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|Trustees'<br>report incorporating||the strategic report. ..|.3-29|
|Independent<br>auditors'|report.|..|..30-33|
|Statement offinancial|activities.||..34-35|
|Balance sheet|||36|
|Cash flow statement. .|||37|
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|tructure|, governa|nce<br>and management|nce<br>and management||||||||||
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|Status||Child Poverty Action Group ("the||CPAG")||is a charitable||company||limited||by|
|||guarantee.|||||||||||
|Governing|document|The charitable<br>company|was established|||under a Memorandum||||ofAssociation|||
|||which established<br>the objects and||powers||ofthe charitable|||company||and|is|
|||governed<br>under its Articles ofAssociation.|||||||||||
|Company|number|1993854|||||||||||
|Charity number||Registered<br>with the Charity Commission|||for England||and Wales|||registration|||
|||number 294841, and with the Office ofthe Scottish|||||Charity||Regulator||||
|||registration<br>number SC039339|||||||||||
|Registered|office and|30Micawber Street|||||||||||
|operational|address|London<br>N1 7TB|||||||||||
|Email||officeCrcpag. org.uk|||||||||||
|Website||cpag.org.uk|||||||||||
|Honorary|officers|Jane Millar||Chair|||||||||
|||Mark Cooke||Vice|Chair||||||||
|||Mark Cooke||Treasurer|||||||||
|Chief Executive||Alison Garnham|||||||||||
|Company|Secretary|Chineze<br>Okonkwo-Onyilo|||||||||||
|Bankers||NatWest<br>Bank pic|||||||||||
|||Islington<br>Angel Branch|||||||||||
|||2/3 Upper Street|||||||||||
|||London N10PH|||||||||||
|Solicitors||Russell-Cooke|||||||||||
|||2 Putney<br>Hill|||||||||||
|||London SW15 6AB|||||||||||
|Auditors||Haysmacintyre<br>LLP|||||||||||
|||10Queen Street Place|||||||||||
|||London<br>EC4R 1AG|||||||||||





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|Failure to sustain||Our reliance on funders<br>and|Sales and income reports generated<br>and regularly||
|income or sudden||business<br>income, and pressures|reviewed to enable agility and timely corrective action.||
|unforeseen|loss of|facing supporters<br>and customers,|Close monitoring<br>ofgrant-funded<br>projects to ensure that||
|income||creates risk.|funding<br>conditions<br>are met within timescales<br>given.||
|Large or sudden<br>increase<br>in<br>expenditure<br>against approved||Any reduction<br>in sales or<br>cancellation<br>ofgrants<br>may lead to<br>inability to sustain our vital policy<br>and advocacy work. We aim to<br>build unrestricted<br>income which|Improve our CRM (database)<br>and website to enable us to<br>develop fundraising<br>in areas other than trusts and<br>foundations<br>including<br>legacies programme,<br>individual<br>donations<br>and corporates.<br>Continue to develop<br>new creative offerings to our||
|budgetlevels||enables us to post a surplus<br>and<br>build reserves to the required|publications,<br>training<br>and membership<br>customers.<br>Continue to use more effective debt-chasing<br>procedures.||
|||levels.|The reserves increased<br>substantially<br>in the previous year||
||||and this year. We have sufficient funds<br>in the bank for||
||||deferred<br>income.||
|Loss of reputation||Given greater media interest<br>in|We comment<br>and focus only where we are expert and||
|or market share||charities<br>and increased<br>exposure to|have evidence.||
|over time as||public comment through<br>social|We have clear lines of accountability<br>for sign-off of all||
|leading experts on||media activity ofour advocacy and|external documents<br>and designated<br>media spokespeople||
|social security and||policy work, there<br>is a risk that our|in place.||
|child poverty|for|reputation,<br>credibility or market|We have prioritised<br>funding to employ more expert||
|government,||share as the leading independent|analysts than before.||
|media, users|and|experts on social security and child|Regular horizon-scanning<br>ofsector issues and||
|stakeholders|or|poverty<br>may be challenged.|competition.||
|sudden<br>reputational|risk|Other organisations<br>have moved<br>into the poverty and social secunty|Policy Committee<br>regularly<br>review positioning.<br>CPAG has received<br>pro bono advice on the implications|of|
|||fields. They are often better|the Lobbying Act and, during<br>regulated<br>periods, ensures|a|
|||resourced<br>than we are.|review<br>is undertaken<br>on whether<br>registration<br>is needed,||
|||Nevertheless<br>we continue to use|relevant<br>activities are signed off and a log kept of relevant||
|||our limited resources<br>in a targeted|spending.||
|||and strategic way to maintain<br>our|CPAG continues to maintain<br>a leadership<br>role on child||
|||leadership<br>role.|poverty and social security,<br>including<br>hosting<br>End Child||
||||Poverty which strengthens<br>this work through<br>regular||
||||sector meetings.||
||||We pursue joint working with partners<br>where possible and||
||||appropriate.||
|Failure<br>in||Law and guidance<br>are constantly|Board aware ofits governance<br>role, receiving<br>regular||
|organisational||developing<br>and we operate<br>in a|updates<br>on charity law. We have an induction<br>pack for||
|governance|or|complex and fast-changing|new Trustees.||
|regulatory<br>failure||environment.|Elected Board means we can fill skills gaps.||
||||Public accountability<br>via annual<br>report.||
||||Regular review of skills set and performance<br>against||
||||Charity Commission<br>guidelines.||
||||Regular review of all policies including<br>safeguarding<br>and||
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|Recruitment|and|Recruitment|Recruitment|Recruitment|and|retention|ofstaff—|ofstaff—|Hire the best staff CPAG can attract.||
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|retention of|staff|particularly|||senior and specialist||||System ofdevelopment<br>and appraisals<br>means reward|can|
|—particularly||staff due|to||better-off competitors.||||be reviewed<br>and support offered.||
|senior and|||||||||Opportunities<br>for development<br>prioritised<br>by managers.||
|specialist staff|||||||||Procedure for proper handover<br>on exits in place.||
|due to better-off|||||||||Continue to conduct regular supervisions<br>and reviews.||
|competitors|||||||||Training offered wherever<br>possible.||
|Failure to manage||Growth|in|organisation<br>has|||||Constant<br>monitoring<br>ofactivities<br>and resources<br>within||
|shrinkage<br>in||stimulated||growth<br>in income|||||large projects.||
|organisation|size|generating|||and servicing teams.||||Including the projects as part ofour risk assessment||
|when<br>large|||||||||process which involves Trustees and the senior||
|projects end||Given our||ambitions to grow||||our|management<br>team working together.||
|||impact there<br>is a||||risk that, as we|||Staff leave as contracts end unless additional<br>funding|has|
|||expand,|we||fail to successfully||||been found.||
|||downsize|after delivery of large||||||||
|||rejects.|||||||||
|Major ICTsystems||Our objective to||||move towards|||Our new ICT company,<br>Taran, run our support contract||
|failure due to||digital provision||||and service|||and ICT issues are now dealt with much faster than before.||
|hardware<br>or||continues||with investment|||from||Most ICT issues are now resolved<br>within four hours of||
|software systems||funding|and||core where||||being raised.||
|crash, viral attack||appropriate.|||||||All staff now equipped for home working,<br>with laptops,||
|orfailure to <br>business<br>requirements|meet|We are increasingly<br>reliant on IT<br>systems<br>and need to keep up, and<br>also to keep our data and users'<br>data safe.|||||||cloud-hosted<br>VPN and Office 365.Risks ofaccess to VPN<br>and server problems<br>now gone. There is no more use of<br>personal<br>laptops.<br>Mobile device management<br>(MDM) added to all mobiles||
|Failure to stay|||||||||and laptops, protecting from data breaches when used at||
|ahead of IT|||||||||home or out ofoffice.||
|developments|||||||||Getting Cyber Essentials<br>Plus certification<br>(CE+) —the most||
|which optimise|||||||||advanced<br>level, suitable for organisations<br>with remote||
|use ofCRM,|||||||||workers.||
|website and|||||||||We have moved to offsite backup facilities and we now||
|online shop|||||||||have internal<br>ICTsupport.||
||||||||||We know how to implement<br>a plan to ensure<br>minimal||
||||||||||disruption<br>to business as usual with staff all capable of||
||||||||||working<br>remotely.||
||||||||||We have implemented<br>Share Point in 2023 which reduces||
||||||||||risk of hardware<br>failure and VPN no longer needed.||
||||||||||Continual<br>improvements<br>to all platforms,<br>including<br>CMS.||
||||||||||Cpag.org.uk rebuild<br>underway<br>now that Dru pal 7obsolete.||
||||||||||Our Board Digital Committee<br>monitors<br>digital||
||||||||||develo<br>ments.||
|Loss of reputation||The sector has experienced||||||more|Good working practices and procedures<br>and disciplinary||
|due to industrial||pay disputes|||and|HR issues|due to||policies in place||
|action and/or||lockdown||and the cost of living|||||Comprehensive<br>Staff I-landbook<br>in place.||
|expensive||crisis|||||||Regular one-to-ones, team and staff meetings<br>and positive||
|involvement|in||||||||working relationship<br>with staff members.||
|employment|||||||||Focussing more attention<br>on staff health<br>and wellbeing||
|tribunal|||||||||and support since Covid.||
||||||||||Continue to review policies and procedures.||
||||||||||SMT receives help on policy development<br>from our||
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|Income from:|||||||
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|Donations||||1,265,844||1,265,844|
|Legacies||||24,359||24,359|
|Activities for generating||funds|||||
|Rent and room hire||||830||830|
|Charitable<br>activities:|||||||
|Publications||||1,033,061|73,212|1,106,273|
|Welfare rights and test||cases||109,977|1,040,809|1,150,786|
|Training||||444,207|274,680|718,887|
|Membership||||68,325||68,325|
|Information,<br>research|and||campaigning|7,161|1,377,426|1,384,587|
|Investments||||37,833||37,833|
|Other|||||||
|Total||||2,991,597|2,766,127|5,757,724|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Raising funds||||323,277||323,277|
|Charitable<br>activities:|||||||
|Publications||||968,573|73,212|1,041,785|
|Welfare rights and test||cases||232,572|1,040,809|1,273,381|
|Training||||373,653|276,682|650,335|
|Membership||||37,926||37,926|
|Information,<br>research|and||campaigning|677,738|1,377,426|2,055,164|
|Total||||2,613,739|2,768,129|5,381,868|
|Net income/(expenditure)<br>investment<br>gains|||before|377,858|(2,002)|375,856|
|Gross transfers<br>between||funds|||||
|Net income/(expenditure)||||377,858|(2,002)|375,856|
|Unrealised<br>investment|gains|||178||178|
|Net movement<br>in funds||||378,036|(2,002)|376,034|
|Totalfunds<br>brought forward||||4,554,454|2,002|4,556,456|
|Total funds carried forward||||4,932,490||4,932,490|





|Income from:||||||||
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|Donations|||||1,212,357||1,212,357|
|Legacies|||||42,033||42,033|
|Activities for generating|||funds|||||
|Rent and room hire||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities:||||||||
|Publications|||||1,092,552|51,975|1,144,527|
|Welfare rights and test||cases|||187,618|979,983|1,167,601|
|Training|||||464,488|232,675|697,163|
|Membership|||||61,593||61,593|
|Information,<br>research|and|||campaigning|250|1,484,154|1,484,404|
|Investments|||||9,706||9,706|
|Other|||||15,846||15,846|
|Total|||||3,086,443|2,748,787|5,835,230|
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||||
|Raising funds|||||259,642||259,642|
|Charitable<br>actiwties:||||||||
|Publications|||||768,121|51,975|820,096|
|Welfare rights and test|||cases||279,858|985,843|1,265,701|
|Training|||||257,085|232,675|489,760|
|Membership|||||39,217||39,217|
|Information,<br>research|and|||campaigning|482,015|1,490,908|1,972,923|
|Total|||||2,085,938|2,761,401|4,847,339|
|Net income/(expenditure)<br>investment<br>gains||||before|1,000,505|(12,614)|987,891|
|Gross transfers<br>between|||funds|||||
|Net income/(expenditure)|||||1,000,505|(12,614)|987,891|
|Unrealised<br>investment||gains|||69||69|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||||1,000,574|(12,614)|987,960|
|Total funds brought forward|||||3,553,880|14,616|3,568,496|
|Total funds canied forward|||||4,554,454|2,002|4,556,456|





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|FIXEDASSETS|||||||
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|Tangible fixed assets||||1,571,400||1,653,916|
|Investments||||1,555,740||1,528,211|
|||||3,127,140||3,182,127|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||||
|Stock||10|84,277||91,684||
|Debtors||11|1,024,127||1,081,585||
|Cash and short-term|deposits||2,563,644||2,276,789||
||||3,672,048||3,450,058||
|CREDITORS: amounts|falling due||||||
|within one year||12|(1,866,698)||(2,075,729)||
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||||1,805,350||1,374,329|
|TOTAL ASSETS LESSCURRENT|||||||
|LIABILmES||||4,932,490||4,556,456|
|||13||4,932,490||4,556,456|
|FUNDS|||||||
|Restricted funds||||||2,002|
|Unrestricted<br>funds:|||||||
|Designated<br>funds||||3,308,275||3,582,229|
|General funds||||1,624,215||972,225|
|TOTAL CHARITY FUNDS||14||4,932,490||4,556,456|





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|Cashfiowa from operating<br>activities||||||
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|Net cash provided<br>by operating<br>activities|(see note below)|||281,403|1,253,570|
|Cash flows from investing<br>activities||||||
|Investment<br>income received||||37,833|9,706|
|Purchase of property,<br>plant and equipment||||(5,030)|(6,196)|
|Purchase of investments||||(27,351)|(409,698)|
|Net cash (used in)/provided<br>by investing|activities|||5,452|(406,188)|
|Change<br>in cash and cash eqtnvalents<br>in the||year||286,855|847,382|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at the start of|the year|||2,276,789|1,429,407|
|Cash and cash equivalents at the end|ofthe year|||2,563,644|2,276,789|
|Note: reconciliation ofnet expenditure||tonet cash used by operating|activities|||
|Net income/(expenditure)<br>for the year||||376,034|987,960|
|Adjustments<br>for:||||||
|Depreciation||||87,545|96,290|
|Investment<br>(gains)/losses||||(178)|(69)|
|Investment<br>income||||(37,833)|(9,706)|
|Decrease/(increase)<br>in stock||||7,407|(16,740)|
|Decrease/(increase)<br>in debtors||||57,458|491,533|
|(Decrease)/increase<br>in creditors||||(209,030)|(295,698)|
|Net provided<br>by operating<br>activities||||281,403|1,253,570|





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|Publications||10%|89o|
|Welfare rights and test cases||29%|29%|
|Training||18%|1290|
|Membership||09o|1%|
|Information,|research and campaigning|37o/o|44%o|
|Fundraising|and publicity|5%o|5%o|
|Governance||1%o|1%|



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|This is stated after charging:|This is stated after charging:|||
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|Depreciation||87,545|96,290|
|Operating<br>lease rentals:||||
|Property||7,618|41,685|
|Equipment||16,716|4,199|
|Auditors'<br>remuneration:||||
|Audit Current Year provision||18,000|15,000|
|Audit relating to previous year||1,000||
|Trustees'<br>remuneration:||||
|Costs paid for Trustees||||
|Trustees'<br>reimbursed|expenses|121||



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|Costs ofgenerating|funds|||||
|Raising funds||69,456||253,821|323.277|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Publications||127,615||914,170|1,041,785|
|Welfare rights||323,316||950,065|1,273,381|
|Training||165,156||485,179|650,335|
|Membership||4,439||33,487|37,926|
|Information,<br>research and campaigning||457,830||1,597,334|2,055,164|
|Total expenditure||1,147,812||4,234,056|5,381,868|





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|Costs ofgenerating|funds|funds||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Raising funds|||51,987|207,655|259,642|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Publications|||85,074|735,022|820,096|
|Welfare rights|||301,562|964,139|1,265,701|
|Training|||122,159|367,601|489,760|
|Membership|||6,380|32,837|39,217|
|Information,<br>research||and campaigning|453,108|1,519,815|1,972,923|
|Total expenditure|||1,020,270|3,827,069|4,847,339|



|Salaries and wages|2,967,170|2,740,720|
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|Social security costs|309,763|271,577|
|Pension contributions|164,273|154,062|
|Redundancy<br>costs|16,897||
||3,458,103|3,166,359|
|Agency staff costs|2,968|45,683|
|Total staff costs|3,461,071|3,212,042|






|Welfare rights and test cases|Welfare rights and test cases|18|17|
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|Information,|research and campaigning|23|27|
|Fundraising|and publicity|3|3|
|Training||8|6|
|Membership||1|1|
|Publications||4|5|
|Governance||1|1|
|Support activities||10|9|
|||68|69|



|At 01/04/2022|1,766,146|107,225|381,555|2,254,926|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Additions<br>in year||3,664|1,366|5,030|
|At 31March 2023|1,766,146|110,889|382,921|2,259,956|
|Depreciation|||||
|At 01/04/2022|251,261|76,296|273,453|601,010|
|Charge for 2022/23|35,537|9,211|42,798|87,546|
|At 31March 2023|286,798|85,507|316,251|688,556|
|Net BookValue|||||
|At 31March 2023|1,479,348|25,382|66,670|1,571,400|
|At 31March 2022|1,514,885|30,929|108,102|1,653,916|





|Market value at the start ofthe year|1,528,211|1,118,444|
|---|---|---|
|Amount<br>deposited<br>in the year|27,351|409,698|
|Unrealised<br>gain|178|69|
|Market value at the end ofthe year|1,555,740|1,528,211|
|Historic cost at year end|1,557,243|1,529,537|
|Investments<br>comprise:|||
|Close Brothers Group Pic|1,554,237|1,526,886|
|Shares listed on the LSE|1,501|1,323|
|Investment<br>in trading<br>subsidiary|2|2|
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|Work in progress|Work in progress|79,701|79,072|
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|Publications|for resale|4,576|12,612|
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|Trade debtors|662,950|882,517|
|---|---|---|
|Other debtors|59,259|14,240|
|Prepayments|109,290|71,537|
|Accrued income|192,628|113,291|
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|Trade creditors||207,275|6,499|
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|Taxation and social security||80,982|103,877|
|Other creditors||254,803|229,530|
|Accruals and deferred|income|1,323,638|1,735,823|
|||1,866,698|2,075,729|



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|Tangible fixed assets|1,571,400||||1,571,400|
|Fixed asset investments|||1,555,740||1,555,740|
|Net current assets||901,129|(719,994)|1,624,215|1,805,350|
|Net assets at the end ofthe<br>year 2023|1,571,400|901,129|835,746|1,624,215|4,932,490|



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|Tangible fixed assets||1,653,916||||1,653,916|
|Fixed asset investments||||1,528,211||1,528,211|
|Net current assets|2,002||1,166,770|(766,668)|972,225|1,374,329|
|Net assets atthe end ofthe<br>year 2022|2,002|1,653,916|1,166,770|761,543|972,225|4,556,456|





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|Restricted funds|||
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|Scottish Government<br>—second tier welfare<br>rights service|732,000|(732,000)|
|National<br>Lottery Community<br>Fund —UK Cost<br>ofthe School Day project|439,026|(439,026)|
|Barclays —Your Work Your Way|400,247|(400,247)|
|The Legal Education<br>Foundation —Access to<br>Justice in Social Security|230,687|(230,687)|
|Scottish Government<br>through<br>a CYPFEIF and<br>ALEC Fund grant|139,650|(139,650)|
|Scottish Government<br>—Cost ofthe School<br>Day Project|123,421|(123,421)|
|Trussell Trust —Food Bank Income<br>Maximisation<br>Service|107,950|(107,950)|
|Grant for the Welfare Rights Advice Service<br>and Universal<br>Credit Advice project|95,217|(95,217)|
|City Bridge Trust —Universal<br>Credit London<br>advice project continuation|78,328|(78,328)|
|Trust for London —London Calling|46,407|(46,407)|
|Comic Relief —Universal<br>Credit Project|37,447|(37,447)|
|Pears Foundation<br>for UK Cost ofthe School<br>Day Project|37,375|(37,375)|
|TUUTChantable<br>Trust|37,286|(37,286)|
|Donations to 8BCRadio 4 appeal<br>and other|||
|donations for UK Cost ofthe School Day|36,281|(36,281)|
|project|||
|Grants and donations for the Advice Line and<br>other work in Scotland|36,225|(36,225)|
|Fusion 21 Foundation,<br>No rthwick<br>Trust, and|||
|Riverside for Mental<br>Health and Benefits|29,998|(29,998)|
|Handbook|||
|abrdn<br>Financial<br>Fairness Trust for the project|||
|on identifying<br>difficulties<br>claimants face|20,274|(20,274)|
|when migrated<br>onto Universal<br>Credit|||
|Grant and donations for removing the|||
|financial<br>barriers to children's<br>education|18,334|(18,334)|
|after Covid-19|||
|Barclays<br>—Survivors Welfare Advice Project|17,997|(17,997)|
|Digital Freedom<br>Fund —Access tojustice in|||
|the face of digitalisation<br>of means tested|13,842|(13,842)|
|welfare benefits<br>in the UK|||
|Royal Borough of Greenwich<br>contribution<br>to<br>the UK Cost ofSchool Day project in London|13,333|(13333)|
|Deborah and Laurence<br>Harris to support<br>legaltest case work|12,500|(12,500)|





|University ofYork —Changing<br>project|Realities|Realities|Realities|Realities|||10,032|(10,032)|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|abrdn<br>Financial<br>Fairness Trust <br>need for foodbanks<br>project|—ending the||||||8,688|(8,688)|||
|University ofYork-Covid<br>Realities|||project||||7,872|(7,872)|||
|Therium<br>Access Limited —continuation<br>fundmg towards solicitor|||||||7,383|(7,383)|||
|Coventry<br>City Council contribution<br>to UK Cost<br>ofthe School Day project in Coventry|||||||4,500|(4,500)|||
|Charities Advisory Trust Good <br>Catalogue - catch up education|Gifts||||||4,500|(4,500)|||
|University ofYork —benefit changes<br>larger families||||and|||4,376|(4,376)|||
|Orbit Group contribution<br>to UK Cost <br>School Day project in Coventry||||ofthe|||4,375|(4,375)|||
|Strategic LegalFund|||||||3,276|(3,276)|||
|Newcastle<br>University<br>—childhood<br>the North East||poverty|||in||2,225|(2,225)|||
|Trussell Trust —ending the need for|||||||||||
|foodbanks:<br>income maximisation||and cash|||||2,075|(2,075)|||
|first project in Scotland|||||||||||
|Other grants||||||2,002|3,000|(5,002)|||
|Total restricted funds||||||2,002|2,766,127|(2,768,129)|||
|~Di<br>td<br>d|||||||||||
|Tangible fixed assets||||||1,653,916||(87,546)|5,030|1,571,400|
|Capital and infrastructure<br>reserve||||||100,000|||(100,000)||
|Operational<br>Working<br>Capital||||||1,166,770|||(265,641)|901,129|
|Development<br>fund||||||100,000|||400,000|500,000|
|Redundancy/leave||||||85,000|||(85,000)||
|Investment<br>fund||||||259,543||(119,763)|(84,034)|55,746|
|Campaign<br>fund||||||50,000||(50,000)|||
|Cost of living reserve||||||67,000|||(67,000)||
|Fundra ising investment||||||100,000|||10,000|110,000|
|Impact Fund|||||||||170,000|170,000|
|Total designated<br>funds||||||3,582,229||(257,309)|(16,645)|3,308,275|
|General funds||||||972,225|2,991,597|(2,356,252)|16,645|1,624,215|
|Tota I unrestricted<br>funds||||||4,554,454|2,991,597|(2,613,561)||4,932,490|
|Tote)funds||||||4856,456|5,757,724|(5,381,690)||4,932,490|





## 

|Restricted funds|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Scottish Government —second tier welfare<br>rights service|||695,000|(695,000)|
|National<br>Lottery Community<br>Fund|||650,743|(650,743)|
|Barclays —Your Work Your Way|||316,808|(316,808)|
|Scottish Government<br>through<br>a <br>ALEC Fund grant|CYPFEIF and||133,000|(133,000)|
|The Legal Education<br>Foundation<br>Improving<br>public law education|(TLEF)—<br>and capacity||96,321|(96,321)|
|Scottish Government<br>-Cost ofthe School<br>Day Project|||92,780|(92,780)|
|TLEF —'Computer<br>Says No!' Access tojustice<br>in universal<br>credit||12,614|83,519|(96,133)|
|Barclays —Survivors<br>Welfare Advice Project|||79,811|(79,811)|
|Comic Relief|||76,441|(76,441)|
|City Bridge Trust|||75,071|(75,071)|
|abrdn<br>Financial Fairness Trust (formerly<br>Standard<br>Life)|||69,262|(69,262)|
|TLEF —Access tojustice in social|security||60,471|(60,471)|
|Fusion21 Foundation|||49,513|(49,513)|
|Therium<br>Access Limited|||43,637|(43,637)|
|Trust for London|||42,835|(42,835)|
|Mitchell Charitable<br>Trust|||30,000|(30,000)|
|Glasgow<br>Health and Social Care|Partnership||23,614|(23,614)|
|TUUT Charitable<br>Trust|||22,514|(22,514)|
|Grants for Advice Line Glasgow|||22,250|(22,250)|
|Donations to appeal for UK Cost ofSchool<br>Day project|||17,265|(17,265)|
|Deborah<br>and Laurence<br>Harris|||12,500|(12,500)|
|Baring Foundation|||9,657|(9,657)|
|University<br>ofYork —benefit changes and<br>larger families|||8,637|(8,637)|
|London Borough ofGreenwich|||6,667|(6,667)|
|Scottish Government<br>—Scottish <br>up Fund|Benefit Take-||6,600|(6,600)|
|Oxfam|||4,458|(4,458)|
|Newcastle<br>University<br>and NEPC|||3,166|(3,166)|
|Orbit Group|||3,125|(3,125)|
|Coventry<br>City Council|||3,000|(3,000)|
|Pears Foundation|||2,625|(2,625)|





|Digital Freedom<br>Fund|||2,103|(2,103)|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Strategic Legal Fund|||1,848|(1,848)|||
|University<br>ofYork —'Covid|Realities'||499|(499)|||
|Other grants||2,002|3,047|(3,047)||2,002|
|Total restdicted funds||14,616|2,748,787|(2,761,401)||2,002|
|~Di<br>td<br>d|||||||
|Tangible fixed assets||1,744,010||(96,290)|6,196|1,653,916|
|Capital and infrastructure|reserve|40,000|||60,000|100,000|
|Operational<br>Working Capital|||||1,166,770|1,166,770|
|Development<br>fund||100,000||||100,000|
|Redundancy/leave||85,000||||85,000|
|Investment<br>fund||259,543||||259,543|
|Campaign<br>fund||50,000||||50,000|
|Cost of living reserve|||||67,000|67,000|
|Fundra ising investment|||||100,000|100,000|
|Total designated<br>funds||2,278,553||(96,290)|1,399,966|3,582,229|
|General funds||1,275,327|3,086,512|(1,989,648)|(1,399,966)|972,225|
|Total unrestricted<br>funds||3,553,880|3,086,512|(2,085,938)||4,554,454|
|Totalfunds||3,568,496|5,835,299|(4,847,339)||4,556,456|





|Purposes of Restricted|Purposes of Restricted|Purposes of Restricted|Funds|Funds|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Scottish Government||—second|||tier|The aim ofthis project is to tackle poverty<br>by improving<br>the quality of advice|
|welfare rights service||||||made available to low-income<br>households.<br>The project achieves its aim through|
|||||||increasing the capacity and capability offrontline<br>agencies to provide accurate,|
|||||||high quality and effective advice and information<br>on benefits to eligible|
|||||||claimants,<br>both in and out ofwork.|
|National<br>Lottery Community||||Fund-||Final year of a 39-month<br>long project that breaks down financial<br>barriers to|
|UK Cost ofthe School||Day project||||education<br>in England, Scotland and Wales. The project helps children<br>and young|
|||||||people totake part and be happy at school.|
|Barclays —Your Work||Your Way||||Fourth ofafour-year grant for an innovative<br>work support<br>programme<br>for|
|||||||potential second earners from low-income<br>families,<br>helping them overcome|
|||||||barriers to get into work and progress.|
|The Legal Education|Foundation|||||Second year ofa 28-month<br>project that increases access tojustice for families|
|||||||on a low income accessing welfare benefits.|
|Scottish Government||through|||a|The Early Warning<br>System<br>in Scotland collects and analyses<br>evidence about the|
|CYPFEIF and ALEC Fund|||grant|||impact ofchanges<br>in social security on children, their families and the|
|||||||communities<br>that support them.|
|Scottish Government||—Cost||ofthe||Continued<br>support forthe Cost ofthe School Day project in Scotland as a|
|School Day Project||||||national<br>programme<br>within the Scottish Attainment<br>Challenge.<br>First ofa four-|
|||||||year grant towards<br>salary and support costs ofa part-time<br>project manager,|
|||||||information<br>officer and participation<br>worker, and project costs. The project aims|
|||||||to provide more strategic leadership<br>and support to more schools and local|
|||||||authorities<br>on tackhng cost barriers and maximising<br>incomes. The project|
|||||||focuses on further<br>national<br>project development,<br>awareness<br>raising,|
|||||||professional<br>learning,<br>research and resource development,<br>as well as a new lived|
|||||||experience<br>strand<br>working<br>with children<br>and young people.|
|Trussell Trust —Food||Bank Income||||First ofa two-year grant to support Trussell Trust's income maximisation<br>service|
|Maximisation<br>Service||||||at food banks through<br>a second-tier welfare rights advice service to benefits|
|||||||advisers funded<br>by the Trussell Trust, helping to ensure<br>individuals<br>can access|
|||||||their full benefit entitlement.|
|Grant for the Welfare|||Rights|Advice||Grant to CPAG's UK-wide benefits advice and specialist<br>universal<br>credit advice|
|Service and Universal||Credit||Advice||services, free to any frontline<br>worker, volunteer or adviser helping people on a|
|project||||||low income.|
|City Bridge Trust||||||Second year ofa three-year<br>continuation<br>grant for a London<br>Universal<br>Credit|
|||||||Welfare Rights Worker and associated project costs.|
|Trust for London||||||London Calling project, supporting<br>local authorities<br>and the Greater London|
|||||||Authority<br>(GLA) in tackling child poverty<br>in the capital and CPAG's London family|
|||||||panel.|
|Comic Relief||||||Final six months of a three-year<br>universal<br>credit advice project.|
|Pears Foundation<br>for||UK Cost|||ofthe|Towards project extension (see above for project description).|
|School Day project|||||||
|TUUT Charitable<br>Trust||||||Funding<br>a parliamentary<br>assistant.|





|Donations to BBCRadio 4appeal|Contributions<br>towards<br>extending<br>our UK Cost ofSchool Day project in|Contributions<br>towards<br>extending<br>our UK Cost ofSchool Day project in|Contributions<br>towards<br>extending<br>our UK Cost ofSchool Day project in|Contributions<br>towards<br>extending<br>our UK Cost ofSchool Day project in|schools|schools|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|and other donations for UK Cost of|and legacy work.||||||
|the School Day project|||||||
|Grants and donations<br>for the Advice|Co funding<br>for our free service for anyone<br>in Scotland who||advises people|||living|
|Line and other work in Scotland|in poverty on social security and benefits.||||||
|Fusion21 Foundation,<br>Northwick|Grants for a new, free to access digital Mental Health and|Benefits Handbook|||||
|Trust, and Riverside|||||||
|abrdn<br>Financial<br>Fairness Trust-|An 18-month project started<br>in December 2022 to identify||difficulties||claimants||
|'managed<br>migration'<br>project|face when migrated<br>onto universal<br>credit from legacy benefits and how they||||||
||adjust after the move, and to share this with policy makers.||||||
|Grant and donations<br>for removmg|Contribution<br>tothe legacy work ofour UK Cost ofthe School Day|||project after|||
|the financial<br>barriers to children' s|Lottery and other funding<br>ended<br>in December 2022.||||||
|education after Covid-19|||||||
|Barclays —Survivors<br>Welfare Advice|The final part of a one-year project advising<br>professionals|working||with domestic|||
|project|abuse survivors<br>on issues relating to their benefit claims and entitlement.||||||
|Digital Freedom<br>Fund|Project on access tojustice in the face ofdigitalisation<br>ofmeans-tested||||welfare||
||benefits<br>in the UK.||||||
|London Borough ofGreenwich|UK Cost ofthe School Day project extension<br>in London.||||||
|Deborah and Laurence<br>Harris|Towards our legal test case work.||||||
|University ofYork —Changing|A collaborative<br>project between<br>parents<br>and carers, researchers|||at the|||
|Realities|University<br>ofYork, and CPAG, to document<br>life on a low income and push for||||||
||change.||||||
|abrdn<br>Financial Fairness Trust—|Final part ofa two-year grant towards<br>research<br>and advocacy work to||||reform||
|ending the need for foodbanks|emergency<br>support to reduce demand forfood banks.||||||
|project|||||||
|Therium<br>Access Limited|Final part ofcontinuation<br>funding for the employment<br>of|a|solimtor,||||
|Coventry<br>City Council|UK Cost ofthe School Day project extension<br>in Coventry.||||||
|Charities Advisory Trust Good Gifts|Donation<br>directly helping school children across Dundee and at Surrey Square||||||
|Catalogue|Primary School in southeast<br>London||||||
|University ofYork —benefit changes|Project on how benefit changes affect larger families.||||||
|and larger famihes|||||||
|Orbit Group|UK Cost ofthe School Day project extension<br>in Coventry.||||||
|Strategic Legal Fund|Pre-litigation<br>research<br>into EU citizens with pre-settled<br>status and|||no other right|||
||to reside being excluded from social security benefits.||||||
|Newcastle<br>University|Proiect on childhood<br>poverty<br>in the North East.||||||
|University<br>ofYork —Covid Realities|Research project documenting<br>the experiences of parents||and carers||on a|low|
||income during the pandemic.||||||
|Other grants|Grants towards our advice service and policy work.||||||





|Tangible|fixed assets reserves|fixed assets reserves|Reserve relates to the net book value|Reserve relates to the net book value|Reserve relates to the net book value|of|tangible|fixed assets at the end|ofthe|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||financial year.|||||||
|Operational||Working Capital|Reserve relates to net value oftrade|||debtors, stock, and trade creditors|||at the|
|reserve|||end ofthe|financialyear.||||||
|Development||fund reserve|Reserve to|fund further<br>identified|strategic projects to increase the income of|||||
||||CPAG over|the next three years.||||||
|Investment||fund|Reserve to|continue development|of|our|leading|digital products, website, e-||
||||commerce|and shop over the next|year.|||||
|Fundraising||investment|Reserve to|cover fundraising<br>consultancy|||support|to increase individual|donors|
||||in the next|financial year.||||||
|Impact|fund||Reserve designated<br>to fund additional|||campaign||projects over the next|three|
||||years.|||||||



## 

|Within 1year|21,206|2,852|7,200|11,976|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|1—5years|169,646||28,800|8,593|
||190,852|2,852|36,000|20,569|



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