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|independent<br>auditor's|report to the members||||10|
|Statement offinancial|activities (including||income and|||
|expenditure<br>account)|||||14|
|Statement offinancial|position||||15|
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||Note|funds<br>E|funds<br>E|funds<br>E|Totalfunds<br>r|Total funds<br>f|
|Income and endowments|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|5|116,635|111,460||228,095|295,372|
|Charitable<br>activities|6|233,260|||233,260|139,509|
|Other trading<br>activities|7|13,840|||13,840||
|Total income||363,735|111,460||47S,19S|434,881|
|Expenditure|||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds:|||||||
|Costs ofraising|||||||
|donations<br>and|||||||
|legacies|8|16,023|||16,023|12,163|
|Expenditure<br>on|||||||
|charitable<br>activities|9,10|400,506|121,028||521,534|388,327|
|Total expenditure||416,529|121,028||537,557|400,490|
|Gains on impairment|||||||
|reversal|12|152,084|||152,084||
|Net income||99,290|(9,568)||89,722|34,391|
|Transfers between<br>funds||80,984|(80,984)||||
|Net movement<br>in funds||180,274|(90,552)||89,722|34,391|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
|Total funds broughtforward||1,231,572|200,515|1,119|1,433,206|1,398,815|
|Total funds carried forward||1,411,846|109,963|1,119|1,522,928|1,433,206|





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|Fixed assets|||||
|Tangible fixed assets||18|1,2'l8,711|1,093,080|
|Cunent assets|||||
|Stocks||19|4,504|7,878|
|Debtors||20|99,109|150;784|
|Cash at bank and in|hand||523;919|374,879|
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|CIedftors: amounts|falling due within one year|21|(121,315)|(124,384)|
|Net cunent assets|||506„217|409,137|
|Total assets less current llabgities|||1,722,928|1,502,217|
|'Creditors: amounts|falling due after more than one year|22|(2oo,ooo)|(80,011)|
|Net assets|||1,522,928|1,433,205|
|Funds ofthe charity|||||
|Er(dowment<br>funds|||1;119|1,119|
|Restricted funds|||109,963|200,515|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||1,411,846|1,231,572|
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|Cash flows from operating||activities|||||
|Net income|||||89,722|34,391|
|Adjustments<br>fori|||||||
|Depreciation<br>oftangible fixed||assets|||31,222|25,832|
|Impairment<br>oftangible fixed|assets||||(152,084)||
|Gains on impairment<br>reversal|||||(152,084)||
|Interest payable and similar|charges||||5,564|6,563|
|Accrued (income)/expenses|||||(26,820)|56,983|
|Changes in:|||||||
|Stocks|||||3,375|(208)|
|Trade and other debtors|||||51,654|80,096|
|Trade and other creditors|||||154,739|(108,935)|
|Cash generated<br>from operations|||||5,288|94,722|
|Interest paid|||||(5,564)|(6,563)|
|Net cash (used in)/from<br>operating|||activities||(276)|88,159|
|Cash flows from investing|activities||||||
|Purchase oftangible assets|||||(2,768)|(18,912)|
|Proceeds from sale ofother|investments||||152,084||
|Net cash from/(used<br>in) investing|||activities||149,316|(18,912)|
|Net increase<br>in cash and cash|||equivalents||149,040|69,247|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at beginning||ofyear|374,879|305,632|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at end ofyear|||523,919|374,879|





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||Donations||||||23,197||23,197|
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||RNIB grant||||||93,438||93,438|
||The National||Lottery Community||Fund|||47,667|47,667|
||Other grant|income||||||63.793|63,793|
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||Legacies||||||45,500||45,500|
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||RNIB grant||||||107,717||107,717|
||The National<br>Lottery Community||||Fund|||||
||Other grant|income||||||61,902|61,902|
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||Resource centre sales|||||3,907|3,907|1,980|1,980|
||Income from non-investment|||property||||||
||in furtherance||ofthe charity's|objects||87,107|87,107|||
||Local Authority||contract income|||92,656|92,656|93,648|93,648|
||Cardiff &Vale||Health Board|-|ECLO|||||
||Services|||||40,000|40,000|40,000|40,000|
||Income from groups and other core|||||||||
||income|||||7,720|7,720|2,481|2,481|
||Room<br>/ studio||hire for charitable||users|1,870|1,870|1,400|1,400|
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||||Unrestricted||Total Funds|Unrestricted|Total Funds|
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|9.|Expenditure|on charitable|activities by fund|type||||
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||Equip People with Sight Loss||||304,882|121,028|425,910|
||Support costs||||95,624||95,624|
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|Equip People with Sight Loss|425,910|86,233|512,143|381,487|
|Governance costs||9,391|9,391|6,840|
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|General office||17,054|17,054|53,898|
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|Wages and salaries|||328,636|275,059|
|Social secudity costs|||25,217|22,794|
|Employer contributions|to pension|plans|12,278|10,853|
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||Additions||||||2,768|2,768|
||At 31 March|2023|||1,920,170|22,588|21,680|1,964,438|
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||Charge for the||year||26,253||4,969|31,222|
||Reversal ofimpairment|||losses|(152,085)|||(152,085)|
||At 31 March|2023|||720,170|22,588|4,969|747,727|
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||At 31 March 2022||||1,074,168||18,912|1,093,080|
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||Amounts<br>owed||by group|undertakings||||143,324|
||Prepayments|and accrued income|||||3,054|7,349|
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|Trade creditors|7,070||
|Accruals and deferred income|30,163|56,983|
|Social security and other taxes|7,668||
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|Designated<br>Fixed Asset||funds:<br> Fund|1,093,080||(31,223)|2,768|152,084|1,216,709|
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|Cessation|Fund||(135,807)||(4,504)|71,300||(69,011)|
||||1,231,572|363,735|(416,529)|80,984|152,084|1,411,846|
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|Macular Group<br>RNIB Grant-|3,038||(3,038)||||
|Pension|||||||
|Cessation<br>liability|142,600|||(71,300)||71,300|
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|Code Lottery||25,000|(17,084)|||7,916|
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|West Glam<br>SCVS<br>C3SC||5,000<br>9,793<br>1,500|(5,000)<br>(9,793)<br>(1,500)||||
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|Sight Life Groups<br>and Tech Support||6,929|(7,245)|||(316)|
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||Current|assets|||516,451|109,962|1,119|627,532|
||Creditors|less than|1|year|(121,315)|||(121,315)|
||Creditors|greater than||1 year|(200,000)|||(200,000)|
||Net assets||||1,411,847|109,962|1,119|1,522,928|
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||Cunent|assets|||331,887|200,515|1,119|533,521|
||Creditors|less than|1|year|(124,384)|||(124,384)|
||Creditors|greater than||1 year|(69,011)|||(69,011)|
||Net assets||||1,231,572|200,515|1,119|1,433,206|
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