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Annual Report and Financial
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For the Year Ended 31 March 2023
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|Charity Reference and Administrative|Details||
|Report ofthe Board ofTrustees|||
|Report ofthe Independent<br>Auditors||25|
|Statement ofFinancial Activities||28|
|Balance Sheet|||
|Statement ofCash Flows||30|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||31|





|Charity Name:|Charity Name:||SERICC|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Charity Registration||Number:|1186836|||||||
|Registered|Office and Address:||SERICC|||||||
||||The Hall|||||||
||||West Street|||||||
||||Grays|||||||
||||Essex RM17 6LL|||||||
|Board ofTrustees:|||A Curnick (Chair)|||||||
||||G Harrington|(Secretary)||||||
||||M Heine|||||||
||||K Dobson|||||||
|Senior Management:|||Sheila Coates|MBE, Director||||||
||||Lee Eggleston|OBE, Operational|||Manager|||
|Auditors|||Rowland<br>Hall|||||||
||||Chartered<br>Certified Accountants||||and|Registered|Auditors|
||||44/54 Orsett Road|||||||
||||Grays|||||||
||||Essex RM17 SED|||||||
|Bankers|||CAF BANK Ltd|||Barclays||Bank||
||||25 Kings Hill Avenue|||9 High Street||||
||||Kings Hill|||Grays||||
||||West Mailing|||Essex||||
||||Kent ME194JQ|||RM17 6NB||||
|Solicitors|||Taylor Vinters|||||||
||||Merlin Place|||||||
||||Milton Road|||||||
||||Cambridge<br>CB4||ODP|||||
|HR Advisors|||Moore Kingston||Smith|HR Consultancy||Limited||
||||9Appold Street|||||||
||||London<br>EC2A 2AP|||||||





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||||||||Total|Total|
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||||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Funds|Funds|
|||||Restricted|Designated|General|to|to|
|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|31.03.23|31.03.22|
||||Notes|E|E|E|E|E|
|Income and endowments||from:|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies:|||||||||
|Donations||||||6,991|6,991|2,585|
|Grants||||||63,142|63,142|63,142|
|Charitable<br>activities:|||||||||
|Grants|||3|179,948||2,492,514|2,672,462|2,610,907|
|Fees for services &direct work|||4|||4,247|4,247|7,979|
|Other|||||||||
|Other trading<br>activities|||||||||
|Investments||||||5,121|5,121|127|
|Other Income||||||1,000|1,000||
|Total Income||||179,948||2,573,015|2,752,963|2,684,740|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||||
|Raising funds|||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||6|167,304||2,659,861|2,827,165|2,568,819|
|Total Expenditure||||167,304||2,659,861|2,827,165|2,568,819|
|Net Income/(expenditure)||||12,644||(86,846)|(74,202)|115,921|
|Transfers<br>between|funds|||(12,703)|66,638|(53,935)|||
|Net movement<br>in funds:||||(59)|66,638|(140,781)|(74,202)|115,921|
|Reconciliation offunds:|||||||||
|Total funds brought|forward|||19,629|941,748|730,702|1,692,079|1,576,158|
|Total funds carried|forward|||19,570|1,008,386|589,921|1,617,877|1,692,079|





||||31.03.2023|31.03.2022|
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|||Notes|E|E|
|Fixed Assets:|||||
|Tangible assets||12|916|1,220|
|Total fixed assets|||916|1,220|
|Current assets:|||||
|Debtors||13|201,319|160,201|
|Cash at bank and in hand|||1,486,290|1,574,207|
|Total current assets|||1,687,609|1,734,408|
|Liabilities:|||||
|Creditors falling due within one year||14|70,648|43,549|
|Net current assets|||1,616,961|1,690,859|
|Total assets less current liabilities and|||||
|Net assets|||1,617,877|1,692,079|
|The funds ofthe charity:|||||
|Restricted<br>income|funds||19,570|19,629|
|Unrestricted<br>income funds:|||||
|General fund|||589,921|730,702|
|Designated<br>fund|||1,008,386|941,748|
|Total unrestricted|funds||1,598,307|1,672,450|
|Total charity funds|||1,617,877|1,692,079|





|||STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS|STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS|STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS|STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS|STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS|||
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|||FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31"MARCH|||||2023||
||||||||Total|Total|
||||||||Funds|Funds|
||||||||to|to|
||||||Notes|31.03.23||31.03.22|
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|Net Cash used in Operating||Activities|||22||(93,038)|80,924|
|Cash flows from investing||activities:|||||||
|Interest|||||||5,121|127|
|Purchase ofequipment|||||||||
|Net cash provided<br>by (used in) investing||||activities|||5,121|127|
|Cash flows from financing||activities|||||||
|Change in cash and cash|equivalents||in the||period||(87,917)|81,051|
|Cash and cash equivalents|brought forward|||||1,574,207||1,493,156|
|Cash and cash equivalents||carried forward||||1,486,290||1,574,207|
|Cash and cash equivalents||consist of:|||||||
|Cash at bank and in hand||||||1,486,290||1,574,207|
|Short term deposits|||||||||
|Cash and cash equivalents||at31.03.23||||1,486,290||1,574,207|
|The notes on pages 31to 45 form part|||ofthese financial|||statements.|||





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||||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
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||||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
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|Donations and legacies:|||||||
|Thurrock Borough Council|||||||
|Development<br>Fund||||63,142|63,142|63,142|
|||||63,142|63,142|63,142|
|In the year to31.03.23,ofthe grant income classified as <br>fnil) was attributable<br>to restricted<br>income funds with the||||Donations<br>and Legacies income, fnil (2022:<br> balance off63 142(2022:f63 142)adding|||
|to unrestricted<br>funds.|||||||
|Income from Charitable activities:|||||||
|Thurrock Borough Council|||||||
|Children<br>and Families||||10,000|10,000|10,000|
|YP SVCounsellor<br>Children|& Families|||72,000|72,000|72,000|
|Housing<br>Related Support||||41,746|41,746|38,347|
|Brighter Futures||||44,988|44,988|44,988|
|Thurrock CCG/Better Care|Fund||43,170||43,170|39,267|
|Control Outbreak<br>Management|||Fund|||68,082|
|New Burdens Fund||||||20,000|
|Flexible New Burdens Fund|||20,729||20,729||
|Essex Police Crime Commissioner|||||||
|Sexual Violence Counselling||||1,758,488|1,758,488.|1,502,554|
|MOJ ISVA||||531,791|531,791|426,805|
|MOJ Extraordinary<br>COVID fund||||||147,709|
|Big Lottery Fund|||82,050||82,050|207,655|
|Rape Crisis England<br>&Wales|||||||
|External Relations Programme||||33,500|33,500|33,500|
|Essex Community<br>Foundation|||16,000||16,000||
|Basildon Borough Council|||18,000||18,000||
||||179,949|2,492,513|2,672,462|2,610,907|





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|INCOME F|OR SERVICES& DIRECT WO|RK||||
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|||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||E|E|E|E|
|Rape Crisis|—Hosting and Other Fees||3,947|3,947|4,940|
|Counselling|Sessions|||||
|Training|||300|300|350|
|Other Services &Direct Work|||||2,689|
||||4,247|4,247|7,979|



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|INVE|STMENT INCOME|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||E|E|E|E|
|Bank|Interest||5,121|5,121|127|





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||FOR TH|FOR TH|E YEAR ENDED 3|1"MARCH 2023|||
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|6.|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE||ACTIVITIES||||
||||Counselling|Prevention|31.03.23|31.03.22|
||||&Advocacy|&Education|Total|Total|
||||E|E|E|E|
||Counselling|Staff Salary costs|746,415|124,001|870,416|803,124|
||Counselling|Consultants|39,225||39,225|40,550|
||Staff training||12,946|1,547|14,493|21,950|
||Travel &Subsistence||7,427|825|8,252|4,599|
||Supervision||9,158|1,017|10,175|10,328|
||Health &Wellbeing||2,583||2,583|8,722|
||Service User|Costs|2,743||2,743|344|
||Counselling|Telephone costs|23,800|2,644|26,444|17,567|
||Language<br>&|Sign Interpreters|7,158||7,158|546|
||Essex Partnership<br>payments||1,334,449||1,334,449|1,234,064|
||Governance|costs (note 7)|252,967|75,936|328,903|307,606|
||Support costs (note 8)||127,627|54,697|182,324|119,419|
||||2,566,498|260,667|2,827,165|2,568,819|





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||FOR|FOR|FOR|THE Y|EAR ENDED 31|n MARCH 2023|||
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|7,|ANALYSIS OF GOVERNANCE|||COSTS|||||
||||||Counselling|Prevention|31.03.23|31.03.22|
||||||&Advocacy|&Education|Total|Total|
||||||f|E|E|E|
||Non-Counselling|Staff Salary||costs|181,881|45,470|227,351|234,065|
||Salary costs recharged to ICE|||NA||||(49,313)|
||Payroll/Accounting||fees||9,533|4,085|13,618|14,929|
||Audit fee||||4,830|2,070|6,900|4,668|
||Legal &Professional||fees||27,670|11,859|39,529|56,527|
||Consultancy||||25,200|10,800|36,000|36,000|
||Project Monitoring|||||||7,000|
||Insurances||||3,853|1,652|5,505|3,730|
||||||252,967|75,936|328,903|307,606|



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|||||Counselling|Counselling|Prevention|31.03.23|31.03.22|
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|||||&|Advocacy|&Education|Total|Total|
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|Rent|||||39,909|17,104|57,013|62,910|
|Heat and Light|||||3,162|1,355|4,517|1,240|
|Cleaning,<br>Repairs|||and maintenance||26,926|11,539|38,465|13,085|
|ITEquipment|&software||||20,651|8,851|29,502|15,786|
|ITSupport &|development|||costs|26,217|11,236|37,453|10,810|
|Printing,<br>stationery|||&postage||6,004|2,573|8,577|3,763|
|Publications,|subscriptions|||&publicity|2,226|954|3,180|8,746|
|Non-Counselling||Telephone||costs|1,393|597|1,990|1,322|
|Hospitality<br>&|refreshments||||695|298|993|675|
|General expenses||||||||264|
|Depreciation|||||213|91|304|407|
|Bank charges|||||231|99|330|411|
||||||127,627|54,697|182,324|119,419|





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|STAFF COSTS AND KEYPERSONNEL||||
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|||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|||Total|Total|
|||E|E|
|Salaries and Wages||977,036|929,437|
|Social Security Costs||95,344|82,178|
|Pension costs||25,387|25,574|
|||1,097,767|1,037,189|
|Average head count (number ofstaff employed)||27|28|
|During the year, the number ofhigher paid employees|was as follows:|||
|E60,000-E69,999||||
|E70,000-f79,999||||



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|AUDI|TORS REMUNERATION|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|||Total|Total|
|||E|E|
|Audit|fees|6,900|4,668|
|Other|services|3,780|4,404|
|||10,680|9,072|





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|FIXEDASSETS||||
|---|---|---|---|
||||Office|
||||Equipment|
|COST||||
|As at 1"April|2022||2,034|
|Additions||||
|Disposals||||
|As at31"March 2023|||2,034|
|DEPRECIATION||||
|As at 1"April|2022||814|
|Charge|||304|
|Eliminated<br>on|disposals|||
|As at31"March 2023|||1,118|
|NET BOOK VALUE||||
|At31"March|2023||916|
|At 31"March|2022||1,220|
|DEBTORS||||
|||31.03.23|31.03.22|
|||Total|Total|
|||E|E|
|Grants and fees receivable||48,065||
|Prepayments|and accrued income|4,315|12,262|
|Other debtors||148,939|147,939|
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|14. CREDITORS|||||||31.03.23||31.03.22||
|||||||||Total||Total|
|||||||||E||E|
|Trade|creditors|||||||8,922||1,430|
|Accruals and deferred|||income||||28,318|||7,760|
|Other|taxation|and social security|||||33,408|||34,359|
||||||||70,648|||43,549|
|15. ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENT||||IN|FUNDS||||||
||||||Balance|Income|Expenditure|Transfer||Balance|
||||||8/f|||||C/f|
||||||||E||E|E|
|Restricted|Funds:||||||||||
|Counselling|&Advocacy:||||||||||
|Thurrock|CCG/Better Care||Fund|||43,170|(48,082)|4,912|||
|National|Lottery Fund||||19,629|82,050|(102,064)||385||
|Essex Community||Foundation||||16,000|(16,000)||||
|Basildon|Borough|Council||||18,000||(18,000)|||
|Thurrock|Borough|Council|New||||||||
|Burdens|Flexible|Fund||||20,728|(1,158)||-|19,570|
||||||19,629|179,948|(167,304)|(12,703)||19,570|
|Designated|Funds:||||||||||
|Contingency<br>Fund|||||791,748|||66,638||858,386|
|Capital Fund|||||100,000|||||100,000|
|Legal Fund|||||50,000|||||50,000|
||||||941,748|||66,638||1,008,386|
|Unrestricted<br>Funds|||||730,702|2,573,015|(2,659,861)|(53,935)||589,921|
||||||1,692,079|2,752,963|(2,827,165)||-|1,617,877|





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|||||Balance|Income|Expenditure|Transfer|Balance|
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|||||Transferred||||C/f|
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|Restricted Funds:|||||||||
|Counselling<br>RAdvocacy:|||||||||
|Thurrock CCG/Better Care Fund||||10,878|39,267|(36,509)|(13,636)||
|National<br>Lottery|Fund|||5,814|207,655|(194,162)|322|19,629|
|National<br>Lottery|Community||Fund<br>322||||(322)||
|(Coronavirus<br>Community||Support||Fund)|||||
|Control Outbreak|Management|||Fund|68,082|(57,887)|(10,195)||
|Development<br>and|Policy:||||||||
|RCEW Digital Transformation||||308|||(308)||
|Ministry ofJustice:|||||||||
|Extra-Ordinary<br>Funds||||(2,823)|||2,823||
|||||14,499|315,004|(288,558)|(21,316)|19,629|
|Designated<br>Funds:|||||||||
|Contingency<br>Fund||||680,184|||111,564|791,748|
|Capital Fund||||100,000||||100,000|
|Legal Fund||||50,000||||50,000|
|||||830,184|||111,564|941,748|
|Unrestricted<br>Funds||||731,475|2,369,736|(2,280,261)|(90,248)|730,702|
|||||1,576,158|2,684,740|(2,568,819)||1,692,079|





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|19.|ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS|ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS|ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS||||
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||||Restricted|Designated|Unrestricted|Total|
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||||||E|E|
||Tangible|fixed assets|||916|916|
||Current|assets|21,190|1,008,386|658,033|1,687,609|
||Current|Liabilities|(1,620)||(69,028)|(70,648)|
||||19,570|1,008,386|589,921|1,617,877|
||Analysis|of Net Assets between Funds- Previous||year|||
||||Restricted|Designated|Unrestricted|Total|
|||||||31.03.22|
||||||E|E|
||Tangible|fixed assets|||1,220|1,220|
||Current|assets|28,421|941,748|764,239|1,734,408|
||Current|Liabilities|(8,792)||(34,757)|(43,549)|
||||19,629|941,748|730,702|1,692,079|





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|RELATED PARTY TRANS|ACTION|S|S|S|S|S||||
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|At 31"March 2023, an|amount|off147,939was owed to SERICC by|||||ICENA, an entity||in which|
|certain<br>key management<br>personnel|||of SERICC are directors.|||This|loan<br>is interest||free and|
|repayable<br>in instalments|from August||2023,as agreed||between|the two parties.||||
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF NET MOVEMENT|||IN|FUNDS TO NET CASH||FLOW FROM OPERATING||||
|ACTIVITIES||||||||||
||||||||31.03.23||31.3.22|
||||||||f||E|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||||||(74,202)||66,608|
|Add back depreciation|charge||||||304||407|
|Deduct interest income|shown|in investing||activities|||(5,121)||(127)|
|Decrease/(Increase)<br>in|debtors||||||(41,118)||44,737|
|Decrease/Increase<br>in creditors|||||||27,099||(30,701)|
|Net Cash used in Operating<br>Activities|||||||(93,038)||80,924|
|ANALYSIS OF CHANGES<br>IN NET DEBT||||||||||
|||||||At|Cashflaws||Total|
||||||01.04.22||||31.3.23|
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|Cash and cash equivalents|||||1,574,207||(87,917)|1,486,290||
|Total Net Debt|||||1,574,207||(87,917)|1,486,290||



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