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|**Report of the trustees**|2|<br>to 4|
|**Report of the independent auditors**|5|<br>to7|
|**Statement of financial activities**||8|
|**Balance sheet**||9|
|**Notes to the financial statements**|10|<br>to16|
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|**Area**|**Objective**|**Actions**|
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|**Legal**|Use the law as a lever of change|Plan and implement a coproduced legal<br>strategy|
||Challenge legal advice deserts|Establish caseloads and provide high<br>quality legal advice and representation in<br>ourpriorityareas of law|
|||Operate a legal aid contract in compliance|
|**Financial**|Build and maintain a secure funding base|Make successful grant applications to a<br>broader range of funders|
|||Collect data to evidence our work|
|||Improve individualgiving|
|||Develop medium-term financial plan,<br>including pathwayto increasingreserves|
|**Community**|Develop and maintain partnerships with<br>community groups and advice organisations<br>that add value to existing provision and enrich<br>the advice ecosystem|Plan and implement a stakeholder<br>engagement plan|
||Greater recognition of North Wales<br>CommunityLaw|Plan and implement a communications plan|
||Involve volunteers in our work|Developa volunteer team|
|**Staff**|Support our staff|Manage staff team|
|||Develop and implement a professional<br>developmentplan|
|||Promote apositive workplace culture|
|||Review of workplace policies to ensure<br>sector-leadingoffer for staff|
|**Governance**|Broaden and renew trustee membership|Recruit new trustees, with a focus on skills<br>gaps and improvingdiversity|
||Strengthen governance|Develop annual plan of Steering Group<br>Board work|
|||Strengthen Board skills through training<br>opportunities|



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|**Name**|**Date annointed**|
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|CrashWigley _( _chair)|4 February2022|
|Debbie Wilkins (treasurer)|4 February2022|
|Acton Afonso|4 February2022|
|DanielNewman|4 February2022|
|Daniel Scrase|4 February2022|
|Matthew Court|4 February2022|
|Ron Davison|4 Februarv 2022|
|Sue James|4 Februarv2022|
|JabezOakes|11 February2023|
|Jason Edwards|18 June2024|
|Christopher Lothian-Field|18 September 2024|



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|Notes<br>**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**<br>Donations and legacies<br>2<br>**Charitable activities**<br>3<br>Provision of legal services and advice<br>**Total**<br>**EXPENDITURE ON**<br>**Charitable activities**<br>4<br>Provision of legal services and advice<br>Support costs<br>**Total**<br>**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**<br>**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**<br>Total funds brought forward<br>**TOT AL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|Unrestricted<br>fund<br>£<br>**45,000**<br>**45,000**<br>**44,628**<br>**6,094**<br>**50,722**<br>**(5,722)**<br>**11,291**<br>**5,569**|Period<br>4.2.22<br>**Year Ended**<br>to<br>**31.3.24**<br>31.3.23<br>Restricted<br>**Total**<br>Total<br>funds<br>**funds**<br>funds<br>£<br>£<br>£<br>750<br>**102,428**<br>**147,428**<br>35,106<br>**102,428**<br>**147428**<br>~~35856~~|Period<br>4.2.22<br>**Year Ended**<br>to<br>**31.3.24**<br>31.3.23<br>Restricted<br>**Total**<br>Total<br>funds<br>**funds**<br>funds<br>£<br>£<br>£<br>750<br>**102,428**<br>**147,428**<br>35,106<br>**102,428**<br>**147428**<br>~~35856~~|
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|||<br>**63,126**<br>**5,147**<br>**68,273**<br>**34,155**<br>**4,966**|**,**<br>~~,~~<br>**107,754**<br>13,917<br>**11,241**<br>5,682<br>**118,995**<br>19,599<br>**28,433**<br>16,257<br>**16,257**|
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|||fund|funds|**funds**|funds|
|**FIXED ASSETS**|Notes|£|£|£|£|
|Tangible assets|9|**3,211**||**3,211**||
|**CURRENT ASSETS**||||||
|Debtors<br>Cash at bank||**5,430**<br>**43,539**|7,499<br>31,622|**12,929**<br>**75,161**|2,623<br>88,559|
|||**48,969**|39,121|**88,090**|91,182|
|**CREDITORS**||||||
|Amounts falling due within one year|1 I|**(46,611)**||**(46,611)**|(74,925)|
|**NET CURRENT ASSETS**|||**39,121**||16,257|
|**TOT AL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**||||||
|**LIABILITIES**||**5,569**|**39,121**|**44,690**|16,257|
|**NET ASSETS**||**5,569**|**39,121**|**44,690**|16,257|
|**FUNDS**|12|||||
|Unrestricted funds<br>Restricted funds||||**5,569**<br>**39,121**|11,291<br>4,966|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**||||**44,690**|16,257|






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|**3.**<br>**INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**|||
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|Activity<br>Grants<br>Provision of legal services and advice<br>Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:<br>AB Charitable Trust<br>The Legal Education Foundation<br>Law Centres Network<br>AB Charitable Trust/The Legal Education Foundation<br>Steve Morgan Foundation<br>**4.**<br>**CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS**<br>Provision of legal services and advice<br>Support costs<br>5.<br>SUPPORT COSTS<br>Provision oflegal services and advice<br>Support costs<br>Direct<br>Costs<br>£<br>**107,638**<br>**970**<br>**108,608**<br>Finance<br>£<br>72<br>72|**Year Ended**<br>**31.3.24**<br>£<br>**147,428**<br>**Year Ended**<br>**31.3.24**<br>£<br>**45,000**<br>**86,250**<br>**3,219**<br>**12,959**<br>**147,428**<br>Support<br>costs (see<br>note 5)<br>£<br>**116**<br>**10,271**|Period<br>4.2.22<br>to<br>31.3.23<br>£<br>35.106<br>Period<br>4.2.22<br>to<br>31.3.23<br>£<br>11,250<br>11,250<br>5,000<br>7,606<br>35,106<br>Totals<br>£<br>**107,754**<br>**11,241**<br>**118,995**<br>Totals<br>£<br>116<br>10,271<br>10,387|
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|||||4.2.22|
||||**Year Ended**|to|
||||**31.3.24**|3 l.3.23|
||Legal support||**3**||
||No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.||||
|**8.**|**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL**|**ACTIVITIES**|||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||fund|funds|funds|
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||**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**||||
||Donations and legacies|750||750|
||Charitable activities||||
||Provision of legal services and advice|16,250|18,856|35,106|
||**Total**|17,000|18,856|35,856|
||**EXPENDITURE ON**||||
||Charitable activities||||
||Provision of legal services and advice<br>Support costs|5,167<br>542|8,750<br>5,140|13,917<br>5,682|
||**Total**|5,709|13,890|19,599|
||**NET INCOME**|11,291|4,966|16,257|





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|||**Unrestricted**|<br>**Restricted**|Total|
|||fund|**funds**|funds|
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||TOT AL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|11,291<br>=|4,966<br>=|16,257<br>=|
|9.|TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS||||
|||Office|**Computer**||
|||**Equipment**|**equipment**|Totals|
||COST|£|£|£|
||**Additions**|181|4,000|4,181|
||DEPRECIATION||||
||**Charge for year**|26|944|970|
||NET BOOK VALUE||||
||At 31 March 2024|155<br>=|3,056|3,211|
||At 31 March 2023||||
|10,|DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE**WITHIN**ONE YEAR||||
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||**Trade debtors**<br>**Accrued income**<br>**Prepayments**||£<br>290<br>7,500<br>5,139|£<br>17<br>2,606|
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||Trade creditors<br>Other creditors||£<br>5,506<br>41,105|£<br>620<br>74 305|
||||46,611|74,925|
|12.|MOVEMENT IN FUNDS||||
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|||At 1.4.23|in funds|31.3.24|
||Unrestricted funds|£|£|£|
||General fund|11,291|(5,722)|5,569|
||Restricted funds||||
||The Foundation<br>Funding for new Development Manager|4,966|32,583<br>352|37,549<br>352|
||Steve Morgan Foundation||1,220|1,220|
|||4,966|34,155|39,121|
||TOTAL FUNDS|16,257|28,433|44,690|
||Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:||||
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|||resources|expended|in funds|
||Unrestricted funds|£|£|£|
||General fund|45,000|(50,722)|(5,722)|
||Restricted funds||||
||The Foundation<br>Funding for new Development Manager<br>Steve Morgan Foundation|86,250<br>3,219<br>12,959|(53,667)<br>(2,867)<br>(11,739)|32,583<br>352<br>1,220|
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||TOTAL FUNDS|147,428|(118,995)|28,433|





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|**Unrestricted funds**|||
|General fund|11,291|11,291|
|**Restricted funds**|||
|Funding for new Development Manager|4,966|4,966|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|16,257|16,257|



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|**Unrestricted funds**||||
|General fund|17,000|(5,709)|11,291|
|**Restricted funds**||||
|The Foundation|11,250|(11,250)||
|Funding for new Development Manager|7,606|(2,640)|4,966|
||18,856|(13,890)|4,966|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|35,856|(19,599)|16,257|





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|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**|||
|Donations and legacies|||
|Donations||750|
|Charitable activities|||
|Grants|**147,428**|35,106|
|Total incoming resources|**147,428**|35,856|
|**EXPENDITURE**|||
|Charitable activities|||
|Wages<br>Rent and rates<br>Insurance<br>Telephone<br>Advertising & publicity<br>Staff travel & volunteer expenses<br>Printing, Postage&Stationery<br>Office maintenance<br>Membership and subscriptions<br>Miscellaneous expenses<br>Computer accessories, software & support<br>Recruitment&training<br>Computer equipment|**83,964**<br>**5,201**<br>**1,768**<br>**1,991**<br>**44**<br>**1,306**<br>**1,072**<br>**1,536**<br>**770**<br>**237**<br>**3,341**<br>**6,408**<br>**970**|4,333<br>223<br>22<br>1,143<br>79<br>IOI<br>364<br>139<br>5,563|
||**108,608**|11,967|
|Support costs|||
|Finance|||
|Bank charges|**72**||
|Governance costs|||
|Trustees' expenses<br>Professional fees<br>Independent examination|**44**<br>**6,321**<br>**3,950**|1,950<br>3,582<br>2,100|
||**10,315**|7,632|
|Total resources expended|**118,995**|19,599|
|Net income|**28,433**|16,257|



