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|Forthe year ended||31August 2023||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
|||||Funds|Funds|Total|Total|
||||Note|2023|2023|2023|2022|
|||||K|F|K||
|INCOME FROM:||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||3|100,313|85,444|185,757|227,574|
|Charitable<br>activities|||3|63,998|0|63,998|56,740|
|Investments|||3|96|0|96|0|
|TOTAL INCOME||||164,407|85,444|249,851|284,314|
|EXPENDITURE ON:||||||||
|Raising funds||||787|0|787|664|
|Charitable<br>activities||||171,003|136,194|307,197|298,163|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE||||171,790|136,194|307,984|298,827|
|Net (expenditure)|I|income||(7,383)|(50,750)|(58,133)|(14,513)|
|Transfers<br>between||funds||(42,469)|42,469|||
|NET MOVEMENT|IN FUNDS|||(49,852)|(8,281)|(58,133)|(14,513)|
|RECONCILIATION||OF FUNDS:||||||
|TOTAL FUNDS B/F||||56,519|21,658|78,177|92,690|
|TOTAL FUNDS C/F|||10|6,667|13,377|20,044|7B,177|





|FirmFoundation<br>BALANCE SHEET|FirmFoundation<br>BALANCE SHEET||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|As at 31August 2023|||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
||||Funds|Funds|Total Funds|Total Eunds|
|||Note|2023|2023|2023|2022|
||||||6||
|FIXEDASSETS|||||||
|Tangible assets|||||||
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||||
|Debtors|||4,021|0|4,021|4,050|
|Cash at bank and|in hand||27 531|14,700|42,231|77,369|
||||31,552|14,700|46,252|81,419|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||31,552|14,700|46,252|81,419|
|Creditors' . amounts|falling due within one year||(24,885)|(1,323)|(26,208)|(3,242)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS/(LIABILITIES)|||6,667|13,377|20,044|78,177|
|TOTAL ASSETSLESSCURRENT LIABILITIES|||6,667|13,377|20,044|78,177|
|TOTAL NET LIABILITIES|||6,667|13,377|20,044|78,177|
|THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY."|||||||
|Restricted income|funds|10||13,377|13,377|21,658|
|Unrestricted<br>funds:|||||||
|Designated<br>funds||10|0||0|11,269|
|General Fund||10|6667||6,667|45250|
|Total Unrestricted|Funds||6,667||6,667|56,519|
|TOTAL CHARITY|FUNDS|10|6,667|13 377|20,044|78,177|





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|Fort|he year ended 31August 2023|he year ended 31August 2023|he year ended 31August 2023|he year ended 31August 2023|he year ended 31August 2023|he year ended 31August 2023|he year ended 31August 2023|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|1.|BASISOF PREPARATION|||||||||||||||
|a)|Basis ofaccounting|||||||||||||||
||These accounts|||have been prepared<br>under the historical cost convention<br>with items recognised<br>atcostor transaction<br>value||||||||unless otherwise||||
||stated<br>in the|relevant|||note(s)|||to|these accounts.|||||||
||The accounts||have been||||prepared|||in accordance with:||||||
||the Statement||of Recommended|||||||Practice (SORP):Accounting<br>and Reporting<br>by Charities<br>preparing<br>their accounts<br>in accordance<br>with the||||||
||Financial<br>Reporting||||Standard|||applicable<br>in the UK and Republic ofIreland (FRS102)issued on 16July 2014and with||||||||
||the Financial|Reporting||||Standard||||applicable<br>in the United<br>Kingdom<br>and Republic ofIreland (FRS102)and with||||||
||ths Charities|Act2011.||||||||||||||
||FirmFoundation|||meets the definition ofa public benefit entity under FRS 102.||||||||||||
|b)|Going concern|||||||||||||||
||The charity|has||net|current|||assets at 31 August 2023 of 646k and has set a prudent<br>operating<br>budget<br>for 2023I2023.||||Therefore|||the trustees|
||consider that|the organisation's|||||||financial<br>viability is assured for at least 12months<br>from the signing ofthese accounts.|||||||
|2.|ACCOUNTING|||POLICIES||||||||||||
|a)|tncomn|||||||||||||||
||Recognition|of||income||||||These are included<br>in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:||||||
|||||||||||the charity becomes entitled tothe resources;||||||
|||||||||||it is more likely than not that the trustees<br>will receive the resources;|and|||||
|||||||||||the monetary<br>value can be measured<br>with sufficient<br>reliability.||||||
||Offsetting|||||||||There has been no offsetting ofassets and liabilities, or income and expenses, unless||required||or permitted||
|||||||||||bv the FRS102SORP or FRS 102.||||||
||Grants and|donations||||||||Grants and donations<br>are only included<br>in the SoFA when the general income recognition|||criteria are met|||
|||||||||||(5.10to 5.12FRS102SORP).||||||
|||||||||||In the case ofperformance<br>related grants, income must only be recognised<br>to the extent|||that the||charity has|
|||||||||||provided<br>the specified goods or services as entitlement<br>to the grant only|occurs when|the performance||||
|||||||||||related conditions are met (5.16FRS102SORP).||||||
||Legacies|||||||||Legacies are included<br>in the SOFA when receipt is probable,<br>that is, when there has been grant|||||ofprobate,|
|||||||||||the executors have established<br>that there are sufficient assets<br>in the estate and any conditions||||attached to||
|||||||||||the leqacy are either within the control ofthe charity or have been met.||||||
||Government|grants||||||||The charity has received government<br>grants<br>in the reporting<br>period||||||
||Tax reclaims||on donations|||||and||Gift Aid receivable<br>is included<br>in income when there is a valid declaration|from the donor.||Any Gift Aid|||
||gifts|||||||||amount recovered on a donation<br>is considered<br>to be part ofthat gift and|is treated as an||addition||to the same|
|||||||||||fund as the initial donation<br>unless the donor orthe terms of the appeal have specified||otherwise.||||
||Contractual|Income|||and|||||This is only included<br>in the SoFAonce the charity has provided<br>the related goods or services or|||||met the|
||oerformance||related arants|||||||performance<br>related conditions.||||||
||Donated goods|||||||||Donated goods are measured<br>at fair value (the amount for which the asset could be exchanged)|||||unless|
|||||||||||impractical<br>to do so.||||||
|||||||||||The cost of any stock ofgoods donated<br>for distribution<br>to beneficiaries<br>is deemed to be the fair||||value of||
|||||||||||those gifts atthe time oftheir receipt and they are recognised<br>on receipt.|In the reporting||period||in which the|
|||||||||||stocks are distributed,<br>they are recognised as an expense at the carrying|amount ofthe stocks at distribution.|||||
|||||||||||Donated goods for resale are measured<br>at fair value on initial recognition,|which is the|expected|||proceeds|
|||||||||||from sale less the expected costs ofsale, and recognised<br>in 'Income from other trading||activities'|||with the|
|||||||||||corresponding<br>stock recognised<br>in the balance sheet.<br>On its sale the value ofstock is charged||||against||
|||||||||||'Income from other trading<br>activities' and the proceeds from sale are also recognised||as|'Income||from other|
|||||||||||trading<br>activities'.||||||
|||||||||||Goods donated<br>for on-going use by the charity are recognised as tangible<br>fixed assets||and included<br>in the||||
|||||||||||SoFA as incoming resources when receivable.||||||
|||||||||||Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included<br>in the SoFA as income from donations||when receivable.||||
||Donated services and facilities|||||||||Donated services and facilities are included<br>in the SOFA when received|at the value ofthe gift to the charity|||||
|||||||||||provided the value ofths gift can be measured<br>reliably.||||||
|||||||||||Donated services and facilitiss that are consumed<br>immediately<br>are recognised as income|||with an equivalent|||
|||||||||||amount<br>recognised as an expense under the appropriate<br>heading<br>in the|SOFA.|||||
||Volunteer<br>help|||||||||The value ofany voluntary<br>help received<br>is not included<br>in the accounts|but is described||in the trustees'|||
|||||||||||annual<br>report.||||||
||Income from|interest, royalties||||||||This is included<br>in the accounts when receipt is probable<br>and the amount|receivable can||be measured|||
||and dividends|||||||||reliably.||||||
||Settlement of||insurance||||claims|||Insurance<br>claims are only included<br>in the SoFAwhen ths general<br>income|recognition<br>criteria are||||met (5.10to|
|||||||||||5.12FRS 102SORP) and are included as an item ofother income<br>in the|SoFA.|||||





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|FlrmFoundatlon|FlrmFoundatlon|FlrmFoundatlon|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATENIENTS|||||||||||
|Forthe year ended||31August 2023|||||||||
||Investment|gains and losses|This includes<br>any realised or unrealised<br>gains or losses on the sale of investments||||and any gain or loss||||
||||resulting<br>from revaluing<br>investments<br>to market value at the end ofthe year.||||||||
|b)|Ex<br>nditure|and Uabilities|||||||||
||Liability recognition||Liabilities are recognised where<br>it is more likely than not that there is a legal|or||constructive||obligation|||
||||committing<br>the charity to pay out resources<br>and the amount of the obligation|can be measured|||||with||
||||reasonable<br>certainty.||||||||
||Redundancy|cost|The charity made no redundancy<br>payments<br>during the reporting<br>period.||||||||
||Deferred income||Unrsstncted<br>income is deferred<br>if it is received, but not used, for a specific purpose||||within|the|year but will be||
||||spent on that purpose<br>in subsequent<br>years.||||||||
||Creditors||Creditors are measured<br>at settlement<br>amounts<br>less any trade discounts||||||||
||Provisions|for liabilities|A liability is measured<br>on recognition<br>at its historical cost and then subsequently|||measured||at the best|||
||||estimate ofthe amount<br>required to settle the obligation<br>at the reporting<br>date||||||||
|c}|Assets||||||||||
||Tangible fixed assets for use by||Tangible fixed assets will be capltalised<br>ifthey can be used for more than one||year,||and cost at least 8500.||||
||charity||||||||||
||||They will be valued atcost.||||||||
||||Computer<br>equipment<br>will be depreciated<br>at33/o per annum<br>on cost.||||||||
||||Other equipment<br>and Fixture &Fittings will be depreciated<br>at 20'/o per annum||on cost.||||||
||Other fixed|assets|The charity has no other fixed assets||||||||
||Debtors||Debtors (including<br>trade debtors and loans receivable) ars measured<br>on initial|||recognition||at settlement|||
||||amount<br>after any trade discounts or amount advanced<br>by the charity.<br>Subsequently,||||they are||measured|at|
||||the cash or other consideration<br>expected to be received.||||||||
||Current asset investments||Investments<br>held for resale or pending<br>their sale and cash and cash equivalents|||which have a maturity||||date|
||||less than one year, including<br>cash on deposit and cash equivalents<br>with a maturity date of|||||less than one year|||
||||held for investment<br>purposes<br>rather than to meet short term cash commitments|||as they fall due will be valued|||||
||||at fair value except where they qualify as basic financial<br>instruments.||||||||





|FirmFoundatlon|FirmFoundatlon|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|NOTES|TO THE FINANCIAL||STATEMENTS|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Forthe|year ended 31August||||2023|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|3.|ANALYSIS OF INCOME|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||Unrestricted||||funds|||Restricted|||||Total||Unrestricled||Restricted|||Total|
|||||||||||2023|||||||income|funds||||2023||funds 2022|income||funds||2022|
||||||||||||||||||2023||||||||||2022|||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||6|||
||Donations and legacies:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||Donations<br>and gifts|||||||||||||71,953||||||325||72,278||44,676|||753|45,429||
||Gift Aid||||||||||||||9,860|||||||9,860||3,122|||||3,122|
||General grants provided|||||by||||||||18,500|||||85,119|||103,619||15,000||164,023||179,023||
||government<br>Iother charities|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||100,313|||||85,444|||185,757||62,798||164,776||227,574||
||Charitable<br>activities:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||Rental Income|||||||||||||63,998||||||||63998||56,740||||56,740||
|||||||||||||||63,998||||||||63,998||56,740||||56.740||
||income from investments|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||Interest income||||||||||||||96|||||||96||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||96||||||||
||ANALYSIS OF RECEIPTS OF GOVERNMENT||||||||||||GRANTS|||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||Total||Total||||||
||Description|||||||||||||||||||||2023||2022||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||6||||||||
||Central Government|Day Centre Feasibility||||||||||grant||||||||||19,000||||||||
||Central Government|Night Shelter|||||||grant|||||||||||||||64,689||||||
||TOTAL GOVERNMENT|||||GRANTS|||RECEIVED|||||||||||||19,000||64,689||||||
||ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||Unrestricted||||funds||Restricted||||||Total||Unrestricted||Reslricled|||Total|
|||||||||||2023||||||income||funds||||2023||funds 2022|income||funds||2022|
||||||||||||||||2|2023||||||6|||||2022f||f|
||||||||||||||||787|||||||787||664|||||664|
||Total expenditure<br>on|||raising||||funds||||||||||||||||||||||
||Expenditure<br>on charitable||||||activities:|||||||||||||||||||||||
||Staffing costs|||||||||||||79,042|||||85,248|||164,290||48,174||98,245||146,419||
||Office &administration||||costs|||||||||46,363|||||247|||46,610||39,08'i|||1,057|40,138||
||Client accommodation|||costs||||||||||38,016|||||50,286|||88,302||51,917||50,602||102,519||
||Other client costs|||||||||||||7,582|||||413|||7995||6,874|||2,213||9,087|
||Total expenditure<br>on|||charitable||||||||||171,003||||136,194||||307,19?||146,046||152,117||298,163||
||activities|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||TOTAL EXPENDITURE|||||||||||||171790||||136194||||987884||1467t0||1521'17||298827||
||PAID EMPLOYEES|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Total||Total|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||2023||2022|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||6||6|
||Salaries and waaes|||||||||||||||||||||||||150.815||135.024||
||Social security costs||||||||||||||||||||||||||6,875||4,972|
||Pension costs (defined||||contribution||||scheme)||||||||||||||||||2 971||2,088|
||Total direct staff costs|||||||||||||||||||||||||160661||t42084||
||No employees<br>received||||employee||||benefits||(excluding||||employer||pension||costs) for the|||reporting|period ofinors than 660,000.|||||||
||The total amount<br>paid||to|||key|management||||personnel||||{includes||trustees||and||senior management)||for their seivicss to the|||charity was 630,900||||
||(2023:630,900). For||specific|||||amounts||paid||to|trustees, see Nots 11.|||||||||||||||||
||The average weekly||number|||||ofemployees,||||expressed as head count||||||and|||as full time|equivalents,||during the period|was:|||||
||||||||||||||||||||Head count||||||Full time equivalents|||||
||||||||||||||||||||2023|||2022|||||2023||2022|
||||||||||||||||||||||No.|No.|||||No.||ivo.|
||Charitable<br>activities|||||||||||||||||||8.0||6.4|||||6.4||5.5|
||N.B.|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||The increase<br>in staff numbers|||||||reflects||the filling|||of|vacancies||and ths full year effect of||||||a year-round||night shelter. The greater|||increase|in full|time|
||equivalents<br>is due to|the||||engagement||||ofcasual|||staff||to work|at|the Drop-In|||service and||in the office.||||||||





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||||||||||||2023|2022f|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Amount ofcontributions|recognised|||in|the SOFA as an|expense||||2,971|2,088|
||Total employer<br>pension|contributions||||have been allocated between||restricted f25,&79|(2022;F1,135)and unrestricted||funds based on the salary||
||allocations ofstaff between||restricted|||and unrestricted|funds.||||||
||DEBTORSAND PREPAYMENTS||||||||||2023f|2022f|
||Gift Aid claimed||||||||||552|T63|
||Housing<br>benefit due||||||||||3,247|1,681|
||Client contribution<br>arrears||||||||||102|4,418|
||Less Provision for bad|debts||||||||||(3,594)|
||Client loans|||||||||||782|
||Donation on accrued invocie||||||||||120||
||||||||||||4021|4050|
|9.|CREDITORS AND ACCRUALS||||||||||2023f|2022f|
||Housing<br>Benefit ovsrpaymsnts||||||||||2,797||
||Trade creditors||||||||||4,211|3,242|
||Deferred income||||||||||19200||
||||||||||||26200|3242|
|10.|STATEMENT OF FUNDS||||||||||||
|||||||||Brought||||Carried|
|||||||||forward|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|forward|
|||||||||1/9/22f|2022/23<br>f|2022/23<br>f|2022I23<br>f|31/8/23<br>f|
||~re<br>tri ~fn 6:||||||||||||
||Designated<br>funds:||||||||||||
|||Housing||Fund|||||63,973|(63,927)|(46)||
|||Drop In||Fund||||290|7,770|(15,658)|7,598||
||Lloyds Bank Foundation|||Fund||||6,700|||(6,700)||
||Nationwide-Support|Worker||Fund||||4,279||(4,038)|(241)||
||General fund|||||||45,250|92,663|88,166|43,000|0661|
||Total unrestricted<br>funds|||||||56,519|164,406|(171,789)|(42,469)|6,867|
||~5I'<br>4||||||||||||
||Night Shelter Fund|||||||10,421|46,953|(105,184)|47,810||
||National<br>Lottery Communities||Fund|||||11,237|38,491|(31,010)|(5,341)|13,377|
||Total restricted<br>funds|||||||21,858|85,444|(136,194)|42,489|13,317|
||TOTAL FUNDS|||||||78,177|249,850|(307,9&3)||20,044|
|||||||||Brought||||Carried|
|||||||||forward|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|forward|
||~Prior<br>ear|||||||1/9/21<br>f.|2021/22<br>f|2021/22<br>f|2021/22f|31/8/22f|
||go~re<br>tri ~dttnds||||||||||||
||Designated<br>funds:||||||||||||
||Housing<br>(formerly Premises)|||Fund||||4,815|56,739|(73,174)|11620||
|||Drop In||Fund|||||6,722|(6,432)||290|
||Lloyds Bank Foundation|||Fund||||6,700||||6,100|
||Nationwide-Support|Worker||Fund||||22,476||(18,197)||4,279|
||General fund|||||||40,006|56,077|48,907|1,926|45250|
||Total unrestricted<br>funds|||||||13,$97|119,538|(146,710)|9,694|58,519|
||~21'<br>d<br>d:||||||||||||
||Night Shelter Fund||||||||129,442|(119,021)||10,421|
||National<br>Lottery Communities||Fund|||||18,693|35,334|(33,096)|(9,694)|11,237|
||Total restricted<br>funds|||||||18,693|164,7?6|(152,117)|(9,694)|21,658|
||TOTAL FUNDS|||||||92,690|284,314|(298,827)||78,17T|



