## **ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REPORT 1[ST] APRIL 2024 – 31[ST] MARCH 2025**
## **1. ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Charity number: 510656**
## **Office**
Allerdale Disability Association Moorclose Community Centre Needham Drive Moorclose Workington Cumbria CA14 3SE
Tel: 01900 61912
## **Principle Bank**
CAF Bank Limited 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ
## **2. STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT**
The charity trustees are elected or re-elected by the association members annually at the Annual General Meeting in accordance with the constitution adopted on 11[th] September 2003.
**Office At 3 Trustee name Date acted if not whole year Chairman** John Brown **Honorary Secretary** Margaret Carey **Honorary Treasurer** Ann Mounsey 26/03/2025 **Ordinary Members** Anthony Markley Konrad Hansen Emma Corlett 26/03/2025 Martin Woodham 26/03/2025
The day-to-day management of ADA is delegated by the Executive to the following staff member:
**Manager**
Mrs Tracey Parker
## **3. OBJECTIVE**
To promote the welfare of disabled people within Allerdale and West Coast District.
## **4. SUMMARY OF MAIN ACTIVITIES**
In delivering our activities this year the trustees have had regard to Charity Commission guidance on public benefit. The focus of our activities remains to provide a range of quality services to disabled people, their families and carers, enabling greater accessibility and integration. We promote equality and social justice through information and empowerment.
- Information service gives advice on any disability related issue to people with disabilities, their families and carers
- Assisting people to complete welfare benefit forms.
- Drop in sessions for physically disabled adults and their carers.
## **5. ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
Our Welfare Benefits Service delivers advice and support to people with any disability from older people to the parents of infants and their families and carers, regardless of whether due to age, physical, mental, or learning disability. This specialist service is tailored and bespoke to the needs of each individual and guides them from application through medicals, appeals and 1st tier tribunals. There is no other tailored advice service offering this in the area.
People with disabilities face financial and social marginalisation, the need to get support without facing barriers whether physical or attitudinal is paramount. Our services mean they are not only better off financially but the detrimental effects of money worries and loneliness are reduced and they have improved well-being and quality of life. This financial year we have helped 1497clients to generate income by claiming benefit entitlements of £6.9 million.
This past year has been extremely difficult as we faced potential closure due to financial challenges. We were thrown a lifeline by Sellafield Ltd, Cumbria Community Foundation and Cumberland Council, who all agreed to provide emergency funding to keep services running for 12 months.
Sellafield Ltd awarded a grant through the Social Impact Multiplied programme for £43,309. Eirini Etoimou, Head of Corporate Sustainability and Supply Chain Development at Sellafield Ltd, said: “Through our Transforming West Cumbria programme, we aim to support third sector organisations that are delivering critical services in our local communities. “Organisations such as ADA often need more than financial support to plan for a more sustainable future. Along with our strategic partners we will work with ADA to access skilled resource to strengthen their organisation through our volunteering platform Together for Good.”
The Community Foundation awarded a grant of £8,177 from the Brian and Ann Clark Fund, following an application which stated: “We know that the people in our community want our services to continue by the sheer number of people accessing
them, and the sheer number of people who have contacted us to say they are devastated by the prospect we may have to close.”
Dr Jenny Benson, Director of Programmes & Partnerships at Cumbria Community Foundation, said: “We know what a crucial service Allerdale Disability Association provides to people in West Cumbria, and what a huge miss it would be if they were no longer there.
Cumberland Council has given the charity a grant of £10,000. Colin Cox, Director of Public Health and Communities, said: "We have put improving the health and wellbeing of residents at the heart of our ambitions. Working in partnership with organisations like ADA will be crucial in achieving that aim. Therefore, we're pleased to continue to provide this financial support so that ADA can offer the help and assistance that many people find so valuable."
In addition, Cumbria CVS, through the Transforming West Cumbria Bedrock Basics programme offered support in applying to other funders for more long-term funding to secure our financial sustainability.
Since receiving these awards we have worked with our partners to access training to assist our development and funding support.
With just three part time staff, the challenges of delivering our services has only been possible thanks to the huge contribution of our wonderful trustees, volunteers and our funders. Our sincere thanks to all of them.
## **6. PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS**
We are currently researching the possibility of delivering the welfare benefits service from two outreach locations. If the evidence supports this approach and we can secure funding we will run a pilot project one day a week in both Maryport and Whitehaven.
We will continue to take full advantage of all the support offered to us by our strategic partners to make Allerdale Disability Association more resilient.
Fund raising and obtaining grants for the future continue to be a high priority to ensure continuation of our services to the disabled community.
## **7. FINANCIAL REVIEW**
Total funds carried forward on 31[st] March 2024 were £19,688.05
Thanks to our funders, the National Lottery Community Fund, Sellafield Ltd, Cumbria Community Foundation and Cumberland Council.
Thanks also to those individuals who have made donations big and small in appreciation of the support they have received from us.
## **ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION Charity Number 510656**
## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025**
||**Reserves Brought forward**
**1st April 2024**
**Income**
Grants
Donations
Fund Raising
Subscriptions
Sundry Receipts
Bank Interest
Room Hire|**ADA**
**General**
|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||£
38,984.76
41,751.50
3,045.31
1,484.50
110.00
-
37.40
-
|£
38,984.76
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
||**Total Income**|**46,428.71**
**46,428.71**||
||**Expenditure**
Salaries
National Insurance/PAYE
Pensions
Travel
Volunteers' Travel/Training
Volunteers' Expenses
Travel - Others
Rent
Bank Charges
Insurance
Repairs
Equipment
Training
Subscriptions
Telephone & Internet
Stationery
Postages
Printing & Publicity
Fundraising Costs
Accountancy
General Expenses|42,931.71
4,832.17
2,551.41
2,201.91
7,440.00
118.48
1,213.61
-
-
2,020.00
112.00
1,910.42
-
355.00
38.71|-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
||**Total Expenditure**|**65,725.42**
|**65,725.42**|
||Surplus/-Deficit for Year|- 19,296.71
**-**|- 19,296.71|
||**Reserves Carried Forward to 2026**|**19,688.05**
**19,688.05**||
|||||**ALLERDALE DISABILITY**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**ASSOCIATION**||||
|||||**Charity Number 510656**||||
|||||**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025**||**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025**||
|||||**BALANCE SHEET as at 31st MARCH 2025**|**BALANCE SHEET as at 31st MARCH 2025**|**BALANCE SHEET as at 31st MARCH 2025**||
|**2024**||||||||
|**£**||**£**||**Cash at Bank:**|**£**|||
|594.06|-|-||HSBC - ADA General|702.24|-|-|
|38,318.84-||-||CafBank - ADA General|18,264.57|-|-|
||-|-||||||
|133.07|-|-||Cash in Hand|134.50|-|-|
|1069.34|1069.34
-|-||Debtors & Payments in Advance|1,188.00|-|-|
||21,214.71|21,214.71||**Total Current Assets**||20,289.31|20,289.31|
|||1130.55||Creditors||601.26|601.26|
|**£**|**£**
**20,209.32**|||**Net Current Assets**|**£ 19,688.05**|**£ 19,688.05**|**£ 19,688.05**|
|||||**Division of Funds:**||||
|||||**Project Restricted**||||
||- 82,575.00|- 82,575.00|- 82,575.00|||- 41,751.50|- 41,751.50|
||-|-||||-|-|
|**£**|**£**
**-**
**82,575.00**|||**Total Funds**|**£ -**|**£ -**|**£ -41,751.50**|
**John Brown Jeremy Scott** Chair Independent Examiner
## **ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION Charity Number 510656**
## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025**
|**ANALYSIS OF FUNDS**
**ADA GENERAL**
RESTRICTED
**£**
Brought forward 1st April 2024
Income for Year
41,751.50
Expenditure for Year
-
**Carried forward 31st March 2025**
**TOTAL FUNDS**||UNRESTRICTED|
Total|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**
38,984.76
4,677.21
65,725.42
-
**£**|**£**
38,984.76
46,428.71
65,725.42
**19,688.05**|
|||||
||||
**19,688.05**|
## **ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION Charity Number 510656**
**INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025**
||**ADA GENERAL**
**INCOME**
Subscriptions
Grants
Donations
Sundry Receipts
Fund Raising
Bank Interest
**Total Income**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Direct Charitable Expenditure**
Salaries and National Insurance and Pensions
Employees' Travel and Training
Volunteers' Expenses and Training &c
Fundraising Costs
**Other Expenditure**
Rent
Stationery,Postages,Telephone, Equipment
Repairs, Purchase of Equipment & Costs(net)
Insurance
Special projects/activities
Sundry Expenses, Bank Charges, Subscriptions
**Total Expenditure**
Surplus/-Deficit for the Year
Reserve funds at end of previous year
**Reserve Fund at year end 31st March 2025**||2025||2024|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**
110.00
41751.50
3045.31
1484.50
37.40
**£**
50315.29
2020.00
2201.91
7440.00
1910.42
1213.61
624.19
**£**
**£**|**£**
44906.81
1521.90|**£**
185.00
82575.00
6372.22
1878.98
37.27
**£**
56553.33
7440.00
2133.47
1737.80
901.00
3507.43
**£**
**£**|**£**
89132.22
1916.25|
||||**46,428.71**||**91,048.47**|
||||54,537.20
11,188.22
**65,725.42**||56,553.33
15,719.70
**72,273.03**|
||||-
19,296.71
38,984.76||18,775.44
20,209.32|
||||**19,688.05**||**38,984.76**|
## **ALLERDALE DISABILITY ASSOCIATION**
## **Charity Number 510656**
**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025**
## **NOTES RE ADA GENERAL ACCOUNTS**
## **GRANTS & DONATIONS**
**RESTRICTED** Cumbria CF 10,097.00 Cumberland County Council 10,000.00 Sellafield 21,654.50 **£ 41,751.50 NON RESTRICTED** MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS 3,045.31 Interest 37.40 FUND RAISING 1,484.50 Subscritions 110.00 **£ 4,677.21 TOTAL £ 46,428.71**
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees** Charity Name Allerdale Disability Association **On accounts for the year** 31[st] March 2025 **Charity no** 510656 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
**Report to the trustees**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended31/03/2025
**Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
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.
**Date:** 15[th] May 2025 **Signed:** ~~Sean |~~ **Name:** Jeremy Scott **Relevant professional** Chartered Management Accountant **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 18 Curzon Street
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
1
Maryport
CA15 6LN
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
2