PEOPLE FIRST INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY

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  Confirmation statement overdue

  Due 2026-05-12.

1. PEOPLE FIRST INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY 2010-04-08 → present
2. WEST CUMBRIA PEOPLE FIRST 2010-03-30 → 2010-04-08
3. WEST CUMBRIA PEOPLE FIRST LIMITED 2005-04-28 → 2010-03-30

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

David Allen

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.”

Significant events

• “From 1 April 2023, the trustees of the charitable company took the decision to merge with a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), People First Services (charity number 1184467). The CIO ceased on 31 March 2023 and the charities merged from 1 April 2023. This transaction has been accounted for as a charity merger.”
• “The Savoy Educational Trust provided funding for the purchase of a coffee machine for the bistro.”
• “The charity received a grant from The National Lottery Community Fund for the Work in Progress project which aims to support people with learning disabilities and autistic people into paid permanent work.”
• “Cumbria Police and Crime Commissioner provided funding to help deliver the HERE All Age Counselling Service to respond to the mental health crisis caused by Covid-19 in previous years.”
• “Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation - A 3 year grant was provided to fund the People First Cafe at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Cumberland Infirmary.”
• “Lancashire County Council provided funding for a Safeguarding Voices Project which will will review the involvement of people within the safeguarding process who fall under Blackpool, Blackburn (with Darwen Borough) and Lancashire County Councils.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

3

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +14.1%

  £4,807,819 → £5,485,286

• Cash

  +29.7%

  £3,801,769 → £4,929,543

• Net assets

  +31.1%

  £1,844,893 → £2,418,692

• Employees

  +24%

  104 → 129

• Wages

  -0.6%

  £2,783,089 → £2,767,052

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers