Registered charity number 1200042
Comfort Centre Leicester
Report and Accounts
31 July 2024
## **Comfort Centre Leicester Company Information**
## **Trustees**
Cleveland Deroche Michael Borland Pastor Michael Baker Suzan Owera - resigned on 07/07/2023
## **Independent examiner**
Smartfield Limited 81 London Road First Floor Leicester LE2 0PF
**Registered charity number** 1200042
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## **Comfort Centre Leicester Registered charity number: 1200042 Trustees' Report**
The trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31 July 2024.
## **Principal activities**
The trust's principal activity during the year continued to be provision of help and assistance to people suffering from Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia.
## **Trustees**
The following persons served as trustees during the year:
Cleveland Deroche Michael Borland Pastor Michael Baker Suzan Owera - resigned on 07/07/2023
## **Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees**
The charity is governed by a board of trustees drawn from the local community. This is to ensure that the board has the skills and experience required to oversee the management of the charity and its operations.
## **Trustee Induction and Training**
All new trustees receive a planned induction programme before taking up their place on the board. This includes an explanation of their roles and responsibilities, an introduction to other trustees, an overview of recent business and an explanation of board format and process.
## **Reserves policy**
The trustees aim to ensure that sufficient funds are maintained to enable the trust to carry out its activities.
## **Risk management**
The trustees have examined the major strategic, business and operational risks which the trust faces and confirm that systems have been established to enable regular reports to be produced so that the necessary steps can be taken to lessen these risks.
## **Public Benefit Statement**
The trustees have considered the general guidance on public benefit issued by the Charities Commission and have taken due regard of that guidance. The trustees consider that they are satisfied that the charity's activities do provide a public benefit.
## **Results for the year**
The charity had a deficit of £-4058 for the year. The detailed results are set out in the attached financial statements.
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## **Comfort Centre Leicester Registered charity number: 1200042 Trustees' Report**
## **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 Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
The law 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 charitable trust and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure,of the charitable trust 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;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume
- that the charitable trust 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 charitable trust and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the law. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
This report was approved by the board on 18 March 2025 and signed on its behalf.
Cleveland Deroche Trustee
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## **Comfort Centre Leicester Independent Examiner's Report**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Comfort Centre Leicester**
I report on the accounts of Comfort Centre Leicester for the year ended 31 July 2024, which are set out on pages 5 to 9
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The Charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to: examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act; to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner's report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a "true and fair view" and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
i) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act; and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act, have not been met; or
ii) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## _Zeeshan Bawany_
Z Bawany Smartfield Limited
81 London Road First Floor Leicester LE2 0PF
18 March 2025
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## **Comfort Centre Leicester Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 July 2024**
|**Notes**
**Incoming resources**
Income from charitable activities and
generated funds
**Resources expended**
Direct charitable expenses
**Gross surplus**
Administrative expenses
**Operating (deficit)/surplus**
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**(Deficit)/surplus on ordinary activities**
**(Deficit)/surplus for the financial year**|**2024**
**£**
7,014
(694)
6,320
(10,378)
(4,058)
(4,058)
(4,058)|**2023**
**£**
4,274
-|
|---|---|---|
|||4,274
(1,933)|
|||2,341|
|||2,341|
|||2,341|
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## **Comfort Centre Leicester Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2024**
|**Notes**
**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
3
**Current assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: amounts falling due**
**within one year**
4
**Net current (liabilities)/assets**
**Net (liabilities)/assets**
**Reserves**
Accumulated reserves
(unrestricted)
5
**Net funds**|**2024**
**£**
571
206
(2,494)
(2,288)
(1,717)
(1,717)
(1,717)|**2023**
**£**
-
4,094
(1,753)
2,341
2,341
2,341
2,341|**2023**
**£**
-
4,094
(1,753)
2,341
2,341
2,341
2,341|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||||2,341|
||||2,341|
||||2,341|
The trustees are satisfied that the trust is entitled to exemption from the requirement to obtain an audit.
The members have not required the trust to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Act.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Charity Commission with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
## Cleveland Deroche
Trustee Approved by the board on 18 March 2025
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**Comfort Centre Leicester Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 July 2024**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## _**Basis of preparation**_
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities.
The accounts have also been drawn up in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) - "Accounting and Reporting by Charites" issued by the Charity Commissioners in England and Wales.
## _**Income**_
Income is accounted for on a receipts basis.
## _**Resources expended**_
Resources expended are accounted for as the liability is incurred. Expenditure includes irrecoverable VAT which is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
## _**Depreciation**_
Depreciation has been provided at the following rates in order to write off the assets over their estimated useful lives.
Plant and machinery 33% straight line Motor vehicles 25% straight line
## _**Stocks**_
Stock is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value.
|**2**
**Operating profit**
This is stated after charging:
Depreciation of owned fixed assets|**2024**
**£**
286|**2023**
**£**
-|
|---|---|---|
## **3 Tangible fixed assets**
|**Cost**
Additions
At 31 July 2024
**Depreciation**
Charge for the year
At 31 July 2024
**Net book value**
At 31 July 2024|**Plant and**
**machinery**
**etc**
**£**
857|
|---|---|
||857|
||286|
||286|
||571|
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## **Comfort Centre Leicester Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 July 2024**
|**4**
**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
Trade creditors
Other creditors
**5**
**Reserves**
At 1 August 2023
Deficit for the year
At 31 July 2024|**2024**
**£**
1,450
1,044
2,494
**2024**
**£**
2,341
(4,058)
(1,717)|**2023**
**£**
-
1,753|
|---|---|---|
|||1,753|
||||
## **6 Ultimate controlling party**
In the opinion of the trustees, given the structure of the trust, there is no ultimate controlling party.
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## **Comfort Centre Leicester Detailed profit and loss account for the year ended 31 July 2024**
|**Incoming resources**
Direct charitable expenses
**Gross surplus**
Administrative expenses
**Operating (deficit)/surplus**
**(Deficit)/surplus for the year**|**2024**
**£**
7,014
(694)
6,320
(10,378)
(4,058)
(4,058)|**2023**
**£**
4,274
-|
|---|---|---|
|||4,274
(1,933)|
|||2,341|
|||2,341|
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## **Comfort Centre Leicester Detailed profit and loss account for the year ended 31 July 2024**
|**Incoming resources**
Income
**Resources expended**
Direct charitable expenses
**Administrative expenses**
Employee costs:
Wages and salaries
Travel and subsistence
Premises costs:
Rent
General administrative expenses:
Telephone and fax
Stationery and printing
Subscriptions
Insurance
Depreciation
Legal and professional costs:
Accountancy fees
Advertising and PR
Other legal and professional|**2024**
**£**
7,014
694
3,680
-
3,680
1,000
1,000
1,042
1,499
349
179
286
3,355
350
1,993
-
2,343
10,378|**2023**
**£**
4,274|
|---|---|---|
|||-|
|||-
3|
|||3|
|||-|
|||-|
|||-
120
25
-
-|
|||145|
|||-
117
1,668|
|||1,785|
||||
|||1,933|
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