Company number: 7737871 Charity Number: 1147150
## Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd
Report and financial statements For the year ended 31st August 2020
Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd
## Reference and administrative information
for the year ended 31st August 2020
**Company number** 7737871 **Charity number** 1147150 **Registered office and operational address** The House-11 Belgrave Road Macclesfield Cheshire SK11 7TW
**Trustees** Trustees, who are also directors under company law, who served during the year and up to the date of this report were as follows:
||James Andrew Booth||
|---|---|---|
||Martin Clarke|Treasurer|
||Andrea Fitton||
||Ameera Fletcher||
||Jennifer Hardy||
||Jayne Shaw|(Resigned 30/11/2020)|
||Adam Small||
||Ruth Thompson||
|**Secretary**|Katy Wardle||
|**Key management**|||
|**personnel**|Jonathan Aiken||
||Keirra Bexon||
||Ameera Fletcher|Director|
||Oliver Gibson||
||Amy McFadden||
||Sarah Postlewhite||
||Emma Thomas||
||Katy Wardle||
||Tom Wardle|(Resigned February 2020)|
|**Bankers**|Unity Trust Bank||
||Nine Brindleyplace||
||Birmingham||
||B1 2HB||
|**Independent**|Jennifer Daniel FCCA|DChA|
|**examiner**|Slade and Cooper||
||Beehive Mill||
||Jersey St||
||Ancoats||
||Manchester||
||M4 6JG||
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Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd
## Trustees’ annual report
## for the year ended 31st August 2020
The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31st August 2020. Included within the trustees’ report is the directors’ report as required by company law.
Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the memorandum and articles of association and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities: SORP applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **Objects**
The charitable purposes of the company are:
- To advance the Christian faith for the public benefit;
- To act as a resource for young people living in Macclesfield and the surrounding area by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities to help young people develop their skills, capacities and capabilities, advancing education, relieving unemployment, and providing recreational and leisure activity;
- To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of such people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.
## **Activities**
Cre8 Macclesfield has delivered a range of regular activities for public benefit over the past year. We provide innovative and life-changing ways of working with young people and the local community.
**Cre8 Music** : We successfully secured a further 2 years of funding from Youth Music that allows us to continue and develop our community music project. We held a Christmas concert at St Michael’s church in December 2019. This enabled young people with a range of musical abilities to take part in a collaborative performance. The young people worked together towards delivering this project as part of the recognition of their commitment and creative achievements. We moved the music activities online during the lockdown. As a result we have run an alternative form of music instruction and tutoring, including music chat for primary and secondary age young people, young people acting as music leaders and mentors, music quizzes, songwriting workshops, music production, a music jam, and online concerts. Attendees have enjoyed talking to their peers outside a school environment, discussing their problems and working together to make music.
Working with our music tutors, the young people have earned certificates in guitar, ukulele, piano, singing, drums and, for the first time, music production. Our first two candidates who took their music production exams have both achieved distinctions.
This music outreach work has enabled us to successfully encourage NEET young people to engage with further education. We are looking to expand this work to connect with other young people who are struggling to deal with education or to gain meaningful employment.
**Learning Plus** : Cre8’s Learning Plus is a one-to-one education project that is well embedded within our activities. As an established NOCN delivery centre, we have engaged young people with NOCN modules in Cooking, Baking and Volunteering. Cre8 makes a significant additional contribution to the range of alternative education provision that is available to schools and providers in our area. This year there
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was a focus on practical sessions such as woodwork and gardening. Throughout the pandemic we were able to safely adapt our provision to provide one-to-one education for those young people most in need across our local community.
**Clubs** : The youth work team faced significant challenges in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All our regular provision stopped and had to be adapted to online delivery. This necessary change created a challenging time for both the leaders and the young people. Emerging from the lockdown with socially distancing measures in place, Cre8 has been able to provide a reduced range of activities for young people, with more expansive and greater levels of risk assessment being applied to all our youth work including detached youth work outdoors in one-to-one situations and small groups with limited participants. This year we continued to deliver one-off trips, for example, to our local fire station and the local park. We also continued our connections with HOME theatre in Manchester where 6 young people enjoyed their first interactive theatre performance. Through gateway project work with Just Drop In & Wilmslow Youth our staff have benefited from training in young people's mental health & gender identity which brings greater depth to the level of support we can offer our young people. Our dedicated volunteers continue to play a key part in our success of working with local young people.
**I-Will Social Action Project** : Through this project we have delivered day-to-day repairs and maintenance jobs. These actions included valuable life skills such as fixing door handles. We also made items for our community garden such as a bug hotel and helping to grow vegetables. Young people designed and built planters for a neighbouring local care home. The other key activities that took place as part of this project were social action days when we worked with organisations alongside our young people to complete work on our community building. We helped with a Carers’ Christmas party and volunteer event.
The ideas for activities that were included during these events were inspired by the young people with suitable guided support. The activities were varied and helped improve the practical skills of the young people while also educating the young people of new processes and procedures including health & safety considerations and how their impact on delivering activities. For the young people, assisting at community events reinforced their understanding of how they are seen and fit within the local community. Working with new organisations during volunteer days meant that young people met new people including professionals and were able to share experiences with them as part of their mutual experience.
**Social Enterprise CCF Funding:** Due to Covid-19 this project was only staffed for one day per week during April and May and two days subsequently. This project will eventually ramp up to equate to three days per week during the next financial year. As part of this funding, we have reviewed and documented our previous history and experience with social enterprise activities. This work was primarily completed by doing interviews with managers, team leaders, and young workers who had previously been involved with this work. This research has allowed reflection and learning that will guide and inform future social enterprise activities. We have, as part of this ambition, also set up an initiative called Cre8 Enterprise. This project engages with hard to reach young people to provide work experience opportunities through small local work projects.
**Cre8 Facilities** is our social enterprise business. Cre8 Facilities delivers a high-standard fleet washing service to Creamline Dairies in Manchester. Cre8 has delivered this commercial contract from Creamline for the past seven years. The work ensures that Creamline vehicles, including its milk floats and vans are cleaned and jet-washed on a two weekly cycle. Because Creamline give Cre8 this regular financial contract, we are able to provide supported employment experience for young people and young adults who are led by an experienced Team Leader. Creamline works in partnership with Cre8 through this commercial contract. Creamline is supportive and understanding with its contract, recognising the
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challenges of employing hard-to-reach young people. This partnership is an exemplar of business and charity coming together in a way that provides mutual benefits.
**Project Grow** is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. It is a project that recognises and mobilises our local talents while also building on our years of community experience. The first year of the project has progressed well. The Surplus Food Grocery is operating and feeding around 180 households each week through donated surplus food. The team of local volunteers collect, sort and redistribute perfectly good surplus food that would otherwise be bound for the bin. With this work we are able to help reduce food bills across the Macclesfield community. We have future plans to reach out to the four other housing estates across Macclesfield over the coming years.
The Garden & Allotment at St Barnabas Church is open to all one day each week, as well as for other groups who are able to use the space such as Tots, Cre8 Learning Plus and the local Brownie group. We have successfully run several one-off community events, providing food and activities organised and run by volunteers from our local area. We've organised a young people's couch to 5k course where young people took the lead on organising the exercises, routes, challenges and volunteering at our local 5k Park Run. We will build on the successes and learnings of our first year as we move forward to our second year of operations.
The trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year.
This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits that the charity has brought to those groups of people that it is set up to help. The review also helps the trustees ensure that the charity’s aims, objectives and activities remained focused on its stated purposes.
The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.
All trustees have confirmed in writing that they have read CC03 with respect to understanding their roles and responsibilities as trustees.
Several trustees have attended training related to Charity Governance and have reported back to the trustee team.
## **Achievements and performance**
The charity’s main activities and its main beneficiaries are described below. All its charitable activities are undertaken to further Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd’s charitable purposes for the public benefit.
We have built capacity, resilience and developed a self-help model that reduces what corrodes and gnaws away at the emotional, physical and spiritual well-being of people in our community. We have done this by raising self-esteem, self-worth, self-confidence and consciously built a sense of community.
This year we have continued our partnership work with Just Drop In and Wilmslow Youth as part of the G8Way project. This work provides access to training opportunities around mental health for young people and for staff members.
Our performance and achievements have included:
- Prepared a successful bid to Cheshire Community Foundation that provided the opportunity to employ a Social Enterprise Business Development Manager to explore and create new models for
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delivering social enterprise. This work will produce long term solutions that provide meaningful work opportunities for young people who live locally.
- Adapting our Project Grow to deliver emergency food parcels during the pandemic across Macclesfield.
- Supporting the establishment of a Food Network Partnership across Macclesfield, with HOPE North East Cheshire.
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- Young people designed and built planters for a local nursing care home.
- Tutoring young people and supporting them to take professional music exams
- Delivering music concert performances entirely with young people, including live sound engineering, for our second Ceilidh during Burns Night, a community fundraiser with approximately 80 guests.
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- Continuing to work with Creamline Dairies through Cre8 Facilities.
During the second half of the financial year, and due to COVID-19, Cre8 Macclesfield adapted its services to provide emergency food provision across Macclesfield with the procurement of a refrigerated vehicle. Food was collected from Manchester and delivered to over 80 households each day and 5 days a week. As lock-down conditions eased this emergency provision was reduced and we returned to our day-to-day activities (described above). Cre8 utilised additional emergency funding from a variety of grant funders in order to support the community in different ways in the later phases of the pandemic.
We give thanks to our major funders; Cheshire Community Foundation, CO-OP Local Community Fund, National Lottery Community Fund, Macclesfield Town Council, and Cheshire East Council.
We continuously appreciate the support of all our individual donors, and all the volunteers who provide their time to support our community to enable change to happen.
The trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits the charity has brought to those groups of people that it is set up to help. The review also helps the trustees ensure the charity's aims, objectives and activities remained focused on its stated purposes.
In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.
## **Beneficiaries of our services**
There are three geographical categories of beneficiaries of our services. Young people and their families living on the Moss Rose Estate have benefited from our clubs and residentials, the music project and Project Grow. Young people and their families living in Macclesfield have benefited from our Cre8 Facilities and social enterprise businesses. Young people and their families from Cheshire East have benefited from our Learning Plus project.
## **Financial review**
Cre8 made a small surplus of £2K in the 2020 financial year, which is similar to the result in 2019 (surplus of £4K). Both income and costs increased by just over 20%, reflecting the growth in grant income for restricted projects, the main constituents being:-
- First full year of grant from the National Lottery Fund for our community-based food project (£16.6K).
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- A grant of £23.4K from Cheshire Community Fund to employ a person to promote and grow our social enterprise business.
- A grant of £20.4K from the Rank Foundation to employ an intern.
- Successful completion of the Youth Music 2017 to 2019 project (£10.0K), which lead to the grant of a further 2 years funding.
The trustees have again prudently budgeted for a deficit in 2021, to take account of the potential effects of the Covid 19 pandemic, but the signs for income and costs are encouraging and we are confident of compliance with our reserves policy in 2021.
In summary, total funds increased by £2K in 2020 (2019: £4K increase). At the end of the year total funds stood at £158K (2019: £156K), with cash reserves at £148K (2019: £148K).
## **Reserves policy**
The current policy (previously set out in 2018) is to maintain unrestricted reserves at a minimum of 6 months budgeted net costs. At August 2020, unrestricted reserves had reduced slightly to 9.7 months of budgeted net cost (2019: 9.9 months).
## **Plans for the future**
Learning from our recent experience we will further expand Project Grow. We are looking forward to beginning the well-being aspects of our small group work which have been paused while we focussed primarily on food provision during the pandemic. We have welcomed a new senior youth worker to Cre8 and hope to soon again deliver small group trips as well as residentials later in the year. We anticipate continued demand for our Learning Plus project from referring agencies, and have therefore planned to continue with this project for the foreseeable future. We shall seek to develop social enterprise work, and explore possibilities for paid employment opportunities for the hardest to reach young people in our community. We continue to focus on three strategic priorities:
- To continue delivering the highest quality professional youth and community work
- To provide support to others who want to do good things in our community
- To connect people together who want to do good things in our community
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## **Structure, governance and management**
The Trustees are selected to ensure an appropriate balance of skills and experience and involvement in the local area. We have an established Trustee team, which has remained constant over the last year, and who have specialist skills including Law, Social Care and Youth Work and Health.
Recruitment of Trustees follows Cre8’s Volunteering Policy and Procedures. We have advertised for Trustees with specific skills, utilizing local advertising groups such as Cheshire East Community & Voluntary Services. Once an enquiry has been made, the potential Trustee meets separately with the
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Director and the Chair of Trustees, before completing an application form, references, confidential selfdeclaration form and DBS check. The appointment of a person as a Trustee is subject to approval by the Trustees at a Board meeting.
The Board of Trustees comprises a minimum of five Trustees.
The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 11 August 2011 and registered as a charity on 4 May 2012.
The company was established under a memorandum of association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its articles of association.
Members of the charity guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charity in the event of winding up. The total number of such guarantees at 31st August 2020 was 9 (2019;9). The Trustees are members of the charity but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in the charity.
All Trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity. Any expenses reclaimed from the charity are set out in note 10 to the accounts.
## Related parties and relationships with other organisations
Cre8 Works Ltd and Cre8 Facilities Ltd are wholly owned subsidiaries of Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd.
## Remuneration policy for key management personnel
Cre8 operates a payscale that includes 7 pay grades. The grades and job descriptions are benchmarked to national data available for our industry sector.
## Risk management
The Trustees meet 6 times a year where they consider and approve financial reports prepared by Treasurer and Finance Committee. We operate a reserves policy of a minimum of 6 months budgeted net cost (see Reserves Policy above).
Trustees have identified key risk areas. The Finance Committee review quarterly and for the high risk areas, Trustees require a report from the Director that addresses these areas at each Trustee meeting.
## **Statement of responsibilities of the trustees**
The trustees (who are also directors of Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
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Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
- Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP
- Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
- State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees’ annual report has been approved by the trustees on __/__/2021 and signed on their 17 05 behalf by
Ameera Fletcher Trustee
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Independent examiner’s report
## to the trustees of
## Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the company for the year ended 31[st] August 2020 which are set out on pages 10 to 28.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your company’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
Since the company’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Jennifer Daniel FCCA DChA
Slade & Cooper Limited Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham Street Manchester, M4 1LE Date……………………. 19th May 2021
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## Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd
## Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure account) for the year ended 31 August 2020
|Unrestricted
funds
Note
£
**Income from:**
Donations and legacies
3
53,314
Charitable activities
4
94,604
Investments
5
436
**Total income**
**148,354**
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
6
160,579
**Total expenditure**
**160,579**
(12,225)
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**(12,225)**
Transfer between funds
12,500
**Net movement in funds for the year**
**275**
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
106,454
**Total funds carried forward**
**106,729**
**Net income/(expenditure) before**
**net gains/(losses) on investments**
**Net income/(expenditure) for the**
**year**|Restricted
funds
£
-
150,816
-
**150,816**
136,126
**136,126**
14,690
**14,690**
(12,500)
**2,190**
49,139
**51,329**|Total funds
2020
£
53,314
245,420
436
**299,170**
296,705
**296,705**
2,465
**2,465**
-
**2,465**
155,593
**158,058**|_Total funds_
_2019_
_£_
_47,440_
_178,920_
_21,606_|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**_247,966_**|
||||_243,601_|
||||**_243,601_**|
||||_4,365_|
||||**_4,365_**
_-_|
||||**_4,365_**
_151,228_|
||||**_155,593_**|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.
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## Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd Company number 7737871
## Balance sheet as at 31 August 2020
|Note
£
£
**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
14
14,853
**Current assets**
Debtors
15
2,314
Cash at bank and in hand
16
148,046
**Total current assets**
**150,360**
**Liabilities**
Creditors: amounts falling
due in less than one year
17
(7,155)
**Net current assets**
**143,205**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
158,058
**Net assets**
**158,058**
**The funds of the charity:**
Restricted income funds
18
51,329
Unrestricted income funds
19
106,729
**Total charity funds**
**158,058**
2020|_£_
_£_
_11,749_
_7,429_
_147,693_
**_155,122_**
_(11,278)_
**_143,844_**
_155,593_
**_155,593_**
_49,139_
_106,454_
**_155,593_**
_2019_|_£_
_£_
_11,749_
_7,429_
_147,693_
**_155,122_**
_(11,278)_
**_143,844_**
_155,593_
**_155,593_**
_49,139_
_106,454_
**_155,593_**
_2019_|
|---|---|---|
|||_155,593_|
|||**_155,593_**|
|||_49,139_
_106,454_|
|||**_155,593_**|
For the year in question, the company was entitled to exemption from an audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Directors' responsibilities:
- The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476,
- The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts are prepared in accordance with the special provisions of part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies and constitute the annual accounts required by the Companies Act 2006 and are for circulation to members of the company.
The notes on pages 13 to 28 form part of these accounts.
Approved by the trustees on __/__/2021 and signed on their behalf by: 17 05
Ameera Fletcher (Trustee)
Martin Clarke (Trustee)
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Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd
## Statement of Cash Flows for the year ending 31 August 2020
|Note
2020
£
**Cash provided by/(used in) operating activities**
21
**12,417**
_Cash flows from investing activities:_
Dividends, interest, and rents from investments
436
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
(12,500)
**Cash provided by/(used in) investing activities**
**(12,064)**
353
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
147,693
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year**
**148,046**
Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash
equivalents in the year|_2019_
_£_
**_(6,716)_**|
|---|---|
||_21,606_
_(5,639)_|
||**_15,967_**|
||_9,251_
_138,442_|
||**_147,693_**|
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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020
## **1 Accounting policies**
The principal accounting policies adopted, judgments and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:
## **a Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), second edition - October 2019 (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note.
## **b Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis**
The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern.
The trustees have made no key judgments which have a significant effect on the accounts.
The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.
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## **c Income**
Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
Income from government and other grants, whether ‘capital’ grants or ‘revenue’ grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred.
For legacies, entitlement is taken as the earlier of the date on which either: the charity is aware that probate has been granted, the estate has been finalised and notification has been made by the executor(s) to the charity that a distribution will be made, or when a distribution is received from the estate. Receipt of a legacy, in whole or in part, is only considered probable when the amount can be measured reliably and the charity has been notified of the executor’s intention to make a distribution. Where legacies have been notified to the charity, or the charity is aware of the granting of probate, and the criteria for income recognition have not been met, then the legacy is a treated as a contingent asset and disclosed if material.
Income received in advance of a provision of a specified service is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.
## **d Donated services and facilities**
Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charity has control over the item, any conditions associated with the donated item have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), general volunteer time is not recognised; refer to the trustees’ annual report for more information about their contribution.
On receipt, donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charity which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.
## **e Interest receivable**
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the Bank.
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## **f Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of charity.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds of the charity which the trustees have decided at their discretion to set aside to use for a specific purpose.
Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charity’s work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.
## **g Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT**
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:
- Expenditure on charitable activities includes the costs undertaken to further the purposes of the charity and their associated support costs.
- Other expenditure represents those items not falling into any other heading.
Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.
## **h Tangible fixed assets**
Individual fixed assets costing £1,000 or more are capitalised at cost and are depreciated over their estimated useful economic lives on a straight line basis as follows:
Motor Vehicles
33% or the duration of a project where a vehicle relates to a specific projecct.
## **i Debtors**
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
## **j Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.
## **k Creditors and provisions**
Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.
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## **l Financial instruments**
The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
## **m Pensions**
Employees of the charity are entitled to join a defined contribution ‘money purchase’ scheme. The charity’s contribution is restricted to the contributions disclosed in note 9. There were no outstanding contributions at the year end (2019: £Nil).
## **2 Legal status of the charity**
The charity is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales and has no share capital. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the charity. The registered office address is disclosed on page 1.
## **3 Income from donations and legacies**
|Donations
General
Oliver Valves
**Total**
**_Previous Reporting Period_**
_Donations_
_General_
_Oliver Valves_
**_Total_**|Unrestricted
£
23,314
30,000
53,314
_Unrestricted_
_£_
_17,440_
_30,000_
_47,440_|Restricted
£
-
-
-
_Restricted_
_£_
_-_
_-_
_-_|Total 2020
£
23,314
30,000|
|---|---|---|---|
||||53,314|
||||_Total 2019_
_£_
_17,440_
_30,000_|
||||_47,440_|
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## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
## **4 Income from charitable activities**
|**Grants and contracts**
The Swallow Trust
Youth Music
Cheshire Community Foundation -
Rank Foundation
Co-op Local Cause
Macclesfield Town Council
G8 Way Project Funding
Love Music Trust
Other Grants
**Fees and other income**
Contract Work
Fund Raising
Furlough Grant from Government
Other income
**Total**
The National Lottery Community
Fund
COVID-19 Response
Social Action Fund|Unrestricted
£
25,000
-
2,000
-
-
-
-
4,000
-
-
1,400
32,400
30,206
15,421
3,798
12,779
62,204
94,604|Restricted
£
-
40,414
-
23,433
47,711
20,387
5,591
-
11,780
1,500
-
150,816
-
-
-
-
-
150,816|Total 2020
£
25,000
40,414
2,000
23,433
47,711
20,387
5,591
4,000
11,780
1,500
1,400|
|---|---|---|---|
||||183,216|
||||30,206
15,421
3,798
12,779|
||||62,204|
||||245,420|
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## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
## **4 Income from charitable activities (Continued)**
|**_Previous Reporting Period_**
**_Grants and contracts_**
_The Swallow Trust_
_Cheshire East Family Service -_
_Youth Music_
_Cheshire Community Foundation -_
_Love Music Trust_
_Rank Foundation_
**_Fees and other income_**
_Contract Work_
_Fund Raising_
_Other income_
**_Total_**
**Investment income**
Income from bank deposits
Gift aid from Subsidiary
_Early Intervention and_
_Prevention Service_
_Young Mind Matters Fund_
_The National Lottery Community_
_Social Action Fund_|_Unrestricted_
_£_
_25,000_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_25,000_
_45,815_
_12,988_
_2,531_
_61,334_
_86,334_|_Restricted_
_£_
_12,500_
_29,992_
_5,420_
_10,000_
_31,117_
_1,500_
_750_
_92,586_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_92,586_
2020
£
436
-
436|_Total 2019_
_£_
_37,500_
_-_
_29,992_
_5,420_
_10,000_
_31,117_
_1,500_
_750_|
|---|---|---|---|
||||_117,586_|
||||_45,815_
_12,988_
_2,531_|
||||_61,334_|
||||_178,920_|
||||_2019_
_£_
_372_
_21,234_|
||||_21,606_|
## **5 Investment income**
All investment income is unrestricted.
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## Cre8 Macclesfield Ltd
## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
## **6 Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities**
|Subcontractors
Repairs and Maintenance
Residential and Catering
Activities, materials and resources
Other Professional fees
Governance costs (see note 7)
Restricted expenditure
Unrestricted expenditure
**Analysis of governance costs**
Accountancy services
Insurance
Travel
Miscellaneous
Staff costs
Volunteers
Premises
Administration
Equipment
Depreciation|Total 2020
£
206,503
14,372
1,659
4,046
9,872
5,882
6,496
5,244
10,187
8,028
8,701
1,850
2,129
9,396
2,340
296,705
2020
£
136,126
160,579
296,705
2020
£
2,340
2,340|_Total 2019_
_£_
_174,842_
_14,336_
_1,570_
_3,197_
_2,131_
_11,287_
_3,736_
_5,899_
_5,499_
_1,351_
_8,508_
_1,330_
_1,272_
_6,423_
_2,220_|
|---|---|---|
|||_243,601_|
|||_2019_
_£_
_60,425_
_183,176_|
|||_243,601_|
|||_2019_
£
_2,220_|
|||2,220|
## **7 Analysis of governance costs**
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## **8 Net income/(expenditure) for the year**
This is stated after charging/(crediting):
||||
|---|---|---|
|This is stated after charging/(crediting):|2020|_2019_|
||£|_£_|
|Depreciation|9,396|_6,423_|
|Independent examiner's fee|||
|Independent examination|540|_540_|
|Accountancy|1,290|_1,290_|
|Other|-|_-_|
## **9 Staff costs**
Staff costs during the year were as follows:
|ff costs during the year were as follows:|||
|---|---|---|
|Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs|2020
£
201,960
9,835
5,870
217,665|_2019_
_£_
_177,208_
_8,337_
_5,074_|
|||_190,619_|
During the year £11,162 (2019: £15,777) of the above costs were recharged to one of the charity's subsidiaries.
No employee has employee benefits in excess of £60,000 (2019: Nil).
The average number of staff employed during the period was 15.2 (2019: 16.3). The average full time equivalent number of staff employed during the period was 8.8 (2019: 8.3).
The key management personnel of the charity comprise the trustees and senior management of the charity. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the charity were £174,608 (2019: £161,623).
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## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
## **10 Trustee remuneration and expenses**
One trustee, Ameera Fletcher, was paid as an employee by the charity in the year. Ameera Fletcher was paid as an employee £48,462 (2019: £37,168) by the charity in the year.
The employment of Robert Wardle and Ameera Fletcher is in accordance with the governing document of the charity.
No other trustees, nor any persons connected with them received any remuneration or reimbursed expenses during the year (2019: £nil).
No trustees received travel and subsistence expenses during the year (2019:£nil).
There are no donations from related parties which are outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties.
No trustee or other person related to the charity had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the charity, including guarantees, during the year.
## **11 Related party transactions**
The charity has two subsidiaries:-
- Cre8 Works Ltd, a company limited by guarantee, company number 07737881.
- Cre8 Facilities Limited, a company limited by guarantee, company number 09237866.
## **Cre8 Facilities Limited**
|**Cre8 Facilities Limited**|||
|---|---|---|
||2020|_2019_|
||£|_£_|
|Transactions in the period comprised:|||
|Gift Aid payment from subsidiary|-|_21,234_|
|Recharge of expenses to subsidiary|13,458|_16,867_|
|Balance owed by/(to) the subsidiary at period end|1,006|_2,369_|
In accordance with guidance from the Financial Reporting Council in December 2017, the subsidiary no longer accrues the gift aid payment within its accounts. The payment to the parent charity will still be made within 9 months of the year end.
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## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
## **12 Government grants**
The government grants recognised in the accounts were as follows:
|Cheshire East Family Service
Macclesfield Town Council
Furlough Grant|2020
£
-
4,000
3,798
7,798|_2019_
_£_
_-_
_250_
_-_|
|---|---|---|
|||_250_|
There are no unfulfilled conditions and contingencies attaching to the grants.
## **13 Corporation tax**
The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within Chapter 3 of Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects. No tax charges have arisen in the charity.
## **14 Fixed assets: tangible assets**
|**Cost**
Additions
Disposals
**Depreciation**
Charge for the year
Disposals
**Net book value**
At 31 August 2020
At 1 September
At 31 August 2020
At 31 August 2020
_At 31 August 2019_
At 1 September|Motor
Vehicles
£
24,439
12,500
-
36,939
12,690
9,396
-
22,086
14,853
_11,749_|£
24,439
12,500
-
Total|
|---|---|---|
|||36,939|
|||12,690
9,396
-|
|||22,086|
|||14,853|
|||_11,749_|
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## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
|**15**
**Debtors**
Fees Receivable
Cre8 Facilities Limited
Gift aid claim
Prepayments
**16**
**Cash at bank and in hand**
Short term deposits
Cash at bank and on hand
**17**
**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
Trade creditors
Cre8 Facilities Limited
Other creditors and accruals
Taxation and social security costs|2020
£
1,065
1,031
218
-
2,314
2020
£
85,837
62,209
148,046
2020
£
496
25
3,765
2,869
7,155|_2019_
_£_
_2,877_
_2,369_
_1,725_
_458_|
|---|---|---|
|||_7,429_|
|||_2019_
_£_
_85,001_
_62,692_|
|||_147,693_|
|||_2019_
_£_
_21_
_-_
_9,045_
_2,212_|
|||_11,278_|
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## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
## **18 Analysis of movements in restricted funds**
|Youth Music
The Swallow Trust
Total
Cheshire
Community
Foundation -
Young Minds
Matter Fund
Love Music Trust
The Rank
Foundation
Cheshire
Community
Foundation Social
Enterprise
The National
Lottery
Community Fund
Co-op Local
Cause
I-Will Social
Action Fund|1
September
2019
£
8,018
(2,416)
7,156
-
12,500
23,881
-
-
-
49,139
|Income
£
40,414
5,591
-
1,500
-
47,711
20,387
23,433
11,780
150,816|Expenditure
£
(39,447)
(2,041)
(7,156)
(1,500)
-
(56,321)
(12,972)
(4,909)
(11,780)
(136,126)|Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
(12,500)
-
-
-
-
(12,500)|Balance at
31 August
2020
£
8,985
1,134
-
-
-
15,271
7,415
18,524
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||51,329|
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## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
## **18 Analysis of movements in restricted funds (Cont.)**
|_Youth Music_
_The Swallow Trust_
_Total_
_The National_
_Lottery_
_Love Music Trust_
**_Previous_**
**_Reporting Period_**
_Cheshire_
_Community_
_Foundation_
_Cheshire_
_Community_
_Foundation -_
_Young Minds_
_Matter Fund_
_Co-op Local_
_Cause_
_Macclesfield Town_
_Council_
_The Rank_
_Foundation_|_Balance at_
_1_
_September_
_2018_
_£_
_11,558_
_-_
_-_
_5,420_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_16,978_
|_Income_
_£_
_29,992_
_1,057_
_10,000_
_5,420_
_1,500_
_12,500_
_31,117_
_250_
_750_
_92,586_|_Expenditure_
_£_
_(33,532)_
_(3,473)_
_(2,844)_
_(10,840)_
_(1,500)_
_-_
_(7,236)_
_(250)_
_(750)_
_(60,425)_|_Transfers_
_£_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_|_Balance at_
_31 August_
_2019_
_£_
_8,018_
_(2,416)_
_7,156_
_-_
_-_
_12,500_
_23,881_
_-_
_-_|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||_49,139_|
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## **18 Analysis of movements in restricted funds (Cont.)**
## **Name of restricted fund Description, nature and purposes of the fund**
Youth Music Open Programme grant. Used for music project activities. Co-op Local Cause Develop the allotment and community garden in the area behind the St Barnabas Church as a shared space for everyone to enjoy. Cheshire Community To continue to develop the existing project for the salary of Education Foundation Support Worker and Social Enterprise4 Support Worker Cheshire Community funded day to day repairs and maintenance jobs, as well as various Foundation I-Will community-based activities. Social Action Fund
Cheshire Community The G8way project partnering with Just Drop In and Wilmslow Youth to Foundation - Young promote the mental wellbeing of young people Minds Matter Fund
Love Music Trust Trips and equipment for furthering the music project activities The Swallow Trust To fund a vehicle for Project Grow. This was then fundraised for and the money was transferred to Unrestricted funds. The National Lottery Cre8 project grow; a sustainable, low-cost food network, accessible Community Fund neighbourhood green space and local people developing their own community, health and wellbeing activities. Macclesfield Town Materials and equipment for a young people's coach to 5K running group Council The Rank Foundation Pebbles short break grant awarded to contribute towards taking 16 vulnerable young people from the Moss Estate in Macclesfield on a residential trip to Camas, Iona Community August 2019. Rank Foundation funding for the employment of a young person to gain experience of Time to Shine administrative processes, both in general terms and for specific projects.
Cheshire Community funding for a part-time manager to review Cre8's history and experience Foundation Social of social enterprise activities and to develop new schemes for the future. Enterprise
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## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2020 (continued)
## **19 Analysis of movement in unrestricted funds**
|General fund
**Name of**
**unrestricted fund**
General fund
_General fund_
**_Previous_**
**_Reporting Period_**|Balance at
1
September
2019
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
£
£
£
£
106,454
148,354
(160,579)
12,500
106,454
148,354
(160,579)
12,500
_Balance at_
_1_
_September_
_2018_
_Income_
_Expenditure_
_Transfers_
_£_
_£_
_£_
_134,250_
_155,380_
_(183,176)_
_-_
_134,250_
_155,380_
_(183,176)_
_-_
**Description, nature and purposes of the fund**
The free reserves after allowing for all designated funds|As at 31
August
2020
£
106,729|
|---|---|---|
|||106,729|
|||_As at 31_
_August_
_2019_
_£_
_106,454_|
|||_106,454_|
||||
## **20 Analysis of net assets between funds**
|Tangible fixed assets
Net current assets/(liabilities)
Total
**_Previous Reporting Period_**
_Tangible fixed assets_
_Net current assets/(liabilities)_
_Total_|General
fund
£
3,603
103,126
106,729
_General_
_fund_
_£_
_11,749_
_94,705_
_106,454_|Designated
funds
£
-
-
-
_Designated_
_funds_
_£_
_-_
_-_
_-_|Restricted
funds
£
11,250
40,079
51,329
_Restricted_
_funds_
_£_
_-_
49,139
_49,139_|Total
£
14,853
143,205|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||158,058|
|||||_Total_
_£_
_11,749_
_143,844_|
|||||_155,593_|
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## **21 Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities**
|**Net income/(expenditure) for the year**
**Adjustments for:**
Depreciation charge
Loss/(profit) on sale of fixed assets
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
Decrease/(increase) in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
**Net cash provided by/(used in) operating**|2020
£
2,465
9,396
-
(436)
5,115
(4,123)
12,417|_2019_
_£_
_4,365_
_6,423_
_-_
_(21,606)_
_13,069_
_(8,967)_|
|---|---|---|
|||_(6,716)_|
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