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||||2023|2023|2023|2022|2022|2022|
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|Income from:|||||||||
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|legacies||3|261,795||261,795|37,483||37,483|
|Charitable<br>activities||4|2,128,332||2,128,332|1,895,074||1,895,074|
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|activities|||248||248|333||333|
|Investments|||10,279|1,186|11,465|10,111|1,327|11,438|
|Total income|||2,400,654|1,186|2,401,840|1,943,001|1,327|1,944,328|
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|Raising funds||7|2,382|123|2,505|2,296|171|2,467|
|Charitable<br>activities||8|2,125,381||2,125,381|2,078,457||2,078,457|
|Total expenditure|||2,127,763|123|2,127,886|2,080,753|171|2,080,924|
|Net gains/(losses)||on|||||||
|investments||12|(19,422)|3,898|(15,524)|6,549|(7,812)|(1,263)|
|Net incoming/(outgoing)|||||||||
|resources|||253,469|4,961|258,430|(131,203)|(6,656)|(137,859)|
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|Net movement|in|funds|368,379|4,961|373,340|24,797|(6,656)|18,141|
|Fund balances at 1 April|||||||||
|2022|||605,077|407,106|1,012,183|580,280|413,762|994,042|
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|Tangible assets||14||1,584||5,457|
|Investments||15||403,922||426,133|
|||||405,506||431,590|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors|||153,376||266,160||
|Cash at bank and in|hand||1,101,066||568,691||
||||1,254,442||834,851||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within||||||
|one year||17|(274,425)||(185,258)||
|Nei current assets||||980,017||649,593|
|Total assets less current liabilities||||1,385,523||1,081,183|
|Provisions<br>for liabilities||||||(69,000)|
|Net assets||||1,385,523||1,012,183|
|Income funds|||||||
|Restricted funds||20||412,067||407,106|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||
|Designated<br>funds|||271,583||275,457||
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|Cash generated<br>from/(absorbed<br>operations||by)|26||514,224||(279,579)|
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|Purchase ofinvestments||||(35,001)||||
|Proceeds from disposal of investments||||38,894||34,332||
|Investment<br>income received||||11,465||11,438||
|Net cash generated<br>from investing||||||||
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|Net increase/(decrease)<br>in cash and cash||||||||
|equivalents|||||529,582||(233,809)|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at|beginning|ofyear||693,447||927,256|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at end of|year||1,223,029||693,447|
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|||||Sefton|Residential|Prevention|Combat||Total|Total|
|||||Befrlsndlng|Care Home|Through|lsolatloo||2023|2022|
||||||Communities||||||
|||||2023|2023|2023|2023||||
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||Care home fees||||1,793,877|||1,793,877||1,692,906|
||Services provided||||||||||
||under contract|||122,910||94,034|117,511||334,455|201,491|
||Other charitable||||||||||
||activities|||||||||677|
|||||122,910|1,793,877|94,034|117,511|2,|128,332|1,895,074|
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||||||Befriending||Care Home|||2022|
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||Befriending|Care Home|Through|Isolation|2023|2022|
||||Communities||||
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|||6|6|6|||
|Staff costs|84,988|444,870|29,488|55,959|615,305|530,104|
|Rent and rates||190,786|||190,786|158,195|
|Agency costs||822,507|||822,507|990,058|
|Repairs and<br>maintenance|51|9,682||2,756|12,489|10,021|
|Other staffing costs|4,140|2,064|1,192|1,383|8,779|29,924|
|Legal and professional<br>fees||35,466|11,720|13|47,199|30,319|
|Insurances|2,436|342|2,281|2,010|7,069|2,800|
|Heat and light||37,155|||37,155|5,658|
|Printing,<br>postage and<br>stationery||1,161|||1,161|1,369|
|Equipment<br>costs||15,269||560|15,894|3,285|
|Advertising<br>and|||||||
|events|60|1,577|4,404|5,007|11,048|1,240|
|Telephone|1,953|1,015|1,859|1,373|6,200||
|Sundry expenses|604|7,504|46S|27|8,603|4,525|
||94,232|1,569,398|51,477|69,088|1,784,195|1,767,498|
|Share ofsupport costs<br>(see note 9)|22,511|218,665|16,759|18,612|276,547|229,651|
|Share ofgovernance<br>costs (see note 9)|5,262|51,110|3,917|4,350|64,639|81,308|
||122,005|1,839,173|72,153|92,050|2,125,381|2,078,457|





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||||Befriending||Care Home||2022|
||||6||8|||
|Staffcosts|||99,251|61,923|368,930||530,104|
|Rent and rates|||||158,195||158,195|
|Agency costs|||||990,058||990,058|
|Repairs and maintenance|||||10,021||10,021|
|Other staffing costs|||832|315|28,777||29,924|
|Legal and professional||fees|||30,319||30,319|
|Insurances|||||2,800||2,800|
|Heat and light|||||5,658||5,658|
|Printing,<br>postage and|stationery||||1,369||1,369|
|Equipment<br>costs|||||3,285||3,285|
|Advertising<br>and events|||1,240||||1,240|
|Sundry expenses|||875|57|3,576|17|4,525|
||||102,198|62,295|1,602,988|17|1,767,498|
|Share ofsupport costs||(see note 9)|32,381|7,877|189,393||229,651|
|Share ofgovernance|costs (see note 9)||11,464|2,789|67,055||81,308|
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|||costs|costs||costs|costs||
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|Staff costs||169,117||169,117|126,770||126,770|
|Depreciation||3,874||3,874|4,533||4,533|
|Rent and rates||23,048||23,048|12,965||12,965|
|Repairs and||||||||
|maintenance||4,947||4,947|521||521|
|Other staffing costs||9,094||9,094|3,712||3,712|
|Telephone||6,325||6,325|9,678||9,678|
|Computer|and website|||||||
|costs||22,947||22,947|30,879||30,879|
|Printing,<br>postage and||||||||
|stationery||5,890||5,890|6,420||6,420|
|Insurances||23,090||23,090|31,518||31,518|
|Equipment|costs|416||416|403||403|
|Sundry expenses||7,799||7,799|2,252||2,252|
|Audit fees|||14,800|14,800||15,500|15,500|
|Legal and|professional||49,839|49,839||65,808|65,808|
|||276,547|64,639|341,186|229,651|81,308|310,959|
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|Employment|costs|2023|2022|
|||6|E|
|Wages and salaries||717,935|603,711|
|Social security costs||54,004|42,380|
|Other pension costs||12,483|10,783|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||||funds|funds||funds|funds||
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|investments||||(24,584)|3,898|(20,686)|6,549|(7,812)|(1,263)|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||||||investments|investments||
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||At 1 April 2022|||||426,033|100|426,133|
||Additions|||||35,001||35,001|
||Valuation<br>changes|||||(20,686)||(20,686)|
||Cash movement|||||(2,794)||(2,794)|
||Disposals|||||(33,732)||(33,732)|
||At 31 March 2023|||||403,822|100|403,922|
||Carrying<br>amount||||||||
||At 31 March 2023|||||403,822|100|403,922|
||At 31 March 2022|||||426,033|100|426,133|
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||Amounts<br>failing due|||within|one year:||E|E|
||Trade debtors||||||117,915|154,025|
||Amounts<br>owed|by|subsidiary||undertakings||6,348|11,674|
||Prepayments<br>and||accrued income||||29,113|100,461|
||||||||153,376|266,160|
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|||||||Notes|E|E|
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||Deferred income|||||19|117,511|100,000|
||Trade creditors||||||100,142|41,965|
||Other creditors||||||20,832|22,848|
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||Other deferred<br>income||||||||100,000|
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||Current<br>liabilities|||||||117,511|100,000|
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||Deferred income at|1 April 2022||||||100,000|89,233|
||Released from previous||periods|||||(100,000)|(89,233)|
||Resources deferred|in the year||||||117,511|100,000|
||Deferred<br>income at|31 March 2023||||||117,511|100,000|





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|General development||fund|250,000||250,000|||250,000|
|Tangible fixed|assets||9,990|(4,533)|5,457|(3,874)||1,583|
|The Hamlets|furniture||20,000||20,000|||20,000|
||||279,990|(4,533)|275,457|(3,874)||271,583|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||Tangible assets||1,584||1,584|5,457||5,457|
||Investments||229,443|174,479|403,922|256,615|169,518|426,133|
||Current assets/(liabilities)||742,429|237,588|980,017|412,005|237,588|649,593|
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|Details ofthe charity's<br>sub|Details ofthe charity's<br>sub|sidiaries<br>at 31 March|2023 are as follows;|||
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|Name of undertaking||Registered|Nature ofbusiness|Class of|%Held|
|||office||shares held|Direct Indirect|
|Age Concern|Liverpool|The Frances|Provision offinancial services|Ordinary|100.00|
|(Services) Limited||Suits, 1st Floor,||||
|||151 Dale Street,||||
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|Surplus<br>for the year|||||258,430|(137,859)|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||||
|Investment<br>income recognised|in statement||offinancial|activities|(11,465)|(11,438)|
|Gain on disposal ofinvestments|||||(5,162)||
|Fair value gains and losses on|Investments||||20,686|1,263|
|Depreciation<br>and impairment<br>oftangible fixed assets|||||3,874|4,533|
|Difference between<br>pension charge and cash contributions|||||45,910||
|Movements<br>In working<br>capital:|||||||
|Decrease/(increase)<br>in debtors|||||112,784|(87,061)|
|Increase/(decrease)<br>in creditors|||||71,656|(59,784)|
|Increase<br>in deferred income|||||17,511|10,767|
|Cash generated<br>from/(absorbed||by) operations|||514,224|(279,579)|



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