**Charity Registration No 1191837** 

**Report of the Trustees and Unaudited Receipts and Payments Accounts** 

**For the period ended 31 March 2022** 

**For** 

**Survive** 

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## **Survive** 

## **Report of the Trustees and Unaudited Receipts and Payments Accounts Period ended 31 March 2022** 

|**CONTENTS**|**PAGE**|
|---|---|
|General Information|1|
|Trustees Report|2 - 6|
|Receipts and Payments Account|7|
|Statement of Assets and Liabilities|8|
|Notes to the Receipts and Payments Accounts|9|



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## **Survive** 

## **General Information** 

## **Period ended 31 March 2022** 

|Charity registration number|1191837|
|---|---|
|Company registration number|CEO24290|
|Principal address|156 Nantwich Road|
||Crewe|
||CW2 6BG|
|Trustees|Peter Buckingham (Chair)|
||Robert Wright (appointed 01 June 2022)|
||Carissa Tossell|
||Helen Gould|
||Sally Lines|
||Charlotte Walton|
|Bankers|National Westminster plc|
||36 High Street|
||Nantwich|
||CW5 5GA|



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## **Survive** 

## **Report of the Trustees** 

## **For the Period ended 31 March 2022** 

The Trustees present their report and the unaudited Receipts and Payments Accounts of the charity for the period ended 31 March 2022. 

The Trustees have adopted the provisions of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 to prepare receipts and payments accounts. 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

Survive is a C.I.O. Charitable Incorporated Organisation 

Survive’s aim of carrying out charitable works for public benefit through the practical application of The objects of the CIO are. 

The advancement of health and /or the saving of lives. 

Survive is established to relieve the mental, physical, and spiritual suffering caused by abuse and to provide education and training for those working to alleviate the damaging effects of this abuse. 

Survive will offer counselling, advice, guidance, support, advocacy, information and assistance to the best of our abilities to abuse survivors. 

Survive will offer counsellor training on the areas of abuse and its affects. 

Will work with other agencies, organisations, statutory bodies and any group that have similar objectives as Survive. 

Work to increase public awareness about abuse and its impact. 

Hold exhibitions, meetings, lectures, classes, seminars, and training. 

Survive will collect, collate and distribute relevant information about abuse and related topics to its members and other organisations that have similar objectives to Survive. 

To promote and support other charitable schemes or projects as may be established to benefit the public, only after prior consultation with the trustees. 

## **Key Activities** 

Survives key activities are one to one counselling of adult survivors of childhood abuse. Predominantly childhood sexual abuse. 

Survive also offers craft groups, therapeutic art groups and a choir. 

This year has seen the Survivor Arts Exhibition run again. This year’s exhibition was its 8th year and was very well attended. 

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## **Achievement and Performance** 

This year we have worked with a monthly average of 80 clients offering 250 counselling sessions. 

At the end of this year we had 80 people on our waiting list. 

Currently we have 24 volunteer counsellors working with clients. 

We have seen considerable increases in previous years demand for Survive’s services. 

This years Survivor Arts Exhibition was the most successful yet. We had 226 people attend and raised almost £800. For the first time we had clients involved in the planning and setting up of the exhibition, being involved with the exhibition on the day and, of course, contributing artwork to the exhibition itself. 

## **Looking forward into 2022/2023:** 

Looking forward to 2023 and we are increasing the number of volunteer counsellors.  We are also looking to increase the user involvement within our organisation. 

Due to the increase in demand for our service we are going to construct another room in our premises to offer more counselling spaces during peak times. 

## **Financial Review** 

## **Reserves Policy** 

Unrestricted funds represent donations, grants and monies received from room hire and donations that have no specific conditions attached and can therefore be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the Trustees. 

Restricted funds represent donations or grants that have been given or raised for a specific purpose and as such these funds can only be spent in accordance with that specific purpose. It is possible - subject to permission from the donor - that any unused restricted funds that remain at the end of the project, can be transferred to unrestricted funds. 

## **Structure, governance and management** 

Survive is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and is controlled by its Constitution. The Charity was originally an unincorporated body founded in 1995. The assets and liabilities were transferred into a newly formed CIO on 18[th] January 2022, the financial information contained in this first Annual Report therefore only includes those transactions from 18[th] January through to 31[st] March, 2022.  The CIO is governed by six trustees who meet every 3 months and in addition there is a management committee which contains at least one Trustee and which is responsible for Survives daily running. 

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## **Trustees of the charity** 

The Trustees who have served during the period were as follows: 

Peter Buckingham M. A. Chair 

Robert Wright (appointed 01 June 2022) 

Carissa Tossell 

Helen Gould 

Sally Lines 

Charlotte Walton 

## **Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities** 

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and Receipts and Payments Accounts in accordance with applicable law and UK Accounting Standards. 

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales, the Charities Act 2011; Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the charity’s governing documents require the trustees to prepare Receipts and Payments Accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity. In particular the trustees are required to: 

- (a) select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently 

- (b) make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent 

- (c) prepare the Receipts and Payments Accounts on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will have adequate resources to continue. 

- (d) Keep proper accounting records which at any time accurately disclose the financial position of the charity. 

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 5[th] January, 2023. 

Signed on its behalf by 

_Mr P Buckingham_ 

Mr P Buckingham ( Chair ) 

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## **Survive** 

## **Receipts and Payments Account** 

## **For the Period ended 31 March 2022:** 

||Notes|Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|31/2/21|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Funds|Funds|Funds||
|||£|£|£|£|
|**RECEIPTS**||||||
|Donations and Grants|1|1,764|260|2,024|16,603|
|Room hire / Donations|||1,273|1,273|4,595|
|**TOTAL INCOME**||**1,764**|**1,533**|**3,297**|**21,198**|
|**PAYMENTS**||||||
|Legal & professional fees||0|317|317|0|
|Bank charges||0|0|0|0|
|||________|<br>_______|_______|_______|
|**NET INCOME**||0|(918)|(918)|1198|
|**TOTAL FUNDS BROUGH FORWARD**|||72,464|72,464|71,085|
|||________|_______|_______|_______|
|**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|||71,546|71,546||
|**AT 31.3.22**||||||
|||=========|=========|=======|=======|



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## **Survive** 

## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities** 

## **As at 31 March 2022** 

||**Notes**|**2022**|**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**CURRENT ASSETS**||||
|Cash|**2**|**60,459**|**57,511**|
|Debtors||||
|||**_______**|**_______**|
|**NET CURRENT ASSETS**||**88,539**|**86,631**|
|**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**||**71,546**|**71,085**|
|||**_______**|**_______**|
|**NET ASSETS**||**71,546**|**71,085**|
|||**========**|**========**|
|**FUNDS**||||
|Unrestricted||**43,467**|**41,964**|
|Restricted||**16,992**|**15,547**|
|||**_______**|**_______**|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|**2**|**60,459**|**57,511**|
|||**========**|**========**|



These Receipts and Payments Accounts were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 5[th] January, 2023 and were signed on its behalf by : 

_Mr P Buckingham_ 

Mr P Buckingham ( Chair ) 

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## **Survive** 

## **Notes to the Receipts and Payments Accounts** 

## **Period ended 31 March 2022** 

## **1. General Information and Basis of preparation** 

The Receipts and Payments Accounts of the charity, which is a public benefit entity have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011. 

Survive had operated as a charity with a reference number 1047103 since 1995 but the decision was made to create a CIO through which to operate. Accordingly, this CIO was formed on 15[th] October 2020 and the assets and liabilities of the former charity were transferred into it on 18[th] January 2022 under a resolution passed by the Trustees on 7[th] September 2020. As state above, the inaugural financial statements for the CIO only include transactions from 18[th] January 2022 through to 31[st] March 2022.  The Trustees have submitted a formal request to the Charity Commission in the form of a model Vesting Declaration seeking their authority for this asset transfer. 

## **2. Movement in funds** 

||At 31.3.21|Net movement|At 31.3.22|
|---|---|---|---|
|||in period||
|Unrestricted funds|41,964|1,503|43,467|
|Restricted funds|15,547|1,445|16,992|
||_________|_______|_______|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|**57,511**|**2,948**|**60,459**|



## **3. Related party disclosures** 

During the Period ended 31 March 2022 the Charity purchased the following services from Trustees: 

- Sally Lines Group Facilitation 

- Charlotte Walton Group Facilitation 

During the Period ended 31 March 2022, the Charity provided services to the following Trustees, all at market rates: 

None 

At the Period end the following amounts were owed to. 

None. 

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