2024-03-31-accounts

y-notts (Registered charity, number 224651) Financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024

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2 - 3	Trustees’ annual report
4	Independent examiner’s report
5	Receipts & payments account
6	Statement of assets & liabilities
7	Notes to the accounts

y-notts Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2024

Full name y-notts

Registered charity number 224651

Trustees

Lynne Morgan, Chairman Madge Marshall Sarah Read Natasha McDonald Sonia Rowe Paul Jackson Vivien Sadler Diana Frempong Ben Waymark Neil Robinson, Treasurer

Independent examiner

John O’Brien, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL

Governance and management

The charity is operated under the rules of its Deed of Variation dated 22/11/2007 and most recently amended constitution adopted on 23/11/2011.

Recruitment is currently referral by current trustee recommendation or advertisement if required. Upon appointment of trustees a majority vote is required.

Objectives and activities

The objects of the Association are the relief of poverty, advancement of education and advancement of religion among women and young people of either sex, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, in the county of Nottinghamshire, by such exclusively charitable means as the charity trustees shall from time to time determine.

Public benefit statement

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit

The charity gives financial assistance in the form of grants to young people usually aged between 15 and 30 for the purpose of furthering their training and personal development. Those people wishing to make application should be resident in the Nottinghamshire area.

Our grants are available to all disadvantaged young people in the county of Nottinghamshire regardless of race, creed, ethnicity or previous history.

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Summary of the main achievements during the period

During the period 22 applications were processed with 10 granted, 9 declined and 3 were withdrawn. Total awarded during the period £21,717.

Financial review

Our investments have performed well against the volatile world market and the income has enabled us to continue to support the applications received. The surplus income has been re-invested to maximise our future income.

The charity’s policy on reserves

Our policy on reserves is that unrestricted general funds not committed are invested in interest bearing bank accounts or income generating investment funds until required by the Charity. The Trustees ensure that enough funds are held in reserve to be able to continue the present level of activity for a period of up to one year. This policy is reviewed annually.

Financial risks

Our income is reliant upon the success, or otherwise, of investments, some of which are linked to the stock market. These are managed on behalf of the Charity by Charles Stanley (investment managers).

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:

Signed ______ Date _ Lynne Morgan, Trustee

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Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of y-notts for the year ended 31 March 2024

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of y-notts (the charity) for the year ended 31 March 2024.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

2. the accounts do not accord with those records.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed ____ Date _______ John O’Brien MSc, FCCA, FCIE Employee of Community Accounting Plus

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y-notts Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 March 2024

2023 £ Receipts 43720 Investment income 3 Donations 18 Bank interest 43741 Total receipts Payments 57 Bank charges 997 Equipment, repairs & renewals 60 Gifts 26544 Grants & donations awarded 216 Home office space 505 Hospitality & refreshments 672 Independent examination fee 121 Insurance - Investment portfolio 191 Memberships & subscriptions 270 Payroll fees 46 Printing, postage & stationery 111 Room hire 432 Telephone & internet 19 Travel 5593 Wages, NI & pension 177 Website 36011 Total payments 7730 Net receipts/(payments) 21338 Cash funds at start of this period 29068 Cash funds at end of this period	2024 £ 39813 - -
	39813
	- 35 100 21717 216 552 708 123 30000 191 302 115 94 360 5 7392 1583
	63493
	(23680) 29068
	5388

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y-notts Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 March 2024

2023 £ Cash assets Note 29068 Bank accounts 29068 Other monetary assets 9747 Debtors 2 1072104 Investments 3 1081851 Assets retained for the charity’s own use General equipment Liabilities (6885) Creditors 4 (6885)	2024 £ 5388
	5388
	9636 1117207
	1126843
	(6114)
	(6114)

These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:

Signed _____ Dated _____ Neil Robinson, Trustee

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y-notts Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

1. Receipts & payments accounts

Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.

2. Debtors

Investment income Prepayment: Insurance nvestments Capital porfolio (market value) Capital account	£ 9576 60 9636 £ 1117207 -
	1117207

3. Investments

The portfolio of investments is managed by Charles Stanley & Co. Limited. The investment management fee charged for the year out of the capital account was £7,803.

4. Creditors

Grants & donations awarded Independent examination fee Wages, NI & pension (HMRC) Wages, NI & pension (pension)	£ 5115 786 159 54
	6114

5. Trustees’ remuneration

Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period.

6. Related party transactions

There were no related party transactions during the period.

7. Glossary of terms

Creditors: These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.

Debtors: These are amounts owed to the charity, but not received in the accounting period.

Prepayments: These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.

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