| Trustees | Isobel Mills | (Chair) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alison Lowe | (Vice Chair) | |||||
| Laura Walker | (Treasurer) | (Elected 22/11/2022) | ||||
| Nigel Turner | (Resigned as Treasurer 22/11/2022) | |||||
| Patrick Grant | (Elected 22/11/2022) | |||||
| Richard Balfe | ||||||
| Richard Brook | (Elected 22/11/2022) | |||||
| Rebecca Dearden | ||||||
| Ryk Downes | ||||||
| Dr Kenneth Patterson |
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| Key Management | Personnel | Dianne Lyons | Chief Executive | |||
| Badamkhand Palmer |
Finance Manager | |||||
| Julie Balfour | Specialist Services Director | |||||
| Marie Mooney | Advice Services Director | |||||
| Company | secretary | Dianne Lyons | ||||
| Charity | number | 700314 | ||||
| Company | number | 02228358 | ||||
| Registered | office | Oxford House | ||||
| Oxford Row | ||||||
| Leeds | ||||||
| LS1 3BE | ||||||
| Auditor | Azets Audit Services Limited | |||||
| 33 Park Place | ||||||
| Leeds | ||||||
| LS1 2RY | ||||||
| Bankers | Unity Trust Bank pic | |||||
| 4 Brindleyplace | ||||||
| Birmingham | ||||||
| B1 2HB |
| Page | ||
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| Trustees' report |
1-6 | |
| Statement ofTrustees' |
responsibilities | |
| Independent auditor's |
report | |
| Statement offinancial |
activities | |
| Balance sheet | 12 | |
| Statement ofcash flows |
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| Notes to the financial | statements | 14-26 |
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | |||
| Notes | E | F | ||||
| Income from: | ||||||
| Donations and legacies |
372 | 372 | 346 | |||
| Charitable activities |
3 | 1,659,524 | 857,843 | 2,517,367 | 2,396,919 | |
| Investments | 2,772 | 2,772 | 2,231 | |||
| Total income | 1,662,668 | 857,843 | 2,520,511 | 2,399,496 | ||
| Ex enditure on: | ||||||
| Charitable activities |
4 | (1,639,786) | (858,739) | (2,498,525) | (2,319,406) | |
| Total charitable expenditure |
1,639,786 | 858,739 | 2,498,525 | 2,319,406 | ||
| Net income/(expenditure) | before transfers | 22,882 | (896) | 21,986 | 80,090 | |
| Gross transfers between |
funds | (896) | 896 | |||
| Net movement in funds |
21,986 | 21,986 | 80,090 | |||
| Opening fund balances |
15 | 675,019 | 675,019 | 594,929 | ||
| Closing fund balances | 15 | 697,005 | 697,005 | 675,019 |
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes | |||||||
| Fixed assets | |||||||
| Intangible assets | 9 | 3,240 | 4,536 | ||||
| Tangible assets | 10 | 136,597 | 156,201 | ||||
| 139,837 | 160,737 | ||||||
| Current assets | |||||||
| Debtors | 26,439 | 52,747 | |||||
| Cash at bank | and in | hand | 735,151 | 738,114 | |||
| 761,590 | 790,861 | ||||||
| Creditors: amounts | falling due within | ||||||
| one year | 12 | (204,422) | (276,579) | ||||
| Net current assets | 557,168 | 514,282 | |||||
| Total assets | less current liabilities | 697,005 | 675,019 | ||||
| Income funds | |||||||
| Unrestricted | funds - | general | 15 | 697,005 | 675,019 | ||
| 697,005 | 675,019 |
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes | |||||||||||
| Cash flows from operating | activities | ||||||||||
| Cash (absorbed | by)/generated | from | 18 | ||||||||
| operations | (5,735) | 137,254 | |||||||||
| Investing | activities | ||||||||||
| Investment | income received | 2,772 | 2,231 | ||||||||
| Net cash | generated from |
investing | |||||||||
| activities | 2,772 | 2,231 | |||||||||
| Net cash | used | in financing | activities | ||||||||
| Net (decrease)/increase | in | cash and | cash | ||||||||
| equivalents | (2,963) | 139,485 | |||||||||
| Cash and | cash | equivalents | at beginning | ofyear | 738,114 | 598,629 | |||||
| Cash and | cash | equivalents | at end of | year | 735,151 | 738,114 |
| 2023f | 2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds Advice Service contract | 1,035,973 | 982,733 | |||
| Leeds Advice Service contract - | sub contracted | services | 450,102 | 428,352 | |
| Money and Pensions Service - | Debt Advice Project | 165,794 | 293,432 | ||
| Money Advice Service - Trainee | 29,146 | ||||
| Day One Outreach | Services - Leeds Cares | 8,319 | |||
| Help to Claim | 453,354 | 270,347 | |||
| NHS West Yorkshire | Integrated | Care Board | 90,000 | 90,000 | |
| PensionWIse | 45,032 | 114,609 | |||
| Northern Powergrid |
175,663 | 139,981 | |||
| Yorkshire Building Society referral service |
18,000 | 15,000 | |||
| Other Income | 83,449 | 25,000 | |||
| 2,517,367 | 2,396,919 | ||||
| Analysis by fund |
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| Unrestricted funds - general |
1,659,524 | 1,526,085 | |||
| Restricted funds |
857,843 | 870,834 | |||
| 2,517,367 | 2,396,919 |
| Charitable | Charitable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| activities | activities | ||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||
| Staff costs | 1,605,835 | 1,474,872 | |||
| Depreciation and |
impairment | 20,900 | 20,900 | ||
| Insurance | 6,597 | 6,946 | |||
| Telephone | 17,928 | 20,876 | |||
| Office expenses, | stationery | and postage | 10,426 | 10,785 | |
| Premises | 162,583 | 150,249 | |||
| Repairs and maintenance | 14,726 | 50,017 | |||
| Equipment | 18,263 | 14,197 | |||
| Training and conferences |
11,839 | 13,365 | |||
| Interpreting costs |
22,248 | 17,089 | |||
| Information, referencing |
and | subscriptions | 20,867 | 17,555 | |
| Travel and care expenses | 7,408 | 2,443 | |||
| Professional fees | 3,123 | 2,867 | |||
| Employer related |
costs and | recruitment | 22,598 | 16,530 | |
| Subcontracted advice work |
450,102 | 459,352 | |||
| Bank charges | 894 | 913 | |||
| 2,396,337 | 2,278,956 | ||||
| Grants to individuals | 70,385 | 11,822 | |||
| Share ofsupport | costs (see | note 5) | 20,685 | 19,593 | |
| Share ofgovernance costs (see note 5) |
11,118 | 9,035 | |||
| 2,498,525 | 2,319,406 | ||||
| Analysis by fund |
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| Unrestricted funds - general |
1,639,786 | 1,466,552 | |||
| Restricted funds |
858,739 | 852,854 | |||
| 2,498,525 | 2,319,406 |
| 5 | Support costs | Support costs | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Governance | 2023 | Support | Governance | 2022 | ||||||
| costs | costs | costs | costs | ||||||||
| F | E | F | |||||||||
| Staff costs | 20,685 | 20,685 | 19,593 | 19,593 | |||||||
| Audit fees | 7,800 | 7,800 | 6,240 | 6,240 | |||||||
| Accountancy | 2,520 | 2,520 | 2,340 | 2,340 | |||||||
| Governance | and | AGM | |||||||||
| costs | 798 | 798 | 455 | 455 | |||||||
| 20,685 | 11,118 | 31,803 | 19,593 | 9,035 | 28,628 | ||||||
| 6 | Auditor's remuneration |
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| The analysis | of | auditor's | remuneration | net ofVAT is as | follows: | ||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||
| Audit ofannual | accounts | 6,500 | 5,200 | ||||||||
| Non-audit services | |||||||||||
| All other non-audit | services | 2,100 | 1,950 |
| Number ofemploye The average monthly |
es number ofemployees during the year |
was: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | ||
| Number | Number | ||
| 68 | 58 | ||
| Employment costs |
2023 | 2022 | |
| Wages and salaries | 1,419,657 | 1,288,491 | |
| Social security costs | 124,597 | 107,402 | |
| Defined benefit scheme contributions | 34,187 | ||
| Defined contribution | scheme | 82,266 | 64,385 |
| 1,626,520 | 1,494,465 |
| The numb were: |
er | of employees whose annual remuneration was |
F60,000 or more | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||
| Number | Number | ||||
| F60,000- | F70,000 | 1 | |||
| 9 | Intangible | fixed assets | |||
| Software | |||||
| Cost | |||||
| At 1 April | 2022 and 31 March 2023 | 6,480 | |||
| Amortisation | and impairment | ||||
| At 1 April | 2022 | 1,944 | |||
| Amortisation | charged for the year | 1,296 | |||
| At 31 March | 2023 | 3,240 | |||
| Carrying | amount | ||||
| At 31 March | 2023 | 3,240 | |||
| At 31 March | 2022 | 4,536 |
| 10 | Tangible fixed assets | Tangible fixed assets | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | Computers | Total | |||
| improvements | |||||
| Cost | |||||
| At 1 April 2022 | 175,176 | 10,431 | 185,607 | ||
| At 31 March 2023 | 175,176 | 10,431 | 185,607 | ||
| Depreciation and impairment |
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| At 1 April 2022 | 26,277 | 3,129 | 29,406 | ||
| Depreciation charged |
in the year | 17,518 | 2,086 | 19,604 | |
| At 31 March 2023 | 43,795 | 5,215 | 49,010 | ||
| Carrying amount |
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| At 31 March 2023 | 131,381 | 5,216 | 136,597 | ||
| At 31 March 2022 | 148,899 | 7,302 | 156,201 | ||
| 11 | Debtors | ||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||
| Amounts falling due |
within one year: | ||||
| Trade debtors | 4,481 | ||||
| Prepayments and accrued income |
26,439 | 48,266 | |||
| 26,439 | 52,747 | ||||
| 12 | Creditors: amounts | falling due within one year | |||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||
| Notes | |||||
| Other taxation and social security | 29,175 | 31,506 | |||
| Deferred income | 13 | 41,153 | 55,416 | ||
| Trade creditors | 4,779 | 16,037 | |||
| Other creditors | 2,473 | 3,908 | |||
| Accruals | 126,842 | 169,712 | |||
| 204,422 | 276,579 |
| Deferred income | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| Brought forward | 55,416 | 68,026 |
| Released in the year |
(55,416) | (62,437) |
| Deferred in the year |
41,153 | 47,133 |
| Carried forward | 41,153 | 55,416 |
| Movement | in funds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current | year | Balance at 1 | Incoming | Resources | Transfers | Balance at 31 |
| April 2022 | resources | expended | March 2023 | |||
| f' | ||||||
| Money and Pensions Service | ||||||
| Debt Advice Project | 165,794 | (165,710) | (84) | |||
| Northern | Powergrid | 175,663 | (175,663) | |||
| Pensionwise | 45,032 | (45,673) | 641 | |||
| Help to Claim | 453,354 | (453,653) | 299 | |||
| Yorkshire | Building Society | 18,000 | (18,040) | 40 | ||
| 857,843 | (858,739) | 896 |
| Movement in |
funds | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prior year | Balance at 1 | Incoming | Resources | Transfers | Balance at 31 | |||
| April | 2021 | resources | expended | March 2022 | ||||
| f. | f. | |||||||
| Money and Pensions Service | 5,979 | 293,432 | (275,438) | (23,973) | ||||
| MaPS Trainee | 29,146 | (29,146) | ||||||
| Northern | Powergrid | 1,354 | 139,981 | (139,969) | (1,366) | |||
| Pension Wise | 114,609 | (114,609) | ||||||
| Help to Claim | 270,347 | (270,347) | ||||||
| Yorkshire | Building Society | 15,000 | (15,000) | |||||
| Day One | Outreach service- | |||||||
| Leeds Cares | 225 | 8,319 | (8,345) | (199) | ||||
| Other restricted | funds | 1,831 | (1,831) | |||||
| 9,389 | 870,834 | (852,854) | (27,369) | |||||
| Analysis | of net assets between | funds | ||||||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||||||
| funds | funds | |||||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | ||||||
| f | f | |||||||
| Fund balances | at 31 March 2023 | are represented | by: | |||||
| Intangible | fixed | assets | 3,240 | 3,240 | ||||
| Tangible | assets | 136,597 | 136,597 | |||||
| Net current assets | 557,168 | 557,168 | ||||||
| 697,005 | 697,005 | |||||||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||||||
| funds | funds | |||||||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | ||||||
| f | f | |||||||
| Fund balances | at 31 March 2022 | are represented | by: | |||||
| Intangible | fixed | assets | 4,536 | 4,536 | ||||
| Tangible | assets | 156,201 | 156,201 | |||||
| Net current assets | 514,282 | 514,282 | ||||||
| 675,019 | 675,019 |
| non-cancellable operating leases, which fall due as follow |
s: | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |
| Within one year | 77,959 | 78,676 |
| Between two and five years | 169,898 | 221,219 |
| In over five years | 51,058 | 77,696 |
| 298,915 | 377,591 |
| 18 | Cash generated from operatio |
ns | 2023 | 2022 | |||
| Surplus for the year | 21,986 | 80,090 | |||||
| Adjustments for: |
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| Investment income recognised |
in statement | offinancial | activities | (2,772) | (2,231) | ||
| Depreciation and impairment oftangible |
fixed assets | 20,900 | 20,900 | ||||
| Movements in working capital: |
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| Decrease/(increase) in debtors |
26,308 | (14,651) | |||||
| (Decrease)/increase in creditors |
(57,894) | 65,756 | |||||
| Decrease in deferred income |
(14,263) | (12,610) | |||||
| Cash (absorbed by)/generated |
from | operations | (5,735) | 137,254 | |||
| 19 | Analysis ofchanges in net funds |
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| The charity had no debt during | the current | or previous | year. |
| Comparative Sta |
te | ment | of Financial Activities | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||||
| funds | funds | 2022 | ||||
| general | ||||||
| Income from: | ||||||
| Donations and legacies |
346 | 346 | ||||
| Charitable activities |
1,526,085 | 870,834 | 2,396,919 | |||
| Investments | 2,231 | 2,231 | ||||
| Total income | 1,528,662 | 870,834 | 2,399,496 | |||
| Ex enditure on: |
||||||
| Charitable activities |
1,466,552 | 852,854 | 2,319,406 | |||
| Total expenditure | 1,466,552 | 852,854 | 2,319,406 | |||
| Net income/(expenditure) | before transfers | 62,110 | 17,980 | 80,090 | ||
| Gross transfers | between | funds | 27,369 | (27,369) | ||
| Net income for | the year | 89,479 | (9,389) | 80,090 | ||
| Other recognised | gains | and losses | ||||
| Net movement | in funds | 89,479 | (9,389) | 80,090 | ||
| Fund balances at 1 | April | 2021 | 585,540 | 9,389 | 594,929 | |
| Fund balances | at | 31 March 2022 | 675,019 | 675,019 |