2021-03-31-accounts

K A G A D V O C A C Y CIO

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

CHARITY NUMBER 1154696

Sloane Winckless & Co Ltd

Chartered Accountants

2 - 4 Stoneleigh Park Road Epsom Surrey KT19 0QT

KAG ADVOCACY CIO

DIRECTORS’ ANNUAL REPORT – Year ended 31 March 2021

The trustees are pleased to present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2021. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).

Legal and Administrative Details

Status	Charitable Incorporated Organisation	registered November 2013
	Charity Number 1154696
Principal Address	Canbury Works
	Units 6+7 Canbury Business Park
	Elm Crescent
	Kingston upon Thames
	KT2 6HU
Directors	RF ‘Jim’ Green	Chair
	John Hallett	Treasurer
	Kathy Gardner-Brown
	Anne Taylor
	Helen Clarke MBE
	Mike Todd
Bankers	The Royal Bank of Scotland
	Richmond branch
	23A, The Quadrant
	Richmond upon Thames
	TW9 1DF

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Accountants

Sloane Winckless & Co Ltd Chartered Accountants, 2 - 4 Stoneleigh Park Road, Epsom, Surrey KT19 0QT

The Directors

The directors who served the charity during the year were as follows:-

RF ‘Jim’ Green Chair John Hallett Treasurer Kathy Gardner-Brown (appointed 23/8/2020) Helen Clarke MBE (appointed 20/4/2020) Anne Taylor Mike Todd

Structure, Governance, and Management

KAG Advocacy CIO (KAG) is governed by a management committee (the committee) comprised of Directors, who are also the Trustees. They are re ~~- e~~ lected by rotation at the Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Sue Boakes, CEO, has day to day management of KAG and is involved and consulted on all aspects of KAG’s business, as are staff and volunteers.

Potential Directors are sought by open advertisement or by referral having regard to skills requirements for the committee. After initial meetings with the CEO, the Chair and the committee to discuss KAG’s activities new Directors are elected by the committee and must seek re-election at the following AGM.

Newly appointed Directors are supplied with induction materials including annual reports and accounts and the Charity Commission guidance on the role of the Trustee.

The management committee meets once every month as a full committee. In addition from time to time it establishes sub committees to look at specific issues – Quality, Personnel, Marketing, User involvement and Branding.

Objects and Activities

The objects of KAG are to promote, protect and uphold the rights and interests of vulnerable individuals. KAG operates from its office in Kingston upon Thames to provide a range of advocacy

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services in response to various needs. This office also provides the management and administration for KAG and these core costs are funded by management fees from the various projects.

Achievements and Performance

KAG continued to deliver a range of different advocacy services to vulnerable individuals in its catchment area. This was funded by service level agreements.

The services included:

• General Advocacy -. The service provided short to medium term advocacy support to people with mental health problems in order to help them resolve crisis/complex issues. This involved ensuring that they were fully aware of their rights and provided with all relevant information. This service was provided by both paid and volunteer staff

• Appropriate Adult Service - Provided support to vulnerable detainees in Kingston police station’s custody suite

• Relevant Person’s Representative - KAG is commissioned by various local authorities to act as a person’s representative whilst their Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards authorisation is in place.

• Spot Purchase - KAG is commissioned by local authorities to provide specific statutory advocacy roles such as IMCA and Advocacy under the Care Act. In addition for this period we were sub-contracted by Hestia to provide Advocacy under the Care Act for people living in Hounslow.

• Specialist Advocacy in Hospitals - KAG provided a full range of advocacy services including the role of the Independent Mental Health Advocacy at the Horton Rehabilitation Hospital.

KAG also delivered the following projects which were funded by grant making charities.

• Mentoring - a project to support vulnerable people back into employment and or education. The support also includes workshops to assist people taking the first steps to work

• Community Connections - supporting vulnerable isolated older people in the Kingston area to take a more active role in their community.

• Benefits - with funding KAG was able to provide two specific projects, one in Kingston and one in Richmond, to support vulnerable people to apply for universal credit and other welfare benefits.

• Independent Visitors - providing support to residents in care homes who do not have any family or friends to visit. The role is to enable them to feel part of their new community and improve their quality of life.

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Other Income Sources

As an accredited training and assessment centre for the National Advocacy Qualification and the Prince’s Trust Qualification, KAG performed these services for other service providers on a feepaying basis.

Human Resources

In total KAG employed 12 staff, some on a part time basis. All staff were managed by the CEO with the support of the Management Committee. Staff meetings were held at regular intervals and staff members were encouraged to participate fully in the business of KAG.

Volunteers

Key to KAG’s continued success was the involvement of volunteers in all aspects of its business. During the year about 24 volunteers worked with KAG principally involved in providing Citizen Advocacy, Befriending and the Appropriate Adult Service.

Financial Review

The details are set out in the attached Financial Statements.

Reserve Policy

In the past we have maintained Reserves at a level of approximately 4 months of running costs. However, since 2017/18, in which we have experienced the effects of the expiry and non-renewal of our major contract with Surrey County Council and subsequently the contract with the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, the brought forward reserves have largely been extinguished in managing the transition to our reduced scale of operations. We intend to re-build our reserves to the level of 4 months running costs over the coming years.

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Risk Management

The Management Committee and the CEO continue to review the risks to which KAG may be exposed. They implement measures and establish systems to mitigate the effect of those risks where appropriate and this includes reducing overheads.

Future Plans

KAG is looking to extend partnership working to deliver services

KAG is looking to extend the support and services that it can offer vulnerable people and to seek the associated funding

KAG is looking to extend advocacy provision beyond its current operational geographic areas KAG is looking to develop management systems for full cost recovery

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We continue to proactively seek out new funding opportunities to meet identified but unmet needs. New legislation offers opportunities to expand our capabilities and to be awarded new funding.

Statement of Director’s Responsibilities

The Directors are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). The law applicable to charities in England and Wales, the Charities Act 2011, Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charity for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP; make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.

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