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|REPORT FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE|2|
|COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES’ REPORT||
|OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES|3|
|OUR ACHIEVEMENTS|5|
|PARTNERING WITH AND INFLUENCING OTHERS|10|
|OUR FUTURE PLANS|13|
|FINANCIAL REVIEW|14|
|STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES|17|
|INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ 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, IS TRUSTEES AND ADVISERS|41|
|THANK YOU|42|





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|Supportingchildren, young people and families|Supportingchildren, young people and families|Partneringwith and influencing|Partneringwith and influencing|others||
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|•|Running two residential special schools and|•|Creating<br>programmes|for<br>children|and|
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||young people with the biggest barriers to||schools, nurseries and childcare settings|||
||speaking and understanding language|||||
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|||General|Endowment|Designated|General|2021|2020|
||Notes|£000|£000|£000|£000|£‘OOO|£000|
|Income||||||||
|Donations & Legacies|2,3|1,570|||712|2,282|1,391|
|Schools Activities|3|393|||5,433|5,826|5,383|
|The Communication Trust (TCI)|3||||-|-|131|
|Programme Delivery Activities|3||||488|488|965|
|Investments|10||||84|84|90|
|Total Income||1,963|-|-|6,717|8,680|7,959|
|Expenditure||||||||
|Costs of Raising Funds|4|-|-|-|439|439|737|
|Schools Activities|4|230|10|54|5,312|5,606|5,276|
|Programme Delivery Activities|4|1,700|-|-|538|2,238|1,745|
|Awareness Raising & Information|4|-|-|-|241|241|253|
|Total Expenditure|4|1,930|10|54|6,530|8,524|8,012|
|Net lncome/(Expenditure)||33|(10)|(54)|187|156|(53)|
|before Transfers||||||||
|Transfers between Funds|15|7|-|500|(507)|-|-|
|Net lncome/(Expenditure)||40|(10)|446|(320)|156|(53)|
|for the Year||||||||
|Other Recognised Gains||||||||
|Investments||||||||
|Unrealised Gains/fLosses)|10|-|441|-|168|609|(2)|
|Net Movement on Funds||40|431|446|(152)|765|(55)|
|Funds at 1 April 2020||626|2,724|906|2,447|6,703|6,758|
|Funds at 31 March 2021|17|666|3,155|1,352|2,295|7,468|6,703|





|||Group||Charity||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Notes|2021|2020|2021|2020|
|||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|FIXED ASSETS||||||
|Tangible Assets|9a|2,035|1,673|2,035|1,673|
|Intangible Assets|9b|81|139|$1|139|
|Investments|10|4,555|3,946|4,555|3,946|
|||6,671|5,758|6,671|5,758|
|CURRENTASSETS||||||
|Debtors|11|1,629|1,294|781|783|
|Stock|12|349|182|349|182|
|Cash at Bank and in Hand||1,960|2,938|1,959|2,931|
|||3,938|4,414|3,089|3,896|
|CURRENT LIABILITIES||||||
|Creditors: amounts falling due|13|(3,141)|(3,468)|(2,285)|(2,951)|
|within one year||||||
|NETCURRENT ASSETS||797|945|804|945|
|TOTALASSETS LESS NET||||||
|CURRENT LIABILITIES||7,468|6,703|7,475|6,703|
|ENDOWMENT FUNDS||||||
|Endowment Funds|14|3,155|2,724|3,155|2,724|
|RESTRICTED FUNDS||||||
|Fixed Asset Funds|15|168|218|168|218|
|Other Funds|15|498|408|498|408|
|||666|626|666|626|
|UNRESTRICTED FUNDS||||||
|Designated Funds|16|1,352|906|1,352|906|
|General Funds|16|2,295|2,447|2,302|2,447|
|||3,647|3,353|3,654|3,353|
|TOTAL FUNDS|17|7,462|6,703|7,475|6,703|





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||Notes|2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|
|||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Cash flow (used)/from operating activities||||
|Net cash generated from operating activities|A|(499)|2,447|
|Cash flows from investing activities:||||
|Dividends and interest from investments||84|90|
|Purchase of property, plant and equipment||(563)|(32$)|
|Purchase of Intangible Assets||-|(10)|
|Net cash (used by) investing activities||(479)|(248)|
|Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting year||(978)|2,198|
|Cash and cash equivalents atthe beginning ofthe reporting||||
|year at 1 April 2020||2,938|740|
|Cash and cash equivalents at the end ofthe reportingyear at|B|||
|31 March 2021||1,960|2,938|
|||2021|2020|
|||f’OOO|£‘OOO|
|Notes to the Consolidated Cash Flow Statement||||
|A Net income! (expenditure) for the reportingyear||765|(55)|
|Adjustmentsfor:||||
|Depreciation charges||201|142|
|Amortisation charges||58|31|
|Decrease in stock||(166)|50|
|(Increase) in debtors||(335)|(157)|
|Increase/(Decrease) in creditors||(32$)|2,525|
|Dividends and interest from investments||(84)|(90)|
|(Gains)/Losses on investments||(609)|2|
|Net cash (used)/generated from operating activities||(499)|2,447|
|||2021|2020|
|||£‘OOO|f’OOO|
|B Analysis of cash and cash equivalents||||
|Cash in hand||1,960|2,938|
|Total cash and cash equivalents||1,960|2,938|





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|epreciation is provided on tangible assets t|o write them off over th|
|---|---|
|Freehold Property|50 years|
|Leasehold Property|Life of lease|
|Buildings Renovations|10 years|
|Equipment & Motor Vehicles|4 years|
|IT equipment|3 years|



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|---|---|---|
||f’OOO|f’OOO|
|Statutory Grants|764|645|
|Grant Making Trusts|845|297|
|Major Gifts|184|194|
|Corporate Donations and Sponsorship|158|33|
|Legacies|151|164|
|Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme|55|-|
|Other Donations and Events|125|58|
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|Statutory Grants||||
|---|---|---|---|
|||2021|2020|
|||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Departmentfor Education (DIE)||||
|HostAgencyGrantforlCT||-|67|
|School Grants (Education Funding Agency)||1,286|1,328|
|Other Grants (Delivery of HLE and SEND projects by|I CAN|685|464|
|and TCT)||||
|||1,971|1,859|



|hese grants have been analysed in the SOFA as follows:|||
|---|---|---|
||2021|2020|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Schools Activities|1,285|1,328|
|The Communication Trust (TCT)|-|67|
|Gifts, Donations and Legacies|685|464|
||1,971|1,859|



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|.<br>Analysis of Expenditure|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||StaffCosts|Other|Depreciation|2021 Total|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|f’OOO|f’OOO|
|Direct charitable expenditure|||||
|Schools|4,185|1,237|182|5,606|
|Programme Delivery Activities (including TCT)|1,418|766|54|2,238|
|Awareness Raising & Information|90|130|21|241|
||5,693|2,133|257|8,085|
|Costs ofGeneratingfunds|||||
|Fundraising|221|217|1|439|
||5,916|2,350|258|8,524|



|2020 Analysis ofexpenditure|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||StaffCosts|Other|Depreciation|2020Total|
||f’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 ofGenerating funds|||||
|Fundraising|441|295|-|737|
||5,990|1,849|173|8,012|





||2021|2020|
|---|---|---|
||£‘OOO|f’OOO|
|Staffcosts:|||
|Wages and Salaries|4,627|4,647|
|Social Security costs|407|408|
|Other pension and benefit costs|437|414|
|Agency staff and consultants|374|352|
|Other staff costs|71|169|
||5,916|5,990|



||Number in 2021|Number in 2020|
|---|---|---|
|Emoluments of higher paid employees:|||
|£60,000 to fJO,000|2|1|
|£70,001 to f$0,000|2|1|
|£80,001 to £90,000|1|2|
|f91,001 to £100,000|0|0|
|£100,001 to £110,000|0|0|
|£110,001 to £120,000|0|1|



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|||||Finance and|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Human|Information|Governance|2021|
|||Occupancy|Resources|Technology|(note 6)|Total|
|||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Fundraising|Activity|106|4|32|61|203|
|Schools||-|113|267|78|45$|
|Programme|Delivery Activities|144|11|14|9|17$|
|Awareness|Raising & Information|99|1|3|9|112|
|||349|129|316|157|951|



|Analysis of support costs||||2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Staff Costs|Other|Depreciation|Total|
||f’OOO|f’OOO|f’OOO|f’OOO|
|Governance (note 6)|$3|75|-|157|
|Occupancy|34|313|1|349|
|Human Resources|59|70|-|129|
|Finance and Information Technology|$$|222|6|316|
||264|680|7|951|



|he prior year comparatives are as f|ollows:||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Finance and||||
||Occupancy|Human<br>Resources|.<br>Information<br>Technology||Governance<br>(note 6)|2020<br>Total|
||£‘OOO|£‘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|
||351|264||207|120|942|
|Analysis ofsupport costs||||||2020|
|||Staff Costs||Other|Depreciation|Total|
|||£‘OOO||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Governance (note 6)||8$||32|-|120|
|Occupancy||98||252|1|351|
|Human Resources||240||24|-|264|
|Finance and Information Technology||162||40|5|207|
|||588||348|6|942|





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|. Govern|ance Costs||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2021|2020|
||||f’OOO|£‘OOO|
|Strategic|planning and|management|122|94|
|Auditors|remuneration|—other services|2|2|
|Auditors|remuneration|— audit services|27|24|
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|a. Tangible Assets||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Buildings<br>Renovations|Freehold<br>Property|Leasehold<br>Property|Equipment &<br>Motor<br>Vehicles|Total|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|f’OOO|
|Cost||||||
|At 1 April 2020|1,510|3,208|196|947|5,861|
|Additions|406|-|-|157|563|
|At 31 March 2021|1,916|3,202|196|1,104|6,424|
|Accumulated Depreciation||||||
|At 1 April 2020|(1,184)|(2,083)|(196)|(725)|(4,188)|
|Charge for the year|(63)|(63)|-|(75)|(201)|
|At 31 March 2021|(1,247)|(2,146)|(196)|(800)|(4,389)|
|Net bookvalue at 31 March||||||
|2021|669|1,062|-|304|2,035|
|Net book value at 31 March||||||
|2020|326|1,125|-|222|1,673|





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|---|---|
||2021|
||£‘OOO|
|Cost||
|At April 2020|173|
|At March 2021|173|



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|At April 2020|(34)|
|---|---|
|Charge forthe year|(5$)|
|At March 2021|(92)|
|Net Book Value at March 2021|81|
|Net Book Value at Match 2020|139|



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|0. Investments<br>— Group and Charity|||
|---|---|---|
||2021|2020|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|At 1 April|3,946|3,948|
|Unrealised increase/(decrease) in unrealised gains|609|(2)|
|At 31 March|4,555|3,946|
|Historical cost of investments|2,666|2,666|



|Investment Income|2021|2020|
|---|---|---|
||£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Dividends and interest on Listed Investments|84|90|
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|||Group|||Charity||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||2021||2020|2021||2020|
||£‘OOO||f’OOO|£‘OOO||£‘OOO|
|Debtors for school fees|848||511|-||-|
|Other Trade Debtors|163||412|163||412|
|Other Debtors|16||20|16||20|
|Prepayments and accrued income|602||351|602||351|
||1,629||1,294|781||783|



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|||||Group|||Charity||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2021||2020|2021||2020|
||||f’OOO||£‘OOO|£‘OOO||f’OOO|
|Goods|for|resale|349||182|349||182|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Group|||Charity||
||2021||2020|2021||2020|
||f’OOO||£‘OOO|f’OOO||£‘OOO|
|Creditors|(120)||111|(120)||111|
|Other creditors including tax and Social<br>Security|(353)||251|(353)||251|
|Accruals|(19$)||171|(198)||171|
|Amounts due to subsidiary|-||-|242||383|
|Deferred Income|(2,470)||2,936|(1,856)||2,035|
||(3,141)||3,468|(2,285)||2,951|





|4. Endowment Funds<br>— Grou|p and Charity||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Asati<br>.<br>April<br>2020|Income|(Expense)|Transfer to<br>other funds|Investment<br>Gains|Asat<br>31 March<br>2021|
||£‘OOO|f’OOO|£‘OOO|f’OOO|£‘OOO|£‘OOO|
|Expendable Endowment|||||||
|Countess of Meath||-|-|-|-||
||45|||||45|
|Permanent Endowment|||||||
|Princess Alice Fund|340|-|-|-|71|411|
|I CAN Consolidated Fund|671|-|-|-|96|767|
|Ministering Children’s<br>League Fund|1 668|-|(10)|-|274|1,932|
|Total|2,724|-|(10)|-|441|3,155|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Balance|Restricted|Restricted|Transfer|Balance|
||1 April|Income|Expenditure|Between|31 March|
||2020|||Funds|2021|
||£‘OOO|£000|f’OOO|f 000|£000|
|Fixed Asset Funds||||||
|Dawn House School|12|-|||12|
|Dawn House Chimes|73|-|(6)||67|
|Meath School Minibus|10|-|(7)||3|
|Meath School Fencing|4|-|-||4|
|Meath School Woodlands|14|-|(5)||9|
|CRM project|105|-|(32)|-|73|
|Total Fixed Asset Funds|218|-|(50)|-|168|
|Other Funds||||||
|Dawn House General|32|31|(3)|-|60|
|Dawn House Motor Vehicles|19|-|(5)|-|14|
|Dawn House Food Tech Room|2|40|(2)||40|
|Dawn House Sports Hall|9|2|-|-|11|
|Dawn House Capex|-|46|(2)|-|44|
|Dawn House Laptops<br>— Permira|-|21|(6)||15|
||62|140|(18)|-|184|
|Meath General|93|20|(9)|-|104|
|Meath Capital|16|34|(3)|-|47|
|Meath Family Support Project|11|30|(21)|-|20|
|Meath Playground|47|-|(1)|-|46|
|Meath Residential|-|152|(157)|5|-|
|Meath Holiday Project|14|-|-|-|14|
|Meath Supporting Family Fund|8|5|-|(10)|3|
|Meath Laptops<br>- Permira|-|12|(3)|-|9|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||1 April|Income|Expenditure|Between|31 March|
||2020|||Funds|2021|
||£000|£‘OOO|£000|£000|£000|
|Programme Funding||||||
|Tots Talking London|11||||11|
|Social Emotional and Mental Health Project||||||
|Bristol|11||(11)|||
|Enquiry service||39|(39)|||
|Knowsley and West Somerset Place|7||(4)||3|
|West Somerset Early Talkers||25|(25)|||
|Cumbria Communication Project|-|6|(6)|||
|Nursery Inclusion Project Wandsworth||24|(23)||1|
|Talking About Talk Secondary with SEND|6|25|(14)||17|
|Changingthe Conversation about Language|-|503|(503)|||
|Early Years SEND Project|3|182|(185)|||
|Talk Boost Year 7 Pilot|6|8|(14)|||
|Lets Get Oldham Talking|26|35|(51)||10|
|Bath and North East Somerset Tots Talking|34||(32)||2|
|Hinkley Point C<br>- Empowerment Project|31||(25)||6|
|Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Blackburn|12|2|(14)|||
|English Hubs Training Centres||1$|(5)||13|
|Hiscox Foundation||||||
|Lets Get Knowsley Talking||14|(14)|||
|What Works Database||10|(22)|12||
|Sound Communities||4|(4)|||
|COLTALE||22|(21)||1|
|Teletherapy (non RT)||19|(19)|||
|DLD Pilot (non RT)||30|(30)|||
|WestminsterTalk Boost|10||(2)||8|
|Permira Talk Boost||48|(48)|||
|Rayners||||||
|Rayners Teletherapy||49|(49)|||
|Rayners DLD Pilot||22|(22)|||
|Rayners On-Line Tracker||79|(79)|||
|Rayners TCT Grants||331|(331)|||
|Rayners Policy & Public||27|(27)|||
|Rayners General||20|(20)|||
|Rayners Meath Assessment||28|(28)|||
||157|1,570|(1,668)|12|71|
|Total Other Funds|408|1,963|(1,880)|7|498|
|Total Restricted Funds|626|1,963|(1,930)|7|666|





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|---|---|---|---|---|
||Balance|Change in|Transfer|Balance|
||1 Apr 20|Year|Between|31 Mar 21|
||||Funds||
||f,000|£,000|f,000|£000|
|Designated Funds:|||||
|Fixed Asset Funds|||||
|SchoDls|847|(54)|500|1,293|
|Other Funds|||||
|Premises Repair/Dilapidation|59|||59|
|Total Designated Funds|906|(54)|500|1,352|
|General Funds|2,447|355|(507)|2,295|
|Total Unrestricted Funds|3,353|301|(7)|3,647|



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||General|Designated|Restricted|Endowment|Balance|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|31 Mar21|
||£‘000|£000|£000|£000|£‘OOO|
|Tangible Assets|795|793|95|352|2,035|
|Intangible Assets|9|-|72|-|81|
|Investments|2,011|-|-|2,544|4,555|
|Net Current Assets|(520)|559|499|259|797|
|Total Net Assets|2,295|1,352|666|3,155|7,468|



||General|Designated|Restricted|Endowment|Balance|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|Fixed Asset|Funds|Funds|31 Mar 20|
|||Funds||||
||£000|£000|£000|f 000|£000|
|Tangible Assets|351|847|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|





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||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|Total|
||f’OOO|f’OOO|£‘OOO|f’OOO|
|INCOME FROM:|||||
|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|||||
|Schools Activities|5,070|312||5,383|
|The Communication Trust (TCT)||131||131|
|Programme Delivery Activities|965|||965|
|GENERATED FUNDS|||||
|Donations and Legacies|466|925||1,719|
|Investments|90|||90|
|TOTAL INCOME|6,591|1,368|-|7,959|
|EXPENDITURE ON:|||||
|RAISING FUNDS|||||
|Fundraising Costs|737|||737|
||737|||737|
|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES|||||
|Schools Activities|5,023|243|10|5,276|
|Programme Related|||||
|Activities (including TCT)|||||
||640|1,106||1,746|
|Awareness Raising &|||||
|Information|253|||253|
||5,916|1,349|10|7,275|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE|6,653|1,349|10|8,102|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) BEFORE|||||
|OTHER RECOGNISED GAINS|(62)|19|(10)|(53)|
|Transfers between Funds|||||
||(198)|19$||-|
|Gains/(Losses) on investment assets|71||(73)|(2)|
|NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS|(189)|217|(10)|(55)|
|Fund balances brought forward|||||
|at 1 April|3,542|409|2,807|6,758|
|Fund balances carried forward|||||
|at 31 March|3,353|626|2,724|6,703|





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|---|---|---|
||f’OOO|f’OOO|
|Payment not laterthan one year|84|132|
|Payment later than one year and not laterthan five years|192|-|
|Total commitments under operating lease|276|132|



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|Contribution rate|2020-21||2019-20||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Lower salary|Higher Salary|Lower salary|Higher Salary|
|7.40%|£0|f28,169|0|27,697|
|8.60%|£28,169|£37,919|27,698|37,284|
|9.60%|£37,919|£44,961|37,285|44,208|
|10.20%|£44,961|£59,588|44,209|58,590|
|11.30%|£59,588|f81,255|58,591|79895|
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