2023-03-31-accounts - Healthwatch Islington

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Registered number: 08407852

HEALTHWATCH ISLINGTON DIRECTORS' REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

D S Burge & Co Ltd

Healthwatch Islington Directors' Report and Unaudited Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

Contents
	Page
Company Information	1
Directors' Report	2
Accountant's Report	3
Income and Expenditure Account	4
Balance Sheet	5
Notes to the Financial Statements	6—7
The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:
Detailed Income and Expenditure Account	8

Healthwatch Islington Company Information For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

Directors	Mr Ralph Hughes
	Mr Ewan MacLeod
	Ms Kate Overall
	Ms Chloe Wright
	Mr Owen O'Sullivan
	Miss Charlotte Sivanathan
	Mr Nathan Allcott-Watson
	Mr Stephen Adjaidoo
Secretary	Ms Emma Whitby
Company Number	08407852
Registered Office	6-9 Manor Gardens
	London
	N7 6LA
Accountants	D S Burge & Co Ltd
	Chartered Accountants
	23 Chiltern Drive
	Surbiton
	Surrey
	KT5 8LP

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF HEALTHWATCH ISLINGTON

Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Healthwatch Islington ('the Company')

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2023.

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 The Association of Certified Chartered Accountants 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:

accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
the accounts do not accord with those records; or
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
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.

Sophie Jones FCCA The Association of Certified Chartered Accountants Robert A. Price F. C. C. A. 39 Etchingham Park Road Finchley London N3 2DU

Date: 4[th] September 2023

Healthwatch Islington

Trustee’s report

For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

It’s been a great year of growth for Healthwatch Islington. This year, we’ve worked with Healthwatch across North Central London to promote the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Talking to residents about the risks of high blood pressure (which affects as many as one in five of us in Islington and can lead to stroke and heart attack), we reached around 800 residents through stalls at Chapel Market, events with local community partners and targeted work with our Diverse Communities Health Voice (DCHV) partners. We worked with these same partners and with Mind to promote Motivational Interviewing (a form of counselling that helps people to make positive behaviour change).

In addition, through our Mental Health Partnerships Coordinator, we linked DCHV partners with Population Health Nurses to offer health checks to 100 residents in local community settings. This developed into more focussed mental health themed workshops covering topics including sleeplessness, drug use and depression. These sessions have been very much welcomed by residents. Together with statutory partners (Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, Whittington Health, our local GP lead for mental health, and Islington Council) and voluntary sector colleagues (Diverse Communities Health Voice partners, Maya Centre, Nafsiyat and Mind) we have produced a guide to promoting diversity and inclusion. Commissioners are asking potential providers of local services to reference this guide when bidding to deliver services in the borough.

We’ve extended our digital inclusion work, to include supporting four organisations to support residents in a wider range of languages, and we’ve secured £17,000 worth of free or subsidised equipment to support residents for whom finances are one of the barriers. We also piloted a scheme to support 50 residents in North 1 Primary Care Network to get online. We continued our community engagement raising around £150,000 to diversify our reach by sub-contracting community partners. We investigated primary care access, awareness of cancer screening and lung disease in a range of ethnic minority communities and experiences of residents who identify as LGBTQI+. We’ll be following up on the findings in the coming year.

Finally, two of our trustees moved on from Healthwatch Islington. Jana Witt had been with Healthwatch since it started and made a wonderful contribution to our culture and achievements. Angelica Larkin joined us in the pandemic, only meeting colleagues in person two years into her term, but she showed a real passion for supporting our staff team. We wish them both all the best. It is an honour to step into the Chair at Healthwatch Islington, and I’ll be supported by Vice Chair Chloe Wright and our committed and knowledgeable Board

Financially, o verall income for the year increased considerably. This was mainly due to additional contracts for partnership work through the Integrated Care Board, including work on hypertension with our North Central London Healthwatch colleagues, engagement on cancer screening, GP access and experiences of LGBTQI+ residents with our long-standing Diverse Communities Health Voice partners and new partners Voluntary Action Islington and Mind Islington.

This increase in income is reflected in an increase in partnership contracting and staffing costs. However, we are now reviewing the existing staffing structure to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to meet demand. We’ve worked hard to minimise all other costs despite inflation. However, we need to review our office space as the current office space doesn’t accommodate our post-pandemic working practice, and hasn’t grown to meet the demands of our increasing staff team.

For more information, see our Annual Report to the Secretary of State for Health:

HWI annual report 2022 23.pdf (healthwatchislington.co.uk)

Risk and Reserves policy

Board members regularly review our risk register and take a proactive approach to risk management. A risk assessment is carried out for all new work, this includes consideration of safeguarding implications, and data impact assessments.

We aim to use the resources available to us in the most effective ways possible and Healthwatch lslington holds reserves as part of its responsible approach to finance. The Board decides what should be held and why and reviews this on a regular basis. The Board may agree to draw down on reserves where emergencies or unforeseen circumstances arise. At year end March 23 our unrestricted, undesignated reserves stood at £181,725. Full reserves stood at £202,725 including £21,000 of carried forward restricted reserves and £60,000 of designated reserves to cover costs including potential legal costs and potential redundancy liability.

Our Board are all acting in a voluntary capacity, and although we cover reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, we have not made any payments to trustees.

Healthwatch Islington Company No. 08407852 Directors' Report For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023.

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The directors are responsible for preparing the Directors' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the surplus or deficit of the company for that period. In preparing the financial statements the directors are required to:

select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Directors

The directors who held office during the year were as follows:

Dr Jana Witt Resigned 01/04/2023 Mr Ralph Hughes Mrs Angelica Larkin Resigned 01/04/2023 Mr Ewan MacLeod Ms Kate Overall Ms Chloe Wright Mr Owen O'Sullivan Appointed 26/07/2022 Miss Charlotte Sivanathan Appointed 27/09/2022 Mr Nathan Allcott-Watson Appointed 31/01/2023 Mr Stephen Adjaidoo Appointed 13/09/2023

Small Company Rules

This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

On behalf of the board

Mr Ralph Hughes

Director

19/09/2023

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Healthwatch Islington Accountant's Report For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

Chartered Accountant's report to the directors on the preparation of the unaudited statutory accounts of Healthwatch Islington for the year ended 31 March 2023

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, I have prepared for your approval the accounts of Healthwatch Islington for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the Income and Expenditure Account, the Balance Sheet and the related notes from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given to us.

As a practising member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at http://www.icaew.com/en/membership/regulations-standards-andguidance.

This report is made solely to the directors of Healthwatch Islington, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated . Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of Healthwatch Islington and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the directors of Healthwatch Islington, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Healthwatch Islington and its directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Healthwatch Islington has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory accounts that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of Healthwatch Islington. You consider that Healthwatch Islington is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit of the accounts of Healthwatch Islington. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the financial statements.

Signed

D S Burge & Co

12/09/2023

D S Burge & Co Ltd Chartered Accountants 23 Chiltern Drive Surbiton Surrey KT5 8LP

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Healthwatch Islington Income and Expenditure Account For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

Notes TURNOVER Cost of sales GROSS SURPLUS Administrative expenses OPERATING SURPLUS Other interest receivable and similar income SURPLUS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR	2023 £ 497,243 (157,946) 339,297 (266,757) 72,540 769 73,309	2022 £ 265,062 (33,188)
		231,874 (205,849)
		26,025 30
		26,055

The notes on pages 6 to 7 form part of these financial statements.

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Healthwatch Islington Balance Sheet As At 31 March 2023

2023 £ £ 3,059 3,059 11,974 206,613 218,587 (13,667) 204,920 207,979 207,979 207,979 207,979	2023 £ £ 3,059 3,059 11,974 206,613 218,587 (13,667) 204,920 207,979 207,979 207,979 207,979	2022 £ £ 597 597 47,569 171,955 219,524 (85,451) 134,073 134,670 134,670 134,670 134,670	2022 £ £ 597 597 47,569 171,955 219,524 (85,451) 134,073 134,670 134,670 134,670 134,670
	3,059 204,920		597 134,073
218,587 (13,667)		219,524 (85,451)

	207,979		134,670
	207,979		134,670
	207,979		134,670
	207,979		134,670

For the year ending 31 March 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

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

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

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

On behalf of the board

Mr Ralph Hughes

Director

19/09/2023

The notes on pages 6 to 7 form part of these financial statements.

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Healthwatch Islington Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

1. Accounting Policies

1.1. Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 section 1A Small Entities "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006.

1.2. Turnover

Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, net of discounts and value added taxes. Turnover includes revenue earned from the sale of goods and from the rendering of services. Turnover is reduced for estimated customer returns, rebates and other similar allowances.

Sale of goods

Turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when the significant risks and rewards of ownership of the goods has transferred to the buyer. This is usually at the point that the customer has signed for the delivery of the goods.

Rendering of services

Turnover from the rendering of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract. The stage of completion of a contract is measured by comparing the costs incurred for work performed to date to the total estimated contract costs. Turnover is only recognised to the extent of recoverable expenses when the outcome of a contract cannot be estimated reliably.

1.3. Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation

Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:

Fixtures & Fittings	4 years
Computer Equipment	4 years

2. Average Number of Employees

Average number of employees, including directors, during the year was as follows: 7 (2022: 5)

3. Tangible Assets

Fixtures & Fittings £ 989 1,330	Computer Equipment £ 4,066 2,221	Total £ 5,055 3,551
2,319	6,287	8,606
392 534	4,066 555	4,458 1,089
926	4,621	5,547
1,393	1,666	3,059
597	-	597

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Healthwatch Islington Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

4. Debtors

. Debtors
Due within one year Prepayments and accrued income Net wages . Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year Trade creditors Other taxes and social security Other creditors Accruals and deferred income	2023 £ 11,855 119 11,974 2023 £ - 1,529 7,251 4,887 13,667	2022 £ 47,353 216
		47,569
		2022 £ 849 1,320 2,897 80,385
		85,451

5. Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year

6. Company limited by guarantee

The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital.

Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company, in the event of a winding up, such an amount as may be required not exceeding £1.

7. General Information

Healthwatch Islington is a private company, limited by guarantee, incorporated in England & Wales, registered number 08407852. The registered office is 6-9 Manor Gardens, London, N7 6LA.

The company's charity number with the Charity Commission is 1173157.

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Healthwatch Islington Detailed Income and Expenditure Account For The Year Ended 31 March 2023

TURNOVER Sales COST OF SALES Subcontractor costs Other direct costs	2023 £ £ 497,243 155,786 2,160	2023 £ £ 497,243 155,786 2,160	2022 £ £ 265,062 30,970 2,218	2022 £ £ 265,062 30,970 2,218

GROSS SURPLUS Administrative Expenses Wages and salaries Employers NI Employers pensions - defined contributions scheme Recruitment costs Volunteer training and expenses Staff training Travel and subsistence expenses Volunteer recognition Rent Cleaning Computer software, consumables and maintenance Insurance Printing, postage and stationery Advertising and marketing costs Telecommunications and data costs Accountancy fees Legal fees Consultancy fees Subscriptions Bank charges Depreciation Sundry expenses OPERATING SURPLUS Other interest receivable and similar income Bank interest receivable SURPLUS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR	210,555 16,131 10,458 359 678 634 168 1,002 6,763 162 3,596 1,590 549 3,789 3,037 3,576 335 2,050 - 153 1,090 82	(157,946)	162,107 11,832 8,058 - 388 280 5 160 5,016 - 2,316 1,406 708 2,242 3,607 3,480 371 2,255 163 143 1,264 48	(33,188)
		339,297 (266,757)		231,874 (205,849)
	769		30
		72,540 769		26,025 30

		73,309		26,055

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