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|Statement<br>offinancial|activities|||
|Balance sheet||||
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|Current financial year||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|||general|designated||||
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|||2023|2023|2023|2023|2022|
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|Income and endowments|from:||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|3|1,342|10,000|14,600|25,942|120,321|
|Charitable<br>activities|4|13,535|||13,535||
|Other trading<br>activities|5|||1,200|1,200||
|Other income|6|||603|603||
|Total income||14,877|10,000|16,403|41,280|120,321|
|Charitable<br>activities||26,506|8,406|52,469|87,381|1,000|
|Net income/(expenditure)|and||||||
|movement<br>in funds||(11,629)|1,594|(36,066)|(46,101)|119,321|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:|||||||
|Fund balances at 1 April 2022||25,279|8,886|85,156|119,321||
|Fund balances at 31 March 2023||13,650|10,480|49,090|73,220|119,321|



|Prior financial|period|||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
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|Income and endowments||from:||||||
|Donations<br>and|legacies|||26,279|8,886|85,156|120,321|
|Charitable<br>activities||||1,000|||1,000|
|Net income and movement||in funds||25,279|8,886|85,156|119,321|
|Reconciliation|offunds:|||||||
|Fund balances|at 1 September 2021|||||||
|Fund balances|at 31 March 2022|||25,279|8,886|85,156|119,321|





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|Fixed assets|||||||||||
|Tangible assets||||||12||9,069||10,103|
|Current assets|||||||||||
|Debtors||||||13|8,139||5,150||
|Cash at bank and||in|hand||||60,308||108,149||
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|Creditors:|amounts||falling due within|||14|||||
|one year|||||||4,296||4,081||
|Net current|assets|||||||64,151||109,218|
|Total assets less||current||liabilities||||73,220||119,321|
|The funds|ofthe|Forum|||||||||
|Restricted|income|funds||||||49,090||85,156|
|Unrestricted|funds|-|general|||||13,650||25,279|
|Unrestricted|funds|-|designated||funds|16||10,480||8,886|
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||Accommodation||fees|||6,535||
||Project|management||fees||7,000||
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|5|Income from other trading||||activities|||
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|||||||funds|funds|
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||Award|night sponsorship||||1,200||
|6|Other|income||||||
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||Award|night ticket income||||603||





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|||Charitable|Governance|Total|Charitable|Governance|Total|
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|||activities|costs||activities|costs||
|||2023|2023||2022|2022|2022|
|Staff costs||31,855||31,855||||
|Depreciation<br>and||||||||
|impairment||1,034||1,034||||
|Heat and light and water||5,247||5,24?||||
|Insurance||1,020||1,020||||
|Repairs and cleaning||2,096||2,096||||
|Postage, stationery|and|||||||
|telephone||3,485||3,485||||
|Sundry expenses||2,235||2,235||||
|Property lease||14,000||14,000||||
|Bank charges||144||144||||
|Project management|fees|7,000||7,000||||
|Office rental||979||979||||
|Grant repayment||5,944||5,944||||
|Activity expenses||7,567||7,567||||
|Grants allocated||1,850||1,850||||
|||84,456||84,456||||
|Share ofgovernance|costs|||||||
|(see note 8)|||2,925|2,925||1,0QO|1,000|
|||84,456|2,925|87,381||1,QOO|1,000|
|Analysis<br>by fund||||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds-||||||||
|general||24,205|2,301|26,506||1,000|1,QOO|
|Unrestricted<br>funds-||||||||
|designated||8,094|312|8,406||||
|Restricted funds||52,157|312|52,469||||
|||84,456|2,925|87,381||1,000|1,000|





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||||Governance|2023|Governance|2022|
||||costs||costs||
|||||E|E||
|Accountancy|||860|860|1,000|1,000|
|Independent||examination|900|900|||
|Payroll services|||1,165|1,165|||
||||2,925|2,925|1,000|1,000|
|Analysed|between||||||
|Charitable||activities|2,925|2,925|1,000|1,000|



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|The average|monthly<br>number ofemployees<br>during th|e year was:||
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|||2023|2022|
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|Employment|costs|2023|2022|
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|Wages and|salaries|31,855||



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|12|Tangible fix|ed asset|s||||
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|||||improvements|||
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||At 1 April 2022|||9,696|40?|10,103|
||At 31 March|2023||9,696|407|10,103|
||Depreciation|and impairment|||||
||Depreciation|charged|in the year|||1,034|
||At 31 March|2023||||1,034|
||Carrying<br>amount||||||
||At 31 March 2023|||8,728|341|9,069|
||At 31 March 2022||||407|10,103|
|13|Debtors||||||
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||Amounts<br>falling due||within one year:||f|f.|
||Trade debtors||||6,993|4,248|
||Other debtors||||70||
||Prepayments|and accrued income|||1,076|902|
||||||8,139|5,150|
|14|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year||||
||||||2023|2022|
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||Other creditors||||1,886|3,081|
||Accruals and|deferred|income||2,410|1,000|
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||||2022|resources|expended|2023|
|||||||f.|
|Restricted<br>Fixed Asset|Fund||7,614||(769)|6,845|
|Annual<br>Awards<br>Fund|||416|1,803|(1,019)|1,200|
|National<br>Lottery Award|Fund||3,408|||3,408|
|National<br>Lottery Community||Fund: Rural Us|||||
|Fund|||43,748|600|(22,984)|21,364|
|Bernicia Hardship<br>Fund|||4,024||(1,100)|2,924|
|National<br>Lottery: COVID-19||Fund|7,914|||7,914|
|National<br>Lottery: Without<br>Limits Fund|||6,200||(6,200)||
|Music for Dementia:<br>Memory||Laners Fund|9,700||(6,209)|3,491|
|Northumbrian<br>CAB: Thriving||Together Fund|1,250||(141)|1,109|
|Warm<br>Hub Fund|||882||(47)|835|
|NCC Building<br>Fund||||14,000|(14,000)||
||||85,156|16,403|(52,469)|49,090|
|Previous period:|||At 1 April|Incoming|Resources|At 31 March|
||||2021|resources|expended|2022|
|Restricted<br>Fixed Asset|Fund|||7,614||7,614|
|Annual<br>Awards<br>Fund||||416||416|
|National<br>Lottery Award|Fund|||3,408||3,408|
|National<br>Lottery Community||Fund: Rural Us|||||
|Fund||||43,748||43,748|
|Bemicia Hardship<br>Fund||||4,024||4,024|
|National<br>Lottery: COVID-19||Fund||7,914||7,914|
|National<br>Lottery: Without<br>Limits Fund||||6,200||6,200|
|Music for Dementia:<br>Memory||Laners Fund||9,700||9,700|
|Northumbrian<br>CAB: Thriving||Together Fund||1,250||1,250|
|Warm<br>Hub Fund||||882||882|
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|ABC Grant|Award|||5,819||||5,819|
|Community|Foundation|- Lough Fund||3,067|10,000|(8,406)||4,661|
|||||8,886|10,000|(8,406)||10,480|
|Previous period:|||At|1 April|Incoming|Resources|At 31 March||
|||||2021|resources|expended||2022|
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|ABC Grant|Award||||5,819|||5,819|
|Community|Foundation|- Lough Fund|||3,067|||3,067|
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