INVERNESS CROWN ACTION WITH THE UNEMPLOYED Registcr¢d Charity No SC021448 LAUNCHPAD REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Year to 31 Mareh 2025 INVERNESS CROWN ACTION WITH THE UNEMPLOYED Registerd Charity No SC021448 LAUNCHPAD RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT Year to 31 March 2025 Year to 31 Marcb 2025 YeAr to 31 Mwch 2024 RECElYts Fwidraising Activities Donations Received Grant received 1,049 1,040 977 100 2.089 1.077 PAYMEKrs Grants to Unemployed 5,830 5,316 Adrninistrative Expenses 5.831 5.316 (Deficit) in Receipts Compared to Payments (3,742) (4.239) BALANCE SHEET As at 31 March 2025 31 MarGh 2025 31 March 2024 CURRENT ASSETS Cash at Bank and in hand 1288 6,030 FUNDS Balan¢¢ brought forward (Deficit) for year 6.030 3.742 10,269 4.239 6,030 Date of approval REPORT OF THE CONVENOR For the year to 31 March 2025 As at 31 March 2025 ll)einbership of the SCIO remained 34. Tlie Secretary is addressed at Crown Chutch, Kingsmills Roa(L Illverncss IV? 3JT. The work of the SCIO is entirely voluntary and administrative costs are minimal. By offering awards nomially up to £100. it has enabled some uneinployed people to carry oiit a worthwhile activity. Posters and application fonns are lield on sites visited by unemployed people within the City of Inv¢mess DiirinL the year twenty-one applications were approved and grants made amounting to £5,830. The awards were made for useful projects, not necessarily leading io ¢inployment but allowing the recipients to take up a useful activity. Eileen Ardern Conv¢nor Apri12025 Inveniess Crown Action with the Uiiemployed SCIO Number SC021448 (LAUNCHPAD) cll￿ent trustees: Contact address". Crown Cl)iirch Inverne&s, Kingsinills RoaiL IV? 3Ir Recruitment and appointment of Trustees Trustees are elected annually at Ihe Annual General Meetin8 from the Meinbersliip. or appoiiited by tlie Board to serve for a year to offer needed skills. Puip)scs ￿ld a(hnii]istration arrangenients are set out in th¢ Constitution dated February 2017. Charitable purposes The piirposes as set out in the constitution are.. 4.1 'fo O￿Tate a scheme whereby people who live in Inverness and district who are over eighteen years of age and who have been unemployed for at le&8t six Inonths can apply for ali item or seTvice whicli will knefit ihem in oiie or moTe of tlie followiiig ways". to use their spare time constructively. to iinprove their social skills, to enhance their educational qualifications or to advaiice their job prospects. 4.2 To award grants up to a Inonetary lirnit as set from time to time by the Board ot. Trustees. Otlier than in exceptioi)al circumstai)ces, such grants are nol lo be disbursed in cash to the applicant. Normally, the T￿aSurer will be authorised to make payment for an agreed ilem or service for the appli&qnt. Activities And achievements In the year the cliarity provided grants to ￿entV-one iinemployed people lo eiiable tliem to cary out a iiseful activity. Most recipieiits feel Liplifted and enC￿7raged by tliis practical Iielp towards tlieir conth'tion in life. Trustee remuneration and expenses The tn￿teeS did not receive any raniineration. Postages ar¢ nornially re-reimbursed, altlioiigli all co￿¢SpOndence is now done digitally. Resen'es As a result of the Su￿luS, the SCIO held iinrestricted funds of £2 ? 88 at the yeai en This will enable the Charity to conlinue to operate for the coining year but ihe TTUStees are planning to undertake a fundraising exercise to strengthen its financial PK)Sition. Approved by th¢ Trustccs and signed orL th¢ii behalf Independent Examinerls Report to the Members of Inverne￿ Crown Action with the Unemployed I report on the accounts of the cliarity for the year ended I l¥1 March 2024 which are set out on pagie l. Thi's report is made solely to the meinbers as a body. This examination has been undertaken so that I mighi state to the tiiistees those matters that are required to be stated to thern iii an independent ¢xaminer's r¢port and tor no other pursx)se. To the fullcst cxt¢iit permitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than tl)e charity and the meinbeTS as a bodv. for this exaininatiOTJ, for this report, or for the statements made. Respective responsibilities of members and examiner The Charity's ineinbers are ￿SponsIble for the preparatioii oftlic finaiicial statein¢nts in accordance with the tem)s of the Cbarities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounls (Scotland) Regulations 2006. The members consider that tlie audil requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the 2006 Accounts Regulations does not apply. It IS Iny Tcsponsibility to examine the financial stateiijents as i'equired under sectioii 44(1) (c} ofthe Act andto stat¢ wliether partt'cular matters have coine to my attention. Basis of independent exgminer's stAtement My exain11￿110n is Ca￿led out in accordance with Regulation I l of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulalions 2006. An examinatioii includes a review ot th¢ accounting records kept by th¢ charity and a comparison of tlie accounts presented with those records. It also incliides coiisideration of any UlliSLial items 01 disclosures in the accounts, and seeks explanations from the trnstees concerningi any such inatters. Tlie proce(lure¥ undertaken do not provide all thc evid¢ii(% that would be required in an audit. and consequently I do not expre&s an audit opinion on tl)e view uiven by tlie accounts. Independent examiner's statement Iii th¢ Gourse of my examination, iio inatter has Gome to my atteiition: ( l ) whicli gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect. the Management Cominittee Members have not met the requirenients". (a) io ensure that prO￿r accounting records are kept (in accordance with seciion 44(1) of the Act): and (b) to prepare accounts which accord with the aCco￿ltI1}g records aiid comply with the 2006 accounliiig regulations. (2) to which, in Iny opinion, attention should be drawii in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached Date.. zs