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|Trustees Report|||3- 10|
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|Independent<br>Examiners'||Report||
|Statement<br>of Financial|Activities||12|
|Balance Sheet|||13|
|Notes to the Accounts|||14-24|
|Management<br>Information|||25- 27|





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|Recommended<br>categories by activity|||Unrestricted<br>funds<br>f|income<br>funds<br>f|Endowment<br>funds<br>f|Total funds<br>f|prior year<br>funds<br>f|
|Income<br>(Note 3)||||||||
|Income and endowments|from:|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||101,990|||101,990|92,297|
|Charitable<br>activities|||114,212|||114,212|79,117|
|Other trading<br>actidties|||12,228|||12,228|9,168|
|Iniestmenis|||5,513|||5,513|4,395|
|Separate material<br>item ofincome||||||||
|Other||||||||
|Total|||233,943|||233,943|184,977|
|Expenditure<br>(Notes 5)||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||||
|Raising funds||||||||
|Charitable<br>actigties|||219,067|||219,067|182,324|
|Separate material<br>expense|item|||||||
|Other||||||||
|Total|||219,067|||219,067|182,324|
|Net income/(expenditure)|before tax for|||||||
|the reporting<br>period|||14,877|||14,877|2,653|
|Tax payable||||||||
|Net income/(expenditure)|after tax before|||||||
|investment<br>gains/(losses)|||14,877|||14,877|2,653|
|Net gains/(losses)<br>on||||||||
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|Net income/(expenditure)|||14,877|||14,877|2,653|
|Extraordinary<br>items||||||||
|Transfers between<br>funds||||||||
|Other recognised<br>gains/(losses):||||||||
|Gains and losses on revaluation||offixed||||||
|assets<br>for the charity's<br>own|use|||||||
|Other<br>ains/ losses||||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||14,877|||14,877|2,653|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:||||||||
|Total funds<br>brou<br>ht forward|||194,684|||194,684|192,031|
|Total funds carried fonvard|||209,560|||209,560|194,684|





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||||Restricted||||
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|||Unrestricted|income|Endowment|Total this|Total last|
|||funds<br>E|funds<br>f|funds<br>f|year<br>f|yearf|
|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets|(Note 9)|14,364|||14,364|6,087|
|Total fixed|assets|14,364|||14,364|6,087|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks|(Note 10)||||||
|Debtors|(Note 11)|5,300|||5,300|12,668|
|Cash at bank and in hand|(Note 14)|237,614|||237,614|210,541|
|Tote I curre nt assets||242,914|||242,914|223,209|
|Creditors: amounts<br>falling<br>due within|||||||
|one year<br>(Note|12)|29,908|||29,908|18,802|
|Net current assets/(liabilities)||213,006|||213,006|204,407|
|Total assets less current liabilities||227,371|||227,371|210,494|
|Provisionsfor<br>liabilities|(Note 13)|17,811|||17,811|15,811|
|Total net assets or liabilities||209,560|||209,560|194,684|
|Funds ofthe Charity|||||||
|Endowment<br>funds<br>(Note|15)||||||
|Restdicted<br>income funds|(Note 15)||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||209,560|||209,560|194,684|
|Total funds||209,560|||209,560|194,684|





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|Income|||||||||
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|Analysis of|income|||||funds|Totalfunds|Prioryear|
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|Donations and legacies:|||||||||
|Donations<br>and|GiRs|||||3,858|3,858|5,632|
|GiR Aid|||||||||
|Legacies|||||||||
|General grants|prodded|by|goternment/othercharit/es|||97,837|97,837|86,641|
|Membership<br>subscdiptions|||and sponsorships|which are in substance|donations|295|295|25|
|Donated goods, facilities||and sentces|||||||
|Other|||||||||
|Total||||||101,990|101,990|92,297|
|Charitable<br>activities:|||||||||
|Fundraising||||||2,456|2,456|991|
|income<br>from actiulies||||||111,756|111,756|78,126|
|Other|||||||||
|Total||||||114,212|114,212|79,117|
|Other trading|activities:||||||||
|Lltilities Recharge||||||8,175|8,175|6,249|
|Hairdressers,|manicures|and chiropody||||1,404|1,404|1,257|
|Refreshments||||||2,649|2,649|1,662|
|Other|||||||||
|Total||||||12,228|12,228|9,168|
|Income from|investments:||||||||
|Interest<br>income||||||969|969|197|
|Dividend<br>income|||||||||
|Rental and leasing<br>income|||||||||
|Income from feed in TarR/s|||(from solar panels)|||4,544|4,544|4,197|
|Total||||||5,513|5,513|4,395|





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|Analysis ofrece|ipts ofgovernment<br>gran|ts||
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|||2023<br>f|2022f|
|Decorum<br>Borough Council||34,023|34,000|
|Hertfordshire<br>County|Council|62,314|51,666|
|Other Grants||1,500|975|
|Total||97,837|86,641|



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|Expenditure|on|charitable<br>act|ivities||||
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|||||funds|Total funds|Prior year|
|Staff Costs||||151,441|151,441|127,384|
|Premises Costs||||50,130|50,130|35,427|
|Administration|Costs|||13,166|13,166|15,923|
|Financial and|other|costs||532|532|9|
|Governance|Cost|||3,797|3,797|3,582|
|Total expenditure||on charitable|activities|219,067|219,067|182,324|





|6|Details ofcertain|types|types|of|expenditure|expenditure||||
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|6.1|Fees for examination||ofthe||accounts|||E||
||Independent<br>examiner's||fees|||||1,183|1,175|
||Assurance senfces other than|||independent||examination||||
||Tax advisory fees|||||||||
||Other fees paid io the independent|||axansnar||||2,615|2,407|
|7|Paid employees|||||||||
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|7.1|Staff Costs||||||E||F|
||Salaries and wages||||||138,848||118,342|
||Social security costs||||||9,418||6,910|
||Pension costs (delined|contribution|||pension|plan)|2,188||1,807|
||Other employee<br>benelits|||||||||
||Tota I staff costs||||||150,454||127,059|



|7.1|Average|head count in the year|2023|2022|
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||Fundraising||||
||Charitable|Activities|||
||Governance||||
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||||Other land &|Plant,|Fixtures|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||buildings|machinery|fittings and||
|||||and motor|equipment||
|||||vehicles|||
|||||E||F|
||At the beginning|ofthe year||30,620||30,620|
||Additions||||12,712|12,712|
||Revaluations||||||
||Disposals|||15,137||15,137|
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||Transfers||||||
||At end ofthe year|||15,483|12,712|28,195|
|9.2|Depreciation|and impairments|||||
||At beginning<br>of|the year||24,534||24,534|
||Disposals|||15,137||15,137|
||Depreciation|||3,762|671|4,433|
||Impairment||||||
||Transfers*||||||
||At end ofthe year|||13,159|671|13,830|
|9.3|Net book value||||||
||Net book value|at the beginning||6,086||6,086|
||ofthe year||||||
||Net book value|at the end ofthe||2,324|12,041|14,364|
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|||||||||Work In|
||||For||For resale|For|For resale|Progress|
||||distribution|||distribution|||
|Other trading||activities:|||||||
|Opening|||||||||
|Added<br>in|period||||||||
|Expensed|in period||||||||
|Impaired|||||||||
|Closing|||||||||
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|Prepayments|and accrued income|
|Other debtors||







|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL<br>STATEMENTS (continued)|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL<br>STATEMENTS (continued)|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL<br>STATEMENTS (continued)|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL<br>STATEMENTS (continued)|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL<br>STATEMENTS (continued)|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL<br>STATEMENTS (continued)||||
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|FOR THE|YEAR ENDED 31 March|2023|||||||
|12|Creditors<br>and accruals||||||||
|||||||2023||2022|
|12.1|Analysis ofcreditors|||||f||E|
||Accruals<br>for grants<br>payable||||||||
||Bank loans and overdrafts||||||||
||Trade creditors||||||||
||Payments<br>received<br>on account<br>for contracts|||or|||||
||performance-related<br>grants||||||||
||Accruals<br>and deferred<br>income|(see below)||||29,908||is,sot|
||Taxation and social security||||||||
||Other creditors||||||||
||Tota I|||||29,908||18,801|
|12.2|Deferred income||||||||
||Movement<br>in deferred income account|||||2023||2022|
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||Balance at the start ofthe|reporting|period|||10,610||13,740|
||Amounts<br>added<br>in current|period||||10,025||1,000|
||Amounts<br>released to income from||previous||periods|3071|-|4130|
||Balance at the end ofthe reporting|||period||17,564||10,610|
|12.3|Members<br>deferred<br>income||||||||
||Movement in deferred income account|||||2023||2022|
|||||||F||E|
||Balance at the start ofthe|reporting|period|||899||5,230|
||Amounts<br>added<br>in current|period|||||||
||Amounts<br>released to income from||previous||periods|||4,331|
||Balance at the end ofthe reporting|||period||899||899|





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|Balance||at the start ofthe||reporting||period||||15,811|17,057|
|Amounts||added|in current|period||||||2,000|1,000|
|Amounts||charged against||the provision|||in the|current|period||2,246|
|Unused|amounts||reversed|during|the|period||||||
|Balance||at the|end ofthe reporting||||period|||17,811|15,811|
|Cash at bank|||and in hand|||||||2023|2022|
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|Short term||cash investments||(less|than|3|months|maturity|date)|||
|Shorl term||deposits||||||||174,136|173,426|
|Cash at bank and|||on hand|||||||63,478|37,113|
|Other||||||||||||
|Total||||||||||237,613|210,539|





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||Typ8|||Fund||||||Fund|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||PE, EE|||balances||||||balances|
||Ror|Purpose|and Restrictions|brought|||||Gains and|carried|
||UR'|||forward|Income||Expenditure|Transfers|losses|forward|
|Fund names|||||f||f|f|I||
|General|UR|General||194,684|233,943||( 219,067)|||209,560|
|Contingent|UR|Contingency|||||||||
|Designated|UR|Forspecific aclidlies|||||||||
|Other funds|(balancing<br>figure)||||||||||
|Total Funds|as per balance sheet|||194,684|233,943|~|219,067|||209,560|



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|||Type||PE, EE R|Purpose snd|balances|||||balances|
||||or UR*||Restrictions|brought||||Gains and|carried|
|||||||forward|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|losses|forward|
|Fund names|||||||8|8|8|||
|General||UR||General||192,031|184,977|I 182,324)|||194,684|
|Conhngeut||UR||Contingency||||||||
|Designated||UR||For|specific sctiuties|||||||
|Other funds|(balancing|||ligure)||||||||
|Total Funds|as|er|balance sheet|||192,831|184,977 -|182,324|||194,684|





|Income||||2023|2022|
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|Utilities Recharge||||8,175|6,249|
|Membership<br>subscription||||295|25|
|Other Income||||||
|Income from feed||in Tariffs (from solar panels)||4,544|4, 197|
|Income from activities||||111,756|78,126|
|Hairdressers,<br>manicures|||and chiropody|1,404|1,257|
|Other fund raising||||2,456|991|
|Refreshments||||2,649|1,662|
|Grants<br>DBC||||34,023|34,000|
|Grants<br>HCC||||62,314|51,666|
|Other Grants||||1,500|975|
|General<br>Donations||||3,858|5,632|
|Investment<br>Income||||969|197|
|||||233,943|184,977|
|Administrative|Expenses|||( 219,067)|( 182,324)|
|Surplus<br>/ (Deficit)||||14,877|2,653|





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|Staff Costs||||2023|2022|
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|Wages||||150,454|127,059|
|Training<br>Expenses||||987|325|
|||||151,441|127,384|
|Premises Costs||||||
|Kitchen purchases||||16,397|12,936|
|Insurance||||1,349|1,334|
|Light and Heat||||13,111|8,276|
|Repairs and maintainance||||11,612|6,734|
|Cleaning||||5,661|5,148|
|Rent Payable||||||
|Refurbishment|Provision|||1,000||
|Dilapidation<br>Provision||||1,000|1,000|
|||||50,130|35,427|
|Administrative||||||
|Printing,<br>postage||and stationary||113|373|
|Telephone||||749|483|
|Transport||||2 322|1,150|
|Entertaining||||960|1,115|
|Depreciation||||4,433|6,530|
|subscription||||1.83|364|
|Equipment<br>Hire||||961|1,871|
|Sundry<br>Expenses||||601|1,380|
|Legal and professional||||2,845|2,658|
|||||13,166|15,923|
|Financial<br>and|other Costs|||||
|eank charge||||532||
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|Governance|Cost|||||
|Independent<br>Examiners|||Fees|1,183|1,175|
|Accountancy<br>Fees||||2,615|2,407|
|||||3,797|3,582|
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