## **LIQUID LISTENING** ## **TRUSTEES REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** ## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023** **Company Registration Number 07344059 (England and Wales) Charity Commission Registration Number 1154224 (England and Wales)** ## **LIQUID LISTENING TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS REPORT** **Reference and Administrative Details Trustees and Directors** A I Drake M G Bettridge H M Bujic (appointed April 2023) D F Chapman L A Crust (appointed April 2023) J James (resigned April 2023) R Johnson I F Lush (appointed April 2023) C L Smith J E Tyson (appointed April 2023) **Secretary** M G Bettridge **Co-founders** A I Drake and J Cahen **Office Manager** J M Robinson **Independent Examiner** C J Jones **Company number** 07344059 **Charity number** 1154224 **Registered office** 28, Broad Street Wokingham Berkshire RG40 1AB **Bankers** CAF Bank 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ ## **Structure, Governance and Management** Liquid Listening is a limited company (no 07344059) and a charity (no 1154224) governed by its memorandum and articles incorporated 28 July 2010 as amended by special resolution registered as Companies House on 2 September 2013 and 31 August 2023. The Trustees are responsible for monitoring the charity’s activities, overseeing governance and ensuring the charity meets it’s aims and objectives. New Trustees are elected by existing Trustees based on their previous experience. They meet at least four times a year. 2 ## **LIQUID LISTENING** ## **Objectives and Activities** Co-Founded by Adele Drake and Joel Cahen, Liquid Listening aims to increase the well being of children with special needs and explore ways to promote their education and health, increased awareness and meaningful involvement with their environment. Liquid Listening achieves this by providing underwater listening sessions for children with special and complex needs and training for their carers. ## **Achievements and Performance and Financial Review** During the year ended 31 August 2023 incoming resources from listening sessions, training and donations was £102,781 (2022: £86,892). Charitable activities expenditure was £54,158 (2022: £46,460). Governance costs were £25,696 (2022: £8,746). Resulting in a surplus for the year of £22,927 (2022: £31,686). We are delighted to report that we have had a second year of increased activity this year, after the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020/21. The appointment of a part-time Marketing and Communications Manager in early 2022 started to pay dividends during this year, with more schools and practitioners becoming aware of our work and its benefits. At the beginning of the year in September 2022, we delivered the second half of our Arts Council-funded tour of SEN/D schools, visiting Ivy House in Derby and Ickburgh in Hackney, London. During these residencies, pupils and staff were able to experience Musical Hydrotherapy and listen to our specially-composed music and as a result, Ivy House staff will be undertaking Musical Hydrotherapy training in the 2023/24 year. We were pleased to have been able to train staff at five SEN/D schools during 2022/23: Willowdene in Greenwich, Bedelsford in Kingston Upon Thames, The Village School in Brent, Dee Banks in Chester and Fox Wood in Warrington. Staff at Willowdene and Bedelsford had been trained in previous years but because of staff turnover, the schools wished to train new staff to ensure that Musical Hydrotherapy could continue to be embedded in the curriculum. The Village School, Dee Banks and Fox Wood were new to us and we have installed specialist underwater speakers in their hydrotherapy pools. By training 8 teachers in each of these schools (and 16 at Bedelsford), all children attending the schools, both now and in the future, will be able to benefit from on-going Musical Hydrotherapy provision. As part of a new membership scheme launched this year, we delivered a refresher session at Valence School in Kent on the anniversary of their full staff training. In addition, we were also able to replace a broken speaker for Bedelsford, and repair equipment installed at Heron Academy ahead of their re-training in 2023/24. Finally, we worked with Marjorie McClure School, who we also trained in 2021/22, to re-install their equipment in their new school hydrotherapy pool. All of this activity is done with the aim of supporting schools to continue to offer Musical Hydrotherapy in the pool in the years following their initial training and is proving an excellent way of staying in touch with them. Bedelsford School’s engagement with Liquid Listening’s work also led to us working with a class of children on the Music Production project, which enabled a class of children to create and record their own music. The music creation sessions were alternated with opportunities to listen to the children’s music in the hydrotherapy pool, and the completed pieces are now available on the school’s play list so that the children can listen each time they attend Musical Hydrotherapy sessions. 3 ## **LIQUID LISTENING** Our positive organisational change has also continued in the 2022/23 year. Led by our Marketing and Communications Manager, we have been through a rebranding process leading to our new name, Liquid Listening, with a new website to match! One benefit is the increase in the delivery of activity, increasing the number of disabled children participating in Musical Hydrotherapy. A more consistent funding stream has also enabled us to create a small team of people working on a part-time and freelance basis to manage the organisation and oversee project delivery, including founder and Artistic Director Joel Cahen and Judith Robinson, our first Executive Director. This is a step-change in how the organisation is run which we hope will, in turn, means we can raise our profile and increase our activity levels further during 2023/24. ## **2022/23 IN NUMBERS (2021/22 figures in brackets)** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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4 **LIQUID LISTENING** ## **Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Liquid Listening **On accounts for the year** 31 August 2023 **ended Set out on pages** 6 to 8 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended 31 August 2023. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|_._| |---|---| ||Clare Jones| ||| ||ACA| ||| ||3 Westwood Close| ||Bickley| ||Bromley BR1 2JJ| 5 **LIQUID LISTENING** STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES ## _**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023**_ ||**2023**|**2022**| |---|---|---| ||**£**|**£**| |**Trust and Foundations**|67,683|56,760| |**Donations from Individuals**|87|1,000| |**Arts Council England**|1,344|18,397| |**Income from Schools**|33,550|10,601| |**Bank Interest and Gift Aid**|117|134| ||________|_______| |**Incoming Resources from Charitable Activities**|102,781|86,892| |**Resources Expended**||| |Charitable Activities|(54,158)|(46,460)| |Governance Costs|(25,696)|(8,747)| |Net movement in funds|22,927|31,685| |Funds brought forward 1 September 2022|55,847|24,162| |**Funds carried forward 31 August 2023**|**78,774**|55,847| 6 ## **LIQUID LISTENING** ## **BALANCE SHEET** ## _**AS AT 31 AUGUST 2023**_ |**Tangible fixed assets**
**Current assets**
Debtors
Bank and cash in hand
**Liabilities**
Creditors: falling due within one year
**Net current assets**
**Net assets**
Total restricted funds
Total unrestricted funds
**Total funds**|**2023**
**£**
-
78,901
78,901
3,312|**£**
3,185
75,589
78,774
17,550
61,224
78,774||**2022**
**£**
-
57,987
57,987
5,486|**£**
3,346
52,501
55,847
-
55,847
55,847| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||| Liquid Listening is a private company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 28, Broad Street, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1AB. For the year ended 31 August 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year in question in accordance with section 476. These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with SORP 2005 and in accordance with FRS 102. The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 07/12/2023 and are signed on its behalf by: .............................. M G Bettridge **Director** **Charity Registration Number 1154224 Company Registration Number 07344059** 7 ## **LIQUID LISTENING** ## **ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** _**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023**_ ## **ACCOUNTING POLICIES** The following accounting policies are used consistently with items that are considered material in relation to the charity's accounts: _Basis of accounting:_ The accounts are prepared under the historical cost convention. _Income and expenses:_ The income and expenses are stated using the "accrual" concept in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice for charity accounts. _Depreciation_ : Depreciation is provided at an annual rate of 15% on all tangible fixed assets under the reducing balance method. ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** ## **1. Tangible Fixed Assets** |_COST_
At 1 September 2022
Additions
As at 31 August 2023
_DEPRECIATION_
At 1 September 2022
Charges
As at 31 August 2023
_NET BOOK VALUE_
As at 31 August 2023
As at 31 August 2022|Equipment
£
4,750
_401
5,151
1,404
562
1,966
3,185
3,346| |---|---| 8