## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 02/03/2022 Period start date To 01/03/2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: The Starting Out Charity** ## **Charity registration number: 1064064** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To relieve hardship within communities
through the distribution of goods and services
via volunteering initiatives run as part of our
Kindness Offensive project. 1. To relieve those
who are in need by providing items and
services, particularly persons who are
homeless or threatened with homelessness, or
are in need of work space, by assisting them to
find accommodation, work space and
employment suitable to their needs and by
providing or assisting in providing emergency
accommodation and workspace for such
purposes. to advance the education of such
persons, particularly in arts and crafts and to
provide them with facilities for work,
recreation and leisure time occupation in the
interest of social welfare and with the object of
developing their mental, physical and spiritual
capacities that they may grow to full maturity
both as individuals and as responsible
members of society and that their condition of
life may be improved. 2. To relieve those in
need and those who face social obstacles
through the creation of new businesses and in
particular, (but not limited to), social
enterprises, (defined as a business with
primarily social objectives whose surpluses are
principallyreinvested for thatpurpose).| |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|• Delivery of large-scale Festive Giving
Drive through our Kindness Offensive.
• Extensive support offered to new
ecological start-up businesses.
*Street-level activities, delivered by our
micro teams, have enjoyed good success.| • The development of independent revenue streams (post-Covid). Statement confirming Para 1.18 The trustees confirm that they have had regard whether the trustees have to the guidance issued by the Charity had regard to the guidance Commission on public benefit. issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|In the financial period under review, our
organisation has actively pursued the
establishment of sustainable revenue
streams. Regrettably, the aftermath of
the Covid-19 pandemic has presented
challenges, particularly in the form of
diminished contributions from key
supporters whose businesses continue
to face adversity. Despite these hurdles,
we are pleased to report relatively high
degrees of success in our ongoing
efforts, reflecting a positive trajectory in
this critical aspect of our operations.
Significantly, our direct support
initiatives for emerging businesses
have yielded very satisfactory results
throughout the year. It is our hope that
our efforts in this area will form
something of a blueprint for greater
work in the future.
Our micro teams engaged in street-level
activities have further contributed to
our overall success.
A highlight of our achievements is the
resounding success of our annual
festive event, which reached a
commendable 20,000+ beneficiaries.
Noteworthy was our collaboration with
partner groups that provided additional
storage, manpower, and outreach,
proving highly effective. This
collaborative approach is anticipated to
be a key element of our strategy in the
future.
Amidst these accomplishments, we
have made substantial progress in
securing the long-term stability of our
charity. Having reached and positively
impacted over 25,000 beneficiaries in
alignment with our stated aims and
objectives, our organisation remains
steadfast in our commitment to grow
and broaden our impact.
Our business start-out programme has
also demonstrated a good level of
success, underscoring its potential for
future impact. As we continue to
navigate the evolving landscape, we
remain dedicated to pursuing our
mission, ensuring the sustained welfare
of our beneficiaries and the fulfilment
of our organisational goals.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of theperiod|Para 1.21|The Starting Out Charity is solvent and without
any debts; prepared to move forward
unencumbered.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We have aimed to increase our reserves to
£20,000 to cover ongoing activities if
needed. This amount has been revised
upward due to ongoing national instability
and decline, which has affected our
fundraising capacity.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£16000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| **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|**Trust Deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated**| |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|Existing Trustees can appoint new Trustees.
There are no new Trustees allocations currently
pending.| ## **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|The Starting Out Charity| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Harrow Starting Out Charity–The Kindness Offensive| |Registered charity number|1064065| |Charity’s principal address|1 Alpine Road, Hastings, TN34 3JP| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** |**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Starting Out**||||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
02/03/2022|Period end date
**To**
01/03/2023||| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**118,891**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,891**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,891**
**99,816**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**99,816**
**6,266**
**-**
**6,266**
**106,082**
**12,809**
**-**
**29,002**
**41,811**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**118,891**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,891**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,891**
**99,816**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**99,816**
**6,266**
**-**
**6,266**
**106,082**

**12,809**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**118,891**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,891**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,891**
**99,816**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**99,816**
**6,266**
**-**
**6,266**
**106,082**

**12,809**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Total receipts|**118,891**|||||**119,050**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**118,891**|||||**119,050**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**119,050**| |||||||| |Totalpayments|**99,816**|||||**92,731**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**99,816**|||||**92,731**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |**Equipment**|**6,266**|||||**11,067**| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**6,266**|||||**11,067**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||0| |||||||**103,798**| |||||||| ||**12,809**|**-**|**-**|
**12,809**||**15,252**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**29,002**|**-**|**-**|**29,002**||**13,750**| ||**41,811**|**-**|**-**|**41,811**||**29,002**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or three 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 Santander
Cash at PayPal
Santander savings
**Details**
**Details**
Equipment
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**17,117**
**-**
**- 343**
**-**
**25,037**
**-**
**41,811**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
DAVID ROCK|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||DAVID ROCK|28/11/2023| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to Ihe trustees Stsrbr¥J Out On aGGounts for the year ended 2023 Charity no (If any) 1064064 Set out on pago8 1&2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust-) for the year ended 0110312023. Responslbllltles and basls of report As the charity's trustees. you are restM)nsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Act-}. I report in respect of my examination of the Trusl's accounts ￿rried oul under section 145 ofthe 2011 Act and in ¢arying out my examination. I have followed all the applicabl8 Directions given by the Charity Commlssion under section 145(5Xbl of the Act. Independent examlnerfs statement I have o)mpleted my examination. I C￿nfirrn that no material matters have come to my attention in ￿nnectIOn with the examination (other than that disdosed below.) which gives me eause to believe that in. any matorial resped.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with seGtion 130 of the Charities Act: or the accounts did not accord wilh the accounting records: or the acwunts did not comply wtth the applicable requirements conceming the form and conlenl of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fail view which is not a matter 0￿sIdered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come acfOSS 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. ' Please delete the WDrds in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: 1112812003 Name: Amanda Twohey Relevant professlonal qualifi¢ation{s) or body (If any): Address: 72 High Street, Great Missenden. HP160AN IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight rnalerial matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examinats'on of charity acGounts.' directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detalh of any items that the examiner wishes to dlsGlose. IER Oct 2018