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2025-03-31-accounts

Charity no. 1189373

Active Impact CIO Report and Unaudited Financial Statements

31 March 2025

Active Impact CIO

Reference and administrative details

For the year ended 31 March 2025

Charity number 1189373
Registered office Unit 16
Highnam Business Centre
Newent Road
Highnam
Gloucester
GL2 8DN
Trustees The trustees who served during the year and up to the date of this
report were as follows:
Alison John Chair, resigned 2 May 2025
Archie Eaton appointed 16 January 2025
Victoria Livingstone-Thompson Safeguarding Trustee
Agnieszka Pasek
Colleen Stinton-Harris appointed 16 January 2025
Gemma Wilks appointed 10 April 2025
Emily Williams
Chief executive officer Nicole Hastie
Bankers Co-operative Bank plc
PO Box 150
Skelmersdale
Independent examiners Godfrey Wilson Limited
Chartered accountants and statutory auditors
5th Floor Mariner House
62 Prince Street
Bristol
BS1 4QD

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Active Impact CIO

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 March 2025

Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the Constitution and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities (effective from January 2019).

1 Structure, governance and management 1.1 Type of governing document

Constitution – based on the Charity Commission’s model governing document for Foundation Charitable Incorporated Organisations, i.e. where the trustees are the only members of the charity. The organisation converted from a Community Interest Company (CIC) on 6 May 2020 to become a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). Its governing document is its constitution dated from the time of its conversion.

1.2 Charitable objects

Such purposes as are exclusively charitable for the public benefit as the trustees shall see fit in particular: The relief of those in need by reason of disability, in particular but not exclusively, by working with them, their families, volunteers and agencies which support them.

1.3 Trustee selection methods

Active Impact CIO must have a minimum of three trustees. New trustees are appointed on the basis of their skills, knowledge and experience in related work. The charity aims to ensure a mix of disabled and non-disabled trustees are on the board at all times. Any new trustee of Active Impact CIO is appointed for a term of up to 3 years by resolution of the current trustees.

1.4 Organisational structure

The running of the charity is overseen by its board of trustees but the day to day operations are led by the CEO who reports to the board at quarterly meetings and as needed in between.

1.5 Risk management

The Trustees meet four times a year to review the charity’s performance against its strategic plan and to complete a financial review of management accounts. At Trustees' meetings the Board discuss any potential risks which may affect the organisation and the delivery of work programmes, which are assessed and any actions required minuted. This includes reviewing the reserves target to ensure the charity has funds to continue projects should income at any time be radically reduced and reviewing project spends and overhead costs.

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2 Activities, achievements and performance

2.1 Statutory declaration

The Trustees confirm that in setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit. In particular, the Trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set to ensure increased opportunities for disabled people to be included in their local communities and participate in activities they choose for themselves.

2.2 Overview (Executive summary)

Active Impact CIO exists to develop, promote and support activities which advance opportunities for disabled people to be included in activities carried out within the wider community by working with them, their families, volunteers and agencies which support them.

We champion inclusion by influencing, challenging, and helping local authorities, public institutions and other organisations to think strategically about the need to welcome and include disabled people of all ages within activities and opportunities in their local communities.

In 2024-25 our Short Breaks Inclusion Development Work on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council has included our biggest ever ‘Of Course We Can’ short breaks programme and an expanding training offer which continues to support activity providers and has also been offered to new Wraparound Care Providers as part of the DfE pilot programme.

We also lead on two other projects - You’re Welcome Gloucestershire, Neurodiversity Network, and are involved in projects such as the ‘Building Connections’ Post 16 Preparing for Adulthood work, and the Cotswold Youth Network. All these workstreams continue to further our aims of improving and promoting the widest possible range of inclusive opportunities available to disabled children, young people and adults in Gloucestershire through networks, training, strategic advocacy and ongoing developmental support for a wide range of activity providers. This year we have focussed on outreach to increase the number of partner organisations we now work with across Gloucestershire, and on supporting our current partners to reach more families and young people enabling them to take part in their inclusive opportunities for the first time.

2.3 Activities, achievements and performance breakdown Short Breaks Inclusion Support

2024-25 was the third year of our Short Breaks Contract with Gloucestershire County Council and we have had a two year service extension confirmed. Our focus this year has been around widening our own reach in terms of connections to more general/universal children’s activity providers. We have also focussed on supporting activity providers to target localities within Gloucestershire who currently have less access to inclusive opportunities. Our aim, as always, is to increase the number and quality of providers who are confident and committed to welcoming and including disabled children through training, networking and development support and our grant funded ‘Of Course We Can’ inclusive short breaks programme.

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Active Impact CIO

Report of the trustees

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Of Course We Can (OCWC) Inclusive Short Breaks Programme

Between April 24 and March 25, Active Impact agreed and awarded grants to 14 activity providers to create an exciting and varied programme of short breaks for disabled children aged 0-25 yrs. Events include week long workshops in music, drama and performance, day trips to theme parks, leisure and activity centre, day long activity sessions with a creative, wellbeing or STEM focus, holiday clubs, regular monthly or weekly creativity sessions at weekends or after school, and residential camping trips. As such the events vary in length; overall we have seen over 55 different short breaks ‘events’ delivered this year through the Of Course We Can programme.

2024-25 Of Course We Can Partner Providers:

Acting Up Artshape Bloodhound Education Cirencester Opportunity Group Creative Sustainability Gloucestershire Deaf Association Greenwoods Therapeutic Horticulture Velcro Collective / Hook and Loop K Dance Move More St Roses School The Music Works TwoCan Inclusive Theatre World Jungle Wychwood Festival

Of the 14 OCWC Providers we have worked with this year, four were new to the programme. Our Short Breaks Programme Co-ordinator supports providers who are new to the programme through guidance, peer networking and development work. The focus of this work with new partners is to support the creation of robust policies and procedures which ensure inclusive practice and safe, accessible opportunities are embedded in their short breaks work. For our established partners we provide ongoing guidance and ‘support and challenge’ through regular calls, visits and paperwork reviews.

The OCWC Programme also provided opportunities for families of disabled children to enjoy activities together by removing barriers to participation. This year these included:

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This year we have asked partners to focus on connecting with and welcoming children and young people who have not accessed their activities before. The result of this has been some successful pilots in areas where there were less opportunities available previously. Many of our OCWC providers also deliver activities which are available more widely to the general public. We emphasise the importance of OCWC events being a bridge so that disabled children may then gain confidence and build trust to join the wider activities the partners offer. All partners agree to provide inclusive opportunities, meaning that wherever possible, disabled and non-disabled children and young people take part alongside each other.

Our inaugural “Guide to Short Breaks: Gloucestershire” which was originally launched in Spring 2023 proved very popular. We’ve now produced a second edition which pulls together Short Breaks information from across the county and across sectors, and allows professionals, families and young people alike to find out about short breaks and how to access them.

Inclusion Training

We have delivered five opportunities for activity providers to take part in our ‘Inclusion Needs You’ training programme. This extended provision has been possible through partnership with Cotswold Youth Network supported by National Lottery funding additional funding from the DfE Wraparound Care pilot. 68 individuals attended across the year. We deliver these sessions in a variety of locations across Gloucestershire to ensure we are accessible for organisations in more rural areas as well as the urban centre of the county. Locations this year included Frith in Stroud District, Shurdington, Highnam and Churchdown. We also provided three Autism and Neurodiversity training sessions now titled ‘Understanding and Supporting Neurodivergent Children’ at venues across the county including Churchdown, Eastleach in the Cotswolds, and Shurdington. 56 individuals attended one of these sessions across the year.

Feedback from training attendees:

“This was the first inclusion event/course [I have attended] run by a disabled person and it felt so much more genuine and caring than the sterile approach an outside perspective can fall into.”

“The trainers continually demonstrated good practice and inclusion.”

“I have learnt things today that I had not thought of before.”

“Super content, brilliantly presented.”

What attendees intend to do with the learning/understanding they gained:

“Think about how to incorporate and adapt our offerings to be inclusive with reasonable adjustments.”

“Bringing to work the suggestions and the importance of the welcome and reviewing that.”

You’re Welcome Gloucestershire

You’re Welcome Gloucestershire (YW) is an inclusive online activity finder for disabled and nondisabled people in Gloucestershire. Our team use this platform to actively engage with local activity and venue providers to support their understanding and confidence in being inclusive of disabled people. We do this by providing inclusion support and encouraging organisations to create listings on You’re Welcome that contain clear, helpful details about accessibility and general information. This makes it easier for disabled people to identify suitable opportunities that can meet their specific requirements.

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Active Impact CIO

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 March 2025

We have spent the last year maintaining the updated version of the website and making additional improvements to ensure its useability. 32 organisations have joined in the last 12 months. We now have 250 regular/long term ‘things to do’ listings from a wide range of activities such as outdoor pursuits, arts and crafts, sports, theatres, music, food and drink, social interest groups, children’s activities and wellbeing opportunities. This includes 50 new listings across the year. The Event Directory included 250 new listings in 2024-2025.

Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF) Inclusion Support

We delivered two training sessions for HAF providers and provide representation on the HAF Steering Group offering strategic guidance on inclusive practice across the HAF programme.

Neurodiversity Network Manager

This user-led network for community organisations and activity providers is jointly commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council and the Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (NHS). This year we hosted our second Neurodiversity Network conference with 40 attendees participating in workshops about the Autistic SPACE Framework and a panel on intersectionality experiences of neurodivergent people who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week in March we co-hosted a spotlight and celebration of the work of network members at Shire Hall; offering local authority staff the opportunity to find out what local community providers can offer for neurodivergent people and how they can connect with these services to better assist people they are supporting.

The Network Coordinator has built connections between local activity providers and neurodivergent people over the last two years which continue to provide shared insight and support to increase the range of opportunities in Gloucestershire which are welcoming and inclusive of neurodivergent people.

The focus of this project will continue to be on making new connections and fostering shared good practice through various events. In addition, we are now producing an asset map of Neurodivergent friendly opportunities and wellbeing services with the county.

Feedback from the Conference:

“Good to see LGBT+ issues discussed and their intersectionality with neurodiversity.”

"Very well presented and great outcome from lived experiences."

Development Work

Our Head of Development coordinates a Post 16 ‘Preparing for Adulthood (PfA)’ project called Building Connections, which connects a small network of ‘Welcome’ groups or services within a community of practice. Welcome groups or services bring together young adults to explore their interests and strengths as routes into local communities, promoting a spirit or interdependence. These sessions are delivered by community partners with extensive experience in inclusion and youth development. Our role is to amplify their work within the sphere of Gloucestershire’s PfA offer, and to support their ongoing development through reflective practice, generation of ongoing funding and support for new partners joining the programme.

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Our other development work focuses on increasing our knowledge of current and potential provision of inclusive activities within localities in the county where our present networking and influence is less well developed. We are working with local partners in the Forest of Dean to embed inclusive practice in the new Forest Youth Network, and we are part of a National Lottery funded ‘Cotswold Youth Network’ where our role is to support inclusive practice within current youth provision and to use our Of Course We Can offer to add to the current local provision with the aim of welcoming young people not currently accessing social or wellbeing opportunities, and in some cases also not accessing school.

Strategic Representation and Coproduction

As part of our commitment to seeing the inclusion of disabled people prioritised across the social, wellbeing, creative and leisure sectors, we continue to focus on providing insight at a strategic level in Gloucestershire, where we highlight practical ways to increase inclusive practice. We have been a key VCS sector participant in the development of the One Plan for Children in Gloucestershire and our CEO and Head of Development hold representative roles on Boards working to bring about better, more inclusive provision at a district and county level.

We are cognisant of the ongoing pressures felt by statutory services due to funding cuts and increasing needs, and the experiences of many disabled people being that of having to fight to be heard and have access to core services. We therefore believe that connecting commissioners, service leads and other key council and health personnel with the amazing resource provided by inclusive grass roots, community organisations can help in bringing about attitudinal changes and innovative approaches that will lead to better outcomes for disabled children and young people in Gloucestershire.

2.4 How the public have benefitted

Each of Active Impact’s projects and our wider strategic and development work aims to ensure:

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2.5 Trustee development

The Trustees continue to use the resources on the Charity Commission website to develop their knowledge and skills in leading Active Impact to achieve its charitable aims. The Board has made significant progress in gaining new members who broaden and deepen the lived and professional experience collectively held within its membership.

2.6 Looking ahead

Our main short breaks contract now has an agreed two year extension, during which there will be a research project carried out to inform the recommissioning process. We will be active participants in the work to review current provision, identify gaps and new ways to deliver better services and share our insight from working with many short breaks providers to support the recommissioning process.

Our training is gaining increased interest from new sectors including education and council workforces. As such we are looking to extend our delivery through the cohort of trainers we have developed and supported over the last two years.

We are aware of the potential impact of local government reforms and devolution of funding to local authorities and are ensuring we continue to maintain strategic links and supportive relationships with our contacts in the County and District Councils.

3 Financial review

3.1 Details of Any Funds Materially in Deficit

The Charity has no funds which are materially in deficit.

3.2 Policy on reserves

Active Impact will maintain a level of reserve funding that:

For these purposes the Charity will endeavour to generate and maintain reserves which are sufficient to meet a minimum of three months' running costs (a current target of £50,000), with additional reserves available to be invested in the charity’s development when appropriate. The Charity's general funds are £66,229 at 31 March 2025 which is greater than its reserves target. The charity is planning a development event in Autumn 2025 which will spend down some of the development reserves.

3.3 Principal sources of funding and outgoings

Active Impact is primarily funded by contracts or grants for work with supports our charitable aims. This year we have received funding from Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (NHS) and Barnwood Trust.

Over 80% of our funding is used for salaries and other direct costs for charitable activity. Overheads and administration costs and contingency for reserves makes up no more than 20% of outgoings.

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Active Impact CIO

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For the year ended 31 March 2025

Active Impact holds and disburses a large grant on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council as part of our contractual obligations within the Short Breaks Inclusion Development work. The annual grant amount is £75,000 and is entirely designated to ‘grants onwards’ to chosen partner organisations to deliver short breaks.

3.3 Remuneration of trustees

All Trustees act in a voluntary capacity and receive no remuneration or other material benefits from their services to the Charity.

Out-of-pocket expenses necessarily and reasonably incurred by Trustees in promoting the purposes of the Charity are reimbursed at cost.

3.4 Financial status

The charity’s current resources from restricted and unrestricted funds are more than sufficient to meet its outgoings for at least next year.

All the indications are that this will remain the case for the foreseeable future.

3.5 Statutory statements on liabilities

The Trustees declare that:

Statement of responsibilities of the trustees

The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102: The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and the incoming resources and application of resources, including the net income or expenditure, of the charity for the year. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

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Active Impact CIO

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 31 March 2025

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charity's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Members of the charity have no liability to contribute to the assets of the charity in the event of winding up. The trustees are members of the charity but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in the charity.

Independent examiners

Godfrey Wilson Limited were re-appointed as independent examiners to the charity during the year and have expressed their willingness to continue in that capacity.

Approved by the trustees on 14 July 2025 and signed on their behalf by

Victoria Livingstone-Thompson

Victoria Livingstone-Thompson - Trustee

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Independent examiner's report

To the trustees of

Active Impact CIO

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Active Impact CIO (the CIO) for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 12 to 24.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the CIO 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 CIO’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 examiner’s statement

Since the CIO’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), which is one of the listed bodies.

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:

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.

William Guy Blake

Date: 14 July 2025 William Guy Blake ACA Member of the ICAEW For and on behalf of:

Godfrey Wilson Limited Chartered accountants and statutory auditors 5th Floor Mariner House 62 Prince Street Bristol BS1 4QD

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Active Impact CIO

Statement of financial activities

For the year ended 31 March 2025

Restricted Unrestricted
Note
£
£
Income from:
Donations and legacies
3
143,825
8,700
Charitable activities
4
-
137,581
Investments
-
2,021
Total income
143,825
148,302
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
-
1,074
Charitable activities
131,141
146,780
Total expenditure
6
131,141
147,854
8
12,684
448
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
27,909
98,063
Total funds carried forward
40,593
98,511
Net income / (expenditure) and
net movement in funds		 2025
Total
£
152,525
137,581
2,021
292,127
1,074
277,921
278,995
13,132
125,972
139,104		 2024
Total
£
155,888
124,866
1,099
281,853
2,014
265,583
267,597
14,256
111,716
125,972

All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in note 14 to the accounts.

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Active Impact CIO

Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2025

Note
Current assets
Debtors
11
Cash at bank and in hand
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due within 1 year
12
Net current assets
Net assets
13
Funds
14
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
General funds
Total charity funds		 £
4,718
145,273
149,991
10,887		 2025
£
139,104
139,104
40,593
32,282
66,229
139,104		 2024
£
2,189
139,476
141,665
15,693
125,972
125,972
27,909
30,489
67,574
125,972

Approved by the trustees on 14 July 2025 and signed on their behalf by

Victoria Livingstone-Thompson

Victoria Livingstone-Thompson - Trustee

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Active Impact CIO

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 March 2025

1. Accounting policies

a) General information and basis of preparation

Active Impact CIO is a charitable incorporated organisation registered in England and Wales. The registered office address is Unit 16, Highnam Business Centre, Newent Road, Highnam, Gloucester, GL2 8DN.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities in preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

Active Impact CIO 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) Going concern basis of accounting

The accounts have been prepared on the assumption that the charity is able to continue as a going concern, which the trustees consider appropriate having regard to the current level of unrestricted reserves and confirmed future funding. There are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

c) Income

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Income from the government and other grants, whether 'capital' grants or 'revenue' grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred.

Income received in advance of provision of services per Service Level Agreement is deferred until criteria for income recognition are met.

d) Funds accounting

Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of the charity. Designated funds are unrestricted funds of the charity which the trustees have decided at their discretion to set aside to use for a specific purpose. Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charity's work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.

e) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

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Active Impact CIO

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 March 2025

1. Accounting policies (continued)

f) Grants payable

g) Allocation of support and governance costs

Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Governance costs are the costs associated with the governance arrangements of the charity, including the costs of complying with constitutional and statutory requirements and any costs associated with the strategic management of the charity’s activities. These costs have been allocated between cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities on the following basis:

ities on the following basis:
2025 2024
Fundraising 1% 1%
Charitable activities 99% 99%

h) Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.

i) Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

j) Creditors

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

k) Pension costs

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme for its employees. There are no further liabilities other than that already recognised in the SOFA.

l) Accounting estimates and key judgements

In the application of the charity's accounting policies, the trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and underlying assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods.

There are no significant accounting estimates or judgements present in the current or prior period of accounts.

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Active Impact CIO

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 March 2025

2. Prior period comparatives: statement of financial activities

Income from:
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Investment income
Total income
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
3.
Income from donations and legacies
Donations
Grants
Total income from donations and legacies
Prior period comparative:
Donations
Grants
Total income from donations and legacies
Net income / (expenditure) and
net movement in funds		 Restricted
£
£
150,025
5,863
-
124,866
-
1,099
150,025
131,828
-
2,014
131,948
133,635
131,948
135,649
18,077
(3,821)
Restricted
£
£
-
3,101
143,825
5,599
143,825
8,700
Restricted
£
£
-
1,489
150,025
4,374
150,025
5,863
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted		 2024
Total
£
155,888
124,866
1,099
281,853
2,014
265,583
267,597
14,256
2025
Total
£
3,101
149,424
152,525
2024
Total
£
1,489
154,399
155,888

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Active Impact CIO

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 March 2025

4. Income from charitable activities

Income from charitable activities
Gloucestershire County Council
Other service income
Total income from charitable activities		 2025
Total
£
119,768
17,813
137,581		 2024
Total
£
105,866
19,000
124,866

All income from charitable activities in the current and prior period was unrestricted.

5. Government grants

The charity receives government grants, defined as funding from Gloucestershire County Council to fund charitable activities. The total value of such grants in the period ending 31 March 2025 was £157,113 (2024: £126,025). There are no unfulfilled conditions or contingencies attaching to these grants.

6. Total expenditure

Staff costs (note 9)
Grants payable (note 7)
Activity costs
Premises costs
Accountancy and
professional costs
Office costs
IT and website
Training
Development
Printing, postage and
stationery
Insurance
Sub-total
Allocation of support
and governance costs
Total expenditure		 Raising funds
£
925
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
925
149
1,074		 Charitable
activities
£
114,742
81,543
30,074
12,867
-
-
-
-
-
219
-
239,445
38,476
277,921		 Support and
governance
costs
£
25,982
-
-
-
6,055
3,168
655
176
1,087
-
1,502
38,625
(38,625)
-		 2025 Total
£
141,649
81,543
30,074
12,867
6,055
3,168
655
176
1,087
219
1,502
278,995
-
278,995

Total governance costs were £1,575 (2024: £1,500)

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Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 31 March 2025

6. Total expenditure (continued) Prior period comparative

Staff costs (note 9)
Grants payable (note 7)
Activity costs
Premises costs
Accountancy and
professional costs
Office costs
IT and website
Training
Workplace accessibility
Travel
Bank fees
Printing, postage and
stationery
Insurance
Sub-total
Allocation of support
and governance costs
Total expenditure		 Raising funds
£
1,707
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,707
307
2,014		 Charitable
activities
£
90,950
89,160
30,929
13,882
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
189
-
225,110
40,473
265,583		 Support and
governance
costs
£
25,104
-
-
-
6,713
1,904
1,544
241
3,700
103
20
-
1,451
40,780
(40,780)
-		 2024 Total
£
117,761
89,160
30,929
13,882
6,713
1,904
1,544
241
3,700
103
20
189
1,451
267,597
-
267,597

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For the year ended 31 March 2025

7. Grants payable

During the year, 28 (2024: 27) new grants were awarded to 14 institutions (2024: 14) and nil to individuals (2024: nil) for charitable activities.

Total grants committed to during the year were as follows:

2025
£
Grants payable to institutions:
Acting Up
8,457
ArtShape
6,233
ArtSpace
-
Bloodhound
7,076
Cheltenham Borough Council
445
Cirencester Opportunity Group
1,984
Creative Sustainability CIC
9,860
Gloucestershire Deaf Association
6,404
Greenwoods Therapeutic Horticulture
8,500
K Dance (formerly Spiral Dance)
5,584
Move More
-
Music Works
5,000
St Roses School
7,500
Hook and Loop
2,000
TwoCan Inclusive Theatre Company
5,500
Wychwood Festival
-
World Jungle
7,000
Total grants payable to institutions
81,543
At 31 March 2025 there were no outstanding grants payable (2024: £nil).		 2024
£
2,328
10,830
330
7,500
-
4,272
11,146
-
6,000
4,050
15,000
7,500
7,500
-
7,347
5,357
-
89,160

8. Net movement in funds This is stated after charging:

Trustees' remuneration
Trustees' reimbursed expenses
Independent examiners' remuneration:
Independent examination (excluding VAT)		 2025
£
Nil
Nil
1,575		 2024
£
Nil
Nil
1,500

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For the year ended 31 March 2025

9. Staff costs and numbers

Staff costs were as follows:

Salaries and wages
Social security costs
Pension costs		 2025
£
136,398
2,892
2,359
141,649		 2024
£
114,451
1,362
1,948
117,761

No employee earned more than £60,000 during the current or prior period.

The key management personnel of the charity comprise the Trustees and the Chief Executive Officer. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel were £28,732 (2024: £28,082).

Average head count
Average FTE		 2025
No.
9.50
4.50		 2024
No.
8.25
4.50

10. Taxation

The charity is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for charitable purposes.

11. Debtors

Trade debtors
Accrued income		 2025
£
4,718
-
4,718		 2024
£
1,830
359
2,189

12. Creditors : amounts due within 1 year

Trade creditors
Accruals
Other taxation and social security		 2025
2024
£
£
2,124
6,712
1,575
1,500
7,188
7,481
10,887
15,693

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For the year ended 31 March 2025

13. Analysis of net assets between funds

Current assets
Current liabilities
Net assets at 31 March 2025
Prior period comparative
Current assets
Current liabilities
Net assets at 31 March 2024		 £
40,836
(243)
40,593
£
31,211
(3,302)
27,909
Restricted
funds
Restricted
funds		 Designated
funds
£
34,047
(1,765)
32,282
Designated
funds
£
33,075
(2,586)
30,489		 £
75,108
(8,879)
66,229
£
77,379
(9,805)
67,574
General
funds
General
funds		 Total
funds
£
149,991
(10,887)
139,104
Total
funds
£
141,665
(15,693)
125,972

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For the year ended 31 March 2025

14. Movements in funds

Restricted funds
You're Welcome
Cotswold Youth Network Inclusion
Support and Training
Of Course We Can Partner Grants
Thriving Communities
Build Connections
Total restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds:
Short Breaks Opportunity Fund
Short Breaks for Disabled Children
Neurodiversity Network
Holiday Activities and Food
Wraparound Care Inclusion Training
Total designated funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 At 1 April
2024
£
2,089
-
25,820
-
-
27,909
4,978
24,382
979
150
-
30,489
67,574
98,063
125,972		 Income
£
40,505
7,000
75,000
6,320
15,000
143,825
3,101
105,000
10,000
500
16,518
135,119
13,183
148,302
292,127		 £
£
(37,688)
4,906
(4,936)
2,064
(79,382)
21,438
-
6,320
(9,135)
5,865
(131,141)
40,593
(1,085)
6,994
(113,699)
15,683
(10,738)
241
(650)
-
(7,154)
9,364
(133,326)
32,282
(14,528)
66,229
(147,854)
98,511
(278,995)
139,104
At 31
March 2025
Expenditure		 £
£
(37,688)
4,906
(4,936)
2,064
(79,382)
21,438
-
6,320
(9,135)
5,865
(131,141)
40,593
(1,085)
6,994
(113,699)
15,683
(10,738)
241
(650)
-
(7,154)
9,364
(133,326)
32,282
(14,528)
66,229
(147,854)
98,511
(278,995)
139,104
At 31
March 2025
Expenditure
40,593
6,994
15,683
241
-
9,364
32,282
66,229
98,511
139,104

Purposes of restricted funds

You're Welcome

£24,480 from Barnwood Trust and £16,025 are grants given to jointly support the ongoing use of the You’re Welcome Glos website as a community focussed online resource for finding inclusive opportunities in Gloucestershire. There is an underspend of around £5k this year due to recruitment delays. This funding will be used in the next financial year to provide additional project hours within our existing team to increase the number of organisations who are aware of and sign up to the project.

Of Course We Can Partner Grants

GCC supplies a £75k grant which Active Impact disburses to agreed partners to support their inclusive activities as part of the ‘Of Course We Can’ short breaks programme. None of this funding can be spent by Active Impact for our own use.

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For the year ended 31 March 2025

14. Movements in funds (continued) Purposes of restricted funds (continued)

Cotswold Youth Network Inclusion Support and Training

Year one of a three-year project providing £7k per annum toward our role as inclusion support for the network. Funding is used for staff time, communication and marketing support and the delivery of inclusion training for local providers. This project began in late summer 2024. Training will be delivered in the next financial year with sessions planned for the Cotswolds area in May 2025.

Building Connections

Year one of a three-year project. £15k from Gloucestershire County Council to coordinate the multi-partner project ‘Build Connections’ in which each organisation provides a welcome group or an individual pathway toward finding connections in the young person’s local community or within an interest based group. £7.5k of this is funding to be disbursed between the other partners, there has been one grant made from this so far to provide a shared license to use impact measurement software (Upshot) for the project. The remaining amount has been carried forward and the group will collectively decide how it is best used in the second year of the

Thriving Communities

Grant awarded to enable the Building Connections project to induct a new provider as part of the project. TwoCan Inclusive Theatre will be delivering this work with development support from our Head of Development and Creative Sustainability. Initial planning has begun for this but the grant has not yet been disbursed, this will happen in the next financial year.

Purposes of designated funds

Short Breaks Opportunity Fund

These are unrestricted donations the charity has received which they wish to use for the purpose of furthering their Short Breaks programme and increasing opportunities for disabled children to take part in activities alongside their non-disabled peers in Gloucestershire.

Short Breaks for Disabled Children

This contract with GCC has multiple delivery elements including the management of the Of Course We Can short breaks programme, the ‘Inclusion Needs You’ training programme, the ‘Aiming High’ Network and the ‘Inclusive Activities Award’ development work. This project is on track for all deliverables though some are more fully established than others.

Neurodiversity Network Fund

This contract runs from January – December and is now in it’s third and final year with current funding ending in December 2025. The funding covers staff time and the cost of contract activities which are mainly the provision of inclusive events which bring together activity providers and neurodivergent members of the local community to share good practice and improve local services.

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For the year ended 31 March 2025

14. Movements in funds (continued) Purposes of designated funds (continued) Holiday Activities and Food

This contract supports ongoing strategic representation on the HAF steering group and developmental support for HAF providers to increase their inclusive practice. Training delivered as part of this work was funded from development reserves as the agreed work was postponed at the request of GCC in the previous financial year.

Wraparound Care Inclusion Training

A contract to deliver training and sensory kits for local members of the DfE Wraparound Care pilot. This project is half way through its delivery and will continue into the next financial year.

Prior year comparative
Restricted funds
You're Welcome
Cotswold Youth Network Inclusion
Support and Training
Of Course We Can Partner Grants
Total restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds:
Short Breaks Opportunity Fund
Short Breaks for Disabled Children
Neurodiversity Network
Holiday Activities and Food
Total designated funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 At 1 April
2023
£
2,810
2,042
4,980
9,832
3,489
25,415
1,475
-
30,379
71,505
101,884
111,716		 Income
£
40,025
-
110,000
150,025
1,489
100,000
10,000
5,886
117,375
14,453
131,828
281,853		 £
£
(40,746)
2,089
(2,042)
-
(89,160)
25,820
(131,948)
27,909
-
4,978
(101,033)
24,382
(10,496)
979
(5,736)
150
(117,265)
30,489
(18,384)
67,574
(135,649)
98,063
(267,597)
125,972
Expenditure
At 31
March 2024		 £
£
(40,746)
2,089
(2,042)
-
(89,160)
25,820
(131,948)
27,909
-
4,978
(101,033)
24,382
(10,496)
979
(5,736)
150
(117,265)
30,489
(18,384)
67,574
(135,649)
98,063
(267,597)
125,972
Expenditure
At 31
March 2024
27,909
4,978
24,382
979
150
30,489
67,574
98,063
125,972

15. Related party transactions

No related party transactions took place in the current or prior period.

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