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2022-03-31-accounts

Belonging Salford CVS Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st March 2022

Salford Community and Voluntary Services Company Limited by Guarantee: 1948293 Registered Charity in England and Wales: 519361

Salford Community and Voluntary Services Company Limited by Guarantee: 1948293 Registered Charity in England and Wales: 519361

Contents

1 Introduction - Alison Page, Chief Executive

Foreword – Grace Dyke, Chair, Board of Trustees 5

Legal and Administrative Information 6

8 Strategic Priorities

10 Spotlight On - Strategic Voice and Influence Capacity-Building and Development Support Volunteering and Social Action Grants and Investments Information and Communications Partnerships in Practice

65 70 Policies

Plans for 2022/23

Structure, Governance and Management 71

72 Financial Review Funds Held as Custodian 72

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Statement of Trustee Responsibilities

Report of the Independent Auditors 76

79

Statement of Financial Activities

Balance Sheet 80

Cash Flow Statement 82 Notes forming Part of the Financial Statements 83 Organisational information and thanks 114

Salford Community and Voluntary Services | Trustees' Report for the year ended 31 March 2022

Introduction Alison Page, Chief Executive

Welcome to Salford Community and Voluntary Service’s annual report and audited accounts for the financial year ending 31st March 2022.

Well, it’s been another busy year here at Salford CVS, with what feels like more of everything being a priority. From managing emergency grants to recruiting and deploying volunteers, we’ve continued the yo-yo between being both proactive and reactive, switching between our own delivery and development plans, the needs of our people and communities, and the ‘ask’ that comes with being a strategic ‘anchor’ organisation in the city of Salford.

Like most people working in the VCSE sector in Salford, we’ve kept going here at Salford CVS, but to be honest we’re pretty shattered… doing more for less resources is what we’re good at in our sector! However, we all know this isn’t sustainable, or fair, and so need to continue to lobby for increased investment and more sustainable funding for the VCSE sector.

Last year our Annual Report (2020/21) was titled ‘THE COVID YEAR’ – little did we know then that we could have reasonably called this annual report for 2021/22 ‘ANOTHER COVID YEAR’ … but we’re not calling it that.

This annual report is titled ‘BELONGING’, in reference to the VCSE conference we held in October 2021. In line with the ‘new normal’ we decided to organise an in-person main conference, plus three online ‘fringe’ events, focusing on health and social care changes, food demand and security, and Salford becoming a City of Sanctuary.

Our main VCSE conference was titled ‘Belonging – Exploring Identity and Place’ . We hadn’t been able to hold a conference in 2020, so were really excited to bring together a great panel of keynote speakers to explore what ‘belonging’ means to our sector and how we could work together to ensure all people living in Salford feel that they belong.

Alongside our core business – strategic voice and influence, capacity-building and development support, volunteering and social action, grants and investments, information and communications, and partnership working – during 2021/22 we also got involved in a wide variety of other work.

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We launched our Salford and Greater Manchester ‘State of the VCSE Sector 2021’ report findings – you can find some interesting facts about our sector on page 12 of this report.

In our role as the appointed Locally Trusted Organisation (LTO) for Little Hulton Big Local , our six years of providing support came to an end with the orderly transition of the LTO role to the legacy charity, Community Little Hulton CIO. This included TUPE transfer of the two paid staff Salford CVS had employed for LHBL since the beginning of our involvement – Alison Jones, Development Manager, and Susan Owen, Community Organiser. I’d like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Alison and Sue, who have done a fantastic job supporting the people and communities of Little Hulton. There’s a bright future ahead for Community Little Hulton and I wish the Board of Trustees and the staff team all our best wishes. BTW, we’re still here if you need us…

During the year we developed some new relationships – for instance with RHS Garden Bridgewater , helping them recruit volunteers and nudging them towards the Living Wage; whilst also consolidating other relationships, such as the one we have with local charity Start Inspiring Minds . In September 2021, on World Suicide Day , we once again supported their procession and vigil ‘Pause the City’, promoting via our comms channels, helping carry the flags, and me helping read out the names of people lost to suicide in Salford over the past five years.

We continued to be a passionate advocate for the ‘real’ Living Wage – working with both the Salford and Greater Manchester Living Wage Action Groups and the Living Wage Foundation to promote the benefits of accreditation, particularly to VCSE organisations. As a Living Wage Employer since 2013 and a Living Wage Funder since 2018, we were delighted to win the Foundation’s Funding and Charity of the Year award in June 2021.

In November 2021 we organised an in-person

breakfast event to showcase VCSE sector Living Wage employers and to encourage others to join us. We also talked about our work as a Living Wage Funder, highlighting our grants programme. In addition, we promoted and attended a sister event, organised by Manchester and Salford charity Mustard Tree .

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Part of our Living Wage work involves campaigning – so it’ll be no surprise to learn that I joined GM Citizens and local Living Wage Action Group members in assembling outside Salford Royal Hospital one Saturday, and moving across the road to a care home, run by a national charity, to try and get our message across, that ‘a hard days’ work deserves a fair day’s pay’. Partly as a result of this action, Anchor Hannover latterly committed to paying their care home staff the real living wage across all of their sites.

During 2021/22, when we weren’t recruiting Community Champions and Trusted Voices to support vaccination and testing centres and investing in our sector to resource community engagement, we were providing month-long on-site support at Salford Royal’s A&E department – you can read more about that later on page 39.

During the summer of 2021 we got heavily involved in local humanitarian assistance efforts to support those people fleeing Afghanistan.

We played a key role in the strategic, tactical and operational work at both Salford and GM levels, including collecting in and redistributing many thousands of donated goods, alongside purchasing new, which went to the airport, holding hotels, Care4Calais and other local charities.

We are keen to share with readers of this annual report that we think local infrastructure organisations such as ours have a duty to not only take practical action when our communities need us, but also ensure that we play a central role in lobbying and - campaigning for change for example, for the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. After all, we are all about ‘making a difference’ .

With supporting women and girls in Salford in mind, we agreed to help Salford City Council establish a Women and Girls' Commission in the autumn of 2021. The issue of women’s safety gained a national profile on a scale not seen for many years with the murder of Sarah Everard – although some of us were involved in Reclaim the Night marches many years ago! I’d recommend this website if you want to know more about women murdered by men in the UK (www.kareningalasmith.com/category/counting-dead-women/)

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Then, in February 2022, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent arrival of Ukrainians into Greater Manchester, we got together with our VCSE partners to launch a fundraising appeal and also to establish a weekly meeting of VCSE frontline charities, which in turn fed into the GMCA Tactical Coordination Group.

Throughout the year 2021/22 we continued to try and help address the injustices of widening inequalities , particularly as the double whammy of the impact of the pandemic and the rising Cost of Living started to have an even greater impact on the people and communities of Salford. You can read more about our activities later in this report.

Our commitment to Salford – people and place – is to continue to do whatever we can to make Salford a healthier, fairer and greener place for those who live and work here.

We ended the year once again with an increased membership – 939 full members and 10 associate members . As a membership organisation we exist to serve and support you, so please do get in touch with us to ask for help or to give us feedback.

Towards the back of this report you can read our Development Plans for 2022/23 – but to quote Robert Burns, “ the best laid plans of mice and men… ” so we’ll have to see what happens and be as ready as we can be to help where needed!

I’d like to end by thanking our fabulous team of paid staff, trustees and volunteers here at Salford CVS; and of course all of our partners and funders.

I hope you find this annual report engaging and informative.

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Chair's Foreword Grace Dyke

Welcome to Salford Community and Voluntary Services’ annual report and audited accounts for the financial year ending 31st March 2022.

I am very proud to report on another successful year at Salford CVS on behalf of the Board of Trustees.

I don’t think a month passes without us being blown away by all that the VCSE sector achieves in Salford – and by the passion and dedication shown by Salford CVS staff, volunteers and partners to empower the sector to strive for greater innovation, collaboration and impact.

Not only did our membership increase this year, but so did the support delivered to the VCSE sector in Salford, including:

Innovation is one of Salford CVS’ values and has been demonstrated by the launch of several new programmes this year, such as the Green Care Project, which is one of five pilots in Greater Manchester connecting people to green and blue spaces. 156 people have been connected to Salford green and blue spaces so far and a Green Space Development Worker has been recruited to develop the capacity of green and blue community assets to support more people – read more on page 55.

Collaboration is also at the heart of Salford CVS. In yet another challenging year we have worked closely with commissioners and strategic partners to continue to provide opportunities for sector representation and to deliver responsive grants and investment processes to support all sections of Salford's diverse communities.

Demonstrating Impact means making sure every team member, service and grant makes a positive difference to the people of Salford. Throughout this report, you will find statistics and stories that bring to life the impact of the organisation and its members’ work.

Of course, this work – and its impact – would not be possible without resources. We ended the 2021/22 financial year in a position of strong financial health – which you can read in our financial accounts (page 70 onwards). Please do ask us if you would like us to explain anything you read in this report.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow trustees, our staff and volunteers, plus all of our partners and funders for all of their support.

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Legal & Administrative Information

Status

The Charity (no. 519361) is a Company Limited by Guarantee, (no. 1948293) with its governing document being its Memorandum and Articles of Association. The liability of the members in respect of the guarantee is limited to £10 each. As of 31 March 2022 there were 949 members. The charity’s trading name is Salford CVS. The Directors are appointed according to the Articles of Association and are referred to as the Board of Trustees.

Board of Trustees

Grace Dyke (Chair) John Phillips (Treasurer)

Adam Webster (Vice-Chair) Janice Lowndes - resigned 19th October 2021 Ray Mashiter

Dr Kevin Kane – resigned 31st October 2021 Dr Jennifer Rouse – resigned 25th November 2021

Barbara Bentham Ben Whalley Yen Siang Tan

Council Representatives Non-voting ambassadors Councillor Sharmina August

Senior

Management Team

Alison Page - Chief Executive Kirsten Robinson - Deputy Chief Executive Rachel Jones – Director of Delivery (to December 2021)

Investment Powers

The charity’s powers of investment are governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association. The Trustees, who are also the Directors of the Charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 31 March 2022. The Trustees have adopted the provision of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).

949 members making a difference in Salford

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Principle Objectives

The charity’s principle objectives as set out in its Memorandum of Association are:

  1. To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the public principally but not exclusively in the local government area of Salford and its environs (area of benefit). And in particular, build the capacity of third-sector organisations and provide them with the necessary support, information and services to enable them to pursue or contribute to any charitable purpose.

  2. To promote, organise and facilitate cooperation and partnership working between third sector, statutory and other relevant bodies in the achievement of the above purposes within the area of benefit.

For the purposes of this article:

a) ‘third sector’ means charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.

b) ‘charities’ are organisations which are established for exclusively charitable purposes in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

c) ‘voluntary organisations and social enterprises' are independent organisations, which are established for purposes that add value to the community as a whole, or a significant section of the community, and which are not permitted by their constitution to make a profit for private distribution.

Voluntary organisations and social enterprises do not include local government or other statutory authorities.

Public Benefit Outcomes

Salford CVS operates for the benefits of its membership and our ethos is demonstrated in public benefit to the citizens of Salford. Trustees have referred to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the Strategy, Vision, Mission and Values of the organisation and our six thematic strands of work. In particular, the Trustees have considered how our planned activities, developments and decisions affect our impact on Salford citizens. We use monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate our outcomes and impact, which further demonstrate our public benefit. Underlying this is our commitment to Quality, which is one of our six Values.

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Custodian Funds

The charity holds funds on behalf of other organisations as a custodian. There are a number of reasons why the organisations cannot hold their own funds, including: the organisation is too small to operate a bank account; there are not sufficient people in the organisation for adequate controls as stipulated by a grant provider; or, the organisation does not feel it has appropriate resources to handle its own funds.

When a fund is taken on by the charity, there is both an application form and ID provided by the organisation; or, the terms from the grant provider are that the funds are held by the charity. Any movement of funds must be supported by written authorisation from a designated member of the organisation.

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Our Strategic Priorities Ensuring our work delivers our objectives

During the year 2021/22 we continued to deliver against the strategic priorities outlined in our Strategic Plan 2018 – 2023 , which sets out for stakeholders our mission, vision, values, strategic priorities and associated work strands.

We determined our priorities in consultation with our staff and trustees, our members and wider VCSE sector colleagues, public sector partners and other stakeholders and review these annually.

Looking forward, 2022/23 will be the last year of our current Strategic Plan; and April 2023 will see us launch our next 5 year plan.

Mission Statement

Making a difference in Salford

Vision

A robust voluntary, community and social enterprise sector that meets the diverse needs and aspirations of the people of Salford

Values

MAKING A DIFFERENCE through:

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Passionate about the Voluntary, Community and Social
PASSION
Enterprise Sector
INNOVATION Innovative in our approach
QUALITY Quality at the heart of all our activities
Stronger when we work cooperatively with others to achieve
COOPERATION
our vision
DIVERSITY Celebrating diversity and promoting equality in Salford
IMPACT Demonstrating impact and making a difference every time
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Salford CVS: Strategic Priorities 2018 - 2023

Salford CVS has a proud history of making a difference in Salford.

We are a well-respected partner in this city and have excellent relationships with both VCSE and public sector organisations.

We are financially stable with a clear business plan and a highly skilled and motivated staff team and board of trustees.

As a membership organisation, we work hard to address the needs and represent the interests of almost one thousand Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) member organisations.

Our Annual General Meeting is always widely publicised and well attended, with a clear focus on our status as a membership organisation and how we endeavour to engage, involve and support our members throughout the year.

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Spotlight On - Strategic Voice and Influence

Research and Insight

The State of the Sector research was conducted across Salford and Greater Manchester using electronic surveys and online focus groups during Autumn / Winter 2020/21, with report-writing taking place in late spring of 2021, the GM report finalised in late July and the locality reports completed during August and September 2021.

The Greater Manchester report was launched at an online event, held on the 29th July 2021 and was chaired by Salford CVS’ Chief Executive, Alison Page, with Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, as the keynote speaker. The Salford report was launched in-person on 19th October 2021 at our Annual VCSE conference.

‘State of the Sector’ is a partnership piece of research, commissioned by Salford CVS, working with 10GM, GMCVO, and other local infrastructure organisations from across Greater Manchester; and in the case of Wigan and Trafford with the respective local authorities. Salford CVS have led this research locally since 2007/08 and across Greater Manchester since 2012.

Previous reports had been produced with CRESR at Sheffield Hallam University, but this time we undertook a competitive tendering process and as a result appointed the University of Salford as our academic research partner.

The key objective of the research was to provide a comprehensive overview of the State of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector both within the city of Salford and across Greater Manchester as a whole.

This year marked the first time that the research was successfully completed across all ten local authority areas in Greater Manchester. The data, insight and concluding evidence in the report are clear: the VCSE sector makes a significant contribution within localities and to our city region - addressing needs, reducing hardship, supporting those in crisis, promoting aspiration and driving social value.

The full report also explores a range of external factors and their impact on the sector, including the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and its impact, Inequalities and Discrimination.

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Headline findings – Salford State of the VCSE Sector 2021 report:

The quarterly Salford Pulse Check was introduced by Salford CVS during 2021 as a way of capturing quick snapshots regarding the sector as it emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic. The brief survey captured crucial information around need, demand, workforce, volunteering and income as well as additional thematic questions. The survey was used to support our influencing work with the public sector and also to help shape the services we provide to the sector.

Moving into 2022/23 we plan to continue with quarterly Salford Pulse Checks alongside a new piece of work ( The Salford 99 ) aiming to both bridge the years between State of the Sector as well as providing further longitudinal insight into the shape of Salford’s VCSE sector on a more regular basis.

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Strategic Partnership work – Salford

In April 2021 we started where we had left off in our previous annual report and continued to attend and represent Salford CVS, advocating on behalf of the wider VCSE sector, on a wide range of strategic, tactical and operational Covid-19 response and recovery groups . These included:

Civil Contingencies & Humanitarian Response - We continued to work on Civil

Contingencies Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Response within Salford and Greater Manchester during 2021/22. This included working with British Red Cross and Greater Manchester Combined Authority to support the revision of the Greater Manchester VCSE Resilience Forum and to secure Local Resilience Forum pilot funding to implement the Salford Model in all boroughs of Greater Manchester. As a result of the Emergency Response work, our Voice & Influence Manager was invited to speak at a national government ‘Emergency Planning & Response conference’ about the importance of involving the VCSE sector in Local Resilience Forums and showcase the work that has been done in Salford around the mobilisation of VCSE organisations and volunteers in an Emergency Response.

Also throughout 2021/22 our Chief Executive, Strategic Leads and VOCAL VCSE

Representatives continued to engage with all of the city’s main Strategic Partnerships (and their sub-groups) including:

The purpose of our involvement in these partnerships is to give a sector perspective and try and use our collective voice and influence to bring about positive change.

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For example, our involvement in the Community Safety Partnership’s Tackling Domestic Abuse Board and strong lobbying outside of the formal meetings led to the Domestic Abuse Commissioning Strategy deadline being pushed back. This allowed members of the VOCAL VCSE Domestic Abuse & Sexual Violence Forum (which includes the commissioned providers who would be affected by the commissioning) the opportunity to input into the strategy and support contributions from survivors, perpetrators and children affected by Domestic Abuse.

Through our involvement in the Health & Wellbeing strategic partnerships we became a key partner in the development of the Salford Integrated Care System, shaping the transformation in Salford and ensuring that there are VCSE representatives on the newly emerging structures (See case study on page 20). We also supported the review of the Salford Locality Plan for Wellbeing, Health and Care, refreshing the chapter on ‘Communities and Neighbourhoods'.

As a result of working closely as part of the Salford Community Cohesion Sub-Group, which we chair, we managed to involve our some of our ‘Trusted Voices’ community organisations in Hate Crime research with the University of Salford University (on behalf of GM Police).

Outside of these formal partnership meetings, we continued to prioritise having regular meetings with the City Mayor and his team and the Council’s Chief Executive, including visiting VCSE sector activities every quarter.

Strategic Partnership work – Greater Manchester

During 2021/22 Salford CVS continued to play a proactive role in the Greater Manchester strategy and policy landscape – from being involved in the drafting of the revised Greater Manchester Strategy as a member of the Tackling Inequalities Board Exec to sitting on Andy Burnham’s Living Wage City Region Action Group.

As a founder member of the GM VCSE Leadership Group (www.vcseleadershipgm.org.uk) we continued to work collaboratively with sector colleagues on work around Integrated Care, Population Health, Social Prescribing, Inclusive Economy, Commissioning, Equalities, Tackling Inequality, and more. We were heavily involved in the refreshing of the Accord between VCSE Leaders, Andy Burnham, GMCA and the HSCP / ICS and then worked with other local infrastructure colleagues to roll out the refreshed GM VCSE Accord into our respective localities.

10GM , the joint venture between Salford CVS, Bolton CVS, Macc (Manchester) and Action Together (Oldham, Tameside, Rochdale) continued to go from strength to strength, building upon our portfolio of projects and continuing to lobby for the role of local infrastructure across the whole of Greater Manchester (www.10gm.org.uk).

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VOCAL VCSE Forums for Voice and Influence

During the year 2021/22 in total we planned and facilitated a total of 24 VOCAL VCSE Forums for voice and influence with our VCSE colleagues in Salford, involving a total of 353 sector participants. This was pleasing as these numbers are comparable to 2018/19 pre-Covid participation.

During the year the following VOCAL Forums were active:

We also organised regular VOCAL Reps meetings throughout the year.

During the year VOCAL VCSE Leaders :

Updated their own VCSE Leader's action plan after determining their revised priorities

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The relaunch of the VOCAL Environment Forum took place in December 2021 at Wardley Hall. It was attended by 32 VCSE organisations who heard from a range of guest speakers including Amber McCormack from Islington Mill Foundation, Andrew Simpson from RHS Bridgewater, Lucy Rogers from Groundwork, Emma Gardner and Steve Burrows from the Diocese of Salford and David Crowe from Wardley Hall.

Participants were treated to the 'Basics about Bees', heard about plans for Swinton Square and had a tour of Wardley Hall. They also received an update about various grant programmes including Salford CVS, RHS Garden Bridgewater and Groundwork.

VCSE Workshops and Roundtable Events

During 2021/22 we organised 7 VCSE strategic workshops and roundtable events, which 264 people participated in. Workshops / round tables included: Salford becoming a City of Sanctuary; Food security and response; Salford as a Marmot City; Social Value Portal; Culture and Place Strategy; Changes to Health and Social Care; VCSE organisations and the Living Wage breakfast event during Living Wage Week 2021. These were a mix of online and in-person events.

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We also organised 3 People’s Panel events for Salford Learning City during 2021/22.

In addition, we organised the online launch event for the Greater Manchester ‘State of the VCSE Sector’ report findings, which took place on 29th July 2021 with Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, as the keynote speaker.

We helped Salford City Council organise and run the listening event followed by the first session of the Salford Women and Girls' Commission.

The first listening event was held in November and was attended by 62 participants.

The aim of the event was to identify the key themes for the commission to focus on for the next year. As a result of the event, three themes were identified: women and poverty; women and girls’ safety; women and girls’ voice.

The first meeting of the commission was held on 1st February 2022 and chaired by Cllr Sharmina August. Salford CVS’ CEO is one of the commissioners. The commission's listening events and meetings continue to be supported by Salford CVS’ Services Manager and Equalities Lead. (www.partnersinsalford.org/salford-women-and-girls-commission/commissioners)

VCSE Annual Conference

Our annual VCSE Conference took place at AJ Bell Stadium in October 2021. We were excited to be able to organise the conference in person, as due to Covid-19 restrictions we hadn’t been able to organise one in 2020.

The theme of the conference was Belonging: Exploring Identity & Place , and the event saw over 100 delegates (we restricted numbers due to Covid-19) from across the Salford VCSE sector join us to explore the importance of identity and place for communities, particularly as the pandemic had shone a spotlight on the deep inequalities and social fractures that impact both place and communities of identity.

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Our keynote speakers and facilitators on the day both challenged and inspired us all.

Speakers and facilitators were asked to start their presentations with their own thoughts on what ‘belonging’ meant to them – and in response, they shared some very personal, thoughtful and passionate reflections. You can read a full write-up on all of the speakers here: www.salfordcvs.co.uk/belonging-exploring-identity-and-place

Throughout our conference, we featured some videos of voices from our sector on the topic of Belonging: Exploring Identity & Place. You can watch all of the brilliant contributions via our YouTube channel. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAR6I_8gwQr-YmkrBjIOnHEUypHy_2WfZ

Evaluations from the conference were very positive, with great feedback on the theme and also the quality and impact of the keynote speakers.

We also held our Salford CVS Annual General Meeting at the conference during which we officially launched the Salford State of the VCSE Sector 2021 report, although we had already been sharing the headlines prior to the AGM.

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VCSE Voices Matter - health and social care strategic work

The strategic work of Salford CVS and the wider sector through the ‘VCSE Voices Matter (in health and social care)’ initiative continues to ensure that the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector has a key role in ensuring voice and representation in the strategic planning, development and delivery of health and social care provision and policy across the city.

Integrated Care transformation in Salford

In 2021 – 2022 the voice of the sector has been of great significance in the transformation of the current arrangements for developing, commissioning, governing and delivering Health and Social Care in Salford, as well as Greater Manchester, into a Greater Manchester Integrated Care System.

This is part of a National transformation which aims to “…keep everyone healthier; plan and deliver health services more effectively; make sure everyone is treated equally and fairly; help the NHS become as efficient as possible, and also help it contribute to the wider economy” (NHS Greater Manchester).

The transformation will see the 10 Greater Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups become one organisation, NHS Greater Manchester, from the 1st July 2022, which will have broader responsibilities for social care and population health. The new arrangements will see more planning and commissioning responsibility at a Greater Manchester level with some delegated responsibilities overseen by a Locality Board for Salford.

The transition work in Salford has been delivered through four work streams that reported to a Transition Board initially, then latterly the Salford Shadow Locality Board, these are: Governance, Accountability & Strategic Planning; Functions, People & Culture; Provider Collaborative; Financial Planning. Through our VCSE Voices Matter work we have ensured voice and representation from the sector throughout the transformation and our representatives have been collectively shaping the plans and arrangements for Salford’s Integrated Care functions and structures.

From the 1st July 2022 the Salford Health and Care Locality Board will formally take on delegated responsibility for key commissioning, provision and oversight of key aspects of services for Salford residents. One of the key achievements of VCSE Voices Matter has been to ensure that the VCSE sector is an equal partner in these arrangements and establish representation on the key strategic boards. These are:

Salford Locality Board CVS and 2 VCSE reps

Provider Collaborative Board CVS and 5 VCSE reps Clinical and Care Senate 2 VCSE reps

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Case study - Changes to Health & Social Care roundtable event

Salford CVS jointly organised this event in May 2021 with social enterprise Salford Primary Care Together (SPCT). The purpose was to engage the VCSE sector in order to raise awareness about the impending changes to health and social care in Greater Manchester with the creation of a new Integrated Care System; explore what this might mean for Salford, and ensure that VCSE colleagues had the opportunity to play a leading role in this work.

The roundtable was attended by 36 sector leaders, who had been sent a comprehensive briefing paper in advance of the event. We heard presentations from Warren Heppolette (Executive Lead for Strategy & System Development, GM Health & Social Care Partnership) who gave an overview of the Greater Manchester journey to the integration of services and engagement of the sector in the work. This was followed by a presentation from Karen Proctor (Director of Commissioning, NHS Salford CCG), who gave an overview of the Salford Story and relationships with the VCSE Sector, including demonstrating the importance of how small grants to VCSE organisations can make a big difference.

The participants then broke into smaller groups to explore the following questions:

The panel comprised Warren Heppolette, GM Health & Social Care Partnership; Steve Dixon, NHS Salford CCG; Tom Stannard, Salford City Council; Pete Turkington, Salford Care Organisation / SRFT; Gill Green, GM Mental Health Trust; and the subsequent discussions were facilitated by Liz Cross, chair of SPCT. Speakers and panellists had been sent a series of questions in advance to consider. Questions put to the panel included:

Panel responses and a full write-up of the event were circulated to all participants and also to relevant VOCAL Forums. The briefing paper and an update document were also shared widely across the wider VCSE sector via our weekly enews and website.

Changes to Health and Social Care / creation of the GM ICS was a key theme for our work throughout 2021/22 and will remain so in 2022/23.

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Home First

Through our VCSE Voices Matter initiative Salford CVS and VCSE sector colleagues are contributing to the development of the Home First programme, which will facilitate the timely and safe discharge of patients from Salford Royal hospital. The programme is using strengths based approaches to ensure people are able to support themselves or have appropriate community support when they leave hospital; central to this is the development of a post that will link people to assets in their local communities when their discharge is being planned. The post-holder will be employed by Salford CVS and sit within the Home First team.

Community Led Support

Over the last two years, Adult Social Care in Salford has been leading a transformation in the way in which people are supported in their communities. The Community Led Support programme takes a strengths-based approach that will ultimately change the culture of health and social care through new and collaborative ways of working. Primarily this will be achieved by connecting residents to their communities, helping them to access the right support at the right time.

The VCSE Voices Matter initiative has ensured that local VCSE organisations are actively working with Social Care and Health professionals to develop initiatives that build on the strengths and assets within communities.

Salford CVS and the VCSE sector have been central to the delivery of the joint plans of the Integrated Neighbourhood Leadership Boards and have been key to the momentum behind the Community Led Support three innovation sites:

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Salford System Workforce: developing the care workforce

The VCSE Voices Matter initiative has enabled the sector to work with colleagues from NHS Northern Care Alliance, Salford City Council, and key employment providers to help shape and develop a plan to increase the care workforce in the city, as there is a shortage of people to fill vacancies. The plan, which addresses a key priority of the City Health Leaders Group, will see a cohort of up to 60 people who are not in work given accredited training that will help them start a career in health and care. The intention is that Salford grows its own workforce rapidly and builds a model that will sustain the care market for the future and create career pathways for local people. As part of this work we have lobbied for the payment of the ‘real’ Living Wage (LW foundation rates) for all care workers.

COVID-19 vaccination for unpaid carers and frontline VCSE staff and volunteers

During the pandemic, the lead for VCSE Voices Matter has been closely involved in Salford’s work to protect local people from harm from the pandemic. One of the key areas of focus in 2021/22 was the rollout of the vaccination programme. Initially, this was limited to people working in very high-risk settings or those who were clinically vulnerable.

As a member of the city’s Vaccination Strategy Group, we were able to influence and persuade our NHS and Public Health colleagues that the programme should include VCSE frontline workers, for example, those working in food banks or delivering personal care; and unpaid, unidentified, carers. We made the case that VCSE frontline workers were also at greater risk than the general population and that by vaccinating unpaid carers we would be protecting our most vulnerable citizens.

Salford CVS set up and promoted an online booking system and worked with colleagues from Salford Primary Care Together and NHS Salford Royal to offer vaccinations to over 900 of these people in 2021/22, enabling frontline VCSE workers to continue their valuable work and unpaid informal carers to continue being able to care and support (thus helping manage demand on the Salford health and care system).

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Children, Young People and Families strategic work

Two examples of our strategic work around Children, Young People and Families agenda:

Salford CVS and Salford City Council’s Early Help team have been working much closer together recently in order to deliver the Family Hub Partnership work. We received Family Hub Partnership funding from Salford City Council (we helped write the bid for national funding) to appoint a VCSE Engagement Worker to work with VCSE organisations who support children and young people in order to engage them in the work of the Family Hub Partnership. We also appointed a Volunteering Worker to recruit and manage volunteers to support activities in the family hubs and to deliver parenting skills training.

We continued our partnership with the Youth Justice Service and in January 2022 our new Youth Justice Community Connector / Advocate started with us at Salford CVS. The role provides support for families who are interacting with the Youth Justice Service. This includes connecting them into community support offers – whether for advice, mental health support, or practical support such as food/clothing and access to community activities. The role encompasses elements of both advocacy and social prescription. 12 families were supported in Quarter 4.

Case study: Parental advocacy in medication review

Mum had raised concerns about her son’s medication. She had done some research online and was worried about the impact it was having on him. She thought there were alternatives that were more suitable. Our worker (Community Connector and Advocate) encouraged mum to raise these issues in the upcoming medication review, but she expressed she was not confident enough to do this and asked our worker to do this on her behalf. Our worker attended the meeting with mum and raised the concerns with her. After consideration, the CAMHS practitioner agreed to cross-titrate onto a different medication. Mum reports her son seems to be better on this new medication.

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Culture and Place strategic work

During the year 2021/22 Salford CVS remained a core partner in the Salford Culture and Place Partnership and its work surrounding the delivery of the Suprema Lex Strategy.

We hosted a round table event for Salford’s leading cultural and arts VCSE organisations at Ordsall Hall in August 2021. The session was limited in numbers due to being mindful of Covid, nevertheless, some of the key charitable arts and culture organisations were represented (including Start Inspiring Minds, Walk the Plank, Salford Community Leisure, WCML, Europia). Those present heard more about the ‘Suprema Lex’ Strategy and participated in a workshop to explore their ideas regarding next steps.

Other work has included supporting the submission of

several funding bids to support work within the city, including Arts Council and various UK Research and Innovation calls.

Through the partnership, Salford CVS has committed to supporting the delivery of the ‘ We Invented the Weekend ’ Festival, scheduled to take place later in 2022. We joined the festival steering group from the outset and agreed to connect festival organisers into charitable and community offers, alongside recruiting and managing volunteers over the festival weekend.

Physical Activity strategic work

This financial year saw the successful completion of our funded activity within the Salford Local Delivery Pilot via our ‘Boost’ grant-funded projects. Following on from this, work has begun on refreshing the Salford Physical Activity Strategy , which will embed learning from the pilot and also reflect the needs and challenges within the world of physical activity postpandemic. Salford CVS is a key partner in developing this strategy alongside Salford City Council’s Public Health team and Salford Community Leisure. The strategy and associated action plan is due to be completed in late 2022.

Salford CVS remains involved in the GM Moving agenda and participated in a variety of events and meetings during the year, exploring broader system change to support the physical activity agenda. For example, attending Greater Sport-organised workshops to make the case for locality VCSE involvement and investment.

Another example was facilitating a meeting between 10GM (local infrastructure) and GM Active (leisure providers), the purpose of which was to explore commonalities and the potential for future joint work. Salford CVS’s relationship and joint working with Salford Community Leisure was highlighted as a good practice case study. This relationship with Salford Community Leisure has continued to build through a programme of joint working – e.g. developing a revised offer of mutual support to sports and physical activity clubs within the city via Salford Sports Network.

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Information Governance strategic work

Salford CVS continues to chair and lead the Greater Manchester VCSE IG Leads group . The group now consists of over 40 VCSE organisations operating across the city region and comprises a mixture of virtual meetings alongside regular e-bulletins.

Topics during 2021/22 included updates from influential partnership structures such as the GM Information Board; plus a wide range of sector-specific information on topics from Cyber Security through to International Data Transfers and the potential impact of legislative changes.

Our staff team continued to provide advice and guidance to groups as well as a new training offer. Alongside Cyber Security training a revamped Data Protection 101 course was successfully delivered throughout the year alongside a new enhanced offer of a Data Protection 201 course. The 201 course was aimed at managers and those with some type of data protection responsibility and is delivered in partnership with Information Governance staff from the Home Office as part of their Employee Supported Volunteering Programme.

As an organisation, we have also played an increasing role in responding to consultations around data protection and related topics. The GM VCSE IG Group that we lead contributed to the GM response to the National Consultation on Data Protection - Data: A New Direction (www.gov.uk/government/consultations/data-a-newdirection). We also submitted a response of our own to reflect the sector’s unique position.

In addition, we worked alongside Open Data Manchester to support a consultation session into proposed changes to the Human Rights Act from a privacy perspective. We have also represented the sector directly with the regulator through a NAVCA-facilitated event with the ICO regarding the Data-Sharing Code of Practice.

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Spotlight On - Capacity-Building and Development Support

Information, Advice and Guidance

During 2021/22 Salford CVS continued to enable VCSE groups and organisations to support communities across Salford, particularly those that had been disproportionately impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. It was evident throughout this period that inequalities within Salford had been compounded not only by the pandemic, but also by growing poverty within some communities in our city. Post-lockdown, we started to deliver more of our support interventions in person again and have now settled on offering a hybrid model of service delivery, with a mix of in-person and online meetings, training and events, to meet the needs of our members.

Key achievements:

During 2021/22 we provided bespoke IAG support to 507 VCSE groups and organisations. The range and diversity of the VCSE groups and organisations we support is staggering. For example, we supported both Salford Families in Need Meals Project and Salford Astronomical Society to become charities.

During the year we supported:

Case study: Small Charity Week

For Small Charity Week in June 2021 we took the opportunity to develop and share a range of social media promotions, resources and events for the week which included a Meet the Funder event, I Love Small Charities Day video (www.bit.ly/SCW21Video), a blog on Getting Back to Normal (www.bit.ly/gettingbacktonormal), the launch of the Salford CVS Pulse Check report on Policy Day (www.bit.ly/SCWPulse) and a video on Online Fundraising.

Dancing with Dementia charity gave us a powerful interview about why they started and how they have pivoted over the pandemic to support their members and the wider community. The full video can be found here: (www.bit.ly/SCH21DWD). Through this video they received a donation from Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) as a result of our social media during Small Charity Week. Dancing with Dementia were delighted and said:

“As a team we can't believe the love and support we are receiving for Dancing with Dementia! Thank you so much for choosing to interview us.”

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Funding remains our number one request for support and during the year we supported Salford-based VCSE groups and organisations to access over £2 million pounds of external funding, in addition to the grants we provide.

Funders included:

Case Study: The Tatton

We have been working with The Tatton (formally known as Ordsall Community Café) since 2009, supporting them with funding, governance, legal status and policies.

During the initial lockdown, whilst they were closed, we had discussions regarding the development of The Tatton and funding. This led to them applying for a Reaching Communities grant from The National Lottery Community Fund. Whilst we were not involved in the initial application to the Lottery, the Lottery came back to The Tatton and said it might be something they would fund, but the bid needed further work. The Tatton were referred on to Salford CVS for bid support. We worked with them to strengthen their application, explored how they could develop their ideas, who might be good partners to get involved with and what Board development was required. As a result of our help, their application was successful and they were awarded a grant of £175k over 3 years.

This investment into The Tatton will not only help sustain the organisation for the next three years, but also enable them to develop and provide additional opportunities to the local community. We continue to support The Tatton with the delivery of the funded project, providing relevant IAG and connections.

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Case Study: Bee Corner @ Islington Mill

Islington Mill had an outdoor space that had been used as a dumping ground for many years and was covered in rubbish. A group of volunteers took over the space and cleared it. They developed the space into a garden and bee apiary, as well as doing open days, community events and introducing the community to bee-keeping.

We started working with them to support them to develop the space and project. They had an old shipping container on site, which had the potential to be developed into a classroom so they could run sessions no matter the weather. One of the volunteers attended our training session on Awards for All grants and following the training we supported them with their application. They were successful and were awarded £10k. In addition, they received a further £10k from Salford CVS’ Big Ideas Fund, £5k from the Wellbeing Matters’ Community Assets Fund and £1k from the Wellbeing Fund. The group now regularly attends our VOCAL Environment Forum, where it connected with other bee-keeping projects across Salford and has subsequently presented its work to the other groups.

Once the shipping container is finished, they will be taking social prescribing referrals. They are also in the process of developing a project with the local primary school and will be applying to the ICS’s Healthy Schools Partnership funding.

This is a valued project in the heart of urban Salford providing an exceptional opportunity for the local community to engage with bee-keeping and nature on their doorstep.

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Training

In 2021/22 we delivered 59 briefings and training sessions to 615 VCSE participants.

These included regular training sessions such as Win That Bid!, Adult and Child Safeguarding workshops and Trustees & Committee Skills training and new sessions such as Data Protection 201, Property Management and Create your own Video.

During 2021/22 Salford CVS provided Adult and Children’s Safeguarding training and IAG support to 70 VCSE groups and organisations. This included developing a new short training session, called ‘Introduction to Safeguarding Standards’, in response to the need identified by our grants team.

Case Study: Safeguarding

On 17th January 2022, we delivered adult safeguarding training to the charity Church Action on Poverty , with 18 people attending. Feedback from delegates included:

Participants described the training as:

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Backroom Support

DBS checking service - As Covid restrictions were lifted and community activity grew, the demand for DBS checks increased by a huge 210%, keeping the team busy! In 2021/22 we undertook 1,600 DBS checks (760 in 2020/2021), of which 539 were for Salford organisations – the rest being other VCSE customers across Greater Manchester. 837 were for paid staff and 762 for volunteers.

We still offer a face-to-face service where an appointment is booked to attend our offices in Eccles; or we have an alternative service, developed during the pandemic, where we post out a DBS pack and then book an appointment to complete a video call ID check.

We also offer training for new VCSE groups and organisations around eligibility, form filling and ID requirements and take a number of phone calls every day from groups needing DBS advice and guidance.

IAG continues to be an important aspect of this service, enabling organisations to understand their responsibilities and confidently fulfil them.

Case Study – Aspire Care and Support CIC

We were contacted by Aspire, a large social enterprise based in Salford, who needed DBS checks for all of their staff, totalling approximately 240 people . The staff were based across five different venues and we were asked if we could visit each site in turn so that staff who were working could ‘nip down’ and complete the DBS on site during their working day.

We arranged for a member of staff to go out and complete the DBS checks on five separate days at the different venues. This was a great success as 90% of staff came to the venues to complete their checks. The staff who were unable to attend were then asked to make contact with us at CVS and book a 1-2-1 appointment to complete their DBS check.

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Holding Accounts

Salford CVS continued to provide this FREE service to 36 Salford-based VCSE groups and organisations during 2021/22. Over £149k was deposited into and £179k withdrawn from holding accounts during the year, supporting these groups and organisations to deliver vital services in Salford.

Benefits of holding accounts for small groups include enabling them to access grant funding; be able to pay for supplies and services in a way that can be audited; and also ensure segregation of duties for those organisations where there are not enough people (willing or capable) to be able to manage this themselves.

Whilst we usually offer this service for a maximum of six months, some organisations will not be able to open bank accounts in this time for a number of reasons, including the transient nature of their volunteers, the financial history of volunteers, or the capacity/capability of the group or organisation to manage a bank account.

Salford CVS is therefore acting as a custodian of these funds and they are separately listed in our audited accounts (see page 72).

Payroll

We provide a payroll service to small VCSE groups and organisations who do not have the time or expertise manage this themselves. We provided support to 15 organisations who employed 102 people during the year 2021/22.

Support with Furlough claims

Throughout the pandemic, Salford CVS helped VCSE groups and organisations in Salford understand how ‘furlough’ (Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme) worked and how to claim, so when September 2021 saw the end of the ‘Furlough’ scheme we helped VCSE organisations to submit final claims and supported them on their financial journey ahead.

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Spotlight On - Volunteering and Social Action

This year our Volunteer Centre has been undertaking a mix of Covid-19 related activities and returning to regular volunteering activities.

We continued to support the city's emergency response work including promoting our own Covid response volunteering opportunities. This year we recruited an additional 137 Covid-19 emergency response volunteers.

Whilst Covid-19 has still had a major impact on volunteering over the past couple of years, in 2021/22 we have seen volunteer-engaging organisations start to return to regular activities. This has been evidenced by the increase in new volunteering opportunities created, which was 79 in 2020/21 rising to 144 in 2021/22 – an 82% rise from the previous year.

We continued to undertake our core Volunteer Centre activities during 2021/22 - promoting volunteering, brokering volunteering opportunities, running training sessions and outreach activities, supporting and promoting relevant campaigns, and providing a wide range of good practice support to volunteer-engaging organisations. This has included:

100% of participants on our ‘How to Lose a Volunteer in 10 Days' course said the training met their expectations.

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Volunteers’ Week remains the key event of our annual volunteering calendar. This year during Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June 2021) we launched the Volunteers' Week Activities Fund to enable VCSE groups and organisations to apply for up to £500 to hold events or activities for their volunteers. Unlike previous years, due to Covid-19, groups didn’t have to hold their activities during Volunteers’ Week only and could deliver activities through until December.

Case Study - Putting heart into volunteering

One of the activities that took place during Volunteers’ Week was the Salford Heart Care volunteering celebration. On Thursday 30th September 2021 Salford Heart Care put on a special event to celebrate the support provided by their volunteers across Salford. More than 80 members and volunteers attended and enjoyed a 3-course meal, followed by entertainment with live singing, bingo and a raffle. Here is a story of one of their volunteers, Irene:

"Irene is a female volunteer aged 79 from Irlam. She joined our club at Irlam in 2014 following a heart attack and was still grieving the sudden loss of her husband. The club gave her a new lease of life following retirement and she was able to make many new friends. She also introduced some of her own friends to the club and has helped us to grow and expand.

Soon after joining Irlam and Cadishead Healthy Heart Club, Irene agreed to help us by taking the register each week and collected entrance fees as members arrived. She is also an excellent baker and cake decorator and has often baked cakes for Christmas and Easter raffles, thus supporting our fundraising efforts.

As the club continued to expand, Irene volunteered to support the Coordinator by helping to organise day trips and events. It was evident that she had excellent administration and organisation skills and was able to support our work by taking members' bookings for trips and collecting and accurately logging payments made by members.

Irene attends the club every Wednesday and Friday morning and does not expect reward or remuneration for her efforts. She says she sees the value in our work and gains great enjoyment and satisfaction from attending the club and our events. Her volunteer work helps to keep her mind stimulated and active. Irene was thrilled when she received an invitation to our celebration event and said it was rewarding to be recognised.”

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For all of our own Salford CVS Volunteers during Volunteers’ Week , we recognised their valuable contribution by presenting them, in person (either in our office or on their doorstep), with a ‘You Make a Difference’ mug filled with chocolates, alongside a signed certificate to say thank you for volunteering with us.

You can find out more about some of our work during Volunteers' Week by visiting: www.salfordcvs.co.uk/volunteers-week-2021

Due to the pandemic, we were once again unable to run our usual in-person Heart of Salford awards event. It was a difficult decision to make, but we thought it unwise to bring together 400+ volunteers and supporters in one place. So, this year we had to settle for delivering an online campaign by creating a series of videos from our staff, recalling their memories of previous Heart of Salford awards ceremonies, which we then shared on social media and our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/user/SalfordCVS/videos

The easing of Covid restrictions started during the spring of 2021, however the support of our volunteers was still very much needed as part of the city’s ongoing Covid-19 response work.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) set up the Community Champions initiative to support communities at greater risk of Covid-19, including disabled people, BAME communities, faith groups, older people, and other ‘harder to engage’ communities. Working with our colleagues at Salford City Council and the CCG we utilised some of this funding to roll out our own VCSE Community Champions Programme which included Trusted Voices, VCSE investments and Community Champions volunteering.

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Trusted Voices - During the spring, we recruited 41 Trusted Voices volunteers who began sharing public health messages with their networks of family, friends, work colleagues and acquaintances. Alongside this, we also recruited 19 Trusted Voices VCSE organisations who cascaded the same messages to the people who used their services. In total, messages were sent to on average 16,532 people every week, increasing to nearly 40,000 over the summer, thanks to 65 Trusted Voices volunteers and 38 Trusted Voices organisations . Throughout the year we continued to meet with and support the Trusted Voices Champions Network to get their feedback about the messaging, how it is received by those they share it with, etc, which we then cascaded back to the Public Health Protection Board’s comms cell.

Building on engagement of priority communities through the Trusted Voices organisations we made our first investments to VCSE organisations to undertake a programme addressing vaccine reticence amongst African, Caribbean, Central and Eastern European and Yemeni Communities. Further investment was then made within the South-East Asian community. By the end of November, we had awarded small investments within VCSE groups representing Black and African-Caribbean, South-East Asian, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Eastern European and Roma/Gypsy/Traveller communities. These awards helped to address COVID-vaccine reticence and encourage ongoing COVID-19 testing within these communities.

Community Champions and Emergency Response - By contacting our existing network of volunteers 111 of them signed up to become

Community Champions and 45 signed up to become Emergency Response Volunteers. We held a number of induction sessions and themed co-production meetings with the volunteers, later delivering emergency response practical training to 44 of them.

We also continued the work we had started in 2020/21 in the first six months of 2021/22, working with Salford Primary Care and North-West Logistics on pulse oximeter collections, enabling virtual clinics and helping to reduce hospitalisations.

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Throughout 2021/22 the pandemic remained a driving factor in the work of the Volunteer Centre with recruiting and managing our own emergency response volunteers still a priority. This included them helping at Covid-19 vaccination sites across the city.

The work of our Community Champion Volunteers resulted in an additional 100+ people per day taking up the Covid-19 vaccination.

The summer saw lockdown rules end because of the success of the vaccination programme, although our Community Champion Volunteers and Trusted Voices continued to support vaccine hesitancy work within the city .

For instance, 25 of our Community Champion volunteers were mobilised to support the Salford Royal vaccination pop-up site providing marshalling support, greeting people who attend for their vaccines, chatting to them and putting them at ease. They supported multiple sessions - in one day there were over 400 people booked in for vaccines.

We also mobilised a further 118 volunteers to support with the surge outreach work which was led by Salford City Council’s Public Health Engagement Team.

Our staff, volunteers and others from VCSE organisations supported vaccination awareness-raising and directed people to the vaccination bus.

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It wasn’t all about vaccinations for our volunteers though, they also continued to provide assistance to people who were self-isolating with practical support such as prescription collection, shopping, and dropping off emergency food parcels. Although the demand for this kind of assistance dropped due to the easing of restrictions our volunteers still supported around 5-10 people per week.

Then, in August, Salford CVS were called to assist Greater Manchester Resilience Forum with providing support to the Afghan evacuees coming into Manchester Airport under the government’s Afghan Relocations & Assistance Policy. This included attending a number of logistics meetings about the needs of evacuees who were placed in the hotel in Salford.

We made the big decision to open part of our premises up to become a Care4Calais donation collection point for people who wanted to donate clothes and other goods to people arriving from Afghanistan into Greater Manchester. Almost immediately we were overwhelmed with donations, receiving thousands of items on a daily basis over the next few weeks. These then needed sorting – by our paid staff and volunteers – in readiness for onward distribution. We had a rota of our staff and volunteers for receiving donations, sorting them and getting them to the airport and into the quarantine and holding hotels.

We worked closely with council colleagues, particularly May Moonan and Jordan Moore from the Public Health team, British Red Cross, Mustard Tree, the Pankhurst Trust , and many others, including other local infrastructure and frontline charities from within Salford and across Greater Manchester, to respond to the various asks made of us, including taking huge quantities of new and donated items to Manchester Airport for families who were arriving without

clothing, shoes, food, pushchairs, baby formula, nappies, underwear, toiletries, toys and books for young children, and so on. We made multiple trips to the airport, working with British Red Cross who were ‘airside’ to ensure goods were effectively distributed.

We then took on the job of providing essential items to people being housed in ‘quarantine hotels’, working with Mustard Tree to make up bespoke bags for each hotel room based upon the needs of the individual occupants.

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Alongside our own redistribution of goods, Care4Calais collected 172 large bags of clothing and shoes and we distributed a further 68 bags that were unsuitable for Care4Calais to local charities such as Homestart, Mustard Tree, Visit from the Stork, Salford Baby Bank and Emmaus Salford.

We received a massive amount of help from our staff and volunteers, plus colleagues from other agencies such as Salford Council, Salford CCG, Bolton CVS, 10GM and more.

Away from our emergency response and humanitarian assistance work, for the second year running Salford CVS supported Worsley Rotary Club and Gold from the Stone Foundation’s Care Leavers project , delivering care parcels on Christmas Day to some of the city’s most isolated care-experienced young people.

Gift bags included vouchers, toiletries and other gifts. They also included a personalised hand-sewn quilt. The founder of Gold from the Stone, poet, writer and performer Lemn Sissay, who has experience of the care system, said that the one thing he wanted most when in residential care was a hug. The idea of the quilt, which is made by quilters from across the country, is that the young person can wrap this around themselves like a big hug. The quilts were definitely made with love!

Salford CVS’ CEO, Volunteer Centre Assistant and 8 of our volunteers collected the gift bags on Christmas Day morning and delivered them to young people across Salford. One of our volunteers took along their Guide Dog puppy that they were training, which brought a smile to everyone’s face.

Christmas Day can be one of the hardest days for a young person who has left care and who may be feeling isolated; they may not have happy memories of Christmas. This is an important initiative that reminds these young people that they are valued and cared about.

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Then, on the New Year’s Day Bank Holiday 2022 we received a request asking us to mobilise volunteers to support at Salford Royal Emergency Department.

We immediately utilised our civil contingencies mobilisation processes for this and had staff and volunteers on site within a few hours. The support was requested for several reasons - the hospital were short staffed due to Covd-19 infections, there were a high number of people attending Accident and Emergency, waiting times were long and patients could not take a family member with them.

Throughout January, Salford CVS provided support to A&E and adjacent wards every evening, 6-10pm, seven days a week. Our CVS paid staff team and over 20 of our emergency response volunteers helped us to provide this support – and we were able to make a real difference to patients and staff.

This included having Wellbeing Conversations with patients, especially those who were emotionally distressed by the situation, supporting patients and staff by making drinks and snacks, emptying linen

baskets and generally helping NHS staff as much as we could. Having our staff and volunteers on site to take samples back and forth to Pathology labs meant that samples got to where they needed to be, got tested quicker and helped to speed up the process. In fact, each lab run return journey took 950 steps!

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We were subsequently awarded a Certificate of Achievement by the Salford Care Organisation for winning their ‘Volunteering Team of the Year’ award at the Integrated Care Division staff ‘Thank You’ celebration event.

Moving into February, as part of our core Volunteer Centre annual programme of work, we celebrated Student Volunteers’ Week.

Case Study: Ocean's Volunteering Story

Ocean visited the Volunteer Centre for a pre-booked appointment. She is a local university student who is very keen to give back to the community in the way that she has seen her family do whilst she was growing up. Ocean is enthusiastic, personable, and wants to do something positive with her time. We talked through what she was interested in and what roles would fit in with her work and university schedules. Here’s what Ocean had to say:

“Grace at the Volunteer Centre has been incredibly helpful in helping me find volunteering that fits around my university schedule. Salford CVS has given me the opportunity to become part of the Salford community that welcomed me in September. I currently volunteer at the Armed Forces & Veterans Breakfast Club, which involves a busy morning of serving teas and coffees and a tasty breakfast. I have really enjoyed talking to the veterans and their families about their experiences and they don't hesitate to give me insightful advice, which has really helped my confidence in travelling around Manchester and meeting new people.”

We asked Ocean how she managed to balance her volunteering obligations around a busy student schedule; whether she felt that the experience had improved her time at university, and if she would recommend volunteering to other students looking for a way to give back to the local community:

“I found it really easy to balance volunteering with my studies. The organisation is very understanding of your commitment to your studies and are very flexible. I feel it actually helped by giving me a break in a different environment away from the sometimes chaotic workloads. Being new to Salford, I had found it really confusing to travel but volunteering has given me the confidence to meet new people and explore the area. The stories of the people I have met may even inspire future projects within my creative subject at University. I would encourage students to volunteer, especially if you are new to the area, to meet and help the community that is part of your home for the next few years. Whether you're into business, arts and crafts… It doesn't matter, there are endless opportunities to discover the skills you already have and learn new ones that can help you through your studies and career.”

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Spotlight On - Grants and Investments

Salford CVS’ Grants and Investments Programme was typically ambitious during 2021/22 as it helped the sector meet the dual challenges of emergence from the Covid-19 pandemic and the increasing cost of living crisis.

This year saw NHS Salford CCG’s last full year of operation before the city-regional creation of NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care in July 2022. Significant support from the CCG provided Salford CVS’ resources for the Third Sector Fund to continue to deliver a variety of grants, large and small, for VCSE projects across the city, with awards exceeding £887k .

Notable elements of the Third Sector Fund included the Wellbeing Matters Asset Fund which awarded over £240k to provide new and expanded social prescribing destinations and activities throughout Salford. This included almost £100k to support use of the city’s green assets to provide non-clinical opportunities to improve physical and mental health.

The Big Ideas Fund supported the creation a healthier, fairer and greener Salford, in line with the City Mayor’s Great Eight priorities . With grants of up £25,000 on offer, interest from the sector was significant. Twenty organisations received grants of over £460k to deliver a wide range of projects - from community centre refurbishment to the creation of a forest garden workshop.

The construction of Incredible Education’s Forest Garden Workshop was made possible with a grant from the Big Ideas Fund.

When completed this multi-use community workshop, within the grounds of Cleavley Community Forest Garden, will provide a space for a woodwork group, art, craft, and support groups, to learn and enjoy practical making and crafting activities.

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Smaller Third Sector Fund grants supported Wellbeing projects, meeting Volunteers’ Expenses, Volunteers’ Week Activities and RHS Garden Bridgewater co-funded Grow Well projects.

Additional CCG monies helped Salford City Radio’s Crowdfunder campaign secure £10,000 match from Salford City Council. An award also supported The Broughton Trust’s Hidden Talent Programme, providing mentoring and training to 18-25 year olds as a route to employment. The Caribbean and African Health Network (CAHN) also received a boost to their Global Majority Fund, supporting Salford-based VCSE organisations to meet the needs of BME communities particularly affected by Covid.

Case Study: Salford City Radio

An investment of £5,000 was a significant boost to Salford City Radio’s Crowdfunder campaign. The fundraiser then went on to reach the magic £10,000 figure that triggered another £10,000 match funding from Salford City Council.

During 2021/22 we continued to deliver the much-needed Food Response Fund , working in partnership with Salford Foodshare Network . Over £200,000 - from NHS Salford CCG, Salford City Council’s Household Support Fund and local business Talk Talk - was allocated to local mother and baby projects, foodbanks and food clubs to help address the impact of Covid and the rising cost of food on Salford’s most vulnerable families.

The above figure includes emergency payments totalling £20,000 to meet acute need during Passover and Ramadan within local Muslim and Jewish communities.

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This issue of ‘holiday hunger’ during Easter, summer and winter school holidays was the motivation for our Healthy Holidays Fund, utilising over £124,000 of Salford Council and CCG funds. These grants supported small community-based organisations to deliver localised and/or community-specific holiday activity schemes and lunch provision. These projects complemented the larger Council-led Healthy Activities Fund programme.

Salford CVS helped launch the ‘Summer of Fun’ programme of healthy activities and food provision delivered by a Council-led partnership across the city.

See the great video from the Flowhesion Foundation’s ‘Winter Holiday Club’, supported by our Healthy Holidays Fund. www.bit.ly/FlohesionHealthyHolidays

The Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Fund provided a grant to Mind in Salford to support the continuation of their participation in the BEYOND mental health support service. This was a VCSE partnership between Start, Mind and Six Degrees , supported by our fund. Five smaller organisations also received grants of over £48,000 to further their suicide prevention work.

Salford City Council continued their support for children with disabilities through the Short Break Care Fund , administered by Salford CVS. Over £58,000 was awarded to 13 organisations offering specially designed sports, arts, music and IT projects, which supported over 200 children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Over £75,000 of Community Champions funding (MHCLG funding via Salford Council) was used to provide grants in order to help address vaccine hesitancy and promote testing amongst communities most affected by Covid. These included supporting Black-led VCSE groups and organisations in Salford, Orthodox Jewish community organisations, and Disabled-people-led groups and organisations. A total of 28 local community groups and charitable organisations benefitted from investments to increase community engagement and participate in our Trusted Voices Network.

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In early 2022, 7 VCSE organisations were supported by our Hate Crime Awareness Week grants (www.letsendhatecrime.com) funded by Salford Council / GMCA to increase community understanding of hate crime and encourage reporting. A total of 377 local people were engaged via the projects we funded throughout the month of February.

The Ordsall and Claremont Neighbourhood Team invested £44,000 via Salford CVS to help tackle the high-intensity use of health and social care services by addressing the unmet needs of individuals. Langworthy Cornerstone were successful in securing this funding for their Wellbeing Support Project.

Salford CVS’ role in the Achieve drug and alcohol treatment and recovery programme for Bolton, Salford and Trafford (funded by GM Mental Health Trust), continued in 2021/22 with a complementary Asset Fund. This supported 14 organisations with grants of over £177,000, providing people in recovery with a wide range of therapeutic and diversionary arts, sports, gardening and mentoring activities. In addition, around 90 individual Achieve service users were issued with non-cash awards to assist them in reaching their recovery goals (e.g. household items, laptops, etc).

Sow the City received an Achieve Asset Fund grant to support their ‘Grow our Recovery’ project.

The scheme helped residents at THOMAS’ two supported living units to transform gardens for the benefit of those in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.

At the Greater Manchester level, Salford CVS managed the Answer Cancer ( www.answercancergm.org.uk) fund to support 20 VCSE organisations from across the city-region in encouraging the uptake of cancer screening amongst priority communities. Over £90,000 was invested to undertake a wide range of community and one-to-one engagements. VCSE groups and organisations that received awards included Yaran NW, The Federation of Jewish Services, Back on Track Manchester, Everything Human Rights, Wonderfully Made Woman, Salford Red Devils Foundation, PossAbilities CIC, Salford Deaf Advocacy.

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Working with the Greater Manchester BME Cancer Partnership we spot purchased targeted activities from the GM Faith Network, Europia, Wai Yin Society, Nestac, Voice of BME Trafford. We also spot purchased smaller projects to work with targeted demographic groups regarding screening uptake – these included Gaydio, Friends of Dorothy, Rochdale Welfare Women’s Association, Rochdale Gateway Link, Girl Gang Manchester.

Girl Gang Manchester produced a fantastic video, encouraging young women to take up cervical screening. The video was launched at a well-attended online event, and can be viewed here: www.bit.ly/SmearFearVideo

History Makers - The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership funded Salford CVS to deliver an initiative to create new permanent smoke-free spaces. Working in partnership with Voluntary Sector North West, eight such smoke-free spaces were created by community organisations that received our grants. This initiative was part of the city-region’s Make Smoking History campaign (www.makesmokinghistory.co.uk).

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Spotlight On - Information and Communications

Providing good quality, accurate and timely information and communication remains an important part of Salford CVS’ support for Salford’s voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.

The main purpose of our Information and Communications function is to:

Here’s a whistle-stop of some of our information and communications work during 2021/22.

Website

Our website is the home of much of our information and traffic to our site continues to grow year after year with grants, volunteering and events unsurprising being amongst the most popular pages, alongside our jobs-search functionality.

The first quarter of the year saw us finishing our work with Catalyst to improve our website. This included improving our user experience of finding grants via our website including - developing our 'funding finder' - www.salfordcvs.co.uk/funding tendering

Weekly Mailings

Over 3,000 individuals and organisations working in Salford are signed up to our weekly VCSE E-Bulletin.

During 2021/22, in order to explore the difference these E-Bulletins made to local VCSE groups and organisations, we used one of our regular Pulse Check surveys to ask our members what they thought of our bulletin.

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Social Media

Our social media reach continues to grow with a 10% average growth across all platforms. Although we are still mainly active on Twitter we also have a growing presence on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Social media is a key tool in our work, as demonstrated when we decided to practically respond to the urgent needs of people arriving into England from Afghanistan during the summer and autumn of 2021.

We coordinated with colleagues across Greater Manchester to disseminate clear messages on the ways local people and organisations could help, including volunteering, fundraising, and goods donation drop-off points. Our comms work included creating graphics and posting on social media to promote the latest information on donation drop-off points and urgent calls for volunteers. The campaign had a total reach of over 5,800 on Facebook and over 19,000 people via Twitter.

Another example of tailoring our social media response took place during Student Volunteer Week (7-13th February 2022). The aim of the campaign was to address the misconceptions some students have in relation to volunteering and the barriers other students who want to volunteer are faced with.

In order to reach the student demographic we focused on using Instagram reels and created five of them during the week. In terms of communications, the campaign was a success with three of the reels reaching over 3,000 individuals.

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Digi Comms

As a team, we are committed to not just promoting the sector ourselves, but also supporting the sector to promote themselves. Our Digi Comms series this year was much more focused on image and video content than previously.

Learning from the training was shared widely - e.g. this step-by-step video for Adobe Spark posts (www.bit.ly/AdobeVidGuide) as well as this blog on social media (www.salfordcvs.co.uk/savvy-social-media-time-well-spent)

Finally, we’d love to see you online!

You can connect with us on social media; follow @SalfordCVS (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram), and head to our website for blogs from the team, guides, useful resources and news.

Plus you can sign up for our mailings for the latest information straight to your inbox: www.salfordcvs.co.uk

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Spotlight On - Partnerships in Practice

Salford CVS is proud to work in partnership in a variety of different ways with a wide range of other organisations within Salford and across Greater Manchester. Please find below some examples of that work:

Little Hulton Big Local > Community Little Hulton

After an eventful six years as the Locally Trusted Organisation (LTO) for Little Hulton Big Local (LHBL), 2021/22 was the year that we at Salford CVS supported the successful transition of the LTO role to Community Little Hulton, the Charity that was created as the legacy organisation of Little Hulton Big Local.

Alongside our LTO duties of providing strategic and operational support, employing and managing paid staff, financial management and administration services, acting as banker for their Big Local investment and supporting their Partnership Board, we also supported the development of Community Little Hulton by providing staff support to their Board of Trustees and financial management support and advice, thus enabling them to be awarded the LTO role. Community Little Hulton is now a successful and growing organisation with big plans and an exciting future! www.communitylittlehulton.co.uk

Since 2016 Salford CVS has supported Little Hulton Big Local to:

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Salford CVS are proud to have supported the communities of Little Hulton to progress their aspirations via Little Hulton Big Local, Youth Unity and Community Little Hulton CIO over the past six years.

Salford Third Sector Consortium

Salford CVS continued to provide the ‘Hub’ function support for Salford Third Sector Consortium, an independent charitable company with 85 member organisations. The purpose of the Consortium is to win contracts for its members that they might not be able to win on their own, thus securing investment to enable local VCSE organisations to deliver high quality services to benefit local people.

Hub duties undertaken by Salford CVS included Board meeting preparation and support, financial management, membership services, administration and minute-taking. We also supported the Board to implement its allocations policy and procedures on a number of occasions during 2021/22.

During 2021/22 the Consortium achieved the following:

Tech and Tea entered its seventh year of successful delivery. Tech and Tea is part of the Age Friendly Salford programme, led by local charity Inspiring Communities Together, and comprises digital support, information and training for older people, delivering courses both virtually and in community venues across the city www.salfordcvs.co.uk/tech-tea

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Disability project

During the year we began to work with colleagues from Salford City Council’s Public Health team and NHS Salford CCG to develop a new piece of work. The Salford Disability project (funded via Public Health) has a specific focus on physical disabilities, visual impairments/sight loss and D/deaf groups/organisations within the city. The project aims to strengthen the voice, influence and impact of these groups and organisations so they can more effectively advocate for full access to services for D/deaf and disabled people in Salford.

The project is being co-designed with several key organisations, including Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Breakthrough UK, Beyond Empower, Salford Disability Forum and Healthwatch Salford.

March 2022 saw two important milestones for the project completed - the recruitment of a new Development Worker whose role is to work to capacity-build disabled-people-led and impairment-focused groups and organisations in Salford, ultimately to help improve access to health and related services for local disabled people. The second milestone was the creation and first meeting of a new Network of VCSE organisations that predominantly focus on physical and sensory impairments. Ben Andrews from local social enterprise Beyond Empower is leading the development of the network with us. The network first met on the 21st of March and had a small but positive attendance including Breakthrough UK, BASIC charity, Salford Deaf Community Gathering, Salford Disability Forum and the RNIB. The first session focused on the purpose of the project and discussed key challenges and opportunities.

Additional work will include delivering an extensive programme of training and awarenessraising, on topics such as the Social Model of Disability .

This programme of work will continue to be developed in 2022/23.

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Wellbeing Matters

Wellbeing Matters is a VCSE-led programme of work, established in 2018, that focuses on taking Person and Community Centred Approaches to improving the wellbeing of Salford people. During 2021/22 the programme was commissioned by NHS Salford CCG (now NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care) and Salford’s five Primary Care Networks. The programme is managed by Salford CVS – which acts as the lead partner and accountable body, including providing contract, financial and programme management functions.

The programme is delivered in partnership with Salford Third Sector Consortium , whose members Big Life, Inspiring Communities Together, Start, Social adVentures, Langworthy Cornerstone and Unlimited Potential were responsible for successfully delivering workstream 1 of the programme. Salford CVS directly deliver workstream 2.

The Wellbeing Matters programme has two key elements:

The Wellbeing Matters programme has continued to grow and in 2021/22 received 2,623 referrals from Salford’s Primary Care services, the Adult Social Care Centre of Contact and the Living Well (mental health) programme – our busiest year to date.

Those referring individuals to Wellbeing Matters stated Mental Health (34%), Social Support (22%) and Diet and Nutrition (12%) as the main reasons for their referrals; with welfare rights, physical activity, and employment also prominent.

The Wellbeing Matters Community Connectors work with individuals referred into the programme to establish what matters to them and connect them to activities that support their social, physical and emotional wellbeing, which often leads to multiple connections. In 2021/22 there were 3,025 connections made to 516 destinations. 72% of these were provided by VCSE organisations and 28% were connections to statutory services.

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The top three reasons for connection were:

The Community Connectors also supported people to connect with physical activities (14%), learning and educational opportunities (11%), support for managing diet and nutrition (9%) and a host of activities that support lifestyle changes or employment.

The development of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector eco-system that supports the connection of individuals is the cornerstone of the Wellbeing Matters programme. The role of the Community Connectors is vital, but without a healthy VCSE ecosystem to connect people into, it would be a case of “too many travel agents and not enough holidays”.

During 2021/22 our Wellbeing Matters Development Workers delivered 648 information, advice and capacity-building sessions in order to support VCSE groups and organisations to be able to accept connections from the programme. This has included increasing volunteering, developing their activities, support with finding funding and having appropriate governance in place. In addition to the support for VCSE organisations, the Wellbeing Matters Community Assets Fund invested £141,450 to enable 10 Salford organisations to expand their activities or services to support people being connected into their community by providing activities to support individuals in leading a healthier and happier life.

The success of Wellbeing Matters attracted further investment in Q4 of 2021/22 from two of the city’s five Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in order to help meet the needs of their patients. This investment from the Eccles & Irlam and the Little Hulton & Walkden PCNs has enabled the programme to employ 5 new Community Connectors, expanding the team from 7 to 12 in early 2022.

Wellbeing Matters is now working with the remaining 3 PCNs to monitor demand and develop business cases for investment for additional resource as it is needed.

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Case study: Julie

Julie lives in a high-rise flat in Salford and is one of the younger residents in her block. Julie was receiving welfare benefits and was referred by her GP to Wellbeing Matters due to poor mobility, social anxiety, poor nutrition, lack of social activity and several long-term physical health conditions.

Debs, one of our Wellbeing Matters Community Connectors, met with Julie to understand her situation. Julie explained that, due to her anxiety, she was reliant on a friend to do her food shopping and was eating a lot of processed microwave meals.

With no carers and minimal family contact, Julie was dependent on her friend to drop things off. Furthermore, due to her low income, she was not able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables. Her consequent poor nutrition was making her health conditions worse. Julie also reflected that her medication often made her feel drowsy, which had previously caused problems with pans setting on fire. She also had problems with her electricity supply: her bills were very high and she was in debt to her electricity supplier.

Debs tackled Julie’s food situation first, connecting her into a food club at Mustard Tree (a local charity very close to Julie’s home), providing good quality fresh food for people to choose at an affordable price. Julie promptly went with her friend to the food club and joined. Regarding Julie’s situation with her electricity supply, Debs contacted the supplier to review the situation and discovered that Julie had been paying too much, so she helped get Julie’s charges reduced. Debs also supported Julie to apply to the British Gas Trust Fund, who awarded her a significant amount of money, which enabled her to pay off her debt.

These changes meant that Julie improved her diet and learned how to cook from various new recipes using a slow cooker, which was much safer for her than using a hob. By using the food club, Julie also had more social interaction with other people, and her relationship with Mustard Tree developed quickly. One of the workers there introduced Julie to courses that they were running. The eradication of Julie’s electricity debt alleviated much of the stress and anxiety that she had been experiencing. This also improved her general wellbeing and how she approached her situation. The changes made also meant that Julie had much less contact in person or by phone with her GP practice. Julie felt much better able to cope and to manage her long-term conditions, without needing so much interaction with the health care system.

Key learning from working alongside Julie has highlighted the value of linking people to support already available in the local community. This allows people to better manage their own wellbeing without public sector service interventions. Debs is continuing to use the new connections made to benefit other local people.

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Green Care

In 2021 Salford CVS submitted a detailed bid and was delighted to be selected as one of only 5 organisations chosen to deliver the Greater Manchester ‘Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn’ programme, funded by NHS England. GM was selected as one of only 7 sites nationwide to participate in this work.

The aim of the pilot is to connect individuals most at risk of developing poor mental health to community assets, activities and support that are based in the natural environment.

The Salford CVS Green Care project has mapped the environment, nature, horticulture and water-based community activities and assets across the city of Salford that can benefit the emotional, physical and mental health of individuals connected from the Wellbeing Matters team of Community Connectors and also from the Living Well programme , including primary care mental health practitioners.

We recruited a Green Space Development Worker in August 2021, who works with these green and blue community assets to develop their activities and organisations so that they are able to accept people connected to them by the Wellbeing Matters team; this includes support to develop their volunteering opportunities and to access funding.

Between August 2021 and March 2022 there were 156 people connected from Wellbeing Matters into 36 green and blue activities across Salford; these included community allotments, arts and nature, walk and talk, cycling groups, yoga in the park, etc.

A further benefit of the Green Care programme is the development of a new and very popular VOCAL VCSE Environment Forum that gives VCSE groups and organisations with a focus on green and blue space or activities a chance to share information and ideas and to develop their voice and influence within the city. The first of these took place in December 2021 at Wardley Hall and was attended by 35 VCSE groups and organisations.

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Green Care - Case Study

Mr T is a 55-year-old man who recently lost both a close family member and also his pet. Not surprisingly, when he was referred to Wellbeing Matters he was feeling low in mood, lacked motivation and was also feeling quite isolated. He was referred by his GP, citing depression and anxiety due to his recent bereavement.

At the initial meeting with one of our Community Connectors, Mr T said that he was spending all

day alone at home, low in mood, and anxious. Our Connector supported Mr T to explore ‘what mattered to him’ which included helping him to rediscover his love of nature, via our Green Care scheme.

Mr T also wanted to take meet new people and learn techniques to manage his emotional wellbeing. We suggested that he may be interested in trying the nature and chat sessions run by Recreate-U at RHS Bridgewater as well as a men’s group, Talk About It Mate, at the Make Space centre in Walkden. Both of these initiatives are funded by Salford CVS’ Green Community Assets Fund.

Mr T attended both groups, made new social connections and is now feeling more in control of his emotional health.

“I love the RHS site - it is so stunning you don’t feel like you are in Salford. The men’s group has also been really good for me. I was nervous to talk when I first attended but feel comfortable now. It’s nice to know you can speak to other men who understand. Thanks for linking me to these projects and more importantly for taking the time to listen to me.”

Strategic work

Alongside our programme management of Wellbeing Matters, we also play a key strategic role in the social prescribing / community assets landscape, including our work with the University of Salford’s Social Prescribing Hub, our work with GM’s PCCA Unit and also the development of Andy Burnham’s Live Well approach. Another example is our involvement in the national NASP: Thriving Communities programme.

The National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) Thriving Communities programme has been established to support voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise groups and organisations to actively contribute in and learn about social prescribing.

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Salford CVS leads on the Thriving Communities programme in Greater Manchester as part of a North West VCSE team (other partners are VSNW, Sefton CVS and Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale CVS).

www.socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/thrivi - ng communities/north_west

The programme worked with over 150 VCSE organisations in 2021/22, this

included facilitating a Thriving Communities network where people were able to collaborate, share learning and gain new ideas with peers from across the North West. In total 68 VCSE organisations became part of the network in Greater Manchester, with 18 of these from Salford.

As part of Thriving Communities, the regional team delivered the Learning Together Programme which was designed to build the capacity and knowledge of VCSE groups to enable them to support social prescribing to be successful. The programme covered social prescribing and mental health, the social prescribing journey, navigating the health and care system, funding, monitoring and evaluation. Post-learning evaluations showed that 80% of attendees had a greater understanding of social prescribing.

The programme connected groups across arts, nature, physical exercise, financial wellbeing, as well as the health and care sector to create new partnerships. With specialist support being provided by a range of regional partners, including Active England, the Money and Pensions Service, the Arts Council, English Heritage and Natural England. The programme marked the end of the 2021/22 programme with a celebratory Networking for Nature Event held in collaboration with Natural England, which was attended by over 60 people.

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Age-Friendly Salford

During 2021/2022 Salford CVS continued to work in partnership with Inspiring Communities Together (ICT) and Age UK Salford to deliver the Age Friendly Salford programme.

Working through a ‘one team’ approach Salford CVS staff get involved with all aspects of the delivery of the programme, whilst having a particular focus on supporting volunteering and learningfocused activities including Wellbeing Conversations.

During the year we had a core volunteer team of around 60 regular volunteers , supporting initiatives such as Tech & Tea, Brew & Chat as well as Walk & Talks.

The commitment of these volunteers was outstanding with six volunteers receiving their ‘50 hours’ recognition certificates, 29 receiving their ‘100 hours’ recognition certificates and 18 receiving their ‘200 hours’ recognition certificates.

The aim of the Wellbeing Conversations training is to enable people to have productive and meaningful conversations that might have a positive impact on another person’s wellbeing. The training involves watching a short six-minute film featuring one of our volunteers, before attending a training session. Participants are also provided with a ‘Wellbeing Conversations – How to Guide’, including wellbeing cards, that they can refer to before, during and after the training.

Age Friendly Salford - Case Study

Y is an experienced mental health recovery worker. She has also been studying for her PGCE. She has a particular interest in supporting adults with challenging and additional needs and very much enjoys the company of the older generation. Her own mental health had been quite poor for a few years. She is living with ADHD and anxiety. She felt she could no longer do the mental health recovery work and had to have a break from it. During the pandemic she also became isolated.

Volunteering on the Age-Friendly Salford weekly Zoom sessions helped Y to reconnect with people and get involved in the discussions. As she was also in the process of completing a PGCE qualification she wanted to have a go at facilitating a zoom session herself, without feeling any pressure. “My mental health was so bad, the university was trying to convince me to leave my course. I had to really fight to stay on it.”

Y has now facilitated 3 topics for the Tech & Tea online zoom sessions. “It has given me such confidence to reconnect with people and provided me with a structure within which to communicate the topics I am passionate about on zoom”

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During 2021/22 Salford CVS trained over 200 individuals in how to conduct Wellbeing Conversations, with over 120 taking part in follow-up focus groups to share their experiences of having wellbeing conversations, develop their skills and supporting the development of future training. Sessions have consisted of mixed zoom training for frontline staff and volunteers through to bespoke courses for groups (including organisations receiving Wellbeing Fund grants via Salford CVS).

Age Friendly Salford - Case Study

An example of the flexible way Wellbeing Conversations can be delivered is the training we delivered for the community group HerStory that was arranged at RHS Bridgewater, in order to enable women to access and experience the gardens and also see how they could get involved in activities there should they wish to. The group is made up of women from South Asian and African cultures, with most of the group waiting on decisions regarding ‘leave to remain’.

Because of language barriers, emphasis was placed on enabling the women to understand the concept of wellbeing and we focused the first activity on the My Way to Wellbeing Cards. They explored how to use them to reflect on their own wellbeing and how to have conversations with others. After exploring the cards the group continued conversations exploring the community gardens. The Therapeutic Community Gardener explained about activities at the RHS the women could get involved in and then took them round to various vegetable patches, picking vegetables and herbs with them that they could take home.

Participant feedback:

Following the course, T says she is starting to focus more on the ‘Take Notice’ way to wellbeing and mindfulness as she is the kind of person who cannot sleep at night until she has ticked off everything on her ‘to do’ list. She has now decided to expand the amount of time she currently spends on mindfulness and will undertake a course with Mind In Salford.

Another key piece of learning and insight work supported by the team was the development of the Salford Age-Friendly Standards (www.bit.ly/AFStandards). The standard are built around the needs of older people and what they feel is important in making the places they visit, the services they use and the social activities they take part in, age-friendly. The assessments for the standards are carried out by volunteers in a similar way to mystery shopping. The standards will be rolled our further during 2022/23.

To gain a further overview on the Age Friendly Salford project and the difference it makes, please see a video blog made by Matt our Volunteer Development Worker during his experiences of the programme in April 2021 - www.bit.ly/MattVlog

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Answer Cancer

Answer Cancer is the working name of the Greater Manchester Screening Engagement Programme. It is a VCSE partnership, comprising Salford CVS (on behalf of 10GM), BHA for Equality, Unique Improvements social enterprise, and Voluntary Sector North West , working to improve cancer awareness and increase uptake of cancer screening across Greater Manchester.

Salford CVS are the Lead Partner and Accountable Body for the Programme, providing the governance, management and commissioning oversight functions, as well as managing the annual Answer Cancer grants programme, funding local VCSE groups and organisations to undertake activities to increase cancer-screening rates in their communities.

The key elements of the Programme are:

1. Community Engagement: Our Community Engagement Team works with local stakeholders and communities to raise awareness of breast, bowel and cervical cancer screening programmes. We develop local partnerships, run awareness-raising sessions, provide stalls, and do all we can within communities to deliver key cancer screening messages and improve screening uptake.

In order to address health inequalities, we have a particular focus on the following priority groups who face additional barriers: Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic communities; disabled people; people living in areas of deprivation; people living with mental health problems; carers; and LGBTQ+ communities.

In 2021/22, 138 awareness-raising sessions were delivered in community settings and the team engaged with at least 5,136 individuals to raise awareness of cancer screening

2. Individual and Organisational Cancer Champions: We recruit and support individual and organisational Answer Cancer Champions across Greater Manchester. Through them, we are able to develop community-led partnerships to increase engagement on cancer screening and encourage community members to get involved and sign up to raise cancer awareness with friends, families and work colleagues. In 2021/22, we signed up 81 new Lead Cancer Champions and had 172 Organisational Cancer Champions by the end of the year

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3. Grants: We run an annual Answer Cancer grants programme, which funds local VCSE organisations to deliver cancer screening awareness-raising activities in their communities. I n 2021/22, 20 organisations received c. £5,000 each, resulting in a wide range of creative, innovative, impactful, community-embedded projects and activities.

We also funded organisations on a ‘spot purchase’ basis where particular low-uptake communities might benefit from a funded partnership. For example, working with Voice of BME Trafford resulted in a significant improvement in cervical screening uptake at GP practices in central Manchester, by staff making informative calls to recent screening nonresponders from GP practices in their community languages.

10 organisations were funded on a spot-purchased basis to increase cancer screening amongst our priority groups during 2021/22 – these included Wai Yin Society, Europia, GM Faith Network, Gaydio

4. Communications: We deliver a range of communications and coordinate activity around local and national campaigns by providing materials and content that promote core screening messages and targeting organisations and individuals for engagement through our social media channels. We have an informative website with two front doors: www.answercancergm.org.uk and www.cancerchampionsgm.org.uk

We publish x2 monthly newsletters, one for our Cancer Champions and another from our engagement team, GM Engage. I n 2021/22, we gained 275 new Twitter followers and 363 new Facebook followers

5. Training: We provide a creative and flexible training offer designed to build confidence around sharing cancerscreening messages and providing practical approaches to help people raise awareness. This includes delivering cancer awareness training courses throughout the year, providing bespoke sessions to groups when requested, supporting individuals to facilitate their

own training sessions within their groups and providing a range of tools and information to support people to run awareness activities.

In 2021/22, 51 Answer Cancer training sessions were held, delivering training to over 650 participants

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6. Evaluation: Our Evaluation and Research workstream helps us and all those we partner with to find out what works, use what works and share what works. We offer tailored research and evaluation training for staff and volunteers, tailored group or one-toone support with evaluation of activities and share best practice across our networks. In 2021/22 we published two evaluation reports that can be found on our website - www.answercancergm.org.uk/about-us

7. Primary Care Network (PCN) Partnership Projects: An area of development for Answer Cancer during 2021/22 was co-producing plans with PCN Cancer Leads and GP Practices to work closely with primary care to increase cervical screening uptake in areas where it is low. In the year ahead, we will be working with 7 PCNs (located in Salford, Manchester, Bolton, Oldham and Heywood / Middleton / Rochdale), delivering a variety of pilot projects, including:

We’re working with VCSE organisations such as VBMET and The Fed to deliver this work.

Answer Cancer's contract has now been extended for a further year (2022/23).

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Salford Social Value Alliance

S alford CVS’ Chief Executive continued to Chair the Salford Social Value Alliance during 2021/22, a role she has held since 2016, and Salford CVS continued to facilitate and administrate the Alliance’s Steering Group and help deliver its 10% Better campaign. This includes working with a wide range of agencies in between meetings to promote social value and the campaign.

On behalf of the Social Value Alliance’s steering group we organised a Social Value Portal round table event in order to inform VCSE colleagues about council plans to use the TOMs Framework to measure social value on all new contracts and in future on all contracts.

During the summer and autumn of 2021 the steering group worked on plans to refresh the 10% Better campaign, gathering evidence for a report on the first 5 years of the campaign and reviewing the campaign's 11 metrics and how to measure them. We planned a relaunch of the campaign in the spring of 2022.

On the 10th March 2022 we held a large event at HOST in Media City to launch the next phase of the 10% Better campaign , which was well attended by 86 people from across the public, private and VCSE sectors.

The event was chaired by the Chief Executive of Salford CVS, Alison Page, with a keynote speech from Paul Dennett, elected City Mayor of Salford. Other speakers included Chris Dabbs from Unlimited Potential , who revealed the revised priorities for the campaign. Chris was followed by:

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This was followed by facilitated round-table discussions around the campaign themes of People, Place and Prosperity. Contributions from those attending went on to inform the Social Value Alliance’s 10% Better campaign delivery plan for 2022/23.

The results from the Mentimeter evaluation survey about the event are as follows:

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Salford CVS - Our Plans for 2022-23

As we started the year 2021/22 we were hopeful that the Covid-19 pandemic was on its way out and that we would return to business as usual (more or less). That definitely didn’t happen though…

As we predicted in last year’s annual report, 2021/22 did indeed turn out to be a year where we needed to remain responsive and adaptable, switching between business as usual, emergency response, response, recovery, and so on. We continued to occupy a much broader civic role than we had before the pandemic; a more practical role; and a role more focused on neighbourhoods, alongside our city-wide and Greater Manchester work.

We believe we have indeed demonstrated that we are not only the city’s local infrastructure support organisation for the VCSE sector in Salford but also that we are an important place-based anchor organisation in our own right.

During the year 2021/22 we continued to explore this broader role, further developing a programme of work around the commitments we unveiled in our 2020/21 annual report.

Healthier, Fairer, Greener

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Our plans for 2022/23 include:

Continuing to develop pieces of work that align with our ‘Healthier, Fairer, Greener’ commitments outlined above

Delivering our core local infrastructure programme of work

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Facilitating engagement opportunities with key leaders in Salford, including the City Mayor and the CEO of Salford City Council

Organising our annual in-person VCSE conference in the autumn of 2022

Supporting the VCSE sector’s volunteer-involving organisations by delivering a range of online and in-person volunteer brokerage, training and good practice support

Providing support and activities during Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June)

Supporting the ongoing response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in Salford by recruiting and placing volunteers and continuing to support our own team of emergency response / humanitarian assistance volunteers

Continuing to deliver our Community Champions volunteering programme, including ‘Trusted Voices’

Continuing to support local frontline VCSE groups and organisations to provide practical help for people seeking refuge in Salford and across Greater Manchester

Supporting Salford to become a recognised City of Sanctuary

Helping facilitate and participating in the Salford Women and Girls' Commission

Delivering our grants programmes, including the Third Sector Fund, Hate Crime Awareness, Grow Well, Short Break Care, Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health, Achieve BST, Answer Cancer, Food Response Fund, Community Assets Fund and more - whilst also remaining responsive to local needs and adapting accordingly

Working with our independent evaluation partners CLES and VSNW on the ongoing evaluation of the Third Sector Fund

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Continuing to play a key role in Greater Manchester strategic partnership work as part of the GM VCSE Leadership Group and associated activities, such as the development of an Alternative Provider Federation for the social sector as part of our GM ICS work

Continuing to provide Hub support to Salford Third Sector Consortium

Developing our own and the wider VCSE sector's workforce - training and support, increasing diversity, leadership development, progression routes and inclusive recruitment practices

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Financial Accounts and Report

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Trustees’ Report for the year ended 31 March 2022

The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular those related to the operations and finance of the charity, and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate their exposure to major risks.

The charity’s organisational Risk Register is regularly reviewed, as per the agreed Board work programme, with remedial action taken as required.

The Salford CVS Reserves Policy is to maintain sufficient level of reserves to enable core activities to continue over a period of up to six months should a shortfall in income occur and also to take account of potential risks and contingencies that may arise from time to time. The required reserves to achieve this are £1,117,704. As at 31 March 2022 the Charity’s free reserves totalled £1,120,209.

Excluded from the Reserves Policy are funds associated with:

Therefore, in order to demonstrate transparency, accountability and sound financial management, the Salford CVS Reserves Policy clearly justifies the amount of reserves kept back each year.

Steps taken to establish the level of reserves

In order to make a judgment on the amount of reserves, the Board of Trustees have considered the risks in respect of expenditure, unrestricted income and, where appropriate, restricted income and where funds can only be realised by the disposal of a fixed asset. Also taken into consideration are any external identified potential major risks to income and expenditure during the year under consideration.

The Board of Trustees have considered the most appropriate policy for investing funds and has invested £734,154 in the following fixed-term accounts. When the account matures the funds are rolled over provided the Trustees consider the interest rate is acceptable: Bath Building Society £90,133, Co-operative Bank £86,351, Charity Bank £96,569, Virgin Money £93,850, Family Building Society £91,127, Cambridge and Counties

£93,044, CAF Bank £98,080, Nationwide £85,000. The balances of funds are to be held in bank deposit accounts.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Trustees of Salford CVS for the year ended 31 March 2022

The company does not make significant grants in its own capacity but acts only in partnership with various local and national government departments and other strategic partners (e.g. Royal Horticultural Society) to administer the distribution of grants to other local charities, community organisations, social enterprises and primary schools.

Distributions are made in strict accordance with the criteria set by the original funding body and are included in the provision of services when payable.

The company itself distributed approximately £144 to support Living Wage accreditation.

The Trustees are responsible for the strategic management and direction of the organisation, working in conjunction with the Chief Executive. Day-to-day strategic, operational and financial management is delegated to the Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive. During the year the Board met for one strategy meeting and seven business meetings.

Members of the Board of Trustees are elected by the membership at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). Officers of the Board of Trustees are appointed by the Board at the next Board meeting following the AGM. Members of the Board serve for a three-year term, although they can be re-elected at the end of that term. Additional members can be co-opted to the Board at any time of the year and serve until the next AGM. Co-opted members can then either stand for election at the AGM or be re-appointed at the first meeting of the Board after the AGM.

Trustees are inducted by the Chief Executive / Deputy Chief Executive and Chair and are provided with a handbook outlining their responsibilities. Trustees complete an annual skills audit and are given opportunities for training.

The organisation is affiliated to the following national organisations that provide advice, guidance and support:

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Report of the Independent Auditors to the Trustees of Salford CVS for the year ended 31 March 2022

During the year the charity had a surplus of £243,527 on unrestricted income. This surplus is the net result of income received from providing sales and services and management fees.

The surplus on restricted funds of £321,007 is as a result of restricted funds received in the year for activity planned for 2022/23.

As at 31st March 2022 the Charity has designated reserves of £675,306 for specific projects as shown on note 19 to the accounts.

As at 31st March 2022 the Charity has unrestricted reserves of £467,519, designated reserves of £675,306 and restricted reserves of £2,062,857; a total of £3,205,682.

Salford Community and Voluntary Services was revenue funded by Salford City Council and NHS Salford CCG in 2021/22.

As at 31st March 2022 Salford CVS acted as custodian for the following organisations:

African Family Support £ 49
Age Friendly Cities £15,000
Anyone for Tennis £ 200
Art of Gold £ 250
Boundary Road Play Area £ 316
Busy Bees £ 1,035
Ellesmere Park Tenants £ 975
Her Story
 £ 1,484
Interfaith Network £ 4,560
Lawler Residents £ 167
Lower Kersal Young People Project £ 1,431
Ordsall Allotment Group £ 1,553
Salford Women’s Centre £ 948
Teenage Autism Group £11,434

Funds are held as custodian for organisations that do not have access to bank accounts or that wish Salford CVS to act as their banker. The funds were received and placed within the accounts as current liabilities. Details of Custodian Funds are reported to the Board on a quarterly basis.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Trustees’ Report for the year ended 31 March 2022

The Trustees (who are the directors of Salford Community and Voluntary Services for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Practice).

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements 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 period. In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

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 statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. In so far as the Trustees are aware:

Wyatt, Morris, Golland Ltd, Chartered Accountants, have intimated their willingness to continue in office as auditors to the company and will be proposed for re-appointment.

The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Signed on behalf of the Trustees

Grace Dyke (Chair)

Approved by the Trustees: 21st October 2022

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Trustees of Salford CVS for the year ended 31 March 2022

We have audited the financial statements of Salford Community and Voluntary Services (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31 March 2022 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Salford Community & Voluntary Services Report of the Independent Auditors to the Trustees of Salford CVS for the year ended 31 March 2022

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report, other than the financial statements and our Report of the Independent Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Report of the Independent Auditors to the Trustees of Salford CVS for the year ended 31 March 2022

We have been appointed as auditors under Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulations made or having effect thereunder.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Independent Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

The extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities including fraud.

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Report of the Independent Auditors to the Trustees of Salford CVS for the year ended 31 March 2022

We assessed the susceptibility of the charity's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:

There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

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Report of the Independent Auditors to the Trustees of Salford CVS for the year ended 31 March 2022

This report is made solely to the charitable company's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Wyatt, Morris, Golland Ltd

Statutory Auditors

Eligible to act as an auditor in terms of Section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006 Park House

200 Drake Street

Rochdale

Lancashire

OL16 1PJ

Date: 21st October 2022

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2022

Notes
Unrestricted
Funds

£
Income and expenditure

Incoming resources:

Voluntary Income
3 25,029
Investment Income
Bank and building
society income
6,512

Income from charitable activities:

Charitable trading
4 24,039
Other income
5104,989
Total Income
6160,569



Resources expended

Charitable activities
7-8
150,864
Total expenditure
150,864

Net (outgoing) / incoming
resources before transfers
9,705
Transfer between
funds
11233,822
Movement in funds
243,527

Reconciliation of funds
Total funds balance
brought forward
899,298
Total funds balance
carried forward
**1,142,825 **
Restricted
Funds

£
4,643,774
-
15,595
117
4,659,486



4,104,657

4,104,657


554,829

(233,822)
321,007
1,741,850
2,062,857
Total Funds
2022

£
4,668,803
6,512
39,634
105,106
4,820,055



4,255,521

4,255,521


564,534
-
564,534
2,641,148
3,205,682		 Total Funds
2021

£
4,682,526
179
29,573
210,925
4,923,203

(4,781,155)
(4,781,155)

142,048
-
142,048
2,499,100
2,641,148

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

THE NOTES ON PAGES 83 TO 113 FORM PART OF THESE ACCOUNTS.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022

Fixed Assets
Tangible assets
Investments
Current Assets
Debtors
Cash at bank and in
hand
Creditors
Amounts falling due
within one year
Net current assets
Total assets less
current liabilities
Net assets
Funds
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds		 Notes 564,462
3,367,920		 Total
Funds
2022		 158,905
3,083,919		 Total
Funds
2021
13
14
15
16
17
18
19		 £
18,615
4,001		 £
22,530
4,001
22,616
3,183,066
3,205,682		 26,531
2,614,617
2,641,148
3,932,382
(749,316)		 3,242,824
(628,207)
3,205,682 2,641,148
2,062,857
1,142,825		 1,741,850
899,298
3,205,682 2,641,148

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022

The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2022.

The members have not deposited notice, pursuant to Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006 requiring an audit of these financial statements.

The Trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for:

These financial statements have been audited under the requirements of Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small charitable companies.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 21st October 2022 and were signed on its behalf by:

Grace Dyke – Trustee

John Phillips – Trustee

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Cash Flow Statement for the year ended 31 March 2022

Cash flows from operating activities:
Cash generated from operations
Net cash provided by (used in) operating
activities
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
Interest received
Net cash provided by (used in) investing
activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the
reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of
the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the
reporting period		 Notes
1
 2022
£
283,432
283,432
(5,943)
6,512
569
284,001
3,083,919
3,367,920		 2021

£
584,136
584,136

(17,596)
179
(17,417)

566,719
2,517,200
3,083,919

Note 1 – Reconciliation of net income to net cash flow from operating activities

Net Income for the reporting period (as per the
statement of financial activities)
Depreciation charges
Loss on disposal of fixed assets
Interest received
Decrease / (increase) in debtors
Increase / (decrease) in creditors
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities		 2022
£
564,534
8,522
1,336
(6,512)
(405,557)
121,109
283,432		 2021

£

142,048

5,787

1,790

(179)

211,848
222,842
584,136

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Basis of preparation and assessment of going concern

The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to 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)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

The Trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Critical accounting judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the Company’s accounting policies, management is required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and underlying assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimated are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods.

Management does not consider that there are any key sources of estimation uncertainty that have a significant effect on the amounts recognised in the financial statements.

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

a) Donations and grants

Income from donations and grants, including capital grants, is included in incoming resources when these are receivable except as follows:

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Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

When donors specify that donations and grants given to the charity must be used in future accounting periods, the income is deferred until those periods.

When donors impose conditions which have to be fulfilled before the charity becomes entitled to use such income, the income is deferred and not included in incoming resources until the pre -conditions for use have been met.

When donors specify that donations and grants, including capital grants, are for particular restricted purposes, which do not amount to pre-conditions regarding entitlement, this income is included in incoming resources of restricted funds when receivable.

b) Legacies and interest receivable

These are included when receivable by the charity.

Resources expended are included in the statement of financial activities on an accruals basis, inclusive of any V.A.T. which cannot be recovered.

Certain expenditure is directly attributable to specific activities and has been included in those cost categories. Certain other costs which are attributable to more than one activity are apportioned across cost categories on the basis of the Directors’ best estimate.

The company does not make significant grants in its own capacity but acts only in partnership with various local and national government departments and other key partners (e.g. RHS) to administer the distribution of grants to other local charities and community organisations. Distributions are made in strict accordance with the criteria set by the original funding body and are included in the charitable activities when payable.

Funds held by the charity are either:

Unrestricted general funds - these are funds which can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the Trustees.

Designated funds - these are funds set aside by the Trustees out of unrestricted general funds for specific future purposes or projects.

Restricted funds - these are funds that can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

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

Separate asset accounts are not maintained for each fund if a better return can be obtained by consolidating the assets. However, they should always be readily accessible, dependent on the fund involved.

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Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Assets acquired by means of restricted capital grants for time limited projects are depreciated over the life of the project.

Depreciation is provided on other fixed assets at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life:

Computer equipment - 33 1/3% on cost

Office equipment - 20% on net book value and 33 1/3% on cost

Fixtures and fittings - 20% on net book value and 33 1/3% on cost

General investments

Investments are a form of basic financial instrument and are initially recognised at their transaction value and subsequently measured at their fair value as at the balance sheet date using the closing quoted market price. The statement of financial activities includes the net gains and losses arising on revaluation and disposals throughout the year.

The charity does not acquire put options, derivatives or other complex financial instruments.

The main form of financial risk faced by the charity is that volatility in equity markets and investment markets due to wider economic conditions, the attitude of investors to investment risk, and changes in sentiment concerning equities and within particular sectors or sub sectors.

Programme related investments

These are made directly in pursuit of the organisation’s charitable purposes and further the objects of the charity. Whilst they may generate a small amount of income they are not made for those purposes and are often not on commercial terms.

They are valued at cost less impairment. The impairment is based on the Trustees perception of the recoverability of the investment.

The company is a registered charity and as such is entitled to the exemption from tax to the extent that the income received falls within section 505 I.C.T.A. 1988 and section 256 C.G.T.A. 1992 and is applied to charitable purposes only.

Contributions in respect of the company's defined contribution pension scheme are charged to the income and expenditure account for the year in which they are payable to the scheme.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Government grants are recognised when there is reasonable assurance that the company will comply with the conditions attaching to the grant and the grant will be received.

Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic the company furloughed members of staff and took advantage of the government job retention scheme. Grant income is accrued for in the period matching the period the wages were due for.

The net income for the year is stated after charging
Auditors Remuneration (see note 9)
Depreciation		 2022
£
8,580
8,522
**17,102 **		 2021
£
8,020
3,504
11,524

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Access to Work (DWP)

Big Local Trust - Bankers Fee
Catalyst
NAVCA
Salford Council
Salford Third Sector Consortium
Total unrestricted voluntary income
Big Lottery - Covid Response

Big Lottery - Big Local Trust (Little Hulton
Big Local)

Food Response Fund

Forever Manchester

Greater Manchester Combined Authority -
Gambling Harms

NHS Oldham GGG (Greater Manchester
Health and Social Care Partnership) - Make
Smoking History

Greater Sport (GM Moving) - Local
Delivery Pilot, physical activity

Greater Sport - Tackling Inequalities Fund
GM Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust -
Achieve Bolton, Salford, Trafford Asset
Fund

NHS England - GM Cancer Screening
Engagement programme (Answer Cancer)
NHS England - GM VCSE population health
(10GM)

NHS Manchester - Green Social
Prescribing (GMHSCP PCCA pilot project)
NHS Manchester - Health Coaching

NHS Oldham CCG - Healthy Start
Vouchers

NHS Salford CCG - Big Reset
Conversation
 Revenue
Grants
£
-
5,529
10,000
1,500
-
8,000
25,029
-
110,573
107,000
-
29,984
-
-
-
170,000
575,000
243,000
27,591
10,000
10,000
-
Total
2022

£
-
5,529
10,000
1,500

-
8,000
25,029
-
110,573
107,000
-
29,984
-
-
-
170,000
575,000
243,000
27,591
10,000
10,000
-
Total
2021

£
1,522
7,909
5,000
3,000

10,000
8,000
35,431
82,708
158,189
65,450
19,970
-
25,000
74,792
28,000
205,418
525,000
-
-
-
-
40,000

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

NHS Salford CCG - Home First Discharge
Hub		 50,000 50,000 -
NHS Salford CCG - Emotional Wellbeing
and Mental Health grants		 150,000 150,000 393,000
NHS Salford CCG - Third Sector Fund
grants programme		 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,315,000
NHS Salford CCG - Wider VCSE activities - - 150,000
NHS Salford CCG - VCSE Voices Matter
(Salford Together)		 80,223 80,223 80,223
NHS Salford CCG - Age Friendly Salford 195,000 195,000 195,000
NHS Salford CCG - Wellbeing Matters
PCCA Programme		 612,160 612,160 483,235
Northern Care Alliance - Social Prescribing 23,000 23,000 -
Salford City Council - Community
Champions		 75,000 75,000 151,000
Salford City Council - Community
Response Fund		 66,000 66,000 250,000
Salford City Council - Children, Young
People & Families		 31,706 31,706 31,706
Salford City Council - Disability Project 274,384 274,384 -
Salford City Council - Family Hub 112,000 112,000 -
Salford City Council - Hate Crime grants 3,850 3,850 6,490
Salford City Council - Healthy Holidays
Fund		 215,000 215,000 10,000
Salford City Council - Health and Social
Care		 39,810 39,810 39,810
Salford City Council - Infrastructure,
Training and Development		 80,737 80,737 80,737
Salford City Council - Obesity Pilot 23,400 23,400 -
Salford City Council - Short Break Care
grants		 60,448 60,448 60,449
Salford City Council - Strategic
Development		 85,000 85,000 85,000

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Salford City Council - Volunteer Centre
Salford City Council - Youth Justice
Little Hulton & Walkden and Eccles & Irlam
Salford Primary Care Networks - Social
Prescribing
Salford Royal Hospital (NCA Foundation
Trust)
Social Enterprise UK - Buy Social
Extension programme
Talk Talk - match funding for the Youth
Wellbeing Fund
The Royal Horticultural Society - Grow
Well grants
Total restricted voluntary income
Total voluntary income		 28,315
43,000
45,143
49,950
-
16,500
-
4,643,774
**4,668,803 **		 28,315
43,000
45,143
49,950

-
16,500

-
4,643,774
**4,668,803 **		 28,315
37,603
-
-

10,000
-

15,000
4,647,095
4,682,526
Unrestricted Restricted
Funds
Funds		 Total 2022 Total 2021
£
£		 £ £
Payroll Service 8,463 - 8,463 7,267
Other 15,576 - 15,576 7,368
Returned grants - 15,595 15,595 14,938
**24,039 ** **15,595 ** **39,634 ** 29,573
Returned grants income
Achieve Asset Fund (Bolton
Salford and Trafford) £ 3,571
GM Moving - Local Delivery
Pilot £ 3,670
Salford4Good £ 685
NHS Salford CCG - Third
Sector Fund £ 7,669

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Mailing, photocopying and
other sales
DBS checks
Coronavirus Job
Retention Scheme		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
42,150

62,745
94
104,989
 Restricted
Funds
£
117

-

-
117
 Total 2022
£
42,267

62,745

94

105,106
 Total 2021
£
161,315
26,040
23,570
210,925

The associated direct costs of DBS checks amounted to £33,352 (2021 - £13,111) which is included in note 7 under Beneficiary Support Costs.

Unrestricted
Restricted		 2022
£
160,569

4,659,486

4,820,055
 2021
£
171,118
4,752,085
4,923,203
Information,
advice and
support
Grants distributed		 Staff
costs
£
1,105,401
-
1,105,401		 Deprec-
iation
£
8,522
-
8,522		 Other
costs
£
1,134,476
2,007,122
3,141,598		 Total
2022
£
2,248,399
2,007,122
4,255,521		 Total
2021
£
2,251,542
2,529,613
4,781,155

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Other costs comprise:
Grants distributed (see note 8)
Consultancy fees
Premises and equipment
Website costs
Communications, marketing & promotion
Beneficiary support, meetings and events
Staff recruitment, training and travel
Subscriptions and affiliations
Insurances
Miscellaneous
Support costs (see note 9)
Loss on disposal of assets
Refunded grant income		 Total
2022
£
2,007,122
8,235
82,064
5,402
15,610
988,595
14,490
2,458
4,289
703
11,294
1,336
-
3,141,598		 Total
2021
£
2,529,613
11,736
68,750
1,800
56,762
985,393
4,883
3,280
3,891
2,623
9,211
1,790
4,888
3,684,620

All the grants were paid to VCSE groups and organisations in the Greater Manchester area and all were paid on behalf of the funders, who had requested the charity administer the funds for distribution. The charity retains a proportion of funds for management and administration costs.

The payment of grants is within the objects of the charity.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Third Sector Fund
Total 2022
£
Big Ideas Fund
462,021
Crisis Fund
-
Covid 19 BAME Response Fund
-
Covid 19 Digital Response Fund
-
Covid 19 Disability Response Fund
-
Covid 19 Recovery Fund
-
Covid 19 Domestic Violence Response Fund
-
Food Response Fund
-
Healthy Holidays Fund
25,000
Healthy Schools Fund
-
Healthy Schools Transition Fund
-
Impact Partnership Fund
-
Living Well this Winter Fund
-
Responsiveness Fund
20,000
Volunteers’ Expenses Fund
16,701
Volunteers’ Week Activity Fund
9,302
Wellbeing Fund
54,927
Wellbeing Matters Community Assets Fund
141,450
Wellbeing Matters Green Asset Fund
99,871
Youth Wellbeing Fund
-
829,272
Other
Achieve Asset Fund (Bolton, Salford and Trafford) grants
and investments
202,629
Addressing Unmet Need in Ordsall and Claremont (Health
Neighbourhood Fund)
44,005
Answer Cancer programme grants and investments
90,173
Big Rest Conversation - community engagement
-
Community Champions programme
75,700
Community Response Fund
200,978
Dementia Support Fund
6,000
Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health grants
111,049
Food Response Fund
185,000
Hate Crime grants
3,500
Healthy Holidays Fund
99,499
Little Hulton Big Local grants and investments
9,853
Little Hulton Big Local (other)
-		 Total 2021
£
-
71,728
50,998
50,000
29,763
429,230
50,000
35,000
34,275
110,000
228,624
57,620
25,008
-
13,439
4,028
31,266
-
-
38,353
1,259,332
40,037
-
55,000
5,200
-
-
-
711,788
212,623
5,800
-
12,473
(5,000)

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Local Delivery Pilot investments
Make Smoking History grants
Royal Horticultural Society grants
Salford 4 Good - Covid Response Appeal
Salford CVS' AGM grant
Short Break Care grants
Tackling Social Inclusion grant
Emergency Response Fund
Living Wage Foundation - accreditation payments
Other CCG grants
VCSE Voices Matter
Prior year grants not taken up
Total grants		 31,436
8,000
8,500
-
-
58,153
-
-
144
45,000
-
1,179,619
(1,769)
2,007,122		 58,708
28,800
-
35,008
1,000
50,628
27,950
1,000
492
24,100
12,100
1,277,707
(7,426)
2,529,613

Third Sector Fund

Other Funds

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Accountancy
Audit
Bank charges
AGM expenses		 Total 2022
£
4,490
4090

1,335

1,379
11,294
 Total 2021
£
4,195
3,825
1,191
-
9,211
Staff costs comprise:
Salaries (including redundancies)
Social Security
Pension contributions		 Total 2022
£
953,997
84,502
66,902
1,105,401		 Total 2021
£
942,724
82,738
65,286
1,090,748

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

None of the Trustees received any remuneration from the charity. None of the Trustees were reimbursed for travel expenses (2021 - Nil).

Three key personnel received total emoluments of £165,376. One employee earned in excess of £60,000 per annum.

The average number of employees in the year calculated on a full time equivalent basis was 30.5 (2021 – 27.7).

Some transfers between restricted funds have been made where one fund has ended and other similar projects have been undertaken. These transfers are within the scope of the restricted terms of the fund.

Certain transfers have been made from unrestricted funds where projects have had an excess of expenditure over income. See note 18 for further details.

Income and expenditure
Incoming resources:
Voluntary Income
Investment Income:
Bank and building society income
Income from charitable activities:
Charitable trading
Other income
Total Income
Resources expended:
Charitable activities
Total expenditure		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
35,431
179
14,635
120,873		 Restricted
Funds
£
4,647,095
-
14,938
90,052		 Total Funds
2021
£
4,682,526
179
29,573
210,925
171,118 4,752,085 4,923,203
(208,218)
(208,218)		 (4,572,937)
(4,572,937)		 (4,781,155)
(4,781,155)

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Net (outgoing) / incoming
resources before transfers
Gain on realised investment
Transfer between funds
Movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds balance brought forward
Total funds balance carried forward		 (37,100)
-
182,821
145,721
753,577

899,298
 179,148
(182,821)
(3,673)
1,745,523

1,741,850
 142,048
-
-
142,048
2,499,100
2,641,148
Cost
At 1 April 2021
Additions
Disposals
At 31 March 2022
Accumulated Depreciation
At 1 April 2021
Re disposals
Charge for the year
At 31 March 2022
Net book values
At 31 March 2022
At 31 March 2021		 Computers
and other
£
42,478
5,943
(6,445)
41,976
23,089
(5,817)
8,162
25,434
16,542
19,389		 Fixtures and
fittings
£
20,404
0
(948)
19,456
17,263
(240)
360
17,383
2,073
3,141		 Total
£
62,882
5,943
(7,393)
61,432
40,352
(6,057)
8,522
42,817
18,615
22,530

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Salford Credit Union - programme related investment
Greater Manchester Community Renewables - community
shares		 Total 2022
£
1
4,000

4,001
 Total 2021
£
1
4,000
4,001

Salford Credit Union Investment – Programme related investment

Salford CVS made this investment as a result of the Pennington Bequest, a bequest held since 1974. This bequest came from an ex-resident of Salford who emigrated to Australia, leaving approx. £12,000 to provide an ongoing income for our organisation. The terms of the bequest stated that the money be used for charitable purposes for the benefit of Salford people who are in need.

In 2015 an investment fund for the Pennington Bequest was closed and the proportion relating to Salford CVS, £53,115, was transferred to the direct control of Salford CVS.

In 2016 Salford CVS' Board of Trustees agreed to invest funds into a programme that would provide long-term benefit to the people of Salford and therefore saw the ‘programme related investment’ of £7,000 into Salford Credit Union as an ideal opportunity.

The Trustees do not expect to recover this investment and hence in 2019 it was written down to £1 in the accounts.

Greater Manchester Community Renewables Ltd (GMCR)

In 2019 Salford CVS’ Board of Trustees agreed to invest £4,000 in GMCR’s community shares offer to fund the installation of solar panels on schools and community buildings, helping them save money, reduce their carbon footprint, and inspire children and the community to learn about energy and climate change. The schools earmarked in this round of the community shares offer were Salford primary schools. Further information can be found here www.gmcr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GMCR-Share-Offer-2019.pdf

Other debtors
Prepayments and accrued income		 Total 2022
£
529,789
34,673
564,462		 Total 2021
£
59,763
99,142
158,905

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Funds held as custodian trustee
Accruals and deferred income		 Total 2022
£
39,401
709,915
749,316		 Total 2021
£
69,460
558,747
628,207

At 31 March 2022, Salford CVS held funds as custodian trustee on behalf of 14 voluntary / not for profit organisations based in Salford (2021 - 34 organisations). Details are given in the Trustees report.

There was no deferred income in the year (in 2020/21 it was £131,250 which was released in the current year).

Restricted funds:
Income funds
Unrestricted funds:		 Tangible
Fixed
Assets
£
-
-
18,615
18,615		 Investments
£
-

-

4,001

4,001
 Net current
assets
£
2,062,857

2,062,857

1,120,209

3,183,066
 Total
£
2,062,857
2,062,857
1,142,825
3,205,682

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Income funds
Big Lottery - Big Local
Trust (Little Hulton
Big Local)
Food Response Fund
Greater Manchester
Combined Authority -
Gambling Harms
GM Mental Health
NHS Foundation
Trust - Achieve Asset
Fund (Bolton, Salford,
Trafford)
Greater Sport (GM
Moving) - Local
Delivery Pilot
NHS Bolton CCG -
‘Wellbeing Matters’
additional investment
(Elemental CRM
upgrades) - from
GMHSCP PCCA unit
NHS England -
Cancer Champions
NHS England - GM
Cancer Screening
Engagement
programme (Answer
Cancer)
NHS England - for
GM VCSE population
health work (10GM
leading)		 Balance
brought
forward
12,000
49,327
-
188,142
46,066
13,900
19,900
137,297
-		 Movement in Year
Incoming
Outgoing
110,573
(95,258)
107,000
(185,000)
29,984
-
173,571
(206,629)
3,670
(31,436)
-
-
-
-
575,000
(532,515)
243,000
-		 Transfer
between
funds
received /
paid
(5,990)
50,900
(2,064)
(21,500)
(7,500)
-
(19,900)
9,900
-		 Balance
carried
forward
21,325
22,227
27,920
133,584
10,800
13,900
-
189,682
243,000

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

NHS Manchester -
Green Social
Prescribing - 27,591 (20,669) 31,000 37,922
(GMHSCP PCCA pilot
project)
NHS Manchester -
Health Coaching for
Wellbeing Matters'		 - 10,000 - - 10,000
link workers
NHS Oldham CCG -
Healthy Start
Vouchers work, led by		 - 10,000 (10,000) - -
10GM
NHS Oldham CCG -
Make Smoking
History (on behalf of		 27,450 - (17,700) (3,750) 6,000
GMHSCP)
NHS Salford CCG -
Big Reset
Conversation 8,594 - (2,100) - 6,494
(community
engagement)
NHS Salford CCG -
Home First Discharge - 50,000 - - 50,000
Hub
NHS Salford CCG -
Dementia support 9,720 - (6,000) - 3,720
fund
NHS Salford CCG -
Emotional Wellbeing
and Mental Health		 193,263 150,000 (111,049) (71,000) 161,214
grants
NHS Salford CCG -
Third Sector Fund
grants & investments		 319,039 1,007,669 (955,043) (150,000) 221,665
programme
NHS Salford CCG -
VCSE Voices Matter 35,295 80,223 (91,359) - 24,159
(Salford Together)
NHS Salford CCG -
Age Friendly Salford		 69,344 195,000 (232,312) - 32,032

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

NHS Salford CCG –
Wellbeing Matters 137,328 612,160 (589,034) (4,000) 156,454
programme
NHS Salford CCG –
additional Covid-19 45,900 - (45,000) (900) -
Recovery funding
Northern Care
Alliance -
Community - 23,000 - - 23,000
Connector Long -
Covid Clinic
Royal Horticultural
Society – Grow Well 15,000 - (8,500) - 6,500
match funding
Salford City Council
- Community
Champions 151,000 75,000 (121,707) (15,000) 89,293
(MHCLG) Covid
engagement funding
Salford City Council
- Community
Response Fund 250,000 66,000 (300,996) (15,004) -
(Covid Contain
monies)
Salford City Council
- Capacity-Building
Disabled People's		 - 274,384 (6,631) - 267,753
Groups
Salford City Council
- Family Hubs -
VCSE engagement /		 - 112,000 (148) - 111,852
volunteering
Salford City Council
– Hate Crime grants		 144 3,850 (3,500) (350) 144
Salford City Council
– Healthy Holidays 725 215,000 (99,499) - 116,226
Fund
Salford City Council
– GM Obesity pilot		 - 23,400 - - 23,400
Salford City Council
– Short Break Care 8,200 60,448 (58,153) (5,815) 4,680
grants

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Salford City Council
infrastructure contract -
Children, Young People
and Families
Salford City Council
infrastructure contract -
Health & Social Care
Salford City Council
infrastructure contract -
IAG, Training &
Development Support
Salford City Council
infrastructure contract -
Strategic Development
Salford City Council
infrastructure contract -
Volunteer Centre
Salford City Council -
Youth Justice project
(Home Office funding)
Walkden & Little Hulton
and Eccles & Irlam
Primary Care Networks
- Link Workers
Salford 4 Good
(fundraising income)
Salford Royal Hospitals
Foundation Trust -
Addressing Unmet
Need Ordsall and
Claremont
Social Enterprise UK -
Buy Social Extension
project
Talk Talk - match
funding for the Youth
Wellbeing Fund
Total restricted funds		 -
-
-
-
-
2,692
-
422
-
1,102
-
1,741,850		 31,706
39,810
80,737
85,000
28,315
43,000
45,143
802
49,950
-
16,500
4,659,486		 (31,706)
(39,810)
(80,737)
(85,000)
(31,411)
(15,079)
(45,143)
(426)
(44,005)
(1,102)
-
(4,104,657)		 -
-
-
-
3,096
-
-
-
(5,945)
-
-
(233,822)
 -
-
-
-
-
30,613
-
798
-
-
16,500
2,062,857

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Transfers

Where the transfer is an expense to unrestricted funds it represents a recharge of central costs as allowed for under the funding agreement. Where the transfer is received from unrestricted funds it is to cover a shortfall on restricted funding.

Details of restricted funds
Area of work Funder Description of the work
Little Hulton
Big Local		 Big Lottery - Big
Local Trust		 Salford CVS is acting as the Local Trusted Organisation
(LTO) for Little Hulton Big Local (LHBL), providing financial
management, coordination and project management
support to ensure the effective implementation of the Big
Local Plan objectives. This includes employing LHBL’s
three paid staff.
Food
Response
Fund		 Donations from
Talk Talk and
grants from
Salford City
Council		 Donations and grants for food response. This is a grants
fund to support the VCSE sector’s efforts to respond to
food-related needs as we moved into living with Covid-19.
Gambling
Harms		 Greater
Manchester
Combined
Authority		 Using behavioural research and gamification to deliver
early disruptive interventions that increase awareness,
and further evaluate the impacts of gambling for
communities in Salford; specifically 16-21 years that are
identified at risk.
Achieve
Bolton,
Salford and
Trafford
Asset Fund		 Greater
Manchester
Mental Health
NHS Foundation
Trust		 Grants and Investments scheme to support people in
recovery from drug and alcohol use. Salford CVS operate
this scheme on behalf of 10GM, across the local authority
areas of Bolton, Salford and Trafford.
Local
Delivery pilot
– physical
activity		 Greater Sport Salford CVS is working in partnership with Salford City
Council and Salford Community Leisure to deliver the
Salford local pilot work around physical activity on behalf
of GM Moving and Sport England. Our focus is on
improving levels of physical activity via providing
development support and small grants to local VCSE
groups.
‘Wellbeing
Matters’
additional
data
management
support		 Bolton CCG (GM
Health & Social
Care Partnership)		 Contribution to the Elemental Data Management System,
supporting the Wellbeing Matters programme
to link directly to general practice.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

GM Cancer
Champions		 NHS England Cancer Champions is a movement bringing local people
and organisations together to help prevent cancer across
Greater Manchester.
Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) were the lead
delivery partner for this work. Salford CVS’ role was to
manage the investment as instructed by VSNW.
Funds totalling £19,900 were transferred to the Answer
Cancer programme to support delivery of this work.
Answer
Cancer:
Greater
Manchester
Cancer
Screening
Engagement
Programme		 NHS England (GM
Health & Social
Care Partnership)		 Answer Cancer is a Voluntary, Community & Social
Enterprise (VCSE) sector-led response to cancer in
Greater Manchester. This initiative is a partnership of four
VCSE organisations: Salford CVS (accountable body) - on
behalf of 10GM - VSNW, BHA for Equality, and Unique
Improvements. Using grants, investments, engagement
and training with identified communities, Answer Cancer
aims to increase cancer screening rates in GM, especially
within communities where take-up is currently low.
GM VCSE
population
health work
(10GM
leading)		 NHS England A programme using the NHS CORE20PLUS5 model as a
framework in which to explore how long term, sustainable
VCSE and Primary Care Network (PCN) partnerships
within an Integrated Care System can drive targeted
action in health inequality improvement.
Green Social
Prescribing		 NHS Manchester
(GMHSCP PCCA
Pilot Project)		 This project is part of the wider Wellbeing Matters
programme and uses Social Prescribing to connect
people’s health and wellbeing needs to green and blue
spaces in Salford.
Health
Coaching		 NHS Manchester Health coaching for Wellbeing Matters’ link workers.
Healthy Start
Vouchers		 NHS Manchester A Greater Manchester piece of work seeking to
understand variations in uptake of Healthy Start vouchers
across disadvantaged communities (delivered with
10GM).

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Make
Smoking
History		 NHS Oldham CCG
(GMHSCP)		 A programme of work to recruit ‘History Makers’ to
support making smoking history across GM. History
Makers are, in essence, community champions who want
to help reduce smoking in their communities. The
programme also involves encouraging smoke-free places
and events across Greater Manchester.
Big Reset
Conversation		 NHS Salford CCG Salford CVS are holding the engagement budget on
behalf of the CCG. We identified communities that the
CCG wanted to engage with and made small investments
into a number of community organisations to reach into
specific communities of geography and identity.
Home First
Discharge
Hub		 NHS Salford CCG To provide a Home from Hospital VCSE Support Worker
as part of the Home First Discharge Hub (Salford Royal
Hospital).
Dementia
Support fund		 NHS Salford CCG To provide small grants to VCSE organisations to support
people living with dementia in their community.
Emotional
Wellbeing
and Mental
Health grants		 NHS Salford CCG This grants scheme is designed to fund a range of
projects aimed at improving and sustaining the mental
health of Salford residents as part of the city’s developing
Living Well approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Third Sector
Fund grants
programme		 NHS Salford CCG Salford CVS continue to design, manage and administer
this grants fund on behalf of NHS Salford CCG. The aim
of the fund is to invest in VCSE organisations and schools
in Salford in order to help improve the health and
wellbeing of Salford residents.
VCSE Voices
Matter		 NHS Salford CCG
(Salford Together)		 This work focuses on delivering the Memorandum of
Understanding between the partners of Salford Together
(integrated health and care) and Salford CVS and the
wider VCSE sector. Key elements include sector voice
and representation at key partnership board and forums
across the city and within the 5 health neighbourhoods.
Age Friendly
Salford
(previously
Volunteer
Wellbeing
Champions)		 NHS Salford CCG
(Salford Together)		 The Age Friendly Salford programme is delivered by
Salford CVS as part of the Community Assets workstream
of Salford Together, led by local charity Inspiring
Communities Together.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

‘Wellbeing
Matters’
PCCA
programme		 NHS Salford CCG
and Salford’s 5
Primary Care
Networks		 This programme takes Person and Community-Centred
Approaches (PCCA) to health and wellbeing, helping
transform how we deliver population health benefits in
Salford. Salford CVS are the accountable body and lead
partner for the Wellbeing Matters programme, which
incorporates interdependent workstreams around social
prescribing, volunteering and capacity-building the VCSE
ecosystem. The programme is delivered in partnership
with Salford Third Sector Consortium.
Additional
Covid-19
Recovery
funding		 NHS Salford CCG Additional funds secured to support the VCSE sector to
recover from the impacts of Covid-19.
Community
Connector
Long Covid
Clinic		 Northern Care
Alliance		 Additional funds to employ a .5 post to support the health
systems’ Long Covid Clinic (delivered by Salford Third
Sector Consortium as part of the Wellbeing Matters
programme).
Grow Well
match
funding		 Royal Horticultural
Society		 Contribution to the Grow Well grants fund, providing match
to the Third Sector Fund grants programme.
Community
Champions		 Salford City
Council		 Community Champions funding enabled scaling up of
outreach and engagement with people identified as being
at increased risk from Covid-19.
Community
Response
Fund		 Salford City
Council		 Grants programme and costs to support emergency
response and recovery.
Capacity
Building
Disabled
People's
Groups		 Salford City
Council		 Funding to support capacity building of disabled people’s
groups in order to improve access to services.
Family Hub Salford City
Council		 Funding to employ 2 x Family Hub Workers who will
support the engagement of VCSE organisations and
volunteers in Salford’s Family Hubs Partnership.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Hate Crime
grants		 Salford City
Council		 Salford CVS administer these grants on behalf of Salford
City Council as part of Greater Manchester’s work to
tackle hate crime across the city-region. The aim of the
fund is to support Salford VCSE activities during Hate
CrimeWeek.
Healthy
Holidays
Fund		 Salford City
Council		 Grants to support activities during School Holidays.
Obesity Pilot Salford City
Council		 Grants to support food projects tackling obesity in children
and families.
Short Break
Care grants		 Salford City
Council		 Salford CVS administer these grants on behalf of Salford
City Council. The aim is to promote innovation and
development in the provision of group-based short break
care for children with disabilities in Salford.
Children,
Young
People and
Families
(CYPF)		 Salford City
Council		 Funded by Salford City Council, this CYPF work brings
together VCSE organisations working with children, young
people and families in Salford. It provides broad-ranging
representation of the interests and views of the VCSE
sector to relevant strategic partnerships. Also includes
child safeguarding.
Infrastructure
Training and
Development
(incl. 1-2-1
and group
support)		 Salford City
Council		 Funded by Salford City Council to enable Salford CVS to
help develop and improve the VCSE sector in Salford by
providing training sessions; information, advice and
guidance; and 1-2-1 group support. This includes topic
areas such as legal structures, business planning,
governance, fundraising, funding bids, access to digital,
social investment, tendering, social value and
demonstrating impact, equalities, comms, engagement
and marketing, co-production, and much more.
Health and
Social Care		 Salford City
Council		 Funded jointly by Salford City Council and NHS Salford
CCG to enable CVS to undertake development work in
support of key health and social care issues, including
carers support, mental health and personalisation. Also
includes adult safeguarding.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Strategic
Development		 Salford City
Council		 Funded by Salford City Council to support the VCSE
sector to be engaged and involved in all aspects of
strategic city partnership work, ensuring they
understand, actively contribute to and influence key
partnership areas of work. Includes organising and
facilitating sector representation on all key partnership
boards in the city.
Also supporting and enabling the VCSE sector to
operate effectively within the Salford social, economic
and political environment. Involves operating a robust
programme for voice and influence, including
organising various themed Vocal Forums and strategic
workshops on a regular basis and an annual VCSE
conference.
Strategic comms is also a key area of work, including
ensuring Salford’s VCSE sector are informed and
engaged in relevant developments at city-region and
national levels.
Salford
Volunteer
Centre		 Salford City
Council		 Part-funded by Salford City Council to support
volunteering development, good practice and
brokerage services in Salford – by the city’s only
accredited Volunteer Centre. This includes supporting
the delivery of the Salford Volunteering Strategy,
operating a bespoke volunteering portal for the city
and organising the prestigious Heart of Salford
volunteering awards.
Also funded by Salford CVS reserves and income
generation activities.
Youth Justice Salford City
Council		 To provide a dedicated Community Connector to
support the work of the Salford Youth Justice service.
Social
Prescribing
Link Workers		 Walkden & Little
Hulton and Eccles
& Irlam Primary
Care Networks		 4 x Eccles & Irlam link workers
1 x Walken & Little Hulton link worker

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Salford4Good Income
Generation
(fundraising)		 Salford4Good aims to make it easier for individuals and
businesses to give time, skills, money and resources to
local good causes. Salford CVS is the accountable
body.
Addressing
Unmet Need
Ordsall and
Claremont		 Salford Royal
Hospitals
Foundation Trust
(NCA)		 Grant to help tackle high intensity use of health and
social care services by addressing the unmet needs of
individuals in the Ordsall and Claremont areas.
Buy Social
Extension
Project		 Social Enterprise
UK		 Developing the local market for social enterprise.
Youth
Wellbeing
Fund		 Talk Talk Match funding for the Youth Wellbeing Fund.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Balance
brought
forward
General reserve
423,151
Designated
Comm LH Peel Park Pavilion
5,000
Compliance
22,240
Court Room re-development
-
Covid19 Adaptations
15,675
Digital Developments
22,393
Emergency Response Activities 15,000
Emergency Response /
Humanitarian Assistance
Co-ordinator
-
IT Improvements
11,784
State of the Sector research
17,206
VCSE Campaigns and Alliances 20,000
Redundancy Reserve
190,146
10GM joint venture
25,000
Internal Building Improvements
19,118
Volunteer Centre Salford
24,093
R&D (Business Development)
20,000
Office Furniture & Equipment
9,692
Hub Refurbishment
8,000
Equalities
10,800
Recruitment - External review
-
Access to Services
-
Staffing Contingency
40,000
899,298		 Movement in Year
Incoming
Outgoing
160,569 (104,233)

-
(5,000)

-
(6,872)

-
-

-
(3,152)

-
(3,850)

-
(9,709)

-
-

-
(657)

-
(1,780)

- (10,012)

-
-

-
-

-
(1,825)

-
-

-
-

-
(2,524)

-
(1,250)

-
-

-
-

-
-
-
-
160,569 (150,864)		 Transfer between funds
Restricted
Funds
Utilised or
released
inyear
Provided
in year
236,918
(248,886)


24,000

35,000



50,000

50,000



20,000

14,886


5,000

(3,096)
25,000



10,000


5,000

10,000




233,822
- -		 Balance
carried
foward

467,519
-

39,368

35,000
12,523
18,543

55,291

50,000
11,127
15,426

29,988

205,032
25,000

22,293

45,997
20,000
7,168

16,750
10,800

5,000

10,000

40,000
1,142,825

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Designated funds

The Trustees agreed that provision should be made to earmark part of general funds to specific projects or reserves.

Peel Park Pavilion – to provide a contribution to the development of Peel Park Pavilion in Little Hulton.

Compliance – to provide for the cost of additional resources required to maintain compliance with GDPR, Safeguarding, Health & Safety and HR.

Court Room Redevelopment – to provide for the cost of redeveloping the Court Room in Eccles Town Hall into a conference and training facility.

Covid-19 Adaptations – to provide for the cost of providing safety equipment / consumables and office alterations so we can ensure our workplaces are ‘Covid-secure’

Digital Developments – to provide for the cost of developing and implementing digital enhancements, particularly in terms of delivering some of our services online.

IT Improvements – to provide for the cost of replacing / updating Salford CVS’ IT infrastructure.

Emergency Response activities – to provide for the cost of providing emergency response support, including recruitment and management of volunteers, cost of activities and equipment, etc.

Emergency Response / Humanitarian Assistance Co-ordinator - to provide for the cost of a worker to support emergency response and humanitarian support in Salford.

State of the VCSE Sector Report – to provide for the cost of the 2020/21 State of the VCSE Sector ongoing research work.

VSCE Campaigns and Alliances – to support campaigning and frontline activity in Salford – e.g. our work as part of the Living Wage City action group.

Redundancy Reserve – to provide for the cost of redundancy should the organisation have to close in the year.

10GM joint venture – to provide for the cost of Salford CVS’s contribution to the start-up and ongoing development of 10GM.

Internal Building Improvements – to provide for the cost of replacing fixtures and fittings and providing enhanced welfare facilities to staff.

Volunteer Centre Salford – to support the unfunded delivery of services in the Volunteer Centre.

Research and Development – to support costs of internal capacity-building and independent research and development as required by the organisation.

Office Furniture and Equipment – to provide for the cost replacing / updating office furniture and equipment.

Hub Refurbishment – to provide for the cost of refurbishing the Hub offices that Salford CVS manage.

Salford Community & Voluntary Services Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Equalities Training – to provide for the cost of equalities training for the whole staff team.

Recruitment External Review - to provide for the cost of reviewing our recruitment practices.

Access to Services - to provide for the review of services to ensure accessibility to all beneficiaries.

Staffing Contingency – to provide for the cost of covering staff absence.

There were no contingent liabilities of a material amount for which provision has not been made in the accounts.

Capital commitments

There were no capital commitments at 31 March 2022 (2021 - £Nil).

Operating Lease commitments

At 31 March 2022 the charity had an operating lease commitment in respect of plant and machinery of £965 which expire within 2-5 years. It also had an annual lease for property rental of £9,200 p.a. plus service charge of £4,800.

Pension commitments

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in independently administered funds. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the company to the funds and amounted to £66,902 (2021 - £65,286). The amount due to the pension fund at the year-end was £nil (2021 - £nil).

Salford Community & Voluntary Services

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022

Salford Community and Voluntary Services provide management and administrative support to Salford Third Sector Consortium on behalf of the Trustees of that organisation.

During the year, Salford Community and Voluntary Services re-charged Salford Third Sector Consortium £8,000 for this ‘hub support’. This amount was included within voluntary income under unrestricted grants / contracts.

Langworthy Cornerstone received a grant from the Charity totalling £2,500 and provided supplies to the Charity totalling £621. The Chief Executive of Langworthy Cornerstone (until March 2022) is a Trustee of the Charity.

Gaddum received a grant from the Charity totalling £4,981. An employee of Gaddum is a Trustee of the Charity.

Wai Yin received funding for a project totalling £4,844. An employee of Wai Yin is a Trustee of the Charity.

All the above transactions took place on an arms-length basis.

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Our quality marks

Campaigns we support

We are members of

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Thank you to our funders

Eccles Walkden and and Irlam Little Hulton Primary Care Network Primary Care Network Broughton Ordsall Swinton Primary Care and Claremont Primary Care Network Primary Care Network Network

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Thank you to our staff, trustees and volunteers

Staff (at 31/3/22)

Dana Al Sharkas Sam Bate-Francis Dominic Bell Gill Bruder Ella Bulbeck Jenny Capper Michael Carroll Ashley Chapman Jessica Clark Deb Drinkwater Jeremy Engineer Samantha Hill Jonny Hirst Helen Johnson Alison Jones Grace Kennedy Cathrine Lee Anne-Marie Marshall Sylvia McDowell Klaudia Miskis Nicola O'Neill Beatty Osborne Susan Owen Alison Page Bruce Poole Shannon Reynolds Claire Roberts Becky Roberts Kirsten Robinson Simon Robinson Rachel Sadler Hannah Stirzaker Janet Taylor

Michelle Warburton David Wildman Martyn Willcock Jane Williams Marie Wilson

Trustees

Grace Dyke (Chair) John Phillips (Treasurer) Adam Webster (Vice-Chair) Janice Lowndes - resigned 19th October 2021 Ray Mashiter

Dr Kevin Kane – resigned 31st October 2021 Dr Jennifer Rouse – resigned 25th November 2021

Barbara Bentham Ben Whalley Yen Siang Tan

Council Representatives Non-voting ambassadors Councillor Sharmina August

Volunteers

Our office volunteers Wellbeing Champions team Community Champions team Trusted Voices

All of the Emergency Response volunteers

Contact Us

Salford CVS & Volunteer Centre Registered address: The Old Town Hall 5 Irwell Place Eccles Salford, M30 0FN

Tel: 0161 787 7795 Email: office@salfordcvs.co.uk www.salfordcvs.co.uk

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