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2025-03-31-accounts

REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 02226878 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 298154

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

FOR

NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

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Reference and Administrative Details 1
Report of the Trustees 2 to 19
Report of the Independent Auditors 20 to 23
Statement of Financial Activities 24
Statement of Financial Position 25 to 26
Statement of Cash Flows 27
Notes to the Statement of Cash Flows 28
Notes to the Financial Statements 29 to 41
Detailed Statement of Financial Activities 42 to 43

NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

TRUSTEES S Van Rooyen E L Fletcher S Whipp K Dhlamini REGISTERED OFFICE Eagle House 28 Billing Road Northampton Northamptonshire NN1 5AJ REGISTERED COMPANY 02226878 (England and Wales) NUMBER REGISTERED CHARITY 298154 NUMBER AUDITORS Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited Chartered Certified Accountants Statutory Auditor Eagle House 28 Billing Road Northampton Northamptonshire NN1 5AJ SOLICITORS Tollers 2 Castilian Street Northampton NN1 1JX WEBSITE www.nvcfr.org.uk

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The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of 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).

Within the report the charity Nene Valley Christian Family Refuge Limited is also referred to as NVCFR and EVE, which are both working names of the charity.

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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Principal activity and charitable objects

NVCFR has been a trusted source of support to women and children escaping domestic abuse in Northamptonshire for more than 42 years; growing and developing our services to respond to the dynamic nature of domestic abuse and to the needs of families in Northamptonshire and beyond. We continue to see need significantly increase in all areas of our work.

NVCFR continued to support women, children, and families subjected to domestic violence and abuse through a variety of programmes specifically designed to meet their additional complex needs, including mental ill-health, food poverty, child poverty, homelessness, drug, and alcohol abuse and No Recourse to Public Funds as well as the intersectional needs experienced by Black and Brown women and women from minoritised communities. As always, we could not have done it without the support of many people across the County, including Churches, local businesses, and local and national grant makers too, who have generously donated clothes, food, and money to support the families we work with.

We could not have helped so many people to leave behind the trauma and effects of domestic abuse without the dedication, skill and enthusiasm of our amazing staff and volunteer team. Every member of our team works tirelessly, whatever their role, to the absolute best of their ability. As always, the year has provided many challenges; challenges that the team rise to mostly with cheerfulness, sometimes with gritted teeth but always with an incredible sense of team spirit. Our staff and volunteers are at the very heart of who we are, what we do and the difference we make.

Objectives for 24/25

We constantly monitor and evaluate our programmes and interventions to understand how effective our approaches are.

Further evidence from other interventions demonstrates that:

The following report provides the details in how we have achieved these objectives.

The social need eve addresses

The Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated that 2.3 million people aged 16 years and over (1.6 million women and 712,000 men) experienced domestic abuse in year ending (YE) March 2024. The police recorded 851,062 domestic abuse-related crimes in England and Wales in YE March 2024. There were 51,183 domestic abuse-related prosecutions in England and Wales in YE March 2024, compared with 51,288 in YE March 2023.

Women were disproportionately represented among victims of domestic abuse-related crimes, as in previous years, with 72.5% of all victims being female in the last year.

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There is limited local data available on victims facing multiple and complex needs, but our evidence suggests that levels of comorbid conditions, including mental health and substance misuse, are considerable. Over 80% of the women we work with experience poor mental health (including c.60% with diagnosed mental health illness), 16% are battling addictions, 89% are unemployed and 68% are in vulnerable housing situations, 46% are at high risk of harm from their perpetrator. We work with the women to resolve their crises and support them to work with other specialist agencies before they are ready to engage in our therapeutic programmes.

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE Charitable activities

Our response in 2024/25

Our trauma-responsive restorative services work with survivors. We listen to their stories and help them to articulate their own and their children's needs. We use empathy, professional curiosity and motivational interviewing techniques to ask the right questions, working with each woman to establish her needs safely and place them at the centre of her support.

We offer specialist support and effective solutions, working in a women centred environment offering a team around the family approach to supporting service users and their children.

We work diligently with statutory and voluntary sector organisations across the county and the country, sharing knowledge and ideas. We promote ongoing delivery of our important perpetrator programmes and to raise awareness of and support for victims/survivors of domestic abuse.

Against this backdrop we have contributed locally and nationally by supporting and mentoring emerging organisations and services to develop their offer, access funding and provide specialist support to women with No Recourse to Public Funds and women victim/survivors who have not accessed support from any other service. We have given support, information, advice and guidance, shared our knowledge and expertise, policies and procedures and our CPD accredited training. Eve is proud to be able to support sector to grow in this way.

We launched our Silent Solutions helpline in April 2020, in direct response to the Coronavirus pandemic and the increased demand for our services. By offering text message and email options to contact our helpline, we have enabled people who are in living with their perpetrator and unable to talk about their needs to reach out without needing to speak. The service continues to provide support, guidance, information, and advice to women who need help in this way.

Eve has worked with more than 837 individuals across all our services during this financial year. We continue to see a year on year increase in the number of people seeking our support.

Refuge

Our main purpose-built refuge provides accommodation for 13 women and up to 17 children at any one time and our second refuge provides accommodation for up to 4 single women. Service users are offered emergency support to develop a safety plan, to apply for benefits, support for their children, and for working with other agencies to meet their complex needs. Eventually they are supported to move into their own home and continue receiving help through our community programme. Whilst living in refuge, service users are given access to our Restored Programme with a focus on preparing for life after refuge, including work. Their programme typically includes volunteering opportunities, developing a CV, budgeting and financial management and working to meet other specific needs.

71 women and 48 children stayed in our refuge during 2024/25. 60% of these residents were high or medium risk from their perpetrators with others having a range of complex needs.

Number of women (in refuge) with 'High Risk' complex needs
- NRPF 6
- Disability 18
- Mental health issues 51
- Learning difficulties 0
- Misuse of drugs/alcohol 14
- Did not speak English/English as a 2nd language 4
- LGB 7
- Younger women (aged 16-25) 17
- Received specialist support 22

We continue to see a year on year rise in the additional complex needs of women we work with.

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32.4% of women and children resident in our refuges and 10% of women and children in our community services were from Black, Brown, and other Minoritised backgrounds.

We recorded the following risk levels from service users' perpetrators.

Eve received 944 contacts throughout the year. We were unable to offer a service to 166 of these women for several reasons, including:

Number of contacts received: 944
Unable to support 166
Unable to support due to No vacancies 0
- Unable to contact 15
- Did not accept referral 7
- Unsuitable accommodation 30
- High risk due to proximity of 51
perpetrator
- Ineligible for service 2
- Unsupported complex need 7
- Accommodated elsewhere 10
- No eligible for service 3

Our occupancy rate for the year for Valley House was 77%. Occupancy rate for Grace House was 30%. This was due to the higher than usual referrals from the local area.

8 women, 11.3% stayed in refuge for less than 1 month, and 44 women, 62% stayed for 3 months or longer.

Case Study

"Dear Eve Refuge.

Without your amazing support, myself and my children will not be where we are now, settled and moving on with our lives happily.

I want to express my deepest gratitude to all the refuge staff members at Eve. Your incredible kindness, support, and dedication have helped me navigate a very difficult journey. You've given me hope and a sense of belonging, and I will never forget your compassion.

I'm so full of gratitude for your help and support. You have been my rock during a challenging time, and I don't know where I would be without your kindness and guidance. Thank you for being such a positive force in my life".

Community Service

280 women and 97 children participated in our Community Service during 2024/25. These families were able to live in their own accommodation, receiving a range of services at our Women's Centre, which included, The Restored Programme, Minimum Safety Support, Therapeutic Services, Specialist Groupwork Services, Children's Services and Keyworker sessions.

7.2% of our community service users were assessed as being high risk from their perpetrators with others having a range of complex needs including:

Number of women (in community service) with 'High Risk' complex needs

- Disability 38
- Mental health issues 64
- Learning difficulties 5
- Misuse of drugs/alcohol 19

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The Restored Programme

Every woman is offered appropriate interventions and activities, to meet her needs, from our holistic, longterm rehabilitation and recovery programme, Restored, written and developed by Eve in 2014. Each woman on the programme has a key worker who supports her to create a strengths-based Independent Development Plan that meets her individual needs and works to achieve 5 positive outcomes, supporting her to recognise domestic abuse, stay free from abuse in the future and help heal the trauma suffered by her and her children. Support includes a bespoke combination of 1:1 support from our Domestic Abuse Specialists (DAS Team) and group work programmes and therapeutic activities, including counselling and coaching from our Therapy and Wellbeing Team.

Delivery of our online specialist Groupwork programmes have continued alongside face-to-face service delivery, which has enabled us to work in local communities with service users from further afield and to help break down some of the financial, time and transport barriers involved with travelling across the County. In answer to the continuing devastation caused by the Cost of Living Crisis we developed more partnerships this year with local supermarkets, running a weekly Food Bank that regularly supports 209 women living in both our refuge and community services.

Restored includes a range of the following therapeutic interventions and activities:

We accepted 38 new service users onto Restored this year. 14 women participated in our therapeutic services and 73 women attended our Groupwork only outreach provision, participating in a range of specialised group work including our own Stay Free programme as well as Freedom and Own My Life.

Therapeutic and Wellbeing Services

Our range of therapeutic group-work activities include a range of activities and interventions that result in the following outcomes for women and children affected by domestic abuse:

This year The Restored Programme has delivered 355 sessions to 1246 participants.

Number of
Session Number of sessions participants
Stay Free F2F 34 210
Stay Free Online 21 78
OML F2F 25 130
OML Online 26 135
Counselling 88 7
Voice of Eve 5 17
EFL 6 16
Food Bank 30 261
Arts and Craft 11 31
Coffee & Chat 23 122
Journaling 17 59
Skin and Beauty 5 15
DAY 13 39

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Stay and Play 3 5
Dancing for Wellbeing
10		 17
Book Club 4 6
Wellbeing Walk 4 9
Other 30 88
Total 355 1246

Case Study

Fiona made the decision that she wanted to engage with eve to help her and her son heal from the effects of domestic abuse. Fiona recognised that she did not know what a healthy relationship was due to being in a relationship with her ex since the age of 18. She shared that she had lots of friends but often felt a pressure to please them and noted that if she ever disagreed with them, they would blank her for days. Through participating in Restored Group Work Own My Life, Stay Free and Therapeutic work Fiona was able to start to recognise healthy relationships and started to put in boundaries with those around her. Whilst participating in counselling and the wellbeing activities Fiona started to recognise that she wanted to develop a career and earn her own money. She started to work with a partner agency to develop her CV and was able to then secure a job within the education sector. This was a huge step for Fiona as her perpetrator had always used her disability against her telling her she was stupid and would never achieve anything. This step in her journey enabled Fiona to develop a sense of purpose as well as recognising hope for her and her son's future. Counselling helped Fiona to make sense of her past experiences and recognise how her childhood had shaped her as a parent and understood reasons for her struggle to implement rules and boundaries with her son. After 16 months Fiona completed the restored program and is now working full time in a job that she loves. Fiona shared that she feels she is now the parent that she always wanted to be and only has people in her life who make her feel good about herself.

Children and Young People's Services - Refresh

Our qualified Children and Young People's Practitioners provide a range of age-appropriate therapeutic programmes for infants, children and young people, delivered on a needs-led basis after careful assessment with both children and their mother. These are delivered in a range of ways, including on a one-to-one basis with the child, with or without their parent, and in group settings. All of the activities and interventions seek to aid recovery from trauma, repair relationships, and improve wellbeing. Preventative programmes for young people increase their resilience to traumatic experience and lower the risk of future victimisation. We also provide a crèche for children of women who are participating in group work or one-to-one support.

Funding from Children in Need and the Masonic Charitable Foundation supported our Children and Young People's Practitioners to work with a total of 145 children and young people this year across both our refuge and community services.

The CYPs team works towards three main outcomes for each child.

Children and Young People will increase their self-esteem:

112 children have participated in self-esteem raising activities with 109 children increasing their self-esteem to some level. Children are supported to engage in a range of age-appropriate activities to raise their selfesteem.

We are working with more children who have neurodiversity conditions, supporting them into nursery/school settings by working with staff and teachers to understand their particular, individual needs.

38 children aged 0-5 participated in creche activities. We record their development using Early Years Foundation Stages, supported by Tapestry.

61 children and young people participated in Refresh activities, including, Wellbeing Courses, Help Me Stay Safe (understanding domestic abuse for primary school children), DAY (understanding healthy relationships for teenagers), Protective Behaviours, Drawing and Talking, 1-1 Individual work (directed by the child's needs).

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Our data shows that 86 children and young people have made significant progress in increasing their selfesteem. These children have engaged in activities with other children and adults, initiated play with children and/or adults, were able to engage in conversations appropriate to their level of development and have joined external groups etc. Young children in creche have gained confidence to be able to settle well in groups without mum and participated in a full range of age-appropriate activities. Older children are calmer and have learned to use appropriate voice-levels when participating in indoor activities. Bullying behaviours within peer groups has stopped and has noticeably reduced in family groups. Some children experiencing significant progress have been enabled and supported to access external groups provided by school and youth groups, mums and tots groups and other universal services, including school. All the children were eager to explore their surroundings and try new things, showing interest in what they were doing and enjoying their achievements.

13 children started to experience progress. These children were often short-term service users in families that moved on within six weeks. These children showed some progress in developing self-esteem, settling better and more quickly in activities, becoming less anxious when separated from Mum, developing confidence in being able to talk to other children and adults.

10 children have either not stayed with us for long enough to evidence their progress or have only just joined the service.

Children and Young People will have improved family relationships .

Improvements in family relationships has been clear to see in the increased confidence, resilience, selfesteem and social and emotional wellbeing of children who have participated in specific activities and interventions designed to improve family relationships. We use our own therapeutic programme, called Refresh, for children and young people aged over 5. Refresh compliments our programme based on similar outcomes for survivors of domestic abuse, including mums of children in our service. Both programmes use our own Breaking The Cycle outcomes measurement tool to support participants to understand where they are in their journey. This enables mums to understand their children's journey, helping them to talk about domestic abuse and to support their children towards recovery from trauma and the effects of domestic abuse.

As the young people work through the Refresh program, the relationship between them and mother/sibling/friend/peer groups shows an improvement in our evaluation and monitoring. The stages of our Breaking the Cycle Outcome Measurement Tool (BtC) are Pre-Contemplation/ Contemplation/ Decision/ Action/ Maintenance. The young people can go up and down the stages during their work with us and we recognise this as they gain resilience or deal with changes such as Child Contact, we also recognise stages of grief during our work with them.

We have engaged families in specific interventions and 1:1 sessions such as developing good bedtime routines, weaning, and learning - encouraging mums to participate in homework sessions by helping them to learn about the current language and methods around maths and English work.

Each of our family activities is designed to encourage families to spend time together, enjoying playing and each other's company. We encourage mums to develop relationships with other professionals in universal services such as Health Visitors and mums and tots' groups, school etc., signposting them for support, information and advice where appropriate. Mums report that relationships with their children improved through participating in the activities and interventions we provided, citing that children are more able to listen and act on instructions, talk to them about things they have done or that might be worrying them and are more able to control their emotions, particularly anger.

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We have provided trips and outings to encourage families to experience activities together that they might not otherwise have done. These have included Christmas Pantomime, a summer picnic with special sport and craft activities and our annual Christmas Party. We have held picnics at the park, football tournaments, baking and cooking competitions and craft activities. Families participating in these activities have enjoyed spending time together and said that they also enjoyed doing something that they had not done before. All the children and young people in our service are given Christmas and birthday presents and are provided with a teddy, a book and new pyjamas when they come into refuge.

Children and Young People have improved Social and Emotional Wellbeing.

Many of the children are very scared to be separated from their mothers and would become very distressed very quickly when they first attend a creche session. As the children build their own trust in their CYPPs, they develop their confidence, which in turn enables them to begin improving in their social and emotional wellbeing, eventually being able to attend activities with excitement and interest and interact well with their peers and other adults.

Activities in our Refresh programme are specifically designed to enable children to 'enjoy and achieve' and increase their resilience by joining in activities they may not have had access to before, such as cooking or external groups such as youth clubs etc. The children and young people are encouraged to share their achievements with each other and with their families. Enjoying and achieving significantly promotes resilience, which is an important part of improving social and emotional wellbeing.

Safeguarding Children and Young People .

The Children and Young People's Specialists work with children and their families who have come into service with or requiring safeguarding support through the Children's Trust. This year they have worked with 21 families requiring this support.

Number of children in service 145
Families came into service on interim Care Order 1
Left service not on ICO 1
Families came into service on Child Protection
plans 8
Stepped down 3
No longer suppoerted 7
Families came into service on CiN 7
Stepped down 1
No longer supported 5
Families came into service on Early Help 2
Stepped down 0
Number of families placed on ICO while in service 1
Number of families on CP while in service 0
Number of families placed in CiN while in service 2
Number of families placed on Early Help while in
service 0
No longer supported 3
Percentage of families with reduction in social care 39%

Case Study

Sonia was 3 when she came to refuge with her Mum Kinga. Kinga had several physical health conditions and struggled to walk long distances and did not have money for a car. This meant that she struggled to enjoy time outside the house with Sonia. With support of her keyworker Kinga was able to secure a bus pass and Personal Independent Payments which provided her with more opportunities to go out. Although one barrier had been lifted Kinga did not have knowledge of suitable places for 3-year-olds to go. The children's team worked closely with Kinga to show her the local area and introduce her to nearby Stay and Play groups. Due to fleeing their family home Sonia had very few clothes or toys.

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The children's team were able to provide Sonia with new toys that reflected her interests as well as suitable clothing for the winter months. Whilst Kinga attended activities Sonia attended the creche where she was able to interact with children her own age. At first Sonia found this very difficult. English was not Sonia's first language, and she was not used to being away from her Mum or being around other children. The children's team used pictures and objects to develop Sonia's language and to enable her to make choices. The creche staff also role modelled play activities and supported Sonia in engaging with her peers. Over the months Sonia attended creche her confidence grew and she started to initiate games and conversations with those around her. When it came to Sonia starting nursery Kinga felt confident that her daughter would be happy and able to make friends. When the family left refuge Sonia was able to communicate with those around her in both English and her home language. Sonia had been invited to several birthday parties and both Sonia and Kinga enjoyed playing together every Saturday at a local park.

Evolve

As a specialist provider of domestic abuse services for more than 42 years, we have learned that survivors can only take responsibility for themselves and their own actions. We believe that delivering a 30-week Behaviour Change programme, accredited by RESPECT, for those who choose to use abusive and coercive behaviours offers opportunities for families to change their dynamics.

Participants in Evolve are usually standard to medium-risk; some have been referred to Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARAC) so would be considered high risk. Men and women are referred through a number of different pathways including Social Workers, Solicitors, Health Visitors, Schools and selfreferral. Careful assessment enables us to offer a service that meets the needs of the individual, we work on a 1:1 basis with women, and with men who require support with language or have other needs that mean working in a group is not appropriate.

With modules covering Parenting, Consent and Sexual Respect, as well as other aspects of coercive and abusive behaviour, the programme supports participants to choose different ways of dealing with conflict, role modelling alternative behaviours to those currently used within the home.

Our Integrated Safety Support Service works at multi-agency levels on behalf of the women our Domestic Abuse Practitioners are supporting on a one-to-one basis. This crucial function of our work ensures consistent

communication with other agencies involved with the women and her family, in order to manage risk and disrupt perpetration. We support the current/ex partners of participants to ensure their safety and respond to any incidents that occur. Our programmes run in conjunction with each other, enabling families to stay together or to separate safely and help to break the generational cycle of domestic violence and abuse.

Referrals to the Evolve Behaviour Change Programme are as follows:

Number of male referrals to Evolve 67
Number of female referrals to Evolve 6
Number of males offered assessment 46
Number of women offered assessment 6
Number of males attending assessment 36
Number of women attending assessment 6
Number of men offered place on group 27
Number of men started on group 27
Number of men completing Evolve 8
Number of men completing more than 12 sessions 12

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Number of men de-selected from group 12
Number of women offered place on 1:1 programme 2
Number of women started on 1:1 programme 2
Number of women completing 1:1 programme 2
Number of women de-selected from 1:1 programme
0

Expert Training

We believe that knowledge is power and is vital in ensuring that professionals and communities are aware of domestic abuse and its many forms. We work to develop the skills and knowledge of professionals who work with vulnerable people and who may come across victim-survivors in their role.

We deliver CPD accredited training for professionals, volunteers community leaders and organisations with sessions on understanding domestic abuse, the impact of domestic abuse on children and young people, personal and professional boundaries, and personal safety and many other relevant topics.

We have delivered to different agencies with a range of core courses and bespoke programmes written especially for the audience. Most training has been delivered online, except where clients have specifically requested face to face delivery of bespoke courses. Core and Volunteer Training Programmes were delivered to new staff and volunteers along with regular training updates to existing staff and volunteers.

Clients have ranged from statutory sector, third sector and community organisations including Re:Store, and The University of Northampton. Training evaluations are consistently good to excellent, with participants citing the knowledge, expertise, and delivery style of our Trainer as a reason for their enjoyment of the course.

We have increasing awareness of the impact of domestic abuse and improved support for survivors.

Number of individuals received training 136
Number of courses delivered 29
Number of individual external agencies training 2
delivered
Number of rounds of core training delivered 3

Our Trainer has been involved in supporting and developing conversations with organisations who work with and for Black, Brown and Minoritised Communities in the Interpersonal Violence sector making strong links with local and national organisations.

Inter-Agency Networks and Partnerships

Partnership and inter-agency networking is a key factor in providing holistic services for our service users and is often a requirement of service delivery. NVCFR is an active member of a wide range of networks and forums, including West and North Northamptonshire Domestic Abuse Boards We are also members of the Black Women's Domestic Abuse Group, an offshoot of the Northampton Women's Forum.

We have worked with statutory and community organisations to provide information, advice, and guidance to women in different communities across the town and have supported the Police in their information awareness campaigns and have developed a number of significant partnerships with businesses and companies across the county.

We work with a range of statutory, community, charitable and other organisations to provide information, advice, guidance, and support to our service users. These include:

AA Global Language Services Abbey Community ABDA Design Abington Bespoke Cleaning Ltd ACAS

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Action Centres UK Ltd Action for Happiness Active8 Managed Technologies Ltd DD Adorn Wellbeing Adult Learning Advanced Imaging Systems Advantage Employment & Training Solutions Ltd Agora Business Publications Aldi Stores All Saints Brixworth Alpha Service (Northampton) Limited Apex Scaffolding Ltd Ashby Computers LTD B&CE Holdings DD BEB Contract Legal Services Bee Tee Alarms Bernard Sunley Foundation Black Women's Domestic Abuse Group Bloom Bookkeeping Services BNI East Midlands Networking Limited DD BNI Foundation Boilerhouse Creative Bradby and Fawsley WI Brixworth All Saints Broadmead Baptist Church Calbarrie Compliance Services Camble House CAMS Carey Baptist Church CAMS Carey Baptist Church Central Bedfordshire Council Charities Aid Foundation Charity Link Christian Celebration Church Chrysellis Clear Voice Coop Corvee Property Services Ltd Creating Equalz Criminology Department - N'pton University DAY Programme Edith Murphy Foundation EMH Homes DD Futures Housing Group & Partners Gedeon Richter Glasspool Golden Giving Goodman Carpets Hawk Drainage & Groundworks Ltd High Speed Training Hub-4 Ltd Hull City Council Hunsbury and Blisworth Community Choir Hunsbury Hill WI IAPT- mental health J&J Global fulfilment

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James Warren Photography Just Giving Kingsley Park Methodist Church Kingsley W.I Kingsthorpe Methodist Church Lidl LM Copywriting Local Giving Long Buckby WI Lush MARAC Maria Chartres t/a Amalfi Flowers Masonic Charitable Fund MayKing Property Maintenance MG Windows MIND Morrisons Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Mundy Mornings National Legal Service and Charles Strachan Solicitors Nationwide donations NAYC Ltd NBWDAG NCVO Neighbourly New Covenant Church New Life Church Northampton Ltd North Northamptonshire Council Northampton Children's Trust Northampton Lottery Northampton Municipal Church Charity Northampton Partnership Homes Northampton School for Girls Northamptonshire Domestic Abuse Service Northants Rights & Equalities Council - Northants Hub Northfield WI Nothampton methodist church NSB Northampton School for boys NSPCC Learning Mannor House counselling Oblique OFEC Consulting Ltd Ofsted Old Grammar School On Demand Digital Print Limited OPFCC - Office of the Police Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire Orchard Cleaning Orthodox Sisterhood Paisley Pear Hotel Park Ave. Methodist Church PCC St Andrew's Mission Giving PEGS Piddington Church Plough the mind Project Linus Protective Behaviours Queensgrove

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Re:Store Northampton Red Clean Exterior Cleaning Ltd Respect Restore foodbank and Daylight Centre foodbank. Rights for Women Rubbish2Go S2S and Aquarius- drug and alcohol services Safe Lives Serenity Shaw Gibbs Limited Sherwood Associates Shire Leasing DD Skyline Taxis Smiths Fire LLP Soar Development Ltd Spencer contact SSE Energy Solutions DD St Andrews Methodist St Annes Orthodox Chrisitan Parish St Giles Church St Mary's On the Hill St. Marys Church Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse Stewardship Storehouse Church Sunflower Centre Talk Electrics Tesco Stores, Northampton The Bridge - Drug and Alcohol Community Law Freedom - by Dogs Trust MK Act NRPF Network Rights of Women Samaritans SHOUT Christians against poverty (CAP) The Red Cross The Church of Pentecost The Clothworkers Foundation The CPD Group DD The Gladiator Group The Good Loaf The Melbourne Arms The National Lottery Community Fund The Women's Liberation Collective The Workhouse Group Of Companies Ltd Therese Lee Counselling Service Thirtyone:eight DD TK Maxx Total Energies DD Total Spectrum SO Trainline Tresham Collage Velo Creative Verian Security Limited Vesta

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Victim Focus Voice Wacoal EMEA Ltd Waitrose Weedon United reform Church West Haddon All saints church West Northamptonshire Council Weston Favel Shopping Centre Winvic Construction Ltd Women's Aid Federation of England Woodland Avenue ukulele group Wootten WI Workplace Cleaning Solutions Limited Cyberlab Baby Basics C2C Social Action Cats Protection Lifeline Citizens Advice Bureau

Contracts

Eve holds several contracts with funders to deliver a variety of services across the organisation.

These are:

Management agreements

Our refuge, Valley House, is owned by EMH Homes and is managed by Nene Valley Christian Family Refuge (known as Eve) under a management agreement.

Our second refuge is owned by Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and is managed by Nene Valley Christian Family Refuge (known as Eve) under a management agreement.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Financial position

Total income for the year was £855,882, a small decrease from £886,097 in 2024, and total expenditure was £817,447, an increase from £726,673 from 2024, due to the work and projects carried out in the year.

The net surplus for the year amounted to £38,435 as shown on the SOFA. The total funds carried forward at the year end is £550,047 of which £517,326 is unrestricted funds, and £32,721 is held in restricted funds. Designated unrestricted funds total £228,485 and general unrestricted funds total £288,841.

The use of the restricted funds is explained further in note 20 of the financial statements. The designated fund represents the net book value of the freehold property held, less the bank mortgage liability at the year end, held against the property.

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NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Reserves policy

The Council of Management seeks to hold free reserves at least equal to 3 months general running costs of the charity, which equates to approximately £204,000. General free reserves are currently £261,774. This currently equates to 3.8 months running costs which the trustees feel is acceptable.

The Trustees consider that the charity has adequate resources to maintain its ongoing work and to prepare for future developments.

Certain grants have been given for specific purposes and these are shown as restricted funds (see notes). Other designated funds have been set aside out of unrestricted funds (see notes).

The financial support of charitable trusts, local authorities and other donors is greatly appreciated and enables the charity's work to be sustained.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

Objectives for 2025/26

During the next financial year, we intend to achieve our aims by continuing to build and develop our services so that they persist in meeting the needs of the families we work with.

Our aims are:

Protect people at risk of domestic abuse and empower them to protect themselves. Proclaim freedom and a future for people affected by domestic abuse. Provide services that support survivors to thrive. Prevent another generation of abusive family relationships. Prepare survivors to live the lives they want to lead.

To meet these aims, our objectives will be:

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document

The charity is controlled by its governing document, the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act.

Public Benefit

The trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission. The work of Nene Valley Christian Family Refuge is of public benefit, raising awareness of domestic abuse and providing a range of comprehensive, holistic support services that enable women and children who are experiencing this to access safe temporary accommodation, as well as specialist support when they are rehoused in the local community.

Recruitment and appointment of new trustees

Potential trustees are interviewed by existing trustees and discussions are held with the CEO. No appointment is made unless all existing trustees are in agreement and satisfactory references and DBS screening is obtained. All trustees are required to sign a declaration regarding their legal eligibility to be a trustee. An induction period is given once appointment has been agreed.

Organisational structure

The CEO has delegated responsibility for day to day running/management of the organisation. The name of the CEO is not disclosed in this report under exemption from the SORP paragraph 1.29 on the grounds that it could lead to the person being placed in personal danger due to the nature of the charity.

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NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Key management remuneration

The remuneration and pay of management roles are reviewed annually by the trustees having regard to similar roles elsewhere in the charity sector and after considering the relationship with the salaries of other staff members.

Risk management

The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.

The Trustees are constantly aware of risk and are fully aware of their responsibilities. Maintaining clear written policies, including a reserves policy, mitigates risk. The ongoing expansion of the charity's work, proposed major developments and continuing developments with government initiatives, all contribute to the need to be vigilant in identifying and managing risk. The trustees are committed to working with the CEO in reviewing and updating all written policies and procedures on a regular basis and to ensure that a comprehensive risk assessment is carried out. The trustees acknowledge the risk of the loss of a key player - trustee or senior staff member - and are alert to the risk inherent in heavy reliance on a single source of funding.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees (who are also the directors of Nene Valley Christian Family Refuge Limited for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees 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 those financial statements, the trustees are required to

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to 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.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

AUDITORS

The auditors, Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited, will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

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NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 3[rd] December 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE TRUSTEES OF NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Nene Valley Christian Family Refuge Limited (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31 March 2025 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Statement of Financial Position, the Statement of Cash Flows and notes to the financial statements, 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 (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 UK, including the FRC'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.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report, other than the financial statements and our Report of the Independent Auditors thereon.

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.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, 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 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.

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE TRUSTEES OF NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities, 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.

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.

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE TRUSTEES OF NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditors under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulations made or having effect thereunder.

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 a Report of the Independent Auditors 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.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks within which the charity operates, focusing on those laws and regulations that have a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The laws and regulations we considered in this context were the Charities Act 2011, United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and relevant Taxation legislation.

We identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud, to be the override of controls by management and the understatement of revenue. Our audit procedures to respond to these risks included enquiries of management about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, sample testing on the posting of journals, reviewing meeting minutes, regulatory correspondence and professional fees, detailed substantive testing on the completeness of income, and reviewing accounting estimates for biases. We will also review the regulatory correspondence with the Charity Commission.

Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. We are not responsible for preventing noncompliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.

These inherent limitations are particularly significant in the case of misstatement resulting from fraud as this may involve sophisticated schemes designed to avoid detection, including deliberate failure to record transactions, collusion or the provision of intentional misrepresentations.

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 Report of the Independent Auditors.

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO THE TRUSTEES OF NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's trustees 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 the charitable company's trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited Chartered Certified Accountants Statutory Auditor Eagle House 28 Billing Road Northampton Northamptonshire NN1 5AJ

Date:12th December 2025

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NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCORPORATING AN INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

Unrestricted
funds
Notes
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
2
29,963
Charitable activities
5
Provision of refuges
576,943
Administration & support
-
Other trading activities
3
910
Investment income
4
1,409
Total
609,225
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds
6
4,354
Charitable activities
7
Provision of refuges
148,212
Resettlement & day centre
175,049
Administration & support
222,494
Property depreciation and interest
5,680
Total
555,789
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
53,436
Transfers between funds
20
(461)
Net movement in funds
52,975
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
464,351
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
517,326		 Restricted
funds
£
12,501
154,156
80,000
-
-
246,657
-
158,946
-
102,712
-
261,658
(15,001)
461
(14,540)
47,261
32,721		 2025
Total
funds
£
42,464
731,099
80,000
910
1,409
855,882
4,354
307,158
175,049
325,206
5,680
817,447
38,435
-
38,435
511,612
550,047		 2024
Total
funds
£
79,137
636,990
167,960
1,600
410
886,097
3,509
316,947
204,900
195,386
5,931
726,673
159,424
-
159,424
352,188
511,612

The notes form part of these financial statements

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NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION 31 MARCH 2025

Unrestricted
funds
Notes
£
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets
14
260,409
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
15
41,896
Cash at bank and in hand
257,659
299,555
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year
16
(41,424)
NET CURRENT ASSETS
258,131
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES
518,540
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due after more than one year 17
(1,214)
NET ASSETS
517,326
FUNDS
20
Unrestricted funds:
General fund
Freehold Property
Restricted funds
TOTAL FUNDS		 Restricted
funds
£
-
-
32,721
32,721
-
32,721
32,721
-
32,721		 2025
Total
funds
£
260,409
41,896
290,380
332,276
(41,424)
290,852
551,261
(1,214)
550,047
288,841
228,485
517,326
32,721
550,047		 2024
Total
funds
£
264,736
101,999
186,021
288,020
(36,167)
251,853
516,589
(4,977)
511,612
234,312
230,039
464,351
47,261
511,612

The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2025.

The members have not deposited notice, pursuant to Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006 requiring an audit of these financial statements.

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for

The notes form part of these financial statements

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION - continued 31 MARCH 2025

These financial statements have been audited under the requirements of Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011.

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

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 3[rd] December 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:

The notes form part of these financial statements

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NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

Notes
Cash flows from operating activities
Cash generated from operations
1
Interest paid
Net cash provided by operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
Net cash used in investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities
Loan repayments in year
Net cash used in financing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents
in the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the
beginning of the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the end
of the reporting period		 2025
£
112,446
(480)
111,966
(3,960)
(3,960)
(3,647)
(3,647)
104,359
186,021
290,380		 2024
£
80,561
(731)
79,830
(3,108)
(3,108)
(3,373)
(3,373)
73,349
112,672
186,021

The notes form part of these financial statements

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NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

NOTES TO THE STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

1. RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Net income for the reporting period (as per the Statement of
Financial Activities)
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charges
Interest paid
Decrease/(increase) in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
Net cash provided by operations		 2025
£
38,435
8,287
480
60,103
5,141
112,446		 2024
£
159,424
6,980
731
(82,140)
(4,434)
80,561

2. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS

At 1/4/24 Cash flow At 31/3/25
£ £ £
Net cash
Cash at bank and in hand 186,021 104,359 290,380
186,021 104,359 290,380
Debt
Debts falling due within 1 year (3,527) (116) (3,643)
Debts falling due after 1 year (4,977) 3,763 (1,214)
(8,504) 3,647 (4,857)
Total 177,517 108,006 285,523

The notes form part of these financial statements

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NENE VALLEY CHRISTIAN FAMILY REFUGE LIMITED

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, 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)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Nene Valley Christian Family Refuge Limited is an incorporated charity limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales. The charity's number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information Page.

The presentation currency is the Pound Sterling (£).

Going concern

At the time of approving the accounts, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the Trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the accounts.

Income

All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Government grant income is recognised once the charity has received a formal offer of funding in writing, unless performance conditions required deferral of the amount.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, 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 accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

Allocation and apportionment of costs

Costs are allocated between activities by direct allocation to refuges and resettlement with the balance to administration and support.

Tangible fixed assets

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.

Freehold property - 2% on cost
Leasehold improvements - 2% on cost
Play equipment - 20% on cost
Security equipment - 33% on cost
Office equipment - 33% on cost

Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. Where parts of an item of property, plant and equipment have different useful lives, they are accounted for as separate items of property, plant and equipment.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Tangible fixed assets

Depreciation methods, useful lives and residual values are reviewed at each balance sheet date. The selection of these residual values and estimated lives requires the exercise of judgement. The trustees are required to assess whether there is an indication of impairment to the carrying value of assets. In making that assessment, judgements are made in estimating value in use. The trustees consider that the individual carrying values of assets are supportable by their value in use

Taxation

The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits

The charitable company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from the charitable company. Contributions payable for the year are charged in the Statement of Financial Activities.

Financial instruments

Cash and cash equivalents in the statement of financial position comprise cash at banks and in hand and short term deposits with an original maturity date of three months or less.

Debtors and creditors with no stated interest rate and receivable or payable within one year are recorded at transaction price. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in the statement of financial activities under administrative expenses.

Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the entity after deducting all of its financial liabilities.

Where the contractual obligations of financial instruments are equivalent to a similar debt instrument, those financial instruments are classed as financial liabilities. Financial liabilities are presented as such in the statement of financial position. Finance costs and gains or losses relating to financial liabilities are included in the statement of financial activities. Finance costs are calculated so as to produce a constant rate of return on the outstanding liability.

Significant judgements and estimates

The preparation of financial statements requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires management to exercise its judgement in the process of applying the company accounting policies. The areas involving a higher degree of judgement or complexity, or areas where assumptions and estimates are significant to the financial statements are disclosed within the individual accounting policies above.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

2.
DONATIONS AND LEGACIES
Donations
3.
OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES
Training Fees
4.
INVESTMENT INCOME
Interest received
5.
INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
Activity
Residents' fees
Provision of refuges
Grants and contracted
income
Provision of refuges
Residents' fees
Administration & support
Grants and contracted
income
Administration & support
Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:
West Northamptonshire Council
Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
BBC Children in Need
Henry Smith Charity
Masonic Charitable Fund
Charles Haywood Foundation
The National Lottery Community Fund - RC Midlands Region
Department of work and pensions
Northampton Municipal Church Charity
North Northamptonshire Council
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
BNI Foundation
The Philips Charitable Trust
The Frederick and Phyllis Cann Trust
The National Lottery Community Fund - Community Organisations
Cost of Living Fund
Winvic Construction Ltd
Edith Murphy Foundation
Nene Valley Rotary Club
Carried forward		 2025
£
42,464
2025
£
910
2025
£
1,409
2025
£
201,257
529,842
-
80,000
811,099
2025
£
182,435
50,466
-
60,000
450
20,000
75,440
-
2,000
179,800
-
1,000
-
-
1
5,000
5,000
3,250
584,842		 2024
£
79,137
2024
£
1,600
2024
£
410
2024
£
166,546
470,444
4,590
163,370
804,950
2024
£
161,854
50,000
51,232
60,000
12,228
20,000
38,622
8,370
-
140,508
10,000
-
3,000
3,000
75,000
-
-
-
633,814

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

5. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - continued

Brought forward
Bernard Sunley Foundation
The Clothworkers Foundation
6.
RAISING FUNDS
Raising donations and legacies
Fundraising costs
7.
CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS
Provision of refuges
Resettlement & day centre
Administration & support
Property depreciation and interest
8.
DIRECT COSTS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
Staff costs
Training
Material and equipment
Premises running costs
Maintenance charges
Rents and room hire
Motor and travelling costs
Holidays and excursions
Office and secretarial costs
Translation costs
DWP Access to work
Depreciation		 Direct
Costs (see
note 8)
£
305,802
172,366
75,385
4,000
557,553		 2025
£
584,842
5,000
20,000
609,842
2025
£
4,354
Support
costs (see
note 9)
£
1,356
2,683
249,821
1,680
255,540
2025
£
354,752
5,916
13,416
92,369
42,341
16,547
1,165
-
18,590
5,130
240
7,087
557,553		 2024
£
633,814
-
-
633,814
2024
£
3,509
Totals
£
307,158
175,049
325,206
5,680
813,093
2024
£
408,467
4,481
10,869
31,430
41,972
16,030
771
2,393
19,083
797
6,350
4,754
547,397

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

9. SUPPORT COSTS

Management
£
Provision of refuges
1,320
Resettlement & day centre
2,084
Administration & support
240,528
Property depreciation and interest
-
243,932
Support costs, included in the above, are as follows:		 Governance
Finance
costs
£
£
36
-
599
-
524
8,769
1,680
-
2,839
8,769		 Totals
£
1,356
2,683
249,821
1,680
255,540

Management

Management
2025 2024
Provision Resettlement
of & day
 Administration
Total		 Total
refuges
centre		 & support activities
activities
£ £ £ £ £
Wages - - 139,200 139,200 55,024
Social security - - 13,304 13,304 2,107
Pensions - - 3,236 3,236 795
Consultants fees - 2,084 11,057 13,141 30,168
Hardship expenditure 1,312 - - 1,312 680
Premises running costs - - 45,251 45,251 55,974
Office and secretarial
costs 8 - 28,480 28,488 19,188
1,320 2,084 240,528 243,932 163,936
Finance
Provision Resettlement
of & day
 Administration
refuges centre & support
£ £ £
Bank charges 36 599 213
Legal fees - - 311
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets - - -
Bank loan interest - - -
36 599 524

Finance

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

9. SUPPORT COSTS - continued

Finance - continued

2025 2024
Property
depreciation
and Total Total
interest activities activities
£ £ £
Bank charges - 848 202
Legal fees - 311 -
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets 1,200 1,200 2,226
Bank loan interest 480 480 731
1,680 2,839 3,159
Governance costs
2025 2024
Administration Total
& support activities
£ £
Auditors' remuneration for audit 5,200 5,184
Auditors' remuneration for non audit
work 3,569 3,488
8,769 8,672

10. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)

Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting):

Auditors' remuneration for audit
Auditors' remuneration for non audit work
Depreciation - owned assets		 2025
£
5,200
3,569
8,287		 2024
£
5,184
3,488
6,980

11. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024.

Trustees' expenses

There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024.

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12. STAFF COSTS

Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs		 2025
£
465,720
33,330
11,442
510,492		 2024
£
427,038
28,211
11,144
466,393

During the year, remuneration paid to key management personnel totalled £113,073 (2024: £137,304).

The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:

Staff
No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.
13.
COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
Unrestricted
funds
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
63,637
Charitable activities
Provision of refuges
468,909
Administration & support
4,590
Other trading activities
1,600
Investment income
410
Total
539,146
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds
3,509
Charitable activities
Provision of refuges
119,743
Resettlement & day centre
77,119
Administration & support
115,597
Property depreciation and interest
5,931
Total
321,899
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
217,247
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
247,105		 2025
23
Restricted
funds
£
15,500
168,081
163,370
-
-
346,951
-
197,204
127,781
79,789
-
404,774
(57,823)
105,083		 2024
23
Total
funds
£
79,137
636,990
167,960
1,600
410
886,097
3,509
316,947
204,900
195,386
5,931
726,673
159,424
352,188

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13.
COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
14.
TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
COST
At 1 April 2024
Additions
At 31 March 2025
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2024
Charge for year
At 31 March 2025
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2025
At 31 March 2024
COST
At 1 April 2024
Additions
At 31 March 2025
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2024
Charge for year
At 31 March 2025
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2025
At 31 March 2024		 ACTIVITIES - continued
Unrestricted
Restricted
funds
funds
£
£
464,352
47,260
Freehold
Leasehold
property improvements
£
£
332,142
37,684
-
-
332,142
37,684
93,600
13,572
5,200
754
98,800
14,326
233,342
23,358
238,542
24,112
Security
Office
equipment
equipment
£
£
11,864
24,750
-
3,960
11,864
28,710
11,864
22,668
-
2,333
11,864
25,001
-
3,709
-
2,082		 Total
funds
£
511,612
Play
equipment
£
11,949
-
11,949
11,949
-
11,949
-
-
Totals
£
418,389
3,960
422,349
153,653
8,287
161,940
260,409
264,736

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15.
DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2025
£
Trade debtors
685
Debtors
-
Prepayments and accrued income
41,211
41,896
16.
CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
2025
£
Bank loans and overdrafts (see note 18)
3,643
Trade creditors
14,176
Social security and other taxes
10,002
Other creditors
453
Accruals and deferred income
13,150
41,424
17.
CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR
2025
£
Bank loans (see note 18)
1,214
18.
LOANS
An analysis of the maturity of loans is given below:
2025
£
Amounts falling due within one year on demand:
Bank loans
3,643
Amounts falling between one and two years:
Bank loans - 1-2 years
1,214
Amounts falling due between two and five years:
Bank loans - 2-5 years
-		 2024
£
-
45,478
56,521
101,999
2024
£
3,527
6,875
7,960
1,677
16,128
36,167
2024
£
4,977
2024
£
3,527
3,747
1,230		 2024
£
-
45,478
56,521
101,999
2024
£
3,527
6,875
7,960
1,677
16,128
36,167
2024
£
4,977
2024
£
3,527
3,747
1,230

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19. SECURED DEBTS

The following secured debts are included within creditors:

Bank loans 2025
£
4,857		 2024
£
8,504

The bank loan is secured on the freehold property.

20. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Freehold Property
Restricted funds
Development project
Valley House maintenance fund
Valley House improvements
Renovation Project
TOTAL FUNDS		 At 1/4/24
£
234,312
230,039
464,351
864
20,274
12,123
14,000
47,261
511,612		 Net
movement
in funds
£
58,636
(5,200)
53,436
(540)
-
-
(14,461)
(15,001)
38,435		 Transfers
between
funds
£
(4,107)
3,646
(461)
-
-
-
461
461
-		 At
31/3/25
£
288,841
228,485
517,326
324
20,274
12,123
-
32,721
550,047

Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Freehold Property
Restricted funds
Development project
Henry Smith Charity
Charles Hayward Foundation
Northamptonshire Police, Fire and
Crime Commissioner
Stay Free Facilitator Training
Renovation Project
The National Lottery - Wellbeing Team
TOTAL FUNDS		 Incoming
resources
£
609,225
-
609,225
-
60,000
20,000
50,466
12,500
28,251
75,440
246,657
855,882		 Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(550,589)
58,636
(5,200)
(5,200)
(555,789)
53,436
(540)
(540)
(60,000)
-
(20,000)
-
(50,466)
-
(12,500)
-
(42,712)
(14,461)
(75,440)
-
(261,658)
(15,001)
(817,447)
38,435

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20. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued

Comparatives for movement in funds

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Freehold Property
Restricted funds
Development project
Valley House maintenance fund
Valley House improvements
Masonic Charitable Fund
Charities Trust
Renovation Project
TOTAL FUNDS		 At 1/4/23
£
15,240
231,865
247,105
864
20,274
12,123
36,073
35,749
-
105,083
352,188		 Net
movement
in funds
£
223,177
(5,931)
217,246
-
-
-
(36,073)
(35,749)
14,000
(57,822)
159,424		 Transfers
between
funds
£
(4,105)
4,105
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 At
31/3/24
£
234,312
230,039
464,351
864
20,274
12,123
-
-
14,000
47,261
511,612

Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Freehold Property
Restricted funds
DWP access to work
Henry Smith Charity
Children in Need
Masonic Charitable Fund
Charities Trust
Charles Hayward Foundation
Northamptonshire Police, Fire and
Crime Commissioner
Stay Free Facilitator Training
Renovation Project
The National Lottery - cost of living
The National Lottery - Wellbeing Team
TOTAL FUNDS		 Incoming
resources
£
539,145
-
539,145
8,370
60,000
51,232
12,228
-
20,000
50,000
12,500
19,000
75,000
38,622
346,952
886,097		 Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(315,968)
223,177
(5,931)
(5,931)
(321,899)
217,246
(8,370)
-
(60,000)
-
(51,232)
-
(48,301)
(36,073)
(35,749)
(35,749)
(20,000)
-
(50,000)
-
(12,500)
-
(5,000)
14,000
(75,000)
-
(38,622)
-
(404,774)
(57,822)
(726,673)
159,424

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20. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued

Designated funds

The freehold property fund includes the freehold property NBV less the bank loan liability held against the property. The transfer during the year relates to the value of the repayments of the loan less the interest charged and the depreciation charged on the property during the year.

Restricted funds

The Development Project Fund relates to money received for training and development of the care workers.

The Valley House Maintenance and Valley House Improvement Funds are funds held for maintenance and improvements to Valley House Refuge.

The BBC Children in Need Fund is for salary costs, other staffing costs, volunteer expenses, small equipment and other project costs, specifically in relation to what was requested per the grant application.

The Masonic Charitable Fund was for the Children and Young Peoples service to provide the salary and on costs of an employee for the project.

The DWP access to work funds are provided by the DWP in order to pay for employees costs, as EVE are providing employment.

The Henry Smith Charity fund is funding that has been provided to aid with core charity costs.

The Charities Trust fund is funding received to support families into a new home and a new life.

The Charles Hayward Foundation fund relates to funding received for the Evolve programme.

The Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner fund relates to funds received to provide specialist therapeutic groupwork programmes across the County.

Stay Free Facilitator Training funding is provided to fund the training for that project.

The Renovation Project is funding given specifically to allow for the refurbishment of the Northampton refuge centres.

The National Lottery Cost of living funding is to fund the work with women and children living in refuge accommodation, increasing their safety and improve their physical, emotional and social health.

The National Lottery Wellbeing Team project funding is to fund the work with women and children affected by domestic abuse, and to help to increase safety and improve physical, emotional and social health of women and children affected by domestic abuse.

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21. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

During the year fundraising strategy development services were provided to the charity by the daughter of the Chief Executive. Transactions were conducted at arm's length and totalled £3,075 (2024: £10,023). There was a balance of £350 due at the year end (2024: £nil).

The Good Loaf CIC, a charity with a common director provided goods amounting to £486 (2024: £126) to the charity.

There were no further related party transactions carried out during the year.

22. ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The charity is under the control of its trustees.

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DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS
Donations and legacies
Donations
Other trading activities
Training Fees
Investment income
Interest received
Charitable activities
Residents' fees
Grants and contracted income
Total incoming resources
EXPENDITURE
Raising donations and legacies
Fundraising costs
Charitable activities
Wages
Social security
Pensions
Training
Material and equipment
Premises running costs
Maintenance charges
Rents and room hire
Motor and travelling costs
Holidays and excursions
Office and secretarial costs
Translation costs
DWP Access to work
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets
Support costs
Management
Wages
Social security
Pensions
Carried forward		 2025
£
42,464
910
1,409
201,257
609,842
811,099
855,882
4,354
326,520
20,026
8,206
5,916
13,416
92,369
42,341
16,547
1,165
-
18,590
5,130
240
7,087
557,553
139,200
13,304
3,236
155,740		 2024
£
79,137
1,600
410
171,136
633,814
804,950
886,097
3,509
372,014
26,104
10,349
4,481
10,869
31,430
41,972
16,030
771
2,393
19,083
797
6,350
4,754
547,397
55,024
2,107
795
57,926

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DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

Management
Brought forward
Consultants fees
Hardship expenditure
Premises running costs
Office and secretarial costs
Finance
Bank charges
Legal fees
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets
Bank loan interest
Governance costs
Auditors' remuneration for audit
Auditors' remuneration for non audit work
Total resources expended
Net income		 2025
£
155,740
13,141
1,312
45,251
28,488
243,932
848
311
1,200
480
2,839
5,200
3,569
8,769
817,447
38,435		 2024
£
57,926
30,168
680
55,974
19,188
163,936
202
-
2,226
731
3,159
5,184
3,488
8,672
726,673
159,424

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