## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 April 2020 **To** 31[st] March 2021
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Active Independence
## **Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1148975
**Charity's principal address** PO Box 1626 Doncaster **Postcode DN1 9WX**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6
7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||David Turner Smith|Treasurer|||
||Naveen Judah|Chair|||
||Brian Nelson||||
||Jacqueline Clayton||||
||Eleanor Dabell||||
||||||
||||||
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Memoranda and Articles Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Registered charity and company limited by guarantee How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
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## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
The day to day running of the charity is managed by the trustees. Meetings take place every 6-8 weeks, usually virtually as this meets the needs of trustees but 1 meeting was face-to-face.
Decisions between meetings are taken via email, as allowed in our governing documents
The wider membership are kept regularly informed of plans, relevant information and services by monthly e-bulletins, the charities Facebook , Instagram and Twitter accounts and through the website.
New trustees have undertaken our Disability Equality Training module
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
1. To provide information, advice, advocacy, training and support to enable Disabled people to have choice and control, and to live independent lives.
2. To raise aspirations and confidence amongst Disabled people, families and carers to facilitate choice, control and independent living.
3. To campaign for the right for Disabled people to have choice and control, in order to live independently and with dignity.
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Trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit and carried out the following activities:
1. Delivery of specialist Advocacy Service to Disabled people and their families . Support is provided in people’s own homes with trained advocates. Demand for our support is rapidly increasing
2. Partnership with Crossroads Care Rotherham to provide benefit support to people with dementia and their carers
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
3. The Art of Wellbeing project providing craft and activities in Rotherham and Doncaster is thrive. The group based in Maltby makes quilts for hospitalised babies. This creates a safe, welcoming space building confidence and social connections. The new Doncaster Drop-in group meets fortnightly with regular chairbased yoga and other craft sessions. We started a new weekly inclusive cycling group in Doncaster which is very popular.
4. We have continued to provide support information and advice to those who employ their own carers support staff and to the PAs who provide it.
5. We have promoted the right to an independent life with choice and control through working in partnership with service providers to transform their service delivery. We have also supported individuals to utilise appropriate complaints and resolution procedures when necessary.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
All active independence services and activities are considerably enhanced by the contribution of volunteers. Some of these are disabled people and carers who have been helped by active independence and since become active volunteers themselves.
Other volunteers are nondisabled professionals and workers contributing their expertise and knowledge on an unpaid basis, particularly around finances and information technology.
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
## **1. Governance**
**Summary of the main** ◦ continue to stabilise the governance of the charity. **achievements of the charity during the year**
## **2. Activities**
_**Full details in our 23-24 Annual Report**_ Highlights:
Staff restructure and new trainee advocate Expansion of Funding strategy 666 clients supported
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## Section D Achievements and performance
- £1.6m raised in benefit entitlements
- New Inclusive cycling group
## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
We have a reserves policy in which we have established the level of reserves that is prudent for **Active Independence** to have.. This year we needed to draw from reserves to meet the increase in demand on our services but refreshed funding strategy should boost our income into 24-25
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
Our main source of funding is grant funding and small contracts to deliver projects such as that from Voluntary Action Rotherham; DMBC and grant funding from the HBJ trust. We are beginning to attract small donations which contribute to our general funds. Full list in Annual Report
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Naveen Judah **Full name(s)** Barbara Booton
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|**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|CEO|Chair|
|---|---|---|
||30/1/24||
||30/1/24||
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Company registration number: 07942039 Charity registration number: 1148975
## Active Independence
(A company limited by guarantee) Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024
Campbell & Stenton Accountancy The Old Barn Anchorage Lane Sprotbrough Doncaster DN5 8DT
## **Active Independence**
## **Contents**
|Reference and Administrative Details|1|
|---|---|
|Independent examiner's report|2|
|Statement of financial activities|3|
|Balance Sheet|4|
|Notes to the financial statements|5 to 9|
|The following pages do not form part of the statutory financial statements:||
|Statement of financial activities per fund|10 to 11|
## **Active Independence**
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
|**Charity name**|Active Independence|
|---|---|
|**Charity registration number**|1148975|
|**Company registration number**|7942039|
|**Registered office**|The Old Barn, Anchorage Lane|
||Sprotbrough|
||Doncaster|
||DN5 8DT|
|**Secretary**|Barbara Booton (Appointed 19 October 2016)|
|**Trustees**|David Alan Turner-Smith (Appointed 14 March 2017)|
||Jo Ritson (Resigned 23 January 2023)|
||Kerrie Evans (Resigned 23 January 2023)|
||Naveen Judah (Appointed 21 March 2018)|
||Eleanor Alice Dabell (Appointed 9 February 2022)|
||Jacqueline Clayton (Appointed 23 January 2023)|
||Elizabeth Ann Jeffrey (Appointed 23 January 2023)|
||Brian Nelson (Appointed 21 January 2021)|
|**Accountant**|Campbell & Stenton Accountancy|
||The Old Barn|
||Anchorage Lane|
||Sprotbrough|
||Doncaster|
||DN5 8DT|
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of**
## **Active Independence**
I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 3 to 9.
## **Respective responsibillities of trustees and examiner**
The trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:
- Examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act ;
- follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under
- - section 145 (5) (b) of the 2011 Act ; and
- state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner's report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities
have not been met; or
- to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the
- (2) accoutns to be reached.
.........................................
Campbell & Stenton Accountancy
- 27 September 2024
The Old Barn Anchorage Lane Sprotbrough Doncaster DN5 8DT
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## **Active Independence**
## **Statement of Financial Activites (including Income and Expenditure Account) for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
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|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Total Funds|Total Funds|
|Unrestricted|Restricted|Year ended|Period ended|
|Funds|Funds|31 March 2024|31 March 2023|
|Note|£|£|£|£|
|Incoming resources|
|Incoming resources from generated|
|funds|
|Voluntary Income|2|1,447|47,670|49,117|40,517|
|Other incoming resources|4|1,047|68,420|69,467|70,679|
|Total incoming resources|2,494|116,090|118,584|111,196|
|Resources expended|
|Costs of generating funds|
|Costs of generating voluntary|
|income|5|-|-|-|-|
|Charitable activities - service|
|delivery|5|26,240|96,042|122,282|105,529|
|Total resources expended|26,240|96,042|122,282|105,529|
|Net movements in funds|(23,746)|20,048|(3,698)|5,667|
|Reconciliation of funds|
|Total funds brought forward|27,076|56,461|83,537|77,870|
|Total funds carried forward|3,330|76,509|79,839|83,537|
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All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities
The notes on pages 5 to 9 form an integral part of these financial statements
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## **Active Independence (Registration number: 07942039)**
## **Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2024**
|||||**31 March 2024**|**31 March 2023**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Note**||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Fixed Assets**|||||||
|Tangible assets||9||541||808|
|**Current assets**|||||||
|Cash at bank and in hand||||71,237|83,450||
|Debtors||||701|120||
|**Creditors: Amounts falling due**||||71,938|83,570||
|**within one year**||10||(2,754)|(841)||
|**Net current assets**||||69,184||82,729|
|**Net assets**||||69,725||83,537|
|**The funds of the charity:**|||||||
|**Resticted funds**||||76,509||56,461|
|**Unrestricted funds**|||||||
|Unrestricted income funds||||3,330||27,076|
|**Total charity funds**||||79,839||83,537|
For the financial year ended 31 March 2024, the charity was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the charity to obtain an audit of its accounts for the period 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 have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
Approved by the Board on 27 September 2024 and signed on its behalf by:
......................................... Barbara Booton Secretary
The notes on pages 5 to 9 form an integral part of these financial statements.
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## **Active Independence**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005)', issued in March 2005, applicable accounting standards and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared on a cash basis.
## **Fund accounting policy**
Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees' discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.
Further details of each fund are disclosed in note 13.
## **Incoming resources**
Voluntary income including donations and grants that provide core funding or are of a general nature is recognised where there is entitlement, certainty of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## **Resources expended**
Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to the expenditure. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category.
Costs of generating funds comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income and the costs of trading for fundraising purposes.
## **Fixed assets**
Individual fixed assets costing £0 or more are initially recorded at cost.
## **Depreciation**
Depreciation is provided on tangible fixed assets so as to write off the cost or valuation, less any estimated residual value, over their expected useful economic life as follows:
Office equipment 33% reducing balance
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## **Active Independence**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
|**2**
**Voluntary income**
**Donations and Legacies**
Donations
**Grants**
Grants
**3**
**Grants receivable**
Grants
**4**
**Other incoming resources**
**Other income**
Managed services Income
Other income|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**Year ended**
**31 March**
**2024**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**Period ended**
**31 March**
**2023**
**£**
1,147
40
1,187
1,720
300
47,630
47,930
38,797
1,447
47,670
49,117
40,517
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**Year ended**
**31 March**
**2024**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**Period ended**
**31 March**
**2023**
**£**
300
47,630
47,930
38,797
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**Year ended**
**31 March**
**2024**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**Period ended**
**31 March**
**2023**
**£**
-
-
-
-
1,047
68,420
69,467
70,679
1,047
68,420
69,467
70,679|
|---|---|
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## **Active Independence**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **5 Total resources expended**
|**Direct Costs**
Other direct costs
Employment costs
Establishment costs
Insurance
Advertising
Printing, posting and stationary
Subscriptions and donations
Sundry and other costs
Accountancy fees
Bank charges & interest
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets|**Grants**
**Operating**
**activity**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
**£**
9,970
9,970
-
113,506
113,506
-
2,344
2,344
-
471
471
-
358
358
-
3,884
3,884
-
284
284
-
25
25
-
1,171
1,171
116
116
-
267
267
0
132,396
132,396|
|---|---|
## **6 Trustees' remuneration and expenses**
No trustees received any remuneration during the period
## **7 Net (Expenditure)/income**
Net (Expenditure)/income is stated after charging
|Depreciation of owned assets|**Year ended**
**31 March 2024**
**£**
**Period ended**
**31 March 2023**
**£**
267
397|
|---|---|
## **8 Taxation**
The company is a registered charity and is, therefore, exempt from taxation
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## **Active Independence**
## **Notes to the Financial Statement for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **9 Tangible fixed assets**
**Fixtures, fittings and equipment £**
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|||
|---|---|
|Cost|
|As at 1 April 2023|3473|
|Additions|-|
|At 31 March 2024|3473|
|Depreciation|
|As at 1 April 2023|2665|
|Charge for the period|267|
|As at 31 March 2024|2932|
|Net book value|
|As at 31 March 2024|541|
|As at 31 March 2023|808|
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## **10 Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**
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||||
|---|---|---|
|31 March|31 March|
|2024|2023|
|£|£|
|Accruals and deferred income|774|841|
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## **11 Members' liability**
The charity is a private company limited by guarantee and consequently does not have share capital. Each of the members is liable to contribute an amount not exceeding £nil towards the assets of the charity in the event of liquidation.
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## **Active Independence**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **12 Related parties**
## **Controlling entity**
The charity is controlled by the trustees who are all directors of the company
## **13 Analysis of funds**
|**General Funds**
Unrestricted income fund
**Restricted Funds**
Restricted income fund|**At 1 April 2023**
**Incoming**
**resources**
**Resources**
**expended**
**At 31 March**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
27,076
2,494
26,240
3,330
56,461
116,090
96,042
76,509
83,537
118,584
122,282
79,839|
|---|---|
## **14 Net assets by fund**
|Tangible assets
Current assets
Creditors: Amounts falling due within
one year
Net assets|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Total Funds**
**31 March 2024**
**Total Funds**
**31 March 2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
541
-
541
808
3,330
76,509
79,839
83,570
(2,754)
-
(2,754)
(841)
1,117
76,509
77,626
83,537|
|---|---|
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## **Active Independence**
## **Statement of financial activities by fund Year Ended 31 March 2024**
|**Incoming resources**
Incoming resources from generated funds
Voluntary Income
Other incoming resources
Total incoming resources
**Resources expended**
Costs of generating funds
Charitable activities - service delivery
Total resources expended
Net movements in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward|**Unrestricted**
**income fund**
**2024**
**Unrestricted income**
**fund**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
1,447
4,340
1,047
4,628
2,494
8,968
26,240
40,679
26,240
40,679
(23,746)
(31,711)
27,076
58,787
3,330
27,076|
|---|---|
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## **Active Independence**
## **Statement of financial activities by fund Year Ended 31 March 2024**
|......... continued
**Incoming resources**
Incoming resources from generated funds
Voluntary Income
Other incoming resources
Total incoming resources
**Resources expended**
Costs of generating funds
Costs of generating voluntary income
Charitable activities - service delivery
Total resources expended
Net movements in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward|**Restricted**
**income**
**fund**
**2024**
**Restricted**
**income**
**fund**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
47,670
36,177
68,420
66,051
116,090
102,228
-
-
96,042
64,850
96,042
64,850
20,048
37,378
56,461
19,083
76,509
56,461|
|---|---|
This page does not form part of the statutory financial statements.
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Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of
Active Independenee
I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 3 to 9.
Respeetive responsibillities of trustees and examiner
Tl)e trustees {who are also the directors of the con)pai)y for the purposes of company law) ale respongible for the
prepdration of the acLount5. The tru5tee5 COl15ider thdt an audit is not required for thi5 year under 5ectioii 144(21 of the
Charitie5 Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject 10 audit under company law and is eligible for independent
examination. it is my responsibility to..
Exan)ine the accounts under section 145 of the 201 l Act;
follo the procedures laid dowt] in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under
section 145 {5) (b) of the 201 l Act,. and
slate whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examiner's report
My exaniination was carried out in accordance with the General Directioiis given by the Charity Coinmis5ioiI. An
exaniination includes a review of the accounting records kept by tlie charity and a compari50n of the accounts presented
with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, aiid seeking
explanations from you as triistees concerning anv such matters. The procedures undertaken do iiot provide all the
evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a
'true and fair view, and the report is limited 10 those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent examiner's staternent
In connection with my examination, no matter has ¢ome to my attention..
which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any inaterial respect the requireinents..
to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act
2006; and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the
accounting requirements of section 396 of the Compgnies Act 2006 and with th¢
methods and principles of the Ststemeni of Recommended Practice.. Accounting and
Reporting by Lharities
have not been inet; or
to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawi in order to enable a proper understanding of the
a¢coutns to be reached.
The Old Barn
Campbell & Stenton Accountancy
Anchorage Lane
Sprotbrough
Doncaster
27 September 2024
DN5 8DT
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