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|Contents<br>Overview||||aci-.;<br>Y&wr fcsat ckitdr~'|
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|A message<br>from our Chairman|||||
|About Acorns Children's<br>Hospice|||||
|Strategic Report|||||
|Public benefit|||||
|Outline ofthe year|||||
|Financial<br>review||||10|
|Going concern|||||
|Available<br>reserves<br>policy and financial||risks|||
|Investment<br>policy and performance||||12|
|Performance<br>monitoring||||14|
|Our plans|||||
|Our administrative<br>details|||||
|Our advisors||||16|
|Our key people||||17|
|Structure,<br>governance<br>and management||||18|
|Working<br>with our stakeholders:<br>s172 statement||||26|
|Streamlined<br>Energy and Carbon reporting||||30|
|Trustees'<br>responsibilities<br>in relation|to the financial statements|||32|
|Disclosure of information<br>to auditors||||33|
|Independent<br>auditor's<br>report||||34|
|Financial Statements|||||
|Consolidated<br>statement<br>offinancial|activities|||38|
|Comparative<br>statement<br>offinancial|activities||||
|Statutory<br>consolidated<br>income and|expenditure||account|40|
|Consolidated<br>statement<br>offinancial|position|||41|
|Charity statement<br>offinancial<br>position||||42|
|Consolidated<br>statement<br>ofcashflowe||||43|
|Notes (forming<br>part ofthe financial|statements)|||44|






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|1.A responsive,<br>inclusive|Net change in children|Net change in children|At least 120referrals in the|At least 120referrals in the|
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|and quality care service.|registered.||year.||
||Hospice utilisation|across|6,048day or night|stays per|
||Acorns.||year.||
||%ofFamily Plan|reviewsin|95%ofregistered|families|
||date (1year).||||
|2. More care partnerships|Number<br>ofcommissioned||864 day ornight stays per||
|reaching<br>more families.|bed stays.||year.||
|3.Acorns recognised as a|Clinical Establishment||4%.||
|great place to work and|vacancy rate.||||
|volunteer.|||||
||ENPS score across Acorns||14%.||
|4. Engaging<br>our diverse|Number ofcontactable||21,000.||
|audiences.|supporters.||||
||Media reach||750m 'reach' per quarter.||






|5. Investing|sustainably|in|Overall Trust performance|v|Balanced budget.|
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|care.|||budget.|||
||||Net voluntary<br>fundraising||E2.98m.|
||||contribution<br>excluding|||
||||legacies.|||
||||Net retail contribution.||81.45m.|
|6. Excellence as a charity.|||Mandatory<br>training.||95%.|
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|Name|Rote(s)|||||||Changes|||
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|M T Hopton|Chairman,|Board ofTrustees|||||||||
||Chairman,|Chairs Committee|||||||||
|J McCarthy|Vice Chairman,||Board|ofTrustees|||||||
||Chairman,|Board Development||||Committee|||||
|G Ahmad|Trustee||||||||||
|Prof T Barrett|Chairman,|Care|Assurance||Committee||||||
|L Bull|Trustee|||||||Appointed||11 May 2021|
|A David|Chairman,|Resources||Assurance|||Committee||||
|P Dison|Chairman,|Retail Assurance|||Committee||||||
||Chairman,|Acorns Children's||||Hospice|||||
||Trading<br>Ltd||||||||||
|J Eminson|Trustee|||||||Retired|1 May 2021||
|B M Jones|Trustee||||||||||
|J Ladbrooke|Trustee||||||||||
|R Leonhardt|Trustee||||||||||
|K McNamara-|Trustee||||||||||
|Goodger|||||||||||
|G Muth|Trustee||||||||||
|P Riley|Chairman,|Fundraising,||Marketing|||&Comms||||
||Assurance|Committee|||||||||
|C Salinow|Trustee||||||||||
|C Turner-Collie|Trustee|||||||Retired|13July 2021||
|A S Ubhi|Trustee||||||||||
|BWaris|Trustee||||||||||






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|Maintaining|Acorns Governance<br>Framework.|Acorns Governance<br>Framework.|||
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|Advising<br>on||the appointment<br>of new Trustees.|||
|Advising<br>on||Board Committee<br>membership.|||
|Advising<br>on||Trustee<br>induction<br>and training.|||
|Overseeing||and scrutinising<br>care activities and|staffing.||
|Reviewing|any clinical incidents or complaints.||||
|Overseeing||the Care Review project|||
|Monitoring|fundraising,<br>marketing<br>and communications||||
|strategy,<br>outputs<br>and performance.|||||
|Scrutinising||and where necessary<br>challenging|future|income|
|assumptions||and forecasts|||
|Overseeing||strategic<br>risk management.|||
|Advising<br>on||remuneration<br>issues.|||
|Co-ordinating||development<br>and review ofstrategy.|||
|Reviewing|all aspects offinancial<br>management.||||
|Overseeing||investment<br>fund performance.|||
|Reviewing|the draft annual<br>report and accounts.||||
|Scrutinising||human<br>resource (employee<br>8 volunteer)||activities.|
|Scrutinising||learning<br>&development<br>activities.|||
|Overseeing||the implementation<br>ofAcorns digital strategy.|||
|Monitoring|GDPR compliance||||
|Overseeing||the development<br>ofasset management||plans.|
|Scrutinising||all retail activities<br>relating to the sale of||donated|
|goods.|||||
|Monitoring|Acorns Children's<br>Hospice Trading||Limited.||






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|Low|Medium|Improving|This risk family ended the year only|
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||||fractionally<br>above the tolerance<br>level,|
||||This reflected a recognition<br>from|
||||Trustees that affer the second full|
||||year ofthe pandemic,<br>and despite|
||||the incredible<br>efforts ofour teams,|
||||we were still delivering<br>a volume of|
||||service below our long-term|
||||aspiration,<br>not always able to offer|
||||families stays at the times they|
||||wanted<br>to, or sometimes<br>cancelling|
||||stays, during<br>periods of high Covid|
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|Significant|Significant||event/|decision|decision|S172matter||Action and impact|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||affected|||
|The Board||carefully||||Possible||The Board collectively,<br>and senior|
|monitored||the impact|||of|consequence|of|Trustees<br>individually,<br>have been kept|
|Covid-19|on||Acorns|||the pandemic|on|regularly<br>updated<br>on the many key|
|services|and||on its|financial||the Charity's||decisions and developments|
|standing|as||a charity.|||financial<br>standing,||impacting<br>on the Charity throughout|
|||||||and therefore|on|the financial<br>period. The judgements|
|||||||long-term<br>ability to||we have made about income and|
|||||||provide<br>children' s||expenditure<br>levels have been|
|||||||hospice care|in the|judicious ones, and consistently<br>taken|
|||||||West Midlands.||in the long-term<br>interest ofthe Trust.|
|||||||||Consequently,<br>the outlook for the|
|||||||||trust feels secure despite the|
|||||||||pandemic.|
|The Board||has begun||||Children<br>and|their|When considering<br>the implementation|
|implementing|||the|||families,<br>staff,||of recommendations<br>made, the Board|
|recornrnendations||||of|the|volunteers,||considered<br>the long term impact on|
|Strategic|Review ofour care|||||supporters<br>and||those who use our services, and on|
|services|undertaken||||in the|Commissioners.||our workforce.|
|pdor year.|||||||||






|Stakeholder|Stakeholder|Their requirements|Their requirements|How we engage|How we engage|Key highlights<br>of|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|group and||||||2021-22 showing|
|why they||||||impact ofthe|
|are||||||engagement|
|important|||||||
|to our|||||||
|success|||||||
|Children||A specialised|children' s|We carried out electronic||This was the second year|
|that use our||hospice service that||surveys|on Acorns iPad or|ofthe pandemic<br>when our|
|services||reflects what|is important|by offering a QR code for||services were being|
|and|their|to them.||the following<br>service||gradually<br>re-introduced<br>to|
|families||High-quality<br>services.|and safe|areas:<br>~|Young person<br>Survey;|families that had been<br>shielding.<br>We have been<br>pleased the response we<br>have had from our service|
|||||~|Family<br>Experience- which<br>includes<br>specialist|users has been so<br>positive.|
||||||services such as<br>physiotherapy,<br>hydrotherapy,<br>and|Young Ambassadors<br>and<br>Parent Carer Champions<br>met on 5occasions and|
|||||~|Stay and Play;<br>Family<br>Experience- which|were very active on the<br>Chanty's<br>media and social<br>media channels.|
||||||captures a family' s||
||||||experience at one|We continued<br>to seek|
||||||ofour three|direct feedback from|
||||||hospices and|families<br>with family team|
||||||groups attended;|workers<br>making<br>routine|
|||||~|Clinical Outreach|"wellbeing calls" through|
||||||survey; and,|the year.|
|||||~|Bereaved parents||
||||||group survey.|We responded<br>to direct|
|||||We additionally<br>maintain<br>an active group ofYoung<br>Ambassadors<br>and Parent||feedback from families<br>via<br>Acorns social media<br>channels.|
|||||Carer Champions<br>and<br>have ongoing<br>opportunities<br>to engage<br>families through<br>the one-<br>to-one work, events and||During the year we<br>launched<br>a pilot for<br>reviewing<br>outcomes and<br>the impact ofour service<br>with families. Families<br>will,|
|||||groups|we provide.|on an annual<br>basis, rate|
|||||||the impact ofour services|
|||||||on their physical<br>and|
|||||||emotional<br>well being.|
|||||||Following the Board|
|||||||approval<br>ofthe Service|
|||||||User Engagement|
|||||||Strategy an action plan|
|||||||has been developed<br>and|
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|Stakeholder|Their requirements|Their requirements|Their requirements|Their requirements|Their requirements|How we|engage|||Key highlights<br>of 2021-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|group and||||||||||22showing<br>impact ofthe|
|why they||||||||||engagement|
|are|||||||||||
|important|||||||||||
|to our|||||||||||
|success|||||||||||
|NHS|NHSE fulfils||its||statutory|We have|a dedicated|||We receive important|
||obligation|to provide||||Statutory|Partnerships|||contnbutions<br>to our care|
|We could|palliative<br>and|||end of life||manager|to manage|our||costs from both NHS|
|not do what|care to children||||and|NHSE engagement.||||England<br>and local NHS|
|we do|support to|families.||||||||commissioning<br>groups.|
|without<br>our||||||Our CEO is a Trustee of||||We report on these|
|partnership|Acorns delivers||||on our|Together|for Short Lives,|||regularly.|
|with the|contractual||obligations.|||and the Children' s|||||
|NHS,||||||Hospice|representative||on|As a children's<br>hospice,|
|nationally|We provide||safe and high-|||the Hospice UK Advisory||||we are regulated<br>by the|
|and locally,|quality care,||and report|||Council.|In addition,|he|is|CQC. There were no|
|via CCGs|transparently|||on what we||a member<br>of NHSE's||||inspections<br>in 2021-22 as|
|and|have delivered||||and on|National|Children<br>and|||a result ofCovid-19|
|hospitals.|any challenges<br>face.||||we may|Young People's<br>Palliative<br>and End of Life Care||||restrictions,<br>but we expect<br>these to resume<br>in 2022-|
|||||||Governance<br>Group.||||23.|
|||||||We have|worked closely|||The most recent|
|||||||with our|NHS partners.|||inspections<br>at Worcester,|
|||||||Our collaboration<br>with the||||Walsall and Birmingham|
|||||||Palliative|Care team|at||have given us an overall|
|||||||Birmingham<br>Women||and||rating of "Good", "Good"|
|||||||Children's|Hospital|||and "Outstanding"|
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|Energy|consumption|||used|to calculate||emissions|(kWh)|2,634,880|2,332,053|
|Emissions||from|urchased||electrici||k CO2e||230,819|180,748|
|Emissions||from|the combustion|||of as|k CO2e||285,384|287,383|
|Total|ross|emissions|||||||516,203|468,131|
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|||||Nom|funds||-Shops|Restricted Funds|Total Funds 2022|
||||||0000|||||
||||||||8000|f000|0400|
|Ihcorrie fforri||||||||||
|Donalionr<br>and lagaaes||||||||||
|Donalior s|||||2JN6|||1,747|I 593|
|tegaues<br>Support|||||3,252||||3712|
|Chanlahle<br>acfrvila s||||||||||
|NHS England Children'I|Hosp ca||Grant|||||1,435|1,435|
|NHB England Covid-19|||Grant|||||302|302|
|Job mtention<br>Covid 19Support|||||||20||22|
|Kick-Starter Job Support|||||116||167||283|
|Contract income|||||3,202||||3,202|
|Training<br>income||||||||||
|Olher Irading actiwires||||||||||
|Sale of donated<br>and bought||in goods|||||5443||5,443|
|cov d-I9 Business 5upport||Grants||||||||
|Evehts|||||124||||124|
|investments||||||||||
|Dividends|||||10||||16|
|Interest||||||||||
|Share orJlrs'nal<br>pro5I|||||229||||229|
|Other income|||||27||||27|
|Total income|||||9,822||5632|3944|19,390|
|Expenditure<br>on||||||||||
|Raiang funds||||||||||
|Fundraising|||||I 600||||i,000|
|Trading costs|||||||3,745||3,745|
|Events costs|||||91||||91|
|Charitable<br>sctiwties||||||||||
|Residential<br>cern services|||||'1,432|||3,052|7,404|
|Community<br>care services|||||1,915|||100|2 083|
|Total expenditure|||||S,046||3,745|3,220|15011|
|Net income before net guns on investmenls|||||I 776||1 067|724|4,387|
|Net gains on n estments||||12|227||||227|
|Net income||||9|2,003||1,087|724|4,614|
|Gross transfers<br>between|funds|||19|1,887||il 807)|||
|Nsl nmvnllmht<br>III tunds|||||3,890|||724|4,614|
|Necancsladon<br>offends||||||||||
|Totallunds<br>broughtforward|||||17,4911|||21)0|17767|
|Tote funtm rwldad<br>ionmrcl||||19|21 389|||992|22 301|





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|||||||unrestricted|Unfoelrletad|Funda||||
||||||Note|iuni14||.shops|Restncted|Funds|Total Filnds 2021|
|||||||EOOO||8000||E400|8000|
|Income Irom||||||||||||
|Donasons<br>and|legsoes|||||||||||
|Conalions||||||2,887||||1,175|4,062|
|Legaues||||||1,378||||136|1,514|
|Chariiehle<br>ecfivilies||||||||||||
|NHS England|Children's||Hospice Grant|||||||1,393|I 393|
|NHS England|Coed 19Support|||Grants||||||2,679|2 879|
|Job retenbon Covid-19 S|||peart|||341||721|||1 062|
|Contmclincome||||||3,f!66|||||3,666|
|Tinihihg<br>ihcume||||||||||||
|Olhsr trading|aciinhes|||||||||||
|Sale of donated|and bought-in|||goods||||2,109|||2,109|
|Covid19 Busi|es S|pponGrants|||||||||746|
|Events||||||102|||||102|
|invsslmsnrs||||||||||||
|~vidends||||||||||||
|I~tercet||||||||||||
|Share oi Jus'|nst proof|||||297|||||297|
|other inmme||||||38|||||38|
|Total locusts||||||8,724||3576||5383|17,683|
|E*pendlture|on|||||||||||
|Raiang funds||||||||||||
|Fundraising||||||i,eoe|||||I 508|
|Tradihg costs||||||||4,796|||4,796|
|Events costs||||||106|||||ige|
|Chaniaue<br>aclneiies||||||||||||
|Residential<br>caw<br>serv||ces||||2,115||||5,208|7 323|
|Community<br>care semess||||||1 635||||135|1,770|
|Total expenditure||||||5 364||4,796||5 343|15,503|
|Nal income before net|||9ains|on inveslmenl4||3,360||n, 220)||40|2,160|
|Net gains on|investments|||||155|||||155|
|Net income||||||3,515||0,220)||40|2 335|
|Gross transfers<br>between funds|||||19|(I 220)||1,220||||
|Rat mevemo|ni tn funda|||||2 295||||40|2,335|
|Reconciliation af I||nds||||||||||
|Total fuhds broiight||fofwsrd||||15,204||||228|15,432|
|Total funda<br>carried||forward||||17,499||||268|17,767|






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|||||EOOO|E000|
|Income||||18,556|17,316|
|Operating<br>costs||||(15,011)|(15,503)|
|Operating<br>surplus||||3,545|1,813|
|Share ofjoint venture||profits||229|297|
|Net gains on investments||||227|155|
|Investment<br>income||||16||
|Interest receivable||||||
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|Fixed assets||||||||||
|Intangible assets|||||11||146||142|
|Tangible assets|||||10||9,209||8,829|
|Investments|||||12||5,552||7,325|
|Investments|in associated|||companies|13||182||185|
||||||||15,089||16,481|
|Current assets||||||||||
|Investments|||||12|2,000||||
|Inventories|||||14|6||24||
|Debtors|||||15|4,216||2,409||
|Cash held on deposit||||||1,256||250||
|Cash at bank and||in|hand|||2,047||924||
|||||||9,525||3,607||
|Creditors:|Amounts||falling|due within one||||||
|year|||||17|(1,321)||(1,313)||
|Net current assets|||||||8,204||2,294|
|Total assets less||current||liabilities|||23,293||18,775|
|Provision|for liabilities||||18||(912)||(1,008)|
|Net assets|||||||22,381||17,767|
|Fund balances||||||||||
|Restricted|capital|funds|||19/20|719||221||
|Restricted|income|funds|||19/20|273||47||
|Totalrestricted<br>funds|||||||992||268|
|Designated|fixed asset fund||||||9,537||9,156|
|Designated|capital projects fund||||||4,000|||
|Unrestricted|available||funds||||7,852||8,343|
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|Fixed assets||||||||||
|Intangible|assets|||11|||146||142|
|Tangible assets||||10|||9,209||8,829|
|Investments||||12|||5,552||7,325|
||||||||14,907||16,296|
|Current assets||||||||||
|Investments||||12||2,000||||
|Debtors||||15||4,319||2,514||
|Cash held|on deposit|||||1,256||250||
|Cash at bank and||in|hand|||2,000||908||
|||||||9,575||3,672||
|Creditors:|Amounts||falling due within one|||||||
|year||||17||(1,362)||(1,322)||
|Net current assets|||||||8,213||2,350|
|Total assets less current liabilities|||||||23,120||18,646|
|Provision|for liabilities|||18|||(912)||(1,008)|
|Net assets|||||||22,208||17,638|
|Fund balances||||||||||
|Restricted|capital|funds||21||719||221||
|Restricted|income|funds||21||273||47||
|Total restricted<br>funds|||||||992||268|
|Designated|fixed asset funds||||||9,355||8,971|
|Designated|capital projects fund||||||4,000|||
|Unrestricted|available||funds||||7,861||8,399|
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||||||2022|2021|
||||||6000|6000|
|Cash flows from operating<br>activities:|||||||
|Net cash provided<br>by operating<br>activities|||||2,816|3,961|
|Cash flows from investing<br>activities:|||||||
|Dividends<br>and interest from investments|||||17|12|
|GiR aid receipts from ioint ventures|||||232|255|
|Purchase of property,<br>plant and equipment|||||(831)|(186)|
|Purchase<br>of intangible<br>assets|||||(105)|(25)|
|Transfer to current asset investments|||||2,000||
|Purchase<br>ofinvestments||||||(6,761)|
|Net cash pnivided/(used<br>in) byinvesting||activities|||1,313|(6,705)|
|Change in cash and cash equivalents|in the||reporting period||4,129|(2,744)|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at the beginning|||ofthe reporting|period|1,174|3,918|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>atthe end|ofthe reporting period||||5,303|1,174|
|Reconciliation ofnetincome<br>to net cash|flow from operating|||activities|||
|(forming part ofthe financial statements)|||||||
||||||2022|2021|
||||||KOOO|6000|
|Netincome<br>forthe mporting<br>period (esper|||the Statement of||||
|Financial Activitiesj|||||4,614|2,335|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||||
|Depreciation|||||450|440|
|Amortisation|||||101|100|
|Gains on investments|||||(227)|(155)|
|Share of/oint venture<br>net profit|||||(229)|(297)|
|Dividends<br>and interest from investments|||||(17)|(12)|
|Loss on disposal<br>offixed assets|||||1|105|
|Decrease/<br>(increase)<br>in stocks|||||18|(16)|
|(Increase)/ Decrease<br>in debtors|||||(1,807)|702|
|Increase<br>in creditors|||||8|50|
|(Decrease)/<br>Increase<br>in provisions|||||(96)|709|
|Net cash provided by operating<br>activities|||||2,816|3,961|
|Analysis<br>ofcash and cash equivalents|||||||
|Cash at bank and<br>in hand|||||2047|924|
|Notice deposits (less than 3 months)|||||1,256|250|
|Current asset investments|||||2,000||
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|Freehold|land||Nil|
|Freehold|buildings||2%|
|Garden|landscaping||10%|
|Short leasehold||property|Over the shorter offive years or to the first break point ofthe lease|
|Fixtures,|fittings|and equipment-|10-25%|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||6000|5000|
|Turnover|||||165|95|
|Cost ofsales|||||(48)|(23)|
|Gross profit|||||117|72|
|Administrative|expenses||||(17)|(16)|
|Profit on ordinary||activities before taxation|||100|56|
|Taxation|||||||
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|The aggregate<br>ofthe subsidiary's<br>assets, liabiliti|es<br>and funds<br>is as follows:||
|---|---|---|
||2022|2021|
||5000|F000|
|Total assets|117|72|
|Total liabihties|(17)|(16)|
|Net funds|100|56|






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|.Total|expe|n|diture|(excluding sho|ps)||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Direct<br>costs|Supportand<br>Governance<br>costs|2022<br>Total|2021<br>Tots I|
||||||f000|f000|f000|fOOO|
|Raising funds|||||||||
|Fundraising|||||1,172|436|1,608|1,508|
|Event costs|||||60|31|91|106|
|Charitable|activities||||||||
|Residential|care services||||5,491|1,993|7,484|7,323|
|Community|care services||||1,571|512|2,083|1,770|
||||||8,294|2,972|11,266|10,707|
||||||||2022|2021|
||||||||f000|FOOD|
|Consisting|of||||||||
|Staffcosts (including|||training|and travel etc.)|||8,971|8,516|
|General overheads|||||||1,312|1,267|
|Depreciation|and amortisation||||||, 433|428|
|Direct care|service|costs|||||392|410|
|Direct fundraising||costs|||||158|86|
||||||||11,266|10,707|





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|||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|
|||EOOO|0000|
|Support costs comprise||||
|Communications||430|288|
|Head office snd property||1,360|1,401|
|Finance and management||458|497|
|HR and project support||724|534|
|||2,972|2,720|
||||Restated|
|||2022|2021|
|||EOOO|0000|
|Governance costs (included|in support costs above) comprise:|||
|Head office and property||375|409|
|Finance and management||34|37|
|Audit fees||33|31|
|||442|477|



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||||Group||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Average Hssdcount||
||||2022|2021|
|Staff (includes|bank/agency|staff)|356|389|
||||2022|2021|
|The aggregate|ofthese persons were as follows:||EOOO|EOOO|
|Wages snd salaries|||9,189|8,742|
|Social secunty|costs||814|769|
|Pension costs|||751|714|
||||10,754|10,225|



|Pension costs|2022<br>Unrestricted|2022<br>Restricted|2021<br>Unrestncted|2021 Restricted|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||KOOO|EOOO|EOOD|EOOO|
|Care|464||446||
|Retail|119||115||
|Administration|168||153||
|Total|751||714||






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|---|---|
|Number|ofemployees|
|2022|2021|






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|||||||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||9000|F000|
|Net gmup|income is stated||||after charging/(crediting)|||||
|||||||||450|440|
|Depremation<br>of||tangible|assets|||||||
|||||||||101|100|
|Amortisation<br>of||intangible||assets||||||
|Operating|lease|charges:||||||||
|Buildings|(including<br>retail|||shops)||||908|1,282|
|||||||||32|44|
|Plant and|machinery|||||||||
|Operating|lease|income||||||(14)|(17)|
|Auditor's|remuneration|||||||||
|||||||||31|29|
|Audit ofthese finanaal|||statements|||||||
|Audit offinanaal||statements|||ofsubsidiaries|pursuant|to legislation|||
|Other services||relating to taxation||||||||






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|roup and C|harit|y||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Freehold|Short||Fixtures,|||
|||||land and|leasehold|Motor|fittings|and||
|||||buildings|property|vehicles|equipment||Total|
|||||EOOO|EOOO|EOOO||EOOO|EOOO|
|Cost||||||||||
|At beginning|of finanoal||penod|11,644|636|97||1,062|13,439|
|Additions||||199|523|||109|831|
|Disposals|||||(1)||||V)|
|At end offinancial||period||11,843|1,158|97||1,171|14,269|
|Depreciation||||||||||
|At beginning|offinancial||period|3,373|476|82||679|4,610|
|Charge for the financial|||period|185|95|14||156|450|
|DisposaIs||||||||||
|At end offinancial||period||3,558|571|96||835|5,060|
|Net book value||||||||||
|At 2 April 2022||||8,285|587|||336|9,209|
|At 3April 2021||||8,271|160|15||383|8,829|






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|||||Application|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Software|
|||||Enhancements|
|||||6000|
|Cost|||||
|At beginning|offinanaal||penod|450|
|Additions||||105|
|Disposals||||(61)|
|At end offmanoal||period||494|
|Amortisatton|||||
|At beginning|offinancial||period|308|
|Charge for the finanaal|||penod|101|
|Disposals||||(61)|
|At end offinanaal||penod||348|
|Net book value|||||
|At 2April 2022||||146|
|At 3Ap ail 2021||||142|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Group and Charity||||||
|Multi-fund|assets||||FOOO|
|Group and Charity||||||
|Fair value|3 April 2021||||7,325|
|Additions|at cost|||||
|Transfers|to current assets||||(2,000)|
|Disposal|proceeds|||||
|Net revaluation<br>gain|||||227|
|Fair value|2 April 2022||||5,552|
|||Fair value|Cost|Fair Value|Cost|
|||2022|2022|2021|2021|
|||EOOO|EOOO|FOOO|EOOO|
|Multi-fund|assets|5,552|5,249|7,325|7,261|
|Net book|value|5,552|5,249|7,325|7,261|



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||||||Group|||Charity||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||2022||2021|2022||2021|
|||||8000||8000|8000||8000|
|Investment|in|joint|ventures|182||185||||
|||||182||185||||



|Joint ventures|Joint ventures||||Proportion<br>of|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||issued|
||||||ordinary|
||||||shares held|
|TLC Lottenes||Limited*|||33,3|
|Worcestershire||Hospices||Lottery Limited*|33.3|
||||||Proportion<br>of|
||||||voting rights|
||||||held|
|Childkfe|(company||limited|by guarantee)|25.0|
|"Held indirectly||||||






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|children<br><br>purposes.|who are||in nee|d, by enabling<br>me|mber charities to|better meet their re|spective<br>chant|able|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Group||||||||Share ofnst<br>assets|
|||||||||6000|
|At beginmng<br>of financial||||psnod||||185|
|Profits:|||||||||
|TLC Lcttenes||Limited|||||96||
|Worcestershire|||Hospices Lottery Limited||||81||
|Child life|||||||52||
|||||||||229|
|Amounts|withdrawn||as giR sid.||||||
|TLC Lotteries||Limited|||||(86)||
|Worcestershire|||Hospices Lottery Limited||||(83)||
|Childlifs|||||||(63)||
|||||||||(232)|
|At snd of|finsnaal||penod|||||182|
||||||TLC Lotteries|Worcsstsrhirs|Childlifs|Total|
||||||Limited|Hospices|||
|||||||Lottery Limited|||
||||||6000|KOOO|KOOO|OOOO|
|Represented<br>by:|||||||||
|Share of|gross assets||||94||183|333|
|Share of|gross liabilities||||(43)|(41)|(67)|(151)|
||||||51|15|116|182|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||2022||2021|2022||2021|
||||||f000||EOOO|f000||f000|
|Bought|in|good for resale|||||24||||
|15.D|e|bto|rs||||||||
|||||||Group|||Charity||
||||||2022||2021|2022||2021|
||||||f000||EOOO|f000||EOOO|
|Amounts||owed by loint ventures (see|||||||||
|note 24)||||||||103||106|
|Income|tax recoverable||||522||237|522||237|
|Other debtors|||||259||371|259||370|
|Prepayments|||and accrued|income|3,435||1,801|3,435||1,801|
||||||4,216||2,409|4,319||2,514|
|16.Basic|||Financial<br>Instruments||||||||
|||||||Group|||Charity||
||||||2022||2021|2022||2021|
||||||f000||f000|f000||EOOO|
|Financial||assets measured||at fair value|7,552||7,325|7,552||7,325|



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|||||||Group|||Charity|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||2022|||2022|2021|
||||||6000|||KOOO|9000|
|Amounts|owed to subsidiary|||||||||
|undertaking<br>(see||nate|24)|||||57|25|
|Trade creditors|||||404||303|404|303|
|Other tax and soaal secunty|||||233||208|233|208|
|Accruals|and deferred||income||431||605|415|589|
|Other creditors|||||253||197|253|197|
||||||1,321||1,313|1,362|1,322|
||||||||||Group and|
||||||||||Charity|
||||||||||6000|
|Deferred|income|||||||||
|Balance|at 3April|2021|||||||454|
|Amount|released to income||||||||(454)|
|Amount|deferred|in the|financial|period|||||228|
|Balance|at 2 April|2022|||||||228|






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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Group|||Charity||
|||||2022||2021|2022||2021|
|||||f000||f000|f000||f000|
|Dilapidations|and|onerous|contracts|912||1,008|912||1,008|



|||||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||f000|f000|
|At beginning||offinancial||period||1,008|299|
|Utilised|in the|current financial|||penod|(96)||
|Additions|||||||709|
|At end offinanaal|||period|||912|1,008|






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|||||||Gains/||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||At 4April|||(losses)||
||||2021||Revenue|and|At 2|
||||f000|Income|expenditure|transfers|April 2022|
||||f000|f000|f000|f000|f000|
|Designated<br>fixed asset fund|||9,156|||381|9,537|
|Designated<br>capital|projects fund|||||4,000|4,000|
|Unrestricted<br>available||funds|8,343|15,454|(11,791)|(4,154)|7,852|
|Unrestricted<br>income|||17,499|15,454|(11,791)|227|21,389|
|Restricted<br>income funds||||||||
|Acorns Worcester||||1,052|(790)||273|
|Worcester Children's||Hospice Grant||478|(478)|||
|Worcester NHSE Covid-19 Support||||100|(100)|||
|Acorns Walsall||||85|(85)|||
|Walsall Children's|Hospice Grant|||478|(478)|||
|Walsall<br>NHS Covid-19 Support||||101|(101)|||
|Acorns Selly Oak||||465|(465)|||
|Sally Oak Children's||Hospice Grant||479|(479)|||
|Selly Oak NHS Covid-19 Support||||101|(101)|||
|Other projects|||36||(44)|||
|Total|||47|3,347|(3,121)||273|
|Restricted capital funds;||||||||
|Acorns Walsall|||36|470|||506|
|Acorns Worcester|||96|11|(73)||34|
|Acorns Sally Oak|||84|116|(26)||174|
|Acorns Shops|||5|||||
||||221|597|(99)||719|
|Total|||17,767|19,398|(15,011)|227|22,381|






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|||||||Gains/||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||(losses)||
||||At 29||Revenue|and|At 3|
||||March 2020|Income|expenditure|transfers|April 2021|
||||EOOO|f000|EOOO|EOOO|EOOO|
|Designated<br>fixed asset fund||||||9,156|9,156|
|Designated<br>capital|proiects fund|||||||
|Unrestncted<br>available||funds|15,204|12,298|(10,158)|(9,001)|8,343|
|Unrestncted<br>income|||15,204|12,298|(10,158)|155|17,499|
|Restncted<br>income funds||||||||
|Acorns Worcester|||32|581|(602)|||
|Worcester Children's||Hospice Grant||464|(464)|||
|Worcester NHSE Covid-19 Support||||893|(893)|||
|Acorns Walsall||||39|(39)|||
|Walsall Children's|Hospice Grant|||464|(464)|||
|Walsall NHSE Covid-19 Suppon||||893|(893)|||
|Acorns Selly Oak||||612|(612)|||
|Selly Oak Children's||Hospice Grant||465|(465)|||
|Sally Oak NHSE Covid-19 Support||||894|(894)|||
|Other projects|||34|21|(19)|||
|Total||||5,326|(5,345)||47|
|Restncted<br>capital funds:||||||||
|Acorns Walsall||||36|||36|
|Acorns Worcester|||96||||96|
|Acorns Sally Oak|||61|23|||84|
|Acorns Shops|||5||||5|
||||162|59|||221|
|Total|||15,432|17,683|(15,503)|155|17,767|






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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Restricted|2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|At 2April|2022|funds<br>EOOO|income<br>funds|capital funds<br>EOOO|Total<br>EOOO|Total<br>EOOO|
||||EOOO||||
|Tangible fixed assets||8,490||719|9,209|8,829|
|Intangible|fixed assets|146|||146|142|
|Fixed asset investments||5,734|||5,734|7,510|
|Net current assets||7,931|273||8,204|2,294|
|Provisions||(912)|||(912)|(1,008)|
|Total net|assets|21,389|273|719|22,381|17,767|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Restricted|2021|2020|
|At 3April|2021|funds<br>EOOO|income<br>funds|capital funds<br>EOOO|Total<br>EOOO|Total<br>EOOO|
||||EOOO||||
|Tangible|fixed assets|8,608||221|8,829|9,188|
|Intangible|fixed assets|142|||142|217|
|Fixed asset investments||7,510|||7,510|552|
|Net current assets||2,247|47||2,294|5,774|
|Provisions||(1,008)|||(1,008)|(299)|
|Total net|assets|17,499|47|221|17,767|15,432|





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||Unrestricted|Restricted|Restricted|2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|At 2April 2022||income<br>funds|capital funds<br>6000|Total<br>6000|Total<br>2000|
|||9000||||
|Tangible<br>fixed assets|8,490||719|9,209|8,829|
|Intangible<br>fixed assets|146|||146|142|
|Fixed asset investments|5,552|||5,552|7,325|
|Net current assets|7,940|273||8,213|2,350|
|Pmvlslons|(912)|||(912)|(1,008)|
|Total net assets|21,216|273|719|22,208|17,638|
||Unrestricted|Restricted|Restricted|2021|2020|
|At 3April 2021|funds<br>6000|income<br>funds|capital funds<br>8000|Total<br>8000|Total<br>5000|
|||8000||||
|Tangible fixed assets|8,608||221|8,829|9,188|
|Intangible<br>fixed assets|142|||142|217|
|Fixed asset investments|7,325|||7,325|409|
|Net current assets|2,303|47||2,350|5,774|
|Provisions|(1,008)|||(1,008)|(299)|
|Total net assets|17,370|47|221|17,638|15,289|





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|<br>leases, a|,  <br><br>s set out below|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2022|||2021||
|||Land and|Plant|snd|Land and|Plant|and|
|||buildings|machinery||buildings|machinery||
|Group snd Charity||EOOO||EOOD|EOOO|FOOO||
|Amounts|payable:|||||||
|Not later|than one year|674||26|820||28|
|Later than one year and not later than five years||835||34|1,463||59|
|Later than five years||||||||
|||1,509||60|2,290||89|



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|ransactions<br>in|t|he finan|cial|period||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Charity||
||||||2022||2021|
||||||KOOO||6000|
|TLC Lotteries<br>Limited||||||||
|Balance Brought||forward||||||
|Share ofprofits|||||96||110|
|Administration|expenses||recharge||||14|
|GiR aid received|||||(86)|||
|Repayment<br>of|administration|||expenses|||(14)|
||||||71||61|
|Worcestershire|Hospices||Lottery Limited|||||
|Balance Brought||forward|||13|||
|Share of profits|||||81||100|
|Gift aid received|||||(83)||(90)|
||||||||13|
|Childhfe||||||||
|Balance brought||forward|||32||37|
|Share of profits|||||52||87|
|Gift aid received|||||(63)||(92)|
||||||21||32|
|||||||Charity||
||||||2022||2021|
||||||KOOO||6000|
|Totals||||||||
|Balance brought||forward|||106||102|
|Share of profits|||||229||297|
|Administration|expenses||recharge||||14|
|Gift aid received|||||(232)||(293)|
|Repayment<br>of|administration|||expenses|||(14)|
|Amounts<br>owing|from )oint||ventures||103||106|






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||||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||5000|6000|
|Amount|owed|to subsidiary<br>undertaking|||(57)|(25)|
|Transactions||during|the financial|penod|||
|Giff aid|commission||to subsidiary||(37)||
|Giffaid|distnb|tions|recewed<br>fro|msubsidiary|56|107|



|joint ve|nture.||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||2022|2021|
||||||6000|6000|
|Amounts|invoiced to TLC Lotteries Limited||in respect ofrent ofoffice space and||||
|related charges||||||14|
|Balance|due from TLC Lotteries|Limited at|end offinanoal|penod|||



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