2023-03-31-accounts - The Water Adventure Centre

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Charity Number: 508340

Water Adventure Centre

Report and financial statements For the year ended 31[st] March 2023

Water Adventure Centre

Reference and administrative information

for the year ended 31 March 2023

The Exec presents its report and financial statements for the year ended 31[st] March 2023.

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 Steph McDonagh Youth and Play Worker

Independent Examiner

Independent Examiner Bankers Jennifer Daniel 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

Water Adventure Centre Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2023

The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31/03/2023.

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 adults either for the purposes of training to work with young people or for general educational purposes.

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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 2022-2023.

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.

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 returned to ‘business as usual’, following the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic. We have supported young people around their mental health, impacted by the periods of social isolation they experienced during Covid times; and encouraged them to become more active. We continued to work worked in partnership with the East Manchester Youth and Play Partnership, and where we have capacity, we support community festivals, and deliver family fun days. We continued to deliver our 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 activity offer with eligible partners, supporting children and young people on free school meals.

We are now in our 47th 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, impacted by

Water Adventure Centre Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2023

the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the current cost of living crisis. Essential to achieving this has been partnership working with a variety of organisations like the East Manchester Youth and Play Partnership, Manchester City Council and the HAF programme, N-Gagement+ Partnership, Troydale Tenants and Residents Association, the South Manchester Youth Network, Barlow Moor Community 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 remained constant. We had a slight blip for a couple of years with the impact of the Covid Pandemic, but since then, we have been extremely busy with new contacts and new user group requests. 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. We have delivered some additional work with Manchester SEND young people and families in the school summer holidays.

WAC'S Youth Clubs

Sunday Funday offers targeted play and youth work for children aged 8-13 years. Our offer has mostly remained outdoors, with water play and kayaking the focus. 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.

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, the popularity of the club has continued to grow. We 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 find a new way to connect with girls and young women, whom we had lost some contact with. We did some initial outreach work, door knocking and hand delivering some leaflets. We were planning to re-launch our girls’ and young women’s face-to-face work with a big celebration, 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. As with most of our youth and play clubs, word of mouth is by far the best way to reach out to young people.

Pure Adventure, based at Chorlton Water Park in Manchester, mainly attracts young people

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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 continued with 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. We have continued the partnership work with Canal and River Trust, supporting canal clean ups and litter picking.

Play Clayton provides play activities to children from Clayton, Manchester. This year we have delivered our sessions from the Beacon Centre, a local community centre. Children aged 8 to 13 years enjoy and learn from creative, adventurous play. We delivered some bespoke sessions at the Beacon Centre, both indoors and outdoors, and we have encouraged young people to attend our youth and play sessions at WAC, which are only a short walk or tram ride away. Young people have become regular attenders on Thursday nights and Sundays.

Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (GMYCA) is a youth engagement project we have been involved with for the last six 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 are now in our 2[nd] year of our 3[rd] Term of Office, a wonderful achievement for WAC, for our Youth Voice and 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 2022 with several GM bookings from Easter,

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continuing during the summer months. These were some of our regular groups who have missed the kayaking and water play sessions, 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 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, Manchester City Council, 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 women, work with LGBTQ+ young people, and ‘youth voice’ via the Greater Manchester Youth Combined Authority (GMYCA).

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 our ‘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

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evidence required for funding bids and their subsequent monitoring. We get positive feedback from our funders about the quality of our monitoring reports, but these are time consuming to produce, and we have to balance service delivery against essential paperwork.

Longer term funding from Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Manchester City Council, 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. Success really does breed success!

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.

Reserves policy

WAC’s fixed assets which are the buildings, land and equipment come to £141,151.

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 2022-23 is £184,772.00 so for six months is £ 92,386.00. This figure is now in our General Fund. These funds would enable us 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.

We remain confident that we can continue as a going concern.

Approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by:

..................................... John Byrne (Chair).............................. Date 24/07/2023

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Plans for the future.

This year we have completed the submission of our new organisational structure that will better protect our Trustees and their liabilities by becoming a CIO, a Community Interest Organisation. 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. The rising costs of running the project, (without our funding income increasing), plus increases in staff wages, means that we must bring in more money to stay afloat.

This year we had our buildings valued, and as a result of this, alongside cost of living increases, our insurance costs rose significantly.

We remain optimistic however, that this will be achieved.

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 are looking to recruit new Trustees from the Youth and Play sector, with a particular focus on those who have experience of empowering young people and developing youth voice. This is to support our priority in involving young people in WAC’s governance, and training/employment pathways.

We are hoping to recruit some new Trustees for the 2023-2024 financial year. These positions will be ratified by the AGM in July 2023.

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Initially we will contact experienced youth and play practitioners still working in the field, and then we will cast the net wider via open evenings. In the past, we have worked with Action Together who periodically hold Trustee and Volunteer Recruitment evenings for the whole of Tameside. We have provided visual displays and done presentations at these events, that aim to match organisations with potential new recruits. This has been really beneficial in the past.

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. This role has now been taken back ‘in house’, by MCC. 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 several 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 GM, prioritising those most in need.

We have strong partnerships in place with several 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.

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 2023 which are set out on pages 12 to 16.

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:

accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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.

Jennifer Daniel FCCA DChA

Slade & Cooper Limited, Chartered Certified Accountants Beehive Lofts Beehive Mill Jersey Street Manchester M4 6JG

Water Adventure Centre

Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31 March 2023

Unrestricted funds Note £ Receipts Donations 10,591 Grants 3 25,500 4 2,970 5 771 Total receipts 39,832 Payments 14,017 11,490 Canoes, equipment & repairs 1,155 Transport 1,720 Administration 3,474 Insurance 8,125 Accountancy 1,740 Training 376 Clients 2,699 Total payments 44,796 (4,964) Transfer between funds - Surplus/(deficit) (4,964) Bank interest Net receipts/(payments) Premises Costs Fees and other income Salaries	Restricted funds £ - 127,340 - - 127,340 139,976 - - - - - - - - 139,976 (12,636) - (12,636)	Total funds 2023 £ 10,591 152,840 2,970 771 167,172 153,993 11,490 1,155 1,720 3,474 8,125 1,740 376 2,699 184,772 (17,600) - (17,600)	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*

Water Adventure Centre

Statement of assets and liabilities as at 31 March 2023

Unrestricted Restricted Total funds funds funds 2023 Note £ £ £ 136,989 37,136 174,125 (4,964) (12,636) (17,600) 132,025 24,500 156,525 Other assets Fund 2023 Debtors Unrestricted 6,282 Freehold Land and Buildings Unrestricted 125,849 Fixtures and fittings Unrestricted 1,588 Equipment Unrestricted 13,714 Total other assets 147,433 Liabilities Fund 2023 Creditors Unrestricted 6,213 Total liabilities 6,213 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 24/07/2023	Total funds 2022 £ 134,311 39,814
	*174,125*
	2022 2,977 132,877 1,852 17,143
	154,849
	2022 1,872
	1,872

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023

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 GMCA MCC Youth and Play Fund MCC Holiday Activity Fund (HAF) MCC - NIF TMBC Business Rates Grant Garfield Weston DCMS Youth Covid-19 Support Fund HMRC JRS First 1000 days Young Manchester Julia and Hans Rausing Trust DCMS Youth Investment Fund COVID Recovery Fund Receipts from charitable activities Group Payments and Fees Donations Investment receipts Bank interest	Unrestricted £ 500 - - - 25,000 - - - - - - - 25,500 Unrestricted £ 2,970 10,591 13,561 Unrestricted £ 771 771	Restricted £ 29,990 41,100 49,500 4,150 - - - - - - 1,000 - - 1,600 127,340 Restricted £ - - - Restricted £ - -	2023 £ 30,490 41,100 49,500 4,150 - - 25,000 - - - 1,000 - - 1,600 152,840 2023 £ 2,970 10,591 13,561 2023 £ 771 771	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

4 Receipts from charitable activities

5 Investment receipts

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (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 Youth and Play Fund TMBC WAC Partnership COVID Recovery Fund Total GMCA First 1000 days Young Manchester MCC Holiday Activity Fund (HAF) TMBC GMYCA Youth Councils Name of fund BBC Children in Need BBC Children in Need GMCA	Balance at 1 April 2022 Receipts Payments Transfers Balance at 31 March 2023 £ £ £ £ £ 9,996 29,990 (39,986) - - - 41,100 (41,100) - - - 4,150 (4,150) - - - 49,500 (49,500) - - 4,500 - - - 4,500 20,000 - - - 20,000 2,640 - (2,640) - - - 1,000 (1,000) - - - 1,600 (1,600) - - 37,136 127,340 (139,976) - 24,500 Description, nature and purposes of the fund Work with primarily children and young people from Greater Manchester Work with Children and Young People	Balance at 31 March 2023 £ - - - - 4,500 20,000 - - -
		24,500

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 First 1000 days Young Manchester COVID Recovery Fund

Girls and Young Women's work. Work with LGBT+ young people

Walking project with children and young people from East Manchester

Targeted work with children and young people from South and East Manchester Strategic development to support work with East Manchester young people

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

8 Designated Funds

Minibus fund	Balance at 1 April 2022 £ 20,000 20,000	Receipts £ - -	Payments £ - -	Transfers £ - -	Balance at 31 March 2023 £ 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 2022 £ 20,000 116,989 136,989	Receipts £ - 39,832 39,832	Payments £ - (44,796) (44,796)	Transfers £ - - -	As at 31 March 2023 £ 20,000 112,025
					132,025

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 £184,772 and dividing by two to give the six month target figure of £92,386. This year's General Fund is now £112,025. (Designated Funds - New Minibus Fund now £20,000).

Funds

£

Restricted Designated General Total	24,500 20,000 112,025
	156,525