Bardsley Youth Project
Registered Charity number: 1152836
Financial statements
for the year ended 30th September 2024
Page
Contents
Chairperson's and Trustees Report
Independent Examinerfs Report
Statement of Financial Activities (Incorporating
the Income and Expenditure account)
Balance Sheet
8-10
Notes to the Accounts

Bardsley Youth Project
Trustees Report for the year ended 30th September 2024
The trustees submit their annual report and the financtal ststements for the period ended 30th
September 2024.
Full name
Bardsley Youth Project
Trustees
Eric Bremner (Chair)
Rev Steven Medley
Rev Dexter Bracey
Geoff Wilcox (Resigned 14 November 2023)
Janet Powell
Julia Lepoidevin
Registered Charity Number
1152836
Prlncipal Office
Bardsley House
Hill Top
Coventry
CV15EP
Bankers
CAF Bank Limited
25 Kings Hill Avenue
West Mailing
Kent, ME19 4JQ
Independent Examiner
Richard Buder
58 Kingfisher Close
Warwick
CV34 SGD
Governance and management
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. It is operated under the rules of its
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memorandum and articles of association dated 10 July 2013.

Bardsley Youth Project
Chairfs report for the year ended 30th September 2024
Bardsley's work has evolved over 20 years now, we have been a Registered Charity over the
last eleven of these years. The focus of our charity is homelessness and the prevention of
homelessness in the 18 -25 age group.
Demand for Our Services - The number of interactions with young people has remained
steady, but a substantial increase in individual young people helped up 48 % to 193, with 133
who were new to us, up 108 % . Total interactions were 2390. Many of these young people did
not receive help from any other source.
Our Staff- We thank all of our staff, Simon, Kim, Becky and Rachel for a year of dedicated, full
and very caring Servi￿ to our young people, and as always Pat our Administrator and Fund
Raiser for a highly successful year. Thank you to Reaching Communities for your grants toward
salaries funding over 5 years giving our staff a security of tenure going forward.
Our Fundin
Bodies I would like to thank all our funding bodies - Reaching Communities,
Lloyds Foundation of England and Wales, Comic Relief {via Groundworks), JD Sports
Foundation, Enterprise Foundation and Coventry Building Society as well as individual and
corporate donors for the financial support that made our activities possible.
Our Bi
Dream - Our dream of a fit for purpose facility to service the needs of young people
remains with us. but the funds to do it at this point of time don't. We dream on.
Our Trustees - Thanks to our dedicated Team, Steve, Dexter, Jan and Julia for devoting so
much of your busy lives to helping our homeless young people so caringly and well. We are
actively looking for additional Trustees to complement our existing skills and share the load.
ort - I thank all who supported our charity in many ways including our voluntary workers
and Coventry Cathedral who give us the free use and maintenance of our base at Bardsley
House. Thank you too to Warwick Events who have supported us and our staff in so many
ways.
We look forward to serving the young people who need us for many years to come.
Eric Bremner, Chair of Trustees
February 2025.

Trustees Report
Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees
The Constitution requires that Ihe number of Trustees shall not be less than 3. At the end of
September 2024 there were 5 Trustees.
Organisational Structure
The Trustees form a committee including the following officers: Chair, Secretsry and Treasurer.
It meets bimonthly. The committee has overall responsibility for strategic planning. policy
fomiulation, approval and monitoring of programmes and services. finance, risk management,
staff and volunteers, and premises.
Staff and volunteers
Bardsley Youth Project has staff and volunteers.
The charity's policy on reserves
The charity will aim to keep between three and six months, core running costs in reserves at all
times. This is to ensure the Charity is able to meet all of its legal obligations should all funding
be withdrawn.
Exemptions
The trustees have taken advantsge of the exemptions available to small companies, including
the audit exemption (see statement on balance sheet).
Responsibilities of the trustees
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which
give a true and fair view of the stste of affairs of the charity at the end of the year and of the
surplus or deficiency for the year then ended.
In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to select suitable accounting
policies, as described on page 8, and then apply them on a consistent basis, making
judgements and estimates that are prudent and reasonable. The members of the Committee
must also prepare the financial statements on the going con￿rn basis unless it is inappropriate
to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose, with
reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the charity, and enable them to ensure
that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The trustees are also
responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hen￿ for taking reasonable steps for
the prevention and detection of fraud or other irregularities.
Small company provisions:
This report has been prepared in accordan￿ with the special provisions for small companies
under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
Signed on behalf of the charivs trustees:
Signed
Date

Independent Examinerfs Report to the Trustees of
Bardsley Youth Project
Year ended 30th September 2024
I report on the accounts of the charity, which are set out on pages 6 to 10.
Respectlve responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The trustees are responsible for the preparat'on of the accounts. The trustees consider
that an audit is not required for this period under section 145(1) 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 prO￿dureS laid down in the general directions given by the Charity
Commissioners under section 145{5)(b) of the 2011 Act: and
state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examinerfs report
My examination was carried out in accordan￿ 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 con￿MIng any such matters. The procedures
undertaken do not provide all the eviden￿ 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 examinerfs ststement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
which gives me ￿asOnable cause to believe that in any material respect the
requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act. and
to prepare financial statements which accord with the accounting records and
comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met; or
2. to which. in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding
of the accounts to be reached.
Signed
Date
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Richard Butler (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)

Bardsley Youth Project
Statement of Financial Activities
(Incorporating the Income and Expenditure account)
For the year ended 30th September 2024
2024
Total
2023
Total
Note Unrestricted
Restricted
Incoming Resources
Grants and DonatÈons
Other Income
36,631
589
95,056
131.687
589
123,855
TOTAL Incoming Resources
37.220
95,056
132276
124698
Resources Expended
Activtties
Discretionary (young people support)
General Expenses
Equipment, repairs & renewals
Office Costs
ProfessK)nal Fees
Volunteer Expenses
Staffing Costs inc Pensions
Staffing Support Costs
Training
Travel
TOTAL Resources Expended
1.295
4,954
209
1,155
2,287
3,396
191
13,004
5,553
2,456
53
2,135
8,838
209
1,155
6,602
3.396
191
105,723
5,553
2,762
3,558
5,425
222
428
4,880
938
98
92,016
5,223
2,722
3,884
4,315
92,719
306
103 217
137 770
116679
Net Income (expenditure)
Totals funds blforward
Totals funds clforward
2,667
(8,161)
(5,494)
8,019
65,054
All the acttvities of the charity are classed as continuing.

Bardsley Youth Project
Balance Sheet as at 30th September 2024
Notes
2024
2023
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand
68,041
73,535
Net assets
68,041
The Funds of the charity
Restricted Fund
Unrestricted Fund
2,987
65,054
11,148
62.387
Total Funds
Exemption from audit
For the year ending 30th September 2024 the company was entitled to exemption from 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 period in
question in accordance with section 476,"
The directors acknO￿edge 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 ￿gIMe and with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective
April 2008).
The trustees declare that they have approved the accounts above.
Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees:
Signed
Dated

Bardsley Youth Project
Notes to the Accounts
For the year ended 30th September 2024
1. Accounting policies
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Accounting and
Reporting by Charith'es: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities
preparing their accounts in accordan￿ with FRS 102 (Charities SORP (FRS102)) and the
Charities Act 2011.
The financial statements have been prepa￿d under the historical cost convention. The
financial statements indude all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the charity is
responsible in law.
Funds
Unrestricted funds represent the funds of the Charity that are not subject to any restrictions
regarding their use and are available for application of the general purposes of the Charity.
Restricted funds are used solely for the purposes for which they were given.
The funds of the Charity have been appropriately analysed and the statement of financial
activities has been prepared in accordance with this analysis.
2. Grants & donations
2024
2024
Unr•strictsd Restricted
funds
funds
2024
Total
2023
Total
funds
funds
Other Donors
Reaching Communities(Nat Lottery)
Lbyds Foundation
Ne￿eld Trust
Coventy Building Society
Comic Relief (via Groundworks)
JD Sports Foundation
Enterprise FoundatK)n
7.131
7,131
94.078
25,000
7,709
84,071
27,250
757
1,000
3,911
94,078
25,000
978
978
2,500
2,000
2,500
2,000
36,631
95,056
131,687
124,698

Bardsley Youth Project
Notes to the Accounts
For the year ended 30th September 2024
3. Movements in funds
Incoming
resources
(￿tgOIng
Resources)
2024
2023
Unrestricted funds
General Purposes
37,220
37.220
34,553)
(34.553
65,054
65.054
62,387
62,387
Restricted funds
Uber Moving on Up Fund
Reaching Communities (Nat Lottery)
Eveson Trust
Comic Relief (via Groundworks)
(840)
(98.187)
486
1,326
4,109
2.501
3,212
11,148
94,078
2,501
978
95,056
(4,190
(103,217)
2,987
Restricted Funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure
that meets these criteria is charged to the fund.
The above restricted funds have been donated for the following specific purposes.
Uber Moving on Up Fund
Reaching Communities (Nat Lottery)
Comic Relief (via Groundworks)
Eveson Trust
Car Restoration Project
Staff, Schools Work, Offi￿. Stsff Expenses
Hardship Needs of Young People & Training
Photographic Exhibition

Bardsley Youth Project
Notes to the Accounts
For the year ended 30th September 2024
4. Trustees, remuneration benefit and expenses
During this period, trustees received £Nil remuneration (2023: £Nil)
5. Staff costs and numbers
Staff costs were as follows
2024
2023
Salaries
105,723
105,723
92,016
92,016
No employee re￿iVed emoluments of rn0￿ than £60,000.
The average number of employees during the period was 4 (2023.4)
6. Independent examination and accountancy services
During the period, the cost of the examination and accountancy ServI￿S was £Nil (2023:
£Nil)
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