**COMPANY NUMBER: 05319695**
**CHARITY NUMBER: 1143490**
**THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **DIRECTORS REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **CONTENTS**
||Page|
|---|---|
|Directors' (trustees) report|1-2|
|Accountants report|3|
|Statement of financial activities|4|
|Balance sheet|5-6|
|Statement of cash flows|7|
|Notes to the financial statements|8-10|
## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **COMPANY INFORMATION**
|**Company Number:**|05319695|
|---|---|
|**Charity Number:**|1143490|
|**Trustees:**|Mrs L.J. Ingham|
||Mrs P.A. Trudgill|
|**Directors:**|Mrs L.J. Ingham|
||Mrs P.A. Trudgill|
|**Secretary:**|Mrs L.J. Ingham|
|**Registered Office:**|Basnett Street Nursery School|
||Basnett Street|
||Burnley|
||Lancashire|
||BB10 3ES|
## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **DIRECTORS (TRUSTEES) REPORT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
The directors submit their annual report and the financial statements of the company for the 12 months to the year ended 31 December 2022. The directors are also trustees and have served during the year and up to the date of this report.
## **Structure, governance and management**
The Chatterbox Club is a charitable company. That is to say, it is registered with both within the Charity Commission as a charity and with Companies House as a company limited by guarantee, without share capital.
The charity is administered by a Board of Trustees/Directors. The directors are responsible for strategic and financial planning and for identifying and responding to any risks.
The directors of the charitable company are its trustees for the purpose of charity law and the governing documents of the charity are the Memorandum and Articles of Association.
## **Objectives and activities**
To provide a warm, secure and caring environment for children.
To advance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age.
To provide high standards of education and childcare.
## **Achievements and performance**
The day to day finances of the setting have been efficiently managed throughout the year continuing to adhere to the financial procedures.
## **Financial review**
During the year the charity generated income of £123,389. The deficit for the year was £25,800.
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## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **DIRECTORS (TRUSTEES) REPORT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **Statement of trustees' responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements that for each financial year that shows a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the surplus or deficit of the charity for that period. In preparing the financial statements the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
## **Small company provisions**
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions for small companies under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
On behalf of the board
Mrs L.J. Ingham
**Director**
2 March 2022
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**THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **ACCOUNTANTS REPORT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006 the accounts have been prepared for your approval for the year ended 31 December 2022 which comprises the Statement of financial activities, the Balance sheet, the cash flows statement and the related notes.
It is your responsibility to ensure that the Chatterbox Club has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities.
You consider that a statutory audit is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.
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## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
|**Note**
**Incoming resources**
Incoming resources from generating funds:
Activities for generating funds
Incoming resources from charitable activities
**3**
**Total incoming resources**
**Resources expended**
Charitable activities
**4**
Governance costs
**5**
**Total resources expended**
**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year/**
**Net income/(expenditure) for the year**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**2022**
**2021**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
0
0
123,389
123,389
136,258|
|---|---|
||123,389
123,389
136,258|
||148,690
148,690
133,980
500
500
500|
||149,190
149,190
134,480|
||(25,801)
(25,801)
1,778
90,475
90,475
88,699|
||**64,674**
**64,674**
**90,477**|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses in the year and therefore a separate statement of total recognised gains and losses has not been prepared.
All of the above amounts relate to continuing activities.
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**THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2022**
|**Note**
**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
**9**
**Current assets**
Debtors: amounts falling due within one year
Cash at bank and in hand
**11**
Creditors: Amounts falling after one year
**12**
**Net Current Assets**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
**Net assets**
**Funds**
Unrestricted income funds
**Total Funds**|**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
20,802
20,802
8,968
8,968
65,753
117,227
74,721
126,195
(30,848)
(56,522)
43,873
69,673
64,675
90,475
**64,675**
**90,475**
64,675
90,475
**64,675**
**90,475**
**2021**
**2022**|**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
20,802
20,802
8,968
8,968
65,753
117,227
74,721
126,195
(30,848)
(56,522)
43,873
69,673
64,675
90,475
**64,675**
**90,475**
64,675
90,475
**64,675**
**90,475**
**2021**
**2022**|
|---|---|---|
||||
|||90,475|
||||
|||**90,475**|
|||90,475|
|||**90,475**|
The Balance Sheet continues on the following page.
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## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2022(CONTINUED)**
In approving these financial statements as trustees of the company we confirm:
(a) that for the year ended 31 December 2022 the company was entitled to the exemptions of section 477 of the Companies Act 2006;
(b) that an audit has not been required, pursuant of section 476 of the Companies Act 2006;
© ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006:
(d) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company.
These financial statements are prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The financial statements were approved by the board on 20 July 2023 and signed on behalf by
Mrs L.J. Ingham
## **Director**
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**THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
|**Cash flows from operating activities**
(Loss)/profit for the financial year
**Adjustments for:**
Depreciation of tangible assets
Decrease in debtors
Increase in creditors
**Net cash generated from operating activities**
**Cash flows from operating activities**
**Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year comprise:**
Cash at bank and in hand|**2022**
2021
**£**
£
**-25,801**
1,778
**0**
2,100
**0**
0
**-25,674**
24,022|
|---|---|
||**-51,475**
27,900|
|||
||**0**
0|
||**-51,475**
27,900
**117,227**
89,329|
||**65,753**
117,227|
|||
||**65,753**
117,227|
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## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **NOTES TO THE FIANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
## **1 General Information**
The Chatterbox Club is a not for profit Company and has no share capital.
## **2 Accounting policies**
## **2.1 Basis of preparation of financial statements**
The financial statements are prepare under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice Accounting and Reporting Charities issued in March 2005 (SORP 2005) and the Companies Act 2006.
## **2.2 Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income.
## **2.3 Resources expanded**
All expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis.
Expenditure includes VAT which cannot be fully recovered.
## **2.4 Tangible fixed assets and deprecation**
Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation.
Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost or valuation of fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following basis:
Equipment 15% reducing balance basis Buildings 5% straight line basis
The assets residual value, useful lives and depreciation methods are reviewed, and adjusted prospectively if appropriate, or if there is an indication of a significant change since the last reporting date.
Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing the proceeds with the carrying amount and are recognised in profit or loss.
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## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **NOTES TO THE FIANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
## **2.5 Debtors**
Short term debtors are measured at transaction price, less any impairment.
## **2.6 Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash is represented by cash in hand and deposits with financial institutions.
## **2.7 Creditors**
Short term creditors are measured at transaction price. Other financial liabilities, including bank loans, are measured initially at fair value, net of transaction costs and are measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
## **3 Incoming resources for charitable activities**
|Fees
Grants
**4**
**Costs of charitable activities**
Staff costs
Support costs
**5**
**Governance costs**
Accountancy fee|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
17,703
105,593
123,296
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
108,745
40,445
149,190
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
500
500|**2022**
**2021**
**Total**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
17,703
22,037
105,593
114,222|
|---|---|---|
|||123,296
136,259|
|||**2022**
**2021**
**Total**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
108,745
94,209
40,445
40,271|
|||149,190
134,480|
|||**2021**
**2020**
**Total**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
500
500|
|||500
500|
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## **THE CHATTERBOX CLUB LTD (A COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE)**
## **NOTES TO THE FIANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022**
- **6 Net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year**
|**6**
**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year**||
|---|---|
|Net incoming/(outgoing) resources is stated after
charging depreciation.
**7**
**Employment costs**
Wages and salaries
Other costs|**2022**
**2021**|
||0
2,100|
||**2022**
**2021**
108,745
94,209
0
0|
||108,745
94,209|
The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:
|**2022**|2021|
|---|---|
|**7**|8|
## **8 Taxation**
The charity is exempt from taxation.
|**9**
**10**|**Tangible fixed assets**
Cost:
At 1 January 2022
Addition
At 31 December 2022
Depreciation:
At 1 January 2022
Charge for the year
At 31 December 2022
Net book value:
At 31December 2022
At 31 December 2021
**Debtors**
Due within one year:
Prepayments
Sundry debtors
Provision for doubtful debts||**Land**
**and**
**Buildings**|**Fixtures**
**and**
**Fittings**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
45,100
58,772
0
0|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**£**
13,672
0||
||||**13,672**|**45,100**
**58,772**|
||||4,667
0|33,303
37,970
0
0|
||||**4,667**|**33,303**
**37,970**|
||||||
||||**9,005**|**11,797**
**20,802**|
||||||
||||**9,005**|**11,797**
**20,802**|
||||**2022**
**£**
0
8,968
0|**2021**
**£**
0
8,968
0
**8,968**|
||||**8,968**||
|**11**
**12**|**Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors**
Sundry creditors
Loans
Accruals|**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
65,753
117,227|
|---|---|---|
|||**65,753**
**117,227**|
|||**2022**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
0
0
0
0
30,848
56,522|
|||**30,848**
**56,522**|
## **13 Related party transactions**
There have been no related party transactions throughout the financial year.
## **14 Company limited by guarantee**
The Chatterbox Club is a company limited by guarantee and does not have a share capital.
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