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2025-03-31-accounts

The Junction: Community Relations and Peace Building

(A Company Limited By Guarantee)

Financial Statements

For The Year Ended 31 March 2025

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Table of Contents

Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2025 3 - 10
Independent Examiner’s Report 11 - 12
Statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2025 13
Balance sheet at 31 March 2025 14
Notes to the financial statements 15 - 19

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Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2025

The trustees are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements and independent examiner’s report for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Reference and administration details

Name The Junction: Community Relations and Peace Building Charity Number NIC 101602 Company Registration Number NI632475 Principal Address 10-12 Bishop Street Londonderry BT48 6PW Independent Examiner Laurie Duffy FCA L Duffy & Co Chartered Accountants 12 Queen Street Derry BT48 7EG Bankers Bank of Ireland Culmore Road Londonderry Trustees Carolyn Moffett Jim O’Neill Brian Dougherty Anne Murray Cavanagh Charmain Jones Maria McManus Joni Millar Mary Scally

Structure, governance and management

The company is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 15 July 2015. The company is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

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Objectives and activities

The Junction was founded in March 2000 by a group of community relations and peace building activists in partnership with Derry City Council, to support community relations and peace building. The organisation was named The Junction because of its ambition to be a comprehensive service provider for peace building work. Formerly a Peace Building Centre with a Resource Library, The Junction created a safe and mutually respecting space for groups and organisations to discuss highly sensitive and contentious issues. The Junction continues to build upon its sound foundational work and track record in peace building and community cohesion, with an outreach across Ireland, North and South and further afield.

Strategic aims

The Junction has five core aims, which are informed by an integrative peace-building model.

  1. To provide accessible and inclusive community relations education and training with high quality resources and training materials for wide dissemination.

  2. To promote and support civic engagement and dialogue around the themes of peace building through local, national and international outreach.

  3. To share critical analysis pertaining to community relations and peace building with policy and decision makers.

  4. To develop and deliver community relations and peace building ‘products’ that generate unrestricted income.

  5. To build a strong, relevant and sustainable organisation.

Performance and achievements

The financial year 2024-2025 has been another year of organisational consolidation for The Junction, with recently appointed CEO Ruth Gonsalves Moore entering her second year at the helm and continuing to provide a steady programme of delivery as well as developing a new vision for the organisation. The Junction appointed a new Finance and Office Manager with Mel Bradley joining the team in October 2024. Mel Bradley hit the ground running, updating our systems and claiming NIC Employer Allowance due as a charity.

The Junction has a very small team of staff members but is able to deliver a wideranging programme of peace building activities by contracting in Associate Consultants and facilitators who work on our core funded programmes, additional projects and contractual tender opportunities alike.

Community relations and peacebuilding – developing critical community learning opportunities and programmes.

The Junction’s principal strategic aim is to progress good relations and peacebuilding, primarily through community engagement and learning programmes. This cornerstone of our work encapsulates the building of awareness and

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foundational knowledge as well as the development of skills and capacity of citizens, leaders and key stakeholders across civic society through community learning engagement programmes (workshop programmes along with seminar opportunities).

A thematic approach to good relations and peacebuilding.

This year The Junction has progressed community engagement and learning around three key thematic areas with each project engaging different groupings of Facilitative Leaders in its development and delivery. The three thematic Learning areas are: i) gender-based violence as part of the continuum of conflict, supported as part of our core delivery, and Strategic Partnership funding from DFAT; ii) the connections between wellbeing and peace and the importance of and value in creating communities of support within group work and community approaches to wellbeing and peace, and supported by The Ideas Fund; and iii) addressing intimidation within communities, supported through additional financial support from DFAT, Reconciliation Fund - Project Fund.

A gender inclusive and gender just peace .

The Junction worked with a small and diverse group of community based Facilitative Leaders who had participated in a new Train the Trainer programme on Liberation from Patriarchy and Gender Justice, to create a peer-led Facilitator Support forum. The Junction engaged Orla Hasson as a Co Lead working with our CEO to enable facilitators to work with existing material and to devise tailored programmes of learning to roll out to a diverse range of community groups across the region. This led to information exchange between the facilitative leaders and a sharing of both new and adapted resources. Working through this pool of Associate Facilitators, The Junction delivered five tailored ‘Re-Imagining Relationships’ programmes engaging: Clooney Women’s Group, West Bann Development Association’s – Women’s Group, the Community Relations Forum, Glengormley, a men’s group in North Antrim and the Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership Empower Project. These programmes created safe spaces and new opportunities for participants to discuss definitions and concepts of patriarchy, explore gender stereotypes, reflect upon societal systems of dominance around gender, sectarianism, racism, and classism. These programmes raise awareness around inclusive approaches to peacebuilding and provide a restorative space for women (and men) to explore ‘lived experiences’, consider both the personal and societal barriers and to begin to identify actions which can support an inclusive approach to long term peacebuilding.

In addition, The Junction organised and hosted the workshop Misogyny and Feminist Law Making, delivered by Dr Megh Hoyt, as a part of Derry Londonderry’s International Women’s Day 2025 programme. This workshop sought to consider the fact that gender is to be considered by the Dept. for Justice as an additional protection within Hate Crime in NI and it created some space to reflect on which gender protections exist in law and those which need to be written in law. Megh Hoyt did an excellent job in promoting feminist and citizen law making de-bunking myths around

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lawmaking. The Junction also took part in the Information Stall Event organised by Derry Women’s Centre, Waterside Women’s Centre, Strathfoyle Women’s Centre and FWIN, interacting and engaging with representatives and individuals from Community and Voluntary sector groupings in the city on IWD 2025.

As our peacebuilding work in the area of gender justice crosses over into TEO’s newly developed policy area of Ending Violence against Women and Girls, The Junction participated in Round table discussions organised by DCSDC’s Mayor’s office. These roundtables explored how DCSDC might roll out support addressing current issues of gender violence and safety in the city for women and girls, and furthering progress towards the outcomes of the EVAWG Framework. To this wider discussion, The Junction offered perspectives around gender violence as part of a continuum of violence in our society and emphasises a need to address ‘root causes’ and adopt a whole society transformational approach which is informed by feminist principles, conflict management approaches and a peacebuilding ethos. Relating to this, The Junction also developed a new proposal, submitting to the DCSDC EVAWG Change Fund.

Cultivating peace and wellbeing through community interventions.

This year our Changing the Story I Tell Myself project undertook a further community led creative enquiry, supplementing the work undertaken in the first phase of the project. The first phase of the project resulted in two new co-created Resources – the Facilitators Resource and the film Éimear McCartney’s First day Out in Months . In recognition of the ‘community of support’ approach central to the initial enquiry, added to a commitment to co-design and co-creation of support materials, the participating group identified the need to understand what makes a good ‘community of support’ approach. A core focus of this project has also been to support the development and capacity of individuals to be confident and able facilitators active in supporting wellbeing in the community, as well as deepening our understanding of wellbeing as an integral and connecting piece of peace. Supported by extension funding through the Ideas Fund, the Junction engaged a new researcher in the form of Dr Jen Goddard from Ulster University. Maureen Hetherington continued in the role as Lead Facilitator. Through a series of focus groups led by Jen Goddard, leaders unpacked their understanding of the vital dynamics of good communities of support approaches, with the work being ‘visually captured’ by Gráinne O’Neill. This has been a very informative and generative exercise which has resulted in a re-investigation as to what are the underpinning values to transformative group work. Emergent is ‘an a+casa model’ around ‘community of support’ which will be written up into a paper and disseminated in due course.

Overcoming the Menace of Intimidation.

Amid rising sectarian and racial intimidation in Northern Ireland, the Junction launched a project to improve community safety and build cohesive, sustainable communities for lasting peace. In developing this project, the organisation adopted a

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collaborative project with three other key organisations – Building Communities Resource Centre, Radius Housing (Ballymena office) and Rural Community Network (the Beyond Belfast Practitioner Forum). This collaborative approach enables us all to draw on a wider sectoral knowledge and expertise and engage with practitioners across a number of geographies. Our CEO secured Project funding from DFAT, Ireland - Reconciliation Fund for the development of an up to date codesigned Addressing the Menace of Intimidation Toolkit and Empowerment Training programme. The CEO established the collaborative Leadership team engaging Katherine Murphy, of Building Communities Resource Centre, Kate Clifford and Rachael Power of RCN, and Lisa Mooney Radius Housing (Ballymena office) and an inter-agency advisory group to support and inform the co design process and Blu Zebra were engaged as Lead Consultants to research and write a much expanded and up-to-date Toolkit. This work is progressing and The Junction will be moving into a co design phase with community-based facilitators to pilot new Training Materials. It has been a busy year of engaging participants in community learning while also engaging Facilitative Leaders and supporting their development in facilitating difficult conversations in the thematic areas. The Junction ran over 433 participatory activities as part of its core delivery over the year.

Sectoral Contributions

Throughout the year our core funding enables The Junction to contribute to a number of key sectoral forums supporting best practice approaches to peace-building. The Junction’s CEO has actively contributed to four practitioner-led spaces including: CRC NI Shared Learning Forums, DFAT Reconciliation Fund Strategy Review, Beyond Belfast Practitioner Forum, Ideas Fund Community of Practitioners Forum and in addition contributed to Foyle Advisory Group (Housing For All), and Ulster University Community Partnership Framework group. The CEO and Board Members contributed to panel contributions e.g. New Gate Arts & Cultural Centre Summer School and represented the organisation at key events and consultations. This year The Junction offered an internship to Carmen Estrada as part of the Ulster University INCORE programme. Mel Bradley played an active role in day-to-day supervision and Carmen undertook a reorganisation of The Junction’s Library during her short time with The Junction.

The Junction’s CEO continues to make strategic connections connecting with GROs and Managers of Local Growth Partnerships, and a number of other key Community and Voluntary sector organisations.

Plans for the future

The Junction is moving into its 25[th] year as an organisation and is in a very active period of consolidation and growth. We are seeking to expand our community learning programmes and our pool of facilitators, expand and renew our Board of Trustees, and develop a new strategy. Plans for the incoming year include:

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Contributors to the success of the Junction

Our key achievements through the year have been shared with our Associate Facilitators and Consultants. We wish to express our gratitude to the following people who have played an active part as Associate Facilitators through this financial year: Catherine Pollock, Cara McLaughlin, Jen Clifford, Angela Mulholland, Orla Hasson, Danielle Bonnor, Maureen Hetherington, Seamus Farrell, Damian Gorman Jen Clifford, Gráinne O’Neill. We also acknowledge the work of Therese Hogg and Bruce Hogg as Consultants and all the community leaders, organisations and individuals we have engaged in the development of our community learning programmes and all participants who engaged in our community outreach work.

Our effective governance relies on our dedicated Board of Directors. This year, one Director stepped down and three new members joined. We aim to strengthen shared ownership and leadership in the coming year. The Junction thanks all volunteers for their valuable contributions.

Financial review

The charity has had another successful year. The charity’s income was £104,414 (2024 - £79,013) and there was a surplus of income over expenditure of £17,388 (2024 – deficit of £39.899).

Reserves policy

The trustees have established the level of reserves (that is those funds that are freely available) that the charity ought to have. Reserves are needed to bridge any funding gaps that may occur and should be maintained at the equivalent of 3 months expenditure in order for the charity to continue its activities. Unrestricted reserves at the 31 March 2025 were £57,174 (2024 - £67,242).

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Statement of Compliance

The Directors of The Junction, in the setting of our objectives and in the planning of our activities for this year, have given due care and attention to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland's guidance on public benefit and thus ensuring that the activities have helped to achieve the charity's purposes.

Legal Status

The Junction is a Company Limited by Guarantee and not having a share capital.

Governing Document

The charity is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 15 July 2015 and each member agrees to contribute £1 in the event of the charity winding up.

Risk Management

The Directors actively review the risks and uncertainties that the charity faces and establishes policies and procedures to mitigate these risks.

Statement of trustees' responsibilities

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

The law applicable to charities in Northern Ireland 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 year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and 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

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and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions for small companies under part 15 of the Companies Act 2006

Independent Examiners

A resolution will be proposed at the AGM that L Duffy & Co be re-appointed as independent examiners to the charity for the ensuing year.

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustee’s report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees on 12 December 2025 by Carolynhits Anne Moffett ROKBrian Dougherty 12 December 2025

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Independent Examiner’s Report to Trustees of The Junction: Community Relations and Peace Building

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the company for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

As the charity trustees (and also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law, and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:

Basis of independent examiner's report

I have examined your charity accounts as required under section 65 of the Charities Act and my examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland under section 65(9)(b) of the Charities Act. The examination included a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as charity trustees concerning any such matters.

My role is to state whether any material matters have come to my attention giving me cause to believe:

  1. That accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006 and section 63 of the Charities Act

  2. That the accounts do not accord with those accounting records

  3. That the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the Companies Act 2006, the Charities Act and with the methods and principles of the 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

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  1. That there is further information needed for a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination and have no concerns in respect of the matters (1) to (4) listed above and, in connection with following the Directions of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, I have found no matters that require drawing to your attention.

Signed Date: 4 December 2025

Laurie Duffy Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland

L Duffy & Co Chartered Accountants 12 Queen Street Derry BT48 7EG

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Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 March 2025

Unrestricted Restricted 2025 2024
Funds funds Total Total
Notes Funds Funds
£ £ £ £
Income and endowments
Donations and legacies 4 - 102,542 102,542 78,618
Charitable activities 6 1,872 - 1,872 395
_ _ _ _
Total income and endowments 1,872 102,542 104,414 79,013
_ _ _ _
Expenditure
Charitable activities 7 11,940 75,086 87,026 118,912
_ _ _ _
Total resources expended 11,940 75,086 87,026 118,912
_ _ _ _
Net incoming/(outgoing) (10,068) 27,456 17,388 (39,899)
resources
Reconciliation of Funds
Total funds brought forward 67,242 5,363 72,605 112,504
_ _ _ _
Total Funds Carried Forward 57,174 32,819 89,993 72,605
_ _ _ _

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

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Balance Sheet at 31 March 2025

2025 2024
£ £
Notes
Fixed Assets
Tangible assets 9 2,193 1,301
Current Assets
Debtors 10 - 360
Cash at bank and in hand 89,632 72,144
______ ______
89,632 72,504
Creditors: amounts falling due
within one year 11 (1,832) (1,200)
_ _
Net current assets 87,800 71,304
_ _
Total assets less current liabilities 89,993 72,605
_ _
Funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds 57,174 67,242
Restricted funds 32,819 5,363
_ _
Total charity funds 12 89,993 72,605
_ _

For the year ended 31 March 2025 the charity was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors’ responsibilities

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 12 December 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:

Carolyn Anne Moffett Brian Dougherty 12 December 2025

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Notes to the Financial Statements Year Ended 31 March 2025

1. General information

The charity is a public benefit entity and a private company limited by guarantee, registered in Northern Ireland and a registered charity in Northern Ireland. The address of the registered office is 10-12 Bishop Street, Londonderry, BT48 6PW.

2. Statement of compliance

These financial statements have been prepared in compliance with FRS 102, ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland’, the 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) (Charities SORP (FRS 102)) and the Companies Act 2006.

3. Accounting policies

Basis of preparation

The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis under the historical cost convention, modified to include certain items at fair value. The financial statements are presented in sterling which is the functional currency of the charity.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity and which have not been designated for other purposes.

Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the trustees for particular purposes.

Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the charity for particular purposes and fall into one of two sub-classes: restricted income funds or endowment funds.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when entitlement has been passed to the charity, it is probable that the economic benefits associated with the transaction will flow to the charity and the amount can be reliable measured. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:

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Resources expended

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is classified under headings of the statement of financial activities to which it relates:

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets at stated at cost or valuation less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. Cost includes costs directly attributable to making the asset capable of operating as intended.

Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets, at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value, of each asset on a systematic basis over its expected useful life as follows:

Equipment - 20% straight line

4. Limited by guarantee

This company is limited by guarantee therefore it does not have a share capital.

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5.
Grants
Community Relations Council – Core Scheme
DFA Reconciliation Fund (PF)
DFA Reconciliation Fund (SP)
British Science Association
DCSDC
CRC CR/CD
Halifax
Causeway coast and Glens Borough Council
The Ireland Fund
6.
Charitable activities
Sale of goods/services
7.
Expenditure on charitable activities
Wages and salaries
Facilitation and consultancy fees
General project costs
Rent
Insurance
Accountancy fees
Bank charges
Depreciation
2025
£
40,760
12,290
19,555
29,446
491
-
__
102,542
2025
£
1,872
2025
£
52,393
12,040
10,596
8,280
1,223
1,680
50
764
____
87,026
2024
£
35,684
21,520
-
-
-
1,.414
5,000
10,000
5,000
__
78,618
2024
£
395
2024
£
62,801
-
44,893
8,280
1,151
1,260
93
434
____
118,912

8. Staff costs

The total staff costs and employee benefits for reporting period are analysed below:

Wages and salaries 2025
£
52,393
2024
£
62,801

The average head count of employees for 2025 and 2024 was 2. No employee received more than £60,000 in either year.

No remuneration was paid and no expenses reimbursed to the trustees during the year.

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9.
10.
11.
12.
Tangible Assets
Cost
At 1 April 2024
Additions
At 31 March 2025
Depreciation
At 1 April 2024
Charge for year
At 31 March 2025
Net Book Value
At 31 March 2025
At 31 March 2024
Debtors
Other debtors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Accruals
Social security and other taxes

Total charity funds
Unrestricted funds
At 1 April 2024
Income
Expenditure.
At 31 March 2025
Total
£
6,832
1,656
______
8,488
5,531
764
______
6,295
2,193
1,301
2025
£
2024
£
-
360
_____
_____
-
360
2025
£
2024
£
1,440
1,200
392
-
_____
_____
1,832
1,200
£
67,242
1,872
(11,940)
57,174

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Total charity funds (cont)

Total charity funds (cont)
Restricted funds £
At 1 April 2024 5,363
Income 102,542
Expenditure (75,086)
At 31 March 2025 32,819

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