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2023-03-31-accounts

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Registered number: 01967962 Charity number: 293546

MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

(A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

CONTENTS

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Reference and administrative details of the Charity, its Trustees and advisers 1
Chairman's statement 2 - 3
Trustees' report 4 - 23
Independent auditors' report on the financial statements 24 - 27
Statement of financial activities 28
Balance sheet 29
Statement of cash flows 30
Notes to the financial statements 31 - 53

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

(A company limited by guarantee)

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY, ITS TRUSTEES AND ADVISERS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Trustees Mr J G Ghaleb
Mr D H Head
Rev P Sharrocks
Rev J M Mills, Chair
Ms C H Brew (resigned 12 December 2022)
Mrs J Cooper-Bennett
Rev Dr M Cotes
Mr P Galsworthy (resigned 12 December 2022)
Dr P Wall (appointed 16 June 2023)
Ms P Tedd (resigned 16 May 2023)
Ms C Veal (appointed 16 June 2023)
Ms M Brown (appointed 21 November 2022)
Company registered
number
01967962
Charity registered
number
293546
Registered office
Foundation House
The Square
Aylesbury Street
Wolverton
Milton Keynes
MK12 5HX
Website
www.mkchristianfoundation.co.uk
Company secretary
Mr J G Ghaleb
Chief executive officer
Mr S Rudiger
Independent auditors
Hillier Hopkins LLP
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditor
249 Silbury Boulevard
Milton Keynes
MK9 1NA
Bankers
Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Court
28 Secklow Gate West
Milton Keynes
MK9 3EH

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

The chairman presents her statement for the year.

This past year we have looked towards the future. We began with finalizing recruitment for a new Director as Stephen Norrish has been in post for 37 years. We had begun this journey when Covid hit in early 2020, but had to halt it in order to get through the difficulties that the pandemic brought. But now it is time for Stephen to retire and explore new possibilities away from such a full-on and demanding role. All the necessary paperwork was prepared, and we have been through 2 cycles of advertising and recruiting. From the first cycle there were no suitable applicants, despite enquiries, and the second we interviewed two people in March 2022 but were unable to appoint. After the first cycle we began to discuss what would happen if we were unable to appoint anyone to the role. We met in January 2023 as a Board to discuss possible ways forward and options for structuring the management and leadership in the event of such an issue. As a Board we do believe that the right person is out there and that this is an exciting and realistic Job Description and Person Specification and will be advertising again, but we do need to plan just in case.

As a charity we are always having to be mindful of costs, funding, income and expenditure and the current financial climate is making this ever more difficult. Staff are working at the limits of their capabilities and capacity, not helped by the general societal levels of anxiety and uncertainty. Our salaries continue to be low in comparison with others in the charity and educational sectors. We are struggling to attract staff in some, but not all, areas of our work. We are attracting an increasing number of young people with specific needs and, whilst getting a reputation as a caring and compassionate place for young people to learn and grow, it is demanding on staff and means we have large numbers of safeguarding concerns.

Our safeguarding and training staff are working hard to manage the needs and expectations of trainees and to improve our attainment in all areas and we have great relationships with external agencies. But Social Enterprise staff are required to be both proficient at business and educating as we expect income to increase and they face greater demands of being professional, as well as always Health and Safety compliant.

So, it could be noted that this feels harder and a little bleaker than in previous years. And yet, we do have a fully committed staff team working faithfully, and frequently beyond expectations; the Executive Team has developed very helpfully and work well together; income is increasing; we have a great reputation locally as an education provider, especially for those who struggle in mainstream settings; our attendance and progression figures are positive; young people’s lives are being changed daily; people who visit us are blown away by what they see and experience; the Board continues to meet regularly, supporting the Chief executive officer, as they leads the staff team, and looking forward to what we might need in a new Director. This means we are still making a difference and we still have work to do!

One question that has arisen this year is how much we have intentionally focused on the staff’s understanding of the roots of the MK Christian Foundation and what we have done to help them understand the underlying ethos of sector ministry. It is apparent that our Vision, Mission and Values are not shared as frequently or openly as possible. This is something we need to think about in the coming year.

Our Vision: For vibrant communities where: the value of all people and all things is realised, and where their potential is released.

Our Mission: Growing people and community through social enterprise

Our values: That all people and all things: have an essential value and inherent potential; need to be contributing, learning, changing and growing; are interdependent and connected.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

As we enter this next year, facing some level of uncertainty in terms of leadership and management, as Chair of the Board I want to express my deepest thanks to, and appreciation of, the whole staff team. Without their dedication, commitment and hard work we would not be the organization we are. We reach out into the community, we are seen and heard, we care, we support, and we continue to make a difference through our work. And now we look forward with anticipation and excitement at future possibilities, building on all that has been and hoping for all that will be.

................................................ The Revd Jenny Mills Chairperson

Date: 28-03-2024 | 10:52 GMT

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

The Trustees present their annual report together with the audited financial statements of the Charity for the 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023. The annual report serves the purposes of both a Trustees' report and a directors' report under company law. The Trustees confirm that the annual report and financial statements of the charitable company comply with the current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charitable company's governing document and the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) (effective 1 January 2019).

Since the Charity qualifies as small under section 382 of the Companies Act 2006, the strategic report required of medium and large companies under the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors' Report) Regulations 2013 has been omitted.

Objectives and activities

a. Policies and objectives

The company’s objects under its Memorandum of Association are to advance the Christian religion, which we pursue through activities that express our concern for our neighbours and the care of God’s creation, including: educational; social justice; community; environmental and; economic development initiatives.

Our mission

Growing people and community through social enterprise.

Our Mission and an overview of our approach

The MK Christian Foundation is an innovative local charity with a number of social enterprises working to coproduce solutions to locally identified issues that often have a global importance. The enterprises are staffed by amazing teams of young people who have struggled with mainstream education.

Over the last 16 years our social enterprises have sought to:

Our current enterprises are:

Our roots are within the Christian community, but we work, learn and play together with people of all faiths and none; celebrating diversity and welcoming people from all parts of our community.

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Objectives and activities (continued)

Christian

We know that the word ‘Christian’ in our organisation’s name provokes differing reactions: not always positive! We understand why this might be. We who call ourselves Christian have much from past and present for which to seek forgiveness. Whilst we still have much to learn, we hope that we continue to have something significant to share. We want to explain something of what we mean by the word ‘Christian’.

The organisation was established by and continues to be part of the local Christian community; however we work and learn together with staff, clients, organisations and communities from all faiths and none. The intention of the Christian Foundation is not to proselytise but to learn through real engagement and partnership with our neighbours and local communities. Through this we hope we will discover more about God, the ways of God and how to live faithfully in those communities and world.

We believe in a God who is passionately concerned with all aspects of life and human relationships; and has a particular connection with those who are neglected or whose needs are disregarded. We believe every human carries something of the divine. No matter whom we love, no matter how we look, no matter how we pray, no matter where we are on our journey, God’s spark is in every person of every race, every ethnicity, every gender and every sexual orientation.

We believe that the natural world is also sacred and that the fate of humanity and nature are intimately interwoven. We need to live more gently on the earth, finding patterns of living and working that are restorative and regenerative by design and where everything has value and nothing becomes waste.

We believe Jesus revealed God as loving, liberating and life-giving. His life as an activist for justice and healing challenged the religious and secular authorities and contributed to his execution. The mystery we call the risen Christ leads us to affirm that love is stronger than death. Through everything he was, Jesus taught those following his way to love both neighbour and enemy and to seek to realise God’s compassion and hope in their communities.

We believe that it is in real community - where diverse people work together, where all have much to offer and all much to receive - that we glimpse something of what God is like. It is here that creativity and energy for positive change emerge and where we imagine and co-produce new and better futures for ourselves, each other and for all.

We want to explore and express our faith in actions. We work with others: to disrupt oppressive systems and structures that prevent the flourishing of individuals, communities and the natural world; to be an inclusive community of compassion and hope, generosity and justice, the priorities that we see profoundly expressed in the life and teaching of Jesus, whose life and work we try to be part of.

In setting objectives and planning for activities, the Trustees have given due consideration to general guidance published by the Charity Commission relating to public benefit, including the guidance 'Public benefit: running a charity (PB2)'.

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Objectives and activities (continued)

b. A brief introduction to how we deliver our mission

Over the last 15 years we have been creating and growing social enterprises that offer local solutions to issues that have a global importance. They:

c. Activities undertaken to achieve objectives

Our Strategic Priorities for 2022/23

Drawn from our current Strategic Plan, the strategic priorities for the period 2022/23 were:

Structural challenges and, in the last two years, Covid-19 have caused a decline in our income from both our training and enterprises. We must both recover income to pre-covid levels and grow it to deliver our mission effectively.

Our budget has agreed stretching targets to achieve this and clear recruitment and production targets to enable the monitoring of progress.

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Objectives and activities (continued)

Achievement and progression levels have been impacted in the last two academic years by Covid-19 and the interruption to learning and work experience. We will restore and grow our achievement and progression levels.

We will find and implement new funded and unfunded qualifications that maximise opportunities for trainee progression and employment.

We have made significant steps with our marketing, particularly with our video and website improvements. We must sharpen our whole-organisation messaging and coordinate our social media usage to support our drive to increase training and enterprise growth, impact and income.

We will seek to sharpen the connection between our marketing and the issues and concerns addressed by our social enterprises and training. We will develop the ‘craftivist’ approaches piloted by Sew & Grow to deliver this.

We will revisit our mission statement and values.

We will work to increase staff salaries and work to rationalise internal staff salary levels.

We will restore our supervision and appraisal processes, which have been disrupted by Covid-19, with a stronger emphasis on CPD. We must work to identify time and opportunities to integrate staff training into our training and enterprise activities. We will develop our activities to promote staff wellbeing

Our Board have identified the importance of succession planning, particularly with reference to our senior leadership.

We will continue to develop the Executive team to ensure that we have the range of skills required to effectively manage the organisation into the future.

We will complete the move to becoming a CIO, with updated objectives

We will build on much improved capture of key management data and develop its use to support growth of productivity and quality.

Our focus on survival and the onset of lockdown has resulted in the reduction of community engagement and networking. We will recover and grow our connections with the diverse range of individuals, communities and organisations that help us improve the delivery of our mission.

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Objectives and activities (continued)

We will identify and re-establish links with critical partners and stakeholders. We will continue to build our connections and work with regional and national para-church organisations that share our approach and values. We will complete the work of identifying and recruiting a supporting council.

Our social enterprises

Foundation Learning

Foundation Learning provides innovative learning opportunities, within social enterprises, for young people ‘turned-off’ by traditional classroom teaching. Our training activities support young people who face multiple barriers in life, education and employment. Including those: excluded or at risk of exclusion from schools; outside further education, training or employment; having a learning difficulty or disability; seeking to live independently; preparing for parenthood or being a young parent.

We use our social enterprises as learning environments helping young people to:

Think Food

Think Food is a small café with a big vision. We know that what and how we eat can change the world and we want our food to help change it for the better.

Current patterns of eating are not sustainable, driving climate crisis and health and social inequality both locally and globally. We are working to make our café a small part of the solution. With our young people we:

Growing People

Growing People is an urban horticultural enterprise that works with young people to explore sustainable, local community alternatives to growing food. It does this by:

The Learning Tree

The learning tree is an outdoor learning programme designed to ‘rewild’ and reconnect children and others with the natural world. Utilising the principles of Forest School, we seek to develop emotional, personal and social skills in a woodland environment. Participants engage in a wide range of activities including bush-craft, ecology and conservation, creative art and crafts and woodland management.

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Objectives and activities (continued)

Our programme includes:

Childcare Pathways

Childcare Pathways offers personalised nursery provision for children from 3 months to 5 years. With the support of our trainees we seek to offer a holistic approach to each child’s development and learning, providing:

Foundation House

Foundation House provides spaces for growing people and community. As well as being the home of the Christian Foundation and base for a number of our social enterprises we want to use our premises to bring diverse groups together and to be a place of creativity and energy for all. To achieve this we:

Cycle Saviours

Cycle Saviours rescues, restores and reuses pre-loved and abandoned bikes. We :

The heart of the project will be a workshop where, with our young trainees we will:

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Objectives and activities (continued)

Urban Bee-lievers

Bees are critical to our food security and biodiversity, over the last decade they have been in sharp decline. We want to work to change this by making Milton Keynes a bee-friendly city.

Urban Bee-lievers works with young people to deliver a number of products, services and activities that raise awareness and promote the flourishing of bees and pollinators in Milton Keynes. We do this by:

Sew and Grow

Sew and Grow is a textile based craftivist enterprise that works with our young people to design and make planet and people friendly products. We produce beautiful, useful, naturally dyed and hand-crafted textile products that contribute to sustainable living. We will do this by:

d. Main activities undertaken to further the Charity's purposes for the public benefit

The Trustees have given due consideration to the Charity Commission’s guidance on Public Benefit. The company’s objects, under its Memorandum of Association, are to advance the Christian religion, which we pursue through engaging in activities that are a practical expression of our faith. These activities are driven by key tenets of the Christian faith; the concern for neighbour and the care of God’s creation. The charity uses social enterprise to address these concerns, they focus on: educational; social justice; community; environmental and; economic development issues.

The social enterprises have offered disengaged and disadvantaged young people from across Milton Keynes the opportunity to engage in useful, vocationally relevant training. This has helped them to gain new skills, achieve qualifications and address barriers to future employment and independent living. At the same time it has given them an opportunity to make a positive contribution to the community.

The young people help us to deliver a wider public benefit through their involvement in our other social enterprises’ trading activities:

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Objectives and activities (continued)

e. Main achievements of the Charity

Progress, Achievement and Performance 22/23

This has been a year of significant development and achievement against a backdrop of continued challenge. Our training and social enterprise teams have worked tirelessly to rebuild and grow following the interruption and aftershocks of Covid-19 and the onset of war in Ukraine. This has resulted in a number of key metrics returning to, or exceeding, pre-pandemic levels; however there is still much to do.

At the beginning of this Financial Year the final Covid-19 measures affecting the education sector were lifted. This allowed, after a two and a half year break, the full re-engagement of a number of areas of our work with the general public. This engagement with the local community is an essential element of how we deliver our mission and its absence had been very detrimental to our development.

Many of the pressures on staff, young people and our communities have not disappeared. Indeed, they have been exacerbated by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and its impact on our sense of security and more obviously the economy. Our young people have continued to experience challenges with their progress and increased difficulties with mental health, welfare and safeguarding.

Increasing costs have brought further pressures to our communities, our staff and of course the charity. Whilst we were partially protected from spiralling energy bills due to some prudentially lengthy gas and electricity contracts, we experienced significant increases in costs for our training and social enterprises. This impacted everything, from the purchasing of flour for our bread making to brake cables for cycle recycling. There was also considerable pressure on staff salaries. Much of this came from our own strategic commitment to increase our staff wages, but, inevitably, also from competition to attract new staff, impacting all employers. Challenges with recruitment has had a significant impact on our ability to grow during the year.

In spite of these challenges we are pleased and encouraged by the progress we have made during the year, but recognise there is still much to do stabilise the organisation following these disrupted years.

Foundation Learning

It’s always wonderful to see our young people grow, flourish and move on in their lives. Many, this year, have moved on to Further Education and employment and it’s been great when they return to tell us about what they’re doing (which many do). It has been very pleasing that, despite the ongoing challenges, all the key measures, bar one, we use to assess our young people’s progress have improved from last year. This reflects the hard work and focus of all our training and enterprise staff.

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Objectives and activities (continued)

We pride ourselves in putting together individual learning plans that meet individual trainees learning needs. Staff are particularly pleased with the development of the Progress Review processes. We use these to ensure that trainees stay on track to achieve the best outcomes they can. Trainees are central to these reviews, which draw input from all the staff who work them. With them we review achievements and agree next steps for the young person to achieve their goals.

Our work in relation to safeguarding has, as always, been a priority and something about which we feel extremely proud. All staff have played their part in ensuring that concerns are raised quickly and consistently with our specialist Safeguarding team. The team have had to deal with some extremely complex cases and working in partnership with the Police and other local agencies have done an exceptional job in working to keep our young people safe. In our end of year survey of trainees. We were encouraged to hear from a survey of our young people that 100% of respondents indicated that they felt safe or very safe when with us.

The following statistics relate to the Academic Year, August 2022 to July 2023. During the year we worked with 72 young people. This continued to be lower than pre-pandemic levels, which we believe has been caused by continued challenges within schools and the slow return to usual referral pathways.

During the year 93% of trainees had a safeguarding or welfare concern. Around 80% of our trainees had a special educational need or disability (SEND). Many more had mental health or welfare concerns.

Of our trainees:

It was pleasing to see English and vocational qualifications improve from last year, English considerably. Additional Government funding was used to offer extra English lessons. A number of individual factors impacted the disappointing maths achievement; however one of the main challenges was the number of trainees receiving inflated grades from school. This required learners to attempt qualifications at a higher level than our assessment suggested.

Here is some more of the feedback from our yearend survey of trainees when asked ‘what were the good things about being’ with us:

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Objectives and activities (continued)

A small survey of parents and Carers also offered very positive feedback, with all respondents indicating that they believed their child felt safe, had made good progress and that they would recommend the Christian Foundation to another parent or carer.

Urban Bee-lievers

Our ability to engage face-to-face with the communities we work with has allowed Urban Beelievers to return to a number of pre-pandemic activities that were restricted. All of the hives we withdrew to the Urb Farm during Covid-19 have gone back to the businesses and community organisations hosting them. The reopening of our sites to members of the public has allowed the launch of our long planned programme of Bee experiences. These have offered people from businesses and the local community opportunities to don a bee-suit and explore the life of the hive.

Our work to date has mostly focused on the honey bee, but we know that if we are truly to help Milton Keynes become a bee-friendly city, we need to promote the health of the solitary bee too. Our Urban Beeliever’s team have been developing resources for businesses to enable them to promote the conditions that allow these unsung heroes to flourish.

Honey production and sales have been very strong, with some 700 jars sold. Honey from our own hives has been supplemented through partnerships with other local beekeepers. We continue to make and sell items made with the bye-products of the hive. Lip balm sales have been particularly good.

ability to manage our bees in as environmentally sensitive manner has been aided through the acquisition of an e-cargo bike. This has been made available through a programme sponsored by Milton Keynes City Council.

Cycle Saviours

Our team at Cycle saviours were overwhelmed at times last year by the demand for our re-cycled bikes. At one point we had to close the workshop for two weeks to catch up with orders and repairs. Donations of bikes also remained strong requiring the creation of more space for storage of bikes. Inevitably a number of bikes cannot be reused; however nothing goes to waste. Unusable bikes are stripped and harvested for reusable parts and any remnant metals recycled. Cycle Saviour has generated over £3,000 through the recycling of metals this year.

We continued to partner with Milton Keynes City Council in offering an ‘Access to Bike’ scheme which provides tokens for people on low incomes to purchase a bike from us.

As with our other enterprises, the continued reopening of organisations has allowed the return of our external activities. We increased our offer of community based repairs, bike maintenance and training with a number of summer events and our regular partnerships with local businesses and education providers. We have developed a particularly strong relationship with Cranfield University.

One of the main challenges for the enterprise has been difficulty in recruiting additional mechanics. Despite a number of efforts we have struggled to grow the team.

Think Food Cafe

After over 2 years of closure we were very excited to be able to reopen the Think Food Café. This vital connection with the local community had been closed beyond the period required of hospitality businesses due to the extended Covid restrictions on educational settings. It was wonderful to welcome friends, old and new, back into the café.

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Objectives and activities (continued)

We reopened with a fully vegetarian menu, developed and tested over lockdown. Our desire is to promote eating that reduces our carbon production and utilises fewer processed foods. The team are making as much as possible of our menu in-house, including jams, preserves and pink lemonade. We are particularly proud of our bread and cakes, the making of the former becoming a daily ritual for trainees and staff. We have the beginnings of a micro-bakery, selling through our Growing People pop-up stall. There will be opportunities to expand this in the coming year.

The team have supported our other enterprises helping to preserve Growing People veggie surpluses and doing much of the extraction and jarring of Urban Beeliever’s honey. They also provided used teabags and onion skins that are used in some of Sew & Grow’s natural dyes.

Sew and Grow

The plethora of beautifully coloured fabrics emerging from the Sew & Grow workshops has been a joy to see this year. The discovery, at the beginning of the year, of the interest of the international quilting community in our naturally dyed textiles, has opened new doors for the sale of our products.

The team set about exploring how to connect with this community and how to scale up production. They sought to do this by producing single colour batches of quilting quarters in a range of shades. Whilst these attracted interest from across the UK and US there is still work to do to increase the levels of production and the quantities sold.

A new opportunity has emerged at the beginning of the new financial year with the enterprise’s participation in the Festival of Quilts, an international exhibition held at the NEC. The team sold out of all their stock, selling over £2,500 worth of materials over the weekend. They were also able to gain contact information for many others interested in purchasing our quilting materials.

Growing People

Last year’s amazing harvest has been replicated again this year. It’s been wonderful to see how much can be produced from a small plot of land in an urban setting. We estimate that 1.6 tonnes of produce has been sold and we have used almost as much again in our Think Food café and in the production of pickles and preserves. It confirms our belief in the role of small-scale, urban food growing in sustainable food production, food security and community and individual health.

The knowledge that we are able to meet increased demand has given us confidence to market our produce more widely and to explore a number of new sales options. The weekly market stall has welcomed a diverse group of customers from across the community. There has also been good partnerships with small, local catering businesses whose USP emphasises the use of fresh local produce in their menus. The team has responded to this by diversifying the variety of fruit, vegetables and salad crops, including a number not traditionally grown in the UK.

The development of our environmentally sensitive ‘No-dig’ approach has benefited from an increased focus on composting which begins to close one of the remaining loops in the Farm’s growing system.

The Learning Tree

It has been wonderful to see young children enjoying the opportunities for outdoor play in our forest school. Tree climbing, bug hunting, camp cooking and mud pie making all regularly feature in our programmes.

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Objectives and activities (continued)

Funding from the Government’s Holiday Activities and Food programme (FAF) supported us to deliver sessions to children from families receiving Free School Meals. As part of these sessions children and young people received a hot, healthy meal, produced by Think Food every day. Weekly sessions have also been delivered to young people from a local SEND school and for parents and toddlers. The Learning Tree has also supported young people training with us, offering team and confidence building sessions.

This enterprise has also not grown and developed as much as we hoped, again, largely due to staffing challenges and difficulties with recruitment.

Childcare Pathways

Childcare numbers not only returned to pre-pandemic levels during the year, they grew. This included an increased number of children whose families were eligible for Government supported free childcare places. The team delivered over 15,000 childcare hours.

Milton Keynes City Council held its SEND family festival for the first time in 2 years and they again asked Childcare Pathways to provide a nursery for the event. The Council also recommended that the DfE visit us as part of some research they were carrying out into differing models of financing childcare. Their staff spent the day with us and proffered some very complimentary feedback on our provision, particularly the participation of our young trainees.

As with many nursery providers around the country, we struggled with staff recruitment during the year. This as with other enterprises impacted our ability to grow.

Foundation House

Foundation House continues to be a fantastic resource for growing people and community. With the complete relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for educational settings and the reopening of the café, Foundation House began to feel like the community hub that we want it to be.

Use by community groups promoting health and welfare grew steadily throughout the year. Milton Keynes City Council used us to provide tuition for vulnerable young people disengaged from schools. We again hosted the Winter Night Shelter for one night a week from November through to March which provided emergency accommodation for people homeless in Milton Keynes.

Achievements and performance

a. Review of activities

Income in 2022/23 was £803,563 up from £727,060, largely due to improved social enterprise trading particularly from Childcare Pathways and Cycle Saviours, as well as an increase in learning-related income (Foundation Learning).

The principle funding sources of the charity are: The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA); our social enterprise trading income; Milton Keynes City Council’s support for young people with special educational needs and disabilities; local schools for the provision of alternative education.

Our expenditure has increased by approximately £85k, driven by an increase in total salary costs as a response to the cost of living crisis.

The charity has made a small loss in 2022/23 of £10,808.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Achievements and performance (continued)

We have no material liabilities in respect of pensions.

We are proposing a deficit budget for 2023/24 of £52k, using our reserves to manage this, we’re confident we can sustain this budget as it allows us to continue to invest in our training and enterprise activities.

b. Fundraising activities and income generation

The charity does not engage in fundraising from the general public and neither uses a third party to do so.

Financial review

a. Going concern

After making appropriate enquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Further details regarding the adoption of the going concern basis can be found in the accounting policies.

b. Reserves policy

The Trustees undertook a fundamental review of the charity’s reserves policy, taking into consideration the significant disruption to the economic landscape for the coming years. We have looked at the financial risks facing the charity in the coming year. This has included careful examination of risks to income streams and expenditure commitments. We believe that there continues to be an increased risk of a slow growth of income, particularly earnt income from our social enterprises. There is also a continued risk of increased costs as energy prices rise, impacting most areas of expenditure particularly salaries.

In response to these risks we have decided that it is prudent to maintain reserves to manage in the event of a partial or complete closure. We are also anticipating and budgeting for a loss in 2023/24 as our activities continue to stabilise. The sum of £250,000 is considered an appropriate level of reserves to address a significant, unforeseen reduction in income. At the year end 2022/23 the actual level of free reserves was £305,827.

Structure, governance and management

a. Constitution

The Milton Keynes Christian Foundation Ltd is a charitable company limited by guarantee that was incorporated on 3 December 1985 and registered as a charity on 10 February 1986. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association, dated 14 October 1985, which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. In the event of the company being wound up, members of the Foundation are required to contribute towards the payment of debts and liabilities of the Foundation such amount as may be required, not exceeding one pound (£1).

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Structure, governance and management (continued)

b. Methods of appointment or election of Trustees

Under the Articles of Association, the Milton Keynes Christian Foundation is empowered to recruit members, from whom a Council of Management, consisting of no less than 7 and no more than 25 members shall be appointed to oversee the running of the organisation. In reality all the members of the Company also serve as trustees of the charitable company and as members of the Council of Management. They meet monthly to transact organisational business. The quorum for Council meetings (Board of Trustees meetings) is 5.

One third of all Board members are required to retire by rotation each year, although all are eligible for reappointment. At the Annual General Meeting, Catherine Brew (resigned 15.12.22), Peter Sharrocks and Jenny Mills retired and were re-elected to the Board. At that meeting Jenny Mills was duly re-elected as chair. Ms M Brown (21.11.22) was appointed as a new trustee. Mr P Galsworthy resigned (15.12.22).

c. Organisational structure and decision-making policies

The Company has a Board of Trustees (Council of Management) of 9 members, who meet monthly and are responsible for the strategic direction and policy of the charity. Currently a majority of the members have a strong connection to the local Christian faith community, though not exclusively, but also have extensive relevant experience relating to the running and development of the charity.

Annually a strategic plan and budget is produced and presented to the Board for approval, this sets out the strategic priorities and directions for the coming year and sets all salaries. The Strategic Plan has input from all staff and teams as well as our trainees. As well as monthly financial reporting, periodically reports are made to the Board to show progress against these strategic priorities. In relation to our training and childcare activities Self-Assessment Reviews and Quality Improvement Plans are also agreed which become the basis for priorities in developing training and childcare provision. Together these documents set out the strategic direction of the charity for the year ahead.

Day to day responsibility for the provision and development of services and activities has rested with one working Director. The Director leads, manages and supervises the staff team and ensures that the charity delivers its charitable purposes, its strategic plan and that its range of services and activities comply with contracts.

An Executive, including the Director and other senior staff of the charity meets every other week to oversee operational activities. They review progress and evaluate risks in relation to the strategic plan. The organisation has smaller teams that bring together staff around its training and social enterprises that support the delivery and development of day-to-day activities. Our young trainees have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the organisation through their own social enterprise meetings and other processes designed to gather their input.

The charity has employed 32 full and part time staff during the year.

The charity benefits from the support of a team of very able volunteers; however it is not considered that the activities of the charity are dependent on their input.

d. Policies adopted for the induction and training of Trustees

The charity is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all Board members to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for Trustees.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Structure, governance and management (continued)

The Director will arrange meetings with new Board members to provide their inductions. The induction will include:

e. Pay policy for key management personnel

The Director's Salary and pension are benchmarked against those of an Anglican Curate, reflecting that this post has historically been a Milton Keynes Deanery appointment. Other Senior posts are benchmarked against similar roles in the small charity sector.

The combined gross salary, including benefits including pension and employers NI, for senior management at the charity is £102,769 (2022 - £103,004).

f. Related party relationships

There are no related party transactions to disclose this year.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Structure, governance and management (continued)

g. Financial risk management

The Company recognises the importance of minimising risks to its reputation, integrity and financial sustainability and ensures that key risks are highlighted and incorporated into a risk register and the Charity’s Executive’s and Board’s agendas which are regularly reviewed.

Systems are in place within the organisation to minimise risks of fraudulent claims by clients, volunteers and staff, and systems have been developed, implemented and are monitored to ensure cash handling procedures are effective and transparent. In October 2021 we carried out the Charity Commissioner’s Charity Finance SelfAssessment and implemented a number of areas where systems could be improved.

Internal procedures have been established to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations for staff, volunteers, clients and visitors, and regular reports on health and safety are submitted to the Foundation’s Executive and to the Board.

In line with the requirements of Section 11 of the Children Act 2004, the Christian Foundation has clear processes for meeting its responsibilities in relation to the safeguarding and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This includes regular safeguarding training for all staff and childcare trainees, effective information-sharing and inter-agency working. The charity employs safer recruitment procedures and regular reporting of safeguarding issues to the Foundation’s Childcare Committee, Executive and to the Board.

Cyber Security is another emerging area of risk for all organisations, not excluding charities. With our ICT managers we carried out a Cyber Essentials Self-Assessment in March of 2021. Our use of an educationally focused proxy server offers significant protection for us with the main risks arising from security of passwords and staff leaving their desktops unlocked. All staff carried out Cyber Security training as a part of their induction procedures.

h. Trustees' indemnities

A policy of third party indemnity insurance has been in place during the year for the benefits of the trustees.

i. Public Benefit

The Trustees have given due consideration to the Charity Commission’s guidance on Public Benefit. The company’s objects, under its Memorandum of Association, are to advance the Christian religion, which we pursue through engaging in activities that are a practical expression of our faith. These activities are driven by key tenets of the Christian faith; the concern for neighbour and the care of God’s creation. The charity uses social enterprise to address these concerns, they focus on: educational; social justice; community; environmental and; economic development issues.

The social enterprises have offered disengaged and disadvantaged young people from across Milton Keynes the opportunity to engage in useful, vocationally relevant training. This has helped them to gain new skills, achieve qualifications and address barriers to future employment and independent living. At the same time it has given them an opportunity to make a positive contribution to the community.

The young people help us to deliver a wider public benefit through their involvement in our other social enterprises’ trading activities:

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

(A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Structure, governance and management (continued)

Plans for future periods

Drawn from our current Strategic Plan, the strategic priorities for the period 2023/24 are:

The following strategic emphases are development priorities, they do not reduce the importance we place on matters such as safeguarding, diversity and inclusion, product safety or other fundamental expectations.

Our strategic emphases are organised in three strands:

This year’s priorities are clustered under the three 2021-23 strategic strands and the order does not relate to higher or lower priority

Growing our social enterprises, sharpening their social, community and environmental impact whilst generating increased income:

We will work to increase income from all our social enterprises by at least 10%. As well as improved productivity, we will increase our customer base through ensuring our social and environmental values are at the heart of our marketing.

We will review charges for all our products and services in the light of increased costs. Whilst raising prices, we will continue to ensure accessibility through seeking alternative funding and differential pricing mechanisms.

Ensuring our young people flourish, achieve and find their future:

We will work to recruit an additional 10 young people in the academic year. Seek to use our school are programme as a recruitment pathway for

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Plans for future periods (continued)

We will work to improve achievement and progression levels, particularly in English, with a focus on the impact of mental wellbeing on attendance and retention.

We will build on our use of Supported Internships and work experience to increase progression into employment, particularly for those with a Special Educational Need.

We will continue to find and implement new DfE funded and unfunded qualifications that improve prospect for trainee progression and employment.

Growing an effective, learning organisation that empowers staff and volunteers to flourish and deliver our mission:

We will finalise the review and updating of our vision, mission and values statements.

We will work with training and enterprise staff and trainees to increase skills in use of social media.

We will sharpen the use of the values and approaches of our training and enterprises for the key messages of our marketing.

We will work to increase staff salaries and rationalise internal staff salary levels.

We will continue to develop our emphasis on CPD, emphasising skills to support young people with mental health concerns and with SEND. We implement strategies to promote staff wellbeing.

We will deliver the planned transition to new senior leadership.

We will continue to develop the Executive team to ensure that we have the range of skills required to effectively support the management of the organisation into the future.

We will continue to increase the numbers, diversity and skills of our Board of Trustees

We will complete our transition to a CIO, with updated and clearer objectives

We will continue to improve the setting and monitoring of key performance indicators. We will improve staff awareness of and commitment to key targets for their areas of work

We will grow our connections with the local community.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Plans for future periods (continued)

We will continue building links with critical partners and stakeholders in the Voluntary and Public sectors, with a focus on young people, mental health and child poverty

We will continue to build our relationships with local, regional and national churches and para-church organisations to replace connections lost following the demise of MK Mission Partnership.

To identify development opportunities for our shop, working with the YMCA:MK and other local partners on the provision of housing for young people and a community re-makery.

Work with Future Wolverton and YMCA:MK to bring into use a disused local working men’s club as a community resource.

To investigate the potential of forming a new social enterprise around the local recycling of plastics.

Developing options for the use of the upstairs of our Wolverton premises and how we might use this to achieve a significant refurbishment.

Members' liability

The Members of the Charity guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the Charity in the event of winding up.

Statement of Trustees' responsibilities

The trustees (who are also directors of Milton Keynes Christian Foundation for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements.

The trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

TRUSTEES' REPORT (CONTINUED) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Disclosure of information to auditors

Each of the persons who are Trustees at the time when this Trustees' report is approved has confirmed that:

Auditors

The auditors, Hillier Hopkins LLP, have indicated their willingness to continue in office. The designated Trustees will propose a motion reappointing the auditors at a meeting of the Trustees.

Approved by order of the members of the board of Trustees and signed on their behalf by:

................................................ Rev J M Mills Chair of Trustees

28-03-2024 | 10:52 GMT Date:

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Milton Keynes Christian Foundation Limited (the 'charity') for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (CONTINUED)

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditors' report thereon. The Trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Trustees' report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees' responsibilities statement, the Trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (CONTINUED)

In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors' report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

As a result of these procedures, we considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and identified the greatest potential for fraud. In common with all audits under ISAs (UK), we are also required to perform specific procedures to respond to the risk of management override, including testing journals and evaluating whether there was evidence of bias by the directors that represented a risk of material misstatement due to fraud.

We also obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks that the Company operates in, focusing on provisions of those laws and regulations that had a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. We focused on laws and regulations that could give rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements, including, but not limited to, the Companies Act 2006, Charities Act 2011 and relevant tax legislation.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (CONTINUED)

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditors' report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and its members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Grant Franklin ACA (senior statutory auditor)

for and on behalf of

Hillier Hopkins LLP

Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditor 249 Silbury Boulevard Milton Keynes MK9 1NA

Date: 28-03-2024 | 11:34 GMT

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

(A company limited by guarantee)

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCORPORATING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Note
Income from:
Donations and legacies
3
Charitable activities
4
Investments
5
Total income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
6
Total expenditure
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Net movement in funds
Total funds carried forward		 Unrestricted
funds
2023
£
12,954
763,558
595
777,107
785,493
785,493
(8,386)
1,402,229
(8,386)
1,393,843		 Restricted
funds
2023
£
26,456
-
-
26,456
28,878
28,878
(2,422)
2,422
(2,422)
-		 Total
funds
2023
£
39,410
763,558
595
803,563
814,371
814,371
(10,808)
1,404,651
(10,808)
1,393,843		 Total
funds
2022
£
47,015
680,007
38
727,060
732,315
732,315
(5,255)
1,409,906
(5,255)
1,404,651

The Statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.

The notes on pages 31 to 53 form part of these financial statements.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee) REGISTERED NUMBER: 01967962

BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2023

Note
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
12
Investments
13
Current assets
Stocks
14
Debtors
15
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: amounts falling due within one
year
16
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Total net assets
Charity funds
Restricted funds
17
Unrestricted funds
17
Total funds		 10,000
84,020
360,695
454,715
(118,781)		 2023
£
1,057,310
600
1,057,910
335,934
1,393,844
1,393,844
-
1,393,844
1,393,844		 -
40,057
395,453
435,510
(102,471)		 2022
£
1,071,012
600
1,071,612
333,039
1,404,651
1,404,651
2,422
1,402,229
1,404,651

The Trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and preparation of financial statements.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to entities subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Trustees and signed on their behalf by:

................................................ ................................................
Rev J M Mills Ms C Veal
Chair of Trustees Trustee
Date:
28-03-2024		 10:52 GMT

The notes on pages 31 to 53 form part of these financial statements.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

(A company limited by guarantee)

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

Cash flows from operating activities
Net cash used in operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Dividends, interests and rents from investments
Proceeds from the sale of tangible fixed assets
Net cash provided by investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities
Net cash provided by financing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year
The notes on pages 31 to 53 form part of these financial statements		 2023
£
(35,771)
595
418
1,013
-
(34,758)
395,453
360,695		 2022
£
2,568
38
-
38
-
2,606
392,847
395,453

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED (A company limited by guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

1. General information

Milton Keynes Christian Foundation Limited is a private company limited by guarantee without share capital, incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Foundation House, The Square, Aylesbury Street, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, MK12 5HX. The liability of each member is limited to contributing £1 to the assets of the Charity in the event of it being wound up while a member, or within one year after ceasing to be a member.

At 31 March 2023 the number of members was 9 (2022 - 9).

2. Accounting policies

2.1 Basis of preparation of financial statements

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) - Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

Milton Keynes Christian Foundation Limited meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy.

2.2 Going concern

At the time of approving the financial statements, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charitable company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. In making this assessment, the Trustees have reviewed the cash flow forecasts of the charitable company and concluded that based on the forecasts the charitable company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

The charitable company has a healthy cash position and significant tangible fixed assets which provides the charity with sufficient reserves to manage the forecasted performance up to March 2025.

The financial statements have, therefore, been prepared on the going concern basis.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

2. Accounting policies (continued)

2.3 Income

All income is recognised once the Charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of income receivable can be measured reliably.

Grants are included in the statement of financial activities on a receivable basis. The balance of income received for specific purposes but not expended during the period is shown in the relevant funds on the balance sheet. Where income is received in advance of entitlement of receipt, its recognition is deferred and included in creditors as deferred income. Where entitlement occurs before income is received, the income is accrued.

Gifts in kind donated for distribution are included at valuation and recognised as income when they are distributed to the projects. Gifts donated for resale are included as income when they are sold.

Income tax recoverable in relation to investment income is recognised at the time the investment income is receivable.

Other income is recognised in the period in which it is receivable and to the extent the goods have been provided or on completion of the service.

2.4 Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to transfer economic benefit to a third party, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified by activity. The costs of each activity are made up of the total of direct costs and shared costs, including support costs involved in undertaking each activity. Direct costs attributable to a single activity are allocated directly to that activity. Shared costs which contribute to more than one activity and support costs which are not attributable to a single activity are apportioned between those activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. Central staff costs are allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges allocated on the portion of the asset’s use.

Expenditure on charitable activities is incurred on directly undertaking the activities which further the Charity's objectives, as well as any associated support costs.

All expenditure is inclusive of irrecoverable VAT.

2.5 Interest receivable

Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the Charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the institution with whom the funds are deposited.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

2. Accounting policies (continued)

2.6 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation

Tangible fixed assets costing £0 or more are capitalised and recognised when future economic benefits are probable and the cost or value of the asset can be measured reliably.

Tangible fixed assets are initially recognised at cost. After recognition, under the cost model, tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. All costs incurred to bring a tangible fixed asset into its intended working condition should be included in the measurement of cost.

Depreciation is charged so as to allocate the cost of tangible fixed assets less their residual value over their estimated useful lives, using the straight line and reducing balances basis.

Depreciation is provided on the following basis:

Freehold property - 2% on cost
Improvements to property - 33% reducing balance
Motor vehicles - 33% reducing balance
Fixtures and equipment - 33% reducing balance

The assets' residual values, useful lives and depreciation methods are reviewed, and adjusted prospectively if appropriate, or if there is an indication of a significant change since the last reporting date.

Gains and losses on disposals are determined by comparing the proceeds with the carrying amount and are recognised in the statement of financial activities.

2.7 Investments

Fixed asset investments are a form of financial instrument and are initially recognised at their transaction cost and subsequently measured at fair value at the balance sheet date, unless the value cannot be measured reliably in which case it is measured at cost less impairment. Investment gains and losses, whether realised or unrealised, are combined and presented as ‘Gains/(Losses) on investments’ in the statement of financial activities.

Investments held as fixed assets are shown at cost less provision for impairment.

2.8 Stocks

Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value after making due allowance for obsolete and slow-moving stocks. Cost includes all direct costs and an appropriate proportion of fixed and variable overheads.

Stock items that are donated to the charity are not included in stock value, so the year end value only relates to items that have been purchased by the charity.

2.9 Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

2. Accounting policies (continued)

2.10 Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and short-term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

2.11 Liabilities and provisions

Liabilities are recognised when there is an obligation at the balance sheet date as a result of a past event, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefit will be required in settlement, and the amount of the settlement can be estimated reliably.

Liabilities are recognised at the amount that the Charity anticipates it will pay to settle the debt or the amount it has received as advanced payments for the goods or services it must provide.

Provisions are measured at the best estimate of the amounts required to settle the obligation. Where the effect of the time value of money is material, the provision is based on the present value of those amounts, discounted at the pre-tax discount rate that reflects the risks specific to the liability. The unwinding of the discount is recognised in the statement of financial activities as a finance cost.

2.12 Financial instruments

The Charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

2.13 Operating leases

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the statement of financial activities on a straightline basis over the lease term.

Benefits received and receivable as an incentive to sign an operating lease are recognised on a straight-line basis over the lease term, unless another systematic basis is representative of the time pattern of the lessee's benefit from the use of the leased asset.

2.14 Pensions

The Charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and the pension charge represents the amounts payable by the Charity to the fund in respect of the year.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

2. Accounting policies (continued)

2.15 Fund accounting

General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the Charity and which have not been designated for other purposes.

Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the Trustees for particular purposes. The aim and use of each designated fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the Charity for particular purposes. The costs of raising and administering such funds are charged against the specific fund. The aim and use of each restricted fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.

3. Income from donations and legacies

Unrestricted
funds
2023
£
Donations
Cycle Saviours
400
Growing People
726
Learning Tree
2
Urban Bee-lievers
502
Other
11,133
Grants
Cycle Saviours
-
Learning Tree
191
Think Food
-
Urban Bee-lievers
-
AHF Transforming Heritage
-
-
-
Total 2023
12,954		 Restricted
funds
2023
£
-
-
-
-
-
1,000
-
81
3,730
21,645
-
-
26,456		 Total
funds
2023
£
400
726
2
502
11,133
1,000
191
81
3,730
21,645
-
-
39,410

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

3. Income from donations and legacies (continued)

Donations
Cycle Saviours
Growing People
Learning tree
Urban Bee-lievers
Other
Grants
Cycle Saviours
Growing People
Learning tree
Sew & Grow
Think Food
Urban Bee-lievers
Other
Total 2022		 Unrestricted
funds
2022
£
6
3,175
10
640
5,087
1,846
179
2,620
785
-
-
-
14,348		 Restricted
funds
2022
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6,719
6,719
10,560
8,669
32,667		 Total
funds
2022
£
6
3,175
10
640
5,087
1,846
179
2,620
7,504
6,719
10,560
8,669
47,015

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

(A company limited by guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

4. Income from charitable activities

Unrestricted
funds
2023
£
Childcare Pathways
84,266
Cycle Saviours
91,506
Growing People
6,448
Learning Tree
3,923
Sew & Grow
7,149
Think Food
16,654
Urban Bee-lievers
11,000
Foundation House
14,202
Foundation Learning
526,887
Miscellaneous
1,523
763,558
Unrestricted
funds
2022
£
Childcare Pathways
51,227
Cycle Saviours
80,251
Growing People
6,560
Learning Tree
3,053
Sew & Grow
5,137
Think Food
8,999
Urban Bee-lievers
9,482
Foundation House
11,221
Foundation Learning
492,846
Miscellaneous
11,231
680,007		 Total
funds
2023
£
84,266
91,506
6,448
3,923
7,149
16,654
11,000
14,202
526,887
1,523
763,558
Total
funds
2022
£
51,227
80,251
6,560
3,053
5,137
8,999
9,482
11,221
492,846
11,231
680,007

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

5. Investment income

Unrestricted
funds
2023
£
Bank interest received
595
Unrestricted
funds
2022
£
Bank interest received
38		 Total
funds
2023
£
595
Total
funds
2022
£
38

6. Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities

Summary by fund type

Unrestricted
funds
2023
£
Childcare Pathways
56,964
Cycle Saviours
108,780
Growing People
49,700
Learning Tree
23,907
Sew & Grow
28,787
Think Food
60,913
Urban Bee-lievers
25,093
Foundation Learning
137,321
Governance
24,488
Miscellaneous
269,540
785,493		 Restricted
funds
2023
£
-
1,000
-
-
-
2,503
3,730
-
-
21,645
28,878		 Total
2023
£
56,964
109,780
49,700
23,907
28,787
63,416
28,823
137,321
24,488
291,185
814,371

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

(A company limited by guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

6. Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities (continued)

Summary by fund type (continued)

Childcare Pathways
Cycle Saviours
Growing People
Learning Tree
Sew & Grow
Think Food
Urban Bee-lievers
Foundation Learning
Governance
Miscellaneous		 Unrestricted
funds
2022
£
53,056
103,725
54,340
21,655
16,785
17,561
15,691
124,948
19,700
273,349
700,810		 Restricted
funds
2022
£
-
-
179
-
7,000
6,740
10,560
-
-
7,026
31,505		 Total
2022
£
53,056
103,725
54,519
21,655
23,785
24,301
26,251
124,948
19,700
280,375
732,315

7. Analysis of expenditure by activities

Childcare Pathways
Cycle Saviours
Growing People
Learning Tree
Sew & Grow
Think Food
Urban Bee-lievers
Foundation Learning
Governance
Miscellaneous		 Activities
undertaken
directly
2023
£
56,964
109,780
49,700
23,907
28,787
63,416
28,823
20,513
-
-
381,890		 Support
costs
2023
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
116,807
24,488
291,185
432,480		 Total
funds
2023
£
56,964
109,780
49,700
23,907
28,787
63,416
28,823
137,320
24,488
291,185
814,371

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

7. Analysis of expenditure by activities (continued)

Childcare Pathways
Cycle Saviours
Growing People
Learning Tree
Sew & Grow
Think Food
Urban Bee-lievers
Foundation Learning
Governance
Miscellaneous		 Activities
undertaken
directly
2022
£
53,056
103,725
54,519
21,655
23,785
24,301
26,251
17,633
-
-
324,925		 Support
costs
2022
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
107,316
19,700
280,374
407,390		 Total
funds
2022
£
53,056
103,725
54,519
21,655
23,785
24,301
26,251
124,949
19,700
280,374
732,315

Analysis of direct costs

Staff costs
Materials/resources
Recruitment
Travel
Premises		 Childcare
Pathways
2023
£
52,775
4,133
24
32
-
56,964		 Cycle
Saviours
2023
£
53,283
31,428
777
7,688
16,604
109,780		 Growing
People
2023
£
36,187
8,409
180
1,353
3,571
49,700		 Learning
Tree
2023
Sew & Grow
2023
£
£
21,713
22,617
1,885
5,333
256
837
53
-
-
-
23,907
28,787		 Learning
Tree
2023
Sew & Grow
2023
£
£
21,713
22,617
1,885
5,333
256
837
53
-
-
-
23,907
28,787
28,787

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

7. Analysis of expenditure by activities (continued)

Analysis of direct costs (continued)

Staff costs
Materials/resources
Recruitment
Travel
Premises
Other
Staff costs
Materials/resources
Recruitment
Travel
Premises
Other		 Childcare
Pathways
2022
£
48,259
3,644
1,153
-
-
-
53,056		 Think Food
2023
£
47,045
16,217
42
-
-
112
63,416
Cycle
Saviours
2022
£
56,256
28,201
956
7,867
10,445
-
103,725		 Urban
Bee-lievers
2023
£
26,237
2,458
-
128
-
-
28,823
Growing
People
2022
£
40,813
8,558
229
1,086
3,524
309
54,519		 Foundation
House
2023
£
-
13,928
385
6,201
-
-
20,514
Learning
Tree
2022
£
19,855
1,265
535
-
-
-
21,655		 Total
funds
2023
£
259,857
83,791
2,501
15,455
20,175
112
381,891
Sew & Grow
2022
£
20,682
3,103
-
-
-
-
23,785

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(A company limited by guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

7. Analysis of expenditure by activities (continued)

Analysis of direct costs (continued)

Staff costs
Materials/resources
Recruitment
Travel
Premises
Other		 Think Food
2022
£
16,546
7,098
424
-
-
233
24,301		 Urban
Bee-lievers
2022
£
23,991
1,340
-
-
-
920
26,251		 Foundation
House
2022
£
-
12,024
782
4,826
-
-
17,632		 Total
funds
2022
£
226,402
65,233
4,079
13,779
13,969
1,462
324,924

Analysis of support costs

Staff costs
Depreciation
Materials/resources
Recruitment
Travel
Premises
General office & finance staff
Communications
Legal & professional
Bank charges
Other
Audit and accounts fees		 Foundation
Learning
2023
£
115,047
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,760
-
-
-
116,807		 Governance
2023
£
-
-
-
777
-
-
-
-
-
-
16,461
7,250
24,488		 Miscellaneous
2023
Total
funds
2023
£
£
189,534
304,581
3,752
3,752
54
54
2,977
3,754
545
545
31,560
31,560
22,494
22,494
4,379
4,379
26,950
28,710
480
480
8,460
24,921
-
7,250
291,185
432,480

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

7. Analysis of expenditure by activities (continued)

Analysis of support costs (continued)

Foundation
Learning
2022
Governance
2022
£
£
Staff costs
105,204
-
Depreciation
-
-
Materials/resources
-
-
Recruitment
-
230
Travel
-
-
Premises
-
-
General office & finance staff
-
-
Communications
-
-
Legal & professional
2,112
148
Bank charges
-
-
Other
-
12,822
Audit and accounts fees
-
6,500
107,316
19,700
8.
Auditors' remuneration
Fees payable to the Charity's auditor for the audit of the Charity's annual
accounts
9.
Staff costs
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Contribution to defined contribution pension schemes		 Miscellaneous
2022
Total
funds
2022
£
£
163,836
269,040
5,673
5,673
280
280
3,624
3,854
706
706
37,843
37,843
31,832
31,832
7,579
7,579
6,417
8,677
405
405
22,179
35,001
-
6,500
280,374
407,390
2023
2022
£
£
7,250
6,500
2023
2022
£
£
515,458
460,915
37,037
25,434
11,944
9,093
564,439
495,442

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

9. Staff costs (continued)

The average number of persons employed by the Charity during the year was as follows:

Administration
Think Food
Childcare Pathways
Cycle Saviours
Growing People
Sew & Grow
Urban Bee-lievers
Learning Tree
Foundation House
Foundation Learning		 2023
No.
11
1
3
3
2
1
1
1
2
6
31		 2022
No.
10
1
3
3
2
1
1
1
2
6
30

No employee received remuneration amounting to more than £60,000 in either year.

The total remuneration for key management personnel amounted to £102,769 (2022 - £103,004).

10. Trustees' remuneration and expenses

During the year, no Trustees received any remuneration or other benefits (2022 - £NIL) .

During the year ended 31 March 2023, no Trustee expenses have been incurred (2022 - £NIL) .

11. Taxation

There is no charge to corporation tax in these financial statements as the Charity has gained exemption due to application of trading profits to the purpose of the Charity.

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MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

(A company limited by guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

12. Tangible fixed assets

Cost or valuation
At 1 April 2022
Disposals
At 31 March 2023
Depreciation
At 1 April 2022
Charge for the year
On disposals
At 31 March 2023
Net book value
At 31 March 2023
At 31 March 2022		 Freehold
property
£
1,156,667
-
1,156,667
98,983
7,788
-
106,771
1,049,896
1,057,684		 Improvements
to property
£
55,713
-
55,713
55,474
118
-
55,592
121
239		 Motor
vehicles
£
33,062
(33,062)
-
30,898
721
(31,619)
-
-
2,164		 Fixtures
and
equipment
£
190,464
-
190,464
179,539
3,632
-
183,171
7,293
10,925		 Total
£
1,435,906
(33,062)
1,402,844
364,894
12,259
(31,619)
345,534
1,057,310
1,071,012

Included in freehold property is land valued at £711,111 that has not been depreciated.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023
13.
Fixed asset investments
Cost or valuation
At 1 April 2022
At 31 March 2023
Net book value
At 31 March 2023
At 31 March 2022
14.
Stocks
Finished goods and goods for resale
15.
Debtors
Due within one year
Trade debtors
Other debtors
Prepayments and accrued income		 2023
£
10,000
2023
£
52,285
955
30,780
84,020		 Other fixed
asset
investments
£
600
600
600
600
2022
£
-
2022
£
12,952
812
26,293
40,057

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(A company limited by guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

16. Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

Bank overdrafts
Trade creditors
Other taxation and social security
Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income
Deferred income
Deferred income at 1 April 2022
Resources deferred during the year
Amounts released from previous periods		 2023
£
959
21,005
16,535
5,336
74,946
118,781
2023
£
53,070
59,098
(42,256)
69,912		 2022
£
-
31,172
9,227
3,220
58,852
102,471
2022
£
102,591
5,621
(55,142)
53,070

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

17. Statement of funds

Statement of funds - current year
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
Designated fixed assets
Designated legacy
General funds
Unrestricted free reserves
Total Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
Shaw Grant
Tipi Pledge
MK Comm. Found. - Preserves
Lloyds Recovery Grant
MK Comm. Found.
AHF Transforming Heritage Grant
Urban Bee-Lievers
Cycle Project- Grant
TF - Other Grant
Total of funds		 Balance at 1
April 2022
£
1,086,008
2,009
1,088,017
314,212
1,402,229
32
767
172
130
1,321
-
-
-
-
2,422
1,404,651		 Income
£
-
-
-
777,108
777,108
-
-
-
-
-
21,645
3,730
1,000
81
26,456
803,564		 Expenditure
£
-
-
-
(785,493)
(785,493)
(32)
(767)
(172)
(130)
(1,321)
(21,645)
(3,730)
(1,000)
(81)
(28,878)
(814,371)		 Balance at
31 March
2023
£
1,086,008
2,009
1,088,017
305,827
1,393,844
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,393,844

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

17. Statement of funds (continued)

The year end designated legacy balance of £2,009 relates to a bequest of £10,000 made to MKCF in April 2019. This has been designated for use on the Urb Farm enterprise, of which £nil (2022 - £nil) of further expenditure was incurred in the year.

The nature of each restricted fund is briefly described below:

Shaw Grant - a grant awarded for £500 from councillor Shaw for the Urb Farm.

Tipi Pledge - a crowd funding appeal to purchase a Tipi for the Forest School and a container to store equipment at the Urb Farm. The funds are being released in line with the depreciation of the items purchased.

MKCF Preserves Grant - £1,323 awarded to the Urb Farm by MK Community Foundation to fund equipment to make our own preserves and chutneys for resale.

Architectural Heritage Fund - awarded by the Architectural Heritage Fund in April 2020 for us to spend on creating a Project Viability Report relating to the Stratford Road property including the cost of surveys and producing a building plan.

Lloyds Recovery Grant - this was received in addition to the above Lloyds Bank grant to provide support to MKCF enterprises that have struggled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

MKCF Common Ground Cafe - this was awarded by Milton Keynes Community Foundation in March 2021 to support the recovery and relaunch of the Common Ground Cafe at Foundation House.

The Coop Local Community Fund chose a new Urban Bee-lievers schools engagement project to be an option for local Coop customers to choose to fund. The project started in Feb 2020 but had to stop due to lockdown.

Milton Keynes Council Sustainable Travel Grant of £1,000 to contribute towards the cost of a Cytech training course for Cycle Saviours social enterprise staff.

Think Food - this was awarded by MK Community Foundation in March 2014 for kitchen equipment which they supplied from MK Community Properties. The funds are being released in line with the depreciation of the acquired kitchen equipment.

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(A company limited by guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

17. Statement of funds (continued)

Statement of funds - prior year

Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
Designated fixed assets
Designated legacy
General funds
Unrestricted free reserves
Total Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
Think Food
Shaw Grant
Tipi Pledge
MK Comm. Found. - Preserves
Lloyds Recovery Grant
ESFA Bursary
MK Comm. Found.
Total of funds		 Balance at
1 April 2021
£
1,086,008
2,009
1,088,017
320,628
1,408,645
219
81
767
193
-
-
-
1,260
1,409,905		 Income
£
-
-
-
694,395
694,395
6,719
-
-
-
19,000
4,421
2,527
32,667
727,062		 Expenditure
£
-
-
-
(700,811)
(700,811)
(6,938)
(49)
-
(21)
(18,870)
(4,421)
(1,206)
(31,505)
(732,316)		 Balance at
31 March
2022
£
1,086,008
2,009
1,088,017
314,212
1,402,229
-
32
767
172
130
-
1,321
2,422
1,404,651

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

18. Summary of funds

Summary of funds - current year

Designated funds
General funds
Restricted funds
Summary of funds - prior year
Designated funds
General funds
Restricted funds		 Balance at 1
April 2022
£
1,088,017
314,212
2,422
1,404,651
Balance at
1 April 2021
£
1,088,017
320,628
1,260
1,409,905		 Income
£
-
777,108
26,456
803,564
Income
£
-
694,395
32,667
727,062		 Expenditure
£
-
(785,493)
(28,878)
(814,371)
Expenditure
£
-
(700,811)
(31,505)
(732,316)		 Balance at
31 March
2023
£
1,088,017
305,827
-
1,393,844
Balance at
31 March
2022
£
1,088,017
314,212
2,422
1,404,651

19. Analysis of net assets between funds

Analysis of net assets between funds - current year

Unrestricted
funds
2023
£
Tangible fixed assets
1,057,310
Fixed asset investments
600
Current assets
454,715
Creditors due within one year
(118,781)
Total
1,393,844		 Total
funds
2023
£
1,057,310
600
454,715
(118,781)
1,393,844

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(A company limited by guarantee)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

19. Analysis of net assets between funds (continued)

Analysis of net assets between funds - prior year

Tangible fixed assets
Fixed asset investments
Current assets
Creditors due within one year
Total		 Unrestricted
funds
2022
£
1,071,012
600
344,030
(13,413)
1,402,229		 Restricted
funds
2022
£
-
-
91,480
(89,058)
2,422		 Total
funds
2022
£
1,071,012
600
435,510
(102,471)
1,404,651
20.
Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities
2023
£
Net expenditure for the year (as per Statement of Financial Activities)
(10,808)
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charges
12,259
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
(595)
Loss on the sale of fixed assets
1,026
Decrease/(increase) in stocks
(10,000)
Decrease/(increase) in debtors
(48,934)
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
16,310
Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities
(40,742)
21.
Analysis of cash and cash equivalents
2023
£
Cash in hand
360,695
Total cash and cash equivalents
360,695		 2022
£
(5,255)
15,983
(38)
-
-
21,936
(30,058)
2,568
2022
£
395,453
395,453

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

22. Analysis of changes in net debt

Cash at bank and in hand
Bank overdrafts repayable on demand		 At 1 April
2022
£
395,453
-
395,453		 Cash flows
£
(34,758)
(959)
(35,717)		 At 31 March
2023
£
360,695
(959)
359,736

23. Pension commitments

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the charity in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the charity to the fund and amounted to £11,944 (2022 - £9,093). There were contributions payable to the fund at the balance sheet date of £4,420 (2022 - £2,353) and are included in creditors.

24. Operating lease commitments

At 31 March 2023 the Charity had commitments to make future minimum lease payments under noncancellable operating leases as follows:

Not later than 1 year
Later than 1 year and not later than 5 years
Later than 5 years		 2023
£
6,800
13,550
41,000
61,350		 2022
£
500
2,000
41,500
44,000

25. Related party transactions

During the year, the Charity received donations from trustees of £Nil (2022 - £110).

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