2022-12-31-accounts

the gunnerco foundatio Trustees, Report January- December 2022

Contents

• 4 Meet the team

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• Introduction

• 8 Chairman’s Message

• 14 Report of the Board of Trustees

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Objectives, Policies and Organisation

Review of Developments, Activities, 20 and Achievements

• 26 Business For Good Programme

• 28 Case Studies and Care Box Campaign

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• Wrap Up London 2022

• 40 Future Plans

• 42 Financial and Risk Management

• 46 Report of the Independent Examiner

48 Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet and Notes to Accounts

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Meet The Team

Darryl Cooke Sarah Goulbourne Laura Fisher Chair Trustee Trustee

Laura Jones Sarah Lynch Project Director Project Director

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Introducing the gunnercooke foundation

the gunnercooke foundation (“foundation”) is a charity established to facilitate the charitable ambitions of gunnercooke LLP, a challenger law firm and one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, which was founded in 2010.

The firm challenges both the way that legal services are delivered to its clients and the way that lawyers balance their work and life.

Central to this ethos is the commitment to giving back to society and supporting its lawyers in engaging with charities and not for profits as volunteers and mentors.

From the outset, gunnercooke LLP, have been clear that the foundation should operate in a way that encourages the involvement of all gunnercooke LLP professionals and employees, with the aim of helping small but ambitious charities become the larger charities of tomorrow or to “do good, faster,” and “to create a better world than we found.”

The firm, gunnercooke LLP, provides financial and administrative support for the running costs of the foundation, and this allows for the many different projects to be funded in a secure and resilient way.

do good, faster, and create a better world than we found.

In addition, gunnercooke LLP staff and employees give freely of their time and talents to the foundation initiatives, enabling the projects to thrive.

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Chairman’s Message

Gunner cooke LLP is a purpose driven company. It is a phrase that is becoming increasingly bandied around but what does it mean?

Well, the starting point is that we believe that there is too much injustice in the World, too much inequality, a rich – poor divide and too much damage being done to our environment. We want to use our business as a solution and not as a part of the problem. That is the reason for our Foundation. We also want, where we can, to help others to become purpose driven companies through our networks, our collaborations, and our supply chains.

We are a long way off perfect but that is our aim, and we will try our very best. gunner cooke will work on what John Elkington referred to as a triple bottom line and not just profit as a traditional firm does – but people planet and profit and they are all equally important. There is a new desire in the World for business to be done better, better for its people, better for its communities, better for the World. We are on the edge of a movement that will redefine business and its people.

Our Foundation is central to our bottom line. Through our Foundation, our people, our clients, and our suppliers, we believe that we are in a unique position to make a difference. Great organisations like the CO-OP make their profit and then distribute it wisely through another arm.

We are on the edge of a movement that will redefine business and its people.

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Chairman’s Message continued...

Our model is to fully integrate our Foundation into our business and to engage our people in the work that we do. As a result, they will become more loving, more fulfilled, and joyful in their lives. It is a totally holistic model.

This year has seen us continue the great work with our inspire* charities and enhancing the effectiveness of their leaders. Much of that work can be seen in this report and I don’t wish to repeat it, but I do want to highlight some of the more innovative things that we have done this year and will be doing over the coming year and years.

• The ‘Business For Good’ Programme pilot was launched in June of this year and helped four of our beneficiary organisations to set up a “For Profit” business to fund their amazing not-for-profit work. The “For Profit” businesses were all synergistic to their core Not-For-Profit work and are providing a steady stream of sustainable income for them.

These businesses have also helped our beneficiaries to keep their organisations stable and consistent in the help they can offer their beneficiaries regardless of economic headwinds and external challenges. The “Business For Good” Programme will run again in June of 2023 and help more of our beneficiary organisations to set up “For Profit” businesses.

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Chairman’s Message continued...

• ‘The Loneliness Project’ will use profits from our bookshop, called ‘The House of Books and Friends’, set up as a separate community interest company, to bring a community solution to the growing challenge of loneliness and social isolation which was already a major societal issue pre-pandemic, and which has increased dramatically during and since the pandemic.

Our first bookshop was launched in Manchester at the end of this year and the profits from the bookshop will be used to fund Foundation charities that are responding to these issues. We intend to launch other bookshops along the same lines, and all will donate their profits back into the work of our Foundation charities.

I am excited about the journey ahead. I am thrilled with the work and leadership of our foundation, and I look forward to engaging as many of our great people as possible in our projects and in the support of our foundation members and their beneficiaries.

Finally, the work that inspire* and the Foundation does is now growing and with some 80 charities involved it is important that we work together to become a voice and a force for good and we will be working on ways that we can seek to influence others, both business and our politicians, and to become thought leaders as we seek to further support our charities and thereby improve our communities and our planet.

Our model is to fully integrate our Foundation into our business and to engage our people in the work that we do.

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Report of the Board of Trustees

The Board presents its report for the gunner cooke foundation for the year from the 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

Governance and Management

the gunner cooke foundation CIO (“The Charity”) was registered as a charity with the Charity Commission on 14 August 2015 and operates throughout England and Wales under registered charity number 1163140. The charity was originally registered with the name The Inspire Accelerator Foundation, until 15 April 2021.

The foundation is governed by a Board of three Trustees who are committed to the objects of the charity. Board member expertise includes law, business, finance, investment, risk management, marketing, and fundraising. The Board meets twice per year.

The Trustees have complied with the duty in section 17(5) of the 2011 Charities Act to have due regard to guidance published by the Charity Commission with regard to public benefit.

The members of the Board during the year were: Darryl Cooke, Trustee (02/06/2015),Sarah Goulbourne, Trustee (02/06/2015) and Laura Fisher, Trustee (01/08/2016).

The charitable activities of the foundation were delivered by two part-time paid Project Directors, Sarah Lynch, and Laura Jones, assisted by a number of volunteers from within gunner cooke LLP. Financial advice is provided by Naseer Patel, Accountant and Finance Director of gunner cooke LLP as honorary treasurer. Marketing, HR, IT, cooke LLP. and back-office support is provided by gunner

cooke Facilities and resources within gunner LLP such as meeting rooms and refreshments are made available on a pro bono basis. Where third parties make a charge for the use of their facilities, such as conference spaces, the costs are met by gunner cooke LLP, and are therefore provided to the foundation on a cost neutral basis.

The foundation is governed by a Board of three Trustees who are committed to the objects of the charity. Board member expertise includes law, business, finance, investment, risk

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Objectives, Policies and Organisation

The governing document of the foundation is a CIO constitution, (foundation model) dated 14 August 2015 as amended on 15 April 2021. The objects of the foundation are: -

1. To promote the effectiveness and efficiency of charities by providing advice, mentoring, and other support services, particularly in relation to fundraising and growing the charities.

2. Such other charitable purposes for the public benefit as are exclusively charitable according to the laws of England and Wales as the trustees may from time to time determine.

In line with the objects, the vision is to help and support small and medium-sized charities and community organisations to grow, achieve their ambitions, do more good faster, and to reach more people in need in the process.

The Need

When setting up the foundation, it was clear that it was small to medium-sized charities who need help and support to achieve their ambitions, to grow and to reach more people in need.

Out of approximately 165,000 UK registered charities, just 1% account for 71% of the total income and these are predominantly larger charities (Source: Charity Commission). The work and progress of the foundation confirms that it is making a difference in these target areas.

The foundation aims to accelerate the growth of lesser known, but effective charities, by providing them with the support and networks they require to do more good, faster. This is confirmed by feedback in surveys where members of the inspire* initiative talk of the foundation allowing them “to tap into the expertise and guidance of fellow charity leaders whilst drawing on the enormous experience of the gunnercooke LLP network.”

The Criteria

The foundation aims to keep the qualifying criteria simple and accessible. The CEO of any small to medium charity or not-forprofit organisation can apply to become a member of inspire* and be allocated to a hub and a hub leader. Following a request for support, the Project Directors carry out an interview process and complete due diligence to establish that the beneficiary is suitable for membership and is willing to make the necessary commitment to the project.

Once accepted as a beneficial member, the CEO has full access to everything that the foundation has to offer, free of charge. Their engagement, commitment and take up is monitored throughout their membership and regular feedback is sought to ensure that the foundation is delivering public benefit in line with its objects, so that the organisation is growing, becoming more efficient and doing good faster.

Similarly, criteria for other foundation projects focus on a streamlined process and the ability to react with innovation and agility to the challenges that beneficiary charities face. 17

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How the objectives are achieved Throughout the reporting period, the foundation delivered three key projects: -

inspire*

BFG (Business For Good) Programme Christmas Support Initiatives

inspire*

The foundation promotes the effectiveness and efficiency of 80 beneficiary charities in the inspire* initiative by providing the following support:

Regular hub meetings led by a hub leader with strong business expertise. The hubs consist of 8-10 charities, and this allows a “safe space” for members to come along, share their issues and receive either peer support or support from their hub leader.

Regular 1-2-1 meetings and coaching sessions with a hub leader to work on the charity’s business plan and key 3 year and 1 year goals.

Tailor-made training and workshops.

Bi-Monthly ‘Big Meet Ups’ online and regionally with expert speakers which allow for nationwide sharing and networking around key topics of interest such as Fundraising, Leadership, and Marketing and Social Media Strategy.

Specific governance advice from gunner cooke Charity Partner, Michele Price, including a presentation on trustees and the offer of a free, all-day seminar to inspire* members during Small Charity Week.

Exposure to the wider gunner cooke LLP network for assistance with other key issues such as HR policies, GDPR, and IP challenges.

Opportunity to engage with the wider gunner cooke LLP network of 350+ cooke Partners and staff via events or fundraising activities involving gunner LLP teams.

Support and assistance by the Project Directors with any other operational and strategic requirements for help and support.

Support of our beneficiaries’ key marketing and fundraising campaigns via the foundation and gunnercooke LLP’s communication and social media channels.

The foundation promotes the effectiveness and efficiency of 80 beneficiary charities in the inspire* initiative.

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Review of Developments, Activities, and Achievements

During the Financial Year from the 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, the foundation achieved the following:

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Developed the inspire* initiative building a new hub in Yorkshire for launch in 2023 and adding 17 new charities.

The initiative now supports charities in eight hubs nationwide.

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Continued to strengthen the professionalism and consistency of the inspire* programme by conducting quarterly Hub Leader Learning Forums for all our Hub Leaders.

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The two new London and Reading based hub leaders completed their hub leader training and shadowing of existing hub leaders and began to build their London and Reading based hubs for a 2023 launch.

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Review of Developments, Activities, and Achievements (continued...)

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Led four “Big Meet Ups”, our online workshops, two with guest speakers covering the topics of fundraising and leadership, two “Speed Networking” events enabling charities to meet and get to know other inspire* members nationwide, and also Christmas social events in Manchester and London.

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80 gunner cooke Partners and staff gave 468 hours to the foundation totaling £219,926 of charitable benefit. For every £1 invested in the foundation, £1.95 of charitable benefit was delivered.

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Supported 11 beneficiary members nationwide with our Christmas Care Boxes initiative, and Hands On London (RCN 1140291) with their Wrap Up 2022 Christmas Initiative of collecting coats for those in need at Moorgate tube station in London.

For every £1 invested in the foundation...

£1.95

of charitable benefit was delivered

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Facts and figures

Number of charities 80 supported

Total charitable 468 hours delivered Number of gunner cooke volunteers leading 8 charity groups regularly

Total number of gunnercooke volunteers

80

Number of foundation staff

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£219,926 Total Value of Charitable Benefit delivered

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BFG (Business For Good) Programme

At the end of June 2022, we launched the pilot of our BFG (Business For Good) Programme where we helped four of our inspire* beneficiary organisations to set up “For Profit” businesses to fund their amazing charitable work with the idea of them being able to broaden their reach and the number of people that they are able to help and support – to “do more good, faster”.

The aim of the programme was that the “For Profit” businesses created would be synergistic to the charity’s core Not-For-Profit work and would provide a steady and sustainable stream of income to each charity.

Our aim was that this would also assist them to keep their organisations stable and consistent in the help they can offer their beneficiaries regardless of any economic headwinds and external challenges. Our final aim was that of facilitating the growth of the BFG delegate and their organisation via course and peer learning.

The four charities supported to set up a “for profit” business were:

Astriid (RCN:1176645)

Digilocal (RCN: 1185746)

Bumblebee Conservation Trust (RCN: 1115634)

Oasis Community Centre (RCN: 1052626)

Astriid set up an Inclusive Training Recruitment business, DigiLocal set up the first software agency providing summer employment for young people from 14 years old and working on client projects for industry.

Oasis set up a “Products with a Purpose” business using the products they grow and make at their centre, and Bumblebee created a set of educational merchandise.

In December of 2022, we had a “Passing Out Ceremony” for our BFG delegates where all 4 charities presented the businesses that they had created. We also asked for feedback from all of our delegates and anyone who had been involved in the pilot of the programme so that we could make all the necessary improvements and changes ahead of launching our 2023 programme.

Steve Shutts of astriid and John Bradford of Digilocal gave us their thoughts and feedback on the programme as below:

“The opportunity to join the inaugural BFG programme came at a perfect time for our charity. Fundraising had become increasingly difficult in the years after the pandemic, and our charity needed to find a new business model that would lead to a self-sustaining future.

We could picture what that looked like, but the expertise needed to transition was not contained within the charity - we needed to learn, and quickly. The team of experts that deliver the BFG helped us to plan and execute the journey and has resulted in a significantly changed shape and structure as we now focus on a new and exciting vision.” - Steve Shutts, astriid.

“I was motivated to join the BFG Programme because we needed an exit path for the young people we were helping as a charity. It gave myself and the trustees of the charity a really powerful set of tools to come up with the Business Plan for the new venture. It also provided me with the support, mentoring, and most importantly peer network group to talk through the challenges of launching a For Profit Activity within a charitable context.” - John Bradford, Digilocal.

The BFG 2023 Programme incorporating all the suggestions and feedback from our 2022 Pilot programme will be launched in June 2023.

Case Studies

Christmas Support Initiatives

Following on from previous years’ initiatives which have included promoting Amazon wish lists, Wrap Up London, and a Christmas Dinner Appeal, for Christmas 2022, the foundation delivered the ‘Christmas Care Box campaign’ and built on the success of previous support for Wrap Up London’s warm coat collection.

The Christmas Care Box Campaign

Following the pandemic responses in 2020 and 2021 which had significant impacts on our charity members, 2022 arrived with a whole new range of challenges with the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’.

The foundation was told by our members of the increased demand for many of our beneficiaries’ services as well as the huge uptake in people accessing and being referred to food banks and food pantries. While this safety net was largely in place, along with some government initiatives to soften the blow of energy bills, one area which had been hugely overlooked was that of the need for and cost of basic hygiene products.

The foundation heard accounts of families sharing one toothbrush and being unable to take baths or regular showers due to the cost of the water and heating it. This lack of basic hygiene provision can and does lead to short- and long-term health problems, embarrassment and has no place in society today.

Feedback from our members told us that their service users would greatly appreciate and use a range of toiletries and basic hygiene products and so the foundation set to work with providing this necessary support via a “Christmas Care Box” Campaign.

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The Beginning

In October 2022, we asked all of our inspire* members to nominate individuals, couples, and families who they felt would benefit from receiving a “Christmas Care Box”.

The Christmas Care Box would be packed with toiletries and hygiene essentials, ranging from toothpaste and brushes through to nappies, period products, shower gels and even a few luxuries for Christmas.

Within 1 week, we had received almost 400 nominations from 11 of our inspire* member charities! We set to work garnering support from our gunner cooke team and beyond. Contributors included lawyers, Operating Partners, employees, and gunner cooke and the foundation’s external audiences on social media.

We asked people to donate products from home directly into the offices, via JustGiving or to purchase items on an Amazon Wish List; we also made a direct approach to manufacturers in this sector.

The Process

We started with collating items in the Manchester office, and these included donations sent up from our London office team, but we outgrew this space quickly! The landlord of our Manchester office building then donated a huge office space pro bono so that we were able to co-ordinate and arrange over 400 boxes filled with products.

Volunteers from across the organisation came forward to help sort the items into key boxes: Women’s/Men’s/Children’s, and Baby’s.

The campaign was communicated across every available channel including a note from gunner cooke CEO, and Chair of the gunner cooke foundation, Darryl Cooke, social media, internal newsletters, and our charity website.

Boxes were donated from a packaging company who had previously donated to our SOS 2020 box campaign run to help those suffering during the pandemic. Colgate Palmolive also made a large donation of items.

Within 1 week, we had received almost 400 nominations from 11 of our inspire* member charities!

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The Delivery.

A large logistics exercise took place in ensuring that the correct boxes were labelled and delivered to the right inspire* member charities – who then distributed on to the families who they had nominated.

A number of the boxes were hand delivered to our charities where possible to save on postage costs but also to add the personal element of delivery. The remaining courier costs were kindly funded by gunner cooke .

Volunteers came forward from across gunner cooke to enable the response to be delivered on time, prior to Christmas.

With the donations being far greater than we anticipated, we also needed a higher number of volunteers which gunner cooke were able to provide. Every department in our Manchester Head office provided volunteers and many of our lawyers also gave up time to come into the office and to help to pack up the boxes.

Facts and figures

Number of volunteers

£20,000+

Donations received in total

390%

Return on investment

£3,000+

Additional donations from gunnercooke

396 Care Boxes Delivered to 11 beneficiary members - Including 37Baby boxes.

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Care Boxes delivered to charities including...

Feedback from inspire* members.

“Thanks for the boxes; they were fabulous with lovely thoughtful contents – much appreciated! We have shared them amongst our families today when we organised their Christmas gifts ready for delivery.

They will be really useful and very much appreciated.” Kathryn Eckersley and Ann-Marie McDonald, Home-Start Trafford, Salford, Wigan

“Thank you so much for this; it’s such a lovely kind thing. Some patients have nothing and are living in real poverty.”

“They are perfect and just wanted to say thank you soo much! We will be handing them out to our local elderly service users to give them a little pick me up before Christmas and also some of our key volunteers to say thank you for their commitment over the year.” Abby Wincel, Wishing Hearts

Julia Dawson, St Joseph’s Hospice

“We gave a care box to a woman today who has been a client for some time but due to severe anxiety has only really dealt with us over the phone. Today she plucked up the courage to come to our Christmas craft session, she struggles to leave the house. She was delighted with the box and commented that she doesn’t really get any gifts for Christmas. I think she was keeping it for the big day!”

Mark Turnbull, Out There

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Wrap Up London 2022 Initiative with Hands On London

The gunner cooke team returned to Moorgate tube station to assist inspire* member, Hands On London (RCN: 1140291), to deliver their 2022 “Wrap Up London” Campaign.

In 2021, the tube station collections were reduced to 2 days only, with all volunteers wearing masks. As restrictions lifted, we were sure more volunteers would be needed for 2022, and once again Wrap Up London returned to 3 days of collections.

Over the 2 days of leafletting and 3 days of collections at Moorgate cooke station, there were 28 gunner volunteers including 1 International colleague from Germany and a further 4 family and friends making 32 volunteers in total.

Our 32 volunteers delivered 86 volunteer hours, and some 34 sacks of warm coats adding up to well over 400 coats in total! As per last year, with the early shift starting at 7am at Moorgate, many of our volunteers contributed before starting their first meeting of the day.

As last year, gunner cooke ’s Marketing and Events team also supported the initiative with artwork for promotional material and with social media posts and tags.

Hands On London have Wrap Up Campaigns in 24 other cities and towns too. Gunner cooke teams across the UK were therefore able to donate warm coats to these collections in the knowledge that their donation would keep a person in need warm during the winter months.

In the period from 2011-2022, Hands On London have collected over coats! 200,000

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Future Plans

To further grow the inspire* initiative and number of members in London, Manchester, the Midlands, and the new Yorkshire hub and plan to open a new hub in Reading. This will allow for an even richer nationwide peer-to-peer support system.

cooke To continue to use future gunner LLP Partner induction forums and gc Trust inductions to introduce the Foundation to more of our new Partners and staff and to also do this at our annual gunner cooke Symposium event to thereby open up a wider network of internal support for our beneficiaries.

To build on the BFG (Business For Good) Programme Pilot and help a further number of our inspire* members to successfully set up a “For Profit” business which will enable them to have a steady income stream to fund their Not-ForProfit work and help them to “do more good, faster.”

The foundation will also be undergoing a governance review and will be looking at ways to enable it to more fully respond to the challenges that its beneficiary charities face.

To continue to offer online and nationwide Big Meet up events covering key topics of interest to our beneficiaries such as fundraising, leadership and stakeholder management. Optimise our Big Meet Ups also to extend a member’s network beyond their hub and to all our inspire* members nationwide via online “Speed Networking” events.

To consider new and innovative ways of working with inspire* members going forwards for maximum involvement and engagement in meetings held online as well as face to face meetings via the adaptation of key meeting tools for online use.

To update the foundation website and in a way which offers even more support and useful tools , connections, and guidance for our beneficiary members.

To increase the marketing and communications support to our beneficiaries to e.g., give greater profile to their key events and fundraisers via sharing and cooke posting these on both our foundation and gunner llp communication channels.

To evaluate and develop other key ways of supporting our inspire* members to become more effective and efficient and to better achieve their goals.

To initiate and plan the Loneliness Project to support beneficiary charity members in reducing loneliness in the local communities where gunnercooke LLP operates and can also do this with an effective number of volunteers and the necessary support required.

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Financial and Risk Management

The foundation relies on funding from gunner cooke LLP together with pro bono assistance from its staff and partners in order to deliver its charitable benefit. Given the growth and success of gunner cooke LLP, the Trustees do not perceive a risk to the funding arrangements in the foreseeable future.

For that reason, the foundation does not have an investment or reserves policy because gunner cooke LLP has agreed to underwrite all costs associated with the running of the charity and the distribution of charitable benefit.

The charitable benefit delivered is therefore equivalent to the cost of the foundation staff providing the activities and services, together with cooke the significant pro bono input from gunner LLP partners and staff.

At the time of signing the accounts the Trustees are aware of the ongoing economic and social effects of the war in Ukraine and inflationary pressures on everyday cost of living.

The Foundation will continue to seek to mitigate these risks by adapting and developing its own internal strategy in order to best support its beneficiaries to navigate these economic challenges.

Risk management

The Trustees review risk management annually. This involves identifying the types of risk the charity faces, prioritising them in terms of potential impact and likelihood of occurrence and identifying means of mitigating the risks. As part of this process the Trustees keep the adequacy of the charity’s internal controls under review.

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Disclosure of information to Examiner

Each of the persons who is a Trustee as at the date of approval of this report confirms that:

So far as the trustees are aware, there is no relevant information of which the charitable company’s examiner is unaware; and

The Trustees have taken all the steps that he/she ought to have taken as a Trustee in order to make himself/herself aware of any relevant information and to establish that the Foundation’s charitable Independent Examiner is aware of that information.

The Trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the surplus or deficit of the charity for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently.

• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.

• state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and

• prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation. The Trustees are responsible for maintaining adequate accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Signed on behalf of the board by Darryl Cooke, Chair Dated: 5th September 2023

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Independent Examiner’s report to the Trustees of the gunnercooke foundation CIO

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2022 which comprise the receipts and payments account, statement of assets and liabilities and related notes.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 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.

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.

Signed by the Independent Examiner

Laura Goodwin FCA

Of Address: 77, Woodville Drive, Marple, Stockport, SK6 7QX Dated: 5th September 2023

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the gunnercooke foundation Charity No: 1163140

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Balance Sheet

Sectlon C Notss to the accounts for the perfod 0110112022 - 3111212022 Nots l Basls of Preparatlon 1.183515 of &countlng These ￿coUnts have been underlhe hi5tririr31 costmnvention with itrms ￿[08￿15ed ac05t or￿￿5￿￿0￿ vaue unle55 0lheT%%ise staEd in the Elevant notr151 tu Ihe5e ￿lOU￿6. The ￿Counts h3ve been pre￿red in ￿cord￿Ce vAth.. the Ststementof Recommended fvxtice.. Accounting aid Reporbng by c￿tieS plE￿nE Iheirxcounts in zconlaice ¥Mlh Ihe Fin￿￿ P£porting Strnitsrd appli￿ble in Ihe UK2nd Republic of IrEl￿d IF￿ 1021 issued on 16Jul¥ 2014 Sxtion C NotÈSto theac<ount5 Note3 Anabssof incom2 the FIN￿tial RpporbnR sidard applitsble in thÈ UnitÈd ￿n&doM Republic of Irel￿d IFR5 1021 and wth the Charities Act 2011 iknR51thd luTrd5 fund5 Effldov4Wtlund5 Tol￿fUndS Note 2 Accountlng pollcies 2.1 Income DOnatrDn5￿ gi I￿.512 10&512 21.138 GItlAid 336 1.066 Re(wnltlon of InLDme These are induded in the Str￿Ment0tFina￿￿ Activities ISOFAI %4en'. the beiuffle5 entiljed iu the ￿5￿Ul￿e5.. iti5 fflore likely notthathe ITU51Ees Mill ￿ceIve the ￿SOu￿e￿ aml Geners gr￿￿50rDy1del by Ovemrfenvother ch¥ilies the fflonetsry vJue ￿ be rne￿u￿d 5uffiiientrEliility. VeTriEt51up5Lknptiorh5&sPYW51¥p5 Offsettln8 There been no off5ethng of355ets lia)ilitie& orincome ￿ eypEn5e5. unle55 ￿UirEd orpErmittEd by the 102 SORP OrF￿ 102. Grants and donat1￿$ Gwts and don&on5 arc only induded in the SOFA then the generJ income recognition (ri￿ri3 met Talal IOB. 730 Bu5inessfof Go 1.71f 1.7 5.455 2.055 Tax iedalms on don•ti<￿5 and Klft GifLAid ￿ceIv￿le 15 induded in income when theTE is 3 vaid ded￿on frDrn the dotK)r. Any GittAid 3mount ￿CoVe￿d on 3 donation is considered to be patofthagift￿d is trEaEd a5 ￿ asdition tt) the sa￿e fund 35 the initial donation unle55 the donor or the tern5 Otlhe ￿}Dea hale 5Deafied other¥%ise. 5.455 2.OiS Support £•sts The chanty has inCUr￿d expendilure on 5UPPOrtcots. T(thi 3.755 5.455 Volunteer help The vaue of3ny volunw help ￿(eiVed 15 notinduded in Ihe ￿COUnts but 15 described in the Iru5tEe5' nug ￿port Intome Irom interest. rtyaltles a dividends This 15 induded in the ￿cOunts ￿(elpl15 prable the anOuntre￿1va1e ￿ be rne￿￿d ￿lia)ly. T(tsl 2.2 EXpEND￿VRE AND LiABIL￿lEs 346 346 Li3bilitie5 a￿ ￿COgnised it IS likely th￿ notth theTe 15 a lega orcon5trucDve Oblig￿0￿ commitbng the ch￿ty ID pay outtesourtes ￿ Ihe Jnountoflhe oblisknon ￿ be fflea5ufEd ith rEa)td>le rkinty. Llablllty rettyniil P¢t31 le￿ing iThCO Other Totsl 346 Governance arKI support ct6ts Supporto)sts hwe been alloraed betsThtEn gOVe￿Tr u)sts d other5UPPDrt fs)vetroKe o)5ts (omprise | o5ts Involving publ1c(uunl￿1llty ofthE Its ￿mpli￿￿e wlh E8ulon ￿b￿. Support105ts include centra fvncbon5 h34e been alo(aEd tD ￿￿Vity c05t(aEsorie5 on a ￿15 consi￿nt th the use of te50UTtes. e8 alo(zbng p￿perty costs by fioD[aE￿. or per￿lt& Staf C05ts by the time Spent d olherc05t5 by their u4e. Where the th3rity gives ag￿nt￿lth conditions for its ptymentbein8 a speafic level of seNi£e or ￿tput Grants wlth Performan￿ a>ndtlonbp provided. Such gwts 3re only rÈco8nised in SaFA oncÈ thÈ reopient of the gfylt ts proYiOÈd th spetified SeNitr or Qutput Toial TOTAL INCOME 112.949 6.185 119.134 21,138 I InEIXI inthe￿lDrYeèwts untEStncted Cr•dlttys The C￿rity has (￿dib)r$ thich I￿ me￿re￿ * setuementanounts less a)y ￿Je disttvnts N3 Fovlsl¢n$fw Il•blllt106 A liability 15 tnea5u￿d on recognition aits historica COSt￿d then 5ub5eouenly mea5ufEd the bp5t estitTre of the amount ￿quired ID 5etUe the obli£*on at the ￿portin£ d3 N2.2 50 51

Section C Notss to the accounts Icont) Note4 A￿a￿￿50f wenditure Re51ricted kn<omtfi•Trds EndoTh￿ttrjnd5 TO￿￿jnd5 p￿)r￿￿)d Jnd Detalls of certain items of expenditijre 5.1 Fee5 for examination of the aCC￿nts Pleaseprowdedetoilsof tbeJmountPoidforonyrtatutory f￿1$ Thi5 year Prior perio 5cheme53rnd 50Cial lollcrie5 Start u DatsbJ5e develo new Source of AssuratKe seryices otsr than aLklt w I￿￿e￿nt Tax advIs￿Y fee5 Porfolio m￿3 ement C05t5 Other fees (for examF4e'. fina￿31 advi￿. crxtsultsry. a(axrtarty setvlcesl pald to the Imlepernlent examlner TOts1expenth￿ on0151￿ fund5 Note 6 Paid employee5 30.492 1.361 3.915 492 1.361 15.)83 Rent EXpend￿re¢l#tha￿￿b1e &1 Staff Costs 187 This year Prior perfod Wa Markct TotslexpenthrE ontharfktactr#f&s Note 6 90.381 Salarie5 wages ial security c(6ts pensi￿ Costs (defined oJntritxrtiLm $d￿rne1 Other ernF4oyee benefits Total stsff costs 43.027 2.162 4.591 12.572 1.238 435 Separatematerfalttem of expense 14 Totsl rtcosts 1.742 1.742 235 &2 Average head c(xmt in the year This year Number Prior Nurnber 1.191 216 1.191 216 179 98 The part5 of the tharity in wlmth the FurKlraising CharitslAe Activitles St*ione 392 392 Totslotherexpendbjre Other Totsl TOTAL EXPENDITURE 94J35 85,787 31265 N6 NIO 52 53

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