2023-03-31-accounts - Home-Start Birmingham-North West

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period

From: 1[st] April 2022 To: 31[st] March 2023 Charity name: Home-Start Birmingham-North West

Charity registration number: 1157767

Company number: 08858885

Objectives and activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	1. To safeguard, protect and preserve the good health, both mental and physical, of children and parents of children 2. To prevent cruelty to or maltreatment of children 3. To relieve sickness, poverty and need amongst children and parents 4. To promote the education of the public in better standards of child care within the area of North West Birmingham
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	1. Training volunteers who then offer one to one home visiting, support and friendship on a regular basis 2. Through group workers, offer Support Groups to parents so that they can get out, meet others with similar problems and become more involved in their own communities 3. Give support to Statutory bodies with regard to families in crisis including child protection issues
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	The trustees consider that they have fulfilled their duties in this area and have had regard for the guidance issued by the Charity Commission

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

SORP reference n/a Para 1.38 Policy on grant making

Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38	n/a
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	We would like to thank all the volunteers who have contributed many hours of their time to support our work. They are key to delivering our core activities of supporting families with a volunteer home visitor.
Other
Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	We have been able to continue, this year, with successful delivery of all established services. In December our group worker, Sarah Moore, moved on to pastures new. Her role was filled by volunteer Alison Yau, who had been an amazing support to Sarah and the families in our play and learn groups. It was a natural progression for Alison to step up and meant that consistency remained for the families that accessed these services. All staff were trained in First Words Together, an early language support program that is run by the National Literacy Trust. This program is being delivered as a group but also as 1-1 in family’s homes. We have welcomed newly trained volunteers this year, as well as having the continued support of our active volunteers. The support they offer makes a huge difference. The staff team remain dedicated to the work that they do and provide the best support they can to all the families we have open to us. Our families are supported by 1-1 home visits but also via our groups.

Financial review

Financial review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	This year has shown an in-year deficit of - £52,237 compared with last year’s £10,876 deficit. This is due to a gap in new income at the end of the financial year which was addressed in the following year. . Our unrestricted reserves sat at £29,243 at year end which was of concern – this was closely monitored as we entered the new financial year and new fundraising sources were put in place. Our future fundraising strategy will develop the resilience of our income by: 1. Continuing to plan on a full cost recovery basis 2. Make use of smaller grants and different project models to diversify our income 3. Identify future risk points where large grants come to an end, and proactively plan for this.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	The trustees have designated £45,000 as a reserve to cover the costs of closing down the Scheme, in the event of the Charity’s termination. We aim to carry between 3 and 6 months running costs at any one time, which based on this year’s expenditure would be between £43,527 and £87,054.
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£29,423 in unrestricted funds.
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	n/a
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	n/a
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23	Based on these accounts and following independent examination, the trustees are confident that the charity is a going concern due to identified funds and cashflow forecast for the year ahead.

Structure, governance and management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document: for example,trust deed, memorandum and articles of association etc	Para 1.25	Memorandum and articles of association
How is the charity constituted?	Para 1.25	The charity is constituted as a company limited by guarantee.

for example limited company, unincorporated association, CIO
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	New Trustees are elected by the board. We actively seek to recruit trustees who will fulfil identified skills and experience gaps within the board.

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:	Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:	Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51	The charity is affiliated to its federated parent body of Home-Start UK. The charity pays an annual levy to the parent body, and benefits from guidance, template policies and procedures and a national profile. The charity further works in a consortium with the other Home-Start schemes based in Birmingham. This consortium aids joint working, and is the vehicle for joint delivery of the city-wide Birmingham Forward Steps contract.
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51	No related party transactions took place within the reporting period.
Other

Reference and administrative details

Charity name	Home-Start Birmingham-North West
Other name the charity uses
Registered charitynumber	1157767
Charity’s principal address	Kingstanding Wellbeing Centre, Dulwich Road, Birmingham, B440EW

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Jacqueline Redding	Chair	Majority of exiting trustees
Andrew David Hopkins	Treasurer CompanySecretary	Majority of exiting trustees
Carolyne Davies	Trustee	Majorityof exitingtrustees

6 8	Andrea Mary Vaughan	Vice Chair		Majority of exiting trustees
	Paul Early	Trustee	Resigned on 10 September 2022	Majority of exiting trustees

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional information)

Sarah Fisher – Scheme Manager

Declarations

The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors

behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors	behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors	behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors
Signature(s) Full name(s)Jacqueline Redding Andrew Hopkins ample r, etc) Chair Treasurer Date 30/01/2024
	Chair	Treasurer
	30/01/2024

Position (for example Secretary, Chair, etc)

Charity No 1157767 Company No 08858885

Home-Start Birmingham-North West

Period end 01-Apr-22 To date 31-Mar-23

Period start date

Annual accounts for the period

Section A Statement of financial activities (including summary income and expenditure account)

Unrestricted funds Restricted income funds Endowment funds £ £ £	Unrestricted funds Restricted income funds Endowment funds £ £ £	Unrestricted funds Restricted income funds Endowment funds £ £ £	Total funds Prior year funds £ £	Total funds Prior year funds £ £
40,730	36,059	-	76,789	92,322
45,021	-	-	45,021	45,244
		-	-	-
60	-	-	60	5
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-
85,811	36,059	-	121,870	137,571

4,000	-	-	4,000	2,500
116,302	52,087	-	168,390	142,645

1,717	-	-	1,717	3,302
122,020	52,087	-	174,107	148,447

36,208 -	16,028 -	-	52,237 -	10,875 -
-	-	-	-	-
36,208 -	16,028 -	-	52,237 -	10,875 -
-	-	-	-	-
36,208 -	16,028 -	-	52,237 -	10,875 -
-	-	-	-
		-	-	-

-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-
36,208 -	16,028 -	-	52,237 -	10,876 -

65,451	29,252	-	94,703	105,579
29,243	13,224	-	42,466	94,703

Home-Start Birmingham-North West Charity No 1157767 Company No 08858885

Section B Balance sheet

Unrestricted funds £	Restricted income funds Total this year £ £	Restricted income funds Total this year £ £	Total last year £
1,473		1,473	3,190
1,473	-	1,473	3,190

10,000	-	10,000	-
18,478	13,224	31,702	91,580
28,478	13,224	41,702	91,580

709	-	709	67

27,770	13,224	40,993	91,513

29,242	13,224	42,466	94,703

-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-

29,242	13,224	42,466	94,703

	13,224	13,224	29,252
29,243		29,243	65,451
29,243	13,224	42,466	94,703

The company was entitled to exemption from audit under s477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to small companies subject to the small companies regime and in accordance with FRS102 SORP.

ture of director authenticating accounts being sent to Companies House Signed by one or two trustees/directors on behalf of all the trustees/directors	Print Name	Date of approval dd/mm/yyyy

	Andrew David Hopkins	30/12/2023

	Signature	Date dd/mm/yyyy
		30/12/2023
	Andrew David Hopkins	Print name

Signature of director authenticating accounts being sent to Companies House

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Section C Notes to the accounts

Note 1 Basis of preparation

1.1 Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with:

• the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014

• the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)

and with the Charities Act 2011.

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102.*

1.2 Going concern

There are no material uncertainties related to events or conditions that cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

1.3 Change of accounting policy

The accounts present a true and fair view and no changes have been made to the accounting policies adopted in note 2.

1.4 Changes to accounting estimates

No changes to accounting estimates have occurred in the reporting period (3.46 FRS102 SORP).

1.5 Material prior year errors

No material prior year error have been identified in the reporting period (3.47 FRS102 SORP).

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont) Note 2 Accounting policies 2.1 INCOME Recognition of income These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when: • the charity becomes entitled to the resources; • it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources; • the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability. There has been no offsetting of assets and liabilities, or income and expenses, unless Offsetting required or permitted by the FRS 102 SORP or FRS 102. Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the general income Grants and donations recognition criteria are met (5.10 to 5.12 FRS102 SORP). In the case of performance related grants, income must only be recognised to the extent that the charity has provided the specified goods or services as entitlement to the grant only occurs when the performance related conditions are met (5.16 FRS 102 SORP). Contractual income and This is only included in the SoFA once the charity has provided the related goods or performance related services or met the performance related conditions. grants Support costs The charity has incurred expenditure on support costs. The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts but is Volunteer help described in the trustees’ annual report. Income from interest, This is included in the accounts when receipt is probable and the amount receivable royalties and dividends can be measured reliably. 2.2 EXPENDITURE AND LIABILITIES

Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or Liability recognition constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty. Governance and support Support costs have been allocated between governance costs and other support. costs Governance costs comprise all costs involving public accountability of the charity and its compliance with regulation and good practice. Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, eg allocating property costs by floor areas, or per capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage. The charity made redundancy payments during the reporting period. They have been Redundancy cost included as an item of salary expenditure and detailed in Note 7.3 Deferred income No material item of deferred income has been included in the accounts. The charity has creditors which are measured at settlement amounts less any trade Creditors discounts 2.3 ASSETS Tangible fixed assets for These are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year, and cost at least use by charity £100 They are valued at cost. The depreciation rates and methods used are disclosed in note 8. Debtors (including trade debtors and loans receivable) are measured on initial recognition at settlement amount after any trade discounts or amount advanced by the Debtors charity. Subsequently, they are measured at the cash or other consideration expected to be received.

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)

Note 3 Income

Note 3	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
Charitable activities: Income from investments: TOTAL INCOME Donations and legacies:	Unrestricted funds Restricted income funds Total funds Prior year £ £ Analysis of income
	Donations and gifts	10,733	-	10,733	4,016
	General grants provided by government/other charities	29,997	36,059	66,056	88,306
	Total	40,730	36,059	76,789	92,322

	BFS Contractual Income	44,811	-	44,811	44,811
	Other income	210		210	433
	Total	45,021	-	45,021	45,244

	Interest income	60	-	60	5
	Total	60	-	60	5

		85,811	36,059	121,870	137,571

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Section C Notes to the accounts

Note 5 Support Costs

	This year	This year	This year
Support cost	Unrestricted	Restricted	Grand total
	£	£	£
Repairs & renewals	-	-	-
Telephone & Broadband	1,445	15	1,460
Offices expenses			-
Postage			-
Stationery and printing	621		621
Publicity	1,523	14	1,537
Independent Examination	200		200
IT costs	1,206	-	1,206
Professional fees	2,208	4,675	6,883
Bank charges			-
DBS Costs	93		93
Other	2	-	2
Total	7,298	4,704	12,002

Last Year

Last Year
Support cost	Unretricted	Restricted	Grand total
	£	£	£
Repairs & renewals	-	-	-
Telephone & Broadband	850	605	1,455
Offices expenses	- 60	82	22

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Postage	20	12	32
Stationery and printing	390	66	456
Publicity	180	-	180
Independent Examination	-		-
IT costs	3,286	-	3,286
Professional fees	932	6,376	7,308
Bank charges	45		45
DBS Costs	290	105	395
Other	500	-	500
Total	6,433	7,246	13,679

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Section C Notes to the accounts

Note 6 Fees for examination of the accounts

This year Last year £ £ 200 -

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)

Note 7 Paid employees

7.1 Staff Costs

ee 2022) 22 Total staff costs	This year £	Last year £
	126,510	77,639
	4,676	19,705
	2,446	3,874
	133,632	101,218

Salaries and wages (gross 2023, net to employee 2022) Employer NI 2023, Total Payments to HMRC 2022 Pension costs (defined contribution scheme)

This year:

No employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) for the reporting period of more than £60,000

Pension expenses were allocated against the same funds as the corresponding salaries.

personnel (includes their services to the	Thisyear	Lastyear
	£	£
	35,079	29,555

	This year Number	Last year Number
Fundraising	-	-
Charitable Activities	4	4
Governance	-	-
Other	-	-
Total	4	4

Total amount paid to key management personnel (includes trustees and senior management) for their services to the charity.

7.2 Average head count in the year

The parts of the charity in which the employees work

7.3 Redundancy payments

Total amount of payment

Thisyear	Lastyear
£	£
-	-

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)

Note 8 Tangible fixed assets


Freehold land & buildings £	Other land & buildings £	Plant, machinery and motor vehicles £	Fixtures, fittings and equipment £	Total £
-	-	-	30,568	30,568
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	- 24,076	- 24,076
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	6,492	6,492
impairments
SL or RB (Straight Line or Reducing Balance)			SL
			n/a

-	-	-	27,378	27,378
-	-	-	- 24,076	- 24,076
-	-	-	1,717	1,717
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	5,019	5,019

-	-	-	3,190	3,190
-	-	-	1,473	1,473

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Section C Notes to the accounts	This year Last year £ £ - - 10,000.0 - - - 10,000.0 - (cont)	This year Last year £ £ - - 10,000.0 - - - 10,000.0 - (cont)
Note 9 Debtors and prepayments Total Trade debtors Prepayments and accrued income Other debtors
	This year £	Last year £
	-	-
	10,000.0	-
	-	-
	10,000.0	-

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)

Note 10 Creditors and accruals

Amounts falling due within one year	Amounts falling due within one year	Amounts falling due after more than one year	Amounts falling due after more than one year
This year £	Last year £	This year £	Last year £
509	67	-	-
200	-	-	-
709	67	-	-

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)

Note 11 Charity funds

11.1 Details of material funds held and movements during the CURRENT reporting period

* Key: PE - permanent endowment funds; EE - expendable endowment funds; R - restricted income funds, including special trusts, of the charity; and U - unrestricted funds

*funds*
Fund names	Type PE, EE R or UR *	Purpose and Restrictions	Fund balances brought forward £	Income £	Expenditure £	Transfers £	Gains and losses £	Fund balances carried forward £
Awards for All Covid	U	Core support due to Covid		9,997.00	-9997			-
BCC EmergencyFood Fund	R			3,200.00	-3,200.00			-
CAF	R	Home-Start HealthyMinds Project	479					479
Children In Need	R	Staffing andvolunteerexpenses	18,432	32,784	-33,313			17,903
Children in NeedBooster	R	Covid specific supports	1317 0					1,317
Children in NeedMoneyHeroes	R	Specific CIN Project						-
Consortium PR fund	R			75	-34			41
HarryPayn	R	General,nonsalry costs	-					-
Heart of England: Doing Things Differently	R	Home-Start Healthy Minds Project	4,769		-3,226			1,543
HolidayKitchen					-324			-324
Home-StartCaringFor Families	R	Home-StartCaringFor Families						-
Home-Start Healthy Starts	R	Home-Start Healthy Starts	485		- 2,141			- 1,656
HSUKCovid	U	Lonelinessproject	29					29
Kingstanding Groupfund	R	Supporting residents of Kingstanding to access groups. Individual funders Heart of England Comm. Foundation (£2000), Baren Davenport (£1000) and Joseph Hopkins (£1000)	3,272		-37			3,235
Nationwide	R	Fundsfor ITand commsforstaff	-					-
ThomasBrowich Family grants	R	Funds received from Thomas Bromwich onbehalfof families	-		- 231			- 231
PostcodeLottery	R	Grant	-					-
**Other funds (balancing figure) **	N/a	N/a	65,920	75,814	- 121,604			20,130
Total Funds as per balance sheet			94,703	121,870	- 174,107	-	-	42,466

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)

Note 11 Charity funds

11.2 Details of material funds held and movements during the PREVIOUS reporting period

* Key: PE - permanent endowment funds; EE - expendable endowment funds; R - restricted income funds, including special trusts, of the charity; and U - unrestricted funds

*funds*
Fund names	Type PE, EE R or UR *	Purpose and Restrictions	Fund balances brought forward £	Income £	Expenditure £	Transfers £	Gains and losses £	Fund balances carried forward £
Awards for All Covid	U	Core support due to Covid		9996	-9996			-
CAF	R	Home-Start HealthyMinds Project	719		-240			479
Children In Need	R	Staffing andvolunteerexpenses	14,909	32,284	- 28,761	-	-	18,432
Children in NeedBooster	R	Covid specific supports	1976 0		-659			1,317
Children in NeedMoneyHeroes	R	Specific CIN Project		1,000	- 1,000			-
HarryPayn	R	General,nonsalry costs	1,000			- 1,000	-	-
Heart of England: Doing Things Differently	R	Home-Start Healthy Minds Project	16,925		- 12,156			4,769
Home-Start CaringFor Families	R	Home-Start CaringFor Families		3,996	- 120	-3,876		-
Home-StartHealthy Starts	R	Home-StartHealthy Starts		12,488	- 12,003			485
HSUKCovid	U	Lonelinessproject	272		- 240	-3		29
Kingstanding Groupfund	R	Supporting residents of Kingstanding to access groups. Individual funders Heart of England Comm. Foundation (£2000), Baren Davenport (£1000) and Joseph Hopkins (£1000)	3,470		- 198	-	-	3,272
Nationwide	R	Fundsfor ITand commsforstaff	604		-604	-	-	-
ThomasBrowich Family grants	R	Funds received from Thomas Bromwich onbehalfof families	961		-961	-	-	-
PostcodeLottery	R	Grant	-	19,962	- 19,962	-	-	-
*figure)*	N/a	N/a	64,743	57,845	- 61,547	4,879	-	65,920
Total Funds as per balance sheet			105,579	137,571	- 148,447	-	-	94,703

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)

Note 11 Charity funds (cont)

Thisyear 11.3 Designated funds	Thisyear 11.3 Designated funds	Thisyear 11.3 Designated funds
Planned use	Purpose of the designation	Amount
Reserves	3 months operating costs	45,000
Lastyear
Planned use	Purpose of the designation	Amount
Reserves	3 months operating costs	45,000

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Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)

Note 12 Transactions with trustees and related parties

12.1 Trustee remuneration and benefits

This year

None of the trustees have been paid any remuneration or received any other benefits from an employment with their charity or a related entity

Last year

None of the trustees have been paid any remuneration or received any other benefits from an employment with their charity or a related entity

12.2 Trustees' expenses

No trustee expenses have been incurred

12.3 Transaction(s) with related parties

This year

There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period

Last year

There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on thé accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the tru¥tees Home Start Bimingham North West On accounts for thg year ended 311 March 2023 Charlty no (if any) 1157787 Sot out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('the Trusf) for the year ended 31 March 2023. Responsibllltles and basis of rnport As the charitys trustees, yw are respsible lor the preparation of the accwnts In accordan with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {h8 Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Aci and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Diffjctions given by the Charity Commission urKler se10n 145{5)Ib) of the ACL Independent I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have examln•rfs statement come to my attention in connection with the examination %thich gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in 8ccordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records" or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conmIng the fomi and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2(A)8 other than any requirement that the a¢Unts give a 'tNe and fairf view vthich is not a matter considered as part of an indepandent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connedion Yth the examination to which attenti¢Jn should be drawn in this report in order to enable a prop8r understsnding of the accounts to b8 re8thed. Signed: rh February 2024 Name: Sandra Wse Relevant professional qualification($) or body (If any): 8A (Hons) Accountsncy Member of CIPFA Address: 124 Beaumont Road Boumville, Birningham B30 2DX IER Oct 2018