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|Trustees'<br>annual<br>report||1tor|
|Independent<br>examiner's|report to the trustees||
|Statement<br>of financial<br>activities|||
|Balance sheet|||
|Statement of cash flows|||
|Notes to the financial statements||12to 23|





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|Registered|charity|name|Suffolk Law Centre||||||
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|Charity registration||number|1176229||||||
|Principal office|||46A St. Matthews<br>Street||||||
||||Ipswich||||||
||||Suffolk||||||
||||IP1 3EP||||||
||||United<br>Kingdom||||||
|The trustees|||||||||
|The trustees|who served during the year and at the date of|||approval||were as follows:|||
||||C Cumberbatch<br>(Chair|- Appointed|||21 December 2020)||
||||G Clarke MBE (Chair until 20 December 2020)||||||
||||J Lea (Treasurer)||||||
||||L Gooch||||||
||||A Grant OBE||||||
||||B Howard||||||
||||E Pettman||||||
||||DrS Rao||||||
||||D Weekes||||||
||||D Bradshaw<br>(Resigned|30|April 2020)||||
||||S Raychaudhuri<br>(Resigned||30 November|||2020)|
|Senior Management|||A Ludwig (Director of Legal Services)||||||
|Charity Secretary|||D Bradshaw<br>(Resigned|30/04/20)|||||
||||M Howgate<br>(Appointed|30/04/20,|||Resigned 21/12/20)||
||||S Hawkins<br>(Appointed|21/12/20,||Resigned||12/01/21)|
||||C Cumberbatch<br>(Appointed||12/01/21)||||
|Independent|examiner||L Thurston<br>FCCA||||||
||||Lovewell<br>Blake LLP||||||
||||Chartered<br>accountants||||||
||||First Floor Suite||||||
||||2 Hillside Business Park||||||
||||Bury St Edmunds||||||
||||IP32 7EA||||||





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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
||||funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
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|Income and endowments|||||||
|Donations,<br>grants and legacies||4|197,035|378,725|575,760|516,087|
|Other trading<br>activities||5||||692|
|Total income|||197,035|378,725|575,760|516,779|
|Expenditure|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||6|114,411|336,598|451,009|349,028|
|Total expenditure|||114,411|336,598|451,009|349,028|
|Net income before|transfer offunds||82,624|42,127|124,751|167,751|
|Transfers<br>between|funds||22,145|(22,I45)|||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||104,769|19,982|124,751|167,751|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
|Total funds brought|forward||66,771|172,890|239,661|71,910|
|Total funds carried forward|||171,540|192,872|364,412|239,661|





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|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible lixed assets||10||12,729||1,917|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors||11|12,250||21,437||
|Cash at bank and in|hand||406,294||225,026||
||||418,544||246,463||
|Creditors: Amounts|falling due within||||||
|one year||12|(66,861)||(8,719)||
|Net current assets||||351,683||237,744|
|Total assets less current liabilities||||364,412||239,661|
|Net assets||||364,412||239,661|
|Funds ofthe charity|||||||
|Restricted funds||||192,872||172,890|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||171,540||66,771|
|Total charity funds||13||364,412||239,661|





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|Cash flows from operating|activities||||
|Net income|||124,751|167,751|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||
|Depreciation<br>oftangible<br>fixed assets|||1,840|492|
|Chengesin:|||||
|Trade and other debtors|||9,187|(16,732)|
|Trade and other creditors|||58,142|(5,782)|
|Cash generated<br>from operations|||193,920|145,729|
|Net cash from operating<br>activities|||193,920|145,729|
|Cash flows from investing|activities||||
|Purchase<br>oftangible assets|||(12,652)|(1,965)|
|Net cash used<br>in investing|activities||(12,652)|(1,965)|
|Net increase<br>in cash and|cash equivalents||181,268|143,764|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at beginning|ofyear|225,026|81,262|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at end ofyear||406,294|225,026|





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|Donations,<br>grants and legacies||||
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|Donations||||
|Donations|14,025||14,025|
|Grants||||
|Grants|183,010|378,725|561,735|
||197,035|378,725|575,760|
||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
||Funds|Funds|2020|
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|Donations||||
|Donations|89,168||89,168|





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|4.|Donations,|grants|and|legacies|(continued)||||
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|||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||||||Funds<br>6|Funds|2020<br>f|
||Grants||||||||
||Grants|||||6,290|420,629|426,919|
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||Restricted||||||||
||Charity<br>Fund||||||114,824|159,268|
||Legal Foundation||||||99,639|50,882|
||Justice Foundation||||||59,686|60,000|
||Legal Access|||||||55,119|
||Charities<br>Trust||||||36,000||
||Law Trust||||||34,000|32,000|
||Law Centre||||||19,757|38,479|
||Other grants|received|||||5,818|18,501|
||Foundation||||||5,000|5,000|
||Equality and|Human||Rights||||752|
||I egal Aid||||||4,001|628|
||||||||378,725|420,629|
||Unrestricted||||||||
||Law Centre||||||88,000||
||Charity<br>Fund||||||50,250||
||Council||||||23,574|6,290|
||Charitable<br>Trust||||||20,000|38,479|
||Job Scheme||||||1,186||
||||||||561,735|426,919|
|5.|Other trading||activities||||||
||||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|Total Funds|
||||||Funds|2021|Funds|2020|
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||Fundraising|events|||||692|692|





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|6.|Expenditure|on charita||ble<br>activities||||
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||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
||||||Funds<br>f|Funds<br>6|2021<br>6|
||Staff costs||||88,544|183,449|271,993|
||Support costs||||25,867|153,149|179,016|
||||||114,411|336,598|451,009|
||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
||||||Funds|Funds|2020|
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||Staff costs||||20,091|197,228|217,319|
||Support costs||||40,893|90,816|131,709|
||||||60,984|288,044|349,028|
||Analysis of|support costs||||||
|||||||2021<br>F|2020f|
||Project costs|||||129,959|56,356|
||Office costs|||||10,950|40,348|
||Rent|||||9,056|12,075|
||Insurance|||||1,288|2,994|
||Travel costs|||||592|3,882|
||AGM costs||||||884|
||Depreciation|||||1,840|492|
||Advertising|||||3,071|4,006|
||Legal and professional||costs|||19,866|8,332|
||Independent|examination||fees||2,394|2,340|
|||||||179,016|131,709|
|7.|Net income|||||||
||Net income is stated after charging/(crediting):|||||||
|||||||2021<br>6|2020<br>f|
||Depreciation|oftangible||fixed assets||1,840|492|





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|Wages and salaries|248,343|208,848|
|Social security costs|16,621|868|
|Pension costs|5,077|827|
|Other staff welfare expenses|1,952|6,776|
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||||Computer|
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||Cost|||
||At 1 April 2020||2,516|
||Additions||12,652|
||At 31 March 2021||15,168|
||Depreciation|||
||At 1 April 2020||599|
||Charge for the year||1,840|
||At 31 March 2021||2,439|
||Carrying<br>amount|||
||At 31 March 2021||12,729|
||At 31 March 2020||1,917|
|11.|Debtors|||
|||2021|2020|
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||Trade debtors|250|12,990|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued income|12,000|8,447|
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|Trade creditors||56,987|2,236|
|Accruals and deferred|income|2,394|2,340|
|Other creditors||7,480|4,143|
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|||At 1 Apr 2020<br>6|Income|Expendituref|Transfers<br>5|2021|
|Legal Advice Clinic||12,903|34,000|(32,197)||14,705|
|Immigration<br>Advice|Centre|2,005||(2,005)|||
|Charitable<br>Trust||2,941|||(2,941)||
|Housing<br>and Business|||||||
|Development||4,744||(4,744)|||
|Legal Education||18,604|24,639|(22,832)||20,411|
|Suffolk Family Law Support|||||||
|Project||64||(64)|||
|Health Justice||1,501||||1,501|
|Legal Foundation||16,660||(16,196)|(464)||
|EUSS|||6,110|(858)|(5,252)||
|Right To BeHere||6,007||(2,685)|(3,323)||
|Tackling<br>Discrimination||46,949|114,824|(117,944)||43,829|
|Housing<br>Fund||1,825||(1,825)|||
|Foundation||5,000||(5,000)|||
|Justice Bus||53,059||(42,894)|(10,165)||
|Legal Aid - Housing||628|4,001|(113)||4,516|
|Home Office|||17,965|(21,808)||(3,843)|
|Covid Emergency|Fund||5,000|(5,000)|||
|Foundation|||1,500|(1,500)|||
|GYO|||75,000|(24,186)||50,814|
|Justice Foundation|||54,286|(29,347)||24,939|
|Community<br>Justice|||5,400|(5,400)|||
|Project Fund|||36,000|||36,000|
|||172,890|378,725|(336,598)|(22,145)|192,872|
|Designated<br>funds|||||||
|Charitable<br>Trust|||20,000|(18,941)|2,941|4,000|
|Justice Bus|||||9,682|9,682|
|Right To BeHere|||||3,323|3,323|
|Foundation|||||1,600|1,600|
|Trust|||2,000|(355)||1,645|
||||22,000|(19,296)|17,546|20,250|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||
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||||At 1 Apr 2019|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|2020|
|||||E||6|6|
|Tackling<br>Discdmination||(Old)|1,569|59,264|(60,833)|||
|Legal Advice Clinic|||10,388|32,000|(29,485)||12,903|
|Immigration<br>Advice Centre|||3,085||(1,080)||2,005|
|Charitable<br>Trust|||2,500|17,000|(16,559)||2,941|
|Housing<br>and Business||||||||
|Development|||8,340|11,450|(15,046)||4,744|
|Legal Education|Foundation||4,028|30,877|(16,301)||18,604|
|Suffolk Family Law Support||||||||
|Project|||5,373||(5,309)||64|
|Justice Week|||135||(135)|||
|Health Justice||||1,501|||1,501|
|Legal Foundation||||55,119|(38,459)||16,660|
|EUSS||||21,379|(26,266)|4,887||
|Right To BeHere||||17,100|(11,093)||6,007|
|Tackling<br>Discrimination||(New)||100,004|(53,055)||46,949|
|Housing<br>Fund||||8,555|(6,730)||1,825|
|Foundation||||5,000|||5,000|
|Justice Bus||||60,000|(6,941)||53,059|
|EH||||752|(752)|||
|Legal Aid - Housing||||628|||628|
||||35,418|420,629|(288,044)|4,887|172,890|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||
|General<br>Funds|||4,479|96,150|(60,984)|27,126|66,771|
|Designated<br>Funds|||32,013|||(32,013)||
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|Tangible fixed assets|10,320|498|1,911|12,729|
|Current assets|140,970|19,752|190,961|351,683|
|Net Assets|151,290|20,250|192,872|364,412|
|31March 2020|||||
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||Funds<br>8|Funds<br>8|Funds<br>8|Fundsf|
|Tangible fixed assets|881||1,036|1,917|
|Current assets|65,890||171,854|237,744|
|Net Assets|66,771||172,890|239,661|





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||Cash at bank and||in|hand|||225,026|181,268|406,294|
|16.|Operating|lease|commitments|||||||
||The total|future<br>minimum|||lease payments|under non-canceflable|operating|leases are as|follows:|



|2021|2020|
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