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2022-03-31-accounts

Asha Neighbourhood Project Limited

Charity number 517985

A company limited by guarantee number 02040174

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the year ended 31 March 2022

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Asha Neighbourhood Project Limited

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Contents Page
Trustees' report 2 to 11
Examiner's report 12
Statement of financial activities 13
Balance sheet 14
Notes to the accounts 15 to 20

Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

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Asha Neighbourhood Project Limited

Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2022

Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors

The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position

Afia Khattun Chairperson Katy Ashworth Treasurer Dorothy Read Secretary Parveen Akhtar Elizabeth Johnson Alibun Nessa Sujana Shafique Louise Penrose Company secretary Dorothy Read Charity number 517985 Registered in England and Wales Company number 02040174 Registered in England and Wales Registered and principal address Bankers 43 Stratford Street Lloyds Bank Plc Nationwide Building Society Leeds 65-68 Briggate Nationwide House West Yorkshire Leeds Pipers Way LS11 6JG LS1 6LH Swindon. SN38 1NW

Registered in England and Wales Registered in England and Wales

Independent examiner

Alan Dodd FCCA West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

Structure, governance and management

The charity is a company limited by guarantee and was formed on 23 July 1986. It is governed by a memorandum and articles of association. The liability of the members in the event of the company being wound up is limited to a sum not exceeding £1.

Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees

The trustees of the charity are also the directors for the purposes of company law and are appointed by the members at the AGM.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Objectives and activities

The charity's objects

To promote the benefit of the children and other inhabitants of the Leeds 11 postal district as it exists at the date of incorporation hereof (hereinafter called the "area of benefit") without distinction of sex or of political religious or other beliefs by associating the local authorities voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education, including vocational training, and to provide facilities, in the interest of social welfare, for recreation and leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said children and other inhabitants and, in particular to provide such facilities to those in need thereof by reason of their youth, age, disablement, infirmity, or social and economic circumstances.

The relief of poverty, and the protection of the health of the children and other inhabitants of the area of benefit and, in particular by the provision and advice and guidance concerning health and legal and welfare rights.

To advance and promote the education of the children and other inhabitants of the area of benefit concerning good citizenship in a multiracial society and the intellectual artistic and economic and cultural background of the said children and other inhabitants.

The charity's main activities

Childcare

Pre-school Nursery, crèche and Playscheme: For children aged 0 to 12 years and living in Leeds 11. Aim to give play, educational, social, and recreational opportunities, in a safe environment, to children whose families are living in an area of deprivation. Activities provided to increase confidence and self esteem, reduce the effects of poverty, and promote development and social skills.

Training/Education/Employment

Aim: To enable learners to make informed decisions regarding choices about their future, increase confidence and self esteem, increase motivation/participation and lifelong learning, create a positive attitude to learning for the benefit of the whole family, and develop skills/qualifications. Enable the community to make a positive contribution to the economy and to improve employability skills - towards engaging with the current labour market and to encourage social interaction.

Health and wellbeing

Aimed at improving and maintaining good standards of health by: enabling access to mainstream services, improving knowledge and understanding of local provision, enabling women to make informed decisions on matters concerning their own and their family’s health and to enable women to feed into local and city-wide decision making about health and wellbeing provision. Asha provides services and activities around physical health, healthy eating choices, mental health, physical safety, domestic abuse, and health awareness and health management. This list is not exhaustive; new issues are added in response to need and demand.

Advice, Advocacy and Support

Aim to increase the economic and social wellbeing of the family, raise awareness of entitlement and eligibility to benefits and services including dealing with changes to these benefits, and challenging decisions where appropriate.

Influencing Providers of Mainstream Services and Key Decision Makers

Aim to Improve the community’s knowledge and understanding of provision (Local and wider), enable access to mainstream services and local/wider decision-making networks. To empower the community to make informed decisions and promote the specific needs of the community to relevant agencies.

Asha does this by providing focus groups, forums, information sessions, open days, and events (community and Asha staff) and by responding to requests for information from service providers and by contacting service providers to raise awareness of the specific needs of the community.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Public benefit statement

In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of education and the relief of poverty.

We aim to promote the benefit of people living in the Leeds 11 district of South Leeds, to advance the education, employment and health of people whose first language is not English, and to work primarily with women and children who, due to cultural and childcare restrictions, have increased social and economic needs.

Achievements and performance

Covid 19

From April 2021 services began to return to normal. Classes resumed and most staff returned to work on the premises. Infection control procedures remained in place including mask wearing whenever working one to one or in spaces not big enough for adequate social distancing.

Childcare

We were able to provide Playschemes throughout the year though we did not run one in the Easter half term, but instead ran one in the Spring Bank half term in the local park. The Summer, October, and February Playschemes ran for three days per week as per usual. 53 x individual children attended over the year. No charges were made for the Spring Bank Playscheme, but charges were resumed for the rest of the Playschemes as we were able to provide trips out again.

The Preschool runs 3 days per week, 5 hours per day to fit in with school hours and to provide women with more time to participate in activities. Asha is registered for a maximum of 10 children – places for 2 year old’s and 3 to 5 year olds. We have not been able to offer a crèche for classes as the course provider no longer pays for childcare places. This may change in future and might depend on the demand for places as well as the funding stream. We had a total of 12 x individual preschool children registered for the period.

The Preschool Nursery and Playscheme are Ofsted registered. As part of this we provide feedback forms for parents. Parents were still grateful for the fact we continued providing children’s activities throughout the year. Parents of the child with special educational needs were very happy with the support they and their child received. All Parents mainly cite increased confidence, improved behaviour, and use of language.

Both the Asha Preschool Nursery and the Playscheme currently hold a ‘Good’ standard awarded by Ofsted.

The Preschool did not take placements or volunteers this year.

The Asha playscheme and Preschool Nursery continue to be open to all children in the locality.

Training/ Education/Employment

Courses:

Vera Media continued to offer classes –Classes were held online until Easter 2021 after which the students returned to the Asha building.

From September 2021 to March 2022 75 individual women took part in courses: ESOL courses : Levels – Pre-Entry, Entry 1, 2 and 3 - 55 x women attended IT course : 24 x women attended

ESOL & IT: 10 x women attended both

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Achievements and performance (continued)

Employment Pathways:

Asha was still able to offer Information, Advice and Guidance provided on a one-to-one basis or over the phone - for help with making career choices, education or employment e.g. Help with CV writing, job search and mentoring

Volunteering/Placements – Asha couldn’t offer opportunities for learning and work experience this year, but a group of women were taken to a job fair in Leeds in the Autumn and work continues to help women into work by signposting to local specialist services e.g. the Education Development Trust provide weekly one to one employment coaching sessions at Asha.

Health Project

253 x individual women were involved in the Health Project this year. In addition, all staff were offered vaccinations early in line with the Government initiative to vaccinate front line workers involved in delivering Social Care services.

Areas of work:

In response to Public Health harm minimisation initiative and funding: all women aged 60+ were contacted directly to encourage them to get vaccinated both for Covid and for flu. In addition, Asha held two vaccination clinics in Asha, one in June one in August, and encouraged, accompanied, and transported women to local clinics.

Public Health continued to fund contact tracing through the Better Together partnership – following up addresses of persons identified as positive for Covid but had not provided their contacts.

Physical exercise activities: Weekly online yoga and Zumba classes attracted 13 women and a walking group attracted 11 women.

Healthy Lifestyle initiatives: Craft sessions, a gardening group and an art workshop run by SKIPPKO aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing. Addressing issues of isolation and low confidence exacerbated by Covid 19 and the lockdowns this entailed.

With funding from Public Health some of these initiatives were aimed specifically at women aged 60+. Information and workshops: Cancer awareness, end of life care and sight loss. Women also contributed to a research project focusing on unpaid carers and their needs and an impact of Covid 19 focus group.

Health services support + family planning information: Make sure women can attend their appointments. This could include any or all the following: booking an interpreter and changing appointment dates/times.

Advice Work

Asha provided advice to 146 x individuals (including on behalf of other family members). Advice was provided over the phone and face to face, by appointment only. An Income Maximisation Worker was employed from December 2020 to May 2021 funded by the Lottery, to help with the benefit crisis precipitated by the loss of employment for many in the community. Asha continued to fund this post until December 2021. Some service users, particularly those who lived on their own found the lockdowns very hard to cope with mentally and would contact staff for help and support almost daily. The main areas of help provided were the same as usual, but with the added need for financial help:

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Achievements and performance (continued)

Advice Work (continued)

Asha is a reporting centre for Hate crime for Leeds and has a Level 1 Safer Leeds domestic violence Quality Mark.

Claiming for Universal Credit has been highlighted by staff as one of the most difficult issues facing the service users.

Staff continued to give help over the phone to older women clients who found difficulty coming into the centre.

Women’s Lives Leeds (WLL) Project

Asha is one of 12 city wide women’s projects which have come together to form a partnership which aims to reach a greater number of the hardest to reach vulnerable women and girls in the city and to provide joined-up and holistic support.

Asha is part of the Women’s Lives Leeds, Women Friendly Leeds initiative funded by Comic Relief: The aim is to develop relationships with women and girls, stakeholders, and key decision makers in the city, and to promote pathways for women and girls to get their voices heard and, ultimately, influence change. 3 x women took part in the online, city-wide meetings with the support of the Development Worker: This included attendance of the Women’s Forum and the Advisory group. The Development Worker and a member of the Management Committee are Ambassadors for Women Friendly Leeds representing Asha.

Took part in a series of events organised by Women’s Lives Leeds all around the themes of Safeguarding, personal safety and the provision of safer streets and outdoor leisure spaces e.g. parks.

Digital exclusion project in response to Covid and the lockdown: Quickly established by WLL with Comic Relief funding, to train staff in the use of digital equipment. Some phones, laptops and tablets were bought and loaned by the project to women so they could connect with services etc.

The Sanctuary Project: A new project just started May 2022, working in partnership with 8 other women’s groups, and funded through Leeds City Council (Leeds Women’s Aid). Asha employs a Domestic Violence support worker whose remit is to help victims feel safe in their homes. Includes: safety planning, risk assessment, signposting to relevant services, and providing emotional and practical support. Plans to deliver workshops and awareness groups surrounding domestic violence and the services that are available for women that have and maybe going through domestic violence.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Achievements and performance (continued)

Influencing providers of mainstream services and key decision makers

Asha has continued to develop work around the theme of community cohesion.

Other initiatives:

PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS

Considering the possibility that the Covid pandemic has not completely ended, Asha plans to continue offering its services where, with new procedures in place, we can maintain a safe environment for both staff and service users. Asha intends to continue working towards its own aims and objectives by delivering the services outlined above. The Project will continue to look for ways of working in partnership with other organisations for the benefit of our Project users and to maximize our chances of attracting funding.

We are hoping to continue and to develop our work around Community Cohesion, and partnership working will play a part in this. We aim to work with all women in the community and continue to seek ways to further publicise this and to meet their needs. Both the work as part of Women’s Lives Leeds and as part of the Better Together consortium, working with different faith and ethnic groups, will further this aim.

We will continue to work with our partner Vera Media and our new provider CECOS, to deliver as wide a variety, as possible, of courses over the next year. Substantial ESOL courses i.e. ones that last for more than 10 weeks or are for more hours/days per week, are very much in demand. Providing crèche facilities to support learners, has become an issue due to a lack of funding from the course providers to provide this service. We will have to reassess the need to see if we can meet it another way.

Asha continues to work with local organisations, who like us, are currently contracted to deliver healthy living initiatives, in addition to creating and strengthening links with Leeds MIND and local GP’s.

Asha continues to maintain its Matrix standard (renewable every 3 years) and takes part in an annual review to ensure the continued quality of its information, advice, and Guidance services.

Asha remains a ‘Living Wage’ employer.

Asha is developing a long-term plan and as part of this has carried out a series of meetings with Management Committee and staff. The plan is to employ a Strategy and Operations Manager who will work with Staff and the Management Committee to devise and implement a strategy for the sustainability of the Centre.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS (continued)

Specific Aims

Treasurer's Report 2021/22

The Covid pandemic and the subsequent ‘lockdowns’ affected Asha’s income and expenditure during 2021/22. In 2020/21 significant decreases in room and crèche hire were more than offset by increases in grants - most of which were Covid related i.e. either to help with loss of income or as grants for work around mitigating the effects of Covid on our service users and local communities. In contrast, in 2021/22, the loss of income for room and crèche hire was not matched by an increase in income through grants. Fortunately, there were some grants received at the end of the previous financial year which were then spent during 21/22.

Asha has continued to become part of relevant consortia in an attempt to increase access to funding and contracts where partnership applications, only, will be considered.

Asha’s main Income for 2021/22

  1. Leeds City Council (LCC) has continued to mainstream fund salaries for 4 posts covering Development/Admin./Childcare, providing a substantial and useful contribution to the Project. Council budget constraints mean all the remaining posts are threatened i.e. staff made redundant or redeployed.

  2. The initial ‘Better Together’ Health contract ended in March 2022, but Asha was successful in securing another Healthy living, Service Level agreement from Leeds City Council as part of the partnership bid for a 5 year contract starting April 2022. This will fund the continuation of the health project up to April 2027.

  3. Income from renting rooms: Classes had to stop or go online for the first term in 2021, and as we usually receive rental in retrospect, this meant a reduction in income for 2021/22. Vera Media ran courses for the rest of the year, but have cut back on providing a crèche and both Learning Curve and the Cardigan Centre stopped delivering classes altogether. Asha is responsible for recruitment and retention of the learners.

  4. Preschool Nursery: Funding is drawn down, per child, from the Free Early Education Entitlement Grant (FEEE ) administered by Leeds City Council - Children’s services, and is used to cover the Preschool activities and staffing costs and the rest of the grant is used to pay towards Asha’s running costs. Asha also receives money from the Deprivation Fund to provide additional facilities to those preschool children who are deemed to live in a deprived area. The EYPP (Early Years Pupil Premium) funds individual children where their family meets a low income threshold. These funds cannot be used for core costs. EYFFI (Early Years Funding for Inclusion) was successfully applied for to support work with a child identified as having special educational needs.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Treasurer's Report 2021/22 (continued)

Asha’s main Income for 2021/22 (continued)

  1. Asha is part of the Women’s Lives Leeds partnership : Comic Relief funding for the Voices project pays towards staff time attending meetings and encouraging and supporting users to attend meetings. This funding will continue until 2023. Asha received a one-off payment from the Violence Reduction Unit to take part in a 6 months research project into women as victims and sometimes perpetrators of violent crimes.

  2. Two x Public Health grants through LCC. One to cover staff time contact tracing people who had contracted Covid, but had not given their ‘contacts’ details and one encouraging take-up of vaccines in women aged 60+.

  3. An annual donation (3 x years) from Hemmingway’s the company, to be spent as we need.

  4. Playscheme funding: Asha successfully obtained funding from Leeds City Council - PEG (Play Engagement Fund) and Wades Charity to run playschemes throughout the year.

Other Income: One off grant from the Older People’s Forum, contributions for room hire from NHS to run vaccination clinics in Asha and from LIP (Leeds Involving People) and WLL for one off events also held in Asha. Donations, bank interest, HMRC: Employer’s allowance and SMP recovered.

Additional information for 2021/22 as a consequence of Covid19

Asha is able to continue providing our planned services this financial year unless we are instructed to do otherwise due to Covid restrictions.

Income Issues:

  1. Preschool – FEEE (old NEG) funding – Asha is still able to offer a Preschool, but most of the income will be spent on staffing to make up for the loss of the substantial post previously payed for by LCC. If we have to close the Preschool the Childcare Worker salaries will be reviewed and staff will either be relocated to other funded work e.g. increased Crèche provision (dependant on courses running) and/or redundancies would have to be considered.

  2. Courses – crèche places and room hire – Disrupted and permanently affected by lockdowns in 2020/21. Income not expected to return to pre-Covid levels in 2022/23.

  3. Leeds City Council staff – removal of staff – This is still a threat. If the Council does make its staff redundant we should get at least 3 months warning. Asha will be able to replace salaries up to the end of 2023 using its Reserves. Until or unless the Council can guarantee the continued financing of the current posts as opposed to the current post holders, Asha will be looking for alternative funding.

Currently, Asha’s Reserves plus Income will cover costs until the end of 2023 although this may require additional redundancies/shortening of work hours/temporary layoffs whilst alternative funding is obtained.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Financial review

The net income for the year was £6,330, including net income of £27,704 on unrestricted funds and net expenditure of £21,374 on restricted funds after transfers.

Reserves policy

The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year end were £173,941.

The Asha Project believes that the charity should hold financial reserves because:

It has some mainstream funding in the form of a ‘donation’ providing salaries to core staff, but the future of this donation is no longer secure and therefore, this donation should now be counted as income for the purposes of the Reserves Policy calculation. In addition, from year to year, Asha is largely dependent upon external funding for income, which is inevitably subject to the continued success of bids and the project. Money is required so the project is able to continue even if external funding is delayed, withdrawn or discontinued.

The trustees believe that the minimum level of reserves should be the equivalent of three months' operating costs, calculated and reviewed annually, and believe that reserves should be built up, and maintained at the desired level, when possible, consistent with the charity's overall financial position and its need to maintain and develop its charitable activities.

To this end the trustees endeavour to make sure Asha's reserves do not fall below three months' or exceed six months' operating costs. To meet this demand, annual inflationary cost will be met either by accrued interest or additional payments received.

With the increased insecurity surrounding the Leeds City Council posts, the trustees have accepted the need to maintain a higher level of Reserves to guarantee the continuation of the Asha Project whilst other sources of funding are sought.

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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Statement of trustees' responsibilities

The trustees (who are also the directors for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees report and the financial statements in accordance with the applicable law and UK Accounting Standards.

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for the year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

select suitable accounting policies and 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 have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

prepare the accounts on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. 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.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (Charities SORP (FRS102)), and in accordance with the special provisions of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Signed on behalf of the board of trustees on 29/11/2022

Katy Ashworth (Trustee)

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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Asha Neighbourhood Project Limited

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charitable company for the year ended 31 March 2022, which are set out on pages 13 to 20.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees of the charitable company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the charitable company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

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.

Alan Dodd FCCA

30/11/2022

West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

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Statement of Financial Activities

(including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Notes
2022
Unrestricted
funds
£
Income from:
Grants and donations
(2)
23,308
Contracts
27,725
Fees and charges
16,065
Other income
198
Bank interest
31
Donated services
98,194
Total income
165,521
Expenditure on:
Salaries and NI
(3)
30,546
Travel
64
Activities costs
885
Insurance
11
Advertising and publicity
170
Office and administration
1,666
Premises
295
Independent examination
720
Information and subscriptions
434
Depreciation
4,209
Equipment and materials
342
Women's Lives Leeds project
-
Donated services
98,194
Miscellaneous expenditure
207
Total expenditure
137,743
Net income / (expenditure)
27,778
Transfers between funds
(74)
Net movement in funds
27,704
Fund balances brought forward
192,534
Fund balances carried forward
(4)
220,238		 2022
Restricted
funds
£
25,879
2,415
-
-
-
-
28,294
33,570
-
3,873
3,710
-
3,760
4,694
-
-
-
-
-
-
135
49,742
(21,448)
74
(21,374)
40,907
19,533		 2022
Total
funds
£
49,187
30,140
16,065
198
31
98,194
193,815
64,116
64
4,758
3,721
170
5,426
4,989
720
434
4,209
342
-
98,194
342
187,485
6,330
-
6,330
233,441
239,771		 2021
Total
funds
£
77,438
28,331
8,178
142
32
95,735
209,856
63,133
17
338
4,017
-
4,887
5,363
720
483
3,645
995
9
95,735
-
179,342
30,514
-
30,514
202,927
233,441

All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

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Balance sheet

as at 31 March 2022
2022
Unrestricted
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
(5)
46,297
Total fixed assets
46,297
Current assets
Stock
-
Debtors and prepayments
(6)
4,096
Cash at bank and in hand
(7)
171,083
Total current assets
175,179
Current liabilities:
amounts falling due within one year
Accruals
1,238
Total current liabilities
1,238
Net current assets / (liabilities)
173,941
Net assets
220,238
Funds
Unrestricted funds
220,238
Restricted funds
-
Total funds
220,238		 2022
Restricted
£
-
-
-
3,250
16,283
19,533
-
-
19,533
19,533
-
19,533
19,533		 2022
Total
£
46,297
46,297
-
7,346
187,366
194,712
1,238
1,238
193,474
239,771
220,238
19,533
239,771		 2021
Total
£
48,063
48,063
1,557
184,762
186,319
941
941
185,378
233,441
192,534
40,907
233,441

For the year ending 31 March 2022 the charitable company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476. The trustees (who also the directors for the purposes of company law) acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime and with FRS 102 (effective January 2019).

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 29/11/2022

Katy Ashworth (Trustee)

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Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 March 2022

1 Accounting policies

Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) and with the Charities Act 2011.

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.

No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.

Going concern

The trustees are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the resources, it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Grants and donations

Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.

Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.

Donated assets, facilities or services are valued at their estimated value to the charity. This is the price that the charity estimates it would pay in the open market for equivalent items; or services and facilities of equivalent utility to the charity.

Expenditure and liabilities

Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out the resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.

Taxation

As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets costing more than £500 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Gifted assets are shown at the value to the charity on receipt. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost on a straight line basis over their expected useful economic lives as follows:

Freehold property: over 50 years Project and office equipment: over 5 years Fixtures and fittings: over 4 years

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Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2022

1 Accounting policies continued

Pensions

The charity operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.

Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.

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

2 Grants and donations
National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF)
Wades Charity
Together Women
Older People's Forum
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)
Women's Lives Leeds: Comic Relief
Other donations
3 Staff costs and numbers
Gross salaries
Social security costs
Employment allowance
Pensions
Leeds City Council (LCC)		 2022
Unrestricted
funds
£
22,308
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,000
23,308		 2022
Restricted
funds
£
10,487
9,642
2,800
1,000
250
-
1,700
-
25,879		 2022
Total
funds
£
32,795
9,642
2,800
1,000
250
-
1,700
1,000
49,187
2022
£
63,074
2,083
(2,083)
1,042
64,116		 2021
Total
funds
£
36,412
9,573
-
-
-
1,545
28,808
1,100
77,438
2021
£
67,778
(3,577)
(2,309)
1,241
63,133

The average number of employees during the year was 9, being an average of 2.8 full time equivalent (2021: 7.8, 2.4 FTE). There were no employees with emoluments above £60,000.

Defined contribution pension scheme 2022 2021
£ £
Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year 1,042 1,241

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Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2022

4 Restricted funds
Deprivation Fund
EYFFI
EYPP
LCC - Harm Minimisation
LCC IS Community Committee
LCC MICE
NLCF - Harm Minimisation
NLCF - Income Maximisation
Older People's Forum
Peer Support
Play Enablement Grant
Public Health Trust
Voices Project - Comic Relief
VRU project - Together Women
Wades
Women's Lives Leeds		 Balance b/f
£
480
3,648
-
-
22
640
-
3,060
-
3,356
422
6,500
1,411
-
416
20,952
40,907		 Incoming
£
1,155
2,224
191
6,500
-
-
9,642
-
250
-
2,832
-
1,700
1,000
2,800
-
28,294		 Outgoing
£
1,709
1,586
-
5,801
-
135
-
3,060
200
3,356
1,260
6,472
1,411
1,000
2,800
20,952
49,742		 Transfers
£
74
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
74		 Balance c/f
£
-
4,286
191
699
22
505
9,642
-
50
-
1,994
28
1,700
-
416
-
19,533

Purpose of restriction

Fund name

Funded by LCC for preschool children living in an area of deprivation. Balance transferred from general unrestricted funds.

Deprivation Fund

Early Years Funding for Inclusion contract from LCC, restricted for the support of children identified with special educational needs who are eligible for a 'high needs top up' grant

EYFFI

Early Years Pupil Premium from LCC, for children whose parents qualify for extra financial help for their child's pre-school education.

EYPP

LCC - Harm Minimisation

Covid-19 harm minimisation - to increase the take-up of vaccination for those aged 60 and over.

LCC IS Community Committee For 3 coaches for a family trip to Scarborough LCC MICE For staff wellbeing, in response to Covid. NLCF - Harm Minimisation

To provide support and reduce isolation in response to Covid, targeting women aged 50 and over.

NLCF - Income Maximisation

To provide advice to women and their families in response to financial implications of Covid

To pay for a celebratory day trip for a group of older women.

Older People's Forum Peer Support

Funded by Leeds Women's Aid for a peer support project for vulnerable women

Play Enablement Grant

Funded by LCC for playscheme costs in Summer/Autumn 2021 and February 2022.

Covid-19 Harm Minimisation: to increase the take up of the vaccination for those aged 60+

Public Health Trust

Voices Project - Comic Relief

Through the Women's Lives Leeds partnership, to facilitate Asha working to involve hard to reach women to make Leeds a woman friendly city. Violence Reduction Unit research project to explore the reasons why women and girls are victims of violent crime.

VRU project - Together Women

Towards playscheme costs in Summer/Autumn 2021 and February 2022. Women's support partnership project

Wades Women's Lives Leeds

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Asha Neighbourhood Project Limited

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2022

5
6
**7 **		 Tangible assets
Cost
At 1 April 2021
Additions
At 31 March 2022
Depreciation
At 1 April 2021
Charge for year
At 31 March 2022
Net book value
At 31 March 2022
At 31 March 2021
Debtors and prepayments
Debtors
Prepayments
Cash at bank and in hand
Cash at bank
Cash in hand		 £
2,349
1,504
3,853
2,349
376
2,725
1,128
-
Fixtures
and Fittings		 £
7,245
939
8,065
4,218
1,343
5,442
2,623
3,027
Equipment		 £
124,489
-
124,489
79,453
2,490
81,943
42,546
45,036
2022
£
5,800
1,546
7,346
2022
£
187,342
24
187,366
Freehold
Property		 Total
£
134,083
2,443
136,407
86,020
4,209
90,110
46,297
48,063
2021
£
-
1,557
1,557
2021
£
184,740
22
184,762

8 Security over assets

Save the Children Fund have a legal charge of £13,500 dated 23 March 1987 secured on the property asset of the charity.

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Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2022

9 Related party transactions

Trustee expenses

No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.

Trustee remuneration and benefits

No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.

Remuneration and benefits received by key management personnel

The key management personnel of the charity include the trustees only.

No trustee received any remuneration or benefit in this capacity during this or the previous year.

Other transactions with trustees or related parties

Other transactions with trustees or related parties
Faith Together in
Leeds 11
Delivery partner
Hall hire
Name of trustee
or related party
Relationship to
charity
Description of transaction		 2022
£
450
450		 2021
£
-
-

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Asha Neighbourhood Project Limited

Statement of Financial Activities including comparatives for all funds (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2022

2022
2021
Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds
funds
£
£
Income
Grants and donations
23,308
28,984
Contracts
27,725
22,441
Fees and charges
16,065
8,178
Other income
198
142
Bank interest
31
32
Donated services
98,194
95,735
Total income
165,521
155,512
Expenditure
Salaries and NI
30,546
35,758
Travel
64
8
Activities costs
885
338
Insurance
11
3,903
Advertising and publicity
170
-
Office and administration
1,666
4,887
Premises
295
5,303
Independent examination
720
720
Information and subscriptions
434
483
Depreciation
4,209
3,645
Equipment and materials
342
995
Women's Lives Leeds project
-
9
Donated services
98,194
95,735
Miscellaneous expenditure
207
-
Total expenditure
137,743
151,784
Net income / (expenditure)
27,778
3,728
Transfers between funds
(74)
5,898
Net movement in funds
27,704
9,626
Fund balances brought forward
192,534
182,908
Fund balances carried forward
220,238
192,534		 2022
Restricted
funds
£
25,879
2,415
-
-
-
-
28,294
33,570
-
3,873
3,710
-
3,760
4,694
-
-
-
-
-
-
135
49,742
(21,448)
74
(21,374)
40,907
19,533		 2021
Restricted
funds
£
48,454
5,890
-
-
-
-
54,344
27,375
9
-
114
-
-
60
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
27,558
26,786
(5,898)
20,888
20,019
40,907		 2022
Total
funds
£
49,187
30,140
16,065
198
31
98,194
193,815
64,116
64
4,758
3,721
170
5,426
4,989
720
434
4,209
342
-
98,194
342
187,485
6,330
-
6,330
233,441
239,771		 2021
Total
funds
£
77,438
28,331
8,178
142
32
95,735
209,856
63,133
17
338
4,017
-
4,887
5,363
720
483
3,645
995
9
95,735
-
179,342
30,514
-
30,514
202,927
233,441

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