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|Trustees'<br>annual<br>report||(incorporating||the|directors'|report)||1 to 16|
|Independent<br>examiner's||report to the||trustees||||17|
|Statement<br>offinancial|activities||(including||income|and expenditure|account)|18|
|Balance sheet||||||||19|
|Notes to the financial|statements|||||||20to 27|





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|Reference|and adm|inistrative<br>d|inistrative<br>d|etails||
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|Registered|charity|name||Ace (Anglia)|Limited|
|Charity registration||number||1153773||
|Company|registration||number|08436073||
|Principal office and||registered||Red Gables||
|office||||Ipswich Road||
|||||Stowmarket||
|||||Suffolk||
|||||IP14 1BE||
|The trustees||||||





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|Ace Anglia Advisory|Ace Anglia Advisory|Group|||||
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||||H Turner - President||||
||||A Keighley||||
||||M Conquer||||
||||TDe Roy||||
||||S Largent||||
||||H Lucas||||
||||P Parker||||
|Staff Team|||||||
||||A Clark - CEO||||
||||K Murray - HR and Operations|||Director|
||||J Chew - Co-production||Project Lead/ TVS Advocate||
||||A Berrington - TVS Managing|||Advocate|
||||BWarren - Senior TVS Advocate||||
||||A Irons - Senior|TVS Advocate|||
||||C Warren - Bookkeeper||||
||||D Hill - Accessible<br>Information|||Design Lead|
||||D Driver - Peer Educator||Project Lead||
||||A Oliver-Wilson|-Peer Educator Project Co-ordinator|||
||||IAkers - Design|Co-ordinator|||
|Staff leaving|Ace during this period||||||
||||None||||
|Self-Advocates/Peer||Educators|||||
||||H Lucas||||
||||J Mayo||||
||||S Largent||||
||||I Dunstan||||
||||M Conquer||||
|Subcontractors|||||||
||||Thinklusive<br>- M Clark||||
|Bankers|||CAF Bank Ltd||||
||||25 Kings<br>Hill Avenue||||
||||King<br>Hill||||
||||West Mailing||||
||||Kent||||
||||ME194JQ||||
||||Scottish Widows|PLC|||
||||PO Box883||||
||||Leeds||||
||||LS1 9TY||||
|Independent|examiner||L Thurston<br>FCCA||||
||||Lovewell Blake LLP||||
||||Chartered<br>accountants||||
||||First Floor Suite||||
||||2 Hillside Business Park||||
||||Bury St Edmunds||||
||||IP32 TEA||||





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Ace (Anglia) Limited
Company Limited by Guarantee
Trustees. annual report (incorporating the directors. report) [¢ontlmwdJ
Year ended 31 March 2022
The whole tearn had worked extremely hard to rnake adjustments and find allemative ways of working with
people with a learning disabilty and auttsm. This included suppoiting and teaching peop￿ how to use
technology. Self-advocales and staff wantèd to continue fo use these new skills that they had leamt to work
more efficientty. safely, and convenientty- As Suffolk is a njral ￿unty. travelling less cuts tsur DNJ8nisations
carbon footprint.
Sèlfthdvocacy- Achievements and performancè
April 2021
"How Do We Heal"
We won the Film Competition for Ihe"How Do We Heal- piece
https'.ww.aceanglia.comlhow40-we*helpeveryone-heal4cs-film-competstion
Education
Ace advocates presented a 2hr Seminar al)out advocacy lo fiTst year social work Students at the University
of Suffolk.
Interviews
Intervièwèd Georgia Chimbani IDirector ACSI
htWs.'www.aceanglia.comlseb-interviews-georgia-chirrtJani-dirèctor-of-aduti-and<ommunity•services•for4u
ffolk.county-coun¢il
May 2021
Paradigm Review
W8 Started the Paradigm consultation in May_ Ace organisèd se￿- advctates and kepl staff and trustees
informed of the meets"ngs.
June 2021
Skills For Care
ACE presented at the Sknlis for ca￿ online ¢ixrf8rence. The recording of the presenlation is hosted on thè
Skills for care website
https'.www.skillsforcare.org.ukJLeaming4leveh)pmertUongtsing-leaming-and4evelopmenVSuppDrbng-peopl
vthh-8veryday-technologylsupporting-people4wtlFeveryday4echnology.aspx
Fairer Access to heatthy Lelsure Activ￿OeS
This is a new 1year pilot project funded by PublÉc Health Suffolk.
Th• project is looking at barriers and good practice in 6 sport and leisure companies in Suffolk. W8 startèd
by hosting an online coproduction session as a stsrb.ng point for planning the project.
Plcnlc In the park
To help petsple come back to our groups in safe and Comfortable settings we arranged a new style of
outdoor meetin9. Ace Ipswich "Picnic in Park" was introduced and was a huge success. Approximately
20125 people cam8 81ong to the firsl event. htlps=wV￿.ace8ngIl3_w￿￿ac8-ang1la-is-On-t0ur
July 2021
The Future of Advocacy Consultstion
AGe facilitated this online consultation for Suffolk County Council. 58 people attended an online meeting,
We shared this inlomation and recording wth commissionets.
Pienle In the Park
We had another 4 of these group meebngs in July in Bury, StIMmatket, Felixstowe and Sudbury, the
numbers varied as some people were still reluctant to meet in public. https:www.aceanglia.coml?s=picnic

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|Plans for|future periods||||||||||||
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|Implement|the paradigm<br>recommendations||||||||||||
|Strengthen|the management<br>structure||||||||||||
|Continue|to support the Learning<br>Disability|Strategy for|||Suffolk||||||||
|Continue|to develop<br>and strengthen<br>the Learning|||Disability||Strategy|Focus Groups||||||
|My Home|||||||||||||
|My Life|||||||||||||
|My Voice|||||||||||||
|My Health|||||||||||||
|Look for sustainable<br>funding<br>options for Ace|||||||||||||
|Continue|to ensure<br>people have a voice||||||||||||
|Continue|to work in co-production||||||||||||
|Produce<br>high quality accessible information|||||||||||||
|Produce<br>high quality<br>film and media|||||||||||||
|Employ more people with learning<br>disabilities|||||||||||||
|Support its staff team|||||||||||||
|Strengthen|its trustee<br>board||||||||||||
|Tosecure|funding<br>to enable Ace to work in|partnership|||locally regionally|||and nationally|||||
|Explore digital opportunities.|||||||||||||
|Introduce|the ideas and changes to self and group|||advocacy developed||||in previous||year.|||
|Work<br>in|coproduction<br>with<br>Powher<br>and|its|partner||organisations||to|secure|ongoing||formal|advocacy|
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|||Note|funds<br>6|Total funds|Total funds<br>f|
|Income and endowments||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||5|354,317|354,317|334,978|
|Charitable<br>activities||6|126,240|126,240|132,726|
|Investment<br>income||7|35|35|157|
|Total income|||480,592|480,592|467,861|
|Expenditure<br>Chadtable<br>activities||8|433,755|433,755|361,713|
|Total expenditure|||433,755|433,755|361,713|
|Net income and net movement|in funds||46,837|46,837|106,148|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward|||464,709|464,709|358,561|
|Total funds carried forward|||511,546|511,546|464,709|





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|Fixed assets||||||||
|Tangible fixed assets|||||10,143||9,668|
|Current assets||||||||
|Debtors|||12|40,286||74,749||
|Cash at bank and|in|hand||476,948||392,269||
|||||517,234||467,018||
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due within||||||
|one year|||13|(15,831)||(11,977)||
|Net current assets|||||501,403||455,041|
|Total assets less|current liabilities||||511,546||464,709|
|Net assets|||||511,546||464,709|
|Funds ofthe charity||||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||511,546||464,709|
|Total charity funds|||15||511,546||464,709|





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||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
||||||Funds|Funds<br>f|2022|
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||Grants|||||||
||Suffolk County<br>Council||||151,610||151,610|
||NHS Ipswich|& East Suffolk CCG|||165,600||165,600|
||West Suffolk|CCG|||12,680||12,680|
||NHS England|& NHS Improvements|||8,205||8,205|
||Learning<br>Disability||England||3,300||3,300|
||Other Grants||||12,922||12,922|
||||||354,317||354,317|
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||||||Fundsf|Funds<br>f|2021|
||Donations|||||||
||Donations||||526||526|
||Grants|||||||
||Suffolk County<br>Council||||145,650||145,650|
||NHS Ipswich|8 East Suffolk CCG|||132,540||132,540|
||West Suffolk|CCG|||16,450||16,450|
||NHS England|& NHS Improvements|||24,085||24,085|
||Norfolk & Suffolk FT||||4,440||4,440|
||Learning<br>Disability||England||2,427||2,427|
||Other Grants||||8,860||8,860|
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|||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|Total Funds|
|||||Funds<br>f|2022|Funds<br>f|2021<br>f|
||Advocacy and|other services||126,240|126,240|132,726|132,726|
|7.|Investment<br>income|||||||
|||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|Total Funds|
|||||Funds|2022|Funds|2021|
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|||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|Total Funds|
|||||Funds<br>6|2022<br>6|Funds<br>6|2021<br>f|
||Staff costs|||336,948|336,948|263,864|263,864|
||Stafftravel<br>expenses|||5,580|5,580|3,215|3,215|
||Staff and advocate training|||684|684|1,577|1,577|
||Staff recruitment|||792|792|1,084|1,084|
||Transport costs|||188|188|44|44|
||Finance charges|||1,823|1,823|1,796|1,796|
||Venue hire|||118|118|||
||Professional<br>fees|||15,655|15,655|16,011|16,011|
||Support costs|||71,967|71,967|74,122|74, 122|
|||||433,755|433,755|361,713|361,713|
||Analysis<br>ofsupport costs|||||||
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||Rent|||||9,522|12,996|
||Telephone|||||5,049|5,843|
||Postage and stationery|||||1,819|1,156|
||Insurance|||||1,972|1,962|
||Computer<br>costs|||||35,361|41,904|
||Sundry expenses|||||5,019|4,106|
||Depreciation<br>Independent<br>examination|fee||||4,117<br>2,406|3,320<br>1,860|
||Bad debt write off|||||6,702|975|
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|The total|staff costs and|employee|benefits for the reporting|period are analysed|as follows:||
||||||2022<br>6|2021<br>f|
|Wages and salaries||||306,566||241,019|
|Social security costs|||||23,941|17,746|
|Employer|contributions|to pension|plans||6,441|5,099|
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||Cost||||
||At 1 April 2021|||32,868|
||Additions|||4,592|
||At 31 March 2022|||37,460|
||Depreciation||||
||At 1 April 2021|||23,200|
||Charge for the year|||4,117|
||At 31 March 2022|||27,317|
||Carrying<br>amount||||
||At 31 March 2022|||10,143|
||At 31 March 2021|||9,668|
|12.|Debtors||||
||||2022<br>f|2021<br>F|
||Trade debtors||26,710|70,100|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued income||13,576|4,649|
||||40,286|74,749|
|13.|Creditors: Amounts|falling due within one year|||
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||Trade creditors||4,704|4,223|
||Accruals<br>and deferred|income|2,034|1,818|
||Social security and other taxes||7,756|4,912|
||Other creditors||1,337|1,024|
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|15.|Analysis ofcharitable||funds||||||
||Year ended|31 March|2022||||||
||Genera<br>Ifunds||||||||
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|||||2021f|Income|Expenditure<br>6|Transfers<br>6|2022f|
||General<br>Funds|||364,554|464,442|(427,735)||401,261|
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|||||2021|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|2022|
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||Contingency|Funds||70,525||||70,525|
||Big Messages|||9,090||||9,090|
||Accessible|Information||20,540|16,150|(6,020)||30,670|
|||||100,155|16,150|(6,020)||110,285|
||Total funds|||464,709|480,592|(433,755)||511,546|
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||General funds||||||||
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|||||2020<br>f|Income<br>f|Expenditure|Transfers|2021<br>8|
||GeneralFunds|||278,946|447,011|(361,403)||364,554|
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|||||2020<br>f|Income<br>6|Expendituref|Transfers|2021|
||Contingency|Funds||70,525||||70,525|
||Big Messages|||9,090||||9,090|
||Accessible|Information|||20,850|(310)||20,540|
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|Tangible fixed assets|10,143||10,143|
|Current assets|501,403||501,403|
|Net Assets|511,546||511,546|
|As at 31 March 2021||||
||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
||Funds<br>5|Fundsf|2021f|
|Tangible fixed assets|9,668||9,668|
|Current assets|455,041||455,041|
|Net Assets|464,709||464,709|



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|The total future|minimum|lease payments|under non-cancellable|operating|leases are as|follows:|
||||||2022|2021<br>f|
|Not later than|1 year||||1,440|114|
|Later than<br>1 year and not||later than 5years|||2,880||
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