## **New-U Enterprises Ltd**
**Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
**Company Registration Number: 11697528 Charity Number: 1186761**
## **New-U Enterprises Limited Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Contents**
|Legal and administrative information|1|
|---|---|
|Report of the Trustees|2-4|
|Independent Examiner's Report|5|
|Statement of Financial Activities|6|
|Balance Sheet|7|
|Notes to the financial statements|8-14|
## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Legal and administrative information**
**Company Registration Number** : 11697528 **Charity Number** : 1186761 **Charity's principal address** : 75 Castle Quarter Norwich Norfolk NR1 3DD
## **Directors and trustees**
The directors of the charitable company (the charity) are its trustees for the purpose of charity law. The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
**Trustees** :
Simeon Archer-Rand (Chair) Louise Harriet Gardiner Rev Heather Cracknell Robert Bradley Julia Nix Qeuczilla Jane Harrison
**Strategic Director:** Sue Buffin
**Independent Examiner** : D R Chilvers ACA FCCA For and on behalf of Johnson Holmes & Co. Chartered Accountants Towlers Court 30A Elm Hill Norwich NR3 1HG
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Report of the Trustees**
The trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2025.
## **Structure, governance and management.**
New-U Enterprises Ltd is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated at Companies House on 26 November 2018 and registered with the Charities Commission on 5 December 2019.
The names of the trustees are given on page 1. New trustees are appointed following interview. The Trustee Board is advised by a Steering Group which consists of the Strategic Director, Finance Lead, operational representative, further education representative, volunteer representative, referral partners, customer representative and participants.
## **Objects and activities**
The charitable objects of New-U Enterprises Ltd are: -
1. The relief of unemployment for the public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment.
2. To advance in life and help young people through providing support and activities which develop their skills and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.
3. The protection and preservation of the environment for public benefit by:
- a) The promotion of textile waste reduction, re-use, re-cycling, use of recycled products and use of surplus
- b) Advancing the education of the public about aspects of waste generation, waste management and waste recycling
- c) The relief of financial hardship by recycling and provision of clothes and other household items
A summary of the main activities undertaken by New-U Enterprises Ltd to achieve its charitable objects are:
New-U takes action to improve social mobility in unemployed people alongside environmental causes. We have a passion for reducing textile waste whilst developing skills and experiences for long term unemployed people with multiple barriers to overcome. New-U offers:
- Individualised work placements in a sustainable pre-loved clothes shop, honesty book library and textile up-cycle sessions to improve skills and increase confidence;
- Dedicated 1-2-1 support following a work experience placement from one of our trained volunteer mentors to achieve employability goals and next steps;
- Employability workshops to give advice and guidance to young people seeking or preparing for work;
- Free clothing to people in need, including individuals facing financial barriers to accessing appropriate wear for job interviews/formal occasions;
- Textile up-cycle sessions open to the general public, to re-use clothing no longer suitable for wearing; and
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Report of the Trustees**
- Pop up events in communities to enable the wider community to contribute towards a more sustainable lifestyle
New-U prides itself on being a warm, friendly and welcoming space for service users and customers alike in our boutique style pre-loved clothing shop in central Norwich, in the adjoining honesty book library and at textile upcycle sessions in Norwich, Cromer and surrounding areas.
## **Achievements and performance**
The shop in Castle Quarter Norwich was opened in 2018 and remains the central hub for charitable activities.
It is here that participants on work experience begin their placements of 4-6 weeks at 3 hours per week, followed by individual mentoring sessions.
Participants often present with multiple and complex barriers to overcome; 80% report a disability or hidden disability. The support, tailored to an individuals needs, is particularly important for this group of vulnerable adults to be able to recognise their skills and evidence this to potential employers.
The primary aim of our retail unit is to create a genuine work environment in which people can learn and grow rather than generate income. With 1-2-1 support from our shop manager, participants learn through carrying out activities within the shop alongside our small dedicated staff team and volunteers.
We are extremely grateful to the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund for remaining a key funder. This funding has given us the stability to adapt and innovate in response to the needs of unemployed and disadvantaged people and their communities. Our level of self-generated income via our shop and community events has remained consistent of recent years.
Over 96% of items of donated to New-U remain as wearable clothing and items are reintroduced into circulation through our retail and community activities. Only 4% are unsuitable for resale and therefore are re-purposed at our up-cycle workshops and the very few items that cannot be worn or up-cycled are sustainably disposed of.
We have expanded our up-cycling activities in this reporting period to reach further into communities and have renamed the regular sessions held in our Honesty Library, “Craft & Connect”. These free sessions are aimed not only at creatives but at anyone wanting to learn to craft or wanting to meet new people and are facilitated by New-U volunteers.
Throughout the year we have delivered interactive group workshops on employability skills; focusing on CV writing, job searches, preparing for interviews and confidence.
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Report of the Trustees**
To reach the broader community we have hosted pop up clothing events and fashion shows in locations throughout Norfolk and our well established £1 sale is held monthly in our Honesty Library.
New-U continues to work with many stakeholders and support organisations to provide clothing to those in need, and to offer free smart clothing for interview, or any other occasion where smart attire is required, direct from our Norwich shop.
## **Financial review**
The charitable company’s unrestricted reserves on 30 November 2025 were £139,515. It is our policy is to have a minimum of 6 months running costs in reserves. We have achieved this objective during the reporting period.
## **Public benefit statement**
The trustees have had due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning its activities for the year.
They have considered how the planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives set out in the governing document. The trustees are satisfied that the charity’s activities during the year have provided identifiable benefits to the public, in line with its charitable purposes.
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees.
........................................................... Simeon Archer-Rand (Chair) Date: 20/08/2026
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Independent Examiner's Report**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of New-U Enterprises Ltd**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 30 November 2025 which are set out on pages 6 to 14.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your company's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination: or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)).
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.
D R Chilvers ACA FCCA for and on behalf of Johnson Holmes & Co. Chartered Accountants Towlers Court, 30A Elm Hill, Norwich, NR3 1HG
Date:
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Statement of Financial Activities (Including Income and Expenditure Account)**
|**Note**
**Income:**
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
3
**Total incoming resources (gross**
**income in the year)**
**Expenditure:**
Raising funds
6
Charitable activities
7
**Total expenditure in the year**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
**before tax for the year**
Tax payable
**Net income/(expenditure)**
Transfers between funds
Other gains/(losses)
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total fund brought forward
Net movement in funds
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**2025**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2025**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
262
132,810
133,072
94,910
30,199
-
30,199
28,782|
|---|---|
||**30,461**
**132,810**
**163,271**
**123,692**
334
-
334
542
2,034
132,793
134,827
147,956|
||**2,368**
**132,793**
**135,161**
**148,498**
**28,093**
**17**
**28,110**
**(24,806)**
-
-
-
-|
||**28,093**
**17**
**28,110**
**(24,806)**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
||**28,093**
**17**
**28,110**
**(24,806)**
111,422
13,720
125,142
149,948
28,093
17
28,110
(24,806)|
||**139,515**
**13,737**
**153,252**
**125,142**|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. The notes on pages 8 to 14 form part of these accounts.
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Balance Sheet**
|**Note**
**Current assets**
Debtors
11
Cash in hand and at bank
**Total current assets**
**Liabilities**
**Creditors falling due within one year**
12
**Net current assets**
**Total net assets**
**Funds of the charity:**
Unrestricted funds
13
Restricted funds
**Total Charity funds**|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
292
5,000
170,160
138,317|
|---|---|
||**170,452**
**143,317**
(17,200)
(18,175)|
||**153,252**
**125,142**|
||**153,252**
**125,142**|
||139,515
111,422
13,737
13,720|
||**153,252**
**125,142**|
The company was entitled to exemption from audit under s477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to small companies subject to the small companies regime and in accordance with FRS102 SORP.
The financial statements were approved by the trustees and authorised for issue on …………………….. and are signed on their behalf by:
........................................................... Simeon Archer-Rand (Chair)
The notes on pages 8 to 14 form part of these accounts.
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **1 Accounting policies**
The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:
## **a) Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice’ applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)' (SORP) (effective January 2015), and the 'Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (FRS 102).They also comply with the reporting requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and the Charities Act 2011.
New-U Enterprises Ltd meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note.
## **b) Preparation of the financial statements on a going concern basis**
It is acknowledged that the current economic climate continues to create a degree of uncertainty in the Third Sector and also in the retail sector, along with increased financial hardship due to cost of living pressures that potentially restrict fundraising opportunities. New-U Enterprises Ltd is however in a strong position to fulfil its primary aims and objectives as there are more young people who are even further away from work and therefore our forecasted financial projections, which include confirmed, substantial grants from funding bodies, maintains a healthy financial position and liquidity. This position, allied to a good level of unrestricted reserves to help support the financial position, means that New-U Enterprises Ltd remains a going concern under current operating conditions.
## **c) Income recognition policies**
Items of income are recognised and included in the financial statements when all the following criteria are met:
- the charity has entitlement to the funds.
- it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources.
- the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## **d) Government grants**
The charity has received government grants in the reporting period.
## **e) Donated goods**
All clothing that the shop swaps/sells has been donated and has negligible realisable value due to the customary low value of items that have been donated. It is not reasonably practicable to measure its value and therefore is not classified as stock in hand under current assets.
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **e) Donated goods continued**
Shop fittings have mostly been donated from the former leaseholder of the shop premises and are not recognised as assets on this basis. The fittings are largely purpose built for the premises and would remain with the lease, once the existing lease contract is terminated by either party.
Computer equipment and shop till technology has only negligible realisable value due to its age and condition.
## **f) Expenditure and liabilities**
Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.
## **g) Stocks and work in progress**
There is no certainty that any of the stock holds potential for transfer of economic benefits as it is there to be swapped/sold as part of charitable activities.
## **h) Debtors**
Debtors (including trade debtors and grants receivable) are measured on initial recognition at settlement amount or amount advanced to the charity. Subsequently, they are measured at the cash or other consideration expected to be received.
## **i) Creditors**
The charity has creditors which are measured at settlement amounts.
## **2 Income from donations**
|General donations
General grants provided by government (note 4)
General grants provided by funders (note 5)
**Total**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
262
-
262
-
-
12,750
12,750
33,200
-
120,060
120,060
61,710|
|---|---|
||**262**
**132,810**
**133,072**
**94,910**|
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
**3 Income from charitable activities**
|Fundraising
Online sales
Shop sales
Other
**Total**
**4**
**Government grants**
Focus Group
Norfolk County Council Multiply Scheme
NCC Household Support Fund
**Total**
**5**
**General grants**
Big Lottery Reaching Communities
Groundwork (Comic Relief)
Grantscape
Ellderdale Trust
Norfolk Community Fund
Nichol Young Foundation
CABWI
Warburtons
Co-Op Upcycling
Norwich Freemans
Bassham Fund
Mr & Mrs Rackham
Aviva
Big Lottery Awards for All
**Total**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
2,234
-
2,234
843
3,072
-
3,072
4,316
24,893
-
24,893
23,343
-
-
-
280|
|---|---|
||**30,199**
**-**
**30,199**
**28,782**|
||**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
-
-
500
-
12,750
12,750
20,000
-
-
-
12,700|
||**-**
**12,750**
**12,750**
**33,200**|
||**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
92,819
92,819
43,604
-
5,000
5,000
-
-
5,000
5,000
-
-
3,000
3,000
-
-
3,421
3,421
-
-
2,000
2,000
-
-
8,420
8,420
-
-
400
400
-
-
-
2,781
-
-
-
4,000
-
-
-
2,000
-
-
-
500
-
-
-
2,245
-
-
-
6,580|
||**-**
**120,060**
**120,060**
**61,710**|
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **Donated goods, facilities and services**
New-U Enterprises Ltd holds short term licence to occupy 75 Castle Quarter, Norwich (New-U shop) and 73 Castle Quarter, Norwich (The Honesty Library). These licences are not recognised as benefits in kind or amortised as expenditure in the SOFA. Only one month notice is required for either party.
Unpaid volunteers support external activities and events, and support service users. Volunteer support help administer payroll and finances.
**6 Expenditure on raising funds**
|Staging fundraising events
**Total**
**7**
**Expenditure on charitable activities**
Staff salary costs (note 9)
Shop running costs
Other costs(including governance and support costs)
**Total**
**8**
**Governance and support costs**
Independent examiner’s fees
Payroll software
**Total**||**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
334
-
334
542|
|---|---|---|
|||**334**
**-**
**334**
**542**|
|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
1,790
116,899
118,689 133,933
195
12,719
12,914
7,497
49
3,175
3,224
6,526|
|||**2,034**
**132,793**
**134,827 147,956**|
|||**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
30
1,980
2,010
1,980
-
324
324
-|
|||**30**
**2,304**
**2,334**
**1,980**|
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **9 Staff costs**
|Salaries and wages
Social security costs
Pension costs (defined contribution scheme)
Staff expenses
**Total**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2025**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
1,774
115,828
117,602 124,954
(34)
(2,206)
(2,240)
6,501
36
2,391
2,427
2,478
14
886
900
-|
|---|---|
||**1,790**
**116,899**
**118,689 133,933**|
The total amount paid to key management personnel (includes trustees and senior management) for their services to the charity during the year was £82,287 (2024: £84,725).
The average number of employees during the year was 6 (2024: 7).
## **10 Defined contribution pension scheme**
|Amount of contributions recognised in the SOFA as an expense
**Total**
**11**
**Debtors**
Insurance prepayment
Norfolk County Council
**Total**
**12**
**Creditors – amounts falling due within one year**
Accruals
Taxation and social security
Deferred income
**Total**|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
2,427
2,478|
|---|---|
||**2,427**
**2,478**|
||**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
292
-
-
5,000|
||**292**
**5,000**|
||**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
2,010
1,980
1,453
2,475
13,737
13,720
**17,200**
**18,175**|
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **Deferred income**
Certain income of the charity is contract income that is subject to performance-related conditions. Where the income is received in advance of delivering the goods and services required by those conditions, the income is accounted for as a liability and shown on the balance sheet as deferred income. Deferred income is released to income in the reporting period in which the performancerelated or other conditions that limit recognition are met.
## **13 Analysis of charitable funds**
||**Balance at 1**||||**Balance at 30**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**December**|**Incoming**|||**November**|
||**2024**|**resources**|**Expenditure**|**Transfers**|**2025**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Unrestricted funds**||||||
|General fund|111,422|30,461|(2,368)|-|139,515|
|**Restricted funds**||||||
|Norfolk County Council|5,000|12,750|(17,750)|-|-|
|Big Lottery Reaching||||||
|Communities|8,720|92,819|(94,790)|-|6,749|
|Norfolk Community Fund|-|3,421|(3,421)|-|-|
|Groundwork (Comic Relief)|-|5,000|(5,000)|-|-|
|Grantscape|-|5,000|(5,000)|-|-|
|Ellderdale Trust|-|3,000|(3,000)|-|-|
|Nichol Young Foundation|-|2,000|(333)|-|1,667|
|CABWI|-|8,420|(3,499)|-|4,921|
|Warburtons|-|400|-|-|400|
||13,720|132,810|(132,793)|-|13,737|
|**Total funds**|**125,142**|**163,271**|**(135,161)**|**-**|**153,252**|
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## **New-U Enterprises Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 November 2025**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **Name of fund Description, nature and purpose of the fund**
## **Unrestricted funds**
General fund The ‘free reserves’ within the charity.
## **Restricted funds**
Norfolk County Council
Upcycling activities with a focus on mental health and wellbeing.
- Big Lottery Reaching Communities To support unemployed young people 18-25 to gain confidence and employability skills. To facilitate textile upcycling events. To facilitate low-cost community clothing events.
- Norfolk Community Fund Upcycling activities with a focus on mental health and wellbeing.
- Groundwork (Comic Relief) To alleviate poverty and provide hardship relief by offering supported work experience placements.
- Grantscape Community textile upcycling workshops in North Norfolk.
Ellderdale Trust To provide free kids clothing to families in need via community events.
Nichol Young Foundation Honesty Library improvements and IT equipment.
- CABWI Delivering employability skills and confidence through tailored work experience and mentoring to achieve positive outcomes.
Warburton To run upcycled Christmas jumper workshops within schools.
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