**REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 09196281 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1159355**
## **Report of the Trustees and**
## **Unaudited Financial Statements**
**for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
**for**
## **TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
Mitchell Gordon LLP 43 Coniscliffe Road Darlington Co. Durham DL3 7EH
**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Contents of the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
|||**Page**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Report of the Trustees**|1|to|3|
|**Independent Examiner's Report**||4||
|**Statement of Financial Activities**||5||
|**Balance Sheet**||6||
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|7|to|11|
|**Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**||12||
**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2020. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
Together Middlesbrough and Cleveland exists to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of Christian-based charities in the furtherance of their objects, and the relief of hardship, through the provision of information, advice and support. Its geographical area of operation consists of the two unitary authorities of Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. Most of the practical work of Together Middlesbrough and Cleveland is achieved through the activity of its officers, continuing in general the pattern of the previous years, collaborating with civic and statutory authorities, other charities and the voluntary sector. The website https://togethermc.org.uk includes further information and regularly updated newsletters.
## **STRATEGIC REPORT**
## **Achievement and performance**
## **Charitable activities**
The restrictions on public activity aimed at reducing the spread of coronavirus had a significant effect on the charity's operation in 2020.
Face-to-face Feast of Fun activity was replaced by a large increase in the provision of holiday hunger support, with more than six times the 2019 number of items delivered. They comprised some 87,000 meals delivered to 8,600 children and 2,809 adults in vulnerable families, as well as thousands of activity packs and craft online.
Similarly, Food and Friendship, as well as Warm Welcome, were modified and replaced by a telephone befriending service, supporting hundreds of lonely and isolated people in the 50+ age range.
Positive Pathways homelessness support was also replaced by a telephone service.
There was a delivery of 'training the trainers' on Cash COVID Recovery to support organisations in signposting people struggling with their finances during and as a result of the pandemic.
## **Financial review**
## **Financial position**
The new Chief Officer was appointed early in 2020.
Changes in the funding structure of the Church Urban Fund meant that the payment of core support to its Joint Ventures including this charity was discontinued in the first quarter of 2020. Since some of the bodies funding activities undertaken by the charity will only pay for direct costs and will not include a management element, meeting the charity's core expenses remain a priority for the board.
## **Investment powers and policy**
The Trustees continue to hold the financial assets of the charity as readily available cash.
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**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **STRATEGIC REPORT Financial review**
## **Reserves policy**
The Trustees have reviewed the charity's needs for reserves in line with the guidance issued by the Charity Commission and have agreed that financial reserves (the 'Emergency Operating Reserve') should be held.
It has no endowment funding and is entirely dependent on income from year to year, including a significant element of voluntary donations, which is inevitably subject to fluctuation. Much of the charity's work is project-funded through Restricted income, and wherever possible a proportion is agreed to support the central management function.
Together Middlesbrough and Cleveland requires protection against, and ability to continue operating in case of, damaging events or unforeseen circumstances which are outside the normal budgeting process. The core funding from the Church Urban Fund has continued, albeit the money available from that source has been held at a lower level than when the charity was incorporated. That is taken into account in monitoring and managing the long-term pattern of the charity's reserves.
Part of the charity's ongoing financial strategy is to grow a group of Champions in the wider area, who undertake to be committed to encouraging donations. Significant donations by individuals and church groups in particular have resulted.
The target level for EOR has been set at three months' operating costs, a sum of approximately £25,000.
## **Future plans**
Work was undertaken through 2020 in conjunction with the Church Urban Fund (CUF) looking to a modification of the charity's governance structure by which a majority (five) of the trustees were appointed by CUF, and four by York Diocesan Board of Finance. This was in line with a policy decision by CUF applying to all its Joint Ventures. New Articles, by which there continue to be up to nine trustees, with CUF and the Diocesan Board of Finance appointing one each, were adopted on 27 January 2021.
The first half of 2021 continues to see a coronavirus-restricted pattern of activity, with hopes of a return to a more normal range of activities as the year progresses.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a company limited by guarantee as defined by the Companies Act 2006. It was formed on 30 August 2014 to continue activities of a similar nature previously managed by the Church Urban Fund in conjunction with a local committee, and commenced operations on 8 May 2015.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
Appointment to the Board of Trustees is by appointment of the Members, the Trustees taking up their places on dates specified in each case. The Board of Trustees consists of a full complement of nine persons, of whom five are appointed by the Church Urban Fund and four by York Diocesan Board of Finance Ltd. The policy of the Members is to ensure firstly that the Trustees collectively possess appropriate skills and experience for the efficient operation of the charity, with an aspiration that ecumenical collaboration and diversity can also be a distinctive feature of its governance.
## **Organisational structure**
The chair is the Right Reverend Paul Ferguson. For the period of this report, each officer was line managed by a Trustee or by another officer who in turn reported to a Trustee.
During this period the Treasurer function was carried out by Mrs Catherine Evens (non-Trustee) from the period 1st January 2020 to 30th June 2020 and Mr John Hinman (Trustee) thereafter.
## **Induction and training of new trustees**
Induction of new trustees is provided through discussion with the chair, existing Trustees and officers of the charity, and through contact with the national structures of CUF.
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**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Risk management and financial regulations**
The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. There is a finance sub-group of the board and external financial services are obtained. Disbursements are made by electronic transfer only, and require double authorization. Officers' expenses are scrutinised monthly by a person other than the first signatory. One officer was a person connected with a Trustee, who withdrew from any discussion directly or indirectly pertaining to the employment terms, conditions, remuneration or benefit of that officer.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Company number**
09196281 (England and Wales)
## **Registered Charity number**
1159355
## **Registered office**
21 Thornton Road Stainton Middlesbrough Cleveland TS8 9DS
## **Trustees**
Rt. Rev. P J Ferguson Mr J N Hinman Mr J R Miles (resigned 14/4/20) Ms K J Morris (resigned 13/4/21) Rev A Gaunt Priest Rev S R Sutton Minister of Religion Rev L J E Goodhew (appointed 30/3/20) Mr P Watson
## **Independent Examiner**
Mr Lee Harris FCCA Mitchell Gordon LLP 43 Coniscliffe Road Darlington Co. Durham DL3 7EH
Report of the trustees, incorporating a strategic report, approved by order of the board of trustees, as the company directors, on 13 May 2021 and signed on the board's behalf by:
Rt. Rev. P J Ferguson - Trustee
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Together Middlesbrough And Cleveland**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Together Middlesbrough And Cleveland ('the Company')**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2020.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
Since your charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a listed body. I can confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a registered member of FCCA which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Mr Lee Harris FCCA Mitchell Gordon LLP 43 Coniscliffe Road Darlington Co. Durham DL3 7EH
13 May 2021
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## **TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
|Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
Donations and legacies
2
29,904
Other income
501
**Total**
30,405
**EXPENDITURE ON**
**Charitable activities**
3
Other charitable activity costs
30,931
Programme costs
-
**Total**
30,931
**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**
(526)
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
**Total funds brought forward**
54,662
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
54,136|Restricted
fund
£
312,459
-
312,459
233,757
17,011
250,768
61,691
68,937
130,628|31/12/20
31/12/19
Total
Total
funds
funds
£
£
342,363
213,854
501
280
342,864
214,134
264,688
96,538
17,011
102,827
281,699
199,365
61,165
14,769
123,599
108,830
184,764
123,599|
|---|---|---|
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **31 December 2020**
|Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
8
98
Cash at bank
54,038
54,136
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
9
-
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
54,136
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**
54,136
**NET ASSETS**
54,136
**FUNDS**
10
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**|Restricted
fund
£
-
130,628
130,628
-
130,628
130,628
130,628|31/12/20
Total
funds
£
98
184,666
184,764
-
184,764
184,764
184,764
54,136
130,628
184,764|31/12/19
Total
funds
£
98
125,428
125,526
(1,927)
123,599
123,599
123,599
54,662
68,937
123,599|
|---|---|---|---|
The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 December 2020.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for
- (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
- (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 13 May 2021 and were signed on its behalf by:
Rt. Rev. P J Ferguson - Trustee
The notes form part of these financial statements
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**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## **Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits**
The charitable company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the charitable company's pension scheme are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.
## **2. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES**
|Donations
Grants
Project management fees|31/12/20
£
16,517
312,886
12,960
342,363|31/12/19
£
20,939
183,533
9,382
213,854|
|---|---|---|
continued...
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**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **2. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES - continued**
Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:
|Church urban fund
Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind
Middlesbrough Council
Lottery
Redcar Council
Power to Change
**CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS**
Other charitable activity costs
Programme costs
**SUPPORT COSTS**
Other charitable activity costs|Direct
Costs
£
263,542
17,011
280,553|31/12/20
31/12/19
£
£
30,734
109,485
95,294
60,258
56,383
13,790
44,320
-
39,030
-
47,125
-
312,886
183,533
Support
costs (see
note 4)
Totals
£
£
1,146
264,688
-
17,011
1,146
281,699
Governance
costs
£
1,146|
|---|---|---|
## **3. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS**
## **4. SUPPORT COSTS**
## **5. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 December 2020 nor for the year ended 31 December 2019.
## **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 December 2020 nor for the year ended 31 December 2019.
## **6. STAFF COSTS**
|**STAFF COSTS**||
|---|---|
|Wages and salaries
Other pension costs|31/12/20
31/12/19
£
£
65,634
68,235
5,480
7,724|
||71,114
75,959|
|The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:
Development worker|31/12/20
31/12/19
4
3|
continued...
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## **TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
**Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
|**7.**|**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**|**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||fund|fund|funds|
|||£|£|£|
||**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**||||
||Donations and legacies|44,101|169,753|213,854|
||Other income|280|-|280|
||**Total**|44,381|169,753|214,134|
||**EXPENDITURE ON**||||
||**Charitable activities**||||
||Other charitable activity costs|48,943|47,595|96,538|
||Programme costs|62|102,765|102,827|
||**Total**|49,005|150,360|199,365|
||**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**|(4,624)|19,393|14,769|
||**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**||||
||**Total funds brought forward**|59,286|49,544|108,830|
||**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|54,662|68,937|123,599|
|**8.**|**DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**||||
||Trade debtors||31/12/20
£
98|31/12/19
£
98|
|**9.**|**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**||||
||Trade creditors||31/12/20
£
-|31/12/19
£
385|
||Other creditors||-|782|
||Accrued expenses||-|760|
||||-|1,927|
continued...
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**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **10. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
|**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**Restricted funds**
Feast of Fun Middlesbrough
Feast of Fun Redcar and Cleveland
Positive Pathways
Warm Welcome
Food and Friendship
JFF CCC
Lottery DCMS
Power to Change
**TOTAL FUND**
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**Restricted funds**
Feast of Fun Middlesbrough
Feast of Fun Redcar and Cleveland
Positive Pathways
Warm Welcome
Food and Friendship
JFF CCC
Lottery DCMS
Power to Change
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**Comparatives for movement in funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**Restricted funds**
Restricted
**TOTAL FUNDS**
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**Restricted funds**
Restricted|At
1/1/20
£
54,662
6,821
1,146
19,348
13,157
28,465
-
-
123,599
Incomin
resource
£
30,403
55,957
39,031
23,942
28,996
66,298
6,792
44,320
47,125
342,864
At 1/1/1
£
59,286
49,544
108,830
Incomin
resource
£
44,381
169,753|Net Movement
in funds
£
(527)
(4,213)
13,209
(18,836)
8,670
(9,261)
1,479
32,805
37,838
61,164
Resources
expended
£
30,930
60,167
25,823
42,778
20,326
75,560
5,313
11,515
9,287
281,699
Net movement
in funds
£
(4,624)
19,393
14,769
Resources
expended
£
49005
150,360|At 31/12/20
£
54,135
2,608
14,355
512
21,827
19,204
1,479
32,805
37,838
184,763
Movement in
funds
£
(527)
(4,210)
13,207
(18,836)
8,670
(9,262)
1,479
32,805
37,838
61,164
t 31/12/19
£
54,662
68,937
123,599
Movement in
funds
£
(4,624)
19,393|
|---|---|---|---|
continued...
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**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
**TOTAL FUNDS** 214,134 199,365 14,769
## **11. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 December 2020.
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**TOGETHER MIDDLESBROUGH AND CLEVELAND**
## **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 December 2020**
||31/12/20|31/12/19|
|---|---|---|
||£|£|
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**|||
|**Donations and legacies**|||
|Donations|16,517|20,939|
|Grants|312,886|183,533|
|Project management fees|12,960|9,382|
|**Other income**|342,363|213,854|
|Other income|501|280|
|**Total incoming resources**|342,864|214,134|
|**EXPENDITURE**|||
|**Charitable activities**|||
|Wages|65,634|68,235|
|Pensions|5,480|7,724|
|Administrative support|798|200|
|Insurance|990|990|
|Travelling|237|1,448|
|Telephone|297|396|
|Postage, stationery, design and artwork|318|677|
|Room hire and associated costs|2,692|3,788|
|Sundries|1,538|1,864|
|Programme costs|185,558|102,827|
|Project management costs|17,011|9,382|
|**Support costs**|280,553|197,531|
|**Governance costs**|||
|Accountancy and legal fees|1,146|1,404|
|Other governance costs|-|430|
||1,146|1,834|
|Total resources expended|281,699|199,365|
|**Net income**|61,165|14,769|
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