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2022-03-31-accounts

Company number: 09918302 Charity Number: 1166811

SIG Investments

Report and financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2022

SIG Investments Trustees’ annual report For the year ended 31 March 2022


Reference and Administrative details of the Charity, its trustees and advisors

SIG Investments is referred to as SIGI throughout this document. SIGI was incorporated on 16 December 2015 as a company limited by guarantee with Social Interest Group as its only member, therefore making it a subsidiary. It registered with the Charity Commission on 28 April 2016 and commenced trading on 1 October 2016.

Directors and Charity trustees

The directors of SIGI are its trustees for the purposes of charity law and throughout this document are collectively referred to as the trustees. The current trustees and those that served during the period ended 31 March 2022 are as follows:

Chairman

Stuart Jenkins

Trustees

Ruby Judt Resigned – 4[th] February 2022) Kieran Mitchell Donald Douglas (Appointed – 4[th] February 2022) Geetha Unaasuthan (Appointed – 4[th] February 2022) Arash Andalibi - Abadan (Appointed – 4[th] February 2022)

Company Secretary

Michael Rutherford

Group Chief Executive

Gill Arukpe

Registered office

1 Waterloo Gardens Milner Square London N1 1TY

Auditor

Buzzacott LLP 130 Wood St London EC2V 6DL

Bankers

Lloyds Bank plc 25 Gresham Street London EC2V 7HN

Solicitors Russell Cooke LLP 2 Putney Hill London SW15 6AB

Senior Director of Operations (SIGI) Michael Rutherford

Devonshires LLP 30 Finsbury Circus London EC2M 7DT

Company registration number 09918302 Charity registration number 1166811

www.socialinterestgroup.org.uk enquiries@socialinterestgroup.org.uk

SIG Investments Trustees’ annual report For the year ended 31 March 2022


The trustees present their report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31[st] of March 2022.

Reference and administration information set out on the previous page form a part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the Articles of Association and the Statement of Recommended Practice – Accounting and Reporting by Charities: SORP applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102.

Objectives

Purposes and Aims

The objects of SIGI as set out in the Articles of Association are for the public benefit:

The trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period.

The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.

Activities

SIGI’s principal activity is to buy or lease property on behalf of the Group, and then lease it to Group members at an affordable rent.

Strategic Report

Achievements, performance and beneficiaries of our services

SIGI’s main activities and who it tries to help are described above.

Financial Review 2021/22

At the end of the financial period, the charity had unrestricted general reserves of £94k (2020/21 - £89k). This results from a small surplus of £5k achieved during the period ended 31 March 2022 (2020/21 - £9k).

Given the status of the charity as a subsidiary undertaking in the Social Interest Group, the wider economic environment and on-going changes and increased competition within the sector, the trustees consider the results to be acceptable.

SIG Investments Trustees’ annual report For the year ended 31 March 2022


Principal risks and uncertainties

SIGI has a risk management strategy which is overseen by the trustees. The risk register is reviewed quarterly by the Executive Management Team, in consultation with all managers, and subsequently by the trustees.

The principal risks are that the Group has insufficient accommodation and that there is poor control of cash flow. The former is mitigated by a regular review of the property estate and maintaining contacts with search agents. The latter is mitigated by accurate invoicing and efficient debt collection.

Future Plans

During the coming year, SIGI will seek registration with the Regulator for Social Housing to become a Registered Provider. COVID 19 has had no impact on the ability of SIGI to meet its aims and objectives.

Reserves policy and going concern

The trustees have established the long-term level of reserves at £100k which they feel SIGI should have. At 31 March 2022 they were £94k. Reserves are needed to fund the property holding costs which are not externally financed. The trustees will continue to review the reserves policy and position.

Structure, governance and management

SIGI is a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital (Number 09918302) and is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission (Number 1166811). SIGI’s governing instruments are its Articles of Association dated 15 December 2015. The sole member of SIGI is the Social Interest Group.

All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity. Any expenses reclaimed from the charity are set out in note 4 to the accounts.

Appointment of Trustees

The trustees are listed on page 1. The non-executive trustee directors hold office for an initial period of three years with the possibility of a second term of three years. The board consists of no fewer than three and no more than five persons appointed by the trustees at any time at a meeting or in writing. No person under the age of 18 may be appointed as a trustee.

Trustees are recruited by the Nominations Committee using specialist recruitment agents and by advertisement. A rigorous interview process takes place, which includes service users. Candidates usually attend a board meeting and visit projects before being confirmed in post.

Trustee Induction and Training

New trustees must familiarise themselves with the content of the Articles of Association, their legal obligations under charity and company law, the organisational structure of SIGI and its recent financial performance. Trustees are encouraged to attend appropriate external training events where these will facilitate the undertaking of their role.

Related parties and relationships with other organisations and staff

SIGI is a member of the Social Interest Group of which it is a subsidiary. The holding company provides all support functions, senior management and strategic guidance. The chair is a trustee of SIG. SIGI is supported in its charitable objectives by other Social Interest Group companies: Penrose Options and Equinox Care.

Remuneration policy for key management personnel

The Group Chief Executive’s remuneration is set by the Social Interest Group non-executive directors. Their remuneration and all other staff are remunerated in accordance with a job evaluation process and market rates, which is reviewed by external consultants.

Policy for employment of disabled persons

It is the charity’s policy not to discriminate against persons falling under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for reasons of their disability whether in, or applying for, employment or in the delivery of services.

SIG Investments Trustees’ annual report For the year ended 31 March 2022


The key areas of our policy cover recruitment and employment (disabled applicants not being considered any less favourably on the ground of their disability) service delivery (disabled applicants and service users not being treated less favourably on account of their disability) and information (ensuring information is accessible to all).

Employee information

The charity does not yet employ any staff.

Auditors

During the year, the group retendered the audit services. Buzzacott LLP were appointed auditors.

Statement of responsibilities of the Trustees

The trustees (who are also directors of SIGI for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and UK Accounting Standards (FRS 102).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of SIGI and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of SIGI for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of SIGI and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of SIGI and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of the financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Members of the charity guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charity in the event of winding up. The total number of such guarantees at the year-end was one. The trustees are not members of the charity and have no beneficial interest in it.

The trustees’ annual report, which includes the strategic report, was approved by the board of trustees and signed on their behalf on 27[th] September 2022 by:

Stuart Jenkin Chair

SIG Investments Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2022



Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of SIG Investments (the ‘charitable company’) for the year ended 31 March 2022 which the comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the principal accounting policies and the notes to the financial statements. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’ (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion, the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

SIG Investments Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2022

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Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the trustees’ report including the strategic report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:

SIG Investments Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2022



We assessed the susceptibility of the charitable company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:

There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the trustees and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Hugh Swainson (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of Buzzacott LLP, Statutory Auditor 130 Wood Street London EC2V 6DL

01 December 2022

SIG Investments

Statement of Financial Activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2022



Note
Income from:
Investments
Total income
Expenditure on:
Trading costs
Total expenditure
Net income for the year
3
Net gain on investments
7
Net movement on funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
Unrestricted
£’000
375
375
(370)
(370)
5
-
5
89
94
2022
Total
£’000
375
375
(370)
(370)
5
-
5
89
94
Unrestricted
£’000
383
383
(374)
(374)
9
-
9
80
89
2021
Total
£’000
383
383
(374)
(374)
9
-
9
80
89

All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in Note 10a to the financial statements.

SIG Investments Balance sheet As at 31 March 2022


Note
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
7
Current assets
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due within one
year
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due after one
year
8
Total net assets
The funds of the charity
10
Unrestricted income funds
General funds
Total Unrestricted funds
Total Charity funds
£’000
31
59
90
(16)
94
2022
£’000
450
450
74
524
(430)
94
94
94
£’000
215
71
286
(217)
89
2021
£’000
450
450
69
519
(430)
89
89
89

Approved by the trustees on 27[th] September 2022 and signed on their behalf by

Stuart Jenkin

Chair

SIG Investments: A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration Number 09918302 (England and Wales)

SIG Investments Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2022



a) Statutory information

The Company has taken advantage of the disclosure exemptions under FRS 102 Paragraph 3.1B in respect of the requirements to prepare a statement of cash flows.

In applying the financial reporting framework, the trustees have made a number of subjective judgements, for example in respect of significant accounting estimates. Estimates and judgements are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. The nature of the estimation means the actual outcomes could differ from those estimates. Any significant estimates and judgements affecting these financial statements are detailed within the relevant accounting policy below.

The Social Interest Group will not recall the inter-company balances within the next 12 months, unless the Trustees deem that Equinox can afford to repay the balances. In addition, the trustees of both Social Interest Group and Penrose Options have expressed their intention to continue to provide support to Equinox Care, including providing working capital, for the foreseeable future.

The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.

SIG Investments Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2022


Charitable activities – supporting vulnerable people

SIG Investments Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2022



This is stated after charging :

__________
Net income / (expenditure) for the year
This is stated after charging :
_________ _____
2022 2021
£’000 £’000
Operating lease rentals:
Property 341 337
Operating lease rentals receivable:
Property 357 383
Auditor's remuneration (excluding VAT):
Audit 6 6

The key management personnel are the Group and the Director of Finance & Resources, who are employed and remunerated through Social Interest Group as disclosed in its financial statements.

The charity trustees were neither paid nor received any other benefits from employment with the charity in the year (2021: £nil). No charity trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity (2021: £nil).

Trustees' expenses represents the payment or reimbursement of travel and subsistence costs totalling £nil (2021: £nil).

SIGI is owed £27,813 from Equinox Care at the year end (2021: £106,099).

SIGI is owed £853 from Penrose Options at the year end (2021: £25,950).

SIGI owed £444,941 to Social Interest Group, the parent charity at the year end. (2021: owed £593,981).

SIG Investments is a registered charity and is exempt from Corporation Tax on its charitable income as it is spent on charitable purposes.

The Charity is part of the Social Interest Group VAT registration. However, as virtually 100% of its income is exempt, the VAT on purchases is irrecoverable and therefore included in expenditure.

SIG Investments Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2022



7 Investment properties

Investment properties
Fair value at the start of the year
Fair value at the end of the year
Cost at the end of the year
2022
£’000
450
450
430
2021
£’000
450
450
430

8 Creditors: amounts falling due after one year

The creditors due after one year are amounts due to the parent undertaking, Social Interest Group, and relate to the transfer of the freehold property during a prior period, and for management fees payable. This debt will be paid when the property is sold. The debt is not subject to any interest payment and is not repayable within a next 12 month period.

9a Analysis of net assets between funds (current year)

Analysis of net assets between funds (current year)
Investment properties
Net current assets
Creditors: amounts falling due after one year
Net assets at 31 March 2022
Analysis of net assets between funds (prior year)
Investment properties
Net current assets
Creditors: amounts falling due after one year
Net assets at 31 March 2021
Movements in funds (current year)
At 1 April
2021
Income &
gains
£’000
£’000
General funds
89
375
Total funds
89
375
Expenditure
& losses
£’000
(370)
General
unrestricted
£’000
450
74
(430)
94
General
unrestricted
£’000
450
69
(430)
89
Transfers
£’000
-
-
Total
funds
£’000
450
74
(430)
94
Total
funds
£’000
450
69
(430)
89
At 31
March
2022
£’000
94
(370) 94

9b Analysis of net assets between funds (prior year)

10a Movements in funds (current year)

SIG Investments Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2022


__________________ 10b Movements in funds (prior year)

General funds
Total funds
At 1 April
2020
£’000
80
80
Income &
gains
£’000
383
383
Expenditure
& losses
£’000
(374)
(374)
Transfers
£’000
-
-
At 31 March
2021
£’000
89
89

The charity's total future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases is as follows for each of the following periods

follows for each of the following periods
Less than one year
One to five years
Over five years
2022
£’000
328
678
110
1,116
2021
£’000
328
822
274
1,424

Amounts receivable by the charity under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows for each of the following periods

the following periods
Less than one year
One to five years
Over five years
2022
£’000
345
712
115
1,172
2021
£’000
348
884
287
1,519

13 Guarantees and ultimate parent undertaking

SIGI is a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital. The Social Interest Group became the sole member of SIGI on 16 December 2015. Each member has guaranteed to pay £1 in the event that SIGI was wound up (2020: one). Social Interest Group is the ultimate parent undertaking. Its charity registered number is 1158402. Its company registered number is 9122052. Its registered office is: 1 Waterloo Gardens, Milner Square, London N1 1TY.