## **Radford Community Association Limited** ## **Annual Report and Financial Statements** **for the year ended 31st August 2024** |Contents:|Page| |---|---| |Trustees’ Annual Report|2 - 6| |Financial Statements|7 - 12| |Independent Examiner’s Report|13| 1 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** ## **Annual Report and Financial Statements** ## **for the year ended 31st August 2024** ## **Administrative Details** Organisation Name: Radford Community Association Charity Number: 700030 Company Number: 2216776 Principal Address: Jubilee Crescent Radford Coventry CV6 3EX Trustees/ Directors: Mr J Kindness Miss S Prew Miss H O’Connell (Secretary) Mr S Martin Mr T Skipper (Chair) Ms S Ismail Bank: TSB Bank PLC Jubilee Crescent Radford Coventry CV6 3ET Independent Examiner: Gavin Kibble 1 Kineton Road Wyken, Coventry CV2 3NR 2 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** ## **Trustees Report** The trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2024. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the financial statements and comply with the charity's governing document, the Charities Act 2011 and "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). ## **Objectives and activities** The charity exists for the benefit for the residents of the Radford, Coventry and surrounding areas providing activities including Education and Training The trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities the charity should undertake. ## **Achievements and performance** This financial year, the Association has reached a milestone in negotiating a new 25-year lease with the City Council and a schedule of works to take place in 2025 by the Council totalling £750,000 to enable the Association to take on a full repairing lease. While this would naturally come with additional responsibility and overheads, for the first time in over a decade the Association will have security in the form of a medium-term lease agreement. This will open up avenues for greater capital funding and additional freedom to run more projects for the community of Radford. In addition to this, the Association has continued to grow and has accessed funding to renovate the current kitchen and lounge area to create a new Community Café which will in the near future be open five days a week. These works will commence in the next financial year. We have also accessed lottery funding to employ a Centre Manager which has been a great asset and has taken some of the day-to-day responsibilities off the Trustee Board to enable them to engage in long term vision for the Association. We continue to work with partners to deliver various support and wellbeing groups and activities including craft groups, parent and toddler groups, a twice weekly youth club, midweek dance clubs, bingo, route to work support, fitness classes, tuition classes, gardening clubs, ESOL classes and children’s parties. ## **Financial review** This year’s finances have again provided the Association with the means to carry out its core function of running Jubilee Crescent Community Centre and offering services to enhance and support the life of those in the local area. The Association is one of the few in the city which has continued to be self-sustaining with a bright financial health. ## **Risk Statement** The trustees have reviewed the risks to which a small charity is exposed. Appropriate procedures are in place to identify, monitor and review these risks on a regular basis. The insurance policy is reviewed annually. ## **Reserves Policy** It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to three months unrestricted expenditure. The trustees consider that reserves at this level will ensure that, in the event of a significant drop in funding, they will be able to continue the charity’s current activities while consideration is given to ways in which additional funds may be raised. This level of reserves is an absolute minimum while the operating reserves are often at least double this level. 3 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** ## **Structure, governance and management** Radford Community Association Limited is a charity and company limited by guarantee ## **Governance** The policy and operating decisions of the charity rest with the trustees who meet regularly to monitor the activities of the Charity. Day to day decisions are delegated to a management team and where appropriate guidance and sign off are taken from trustees. The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the trustees elected prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice. Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees' are required to: · select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; · make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; · prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business. The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The trustees' report was approved by the Board of Trustees on ......................................................... Chair of Trustees. 4 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31[st] August, 2024 (incorporating the income and expenditure account) ||2023/2024
2022/2023| |---|---| ||Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Total| |Note|Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds| |**Income :**|£
£
£
£| |Donations. Grants and Legacies
2|-
67,821
67,821
5,210| |Income from Charitable Activities
3|85,866
-
85,866
86,627| |Income from Investments
4|-
-
-
6| |**Total Income**|**85,866**
**67,821**
**153,687**
**91,843**| ||| |**Expenditure :**|| |Donations|800
-
800
-| |Cost of Charitable Activities
5|88,065
17,696
105,761
84,767| |**Total Expenditure**|**88,865**
**17,696**
**106,561**
**84,767**| ||| |Net income/(expenditure)|(2,998)
50,125
47,127
7,076| ||| |Transfer between funds|-
-
-
-| |Net movements in funds|(2,998)
50,125
47,127
7,076| ||| |Reconciliation of funds :|| |Total funds brought forward at 1st September|34,992
-
34,992
27,916| ||| |**Total funds carried forward at 31st August**
12|**31,994**
**50,125**
**82,119**
**34,992**| The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised during the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. The notes on pages 7 to 12 form part of these financial statements. 5 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** **Balance Sheet as at 31[st] August 2024** ||Note|2024||||2023|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||£|£|£|||£| |**FIXED ASSETS**|||||||| |Tangible Fixed Assets|8||2,949||||1,469| |Investment Assets|||-||||591| |**TOTAL FIXED ASSETS**|||**2,949**||||**2,060**| |**CURRENT ASSETS**|||||||| |Debtors and Prepayments|9|575|||778|778|| |Cash at Bank and in Hand||80,482||32,504||32,504|| |**TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS**||**81,057**||**33,282**||**33,282**|| |**CREDITORS**|||||||| |Amounts falling due within one year|10||1,887||||350| |**NET CURRENT ASSETS**|||**79,170**||||**32,932**| |**NET ASSETS**|||**82,119**||||**34,992**| |**FUNDS**|||||||| |Restricted funds|12||50,125||||-| |Unrestricted funds|||31,994||||34,992| |**TOTAL FUNDS**|||**82,119**||||**34,992**| For the year ending 31 August 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006. Directors' responsibilities: The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476; The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to the small companies’ regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006. Approved by the trustees and signed by : (Chair) Dated : 31.3.2025 6 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** ## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2024** ## **1: Accounting Policies** 1.1 The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities Act 2011, FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the Charities SORP "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to organisations preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)" (effective 1 January 2019). The organisation is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102. The organisation has taken advantage of the provisions in the SORP for charities not to prepare a Statement of Cash Flows. The financial statements have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a true and fair view. This departure has involved following the Statement of Recommended Practice for organisations applying FRS 102 rather than the version of the Statement of Recommended Practice which is referred to in the Regulations but which has since been withdrawn. The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the organisation. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below: ## 1.2 Going concern At the time of approving the financial statements, the members have a reasonable expectation that the organisation has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, the members continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements. ## 1.3 Funds Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the members in furtherance of their objectives. Restricted funds are subject to specific conditions by donors as to how they may be used. The purposes and uses of the restricted funds are set out in the notes to the financial statements. ## 1.4 Income Income is recognised when the organisation is legally entitled to it after any performance conditions have been met, the amounts can be measured reliably, and it is probable that income will be received. Cash donations are recognised on receipt. Other donations are recognised once the organisation has been notified of the donation, unless performance conditions require deferral of the amount. Income tax recoverable in relation to donations received under Gift Aid or deeds of covenant is recognised at the time of the donation. Legacies are recognised on receipt or otherwise if the organisation has been notified of an impending distribution, the amount is known, and receipt is expected. If the amount is not known, the legacy is treated as a contingent asset. 7 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** ## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2024** ## **1: Accounting Policies (continued)** ## 1.5 Expenditure Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to transfer economic benefit to a third party, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement, and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified by activity. The costs of each activity are made up of the total of direct costs and shared costs, including support costs involved in undertaking each activity. Direct costs attributable to a single activity are allocated directly to that activity. Shared costs which contribute to more than one activity and support costs which are not attributable to a single activity are apportioned between those activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. ## 1.6 Cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities. ## 1.9 Financial instruments Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised. Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and bank loans are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised. Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of operations from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. ## 1.10 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its expected useful life, as follows: Plant and Machinery - 20% per annum of original cost 8 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2024** |**2:**
**Income from Donations, Grants and Legacies**|Unrestricted
Restricted
Total Funds
Total Funds|Unrestricted
Restricted
Total Funds
Total Funds| |---|---|---| ||Funds
Funds
2023/2024
2022/2023|| ||£
£
£
£|| |Grants Received|-
67,821
67,821
5,210|| |||| |**3:**
**Income from Charitable Activities**|Unrestricted
Restricted
Total Funds
Total Funds|| ||Funds
Funds
2023/2024
2022/2023|| ||£
£
£
£|| |Room Hire and Other Income|85,866
-
85,866
86,627|| |||| |**4:**
**Investment Income**|Unrestricted
Restricted
Total Funds
Total Funds|| ||Funds
Funds
2023/2024
2022/2023|| ||£
£
£
£|| |Interest on investments|-
-
-
6|| |||| |||| |**5:**
**Costs of Charitable Activities**|Unrestricted
Restricted
Total Funds
Total Funds|| ||Funds
Funds
2023/2024
2022/2023|| ||£
£
£
£|| |Wages and Salaries|42,679
9,850
52,529
37,544|| |Utilities|16,660
7,278
23,938
31,010|| |Repairs and Maintenance|8,206
-
8,206
3,736|| |Depreciation|2,206
-
2,206
2,604|| |Accountancy|1,464
-
1,464
350|| |Rates (inc. Water Rates)|4,343
-
4,343
2,149|| |Telephone and Internet|874
-
874
1,461|| |Insurance|316
316
632
632|| |Cleaning|1,725
-|1,725
-| |IT Software and Consumables|1,311
**252**
1,563
-|| |Bank and Credit Card Charges|210
-
210
29|| |Debt Write-off|1,262
-
1,262
-|| |Small Value Equipment (<£500)|2,733
-
2,733
-|| |Subscriptions|574
-
574
-|| |Events|845
-
845
-|| |Training|250
-
250
-|| |General|1,379
-
1,379
1,656|| |Office Expenses|1,030
-
1,030
3,596|| ||**88,065**
**17,696**
**105,761**
**84,767**|| |||| ||2023/2024
2022/2023
£
£
2,206
2,604
1,227
1,285|| |**6:**
**Surplus before tax**||| |This is stated before charging :||| |Depreciation of owned assets||| |Pension costs|1,227
1,285|| 9 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2024** |**7:**
**Analysis of staff costs, staff numbers and trustee remuneration and**|2023/2024
2022/2023| |---|---| |**expenses**|£
£| |Expenditure includes staff costs as follows :|| |Salaries|49,420
36,259| |Employers NI|1,882
-| |Employer Pension|1,227
1,285| |Total Staff Costs|**52,529**
**37,544**| The average monthly headcount was 4staff (2023: 3 staff) and the average monthly full-time equivalent headcount (including parttime staff) was 3 (2023:2). No employee was paid more than £60,000. The charity’s trustees were not paid or received any other benefit from employment with the charity neither were they reimbursed expenses during the year (2023:nil). No charity trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity during the year (2023: nil) |**8:**
**Tangible Fixed Assets**|Fixtures,
Furniture and
Equipment
Total| |---|---| ||£
£| ||| |Cost|| |As at 1st September 2023|25,049
25,049| |Additions|3,686
3,686| |Disposals|-
-| |As at 31st August 2024|28,735
28,735| ||| |Depreciation|| |As at 1st September 2023|23,580
23,580| |Charge for the year|2,206
2,206| |Disposals|-
-| |As at 31st August 2024|25,786
25,786| ||| |Net Book Value|| |As at 1st September 2023|1,469
1,469| |As at 31st August 2024|2,949
2,949| ||| |**9:**
**Debtors : amounts falling due within one year:**|2024
2023| ||£
£| |Debtors|575
778| ||| ||| |**10:**
**Creditors : amounts falling due within one year:**|2024
2023| ||£
£| |Accruals and deferred income|350
350| |HMRC|1,537
-| ||1,887
350| 10 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2024** ## **11: Related Party Transactions** There were no related party transactions during the year (2023 : nil) |**12:**||**Analysis of Movements in Restricted**
**Funds**||Balance as at
01/09/2023|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|Balance as at
31/08/2024| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||£|£|£|£|£| |||**Restricted Funds**||||||| |||Severn Trent||-|13,986|(7,846)|-|6,140| |||National Lottery Fund|||9,850|(9,850)||-| |||Inclusive Communities Fund||-|43,985|-|-|43,985| |||||-|67,821|(17,696)|-|50,125| |||||||||| |||Balance as at
01/09/2022
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
Balance as at
31/08/2023| |---|---|---| |||£
£
£
£
£| ||**Restricted Funds**|| ||National Energy Grant|-
3,960
(3,960)
-
-| ## **Description of Restricted Funds** Severn Trent Fund: Grant towards utility and core costs. National Lottery Fund: Grant (paid quarterly) towards Centre Manager costs Inclusive Communities Fund: Grant for Community Café Project ||Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Total| |---|---| ||Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds| |**13:**
**Analysis of Net Assets between Funds**|2024
2023| ||£
£
£
£| |Tangible Assets|2,949
-
2,949
2,060| |Current Assets/(liabilities)|29,045
50,125
79,170
32,932| ||31,994
50,125
82,119
34,992| 11 ## **Radford Community Association Limited** **Prior Year Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31[st] August, 2023 (incorporating the income and expenditure account)** ||2023
2022| |---|---| ||Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Total| ||Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds| |**Income :**|£
£
£
£| |Donations and Legacies|1,250
3,960
5,210
9,500| |Income from Charitable Activities|86,627
-
86,627
84,556| |Income from Investments|6
-
6
-| |**Total Income**|**87,883**
**3,960**
**91,843**
**94,056**| ||| |**Expenditure :**|| ||| |Cost of Charitable Activities|80,807
3,960
84,767
109,071| |**Total Expenditure**|**80,807**
**3,960**
**84,767**
**109,071**| ||| |Net income/(expenditure)|7,076
-
7,076
(15,015)| ||| |Transfer between funds|-
-
-
-| |Net movements in funds|7,076
-
7,076
(15,015)| ||| |Reconciliation of funds :|| |Total funds brought forward|27,916
-
27,916
42,931| ||| |**Total funds carried forward**|**34,992**
**-**
**34,992**
**27,916**| 12 ## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of the Radford Community Association Limited** I report on the accounts for the year ended 31[st] August 2024 which are set out on pages 5 to 12 ## **Respective responsibilities of the trustees and the examiner** The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 (2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to - examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act; - follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity - Commissioner section 145 (5) (b) of the 2011 Act; and - state whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## **Basis of Independent Examiner’s Statement** My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the organisation and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes considering any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in a full audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** In connection with my examination, no matters have come to my attention: - (1) which give me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements - - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act; or - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the - accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met; or (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ________________________________ Gavin Kibble Cm Mozaic Innovate Ltd 1 Kineton Road, Coventry CV2 3NR 24th March, 2025 13