**Charity number: 1154379 Company number: CE001319**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
**Trustees' report and financial statements**
**for the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Legal and administrative information|**1**|
|Trustees report|**2 - 4**|
|Independent examiner's report|**5**|
|Statement of financial activities|**6**|
|Balance sheet|**7**|
|Notes to the financial statements|**8 - 13**|
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Legal and administrative information**
|**Charity number**|1154379||
|---|---|---|
|**Company registration number**|CE001319||
|**Business address**|Shute Road||
||Catterick Garrison||
||North Yorkshire||
||DL9 4RF||
|**Registered office**|Shute Road||
||Catterick Garrison||
||North Yorkshire||
||DL9 4AF||
|**Trustees**|J Bromfield|Chair|
||M McGarry|Treasurer|
||J D'Arcy||
||M Herdman||
||C Bowman||
||R Jenkinson||
||M Walton||
|**Independent Examiner**|Jane Boagey FCCA||
||15 Newbiggin||
||Richmond||
||North Yorkshire||
||DL10 4DR||
|**Bankers**|CAF Bank Limited||
||25 Kings Hill||
||West Malling||
||Kent||
||ME19 4JQ||
**Page 1**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2021**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021. The trustees who served during the year and up to the date of this report are set out on page 1.
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is operated by the trustees who delegate duties to the chief officer, Mrs J Brackenberry
## **Objectives and activities**
## _Mission Statement_
We are a registered charitable organisation aiming to provide a range of good quality community services in a friendly and comfortable setting. We are constantly seeking to improve and develop what we do.
## _Expectations for services_
People who use our services can expect to be welcomed and treated with respect in a caring, sensitive and confidential way. They will be supported to make new friends and can enjoy many social activities, as well as being encouraged to maintain independence and daily living skills and through our activities will be supported to learn new things.
People can also expect to be given full information about our services and services provided by other organisations, as well as being consulted about ways in which our services can be improved, whilst being provided with well managed services which reflect equal opportunities.
## _Expectations for employees_
Our staff and volunteers can expect to be highly valued and treated with respect, and will receive appropriate training so they can reciprocate that respect to those who use our services. Our staff and volunteers will be supported by their manager and given clear policies and procedures for their work.
## _The Charity's objectives_
The primary objective of our organsiation is to promote the welfare of people in the community, but in particular we aim to support more vulnerable people and people with specific needs. We aim to achieve this through the provision and management of a centre to provide services for that purpose for the benefit of such persons whom reside within the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire.
**Page 2**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **Achievements and performance**
## _Chair's Report_
As we entered this reporting year, we were in the first lockdown period and unable to offer our day care and sitting service to our members. Having come through a difficult previous year financially trustees, like many charity trustees were facing an uncertain future with no projected income while trying to sustain running costs to ensure the vital services and support would still be available during and post pandemic.
I am pleased to report that we were able to meet the costs through the Job Retention Scheme (furlough), rate relief grants and the support of North Yorkshire County Council and alternative income generation activities. We are now in a stronger financial position than pre-pandemic enabling us to re-open the day care service in December in a limited capacity observing covid regulations, providing much needed respite for carers and families. The challenges of social distancing, infection control, testing and providing personal support cannot be understated, but staff and trustees were determined to re-open as soon as we were able to do so safely. I take the opportunity to thank Jacqueline, our Chief Officer who has taken the lead in overcoming all these issues and worked throughout the year, showing her commitment and dedication to the future of The Bridge, but more importantly, her belief in the value of the support we provide to our members.
We continued to provide welfare support throughout this year via our community hub function in partnership with North Yorkshire County Council Stronger Communities and local mutual aid groups, offering prescription collection, transport, shopping, information, signposting and other tasks. Led by Jacqueline and delivered by a team of volunteers to whom we are immensely grateful. It is difficult to pick out a single volunteer, as so many made such a difference in this difficult period, but I would like to commend Fergus Brown, who working independently from The Bridge, set up the mutual aid group via Facebook enabling requests for aid to be met quickly and efficiently. Being able to use this platform to broker requests with volunteers was invaluable in meeting people's needs.
And a final thankyou to Tony, Jill and Kim, our care team for their support and commitment to our members and the delivery of a safe secure and caring service during the most anxious of times.
In July 2020 a difficult decision was made to make two of our staff redundant, taking our staff numbers from six down to four. In September 2020 a further member of staff was also made redundant, reducing our staff to three.
The Day Centre operating three days per week, provides a secure safe home from home for older people helping them maintain their independence, giving respite care to their families and carers and allowing them to meet with others and enjoy a nutritious meal and varied activities.
The Sitting Service has provided valuable respite care, thanks to our volunteers who offer a short break to carers, giving 900 hours of care.
## **Financial review**
## _Treasurer's report_
The financial position of the charity was satisfactory as at the 31st March 2021.
The day to day tasks and management of finances is one of many roles carried out by the Chief Officer, aided by the Administration Assistant, for which the Trustees are most grateful.
Expenditure on the various projects has been tailored in line with the funding. Such projects maximise the efficient use of our excellent resources.
On 31 March 2021 total unrestricted funds were £72,838 and restricted funds were £0, total funds being £72,838 (£27,481 at 31 March 2020)
**Page 3**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **Statement of trustees' responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that year. In preparing these financial statements the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which 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 Charities Act 1993 and the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other
On behalf of the board
J Bromfield
## **Chair**
**Page 4**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees on the unaudited financial statements of The Bridge Richmondshire.**
I report on the accounts of The Bridge Richmondshire for the year ended 31 March 2021 set out on pages 2 to 13.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and independent examiner**
As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts, in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act'). I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act.
## **Basis of independent examiner's statement**
My examination was carried out in accordance 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 concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence 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 examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
(i) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- to keep proper accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the Act
have not been met; or
- (ii) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
...........................................................
**Jane Boagey FCCA Chartered Certified Accountant Independent examiner 15 Newbiggin Richmond North Yorkshire**
## **DL10 4DR**
**Page 5**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Statement of financial activities**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2021**
|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**funds**
**Notes**
**£**
**£**
**Incoming resources**
Incoming resources from generating funds:
Voluntary income
2
130,278
-
Activities for generating funds
3
-
-
Investment income
4
7
-
**Total incoming resources**
130,285
-
**Resources expended**
Charitable activities
5
80,598
-
Governance costs
7
171
4,159
**Total resources expended**
80,769
4,159
Total funds brought forward
23,322
4,159
**Total funds carried forward**
72,838
-|**2021**
**Total**
**£**
130,278
-
7
130,285
80,598
4,330
84,928
27,481
72,838|**2020**
**Total**
**£**
95,171
772
25
95,968
111,232
)
(424
110,808
42,321
27,481|
|---|---|---|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses in the year and therefore a separate statement of total recognised gains and losses has not been prepared.
All of the above amounts relate to continuing activities.
**The notes on pages 8 to 13 form an integral part of these financial statements.**
**Page 6**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Balance sheet as at 31 March 2021**
|**Notes**
**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
10
**Current assets**
Debtors
11
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: amounts falling**
**due within one year**
12
**Net current assets**
**Net assets**
**Funds**
13
Restricted income funds
Unrestricted income funds
**Total funds**|**2021**
**£**
**£**
-
3,166
71,362
74,528
)
(1,690
72,838
72,838
-
72,838
72,838|**2020**
**£**
**£**
4,330
6,015
18,458
24,473
)
(1,322
23,151
27,481
4,159
23,322
27,481|**2020**
**£**
**£**
4,330
6,015
18,458
24,473
)
(1,322
23,151
27,481
4,159
23,322
27,481|
|---|---|---|---|
||||27,481|
||||4,159
23,322|
||||27,481|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 27 January 2022 and signed on its behalf by
## **J Bromfield Chair**
**The notes on pages 8 to 13 form an integral part of these financial statements.**
**Page 7**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **1. Accounting policies**
The principal accounting policies are summarised below. The accounting policies have been applied consistently throughout the year and the preceding year.
## **1.1. Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared in compliance with FRS 102, 'The Financila Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland', the Statement of Recommended Practic applicable in the UK and REpublic of Ireland (FRS 102) (Charities SORP (FRS 102)) and the Charities Act 2011.
## **1.2. Cashflow**
The charity has taken advantage of the exemption in FRS1 from the requirement to produce a cashflow statement because it is a small charity.
## **1.3. Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:
Voluntary income is received by way of grants, donations and gifts and is included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable. Grants where entitlement is not conditional on the delivery of a specific performance by the charity, are recognised when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant.
Donated services and facilities are included at the value to the charity where this can be quantified. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included.
Gifts donated for resale are included as incoming resources within activities for generating funds when they are sold.
Grants, including grants for the purchase of fixed assets, are recognised in full in the statement of financial activities in the year in which they are receivable.
Income from investments is included in the year in which it is receivable.
## **1.4. Resources expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
Costs of generating funds comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income and the costs of trading for fundraising purposes including the charity's shop.
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
**Page 8**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Notes to financial statements**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **1.5. Tangible fixed assets and depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost less residual value of each asset over its expected useful life, as follows:
- Fixtures, fittings and equipment 25% straight line Motor vehicles - 25% straight line
## **1.6. Leasing**
Rentals payable under operating leases are charged against income on a straight line basis over the lease term.
## **1.7. Defined contribution pension schemes**
The pension costs charged in the financial statements represent the contribution payable by the charity during the year.
## **2. Voluntary income**
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
Donations & Fundraising
5,484
Groups/Services
70,049
Use of Rooms
1,009
Shopping Service project
514
Internet Shopping service
-
Grants
22,878
Coronavirus job retention scheme
18,010
Local government coronavirus support
12,334
130,278|**2021**
**Total**
**£**
5,484
70,049
1,009
514
-
22,878
18,010
12,334
130,278|**2020**
**Total**
**£**
10,727
69,115
10,843
665
3,821
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
|||95,171|
## **3. Activities for generating funds**
|Fundraising events|**2021**
**Total**
**£**
-
-|**2020**
**Total**
**£**
772|
|---|---|---|
|||772|
**Page 9**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021**
|**4.**
**Investment income**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
Bank interest receivable
7
7
**5.**
**Costs of charitable activities - by fund type**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
Centre services
80,598
80,598
**6.**
**Costs of charitable activities - by activity**
**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
Centre services
80,598
80,598
**7.**
**Governance costs**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
Depreciation & impairment
171
4,159
171
4,159|**2021**
**Total**
**£**
7
7
**2021**
**Total**
**£**
80,598
80,598
**2021**
**Total**
**£**
80,598
80,598
**2021**
**Total**
**£**
4,330
4,330|**2020**
**Total**
**£**
25
25
**2020**
**Total**
**£**
111,232
111,232
**2020**
**Total**
**£**
111,232
111,232
**2020**
**Total**
**£**
)
(424
)
(424|
|---|---|---|
**Page 10**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021**
|**8.**
**Employees**
**Employment costs**
Wages and salaries
Pension costs
No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 (2020 : None).|**2021**
**£**
60,828
1,061
61,889|**2020**
**£**
80,669
1,605|
|---|---|---|
|||82,274|
||||
## **Number of employees**
The average monthly numbers of employees (including the trustees) during the year, calculated on the basis of full time equivalents, was as follows:
|**2021**|**2020**|
|---|---|
|**Number**|**Number**|
|3|6|
## **9. Pension costs**
The company operates an auto enrolment pension scheme in respect of the employee's. The scheme and its assets are held by independent managers. The pension charge represents contributions due from the company and was as follows:
|follows:|||
|---|---|---|
||**2021**|**2020**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Pension charge|1,061|1,605|
**Page 11**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021**
|**Fixtures,**
**10.**
**Tangible fixed assets**
**fittings and**
**equipment**
**£**
**Cost**
At 1 April 2020 and
At 31 March 2021
1,014
**Depreciation**
At 1 April 2020
881
Charge for the year
133
At 31 March 2021
1,014
**Net book values**
At 31 March 2021
-
At 31 March 2020
133
**11.**
**Debtors**
Trade debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
**12.**
**Creditors: amounts falling due**
**within one year**
Trade creditors
Other taxes and social security
Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income||**Motor**
**vehicles**
**£**
34,222
30,025
4,197
34,222
-
4,197
**2021**
**£**
2,457
709
3,166
**2021**
**£**
-
495
175
1,020
1,690|**Total**
**£**
35,236|
|---|---|---|---|
||||30,906
4,330|
||||35,236|
||||-|
||||4,330|
||||**2020**
**£**
4,310
1,705|
||||6,015|
||||**2020**
**£**
874
-
-
448|
||||1,322|
**Page 12**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021**
## **13. Analysis of net assets between funds**
|**13.**|**Analysis of net assets between funds**||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**Unrestricted**||||||**Total**||||
||||||**funds**||||||**funds**||||
||||||**£**||||||**£**||||
||Fund balances at 31 March 2021 as represented by:||||||||||||||
||Current assets||||74,528||||||74,528||||
||Current liabilities||||(1,690||)||||(1,690||)||
||||||72,838||||||72,838||||
|**14.**|**Unrestricted funds**|**At**|||||||||**At**||||
|||**1 April**|**Incoming**||**Outgoing**||||**31 March**||||||
|||**2020**|**resources**||**resources**||||||**2021**||||
|||**£**||**£**|**£**||||||**£**||||
||Unrestricted Funds|23,322||130,285|)
(80,769||||||72,838||||
|**15.**|**Restricted funds**|||**At**|||||||**At**||||
|||||**1 April**|**Outgoing**||||**31 March**||||||
|||||**2020**|**resources**||||||**2021**||||
|||||**£**|**£**||||||**£**||||
||Restricted Funds|||4,159|)
(4,159||||||-||||
**Page 13**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
**The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts.**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Detailed statement of financial activities**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2021**
|||**2021**||**2020**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Incoming resources**|||||
|**Incoming resources from generating funds:**|||||
|_Voluntary income_|||||
|Donations & Fundraising||5,484||10,727|
|Groups/Services||70,049||69,115|
|Use of Rooms||1,009||10,843|
|Shopping Service project||514||665|
|Internet Shopping service||-||3,821|
|Grants||22,878||-|
|Coronavirus job retention scheme||18,010||-|
|Local government coronavirus support||12,334||-|
|||130,278||95,171|
|_Activities for generating funds_|||||
|Fundraising events||-||772|
|||-||772|
|_Investment income_|||||
|Bank interest receivable||7||25|
|||7||25|
|**Total incoming resources from generating funds**||130,285||95,968|
|**Total incoming resources**||130,285||95,968|
**Page 15**
## **The Bridge Richmondshire**
## **Detailed statement of financial activities**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2021**
|**Resources expended**
**Charitable activities**
**Centre services**
_Activities undertaken directly_
Wages & Salaries
Pension costs
Equipment Hire
Rent and Licence Agreement
Telephone and TV Licence
Light & heat
Repairs and Computer Accessories
Insurance
Internet Shopping Costs
Accountancy
Postage, Stationery and Advertising
Sundry Costs
Expenditure re Groups
Bus Costs and Travel Expenses
Staff and Volunteer Travel Expenses
Bank Charges
**Centre services total expenditure**
**Total charitable activity expenditure**
**Governance costs**
_Activities undertaken directly_
Depreciation & impairment
**Total governance costs**
**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year**|**2021**
**£**
60,828
1,061
1,370
3,850
1,313
3,711
1,271
717
-
600
105
1,422
2,097
2,189
3
61
80,598
80,598
80,598
4,330
4,330
4,330
45,357|**2020**
**£**
80,669
1,605
1,278
3,850
984
3,393
3,121
1,476
2,603
500
408
1,689
2,085
4,761
2,750
60
111,232
111,232
111,232
)
(424
)
(424
)
(424
)
(14,840|
|---|---|---|
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