West End Impact 4-10 Heysham Road Morecambe LA3 1DG info@westendimpact.org.uk www.westendimpact.org.uk 01524 888929 ## **Charitable objects** The charity's objects ('objects') are for the public benefit to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society consistent with the Christian faith in Morecambe and in such other parts of the united kingdom or the world as the trustees may from time to time think fit and to fulfil such other purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales and are connected with the charitable work of the charity. For the purpose of this clause 'socially excluded' means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown; poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards; crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society). ## **Report of the Chair of Trustees** West End Impact is based in the West End of Morecambe, Lancashire. This ward continues to be one of the poorest in the country with residents facing many issues. West End Impact seeks to address as many of those issues as it can with a two-pronged approach which we call Reacting and Rebuilding. The reacting takes the form of meeting the most pressing needs that are presented to us when we first meet people requiring help, the rebuilding comes about as we plan with them (usually in small achievable steps) a way out of their current problems and into a better place. This better place could be somewhere physically, emotionally, mentally, financially, or spiritually more secure and rewarding. The trustees of West End Impact meet usually every 6-8 weeks with the founding managers who run the charity on a day-to-day basis. We also message and email between meetings about numerous items to be considered. With ongoing concerns over COVID and occasional difficulties getting everyone together physically we have made us of technology, using Zoom for some of our meetings. During this report period West End Impact employed 7 staff. This year we continued to suffer the aftereffects of COVID, which continued to provide additional challenges for us as an organisation and some of our services had to be scaled back to cope with this. We did return to in person services and most of our activities returned to normal, though with some minor restrictions. Our Advice and Guidance sessions continue to provide much needed help and support to those with a range of issues from poor mental health, unemployment and unemployability, homelessness, addiction, low self-esteem, and poverty. Many of our clients have multiple issues. West End Impact 4-10 Heysham Road Morecambe LA3 1DG info@westendimpact.org.uk www.westendimpact.org.uk 01524 888929 Advice and Guidance takes the form of free laptop usage with internet access, signposting to other agencies, advocacy, help with form-filling, recognition of needs, help discovering benefit entitlements, landlord advice etc. The CBT course, ‘Living Life To The Full‘, is now in person and continues to have some very encouraging, measured results. Our two shops, REStore and REStoration continue to grow, though income is limited due to the challenges facing smaller shops currently, including higher bills and lower footfall. The support given to local artists and unemployed clients taking part in learning opportunities and art therapy provided by the shops continues to have an important impact in our community. It is a challenging time for charities, with many funding bodies struggling following a fall in income over COVID, and therefore we have more difficulty securing funding for our activities. The West End of Morecambe needs more support than ever before, and we strive to meet those needs with what we have available to us. We are seeing a continued growth in the need for support from our food bank, and I cannot see this need falling in the near future. Despite the challenges this was a very pleasing reporting year. At much personal sacrifice West End Impact continued to help those most at need in difficult circumstances. We continue to improve our admin processes and are making more use of available technology to streamline our day-to-day activities. We need to ensure that our long-term strategy includes continuation planning and we need to expand our workforce to help with funding bids and growth of our online presence to make us even more visible to our local community and to encourage donations. I can confirm there is no serious incident to report. Darren Phillips Chair of Trustees ## **Treasurer Report** Following the excellent transition from Excel accounts to Quick Books last year the accounting has been expanded to include salary and Income tax payments during this year, further streamlining and speeding up our accounting and budgeting capabilities. ## _INCOME and EXPENSES_ West End Impact continues to be well supported with donations from individuals, churches, voluntary and charitable groups from the Morecambe and Lancaster area which provides unrestricted income to cover running covers and general administration. Where individuals can be identified as tax payers and the use of Gift Aid Small Donation Scheme, then Gift Aid is claimed which amounted to an extra £4203 plus further £121 raised from bank interest. West End Impact 4-10 Heysham Road Morecambe LA3 1DG info@westendimpact.org.uk www.westendimpact.org.uk 01524 888929 Total of Unrestricted Income, Donations and Grant received this year was £28,104 Earned revenue from product sales and fundraisers was £25,728 of which Room Hire generated £6088 without much outlay, apart from need to employ a cleaner and handyman to maintain and service to rooms. The major revenue source remains restricted funding from Charitable Trusts primarily to cover salaries of key employees. Funding this year was received from the Tudor Trust, Walney Trust, Morecambe Parish Church, Morrison’s, Lancaster City Council, Morecambe Town Council, Albert Hunt Foundation, Edward Gostling Foundation, Arnold Clark in grants and awards to cover the existing wages of Centre Manager, Volunteer manager, Youth and Community Worker. Art and Mental Health Practitioner, Furniture Restoration Manager. The grants also provided the funding to cover the wages of the newly appointed Parish Nurses and Living Life to the Full courses which is an NHS approved peer lead course for depression. Total restricted income received from grants and awards this year was £131,514 We have also this year appointed a much needed Accounts and Admin Support Worker to deal with the ever expanding administration need to maintain the general running of the charity. New and alternative sources of awards and grants will be need to be sourced in the coming years to retain and expand these posts and the services they provide to the community. Some of funds received assisted with the running costs of the centre. The income for the year increased to £186,866; but expenses also increased to £140,790. ## _ASSESTS & INVESTMENTS_ As previous mentioned, West End Impact Centre (4 to 10 Heysham Road, Morecambe) was purchased in 2012 with a mortgage from Stewardship, there remains owing £17,351 at the end of the year. The property was value in 2012 at between £200K and £250K. ## NEXT YEAR The financial challenges for the coming year will be, the continued recovery from Covid 19 and its ongoing effects on people’s wellbeing and mental health, needing the securing of more funding for key workers, for the Parish Nurse and Mental health worker. Also the increase in Advice & Guidance sessions to combat the rising cost of living crises and debt problems amongst our clients; as well as an increased demand for food from our Foodbank will have an effect on our funds. ## _Ian Swash (Treasurer)_ West End Impact 4-10 Heysham Road Morecambe LA3 1DG info@westendimpact.org.uk www.westendimpact.org.uk 01524 888929 Grants received: Francis C Scott (youth & community worker) Tudor Trust (Manager and Staff & Volunteer Support) Population Health Fund Big Lottery Corona Community Fund Co-op Albert Hunt Trust Lancaster District Urgent Response Fund Edward Gostling Foundation Morecambe Town Council (Art & Mental Health Practitioner) Arnold Clark (Wellbeing & Hardship) Bay Medical Group (Wellbeing) Walney Island Foundation Neighbourly Foundation LCC Business Restart grant (Restoration) Helga Mosey Fund PCN Parish Nurse CAF LCC Parish Nurse Morrisons Total income: £186,866 Total expenditure: £140,790 Unrestricted reserves carried over: £28,977 Al R•¢•lpts £3J10 £4. £12.085 £4.OL 2&11 Cw+2 £1.795 ,795 £f.72t £0 t1￿] £1,ly)) £1J)Xl 2ts)N4rn*J 2$33CAF £1t25J £1&( £11* £13.L 31W Rcw E6m8 QS £4￿ QOIB £1.*2 £4￿7 ES.176 £&17B )21-2m 3m2021 Told 41W Inw* £TMI £23.Tr1 [*. t4J68 £4029 E3.6ts U218 £144 7010 7.it o. .1CO QI.491 £10.78J £4rM6 £f466Q É13.974 £IJ.81T £13.a10 £1 £13.71M £11.610 £1, f1140 £3.135 £442 £14.1)7T £14,1)77 11C¥w2 $19 W19 E14.ro5 £14.(17S 15 E¢hK*ffl Fl￿ 16VAI4 ftk)J £141 9lwhfw rJB.$16 £107.012 £107.012 E31t7 fdto I￿20￿ e17.1¥1 01 cM*ywa46 e11.IX2 01 C&¥kn2 fs 3Jl61 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts *+• Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of W￿( IMIACI On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) 2DZL 1153136 Set oul on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above chartty (llhe Trusf) for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Tnjst. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance ￿th the requirements of the Charities Act I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts ￿rried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directlons given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matt8rs have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below") in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believ8 that in. any material respect. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the ac£ountÉng records Independent examinerfs statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection th the examination to vthich attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understandin9 of the accounts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey (*) not apply. Slgned: Date: Name: Li4 gL Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (If any): fiLLoJ Mtr7 OSL JI SS )CA /Cts Address: UIL IER October 2018 Section B DisclosLtre Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). i Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to dlsclose. tgKrtMiJid T4 Alccowfis AfvfD fLTrLnJ**i/ as IER October 2018 Al R•¢•lpts £3J10 £4. £12.085 £4.OL 2&11 Cw+2 £1.795 ,795 £f.72t £0 t1￿] £1,ly)) £1J)Xl 2ts)N4rn*J 2$33CAF £1t25J £1&( £11* £13.L 31W Rcw E6m8 QS £4￿ QOIB £1.*2 £4￿7 ES.176 £&17B )21-2m 3m2021 Told 41W Inw* £TMI £23.Tr1 [*. t4J68 £4029 E3.6ts U218 £144 7010 7.it o. .1CO QI.491 £10.78J £4rM6 £f466Q É13.974 £IJ.81T £13.a10 £1 £13.71M £11.610 £1, f1140 £3.135 £442 £14.1)7T £14,1)77 11C¥w2 $19 W19 E14.ro5 £14.(17S 15 E¢hK*ffl Fl￿ 16VAI4 ftk)J £141 9lwhfw rJB.$16 £107.012 £107.012 E31t7 fdto I￿20￿ e17.1¥1 01 cM*ywa46 e11.IX2 01 C&¥kn2 fs 3Jl61 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts *+• Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of W￿( IMIACI On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) 2DZL 1153136 Set oul on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above chartty (llhe Trusf) for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Tnjst. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance ￿th the requirements of the Charities Act I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts ￿rried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directlons given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matt8rs have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below") in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believ8 that in. any material respect. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the ac£ountÉng records Independent examinerfs statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection th the examination to vthich attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understandin9 of the accounts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey (*) not apply. Slgned: Date: Name: Li4 gL Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (If any): fiLLoJ Mtr7 OSL JI SS )CA /Cts Address: UIL IER October 2018 Section B DisclosLtre Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). i Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to dlsclose. tgKrtMiJid T4 Alccowfis AfvfD fLTrLnJ**i/ as IER October 2018