PREGNANCYCRISIS HELPLINE ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024 Caladine Chartered Certified Accounlants **PREGNANCY CRISIS HELPLINE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024** ## **CONTENTS** |Charity Information|1| |---|---| |Trustees' Report|2-3| |Accountants' Report|4| |Receipts & Payments Account|5| |Statement of Assets and Liabilities|6| |Notes to the Financial Statements|7| **PREGNANCY CRISIS HELPLINE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024** **Page 1** ||**CHARITY INFORMATION**| |---|---| |**Trustees**|Toby Cosh (Chair)| ||Olivia Coningham-Rolls| ||Christian Clive Copus| |**Charity Number**|1190460| |**Contact Address**|PO Box 78897| ||London| ||SW16 9PL| |**Accountants**|Caladine Limited| ||Chartered Certified Accountants| ||Chantry House| ||22 Upperton Road| ||Eastbourne| ||East Sussex| ||BN21 1BF| **PREGNANCY CRISIS HELPLINE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024** **Page 2** ## **Report of the Trustees** The Trustees have pleasure in presenting the annual report and accounts for the charity for the year ended 31 July 2024. ## **1 Objectives and activities** The primary activities of the charity is supporting people with an unplanned pregnancy, or following on from an abortion. ## **2 Achievements and performance** The Helpline received approximately 1,500 contacts from clients during this period. The charity finalised its partnership agreement with two other pregnancy support charities - Image (Manchester) and Options (London). This will increase the number of volunteers available to respond to the calls and messages received by the PCH Helpline, which at present exceed the capacity of the Helpline. A very experienced Team Coordinator joined the charity to help oversee the team and training. They will support the CEO with strengthening and growing the charity and coordinating the partnership teams, to ensure Helpline clients receive consistent, high-quality support during every call, and to enable the charity to support increasing numbers of clients. All safeguarding procedures and policies were reviewed and updated by an specialist external safeguarding agency. Extensive and ongoing fundraising work was done to secure funding for the charity. The volunteer team attended safeguarding, data protection and cyber security training sessions. They also received training on trauma-informed practice as part of a continuing professional development programme. An experienced supervisor was appointed to ensure the team receives regular support sessions, to develop their practice and keep them healthy and supported. Ongoing work with the data protection officer further strengthened the charity’s processes and policies. The charity appointed an additional safeguarding officer who is very experienced in working with vulnerable people. The Charity Commission completed a review of PCH and was happy with the governance and compliance of the charity. **Page 3** ## **2 Achievements and performance (continued)** Toby Cosh, who is currently a trustee for the charity, had been covering the CEO role voluntarily in the short term until sufficient funds could be raised to formally advertise and appoint a permanent CEO. Since September he has received a part-time salary for this role, as permitted by the charity’s constitution. ## **3 Financial review** There was a deficit of £3,786 on general funds during the year (2023: surplus of £13,306). ## **4 Structure, governance and management** The Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, charity number 1190460, and was registered with the Charity Commission in 2020. The Trustees who served during the period and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were: Toby Cosh (Chair) Olivia Coningham-Rolls Christian Clive Copus None of the trustees has any beneficial interest in the Charity. ## **T Cosh** Date: 19th Dec 2024 Mr Toby Cosh Trustee **PREGNANCY CRISIS HELPLINE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024** **Page 4** ## **ACCOUNTANTS' REPORT** In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Charities Act 2011, we have prepared for your approval the receipts and payments accounts of Pregnancy Crisis Helpline for the year ended 31 July 2024, which comprise the receipts and payments account and related notes from the charity's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given to us. As a practising member firm of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at http://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/ member/standards/rules-and-standards/rulebook.html. This report is made to the charity's trustees, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 20 July 2020. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of Pregnancy Crisis Helpline and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the charity's trustees, as a body, in this report. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Pregnancy Crisis Helpline and the charity's trustees as a body, for our work or for this report. It is your duty to ensure that Pregnancy Crisis Helpline has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and deficit of Pregnancy Crisis Helpline. You consider that Pregnancy Crisis Helpline is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year, and is not required to obtain an independent examiner's report. We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements of Pregnancy Crisis Helpline. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory financial statements. ## **Caladine** ## **Caladine Limited** Chartered Certified Accountants Chantry House 22 Upperton Road Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 1BF Dated: 20/12/2024 **PREGNANCY CRISIS HELPLINE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024** **Page 5** ## **Receipts and Payments Accounts** |Receipts
Donations and legacies
Grants
Loan received from Trustee
Interest
Total receipts
Payments
Bank charges
Consultancy
Software
Accounting
Advertising
Professional fees
Travelling and Subsistence
Insurance
Telecommunication
Staff wages
Staff pension
Staff expenses
HR
Office costs, printing and stationary
Training
Sundry
Total payments
Net receipts
Funds brought forward 01 August 2023
Funds carried forward 31 July 2024|Unrestricted
Funds
**2024**
£
8,758
12,000
-
221
20,979
110
1,282
1,026
144
2,339
40
25
207
188
17,280
519
355
715
471
-
64
24,765
(3,786)
14,104
10,318|Unrestricted
Funds
**2023**
£
9,562
13,000
2,500
24| |---|---|---| |||25,086| |||60
4,437
937
600
2,462
40
50
418
-
-
-
-
356
2,400
20| |||11,780| |||13,306
798| |||14,104| **PREGNANCY CRISIS HELPLINE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024** **Page 6** ## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31 July 2024** |**Cash Funds**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Liabilities**
Accountancy and Independent Examination fees 2023
Accountancy fees 2024
Payroll administration fees
Loan from Trustee|**2024**
**£**
10,318
10,318
780
660
336
2,500
4,276|**2023**| |---|---|---| |||**£**
798| |||798| |||780
-
-
2,500| |||3,280| Approved by the trustees on 19th Dec 2024 and signed on their behalf by ## **T Cosh** Mr Toby Cosh **Trustee** **PREGNANCY CRISIS HELPLINE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024** **Page 7** ## **Notes to the Financial Statements** ## **1 Accounting Policies** The Financial Statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis in accordance with Section 133 of the Charities Act 2011. ## **2 Donations** Donations are recognised when received by or on behalf of the charity. ## **3 Expenditure** Expenditure is recognised in the year in which it is incurred and allocated to the appropriate category. ## **4 Related party transactions** During the year, services totalling £1,282 (2023: £1,244) were provided to the Pregnancy Crisis Helpline by Narkan Ltd, a company for which Trustee Mr T Cosh is owner and director. Of this total, £360 (2023: £879) were reimbursements for payments made on behalf of the charity. The remaining £922 (2023: £365) was for website services provided by Narkan Ltd to PCH. During the year Trustee Toby Cosh was paid a salary of £17,280 and the charity made employer pension contributions for Mr Cosh of £519 in relation to his employment as the CEO of Pregnancy Crisis Helpline.