## **Trustees Annual Report**
One thing about a lot of 'Christian ministries' is that they over-egg it. The normal, the expected, becomes the extra-ordinary. The small thing, the mustard seed, the fresh shoot, the strange turn, the new birth..... becomes the come and gawp moment. We have not, and we will not shine any bright lights, push onto any stage anyone or anything that God has touched or His spirit has moved. _'Don't tell anyone about this. Return to your home; go back to you own. Hold these things in your heart'_ . We don't know exactly how to speak of what God is doing around us, sometimes we feel inspite and not because of us. We have no right to claim... anything really. Only that we have watched from as near within as we can - lived amongst as honestly as we can - in the hope that we can do some right things, sing the right song or in sadness or joy, speak at the right time.
By which we mean to say: we have hoped and we do now believe that we may see, by the grace and mercy of God, some of the things we have believed we should work for/at. Its not that we've never seen these things before; we have. But we haven't seen enough to believe a significant change will come (to borrow a phrase to Jezza not Jesus) _'for the many not the few'_ . Over the last year or so though, after the devastation of Covid, we have seen those things we have been dreaming about, planning for, puzzling over... maybe coming around and together.
We won't shine a bright light on the individuals. If you want to hear the monthly more personal stories, to receive the prayer requests, and to respond in intercession for us, then make sure you receive our monthly prayer letter via the office. But I think we can say: that the gift of St Matthew's Parish Hall and the Scouts groups/Cubs; the gift of the use of the ex-Vicarage - now Matt's House and our relations with CMS; the huge investment to make new use of St Matthew's Church by a local housing charity; the growth to come in Sycamore Gardening; our relationship with the local schools and their management group; the rightness of our relationship with Urban Expression.... we can say that the potential is massive. We can also say that the human resources are few and under great pressure, and we need your prayers!! And we need more hands to the harvest. But most importantly, we can say that we have seen the kingdom coming in some lives and that it feels like that's going to multiply.
Annual Reports are meant to look back. Sorry about that. But one could say that all this, that feels ready to break out has been coming together in the last year or so. Since we could really work again after Covid time and during which a new set of possibilities have come into a place of fruition. Again, please open your heart for us and pray. And thank you.
Andy Dorton, Chair of Trustees
**How have people benefitted from Hull YFC activities?**
_“A highlight has been getting everybody back to how it should be after Covid. Seeing all the bairns again not having to isolate was the best bit. What I most like is it is part of the community, volunteers are more like family than friends - you can always go to anybody if you need help. The kids can come for help too. They feel safe. What I get out of it is seeing the kids from an early age going on to secondary school. Literally I’m part of the family.”_
_“My kids wont eat breakfast at home. That’s why they come here. If they come they eat breakfast. Otherwise they are empty. I think about children being on an empty stomach and not just my own. I like the trips as its cheaper for me. I had to save months to do a day trip out on my own.”_
_“My daughter enjoys meeting other people and this helps us. The after school club with sports, games and colouring she likes it and I have time myself to go shopping so its good for us too. You’re doing a good job thank you!”_
_“Orts is a place of friendship, love and support - much needed in this world.“_
_“Without YFC there is not much to do round here. For me it helps because I’ve always wanted to do youth work. This way I get to experience After School club, Youth Club and its nice to be a part of the YFC family. Yesterday I was busy at Breakfast Club but no matter what’s going on there is someone around. There is always someone looking out for each other and that’s a big thing for me .”_
_“Seeing the kids happy, it helps the kids round here. It helps them major. They’re getting breakfast. People doing stuff together in community is what its about. Its nice. Not being at each others throats but doing it together.”_
_“Youth Club on a Wednesday! Playing football!”_
_“I decided to work for Sycamore Gardening because I didn’t have a job. I had a few jobs before, but there's been difficulties in them with how they have been run and how they treated the staff._
_As soon as this job came up I knew I would enjoy it and learn some new skills and stuff in life. I think this also helps me out because we’re outside which is good for clearing my head. I like it because even if you’re upset or not in a good mood you can just get your head down and get on with stuff._
_I think SG will help me become a better person and show off my good side and bring the best out of me._
_“Youth Club is something to do. I enjoy cooking and the new people too. No one really dislikes anyone, everyone’s kind – friendly except for the odd thing. Even the camp weekend we went on that was good. No one bullied people which is what I’ve had pretty much all my life. To go somewhere new and have no one judge me on the way I look or the way I am or the way I act was something so new to me – it was shocking that there are people that nice.”_
_“I like Breakfast Club because I get to colour and I even get to see my friends.”_
## **Activities 2022**
The year at Hull YFC in photos including the Family Meal & Crafts, Frontier camp along with regular activities.
**Financial Statement 2022**
|Income (£)||Total||Total||
Expenditure (£)||Total||Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Church Gifs||2,341||2,287|
|Wages*||71,527||63,550|
|Individual Gifs||25,215||56,747||Other personnel||876||798|
|Trust Gifs||24,814||15,171||Ofice/Admin||5,352||2,726|
|Event Contributions||1,179||435||Youth/Family||10,323||9,045|
|Regular Activity Charges||542||156||Matt’s House||6,000||4,080|
|Fundraised||140||545||Orts||2,609||13,136|
|Tax Reclaim||2,257||3,651||Sycamore G’ing||20,893||16,442|
|Job Retention Scheme||0||8,968||
Total||117,580||109,777|
|Kickstart Scheme||0||6,206|
|
|||||
|Matt’s House||5,563||2,783|||||||
|Orts||4,650||13,576|||||||
|Sycamore Gardening||38,413||47,261|||||||
|Interest||338||363|||||||
|Total||105,452||158,149|||||||
|Funds Brought Forward
(£)
Surplus / Deficit on year
(£)
Funds Carried Forward
(£)|Total Unrestricted||Total Restricted||Total||Total
2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Funds Brought Forward
(£)|69,434||63,951||133,385||85,013|
|Surplus / Deficit on year
(£)|(2,272)||(9,856)||(12,128)||48,372|
|Funds Carried Forward
(£)|67,162||54,095||
121,257||
133,385|
Our total funds carried forward include 6 months operational costs and funds set aside for new HYFC staff. Sycamore expansion money is also included in funds carried forward..
*Sycamore Gardening lead worker salary included in Wages figure.
## **Finance Report**
Following two years of reduced activity due to Covid, 2022 was very much a year of bouncing back to normal. This has meant our expenditure has returned to more expected levels.
During the year, we received specific support from the Imagine Foundation towards the Orts project. In addition grants have also been received from the Holbeck Charitable Trust, the Hesslewood Children’s Trust, the Camelia Trust, the FP Finn Charitable Trust, the Charities Aid Foundation and the Joseph and Annie Cattle Trust towards our youth and family work. Our long running Breakfast Club and re-launched after school club were kindly supported by Howden Rotary and individuals linked to them. We also received the benefits of a divested community asset that we will use as a reserve in our first year of Parish Hall ownership in 2023. Our social enterprise – Sycamore Gardening continues to go from strength to strength and has been supported by a grant from the Scurrah Wainwright Charity. Encouragingly through the gardening team’s hard work it is now approaching the point of being self financing and exploring expansion.
Special thanks to Greggs the Bakers, Cranswick Foods, the Bio-D and churches in Hull and East Yorkshire who gave supplies for Breakfast Club.
Salaries continue to be our biggest expense and we saw increases in insurances and administrative costs .
Overall our income was higher than budgeted due to the divested fund whilst our expenditure was slightly lower overall meaning we had a manageable deficit covered by our free reserves.
Despite the challenging economic climate we have confidence in God’s promise to provide for all our needs going forward and a revised approach to our fundraising. However the foundation of our finances and work are through the sacrificial and loyal giving from both our supporters and local churches - the Hull YFC family behind the scenes enabling us. We know that times are difficult for all right now and so all the support is greatly appreciated.
Jill Keegan, Administrator
## **Our Vision**
A flourishing, resourced and resourceful, interdependent community where - out of their relationship with Jesus - people live a more expansive life, full of grace, peace, hope, purpose and love.
## **Our Mission**
To invest our lives in under-resourced, marginalised, urban communities, using Jesus’ incarnation as our model. We look to nurture the assets of the community, working together to: address its needs, heal its wounds, pay particular regard to its often ignored young people, and attentively partner in God’s transforming work.
## **Core Values**
To be Christ centered To live and work holistically To work relationally To promote justice To live simply To serve and be served Love!
## **Staff Team**
Ian and Iona Dyson - Team Leaders Stuart Brown - Youth and Community Worker Richard Newby - Enterprise Worker Jill Keegan - Administrator
## **Board of Trustees**
Andy Dorton (Chair) Stephen Moore (Treasurer) Jill Barton (Safeguarding) Andy Tillotson Cathy Westby Pete Court
## **Patron**
Pending confirmation
## **Registered Charity**
1050216
**Contact Details**
c/o Boulevard Baptist Church Gordon Street Hull, HU3 3HJ 01482 221059
## **www.hullyfc.co.uk**
## **Partnerships**
**Printed by Wyngarth Graphics 01430 873996**
## **Financial Report (Financial year Jan - Dec 2022)**
## **Hull YFC**
## **Receipts and Payments Accounts for the year ending 31 December 2022**
Registered Charity No. 1050216
||Total Unrestricted
Funds|Total Restricted
Funds|**Total**
**2022**|**Total**
**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|**Brought forward**|**69,434**|**63,951**|**133,385**|**85,013**|
||||||
|**Receipts**|Total Unrestricted
Funds|Total Restricted
Funds|**Total**
**2022**|**Total**
**2021**|
|Church Gifts|2,186|155|2,341|2,287|
|Individual Gifts|21,220|4,645|25,865|56,747|
|Trust Gifts|14,864|13,950|28,814|28,747|
|Event Contributions|297|882|1,179|435|
|Regular ActivityCharges|542|0|542|156|
|Fundraised|0|140|140|545|
|Tax Reclaim|2,257|0|2,257|3,651|
|Job Retention Scheme|0|0|0|8,968|
|Kickstart Scheme|0|0|0|6,206|
|Matt's House|0|5,563|5,563|2,783|
|Interest|338|0|338|363|
|Sycamore Gardening|31,147|7,266|38,413|47,261|
|**Total**|**72,851**|**32,601**|**105,452**|**158,149**|
||||||
|**Expenditure**|Total Unrestricted
Funds|Total Restricted
Funds|**Total**
**2022**|**Total**
**2021**|
|Wages|65,377|6,960|72,337|63,550|
|Otherpersonnel|876|0|876|798|
|Office/Admin|5,352|0|5,352|2,726|
|ActivityCosts|3,518|35,497|39,015|42,703|
|**Total**|**75,123**|**42,457**|**117,580**|**109,777**|
||||||
|**Surplus / Deficit on Year**|**(2,272)**|**(9,856)**|**(12,128)**|**48,372**|
|**Carried Forward**|**67,162**|**54,095**|**121,257**|**133,385**|
||||||
**Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31 December 2022**
||Total Unrestricted
Funds|Total Restricted
Funds|**Total**
**2022**|**Total**
**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|HSBC Bank|29,896|20,089|49,985|30,040|
|CO-OP Bank|16,977|4,006|20,983|53,091|
|Shawbrook|10,000|30,000|40,000|40,036|
|CharityBank|10,288|0|10,288|10,205|
|PettyCash|1|0|1|13|
|**Total**|**67,162**|**54,095**|**121,257**|**133,385**|
||||||
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLANO AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examine s Report
Report to the trustees
HULL YFC
On accounts for the year
ended
31 DECEMBER 2022
Charity no
lif any)
1050216
Set out on pages
AThACHED
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounis of the above
tharityllhe Trust") for the year ended 31 December 2022.
Rosponslbllltles and
basls of report
As the charity's trustees, yt)u are spOnsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(Wie Act-).
I report in respect of my examinab'on of the Trust's accounts carried out
under Section 145 of the 2011 Acl and, in caryng out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent
examinerfs statement
I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination Ithich gives me
cause to believe that in, any material respect..
the accounting records were not kept in accordance wilh section 130
of the Charilies ACL or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records,. or
the accounts did nol comply with the applicable requirements
conceming the fomi and conlent of accounts set out in the Charities
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other Ihan any requirement
that the accounts give a Irue and fair, view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come awss no olher matters in connection
with the examination to which attention shoukl be drawn in Ihis report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Date:
31 MAY 2023
Slgnod:
Name:
ANDREW PYKE
Relevant professlonal
qualificationls) or body
Ilf any):
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
Addres$:
118 ELLERKER RISE, WILLERBY, EAST YORKSHIRE, HU10 6EU
IER
Oct 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern
{see CC32, Independent examinalion of charity accounts: directions and
guidance for examiners).
Glve here brlef detalls of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
Oct 2018