Charity Registration No. 1155140 ## Rape Crisis England & Wales Annual Report And Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 March 2021 RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ## Trustees Honorary Officers Jodie Woodward Co-Chair Dawn Thomas Co-Chair Jane Gregory Vice-Chair Nicola Harkin Secretary (appointed 30/11/20) Lisa Ward Treasurer (appointed 30/11/20) Regional Trustees Isabel Owens North East Regional Trustee Holli Waterson North West Regional Trustee (resigned 07/07/2020) Fiaza Manzoor North West Regional Trustee (appointed 30/11/20) Heather Cooper Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Trustee Laura McKane East Midlands Regional Trustee Jocelyn Anderson West Midlands Regional Trustee (resigned 30/11/20) Natalie Thompson West Midlands Regional Trustee (appointed 30/11/20) Carol Older South East Regional Trustee Claire Bloor South West Regional Trustee Lee Eggleston East Regional Trustee (resigned 30/11/20) Amy Roch East Regional Trustee (appointed 30/11/20 resigned 28/07/21) Lucy Hayton London Regional Trustee Co-opted Trustees Dianne Whitfield Dawn Bowman Constitutional form Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) ## Secretary Charity number Nicola Harkin 1155140 ## Principal address Suite E4 Joseph's Well Hanover Walk Leeds LS3 1AB Auditor Azets Audit Services Limited Triune Court Monks Cross Drive York YO32 9GZ ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION ## Bankers CAF Bank Ltd 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill ME19 4JQ RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## CONTENTS ||Page| |---|---| |Trustees’ report|1-9| |Statement ofTrustees’ responsibilities|9| |Independent auditor's report|10-13| |Statement of financial activities|14| |Balance sheet|15| |Statement of cash flows|16| |Notestothefinancialstatements|17-30| ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## TRUSTEES' REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 The Trustees are pleased to present their annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2021. The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Articles of Association, and 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 (FRS102) (effective 1 January 2019). ## Structure, Governance and Management ## Governing document Constitution adopted 30-12-2013 Constitution updated 29 January 2016 to allow for two Co-Chairs on the Board. ## How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation The Board of Trustees: - (a) Honorary Officers, being the Chair or 2 Co-Chairs, Vice-chair, Treasurer and Secretary; and (b) Eleven Regional Trustees elected by and from the regional groupings of members, one per region (nine English and two Welsh); and - (c) Up to three persons co-opted to the Board by the Trustees. Co-opted Trustees shall have voting rights. There must at all times be a minimum of three Trustees in office. Only women who are Trustees, staff members or volunteers with organisations that are full members of the ClO may stand for election to the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees meets six times a year and is responsible for meeting the aims and objectives, ongoing viability, strategic development and legal obligations of the charity. The Board of Trustees holds overall responsibility for the charity's continued success. It is vital that its Trustees have the necessary skills and knowledge to enable them to carry out this function. All member organisations are part of geographical regions in England and Wales. Each region is invited to elect a regional representative to be a Trustee on the Board. Their role includes acting as the contact point for local Centres in their region, relaying information from the Centres to the Board and vice versa. Regional Trustees are elected on a two-year term. Honorary Officers serve for 12 months, after which they must be reelected at the next Annual General Meeting to remain in post. Trustees are individuals elected amongst the membership in accordance with the constitution. Trustees are encouraged to take part in all appropriate training opportunities, to continue to develop their skills and update their knowledge of legal requirements, funding issues and other developments. There are several sub-groups that hold delegated responsibility for aspects of the charity's work such as Human Resources and Membership related issues.The Board of Trustees confirms that it has complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission. ## Organisational Structure Rape Crisis England & Wales delivers its charitable objectives primarily through a team of paid staff. In the past year, the staff team has changed in line with the changes in funding and time-limited projects. As well as the staff team’s output, some work has been contracted to external businesses, member Rape Crisis Centres (RCCs) or individual freelance consultants. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), C. Quinn left the organisation in September 2020. After this, Lucy Graham, Operational Lead (employed since August 2020) and Katie Russell, Media Relations Co-ordinator, covered daily operational management, with the Board of Trustees overseeing the overall management and strategic development of the charity while the recruitment process for a new CEO was underway. A new CEO, Jayne Butler was recruited in February 2021 and commenced in post after the end of the financial year reported here (19 April 2021). -1- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## Organisational Structure (continued) In order to ensure the charity's work continues to be of a high quality and retains professional standards, staff performance is monitored and training and wellbeing needs are responded to and actioned. This ensures that the team as a whole is able to enhance its professional practice and respond to changes in policy, procedures and legislation. The Board of Trustees thanks all of the individuals and organisations that have helped progress the aims and objectives of Rape Crisis England & Wales this year, both regionally and nationally. ## Remuneration Policy Rape Crisis England & Wales is committed to ensuring a proper balance between (i) paying our staff and others who work for us fairly so that we attract and retain the best people for the job and (ii) careful management of our charity funds. In so doing we will ensure the greatest effectiveness in delivering our charitable objectives and meeting the needs of our beneficiaries. When determining the salary for a new post, we will collect information about comparable roles in other organisations, preferably within the voluntary sector. We will use this information to benchmark our own salaries, normally aiming to set it at a level that appears to represent the market average. We will also seek advice from colleagues within other organisations when we know they employ people in similar roles. Salary allocations will be based on the requirements of the post, the experience each member of staff brings to the role, and the funding for the post. ## Objectives and Activities for the public benefit The primary objective of the charity (as defined by its governing document) is to relieve the trauma and distress of women and girls, their families and friends, who have experienced any form of sexual violence and abuse. In particular but not exclusively, the charity achieves this objective through the support and promotion of Rape Crisis Centres and through raising awareness of the issues of sexual violence and abuse in the wider community, in the media, and with local and national Government. The charity continues to receive a high volume of visitors to its website and contacts to its main public-facing email address each year. This includes visits and emails from victims and survivors looking for support, their friends and family members, professionals seeking support for clients or information, students and academics asking for statistics and information for assignments and research, and requests to work in partnership. In the last year, RCEW handled 1,506 of these kinds of emails, including 229 that involved direct support work, and the rapecrisis.org.uk website received 523,761 visitors. The Live Chat emotional support service, which offers support for women and girls aged 16 and over, who live in England and whose lives have been affected by sexual violence or abuse at any time and launched in October 2019, entered its’ second year of service delivery, providing 4,069 chats from April 2020 - March 2021, representing a near 50% increase on the previous year. The rest of the charity’s activities for the public benefit during the year ending 31 March 2021 focused on the five strategic priority areas of: Sustainability, Growth, Quality, Knowledge and Prevention. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout this year cannot be understated and much of the charity’s work has had the additional focus of ensuring that member RCCs were provided with effective support to respond to the additional demands placed on them by lockdown restrictions, provided with dedicated spaces for effective collaboration, sharing of best practice and concerns through regular online network meetings and supported in resilience planning to ensure sustainability in a period of great uncertainty. -2- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## Achievements and Performance ## Strategic Priority 1: Sustainability Aim: Women and girls need and deserve access to stable, specialist services. So we will continue to make the case for long-term, dedicated funding with national government, local commissioners, trusts, foundations, philanthropists and others. At the same time, we will support members to explore a range of income generation opportunities. ## Activities: - ¢ Strategic advocacy work with Government and other stakeholders to support the funding and sustainability of specialist Rape Crisis services, including: Ministry of Justice; Inter-ministerial Meetings on Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG); Department of Communities & Local Government (DCLG); NHS England; Department of Heath & Social Care; Home Office; Government COVID-19 Silver Command meetings and others. - ¢ Tiered support to membership provided via regional structure - 5 regional meetings of member Rape Crisis Centres facilitated across the network during the year - ¢ 92 information and resource-packed e-bulletins produced and circulated to membership - ¢« 50 updates, amendments and improvements made to password-protected Members’ Area of RCEW website throughout year - full of useful and important resources for specialist Rape Crisis workers, volunteers and Trustees, to support sustainability, growth, quality and shared knowledge and expertise - ¢ 16th annual National RCEW Conference hosted online via the Members’ Area of RCEW website for the first time as a result of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. While this required much adaptation and flexibility to deliver on the part of the RCEW conference delivery team and external speakers, the conference itself was attended by 434 delegates (including staff, volunteers and trustees from 39 member RCCs) in total, over twice the number of the last face to face conference in 2019. Delegates fed back: “Thank you for adapting the national conference during this challenging year’, “The range of speakers and workshops was incredible this year and the fact that | can watch recordings of some that | couldn't make means it’s the conference that keeps giving.” ## Strategic Priority 2: Growth Aim: Women and girl victims and survivors of sexual violence have often waited years to be heard; their wait for support and justice should not be prolonged by lack of capacity within specialist services. So we will support our members to evidence need through improved data collection. We will also enable Centres to widen their service provision and reach to underserved women and girls e.g. through digital technologies. ## Activities: - ¢ At the start of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, we provided our online counselling rooms package to all member Centres for free. This consisted of set-up and access to the video-calling software and online booking system, with our on-going support and guidance. This enabled Centres to quickly move specialist services online, and continue to provide support to survivors during lockdown. The package was taken up by 34 Centres, with over 600 online rooms and 30 online booking systems being used. During the year, Centres using this package provided over 24,000 sessions of specialist support. We also developed our own video-calling software — Coves — and provided this free of charge to Centres to replace the third-party software we were previously using. - ¢ To support the transition to online service delivery, we worked with Centres who had previously developed expertise in this area to deliver a series of webinars. Topics included delivering counselling online, providing an email support service, online initial assessments and online groupwork. These were attended by 413 participants. Feedback: “This course was the nudge | needed to have enough confidence to move the social group | host into an online setting.” “Thank you for an informative, interactive and reflective webinar.” “[l] took away some valuable tips... I'm going to make this more part of my practise. Given the current circumstances, it was also very valuable to be able to chat with everyone at the end and see what other centres are doing.” We also produced a range of resources and blog posts, available to Centres via the Members’ Area. -3- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## Strategic Priority 2: Growth (continued) - ¢ Following sibling sexual abuse (SSA) being identified by member RCCs as an area of unmet national need, with increasing requests for support from affected children, young people and adults, it was agreed that the area of SSA requires more research and new specialist support models, training, standards and documentation. Following successful application to the Home Office and Ministry of Justice for funding, 2020-21 marked completion of year 1 of a new and ground-breaking project to support adult victims and survivors of sibling sexual abuse, and children and families affected by this abuse. The two-year project is the largest Government-funded project on sibling sexual abuse to date in the UK and delivered in partnership with Rape Crisis Member Centres Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (SARSAS), West Mercia Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (WMRSASC) and academic partners leading in the area of SSA. - ¢ A feasibility study was conducted on behalf of RCEW to assess the possibility of extending the reach of the National Live Chat emotional support service to victims and survivors under the age of 16 - « A package of support around use of the bespoke Rape Crisis Data Performance Management System (DPMS) was delivered to members throughout the year, including holding 14 DPMS training sessions with 177 attendees from 14 unique RCCs - ¢ Continued updates and support provided to RCEW membership to upload data to the bespoke Statistics, Information, Learning & Knowledge (SILK) Portal. ## Strategic Priority 3: Quality Aim: Women and girls must be confident that they will receive the same level of excellence from every Rape Crisis service. We will review and build upon the National Service Standards with a renewed focus on service delivery; continue to increase the numbers of staff and volunteers across our network who have specialist sexual violence qualifications; continue to support our membership to provide an evidence base of the impact of their work. Activities: - ¢ 3-phase review of our Rape Crisis National Service Standards (RCNSS) took place in early 2021 involving documentation review, liaison with key stakeholders from within the network and externally (including our partners in the National Service Standards, Rape Crisis Scotland) to acknowledge and identify best practice, review existing standards for consistency and quality, and make recommendations for any changes required, to be implemented in 2021-22 in order to make ready for any adaptations require for NSS verification of RCCs going forward - ¢ RCEW's specialist Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA) training course delivered to 45 learners across the network - ¢ Regular online Nations meetings - with representatives from Rape Crisis Scotland, Rape Crisis Network Ireland and Northern Ireland Rape Crisis — attended and facilitated, to foster closer partnership working and share updates, intelligence and expertise around policy and practice, skills, knowledge and resources - ¢ Staff, volunteers and trustees from member Centres have accessed our online Members’ Area which we updated with information and resources, this included sector-specific COVID-19 guidance and our Online Sexual Violence toolkit (developed with the Durham Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA)). Feedback included: “the resource [was] so insightful and helpful, thank you so much!” -4- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## Strategic Priority 4: Knowledge Aim: The experiences and voices of victims and survivors must be heard if we are to create a world in which those who have survived child sexual abuse, rape and all forms of sexual violence get the support they need when they need it. We will keep women and girls at the forefront of all RCEW says nationally and continue to promote their rights, informed by our membership’s frontline work. Activities: ¢ Our website provides information and statistics about sexual violence; challenges myths and victim-blaming; and provides access to specialist services for victims and survivors, including hosting our Live Chat Helpline, and providing signposting to local specialist services. The site was visited by 523,761 people from 1 Apr 2020 — 31 Mar 2021. Feedback from website users: - ¢ “The statistics on the prevalence of rape and reporting etc in the UK were incredibly helpful.” - e “It is such a helpful website and clearly defined - the grounding techniques are particularly good.” - ¢ “fab resources ... my clients will find them helpful too” - Our national online text-based helpline service continued to provide specialist information, support and signposting to women and girls aged 16+ who have been affected by any form of sexual violence and abuse. The service was delivered by 80 trained operators from 12 contracted member Centres. We worked with contracted Centres to develop and support best practice, including training and workshops. We delivered 4,069 chats from 1 Apr 2020 — 31 Mar 2021. Feedback from service users: - ¢ “!’m surprised at how it’s helped me in a short space of time. Just being able to explore means everything.” - ¢ “The support I've received was excellent. For the first time in my life someone told me | am not to be blamed. | feel more empowered now and|! feel | can start the healing process.” - e “In the limited time we had, the person | spoke to gave me so much. | genuinely felt heard, believed and valued. | was also able to make sense of some of my experiences in a way that | never have before.” - ¢ “! would be lost without Rape Crisis and all the support they offer, this online chat service is a life line thank you so much. The help | received today was brilliant and the insight of the operator has helped me this evening so much.” - ¢ Ongoing promotion of victims’ and survivors’ rights, needs and voices via digital and traditional media work, including: over 1,000 social media posts; 25 broadcast interviews; comments, statements, support and information provided to an average 45 media outlets and communications partners on an average 25 topics per month; 36 news items posted on the RCEW website. - ¢ Ongoing strategic advocacy and policy work to represent and promote the needs and rights of sexual violence and abuse victims and survivors to Government, policy- and decision-makers, and other partners, including submitting evidence to inquiries, contributing to research, attending and participating in multi-agency meetings, and responding to consultations. Examples during the year included: Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into investigation and prosecution of rape; Victim’s Funding Strategy consultation; Women’s Health Strategy consultation; VAWG Strategy consultation; Domestic Abuse Statutory guidance consultation; ongoing consultation with NHS England over the Enhanced Mental Health pathway; ongoing engagement with HMICFRS and HMCPSI joint inspection into rape survivor's experiences of the CJS; Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) stakeholder meetings; Government’s End-to-End Rape Review implementation group; National Rape Working Group; NHS Sexual Assault and Abuse Strategy Board and stakeholder meetings; Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA) summits and Criminal Justice System reference group meetings. -5- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## Strategic Priority 4: Growth (continued) - ¢ Ongoing contribution to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) - ¢ Ongoing participation in and support to a range of other campaigns promoting survivors' needs, rights and voices, including continued joint work with Imkaan, the Centre for Women’s Justice and End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW) to launch “The Decriminalisation of Rape: Why the justice system is failing rape survivors and what needs to change” report, and associated follow up work. ## Strategic Priority 5: Prevention Aim: There is a clear and urgent need for wider prevention work focused in particular on the perpetrators and potential perpetrators of sexual offences. We will continue to confront and challenge myths, misinformation and the tolerance of sexual violence in all we do and carry out awareness-raising work e.g campaigns and schools work. Activities: - « A new prevention forum for the network, initiated in Spring 2020, with meetings taking place throughout the year, culminating in a half-day interactive workshop in March entitled ‘What is a Rape Crisis approach to Prevention Work?’, attended by 29 Centre workers and volunteers with interest in, experience of and/or responsibility for this area of work. - ¢ Growing the bespoke suite of prevention resources available for Member Centres to download from the Members’ Area of our website including production of a briefing and accompanying toolkit to support all members to engage locally with delivery of the Government's new Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) curriculum, in schools and other education settings with children and young people, such as Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), and adaption of key learnings from Master’s level research carried out by a Prevention Training Co-ordinator within the network entitled, ‘A review of the existing approaches to primary sexual violence prevention with children and young people across Rape Crisis Centres (RCCs) in England’, as an information tool for use by all members. - ¢ Ongoing roll-out and use of the SELFIE (Sexualisation, Exploitation, Love, Friendships, Information, Empowerment) Resource Pack, for specialist sexual violence and abuse prevention work with young people, by member RCCs across the network. - ¢ Continued strategic advocacy work to promote consent and healthy relationships and prevention of sexual violence and abuse. - ¢ Messaging on consent, healthy relationships, sexual violence and abuse myth-busting and prevention via digital and traditional media work (as detailed at Knowledge above). - ¢ Ongoing contribution and support to campaigns focused on raising awareness and understanding of consent and healthy relationships, dispelling harmful victim-blaming myths, and preventing sexual violence and abuse, including Time’s Up UK, #MeToo, Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week, and in light of the Everyone’s Invited site’s recording of thousands of reports of sexual violence, abuse and assault taking place in schools and the resulting public outcry over rape culture existing in schools and universities throughout the UK. ## Future Activities Over the year 2021-22, the charity will continue to fulfil its charitable objectives through its activities for the public benefit, including: - ¢ Services to increase and develop the capacity and capability of the Rape Crisis membership, including tiered and tailored support, regular e-bulletins, and production and provision of resources. - ¢ Support to regional meetings structure and delivery of 17th National RCEW Conference. -6- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## Future Activities (continued) - ¢ Continued workforce development, supporting member Rape Crisis Centres to increase the number of staff and volunteers across the network with specialist sexual violence training and qualifications. - ¢ Ongoing support to members to evidence the need for and value of their work through improved data collection, via RCEW’s bespoke SILK (Statistics, Information, Learning & Knowledge) portal and Data Performance Management System (DPMS). - ¢ Progression of the final year of the Weaving the Web (online services) project in line with the agreed timetable and delivery of agreed project outputs and outcomes. - ¢« Ongoing strategic advocacy and engagement work at a national level, including responding to Government consultations and developing policy responses to issues relating to sexual violence. - ¢ Ongoing partnership work with other organisations, including strategic meetings with other specialist sexual violence and abuse specialist partners across the nations, and support and involvement with campaigns that promote the needs, rights and voices of survivors. - ¢ Ongoing updates to and development of the RCEW website and members’ area. - ¢ Ongoing traditional and digital media and external communications work to promote the needs, rights and voices of sexual violence and abuse victims and survivors, and to prevent sexual violence and abuse. ## Fundraising Income raised through donations in the year was £158,804 (2020: £125,385). We are very grateful for the generous donations we have received from so many long-term supporters and other members of the public. Many individuals have chosen to support Rape Crisis England & Wales and organised their own fundraiser through JustGiving, Virgin Money Giving and other accessible sites. Our general approach is to raise funds ourselves and not to use third parties. We use techniques that are ethical, legal, do not inconvenience the public, and are not detrimental to our good name or standing in the local community. We do not use general solicitation techniques by telephone or door-to-door. We have received no complaints about fundraising during the year. ## Financial Review The charity, with the aid of sound financial management and the support of both its staff and Board of Trustees, generated a positive financial outcome for the year and the net movement in funds for the year amounted to £202,065 (2020: £273,629) of which £118,642 (2020: £162,448) related to unrestricted funds, including designated. ## Principal Funding Sources The principal funding sources for the charity are currently by way of grant and contract income. In the period reported the principal sources of funds have been: Grants: - « Home Office - ¢ Ministry of Justice - COVID 19 Extraordinary funding - ¢ The Brook Trust ¢ The National Lottery Community Fund — Weaving the Web project - ¢ Lloyds Bank Foundation Individual and corporate donations via: > ¢ Monthly Giving ¢ PayPal ¢ Payroll giving - ¢ JustGiving - ¢ Charities Trust - ¢ Virgin Money Giving ¢ Direct donations -7- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## Policy on Reserves The level of income retained in reserves is based on a realistic assessment of the charity's future income needs and RCEW continues to be prudent in any expenditure. The current unpredictability of existing funding streams and the reduction in the availability of new funding streams due to the economic climate remains a risk. The Board of Trustees is satisfied that risk management steps will mitigate the identified risks to the charity. RCEW operates a robust reserves policy with the level of the reserves fund determined annually when the budget is set for the following year and the level monitored through the usual financial reporting. The Board of Trustees recognises the need to ensure adequate operational costs are held in reserve to account for contractual obligations to staff (i.e. maternity, sickness, pension and redundancy pay), risk management and any unanticipated reduction in income. In 2018-19 RCEW reviewed the Reserves Policy. The level of reserves required will be based on: - ¢ An understanding of operating activities to be maintained; - ¢ Potential risks to staffing costs such as long-term staff illness or maternity leave; ¢ Potential unanticipated need for new ICT equipment; « Possible delays in restricted funding to ongoing projects; ¢ Potential risks of funding cuts; and ¢ Potentially reduced unrestricted funding. In addition, amounts are set aside to meet the provision for an orderly winding-down of operations in the event of a significant adverse event that is outside the control of Rape Crisis England & Wales. This may include: ## ¢« Redundancy payments; - ¢ The paying off of contracts such as those for mobile phones and broadband; - ¢ The continuation of a web presence for a period of time until another organisation can take this on; - ¢ Board meetings and staff salaries and expenses to oversee the winding down; and « Any professional fees needed e.g. accountancy and legal. The level of reserves agreed by the Board of Trustees for 2020-21 is £400,000, a decrease from previous year to reflect the change in staffing levels and also the new designation of funds for ongoing service operating costs. At the year end free reserves, excluding designated funds, were £413,787 which is slightly above this level. In addition, we have chosen to designate funds of £300,000 towards the costs of 1 year of running the Live Chat service, as we now hold responsibility for this and have chosen to designate funds of £400,000 towards operational costs to implement strategic change. Constant uncertainty about future funding has ongoing significant impact on strategic short- and long-term planning and service delivery and causes multiple organisational problems including employment issues such as redundancy notices, short-term or fixed-term contracts and maintaining staff morale. The charity needs reserves to evidence sound financial management, particularly when applying for tenders, and can demonstrate reliable services or funding over the longer term. ## Risk Management The Board of Trustees recognises that the main external risk to the organisation is loss or reduction in funding, particularly in this current unstable financial climate. The charity will manage this risk by diversifying its funding sources through any new commissioning opportunities. Internal financial controls, policy and procedures are in place to ensure compliance. These procedures are periodically reviewed to ensure that they continue to meet the needs of the charity. Monitoring reports to external funders ensure a consistent quality of delivery for the operational aspects of the charity. -8- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## Going Concern During the year, COVID-19 has resulted in a pandemic affecting economies globally. The speed and severity of the impact has been unprecedented but many Governments, including within the UK, have introduced considerable measures to help businesses through this extremely challenging time. At the time of approval of these accounts, the full effect of the pandemic is uncertain, but, as noted in the accounting policy note, the trustees consider that the charity remains a going concern. ## Reference and Administrative Details The Legal and Administrative Information forms part of this report. ## Statement of the Trustees’ Responsibilities The Trustees are responsible for preparing the report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). Charity law 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 at the year end, of its incoming resources and resources expected during the year. 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 Charities SORP; - ¢ Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; - ¢ State whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed subject to any 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 business. 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 2011 and the charity’s constitution. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. ## Auditors Azets Audit Services Limited were appointed auditor to the Charity following their acquisition of the trade of Garbutt & Elliott Audit Limited on 1 December 2021. Azets Audit Services Limited have indicated their willingness to stand for reappointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting. ## Declaration > The Trustees approved the Trustees’ Report and financial statements on, 25/12/202115/12/2021 and signed on its behalf by: **----- Start of picture text -----**
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-9- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## Opinion We have audited the financial statements of Rape Crisis England & Wales (the ‘charity’) for the year ended 31 March 2021 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows and the notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). ## In our opinion, the financial statements: - give a true and fair view of the state of the charity’s affairs as at 31 March 2021 and of its income and expenditure, for the year then ended; - have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and - have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011. ## Basis for opinion We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. ## Conclusions relating to going concern In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue. Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report. ## Other information The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The Trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard. -10- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED) TO THE TRUSTEES OF RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## Matters on which we are required to report by exception We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion: - the information given in the financial statements is inconsistent in any material respect with the Trustees’ report; or - sufficient accounting records have not been kept; or - the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records; or - - we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit. ## Responsibilities of Trustees As explained more fully in the statement of Trustees' responsibilities, the Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees are responsible for assessing the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustees either intend to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so. ## Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements. Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below. A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https:// www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report. ## Extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, inclusing fraud. We identified areas of laws and regulations that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the financial statements from our general commercial and sector experience, through discussion with the trustees and other management, and from inspection of the charity's regulatory and legal correspondence. We discussed with the trustees and other management the policies and procedures regarding compliance with laws and regulations. We communicated identified laws and regulations throughout our team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance during the audit. -11- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED) TO THE TRUSTEES OF RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES The charity is subject to laws and regulations that directly affect the financial statements including financial reporting legislation (including related charities legislation), pensions legislation, taxation legislation and further laws and regulations that could indirectly affect the financial statements, comprising environmental, health and safety and employment legislation, and, in the current climate, Covid regulations. We assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement items. Auditing standards limit the required audit procedures to identify non-compliance with these laws and regulations to enquiry of the trustees and other management and inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any. These procedures did not identify any potentially material actual or suspected non-compliance. To identify risks of material misstatement due to fraud we considered the opportunities and incentives and pressures that may exist within the charity to commit fraud. Our risk assessment procedures included: enquiry of trustees and other management to understand the high level policies and procedures in place to prevent and detect fraud, reading Board minutes and considering performance targets and incentive schemes in place for management. We communicated identified fraud risks throughout our team and remained alert to any indications of fraud during the audit. As a result of these procedures we identified the greatest potential for fraud in the following areas: - income recognition and in particular the risk that income is recognised in the wrong reporting period or that restricted income is not correctly recognised as such; and - subjective accounting estimates. These fraud risks arise due to a desire to present results in a differing light to meet management objectives. As required by auditing standards we also identified and addressed the risk of management override of controls. We performed the following procedures to address the risks of fraud identified: - identifying and testing high risk journal entries through vouching the entries to supporting documentation; - assessing significant accounting estimates for bias; and - testing the recognition of income and in particular that it was appropriately recognised or deferred. Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required by auditing standards would identify it. In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of fraud, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. Our audit procedures are designed to detect material misstatement. We are not responsible for preventing noncompliance or fraud and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations. -12- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED) TO THE TRUSTEES OF RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## Use of our report This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors’ report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed. ## Azets Audit Services Limited Laura Masheder (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Azets Audit Services Limited 16/12/2021 beceeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeees ## Triune Court ## Chartered Accountants Statutory Auditor Monks Cross Drive York YO32 9GZ -13- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 |||Unrestricted|Designated|Restricted|Total|Total| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||funds|funds|funds||| |||2021|2021|2021|2021|2020| ||Notes|£|£|£|£|£| |Income from:||||||| |Grants, donations and legacies|3|172,904|75,000|754,096|1,002,000|991,841| |Investment income|4|676|-|-|676|423| |Other income|5|29,174|-|-|29,174|113,671| |Total income||202,754|75,000|754,096|1,031,850|1,105,935| |Expenditure on:||||||| |Raising funds|6|2,241|-|-|2,241|2,413| |Charitable activities|7|62,969|93,902|670,673|827,544|829,893| |Total expenditure||65,210|93,902|670,673|829,785|832,306| |Net movements in funds before||||||| |transfers||137,544|(18,902)|83,423|202,065|273,629| |Gross transfers between funds||(700,000)|700,000|-|-|-| |Net (expenditure)/income for the|year/|||||| |Net movement in funds||(562,456)|681,098|83,423|202,065|273,629| |Fund balances at 1 April 2020||976,243|118,653|417,014|1,511,910|1,238,281| |Fundbalancesat31March2021||413,787|799,751|500,437|1,713,975|1,511,910| The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. A fully detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2020 is shown at note 21. The notes on pages 17 - 30 comprise part of these financial statements. -14- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2021 |||2021||2020|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Notes|£|£|£|£| |Current assets|||||| |Debtors|12|147,777||54,946|| |Cash at bank and in hand||1,730,041||1,493,643|| |||1,877,818||1,548,589|| |Creditors: amounts falling due within|||||| |oneyear|13|(163,843)||(36,679)|| |Net current assets|||1,713,975||1,511,910| |Income funds|||||| |Restricted funds|15||500,437||417,014| |Unrestricted funds:|||||| |Designated funds|16|799,751||118,653|| |General unrestricted funds||413,787||976,243|| ||||1,213,538||1,094,896| ||||1,713,975||1,511,910| The notes on pages 17 - 30 comprise part of these financial statements. The financial statements were approved by the Trustees on 15/12/2021 ## OThomas D Thomas Co-Chair -15- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 **----- Start of picture text -----**
|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |2021|2020| |Notes|£|£|£|£| |Cash|flows|from|operating|activities| |Cash|generated|from|operations|19|235,722|247,428| |Investing|activities| |Investment|income|received|676|423| |Net|cash|generated|from|investing| |activities|676|423| |Net|cash|used|in|financing|activities|-|-| |Net|increase|in|cash|and|cash|equivalents|236,398|247,851| |Cash|and|cash|equivalents|at|beginning|of year|1,493,643|1,245,792| |Cash|and|cash|equivalents|at end|of year|1,730,041|1,493,643| **----- End of picture text -----**
-16- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 - 1 Critical accounting estimates and judgements In the application of the charity’s accounting policies, the Trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates. The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods. After consideration the trustees consider there are no estimates and assumptions that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities. - 2 Accounting policies The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows: ## Charity information Rape Crisis England & Wales is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (C.I.O), the registered office is Suite E4, Josephs Well, Hanover Walk, Leeds, LS3 1AB. Its governing document is its constitution adopted on 30th December 2013 and subsequently amended on 16th February 2016. - 2.1 Accounting convention The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the charity's constitution, the Charities Act 2011 and “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 from 1 January 2019). The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102. The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £1. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, modified to include the revaluation of certain financial instruments at fair value. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below. - 2.2 Going concern The Trustees are constantly monitoring the financial position of the charity and the ongoing uncertain situation in respect of Covid-19. The charity has no borrowings, typically secures grant funding for longer than 12 months in advance and has a low level of fixed committed costs. Income secured after the year end has remained strong. Given this, at the time of approving the financial statements, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the Trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements. - 2.3 Charitable funds Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of their charitable objectives. -17- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 2 Accounting policies ## (Continued) Restricted funds are subject to specific conditions by donors as to how they may be used. The purposes and uses of the restricted funds are set out in the notes to the financial statements. Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds which have been set aside at the discretion of the trustees for specific purposes. The purposes and uses of the designated funds are set out in the notes to the financial statements. - 2.4 Income Income is recognised when the charity is legally entitled to it after any performance conditions have been met, the amounts can be measured reliably, and it is probable that income will be received. Cash donations are recognised on receipt. Other donations are recognised once the charity has been notified of the donation, unless performance conditions require deferral of the amount. Income tax recoverable in relation to donations received under Gift Aid or deeds of covenant is recognised at the time of the donation. Legacies are recognised on receipt or otherwise if the charity has been notified of an impending distribution, the amount is known, and receipt is expected. If the amount is not known, the legacy is treated as a contingent asset. Grants, including government grants, where entitlement is not conditional on the delivery of a specific performance by the charity, are recognised in the SoFA when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant. ## 2.5 Expenditure All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under the appropriate headings. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings (support costs) they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of the resources. Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred. The costs of generating funds include costs of generating voluntary income, plus a share of support costs. The costs of generating voluntary income do not include the costs of disseminating information in support of the charitable activities. Charitable activities comprise those activities set out in detail in the Trustees’ Report. Governance costs are those costs associated with the governance arrangements of the charity which relate to the general running of the charity. This includes external audit, insurance costs, legal advice for the trustees and costs associated with the constitutional and statutory requirements such as the cost of trustee meetings and preparing the statutory accounts, plus a share of support costs. Support costs are those costs incurred in the support of the fundraising, governance and charitable activities which cannot be fully attributed. They have been attributed to activities as described in the notes to the financial statements. ## 2.6 Cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities. -18- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 2 Accounting policies ## (Continued) - 2.7 Financial instruments The charity has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments. Financial instruments are recognised in the charity's balance sheet when the charity becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument. Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously. ## Basic financial assets Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised. ## Impairment of financial assets Financial assets, other than those held at fair value through income and expenditure, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting date. Financial assets are impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the financial asset, the estimated future cash flows have been affected. If an asset is impaired, the impairment loss is the difference between the carrying amount and the present value of the estimated cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The impairment loss is recognised in net income/(expenditure) for the year. If there is a decrease in the impairment loss arising from an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the impairment is reversed. The reversal is such that the current carrying amount does not exceed what the carrying amount would have been, had the impairment not previously been recognised. The impairment reversal is recognised in net income/(expenditure) for the year. ## Derecognition of financial assets Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the charity transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party. ## Basic financial liabilities Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and bank loans are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised. Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method. Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of operations from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. -19- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 2 Accounting policies ## (Continued) ## Derecognition of financial liabilities Financial liabilities are derecognised when the charity’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled. ## 2.8 Taxation Rape Crisis England and Wales is a registered charity and as such is a charity within the meaning of schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010. Accordingly, it is potentially entitled to tax exemption under part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 in respect of income and gains arising. ## 2.9 Employee benefits The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received. 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One Trustee (2020 - Sixteen) received expenses totalling £70 (2020 - £4,926) primarily relating to travel costs that were incurred during the year under review. ## 10 Auditor's remuneration The analysis of auditor's remuneration is as follows: |The analysis of auditor's remuneration is as follows:||| |---|---|---| ||2021|2020| ||£|£| |Audit of the annual accounts|4,200|2,450| |Non-audit services||| |Allothernon-auditservices|11,898|3,820| -23- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 11 Employees ## Number of employees The average monthly number of employees during the year, on a full-time equivalent basis was as follows: |follows:||| |---|---|---| ||2021|2020| ||Number|Number| |Charitable activities|7|7| |Administration|1|1| ||8|8| |Employment costs|2021|2020| ||£|£| |Wages and salaries|238,988|300,823| |Social security costs|19,224|27,466| |Other pension costs|6,966|8,363| ||265,178|336,652| The key management personnel of the charity have been identified as the CEO, the Media Relations Coordinator and the Operational Lead (2020: the CEO, the Media Relations Co-ordinator, the Finance Officer and the Head of Operations). Their aggregate remuneration, including employer's national insurance and pension contributions, for the year was £85,316 (2020 - £123,740). The remuneration of these key management personnel is set and reviewed annually by the trustee board. The number of employees whose annual remuneration was £60,000 or more were: |||2021|2020| |---|---|---|---| |||Number|Number| ||£60,001 - £70,000|-|1| |12|Debtors||| |||2021|2020| ||Amounts falling due within one year:|£|£| ||Trade debtors|3,411|12,704| ||Accrued income|134,728|31,255| ||Prepayments|9,638|10,987| |||147,777|54,946| -24- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 13 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year ||2021|2020| |---|---|---| ||£|£| |Trade creditors|60,549|1,963| |Accruals|103,294|34,716| ||163,843|36,679| ## 14 Operating lease commitments At the reporting end date the charity had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, which fall due as follows: ||2021|2020| |---|---|---| ||£|£| |Within one year|15,261|15,261| |Between two and five years|10,174|25,435| ||25,435|40,696| -25- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 15 Restricted funds |||Movement in funds|Movement in funds|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Currentyear|Balance at 1|Income Expenditure||Balance at 31| ||April 2020|||March 2021| ||£|£|£|£| |Lloyds Bank Foundation|15,552|50,712|(41,975)|24,289| |The National Lottery Community Fund|401,257|471,449|(396,558)|476,148| |Home Office NSVS|30|59,115|(59,145)|-| |DCMS Department of Digital, Culture, Media &||||| |Sport - Tampon Tax|88|-|(88)|-| |Ministry ofJustice|-|75,117|(75,117)|-| |Home Office SVSCA|-|97,703|(97,703)|-| |UKCES|87|-|(87)|-| ||417,014|754,096|(670,673)|500,437| ## Purpose of Restricted Funds: Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to develop RCEW capacity to work with members & partners in influencing local, regional and national policy in a time of unprecedented demand for sexual violence services, gather quantitative and qualitative data to develop appropriate policy responses, act as a policy resource to members and as a representative of member centres with the Government. The National Lottery Community Fund (Previously named Big Lottery Weaving the Web Fund) - Funded by the Big Lottery Women and Girl's Initiative Strategic Fund over a 5-year period, the Weaving the Web project intends to develop a platform from which a range of easily accessible specialist online services will be provided which complement and enhance Rape Crisis existing services. It plans to reduce waiting times for support, give greater choice about how and when to access support, and increase the range of support options available. Home Office NSVS - Grant to develop the ability of Rape Crisis member organisations to offer support by providing them with practical resources and one to one guidance, directly supporting victims and survivors of sexual violence through online, email and telephone helpline support, collating data to inform government policy and engaging with partners and external organisations. UKCES - Grant to ensure that in the future the majority of victims of rape and sexual violence have access to high-quality rape crisis services. The project objectives are for Rape Crisis Centres (RCCs) to work collaboratively to shape workforce development and improve the skills of the current and future workforce, take wider responsibility for skills development across the sexual violence sector, raise awareness and generate funding and investment, drive enterprise, jobs and growth within the sexual Violence (SV) sector, To ensure that the costs of rape and sexual violence, to both society and the economy, are more broadly recognised and better understood. That there is greater recognition of the specific needs of victims,for the specialist nature of rape crisis services, and the skills and knowledge required by staff working in RCCs. Home Office (Support for Victims and Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Fund) - Grant to undertake a 2-year national project on Sibling Sexual Abuse (SSA) with the aims of enabling RCEW members and other service providers to better meet the needs of SSA victim-survivors in developing specialist service provision to meet demand and support victims-survivors of recent and historic SSA to recover, heal and rebuild their lives. -26- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 15 Restricted funds ## (Continued) DCMS Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport - Tampon Tax - Grant to administer a Digital Transformation grant programme for member centres in England to help them enhance digital capacity to support survivors, reach marginalised women and girls, work with communities to address online grooming and exploitation and to prevent sexual violence. Ministry of Justice COVID-19 Fund: Grant to support capacity of Rape Crisis member organisations in the continuing response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic through practical resources and skill sharing including roll out of online training to support delivery of online services to survivors and provision of online counselling rooms; delivery of health and wellbeing webinar series for Rape Crisis Centre workers and volunteers and cascading of regional specialist online training focusing on specific issues that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic around the Criminal Justice System. |||Movement in funds|Movement in funds|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Prior year|Balance at 1|Income Expenditure||Balance at 31| ||April 2019|||March 2020| ||£|£|£|£| |Lloyds Bank Foundation|13,370|48,212|(46,030)|15,552| |Big Lottery Weaving the Web|292,503|480,927|(372,173)|401,257| |Home Office|-|51,363|(51,333)|30| |DCMS Department of Digital, Culture, Media &||||| |Sport - Tampon Tax|-|211,952|(211,864)|88| |UKCES|-|87|-|87| ||305,873|792,541|(681,400)|417,014| -27- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 16 Designated funds The income funds of the charity include the following designated funds which have been set aside out of unrestricted funds by the Trustees for specific purposes: |||Movement in funds|Movement in funds||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Currentyear|Balance at 1|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|Balance at 31| ||April 2020||||March 2021| ||£|£|£|£|£| |The Brook Trust|118,653|75,000|(93,902)|-|99,751| |Live Chat|-|-|-|300,000|300,000| |Strategic Change|-|-|-|400,000|400,000| ||118,653|75,000|(93,902)|700,000|799,751| ## Purpose of Designated Funds: The Brook Trust - Anticipated costs in respect of RCEW commissioned work - to be spent in the year to March 2022. Live Chat - A fund to cover one year of Live Chat operating costs Strategic Change - A fund for operational costs to implement strategic change in RCEW |||Movement in funds|Movement in funds||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Prior year|Balance at 1|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|Balance at 31| ||April 2019||||March 2020| ||£|£|£|£|£| |The Brook Trust|124,188|75,000|(80,535)|-|118,653| ||124,188|75,000|(80,535)|-|118,653| ## 17 Related party transactions Seventeed (2020: thirteen) individual Rape Crisis regional centres are related parties of Rape Crisis England & Wales due to common Trusteeships. During the year, the charity made payments totalling £212,291 (2020: £132,257) to these centres towards the provision of support and information and received income of £23,561 (2020: £40,294) in respect of conference recharges. As at the year end, an amount of £69 (2020: £4,886) was due to the charity from ten of these regional centres (2020: four regional centres) and an amount of £22,797 (2020: £1,971) was due to a further fourteen of these regional centres (2020: two regional centres). - 28- ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 |18|Analysis of net assets between funds||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Unrestricted|Designated|Restricted|Total| |||funds|funds|funds|| |||£|£|£|£| ||Fund balances as at 31 March 2021:||||| ||Net CurrentAssets|413,787|799,751|500,437|1,713,975| |||413,787|799,751|500,437|1,713,975| |||Unrestricted|Designated|Restricted|Total| |||funds|funds|funds|| |||£|£|£|£| ||Fund balances as at 31 March 2020:||||| ||Net CurrentAssets|976,243|118,653|417,014|1,511,910| |||976,243|118,653|417,014|1,511,910| |19|Cash generated from operations|||2021|2020| |||||£|£| ||Surplus for the year|||202,065|273,629| ||Adjustments for:||||| ||Investment income recognised in statement of financial activities|||(676)|(423)| ||Movements in working capital:||||| ||(Increase) in debtors|||(92,831)|(8,040)| ||Increase/(decrease) in creditors|||127,164|(17,738)| ||Cash generated from operations|||235,722|247,428| |20|Analysis of changes in net funds||||| ||||At||At| ||||1 April 2020|Cash flows|31 March 2021| ||||£|£|£| ||Cash at bank and in hand||1,493,643|236,398|1,730,041| ||||1,493,643|236,398|1,730,041| The charity had no debt during the current or previous year. -29 - ## RAPE CRISIS ENGLAND & WALES ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 ## 21 Comparative Statement of Financial Activities ||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total| |---|---|---|---|---| ||funds|funds|funds|2020| ||general|designated||| ||£|£|£|£| |Income and endowments from:||||| |Grants, donations and legacies|125,297|75,000|791,544|991,841| |Investment income|423|-|-|423| |Other income|112,674|-|997|113,671| |Total income|238,394|75,000|792,541|1,105,935| |Expenditure on:||||| |Raising funds|2,413|-|-|2,413| |Charitable activities|67,958|80,535|681,400|829,893| |Total expenditure|70,371|80,535|681,400|832,306| |Net movement in funds|168,023|(5,535)|111,141|273,629| |Fund balances at 1 April 2019|808,220|124,188|305,873|1,238,281| |Fundbalancesat31March2020|976,243|118,653|417,014|1,511,910| -30-