Aiming Higher 231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB Tel: 01253 206447/448 ## **Aiming Higher for the Disabled Community Trustee Report April 2020 to March 2021** **The year 2020 to 2021, has been an extremely challenging year for Aiming Higher. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on every part of society.** **As a charity, supporting extremely vulnerable families caring for disabled children, our staff team have been outstanding, creatively finding solutions to enable Aiming Higher to continue delivering services and activities to the Disabled Community of Blackpool and the Fylde Coast. Our soft play and sensory centre on the ground floor of our building in central Blackpool, became a distribution hub for resources that were distributed to families, (following COVID strict regulations), to enable them to join in virtual activities. This made a huge difference to the mental health, social isolation and many other negative issues that have surfaced as a result of COVID.** **Our Board of Trustees, consisting of local business leaders and parent/carers, continued to support our staff team, enabling them to provide quality services, offering strong governance, bringing their business expertise to the board as well as the lived experience of the challenges and problems around raising a disabled child.** **During this time, we were able to continue supporting our families through our Transformation Project, funded by The Big Lottery Community Foundation Grant and our Early years Children in Need Grant.** **Families requesting help with housing, benefits, health, education and social care were supported, both virtually and, where absolutely necessary, face to face, allowed, as our staff are classed as frontline workers. Once again, all our support was carried out following COVID regulations. Blackpool is recognised as an area where social and financial deprivation are prevalent, and COVID has increased the issues many of our** Registered Charity Number 1144664 Aiming Higher 231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB Tel: 01253 206447/448 **families experienced and continue to do so. Through all this, our staff team have offered vital support that families have come to rely on, and our waiting list has increased significantly, an indicator of how much help is needed.** **During this year, our fundraising abilities have been curtailed. However, we have been fortunate to have received funds from various sources, some targeted at supporting families during this time of crisis.** **To name a few, Beaverbrooks, Slater Gordon, Glasdon and Asda all gave us donations. Bauer Radio, Vera Wolstencroft, The Respite Association. Lancashire Community Foundation, NHS Community Gift and TEMAX all helped to fund the extra support needed to help families and support the work of Aiming Higher.** **In addition, Children in Need and The Big Lottery awarded us additional funding, specifically recognizing the additional needs of so many during these unusual circumstances. We were also awarded grants from the Rank Covid Recovery and Time to Shine funding.** **Lancashire Magazine continues to support us. In addition to regular financial donations, the magazine publishes a monthly feature, keeping the readership updated with our activities and our gratitude goes to Natalie Christopher for facilitating this and continuing to support us in her role as Patron.** **Our thanks go to everyone who has given us the support needed, that has enabled us to provide the much-needed services and activities that our families have relied on, even more than during “normal times”. In addition, we acknowledge that without all who give their time by providing maintenance to our building, volunteering their time freely and supporting us in a variety of other ways, Aiming Higher would struggle to deliver the vital services and help to families in Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.** Registered Charity Number 1144664 Aiming Higher 231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB Tel: 01253 206447/448 **At the end of this financial year, we are still facing the uncertainties and impact that COVID-19 will bring in the coming year.** **However, our dedicated staff team and volunteers will continue to assist the families that rely on our charity, delivering on the outcomes that we are committed to. With on-going support from our Trustee Board and local businesses and organisations, with funding from grants, sponsorship, donations and fundraising, Aiming Higher will provide the services that families so desperately need to help them face their challenges, no matter what the future holds.** **On behalf of our families, our staff team, volunteers and Board of Trustees, thank you to all who help us make such a difference to the lives of families caring for disabled children and young people in the local area.** . Registered Charity Number 1144664 ## **Aiming Higher: Registered Charity Number 1144664** ## **231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB** ## **Statement of Financial Activities Year Ending 31st March 2021** |**Detail Notes as Indicated.**
**Incoming Resources**
**Income from Charitable Activities**
Event Fees
Premises Hire
**Resources from Generated Funds**
Grants and Restricted Funds1
Donations
Fundraisers
Support for Families
**Activities for Generating Funds**
Flat Rental
Spring Ball
Student Placement Fees
On Line Auction
**Investment Income**
Bank Interest
**TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES**
**Resources Expended**
Activity Costs
2
Other Costs
2
Building Costs
2
**TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**|**Unrestricted**
£
652.00
40.00
0.00
9,313.10
604.93
6,086.88
4,260.71
-400.00
7,640.00
114.06
39.85
**28,351.53**
**Unrestricted**
£
13,828.25
1,430.00
4,291.97
**19,550.22**|**Restricted**
£
351,665.95
**351,665.95**
**Restricted**
£
305,681.03
5,500.00
14,530.00
**325,711.03**|**Total**
£
652.00
40.00
351,665.95
9,313.10
604.93
6,086.88
4,260.71
-400.00
7,640.00
114.06
39.85
**380,017.48**
**Total**
£
317,254.30
7,289.00
20,255.57
**344,798.87**|**2020**
£
1,859.10
2,840.00
268,040.90
9,849.74
5,701.77
6,305.49
6,590.00
17,730.00
0.00
57.82| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**318,974.82**| |||||**2020**
£
280,393.25
170.95
25,816.08| |||||**306,380.28**| **Page 1** **Aiming Higher: Registered Charity Number 1144664 231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB Statement of Financial Activities Year Ending 31st March 2021** |**Net Incoming Resources**
**Fund Balances as at 1st April 2020**
**TOTAL 31st MARCH 2021**|**2021**
**£**
**Unrestricted**
**£**
8,801.31
65,447.61|**2021**
**£**
**Restricted**
**£**
25,954.92
123,099.88|**2021**
**Total**
34,756.23
188,547.49
223,303.72|**2020**
**Total**
16,828.23
171,719.26| |---|---|---|---|---| ||74,248.92|149,054.80||188,547.49| ## **Aiming Higher: Registered Charity Number 1144664** ## **231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB** ## **Statement of Financial Activities Year Ending 31st March 2021** ## **Aiming Higher Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2021** |**Current Assets**
**Cash Balance**
**Accounts Receivable**
**Net Assets**|**Unrestricted**
**£**
74,248.92
74,248.92|**Restricted**
**£**
149,054.80
149,054.80|**Total**
**2021**
**£**
223,303.72
223,303.72|**2020**
**£**
188,147.49
400.00| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||188,547.49| |||||| |Unrestricted Funds
Restricted Funds
3
**TOTALS**|74,248.92
74,248.92|149,054.80
149,054.80|74,248.92
149,054.80
223,303.72|65,447.61
123,099.88| |||||188,547.49| **Page 3** ## **Aiming Higher: Registered Charity Number 1144664** ## **231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB** ## **Statement of Financial Activities Year Ending 31st March 2021** |**Detail notes as indicated. 1**
**Income from Grants & Restricted Funds**
Saturday Activities
Children in Need
The A Team
Bauer Radio
The Big Lottery Community Fund
Children in Need Booster
Children in Need next Steps
Respite Association COVID
CVS
Lancashire Magazine
Crowd Funder
Rank Covid Recovery
Lancashire Foundation
Big Lottery COVID
NHS Baking Project
Percy Bilton
Screwfix
The Glass Floor
Time to Shine
Vera Wolstencroft COVID
Vera Wolstencroft IPADS
**Total amounts received**|**Restricted**
**2021**
**£**
12,646.00
37,841.35
18,615.88
700.00
168,695.00
2,104.06
6,705.91
5,023.07
5,000.00
1,000.00
516.00
24,213.00
1,916.00
34,599.68
2,500.00
500.00
4,530.00
300.00
12,465.00
10,000.00
1,795.00| |---|---| ||351,665.95| **Page 4** ## **Aiming Higher: Registered Charity Number 1144664** ## **231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB** ## **Statement of Financial Activities Year Ending 31st March 2021** |**Detail notes as indicated. 2**
**Resources Expended**
**Charitable Activities**
Activity Costs
Volunteer Expenses
Office Costs
Utilities
Telephone/Broadband
Staff Costs
Business Rates
Insurance
Professional Fees
Building Costs inc. Rent
Fundraising Costs
Gifts and Donations
TOTAL
**Depreciation**
**TOTALS**|**Restricte**d
**£**
100,240.24
0.00
2,557.62
6,136.95
1,571.63
195,174.59
5,500.00
14,530.00
0.00
325,711.03|**Unrestricted**
**£**
287.69
1,514.65
360.95
7,999.93
1,433.60
1,912.87
1,430.00
4,291.97
262.56
56.00
0.00
19,550.22|**Total**
**£**
100,527.93
0.00
4,072.27
6,497.90
1,571.63
203,174.52
1,433.60
1,912.87
6,930.00
18,821.97
262.56
56.00
0.00
345,261.25|**2020**
**£**
54,818.55
123.40
3,927.95
6,486.22
1,071.46
201,186.49
1,411.20
1,871.27
147.00
24,404.88
10,907.91
23.95
0.00| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||306,380.28| **Page 5** **Aiming Higher: Registered Charity Number 1144664** ## **231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB** ## **Statement of Financial Activities Year Ending 31st March 2021** |Detail notes as indicated. 3
**Restricted Funds**
Crowd Funder
Heinz
Lancashire Magazine
Lancashire magazine Activities
Saturday Activities
A Team
Bauer Radio
Big Lottery COVID
Big Lottery Community Fund
Children in Need
Vera Wolstencroft COVID
I.T/Health & Safety
Time to Shine
TK Max
True Colours
Vers Wolstencroft Ipads
**TOTAL**|**£**
516.00
75.00
4,461.63
1,000.00
3,260.65
11,518.41
81.89
7,233.60
86,858.15
9,546.87
3,420.21
5,093.00
11,018.66
455.00
2,720.73
1,795.00| |---|---| ||149,054.80| **Page 6** **Aiming Higher: Registered Charity Number 1144664.** ## **231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB** ## **Statement of Financial Activities Year Ending 31[st] March 2021** ## **Notes to the Accounts Year Ended 31[st] March 2021** ## **1. Accounting Policies** - a) The Financial statements have been prepared and follow the recommendations in “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (SORP) - b) Voluntary Income is received by way of donations and is included in full in the State of Financial Activities when received. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included. - c) Grants are recognised in full in the Statement of Financial Activities - d) Restricted Funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets this criteria is identified. - e) Unrestricted Funds are donations and other income received or generated for the objects of the charity without further specified purpose and are available as general funds. - f) Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost of each asset over its’ estimated useful life, which, in all cases is set at three years. ## **2. Turnover** The turnover and surplus are attributable to the promotion of any charitable purpose for the benefit of the charity in the local authority districts of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. ## **3. Operating Surplus** This is as stated. ## **4.** Bank Interest Received 39.85 **Aiming Higher: Registered Charity Number 1144664.** **231/233 Church Street Blackpool FY1 3PB** ## **Statement of Financial Activities Year Ending 31[st] March 2021** ## **5. Taxation** As a registered charity with charitable status granted there is no liability for Corporation Tax on its’ Charitable Activities. ## **6. Staff Numbers** Eight members of staff were employed during the year, two Project Managers, three Family Support Workers, one Administrator, one Development Worker and a Sessional Worker and another position, funded through Time to Shine. All staff positions were grant funded. In addition to these staff positions, a Charity Manager, was contracted to the charity. Independent examlner's report to the trustees of Almlng Higher for the Disabled Community I report to the charÉty trustees on my examination of the ac¢ounts of Aimin8 Higher for the Disabled Cotnmunity Ithe Trust) for the year ended 3 1 March 2021. RespoD5ibilitRe$ and basls of report As the charity trustee5 of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in a¢¢ordan¢e with th¢ requirements of the Clwities Act 2011 {'the ACVI. I rq)ort in respect of my ¢xamination ofthe Tn￿t'S a¢¢ounts ¢arried out under section 145 ofthe Actand in carrying ollt my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity CoTnmission under section L4515)Ib} of the Act. IDdep¢ndent exaTuiner'5 Statement I have completed my examination. l ¢onfirtn that no material matters have Come to my attention in connection with the exatninatioTa givin8 m¢ callse to believe that in any material Tespect.. accounting records were kept in respect of th¢ Trust as requira by section 130 ofthe Act.. or th¢ a¢¢ounts do not accord with those records,. or the accounts do not comply wth the applicable r¢quir¢ments concerning the form and content of account5 Set ou in th¢ Chariiies (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any rquiTem¢nt that the accounts giv¢ a tr and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come a¢r05S llo other matters in conne¢tion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in thts repoft in order to etthle a proper undeTStandtng ofthe accounts to be reaGhed. I Roll50n FCA Institute of Chartered Accountants it2 England and Wales CCWLiTnited Chartered A¢countants 2951297 Church Street Bla¢kpool Lan¢ashire FYJ 3PJ Date.. o2L