| Status | Charitable company |
limited | by guarantee | by guarantee | registered | |
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| in England and Wales |
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| Registered company |
number 01338724 | |||||
| Trustees and Directors | Mrs M G Byrne | Chair person | ||||
| Mrs C B Dye | Vice-Chair | person | ||||
| Mrs E A Larcombe | Treasurer | |||||
| Mrs F Harbron | Company | Secretary | ||||
| Mrs R Sayed | ||||||
| Ms J A Burnett | ||||||
| Mrs P I Leach | ||||||
| Mrs SG Coe | (Appointed | 12Ju/y 2021) | ||||
| Mrs H R Stammers | (Appointed | 12Ju/y 2021) | ||||
| Cllr D E Higgins | (Appointed | 12Ju/y 2021) | ||||
| Cllr N lannelli-Popham | (Appointed | 12Ju/y 2021) | ||||
| Governing | document | Memorandum and Articles |
ofAssociation | dated 14 | ||
| November 1977(amended | in 2020) | |||||
| Registered | office address | E/do House | ||||
| Kempson Way |
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| Suffolk Business Park | ||||||
| Bury St Edmunds | ||||||
| Suffolk IP32 7AR |
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| Independent auditors |
Knights Lowe Limited |
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| Eldo House | ||||||
| Kempson Way |
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| Suffolk Business Park | ||||||
| Bury St Edmunds | ||||||
| Suffolk IP32 7AR |
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| Bankers | HSBC Pic | |||||
| 54 Abbeygate Street |
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| Bury St Edmunds | ||||||
| Suffolk IP33 1U |
| Contents | Page | ||
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| Philosophy Statement |
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| Charity information | |||
| Trustees Annual Report |
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| Public benefit: Aims, | objectives and functions | 5 | |
| Our Patron - leannie | Bloomfield | 7 | |
| Chairperson's Report |
9 | ||
| Service Manager's Report |
10 | ||
| Finance Report | 11 | ||
| Activities and services | 13 | ||
| Structure, Governance | and Management | 25 | |
| Statement ofTrustees | responsibilities | 26 | |
| Report ofthe Independent Auditors |
27 | ||
| Statement of Financial | Activities | 30 | |
| Balance Sheet | 31 | ||
| Notes tothe Financial | Statements | 33 | |
| Pages not forming part | ofthe financial statements: | ||
| Detailed Statement of | Financial Activities | 44 |
| Expenditure | 6358,451 |
6358,451 |
6358,451 |
(2020:6376,855) | (2020:6376,855) | ||
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| In the main Refuge accommodation is funded from Housing |
Benefit which | for 2020/21 amounted | to E84,095 on an | ||||
| occuPancy rate for the year ofjust 60.5/w well below budget. | In addition, | Bury St Edmunds | Women's Aid Centre |
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| continues to receive financial support from Suffolk County |
Council Public | Health Directorate | for our Refuge services | ||||
| by way ofa support grant ofE79,772, supplemented this year |
by a Winter | grant of | E5,000. | ||||
| Our outreach services and project work are mostly funded |
by | grants and | donations. | Grant income amounted | to | ||
| E152,681and comprised: | |||||||
| Grants | E | ||||||
| Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner —Resource centre |
funding | 60,000 | |||||
| BBCChildren in Need - Children's support staff costs |
30,461 | ||||||
| Covid-19 emergency funding from the following: |
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| Suffolk Community Foundation through the following |
funds: | ||||||
| Suffolk Coronavirus Community Fund |
5,000 | ||||||
| Hopkins Charitable Fund |
4,500 | ||||||
| Suffolk Police &Crime Commissioner Covid-19 funding |
18,920 | ||||||
| Arco (Bury St Edmunds) Coronavirus Community Grant |
1,000 | ||||||
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Emergency Support Fund |
Covid-19 | 11,140 | |||||
| Tesco's Bagsof Help | 500 | ||||||
| National Lottery Coronavirus Community Support Fund |
2,000 | ||||||
| Funding for the refuge garden refurfishment project: |
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| Bury St Edmunds Town Council |
5,000 | ||||||
| West Suffolk Council - Locality budgets of Cllr's M |
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| Marks, E McManus, i Mason and D Nettleton |
2,250 | ||||||
| Suffolk County Council Cllr's D Roach and KSoons |
2,250 | ||||||
| Lord Belstead Charitable Settlement |
2,000 | ||||||
| Funding for Child and Young persons Support project | |||||||
| Suffolk Community Foundation through the following |
funds: | ||||||
| East Anglian Co-operative Community Cares Fund |
4,600 | ||||||
| Other grant received | 1,000 |
| ations rec |
eiv | ed throughout the year amounted to E47, |
957 including Gift Aid. These are brok |
en down |
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| E | ||||
| Restricted | Donations | 11,575 | ||
| Unrestricted | Donations | 35,637 | ||
| Gift Aid | 745 | |||
| E | 47,957 |
| 2021 | 2020 | ||||||
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||
| funds | funds | funds | funds | funds | funds | ||
| Notes | E | E | E | E | |||
| INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS | |||||||
| Donations and legacies |
36,178 | 11,779 | 47,957 | 18,689 | 13,828 | 32,517 | |
| Fund raising events | 365 | 365 | 2,495 | 2,495 | |||
| Charitable activities |
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| Operation ofthe Centre |
94,445 | - | 94,445 | 126,802 | 126,802 | ||
| Support services | 84,663 | 152,790 | 237,453 | 84,772 | 103,216 | 187,988 | |
| Investment income |
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| Bank deposit interest | 225 | 225 | 620 | 620 | |||
| Total income | 215,876 | 164,569 | 380,445 | 233,378 | 117,044 | 350,422 | |
| EXPENDITURE | |||||||
| Charitable activities |
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| Provision ofshort-term accommodation |
89,953 | 27,300 | 117,253 | 98,461 | 22,258 | 120,719 | |
| Support services for residents |
117,866 | 123,332 | 241,198 | 141,883 | 114,253 | 256,136 | |
| Total expenditure | 207,819 | 150,632 | 358,451 | 240,344 | 136,511 | 376,855 | |
| NET (EXPENDITURE) / INCOME |
8,057 | 13,937 | 21,994 | (6,966) | (19,467) | (26,433) | |
| Transfer between funds |
16 | 16,657 | (16,657) | 23,755 | (23,755) | ||
| Net movement in funds |
24,714 | (2,720) | 21,994 | 16,789 | (43,222) | (26,433) | |
| RECONCILIATION OF |
16 | ||||||
| FUNDS | |||||||
| Total funds brought forward |
245,123 | 50,070 | 295,193 | 228,334 | 93,292 | 321,626 | |
| TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED | 269,837 | 47,350 | 317,187 | 245,123 | 50,070 | 295,193 | |
| FORWARD |
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total funds | Unrestricted | Restricted | Total funds |
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| funds | funds | funds | funds | |||||
| Notes | E | E | E | E | ||||
| FIXEDASSETS | ||||||||
| Intangible assets |
12 | 360 | 360 | |||||
| Tangible assets | 13 | 68,572 | 68,572 | 48,258 | 48,258 | |||
| 68,572 | 68,572 | 48,618 | 48,618 | |||||
| CURRENT ASSETS | ||||||||
| Stocks | 2,770 | 2,770 | ||||||
| Debtors | 7,424 | 22,923 | 30,347 | 5,292 | 22,593 | 27,885 | ||
| Cash at bank and | in hand | 207,148 | 22,992 | 230,140 | 198,691 | 28,927 | 227,618 | |
| 214,572 | 48,685 | 263,257 | 203,983 | 51,520 | 255,503 | |||
| CREDITORS | ||||||||
| Amounts falling due within one year |
15 | (13,307) | (1,335) | (14,642) | (7,478) | (1,450) | (8,928) | |
| NET CURRENT ASSETS | 201,265 | 47,350 | 248,615 | 196,505 | 50,070 | 246,575 | ||
| NET ASSETS | 269,837 | 47,350 | 317,187 | 245,123 | 50,070 | 295,193 | ||
| TOTAL FUNDS | 16 | 269,837 | 47,350 | 317,187 | 245,123 | 50,070 | 295,193 |
| Depreciation is provided at the following annual life. |
rates in order to w | rite off |
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| Security and outdoor equipment | —10%on cost | |
| Office equipment | "25%on cost | |
| Motor vehicles | —33%on reducing | balance |
| Household equipment |
-33%on cost | |
| Assets costing more than 1200are capitalised. |
| INCOME FORM CHARITABLE ACTIVITI | E | S | ||||||
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| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||
| E | f | |||||||
| Accommodation charges: |
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| - Housing benefit |
Operation | ofthe | Centre | 84,095 | 114,751 | |||
| —Residents rent and household |
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| income | Operation | ofthe | Centre | 8,426 | 11,546 | |||
| Sundry income | Operation | ofthe | Centre | 1,924 | 505 | |||
| 94,445 | 126,802 | |||||||
| Public Health & Protection grants |
Support services | 84,772 | 79,772 | |||||
| Other grants | Support services | 152,681 | 102,216 | |||||
| Contract income | Support services | 6,000 | ||||||
| 237,453 | 187,988 | |||||||
| 331,898 | 314,790 | |||||||
| Grants received, included above, are |
as follows: | |||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||
| E | E | |||||||
| BBCChildren in Need —Children's support workers staff |
costs | 30,461 | 26,216 | |||||
| Suffolk Police &Crime Commissioner | - | Resource centre | outreach | funding | 60,000 | 60,000 | ||
| Covid-19 emer enc fundin from the |
followin: | |||||||
| Suffolk Community Foundation through the following |
funds: | |||||||
| Suffolk Coronavirus Community Fund |
Outreach | 5,000 | ||||||
| Hopkins Charitable Fund |
Outreach | 4,500 | ||||||
| Suffolk Police &Crime Commissioner | Covid-19 | funding | Outreach | 18,920 | ||||
| Arco (Bury St Edmonds) Coronavirus |
Community Grant |
Outreach | 1,000 | |||||
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
Refuge support | |||||||
| Covid-19 Emergency Support Fund |
&resettlement | 11,140 | ||||||
| Tesco's Bags of Help | PPE | 500 | ||||||
| National Lottery Coronavirus Community Support Fund |
Child support | 2,000 | ||||||
| Fundin for the refu e arden refurfishment ro'ect: |
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| Bury St Edmunds Town Council |
5,000 | |||||||
| West Suffolk Council - Locality budgets of Cllr's | M Marks, | E | ||||||
| McManus, I Mason and D Nettleton | 2,250 | |||||||
| Suffolk County Council Cllr's D Roach | and KSoons |
2,250 | ||||||
| Lord Belstead Charitable Settlement |
2,000 | |||||||
| Fundin for Child and Youn ersons |
Su ort Pro'ect |
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| Suffolk Community Foundation through the following |
funds: | |||||||
| East Anglian Co-operative Community Cares |
Fund | 4,600 | ||||||
| Other grant received | 1,000 | |||||||
| Birketts Fund, Bluebell fund, Women 8 Girls |
Fund, | Hill Family Grantmaking | ||||||
| Fund, High Sheriff's Fund, and Skinners Fund |
10,500 | |||||||
| Bury St Edmonds Town Council Cllr's | D Higgins | and N |
lannelli | -Popham | 2,060.00 | |||
| Royal London Foundation —Refuge external refurbishment |
5,000 | |||||||
| St Edmundsbury Cathedral -Group outreach |
500 | |||||||
| 152,681 | 102,216 |
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||
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| f | f | |||||||||
| Total grants as above | 152,681 | 102,216 | ||||||||
| Contract income | ||||||||||
| West Suffolk Council | —complex | needs accommodation | and | counselling | 6,000 | |||||
| 152,681 | 108,216 | |||||||||
| CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES EXPENDITURE | ||||||||||
| The charity undertakes | direct charitable | activities only | and | does not make | grants. | |||||
| Provision ofshort- | ||||||||||
| term | Support | |||||||||
| accommodation | services | Total | ||||||||
| f | f | f | ||||||||
| Rent and rates | 20,281 | 29,369 | 49,650 | |||||||
| Utiliti es | 10,479 | 2,878 | 13,357 | |||||||
| Household expenses, |
furnishings | and equipment | 6,868 | 4,690 | 11,558 | |||||
| Motor expenses | 1,647 | 823 | 2,470 | |||||||
| Clients, support, | recreation | and | hospitality | 6,301 | 6,301 | 12,602 | ||||
| Depreciation / amortisation |
(excluding | office equipment) | 8,348 | 4,173 | 12,521 | |||||
| Support costs (see note 5) | 63,329 | 192,964 | 256,293 | |||||||
| Total 2021 | 117,253 | 241,198 | 358,451 | |||||||
| Tota I 2020 | 120,719 | 256,136 | 376,855 | |||||||
| Apportionment | ofcosts to | support services |
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f | E | |||||
| Staff costs | 216,276 | 225,547 | ||||
| Administrative | costs | 16,097 | 12,531 | |||
| Insurances | 4,578 | 4,946 | ||||
| Telephone | 6,639 | 6,027 | ||||
| Staff recruitment, | welfare and training costs | 4,929 | 4,184 | |||
| Subscriptions | and | affiliation fees | 636 | 722 | ||
| Office equipment | depreciation | 3,880 | 4,926 | |||
| Fund raising, | publicity | and promotion | 216 | 502 | ||
| Bank and finance | charges | 64 | 64 | |||
| Auditors remuneration |
2,978 | 2,835 | ||||
| Legal fees | 8,090 | |||||
| 256,293 | 270,374 | |||||
| NET INCOME | ||||||
| Net income is | stated after charging/(crediting): | |||||
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||
| f | E | |||||
| Amount expended |
on | stock | 4,140 | |||
| Auditors' remuneration |
2,978 | 2,835 | ||||
| Other non-audit | services | |||||
| Depreciation | —owned | assets | 15,873 | 16,283 | ||
| Operating leases |
—land and buildings | 44,794 | 43,766 | |||
| Operating lease |
- other | 2,387 | 1,930 | |||
| Deficit on disposal | offixed assets | 168 | 288 | |||
| Amortisation | of | website | 360 | 360 | ||
| STAFF COSTS | ||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||
| f | f | |||||
| Salaries | 201,414 | 208,880 | ||||
| Social security | costs | 11,048 | 12,605 | |||
| Pension contributions | 3,814 | 4,062 | ||||
| 216,276 | 225,547 |
| 2021 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Land and buildings | E | E |
| Within one year | 27,500 | 44,705 |
| Between one and five years | 110,000 | 112,868 |
| In more than five years | 86,211 | 113,711 |
| 223,711 | 271,284 | |
| 2021 | 2020 | |
| Otherleases | E | f |
| Within one year | 2,387 | 2,387 |
| Between one and five years | 6,565 | 8,952 |
| 8,952 | 11,339 |
| INTANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website | |||||
| COST | |||||
| At 1April 2020 and at 31March 2021 | 1,800 | ||||
| AMORTISATION | |||||
| At 1April 2020 | 1,440 | ||||
| Charge for year | 360 | ||||
| At 31March 2021 | 1,800 | ||||
| NET BOOK VALUE | |||||
| At 31March 2021 | |||||
| At 31March 2020 | 360 | ||||
| TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS | |||||
| Security & | Office ITand | Motor | Household | ||
| outrlooi' equipment |
other equipment |
vehicles | equipment | Totals | |
| E | |||||
| COST | |||||
| At 1April 2020 | 70,216 | 38,540 | 13,310 | 45,078 | 167,144 |
| Additions | 23,888 | 11,965 | 502 | 36,355 | |
| Disposals | 370 | 3,817 | 1,832 | 6,019 | |
| At 31March 2021 | 93~734 | 46688 | 13~310 | 43748 | 197p480 |
| DEPRECIATION | |||||
| At 1April 2020 | 38,691 | 34,136 | 12,552 | 33,507 | 118,886 |
| Charge for year | 6,235 | 3,880 | 253 | 5,505 | 15,873 |
| Disposals | 369 | 3,812 | 1,670 | 5,851 | |
| At 31March 2021 | 44,557 | 34,204 | 12,805 | 37,342 | 128,908 |
| NET BOOK VALUE | |||||
| At 31March 2021 | 49,177 | 12,484 | 505 | 6,406 | 68,572 |
| At 31March 2020 | 31,525 | 4,404 | 758 | 11,571 | 48,258 |
| 2021 | 2020 | ||
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| STOCK | E | E | |
| Stock for resident resettlement | 2,770 | ||
| DEBTORS | |||
| Other debtors | 745 | 497 | |
| Prepayments | and accrued income | 29,602 | 27,388 |
| 30,347 | 27,885 |
| 2021 | 2020 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | f | ||||
| Payments | on | account | 540 | 460 | |
| Accruals | and | deferred | income | 14,102 | 8,468 |
| 14,642 | 8,928 |
| MOVEMENT IN FUNDS |
Transfers | |||||||
| between | ||||||||
| At 31.03.20 | Income | Expenditure | funds | At31.03.21 | ||||
| Unrestricted funds |
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| General fund | 189,310 | 216,899 | 205,001 | 17,172 | 218,380 | |||
| Resources Centre running costs |
30,709 | (275) | (3,733) | 27,251 | ||||
| Group outreach and support workers |
8,308 | 8,308 | ||||||
| Child support programme (child |
therapy) | 752 | 315 | 1,067 | ||||
| Teenage Support Programmes | 621 | 9,940 | 9,319 | |||||
| Client counselling | 4,645 | 3,810 | 835 | |||||
| Refuge refurbishment (external |
works) | 6,440 | (1,763) | 4,677 | ||||
| Office IT upgrade and equipment |
4,959 | (4,959) | ||||||
| 245,123 | 217,214 | 209,157 | 16,657 | 269,837 | ||||
| Restricted funds | ||||||||
| Resources Centre running costs |
including | a | ||||||
| proportion ofstaffing costs |
18,600 | 60,000 | 63,630 | 14,970 | ||||
| Refuge Covid measures (PPE) |
500 | 288 | (212) | |||||
| Adult support (counselling, group and |
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| creative therapies, Theatre as Therapy |
and a | |||||||
| proportion ofstaffing costs) |
12,298 | 53,032 | 45,382 | (4,663) | 15,285 | |||
| Child support programme (child |
therapy, | |||||||
| outings, recreation) | 10,336 | 798 | 2,637 | (5,000) | 3,497 | |||
| Child support staff costs | (395) | 36,061 | 32,898 | 769 | 3,537 | |||
| Teenage Support Programmes | 3,747 | 2,060 | 5,581 | 1,231 | 1,457 | |||
| Refuge refurbishment - internal |
and external | |||||||
| works | 4,827 | 11,600 | (8,489) | 7,938 | ||||
| Fund raising - Concert activities, | Just Giving | 394 | 394 | |||||
| Publicity and promotion |
263 | 225 | 216 | 272 | ||||
| Office equipment replacement |
293 | (293) | ||||||
| 50,070 | 164,569 | 150,632 | (16,657) | 47,350 | ||||
| TOTAL FUNDS | 295,193 | 381,783 | 359,789 | 317,187 |
| Transfers between funds 2021 | Transfers between funds 2021 | Unrestricted | Funds | Restricted | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movements | between funds comprise: |
General | Designated | Funds | |||||
| i) | Capital assets financed | by | restricted | giving transferred | to | ||||
| general fund upon completion |
16,657 | (16,657) | |||||||
| ii) | Capital assets financed | by | designated | funding transferred |
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| to general fund upon | completion | 16,612 | (16,612) | ||||||
| iii) | Designation ofunrestricted |
income | for particular | purposes | (16,097) | 16,097 | |||
| 17,172 | (515) | (16,657) | |||||||
| General fund | 17,172 | ||||||||
| Total transfers | during the year | 16,657 | (16,657) |
| Detailed Statement of Financial Activities | Detailed Statement of Financial Activities | Detailed Statement of Financial Activities | Detailed Statement of Financial Activities | Detailed Statement of Financial Activities | ||||||
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| for | the | year ended 31March 2021 | ||||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||
| 6 | f | |||||||||
| INCOME | ||||||||||
| Donations and fund raising |
activities | |||||||||
| Donations | 47,957 | 32,517 | ||||||||
| Fund raising activities | 365 | 2,495 | ||||||||
| 48,322 | 35,012 | |||||||||
| Investment income |
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| Deposit account interest | 225 | 620 | ||||||||
| Charitable activities |
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| Accommodation charges: |
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| Housing benefit |
84,095 | 114,751 | ||||||||
| Resident's rent and contibution |
to | household | expenses | 8,426 | 11,546 | |||||
| Public Health and Protection | grants | 84,772 | 79,772 | |||||||
| Other grants and contract income | 152,681 | 108,216 | ||||||||
| Sundry income | 1,924 | 505 | ||||||||
| 331,898 | 314,790 | |||||||||
| Total income | 380,445 | 350,422 | ||||||||
| EXPENDITURE | ||||||||||
| Charitable activities |
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| Staff costs | 212,462 | 221,485 | ||||||||
| Pensions | 3,814 | 4,062 | ||||||||
| Rent | 44,794 | 43,766 | ||||||||
| Rates | 4,856 | 4,707 | ||||||||
| Insurance | 4,578 | 4,946 | ||||||||
| Utilities | 13,357 | 14,323 | ||||||||
| Telephone | 6,639 | 6,027 | ||||||||
| Administration | 16,097 | 12,531 | ||||||||
| Health and safety expenses | 4,968 | 1,191 | ||||||||
| Household expenses, |
furnishing | and equipment | 11,558 | 15,916 | ||||||
| Van expenses, petrol |
and travel | 2,470 | 7,085 | |||||||
| Residents recreation |
391 | 2,271 | ||||||||
| Resident and client support | 7,243 | 5,217 | ||||||||
| Staff training, supervision, |
welfare and | recruitment | 4,929 | 4,184 | ||||||
| Subscriptions and affiliation |
fees | 636 | 722 | |||||||
| Bank and finance charges | 64 | 64 | ||||||||
| Fund raising, publicity |
and | promotion | 216 | 502 | ||||||
| Amortisation ofwebsite |
360 | 360 | ||||||||
| Premises security and | outdoor equipment | depreciation | 6,235 | 5,949 | ||||||
| Household equipment |
depreciation | Sp505 | 5,029 | |||||||
| Office and computer | equipment | depreciation | 3,880 | 4,926 | ||||||
| Motor vehicles depreciation | 253 | 379 | ||||||||
| Loss on disposal oftangible | fixed | assets | 168 | 288 | ||||||
| 355,473 | 365,930 |
| Bury St Edmunds | Women's | Aid Centre Limited | Aid Centre Limited | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detailed Statement of Financial | Activities | ||||||
| for the year | ended 31March | 2021 | |||||
| 2021 | 2020 | ||||||
| 6 | |||||||
| Expenditure | brought | down | 355,473 | 365,930 | |||
| Governance | costs | ||||||
| Audit fee | 2,978 | 2,835 | |||||
| Legalfees | 8,090 | ||||||
| 2,978 | 10,925 | ||||||
| Total expenditure | 358,451 | 376,855 | |||||
| Net income/(expenditure) | 21,994 | (26,433) |