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|Gillian Jones|F/T Manager||
|Maggie Readman|P/T Project Worker||
|Lisa Nixon|P/T Project Worker||
|Frankie Goodwin|P/T Project Worker||
|Hannah<br>Guthrie|F/T Activity Coordinator||
|Lizzie Fry|F/T Volunteer<br>Coordinator||
|Claire Addis|P/T Fundraising<br>8 Marketing|Coordinator|
|Sue Bowden|Activity Leader||
|Jo Stokes|Activity Leader||
|Maria Potter|Activity Leader||
|Lesley Ingham|Activity Leader||
|Tess Hulme|Activity Leader||
|Cathy Florentine|Activity Leader||
|Pam Carey|Volunteer Treasurer||
|Claire Hodkinson|Volunteer<br>Office Assistant||
|Barry Wilson|Volunteer<br>Office Assistant||
|Chris Jones|Volunteer<br>Office assistant||



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|COMPANY NUMBER|3508369|||
|---|---|---|---|
|CHARITY NUMBER|1068991|||
|DIRECTORS|M Stockdale|||
||P Walker|||
||JWilde|||
||D Powell|||
||C Booth|||
||TSlater|-appointed|1 December 2020|



|REGISTERED|OFFICE|Albert Chambers|
|---|---|---|
|||Canal Street|
|||Congleton|
|||Cheshire|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|
||||Notes|Funds|Funds|Fundsf|Funds|Funds<br>R|Funds|
|Incoming resources||||||||||
|Donations|||||10,047|10,047||15,919|15,919|
|Fundraising|||||2,979|2,979||5,542|5,542|
|Provision ofservice||||123,898||123,898|86,246||86,246|
|Commissioned<br>Income||||28,673||28,673|38,230||38,230|
|Other grants and income||||3,612|5,074|8,686||6,521|6,521|
|Activity-related<br>income (Subs. etc)|||||955|955||9,432|9,432|
|Interest|||||33|33||201|201|
|Earned income||||||||225|225|
|Gilt aid|||||1,236|1,236||1,545|1,545|
|Total incoming|resources|||156,183|20,324|176,507|124,476|39,385|163,861|
|Resources expended||||||||||
|Salaries||||102,530|12,854|115,384|85,476|29,026|114,502|
|Employer<br>National|Insurance|||3,564|5,255|8,819|914|7,580|8,494|
|Employer pension|contributions||8|1,014|1,107|2,121||1,917|1,917|
|Travel and Subsistence||(staff)||299|13|312|2,958|377|3,335|
|Vol expenditure||||884||884|3,397|25|3,422|
|Governance||||18||18||88|88|
|Training||||744|120|864||150|150|
|Recruitment||||||||284|284|
|Activities||||2,855||2,855|12,418|161|12,579|
|Emergency Activies (COVID)||||2,585||2,585||||
|Stationery||||174||174|228|25|253|
|Postage||||388||393|408|254|662|
|Telecommunication||||1,980||1,980|1,710|339|2,049|
|Rent &utilities||||7,761||7,761|6,649|1,238|7,887|
|Insurance||||1,641||1,641|773|850|1,623|
|Admin.||||1,849||1,849|1,997|636|2,633|
|Publicity and Promotion||||389||389|500|820|1,320|
|Equipment||||1,192|52|1,244|255|60|315|
|Other expenditure|||||15|15||||
|Parent/Carer<br>information||sessions||||622|||350|
|Total resources|expended|||130,489|19,421|149,910|118,033|43,830|161,863|
|Fundraising<br>costs|||9|10,482|2,674|13,156|4,879|4,976|9,855|
|Capital expenditure|||10|1,050||1,050||43|43|
|Total Costs||||142,021|22,095|164,116|122,912|48,849|171,761|
|Net movement<br>in funds||||14,162|(1,771)|12,391|1,564|(9,464)|(7,900)|
|Total funds brought|foNvard|||32,270|92,343|124,613|30,706|101,807|132,513|
|Total funds carried forward||||46,432|60,672|137,004|32,270|92,343|124,613|





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|FUNDRAISING||||2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Includes the following||events:||||
|Handforth<br>Dean Christmas|||Carols||463|
|Congleton<br>Music|Festival||||337|
|Congleton<br>Rotary Swimathon||||234||
|Sales ofdonated|items|||166|148|
|Waitrose||||667|730|
|Charity Stalls|||||416|
|Money Boxes|||||251|
|Congleton Santa|Float||||300|
|Wilmslow<br>Swimathon|||||527|
|Tour de France Challenge|||||2,088|
|2.6 Challenge||||1,797||
|Others||||81|282|
|||||2,979|5,542|
|Less fundraising|costs|||13,156|9,855|
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|6|PROVISION OF SERVICE||||||2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||K|E|
||Includes the following:-||||||||
||Albert Hunt Trust||||||2,000||
||BBCChildren<br>in Need||||||18,324|19,893|
||BBCChildren<br>in Need Next Steps||||||5,261||
||C4C||||||300||
||CAF Emergency<br>Fund||||||995||
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation|COVID Grant|||||6,048||
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation|ilWill Fund||||||5,000|
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation|Main Grants|||||7,538||
||CCF/DCMS Community<br>Match Challenge||||||1,400||
||Cheshire East Council COVID-19|Response|||&Recovery Grant||1,000||
||Cheshire East Council Early Help|Grant|||||2,707||
||Cheshire East Council New Homes||Bonus|||||10,331|
||Cheshire Police Safer Communies||Fund|||||886|
||Congleton<br>Town Council||||||264|230|
||Congleton<br>Town Trust||||||1,000||
||Co-op Community<br>Fund||||||2,565|2,307|
||Crewe Town Council|||||||2,350|
||CRH Charitable<br>Trust|||||||15,000|
||Felicity Wilde Charitable<br>Trust|||||||1,000|
||Garfield Weston Foundation||||||20,000||
||John Swire 1989Charitable<br>Foundation|||||||5,000|
||Leeds Building Society Charitable|Foundation||||||490|
||Localgiving<br>and Postcode Community|||Trust||||500|
||Morrisons<br>Foundation||||||600||
||MOTO in Community<br>Trust|||||||2,500|
||National<br>Lottery Awards 4 All||||||7,250||
||National<br>Lottery Communtiy<br>Fund||||||4,875||
||Rotary Club ofWilmslow<br>Dean||||||295||
||Sobell Foundation||||||5,000|5,000|
||StJames's Place Foundation||||||2,500||
||Steve Morgan Foundation||||||5,527|6,559|
||Steve Morgan Foundation<br>COVID|Emergency|||Fund||7,436||
||SMF/DCMS Community<br>Match Challenge||||||17,247||
||Tesco Community<br>Fund||||||1,166||
||The Russell Trust||||||2,000|4,000|
||True Colours Trust|||||||5,000|
||Warburtons<br>Community<br>Grant|||||||200|
||William Dean Trust||||||'600||
||||||||123,898|86,246|
|6|COMNIISSIONED<br>INCONIE||||||2021|2020|
|||||||||R|
||Cheshire East Coundl - Short Breaks for Disabled|||||Children|28,673|38,230|
||||||||28,673|38,230|
|7|OTHER GRANTS AND OTHER||INCOME||||2021|2020|
||||||||E||
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation||President's|||Award|0|1,200|
||Congleton<br>Young Peoples Trust||Ltd||||0|200|
||Ecclesiastjcal Charities Trust||||||1,000|0|
||HMRC Job Retention Grant||||||3,612|0|
||Lee Bakirgian<br>Family Trust||||||300|0|
||Leeds Building Society||||||1,000|0|
||Marketing<br>& Publicity||||||324|121|
||Martyn<br>Bracegirdle Charitable|Foundation|||||500|0|
||Pennycress<br>Trust||||||300|0|
||Royal London Community<br>Matters Fund||||||0|5,000|
||SirJules Tham Charitable<br>Trust||||||1,250|0|
||Warburtons<br>COVID Grant||||||400|0|
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|9|Fundraising|Cost|||2021|2020f|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Marketing<br>and fundraising|||coordinator|12,628|9,548|
||Fundraising|Expenses|||528|307|
||||||13,156|9,855|
|10|Capital Expenditure||||2021f|2020f|
||Website Development||||1,050|43|
||||||1,050|43|
|11|Debtors||||2021f|2020f|
||Prepayments|and accrued||income|||
|12|Creditors||||2021f|2020f|
||Pension<br>Fund|||||529|
||Accruals and|deferred|income|||27,250|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|13|Movements<br>ofMajor Funds||||At 01/04/20|resources|resources|At 31/03/21|
|||||||R|||
||Albert Hunt Trust|||||2,000|(1,140)|860|
||BBCChildren<br>ln Need||||2,668|18,324|(18,976)|2,016|
||BBCChildren<br>ln Need Next|Steps||||5,261|(5,045)|216|
||British Science Association||||82|||82|
||C4C|||||300|(134)|166|
||CAF Emergency<br>Fund|||||995|(995)||
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation||COVID Grant|||6,048|(6,048)||
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation||ttri Will Fund||3,619||(3,386)|233|
||Cheshire<br>Communty<br>Foundation||Main Grants|||7,538|(3,957)|3,581|
||CCF/DCMS Community<br>Match Challenge|||||1,400|(1,400)||
||CEC COVID Response<br>&Recovery Grant|||||1,000|(166)||
||Cheshire East Council Early|Help|Grant||(2,207)|2,707|(500)||
||Cheshire East Council New|I-lomes Bonus|||713||(713)||
||Cheshire Police Safer Communities<br>Fund||||372||(148)|224|
||Coinmissioned<br>Cheshire East||||1,009|28,673|(20,785)|8,897|
||Congleton<br>Town Council|||||264|(264)||
||Congleton<br>Town Trust|||||1,000|(500)|500|
||COOP Community<br>Fund||||2,204|2,565|(54)|4,715|
||Crewe Town Council||||2,275||(1,506)|769|
||CRH Charitable<br>Trust||||11,250||(11,250)||
||Felicity Wilde Charitable<br>Trust||||419||(419)||
||Garfiekl Weston Foundation|||||20,000|(9,423)|10,577|
||HMRC Job Retention<br>Grant|||||3,612|(3,612)||
||John Swire 1989Charitable|Foundation|||880||(880)||
||Macdesfield<br>Town Council||||6||(6)||
||Monisons<br>Foundation|||||600|(484)|116|
||MOTO in Community<br>Trust||||1,169||(495)|674|
||National<br>Lottery Awards 4 All|||||7,250|(5,893)|1,357|
||National<br>Lottery Community|Fund||||4,875|(4,481)|394|
||Rotary Club ofWilmslow<br>Dean|||||295||295|
||Sobell Foundation||||3,607|5,000|(4,713)|3,894|
||StJames's Place Foundation|||||2,500|(2,500)||
||Steve Morgan Foundation|||||5,527|(4,588)|1,745|
||Steve Morgan Foundation<br>COVto||Emergency|Fund||7,436|(7,436)||
||SMF/DCMS Community<br>Match Challenge|||||17,247|(17,247)||
||Tesco Community<br>Fund|||||1,166|(160)|1,006|
||The Russell Trust||||493|2,000|(85)|2,408|
||True Colours Trust||||2,905||(2,632)|273|
||William Dean Trust|||||600||600|
||Total restricted<br>funds||||32,270|156,183|(142,021)|46,432|
||Unrestricted||||92,343|20,324|22,095|90,572|
||Total Funds||||124,613|176,507|(164,116|137,004|





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|---|---|---|---|---|
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|General|funds show a surplus||90,572|92,343|
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|Funding|Requirement:||||
|To cover|shortfall||||
|6 months|running|costs, in event ofclosing down the charity|85,000|85,000|



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|BUSINESS|OBJECTIVE|||FOCUS||RESPONSIBILITY|SUCCESS|||ACHIEVEMENTS BY|
|AREA||||4PRIORITY|||FACTORS|||ear endin<br>31/03/2021|
|SERVICE|Ensure that|service||P1.Maintain<br>equitable|||Equitable|and||All delivery<br>virtual from March 2020.|
|PROVISION|provision<br>is|reviewed||spread ofservice||Trustees 8|appropriate||service||
||regularly.|||provision across the||manager|offer to all|registered||Some face-to-face group activities|
|||||borough,<br>responding|to||young people.|||resumed<br>from the beginning<br>of|
|||||identified<br>local need.||||||September<br>when COVID guidance|
|||||||||||allowed. Virtual sessions continued.|
|||||||||||The 25~ anniversary<br>day on 29'" July|
|||||||||||was<br>iven over to on-line activities.|
|PARTNERSHIP|Continue to build and|||P2. Identify relevant|||FFL working||with|Virtual sessions have been delivered|
|WORKING|develop alliances||with|opportunities<br>for||All staff and|other relevant|||by existing and new partner|
||relevant<br>organisations|||collaborative<br>working;||trustees|agencies from all|||providers.|
||acrossghe|borough.||including<br>VCFS|||sectors,||||
|||||organisations<br>and|||||||
|||||leisure providers.||||||We have continued to maintain a|
|||||||||||relationship<br>with Franklyn<br>Financial|
||Build relationships|||P2.Promote FFL||||||Management.|
||with the business|||within the business|||||||
||community|||community<br>to:<br>~<br>secure funding<br>~<br>recruit apprentice<br>volunteers||||||We were unable to develop our<br>relationship<br>with MOTO Services in<br>Knutsford<br>due to lockdown,<br>but we<br>hope to revive this when restrictions|
|||||~<br>connect skills and||||||are lifted.|
|||||ex ertise|||||||
|RESOURCES|Ensure that physical<br>and human resources<br>are in place.|||P1.Continuous<br>review<br>ofoffice equipment<br>and<br>other physical<br>resources to enable||Manager and<br>trustees|FFLservice <br>sustainable<br>professional.||is<br>and|Staff worked from home to comply<br>with COVID safety guidance,<br>using<br>Splashtop Business.|
|||||staff team to carry out|||||||
||Ensure that|numbers||their duties.|||||||
||and skills ofstaff are|||||||||No staff changes<br>during this year.|
||maximised<br>the service.|to provide||P1.Maintain<br>the<br>correct balance of skills||||||On-line staff training<br>has been|
|||||within the team to||||||undertaken.|
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|||||STRAT|EGI|C DIRECTION S<br>2020 - 2021|C DIRECTION S<br>2020 - 2021|TATEMENT|TATEMENT|TATEMENT||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|BUSINESS||OBJECTIVE||FOCUS||RESPONSIBILITY||SUCCESS|||ACHIEVEMENTS BY|
|AREA||||&PRIORITY||||FACTORS|||ear endin<br>31/03/2021|
|FINANCES &|Ensure that adequate|||P1.Undertake<br>rigorous||||Secure financial|||Funders<br>included<br>SirJules Thorn|
|FUNDING|and|sustainable<br>funds||research offunders'||Trustees, manager||future ofthe charity.|||Foundation,<br>Albert Hunt Trust,|
||are|in place, in terms||individual<br>priorities and||and fundraising|||||Cheshire East Council, Congleton|
||of:|||changing<br>conditions|to|coordinator||Medium-|and||Town Council, Steve Morgan|
|||||inform future||||longer-term||funding|Foundation,<br>BBCChildren<br>in Need,|
||~|current funding<br>meeting||applications.||||plans are||in place.|National<br>Lottery Community<br>Fund,<br>DCMS, St.James's Place Foundation,|
|||immediate|needs|P1.Improve|||||||Russell Trust and TESCO.|
||~|being fully aware||knowledge<br>of national||||||||
|||offunders'||and local information|to||||||Trustees regularly<br>updated<br>on|
|||requirements<br>and||prepare for|||||||fundraising. .|
|||conditions||applications.||||||||
||||||||||||Contact has been maintained<br>with|
||||||||||||funders<br>during the year and funding|
||||||||||||reports have been submitted.|
||||||||||||We have been commissioned<br>by|
||||||||||||Cheshire East Council to deliver|
||||||||||||Short Breaks from 1/8/21 for 3 ears.|
|OUTCOMES|Ensure that YPare|||P1.Define baselines,||All staff.||YP and families||||
||given positive||social|outputs<br>and outcomes||||report improved|||During lockdown 1100happy packs|
||opportunities||for fun|||||outcomes.|||were sent out to young people,|
||and|friendship.||P1.Review and refresh<br>evaluation<br>systems to||Involve parents,||Staff fully||aware of|volunteers,<br>and parents/carers.|
||Support families to|||demonstrate<br>impact|for|children|and other|evaluation||process.|Project workers have been|
||help their children<br>achieve their potential.|||YP, volunteers<br>and<br>families.<br>Ensure that outcomes||relevant|agencies.|Funders<br>satisfied<br>with evidence<br>provided.|||undertaking<br>reviews with families<br>and it has become apparent<br>that<br>many people have struggled<br>with<br>mental<br>ill-health.<br>Safeguarding<br>issues|
|||||reflect:|||||||have also been reported.|
|||||~<br>Ethos ofFFL||||||||
|||||~<br>Requirements<br>of|||||||An on-line survey was set up to|
|||||funders|||||||measure the impact ofservices|
|||||~<br>CEC young<br>people's<br>plan and|||||||during<br>lockdown. The feedback has<br>been very positive.|
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|||||STRA|TEGI|C DIRECTION S<br>2020 - 2021|C DIRECTION S<br>2020 - 2021|C DIRECTION S<br>2020 - 2021|TATEMENT|TATEMENT|||
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|BUSINESS|OBJECTIVE|||FOCUS||RESPONSIBILITY|||SUCCESS||ACHIEVEMENTS BY||
|AREA||||L PRIORITY|||||FACTORS||ear endin<br>31/03/2021||
|PARTICIPATION|Ensure that|children 8||P1.Ensure that:|||||YP and families are||||
|OF SERVICE|YP participate||in the|~<br>Parents/carers|are||||participating<br>in the||Young people have been asked|to|
|USERS|strategic and|||represented<br>on|the|Chair oftrustees|||strategic|planning|suggest activities —both virtual|and|
||operational|planning,||board oftrustees|||||and implementation||face-to-face.||
||development<br>monitoring|of|and<br>services|~<br>Families are kept<br>informed<br>of||All staff and|||of FFL's|services.|Contact has been made with all||
|||||changes<br>within|the|trustees|||||volunteers<br>and families during||
|||||organisation|||||||lockdown. We have been surprised to||
|||||~<br>Designated<br>trustee<br>works with staff||Designated||trustee|||discover how many families do <br>respond to e-mails, so, where|not|
|||||team to identify|||||||necessary, contact has been made by||
|||||good practice|||||||telephone<br>or post.||
|INFORMATION|Promote<br>information|||P2. Make sure that|||||Robust system of||||
|AND ADVICE|and advice|that is||information<br>held by||All|||relevant|and current|Information<br>about relevant services||
||accessible|and||FFL is up-to-date.|||||information<br>and||has been included<br>in all Happy||
||appropriate.||||||||guidance.||Packs. We have also signposted||
|||||P2. Review the means|||||||families to appropriate<br>counselling||
||Signpost/refer||families|by which families are||Manager and|||||services where appropriate.||
||to other appropriate|||kept informed.||marketing|co-ord.||||||
||services.||||||||||||
|AWARENESS|Develop training|||P1.Establish<br>links|with|Manager,|Activity||Using education to:||||
||services to|improve||schools and colleges to||co-ordinator||&|promote|integration;|Schools and colleges have not||
||awareness|of|disability|promote the sale of||designated|||challenge|physical|allowed visitors.||
||issues and|promote||training services.||trustee.|||and attitudinal||||
||inclusion.||||||||barriers to inclusion;||||
|||||P2. Support leisure|||||celebrate|diversity;|||
|||||and play providers|to||||||||
|||||promote<br>integration|||||||||
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|||||||STR|STR|STR|ATEG|IC DIRECTION S<br>2020 - 2021|TATEMENT|TATEMENT|TATEMENT|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|BUSINESS|OBJECTIVE|||||FOCUS||||RESPONSIBILITY|SUCCESS|||ACHIEVEMENTS<br>BY||
|AREA|||||L|PRIORITY|||||FACTORS|||ear endin<br>31/03/2021||
|TRAINING|Ensure that||staff,|P2.|All|staff|to|identify|||All staff,|volunteers||||
||volunteers|and||relevant||training|||needs.|Manager 8 staff|and trustees are|||Staff have undertaken<br>on-line training||
||trustees are||trained||||||||competent||and|in:||
||appropriately.|||P2.|Trustees||to||access||confident||in their|~<br>safeguarding,||
|||||relevant||training|||and|Trustees|I'oies.|||~<br>volunteer<br>management|and|
|||||development||||||||||leadership,||
|||||opportunities||||||||||~<br>digital safeguarding,||
|||||P2. Volunteer<br>programme<br>is<br>maintained.||||training||Volunteer co-ord.||||~<br>positions oftrust,<br>~<br>county criminal exploitation,<br>~<br>sexual imagery.||
|||||||||||||||Safeguarding<br>training<br>has been||
|||||||||||||||provided for volunteers<br>via the||
|||||||||||||||Cheshire East on-line Learning||
|||||||||||||||Lounge.||
|VOLUNTEERS|Ensure that||volunteers|P1.|Demonstrate||||the||Volunteers||are|||
||are recruited,||trained,|impact||ofvolunteering||||Manager and|retained|and valued||Volunteer<br>recruitment<br>was virtual,||
||mentored,|supported||on:||||||Volunteer Co-ord.|Evaluation||will|with Lizzie taking part in Zoom||
||and valued.|||~|Volunteers||||||inform future funding|||sessions. Charles and Lizzie||
|||||~|FFL||||||bids and|||developed<br>a range ofvideos for this.||
||||||||||||demonstrate|||||
||||||||||||positive|outcomes to||Many school and college students||
||||||||||||funders.|||had to concentrate<br>on their education||
|||||||||||||||because of COVID restrictions.||
|||||||||||||||A virtual<br>befriending<br>scheme was||
|||||||||||||||piloted, where volunteers<br>do not have||
|||||||||||||||to live in the same are as the young||
|||||||||||||||people. Facebook adverts were|used|
|||||||||||||||to seek applications.<br>Interviews,||
|||||||||||||||inductions,<br>and training<br>were held via||
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|BUSINESS|||OBJECTIVE|FOCUS|RESPONSIBILITY|SUCCESS||ACHIEVEINENTS BY||
|AREA||||&PRIORITY||FACTORS||ear endin<br>31/03/2021||
|MARKETING<br>PUBLIC<br>RELATIONS|&|Ensure that FFL is<br>promoted<br>positively at<br>a strategic and local<br>level.||P1.Promote FFL in a<br>positive way across the<br>borough.|Trustees and staff|FFL is recognised<br>across Cheshire<br>East by all relevant<br>stakeholders||Closed Facebook pages for young<br>people and parents/carers<br>used<br>extensively<br>during this year.||
|||||P1.Each trustee to||||||
|||Make better use of<br>social media.||develop a<br>marketing/PR<br>strategy<br>to promote the charity||||There were few opportunities<br>promote the charity because <br>COVID restrictions.|to<br> of|
|||||P1.All staff to seek out||||||
|||||and attend relevant||||||
|||||networking/P<br>R||||||
|||||o<br>ortunities||||||
|SAFEGUARDING||Ensure that culture,<br>policies, procedures<br>and practice have a||P1.Regular reviews of<br>activities,<br>risk<br>assessments,<br>policy|All staff &trustees|Parents/carers<br>are<br>confident<br>in FFL's<br>ability to keep their||The activity risk assessment<br>has been revised.|policy|
|||clear focus on<br>effective safeguarding.||and procedures.<br>P1.Ensure that||child safe.||As we have resumed face-to-face<br>sessions, COVID-safety risk||
|||||providers<br>comply with<br>FFL policy.||||assessments<br>have been carried out;<br>especially<br>in relation to office<br>working<br>and activity venues.||
|||||P1.Ensure that staff,|Manager|||||
|||||volunteers<br>and trustees||||||
|||||are adequately<br>trained||||||
|||||and have up-to-date||||||
|||||guidance<br>relating to||||||
|||||safeguarding.||||||
|||||P1.Maintain<br>relevant||||||
|||||professional<br>links and||||||
|||||networks<br>to ensure that||||||
|||||FFLstays up-to-date||||||
|||||with national<br>and local||||||
|||||safeguarding<br>policy.||||||





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|||STRATEGI|C DIRECTION S<br>2020 - 2021|C DIRECTION S<br>2020 - 2021|TATEMENT|TATEMENT||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|BUSINESS|OBJECTIVE|FOCUS|RESPONSIBILITY||SUCCESS||ACHIEVEMENTS BY|
|AREA||&PRIORITY|||FACTORS||ear endin<br>31/03/2021|
|RISK<br>MANAGEMENT|Ensure that a process<br>is in place to identify<br>monitor and manage|P1.Draw up a risk<br>register and consult<br>with staff and trustees|Manager||FFLcan identify<br>which risks pose the<br>biggest threat and||The risk register is a working<br>document<br>and is reviewed<br>regularly.|
||potential<br>risks in order|on content,|All staff &trustees||there are guidelines|||
||to minimize<br>the||||for handling|them.||
||negative<br>impact they|P1.Ensure that the risk||||||
||may have on FFL.|register isa working||||||
|||document.||||||
|COVID-19|Ensure that the|P1.Involve staff and|Manager,|trustees|||The COVID return-to-work<br>risk|
|RESPONSE|charity's response|trustees<br>in the return to|and staff||||assessment<br>is reviewed<br>regularly|
||complies with all|work risk assessment.|||||with the trustees and staff team.|
||Government<br>guidance|Ensure that it is||||||
||and that the safety of|incorporated<br>into all|||||Virtual delivery has continued<br>in|
||young people,|working<br>practices.|||||order to maintain<br>COVID-safety.|
||volunteers<br>and staff is|||||||
||considered.|P1.Adapt working||||||
|||practices<br>in areas|Manager and staff||||As we have resumed face-to-face|
|||where face-to-face|||||sessions, COVID-safety risk|
|||delivery<br>is no longer|||||assessments<br>have been carried out,|
|||possible/practicable.|||||especially<br>in relation to venues.|
|||P1.Research<br>all|||||Trustees were tasked with|
||Ensure that funds are|potential<br>funding|Fundraising||||researching<br>funding<br>opportunities,|
||secured to enable|sources.|coordinator|and|||including<br>corporate sponsorship.|
||continuity<br>ofservice-||trustees.|||||
||in whatever<br>format is||||||Claire applied for funds to cover|
||appropriate.||||||salaries and core costs. This|
||||||||protected unrestricted<br>reserves.|
||||||||Staff meetings<br>and trustee meetings|
||||||||continue to be held via Zoom.|



