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|Trustees'
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|Statements
ofTrustees'|Responsibilities|15|
|Independent
Examiner's|Report|16|
|Statement
of Financial|Activities|17|
|Balance Sheet||18|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||19|
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|Open-access|Below are|Below are|our services|our services|open|open|open|~|43 PDPs were completed
for new people|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|services|to
anyone
disability||with
a
for
free.|learning
Some|||||assessed
for
Wirral
Men cap
personal
development
or social/activity
services
of|
||people|take
up
our services|||||||which
22 signed
up
to
new
activities-|
||and some people just|||come|||in||Gateway,
Crossbow,
Lunch Club, courses.|
||for
some||guidance|||and||||
||sign posting.||For
details||||of|||
||each programme
see below.|||||||||
|Gateway|A free version ofthe awards||||||||There are currently 30 people signed
up to|
|Award|programme||outlined
above|||for|||the
Independent
Gateway
Award,
not
all|
|(Independent)|people who||do not have||||||have been active during
the last year,
but|
||funding|to access the 'Day|||||||most
have
interacted
with
us
to some|
||Service'|model. Participants|||||||degree.
I am
in the process of signing
off|
||complete the award||||||||awards
for
most
of the
gold
and
silver|
||independently
with the||||||||participants
though
a
few
still
have
to|
||support|offamily/
support|||staff||||complete
sufficient
volunteering.
Not|
||and our|part-time
coordinator.|||||||everyone
has been
able to resume
their|
||||||||||volunteer
roles
as
some
organisations|
||||||||||have
been
slow
to
take
back
their|
||||||||||volunteers|
||||||||||14
people
are
working
towards
their|
||||||||||Bronze Award, 4 towards
their Silver and 9|
||||||||||towards
Gold.|
||||||||||Activities
included
walking,
boccia, cycling,|
||||||||||football,
line dancing,
singing
in a signing|
||||||||||choir,
photography,
making
Lego models,|
||||||||||Comic
Con,
playing
the
drums
and|
||||||||||ukuleles.|
||||||||||17
updated
PDPs
completed,
and
27|
||||||||||outcomes recorded for achievements.|
||||||||||10 people
made a Myth
Buster video for|
||||||||||LD week
and
described
all the
activities|
||||||||||that they are involved
with.|
|Volunteering|A service that supports||||||||5 people were supported
into volunteering|
|for All|people with||a learning||||||placements
including
at Make
it Happen|
||disability|to|find meaningful||||||and
working
as admin
support
at Wirral|
||volunteering||opportunities|||in|||Mencap.|
||their community,
either||||||||12 people
attended
the
mock
interview|
||independently,
with their||||||||prep session (18expressed
an interest
but|
||support|staff/carers
or||with||a|||not all were
unable
to attend
on the day)|
||volunteer|buddy (see below).|||||||and 10 came to actual mock interviews
at|
||||||||||ABL
health
in
Birkenhead
in
July.
2|
||||||||||people
had a further
Teams
meeting
with|
||||||||||ABL and we are hoping
to be able to work|
||||||||||with them to make their services (smoking|
||||||||||cessation)
more accessible
to people
with|
||||||||||learning
disabilities.|
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|||||||||||~|1 person
has since got|a paid|role|with|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||||them.||||
|||||||||||~|One
person
applied
for|a job|and|was|
||||||||||||called for interview.
They|didn't|get the|job|
||||||||||||but it was an achievement|to get|that far.||
|Buddy|Scheme||This programme||||matches||||~
There were 4 active|buddy|pairs|this|
||||people with||a|learning|||||year,
all continuing
to|support
people|||
||||disability|with||trained|||||who
were
feeling
lonely
and
isolated||||
||||volunteer|buddies.||||The aims|||either
on
the
phone|or
in|person|or|
||||ofthe project|||are|to reduce||||helping
members|to|access||
||||isolation|and|improve access||||||volunteering/activities.|Although
we||still|
||||to community|||opportunities.|||||need volunteers
to act|as buddies,||the|
||||||||||||need
is
not as
great
as||it was|as|
||||||||||||people
are
able
to|access
social|||
||||||||||||activities once again.||||
|Courses||/|Specific|courses delivered|||||to|~|Health
Club —avg 5-6 attendees.
Health||||
|Health|Club||meet the|identified||||learning|||club
has
been
running|successfully||in|
||||needs of people with a||||||||person at The Bloom Building
every week.||||
||||learning|disability|||and those||||-Regular
visits
from
the
Community||||
||||who support||them.|||Health|||Learning
Disability
Teams||Health||
||||club one-hour|||weekly session|||||Facilitator||||
||||and addresses|||a|range of||||-The Windows
Project delivered||a series||
||||health issues.|||It is hosted|||with||ofworkshops
on writing, poetry||||
||||the support ofa local||||||||-Health
Champions
visit|to
The
Stein|||
||||Community||Learning||||||Centre
to test out and
give feedback|||on|
||||Disability|Nurse (NHS|||||||VR Headsets.
Headsets|to be|used|for|
||||Cheshire|and||Wirral|||||people
who
feel
nervous|about|going|to|
||||Partnership).||||||||health appointments.||||
|||||||||||Courses
attendance
in brackets|||||
|||||||||||~|In Person Cookery Couse||||
||||||||||||-January 2022 (6)||||
||||||||||||-April 2022 (7)||||
||||||||||||-September 2022 (7)||||
|||||||||||~|Money Skills (5)||||
|||||||||||-Basic money
skills,
how
to||use
debit' card|||
|||||||||||and|managing
money.||||
|||||||||||~|Gardening
at Make Hamilton
(8)||||
|||||||||||-How
to
maintain
a garden,||cultivate
small|||
|||||||||||plants
and
herbs,
how
to harvest|||and
store||
|||||||||||crops.|||||
|||||||||||~|Include
IT(6)||||
|||||||||||-Basic Computer
course
offering
learning||||on|
|||||||||||how to create a strong password,
staying safe|||||
|||||||||||online and social media|||||
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||||||||Floristry (5)|
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||||||||-Four sessions
designing
round
table centre|
||||||||floral
designs
using
tray,
frog,
fix,
oasis,|
||||||||foliage and flowers. Theme: the five senses.|
||||||||Movie Makers (6)|
||||||||- Three webinars
provided
by Let's Get Digital|
||||||||teaching
staff and
members
how to make a|
||||||||film.
Advice
on
how
to choose
a subject,|
||||||||shoot
an
interview
-
subject,
background,|
||||||||lighting,
and editing.|
||||||||My
Favourite
Thing-Digital
media|
||||||||computer course (9)|
||||||||Literacy with Lesley|
||||||||One
of
our
volunteers
Lesley,
has
been|
||||||||running
bespoke
1:1 literacy
session.
The|
||||||||sessions
involve
an
initial
assessment
and|
||||||||Lesley then
provides
sessions
each week to|
||||||||provide
support
with
reading
and writing. She|
||||||||has
worked
with
5 people
in
total
and
is|
||||||||currently
providing
weekly sessions to 3.|
||||||||Total number
ofcourse hours delivered:227|
||||||||Total
number
of
individuals
who
have|
||||||||accessed a course: 65|
|Social|Clubs|~|Crossbow|Social|Club|(at|~
Crossbow
Club continues
to be supported|
||||Liberty||Centre||by
a
smaller
but
committed
team
of|
||||Birkenh cad).||||volunteers.|
||||||||~
Numbers
have grown
and are close to the|
||||||||limit ofthe venue's
capacity.
There are on|
||||||||average
around
30 people
with
learning|
||||||||disabilities
attending
on a weekly basis.|
|||~|Monday|Lunch|Club|(at|~
There are about 50 on the Lunch
Club list|
||||Market Street premises).||||at Bloom Building
and between
15 and 20|
||||||||people attend each week.
Between 2 and|
||||||||4 people
who
are
unable
to
attend
in|
||||||||person
join us on Zoom.
A highlight
was|
||||||||when a group from LFC Foundation
joined|
||||||||us
and
brought
the
cup
— Liverpool|
||||||||supporters
were
delighted
to have
their|
||||||||hoto taken with it.|
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|1.3.Additional
a
:;:Pra'est'::|ctivities|
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|Crockpot|We received a donation
of crockpots to be gifted to people to use at home to|
||help
with
their cooking
skills. To receive one of the crockpots,
the person|
||had to attend
a slow cooker session
to show them
how to use
it and
help|
||them cook independently
at home. We ran two sessions
in September
2022|
||and 14people attended.|
|Digital|RMS Let's Get Digital
initiative
- training
people
with a learning
disability
to|
|Champions|help others who also have a learning
disability
to improve
their digital
skills.|
||Two independent
online courses with support
via Aspire Website: How to be|
||a Digital
Champion
and
Zoom
Expert.
Eventually
leading
to face-to-face|
||technical
help
sessions.
As part of the
initiative,
we received
6 digital|
||cameras.
Our
digital
champions
have
taken
photographs
of courses
and|
||helped
support others with technology.|
|Walk and Talk|Started as a walking
group to help get people ready for the Seaside Walk in|
||September
2022. This has now evolved
into a Walk and
Talk group. The|
||group
meet every Tuesday
at Birkenhead
Park Cafb for a walk around
the|
||park and then
return
to the cafe to have a drink and a chat. Great way to get|
||people exercising
but also to help people socialise. Regular attendance
of4-|
||5 eo lewiththeho
eto
rowin 2023.|
|Between|Octob|er 2021 and January 2022|we delivered
th|
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|Course|||Attendance|
|Friends|and Dating||15|
|Staying|Happy,|Staying Safe|12|
|Being Good Boyfriends or Girlfriends|||16|
|You Being You|||6|
|Sex and|Sexual|Well-being|10|
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|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
|||||2022|2022|2022|2021|
|Income and endowments||||||||
|from:||||||||
|Donations
and legacies|||3a|66,585||66,585|12,883|
|Charitable
activities|||3b.|84,512|150,720|235,232|274,361|
|Other trading
activities|||3c|9,978||9,978|3,427|
|Investments|||3d|131||131|411|
|Total income||||161,206|150,720|311,926|291,082|
|Expenditure
on:||||||||
|Raising funds||||17,457||17,457|25,181|
|Charitable
activities||||132,371|188,195|320,566|268,164|
|Total expenditure||||149,828|188,195|338,023|293,345|
|Net income/(expenditure),
movement
in funds||net||11,378|(37,475)|(26,097)|(2,263)|
|Total funds brought|forward||9, 10|141,002|86,986|227,988|230,251|
|Total funds carried|forward||8-10|152,380|49,511|201,891|227,988|
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||NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL|STA|T|EM|ENTS FOR THE|YEAR ENDED|30
SEPTEM|BER2022|
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||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
|b.|Charitable
activities||||2022|2022|2022|2021f|
||Club activities income||||67,328||67,328|60,362|
||Contract income||||1,713||1,713|6,482|
||ESF Community
Grant|||||||3,797|
||Henry Smith Charity|||||||25,000|
||HMRC Job Retention
Scheme|||||||5,004|
||Kickstart and Access to Work||||14,216||14,216||
||LCVS Skelton Charitable|fund||||||1,000|
||Member's Subs||||1,155||1,155|1,045|
||Mencap for Treat me Well|||||||1,900|
||National
Lottery Community
Fund|||||9,903|9,903|2,600|
||National
Lottery Community
Fund (Advice and Advocacy)|||||97,346|97,346|48,105|
||NHS Wirral CCG|||||||24,485|
||Price Parry for crossbow|||||||5,000|
||Royal Mencap Society|||||4,227|4,227|2,000|
||Screwfix Foundation|||||||5,000|
||Steve Morgan
Foundation|||||26,667|26,667|31,167|
||Steve Morgan
Foundation
(DCMS)|||||11,577|11,577|43,414|
||Tesco Bags for Help|||||1,000|1,000||
||Training
income||||100||100|3,000|
||WBC for Ventilation|||||||5,000|
||||||84,512|150,720|235,232|274,361|
||Income from charitable
activities|||in|2021 comprised|870,889 unrestricted
funds||and rest|
||f203,472 related to restricted||funds||||||
|c.|Other trading
activities||||||||
||Fundraising
events income||||9,978||9,978|3,427|
||Income from other trading|activities|||for 2021 related|wholly to unrestricted
funds|||
|d.|Investments||||f|E|f||
||Bank interest||||131||131|411|
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|4.Expenditure
on|c|hari|table
a|ctiv|ities|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Direct|Support
&|Total|Total|
|||||||Charitable
Governance||2022|2021|
|||||||Expenditure|Costs|||
|Relief of people|with learning|||disabilities,||||||
|to provide
help and||support and|||provide|221,119|99,447|320,566|268,164|
|facilities for recreation|||and leisure time|||||||
|a.Analysed as follows:||||||||||
|Direct charitable|expenditure:|||||2022|2021f|||
|Staff salary costs||||||145,586|125,367|||
|Pension||||||2,112|2,255|||
|Minibus expenses||||||3,511|3,034|||
|Building
running|costs|||||24,554|17„470|||
|Activities and events costs||||||26,696|23,523|||
|Equipment||||||2,604|991|||
|Training||||||2,890|901|||
|Travel expenses||||||365|101|||
|Volunteer expenses||||||323|744|||
|Recruitment
and|DBS||fees|||10,034|3,162|||
|Depreciation||||||2,444|3,258|||
|||||||221,119|180,806|||
|||||||2022|2021|||
|Support 8 Governance|||costs:|||||||
|Staff salary costs||||||74,570|59,443|||
|Pension||||||883|621|||
|Office costs||||||10,090|13,276|||
|Consumables||||||1,918|839|||
|Insurance||||||801|1,873|||
|Marketing||||||3,700|3,106|||
|Registrations
and|subscriptions|||||4,297|5,537|||
|Bank and credit card charges||||||587|199|||
|Loss on disposal|of|fixed assets||||214||||
|Payroll fees||||||1,283|1,408|||
|Accountancy fees||||||1,060|925|||
|Depreciation||||||44|131|||
|||||||99,447|87,358|||
|Total expenditure||on|charitable||activities|320,566|268,164|||
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|b.|Staff Costs|2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|
|||E|E|
||Gross wages and salaries,|223,016|198,969|
||Social security costs|11,424|10,115|
||Pension|3,407|3,118|
|||237,847|212,202|
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|No out of pocket expenses were r
Tangible fixed assets|eimbursed
to truste|es
in the ye|ar (2021:Enil).||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Leasehold|Motor|Fixtures- &|Total|
|Cost:|Improvements|Vehicle|Fittingsf||
|Balance at 1"October 2021|13,800|39,052|8,456|61,308|
|Additions
in the year|||||
|Disposals
in the year|||(1,200)|(1,200)|
|Balance at 30'" September 2022|13,800|39,052|7,256|60,108|
|Depreciation:
Balance at 1"October 2021|13,800|32,102|5,240|51,142|
|Charge for the year||1,738|750|2,488|
|Disposals
in the year||(-)|(986)|(986)|
|Balance at 30'" September 2022|13,800|33,840|5,004|52,644|
|Net Book Value:|||||
|Balance at 30'" September 2022||5,212|2,252|7,464|
|Balance at 30th September 2021||6,950|3,216|10,166|
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|6|. Debtors|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||2022||2021|||
||||||F|||||
||Debtors||||. 1,349|||||
||Prepayments||||1,872||946|||
||||||3,221||946|||
|7.|Creditors:|amounts|falling due within||one year|||||
||||||2022||2021|||
||||||F|||||
||Accruals||||1,949||925|||
|8.|Analysis ofnet assets between funds|||||||||
|||2022|||Tangible|Fixed|Net|Current|Total|
|||||||Assets||Assets||
||Unrestricted|Funds||||E||||
||General
Fund|||||133||152,247|152,380|
||Restricted|Funds||||||||
||Department|ofTransport||||5,213|||5,213|
||Henry Smith|Charity||||2,118|||2,118|
||Mencap for|treat me well||||||824|824|
||National
Lottery Community|||Fund||||9,903|9,903|
||National
Lottery Community
(Advice and Advocacy)|||Fund||||7,174|7,174|
||Price Parry for Crossbow|||||||5,000|5,000|
||Royal Mencap Society|||||||3,967|3,967|
||Screwfix Foundation|||||||5,000|5,000|
||StJames Place Charitable|||Fund||||2,500|2,500|
||Steve Morgan
Foundation|||||||5,019|5,019|
||Steve Morgan
Foundation|||(DCMS)||||1,793|1,793|
||Tesco Bags|for Help||||||1,000|1,000|
|||||||7,331||42,180|49„511|
||Totals|||||7,464||194,427|201,891|
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||2021|||Tangible|Fixed|Net Current|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Assets|Assets||
||Unrestricted
Funds|||||||
||General
Fund||||391|41,367|41,758|
||Crossbow
Club|||||41,360|41,360|
||Gateway
Award|||||57,884|57,884|
||||||391|140,611|141,002|
||Restricted
Funds|||||||
||Department
ofTransport||||6,950||6,950|
||ESF Community
Grant|||||1,210|1,210|
||Henry Smith Charity||||2,825||2,825|
||LCVS Skelton Charitable|Trust||||1,000|1,000|
||Mencap for treat me well|||||1,900|1,900|
||National
Lottery Community
(Advice and Advocacy)||Fund|||25,779|25,779|
||NHS Wirral CCG|||||19,636|19,636|
||P H Holt Foundation|||||3,000|3,000|
||Price Parry for Crossbow|||||5,000|5,000|
||Royal Mencap Society|||||2,000|2,000|
||Screwfix Foundation|||||5,000|5,000|
||StJames Place Charitable||Fund|||2,500|2,500|
||Steve Morgan
Foundation|||||5,186|5,186|
||WBC for Ventilation|||||5,000|5,000|
||||||9,775|77,211|86,986|
||Totals||||10,166|217,822|227,988|
|9.|Unrestricted
Funds|||||||
|||||Movements||in the Year||
|||||Reserves|Income|Expenditure|Reserves|
||2022|||at Beginning|||at End|
|||||ofyear
E|||ofYear
f|
||General
Fund|||141,002|161,206|(149,828)|152,3802|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Reserves|Income|Expenditure|Reserves|
|||2021|at|Beginning|||at End|
|||||ofyear|||ofYear|
||||||E|||
|General|Fund|||48,531|28,002|(34,775)|41,758|
|Crossbow||Club||39,191|2,173|(4)|41,360|
|Gateway||Award,||55,902|57,435|(55,453)|57,884|
|||||143,624|87,610|(90,232)|141,002|
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|Restricted funds||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Movements|in the Year||
|2022||Reserves|Income|Expenditure|Reserves|
|||at Beginning|||at End|
|||ofyear|||ofYear|
|||F|||F|
|Department
ofTransport||6,950||(1,737)|5,213|
|ESFCommunity
Grant||1,210||(1,210)||
|Henry Smith
.Charity||2,825||(707)|2,118|
|LCVS Skelton Charitable|Trust|1,000||(1,000)||
|Mencap for Treat me Well||1,900||(1,076)|824|
|National
Lottery Community
Fund|||9,903|(-)|9,903|
|National
Lottery Community
Fund (Advice and Advocacy)||25,779|97,346|(115,951)|7,174|
|NHS Wirral CCG||19,636||(19,636)||
|P H Holt Foundation||3,000||(3,000)||
|Price Parry for Crossbow||5,000||(-).|5,000|
|Royal Mencap Society||2,000|4,227|(2,260)|3,967|
|Screwfix Foundation||5,000||(-)|5,000|
|StJames Place Charitable
Fund||2„500|||2,500|
|Steve Morgan
Foundation||5,186|26,667|(26,834)|5,019|
|Steve Morgan
Foundation
(DCMS)|||11,577|(9,784)|1,793|
|Tesco Bags for Help|||1,000|(-)|1,000|
|WBC for Ventilation||5,000||(5,000)||
|||86,986|150,720|(188,195)|49,511|
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