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← Dimobi Children Disability Trust

2023-09-30-accounts

Charity Number 1170582

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DIMOBI CHILDREN DISABILITY TRUST

TRUSTEES REPORT

&

ACCOUNTS

30 September 2023

Dimobi Children Disability Trust Financial statement

Year ended 30th September 2023

Contents Page
Charity information and professional advisers 3
Trustees’ report 4
Independent Examiner's Report 9
Statement of financial activities (incorporating the income and expenditure account) 10
Balance sheet 11
Notes to the accounts 12

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust

Charity information and professional advisers

Registered charity name Dimobi Children Disability Trust
Charity number 1170582
Registered office Admin Building
Riverpark Trading Estate
Riverpark Road
Newton Heath
Manchester
M40 2XP
Trustees Linda Butcher Edwin (Chair of Trustees)
Nkoyo Shadracks
Chizzy Ijeh
Tracey Peake
Sherita Mandongwe
Abiodun Elizabeth Opesan
Independent examiners BC NWAIWU & CO LTD
Building 1 Suit 4A Office 6
Wilsons Park Business Centre
Manchester
M40 8WN
Bankers Lloyds Bank Plc

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust Trustees’ Report

The Trustees, present their annual report with the audited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 September 2021. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities" in preparing the annual report and financial statements of the charity.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in notes to the accounts and comply with the Charity's governing document, the Charities Act 2011 and 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 IJK and Republic of Ireland published in October 2019.

Chairperson’s welcome and summary

It has been another challenging and extraordinary year for the Charity. Having sufficient capacity to meet the emerging needs of our community members through a second COVID lockdown, on boarding new staff and volunteers, setting up a new office base and ensuring the safety of all involved, and public has been our priority.

The number of families we support has continued to grow, along with the number of disabled children and young people in crisis or in risk situations. We have had regular engagement with more families on a monthly basis.

We are proud of our high numbers of volunteers, who are invaluable assets in our community and enable the Charity to meet our community’s disability and diversity needs. We are able to support our community with translation and cultural needs due to our diverse, ethnicity volunteer pool.

Our volunteer related costs and expenses are ongoing financial commitments that are vital to sustain, along with office overheads and remote work requirements. Our unrestricted reserves levels were greatly impacted and reduced due to our high service demands, changes in operational delivery and growing running costs.

I have been with the Charity since 2016, I am exceptionally proud of the invaluable work it has achieved in such a short-time to support some of the most vulnerable disabled children, young people and their families in North Manchester. On behalf of the Charity, I take this public opportunity to humbly thank our workers, volunteers and funders, who have united with us towards achieving a society in which disabled children can contribute, be valued and have their rights respected. And, to our disabled children, young people and their families, we are with you in our fight to reduce inequalities, societal stigma and discrimination. Thank you. Alice Cheetham, Chairperson.

Reference and administrative details of the Charity and its Trustees

The Charity is a charitable incorporated organisation foundation and was formed on 06 December 2016 as Dimobi Children Disability Trust.

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The Trustees are shown below:

Linda Butcher Edwin (Chair of Trustees) Nkoyo Shadracks Chizzy Ijeh Tracey Peake Sherita Mandongwe Abiodun Elizabeth Opesan

We are proud to have lived experience of disability and majority representation of Black, Asian Minority Ethnicities within our Trustee Board. We are reflective of the communities that we serve.

Structure, Governance and Management

Trustee induction and training

All Trustees are required to complete a skills audit to ascertain strengths and weaknesses. All Trustees complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) disclosure.

Organisation

The Board of Trustees carries responsibility for the efficient and effective management of the charity. The Board generally meet up to 10 occasions per year. Collective decision making and minutes of Trustee meetings are recorded, and signed off, for transparent, governance purpose.

The Trustees also have an engagement structure to ensure inclusive practice and local community involvement:

Minutes of actions from all such community meetings are circulated to the Board of Trustees.

The Charity regularly obtains helpful advice from the Charity Commission and the Trustees are aware of their responsibilities as Trustees of a charitable organisation. The Charity has an independent legal advisor who supports our work.

Risk management

The Board of Trustees has a risk register and related risk procedures which have been regularly reviewed and updated to reflect COVID-19, the new COVID work streams of domestic abuse support and providing poverty food bank help. Through this risk management process, all significant risks have been identified and control systems are in place to mitigate these.

Equal Opportunities policy

We are an equal opportunities employer. All jobs are open to all applicants, subject to necessary occupational qualifications and all applications are given equal consideration. We follow fair recruitment and positive action to ensure recruitment for disabled people is equal, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010. We are a diverse and inclusive organisation that advocates for the social model of disability.

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Living wage

We follow the living wage salary threshold. We value our workers and ethical fairness.

Objectives and Activities

Statement of Pubic Benefit

What the charity does:

Who the charity helps:

How the charity helps:

The charitable objects of the charity as defined in our Articles of Association are:

The objects of the CIO are:

Our Charity is grassroots formed; majority local residents with lived experience based on gaps in services, and lack of support for disabled children and young people, and multicultural families.

We support multicultural children and young people with disabilities; autism/neurodiversity health conditions and learning disability, aged up to 25 years, and their families. We support children and young people who have a neurodiversity health condition; autistic spectrum, Asperger’s, related attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, dyspraxia and mental health.

We are based in Newton Heath, Manchester and provide services across North Manchester, Newton Heath and Miles Platting. North Manchester has the highest areas of deprivation in Manchester.

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In delivering our charitable objects we provide the following services:

In April 2020, due to high referrals we diversified our core activities (above) to provide COVID crisis poverty food and essentials relief for disabled children. This COVID work was in operation up to 30 June 2021. During the reporting period of 30 September 2020 to 30 September 2021, we supported more family households of a disabled child/ren.

In May 2020, due to high referrals to the Police for domestic abuse help from women with a disabled child/ren, we began a multicultural domestic abuse service for women with a disabled child. Due to receiving referrals from men with a disabled child, we began to provide support for any parent/carer with a disabled child early in 2021. During the reporting period of 30 September 2021 to 30 September 2022, we have supported more family households of a disabled child/ren.

In response to our community need we have planned over the next two years to develop our services further and provide:

Our progress in the reporting period

The number of beneficiaries we have supported in this reporting period is more disabled children and young people households. We have a majority of Black ethnic minorities’ members who use our services which is reflective of our community. We are a multicultural organisation.

Referrals

We accept self and agency referrals from across North Manchester. We have high self-referral numbers to our services; we are proud to engage with the communities we serve.

Our priorities for this reporting period

Responding to community crises from the COVID-19 pandemic, continuity of business and safety of everyone were key priorities for Trustees. We diversified our service offer with domestic abuse support for women with a disabled child/ren and the poverty foodbank for families with a disabled child. Supporting digital poverty needs, isolation needs, those shielding or in poverty crisis, or risk.

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We are humbly grateful to members of our local community who volunteered their time during the second lockdown period of the pandemic to help vulnerable families. We extend our gratitude to the range of organisations that supported our work; All Saints Church, YES, Police and Crime Team Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Women’s Aid, MACC, Manchester Police, Equal Education Chances, Family Unit Trust, Northwards Housing and Talbot House, Manchester City Council, Youth Zone, Ciata Foundation, CAHN, BOLDST3P and many more

Parent Forum and Member involvement

We moved our parent forum meetings online to ensure safety and Government guidance was followed. Our last meeting in this reporting period was held on 16 November 2021 and had 28 members in attendance. We are proud to be a need led charity. A Trustee is always present at the Parent forum for accountable and transparent co-decision making. We have created an easy read Terms of Reference for our Co-Production group work.

Global pandemic COVID-19

Our Charity has been severely impacted by increased referral demand, capacity and increased complexity of need, more families in crisis, disabled children and parents with health conditions deemed vulnerable and shielding, COVID bereavement and long term COVID recovery. We seek to collect member information and evidence of the need to support funding applications.

We have consent and procedures in place in line with Data Protection requirements. Some of the safeguarding actions we made include:

Volunteer capital

We have been able to operate through the second lockdown with the invaluable capacity for our local community. More people are regular volunteers and have contributed with volunteer support during this reporting period. Disclosure Barring Service checks and references are completed for volunteers. We have a suite of volunteer policies and procedures.

Implement quality monitoring and outcomes framework

In line with the Equality Act 2010, we collect demographic equality monitoring information. We identify ways to meaningfully record and monitor the outcomes of the services and projects we deliver and seek to continuously improve. We include children and young people in providing information to improve how we work and understand more about what they like, don’t like, want more of or want to share an opinion on.

Summer Holiday Activity Fund new project

We commercially bid for a Manchester City Council school half-term opportunity and successfully delivered the 'Happy Me' summer play scheme project for disabled children. The project objectives were to engage 50 disabled children and young people, aged 5 to 16 years, in receipt of free school

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meals, living in the North Manchester wards of Newton Heath, Miles Platting, Clayton and Openshaw. 95% of children indicated a smiley face for having fun. Children asked for more activities in the future and shared drawings of what they enjoyed; football, eating and park.

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Financial Review summary

Our accounts have been audited.

Restricted funds

Restricted funds are those subject to specific conditions imposed by the donor, or the terms of an appeal in response to which they were given. We have had restricted funds in the reporting period. We manage our restricted funds with robust project management and outcomes reporting.

Unrestricted funds

Unrestricted funds are those which can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the Trustees. Designated funds are unrestricted funds that the Trustees have set aside at their discretion for particular projects or purposes. We used unrestricted funds to get through the first and second COVID-19 lockdowns and unfortunately hit a 2-month operating limit, instead of our minimum 6-month reserve level which is in our articles. COVID has been a challenging period for the Trustees to keep our operations running whilst meeting our increased overheads. It is a challenge for the Charity to raise unrestricted funds with not being able to hold many fundraising activities in the community; this had been a previous strategy used, alongside individual donations, of which there are many competing organisations.

Reserves Policy

The Trustees reviewed the existing reserves policy in 2021, which remains unchanged. We aim to have a general reserve of six months. In setting this level of reserve, the Trustees have considered the risks around income streams, the costs of our office space at Riverpark Trading Estate, maintenance and additional expenditure for remote technology requirements.

Plans for Future Periods

Our main objectives for the coming year

We have a fundraising strategy document that is governed by Trustees, evidenced with member needs and updated each April. We set out annual objectives each year which link to our charity mission and vision. We include a workforce diagram of the ideal support and capacity our members will need in the coming year, along with any current roles. We also create a shortlist of projects (based on members needs shared and social inclusion purposes). We then source funding streams

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to link to the desired outcomes and criteria for each designated resource required, be it staff, equipment, volunteer resources, or specific projects that will make a difference.

Within our funding strategy is a focus on future contract work and tender opportunities. This was unfortunately halted for 2020 due to the COVID pandemic.

Funders and donations in the reporting period

We are grateful to the following funders for their invaluable support to our disabled children, young people and their families:

National Heritage Garfield Weston Foundation Migrant Help Manchester City Council Lottery Community Fund Action Together MCAactive CLA Charitable Trust

The Clothworkers Foundation

Sport England

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Funded items

Emergency food and essentials.

Linda Butcher Edwin

Chair of Trustees

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust Independent Examiner's Report

I report on the accounts of Dimobi Children Disability Trust, for the year ended 30 September 2023, which are set out on pages 13 to 18.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Act and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

  1. examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act;

  2. to follow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act; and

  3. to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of independent examiner's statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking such explanations from you as trustees concerning any matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent examiner's statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect:

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.

Date: June 4, 2024

Bernard Nwaiwu, FCA (ICAN)

BC NWAIWU & CO LTD Building 1 Suit 4A Office 6 Wilsons Park Business Centre Manchester, M40 8WN

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust Statement of financial activities (incorporating income & expenditure account) Year ended 30th September 2023

Note
Income from:
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
Total income
Expenditure on:
charitable activities
4
Total expenditure
Net income/(expenditure) for the
year
5
Transfer between funds
Net movement in funds for the year
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Unrestricted
£
-
2,200
2,200
7,350
7,350
(5,150)
-
(5,150)
7,198
2,048		 Restricted
£
-
319,424
319,424
304,403
304,403
(15,021)
-
(15,021)
33,259
48,280		 2023
£
-
321,624
321,624
311,753
311,753
(9,871)
-
(9,871)
40,456.92
50,328		 2022
£
2,000
278,824
280,824
270,146
270,146
(10,678)
-
(10,678)
148,397
159,075

The accompanying notes on pages 13 to 18 are an integral part of this balance sheet

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust Balance Sheet

As at 30th September 2023

Note
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
6
Total fixed assets
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand
7
Debtors
8
Total current assets
Liabilities
Creditors - Amount falling due within
one year
9
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Creditors - Amount falling due after
more than one year
10
Net assets
The funds of the charity:
Unrestricted funds
11
Restricted funds
11
Total charity funds		 £
6,000
-
6,000
(750)		 2023
£
45,078
45,078
5,250
50,328
-
50,328
2,048
48,280
50,328		 £
11,423
-
11,423
(570)		 2022
£
29,604
29,604
10,853
40,457
-
40,457
7,198
33,259
40,457

Linda Butcher Edwin

Chair of Trustees Approved by the board of trustees on 04 June 2024

The accompanying notes on pages 13 to 18 are an integral part of this balance sheet

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust Notes to the financial statements Year ended 30 September 2023

1. Accounting Policies

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the SOFA when the charity is legally entitled to the income, is reasonably certain of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability. In accordance with the SORP, no value has been attributed to the work performed by volunteers, although their work is considered vital to the activities of the charity.

Donations and gifts

Donations and gifts consist of the total donations from individuals, trusts and corporates, along with income from fundraising events.

Depreciation

Tangible fixed assets costing more than £100 are capitalized and included at cost, including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Depreciation is provided on tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost by equal annual instalments over their expected useful economic lives as follows:

Equipment, Fixtures & Fittings 25% reducing balance
Computer and Internet Resources 25% reducing balance

Resources expended

Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Costs of generating funds are those incurred in seeking voluntary income and do not include the costs of disseminating information in support of the charitable activities.

2.

Donations and legacies
Donations
Other income
Total		 Unrestricted
£
-
-
-		 Restricted
£
-
-
-		 2023
£
-
-
-		 2022
£
2,000
-
2,000

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust Notes to the financial statements Year ended 30 September 2023

3. Charitable activities

Grant Funders

National Heritage Garfield Weston Foundation Migrant Help Manchester City Council Lottery Community Fund Action Together MCAactive CLA Charitable Trust The Clothworkers Foundation Sport England

4. Expenditure on charitable activities

4.
Expenditure on charitable activities
Staff cost
Project costs
Depreciation
Professional fees
Governance costs
Support costs
Restricted expenditure
Unrestricted expenditure
5.
Net income/(expenditure) for the year
This is stated after charging/(crediting):
Depreciation		 2023
£
164,644
16,000
15,026
9,400
5,750
100,933
311,753
304,403
7,350
311,753
2023
£
15,026		 2022
£
57,674
104,549
9,868
21,500
570
75,985

270,146

259,121
11,025

270,146

2022
£
5,916

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust Notes to the financial statements Year ended 30 September 2023

6.
Fixed assets: tangible assets
Cost
At 1 October 2022
Additions
At 30 September 2023
Depreciation
At 1 October 2022
Charge for the year
At 30 September 2023
Net book value
At 30 September 2023
At 30 September 2022
7.
Cash at bank and in hand
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
8.
Debtors
Trading debtors
Grant debtors
Prepayments		 Land and
Buildings
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Fixtures
and fittings
Computer
equipment
£
£
32,842
13,388
-
500
32,842
13,888
11,411
5,215
5,358
2,168
16,769
7,383
16,073
6,505
21,431
8,173
2023
£
6,000
-
6,000
2023
£
-
-
-
-		 Vehicle
£
-
30,000
30,000
-
7,500
7,500
22,500
-
2022
£
11,423
-		 Total
£
46,230
30,500
76,730
16,626
15,026
31,652
45,078
29,604
11,423
2022
£
-
-
-
-

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Dimobi Children Disability Trust Notes to the financial statements Year ended 30 September 2023

9.
Creditors - Amount falling due within one year
2023
£
Trade creditors
750
Other creditors
-
750
10.Creditors - Amount falling due after more than one
year
2023
£
Trade creditors
-
Other creditors
-
-
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Fund movements
Balance
at 1
October
2022
Income
£
£
Restricted funds
Restricted project fund
33,259
319,424
33,259
319,424
Unrestricted funds
General fund
7,198
2,200
7,198
2,200
The funds of the charity
40,457
321,624		 2023
£
750
-

Expenditure
£
(304,403)
(304,403)
(7,350)
(7,350)
(311,753)		 2022
£
570
-
570
2022
£
-
-
-
As at 30
September
2023
£
48,280
750
2023
£
-
-
-
48,280
2,048
2,048
50,328

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