## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 01/01/2022 **Period start date to** 31/12/2022 **Period end date** **Charity name:** Peer Advice Services UK ## **Charity registration number:** 1193338 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To support and assist in the care of any**
**person with any spinal cord injury,**
**defect or condition and their friends,**
**families and any other person or persons**
**who may be assisting, supporting, or**
**treating any such person.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Over the reporting year the charity has**
**delivered peer led support to spinal cord**
**injured people and their family and**
**friends throughout the UK this includes**
**Service Personnel and Veterans. This**
**has been in the form of face to face visits**
**and online sessions. Support and**
**representation for Personal**
**Independence Payment (PIP), Access to**
**Work, Continuing Healthcare (CHC), War**
**Pension and Armed Forces**
**Compensation Scheme (AFCS). We have**
**also carried out advocacy work to help**
**disabled veterans charitable funding for**
**specialist mobility equipment and**
**housing adaptions.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**On appointment Trustee’s sign a trustee**
**declaration statement committing them**
**to giving their time and expertise. The**
**induction process follows the ICSA good**
**practice guide with a formal induction**
**program for any newly appointed trustee**
**which includes an initial meeting with**
**the chair of trustee’s followed by a**
**series of short meetings with the CEO**
**on the work of the charity, powers, and**
**responsibilities of the trustee board. The**
**induction pack includes a copy of the**
**last 2 yrs, accounts and annual reports**
**and a copy of the Charity Commissions**
**guidance “The Essential Trustee: what**
**you need to know, what you need to do”**
**and “Public Benefit: Rules for**
**Charities”.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |

Policy on grant making.

|

Para 1.38|**PAS UK is not a grant making**
**organization.**| |

Policy on social investment
including program related
investment.
|

Para 1.38|**PAS UK does not currently have any**
**funds invested and has no plans to**
**invest any funds, surplus or otherwise.**| |

Contribution made by
volunteers.

|

Para 1.38|**Throughout the year we have had**
**significant contribution by volunteers,**
**especially within the Peer Role for MCSI**
**Oswestry and the Veterans Hospital.**
**This totals in excess of 400 hrs in time**
**given to help PAS UK.**| |
Other

||| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |

Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|

Para 1.20|**We have delivered over 3000 hrs direct**
**1to1 support to spinal cord injured**
**people including service personnel and**
**veterans. Alongside our Peer work we**
**have also delivered over 2000 hrs of**
**support helping disabled people with**
**PIP, Access to work and CHC related**
**issues. Our advocacy casework has**
**helped individuals from the veteran**
**community obtain in excess of £300,000**
**of funding for essential mobility**
**equipment and housing adaptions. The**
**funds were obtained by linking in with**
**charity partners such as SSAFA, Army**
**Benevolent Fund, RAF Benevolent**
**Fund. With the help of national lottery**
**funding, we have been able to produce**
**educational videos to support newly**
**injured SCI people and provide them**
**with information to rebuild their lives.**
**Our collective work across PAS UK has**
**facilitated support and improvement in**
**our beneficiaries lives that would not**
**have been possible without our charities**
**intervention. It has increased the social**
**integration and interaction of disabled**
**people across the UK making our**
**society more inclusive.**| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

Achievements against
objectives set.

|

Para 1.41

|**As a charity we have exceed our**
**expectations of establishing SCI support**
**mechanisms across the UK for Veterans**
**and non-veterans. We have developed**
**new services that through the course of**
**our work we have found a need for such**
**as the PIP and Access to work support**
**service. We have also identified needs**
**of support within other disability such**
**as hearing loss and MS, we have**
**successfully run pilot schemes and the**
**next step will be for the board of**
**trustees to decide how we as a charity**
**can expand our sphere of work to**
**incorporate this in the future of PAS UK.**| |---|---|---| |

Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set.

|

Para 1.41|**We have achieved our fundraising**
**objective which was to increase our**
**income via corporate sponsorship and**
**some community fundraising. As the**
**accounts show we have doubled our**
**income from year one.**| |

Investment
performance
against objectives
|

Para 1.41|**N/A we have no plans for investment, it**
**does not fit with the fundraising model**
**that we have adopted for PAS UK.**| Other ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Charity’s accounts are in a strong**
**position at the end of this period. We**
**have raised enough to get us through**
**year 2 with a growth in service delivery**
**and sufficient left to carry us into the**
**new financial year and create a reserves**
**fund.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|**Our reserves Policy will be developed**
**and signed off by the board of trustees**
**aspart of ouryear 3 objectives.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Currently zero.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**We have had zero reserves as a start up**
**charity it was not a financially viable**
**prospect. We have been delivering**
**charitable services whilst ensuring the**
**long term sustainability of PAS UK and**
**putting ourselves in a position to create**
**a reserves fund and Policy as part of**
**year 3 which we have achieved.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**We have no deficit**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**As with any charity there are always**
**uncertainties regarding funding.**
**However, PAS UK prides it’s self on**
**building strong relationships with our**
**corporate sponsors and as such we**
**have secured funding for year 3 that**
**guarantees an amount that covers the**
**charity’s running costs and ensures we**
**can continue to operate and deliver our**
**services to beneficiaries.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)
|

Para 1.47|**Our principal source of funds is**
**corporate sponsorship from within the**
**legal sector. We have secured a funder**
**for year 3 and have a contracted**
**agreement to ensure the funds are**
**guaranteed.**| |---|---|---| |

Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted.
|

Para 1.46|**PAS UK does not invest funds and as**
**such is not required to have any policies**
**of this nature. Should the Trustees**
**decide to change this, best practice will**
**be followed and appropriate policies**
**adopted.**| |---|---|---| |

A description of the principal
risks facing the charity

|

Para 1.46|**The principal risk facing PAS UK is that**
**of funding and being unable to secure**
**corporate sponsorship. In order to**
**mitigate this risk, we will be developing a**
**number of commercial elements in year**
**three that will create sustainable income**
**and lessen the reliance on corporate**
**sponsorship. **| |Other
||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(Trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25
|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g., unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO)**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.,
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Apart from the first charity trustees as**
**stated in the constitution, every trustee**
**must be appointed for a term of three**
**years by a resolution passed at a**
**properly convened meeting of the charity**
**trustees.**

**In selecting individuals for appointment**
**as charity trustees, the charity trustees**
**must have regard to the skills, knowledge**
**and experience needed for the effective**
**administration of the CIO.**

**There must be at least five 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 that may be appointed**
**to the CIO is ten.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |

Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees.
|

Para 1.51|**ICSA Guide – “Recruitment,**
**Appointment, and Induction of Charity**
**Trustee’s”**

**Charity Commissions guidance “The**
**Essential Trustee: what you need to**
**know, what you need to do” and “Public**
**Benefit: Rules for Charities” **| |---|---|---| |

The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works.

|

Para 1.51|| |

Relationship with any
related parties

|

Para 1.51|| |
Other||| |
||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|**Peer Advice Services UK**| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|**PAS UK**| |Registered charitynumber|**1193338**| |Charity’s principal address|**The old Forge**
**32A High Street**
**Islip**
**Kettering**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**James Orr**|||| ||**Adam Joslin**|**Chair**||| ||**Jamie White**|||| ||**Rob Bromage**|||| ||**Steve Hodges**|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved. **Director name James Orr Adam Joslin Jamie White Rob Bromage Steve Hodges** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others.** Description of the assets **None** held in this capacity. Name and objects of the **N/A** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects. Details of arrangements for **N/A** safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** **Lee Cairns – CEO, Elizabeth Wright – Fundraising Manager** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **N/A** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## **Signature(s)** **Full name(s) Position (e.g., Secretary,** Adam Charles Joslin **Chair, etc)** Chair of Trustees **Date** 19 January 2024 Inde ndent Examinels Re ort to the Trustees of PEER ADVICE SERVICES UK Independent examiner's report to the trustses of PEER ADVICE SERVICES UK ('the Charity,) I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Charty for the year ended 31 December 2022. Responsibilities and basis of report As the ¢harity's trustees of the Company you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities A¢t 2011 ('the Act,). I report in resFect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 ofthe Charities Act 2011. In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) Ib) of the 2011 Act. Indèpendent examlnerfs sL*ement have completed my examination. l confirm that no material matters have come to my attents'on in conneth'on with the examination giving me Cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records We not kept in arxordan¢e with section 130 of the Charities Act" or the accounts do not accord with those accounting records., or the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports} Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independènt examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Suzanne Spicer FCA Spicer & Co UK Limited Staple House 5 Eleanorfs Cross Dunstable Bedfordshire LU6 1SU Date: 1910112024 |||**1193338**
**Peer Advice Services UK CIO**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2022
31/12/2022|**1193338**
**Peer Advice Services UK CIO**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2022
31/12/2022|**1193338**
**Peer Advice Services UK CIO**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2022
31/12/2022|**1193338**
**Peer Advice Services UK CIO**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2022
31/12/2022|**1193338**
**Peer Advice Services UK CIO**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2022
31/12/2022|**1193338**
**Peer Advice Services UK CIO**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2022
31/12/2022|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**CC16a**
| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/01/2022|**To**||Period end date
31/12/2022||| |||||||||| ||**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| ||**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**21,600**
**8,374**
**98**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,072**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,072**
**335**
**1,041**
**304**
**50**
**360**
**14,200**
**1,908**
**34**
**902**
**4,511**
**23,645**
**1,547**
**-**
**1,547**
**25,192**
**4,880**
**-**
**2,734**
**7,614**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,600**
**8,374**
**98**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,072**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,072**
**335**
**1,041**
**304**
**50**
**360**
**14,200**
**1,908**
**34**
**902**
**4,511**
**23,645**
**1,547**
**-**
**1,547**
**25,192**

**4,880**||| ||Donations and legacies|**21,600**||||||| ||Grant income|**8,374**||||||| ||Other income|**98**||||||| |||**-**||||||| |||**-**||||||| |||**-**||||||| |||**-**||||||| |||**-**||||||| ||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**30,072**||||||| ||**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| |||**-**||||||| |||**-**||||||| ||**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|**-**||||||| ||Advertisingand marketing|**335**||||||| ||Insurance|**1,041**||||||| ||Office andgeneral expenses|**304**||||||| ||Charitable activites|**50**||||||| ||Professional services|**360**||||||| ||Salaries|**14,200**||||||| ||NIpayments|**1,908**||||||| ||Computer costs|**34**||||||| ||Subscriptions|**902**||||||| ||Travel and accommodation|**4,511**||||||| ||**_Sub total_**|**23,645**||||||| ||**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||| ||Office Equipment|**1,547**||||||| |||**-**||||||| ||**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
|**1,547**||||||| |||||||
**4,880**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**2,734**||**-**| |||||||
**7,614**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 12/05/2023 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Debtors
Current account
Savings account
**Details**
**Details**
Office Equipment
**Details**
Accruals
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,290**
**-**
**324**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,614**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**10,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
1547
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
11800
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Jamie White
Adam Joslin|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||19/12/2023|| |||||| ||||19/12/2023|| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 12/05/2023 2