|
|IMCA East||232,169|(223,223)|8,946|
|IMHA Central||557,343|(528,534)|28,809|
|IMHA Gwent
IMHA West||322,996
355,751|(312,562)
39980,619|10,334
~24.868|
|||1.628.818|~4.812,496|13,385|
|TOTAL FUNDS||1,833,580|1,658,553|175,027|
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|||
|Donations
and legacies|||
|Donations|30|447|
|Other trading activities|||
|Fundraising
events|6,418|921|
|Training
income|14,035|29,664|
||20,453|30,585|
|Charitable
activities|||
|Grants|1,878,530|1,800,872|
|Other income|||
|Other income|4,807|1,676|
|Total incoming resources|1,903,820|1,833,580|
|EXPENDITURE|||
|Charitable
activities|||
|Wages|1,154,168|1,186,445|
|Social security|114,382|109,072|
|Pensions|34,531|35,218|
|Insurance|18,620|6,719|
|Postage and stationery|7,788|669|
|Subscriptions|10,657|2,572|
|Staff travel expenses|36,268|32,384|
|Premises costs|104,112|93,795|
|Recruitment
and advertising|15,302|7,765|
|Staff training|3,777|1,449|
|Loan interest|22,967|25,750|
|Health and Safety|3,684|9,319|
|Legal and professional|15,006|3,125|
|Communication|28,460|30,677|
|Accountancy fees|1,089|1,132|
|ITexpenses|26,927|34,474|
|Depreciation|56,151|59,583|
||1,653,889|1,640,148|
|Supportcosts|||
|Other|||
|Training|14,891|9,343|
|Bank charges|568|1,201|
||15,459|10,544|
|Governance
Costs|||
|Auditors'
remuneration|6,602|7,861|
|Total resources expended|1,675,950|1,658,553|
|Net income|227,870|175,027|
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