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|Trustees|||Professor SJ Banks|Professor SJ Banks||||
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||||Mrs LC Bird|||||
||||Mrs P Buckley-Atkins|||||
||||Mrs J Flynn MBE|||||
||||Mrs A Hawkes|||(Appointed|23September|
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||||Mrs E Kilgannon|MBE||(Appointed|23 September|
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||||Mr MJ Litchfield|||||
||||MrJ Robinson|||||
||||Professor JF F|Robinson||(Appointed|23 September|
||||Mrs CA Smith|||2021)||
||||Mrs JM Worters|MBE||||
|Secretary|||Mrs K Burrows|||||
|Charity number|||229119|||||
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|Trustees'<br>report|||3- 16|
|Independent<br>examiner's||report|17|
|Statement<br>offinancial|activities||18-19|
|Balance sheet|||20|
|Statement<br>of cash flows|||21|
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|Objective||1|- Supporting||Community<br>Organlsatlons:<br>Keeping<br>in touch,<br>providing<br>support<br>and help||(information,||
|advice,|and||guidance)|for|community<br>organisations<br>and groups,<br>particularly<br>for volunteer<br>led groups.<br>Supporting||||
|development|||and public|access to community<br>spaces and services.|||||
|Priorities|||||~|Keeping<br>in touch<br>with<br>volunteer<br>led community<br>groups,<br>and<br>providing|a range|o|
|||||||information,<br>updates<br>&news, advice, and guidance.|||
||||||~|Supporting<br>groups<br>with funding<br>and training,|||
||||||~|Providing<br>opportunities<br>for networking<br>and<br>training,<br>plus on-going<br>support<br>for||the|
|||||||wider Voluntary,<br>Community<br>&Social Enterprise<br>Sector (VCSE).|||
||||||~|Supporting<br>community<br>groups<br>providing<br>informal<br>mental<br>health<br>support|through|the|
|||||||Cree network|||
||||||~|Assisting<br>local groups<br>planning<br>for communi<br>-led housing<br>initiatives.|||
|chievements|||||~|766 VCSE groups<br>and organisations<br>were supported<br>with<br>information,|advice,|and|
|||||||guidance.|||
||||||~|The Share and Leam Network<br>for community<br>organisations<br>and groups<br>continued||to|
|||||||thrive<br>on-line<br>and<br>we provided<br>a fully<br>subscribed<br>programme<br>of networking||and|
|||||||training<br>activities.<br>Membership<br>of the network<br>increased<br>to 327 organisations||and|
|||||||groups.<br>The<br>network<br>has<br>a closed<br>Facebook<br>page<br>that<br>now<br>has|an<br>active||
|||||||membership<br>of 115organisations.|||
||||||~|414 people<br>participated<br>in themed<br>workshops,<br>including<br>three<br>Meet|the<br>Funder||
|||||||events,<br>and Community<br>Buildings.|||
||||||~|Collaborating<br>with colleagues<br>in the VCSE, we continued<br>to provide<br>information||and|
|||||||training,<br>particularly<br>promoting<br>safeguarding<br>and<br>risk<br>awareness<br>for staff||and|
|||||||volunteers<br>in the sector. We also<br>contributed<br>to Adult<br>Safeguarding|Awarenes||
|||||||Week in November<br>through<br>a series ofon-line activities and events.|||
||||||~|We continued<br>with<br>developmental<br>support<br>for the<br>Community<br>Hubs<br>Programme,|||
|||||||supporting<br>a cohort of47 community<br>organisations<br>through<br>consultancy,|case work||
|||||||and<br>training<br>for volunteer<br>trustees,<br>to put governance<br>and business<br>planning||int|
|||||||place. We also provided<br>funding<br>advice and access to small grants.|||
||||||~|39<br>organisations<br>in<br>the<br>Cree<br>network<br>were<br>supported,<br>with<br>developmental|||
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|Objecti|ve 1 - Suppor|ting<br>Co|mmunity<br>Organlsations<br>(continued)|
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|Public|benefit|~|As a broker and information<br>point for the VCSE, we were able to ensure<br>the secto|
||||had rapid access to relevant,<br>timely guidance<br>and advice as they sought resources|
||||to re-open<br>and/or<br>to re-build<br>their<br>activity<br>programmes<br>after being<br>closed<br>due to|
||||Covid.<br>We<br>supported<br>and<br>advised<br>community<br>services<br>about<br>how<br>they<br>could|
||||manage<br>and ensure<br>their continuing<br>compliance<br>and safety within<br>new and rapidly|
||||changing<br>guidelines<br>and regulations.|
|||~|Advice,<br>guidance,<br>and<br>interventions<br>helped<br>to sustain<br>community-based<br>service|
||||delivered<br>by volunteers,<br>and community<br>buildings<br>managed<br>by local people,<br>helping|
||||them<br>to re-establish<br>the resources<br>they<br>need<br>(staff, volunteers,<br>and<br>funding)<br>to|
||||continue<br>supporting<br>their beneficiaries.|
|||~|Peer<br>to peer<br>networks<br>for volunteer<br>trustees<br>were<br>expanded<br>and<br>supported,|
||||ensuring<br>greater<br>shared<br>learning,<br>problem<br>solving<br>and confidence<br>building<br>to plan|
||||and to sustain<br>their offer.|
|||~|Knowledge,<br>understanding<br>and access to a changed<br>funding<br>climate were improved|
||||within the Voluntary,<br>Community<br>&Social Enterprise Sector.|
|||~|Volunteers<br>and front-line<br>staff were able to work together across sectors, to develop|
||||good practice and help them<br>to provide<br>stronger<br>support<br>for their clients and use|
|||~|g rocps.<br> Lessons learned<br>and intelligence<br>were shared<br>and disseminated,<br>to ensure a clea|
||||view of social infrastructure<br>issues arising<br>through<br>recovery,<br>further crises (triggered|
||||by impacts of Winter storms),<br>and then through<br>longer term adjustments<br>to different|
||||ways of working<br>and the tools required e.g., digital services<br>and reach for the most|
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|wellbeing<br>programmes,<br>an|d local community<br>action).|
|---|---|
|Priorities|Managing<br>our<br>on-line<br>Volunteering<br>Plafform<br>for<br>recruiting<br>volunteers<br>and|
||promoting<br>opportunities,<br>Supporting<br>and<br>training<br>for volunteer<br>led groups,<br>including<br>support<br>for mutual<br>aid groups: advice, funding<br>and access to resources and training,<br>Supporting<br>organisations<br>working<br>with<br>volunteers,<br>with<br>advice<br>and<br>training,|
||particularly<br>regarding<br>safeguarding.<br>Collaboration<br>with<br>partners<br>to coordinate<br>a voluntary<br>support<br>offer for people|
||struggling<br>under Covid restrictions,<br>Establishing,<br>recruiting,<br>and<br>managing<br>a volunteer<br>bank to assist<br>with<br>Covid|
||vaccination<br>and testing programmes.|
||To ensure<br>that volunteer<br>involving<br>organisations<br>have the resources<br>and skills|
||they<br>need<br>to support<br>volunteers<br>and<br>their<br>beneficiaries<br>safely<br>and<br>in<br>full<br>compliance<br>with their legal obli ations.|
|chievements|705<br>people,<br>new<br>to<br>volunteering,<br>were<br>supported<br>via<br>the<br>Centre<br>fo<br>Volunteering,<br>with advice, information,<br>and guidance.<br>247 volunteers<br>were actively<br>volunteering<br>with the Volunteer<br>Bank at the end|
||ofthe year, all of whom we recruited<br>and provided<br>induction<br>training<br>for,<br>We<br>developed<br>and<br>expanded<br>training<br>and<br>support<br>sessions<br>on-line<br>and<br>provided<br>good practice<br>support<br>for organisations<br>that are run<br>by, and suppo<br>volunteers<br>in: remote<br>working<br>practices,<br>safeguarding,<br>volunteer<br>recruitment,<br>and supporting<br>younger<br>volunteers.<br>Specific developmental<br>sessions<br>included|
||volunteers<br>and the law and safeguarding.|
||42 training<br>sessions<br>attracted<br>342 delegates<br>from<br>120 organisations<br>and<br>groups.<br>During<br>the year 49 new volunteer<br>led groups<br>linked<br>with<br>us through|
||our training<br>programme.<br>The Volunteer<br>Co-ordinators<br>Forum ended the year with a membership<br>of 270|
||organisations<br>that work with volunteers.<br>We organised<br>and hosted 4 meetings<br>ofthe Forum on-line, attracting<br>increased<br>participation<br>from the membership.|
||We continued<br>to inform and consult<br>with the VCSE Safeguarding<br>Network<br>and<br>provided<br>representation<br>on both the Children<br>and Adult<br>Safeguarding<br>Boards<br>in<br>County<br>Durham.<br>Contributions<br>from<br>the<br>Network<br>are<br>fed<br>through<br>to<br>Safeguarding<br>Board meetings<br>and training<br>events,<br>helping<br>to inform and shape|
||resources.|
||We<br>sustained<br>contact<br>and<br>support<br>for<br>mutual<br>aid<br>groups<br>across<br>Coun<br>Durham,<br>picking<br>up messages<br>from their contacts with vulnerable<br>people, and<br>assisting<br>Town<br>and<br>Parish<br>Councils<br>with<br>support<br>for<br>development<br>o|
||Community<br>Resilience<br>Planning.|
|Public benefit|As a result<br>of this work, volunteer<br>involving<br>organisations<br>in County<br>Durham<br>are more<br>effectively<br>networking,<br>sharing<br>good<br>practice,<br>and<br>offering<br>mutual|
||support<br>for tackling and finding solutions<br>to problems.<br>There are improved<br>pathways<br>for volunteers<br>to access opportunities,<br>develop<br>their experience<br>and make contributions<br>that are both valued<br>and add value to|
||civil society.<br>There is now a robust and efficient system<br>of communication<br>and collaboration|
||between<br>front<br>line staff<br>in the<br>NHS<br>and<br>the VCSE sector<br>with<br>respect<br>t|
||recruitment,<br>support,<br>and placements<br>for volunteers.|
||Volunteer<br>led groups<br>and<br>organisations<br>have<br>support<br>and<br>ready access to<br>advice<br>and<br>help<br>when<br>they need<br>it. They are better<br>informed<br>and<br>have the<br>resources<br>on<br>hand<br>that<br>help<br>them<br>to ensure<br>that<br>their<br>volunteers<br>are<br>well|
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|working acro|ss the|sector.|
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|Priorities|~|Health<br>and wellbeing<br>- to sustain<br>and ensure a social and community<br>infrastructure<br>is in place|
|||and has access to resources<br>which<br>help<br>it to thrive and re-build.|
||~|Consulting<br>VCSE organisations<br>and service<br>providers<br>to build<br>stronger<br>local connections<br>with|
|||Primary<br>Care Networks<br>and supporting<br>planning<br>for revised Social Prescribing<br>models and new|
|||systems for access to health care.|
||~|Consulting,<br>surveying,<br>and<br>analysis<br>of intelligence<br>gathered<br>from<br>the<br>VCSE sector<br>and|
|||disseminating<br>it through<br>partnerships.|
||~|Representing<br>community<br>and<br>voluntary<br>sector interests<br>as a member<br>of the County<br>Durham<br>Together Partnership,<br>various Task groups<br>(Funding<br>and Volunteering)<br>and as a member<br>of the|
|||Board of the County<br>Durham<br>Partnership.<br>This enables<br>DCA to collaborate<br>with<br>public secto|
|||colleagues<br>to promote<br>a joined-up<br>policy<br>for commissioning<br>and<br>funding,<br>engaging<br>with<br>communities<br>of interest<br>in the development<br>of new funding<br>programmes,<br>and<br>influencing<br>the|
|||provision<br>of key services by engagement<br>with Heads ofServices.|
||~|Consulting<br>and surveying<br>VCSE sector service providers<br>to gather and share intelligence<br>about|
|||needs,<br>and<br>issues<br>arising<br>from<br>support<br>work<br>in<br>the<br>community.<br>Disseminating<br>important|
|||information<br>and best practice through<br>multi sector partnerships.|
||~|Ensuring<br>that the VCSE sector is fully engaged<br>with co-production<br>on responsive<br>services<br>to|
||~|support<br>mental<br>health, access to advice providers<br>and health care<br>Ensuring<br>that Advice<br>in County<br>Durham<br>and 'Better Together'<br>are mobilised<br>to share<br>insights|
|||and experience,<br>as networks<br>of countywide<br>VCSE and specialist<br>providers,<br>and contributing<br>to|
|||development<br>and delivery ofobjectives arising<br>from the Poverty Action Group.|
||~|Chairing<br>and<br>supporting<br>the review<br>and development<br>of the Advice<br>in County<br>Durham<br>multi|
|||agency network as the 'go to' practitioner<br>network<br>for all agencies to come together<br>and join up<br>services.<br>Network<br>members<br>provide<br>advice<br>and one to one casework<br>support<br>across County|
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|Ob)ective 3 - Voic|e (continued)|
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|chievements|During<br>the year, we continued<br>to Chair the Better Together<br>Network,<br>including<br>two policy|
||forums,<br>and the Advice<br>in County<br>Durham<br>Partnership.<br>We also continued<br>to contribute<br>to|
||the County<br>Durham<br>Partnership<br>Board from a VCS perspective.<br>These roles have helped<br>to|
||inform strategic agendas<br>for partnership<br>working<br>in County<br>Durham,<br>and for emerging<br>new|
||models ofcommissioning<br>services.|
||Representing<br>the sector on the Regional<br>Funders<br>Network,<br>we helped<br>inform<br>and shape|
||funders<br>approaches<br>to supporting<br>the sector through<br>recovery<br>from the shocks of Covid and|
||then<br>winter<br>storms.<br>Working<br>in<br>collaboration<br>with<br>the<br>County<br>Durham<br>Community|
||Foundation,<br>we also administered<br>a micro grants scheme to support<br>mutual<br>aid groups<br>with|
||supplies,<br>and a small grant scheme for community<br>buildings.|
||We continued<br>with development<br>ofa Connector<br>commissioning<br>model, to target funding<br>into|
||the VCSE sector more effectively,<br>and consulted<br>with VCSE and commissioning<br>colleagues|
||through<br>a Better Together Policy Forum.|
||We represented<br>VCSE interests<br>in multi-sector<br>Task Groups,<br>tackling<br>mental<br>health,<br>funding|
||and investment,<br>and volunteering.<br>We collaborated<br>with partners<br>from the local authority<br>and|
||NHS/Public<br>Health<br>to coordinate<br>communications,<br>resources<br>and<br>reach<br>into communities|
||and responding<br>to local needs. We also represented<br>the VCSE into the Community<br>Cell fo|
||County<br>Durham,<br>providing<br>regular updates<br>on issues and impacts for the sector.|
||Co-ordinating<br>and managing<br>information<br>exchanges<br>for the VCSE and health<br>& social care|
||providers<br>about good practice<br>particularly<br>in rural areas,<br>regarding<br>social isolation,<br>health,|
||and wellbeing<br>services. This included<br>leadership<br>of workshops<br>about the VCSE in County|
||Durham,<br>for NHS staff based<br>in Primary Care practices and Hospital<br>Foundation<br>Trusts.|
||Under our leadership,<br>the Advice<br>in County<br>Durham<br>Partnership<br>compiled<br>and supported<br>a|
||successful<br>three-year<br>funding<br>bid to develop<br>the partnership.<br>We also consulted<br>and drew|
||up plans for a membership<br>survey and a plan for surveying<br>debt advice providers<br>services<br>in|
||the County. We refreshed<br>and confirmed<br>a governance<br>model for the Advice Partnership,<br>so|
||that partners<br>are robust<br>enough<br>to manage<br>future<br>investment<br>opportunities,<br>together<br>with|
||any future resultant<br>conflicts of interest that ma<br>arise.|
|Public benefit|Voluntary<br>and<br>community<br>sector<br>led partnerships<br>are collaborating<br>to shape<br>community|
||services.<br>This<br>will<br>enable<br>them<br>to be responsive<br>to the needs<br>of communities<br>that are|
||struggling<br>in the wake<br>of the<br>pandemic,<br>and<br>with<br>the impacts<br>emerging<br>because<br>of the|
||economic<br>downturn,<br>particularly<br>regarding<br>mental<br>health,<br>food and fuel poverty<br>and access|
||to support<br>and advice services.<br>This<br>in tum ensures<br>that the voluntary<br>sector is actively|
||engaged<br>and represented<br>within key public sector led networks.|
||Collaborative<br>coalitions<br>are working<br>to influence<br>the design<br>and<br>delivery<br>of public service|
||contracts.|
||Front<br>line VCS organisations<br>are better<br>informed<br>and<br>trained<br>about<br>the issues that affect|
||them and the people they work with.|
||Funding<br>and investment<br>into the VCSE sector are becoming<br>more responsive,<br>streamlined,|
||and targeted,<br>and more enabling<br>in terms of sustaining<br>a community<br>infrastructure<br>through|
||the pandemic.|
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|Risk management|Risk management|(continued)|(continued)||||||||
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|A table outlining|our main risks|||and mitigating|||tools is provided<br>below.||||
|Nature of risk|Details|||||||Mlti|ation||
|Loss of|~|Over-reliance||on a small||||~|Work to secure multi-year<br>grant funding<br>resources<br>from|a|
|'ncome||number<br>ofsignificant||||funders|||range of key funders e.g., National<br>Lottery Community|Fund|
||||||||||to provide greater security and reduce dependency<br>on|short|
||||||||||term income.||
|||||||||~|Reduce reliance<br>on any single funder<br>by broadening<br>and||
||||||||||diversifying<br>income streams e.g., through<br>the development||
||||||||||of income generating<br>activities such as bespoke||
||||||||||consultancy,<br>training etc that build on the strengths<br>ofthe||
||||||||||staff team.||
|||||||||~|Support the above objective by continuing<br>to develop<br>niche||
||||||||||specialities<br>within the staff team that enable DCA to respond||
||||||||||to need, increase<br>its reach and to fill gaps in service||
||||||||||provision<br>that open up, ensuring<br>that services are cost||
||||||||||effective & relevant.||
||~|Diminishing||opportunities|||to|~|Continued<br>close working<br>with thematic<br>partnerships||
|||fund infrastructure,|||policy,||and||(Volunteering<br>and Advice) to address needs and develop||
|||support services for|||||||improved<br>collaboration<br>in service provision<br>(shared||
|||community|organisations.||||||resources, co-locations,<br>and shared<br>intelligence).||
||~|Public service priorities||||||~|Review and consolidate<br>partnership<br>working<br>where possible||
|||focused on|crisis||||||to streamline<br>and build capacity for shared resources<br>with||
|||interventions||and|removed||||partner organisations/service<br>providers.||
|||from preventative|||community||||||
|||initiatives<br>/|development.||||||||
|Large scale|~|Lack ofcapacity and||||||~|Ensuring<br>formal, relevant,<br>and bid ready consortia are|in|
|ransfers of||resources to bid for||||large|||place with Memoranda<br>of Understanding<br>and partnership||
|ublic sector||contracts.|||||||agreements.||
|ervices and|~|Payment<br>by||result||||~|Spread the risk and share resources<br>and liabilities<br>with|a|
|ontracts|~|Bankrolling|||||||balance of larger and smaller,<br>niche organisations<br>and||
||~|TUPE implications|||||||partners.||
|||||||||~|Ensure that Durham<br>Community<br>Action retains||
||||||||||organisational<br>scale and resources<br>that are sufficient to||
||||||||||deliver realistic levels ofservice, whilst also reacting||
||||||||||responsivel<br>to opportunities.||
|Business|~|Impact of pandemic||||e.g. ,||~|Business<br>Continuity<br>Plan updated<br>with details of actions to||
|interruption||Coronavirus|||||||be taken, and regularly<br>tested.||
||~|Loss of use||ofoffice||premises||~|Health<br>&Safety Risk Assessments,<br>and Staff provided|with|
|||due to flood,||fire, storm|||||appropriate<br>equipment<br>to enable remote working.||
|||damage,<br>terrorism,|||vandalism|||~|Use of ITsystems e.g. , video conferencing<br>etc to maintain||
|||etc|||||||regular contact with clients, partners,<br>and team members.||
||~|Loss of ITservices||||||~|Use of cloud services, and IT back-up systems<br>and||
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|Professor SJ Banks||||||||
|Mrs LC Bird||||||||
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|Mrs A Hawkes||(Appointed||23 September 2021)||||
|Mrs E Kilgannon<br>MBE||(Appointed||23 September 2021)||||
|Mr MJ Litchfield||||||||
|Mr J Robinson||||||||
|Professor JF F Robinson||(Appointed||23 September 2021)||||
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|||||Notes|6||6||
|Income from:|||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||||858,931|858,931|777,440|
|Other trading<br>activities|||||28,631||28,631|19,091|
|investments|||||525||525|308|
|Total income|||||29,156|858,931|888,087|796,839|
|d~dt t|||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||5|97,160|570,368|667,528|654,581|
|Net (outgoing)/incoming<br>transfers||resources|before||(68,004)|288,563|220,559|142,258|
|Gross transfers|between|funds|||216,969|(216,969)|||
|Net Income for|the year/||||||||
|Net movement|In funds||||148,965|71,594|220,559|142,258|
|Fund balances|at 1 April|2021|||293,438|166,892|460,330|318,072|
|Fund balances|at 31 March 2022||||442,403|238,486|680,889|460,330|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||funds|funds||
|||Notes|2021f|2021<br>F|2021|
|Income from:||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||52,585|724,855|777,440|
|Other trading<br>activities|||19,091||19,091|
|Investments|||308||308|
|Total income|||71,984|724,855|796,839|
|~ECht||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||5|29,296|625,285|654,581|
|Net (outgoing)/incoming|resources before transfers||42,688|99,570|142,258|
|Net income for the year/||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||42,688|99,570|142,258|
|Fund balances at 1 April|2020||250,750|67,322|318,072|
|Fund balances at 31 March 2021|||293,438|166,892|460,330|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Notes|E||E||
|Fixed assets|||||||||
|Tangible assets||||10||4,435||5,989|
|Current assets|||||||||
|Debtors|||||18,134||8,412||
|Cash at bank and|in|hand|||889,419||543,005||
||||||907,553||551,417||
|Creditors: amounts||falling|due within||||||
|one year||||12|(231,099)||(97,076)||
|Net current assets||||||676,454||454,341|
|Total assets less|current||liabilities|||680,889||460,330|
|Income funds|||||||||
|Restricted<br>funds||||13||238,486||166,892|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||442,403||293,438|
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||||Notes|||6||
|Cash flows from operating<br>activities<br>Cash generated<br>from operations|||18||345,889||185,371|
|Investing<br>Investment|activities<br>income received|||525||308||
|Net cash <br>activities|generated<br>from investing||||525||308|
|Net cash|used<br>in financing|activities||||||
|Net increase<br>In cash and cash equivalents|||||346,414||185,679|
|Cash and|cash equivalents|at beginning|ofyear||543,005||357,326|
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|Income|from Charitable||Activities||584,375|274,556|858,931|777,440|
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|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||52,585|
|Restricted<br>funds|||||584,375|274,556|858,931|724,855|
|Income|from Charitable||Activities||||||
|ACRE||||||42,585|42,585|42,585|
|Durham|County|Council|||308,069||308,069|170,000|
|Durham|Police,|Crime and||Victims Commissioner|10,000||10,000|10,000|
|National|Lottery|Community||Fund RC North East &Cumbria||56,219|56,219|98,049|
|Soil Association|||||18,000||18,000|4,000|
|County|Durham|CCG|||79,970||79,970|88,236|
|MHLDF|||||116,000||116,000|106,000|
|County|Durham|Community||Foundation|15,000||15,000|33,900|
|Ballinger Trust||||||8,585|8,585||
|Supporting<br>Community|||Buildings|||123,000|123,000||
|Other|||||37,336|44,167|81,503|224,670|
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|Consultancy|||28,631|18,475|
|Training|and|other services||616|
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|Staff costs||||||471,414|407,378|
|Consultancy||||||40,675|45,090|
|Meeting expenses||||||744|34|
|Stanley Town Council<br>Spsnnymoor<br>Town Council<br>Grants to small communities||||||69,249|57,500<br>21,713<br>39,956|
|||||||582,082|571,671|
|Share ofsupport costs (ses||nots 6)||||81,833|74,674|
|Share ofgovernance|costs|(see note 6)||||3,613|8,236|
|||||||667,528|654,581|
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|||Support|Governance|2022Support|costs|Governance|2021|
|||costs|costs|||costs||
|||f|f.|||f||
|Depreciation||1,554||1,554|7,167||7,167|
|Operating<br>lease charges||27,126||27,126|27,109||27,109|
|Marketing<br>and promotion||2,430||2,430|1,623||1,623|
|Cleaning<br>and welfare||2,539||2,539|1,849||1,849|
|Electricity, gas and water<br>Repairs and renewals||5,635<br>2,846||5,635<br>2,846|5,492<br>2,332||5,492<br>2,332|
|Insurance||3,250||3,250|2,743||2,743|
|Staff travel and training||1,654||1,654|1,467||1,467|
|Printing,<br>postage and<br>telephone||7,523||7,523|5,918||5,918|
|Publications<br>and||||||||
|subscriptions||7,700||7,700|7,000||7,000|
|Computer costs||19,519||19,519|11,601||11,601|
|Sundries||57||57|373||373|
|Independent<br>examination|||3,360|3,360||3,360|3,360|
|Legal and professional|||253|253||4,876|4,876|
|||81,833|3,613|85,446|74,674|8,236|82,910|
|Analyssd<br>between<br>Charitable<br>activities||81,833|3,613|85,446|74,674|8,236|82,910|



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|---|---|---|---|
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|Executive director||1|1|
|Field workers||14|13|
|Administrator||1|1|
|Total||16|15|
|Employment|costs|2022<br>8|2021<br>6|
|Wages and salaries||417,492|362,817|
|Social security|costs|35,904|30,321|
|Other pension|costs|18,018|14,240|
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|At 1 April|2021 and 31 March 2022|18,000|
|Amortisatlon<br>and impairment|||
|At 1 April|2021 and 31 March 2022|18,000|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Leasehold|Fixtures and|Total|
|||||land and|fittings||
|||||buildings|||
||Cost||||||
||At 1 April 2021|||9,539|52,955|62,494|
||At 31 March 2022|||9,539|52,955|62,494|
||Depreciation<br>and impairment||||||
||At 1 April 2021|||9,539|46,966|56,505|
||Depreciation<br>charged|in the year|||1,554|1,554|
||At 31 March 2022|||9,539|48,520|58,059|
||Carrying<br>amount||||||
||At 31 March 2022||||4,435|4,435|
||At 31 March 2021||||5,989|5,989|
|11|Debtors||||||
||Amounts<br>falling due|within|one year:||2022f|2021<br>6|
||Other debtors||||734|1,106|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued income||||17,400|7,306|
||||||18,134|8,412|
|12|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year|||||
||||||2022|2021|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Community<br>Hubs Project|35,951|97,386|(90,218)|(21,038)|22,081|
|Sustainable<br>Food Places Phase 3|1,217|19,000|(2,217)||18,000|
|Sport England<br>TIF Fund<br>Ml-ILDF Right Care Right Place Support<br>Covid-19 Vaccination<br>Centre|646<br>106,000<br>23,078|116,000<br>1,000|(445)<br>(102,000)<br>(1,166)||201<br>120,000<br>22,912|
|Supporting<br>Community<br>Buildings<br>County<br>Durham<br>Community<br>Foundation||123,000<br>18,000|(70,708)<br>(15,000)||52,292<br>3,000|
|Ballinger Trust Community<br>Grants||8,585|(8,585)|||
|DCC - Volunteering<br>and Infrastructure<br>Support||304,000|(108,069)|(195,931)||
|VONNE - Safeguarding<br>Training<br>Fund||5,780|(5,780)|||
|NAVCA VCS Emergencies<br>Partnership||5,500|(5,500)|||
|County<br>Durham<br>CCG - Outreach<br>Fund||45,970|(45,970)|||
|Durham<br>PCVC Fund||10,000|(10,000)|||
|DCC - Mutual<br>Aid and VCS Emergency<br>Support||37,069|(37,069)|||
|Bloom Procurement-<br>Horden<br>Minewater||||||
|Project||10,056|(10,056)|||
|Communities<br>CAN Housing<br>Support||||||
|Project||15,000|(15,000)|||
|Defra -ACRE funding||42,585|(42,585)|||
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||Surplus for||the year||||||220,559|142,258|
||Adjustments||for:||||||||
||Investment||income recognised||in statement||of financial|activities|(525)|(308)|
||Depreciation||and impairment||oftangible|fixed assets|||1,554|7,167|
||Movements||in working|capital:|||||||
||(Increase)|in debtors|||||||(9,722)|(1,713)|
||Increase<br>in||creditors||||||134,023|37,967|
||Cash generated<br>from|||operations|||||345,889|185,371|



