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|Registration|Registration||Charity Number 702325|Charity Number 702325|Charity Number 702325|
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||||Company<br>Number|02433540||
|Council|||Mrs. L.Scanlan (Chair)|||
||||Mrs.J.Kent|||
||||Mr. K.Slowther|||
||||Mr. P. Carling|||
||||Mr. G. Hicks|||
||||Ms L Bell (resigned|21|November 2022)|
||||Mr S Duffy (appointed||21 November 2022)|
||||Ms SGregg (appointed||21 November 2022)|
|Secretary|||Mr. P. Carling|||
|CEO|||Mr. R.Wood|||
|Registered||office|53St Lukes Terrace|||
||||Pallion|||
||||Sunderland|||
||||SR4 6NF|||
|Bankers|||Barclays Bank Pic|||
||||53Fawcett Street|||
||||Sunderland|||
||||SR1 1RS|||
|independent||Examiner|Mr. P.N. Newbold BFP||FCA|
||||Torgersens|||
||||East Suite, Ground|Floor||
||||Avalon House|||
||||St Catherine's<br>Court|||
||||Sunderland|||
||||SR53XJ|||
|Honorary|Solicitors||Mr. P.W.Taylor|||
||||McKenzie Bell|||
||||47 John Street|||
||||Sunderland|||
||||SR1 1QU|||





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||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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||||Note|Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|||||8|8|6|E|
|Income and endowments||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||||248,630|30|248,660|14,319|
|Other trading activities||||1,616|933|2,549|1,920|
|Investment<br>income||||228||228|822|
|Income from charitable|activities|||160,118|53,597|213,715|138,165|
|Other income||||4,526||4,526|724|
|Total Income||||415,118|54,560|469,678|155,950|
|Expenditure||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds|||9|17,694||17,694|17,933|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable||activities|10|224,873|37,038|261,911|215,486|
|Total expenditure||||242,567|37,038|279,605|233,421|
|Net (Gain)/Loss<br>on investments|||13|2,243||2,243|(981)|
|Net Income||||170,308|'I7,522|187,830|(76,490)|
|Transfers between Funds||||5,539|(5,539)|||
|Net Movement<br>in Funds||||175,847|11,983|187,830|(76,490)|
|Total funds brought forward at 1 April 2022||||10,717|5,812|16,529|93,019|
|Total funds carried forward||at 31 March||||||
|2023||||186,564|17,795|204,359|16,529|





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|4.|Donations<br>and legacies||||||
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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||Funds|Funds<br>6|2023<br>6|2022f|
||Membership<br>income||1,924||1,924|2,725|
||Donations||||||
||Trevor Bond||551||551|276|
||Collection Boxes||253||253|122|
||Other donations<br>received||3,015|30|3,045|4,130|
||Leathersellers||2,000||2,000||
||Media Savy training||200||200||
||Persimmon<br>Home Foundation||1,000||1,000||
||Houghton<br>Blind Centre||228,500||228,500||
||Paul &Sue Lennon||132||132||
||Donation<br>in lieu re Norman|Catcheside|220||220||
||Donation<br>in lieu re Sylvester||285||285||
||Donation<br>in lieu re Much Loved||156||156||
||Donation<br>in lieu re Mary Anne Smith||125||125||
||Donation<br>in lieu re Mr Allen||129||129||
||Donation<br>in lieu re BFrobisher||140||140||
||Barbour foundation|||||1,500|
||Mayor's<br>Charity Fund|||||818|
||Arnold<br>Clark|||||1,000|
||Rothley Trust|||||1,000|
||Samuel<br>Phillips|||||1,500|
||James Spraggon|||||173|
||Soropto mists|||||175|
||Inner Wheel Meeting|||||250|
||BPhillips|||||300|
||Tony Clarke|||||200|
||Ryhope Post Office|||||150|
||Legacies||||||
||Mrs Geraldine Tasker||10,000||10,000||
||||248,630|30|248,660|14,319|



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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|||5||6|F|
|Fundraising|events|1,469|933|2,402|1,562|
|Sales income||147||147|358|
|||1,616|933|2,549|1,920|





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|Income from inves|tments|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|||||6|E|6||
|Dividends - equities||||228||228|822|
|||||228||228|822|
|All income received|in the||previous year|was unrestricted.||||
|Income from charitable||activities||||||
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|||||6||E|E|
|Resource Centre income||||1,086||1,086|282|
|Rehabilitation<br>services for|||beneficiaries|65,141||65,141|27,295|
|Service delivery<br>in County|||Durham|39,450||39,450|39,450|
|Grants for specific activities||||||||
|Arnold<br>Clarke||||2,000||2,000||
|Barbour foundation||||5,000||5,000|10,000|
|CAF||||400||400||
|National<br>Lottery|||||50,457|50,457||
|NBTBA|||||2,140|2,140||
|Newcastle<br>Building|Society|||3,000||3,000||
|Pocklington<br>Trust||||3,000||3,000||
|Screwfix Foundation||||5,000||5,000||
|SirJames Knott Trust|||||1,000|1,000||
|Sunderland<br>City Council||||36,041||36,041|23,438|
|Awards For All|||||||10,000|
|Hadrian<br>Trust|||||||1,000|
|The Joicey Trust|||||||3,400|
|Province<br>Durham|||||||5,000|
|Reeds Grassroots||||||||
|via T8W Community|Foundation||||||1,200|
|Royal Victoria Trust|||||||5,000|
|SirJohn Priestman|Charity||Trust||||6,400|
|The Edward Gosling|Trust||||||5,000|
|Vision & Hearing<br>Counselling|||||||700|
|||||160,118|53,597|213,715|138,165|



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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|||6||6|6|
|Sundry|income|926||926|724|
|Rental|income|3,600||3,600||
|||4,526||4,526|724|





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|9.|Expenditure<br>on raising funds||||||||
||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
||||||8|8|8|8|
||Fundraising<br>staff costs||||17,964||17,694|17,933|
||||||17,964||17,694|17,933|
||All expenditure<br>in the previous|||year was|unrestricted.||||
|10.|Expenditure<br>on charitable||activities||||||
||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||Charitable<br>activities||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
||||||8|6||8|
||Services and support to beneficiaries||||||||
||Resource Centre costs||||523||523|804|
||Development<br>ofservice costs||||57,996||57,996|50,218|
||Staff travel expenses||||3,656|2,000|5,656|394|
||Volunteer expenses||||715|166|881||
||Sight loss rehab staff costs<br>Sundry charitable expenses||||70,595<br>13332|18,829<br>7,214|89,424<br>20,546|68,840<br>11,093|
||||||146,817|28,209|175,026|131,349|
||Management<br>and administration|||of|||||
||charity||||||||
||Staff costs||||14,426||14,426|13,861|
||Rent||||23,334|6,666|30,000|30,000|
||Rates and water||||1,663||1,663|834|
||Light and heat<br>insurance||||4,529<br>3211||4,529<br>3.211|2,761<br>3,477|
||Repairs and maintenance||||394||394|521|
||Telephone<br>and postage||||4,655||4,655|5,044|
||Printing<br>and stationery||||4,014||4,014|5,508|
||Computer costs||||4,037||4,037|7,286|
||Staff training||||5,195|1332|6,527||
||Sundry expenses||||1,412|185|1,577|412|
||Promotion<br>and advertising||||2,994|866|3,660||
||Legal and professional|fee|||969||969|4,950|
||Accountancy fees||||3,020||3,020|2,445|
||Depreciation<br>Bank charges<br>Interest payable<br>and similar||charges||4,065<br>138||4,065<br>138|6,921<br>119|
||||||224,873|37,038|281,911|215,488|





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|Staff costs||||
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|||Total|Total|
|The cost ofemploying|staff|2023|2022|
|||6||
|Wages and salaries||155,730|131,834|
|Social Security costs||7,675|5,263|
|Pension costs||4,612|5,543|
|||168,017|142,640|



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||||||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||8||
|Gains/(losses)|on Sale/Reorganisation||ofinvestments||(2,243)|981|
|Tangible Assets|||||||
||||||Office||
|||Freehold|Computer|Fixtures and|equipment<br>&||
|||Property|Web Design|fittings|furniture|Total|
||||||6|6|
|Cost|||||||
|At 1 April 2022|||22,331|1,280|57,643|81,254|
|Additions||220,000|||400|220,400|
|At 31 INarch 2023||220,000|22,331|1,280|58,043|301,654|
|Depreciation|||||||
|At 1 April 2022|||12,728|512|55,679|68,919|
|Charge for the|year||2,880|128|1,057|4,085|
|At 31 March 2023|||15,608|640|56,736|72,984|
|Carrying<br>amount|||||||
|At 31 INarch 2023||220,000|6,723|640|1,307|228,670|
|At 31 March 2022|||9,603|768|1,964|12,335|



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|15.|Investments||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Quoted<br>UK investments<br>Market value||||||||2023<br>8|2022<br>8|
||At 1 April 2022||||||||31,563|30,582|
||Additions to|investments|at cost||||||31,703||
||Disposals||||||||(60,700)||
||Gain/(loss)<br>on revaluation<br>at 31 March 2023||||||||(2,244)|981|
||At 31 March|2023|||||||322|31,563|
||||||||||2023<br>8|2022f|
||Historical costat 31 March 2023||||||||408|32,135|
||UK listed investments||are represented|by:|||||2023|2022|
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||Investment<br>trusts and unit trusts||||||||322|31,563|
||The<br>following|investments<br>individually||make|up|more|than|5% of the|market<br>value|of total|
||investments:||||||||||
||Aviva Investors<br>Property||Feeder Inc Fund Class 2||||||322|100|
|16.|Debtors||||||||||
||||||||||2023f|2022|
||Other debtors|and prepayments|||||||62,198|40,663|
||||||||||62,196|40,663|
|17.|Investments|-Deposits|||||||||
||||||||||2023|2022|
||||||||||8|8|
||Barclays Business Base||rate Tracker||||||2|2|





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|18.|Creditors:|amounts|amounts|amounts|falling due|within one|year||||
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||||||||||2023|2022|
||||||||||6|6|
||Bank overdraft||||||||||
||Other taxes||and social security||||||9,889|8,588|
||Other creditors||||||||74,422|53,270|
||Pensions||||||||8,478|7,505|
||||||||||92,789|69,363|
|19.|Unrestricted||reserves||||||||
|||||||Balance|Incoming|Outgoing||Balance|
|||||||01.04.22|Resources|Resources|Transfers|31.03.23|
||||||||8|5|6|6|
||Designated||reserves||||||||
||Capital fund|||||12,335|220,000|(4,065)|400|228,670|
||Total designated|||reserves||12,335|220,000|(4,065)|400|228,670|
||General funds||||||||||
||Accumulated||surplus|||(1,618)|195,118|(240,745)|5,139|(42,106)|
||Total unrestricted|||funds||10,717|415,118|(244,810)|5,539|186,564|
|||||||Balance|Incoming|Outgoing||Balance|
|||||||01.04.21 <br>6|Resources<br>5|Resources<br>8|Transfers<br>f|31.03.22<br>6|
||Designated|reserves|||||||||
||Capital fund|||||19,256||(6,921)||12,335|
||Total designated|||reserves||19,255||(6,921)||12,335|
||Generalfunds||||||||||
||Accumulated||surplus|||35,219|154,450|(225,519)|34,232|(1,618)|
||Total unrestricted|||funds||54,475|154,450|(232,440)|34,232|10,717|





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|||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|
|||6||
|Operating<br>leases which expire:<br>Within<br>1 year<br>Within 2to 5years<br>After more than 5years||32,994<br>120,785<br>180,000|32,994<br>120,785<br>210,000|
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