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|Status||Charitable<br>company|limited|by guarantee|by guarantee|registered|
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|||in England<br>and Wales|||||
|||Registered<br>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<br>and Articles||ofAssociation||dated 14|
|||November 1977(amended||in 2020)|||
|Registered|office address|E/do House|||||
|||Kempson<br>Way|||||
|||Suffolk Business Park|||||
|||Bury St Edmunds|||||
|||Suffolk<br>IP32 7AR|||||
|Independent<br>auditors||Knights<br>Lowe Limited|||||
|||Eldo House|||||
|||Kempson<br>Way|||||
|||Suffolk Business Park|||||
|||Bury St Edmunds|||||
|||Suffolk<br>IP32 7AR|||||
|Bankers||HSBC Pic|||||
|||54 Abbeygate<br>Street|||||
|||Bury St Edmunds|||||
|||Suffolk<br>IP33 1U|||||





|Contents|||Page|
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|Philosophy<br>Statement||||
|Charity information||||
|Trustees Annual<br>Report||||
|Public benefit: Aims,|objectives and functions||5|
|Our Patron - leannie|Bloomfield||7|
|Chairperson's<br>Report|||9|
|Service Manager's<br>Report|||10|
|Finance Report|||11|
|Activities and services|||13|
|Structure, Governance||and Management|25|
|Statement ofTrustees||responsibilities|26|
|Report ofthe Independent<br>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|





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|Expenditure|||6358,451<br>|6358,451<br>|6358,451<br>|(2020:6376,855)|(2020:6376,855)|
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|In the main Refuge accommodation<br>is funded<br>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<br>Aid Centre|||
|continues to receive financial support<br>from Suffolk County|Council Public||Health Directorate||for our Refuge services|||
|by way ofa support<br>grant ofE79,772, supplemented<br>this year||by a Winter|grant of|E5,000.||||
|Our outreach<br>services and project work are mostly funded|by|grants and|donations.|Grant income amounted|||to|
|E152,681and comprised:||||||||
|Grants||||||E||
|Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner<br>—Resource centre|funding|||||60,000||
|BBCChildren<br>in Need - Children's<br>support<br>staff costs||||||30,461||
|Covid-19 emergency<br>funding<br>from the following:||||||||
|Suffolk Community<br>Foundation<br>through<br>the following|funds:|||||||
|Suffolk Coronavirus<br>Community<br>Fund||||||5,000||
|Hopkins Charitable<br>Fund||||||4,500||
|Suffolk Police &Crime Commissioner<br>Covid-19 funding||||||18,920||
|Arco (Bury St Edmunds)<br>Coronavirus<br>Community<br>Grant||||||1,000||
|Ministry of Housing,<br>Communities<br>and Local Government<br>Emergency<br>Support<br>Fund||Covid-19||||11,140||
|Tesco's Bagsof Help||||||500||
|National<br>Lottery Coronavirus<br>Community<br>Support<br>Fund||||||2,000||
|Funding for the refuge garden<br>refurfishment<br>project:||||||||
|Bury St Edmunds<br>Town Council||||||5,000||
|West Suffolk Council<br>- Locality budgets of Cllr's M||||||||
|Marks,<br>E McManus, i Mason and<br>D Nettleton||||||2,250||
|Suffolk County<br>Council Cllr's D Roach and<br>KSoons||||||2,250||
|Lord Belstead Charitable<br>Settlement||||||2,000||
|Funding for Child and Young persons Support project||||||||
|Suffolk Community<br>Foundation<br>through<br>the following|funds:|||||||
|East Anglian<br>Co-operative<br>Community<br>Cares Fund||||||4,600||
|Other grant received||||||1,000||





|ations<br>rec|eiv|ed throughout<br>the year amounted<br>to E47,|957 including<br>Gift Aid. These are brok|en down|
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|Restricted|Donations|||11,575|
|Unrestricted||Donations||35,637|
|Gift Aid||||745|
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||funds|funds|funds|funds|funds|funds|
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||36,178|11,779|47,957|18,689|13,828|32,517|
|Fund raising events||365||365|2,495||2,495|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||||
|Operation<br>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<br>income||||||||
|Bank deposit interest||225||225|620||620|
|Total income||215,876|164,569|380,445|233,378|117,044|350,422|
|EXPENDITURE||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||||||
|Provision ofshort-term<br>accommodation||89,953|27,300|117,253|98,461|22,258|120,719|
|Support services for<br>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) /<br>INCOME||8,057|13,937|21,994|(6,966)|(19,467)|(26,433)|
|Transfer between<br>funds|16|16,657|(16,657)||23,755|(23,755)||
|Net movement<br>in funds||24,714|(2,720)|21,994|16,789|(43,222)|(26,433)|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF|16|||||||
|FUNDS||||||||
|Total funds brought<br>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||||||||



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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total funds|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total<br>funds|
||||funds|funds||funds|funds||
|||Notes||E|E||E|E|
|FIXEDASSETS|||||||||
|Intangible<br>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<br>falling due within<br>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|





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|Depreciation<br>is provided at the following<br>annual<br>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<br>equipment|-33%on cost||
|Assets costing more than 1200are capitalised.|||



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|INCOME FORM CHARITABLE ACTIVITI|E|S|||||||
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||||||||E|f|
|Accommodation<br>charges:|||||||||
|- Housing<br>benefit||Operation|ofthe|Centre|||84,095|114,751|
|—Residents<br>rent and household|||||||||
|income||Operation|ofthe|Centre|||8,426|11,546|
|Sundry income||Operation|ofthe|Centre|||1,924|505|
||||||||94,445|126,802|
|Public Health<br>& 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<br>above, are|as follows:||||||||
||||||||2021|2020|
||||||||E|E|
|BBCChildren<br>in Need<br>—Children's<br>support workers staff||||costs|||30,461|26,216|
|Suffolk Police &Crime Commissioner|-|Resource centre||outreach||funding|60,000|60,000|
|Covid-19 emer enc<br>fundin<br>from the||followin:|||||||
|Suffolk Community<br>Foundation<br>through<br>the following||||funds:|||||
|Suffolk Coronavirus<br>Community<br>Fund||||||Outreach|5,000||
|Hopkins Charitable<br>Fund||||||Outreach|4,500||
|Suffolk Police &Crime Commissioner||Covid-19|funding|||Outreach|18,920||
|Arco (Bury St Edmonds)<br>Coronavirus||Community<br>Grant||||Outreach|1,000||
|Ministry of Housing,<br>Communities<br>and Local Government||||||Refuge support|||
|Covid-19 Emergency Support<br>Fund||||||&resettlement|11,140||
|Tesco's Bags of Help||||||PPE|500||
|National<br>Lottery Coronavirus<br>Community<br>Support<br>Fund||||||Child support|2,000||
|Fundin<br>for the refu e<br>arden refurfishment<br>ro'ect:|||||||||
|Bury St Edmunds<br>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<br>KSoons|||||2,250||
|Lord Belstead Charitable<br>Settlement|||||||2,000||
|Fundin<br>for Child and Youn<br>ersons|Su<br>ort Pro'ect||||||||
|Suffolk Community<br>Foundation<br>through<br>the following||||funds:|||||
|East Anglian<br>Co-operative<br>Community<br>Cares|||Fund||||4,600||
|Other grant received|||||||1,000||
|Birketts Fund, Bluebell fund, Women<br>8 Girls|||Fund,|Hill Family Grantmaking|||||
|Fund, High Sheriff's Fund, and Skinners<br>Fund||||||||10,500|
|Bury St Edmonds Town Council Cllr's||D Higgins|and<br>N|lannelli||-Popham|2,060.00||
|Royal London Foundation<br>—Refuge external<br>refurbishment||||||||5,000|
|St Edmundsbury<br>Cathedral<br>-Group outreach||||||||500|
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|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|
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|Rent and rates|||||||20,281||29,369|49,650|
|Utiliti es|||||||10,479||2,878|13,357|
|Household<br>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<br>/ 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|
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|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<br>remuneration|||||2,978|2,835|
|Legal fees||||||8,090|
||||||256,293|270,374|
|NET INCOME|||||||
|Net income is|stated after charging/(crediting):||||||
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|Amount<br>expended|||on|stock|4,140||
|Auditors'<br>remuneration|||||2,978|2,835|
|Other non-audit||services|||||
|Depreciation|—owned|||assets|15,873|16,283|
|Operating<br>leases|||—land and buildings||44,794|43,766|
|Operating<br>lease||- other|||2,387|1,930|
|Deficit on disposal|||offixed assets||168|288|
|Amortisation|of|website|||360|360|
|STAFF COSTS|||||||
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|Salaries|||||201,414|208,880|
|Social security|costs||||11,048|12,605|
|Pension contributions|||||3,814|4,062|
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||2021|2020|
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|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|
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|Otherleases|E|f|
|Within one year|2,387|2,387|
|Between one and five years|6,565|8,952|
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|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'<br>equipment|other<br>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|



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|||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|
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|Payments|on|account||540|460|
|Accruals|and|deferred|income|14,102|8,468|
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|MOVEMENT<br>IN FUNDS|||||||Transfers||
||||||||between||
|||||At 31.03.20|Income|Expenditure|funds|At31.03.21|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||||
|General fund||||189,310|216,899|205,001|17,172|218,380|
|Resources Centre running<br>costs||||30,709||(275)|(3,733)|27,251|
|Group outreach<br>and support<br>workers||||8,308||||8,308|
|Child support<br>programme<br>(child|therapy)|||752|315|||1,067|
|Teenage Support Programmes||||||621|9,940|9,319|
|Client counselling||||4,645||3,810||835|
|Refuge refurbishment<br>(external|works)|||6,440|||(1,763)|4,677|
|Office IT upgrade<br>and equipment||||4,959|||(4,959)||
|||||245,123|217,214|209,157|16,657|269,837|
|Restricted funds|||||||||
|Resources Centre running<br>costs|including||a||||||
|proportion<br>ofstaffing costs||||18,600|60,000|63,630||14,970|
|Refuge Covid measures<br>(PPE)|||||500|288|(212)||
|Adult support<br>(counselling,<br>group and|||||||||
|creative therapies,<br>Theatre as Therapy||and a|||||||
|proportion<br>ofstaffing costs)||||12,298|53,032|45,382|(4,663)|15,285|
|Child support<br>programme<br>(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<br>- internal|and external||||||||
|works||||4,827|11,600||(8,489)|7,938|
|Fund raising - Concert activities,|Just Giving|||394||||394|
|Publicity<br>and promotion||||263|225|216||272|
|Office equipment<br>replacement|||||293||(293)||
|||||50,070|164,569|150,632|(16,657)|47,350|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||295,193|381,783|359,789||317,187|





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|Movements|between<br>funds comprise:||||||General|Designated|Funds|
|i)|Capital assets financed|by|restricted|giving transferred||to||||
||general<br>fund upon completion||||||16,657||(16,657)|
|ii)|Capital assets financed|by|designated|funding<br>transferred||||||
||to general fund upon|completion|||||16,612|(16,612)||
|iii)|Designation<br>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)|





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||||||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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|INCOME|||||||||||
|Donations<br>and fund raising|||activities||||||||
|Donations|||||||||47,957|32,517|
|Fund raising activities|||||||||365|2,495|
||||||||||48,322|35,012|
|Investment<br>income|||||||||||
|Deposit account interest|||||||||225|620|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||||||
|Accommodation<br>charges:|||||||||||
|Housing<br>benefit|||||||||84,095|114,751|
|Resident's<br>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<br>activities|||||||||||
|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<br>expenses,|furnishing|||and equipment|||||11,558|15,916|
|Van expenses,<br>petrol|and travel||||||||2,470|7,085|
|Residents<br>recreation|||||||||391|2,271|
|Resident and client support|||||||||7,243|5,217|
|Staff training,<br>supervision,||welfare and||||recruitment|||4,929|4,184|
|Subscriptions<br>and affiliation|||fees||||||636|722|
|Bank and finance charges|||||||||64|64|
|Fund raising,<br>publicity|and||promotion||||||216|502|
|Amortisation<br>ofwebsite|||||||||360|360|
|Premises security and|outdoor equipment||||||depreciation||6,235|5,949|
|Household<br>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||
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||||Detailed Statement of Financial|||Activities||
||||for the year|ended 31March||2021||
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|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)|





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