## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** AIM INFORMATION MATTERS CIO **Other names charity is known by** AIM GROUP FOUNDATION **Registered charity number (if any)** 1178244 **Charity's principal address** 6 Hoffmans Way Chelmsford **Postcode CM11GU** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Andrew Binns|N/A||| ||Bridget Mazdon|N/A||| ||Zoe Mccracken|N/A||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **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** Memorandum and Articles of Association Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) In selecting trustees for appointments as charity trustees. We appoint with Trustee selection methods skills, knowledge and experience needed for administration of the CIO (eg. appointed by, elected by) - (eg. trust, association, company) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: Para 151 - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of 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** To provide support and guidance for individuals looking for work and apprenticeship. Providing apprenticeship advise and guidance across Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge. Educating teachers on apprenticeship routes. March **2012** **TAR** 2 Pre employability skills Apprenticeship advice and guidance Charity Placement service Career Guidance Schools support on soft skills for students leaving schools Teacher CPD **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance Providing apprenticeship guidance to 50,000 16- 18 years olds virtually **Summary of the main** following the pandemic. **achievements of the charity during the year** Provide CPD session for teachers across target areas educating on apprenticeship guidance Working with local employee’s to support young people into work. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - 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)** Lewis Mazdon **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Managing Director **etc) Date** 18th July 2022 March **2012** **TAR** 5 ||**AIM INFORMATION MATTERS**|**AIM INFORMATION MATTERS**|**AIM INFORMATION MATTERS**|**AIM INFORMATION MATTERS**|**AIM INFORMATION MATTERS**|**1178244**|**1178244**|**1178244**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period from**||**01/10/2020**||**To**||**30/09/2021**||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**695**
**-**
**59,905**
**13,062**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**10,000**
**-**||**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**695**
**-**
**10,000**
**59,905**
**13,062**
**-**
**-**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Product Sales|||||||**-**||**-**| |Contract Sales|**695**||||||**695**||**57,016**| |Grant-Essex Community Foundation|||**-**||||**-**||**-**| |Grants (Other)|**-**||**10,000**||||**10,000**||**5,208**| |Donations|**59,905**||**-**||||**59,905**||**115,781**| |Other Income|**13,062**||||||**13,062**||**5,056**| |Bank Interest|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**73,662**||**10,000**||**-**||**83,662**||**183,061**| ||**-**
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**table).**|||||||||| |New loan|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**20,000**| |vat not yet repaid|**127**||**-**||**-**||**127**||**8,743**| |**_Sub total_**|**127**||**-**||**-**||**127**||**28,743**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||**73,789**||**10,000**||**-**||**83,789**||**211,804**| ||**-**
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**61**
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**-**||| |Cost of goods sold|**-**||||||**-**||**18**| |Marketing and Advertising|||||||**3,505**||**14,002**| |Website costs|||||||**61**||**320**| |Employee Wages and Salaries|**95,168**||||||**99,932**||**140,292**| |Rent|||||||**-**||**102**| |Electricity|||||||**-**||**1**| |Vehicle expenses|**1,963**||||||**1,963**||**1,607**| |Travelling|||||||**-**||**1,060**| |Hotel and Accomodation|||||||**-**||**280**| |Entertainment|||||||**-**||**67**| |Printing, postage and carriage|**3**||||||**3**||**562**| |Stationery|**96**||||||**96**||**355**| |Telephone & Internet|**56**||||||**56**||**319**| |Computer & Software|||||||**1,558**||**1,747**| |Repairs and renewals|**336**||||||**336**||**439**| |Subscriptions|**247**||||||**822**||**898**| |Insurance|||||||**-**||**619**| |Training Costs|||||||**-**||**119**| |General expenses|||||||**-**||**1,671**| |Bank Charges and Interest|**184**||||||**184**||**390**| |Legal fees|||||||**-**||**-**| |Consultancy & professional fees|||||||**-**||**10,758**| |**_Sub total_ **|**98,054**||**10,463**||**-**||**108,516**||**175,626**| ||**1,271**||||||**-**
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**(see table)**|||||||||| |Asset purchases|||||||**-**||**6,615**| |Repay Loan|**1,271**||||||||| |vat payments not yet recovered|||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**1,271**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**6,615**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||**99,325**||**10,463**||**-**||**108,516**||**182,241**| ||||||||||| ||**(25,536)**||**(462)**||**-**||**(24,727)**||**29,563**| ||**(462)**||**462**|
|||**-**||**-**| ||**29,136**||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||**3,138**||**(0)**||**-**||**(24,727)**||**29,563**| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by two trustees on behalf of all the
trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Bank Account
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**
Recoverable Grants
Trade Debtors
**Details**
**Details**
Computer and Office Equipment
**Details**
Trade Creditors
PAYE /NI
Pensions
Other Creditors
VAT
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**to nearest £**
**-**||**Endowment funds**
**to nearest £**| |||**1,972**||**-**||**1,972**| |||||||| |||||||| |||**1,972**||**-**||**1,972**| |||Agreement Error
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**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
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**Fund to which liability**
**relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
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Unrestricted
**3,011**
Unrestricted
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Unrestricted
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Unrestricted
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Bridget Mazdon
Print Name
Andrew Binns
Zoe McCraken||||Agreement Error| |||||||**Endowment funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**When due (optional)**| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||Date of approval| |||Andrew Binns||||| |||Zoe McCraken||||| |||Bridget Mazdon||||| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report** |**Charity no (if any)**
**Date:**
**Report to the trustees/ members of** AIM Information Matters
**Set out on pages** one to two
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity for the period ended**30 / 09 / 2021**.
**On accounts for the period ended**
30 September 2021
1178244
**Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters
have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me
cause to believe that in, any material respect:
• accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity
as required by section 130 of the Act or
• the accounts do not accord with those records
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.
**Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity 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 the charities accounts carried
out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my
examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the
Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Name:** SARAH WALKER
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** FCA
**Signed:**
14.07.22
**Address:** 89C RAYLEIGH AVENUE LEIGH ON SEA ESSEX SS9 5DL|**Charity no (if any)**
**Date:**
**Report to the trustees/ members of** AIM Information Matters
**Set out on pages** one to two
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity for the period ended**30 / 09 / 2021**.
**On accounts for the period ended**
30 September 2021
1178244
**Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters
have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me
cause to believe that in, any material respect:
• accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity
as required by section 130 of the Act or
• the accounts do not accord with those records
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.
**Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity 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 the charities accounts carried
out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my
examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the
Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Name:** SARAH WALKER
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** FCA
**Signed:**
14.07.22
**Address:** 89C RAYLEIGH AVENUE LEIGH ON SEA ESSEX SS9 5DL|**Charity no (if any)**
**Date:**
**Report to the trustees/ members of** AIM Information Matters
**Set out on pages** one to two
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity for the period ended**30 / 09 / 2021**.
**On accounts for the period ended**
30 September 2021
1178244
**Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters
have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me
cause to believe that in, any material respect:
• accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity
as required by section 130 of the Act or
• the accounts do not accord with those records
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.
**Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity 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 the charities accounts carried
out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my
examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the
Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Name:** SARAH WALKER
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** FCA
**Signed:**
14.07.22
**Address:** 89C RAYLEIGH AVENUE LEIGH ON SEA ESSEX SS9 5DL| |---|---|---| |**Section B Disclosure**||| |**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner**
**wishes to disclose**.|Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern
(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and
guidance for examiners).|| |||| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/ members of** Charity Name AIM Information Matters 30[th] September 2021 **On accounts for the year ended** **Charity** 1178244 **no (if any)** **Set out on pages** One to Three I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **30/09/2021** ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 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 the Trust’s accounts 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material **examiner's** matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination **statement** I have no concerns and have come across no 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:** **Date:** 14/07/2022 **Name:** Sarah Walker **Relevant** ICAEW **professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** 89C Rayleigh Avenue, Leigh on Sea, Essex, SS9 5DL 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **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). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **Oct 2018** **IER**