## RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited
(A company limited by guarantee)
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 Company registration number: 08356730 Charity registration number: 1155423
HSJ Audit Limited Statutory Auditors Severn House Hazell Drive Newport South Wales NP10 8FY
## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Contents**
|Strategic Report|1|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|2 to 5|
|Independent Auditors' Report|6 to 8|
|Statement of Financial Activities|9 to 10|
|Balance Sheet|11|
|Statement of Cash Flows|12|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|13 to 23|
## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
The trustees, who are directors for the purposes of company law, present their strategic report for the year ended 31 March 2024, in compliance with s414C of the Companies Act 2006.
## **Financial review**
## _**Policy on reserves**_
To minimise risks to the organisation the trustees have established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed and held by the charity should be 6 months running costs. As of 31st March 2024 the unrestricted current net assets were £685,559 (2023: £618,398). Much of the organisations income is grant funding and the charity recognises the need to build reserves should this be reduced, in order to continue services until alternative sources of income are secured.
## _**Principal funding sources**_
The main source of funding the organisation receives is Supported People Revenue Grant from the Welsh Assembly Government, which funds our support to women and children accessing refuge and community services. The organisation also receives grant funding from RCTCBC Social Services towards the SAFE project and children and young people's support services. Other sources of funding also include Big Lottery, Fframwaith and the Moondance Foundation.
## _**Investment policy and objectives**_
Under the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the charity has the authority to invest funds as determined by the trustees.
## 08/07/24
The strategic report was approved by the trustees of the charity on .................... and signed on its behalf by:
......................................... Mr Philip Bevan Chairman and Trustee
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Trustees' Report**
The trustees, who are directors for the purposes of company law, present the annual report together with the financial statements and auditors' report of the charitable company for the year ended 31 March 2024.
## **Objectives and activities Objects and aims**
The Charity's main objectives are to relieve the distress and suffering of all forms of Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence; to relieve any woman, man or child in necessitous circumstances, by the provision of temporary crisis accommodation, services and facilities, to preserve and protect the health of women, men and children in necessitous circumstances and to educate the public in the area of domestic violence and abuse.
In furtherance of this objective RCT Domestic Abuse Services offers a range of services to women, men and their children. To ensure access and support are always available we offer a 24 hour service which includes drop in support during traditional working hours and a telephone service (and staff response where appropriate) outside office hours, enabling beneficiaries to access support, advice and where required, access to our other services.
We manage 4 supported housing projects, which offer emergency safe accommodation to women and their children (refuge). These are staffed by a team of support workers. We also offer a range of Drop In, Outreach and Life Skills Programmes to women, men and children in the community through the SAFE Project and support via The Safer Rhondda Centre, Cynon Safety Centre and Pontypridd Oasis Centre.
The community based centres offer continuation support to women leaving refuge or for women and men in need of support who remain at home. The services are accessed by self- referral or through referrals made by other agencies. Through our Children and Young People RISE project we offer support to children and young people living in refuge and living in the communities of RCT and also provide specialist prevention and early intervention programmes in the community and also in schools and colleges.
We regularly facilitate domestic abuse awareness programmes, confidence building and assertiveness along with a range of life skill programmes that promote the development of independent living skills. Our volunteer befriending programme enables us to extend our activities by complimenting the work undertaken by paid staff. This also enables volunteers to gain training and experience and subsequently develop careers within the Supported Housing and Social Care sectors. We also deliver the IRIS project to provide domestic abuse awareness training to GP’s and other health care professionals across the Cwm Taf Region in partnership with Safer Merthyr Tydfil. Since introducing the Cynon Safety Centre and delivery of services at the Oasis Centre, Pontypridd in partnership with RCTCBC IDVA service, we can ensure local services are easily accessible for local people across RCT. We have successfully introduced a second move on from refuge residential property to compliment the existing supported housing projects and provide a wider range of static accommodation for beneficiaries.
During this financial year we have introduced an Elder People’s Support Service through funding of £70,000 from the Masonic Charitable Trust. The funding has enabled us to recruit a full time Older People’s Engagement Officer and is a fixed term project for 3 years. The aim of the project is to provide tailored support services to meet the needs of older people affected by domestic abuse aged 60+.
The organisation has also recruited a full time male support worker to enable male victims of domestic abuse to have the option of being supported by a male officer as many male victims have advised during consultation events that they would feel more comfortable receiving support from a male support worker. This has led to an increase in the number of male referrals and successful outcomes for male victims of domestic abuse. We have not received any additional funding for this project but income generated through our move on properties contributes towards the salary for this officer.
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Trustees' Report**
We have received a further 12 months funding through the Moondance Foundation of £25,000 to continue the role of the Volunteer and Student Coordinator. This role enables us to provide social work student placements along with the Mentoring and Befriending Programme which enables volunteers to provide a befriending service to low level individuals affected by domestic abuse.
We review our aims, objectives and activities each year. This review looks at what we achieved and the outcomes of our work in the previous twelve months. The review looks at the success of each key activity and the benefits of raising awareness of domestic violence through the provision of information and training. The review also helps us ensure our aims, objectives and activities remained focused on our stated objectives.
We have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities thus ensuring that it continues in its purpose to provide information and support to women, men and children who are affected by domestic violence and abuse.
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.
RCT Domestic Abuse Services (RCT DAS) is a company limited by guarantee governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 1st April 2013. RCT DAS is a charity registered with the charity commission. In the event of the organisation winding up its members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1.00. Page 2 RCT Domestic Abuse Services Trustees' Report Recruitment and appointment of trustees As set out in the Memorandum and Articles of association at the Annual General Meeting one third of the members of the board of Trustee's will retire from office, those to retire every year should be those who have been longest in office since their last election.
The board of Trustee's has the power to co-opt additional members onto the board, who must retire at the next AGM but may stand for re-election. When considering co-opting Trustee's the board has regard to the requirement for any specialist skills and knowledge needed in relation to this area of work such as Finance, HR, Legal and an understanding of domestic abuse and supported housing. The Trustee Board regularly undertakes skills audits to identify areas of strength, gaps in knowledge and training needs. This enables us to actively recruit Trustees with the skills to fill the gaps.
After a period of not being in receipt of services, service users are encouraged to volunteer with the organisation, which is extended to acting as Trustees. This is to ensure the service users we support are adequately represented on the Trustee Board and can use their experience to assist the charity. Induction and training of trustees New Trustees undergo an orientation to brief them on their legal obligations, the content of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the functioning of the Trustee Board and decision making processes, the business plan, the functioning and structure of the services, and recent financial performance.
During induction they will meet key employees and other Trustees. Trustees are encouraged to participate in internal and external training events which will further their skills and knowledge in undertaking their role as Trustee. Organisational structure RCT DAS has a Board of Trustees who meet monthly and are responsible for the strategic direction of the organisation and setting policy. The responsibility for the day to day management of the organisation is delegated to the Chief Executive Officer and Senior Management Team.
The CEO is responsible for ensuring the charity delivers the services specified, the day to day running of the multiple projects managed by the organisation, supervision and development of staff and ensuring work undertaken is in line with good practice.. A tier of middle management was introduced following the merger to support and assist the Senior Management team in the management of the organisation. Four Coordinators were appointed to manage individual areas of service delivery and finance.
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Trustees' Report**
## **Trustees and officers**
The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
|Trustees:|Mrs Margaret Abraham|
|---|---|
||Mr Philip Bevan|
||Ms Holly Joyce|
||Miss Sophie Pincott|
||Ms Elin Prys Garrett|
||Mrs Kay Lewis|
|**Reference and Administrative**|**Details**|
|Charity Registration Number:|1155423|
|Company Registration Number:|08356730|
||The charity is incorporated in Wales.|
|Registered Office:|Women’s Aid RCT, Compton House|
||First Floor Offices|
||4 & 5 Victoria Square|
||Aberdare|
||CF44 7NT|
|Auditor:|HSJ Audit Limited|
||Statutory Auditors|
||Severn House|
||Hazell Drive|
||Newport|
||South Wales|
||NP10 8FY|
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Trustees' Report**
## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities**
The trustees (who are also the directors of RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and 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 charitable company will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charitable company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Disclosure of information to auditor**
Each trustee has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a trustee in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charity's auditor is aware of that information. The trustees confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditor is unaware.
## 08/07/24
The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on .................... and signed on its behalf by:
......................................... Mr Philip Bevan Chairman and Trustee
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Opinion**
We have audited the financial statements of RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited (the 'charity') for the year ended 31 March 2024, which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising Charities SORP - FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and applicable law (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 2024 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including 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 Companies Act 2006.
## **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 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 the provisions available for small entities, in the circumstances set out in note to the financial statements, 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 original financial statements were 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.
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Other information**
The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, 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 audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. 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.
## **Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006**
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
- the information given in the Strategic Report and Trustees' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
- the Strategic Report and Trustees' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
## **Responsibilities of trustees**
As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities (set out on page 5), 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 liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
## **Matters on which we are required to report by exception**
In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the charity and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report and the Trustees' Report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- certain disclosures of trustees remuneration specified by law are not made; or
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **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.
The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
We corroborated our enquiries of management by review of correspondence with HMRC and The Charity Commission and other regulatory bodies.
We considered the risk of fraud through management override and, in response, we incorporated testing of manual journal entries into our audit approach.
Based on the results of our risk assessment we designed our audit procedures to identify and address material misstatements in relation to fraud.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
## **Use of our report**
This report is made solely to the charitable company's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. 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 auditor’s 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 charitable company and its trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
......................................
Andrew Hill (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of HSJ Audit Limited, Statutory Auditor
Severn House Hazell Drive Newport South Wales NP10 8FY
12/07/2024 Date:.............................
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (Including Income and Expenditure Account and Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses)**
|**Note**
**Income and Endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
3
Charitable activities
4
Investment income
5
Other income
6
Total income
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
7
Total expenditure
Net income
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
17|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
11,550
556,806
15,781
2,870
587,007
(487,280)
(487,280)
99,727
(44,013)
55,714
1,012,064
1,067,778|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
1,005,121
-
-
1,005,121
(998,160)
(998,160)
6,961
44,013
50,974
89,624
140,598|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
11,550
1,561,927
15,781
2,870|
|---|---|---|---|
||||1,592,128|
||||(1,485,440)|
||||(1,485,440)|
||||106,688
-|
||||106,688
1,101,688|
||||1,208,376|
The notes on pages 13 to 23 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 9
## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 (Including Income and Expenditure Account and Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses)**
|**Note**
**Income and Endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
3
Charitable activities
4
Investment income
5
Other income
6
Total income
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
7
Total expenditure
Net income
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
17|**Unrestricted**
**£**
6,144
513,447
6,991
1,400
527,982
(514,491)
(514,491)
13,491
18,529
32,020
980,044
1,012,064|**Restricted**
**£**
-
972,526
-
-
972,526
(882,902)
(882,902)
89,624
(18,529)
71,095
18,529
89,624|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
6,144
1,485,973
6,991
1,400|
|---|---|---|---|
||||1,500,508|
||||(1,397,393)|
||||(1,397,393)|
||||103,115
-|
||||103,115
998,573|
||||1,101,688|
All of the charity's activities derive from continuing operations during the above two periods. The funds breakdown for 2023 is shown in note 17.
The notes on pages 13 to 23 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 10
## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **(Registration number: 08356730) Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2024**
|||**2024**|**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**Note**|**£**|**£**|
|**Fixed assets**||||
|Tangible assets|11|292,219|303,666|
|**Current assets**||||
|Debtors|12|88,981|72,139|
|Cash at bank and in hand|13|871,002|766,820|
|||959,983|838,959|
|**Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**|14|(43,826)|(40,937)|
|**Net current assets**||916,157|798,022|
|**Net assets**||1,208,376|1,101,688|
|**Funds of the charity:**||||
|**Restricted**||140,598|89,624|
|**Unrestricted income funds**||||
|Unrestricted||1,067,778|1,012,064|
|**Total funds**|17|1,208,376|1,101,688|
The financial statements on pages 9 to 23 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 07/08/2024 .................... and signed on their behalf by:
......................................... Mr Philip Bevan Chairman and Trustee
The notes on pages 13 to 23 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 11
## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Statement of Cash Flows for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
|**Note**
**Cash flows from operating activities**
Net cash income
**Adjustments to cash flows from non-cash items**
Depreciation
Investment income
5
**Working capital adjustments**
(Increase)/decrease in debtors
12
Increase in creditors
14
Net cash flows from operating activities
**Cash flows from investing activities**
Interest receivable and similar income
5
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
11
Net cash flows from investing activities
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 April
Cash and cash equivalents at 31 March|**2024**
**£**
106,688
21,690
(15,781)
112,597
(16,842)
2,889
98,644
15,781
(10,243)
5,538
104,182
766,820
871,002|**2023**
**£**
103,115
24,955
(6,991)|
|---|---|---|
|||121,079
12,234
9,837|
|||143,150|
|||6,991
(27,945)|
|||(20,954)|
|||122,196
644,624|
|||766,820|
All of the cash flows are derived from continuing operations during the above two periods.
The notes on pages 13 to 23 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 12
## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **1 Charity status**
The charity is limited by guarantee, incorporated in Wales, and consequently does not have share capital. Each of the trustees is liable to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 towards the assets of the charity in the event of liquidation.
The address of its registered office is: Women’s Aid RCT, Compton House First Floor Offices 4 & 5 Victoria Square Aberdare CF44 7NT
Authorised for issue date
## **2 Accounting policies**
## **Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates**
The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.
## **Statement of compliance**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with 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)) (issued in October 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.
## **Basis of preparation**
RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy notes.
## **Going concern**
The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern nor any significant areas of uncertainty that affect the carrying value of assets held by the charity.
## **Income and endowments**
All income is recognised once the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of the income receivable can be measured reliably.
## _**Donations and legacies**_
Donations are recognised when the charity has been notified in writing of both the amount and settlement date. In the event that a donation is subject to conditions that require a level of performance by the charity before the charity is entitled to the funds, the income is deferred and not recognised until either those conditions are fully met, or the fulfilment of those conditions is wholly within the control of the charity and it is probable that these conditions will be fulfilled in the reporting period.
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## _**Investment income**_
Dividends are recognised once the dividend has been declared and notification has been received of the dividend due.
## **Expenditure**
All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably. All costs are allocated to the applicable expenditure heading that aggregate similar costs to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of resources, with central staff costs allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges allocated on the portion of the asset’s use. Other support costs are allocated based on the spread of staff costs.
## _**Charitable activities**_
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.
## **Support costs**
Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, for example, allocating property costs by floor areas, or per capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage.
## **Taxation**
The charity is considered to pass the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable company for UK corporation tax purposes. Accordingly, the charity is potentially exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively to charitable purposes.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Individual fixed assets costing £1,000.00 or more are initially recorded at cost.
## **Depreciation and amortisation**
Depreciation is provided on tangible fixed assets so as to write off the cost or valuation, less any estimated residual value, over their expected useful economic life as follows:
|**Asset class**|**Depreciation method and rate**|
|---|---|
|Fittings & equipment|25% on cost|
|Motor vehicles|25% reducing balance|
|Freehold property|2% on cost|
## **Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **Fund structure**
Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds set aside for specific purposes at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted income funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.
## **Pensions and other post retirement obligations**
The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme which is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the charity has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.
Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.
## **3 Income from donations and legacies**
|Donations and legacies;
Donations from individuals|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
11,550
11,550|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
11,550
11,550|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
6,144|
|---|---|---|---|
||||6,144|
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **4 Income from charitable activities**
|Rental income
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Fframwaith
Iris
Big Lottery
Masonic Charitable Trust
Moondance Foundation
Welsh Women's Aid|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
556,806
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
556,806|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
777,154
28,994
55,784
120,302
22,887
-
-
1,005,121|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
556,806
777,154
28,994
55,784
120,302
22,887
-
-
1,561,927|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
478,100
773,558
25,900
59,042
121,130
-
25,000
3,243|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||1,485,973|
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **5 Investment income**
|Interest receivable and similar income;
Interest receivable on bank deposits
**6**
**Other income**
Fees and supplies|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
15,781
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
2,870|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
15,781
**Total**
**2024**
**£**
2,870|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
6,991|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**Total**
**2023**
**£**
1,400|
## **7 Expenditure on charitable activities**
|**Note**
Prevention of
Domestic Abuse
Child Work
Refuge
Staff costs
Allocated support
costs|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
104,245
-
186,508
196,064
463
487,280|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
110,694
25,388
73,600
783,275
5,203
998,160|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
214,939
25,388
260,108
979,339
5,666
1,485,440|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
215,116
8,578
256,479
911,831
5,389|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||1,397,393|
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **8 Net incoming/outgoing resources**
Net incoming resources for the year include:
|Operating leases - other assets
Audit fees
Depreciation of fixed assets|**2024**
**£**
20,561
4,662
21,691|**2023**
**£**
30,589
4,662
24,955|
|---|---|---|
## **9 Trustees remuneration and expenses**
No trustees, nor any persons connected with them, have received any remuneration from the charity during the year.
No trustees have received any reimbursed expenses or any other benefits from the charity during the year.
## **10 Staff costs**
The aggregate payroll costs were as follows:
|**Staff costs during the year were:**
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs|**2024**
**£**
880,777
75,055
23,507
979,339|**2023**
**£**
830,610
69,051
12,170|
|---|---|---|
|||911,831|
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
The monthly average number of persons (including senior management / leadership team) employed by the charity during the year expressed as full time equivalents was as follows:
|Direct support
Management and administrative|**2024**
**No**
35
4
39|**2023**
**No**
33
3|
|---|---|---|
|||36|
No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000 during the year.
The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the charity were £122,076 (2023 - £153,840).
## **11 Tangible fixed assets**
|**Cost**
At 1 April 2023
Additions
At 31 March 2024
**Depreciation**
At 1 April 2023
Charge for the year
At 31 March 2024
**Net book value**
At 31 March 2024
At 31 March 2023
**12 Debtors**
Prepayments
Other debtors
**13 Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash at bank|**Land and**
**buildings**
**£**
291,300
-
291,300
20,591
5,826
26,417
264,883
270,709|**Furniture and**
**equipment**
**£**
66,232
10,243
76,475
45,942
11,864
57,806
18,669
20,290|**Furniture and**
**equipment**
**£**
66,232
10,243
76,475
45,942
11,864
57,806
18,669
20,290|**Motor vehicles**
**£**
17,148
-
17,148
4,481
4,000
8,481
8,667
12,667
**2024**
**£**
15,044
73,937
88,981
**2024**
**£**
871,002|**Motor vehicles**
**£**
17,148
-
17,148
4,481
4,000
8,481
8,667
12,667
**2024**
**£**
15,044
73,937
88,981
**2024**
**£**
871,002|**Total**
**£**
374,680
10,243
384,923
71,014
21,690
92,704
292,219
303,666
**2023**
**£**
8,307
63,832|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||76,475||17,148|||
|||45,942
11,864||4,481
4,000|||
|||57,806||8,481|||
|||18,669||8,667|||
|||20,290||12,667|||
|||||**2024**
**£**
15,044
73,937
88,981
**2024**
**£**
871,002|||
|||||||72,139|
|||||||**2023**
**£**
766,820|
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **14 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
|**14 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|||
|---|---|---|
|Other taxation and social security
Other creditors
Accruals|**2024**
**£**
17,321
16,750
9,755
43,826|**2023**
**£**
16,422
15,236
9,279|
|||40,937|
## **15 Obligations under leases and hire purchase contracts**
## **Operating lease commitments**
Total future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:
|**Land and buildings**
Within one year
Between one and five years
After five years
**Other**
Within one year
Between one and five years
After five years|**2024**
**£**
21,600
64,800
59,400
145,800
9,339
28,015
16,396
53,750|**2023**
**£**
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
|||-|
|||9,339
28,015
25,735|
|||63,089|
## **16 Pension and other schemes**
## **Defined contribution pension scheme**
The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The pension cost charge for the year represents contributions payable by the charity to the scheme and amounted to £23,507 (2023 - £12,170).
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **17 Funds**
|**Unrestricted funds**
**_General_**
General Funds
**_Designated_**
Recruitment & Staffing
Capital & Equipment
**Total unrestricted funds**
**Restricted funds**
Big Lottery
Masonic Charitable Trust
Fframwaith
IRIS
RCT Floating & Refuge
Support
RCTCBC Capital Fund
Safe
Safer Rhondda
**Total funds**|**Balance at 1**
**April 2023**
**£**
922,064
75,000
15,000
90,000
1,012,064
41,129
-
-
18,050
-
-
20,887
9,558
89,624
1,101,688|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
587,007
-
-
-
587,007
120,302
22,887
28,994
55,784
636,489
8,587
132,078
-
1,005,121
1,592,128|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(487,280)
-
-
-
(487,280)
(80,824)
(22,887)
(28,994)
(23,401)
(675,941)
-
(166,113)
-
(998,160)
(1,485,440)|**Transfers**
**£**
(44,013)
-
-
-
(44,013)
-
-
-
-
39,452
(8,587)
13,148
-
44,013
-|**Balance at**
**31 March**
**2024**
**£**
977,778
75,000
15,000|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||90,000|
||||||1,067,778|
||||||80,607
-
-
50,433
-
-
-
9,558|
||||||140,598|
||||||1,208,376|
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
|**Unrestricted**
**_General_**
General Funds
**_Designated_**
Recruitment & Staffing
Capital & Equipment
**Total unrestricted**
**Restricted**
Big Lottery
Fframwaith
IRIS
RCT Floating & Refuge
Support
Safe
Safer Rhondda
Welsh Government Capital
Grant
**Total funds**|**Balance at 1**
**April 2022**
**£**
890,044
75,000
15,000
90,000
980,044
-
-
-
-
-
-
18,529
18,529
998,573|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
527,982
-
-
-
527,982
100,243
25,900
59,042
639,314
127,140
20,887
-
972,526
1,500,508|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(514,491)
-
-
-
(514,491)
(59,114)
(25,900)
(40,992)
(639,314)
(117,582)
-
-
(882,902)
(1,397,393)|**Transfers**
**£**
18,529
-
-
-
18,529
-
-
-
-
-
-
(18,529)
(18,529)
-|**Balance at**
**31 March**
**2023**
**£**
922,064
75,000
15,000|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||90,000|
||||||1,012,064|
||||||41,129
-
18,050
-
9,558
20,887
-|
||||||89,624|
||||||1,101,688|
The specific purposes for which the funds are to be applied are as follows:
The RCT Floating Support & Refuge Support Funding relates to a grant given by Rhondda Cynon Taff Council for ongoing service costs.
The Fframwaith fund was received as a contribution towards the Outreach Children's Support worker and the STAR Project.
The Safe Project is funding received to support Young People within the wider RCT area.
The Big Lottery Grant was provided for the provision of a Volunteer co-ordinator.
The Trustees have elected to designate a total of £90,000 in relation to recruitment and capital commitments which had been made as at the year end but for which funding had not yet been obtained. Should this not be forthcoming the commitments will be met from unrestricted reserves.
The transfer of £8,587 from the RCTBC Capital restricted fund to general unrestricted funds represents fixed assets acquired for the charities general purposes in accordance with paragraph 2.26 of Charities SORP FRS 102.
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## **RCT Domestic Abuse Services Limited**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024**
## **18 Analysis of net assets between funds**
|Tangible fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets
Tangible fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets|**Unrestricted funds**
**General**
**£**
**Designated**
**£**
292,219
-
729,385
90,000
(43,826)
-
977,778
90,000
**Unrestricted funds**
**General**
**£**
**Designated**
**£**
303,666
-
659,335
90,000
(40,937)
-
922,064
90,000|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
140,598
-
140,598
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
89,624
-
89,624|**Total funds at**
**31 March**
**2024**
**£**
292,219
959,983
(43,826)|
|---|---|---|---|
||||1,208,376|
||||**Total funds at**
**31 March**
**2023**
**£**
303,666
838,959
(40,937)|
||||1,101,688|
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