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|Independent<br>Examiner's|Report||
|Statement ofI'inancial|Activities|7 to 8|
|Balance Sheet|||
|Notes to the Financial|Statements|10to 29|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||||P Blackburn||||
||||||JM Hodkinson||||
||||||Dr S Riding||||
||||||JMcLeod||||
||||||R Ireland||||
|Senior Management|||/|Leadership|Mrs Park, Chief Executive||Officer||
|Team|||||||||
|Charitv Registration||||Number|1145818||||
|Company|Registration|||Number|7879355||||
||||||The charity<br>is incorporated||in|England and yvales.|
|Registered||Office|||Bradbury<br>Centre||||
||||||116Highgate||||
||||||Kcndal||||
||||||Cumbria||||
||||||LA9 4HE||||
|Independent||Exandner|||Stables Thompson &|Briscoe||Ltd|
||||||Chartered<br>Accountants|&|Business Advisors||
||||||Lotvther<br>House||||
||||||Lovdher Streei||||
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|||||funds|funds|2023|
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|Donations<br>and legacies||||52,612|9|52,621|
|Chantable<br>acttvities||||7,535|169,615|177,150|
|Other tradmg<br>activities||||15,773|825|16,598|
|Investmcnt<br>income||||1,069||1,069|
|Other income||||2,339||2,339|
|Total mcome||||79,328|170,449|249,777|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Raising fitnds<br>Charitable<br>activities||||(25,212)<br>(72,787)|(2,377)<br>(116939)|(27,589)<br> ~(229,726|
|Total expenditure||||(97,999)|(159,316)|257,315)|
|Net (expenditure)/income||||(18,671)|11,133|(7,538)|
|Transfers<br>between|funds|||2,892|(2,892)||
|Net movement<br>in funds||||(15,779)|8,241|(7,538)|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
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|Total funds earned|forward||18|575,971|60,066|636,037|





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|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||||funds|funds|2022|
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|Donations<br>and legacies||||51,485|12|51,497|
|Chantable<br>activities||||29,287|137,274|166,561|
|Other trading<br>activities||||16,171|1,264|17,435|
|Illvestmcllt<br>lllcolllc||||597||597|
|Other income||||2,474||2,474|
|Total income||||100,014|138,550|238,564|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Raising funds<br>Charitable<br>activities|||8<br>9|(26,814)<br>~70,241)|(4,385)<br>(150,679)|(31,199)<br>(220,920)|
|Total expenditure||||(97,055)|(155,064)|(252,119)|
|Net income/(expenditure)||||2,959|(16,514)|(13,555)|
|Transfers<br>benvecn|funds|||(830)|830||
|Net movement<br>in funds||||2,129|(15,684)|(13,555)|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||2023|2022|
|||||Note|||
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|Tangible<br>assets||||15|306,822|316,996|
|Current<br>assets|||||||
|Debtors||||16|2,365|1,921|
|Cash at bank|and in hand||||412,914|382,006|
||||||415,279|383,927|
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due within|one year|17|~R6,tl64)|(57,348)|
|Net current|assets||||329,215|326,579|
|Net assets|||||636,037|643,575|
|Funds ofthe|charity:||||||
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|Restricted<br>funds||||18|60,066|51,825|
|Unrestricted|income|funds|||||
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|Donations||from|mdividuals||19,947||9|19,956|
|Lcgacics|||||20,330|||20,330|
|Gift aid|reclaimed||||2,366|||2,366|
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||||||funds||Restricted|Total|
||||||General||funds|2023|
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|Big Lottery Fund|||||||43,181|43,181|
|Big Lottery Extra Support|||||5,385|||5,385|
|Henry<br>Smith|||||||33,100|33,100|
|UHMBT for ECLO|||||||15,689|15,689|
|Eric Wrtght Trust|||||||20,000|20,000|
|Francis Scott CYP|||||||13,800|13,800|
|Cumbna<br>Community||Foundation|||||19,016|19,016|
|Awards<br>for All|||||||8,718|8,718|
|DWP Kickstarter|||||||6,081|6,081|
|Ulverscroft<br>—netvsletter|||||||1,860|1,860|
|Lupton<br>towards|Meet up||2k Call||||1,500|1,500|
|Gateway<br>Group|—SVedncsday|||Social|||1,000|1,000|
|Herd Lawson|||||||2,400|2,400|
|Gatetvay<br>Group|—DSL||||||760|760|
|Sktpton - Explore 2|||||||850|850|
|Clark - totvards|new|PC|||||500|500|
|Kendal BID|||||||500|500|
|Harold 8:Alice|Bridges||—IT|equipment|||500|500|
|Arnold<br>Clark|||||2,000|||2,000|
|Other unrestncted<br>grants||||||150||150|
|Alpktt<br>—Wick in|the Park||||||160|160|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||General|funds|2022|
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|Henry<br>Smith|||33,450|33,450|
|Eric svright<br>Trust|||20,000|20,000|
|Big Lottery COVID|||20,000|20,000|
|Galloivays<br>ECLO|||15,689|15,689|
|BBCChildren<br>in|Need||9,309|9,309|
|SLDC COVID Support||2,667||2,667|
|Weston Garfield||25,000||25,000|
|Herd Lairson|||5,400|5,400|
|Other restricted<br>grants|||1,428|1,428|
|National<br>Lottery Celebrate 25||250||250|
|Arnold<br>Clark||750||750|
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||||||||General|funds|2023|
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|Local fundraising|||and||street collection income||6,683||6,683|
|Vttal Group restricted||||||||825|825|
|Recharge ofexpenses|||||to SLSBEnterpnses||3,288||3,288|
||||||||15,773|825|16,598|
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|Local fundratsmg|||and||street collection mcome||6,407||6,407|
|Groups restricted||||||||1,107|1,107|
|Vital Orroup rcstrictcd||||||||157|157|
|Recharge ofcxpcnscs|||||to SLSBEnterprises||7,890||7,890|
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|||||||||funds|Total|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||funds|Rcstrictcd|Total|
|||||General|funds|2023|
||||Note||||
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|Stat'f|costs|||16,164||16,164|
|Advertising||and publicity||849|667|1,516|
|Fundraising||cxpcnses||69||69|
|Cost of|goods sold|||6,025||6,025|
|Fundraising||consultants||2,105||2,105|
|Utilities|and|rates covered by grants|||1,710|1,710|
|||||25,212|2,377|27,589|
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|Adverttsing||and publicity||323|1,418|1,741|
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|Cost of|goods sold|||3,978||3,978|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||||||Direct <br>f|costs|support<br>costs<br>f||2023<br>f|
|Costs ofgenerating||donations|||and legacies||||2,105|2,105|
|Costs oftrading|activities||||||7,735||16,164|23,899|
|Other costs ofgenerating||||funds|||1,585|||1,585|
||||||||9,320||18,269|27,589|
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|||||||Direct <br>f|costs|support<br>costs<br>f||2022<br>f|
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|Costs oftrading<br>activities|||||||6,275||16,097|22,372|
|Other costs ofgenerating||||funds|||1,776|||1,776|
||||||||8,051||23,148|31,199|
|9<br>Expenditure|on|charitable|||activities||||||
|||||||Unrestricted|||||
|||||||funds||Restricted||Total|
|||||||General||funds||2023|
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|Staff Costs, recruitment|||and training|||39,406||142,214||181,620|
|Telephone<br>and coniputer|||||||3,636||4,805|8,441|
|Rates and utilitics|||||||4,079|||4,079|
|Staff travel|||||||508||1,984|2,492|
|Volunteer,<br>user travel and||||expenses|||615||87|702|
|Group expenses|||||||||538|538|
|Room Hire and Event Costs|||||||625||4,500|5,125|
|Insurance|||||||1,564|||1,564|
|Repairs and reneivals|||||||4,577||126|4,703|
|Training<br>and conference|||fees||||868||1,841|2,709|
|Sundry<br>expenses|||||||1,728|||1,728|
|Bookkeeping<br>and|payroll||||||876|||876|
|Independent<br>examination||||fee|||1,890|||1,890|
|Pnnting,<br>postage|and stationery||||||1,544||844|2,388|
|Bank charges|||||||696|||696|
|Depreciation||||||10,174||||10,174|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||funds||Restricted|Total|
||||General||funds|2022|
||||||f|f.|
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|Telephone<br>and computer|||2,216||1,393|3,609|
|Rates and utilities|||4,|197|397|4,594|
|Staff travel||||94|1,636|1,730|
|Volunteer,<br>user travel and expenses|||||222|222|
|Group expenses|||||34|34|
|Room Hire and Event Costs||||663|2,701|3,364|
|Printing,<br>postage<br>and stationery|||2,256||509|2,765|
|Insurance|||||1,452|1,452|
|Repairs and renewals|||1,038||540|1,578|
|Tratmng<br>and conference|fees|||199|1,065|1,264|
|Computer<br>software<br>and mamtenancc||costs||281|2,251|2,532|
|Sundry expenses||||673||673|
|Bookkeeping<br>and payroll||||818||818|
|Independent<br>exanunation|fec||2,|197||2, 197|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||undertaken|||Activity|||
|||directly<br>f|||support <br>f|costs|2023|
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|Telephone<br>and computer|equipment|||||8,441|8,441|
|Rent, rates and utility charges||||||4,079|4,079|
|Staff travel|||2,492||||2,492|
|Volunteer<br>travel and expenses||||702|||702|
|Ciroup Expenses||||538|||538|
|Room Hire and event costs|||5,|125|||5,125|
|Printing,<br>postage and stationery||||||2,388|2,388|
|Insurance||||||1,564|1,564|
|Repairs and renervals||||||4,703|4,703|
|Training<br>and conference|fccs||2,709||||2,709|
|Sundry Expenses||||||1,728|1,728|
|Bookkeeping<br>and payroll|services|||||876|876|
|Independent<br>examination|fee|||||1,890|1,890|
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||||undertaken|Actlviti|||
||||directly<br>f|support<br>costs<br>f||2022<br>f|
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|Telephone<br>and computer|equipment||||3,609|3,609|
|Rent, rates and utility charges|||||4,594|4,594|
|Staff travel|||1,730|||1,730|
|Volunteer<br>travel and expenses|||222|||222|
|Group Expenses|||34|||34|
|Room Hire and cvcnt costs|||3,364|||3,364|
|Punting,<br>postage<br>and stationery|||||2,765|2,765|
|Insurance|||||1,452|1,452|
|Repairs and renewals|||||1,578|1,578|
|Training<br>and conference|fees||1,264|||1,264|
|Computer<br>sottware<br>and|maintenance|costs|||2,532|2,532|
|Sundry Expenses|||||673|673|
|Bookkeeping<br>and payroll scrviccs|||||818|818|
|Independent<br>examination|fee||||2,197|2,197|
|Bank Charges|||||503|503|
|Depreciation|||||10,335|10,335|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||funds|Total|
||||||General|2023|
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||||||1,890|1,890|
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||||||funds|Total|
||||||General|2022|
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|Social security costs||12,270|8,235|
|Pension costs||8,344|8,645|
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||||||buildings<br>f||equipmcnt||Total<br>f|
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|At<br>1 April 2022|||||343,717|||38,019|381,736|
|At 31 March 2023|||||343,717|||38,019|381,736|
|Depreciation||||||||||
|At<br>1 April 2022|||||41,246|||23,49-1|64,740|
|Charge for the year||||||6,874||3,300|10,174|
|At 31 March 2023|||||48,120|||26,79-1|74,914|
|Nct book value||||||||||
|At 31 March 2023|||||295,597|||11,225|306,822|
|At 31 March 2022|||||302,471|||14,525|316,996|
|16 Debtors||||||||||
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|17 Creditors:<br>aniounts|||falling|due isithin one veer||||||
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|Other creditors||||||||1,381|1,248|
|Accnials||||||||6,493|6,524|
|Defened income||||||||78,190|49,576|
|||||||||86,064|57,348|
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|Defened<br>mcome at||1 April 2022|||||49,576||17,050|
|Resources deferred||in the period||||||78,190|49,576|
|Amounts<br>released|from previous|||periods|||(49,576)||(17,050)|
|Defened<br>income at||year|end|||||78,190|49,576|





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|||||Balance at I|Incoming|Resources||31March|
|||||April 2022|resources|expended|Transfers|2023|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||||
|General|||||||||
|General<br>funds||||230,243|79,328|(87,825)|2,892|224,638|
|Designated|||||||||
|Neiv building<br>and||assets||316,996||(10,174)||306,822|
|Investment<br>in future|||services|29,511||||29,511|
|Building<br>maintenance|||fund|15,000||||15,000|
|||||361,507||(10,174||351,333|
|Total unrestricted||funds||591.759|79,328|~97,999)|2,892|575,971|
|Restricted<br>funds|||||||||
|Big Lottery Fund||—Neiv|||43,181|(39,155)||4,026|
|UHMBT ECLO||||3,017|||(3,017)||
|Avvards<br>for All|||||8,718|(8,695)|(23)||
|Galloivays<br>ECLO||||637|15,689|(12,012)||4,314|
|Henry<br>Smith||||3,066|33,100|(32,633)||3,533|
|Herd Laivson||||2,410|2,400|(4,810)|||
|Building<br>Appeal||||3,296||||3,296|
|Lupton Toiver Tittst|||||1,500|(869)||631|
|Clark Foundation|||||500|(478)|(22)||
|Dual sensory<br>loss||||388|769|(183)||974|
|Francis Scott Trust|||||13,800|(12,666)||1,134|
|Fred Whitton||||166|||(166)||
|Eric Wright|||||20,000|(20,000)|||
|Harold<br>A. Alice|Bridges||||||||
|Charity|||||500|(466)|(34)||
|Alpkit|||||160|||160|
|Group Activities||||3,270|825|(730)|420|3,785|
|Kcndal BID|||||500|||500|
|Ulvcl.scrofi|||||1,860|(722)||1,138|
|Other restncted|Donations|||616|1,000|||1,616|
|Skipton|||||850|(850)|||
|DWP Kickstarter|||||6,081|(6,042)|(39)||
|Cumbria<br>Community|||||||||
|Foundation|||||19,016|(19,005)|||
|YWCA||||34,959||||34,959|
|Total restricted<br>funds||||51,825|170,449|(159,316)|(2,892)|60,066|





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|||Balance at I|Incoming|Resources||31March|
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|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||
|General||||||||
|General<br>fitnds|||217,778|100,014|(86,719)|(830)|230,243|
|Designated||||||||
|Ne)v building<br>and|assets||327,332||(10,336)||316,996|
|Investment<br>m future||services|29,511||||29,511|
|Building<br>maintenance||fund|15,000||||15,000|
|Total unrestricted|funds||371,843<br>589,621|ltltl,tll4|~70,336)<br>~97,055|~830|361,507<br>591,750|
|Restricted||||||||
|Big Lottery Fund|—COVID|||20,000|(20,830)|830||
|BigLottery Fund|—Nc)v|||31,998|(31,998)|||
|UHMBT ECLO|||3,126||(109)||3,017|
|BBCChtldren<br>m|Need||5,678|9,309|(14,987)|||
|Gallosvays<br>ECLO||||15,689|(15,052)||637|
|Henry<br>Smith|||2,247|33,450|(32,631)||3,066|
|Herd La)vson||||5,400|(2,990)||2,410|
|Building Appeal|||3,296||||3,296|
|Sobell Foundation|||6,699||(6,699)|||
|Dual sensory loss|||434|12|(58)||388|
|Fred SVhitton|||166||||166|
|Eric 3Vright||||10,000|(10,000)|||
|Group Act)vities|||2,379|1,264|(373)||3,270|
|Other restricted<br>Donat)ons|||616||||616|
|Evan Cornish Foundation|||7,478||(7,478)|||
|Cumbna<br>Community||||||||
|Foundation|||431||(431)|||
|Lakeland<br>Disab)hty||Grants||299|(299)|||
|Eric IVright ExcepCirc||||10,000|(10,000)|||
|YSVCA|||34,959||||34,959|
|Other small grants||||1,129|(1,129)|||
|Total restricted<br>funds|||67,509|138,550|~(ll5,061|830|51,825|
|Total funds|||657,130|237.,564|~2\2, 779)||643,575|





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|||||||Total funds at|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|funds|Restricted|31March|
||||General<br>f|Designated|funds|2023<br>f|
|Intangible||fixed assets||306,822||306,822|
|Current|assets||308,337|44,511|60,066|412,914|
|Current|habihties||(86,064)|||(86,064)|
|Total net||assets|222,273|351,333|60,066|633,672|
|||||||Total funds at|
||||Unrestricted|funds|Restricted|31March|
||||General|Designated|funds<br>E|2022f|
|Tangible||fixed assets||316,996||316,996|
|Current|assets||287,591|44,511|51,825|383,927|
|Current|liabihties||(57,348)|||(57,348)|
|Total net||assets|230,243|361,507|51,825|643,575|





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