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|Contents||||
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|Directors, Officers and|Advisers|||
|Tmstees'<br>Report|||3-10|
|independent<br>Examiners'|Report|||
|Statement ofFinancial|Activities||12|
|Balance Sheet|||13|
|Notes to the Financial<br>Statements|||14-23|
|The following<br>pages do not form part ofthe statutory||financial Statements||
|Tncome and Expendinu|e Account||24|
|Tncnme snd Expendiiure|Account Summaries||25-26|





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|Directors||||Alison Marshall|Chair||||
|||||Amy Sutluen|Vice - Chair||||
|||||Anne Burman|Treasurer||||
|||||Lynne Thompson|Trustee||||
|||||Thomas Boynton|Trustee||||
|||||Lindsay Pendleton|Trustree|appointed|21stNovember|2022|
|Registered||Otyice||Woodvale &Ainsdale|Community|Centre|||
|||||Meadow Lane|||||
|||||Woodvale|||||
|||||Southport|||||
|||||Merseyside|||||
|||||PRS 3RS|||||
|Company|Registration||Number|7795806|||||
|Charity Registration|||Number|1146522|||||
|Bankers||||The Royal Bank ofScotland|||||
|||||269 Lord Street|||||
|||||Southport|||||
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|||||Santander|||||
|||||12 Chapel Lane|||||
|||||Formby|||||
|||||L374HU|||||
|Independent||Examiner||Neil A. Latham FCA|||||
|||||Harrison<br>Latham &Company|||||
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|One Stop Community|Partnership<br>Programme|
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|Sefton MBC Ainsdale|Area Committee|





|Creative Loop||Se(ton CVS Living Well Sefton|Se(ton CVS Living Well Sefton|
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|Eleanor Rathbone<br>Charitable|Trust|Sefton MBC||
|Financial<br>Ptanmng<br>Corporation||Se(ton CVS||
|John Moores Foundahon||Southport<br>Lions Club Charity||
|Knowsley<br>Credit Union||Tesco Fonnby||
|MaS Gifls that Give||The 23 Foundation||
|National<br>Lottery Awards for|All|The Neighbourly|Foundation|



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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Note|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
||||f|f|||
|Income from:|||||||
|Donations<br>snd legacies||34|7,642|400|8,042|5,848|
|Charitable<br>activities||3b|22,246|78,899|101,145|65,847|
|Other trading|activities|3c|2,137||2,137|490|
|Investments||3d|656||656|23|
|Other||3c||||16,576|
|Total|||32,681|79,299|111,980|88,784|
|Expenditure|on:||||||
|Charitable<br>Activities||5|27,845|76,641|104,486|91,310|
|Net income/(expenditure)|||4,836|2,658|7,494|(2,526)|
|Transfer between<br>funds|||(1,775)|1,775|||
|Net incoming|resources after transfers||3,061|4,433|7,494|(2,526)|
|I%et movement|In funds||3,061|4,433|7,494|(2,526)|
|Funds at 30th|April 2022||142,612|35,185|177,797|180,323|
|Funds at 30th|April 2023||145,673|39,618|185,291|177,797|





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|Fixed Assets|||||||||
|Tangible Assets||||||7,228||3,287|
|Current Assets|||||||||
|Debtors||||10|20,108||4,402||
|Cath at bank|in hand||||160,588||173,504||
||||||180,696||177,906||
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due within|one||||||
|year||||I I|2,633||3,396||
|Net Current|Assets|||||178,063||174,510|
|Net Assets||||||185,291||177,797|
|Funds|||||||||
|Unrestricted<br>Funds||||12||145|673||142,612|
|Restricted Funds||||13||39,618||35,185|
|Total Funds||||||185,291||177,797|






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|Analysis oflncotne<br>Donations<br>and legacies||||||||
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|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
|||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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|Membership<br>fees which are in substance||||||||
|donations||||7,236||7,236|5,039|
|Miscellaneous<br>donations||||406|400|806|809|
|||||7,642|400|8,042|5,848|
|Included<br>within<br>income from <br>fnil.|donations||aud legacies for the year ended||30th April 2022 was restricted||income of|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||||
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
|||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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|Hall hire||||19,998||19,998|10,702|
|Mini-bus<br>and other hire||||372||372|331|
|Management<br>fees||||1,397||1,397|17|
|Training||||479||479||
|Sefton MBC Neighbourhood|Grant||||13,000|13,000|6,500|
|Sefton Youth Service Commissioned||Funding|||30,000|30,000|15,000|
|Brighter Living Parmership|||||3,734|3,734|1,515|
|Awards<br>for All|||||||10,000|
|Eleanor Rathbone<br>Charitable|Trust||||3,000|3,000|1,500|
|SCVS Community<br>Chapion Fund|||||||2,000|
|SCVS Community<br>Retiliance|Grant||||1,332|1,332||
|John Moores Foundation|||||5,000|5,000||
|SCVS Coronation<br>Fund|||||350|350||
|SCVSLWS Grant|||||2,000|2,000||
|Sefton MBC Ainsdale<br>Area Committee||||||||
||||||4,494|4,494||
|Creattve Loop|||||658|658||
|P.H. Holt Foundation|||||||10,805|
|SCVS Comm within<br>Comm|||||||1,477|
|SCVS Warm Welcome Space|||||1,215|1,215||
|The 23 Foundation<br>2022|||||2,486|2,486||
|Southport:iona|||||4.780|4,780||
|One Stop Community<br>Partnership|||||1,150|1,150|2,000|
|Thrive Network<br>Setton Grant|||||||2&000|
|Youth Diversion<br>Fund|||||||2,000|
|C/fwd||||22,246|73,199|95,445|65,847|



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|||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|B/Fwd||22,246|73,199|95,445|65,847|
|BEt Q The biicghbourly|Foundation||3,200|3,200||
|Asda Foundation<br>Mk SThe hieighbourly|Foundation||1,500<br>1,000|1,500<br>1,000||
|||22,246|78,899|101,145|65,847|



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|Other t|rading|activities|||||
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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|Winter warmers||raffle, bingo and|||||
|afternoon|tea||2,137||2,137|394|
|Miscellaneous||Income||||96|
||||2,137||2,137|490|



||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Bank|interest|receivable|656||656|23|
||||656||656|23|





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||||||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|||Miscellaneous|income|Furlough||||||576|
|||Miscellaneous|income|SMBC Grants||||||16,000|
|||||||||||16,576|
|||Included<br>within|incoming resources|||from|other for the year ended 30th|April 2022 was|restricted income ot'fnil.||
|4.||Analysis ofgovernment|||grants|||2023||2022|
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|||Seflon MBC:Neighbourhood|||Grant|||15,000||6,500|
|||Setton MBC:Ainsdale||Area|Committee||||||
|||Seflon MBC:Youth Service|||Commissioned||Funding|30,000||15,000|
|||||||||45,000||21,500|
||5|Charitable<br>Activities|||||||||
|||||||||Activities|||
|||||||||Undertaken|Total|Total|
|||||||||Directly|2023|2022|
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|||Community<br>engagement||||||104,486|104,486|74,087|
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|---|---|---|---|
|||2023|2022|
||||f|
|Net Incoming Resources is stated||||
|after charaina:-||||
|Depreciation<br>and amortisation||||
|Tangible assets: owned||1,502|1,283|
|Loss on sale oftangible|fixed assets|(675)||
|Staff' costs (note 7)||57,459|47,375|
|Independent<br>examination||984|936|
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|Fo|r the Year Ended 30th April 2023|||
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|7.|Employees<br>and Staff Costs|||
||Staff Costs|2023|2022|
||Wages and salaries<br>Social security costs|55,297<br>0|45,783|
||Other pension costs|2,162|1,592|
|||57,459|47,375|
||The average number ofemployees|||
||during<br>the year was:|||
|||2023|2022|
|||No.|No.|
||Management<br>and administration|||
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|Tangible Fined Assets||||
|---|---|---|---|
||Equipment|Motor|Total|
|Cost||||
|At 1st May 2022|21,280|7,444|28,724|
|Additions|5,443||5,443|
|Disposals||||
|At 30th April 2023|26,723|7,444|34,167|
|Depredation||||
|At 1st May 2022|19,243|6)194|25,437|
|Charge for the year|1,252|250|1,502|
|Disposals||||
|At 30th April 2023|20,495|6,444|26,939|
|Net book amounts||||
|At 30th April 2023|6,228|1,000|7,228|
|At 30th April 2022|2,037|1,250|3,287|





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|10.|Debtors||2023|2022|
||Trade Debtors||15,909|569|
||Prepaymcnts|and accrued income|4,199|3,833|
||||20,108|4,402|



|11.|Creditors:|Amounts|falling|due|within|one|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||year||||||



|Creditors: A<br>year|mounts|falling due|within<br>one|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Bank loans and|overdratts|||||||
|Trade creditors|||||622||2,020|
|Accruals and deferred||income|||2,011||1376|
||||||2,633||3,396|
|Unrestricted|Funds|||||||
||||Balance|Incoming|Resources|Transfer|Balance|
||||brought|resources|expended||Carried|
||||forward<br>f||f||Forwardf|
|General Fund|||147,612|32,681|(27,845)|(1,775)|145,673|
|Total Funds|||142,612|32,681|(27,845)|(1,775)|145,673|



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||||Balance|incoming|Resources|Transfer|Balance|
||||brought|resources|expended||Carried|
||||forward|f|f||Forwardf|
|SCVSLWS Grant||||2,0DD|(1,565)||435|
|Sewon Youth Setvice Commissioned||||||||
|Funding|||20,431|30,0DO|(25,884)||24,547|
|Scfton MBC Ainsdalc Area Committee||||||||
|||||4,494|(4,494)|||
|John Moores Foundation||||5,000|(5,000)|||
|Brighter Living Partnership||||3,734|(3.734)|||
|Awards for All|||7,038||(7,038)|||
|B&G The Neighbourly|Foundation|||3,200|(2,494)||706|
|SCVC Comm within<br>Comm|||1,477||(1,477)|||
|Creative Loop||||658|||658|
|M &SThe Neighbourty|Foundation|||1,000|(84)||916|
|SCVS CommunityResiliancc||Fund||1,332|(1,332)|||
|SCVS Coronation<br>Fund||||350|(33)||317|
|SCVSWarm Welcome Fund||||1,215|(1,135)||80|
|E.L.Rathbone<br>Charitable||Trust||3,000|(308)||2,692|
|Living Well Sefton Locality Grant|||1,535||(609)||926|
|One Stop Community<br>Partnership|||1,730|1,150|(2,366)||514|
|Southport Lions||||4,780|(4,518)||262|
|The 23 Foundation<br>2022||||2,486|(2,486)|||
|Sefton MBC Neighbourhood||Funding||||||
|||||13,000|(9.584)|1,775|5,191|
|Santander<br>Foundation|||665||||665|
|ScRon Youth Led Bid WACA||||||||
|Gardening<br>Proiect|||2,309||(600)||1,709|
|The Asda Foudation||||1,900|(1,900)|||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||brought|resources|expended||Cerned|
|||||||forward|f|f||Forward<br>f|
||General Fund|||||134,675|33,891|(26,470)|516|142,612|
||Restricted funds||||||||||
||P.H. Halt Foundation|||||9,617|10,901|(20,518)|||
||Sellan V SCommissioned|||Funding||18,847|15,000|(13,416)||20,431|
||ScRon MBC Neighbourhood||||Grant||6,500|(6,432)|(68)||
||The ACC L'pool Group Foundation|||||34||(34)|||
||Brighter Living Partnership||||||1,515|(1,515)|||
||Awards<br>for All||||||10,000|(2,962)||7,038|
||Ca-op Local Community||Fund|||3,909||(3,909)|||
||SCVC Comm Within|Comm|||||1,477|||1,477|
||Living Well Settee Grow||for||it|7|||(7)||
||SCVS Violence Reduction|||Unit||1,598||(1,598)|||
||SCVC Community<br>Champion||||Fund||2,000|(2,000)|||
||Tcsco Beges ofHelp|||||1,000||(1,000)|||
||Sefton For Good 2020|||||954||(954)|||
||E.L.Reathbone<br>Charitable|||Tmst|||1,500|(1,500)|||
||Living Well Setton Locality|||Grant||2,040||(64)|(441)|1,535|
||One Stop Community|Partnership|||||2,000|(270)||1,730|
||Thrive Network||||||2,000|(2,000)|||
||Youth Diversion<br>Fund||||||2,000|(2,000)|||
||Santander<br>Foundation|||||1,028||(363)||665|
||Sefton Youth WACA|Garden|||Project|3,039||(730)||2,309|
||Nadonal<br>Lottery|||||3.575||(3,575)|||
|||||||45,648|54,893|(64,840)|(516)|35,185|
|15.|Analysis ofNet Assets||Between Funds||||||||
|||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total funds|
|||||||||Funds|funds||
|||||||||f,|f|f|
||Fixed Assets|||||||7,228||7,228|
||Net Current Assets|||||||138,445|39,618|178,063|
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|Sctton MBC Neighbuurhood<br>Grant<br>Seftnn MBC Ainsdale Area Cnmmmec<br>Setton Youth Service Commissional<br>Funding<br>Schon Covid Grants||||13,000<br>4,494<br>30,000||6,500<br>15,000|
|SCVS Community<br>Champion|Fund|||||16,0UU|
|Hall hire||||||2,000|
|Mcmbeshlp<br>fees<br>Equipment<br>hire<br>Management<br>fees<br>Tmrlllllg<br>Brighter Living Partnership<br>Awards for All||||19,998<br>7,236<br>1,397<br>372<br>479<br>3,734||10,702<br>5,039<br>331<br>17<br>1,515|
|Juhn Moore: Foundation<br>SCVS Comm within<br>Comm||||5,000||10,000|
|Eleanor Rathbone Charitable<br>Trust<br>Bst O The Neigbbourly<br>Foun deu on<br>Crcativc Loop<br>M dt SThc Nerghbourly<br>Foundation<br>SCVS Community<br>Reulianc Grant<br>SCVS Coronation<br>Fund||||3,000<br>3,200<br>658<br>1,000<br>1,332<br>350||1,477<br>1,500|
|SCVS LWS Gram||||'2,000|||
|P.H. Holt Foundation|||||||
|SCVS Warm Welcome Space||||1,215||10,805|
|Ooc Stop Community<br>Partnership<br>The 23 Foundauom<br>2022||||1,150<br>2,486||2,000|
|Southport<br>Liem||||4,780|||
|The Asda Foundation||||1,500|||
|Thrive Network Sefton Grant||||||2,000|
|Youth Diversion<br>Pund 2U21|||||||
|||||108,381||86,886|
|Dlrert Expenditure|||||||
|Activity<br>Costs|||33,940||19,890||
|Awards refuadcd|||||3,575||
|Other direct costs|||70||I,U I9||
|||||34.010||24,484|
|C oss Surplus||||7427i||62.402|
|Orher Income||||3,599||1,322|
|||||77,970||63,724|
|Less|||||||
|StaffCosts|||57,722||51,006||
|Pt'cltttses Cutis|||6,576||8,712||
|Athninistranve<br>expenses|||5,351||5,248||
|Dcpr cciation end smorti canon|||827||1,283||
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|Surplus/(Dencit)<br>for the year||||7,494||(2,525)|





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|Activity Costs|||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Activity costs|||24,012|g<br>12,408|
|Equipment<br>purchases|||895|1,056|
|Equipment<br>repairs|||40|110|
|Refreshments|||24|252|
|Sessional fees<br>Garden costs|||5,163<br>495|4,360<br>182|
|Vehicle costs<br>Volunteer<br>expenses|||1,284<br>2027|1,263<br>259|
||||33,940|19,890|
|Other direct expenses|||2023|2022|
|Advertising<br>&Sales Promotions|||70|1,019|
||||70|1,019|
|Other Income|||2023|2022|
|Miscellaneous<br>donations|||806|809|
|Aflrenoon<br>lunch, raffle and various|fundraising|activities|2,137|394|
|Miscellaneous<br>income||||96|
|Bank interest receivable|||656|23|
||||3,599|1,322|
|Staff Costs|||2023|2022|
|Gross Pay|||55,297|49,417|
|Employers<br>NIC|||0|0|
|Employers<br>Pension|||2,162|1,(92|
|StaffTraining|||114|557|
|Furlough<br>Payments||||(576)|
|StaBTravel|||149|16|
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|---|---|---|---|
|Rates||f|f|
|Water rates<br>Light and hear<br>Repairs and renewals<br>Cleaning<br>Health and safhty||(293)<br>1,144<br>2,429<br>1,157<br>273<br>1,368|876<br>1,049<br>2,511<br>2,308<br>333<br>544|
|Hygiene services<br>Security costs||396<br>102|395<br>696|
|||6,576|8,712|
|Administrative|expenses|2023|2022|
|||f||
|Computer costs||104|146|
|independent<br>examination||984|936|
|Professional<br>fees||312|437|
|insurance<br>Postage, printing|and stationery|2.272<br>329|2,679<br>94|
|Telephone||898|812|
|Sundry|||16|
|Subscriptions||452|128|
|Trustee meetings||||
|||5,351|5,248|
|Depreciation|and amortisation|2023|2022|
|||f||
|Depreciation of|equipment|1,252|971|
|Depreciation of|motor vehicles|250|312|
|Loss on disposal|ofequipment|(675)||
|||827|1,283|



