2023-12-31-accounts - Bexhill Cap Centre

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Trustees' Annual Report					for theperiod
From	Period start date			T o	Period end date
	1st	January	2023		31	Dec	2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Bexhill CAP Centre Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1174660 Charity's principal address Sidley Baptist Church, Claremont Road Bexhill On Sea East Sussex Postcode TN39 5BX

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
Sue Ensor	Secretary
Bryan Henley	Trustee/Chair
Rosalind Rachel Thomas	Trustee/Treasurer
Angie Young	Trustee/ Administrator	01/01/2023 to 02/10/2023

12 13 Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution CIO Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by the current Trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

In October 2023 Angie Young stepped down as a trustee and administrator of the charity. Rachel Simmons has been appointed as the new volunteer administrator, however she did not wish to be considered to serve as a trustee. We are actively seeking some more trustees

the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

(a) the relief of poverty, including the provision of money management, training, and education; coaching, equipping, and supporting people in the areas of unemployment, addiction and life skills. (b) to advance the Christian faith in the local community.

Bexhill CAP is a charity that offers free face-to-face debt counselling throughout the Rother District.

Our personal, holistic, and long-term approach empowers people to get out of debt and learn long term budgeting skills with great success.

We provide one to one help to all our clients with the aim of getting them debt free. We also provide budgeting courses to then help them to stay out of debt. We will also take clients for emergency food shops as and when required and Summary of the main activities provide food hampers to all of our current clients at Christmas. undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these We run a local drop in once a week at a Community Food Larder to enable objects (include within this people to access debt help. We also refer clients to other local agencies to assist section the statutory where needed. Most of our clients are referred to us by the same agencies with declaration that trustees have whom we have an excellent working relationship. had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity The trustees have regard to the guidance issues by the charity commission on Commission on public benefit) the public benefit.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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policy on grant making;
policy programme related investment.
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The charity pays a subscription to its head office (CAP UK based in Bradford) for the training and equipping of two front line workers and for the provision of free debt counselling services, with a capacity of 4 new clients per month. Due to increased demand Guy Partridge our Centre Manager went from parttime to full-time employment on the 1st of April. By October/November, we found ourselves booked up with client appointments for 3 months in advance, the first time this had happened since lockdown. In response we will be looking to take on another debt coach in 2024. During the year we started the process of reviewing all of our policies and procedures, starting with our safeguarding policy. In May we began a weekly group which meets every Tuesday at a local community centre for lunch and a discussion on what is Christianity. This is primarily for existing and previous CAP clients who have expressed a desire to explore the Christian Faith, in a ‘non-church’ setting. The group also provides friendship and support. We also continue to host one off client events throughout the year.

Section E Financial review

Our policy on reserves is to maintain sufficient funds to enable us to continue Brief statement of the our fees to our head office to maintain client cases already set up plus a charity’s policy on reserves redundancy reserve of 3 months for staff termination costs if the centre were to close Details of any funds materially n/a in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration[The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. ] Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)

Full name(s) Rosalind R Thomas

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee/Treasurer etc) Date 12/6/24

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Charity Name			No (if any)
Bexhill CAP Centre			1174660
Receipts andpayments accounts				CC16a
For the period from	Period start date 01/01/2023	To	31/12/2023 Period end date

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £	Restricted funds to the nearest £	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £	Last year to the nearest £
Donations-Individuals	22,111	-	-	22,111	20,733
Donations-Churches	12,812	-	-	12,812	12,437
Gift Aid Claim	4,545	-	-	4,545	2,409
Clients Pastoral Fund			140	140	2,076
Grant Funding		3,000	1,730	4,730	5,040
Fund Raising	165	-	-	165	709
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AR)	39,633	3,000	1,870	44,503	43,404

AR)	39,633	3,000	1,870	44,503	43,404
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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*Sub total*	-	-	-	-	-

*Total receipts*	39,633	3,000	1,870	44,503	43,404

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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A3 Payments
Head Office Subscriptions	7,200	-	-	7,200	7,200
Salaries/NI/Pensions	28,920	3,000	-	31,920	25,559
Administration	3,858	-	-	3,858	3,858
Client Support and Events	762		3,207	3,969	3,725
Staff/Volunteer travel amd training	909	-	-	909	1,780
Gifts	300		530	830	540
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*Sub total*	41,94 9	3,000	3,737	48,68 6	42,663

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)		- - - 3,000 -	- - - 3,737 - 1,867	- - - 48,68 - 4,18 3 6	- - - 42,663 741 - 56,414 57,156
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
	- 2,316	-	- 1,867	- 4,18 3	741
	- 422	422		-	-
	44,638	9,60 3	2,915	57,156	56,414
	41,900	10,025	1,048	52,973	57,156

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Details (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) *Total cash funds* Details Bank	Unrestricted funds to nearest £	Restricted funds to nearest £	Endowment funds to nearest £
	41,900	10,025	1,048
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Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use

B5 Liabilities

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

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Signature	Print Name Ros Thomas	Date of approval
	Ros Thomas	12/06/2024

CCXX R4 accounts (SS)

Independent examiner's report on the

accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report	Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees On accounts for the year ended Set out on pages Responsibilities and basis of report	Charity Name Bexhill CAP Centre 31stDecember 2023 Charity no (if any) 1174660 5 to 7 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity(“the Trust”) for the year ended 31stDecember 2023. 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 theTrust’saccounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 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.

Section A
Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees
On accounts for the year
ended
Set out on pages
Responsibilities and basis
of report

Charity Name
Bexhill CAP Centre
31stDecember 2023
Charity no
(if any)
1174660
5 to 7
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity(“the Trust”) for the year ended 31stDecember 2023.
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 theTrust’saccounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have statement come to my attention in connection with the 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: Name: Relevant professional		15 October 2024

	Stuart Rosling

	FCCA

Dec 2023

IER

qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 20 Havelock Road, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 1BP

Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Dec 2023

IER

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

Dec 2023

IER

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Ros Thomas's e-mail address is: ros@rotherbookkeepers.co.uk.