Charity Number: 508340
## Water Adventure Centre
Report and financial statements For the year ended 31[st] March 2022
Water Adventure Centre
## Reference and administrative information
## for the year ended 31 March 2022
The Exec presents its report and financial statements for the year ended 31[st] March 2022.
## **Reference and Administrative Information**
Charity name Water Adventure Centre
Charity Registration Number 508340 Principal Office The Old Boathouse Fairfield Locks Off Maddison Road Droylsden Manchester M43 6ES
## **Executive Committee**
## _**Chair**_
John Byrne _**Chair**_ Elizabeth Quartey _**Treasurer/ Deputy Chair**_ Allan Donoghue _**Secretary/ Deputy Chair**_ Diane King Suzanne Vincent
## **Principal staff**
Pauline Venus Director Mike McGuinn Youth and Play Worker Ben Evans Youth and Play Worker Bridget Halliday Youth and Play Worker
## **Independent Examiner**
## **Bankers**
Catherine Hall FCCA DChA National Westminster Bank plc Slade & Cooper Limited Ashton-under-Lyne (A) Branch Beehive Lofts Warrington Street Beehive Mill Ashton-under-Lyne Jersey Street Lancashire Manchester OL6 6JL M4 6JG
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Water Adventure Centre Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2022
The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31/03/2022.
Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the charity’s constitution and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities: SORP applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102.
## **Objectives and activities**
The Charity’s Objects (“the objects”) are.
- a) To maintain and develop a water-based adventure play and youth centre at Fairfield Locks on the Ashton Canal at Droylsden, Manchester, or at other urban sites which the Exec may from time to time determine.
- b) To offer at the above sites, and at other sites such as the Exec may from time to time determine, a variety of water activities and water-related activities to individual children and young people, mainly, but not exclusively, from the Droylsden and Higher Openshaw areas, and to groups of children and young people from adventure playgrounds, youth groups, play schemes and educational institutions mainly, but not exclusively, from the Greater Manchester area
- c) Within the general context of b) to concentrate particular attention on the needs of disadvantaged children and young people, who would normally not have the opportunity to participate in such activities.
- d) Through the activities referred to in b) above, to pursue the following general aims:
- i) Through adventure play, expeditions, and holidays, mainly centred on boats but also using a range of craft including Stand Up Paddleboards (SUP’s), to enable children and young people to enjoy themselves and to develop their powers of expression, imagination, communication and emotional learning.
- ii) Through the development of children and young people’s boat handling and craft skills to stimulate physical and mental confidence and movement leading to the development of further practical skills, and the ways of understanding which relate to them.
- iii) Through their involvement in a variety of water environments, to increase children’s and young people’s intellectual and emotional awareness of their environment, or rural and wilderness
- settings, of industrial, social and economic history, and of the complex relationship between industrialism, human beings and the rest of nature.
- e) To sponsor, as the Exec may from time to time determine, such other projects that include within their purposes the furtherance of any or all the general aims referred to in d) above.
- f) To offer, as the Exec may from time to time determine, training in water activities to
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adults either for the purposes of training to work with young people or for general educational purposes.
To engage, at the discretion of the Exec, in several campaigns and social action projects, to serve the needs of educational institutions, youth groups and disadvantaged groups within the community, any profits deriving from this activity to be applied solely towards the promotion of the purposes laid out in this Constitution.
## **Aims and Objectives**
To achieve the objectives above by working with children and young people who are most disadvantaged in our communities by combining youth and play work with canoeing in WAC’s unique way. All this work is for the benefit of the public. The following review of Achievement and Performance summarises WAC’s work in 2021-2022.
## **Strategies**
To obtain grants, contracts, and donations to enable WAC’s aims and objectives to be met within a context that takes risk and the wider physical, social, environmental and economic issues into account.
## **Use of volunteers**
WAC encourages volunteering by both adults and young people from our own youth clubs, see below for more details. Volunteers are DBS checked (Disclosure and Barring Service) and are supported to gain valuable experience that often leads to paid employment or further education.
## **Public Benefit**
In developing the objectives and strategy, the Board of Trustees have paid due regard to the Charity Commission guidance on Public Benefit.
The trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits the charity has brought to those groups of people that it is set up to help. The review also helps the trustees ensure the charity's aims, objectives and activities remained focused on its stated purposes.
The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity's aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.
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## **Achievements and performance**
The charity's main activities and who it tries to help are described below. All its charitable activities focus on working with children, young people and vulnerable adults across GM, and are undertaken to further Water Adventure Centre charitable purposes for the public benefit
## **Achievements and Performance**
This year our face-to-face delivery has been developed and adapted following the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic, to adhere to all the Government, National Youth Agency (NYA), and British Canoeing Advice and Guidance, but most importantly, to keep children and young people. The main impact has been a more targeted offer where numbers have reduced to keep activities safe, rather than the open access youth and play offer we usually deliver. We continued to work worked in partnership with the East Manchester Youth and Play Partnership to deliver a number of family fun days in those communities most in need, as well as our core weekly offer We continued to ‘roll out’, our box trailer which has become our ‘play mobile’; which has given us an alternative to the water, kayaking and play offer, and allowed us to safely engage young people in pre -booked face-to-face sessions in the outdoors. We were able to safely deliver the water play, and youth offer to groups who come to WAC from across Greater Manchester, and supported the Holiday Activity Fund (HAF), by providing an alternative offer with eligible partners, supporting children and young people on free school meals.
We are now in our 45th year of innovative and creative work with children and young people.
Our major achievement has been simply to continue to be creative in providing quality youth work, play and canoeing provision in this extremely challenging economic climate, now also impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Essential to achieving this has been partnership working with a variety of organisations like Young Manchester East Manchester Youth and Play Partnership, Manchester City Council and the HAF programme, N-Gagement+ Partnership, Troydale Tenants and Residents Association, Tameside Youth Service, Action Together (formerly Community and Voluntary Action Tameside - CVAT), and the Tameside Youth Practitioners Partnership.
## **Canoeing Groups**
As already mentioned, our GM group work on the water has essentially returned to ‘business as usual’ and has recovered well since the Covid Pandemic in 2020, with new contacts and user groups. Groups have been keen to return to WAC for the unique kayaking and water play experience we offer. We have had an increase in groups with additional needs, and we have been asked to provide additional staffing to support non-swimmers, who may have also missed out on learning to swim during the first Covid years.
## **WAC'S Youth Clubs**
**Sunday Funday** offers targeted play and youth work for children aged 8-13 years. Our offer has mostly remained outdoors for the whole year and numbers have had to be reduced, so the offer was mostly pre-booked rather than open access. Boys and girls attended mainly from the local areas of Manchester and Tameside, often requiring parental support around travel. We have resumed the canoeing and water play for most of the year, but we also engaged young people in several creative projects. A highlight is always the celebration of National Tree Dressing Day; this year young people decorated some CD’s which we hung in our cherry tree. As well as being reflective themselves, we also added some extra light with some fairy lights on timers. Again, local people passing by really appreciated WAC’s unique ‘light show’, until about 9.30pm each evening.
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**Thursday Youth Club** is open to all aged 12-19 from Greater Manchester, and is mainly attended by young people from Droylsden, the priority age range is young people aged 12-16 years from Tameside and East Manchester. It is a place ‘just to be’ with friends, and the yearround programme offers canoeing, discussion, arts projects, and essential youth work support. This year following the impact of Covid-19, we have re-started the club, initially by invitation only to the older Sunday Funday and Young Women’s Evening members, for a new outdoor offer! The advantage of this has meant that there already a ‘buy in’ from young people as they are existing members; with some new members joining via friendship networks.
**Girls’ and Young Women’s Evening** provides a safe space for young women aged 8-19 to explore issues that affect their lives, we run two sessions back-to-back for young women aged 8-12 years, then for young women aged 13-19 years.
Like our other youth and play clubs we had to develop a new way of connecting with girls and young women and initially needed to deliver leaflets locally and some door knocking. We were planning to re-launch our girls’ and young women’s face-to-face work, but we had to delay our plans due to Covid-19. We are pleased with how the new club is developing, with a lot of interest in kayaking and water play. One of the highlights of the year was a young women’s residential to Linnet Clough Scout Camp in February 2022.
**Pure Adventure,** based at Chorlton Water Park in Manchester, mainly attracts young people from the Mersey Bank estate and Wythenshawe. We deliver 2 sessions each week back-to-back, the Junior sessions are for children and young people aged 8-12 years, and the Senior sessions are for young people aged 13-19 years.
Following the Covid-19 Pandemic, we have returned to our kayaking and water play offer on the lake at Chorlton Water Park. The water park continues to be busy with families and people of all ages participating in their daily exercise, which means we pick up new members each week. We publicise our offer via the City Council’s ‘All Sorts to Do’ programme, and support the South Manchester Network and HAF schemes, as well as partners like Barlow Moor Community Association, who work primarily with young people from the Barlow Moor Estate.
We continue working with 2 Young Women who are WAC’s representatives on the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (GMYCA), who advise the Elected Mayor Andy Burnham on several key issues and within the forums of key working groups, in particular Climate Change and other important Environmental Issues; plus, new opportunities like ‘Our Pass’. Rather than the face-to-face meetings, these meetings were mostly via Zoom, apart from the highlight of the year which was an Autumn Development Day based at WAC.
**Active Adventure** is located beside the Rochdale canal on the Troydale Estate in Newton Heath Manchester. There are 2 sessions that we deliver back-to-back on Tuesdays, the Junior session is for young people aged 8-12 years, and the Senior session is for young people aged 13-19 years. Our delivery is a water-based youth and play offer with some dry land games and a bean bag ‘chill out area’. The junior session remains busy, but the senior session is much quieter since the Covid-19 pandemic. As young people get older, the juniors become the seniors so will recruit itself more organically.
**Play Clayton** provides play activities to children from Clayton, Manchester. This runs primarily during term time in Clayton Park from March to August. Children aged 8 to 13 enjoy and learn from creative, adventurous play. We delivered some bespoke sessions in Clayton Park and
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encourage young people to attend our youth and play sessions at WAC, which are only a short walk or tram ride away.
**Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (GMYCA)** is a youth engagement project we have been involved with for the last five years. In 2017 WAC applied to be part of the project and we were successful – we now have 2 young people who are part of the GM wide youth voice representing the voluntary sector. We have also been successful for our 3[rd] Term of Office, wonderful news for WAC, for our Youth Voice and also to raise WAC’s profile in Greater Manchester!
It’s an important and influential role, advising the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham on key youth issues and concerns, providing solutions and a critical voice, scrutinising the work of the Mayor and GMCA and undertaking specific pieces of work such as developing the Opportunity Pass ‘Our Pass’, the Curriculum for Life, and environmental issues like Climate Change. We have continued to work closely with Tameside Youth Council and have a mutually beneficial partnership relationship.
## **Support work for Partnerships based at WAC and GM locations**
We had a busy season on the canal throughout 2021 with several GM bookings from Easter, continuing during the summer months. These were some of our regular groups who have missed the kayaking and water play sessions in 2020, plus some new groups who got in touch. We supported local and national partnerships via festivals and community events throughout the Spring and Summer, plus various HAF schemes mainly in Manchester and Tameside. We have been involved in the development of the South Manchester Network, and the newly formed Manchester Outdoor Education Trust (MOET), which is committed to support and develop adventurous outdoor activities for Manchester’s children and young people. We continue to work closely with the Canal and River Trust, supporting community events and generally raising environmental awareness around climate change and engagement in youth social action.
## **Tameside Early Help and Early Intervention**
This year and we have continued to support several virtual networking events and Learning Circles to help to coordinate the support offer of activities for children, young people and families. We have also worked closely with Action Together, Tameside Council and Tameside Youth Service through a youth social action programme and the promotion of our local offer. We continue to keep in contact with parents and carers and have seen an increase in new members from the Tameside area via Early Help referrals.
## **Financial review**
Despite the increasingly challenging economic environment, our key funders remain Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Young Manchester, and BBC Children in Need. Other funders included Street Games, Tesco Bags of Help and Action Together. We have been successful in acquiring additional funding to support Covid recovery and a return to play and youth work from UK Youth, the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust, and government funding from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
In addition, WAC is administering a TMBC Partners Together grant which benefits Droylsden children and young people by providing resources to Prime Youth Club and WAC. We have a good partnership with Tameside Youth Service who are a key player in the Tameside Youth Practitioners Partnership; they are supporting WAC to develop work with girls and young
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women, work with LGBTQ+ young people, and ‘youth voice’ via the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (GMYCA). We
As always, each funder got what they paid for and more! We add value by combining funding and by accessing grants that are not restricted to a particular locality, age group or purpose. As more and more workers have taken severance and early retirement, and Local Authority youth provision has been closed or drastically reduced; this has had an impact on the groups and contacts that have used WAC for several years. This situation
is also echoed in the voluntary sector, and where groups do survive, it is often on a reduced budget so trips to WAC are curtailed. It is a challenge to continually find new contacts and ways of reaching new groups; this has taken time and ‘out of the box’ thinking. The purchase of our two Kayak Pro Ergos, our XL Stand Up Paddleboard and ‘play trailer’, has expanded our offer and enabled us to have additional activities to take out into different communities, and to support events, as well as promoting our centre. This is on top of plugging gaps in other areas of our work because of both these cuts, increasing poverty and challenges to young peoples’ mental health. Alongside this is the ever increasing detailed and demanding evidence required for funding bids and their subsequent monitoring. Whilst we are told the level of information we provide is excellent, it takes much time to produce, and we continually must balance service delivery against essential paperwork.
Longer term funding from Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Young Manchester, BBC Children in Need and previously Street Games have been crucial. Every funder requires proof of ongoing income, hence sustainability. These guarantees of ongoing funding have enabled us to secure both new and continuing funding.
Our Business and Development Plan has provided a solid basis which has guided development and supported funding bids. It was informed by extensive consultation with stakeholders, especially young people but also their parents, neighbours’ and professionals. We are currently updating the plan with a key priority of ongoing implementation of our funding strategy, to continue building long term financial stability.
We have been able to maintain the quality and amount of work by creative collaboration with partners and sharing resources and expertise. We have built on existing and new links to bring in more support in the shape of resources, expertise and people. Liz Cross and Liz Allen from The Connectives are on hand to provide invaluable pro bono consultancy time when required. Voluntary Youth Manchester (VYM) and Action Together, gave support with networking, grants and processes.
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## **Reserves policy**
WAC’s fixed assets which are the buildings, land and equipment come to £151,872.
Following Charity Commission information and discussion with advisers, we aim to keep a reserve of six months working capital. The precise figure is based on the whole year’s expenditure (on-going running costs not one-off equipment) which for 2021-22 is £197,203 so for six months is £98,602. This figure is now in our General Fund. These funds would enable WAC to deal with unforeseen emergencies, risks and cash flow problems that may arise with contracts and funders. Critically, if for any reason WAC needed to cease operation, these would be sufficient funds for redundancy payments and to ensure an efficient wind-up. In line with recommendations from The Charity Commission this is now held in General funds in Reserves rather than in a separate contingency fund.
Approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by:
..................................... John Byrne (Chair).............................. Date
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## **Plans for the future**
This year we have been working towards a new organisational structure that will better protect our Trustees and their liabilities by becoming a CIO, a Community Interest Organisation. This will be ratified at our next AGM in July 2022. We are also now using QuickBooks for our accounts, which is beneficial for remote working and the monitoring of funding applications. This should save time going forward which will be beneficial in identifying new funding streams.
Recruitment of new staff remains a priority for the future. There needs to be an investment in training and staff development across the youth and play sector as voluntary organisations and statutory services are all struggling to recruit into youth and play work roles. The emphasis needs to shift from ‘youth activities’ to ‘youth and play work’, as activities are the tools that we use to engage young people rather than the development journey that quality youth work ensures.
Developing partnership working continues to be a priority and we are looking at recruiting staff across partnerships. This would help WAC with our seasonal demand and ensure that we have a skilled and experienced work force to cover our busy spring and summer seasons and our unique kayaking and water play offer.
We are continuing to look for a 4[th] Funder which will give WAC financial stability for the next 2/3 years.
## **Structure, governance and management**
WAC is an unincorporated charity, registered as a charity on 27 November 1978 (revised on 3 July 2000) in England and Wales.
The charity is constituted under a constitution 27/11/1978. The trustees are members of the charity, but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in the charity.
All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity. Any expenses reclaimed from the charity are set out in note 6 to the accounts.
We use several methods to recruit WAC Trustees which include arranging open days/evenings where volunteers and potential new Trustees are invited along to WAC to meet our staff and Trustees and find out more about our organisation. As well as this we have done presentations at Voluntary Organisation recruitment events where people go along who are interested in becoming Trustees. The last one we attended was in 2019 and organised by Action Together. This resulted in a new Trustee joining our Board.
Colleagues and practitioners who visit WAC with a group of young people often approach us expressing an interest in becoming a Trustee, as they love the organisation and want to get involved to ‘give something back’. This is also the case with students on placement, or young people who were once members at WAC and want to give something back.
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As well as the methods described, we use our website and social media as avenues of communication, inviting people to get in touch if they are interested in volunteering or becoming a Trustee.
We are no longer required to have representatives from Manchester City Council or GMCA (previously AGMA), although we do have a representative from Tameside Council, due to their interest as their role is a manager for Tameside Youth Service.
## **Related parties and relationships with other organisations**
As outlined in other parts of this report, WAC are actively involved in several partnerships across Greater Manchester. These can be summarised as follows;
Manchester – for the last few years Manchester City Council commissioned Young Manchester to administer Service Level Agreements with several partnerships across the city. WAC has been part of the East Manchester Youth and Play Partnership (EMYPP), plus the N-Gagement + Partnership for our work in South Manchester.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Culture and Social Impact Fund. WAC currently receives funding from GMCA on a bi-annual basis, to deliver a number of kayaking and water play sessions for young people and vulnerable adults across the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs.
BBC Children in Need funds WAC to deliver a youth and play offer for young people across the Greater Manchester most in need.
We have strong partnerships in place with a number of Tameside organisations who develop the voice of children and young people across the Borough of Tameside. These include Action Together,Tameside Council, Tameside Youth Practitioners and Tameside Youth Service.
As outlined already, this year WAC has been successful in developing relationships with other funders who have supported a ‘return to play and youth work’. These include the DCMS, UK Youth and the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust.
## **Funds held as custodian trustee on behalf of others**
WAC has nothing to declare.
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## **Statement of responsibilities of the trustees**
Law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the charity's financial activities during the period and of its financial position at the end of the period. In preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view, the trustees should follow best practice and:
- Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
- Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP
- Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
- State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charity's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
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## Independent examiner’s report
## to the trustees of
## Water Adventure Centre
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31st March 2022 which are set out on pages 13 to 17.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Catherine Hall FCCA DChA
Slade & Cooper Limited, Chartered Certified Accountants Beehive Lofts Beehive Mill Jersey Street Manchester M4 6JG
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## Water Adventure Centre
## Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31 March 2022
|Unrestricted
funds
Note
£
**Receipts**
Donations
883
Grants
3
66,157
4
2,750
5
17
**Total receipts**
**69,807**
**Payments**
-
9,063
Canoes, equipment & repairs
9,522
Transport
808
Administration
3,395
Insurance
3,889
Accountancy
2,282
Training
1,184
Clients
6,070
**Total payments**
**36,213**
**33,594**
Transfer between funds
-
**Surplus/(deficit)**
**33,594**
Premises Costs
Fees and other income
Salaries
Bank interest
**Net receipts/(payments)**|Restricted
funds
£
-
167,210
-
-
**167,210**
150,989
4,666
3,835
-
1,500
-
-
-
-
**160,990**
**6,220**
-
**6,220**|Total funds
2022
£
883
233,367
2,750
17
**237,017**
150,989
13,729
13,357
808
4,895
3,889
2,282
1,184
6,070
**197,203**
**39,814**
-
**39,814**|_Total funds_
_2021_
_£_
_990_
_164,789_
_-_
_58_|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**_165,837_**|
||||_150,127_
_5,939_
_708_
_1,467_
_1,538_
_4,586_
_2,272_
_1,086_
_6,798_|
||||**174,521**|
||||**_(8,684)_**
_-_|
||||**_(8,684)_**|
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## Water Adventure Centre
## Statement of assets and liabilities as at 31 March 2022
|Unrestricted
Restricted
Total funds
funds
funds
2022
Note
£
£
£
103,395
30,916
134,311
33,594
6,220
39,814
**136,989**
**37,136**
**174,125**
**Other assets**
Fund
2022
Debtors
Restricted
-
Debtors
Unrestricted
2,977
Freehold Land and Buildings
Unrestricted
132,877
Fixtures and fittings
Unrestricted
1,852
Equipment
Unrestricted
17,143
**Total other assets**
**154,849**
**Liabilities**
Fund
2022
Creditors
Unrestricted
1,872
**Total liabilities**
**1,872**
John Byrne
(Chair)
Liz Quartey
(Treasurer)
Approved by the Executive Committee on _______ and signed on their behalf by:
**Cash funds**
Bank and cash balances at start of
year
Surplus / (deficit) shown on
receipts and payments account
**Bank and cash balances at end**
**of year**|_Total funds_
_2021_
_£_
_142,995_
_(8,684)_|
|---|---|
||**_134,311_**|
||_2021_
_8,750_
_4,005_
_139,904_
_2,117_
_16,163_|
||**170,939**|
||_2021_
_2,710_|
||**2,710**|
|||
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Water Adventure Centre
## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **1 Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared on the Receipts & Payments basis.
## **2 Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of charity.
Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charity’s work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.
## **3 Grants received**
|BBC Children in Need
Doorsteps (Streetgames)
GMCA
KCYPS
MCC Holiday Activity Fund
MCC - NIF
TMBC Business Rates Grant
TMBC CRF
Garfield Weston
Parents and Family
Canal and Rivers Trust
Sport England
DCMS Youth Covid-19 Support Fund
HMRC JRS
First 1000 days
Young Manchester
Julia and Hans Rausing Trust
DCMS Youth Investment Fund
**Receipts from charitable activities**
Group Payments and Fees
Donations
**Investment receipts**
Bank interest|Unrestricted
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
13,869
-
25,000
-
-
-
13,389
2,309
-
-
11,590
-
66,157
Unrestricted
£
2,750
883
3,633
Unrestricted
£
17
17|Restricted
£
39,448
-
41,100
-
14,015
1,500
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,640
58,250
-
10,257
167,210
Restricted
£
-
-
-
Restricted
£
-
-|2022
£
39,448
-
41,100
-
14,015
1,500
13,869
-
25,000
-
-
-
13,389
2,309
2,640
58,250
11,590
10,257
233,367
2022
£
2,750
883
3,633
2022
£
17
17|_2021_
_£_
_48,492_
_6,280_
_41,050_
_4,000_
_40,750_
_-_
_10,000_
_1,000_
_-_
_1,890_
_1,500_
_3,000_
_-_
_6,827_
_-_
_-_
_-_
_-_|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||_164,789_|
|||||_2021_
_£_
_-_
_990_|
|||||_990_|
|||||_2021_
_£_
_58_|
|||||_58_|
## **4 Receipts from charitable activities**
- **5 Investment receipts**
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## Water Adventure Centre
## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)
## **6 Trustee remuneration and expenses, and related party transactions**
Neither the trustees nor any persons connected with them received any remuneration during the year .
No trustee received travel and subsistence expenses during the year of £nil (2021: £nil).
No trustee or other person related to the charity had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the charity, including guarantees, during the year.
## **7 Analysis of movements in restricted funds**
|MCC - NIF
TMBC WAC Partnership
Total
BBC Children in Need
Doorsteps (Street Games)
GMCA
First 1000 days
Young Manchester
DCMS Youth Investment Fund
MCC Holiday Activity Fund
TMBC GMYCA Youth Councils
TMBC Partners Together|Balance
at 1 April
2021
£
-
1,500
-
-
-
4,500
4,916
20,000
-
-
-
30,916|Receipts
£
39,448
-
41,100
14,015
1,500
-
-
-
2,640
58,250
10,257
167,210|Payments
£
(29,452)
(1,500)
(41,100)
(14,015)
(1,500)
-
(4,916)
-
-
(58,250)
(10,257)
(160,990)|Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|Balance at
31 March
2022
£
9,996
-
-
-
-
4,500
-
20,000
2,640
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||37,136|
## **Name of fund**
## **Description, nature and purposes of the fund**
BBC Children in Need Work with Children and Young People Doorsteps (Street Games) Work with Children and Young People GMCA Work with primarily children and young people from Greater Manchester Manchester City Council (NIF and HAF) Neighbourhood Investment Fund and Holiday Activity Fund for Children and Young People from Manchester
TMBC GMYCA Youth Councils To develop the voice of young people (Youth Council) in partnership with Tameside Youth Council (who are part of TMBC) across Greater Manchester as part of the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (GMYCA)
TMBC Partners Together
Work with Prime and Fairfield Juniors in Droylsden
TMBC WAC Partnership Girls and Young Women's work. Work with LGBT+ young people First 1000 days Walking project with children and young people from East Manchester Young Manchester Targeted work with children and young people from South and East Manchester Youth Investment Fund
Girls and Young Women's work. Work with LGBT+ young people
Targeted work with children and young people from South and East Manchester Equipment and resources for our Manchester Youth and Play provision
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## Water Adventure Centre
## Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)
## **8 Designated Funds**
|Minibus fund|Balance
at 1 April
2021
£
14,000
14,000|Receipts
£
-
-|Payments
£
-
-|Transfers
£
6,000
6,000|Balance at
31 March
2022
£
20,000|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||20,000|
## **Name of fund**
## **Description, nature and purposes of the fund**
Minibus Fund
Towards the purchase of a new minibus when this is needed as the current vehicle is 17 years old.
## **9 Analysis of movement in unrestricted funds**
|Designated funds
General fund|Balance
at 1 April
2021
£
14,000
89,395
103,395|Receipts
£
-
69,807
69,807|Payments
£
-
(36,213)
(36,213)|Transfers
£
6,000
(6,000)
-|As at 31
March
2022
£
20,000
116,989|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||136,989|
## **Name of fund**
## **Description, nature and purposes of the fund**
General fund
We aim to set aside 6 months working capital in case of emergency.
This is calculated by taking this year's expenditure (on-going running costs excluding one-off equipment) of £197,203 and dividing by two to give the six month target figure of £98,602. This year's General Fund is now £116,989. (Designated Funds - New Minibus Fund now £20,000).
## **Funds**
|**Funds**
Restricted
Designated
General
Total|**£**
37,136
20,000
116,989|
|---|---|
||174,125|
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