## **Sincere Support**
**Charity Number 1182656 Trustees Report and Receipts and Payments Account for the year 1st February 2021 to 31st January 2022**
**Sincere Support (Charity Number 1182656)**
## **Report of the Trustees for the year 1st February 2021 to 31st January 2022**
The trustees have the pleasure in presenting their report and the financial statements of the charity for the period 1st February 2021 to 31st January 2022.
## **Reference and Administration details**
Sincere Support is a registered charity, charity number 1182656.
## **Principal address**
C/O Meadow Hall Centre Limited Management Suite 1 The Oasis Meadowhall Centre Sheffield S9 1EP
## **Trustees**
The trustees who served in the year were:
Stephen Haley Lister (Chairman)
Sheena Powell-Bevan
Geoffrey Brignall Gary Harvey
Ellis Brooke Powell-Bevan
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity was constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Foundation on 27th March 2019. The governing document is a constitution.
Where there is a need for new trustees, these are identified and appointed by the existing Trustees
## **Objectives and activities**
The charity was formed to relieve the stresses experienced by the family and carers of children with terminal or serious illnesses in hospital in the region of Yorkshire, Humber and Lincolnshire and to support other properly constituted groups working for the same purpose.
## **Achievements and performance**
The charity was formed on 27th March 2019 and superseded Sincere Support (charity number 1100487) from 16th October 2019.
£22,399 has been raised in the period from fundraising activities, which is unrestricted. Funding of £81,904 has also been secured from the National Lottery Community Fund, which is restricted.
## **Financial performance**
The reserves of the charity are unrestricted at the year end and are available to meet the costs of running the charity for its objectives and activities, for donation and fundraising activities.
At the year end the reserves were £70,518.
The receipts and payments accounts have been prepared under section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and in accordance with the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice. The financial statements have been prepared from the accounting records and information and explanations provided to Jonathan White & Co Accountants Limited.
## **Further Information**
As part of our ongoing National Lottery programme, we have had an external evaluation of our activities completed. This is highly detailed and we have attached a copy at the end of this document.
## **Sincere Support (Charity Number 1182656)**
## **Report of the Trustees for the year 1st February 2021 to 31st January 2022**
# **Continued**
## **Public Benefit**
The trustees have referred to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit when reviewing the aims and objectives and in planning future activities. The trustees have considered how planned activities contribute to the aims and objectives set ensuring activities offer and satisfy the public benefit requirement as stated in charity law.
This report and financial statements were approved by the trustees on the 10th November 2022 and is signed on behalf of them all.
Stephen Haley Lister Chairman
## **Sincere Support (Charity Number 1182656)**
## **Independent Examiners Report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above named charity for the year ended 31st January 2022, which are set out on pages 4 to 6.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **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 which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
10th November 2022
## **Jonathan White**
**Jonathan White & Co Accountants Limited 134 Dobbin Hill Sheffield S11 7JD**
## **Sincere Support (Charity Number 1182656)**
## **Receipts and Payments Account for the year 1st February 2021 to 31st January 2022**
|**Receipts**
Fundraising activities
Other income
Total receipts
**Payments**
Family support
Donations made
Sessional workers
Salaries 1.
Training
Fundraising
General office costs
Telephone
Motor vehicle
Legal and professional
Accountancy
Marketing
Cleaning of premises
Total payments
**Asset and investment purchases**
Assets purchased
Total asset and investment purchases
Total payments
Net (Payments)/Receipts for the year
Funds balance as at 1st February 2021
Funds balance as at 31st January 2022|**Restriced**
**Funds 2022**
**£**
81,904
0
81,904
7,805
0
11,050
58,272
0
0
86
0
0
3,000
804
730
3,143
84,890
305
305
85,195
(3,291)
26,109
22,818|**Unrestriced**
**Funds 2022**
**£**
22,399
9,000
31,399
4,742
200
3,774
0
0
2,729
5,504
1,139
737
0
0
482
260
19,567
20,190
20,190
39,757
(8,358)
57,431
49,073|**Total Funds**
**2022**
**£**
104,303
9,000
113,303
12,547
200
14,824
58,272
0
2,729
5,590
1,139
737
3,000
804
1,212
3,403
104,457
20,495
20,495
124,952
(11,649)
83,540
71,891|**Total**
**2021**
**£**
150,554
3,300
153,854
11,029
0
9,668
55,839
80
0
4,468
1,146
396
350
804
684
3,611
88,075
14,329
14,329
102,404
51,450
32,091
83,541|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Sincere Support (Charity Number 1182656)**
## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31st January 2022**
|**Assets retained for the charity's own use**
Motor vehicles
Furniture, fixtures and fittings
Plant and machinery
Computer equipment
**Cash at Bank**
**Total assets**
**Liabilites**
Trade creditors 2.
Taxation 3.
**Total Liabilites**|**Restriced**
**Funds 2022**
**£**
0
0
305
0
305
22,818
22,818
1,373
1,373|**Unrestriced**
**Funds 2022**
**£**
20,190
95
1,094
1,960
23,339
49,073
49,073
0
0|**Total Funds**
**2022**
**£**
20,190
95
1,399
1,960
23,644
71,891
71,891
1,373
1,373|**Total**
**2021**
**£**
12,300
95
1,094
1,960
15,449
83,541
83,541
1,331
575
1,906|
|---|---|---|---|---|
**Sincere Support (Charity Number 1182656)**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year 1st February 2021 to 31st January**
## **Notes**
1. Included with Salaries are salary payments of £18,568 to MR S Lister, a trustee.
2. Trade Creditors:
Pension contributions 569 Professional fees 804
1,373