## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: 1st January 2025 to: 31[st] December 2025** **Charity name: Leek Town Centre Youth Project Charity registration number: 1063137** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|SORP reference| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The Charity’s objects (‘the Objects’) are:
1.To provide or assist in the
provision of facilities in the
interests of social welfare for the
recreation or other leisure time
occupations of young persons,
resident in Leek, who have need
of such facilities, with the object of
improving their conditions of life.
2.To advance the education of
children and young persons
through leisure time activity so as
to develop their physical, mental
and spiritual capacities that they
may grow to maturity as
individuals and members of
society.
3.To promote such other charitable
purpose for the benefit of young
persons, resident in Leek, as the
committee in their absolute
discretion think fit.| |||| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and 1.19|We provided a safe welcoming drop-in
centre, off the streets, with activities
supporting basic life-skills to less-
advantaged and vulnerable teenagers at
our rented Youth cafe - @21 The Young
Peoples’ Place in Market Street, Leek. We
also run trips and outdoor activities to build
up team work and the confidence and well-
being of our youngsters.
Our sessions are appreciated by the local
police for their contribution to reducing anti-
social behaviour in our town centre.
We hold sessions on two nights a week (as
well as the positive activities on a number
of weekends). We typically see 20 young
people in an evening session.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|We can confirm that ourtrustees had due
regard to the commission’s public benefit
guidance when exercising any powers or
duties to which the guidance was relevant| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Not applicable| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Not applicable| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|All aspects of our administration and routine
maintenance work at our base are carried
out at no cost to the charity by volunteers.
Volunteers also assist our self-employed
County-trained Youth workers when they run
sessions for our young people either at our
base or on outside activities.
We currently work with a group of 12
volunteers.
All are familiar with our Safeguarding Policy.| Other ## **Achievements and Performance** |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Drop-in sessions at our Youth café that
provides a safe and welcoming place where
less-advantaged and vulnerable teenagers
can socialise off the streets and enjoy
activities, support and advice from trained
youth workers.
We have a café/kitchen plus TV/media
facilities, a pool table, together with sofas
other comfortable seating at our rented
base.
Our drop-in, which opens on at least two
evenings a week and on Saturdays,
positively engages our young people. The
activities range from games sessions,
cooking skills workshops to school holiday
activities. We provide a number of outdoor
activities to promote fitness, build
confidence and teamwork skills in our
youngsters. We do basic life-skills work with
advice around drugs, alcohol and sexual
health often using quizzes.
We have worked with 168 discrete
individuals in the submission period, and
organised 27 positive activities.
In terms of wider societal benefits:
(a) We have watched with pleasure as the
majority of the young people we work
with have grown in confidence to be fine
young people. One of our service users
was even elected as a County Councillor
recently;
(b) Staffordshire Police is very enthusiastic
about the contribution we make to
reducing anti-social behaviour in the
town. Through the Police & Crime
Commissioner’s office, we have received
grants towards our work, and PCSOs
often join us on our activities.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Para 1.41 Achievements against objectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**inancial Review**||| |---|---|---| |||| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Through active and careful fundraising, we
have built up a strong financial cushion, to
give us resilience in the event of financial
shocks. Indeed, at the end of 2025 our
position was the strongest it has been for a
number of years.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We recognise the value of holding the
recommended amount of reserves to deal
with un-anticipated costs, and our receipt of
Lottery funding has enabled us to
implement our policy to do so.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£40,000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|Not applicable| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Not applicable| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |||| |---|---|---| |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|We are a community-based charity run by
volunteers and representatives of local
councils, churches and the police.
Management committee members who
display continuing interest and commitment
to our activities may be elected to be a
trustee, at our AGM.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** ||| |---|---| |Charity name|Leek Town Centre Youth Project| |Other name the charity uses|@21 The Young Peoples’ Place| |Registered charity number|1063137| |Charity’s principal address|21 Market Street
Leek
Staffordshire
ST13 6 HX
This is not our correspondence address – see contact
information| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Please ensure the list below is up to date.** |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |1|Jane Tattersall|Chair||| |2|Roy Gregg|Building
manager||| |3|Alison Dodd|Treasurer||| |4|Alex Kenneth|||| |5|Jason Moody|||| |6||||| |7||||| |8||||| |9||||| |10||||| |11||||| |12||||| |13||||| |14||||| |15||||| |16||||| |17||||| |18||||| |19||||| |20||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Not applicable Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |||| |---|---|---| |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |Not applicable||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** ||| |---|---| |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|Not applicable| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|Not applicable| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|Not applicable| ## **Additional information (optional)** **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details Not applicable ## **Other optional information** ## Declarations The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees . | ' Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)|; ~nauc TVereagnucet; Date IS [oz 2o2E6 |||||**1063137**
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~~oo~~7| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||| |||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**|||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Endowment**||**Total funds**|||**Last year**|| |||||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||| |Donations / Grants||||**66,416**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**66,416**|**66,416**||**17,194**|**17,194**| |Young people contributions||||**245**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**245**|**245**||**220**|**220**| |User Groups||||**330**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**330**|**330**||**330**|**330**| |Fundraising||||**1,074**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,074**|**1,074**||**6,427**|**6,427**| |Bank interest||||**435**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**435**|**435**||**494**|**494**| |DAF gifted workshop||||**525**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**525**|**525**||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_||||_(Gross income for_|||||||||||||||| ||||_AR)_|_AR)_**69,025**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**69,025**|**69,025**||**24,665**|**24,665**| ||||||||||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||||||||| |**(see table).**|||||||||||||||||||| |||||**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|||| |||||**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |||**_Sub total_**||**_Sub total_ -**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| ||||||||||||||||||||| ||**_Total receipts_**|||**69,025**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**69,025**|**69,025**||**24,665**|| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||| |Youth Workers||||**25,593**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**25,593**|**25,593**||**21,389**|**21,389**| |Activities||||**5,026**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**5,026**|**5,026**||**7,805**|**7,805**| |Services and equipment||||**3,573**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**3,573**|**3,573**||**588**|**588**| |Electricity/gas||||**1,227**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,227**|**1,227**||**1,692**|**1,692**| |Insurance||||**427**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**427**|**427**||**398**|**398**| |Cleaning and sundries||||**1,388**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,388**|**1,388**||**1,158**|**1,158**| |Telephone and internet||||**682**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**682**|**682**||**-**|**-**| |Water and sewerage||||**369**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**369**|**369**||**671**|**671**| |Admin / Social media||||**268**|||||||||||**268**|**268**||**455**|**455**| |Fundraising||||**2,396**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,396**|**2,396**||**2,138**|**2,138**| |||**_Sub total_ **||**40,949**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**40,949**|**40,949**||**36,294**|**36,294**| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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———~~——~~|||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||||**28,076**|**28,076**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**- 28,076**|**- 28,076**|**- 28,076**|**- 28,076**|**- 28,076**|**- 28,076**|**- 28,076**|**- 11,629**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**-**||**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**59,371**|**59,371**||**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**59,371**|**59,371**||**71,000**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_**||**_Cash funds this year end_**||**87,447**|**87,447**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**- 87,447**|**- 87,447**|**- 87,447**|**- 87,447**|**- 87,447**|**- 87,447**||**59,371**|| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 04/03/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
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**funds**
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**to nearest £**
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**to nearest £**
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**funds**
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**funds**
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Date of
approval| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 04/03/2026 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees** Leek Town Centre Youth Project **On accounts for the year** 31 December 2025 **Charity no** 1063137 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 3 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 12 /2025. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Date:** 04/03/2026 **Name:** CLAIRE HAMBLETON **Relevant professional** FCCA FCA **qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Oct 2018** 1 **IER** ## **Address:** CHERRY TREE COURT, CROSS STREET, LEEK, STAFFORDSHIRE, ST13 6BL ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **Oct 2018** 2 **IER**