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Message from Jo...

It’s over 12 months since I started as CEO at Leeds Older People’s Forum. The passion and professionalism of the team and the trustees to truly make a difference to the lives of older people in Leeds has made it an incredible year. All the achievements and the huge range of workstreams detailed in this report couldn’t have happened without them. In addition, the continued support of our funders, who believe in what we do is so vital to ensure older people have the opportunities, choices and support they need to live the life they want.

Our members

Having a large membership of organisations who work with older people, and members who are older people gives us a strength of voice and influence. We contacted all our members this year to reconfirm their status and remind them of the benefits of their membership:

• Opportunities to network and develop new partnerships

• Opportunities to be a third sector representative and to hear from representatives about the decisions made about older people’s service provision

• The power of a collective voice on issues that impact on the third sector and older people.

• Opportunities to ensure the needs of communities of place and of interest are heard at a citywide level

• Vote at the AGM of Leeds Older People’s Forum

• Influence our strategic direction of travel

To date 67 members have signed up, and are growing!

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Our programmes

Forum Central partnership

Forum Central is delivered in partnership by Leeds Older People’s Forum and Volition. It is the collective voice for the health and care third sector in Leeds with a vision of a better quality of life for people in Leeds.

Our work connects third sector organisations in Leeds with decision-makers in health and social care. We influence strategic developments, policy and ways of working, including links with Leeds City Council, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Local Care Partnerships (LCPs) in Leeds.

Enhance

Enhance was launched in May 2022. Funded largely by Leeds Community Healthcare the aim of the programme is to support people through a safe and sustainable discharge from hospital and Neighbourhood Teams into a secure

home environment. The programme links 14 third sector delivery partners with Leeds Community Healthcare Neighbourhood Teams and other agencies to avoid delayed discharges and readmissions for individuals, and to enhance capacity throughout the system.

In its first year, Enhance saw these 14 third sector delivery partners work with 10 Neighbourhood Teams, to reach 572 people, 56% of whom live in disadvantaged communities.

Enhance is a person-centred, holistic approach. In a ‘before and after’ questionnaire process, participants returned an increased average score across physical, mental, and social health, as well as improvement to overall quality of life and reduced fatigue.

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Friendly Communities

We are a proud partner of Age Friendly Leeds with Leeds City Council. Our role relies on our strong community connections, our ability to engage with and capture the voices of older people of Leeds and our relationship with community organisations.

Our Friendly Communities programme includes:

An Age Friendly Steering Group of approximately 15 older people who are consulted on age friendly matters, help to shape services for older people and help ensure the public realm is age friendly.

Age and Dementia Friendly Businesses. We have 136 businesses signed up to this scheme, including Leeds Libraries who have an action plan to bring on all community libraries in Leeds. Momentum continues to gather with increasing engagement from GP practices.

Dementia Friendly Leeds aims to ensure people who are living with dementia - along with their carers - remain an active part of the city and keep doing the things they enjoy. We promote a listing of social opportunities for people living with dementia on our website, and share facilitation of the DEEP Group (Dementia Engagement and Empowerments Project) network.

Age Friendly Ambassadors Anyone who is willing to take action to help raise awareness and spread the Age Friendly message to others can sign up as an ambassador. We now have over 200 Age Friendly Ambassadors in Leeds!

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Third sector development

Neighbourhood Networks - LOPF worked with the Leeds Neighbourhood Networks (LNNs) to develop closer relationships,and promote closer strategic working and increased LOPF membership. ‘This year saw the completion of the partnership between LOPF, Centre for Ageing Better and Leeds City Council, and the publication of a final evaluation report of the LNNs by Sheffield Hallam University. The report was launched locally and nationally. We continued to promote the work of the LNNs with increased strategic representation across the city including with LCC and NHS partners.

Grant making - LOPF has awarded £1.4M in grants to delivery partners and grantees this year through various programmes listed above, and below as well as Warm and Cosy; Healthy Warm and Well and Household Support Fund. We would like to thank our funders at Independent Age, Leeds City Council and Leeds Community Foundation for enabling us to do this.

Learning facilitation - We offered training sessions to front-line staff on: social isolation and loneliness, co-production, person-centred ways of working, as well as facilitating peer learning sessions with members working on our programmes such as Enhance.

Be Online and Stay Safe (BOSS) - We were chosen as one of four partners on the Media Literacy Taskforce by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). This includes work with four organisations to support the media literacy skills of culturally diverse older people.

Travel Connections - In May 2022 we were awarded one year’s funding from the Department for Transport’s Tackling Loneliness with Transport Fund. The principal aim of the Travel Connections programme was to test 11 different approaches under five themes. The first four themes - buses, taxis, active travel and community transport - explored how the vast network of existing transport resources in Leeds could be better used to reduce loneliness. The fifth theme - travel conversations - focussed on creating conversations between older people and decision-makers so that older people’s voices are listened to at a strategic level.

Travel Connections in numbers

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Men’s Health Unlocked

Through our work on Men’s Health Unlocked (MHU) we aim to be a voice for men and boys; bring representation to the sector in the new commissioning landscape at sub-regional and local levels; developand champion good practice, and raise awareness of men’s health. In the last 9-12 months, we have:

• Consulted 700 men via street outreach, signposting over 200 to activities and services; engaged 136 men via 24 health awareness sessions, involving businesses, healthcare and community agencies

• Engaged 15 Men’s Health Advocates, bringing lived experience, knowledge and passion into our project; recruited / supported 16 local business Manbassadors, sharing health messages with over 250 men

• Co-produced, with 12 marginalised men, five editions of a men’s zine, containing 57 contributions from men; shared the zine (and built relationships) across 113 distributing organisations

• Hosted over 100 organisations via MHU network events

• Raised awareness of men’s health, and helped organisations to identify a collaborative opportunity with 85% of attendees at networking meetings

• Received over 250 hits per month to our men’s activities directory; reached tens of thousands via our various social media channels and shared 14 MHU newsletters with over 200 contacts

Shine Magazine

Thanks to the support of Public Health, the Travel Connections programme and Awards for All we have published four magazines this year, including a special Jubilee issue.

A group of older volunteer writers supported by editor Tom Bailey, have done a fabulous job of gathering stories of Leeds older people and bringing them alive in print.

Around 4,000 copies of each have been distributed across the city through a network of third sector organisations whose assistance has been vital. They tell us that Shine magazine is a great tool for helping them to connect with the most socially isolated older people.

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Spotlight on… Hey Neighbour

A small grant scheme

Funding from Leeds City Council managed by Forum Central, with support from Voluntary Action Leeds May 2022

What did it do?

Gave local people, community groups and small organisations access to small grants between £500 - £2500.

What was it for?

To encourage neighbourliness and improve well-being in communities. To get people to reconnect after Covid.

What happened? Projects used many innovative ways of brinigng communities and people together.

Projects used exisitng assets in communities such as venues, green spaces, skills, passions, volunteer time, exisiting networks and connections, donations of goods.

96 70 70K Applications Grants Total Value Awarded of Grants

Small pots of money...

combined with existing assets in communities...

83% 20% 6% 74% In innercity Targetted Targetted older Intergenerational band young people people Activity

..can have a BIG IMPACT!

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Voice

We have relaunched the Equalities Hub for Older People, an opportunity for older people to be listened to by city leaders on themes important to older people. We will follow up the issues raised and report back on actions taken.

Leeds is an Age and Dementia Friendly City

This has been another exciting year for our Friendly Communities project with:

• Our target of 100 Age and Dementia Friendly business sign ups reached and more!

• The Age Friendly Steering Group being in constant demand for consultations including Leeds Markets and Leeds City Station

• The number of Age Friendly Ambassadors grow to over 250

The Zurich Foundation has provided some funding for this year. This grant has allowed us to sustain and develop the work of Dementia Friendly Leeds including the facilitation of the DEEP (Dementia Engagement & Empowerment Project) group and the Dementia What’s On listing. We have also been able to develop a new strand of work to create a co-produced city centre mural with the DEEP group that showcases the Dementia Friendly work in Leeds. We are able to sustain the facilitation of the Dementia Friendly steering group and the work to encourage more local businesses to sign up as Age & Dementia Friendly Businesses. Dementia Friends sessions have also been delivered thanks to this funding.

The Up & Go DEEP group (Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project) has worked on a project funded by Dementia Enquirers which asked the question “Can a dementia diagnosis open doors to new opportunities?” A report is available if you would like to see the answer!

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The third sector is an equal partner in the city

We will continue to represent our members and the third sector at a strategic level in Leeds, through structures such as the Frailty Population Health Board, which is part of the Leeds Office of the Integrated Care Board and transformation programmes such as HomeFirst. We will support members to be allies of senior leaders in the city. This forms part of our work with Volition on the Forum Central partnership.

We will support the development of the sector through our Good Practice Mentor role providing access to training in loneliness, social isolation, intersectional work, and providing a warm welcome. We are also developing new resources to support warm space training, and can offer support to organisations who want to access training and development for staff and trustees in outreach and co production. The Good Practice Mentor offer will be developed over the next two years and may also facilitate links with UK organisations.

Through our test learn and improve methodology on both BOSS and NHS Charities Together work we will develop toolkits on media literacy and creative practice to share with the sector.

LOPF will continue to seek opportunities for grant making and capacity building within the sector.

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The health, wellbeing and independence of older people is improved

The Enhance Programme, funded by Leeds Community Healthcare Trust (LCH), was launched in May 2022 and is now in its second year. Enhance supports safe and sustainable discharge from hospital and Neighbourhood Teams into a secure home environment. The programme links 14 third sector delivery partners across the city with Neighbourhood Teams and other agencies to avoid delayed discharges and readmissions for individuals, and to enhance capacity throughout the system.

Delivery partners carry out home visits to provide holistic, non-clinical support that includes access to health appointments, access to food, support with self management, applications for benefits and support to develop social connections - and much more.

A full evaluation of phase one is available on our website, but this showed that without the Enhance offer, clients would have fallen through gaps and not received the help they needed (e.g., repairs would remain outstanding, income remain unclaimed, prescribed exercise would not be maintained). This was particularly so for isolated clients with limited family support. We are currently working to sustain this work.

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Leeds Older People’s Forum Charity 1191030

REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1191030

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

FOR LEEDS OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM

Thomas Coombs Limited Statutory Auditor Chartered Accountants 3365 The Pentagon Century Way Thorpe Park Leeds West Yorkshire LS15 8ZB

LEEDS OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM

CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

	Page
Reference and Administrative Details	1
Report of the Trustees	2 to 7
Report of the Independent Auditors	7 to 10
Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities	11
Balance Sheet – Consolidated & Charity	12
Consolidated Cash Flow Statement	13
Notes to the Cash Flow Statement	14
Notes to the Financial Statements	15 To 26
Detailed Statement of Financial Activities	27

LEEDS OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

TRUSTEES	W K Rollinson
	C Lawrence
	J Welham
	R J Harington
	Dr D S Smith
	S J Phillips
	Dr S K Rait
	R Koivunen (resigned 17/02/2022)
	J P O'Dwyer
	C J Mahoney
	P M Gradys
	I Anderson
	K J Badon (appointed 14/07/2022)
	C S McNamara (appointed 14/07/2022)
PRINCIPAL ADDRESS	24C Josephs Well
	Hanover Walk
	Leeds
	LS3 1AB
REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER	1191030
AUDITORS	Thomas Coombs Limited
	Statutory Auditor
	Chartered Accountants
	3365 The Pentagon
	Century Way
	Thorpe Park
	Leeds
	West Yorkshire
	LS15 8ZB

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The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31st March 2023. The trustees have adopted the provisions of 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) (effective 1 January 2019).

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES Objectives and aims

The objects of the CIO are:

• The relief of older people in the Metropolitan District of Leeds (the area of benefit) and in particular the relief of poverty and the promotion of good health of older people, primarily, but not exclusively, by associating voluntary, statutory and other agencies and individuals in a support network.

• The advancement of the education of older people int eh area of benefit in particular in relation to financial, health, housing, social and welfare entitlements.

• The advancement of the education of the public, and promotion of research concerning the needs of older people in relation to the provision of community care, and the publication of the usual results of such research.

• The promotion of the benefit of older people in the area of benefit without distinction of sec or political, religious or other opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and individuals in a common effort to provide educational, cultural, social welfare, recreational and leisure-time facilities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for older people.

In accordance with their duties pursuant to Section 4 of the Charities Act 2011, the Trustees have considered the Charity’s objects and activities in light of the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit “Charities and Public Benefit”.

Friendly Communities

Leeds Older People's Forum (LOPF) are one of the partners of Age Friendly Leeds with Leeds City Council. Each partner has developed clear roles. The LOPF role has been developed based on our strong community connections, our ability to engage with and capture the voices of older people of Leeds and our relationship with community organisations.

This work was funded by Leeds City Council and Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group.

Through our Friendly Communities Project we have delivered:

An Age Friendly Steering Group - This group meets on a monthly basis and consists of approximately 15 older people who are consulted on age friendly matters and who help to shape services for older people and help ensure the public realm is age friendly. The group have consulted on the redesign of the Leeds Train Station. The group have also worked on an intergenerational project with the Preservative Party and Leeds City Museum to generate the Overlooked Exhibition.

Age and Dementia Friendly Businesses: The Friendly Communities have created a resource pack for local business and organisations to become age and dementia friendly. There are 96 businesses signed up to this scheme, including Leeds Libraries who have an action plan to bring on all community libraries in Leeds. Momentum continues to gather. GP practices are starting to sign up and we recently delivered a very successful Wise Up To Ageism session to the staff at one of them as well as a Dementia Friends session.

Dementia Friendly Leeds - this is a campaign to raise awareness of dementia and make services more accessible. The aim is to ensure people who are living with dementia - along with their carers - remain an active part of the city and keep doing the things they enjoy. Our Friendly Communities team have created a listing of social opportunities for people living with dementia that is available on-line and kept up to date. We also share facilitation of the DEEP Group (Dementia Engagement and Empowerments Project) network.

Third Sector Support and Development

Leeds Older People's Forum is the infrastructure organisation in Leeds for third sector organisations and community groups working with older people. We aim to support these groups in a number of ways - through peer learning and good practice mentoring; development and support opportunities and grant making:

Good Practice Mentor and Peer Learning:

• Learning from our National Lottery funded, Time to Shine Programme has been documented in an easy-read catalogue of the

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documents and products to be more accessible to the sector.

• Training sessions have been delivered to front-line staff on: social isolation and loneliness, co-production, person centred ways of working.

• Peer learning sessions facilitated to encourage further joint working and sharing of skills.

Development and support opportunities:

• Leeds Neighbourhood Networks: quarterly meetings were held with the Neighbourhood Networks with Leeds City Council. Meetings discussed issues relevant to the Networks and LOPF supported with issues raised in the intervening time, such as digital inclusion, funding and strategy. LOPF supported the ongoing evaluation of the Leeds Neighbourhood Networks by Sheffield Hallam University and were part of the core project team alongside Leeds City Council and Centre for Ageing Better.

• NHS Charities Together: LOPF secured funding to work with 4 Neighbourhood Network's to develop their local offer, in partnership with The Performance Ensemble.

• Being Online Safe and Secure (BOSS): LOPF was chosen as one of four partners on the Media Literacy Taskforce by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). As part of this work we have identified four organisations, working with culturally diverse older people, to support their media literacy skills and be safe on line.

• 1001 Stories: LOPF is collaborating with The Performance Ensemble to collect 1001 stories from older people in Leeds. To date we have almost 700 stories. The culmination of the collection will be a two week takeover of the Playhouse next year.

• Strategic representation: LOPF represents the third sector at a strategic level in Leeds, with representation on the Frailty Population Health Board, which is part of the Leeds Office of the Integrated Care Board. We also have represented our members at Integrated Care Steering Group; Community Health and Wellbeing Transformation Stakeholder Group; Intermediate Care Redesign Board and the Housing & Health Breakthrough Programme Board. This forms part of our work with Volition on the Forum Central partnership.

Grant making:

LOPF supported the third sector and older people by having a number of grant programmes as follows:

• The Household Support Fund was launched via our Forum Central Partnership with Volition. LOPF led on the development and oversight of this project which aimed to allocate £290,000 to third sector organisations to support those struggling with fuel and food costs over the winter period. We allocated funds to 60 community groups to support local people through this rolling grants programme.

• Healthy, warm and well grants are aimed at older people's organisations to help older people stay warm and well. We launched the fund in February 2023. We funded 18 organisations and groups to a total of £72,071, the following financial year.

• Warm and Cosy: LOPF secured funding from Independent Age to offer £1K grants to organisations supporting older people through the cost of living crisis.

• International Day of Older People: with funding from Leeds City Council and LOPF, we funded 13 organisations to celebrate International Day of Older People, with the theme of 'Celebrating Resilient Women'.

Enhance

The Enhance Programme was launched in May 2022. Funded largely by Leeds Community Healthcare the aim of the programme is to support people through a safe and sustainable discharge from hospital and Neighbourhood Teams into a secure home environment. The programme links 14 third sector delivery partners with Neighbourhood Teams and other agencies to avoid delayed discharges and readmissions for individuals, and to enhance capacity throughout the system.

The third sector delivery partners are:-

• Action for Gipton Elderly

• Armley Helping Hands

• Association of Blind Asians

• Age UK Leeds

• Burmantofts Senior Action - Cross Gates & District Good Neighbours Scheme - Feel Good Factor

• Health For All

• Leeds Irish Health & Homes

• Moor Allerton Elderly Care (MAECare)

• Older People's Action in the Locality (OPAL)

• Neighbourhood Elders Team - Garforth - Seacroft Friends & Neighbours

• Care & Repair

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In it's first year the Enhance programme saw these 14 third sector delivery partners work with 10 Leeds Community Healthcare Neighbourhood Team work together to reach 404 people.

Enhance is a person centred, holistic approach and through the use of a before and after questionnaire process, participants returned an increased average score across physical, mental, and social health, as well as improvement to overall quality of life and reduced fatigue.

The first year evaluation report summary also highlighted that without the Enhance offer, clients would have fallen through gaps and not received the help they needed (e.g., repairs would remain outstanding, income remain unclaimed, prescribed exercise would not be maintained). This was particularly so for isolated clients with limited family support.

As this first year comes to a close we have received confirmation that Enhance will be funded for a 2nd year at the same level and we will work to carry the learning of year one with us as we shape year two

Men's Health Unlocked

Through our work on Men's Health Unlocked we aim to be a voice for men and boys; bring representation to the sector in the new commissioning landscape at sub-regional and local levels and develop, share and champion good practice, and raise awareness of men's health. In the last 9-12 months, we have:

• Consulted 700 men via street outreach, signposting over 200 to activities and services; engaged 136 men via 24 health awareness sessions, involving businesses, healthcare and community agencies

• Engaged 15 Men's Health Advocates, bringing lived experience, knowledge and passion into our project; recruited / supported 16 local business Manbassadors, sharing health messages with over 250 men

• Co-produced, with 12 marginalised men, 5 editions of a men's zine, containing 57 contributions from men; shared the zine (and built relationships) across 113 distributing organisations

• Hosted over 100 organisations (cumulative) via MHU network events

• Hosted presentations from organisations at 6 network meetings. representing diverse men including migrants, abuse victims, and offenders

• Raised awareness of men's health, and helped organisations to identify a collaborative opportunity with 85% of attendees at networking meetings

• Received over 250 hits per month to our men's activities directory; reached tens of thousands via our various social media channels; hared 14 MHU newsletters with over 200 contacts

• Hosted organisations representing diverse communities at network meetings including migrants, gypsy and traveller communities and offenders

• Hosted the following academics:

o Prof Ben Hine (parental separation)

o Dr Robin Hadley (Childless older men) o Prof Alan White (All physical and mental health) o Dr Mike Jestico (Measuring health and wellbeing)

Travel Connections

In May 2022 Leeds Older People's Forum received a one year grant of £447,500 from the Department for Transport's Tackling Loneliness with Transport fund. The principal aim of the Travel Connections programme was to test 11 different approaches under five themes. The first four themes - buses, taxis, active travel and community transport - explored how the vast network of existing transport resources in Leeds could be better used to reduce loneliness. The fifth theme - travel conversations - focussed on creating conversations between older people and decision makers so that older people's voices are heard at a strategic level.

Through our Travel Connections programme we delivered 11 pilot projects with 18 delivery partners, who delivered activities for a total of 909 people across the life of the programme. These were:

• Shine Magazine: A Grand Day Out, group outings on public transport with follow up articles in the magazine.

• AVSED / SJK Private Hire Vehicle Partnership - a local Neighbourhood Network working closely with a local private hire company to encourage their members to visit their community building.

• Travel Apps and Bus passes - delivered with Leeds Irish Health and Homes, Morley Digital, Cross Gates and District Good Neighbours Scheme, Holbeck Together, AGe UK Leeds, Your Backyard CIC with support from 100% Digital Leeds to deliver training on apps.

• Age and Dementia Friendly Taxi's - Leeds Older People's Friendly Community Team encouraged local private hire firms to sign up to our age and dementia friendly business scheme.

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• The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) Hollybush ran the Great Outdoor programme supporting social walks based on local bus routes to great self-sustaining walking groups.

• Cycling with Confidence - LOPF staff encouraged people to cycle more with bike maintenance classes, guided cycle rides and Senior Spin classes.

• Bramley Elderly Action purchased a Happy Cab to use as a community vehicle, transporting people to their community hubs in Bramley and Headingley.

• Carers Leeds ran carers connecting group, supporting group outings for unpaid carers to make social connections they could maintain

• Avsed Men's Matters offered men-only minibus trips bringing isolated older men together to enjoy banter and regular socials in the company of friendly peers and supportive staff.

• Cross Gates & District Good Neighbours Scheme offered Shared Outings - a programme of regular supported minibus trips to places of interest.

• Let's Talk Transport - local charities Feel Good Factor, Belle Isle Senior Action, Caring Together in Woodhouse and Little London, Cross Gates & District Good Neighbours' Scheme, MHA South Leeds and Burmantofts Senior Action - offered one to one and group support to talk about transport, develop confidence and share their experiences of transport.

Hey Neighbour

Funding from Leeds City Council, managed by LOPF and Forum Central, with support from Voluntary Action Leeds, enabled us to give local people, community groups and small organisations access to small grants of between £500 and £2,500. The funding was to encourage neighbourliness and improve well-being in communities and to get people to reconnect after Covid-19.

Projects used many innovative ways of bringing communities and people together. They used existing assets in communities such as venues, green spaces, skills, passions, volunteer time, existing networks and connections and donations of goods. 70 grants were awarded.

Shine

Shine magazine was created to allow us to gather and share the stories of older people and to create a tool that reduced loneliness and social isolation at a time when people were more at risk than ever of loneliness - lockdown.

As lockdown was lifted though, it was clear that the readers of the magazine wanted it to continue. However, funding the magazine after Time to Shine funding came to an end was challenging as production and distribution costs of this wonderful magazine are high.

Thanks to the support of Public Health, the Travel Connections Programme and Awards for all there have been 4 issues in this reported year, including a special Jubilee issue. Around 4000 of each of those issues have been distributed across the city through a network of third sector organisations whose assistance has been vital. Those organisations tell us that the magazine is a great tool for helping the to connect with the most socially isolated older people.

A group of older volunteer writers have been supported by Tom Bailey, the magazine editor, and the group have done a fabulous job of gathering the stories of Leeds older people and bringing them alive in print.

The future of the magazine as we reach the end of this reporting period is uncertain but we will ensure that the legacy of Shine magazine lives on, even if the print version cannot. The stories that older people have to share are too valuable for us ot to share them in any way we can.

Financial Review

The net surplus for the year was £196,970, including a net surplus of £76,170 on unrestricted funds and £120,800 on restricted funds. The company’s total funds amounted to £567,933 (2022: £370,693) at 31st March 2023.

Investment policy

The Trustees have considered the most appropriate policy for the investment of funds and have decided that any funds that are held for immediate cash flow needs are held in cash or short term deposits. Any remaining funds can be held as a medium term investment.

Reserves policy

The charity takes a risk based approach in setting the level of reserves. A minimum level (lower band) and maximum level (upper band) of reserves is set and reserves are maintained between the lower and upper band limits. This ensures that the charity holds enough reserves for an orderly winding up if faced with unexpected closure, whilst also ensuring the charity does not maintain unnecessary high surplus reserves.

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The lower band level is set with reference to funds needed in order to conduct an orderly winding up of the Charity in the face of unexpected closure. This has been set at 6 months of operating costs plus redundancy and other known committed expenditure and equates to £65,800.

The upper level includes an allowance for any additional or designated items - specifically £20,000 contingency for unexpected cash flow considerations and £65,000 allocated for 1 year to maintain Forum Central activities running if replacement funding is needed. The upper band level has therefore been set at £150,800.

Actual free reserves are £173,177. This includes £11,150 surplus from our Shine subsidiary to be reinvested in Shine in 2023/24. The net figure of £162,027 is marginally above the upper limit, accordingly no specific action with regard to reserve levels is currently planned.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

The trustees have adopted the provisions of 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) (effective January 2015).

Leeds Older People's Forum (LOPF) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) (number 1191030). Its governing document is an Association Constitution.

The charity trustees shall manage the affairs of the CIO and may for that purpose exercise all the powers of the CIO. There must be at least six charity trustees. If the number falls below this minimum, the remaining trustee or trustees may act only to call a meeting of the charity trustees, or appoint a new charity trustee. The maximum number of charity trustees is 20. The charity trustees may not appoint any charity trustee if as a result the number of charity trustees would exceed the maximum. A minimum of 75% of the charity trustees must be older people. For the purpose of this Constitution, an older person is defined as a person aged 60 years of age and over.

At every annual general meeting of the members of the CIO, one-third of the charity trustees shall retire from office. If the number of charity trustees is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest to one-third shall retire from office. The charity trustees to retire by rotation shall be those who have been longest in office since their last appointment or reappointment. If any trustees were last appointed or reappointed on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot. At the first meeting of the trustees following the AGM the charity trustees shall elect a Chair, two Vice Chairs and a Treasurer from amongst their number.

LOPF's Board of Trustees meets on a bi-monthly basis, with additional monthly meetings of the LOPF Officers of the board.

The charity’s finance sub committee convenes annually as the remuneration committee in order to review salary bandings and scale points of all employees (including key management personnel). The charity’s pay scales align with the pay scales of the National Joint Council for Local Government Services, and any salary increases are in line with those negotiated by the National Joint Council for Local Government Services. The remuneration committee also undertakes benchmarking comparisons using an external benchmarking company with local government experience, to review all job roles against job descriptions and compare with similar roles across the 3[rd] sector to ensure pay is fair and reflective of the duties carried out by employees.

The board of trustees together with the CEO and senior management team are considered to be the key management personnel of the Charity.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales, the Charities Act 2011, Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed 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 of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charity for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP;

• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

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• State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to 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 trust deed. They 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.

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 30[th] August 2023 and signed on its behalf by:

R J Harington - Trustee

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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Leeds Older People's Forum and its subsidiaries (the “group”) for the year ended 31st March 2023 which comprise the Group Statement of Financial Activities, the Group and Charitable Company Balance Sheet, the Group Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the group's and parent charity’s affairs as at 31st March 2023, and of the group’s incoming resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group and parent charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group’s or parent charity’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the trustees annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:

• the information given in the financial statements is inconsistent in any material respect with the trustee’ report; or

• sufficient accounting records have not been kept; or

• the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities, the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements which give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

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Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditor under section 151 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with regulations made under section 154 of that Act.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and noncompliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:

• skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

• We identified the laws and regulations applicable to the charity through discussions with management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the sector.

• We focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the accounts of the operations of the Charity, including the Charities Act 2011.

• We assessed the extent of compliance with laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence.

• Identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.

• We assessed the susceptibility of the charity's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:

• Making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud.

• Considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations.

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

• Performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships.

• Identified and tested journal entries and identified any significant transactions that were unusual or outside the normal course of business.

• Investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions.

• Challenged assumptions and judgements made by management in determining significant accounting estimates.

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed audit procedures which included, but were not limited to:

• Agreeing financial statements disclosures to underlying supporting documentation.

• Discussions with management of known or suspected instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations.

• Reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

• Reviewing correspondence with HMRC, relevant regulators including the Charities Commission and the charity's legal advisors.

At the completion stage of the audit, the engagement partner's review included ensuring that the team had approached their work with appropriate professional scepticism and thus the capacity to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations and fraud.

There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and the further removed non-compliance of laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it. Also, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement relating to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

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Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charity's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity's trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Christopher Darwin FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of Thomas Coombs Limited Statutory Auditor Chartered Accountants 3365 The Pentagon Century Way Thorpe Park Leeds West Yorkshire LS15 8ZB

Date: 30[th] August 2023

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

Notes INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donations and legacies 2 Charitable activities 5 Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities Other trading activities 3 Commercial trading operations 6 Investment income 4 Total EXPENDITURE ON Charitable activities 7 Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities Total NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) Transfers between funds 18 Net movement in funds RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD	Unrestricted fund £ 323 262,065 - 1,028 2,800 - 266,216 190,046 - 190,046 76,170 (3,772) 72,398 100,779 173,177	Designated fund £ - - - - - - - - - - - 3,772 3,772 20,237 24,009	Restricted funds £ - - 2,012,978 - - - 2,012,978 - 1,892,178 1,892,178 120,800 - 120,800 249,947 370,747	2023 Total funds £ 323 262,065 2,012,978 1,028 2,800 - 2,279,194 190,046 1,892,178 2,082,224 196,970 - 196,970 370,963 567,933	2022 Total funds £ 953 69,482 1,205,542 (289) - 2 1,275,690 57,856 1,132,755 1,190,611 85,079 - 85,079 285,884 370,963

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET 31ST MARCH 2023

Note FIXED ASSETS Investments 15 CURRENT ASSETS Debtors 16 Cash at bank CREDITORS Amounts due within one year 17 NET CURRENT ASSETS TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES NET ASSETS FUNDS Unrestricted funds 18 Restricted funds 18 TOTAL FUNDS 18	Group 2023 £ - 51,328 571,685 _ 623,013 (55,080) _ 567,933 _ 567,933 _ 567,933 _ 197,186 370,747 _ 567,933 _	2022 £ - 82,279 546,028 _ 628,307 (257,344) _ 370,963 _ 370,963 _ 370,963 _ 121,016 249,947 _ 370,963 _	_	Charity 20232022 £ £ 10 - 60,968 82,279 553,926 546,028 _ _ 614,894 628,307 (46,971) (257,344_) _______ _______ 567,933 370,963 _ _ 567,933 _370,963 _ _ 567,933 370,963 _ _ 197,186 121,016 370,747 249,947 _ _ 567,933 _370,963 _ __

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 30[th] August 2023 and were signed on its behalf by:

R J Harington - Trustee

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CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

Notes Cash flows from operating activities Cash generated from operations 1 Net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities Cash flows from investing activities Interest received Rent recharges Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting period Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period	2023 £ 25,657 25,657 - - - 25,657 546,028 571,685	2022 £ 220,749 220,749 2 (289) (287) 220,462 325,566 546,028

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

1. RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

			2023	2022
			£	£
	Net income for the reporting period (as per the Statement of Financial Activities)		196,970	85,079
	Adjustments for:
	Interest received		-	(2)
	Rent recharges		-	289
	Decrease/(increase) in debtors		30,951	(73,273)
	(Decrease)/increase in creditors		(202,264)	208,656
	Net cash (used in)/provided by operations		25,657	220,749
2.	ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS
		At 1/4/22	Cash flow	At 31/3/23
		£	£	£
	Net cash
	Cash at bank	546,028	25,657	571,685
	Total	546,028	25,657	571,685

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) '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) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Consolidation

The consolidated accounts comprise the accounts of the charity and the subsidiary, Shine (Leeds) Limited for the year ended 31[st] March 2023. The accounts have been consolidated on a line-by-line basis. The Trustees have assessed the conditions for consolidating Shine (Leeds) Limited, and have determined that the control conditions for consolidation as set out in the Charities SORP are met. As such, the subsidiary has been included in these financial statements.

Going Concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the trustees believe no material uncertainties exist. The trustees have considered the level of funds held and the expected level of income and expenditure for 12 months from authorising these financial statements. The budgeted income and expenditure is sufficient with the level of reserves for the charity to be able to continue as a going concern.

Income

All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.

Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure.

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Cost includes costs directly attributable to making the asset capable of operating as intended.

Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value, of each asset over its useful life, as follows:

Computer equipment - 25% straight line

Taxation

The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the charity's pension scheme are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.

Pensions

The charity operates a defined pension contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.

Debtors and creditors receivable/payable within one year

Debtors and creditors with no stated interest rate and receivable or payable within one year are recorded at transaction price. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in expenditure.

2. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES Gifts 3. OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES Fundraising events 4. INVESTMENT INCOME Deposit account interest 5. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES Grants Contracts Grants received, included in the above, are as follows: National Lottery Community Fund Covid 19 Response LCC International Day of Older People Leeds City Council Support Officer Grant Covid 19 Harm Minimisation LCC Neighbourhood Network Support Leeds City Council Dementia Friendly National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund Carried forward	Core charitable activities £ 20,304 241,761 262,065	Grant making activities £ 2,012,978 - 2,012,978	Group 2023 2022 £ £ 323 953 Group 2023 2022 £ £ 1,028 (289) Group 2023 2022 £ £ - 2 Group 2023 2022 Total Total activities activities £ £ 2,033,282 1,205,542 241,761 69,482 2,275,043 1,275,024 2023 2022 £ £ - 791,229 - 56,375 3,600 3,100 - 12,000 - 10,000 23,275 120,000 50,600 31,600 170,114 114,648 - 1,450 247,589 1,140,402

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5. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - continued

Brought forward Harnessing the Power of Communities NHS Charities Together Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm CCG/PHM – Age Friendly Programme Leeds Community Healthcare / Leeds City Council - Enhance DCMS – Be Online Stay Safe National Lottery Community Fund - Good Practice Mentor LCF Ideas That Change Lives DfT – Travel Connections LCC Winter Most at Risk LCC Household Support Fund LCC Shine Blacks Solicitors Independent Age – Warm & Cosy LCC – Business Support Luminate – Leeds City College University of Leeds Awards for All	2023 £ 247,589 - 12,500 - - 898,000 89,000 33,803 4,000 457,000 82,000 149,190 24,000 1,000 20,000 1,000 450 3,750 10,000 2,033,282	2022 £ 1,140,402 4,000 12,500 9,640 39,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
		1,205,542

6. COMMERCIAL TRADING OPERATIONS

The charity has one wholly-owned subsidiary, Shine (Leeds) Limited (Company No. 13788870), which carries on commercial activities that are ancillary to the operation of the charity.

A summary of the trading results of the subsidiary is shown below:

	2023	2022
	£	£
Turnover	51,300	-
Administrative costs	(40,150)	-
	______	______
Operating profit	11,150
Gift aid obligation and donations to charity	(11,150)	-

__ ____ Retain in subsidiary -

_ _ The turnover is reflected in the consolidated income as £2,800 trading and £10,000 grant income. Grants of £38,500 were received by Shine (Leeds) Limited in the year from Leeds Older People’s Forum. These grants are not included in consolidated income for the year ended 31[st] March 2023.

7. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS

Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities	Direct Costs (see note 8) £ 177,673 504,637 682,310	Grant funding of activities (see note 9) £ 3,550 1,387,541 1,391,091	Support costs (see note 10) £ 8,823 - 8,823	Group Totals £ 190,046 1,892,178 2,082,224

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8. DIRECT COSTS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Core charitable activities Group 2023 2023 Unrestricted Restricted funds funds £ £ Staff costs 138,769 - Rent, rates and utilities 2,906 - Insurance 2,960 - Telephone Equipment and materials 1,537 344 - - Room hire 1,439 - Travel 1,122 - Office and admin costs (1,453) - Training 2,005 - Refreshments 115 - Other expenses 3,239 - Freelance workers and consultants 26,880 - IT Costs 8,538 - Direct project delivery costs (2,341) - Website 1,040 - Grants to institutions (11,000) - Auditors’ remuneration – non audit fees 1,573 - 177,673 - Grant making activitiesGroup 2023 2023 Unrestricted Restricted funds funds £ £ Staff costs - 308,437 Rent, rates and utilities - 15,315 Telephone Equipment and materials Room hire Travel - - - - 629 - 1,001 1,651 Office and admin costs - 37,064 Training Refreshments - - 1,811 195 Other expenses - 1,412 Freelance workers and consultants - 19,238 IT Costs - 4,857 Direct project delivery costs - 113,027 Website - - - 504,637 9. GRANTS PAYABLE Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities	2023 Total funds £ 138,769 2,906 2,960 1,537 344 1,439 1,122 (1,453) 2,005 115 3,239 26,880 8,538 (2,341) 1,040 (11,000) 1,573 177,673 2023 Total funds £ 308,437 15,315 629 - 1,001 1,651 37,064 1,811 195 1,412 19,238 4,857 113,027 - 504,637 2023 £ 3,550 1,387,541 1,391,091	2022 Total Funds £ 41,824 1,407 2,324 2,135 - - - (14,977) 50 9 5,201 10,899 3,869 - - - - 52,708 2022 Total Funds £ 300,970 22,031 609 10 3,672 1,775 48,024 17,448 720 6,597 45,075 3,838 155,256 4,948 610,973 2022 £ - 521,782 521,782

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9. GRANTS PAYABLE - continued

The total grants paid to institutions during the year was as follows: Group

GRANTS PAYABLE - continued The total grants paid to institutions during the year was as follows:Group
2023 £ Enhance 870,594 Travel Connect 187,700 National Lottery Community Fund – Men’s Health 128,258 LCC Household Support Fund 117,109 DCMS – Stay Safe Online 48,500 Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/Independent Age – Warm & Cosy 28,000 Neighbourhood Networks Covid 19 Response 5,040 International Day of Older People 3,550 NHS Charities 2,340 Big Lottery fund - Time to Shine - Covid 19 Response - Covid 19 Harm Minimisation - 1,391,091	2022 £ - - - - - - 65,758 3,750 - 387,851 51,573 12,850
	521,782

Enhance Grants were made to organisations to support older people coming out of hospital to prevent their readmission; or to support people with health problems and avoid hospital admission. Travel Connect Grants were made to organisations to support older people to use a variety of transport methods to reduce isolation and loneliness. National Lottery Community Fund – Men’s Health Grants were made to organisations to support men in ways which would improve their health. LCC Household Support Fund Grants were made to organisations to support people experiencing hardship as a result of the cost of living increases, with food and fuel. DCMS – Stay Safe Online Grants were made to organisations in Leeds supporting culturally diverse older people to understand media literacy and how to maintain their safety on-line. Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/Independent Age – Warm & Grants were made to organisations to support older Cosy people experiencing hardship as a result of the cost of living crisis. Neighbourhood Networks Covid 19 Response - Hey Neighbour The grant made was to support Neighbourhood Networks through the Covid 19 crisis. International Day of Older People The grants made was to run the International Day of Older People across Leeds through engagement with Leeds partners. NHS Charities Together Grants were made to organisations to deliver creative, artistic sessions for people experiencing health inequalities. Big Lottery fund - Time to Shine The grants made to these organisations was aimed at improving the quality of life and wellbeing of older people. Covid 19 Response The grants made to these organisations was to help support communities through Covid 19. Covid 19 Harm Minimisation The grants made to these organisations was to help support communities through Covid 19.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

10. SUPPORT COSTS

SUPPORT COSTS
		Governance
		costs
		£
Core charitable activities		8,823
Support costs, included in the above, are as follows:
	2023	2022
	Core
	charitable	Total
	activities	activities
	£	£
Auditors' remuneration – audit fee	8,823	5,148

11. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31st March 2023 nor for the year ended 31st March 2022.

Trustees' expenses

Trustee expenses, which are all subject to the charity’s processes of internal controls, do not form part of the remuneration and are not included above. During the period, trustee expenses of £261 (2022: £129) were reimbursed to one trustee (2022: two trustees).

12. STAFF COSTS

Wages and salaries Social security costs Other pension costs	Group 2023 £ 394,818 36,837 15,551 447,206	2022 £ 298,591 29,493 14,709
		342,793

The charity considers its key management personnel (in addition to the board of trustees) to be the CEO, programme managers and the third sector development manager. The total remuneration (including employer pension contributions) of the key management personnel was £172,706 (2022: £143,953).

The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:

Staff No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.	2023 14	2022 12

The average full time equivalent for the average number of employees is 11 (2022:10).

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

13. COMPARATIVES FOR THE CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donations and legacies Charitable activities Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities Other trading activities Investment income Total EXPENDITURE ON Charitable activities Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities Total NET INCOME Transfers between funds Net movement in funds RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD	Unrestricted fund £ 951 69,482 - (289) 2 70,146 57,856 - 57,856 12,290 (20,237) (7,947) 108,726 100,779	Designated fund £ - - - - - - - - - - 20,237 20,237 - 20,237	Restricted funds £ 2 - 1,205,542 - - 1,205,544 - 1,132,755 1,132,755 72,789 - 72,789 177,158 249,947	Total funds £ 953 69,482 1,205,542 (289) 2 1,275,690 57,856 1,132,755 1,190,611 85,079 - 85,079 285,884 370,963

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

14. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Group and company:

Group and company:
	Computer
	equipment
	£
COST
At 1st April 2022	14,303
Disposals	(14,303)
At 31st March 2023	-
DEPRECIATION
At 1st April 2022	14,303
Eliminated on disposal	(14,303)
At 31st March 2023	-
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31st March 2023	-
At 31st March 2022	-

15. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS

Subsidiary undertaking: cost Shine (Leeds) Limited 16. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR Grants, contracts and other funding due Amount owed by group undertakings Other debtors Prepayments and accrued income 17. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR Creditors for ordinary activities Taxation and social security Other creditors including deferred income	2023 Group £ - - 2023 Group £ 48,344 - - 2,984 51,328 2023 Group £ 11,990 3,841 39,249 55,080	2022 Group £ - - 2022 Group £ 81,140 - 182 957 82,279 2022 Group £ 9,141 43,223 204,980 257,344	2023 2022 Charity Charity £ £ 10 - 10- 2023 2022 Charity Charity £ £ 46,844 11,140 - 2,984 81,140 - 182 957 60,96882,279 2023 2022 Charity Charity £ £ 11,441 3,841 31,689 9,141 43,223 204,980 46,971 257,344	2022 Charity £ -
				- 2022 Charity £ 81,140 - 182 957
				257,344

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
At 1/4/22 £ Unrestricted funds General fund 100,779 Designated funds - redundancy 20,237 121,016 Restricted funds National Lottery Community Fund 13,050 CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust 58,110 Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy 28,550 LCC Neighbourhood Network support 35,751 Leeds City Council - Neighbourhood Network 1,104 National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health 95,915 Leeds Bereavement fund 910 NHS Charities Together 12,500 Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm 4,057 Leeds Community Healthcare / Leeds City Council - Enhance - DCMS - Be Online Stay Safe - LCC Household Support Fund - LCC Winter Most at Risk - LCF Ideas That Change Lives - DfT - Travel Connections - 249,947 TOTAL FUNDS 370,963 Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows: Unrestricted funds General fund Restricted funds National Lottery Community Fund CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy LCC Neighbourhood Network support Leeds City Council - Neighbourhood Network National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund NHS Charities Together Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm Leeds Community Healthcare / Leeds City Council - Enhance DCMS - Be Online Stay Safe LCC Household Support Fund LCC Winter Most at Risk	Net movement in funds £ 76,170 - 76,170 (13,050) (20,115) (8,000) (33,068) 3,142 (9,950) (910) 6,230 (906) 27,406 24 25,674 82,000 711 61,612 120,800 196,970 Incoming resources £ 266,216 266,216 33,802 50,600 20,000 - 23,276 169,614 - 12,500 - 898,000 88,996 149,190 82,000		Transfers between funds £ (3,772) 3,772 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Resources expended £ (190,046) (190,046) (46,852) (70,715) (28,000) (33,068) (20,134) (179,564) (910) (6,270) (906) (870,594) (88,972) (123,516) -	At 31/3/23 £ 173,177 24,009 197,186 - 37,995 20,550 2,683 4,246 85,965 - 18,730 3,151 27,406 24 25,674 82,000 711 61,612 370,747 567,933 Movement in funds £ 76,170 76,170 (13,050) (20,115) (8,000) (33,068) 3,142 (9,950) (910) 6,230 (906) 27,406 24 25,674 82,000

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued

LCF Ideas That Change Lives LCC Shine DfT - Travel Connections TOTAL FUNDS	4,000 24,000 457,000 2,012,978 2,279,194	(3,289) (24,000) (395,388) (1,892,178) (2,082,224)	711 - 61,612
			120,800
			196,970

Comparatives for movement in funds

Unrestricted funds General fund Designated funds - redundancy Restricted funds National Lottery Community Fund CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust LCC International Day of Older People Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy LCC Neighbourhood Network support Leeds City Council W G Edwards Leeds City Council Dementia Friendly National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund NHS Charities Together Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm TOTAL FUNDS	Net movement At 1/4/21 in funds £ £ 108,726 12,290 - - 108,726 12,290 66,658 (53,608) 14,890 24,110 1,204 (1,204) 63,676 (35,126) - 35,751 20,000 (18,896) 1,900 (1,900) 8,830 10,280 - 95,915 - 910 - 12,500 - 4,057 177,158 72,789 285,884 85,079	Transfers between funds £ (20,237) 20,237 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	At 31/3/22 £ 100,779 20,237 121,016 13,050 39,000 - 28,550 35,751 1,104 - 19,110 95,915 910 12,500 4,057 249,947 370,963

Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

	Incoming	Resources	Movement
	resources	expended	in funds
	£	£	£
Unrestricted funds
General fund	70,146	(57,856)	12,290
Restricted funds
National Lottery Community Fund - Time To
Shine	791,229	(844,837)	(53,608)
CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust	39,000	(14,890)	24,110
LCC International Day of Older People	3,100	(4,304)	(1,204)
Men's Health	12,999	(12,999)	-
Covid 19 Response	56,375	(56,375)	-

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued

Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy LCC Neighbourhood Network support Leeds City Council W G Edwards Leeds City Council Dementia Friendly National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund Harnessing the Power of Communities NHS Charities Together Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm TOTAL FUNDS	10,000 120,001 12,000 - 31,600 101,650 1,450 4,000 12,500 9,640 1,205,544 1,275,690	(45,126) (84,250) (30,896) (1,900) (21,320) (5,735) (540) (4,000) - (5,583) (1,132,755) (1,190,611)	(35,126) 35,751 (18,896) (1,900) 10,280 95,915 910 - 12,500 4,057 72,789 85,079

National Lottery Community Fund - Good Practice Mentor CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy

Hey Neighbour - Neighbourhood LCC Neighbourhood Network support

Leeds City Council - Neighbourhood Network National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund

NHS Charities Together

Lottery funding to deliver an Ageing Better programme to reduce loneliness and social isolation for older people.

A programme focussed on progressing a Population Health Management approach to improve outcomes for people living with frailty.

The delivery of the Older peoples COVID-19 grants programme to develop innovative approaches to deliver proactive and responsive actions for older people.

To provide small grants to Neighbourhood Networks to support work that responds to issues in the government's COVID-19 Response: Autumn and Winter Plan 2021.

To support peer learning, skills share and development opportunities for the Neighbourhood Networks within Leeds.

To develop a city-wide network that supports men's health in Leeds. The project promotes the health needs of men across the city, celebrates activities to encourage wellbeing and tackle issues caused by social isolation.

To deliver creative-led workshops and individual creative actions with homebound NN members.

To develop and deliver a unique range of creative activities alongside older people to grow their confidence, reduce anxiety, reduce isolation and improve physical conditioning.

Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm Raising awareness and tackling stigma around self-harm among older people

and the people who work with them whilst collectively learning and creating a local knowledge base across a broad range of third sector partners.

Leeds Community Healthcare / Leeds City Council - Enhance

DCMS - Be Online Stay Safe

LCC Household Support Fund

LCC Winter Most at Risk LCF Ideas That Change Lives LCC Shine DfT - Travel Connections

Enhance supports safe and sustainable discharge from hospital and LCH Neighbourhood Teams into a secure home environment. The programme links third sector organisations with Neighbourhood Teams and other agencies to avoid delayed discharges and readmissions for individuals, and to enhance capacity throughout the system.

To work with organisations supporting older people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Projects will support older people (aged 60+) from diverse communities to develop their media literacy skills and protect themselves from online disinformation.

To fund organisations to support people struggling with the cost of living crisis by providing access to food and fuel.

To fund organisations to work with older people offering wellbeing activities. Business development funding for Shine magazine. Development and Delivery of Shine Magazine.

Travel Connections explores how to improve transport options for older people with the aim of reducing isolation and loneliness.

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19. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31st March 2023.

20. TAXATION

The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities by virtue of section 505 of the income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.

21. PENSION AND OTHER POST-RETIREMENT BENEFITS

The charity operates a defined contribution pension plan for its employees. The amount recognised as an expense in the period was £15,551 (2022: £14,709)

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INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS Donations and legacies Gifts Other trading activities Recharges Magazine advertisement Investment income Deposit account interest Charitable activities Grants Contracts Total incoming resources EXPENDITURE Charitable activities Wages Social security Pensions Rates and water Insurance Telephone Equipment and materials Room hire Travel Office and admin costs Training Refreshments Other expenses Freelance workers and consultants IT costs Direct project delivery costs Website Grants to institutions Auditors’ remuneration – non audit fees Support costs Governance costs Auditors' remuneration Total resources expended Net income/(expenditure)	2023 £ 323 1,028 2,800 - 2,033,282 241,761 2,275,043 2,279,194 394,818 36,837 15,551 18,221 2,960 2,166 344 2,439 2,773 35,612 3,816 310 4,651 46,118 13,395 110,686 1,040 1,380,091 1,573 2,073,401 8,823 2,082,224 196,970	2022 £ 953 (289) - 2 1,205,542 69,482 1,275,024 1,275,690 298,591 29,493 14,709 23,439 2,324 2,745 10 3,671 1,775 33,047 17,498 729 11,798 55,974 7,674 155,256 4,948 521,782 - 1,185,463 5,148 1,190,611 85,079

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REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1191030

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

FOR LEEDS OLDER PEOPLE'S FORUM

Thomas Coombs Limited Statutory Auditor Chartered Accountants 3365 The Pentagon Century Way Thorpe Park Leeds West Yorkshire LS15 8ZB

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	Page
Reference and Administrative Details	1
Report of the Trustees	2 to 7
Report of the Independent Auditors	7 to 10
Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities	11
Balance Sheet – Consolidated & Charity	12
Consolidated Cash Flow Statement	13
Notes to the Cash Flow Statement	14
Notes to the Financial Statements	15 To 26
Detailed Statement of Financial Activities	27

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REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

TRUSTEES	W K Rollinson
	C Lawrence
	J Welham
	R J Harington
	Dr D S Smith
	S J Phillips
	Dr S K Rait
	R Koivunen (resigned 17/02/2022)
	J P O'Dwyer
	C J Mahoney
	P M Gradys
	I Anderson
	K J Badon (appointed 14/07/2022)
	C S McNamara (appointed 14/07/2022)
PRINCIPAL ADDRESS	24C Josephs Well
	Hanover Walk
	Leeds
	LS3 1AB
REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER	1191030
AUDITORS	Thomas Coombs Limited
	Statutory Auditor
	Chartered Accountants
	3365 The Pentagon
	Century Way
	Thorpe Park
	Leeds
	West Yorkshire
	LS15 8ZB

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The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31st March 2023. The trustees have adopted the provisions of 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) (effective 1 January 2019).

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES Objectives and aims

The objects of the CIO are:

• The relief of older people in the Metropolitan District of Leeds (the area of benefit) and in particular the relief of poverty and the promotion of good health of older people, primarily, but not exclusively, by associating voluntary, statutory and other agencies and individuals in a support network.

• The advancement of the education of older people int eh area of benefit in particular in relation to financial, health, housing, social and welfare entitlements.

• The advancement of the education of the public, and promotion of research concerning the needs of older people in relation to the provision of community care, and the publication of the usual results of such research.

• The promotion of the benefit of older people in the area of benefit without distinction of sec or political, religious or other opinion, by associating the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and individuals in a common effort to provide educational, cultural, social welfare, recreational and leisure-time facilities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for older people.

In accordance with their duties pursuant to Section 4 of the Charities Act 2011, the Trustees have considered the Charity’s objects and activities in light of the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit “Charities and Public Benefit”.

Friendly Communities

Leeds Older People's Forum (LOPF) are one of the partners of Age Friendly Leeds with Leeds City Council. Each partner has developed clear roles. The LOPF role has been developed based on our strong community connections, our ability to engage with and capture the voices of older people of Leeds and our relationship with community organisations.

This work was funded by Leeds City Council and Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group.

Through our Friendly Communities Project we have delivered:

An Age Friendly Steering Group - This group meets on a monthly basis and consists of approximately 15 older people who are consulted on age friendly matters and who help to shape services for older people and help ensure the public realm is age friendly. The group have consulted on the redesign of the Leeds Train Station. The group have also worked on an intergenerational project with the Preservative Party and Leeds City Museum to generate the Overlooked Exhibition.

Age and Dementia Friendly Businesses: The Friendly Communities have created a resource pack for local business and organisations to become age and dementia friendly. There are 96 businesses signed up to this scheme, including Leeds Libraries who have an action plan to bring on all community libraries in Leeds. Momentum continues to gather. GP practices are starting to sign up and we recently delivered a very successful Wise Up To Ageism session to the staff at one of them as well as a Dementia Friends session.

Dementia Friendly Leeds - this is a campaign to raise awareness of dementia and make services more accessible. The aim is to ensure people who are living with dementia - along with their carers - remain an active part of the city and keep doing the things they enjoy. Our Friendly Communities team have created a listing of social opportunities for people living with dementia that is available on-line and kept up to date. We also share facilitation of the DEEP Group (Dementia Engagement and Empowerments Project) network.

Third Sector Support and Development

Leeds Older People's Forum is the infrastructure organisation in Leeds for third sector organisations and community groups working with older people. We aim to support these groups in a number of ways - through peer learning and good practice mentoring; development and support opportunities and grant making:

Good Practice Mentor and Peer Learning:

• Learning from our National Lottery funded, Time to Shine Programme has been documented in an easy-read catalogue of the

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documents and products to be more accessible to the sector.

• Training sessions have been delivered to front-line staff on: social isolation and loneliness, co-production, person centred ways of working.

• Peer learning sessions facilitated to encourage further joint working and sharing of skills.

Development and support opportunities:

• Leeds Neighbourhood Networks: quarterly meetings were held with the Neighbourhood Networks with Leeds City Council. Meetings discussed issues relevant to the Networks and LOPF supported with issues raised in the intervening time, such as digital inclusion, funding and strategy. LOPF supported the ongoing evaluation of the Leeds Neighbourhood Networks by Sheffield Hallam University and were part of the core project team alongside Leeds City Council and Centre for Ageing Better.

• NHS Charities Together: LOPF secured funding to work with 4 Neighbourhood Network's to develop their local offer, in partnership with The Performance Ensemble.

• Being Online Safe and Secure (BOSS): LOPF was chosen as one of four partners on the Media Literacy Taskforce by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). As part of this work we have identified four organisations, working with culturally diverse older people, to support their media literacy skills and be safe on line.

• 1001 Stories: LOPF is collaborating with The Performance Ensemble to collect 1001 stories from older people in Leeds. To date we have almost 700 stories. The culmination of the collection will be a two week takeover of the Playhouse next year.

• Strategic representation: LOPF represents the third sector at a strategic level in Leeds, with representation on the Frailty Population Health Board, which is part of the Leeds Office of the Integrated Care Board. We also have represented our members at Integrated Care Steering Group; Community Health and Wellbeing Transformation Stakeholder Group; Intermediate Care Redesign Board and the Housing & Health Breakthrough Programme Board. This forms part of our work with Volition on the Forum Central partnership.

Grant making:

LOPF supported the third sector and older people by having a number of grant programmes as follows:

• The Household Support Fund was launched via our Forum Central Partnership with Volition. LOPF led on the development and oversight of this project which aimed to allocate £290,000 to third sector organisations to support those struggling with fuel and food costs over the winter period. We allocated funds to 60 community groups to support local people through this rolling grants programme.

• Healthy, warm and well grants are aimed at older people's organisations to help older people stay warm and well. We launched the fund in February 2023. We funded 18 organisations and groups to a total of £72,071, the following financial year.

• Warm and Cosy: LOPF secured funding from Independent Age to offer £1K grants to organisations supporting older people through the cost of living crisis.

• International Day of Older People: with funding from Leeds City Council and LOPF, we funded 13 organisations to celebrate International Day of Older People, with the theme of 'Celebrating Resilient Women'.

Enhance

The Enhance Programme was launched in May 2022. Funded largely by Leeds Community Healthcare the aim of the programme is to support people through a safe and sustainable discharge from hospital and Neighbourhood Teams into a secure home environment. The programme links 14 third sector delivery partners with Neighbourhood Teams and other agencies to avoid delayed discharges and readmissions for individuals, and to enhance capacity throughout the system.

The third sector delivery partners are:-

• Action for Gipton Elderly

• Armley Helping Hands

• Association of Blind Asians

• Age UK Leeds

• Burmantofts Senior Action - Cross Gates & District Good Neighbours Scheme - Feel Good Factor

• Health For All

• Leeds Irish Health & Homes

• Moor Allerton Elderly Care (MAECare)

• Older People's Action in the Locality (OPAL)

• Neighbourhood Elders Team - Garforth - Seacroft Friends & Neighbours

• Care & Repair

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In it's first year the Enhance programme saw these 14 third sector delivery partners work with 10 Leeds Community Healthcare Neighbourhood Team work together to reach 404 people.

Enhance is a person centred, holistic approach and through the use of a before and after questionnaire process, participants returned an increased average score across physical, mental, and social health, as well as improvement to overall quality of life and reduced fatigue.

The first year evaluation report summary also highlighted that without the Enhance offer, clients would have fallen through gaps and not received the help they needed (e.g., repairs would remain outstanding, income remain unclaimed, prescribed exercise would not be maintained). This was particularly so for isolated clients with limited family support.

As this first year comes to a close we have received confirmation that Enhance will be funded for a 2nd year at the same level and we will work to carry the learning of year one with us as we shape year two

Men's Health Unlocked

Through our work on Men's Health Unlocked we aim to be a voice for men and boys; bring representation to the sector in the new commissioning landscape at sub-regional and local levels and develop, share and champion good practice, and raise awareness of men's health. In the last 9-12 months, we have:

• Consulted 700 men via street outreach, signposting over 200 to activities and services; engaged 136 men via 24 health awareness sessions, involving businesses, healthcare and community agencies

• Engaged 15 Men's Health Advocates, bringing lived experience, knowledge and passion into our project; recruited / supported 16 local business Manbassadors, sharing health messages with over 250 men

• Co-produced, with 12 marginalised men, 5 editions of a men's zine, containing 57 contributions from men; shared the zine (and built relationships) across 113 distributing organisations

• Hosted over 100 organisations (cumulative) via MHU network events

• Hosted presentations from organisations at 6 network meetings. representing diverse men including migrants, abuse victims, and offenders

• Raised awareness of men's health, and helped organisations to identify a collaborative opportunity with 85% of attendees at networking meetings

• Received over 250 hits per month to our men's activities directory; reached tens of thousands via our various social media channels; hared 14 MHU newsletters with over 200 contacts

• Hosted organisations representing diverse communities at network meetings including migrants, gypsy and traveller communities and offenders

• Hosted the following academics:

o Prof Ben Hine (parental separation)

o Dr Robin Hadley (Childless older men) o Prof Alan White (All physical and mental health) o Dr Mike Jestico (Measuring health and wellbeing)

Travel Connections

In May 2022 Leeds Older People's Forum received a one year grant of £447,500 from the Department for Transport's Tackling Loneliness with Transport fund. The principal aim of the Travel Connections programme was to test 11 different approaches under five themes. The first four themes - buses, taxis, active travel and community transport - explored how the vast network of existing transport resources in Leeds could be better used to reduce loneliness. The fifth theme - travel conversations - focussed on creating conversations between older people and decision makers so that older people's voices are heard at a strategic level.

Through our Travel Connections programme we delivered 11 pilot projects with 18 delivery partners, who delivered activities for a total of 909 people across the life of the programme. These were:

• Shine Magazine: A Grand Day Out, group outings on public transport with follow up articles in the magazine.

• AVSED / SJK Private Hire Vehicle Partnership - a local Neighbourhood Network working closely with a local private hire company to encourage their members to visit their community building.

• Travel Apps and Bus passes - delivered with Leeds Irish Health and Homes, Morley Digital, Cross Gates and District Good Neighbours Scheme, Holbeck Together, AGe UK Leeds, Your Backyard CIC with support from 100% Digital Leeds to deliver training on apps.

• Age and Dementia Friendly Taxi's - Leeds Older People's Friendly Community Team encouraged local private hire firms to sign up to our age and dementia friendly business scheme.

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• The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) Hollybush ran the Great Outdoor programme supporting social walks based on local bus routes to great self-sustaining walking groups.

• Cycling with Confidence - LOPF staff encouraged people to cycle more with bike maintenance classes, guided cycle rides and Senior Spin classes.

• Bramley Elderly Action purchased a Happy Cab to use as a community vehicle, transporting people to their community hubs in Bramley and Headingley.

• Carers Leeds ran carers connecting group, supporting group outings for unpaid carers to make social connections they could maintain

• Avsed Men's Matters offered men-only minibus trips bringing isolated older men together to enjoy banter and regular socials in the company of friendly peers and supportive staff.

• Cross Gates & District Good Neighbours Scheme offered Shared Outings - a programme of regular supported minibus trips to places of interest.

• Let's Talk Transport - local charities Feel Good Factor, Belle Isle Senior Action, Caring Together in Woodhouse and Little London, Cross Gates & District Good Neighbours' Scheme, MHA South Leeds and Burmantofts Senior Action - offered one to one and group support to talk about transport, develop confidence and share their experiences of transport.

Hey Neighbour

Funding from Leeds City Council, managed by LOPF and Forum Central, with support from Voluntary Action Leeds, enabled us to give local people, community groups and small organisations access to small grants of between £500 and £2,500. The funding was to encourage neighbourliness and improve well-being in communities and to get people to reconnect after Covid-19.

Projects used many innovative ways of bringing communities and people together. They used existing assets in communities such as venues, green spaces, skills, passions, volunteer time, existing networks and connections and donations of goods. 70 grants were awarded.

Shine

Shine magazine was created to allow us to gather and share the stories of older people and to create a tool that reduced loneliness and social isolation at a time when people were more at risk than ever of loneliness - lockdown.

As lockdown was lifted though, it was clear that the readers of the magazine wanted it to continue. However, funding the magazine after Time to Shine funding came to an end was challenging as production and distribution costs of this wonderful magazine are high.

Thanks to the support of Public Health, the Travel Connections Programme and Awards for all there have been 4 issues in this reported year, including a special Jubilee issue. Around 4000 of each of those issues have been distributed across the city through a network of third sector organisations whose assistance has been vital. Those organisations tell us that the magazine is a great tool for helping the to connect with the most socially isolated older people.

A group of older volunteer writers have been supported by Tom Bailey, the magazine editor, and the group have done a fabulous job of gathering the stories of Leeds older people and bringing them alive in print.

The future of the magazine as we reach the end of this reporting period is uncertain but we will ensure that the legacy of Shine magazine lives on, even if the print version cannot. The stories that older people have to share are too valuable for us ot to share them in any way we can.

Financial Review

The net surplus for the year was £196,970, including a net surplus of £76,170 on unrestricted funds and £120,800 on restricted funds. The company’s total funds amounted to £567,933 (2022: £370,693) at 31st March 2023.

Investment policy

The Trustees have considered the most appropriate policy for the investment of funds and have decided that any funds that are held for immediate cash flow needs are held in cash or short term deposits. Any remaining funds can be held as a medium term investment.

Reserves policy

The charity takes a risk based approach in setting the level of reserves. A minimum level (lower band) and maximum level (upper band) of reserves is set and reserves are maintained between the lower and upper band limits. This ensures that the charity holds enough reserves for an orderly winding up if faced with unexpected closure, whilst also ensuring the charity does not maintain unnecessary high surplus reserves.

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The lower band level is set with reference to funds needed in order to conduct an orderly winding up of the Charity in the face of unexpected closure. This has been set at 6 months of operating costs plus redundancy and other known committed expenditure and equates to £65,800.

The upper level includes an allowance for any additional or designated items - specifically £20,000 contingency for unexpected cash flow considerations and £65,000 allocated for 1 year to maintain Forum Central activities running if replacement funding is needed. The upper band level has therefore been set at £150,800.

Actual free reserves are £173,177. This includes £11,150 surplus from our Shine subsidiary to be reinvested in Shine in 2023/24. The net figure of £162,027 is marginally above the upper limit, accordingly no specific action with regard to reserve levels is currently planned.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

The trustees have adopted the provisions of 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) (effective January 2015).

Leeds Older People's Forum (LOPF) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) (number 1191030). Its governing document is an Association Constitution.

The charity trustees shall manage the affairs of the CIO and may for that purpose exercise all the powers of the CIO. There must be at least six charity trustees. If the number falls below this minimum, the remaining trustee or trustees may act only to call a meeting of the charity trustees, or appoint a new charity trustee. The maximum number of charity trustees is 20. The charity trustees may not appoint any charity trustee if as a result the number of charity trustees would exceed the maximum. A minimum of 75% of the charity trustees must be older people. For the purpose of this Constitution, an older person is defined as a person aged 60 years of age and over.

At every annual general meeting of the members of the CIO, one-third of the charity trustees shall retire from office. If the number of charity trustees is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest to one-third shall retire from office. The charity trustees to retire by rotation shall be those who have been longest in office since their last appointment or reappointment. If any trustees were last appointed or reappointed on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot. At the first meeting of the trustees following the AGM the charity trustees shall elect a Chair, two Vice Chairs and a Treasurer from amongst their number.

LOPF's Board of Trustees meets on a bi-monthly basis, with additional monthly meetings of the LOPF Officers of the board.

The charity’s finance sub committee convenes annually as the remuneration committee in order to review salary bandings and scale points of all employees (including key management personnel). The charity’s pay scales align with the pay scales of the National Joint Council for Local Government Services, and any salary increases are in line with those negotiated by the National Joint Council for Local Government Services. The remuneration committee also undertakes benchmarking comparisons using an external benchmarking company with local government experience, to review all job roles against job descriptions and compare with similar roles across the 3[rd] sector to ensure pay is fair and reflective of the duties carried out by employees.

The board of trustees together with the CEO and senior management team are considered to be the key management personnel of the Charity.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales, the Charities Act 2011, Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed 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 of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charity for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP;

• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

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• State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to 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 trust deed. They 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.

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 30[th] August 2023 and signed on its behalf by:

R J Harington - Trustee

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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Leeds Older People's Forum and its subsidiaries (the “group”) for the year ended 31st March 2023 which comprise the Group Statement of Financial Activities, the Group and Charitable Company Balance Sheet, the Group Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the group's and parent charity’s affairs as at 31st March 2023, and of the group’s incoming resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group and parent charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group’s or parent charity’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the trustees annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:

• the information given in the financial statements is inconsistent in any material respect with the trustee’ report; or

• sufficient accounting records have not been kept; or

• the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities, the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements which give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

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Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditor under section 151 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with regulations made under section 154 of that Act.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and noncompliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:

• skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

• We identified the laws and regulations applicable to the charity through discussions with management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the sector.

• We focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the accounts of the operations of the Charity, including the Charities Act 2011.

• We assessed the extent of compliance with laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence.

• Identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.

• We assessed the susceptibility of the charity's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:

• Making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud.

• Considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations.

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

• Performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships.

• Identified and tested journal entries and identified any significant transactions that were unusual or outside the normal course of business.

• Investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions.

• Challenged assumptions and judgements made by management in determining significant accounting estimates.

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed audit procedures which included, but were not limited to:

• Agreeing financial statements disclosures to underlying supporting documentation.

• Discussions with management of known or suspected instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations.

• Reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

• Reviewing correspondence with HMRC, relevant regulators including the Charities Commission and the charity's legal advisors.

At the completion stage of the audit, the engagement partner's review included ensuring that the team had approached their work with appropriate professional scepticism and thus the capacity to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations and fraud.

There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and the further removed non-compliance of laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it. Also, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement relating to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

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Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charity's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity's trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Christopher Darwin FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of Thomas Coombs Limited Statutory Auditor Chartered Accountants 3365 The Pentagon Century Way Thorpe Park Leeds West Yorkshire LS15 8ZB

Date: 30[th] August 2023

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

Notes INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donations and legacies 2 Charitable activities 5 Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities Other trading activities 3 Commercial trading operations 6 Investment income 4 Total EXPENDITURE ON Charitable activities 7 Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities Total NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) Transfers between funds 18 Net movement in funds RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD	Unrestricted fund £ 323 262,065 - 1,028 2,800 - 266,216 190,046 - 190,046 76,170 (3,772) 72,398 100,779 173,177	Designated fund £ - - - - - - - - - - - 3,772 3,772 20,237 24,009	Restricted funds £ - - 2,012,978 - - - 2,012,978 - 1,892,178 1,892,178 120,800 - 120,800 249,947 370,747	2023 Total funds £ 323 262,065 2,012,978 1,028 2,800 - 2,279,194 190,046 1,892,178 2,082,224 196,970 - 196,970 370,963 567,933	2022 Total funds £ 953 69,482 1,205,542 (289) - 2 1,275,690 57,856 1,132,755 1,190,611 85,079 - 85,079 285,884 370,963

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET 31ST MARCH 2023

Note FIXED ASSETS Investments 15 CURRENT ASSETS Debtors 16 Cash at bank CREDITORS Amounts due within one year 17 NET CURRENT ASSETS TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES NET ASSETS FUNDS Unrestricted funds 18 Restricted funds 18 TOTAL FUNDS 18	Group 2023 £ - 51,328 571,685 _ 623,013 (55,080) _ 567,933 _ 567,933 _ 567,933 _ 197,186 370,747 _ 567,933 _	2022 £ - 82,279 546,028 _ 628,307 (257,344) _ 370,963 _ 370,963 _ 370,963 _ 121,016 249,947 _ 370,963 _	_	Charity 20232022 £ £ 10 - 60,968 82,279 553,926 546,028 _ _ 614,894 628,307 (46,971) (257,344_) _______ _______ 567,933 370,963 _ _ 567,933 _370,963 _ _ 567,933 370,963 _ _ 197,186 121,016 370,747 249,947 _ _ 567,933 _370,963 _ __

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 30[th] August 2023 and were signed on its behalf by:

R J Harington - Trustee

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CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

Notes Cash flows from operating activities Cash generated from operations 1 Net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities Cash flows from investing activities Interest received Rent recharges Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting period Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period	2023 £ 25,657 25,657 - - - 25,657 546,028 571,685	2022 £ 220,749 220,749 2 (289) (287) 220,462 325,566 546,028

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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

1. RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

			2023	2022
			£	£
	Net income for the reporting period (as per the Statement of Financial Activities)		196,970	85,079
	Adjustments for:
	Interest received		-	(2)
	Rent recharges		-	289
	Decrease/(increase) in debtors		30,951	(73,273)
	(Decrease)/increase in creditors		(202,264)	208,656
	Net cash (used in)/provided by operations		25,657	220,749
2.	ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS
		At 1/4/22	Cash flow	At 31/3/23
		£	£	£
	Net cash
	Cash at bank	546,028	25,657	571,685
	Total	546,028	25,657	571,685

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) '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) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Consolidation

The consolidated accounts comprise the accounts of the charity and the subsidiary, Shine (Leeds) Limited for the year ended 31[st] March 2023. The accounts have been consolidated on a line-by-line basis. The Trustees have assessed the conditions for consolidating Shine (Leeds) Limited, and have determined that the control conditions for consolidation as set out in the Charities SORP are met. As such, the subsidiary has been included in these financial statements.

Going Concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the trustees believe no material uncertainties exist. The trustees have considered the level of funds held and the expected level of income and expenditure for 12 months from authorising these financial statements. The budgeted income and expenditure is sufficient with the level of reserves for the charity to be able to continue as a going concern.

Income

All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.

Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure.

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Cost includes costs directly attributable to making the asset capable of operating as intended.

Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value, of each asset over its useful life, as follows:

Computer equipment - 25% straight line

Taxation

The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the charity's pension scheme are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.

Pensions

The charity operates a defined pension contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.

Debtors and creditors receivable/payable within one year

Debtors and creditors with no stated interest rate and receivable or payable within one year are recorded at transaction price. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in expenditure.

2. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES Gifts 3. OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES Fundraising events 4. INVESTMENT INCOME Deposit account interest 5. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES Grants Contracts Grants received, included in the above, are as follows: National Lottery Community Fund Covid 19 Response LCC International Day of Older People Leeds City Council Support Officer Grant Covid 19 Harm Minimisation LCC Neighbourhood Network Support Leeds City Council Dementia Friendly National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund Carried forward	Core charitable activities £ 20,304 241,761 262,065	Grant making activities £ 2,012,978 - 2,012,978	Group 2023 2022 £ £ 323 953 Group 2023 2022 £ £ 1,028 (289) Group 2023 2022 £ £ - 2 Group 2023 2022 Total Total activities activities £ £ 2,033,282 1,205,542 241,761 69,482 2,275,043 1,275,024 2023 2022 £ £ - 791,229 - 56,375 3,600 3,100 - 12,000 - 10,000 23,275 120,000 50,600 31,600 170,114 114,648 - 1,450 247,589 1,140,402

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5. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - continued

Brought forward Harnessing the Power of Communities NHS Charities Together Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm CCG/PHM – Age Friendly Programme Leeds Community Healthcare / Leeds City Council - Enhance DCMS – Be Online Stay Safe National Lottery Community Fund - Good Practice Mentor LCF Ideas That Change Lives DfT – Travel Connections LCC Winter Most at Risk LCC Household Support Fund LCC Shine Blacks Solicitors Independent Age – Warm & Cosy LCC – Business Support Luminate – Leeds City College University of Leeds Awards for All	2023 £ 247,589 - 12,500 - - 898,000 89,000 33,803 4,000 457,000 82,000 149,190 24,000 1,000 20,000 1,000 450 3,750 10,000 2,033,282	2022 £ 1,140,402 4,000 12,500 9,640 39,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
		1,205,542

6. COMMERCIAL TRADING OPERATIONS

The charity has one wholly-owned subsidiary, Shine (Leeds) Limited (Company No. 13788870), which carries on commercial activities that are ancillary to the operation of the charity.

A summary of the trading results of the subsidiary is shown below:

	2023	2022
	£	£
Turnover	51,300	-
Administrative costs	(40,150)	-
	______	______
Operating profit	11,150
Gift aid obligation and donations to charity	(11,150)	-

__ ____ Retain in subsidiary -

_ _ The turnover is reflected in the consolidated income as £2,800 trading and £10,000 grant income. Grants of £38,500 were received by Shine (Leeds) Limited in the year from Leeds Older People’s Forum. These grants are not included in consolidated income for the year ended 31[st] March 2023.

7. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS

Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities	Direct Costs (see note 8) £ 177,673 504,637 682,310	Grant funding of activities (see note 9) £ 3,550 1,387,541 1,391,091	Support costs (see note 10) £ 8,823 - 8,823	Group Totals £ 190,046 1,892,178 2,082,224

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

8. DIRECT COSTS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Core charitable activities Group 2023 2023 Unrestricted Restricted funds funds £ £ Staff costs 138,769 - Rent, rates and utilities 2,906 - Insurance 2,960 - Telephone Equipment and materials 1,537 344 - - Room hire 1,439 - Travel 1,122 - Office and admin costs (1,453) - Training 2,005 - Refreshments 115 - Other expenses 3,239 - Freelance workers and consultants 26,880 - IT Costs 8,538 - Direct project delivery costs (2,341) - Website 1,040 - Grants to institutions (11,000) - Auditors’ remuneration – non audit fees 1,573 - 177,673 - Grant making activitiesGroup 2023 2023 Unrestricted Restricted funds funds £ £ Staff costs - 308,437 Rent, rates and utilities - 15,315 Telephone Equipment and materials Room hire Travel - - - - 629 - 1,001 1,651 Office and admin costs - 37,064 Training Refreshments - - 1,811 195 Other expenses - 1,412 Freelance workers and consultants - 19,238 IT Costs - 4,857 Direct project delivery costs - 113,027 Website - - - 504,637 9. GRANTS PAYABLE Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities	2023 Total funds £ 138,769 2,906 2,960 1,537 344 1,439 1,122 (1,453) 2,005 115 3,239 26,880 8,538 (2,341) 1,040 (11,000) 1,573 177,673 2023 Total funds £ 308,437 15,315 629 - 1,001 1,651 37,064 1,811 195 1,412 19,238 4,857 113,027 - 504,637 2023 £ 3,550 1,387,541 1,391,091	2022 Total Funds £ 41,824 1,407 2,324 2,135 - - - (14,977) 50 9 5,201 10,899 3,869 - - - - 52,708 2022 Total Funds £ 300,970 22,031 609 10 3,672 1,775 48,024 17,448 720 6,597 45,075 3,838 155,256 4,948 610,973 2022 £ - 521,782 521,782

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9. GRANTS PAYABLE - continued

The total grants paid to institutions during the year was as follows: Group

GRANTS PAYABLE - continued The total grants paid to institutions during the year was as follows:Group
2023 £ Enhance 870,594 Travel Connect 187,700 National Lottery Community Fund – Men’s Health 128,258 LCC Household Support Fund 117,109 DCMS – Stay Safe Online 48,500 Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/Independent Age – Warm & Cosy 28,000 Neighbourhood Networks Covid 19 Response 5,040 International Day of Older People 3,550 NHS Charities 2,340 Big Lottery fund - Time to Shine - Covid 19 Response - Covid 19 Harm Minimisation - 1,391,091	2022 £ - - - - - - 65,758 3,750 - 387,851 51,573 12,850
	521,782

Enhance Grants were made to organisations to support older people coming out of hospital to prevent their readmission; or to support people with health problems and avoid hospital admission. Travel Connect Grants were made to organisations to support older people to use a variety of transport methods to reduce isolation and loneliness. National Lottery Community Fund – Men’s Health Grants were made to organisations to support men in ways which would improve their health. LCC Household Support Fund Grants were made to organisations to support people experiencing hardship as a result of the cost of living increases, with food and fuel. DCMS – Stay Safe Online Grants were made to organisations in Leeds supporting culturally diverse older people to understand media literacy and how to maintain their safety on-line. Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/Independent Age – Warm & Grants were made to organisations to support older Cosy people experiencing hardship as a result of the cost of living crisis. Neighbourhood Networks Covid 19 Response - Hey Neighbour The grant made was to support Neighbourhood Networks through the Covid 19 crisis. International Day of Older People The grants made was to run the International Day of Older People across Leeds through engagement with Leeds partners. NHS Charities Together Grants were made to organisations to deliver creative, artistic sessions for people experiencing health inequalities. Big Lottery fund - Time to Shine The grants made to these organisations was aimed at improving the quality of life and wellbeing of older people. Covid 19 Response The grants made to these organisations was to help support communities through Covid 19. Covid 19 Harm Minimisation The grants made to these organisations was to help support communities through Covid 19.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

10. SUPPORT COSTS

SUPPORT COSTS
		Governance
		costs
		£
Core charitable activities		8,823
Support costs, included in the above, are as follows:
	2023	2022
	Core
	charitable	Total
	activities	activities
	£	£
Auditors' remuneration – audit fee	8,823	5,148

11. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31st March 2023 nor for the year ended 31st March 2022.

Trustees' expenses

Trustee expenses, which are all subject to the charity’s processes of internal controls, do not form part of the remuneration and are not included above. During the period, trustee expenses of £261 (2022: £129) were reimbursed to one trustee (2022: two trustees).

12. STAFF COSTS

Wages and salaries Social security costs Other pension costs	Group 2023 £ 394,818 36,837 15,551 447,206	2022 £ 298,591 29,493 14,709
		342,793

The charity considers its key management personnel (in addition to the board of trustees) to be the CEO, programme managers and the third sector development manager. The total remuneration (including employer pension contributions) of the key management personnel was £172,706 (2022: £143,953).

The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:

Staff No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.	2023 14	2022 12

The average full time equivalent for the average number of employees is 11 (2022:10).

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

13. COMPARATIVES FOR THE CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donations and legacies Charitable activities Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities Other trading activities Investment income Total EXPENDITURE ON Charitable activities Core charitable activities Grant charitable activities Total NET INCOME Transfers between funds Net movement in funds RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD	Unrestricted fund £ 951 69,482 - (289) 2 70,146 57,856 - 57,856 12,290 (20,237) (7,947) 108,726 100,779	Designated fund £ - - - - - - - - - - 20,237 20,237 - 20,237	Restricted funds £ 2 - 1,205,542 - - 1,205,544 - 1,132,755 1,132,755 72,789 - 72,789 177,158 249,947	Total funds £ 953 69,482 1,205,542 (289) 2 1,275,690 57,856 1,132,755 1,190,611 85,079 - 85,079 285,884 370,963

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

14. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Group and company:

Group and company:
	Computer
	equipment
	£
COST
At 1st April 2022	14,303
Disposals	(14,303)
At 31st March 2023	-
DEPRECIATION
At 1st April 2022	14,303
Eliminated on disposal	(14,303)
At 31st March 2023	-
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31st March 2023	-
At 31st March 2022	-

15. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS

Subsidiary undertaking: cost Shine (Leeds) Limited 16. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR Grants, contracts and other funding due Amount owed by group undertakings Other debtors Prepayments and accrued income 17. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR Creditors for ordinary activities Taxation and social security Other creditors including deferred income	2023 Group £ - - 2023 Group £ 48,344 - - 2,984 51,328 2023 Group £ 11,990 3,841 39,249 55,080	2022 Group £ - - 2022 Group £ 81,140 - 182 957 82,279 2022 Group £ 9,141 43,223 204,980 257,344	2023 2022 Charity Charity £ £ 10 - 10- 2023 2022 Charity Charity £ £ 46,844 11,140 - 2,984 81,140 - 182 957 60,96882,279 2023 2022 Charity Charity £ £ 11,441 3,841 31,689 9,141 43,223 204,980 46,971 257,344	2022 Charity £ -
				- 2022 Charity £ 81,140 - 182 957
				257,344

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
At 1/4/22 £ Unrestricted funds General fund 100,779 Designated funds - redundancy 20,237 121,016 Restricted funds National Lottery Community Fund 13,050 CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust 58,110 Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy 28,550 LCC Neighbourhood Network support 35,751 Leeds City Council - Neighbourhood Network 1,104 National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health 95,915 Leeds Bereavement fund 910 NHS Charities Together 12,500 Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm 4,057 Leeds Community Healthcare / Leeds City Council - Enhance - DCMS - Be Online Stay Safe - LCC Household Support Fund - LCC Winter Most at Risk - LCF Ideas That Change Lives - DfT - Travel Connections - 249,947 TOTAL FUNDS 370,963 Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows: Unrestricted funds General fund Restricted funds National Lottery Community Fund CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy LCC Neighbourhood Network support Leeds City Council - Neighbourhood Network National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund NHS Charities Together Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm Leeds Community Healthcare / Leeds City Council - Enhance DCMS - Be Online Stay Safe LCC Household Support Fund LCC Winter Most at Risk	Net movement in funds £ 76,170 - 76,170 (13,050) (20,115) (8,000) (33,068) 3,142 (9,950) (910) 6,230 (906) 27,406 24 25,674 82,000 711 61,612 120,800 196,970 Incoming resources £ 266,216 266,216 33,802 50,600 20,000 - 23,276 169,614 - 12,500 - 898,000 88,996 149,190 82,000		Transfers between funds £ (3,772) 3,772 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Resources expended £ (190,046) (190,046) (46,852) (70,715) (28,000) (33,068) (20,134) (179,564) (910) (6,270) (906) (870,594) (88,972) (123,516) -	At 31/3/23 £ 173,177 24,009 197,186 - 37,995 20,550 2,683 4,246 85,965 - 18,730 3,151 27,406 24 25,674 82,000 711 61,612 370,747 567,933 Movement in funds £ 76,170 76,170 (13,050) (20,115) (8,000) (33,068) 3,142 (9,950) (910) 6,230 (906) 27,406 24 25,674 82,000

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LCF Ideas That Change Lives LCC Shine DfT - Travel Connections TOTAL FUNDS	4,000 24,000 457,000 2,012,978 2,279,194	(3,289) (24,000) (395,388) (1,892,178) (2,082,224)	711 - 61,612
			120,800
			196,970

Comparatives for movement in funds

Unrestricted funds General fund Designated funds - redundancy Restricted funds National Lottery Community Fund CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust LCC International Day of Older People Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy LCC Neighbourhood Network support Leeds City Council W G Edwards Leeds City Council Dementia Friendly National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund NHS Charities Together Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm TOTAL FUNDS	Net movement At 1/4/21 in funds £ £ 108,726 12,290 - - 108,726 12,290 66,658 (53,608) 14,890 24,110 1,204 (1,204) 63,676 (35,126) - 35,751 20,000 (18,896) 1,900 (1,900) 8,830 10,280 - 95,915 - 910 - 12,500 - 4,057 177,158 72,789 285,884 85,079	Transfers between funds £ (20,237) 20,237 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	At 31/3/22 £ 100,779 20,237 121,016 13,050 39,000 - 28,550 35,751 1,104 - 19,110 95,915 910 12,500 4,057 249,947 370,963

Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

	Incoming	Resources	Movement
	resources	expended	in funds
	£	£	£
Unrestricted funds
General fund	70,146	(57,856)	12,290
Restricted funds
National Lottery Community Fund - Time To
Shine	791,229	(844,837)	(53,608)
CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust	39,000	(14,890)	24,110
LCC International Day of Older People	3,100	(4,304)	(1,204)
Men's Health	12,999	(12,999)	-
Covid 19 Response	56,375	(56,375)	-

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Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy LCC Neighbourhood Network support Leeds City Council W G Edwards Leeds City Council Dementia Friendly National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund Harnessing the Power of Communities NHS Charities Together Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm TOTAL FUNDS	10,000 120,001 12,000 - 31,600 101,650 1,450 4,000 12,500 9,640 1,205,544 1,275,690	(45,126) (84,250) (30,896) (1,900) (21,320) (5,735) (540) (4,000) - (5,583) (1,132,755) (1,190,611)	(35,126) 35,751 (18,896) (1,900) 10,280 95,915 910 - 12,500 4,057 72,789 85,079

National Lottery Community Fund - Good Practice Mentor CCG/PHM Programme/Dementia Friendly/Zurich Community Trust Covid 19 Harm Minimisation/ Independent Age - Warm & Cosy

Hey Neighbour - Neighbourhood LCC Neighbourhood Network support

Leeds City Council - Neighbourhood Network National Lottery Community Fund - Men's Health Leeds Bereavement fund

NHS Charities Together

Lottery funding to deliver an Ageing Better programme to reduce loneliness and social isolation for older people.

A programme focussed on progressing a Population Health Management approach to improve outcomes for people living with frailty.

The delivery of the Older peoples COVID-19 grants programme to develop innovative approaches to deliver proactive and responsive actions for older people.

To provide small grants to Neighbourhood Networks to support work that responds to issues in the government's COVID-19 Response: Autumn and Winter Plan 2021.

To support peer learning, skills share and development opportunities for the Neighbourhood Networks within Leeds.

To develop a city-wide network that supports men's health in Leeds. The project promotes the health needs of men across the city, celebrates activities to encourage wellbeing and tackle issues caused by social isolation.

To deliver creative-led workshops and individual creative actions with homebound NN members.

To develop and deliver a unique range of creative activities alongside older people to grow their confidence, reduce anxiety, reduce isolation and improve physical conditioning.

Leeds Community Foundation Self Harm Raising awareness and tackling stigma around self-harm among older people

and the people who work with them whilst collectively learning and creating a local knowledge base across a broad range of third sector partners.

Leeds Community Healthcare / Leeds City Council - Enhance

DCMS - Be Online Stay Safe

LCC Household Support Fund

LCC Winter Most at Risk LCF Ideas That Change Lives LCC Shine DfT - Travel Connections

Enhance supports safe and sustainable discharge from hospital and LCH Neighbourhood Teams into a secure home environment. The programme links third sector organisations with Neighbourhood Teams and other agencies to avoid delayed discharges and readmissions for individuals, and to enhance capacity throughout the system.

To work with organisations supporting older people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Projects will support older people (aged 60+) from diverse communities to develop their media literacy skills and protect themselves from online disinformation.

To fund organisations to support people struggling with the cost of living crisis by providing access to food and fuel.

To fund organisations to work with older people offering wellbeing activities. Business development funding for Shine magazine. Development and Delivery of Shine Magazine.

Travel Connections explores how to improve transport options for older people with the aim of reducing isolation and loneliness.

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19. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31st March 2023.

20. TAXATION

The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities by virtue of section 505 of the income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.

21. PENSION AND OTHER POST-RETIREMENT BENEFITS

The charity operates a defined contribution pension plan for its employees. The amount recognised as an expense in the period was £15,551 (2022: £14,709)

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CONSOLIDATED DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2023

INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS Donations and legacies Gifts Other trading activities Recharges Magazine advertisement Investment income Deposit account interest Charitable activities Grants Contracts Total incoming resources EXPENDITURE Charitable activities Wages Social security Pensions Rates and water Insurance Telephone Equipment and materials Room hire Travel Office and admin costs Training Refreshments Other expenses Freelance workers and consultants IT costs Direct project delivery costs Website Grants to institutions Auditors’ remuneration – non audit fees Support costs Governance costs Auditors' remuneration Total resources expended Net income/(expenditure)	2023 £ 323 1,028 2,800 - 2,033,282 241,761 2,275,043 2,279,194 394,818 36,837 15,551 18,221 2,960 2,166 344 2,439 2,773 35,612 3,816 310 4,651 46,118 13,395 110,686 1,040 1,380,091 1,573 2,073,401 8,823 2,082,224 196,970	2022 £ 953 (289) - 2 1,205,542 69,482 1,275,024 1,275,690 298,591 29,493 14,709 23,439 2,324 2,745 10 3,671 1,775 33,047 17,498 729 11,798 55,974 7,674 155,256 4,948 521,782 - 1,185,463 5,148 1,190,611 85,079

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