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|Report ofthe Trustees|and Annual||Review|1-17|
|Independent<br>Examiner's|report|||18-19|
|Statement<br>of Financial|Activities|||20|
|Balance sheet||||21|
|Notes to the accounts||||22-25|
|Detailed Statement<br>of Financial||Activities||26-27|






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|VISION||Our vision is a future where people with the illness of addiction<br>are able to live their<br>lives free from an addiction to drugs, alcohol or behaviours,<br>becoming<br>contributing|
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|MISSION||To provide group therapy for adults with the illness ofaddiction<br>and to support their<br>family members,<br>in Hertfordshire<br>and other areas ofthe UK.|
|AIM||The aim ofour organisation<br>is to break the family cycle of addiction<br>(both substance|
|||and behavioural<br>addictions).|
|||Our culture change work —not just teaching<br>people to live with their addiction,<br>we|
|||help them to take back ownership<br>oftheir lives.|
|VALUES||We are caring to our clients and co-workers|
|||We are customer focused when prioritising<br>our work and activities|
|||We serve and support our community|
|||We ensure we are competent<br>in performing<br>our duties|
|||We value our integrity<br>as professionals.|
|DIVERSITY,||We will ensure that anyone, regardless<br>oftheir individual<br>or group characteristics,|
|EQUALITY||can get treatment<br>for their addiction<br>and are given support that takes account of|
|EQUITY<br>AND<br>INCLUSION||their unique<br>background<br>and any complications<br>this may cause for them during their<br>time at The Living Room. We will reach out to community<br>groups, develop better|
|||cultural awareness<br>in our services and focus on LGBTQ+ and Black, Asian and|
|||Minority<br>Ethnic visibility<br>within our organisation.|
|||The charity's<br>main objective forthe year was to promote the objects set out in its|
|CHARITABLE||governing<br>document,<br>02 November 2017(refreshed 19September 2019)when the|
|OBJECTS||charity was registered<br>as a CIO No 1175541(formerly 1080634).|
|||(a) to preserve<br>and protect the health of all persons who are in danger of becoming|
|||addicted to, or dependent<br>upon, drugs of any description,<br>alcohol, solvents or other|
|||addictive substances<br>or behaviours<br>as well as their family members<br>within the County|
|||of Hertfordshire<br>and such other places as the trustees<br>shall from time to time decide|
|||by the provision ofcounselling<br>and recovery and support services.|
|||(b) to advance<br>the education<br>of professionals<br>working<br>in the<br>field of addiction|
|||treatment<br>by the provision of professional<br>training,<br>support services and information.|



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|Service Delivery|60%ofpeople|60%ofpeople|achieve|65%ofpeople achieved||successful|successful|graduation|
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||sustained<br>recovery|||~<br>60%alcohol|||||
|||||~<br>63%drugs|||||
|||||~<br>71%disordered||eating|||
|||||~<br>60%relationships|||||
|||||~<br>50%gambling|||||
|||||~<br>78%family and|carers||||
|Access and Reach|600 people|in||340people supported|in|total|—less than our target||
||Hertfordshire||helped|~<br>272 people supported|||for|addictions|
||each year|||~<br>68 family and carers supported|||||
|Income Generation|50%ofincome||from|53%income from contracts achieved|||||
||contracts||||||||
|Community|30talks, events and|||21talks and fundraising||events|||
|Engagement|workshops|delivered||4forums|||||
|||||4workshops|||||
|||||2 quizzes|||||
|Organisational|100%good|to||100%good+excellent||client|feedback||
|Improvement|excellent client||||||||
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|||||21/22 Budget|21/22 Actuils|
|Total Contracts||||515,902|463,132|
|Revival|Donation|||25,000|24,000|
|Fundraising,<br>Donations||&Legacy|Income|91,200|75,185|
|Traded|income/interest|earned||7,500|2,920|
|Total Grants||||232,900|244,543|
|Children|In Need-Creche|Funding|Nov 18-Oct21|23,938|20,518|
|TOTAL|INCOME|||896,440|830,298|



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|ia|I|Albert Gubay Charitable<br>Foundation|Albert Gubay Charitable<br>Foundation|
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|||Henry Smith Charity||
|t|~ I|Children<br>in Need fended<br>November 21)||
|||Lloyds Bank Foundation||
|||Garfield Weston||
|f20-'Ei1'Ok||Martin Geddes Charitable|Trust|
|||Bedford & Luton Charitable|Foundation|
|||David Lain<br>Foundation||
|under,|f10k|Saint Albans District Council||
|||Wafford Borough Council||
|||Stevenage<br>Borough Council||
|||Diocese ofStAlbans||
|||St. Paul's Church StAlbans||
|||Hertfordshire<br>Community|Foundation|
|||Watford<br>Covid Community|Grant|
|||Arnold<br>Clark||
|||SirJules Thorn Charitable<br>Trust||
|||Corporate funders:<br>ASDA,|Waitrose, Screwffx|



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|95%|Recovery benefit ofattending<br>The Living Room||||
|91%|Emotional<br>and mental<br>health improvement||||
|90%|Self-care and living skills improvement||||
|95%|Employed,<br>a homemaker,<br>in education or training,||retired or volunteering||
|69%|Managed<br>sustained<br>abstinence,<br>but all managing||better than when they first accessed help||
|86%|Did not access any further addiction support||||
|73%|Scored themselves<br>5/5 for being motivated|and taking responsibility||for their own actions|
|95%|Improved<br>family relationships<br>and increase|social|networks||
|549fi|Continue to attend a fellowship||||
|1009fi|Improved<br>physical<br>health||||
|100%|Settled and secure housing<br>situation<br>(61%had settled housing at the start oftreatment)||||
|81%|Satisfied with recovery since leaving<br>TLR||||



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||||Notes|2022|2022|2022|2021|
|INCOMING RESOURCES||||6|8|6||
|Incoming resources from|generated||funds|||||
|Voluntary<br>Income|||2|746,655|73,864|820,519|849,335|
|Activities for generating<br>funds|||3|9,752||9,752|9,039|
|Investment<br>Income|||4|25||25|136|
|Total incoming<br>resources||||756,432|73,864|830,296|858,510|
|RESOURCES EXPENDED||||||||
|Cost ofgenerating<br>funds||||||||
|Costs ofgenerating<br>voluntary||income||||||
|and undertaking<br>charitable|activities|||721,606|122,172|843,778|735,457|
|Governance<br>costs||||14,809|76|14,885|22,010|
|Total resources expended||||736,415|122,248|858,663|757,467|
|NET INCOMING I(OUTGOING)||||||||
|RESOURCES||||20,017|(48,384)|(28,367)|101,043|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS||||||||
|transfer between<br>funds||||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||||259,209|65,766|324,975|223,932|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED|FORWARD|||279,226|17,382|296,608|324,975|





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|The Living Room<br>Balance Sheet<br>as at 31 March 2022||||||
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total||
|||Funds|Funds|Funds||
||Notes|2022|2022|2022|2021|
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|FIXEDASSETS||||||
|Tangible assets||825||825|1,100|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Debtors|9|2,715|5,382|8,097|292|
|Prepayments<br>and accrued|income|||||
|Cash at bank and in hand||293,700|12,000|305,700|342,457|
|Total current assets||296,415|17,382|313,797|342,749|
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within||||||
|one year|10|(18,014)||(18,014)|(18,874)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||278,401|17,382|295,783|323,875|
|TOTAL ASSETSLESSCURRENT||||||
|LIABILITIES||279 226|17,382|296,608|324,975|
|NETASSETS||279,226|17,382|296,608|324,975|
|FUNDS||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||279,226|259,209|
|Restricted funds||||17,382|65,766|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||296,608|324,975|





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|2|VOLUNTARY INCOME|VOLUNTARY INCOME|2022|2021|
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||Grants||265,060|304,283|
||Contracts||463,131|458,042|
||Places ofWorship|Donations|9,049|11,138|
||General Donations||49,292|49,027|
||Gift Aid||4,205|4,167|
||Corporate<br>donations||5,782|2,678|
||Donated services|and facilities|24,000|20,000|
||||820,519|849,335|
|3|ACTIVITIES FOR|GENERATING FUNDS|2022|2021|
||||6|8|
||Fundraising<br>events||6,857|7,699|
||Earned<br>income||2,895|1,340|
||||9,752|9,039|
|4|INVESTMENT INCOME||2022|2021|
||||6|6|
||Interest receivable||25|136|
|5|COSTS OF GENERATING VOLUNTARY INCOME AND||||
||UNDERTAKING|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|2022|2021|
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|7|STAFF COSTS|||||2022<br>6|2021f|
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||Wages and salaries|(including|pensions)|||714,617|614,015|
||The average<br>monthly|number|ofemployees||during the year was as follows:|||
|||||||2022|2021|
||Full time equivalents|||||24|23|
||No employees<br>received emoluments|||in excess off60,000||||



|TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS||||
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||Fixtures and|Computer||
||fittings|equipment|Totals|
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|COST||||
|At 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022|21,086|18,681|39,767|
|At 31 March 2021|21,086|18,681|39,767|
|DEPRECIATION||||
|At 1 April 2021|20,658|18,009|38,667|
|Charge for the year|107|168|275|
|At 31 March 2022|20,765|18,177|38,942|
|NET BOOK VALUE||||
|At 31 March 2022|321|504|825|
|At 31 March 2021|428|672|1,100|





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|9|DEBTORS||||||2022|2021|
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||Other Debtors||||||8,097|292|
|10|CREDITORS:||AMOUNTS|FALLING DUE WITHIN||ONE YEAR|||
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||Taxation and|social security|||||11,385|12,642|
||Other creditors||||||5,789|5,392|
||Accrued expenses||||||840|840|
||Deferred income||||||||
||||||||18,014|18,874|
|11|MOVEMENT|IN FUNDS|||||||
||||||||Net movement||
|||||||At 1/4/2021|in funds<br>f|At 31/3/2022<br>6|
||Unrestricted||funds||||||
||General fund|||||259,209|20,017|279,226|
||Restricted funds||||||||
||General fund|||||65,766|(48,384)|17,382|
||TOTAL FUNDS|||||324.975|~28,367|296,608|
||Net movement||in funds, included||in the above||||
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|||||||Incoming|Resources|Movement<br>in|
|||||||resources|expended|funds|
||Unrestricted||funds||||||
||General<br>fund|||||756,432|736,415|20,017|
||Restricted funds||||||||
||General fund|||||73,864|122,248|(48,384)|
||TOTAL FUNDS|||||830,296|858.663|~28,367|





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|INCOMING RESOURCES|||||
|Voluntary<br>Income|||||
|Grants|||265,060|304,283|
|Contracts|||463,131|458,042|
|Places ofWorship Donations|||9,049|11,138|
|General Donations|||49,292|49,027|
|Gift Aid|||4,205|4,167|
|Corporate donations|||5,782|2,678|
|Donated services and facilities|||24,000|20,000|
||||820,519|849,335|
|Activities for generating||funds|||
|Fundraising<br>events|||6,857|7,699|
|Earned income|||2,895|1,340|
||||9,752|9,039|
|Investment<br>income|||||
|Interest receivable|||25|136|
|Total incoming<br>resources|||830,296|858,510|
|RESOURCES EXPENDED|||||
|Governance<br>costs|||||
|Accountancy<br>fees|||590|590|
|Independent<br>examination|||250|250|
|Other professional|fees||14,045|21,170|
||||14,885|22,010|
|Support costs|||||
|Refreshments|||859|162|
|Rent and Rates|||38,314|31,831|
|Water|||390|878|
|Light and heat|||5,666|5,630|
|Telephone|||3,739|4,174|
|Partnerships|||35,000|38,000|
|Depreciation<br>oftangible assets|||275|367|
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|Finance|||||
|Bad debts|||||
|Information|technology||||
|IT support and consumables|||7,133|7,174|
|Website|||5,182|4,896|
||||12,315|12,070|
|Human<br>resources|||||
|Wages (including||pensions)|714,617|614,015|
|Training|||4,584|1,589|
||||719,201|615,604|
|Other|||||
|Fundraising|||335|280|
|Insurance|||5,589|3,653|
|Printing,<br>Stationery||&Postage|4,935|2,196|
|Sundries|||746|436|
|Subscriptions|||1,832|2,185|
|Creche|||894|5,086|
|Staff Travel|||1,218|164|
|Marketing|||387|584|
|Repairs and|maintenance||10,108|5,226|
|Recruitment|and DBSchecks||997|1,078|
|Equipment|||978|5,853|
||||28,019|26,741|
|Total resources expended|||858,663|757,467|
|Net (expenditure)||Iincome|~28,367|101,043|



