|CONTENTS||
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||PAGE|
|REPORT FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE|3|
|COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES’ REPORT||
|OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES|4|
|OUR REACH AND IMPACT|6|
|OUR ACHIEVEMENTS|7|
|OUR FUTURE PLANS|12|
|FINANCIAL REVIEW|14|
|STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES|17|
|INDEPENDENTAUDITORS’ REPORT|18|
|CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES|21|
|CONSOLIDATED AND CHARITY BALANCE SHEETS|22|
|CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOW|23|
|NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS|24|
|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY, ITS TRUSTEES AND ADVISERS|40|
|THANKYDU|42|





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|||Restricted|Restricted|Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
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|||General|Endowment|Designated|General|2020|2019|
|Notes||£‘OOO|£000|£‘OOO|£000|£000|£000|
|Income||||||||
|Donations & Legacies|2,3|925|-|-|466|1,391|1,719|
|SchoolsActivities|3|312|-|-|5,070|5,383|5,027|
|The Communication Trust (TCT)|3|131|-|-|-|131|320|
|Programme Delivery Activities|3|-|-|-|965|965|900|
|Investments|10|-|-|-|90|90|65|
|Total Income||1,368|-|-|6,591|7,959|8,031|
|Expenditure||||||||
|Costs of Raising Funds|4|-|-|-|737|737|419|
|Schools Activities|4|243|10|53|4,970|5,276|5,005|
|Programme DeliveryActivities|4|1,106|-|-|640|1,745|1,725|
|Awareness Raising & Information|4|-|-|-|253|253|207|
|Total Expenditure|4|1,349|10|53|6,600|8,012|7,356|
|Netlncome/(Expenditure)||20|(10)|(53)|(10)|(53)|675|
|before Transfers||||||||
|Transfersbetween Funds|15|197|-|59|(256)|-|-|
|NetIncome/(Expenditure)||217|(10)|6|(266)|(53)|675|
|forthe Year||||||||
|Other Recognised Gains||||||||
|Investments||||||||
|Realised gains|10|-|-|-|-|-|30|
|Unrealised Gains/(Losses)|10|-|(73)|-|71|(2)|133|
|NetMovementon Funds||217|(84)|6|(195)|(55)|838|
|Funds at 1April 2019||409|2,807|899|2,643|6,758|5,920|
|Funds at 31 March 2020|17|625|2,724|905|2,448|6,703|6,758|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Notes|2020|2019|2020|2019|
||||||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|FIXED ASSETS|||||||||
|Tangible Assets||||9a|1,673|1,487|1,673|1,487|
|Intangible Assets||||9b|139|159|139|159|
|Investments||||10|3,946|3,948|3,946|3,948|
||||||5,758|5,594|5,758|5,594|
|CURRENTASSETS|||||||||
|Debtors||||11|1,294|1,136|783|797|
|Stock||||12|182|232|182|232|
|Cash at Bank and in|Hand||||2,938|740|2,931|738|
||||||4,414|2,108|3,896|1,767|
|CURRENT LIABILITIES|||||||||
|Creditors: amounts|falling|due|within one|13|(3,468)|(944)|(2,951)|(603)|
|year|||||||||
|NETCURRENTASSETS|||||945|1,164|945|1,164|
|TOTAL<br>ASSETS|LESS|NET|CURRENT||||||
|LIABILITIES|||||6,703|6,758|6,703|6,758|
|ENDOWMENTFUNDS|||||||||
|Endowment Funds||||14|2,724|2,807|2,724|2,807|
|RESTRICTED FUNDS|||||||||
|Fixed Asset Funds||||15|218|216|218|216|
|Other Funds||||15|408|193|408|193|
||||||626|409|626|409|
|UNRESTRICTED FUNDS|||||||||
|Designated Funds||||16|905|899|906|899|
|General Funds||||16|2,448|2,643|2,448|2,643|
||||||3,353|3,542|3,353|3,542|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||17|6,703|6,758|6,703|6,758|





||Notes|2020|2019|
|---|---|---|---|
|||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Cash flows from operating activities||||
|Net cash generated from operating activities|A|2,447|283|
|Cash flowsfrom investing activities:||||
|Dividends and interestfrom investments||90|65|
|Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment||-|-|
|Purchase of property, plant and equipment||(328)|(131)|
|Purchase of Intangible Assets||(10)|(163)|
|Proceeds from sale ofinvestments||-|200|
|Net cash fused by) from investing activities||(24$)|(29)|
|Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting year||2,198|254|
|Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting||||
|year||740|486|
|Cash and cash equivalents atthe end ofthe reportingyear|B|2,938|740|
|||2020|2019|
|||£‘OOO|f’OOO|
|Notesto the Consolidated Cash FlowStatement||||
|A Net income! (expenditure)forthe reporting year||(55)|838|
|Adjustmentsfor:||||
|Depreciation charges||142|133|
|Amortisation charges||31|3|
|Decrease in stock||50|9|
|(Increase) in debtors||(157)|(152)|
|lncrease/(Decrease) in creditors||2,525|f319)|
|Dividends and interest from investments||(90)|(65)|
|fGains)/Losses on investments||2|(164)|
|fProfit)/Loss on disposal of fixed assets||-|-|
|Net cash inflow from operating activities||2,447|283|
|||2020|2019|
|||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|B Analysis ofcash and cash equivalents||||
|Cash in hand||2,938|740|
|Total cash and cash equivalents||2,938|740|





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|epreciation is provided on tangible assetst|o write them offoverth|
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|Freehold Property|50 years|
|Leasehold Property|Life of lease|
|Buildings Renovations|10 years|
|Equipment & MotorVehicles|4 years|
|IT equipment|3 years|



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||2020|2019|
|---|---|---|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Statutory Grants|645|345|
|Grant Making Trusts|297|766|
|Major Gifts|194|156|
|Corporate Donations and Sponsorship|33|25|
|Legacies|164|368|
|Other Donations and Events|58|59|
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|---|---|---|---|
|||2020|2019|
|||E’OOO|£‘OOO|
|Department for Education (DfE)||||
|HostAgencyGrantforTCT||67|99|
|School Grants (Education Funding Agency)||1,328|1,316|
|Other Grants (Delivery of HLE and SEND projects by|I CAN|464|345|
|and ICT)||||
|||1,859|1,760|



|hese grants have been analysed in the SOFA as follows|:||
|---|---|---|
||2020|2018|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Schools Activities|1,328|1,316|
|TCT|67|99|
|Gifts, Donations and Legacies|464|345|
||1,859|1,760|



|4.<br>Analysis of Expenditure|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||StaffCosts|Other|Depreciation|2020 Total|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Direct charitable expenditure|||||
|Schools|3,930|1,219|127|5,276|
|Programme Delivery Activities (including TCT)|1,435|275|35|1,745|
|Awareness Raising & Information|183|60|11|253|
||5,549|1,554|173|7,275|
|Costs of Generating funds|||||
|Fundraising|441|295|-|737|
||5,990|1,849|173|8,012|



|2019Analysis ofexpenditure|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||StaffCosts|Other|Depreciation|2019 Total|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Direct charitable expenditure|||||
|Schools|3,995|$95|115|5,005|
|Programme Delivery Activities (including TCT)|793|911|21|1,725|
|Awareness Raising & Information|176|31|-|207|
||4,964|1,837|136|6,937|
|Costs ofGenerating funds|||||
|Fundraising|355|64|-|419|
||5,319|1,901|136|7,356|





||2020|2019|
|---|---|---|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Staffcosts:|||
|Wages and Salaries|4,647|4,163|
|Social Security costs|408|366|
|Other pension and benefit costs|414|291|
|Agency staff and consultants|352|320|
|Other staff costs|169|179|
||5,990|5,319|



||Number in 2020|Number in 2019|
|---|---|---|
|Emoluments of higher paid employees:|||
|£60,000 to £70,000|2|1|
|£70,001 to £80,000|2|2|
|£80,001 to £90,000|1|1|
|£91,001 to £100,000|1|1|
|£100,001 to £110,000|0|0|
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|.<br>Allocation ofSupport Costs||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Finance and|||
|||Human|Information|Governance|2020|
||Occupancy|Resources|Technology|(note 6)|Total|
||£‘OOO|f’OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Fundraising|107|7|21|47|182|
|Activity||||||
|Schools|-|233|175|59|467|
|Programme Delivery Activities|145|22|10|7|183|
|Awareness Raising & Information|99|2|2|7|110|
||350|264|207|120|942|



|Analysis ofsupport costs||||2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||StaffCosts|Other|Depreciation|Total|
||f’OOO|f’OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Governance (note 6)|88|33|-|120|
|Occupancy|97|252|1|350|
|Human Resources|240|24|-|364|
|Finance and Information Technology|163|40|5|207|
||588|349|6|942|



|he prior year comparatives are as fol|lows:|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Occupancy|Human<br>Resources|Finance and<br>Information<br>Technology|Governance<br>(note 6)|2020<br>Total|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Fundraising|15|6|11|6|38|
|Activity||||||
|Schools|295|131|195|114|735|
|Programme DeliveryActivities|23|15|49|13|100|
|Awareness Raising & Information|8|6|5|5|24|
||341|158|260|138|897|
|Analysis ofsupport costs|||||2019|
|||Staff Costs|Other|Depreciation|Total|
|||£‘OOO|f’OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Governance (note 6)||111|27|-|138|
|Occupancy||85|255|2|342|
|Human Resources||136|21|-|157|
|Finance and Information Technology||190|62|8|260|
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|. Governa|nce Costs||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2020|2019|
||||f’OOO|£‘OOO|
|Strategic|planning and management||92|112|
|Auditors’|remuneration|— audit services|26|24|
|Auditors’|remuneration|— other services|2|2|
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|9a. Tangible Assets||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Buildings<br>Renovations|Freehold<br>Property|Leasehold<br>Property|Equipment &<br>Motor<br>Vehicles|Total|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Cost||||||
|At 1 April 2019|1,260|3,208|196|869|5,533|
|Additions|250|-|-|78|328|
|At 31 March 2020|1,510|3,208|196|947|5,861|
|Accumulated Depreciation||||||
|At 1 April 2019|(1,159)|(2,020)|(196)|(671)|(4,056)|
|Charge for the year|(26)|(63)|-|(54)|(142)|
|At 31 March 2020|(1,158)|(2,083)|(196)|(725)|(4,188)|
|Net book value at 31 March<br>2020|326|1,125|-|222|1,673|
|Net book value at 31 March<br>2019|102|1,188|-|198|1,487|





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|---|---|
||2020|
||£‘OOO|
|Cost||
|At April 2019|163|
|Additions|10|
|At March 2020|173|



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|At April 2019|(3)|
|---|---|
|Chargefor the year|(31)|
|At March 2020|(34)|
|Net BookValue at March 2020|139|
|Net Book Value at March 2019|159|



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|0. Investments|||
|---|---|---|
||2020|2019|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|At 1 April|3,948|3,984|
|Disposals|-|(200)|
|Realised gains|-|30|
|Unrealised increase/(decrease) in unrealised gains|(2)|134|
|At 31 March|3,946|3,948|
|Historical cost ofinvestments|2,666|2,666|



|Investment Income|2020|2019|
|---|---|---|
||f’OOO|£‘OOO|
|Dividends and interest on Listed Investments|90|65|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Group|||Charity||
||2020||2019|2020||2019|
||£‘OOO||£‘OOO|£‘OOO||£‘OOO|
|Debtors forschool fees|511||438|-||-|
|OtherTrade Debtors|412||107|412||107|
|Other Debtors|20||10|20||10|
|Intra-Group Balances|-||-|-||99|
|Prepayments and accrued income|351||581|351||581|
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|||||Group|||Charity||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2020||2019|2020||2019|
||||£‘OOO||£‘OOO|£‘OOO||£‘OOO|
|Goods|for|resale|182||232|182||232|
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|||Group|||Charity||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||2020||2019|2020||2019|
||£‘OOO||f’OOO|£‘OOO||£‘OOO|
|Creditors|111||73|111||73|
|Other creditors including tax and Social<br>Security|251||219|251||219|
|Accruals|171||263|171||263|
|Intra-Group Balances|-||-|383||-|
|Deferred Income|2,936||389|2,035||48|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Asati<br>•<br>April<br>2019|Income|(Expense)|Transferto<br>otherfunds|Investment<br>Losses|Asat<br>31 March<br>2020|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Expendable Endowment|||||||
|Countess of Meath|45|-|-|-|-|45|
|Permanent Endowment|||||||
|Princess Alice Fund|352|-|-|-|(12)|340|
|I CAN Consolidated Fund|687|-|-|-|(16)|671|
|Ministering Children’s<br>League Fund|1,724|-|(10)|-|(45)|1,668|
|Total Group|2,807|-|(10)|-|(73)|2,724|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Balance|Restricted|Restricted|Transfer||Balance|
||1 April<br>2019|Income|Expenditure|Between<br>Funds||31 March<br>2020|
||£000|£000|£000|£000||£000|
|Fixed Asset Funds|||||||
|Dawn House School|23|-|(11)|||12|
|Dawn House Chimes|29|49|(5)|||73|
|Meath School Minibus|19|-|(9)|||10|
|Meath School Fencing|5|-|(1)|||4|
|Meath School Woodlands|20|-|(6)|||14|
|CRM project|120|-|(16)||||
|Total Fixed Asset Funds|216|49|(47)|||218|
|Other Funds|||||||
|Dawn House General|24|20|(12)|||32|
|Dawn House Motor Vehicles|-|22|(3)|||19|
|Dawn House Food Tech Room|-|2|-|||2|
|Dawn House Sports Hall||9|-||-|9|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||1 April<br>2019|Income|.<br>Expenditure|||Between<br>Funds|31 March<br>2020|
||£000|£000|£000|||£000|£000|
|Meath Family Support Project|6|11|||(6)|-|11|
|Meath Playground|0|47|||(0)|-|47|
|Meath Residential|31|96|||(143)|16|-|
|Meath Holiday Club|13|15|||(14)|-|14|
|Meath Supporting Family Fund|2|5|||-|-|8|
||158|212|||(197)|16|189|
|Programme Funding||||||||
|Tots Talking II|-|11|||-|-|11|
|SEMH|-|21|||(10)||11|
|Enquiry service|-|41|||(41)||-|
|Place|-|12|||(5)||7|
|CEF|-|34|||(29)|-|6|
|HLE|-|377|||(377)|-||
|SEND|-|87|||(83)|-|3|
|Yr7|-|39|||(33)|-|6|
|Tots talking|-|45|||(45)|-|0|
|Oldham|-|116|||(89)|-|27|
|BANES|-|42|||(9)|-|34|
|HPC|-|38|||(7)|-|31|
|Fenland||20|||(20)|-|-|
|QEGS||21|||(9)|-|12|
|Ruth Miskin||12|||(12)|-|-|
|Hiscox||10|||(10)|-|-|
|TCT|-|131|||(312)|181|-|
|WestminsterTalk Boost|10|-|||-|-|10|
||10|1,056||(1,090)||181|157|
|Total Other Funds|193|1,319||(1,302)||197|408|
|Total Restricted Funds|409|1,368||(1,348)||197|626|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Asati|||.|Investment|Asat3l|
||.<br>April|2019|Income|(Expenditure)|.<br>ains|March<br>2020|
|||£‘OOO|f’OOO|f’OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Designated Funds:|||||||
|Fixed Asset Funds|||||||
|Schools||899|-|(53)|-|846|
|Other Funds|||||||
|Premises Repair/Dilapidation||-|60|-|-|60|
|||899|60|(53)|-|906|
|General Funds||2,643|6,532|(6,799)|71|2,448|
|Total Unrestricted Funds||3,542|6,592|(6,852)|71|3,353|



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|7. Analysis of NetAssets<br>— G|roup and Charity||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||General<br>Funds|Designated<br>.<br>Fixed Asset<br>Funds||.<br>Restricted<br>Funds|Endowment<br>Funds|As at 31<br>March 2020<br>Total|
||£‘OOO||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Tangible Assets|351||247|114|361|1,673|
|Intangible Assets|35||-|104|-|139|
|Investments|1,842||-|-|2,104|3,946|
|Net current assets|219||59|408|259|945|
|Total net assets|2,448||905|626|2,724|6,703|
||General<br>Funds|Designated<br>.<br>Fixed Asset<br>Funds||Restricted<br>Funds|Endowment<br>Funds|As at 31<br>March 2019<br>Total|
||f’OOO||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Tangible Assets|120||899|96|372|1,487|
|Intangible Assets|40||-|119|-|159|
|Investments|1,771||-|-|2,177|3,948|
|Net current assets|712||-|193|259|1,164|
|Total net assets|2,643||899|408|2,808|6,758|





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||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|2019|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|Total|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|INCOME FROM:|||||
|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|||||
|Schools Activities|3,438|1,589||5,027|
|The Communication Trust (TCT)|66|254||320|
|Programme DeliveryActivities|900|||900|
|GENERATED FUNDS|||||
|Donations and Legacies|753|966||1,719|
|Investments|43||22|65|
|TOTAL INCOME|5,200|2,809|22|8,031|
|EXPENDITURE ON:|||||
|RAISING FUNDS|||||
|Fundraising Costs|419|-|-|419|
||419|-|-|419|
|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|||||
|Schools Activities|3,364|1,605|36|5,005|
|Programme Related|||||
|Activities (includingTCT)|||||
||668|1,057|-|1,725|
|Awareness Raising &|161|46|-|207|
|Information|||||
||4,193|2,708|36|6,937|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE|4,612|2,708|36|7,356|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) BEFORE|||||
|OTHER RECOGNISED GAINS|588|101|(14)|675|
|Gains on investment assets|59|-|105|164|
|NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS|646|101|91|838|
|Fund balances brought forward|||||
|at 1 April|2,897|307|2,716|5,920|
|Fund balances carried forward|||||
|at 31 March|3,543|408|2,807|6,758|





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|---|---|---|
||£‘OOO|f’OOO|
|Payment not later than one year|132|128|
|Payment laterthan one year and not laterthan five|||
|years|-|-|
|Payment laterthan fiveyears|-|-|
|Total commitments under operating lease|132|128|



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|---|---|---|---|---|
||Lowersalary|HigherSalary|Lowersalary|HigherSalary|
|7.40%|0|27,697|0|27,048|
|8.60%|27,698|37,284|27,049|36,410|
|9.60%|37,285|44,208|36,411|43,171|
|10.20%|44,209|58,590|43,172|57,216|
|11.30%|58,591|79895|57,217|78,022|
|11.70%|79,896|79,896 +|78,023|78,023 +|





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