## **Lindap ( Registered Charity 1156638)** **Reports and accounts for the year to 31st December 2023** ## **Charity objectives and activities** Lindap‘s objective is to help people with disabilities by providing devices or equipment designed and made especially for them where nothing suitable is provided by the NHS, social services or commercial sources. We operate throughout the modern county of Lincolnshire except for the extreme South around Spalding and Stamford Our work is carried out entirely by volunteers, mostly retired engineers and craft people operating from their homes with some but not all having workshops. They design and make whatever will suit each individual’s needs best. Much of it helps make the normal activities of daily life possible or less difficult or less painful while some help clients maintain or take up hobbies and leisure activities. As well as being functional the equipment is designed as far as possible to look good in client’s homes. All the equipment is provided free of charge. Much of the work is requested by and done in conjunction with occupational therapists and other professionals in the NHS and social services who add their expertise in disability to ours in practical problem-solving. We also accept requests for help directly from the public. ## **Achievements and performance.** In 2023 thankfully we returned to our normal activities as COVID-19 diminished in importance. We completed 73 projects, 8 carried forward from 2022 and 8 carried forward to 2024. ## **Membership** This year one member left after many years of service and one new member joined injecting much needed youth into Lindap. ## **Plans for the future.** ‘ s We still believe there is substantial unmet demand for Lindap help and our intention is to supply a more comprehensive service throughout the county. We are limited by the small number of active volunteers. Unfortunately these are not spread homogeneously over the county and we particularly need further support in the south and east. We have a process for presentations to facilitate recruitment. This will not be a quick process as each individual needs training and mentoring. This year we continued an active publicity programme with presentations to interested groups ## **Governance** The trustees who served throughout 2023 are all active or past volunteers for Lindap and most of the active volunteers are trustees. For a small organisation this is felt to provide the most simple and democratic structure. Most operational matters are decided in regular meetings of the volunteers which are chaired by a trustee and have been authorised to take all decisions covered by the operations manual. We are a non-discriminatory organisation and take referrals from anyone in the county driven purely by need. Lindap’s constitution follows the Charity Commission’s foundation model for CIOs and was adopted on the 21st March 2014. The trustees have observed the Commission’s public benefit guidance in exercising their powers and duties acting in accordance with the charity’s objective. ## **Finances** Lindap depends entirely on donations to find its work. The main costs are for materials for the projects, travel expenses and insurance. The accounts attached show a deficit of £1098 . Our expenses have increased with inflation, especially the cost of materials and travel. We have allowed this to happen given the health of our reserves but we will now increase our fundraising. Our reserves policy is to have sufficient funds in hand to cover one year’s expenditure. At the end of the year our total funds carried forward are adequate for this current year. Signed on behalf of the trustees H Goldstein Chairman **Charity Name No (if any) Lindap 1156638 Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from 1/1/2023 12/31/2023** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**933**
Gift Aid
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**933**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 933**
**A3 Payments**
Costs of charitable work done
**2,031**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 2,031**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 2,031**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 1,098**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**3,994**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 2,896**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**933**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**933**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**933**
**2,031**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,031**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,031**
**- 1,098**
**-**
**3,994**
**2,896**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**933**|**3,487**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**933**|**3,487**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**933**|**3,487**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,031**|**1,678**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**2,031**|**1,678**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**2,031**|**1,678**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
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**-**
**-**|**- 1,098**|**1,809**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**3,994**|**2,185**| ||**-**||**2,896**|**3,994**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Cash at NatWest Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
Bill Ball
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,896**
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**-**
**-**
**2,896**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
W F Ball
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**Unrestricted**
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**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| ||Bill Ball|W F Ball|7.6.24| |||||