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|Frankie Goodwin|P/T Project Worker —to 1/10/21|||
|Hannah<br>Guthrie|F/T Activity Coordinator|||
|Lizzie Fry|F/T Volunteer<br>Coordinator|||
|Claire Addis|P/T Fundraising<br>& Marketing|Coordinator||
|Sue Bowden|Activity Leader —to 31/08/21|||
|Jo Stokes|Activity Leader|||
|Maria Potter|Activity Leader|||
|Lesley Ingham|Activity Leader|||
|Tess Hulme|Activity Leader|||
|Cathy Florentine|Activity Leader|||
|Pam Carey|Volunteer Treasurer —to 23/1|1/21||
|Claire Hodkinson|Volunteer<br>Office Assistant —to 31/08/21|||
|Barry Wilson|Volunteer<br>Office Assistant|||
|Chris Jones|Volunteer<br>Office Assistant|||
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|Mr<br>I Bradle||Knutsford<br>10K|
|Bramhall<br>Runners||Macclesfield<br>Colle e|
|Mrs KCubic||Mr Mrs P Machin|
|Mr M Dwire||Mr D Pickerin|
|Mrs D Franklin||S rin<br>eld School|
|Mrs J Hodkinson||Miss BStockdale|
|In memo<br>ofAnd|Hulme|Mr P Walker|
|Miss A Holland||Watermill<br>School|
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||J|Wilde - resigned|24 November||2021||
||D|Powell - resigned|24|November||2021|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
||||Notes|f|f|||||
|Incoming resources||||||||||
|Donations|||||9,258|9,258||10,047|10,047|
|Fundraising|||||4,132|4,132||2,979|2,979|
|Provision ofservice||||79,716||79,716|123,898||123,898|
|Commissioned<br>Income||||54,101||54,101|28,673||28,673|
|Other grants and|income|||128|7,032|7,160|3,612|5,074|8,686|
|Activity-related<br>income (Subs. etc)|||||1,951|1,951||955|955|
|Interest|||||23|23||33|33|
|Earned income|||||250|250||||
|Gift aid|||||2,377|2,377||1,236|1,236|
|Total incoming|resources|||133,945|25,023|158,968|156,183|20,324|176,507|
|Resources expended||||||||||
|Salaries||||91,223|24,080|115,303|102,530|12,854|115,384|
|Employer<br>National|Insurance|||1,766|3,085|4,851|3,564|5,255|8,819|
|Employer pension|contributions||8|340|1,646|1,986|1,014|1,107|2,121|
|Travel and Subsistance||(staff)||1,026|7|1,033|299|13|312|
|Vol expenditure||||940|672|1,612|884||884|
|Governance|||||||18||18|
|Training||||20||20|744|120|864|
|Recruitment||||176||176||||
|Activities||||11,552|552|12,104|2,855||2,855|
|Emergency<br>Activities (COVID)|||||||2,585||2,585|
|Stationery||||131||131|174||174|
|Postage||||1,127||1,127|388||393|
|Telecommunication||||2,005||2,005|1,980||1,980|
|Rent 8 utilities||||8,022||8,022|7,761||7,761|
|Insurance||||1,752||1,752|1,641||1,641|
|Admin.||||2,205|458|2,663|1,849||1,849|
|Publicity and Promotion||||1,392|20|1,412|389||389|
|Equipment|||||||1,192|52|1,244|
|Other expenditure||||||||15|15|
|Parent/Carer<br>information||sessions||51||51|622||622|
|Total resources|expended|||123,728|30,520|154,248|130,489|19,421|149,910|
|Fundraising<br>costs|||9|10242|2,310|12,552|10,482|2,674|13,156|
|Capital expenditure|||10|75|75|150|1,050||1,050|
|Total Costs||||134,045|32,905|166,950|142,021|22,095|164,116|
|Net movement<br>in funds||||(100)|(7,882)|(7,982)|14,162|(1,771)|12,391|
|Total funds brought|forward|||46,432|90,572|137.004|32,270|92,343|124,613|
|Total funds carried forward||||46,332|82,690|129,022|46,432|90,572|137,004|





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|Donations<br>and le|Donations<br>and le|gacie|s received<br>during<br>th|e year include those from the following:|e year include those from the following:|e year include those from the following:||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Astbury<br>Golf Club||||Miss J Kelly||||
|Mr<br>I Bradley||||Macclesfield||College students||
|Bramhall<br>Runners||||Mr Mrs P|Machin|||
|Mrs K Cubley||||Springfield||School pupils||
|Mr M Dwire||||Mr PM Walker||||
|Miss A Holland||||Watermill|School|||
|In memory ofthe||late Andy Hulme||Mr PBWilson||||
|FUNDRAISING||||||2022|2021|
|Includes the following|||events:|||||
|Captain<br>Tom 100Challenge||||||340||
|Carol Singing||||||432||
|Congleton<br>Rotary||Swimathon||||||
|Debbie Douglas|Sky Dive|||||169||
|Raffles||||||115||
|Sales ofdonated||items||||158|166|
|Waitrose||||||400|667|
|Knutsford<br>10K||||||250||
|Money Boxes||||||235||
|Congleton<br>Santa|Float|||||491||
|Virtual<br>London Marathon||||||1,462||
|2.6Challenge|||||||1,797|
|Others||||||80|81|
|||||||4,132|2,979|
|Less fundraising|costs|||||(12,552)|(13,156)|
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|6|PROVISION OF SERVICE|PROVISION OF SERVICE||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||E|
||Includes the following:-|||||||
||Albert Hunt Trust|||||Z,000|2,000|
||Baily Thomas Charitable<br>Trust|||||3,000||
||BBCChildren<br>in Need|||||19,288|18,324|
||BBCChildren<br>in Need Next Steps|||||7,540|5,261|
||C4C|||||900|300|
||CAF Emergency<br>Fund||||||995|
||Card Factory Foundation|||||1,000||
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundagon||COVID Grant||||6,048|
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation||Mein Grants||||7,538|
||Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation||Pandemic|Recovery Grant||1,870||
||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 Freemasons|||||6,000||
||Congleton<br>InrJosure Trust|||||1,500||
||Congleton<br>Town Council||||||264|
||Congleton<br>Town Trust||||||1,000|
||Co-op Community<br>Fund||||||2,585|
||Crews Town Council|||||1,521||
||Edward Gostsng<br>Foundation|||||3,000||
||Garlfeld Weston Foundation||||||20,000|
||Georgia Leigh Ogden Foundation|||||3,000||
||Macdesfield<br>Town Council|||||1,380||
||Momsons<br>Foundation||||||600|
||National<br>Lottery Awards 4 All||||||7,250|
||National<br>Loltery Cornrnuntiy<br>Fund|||||9,300|4,875|
||NCompass<br>Carers' Choice Grant|||||1,640||
||Ncompass Take a Break Grant|||||3,653||
||Rotary Club ofWilmskiw<br>Dean||||||295|
||Sir Jukrs Thorn Charitable<br>Trust|||||||
||Sobeg Foundation||||||5,000|
||StJames's Place Foundation||||||2,500|
||Steve Morgan<br>Foundation||||||5,527|
||Steve Morgan<br>Foundation<br>COVID||Emergency|Fund|||7,436|
||SMF/DCMS Community<br>Match Challenge|||||8,624|17,247|
||Tesco Community<br>Fund|||||1,500|1,166|
||The Russell Trust||||||2,000|
||William Dean Trust||||||600|
||WIHlams<br>Family Foundation|||||1,500||
|||||||79.716|123,898|
|6|COMMISSIONED<br>INCOME|||||2022|2021|
|||||||E|E|
||Cheshire<br>East Council - Short|Breaks for Disabkrd|||Children|54,101|28,673|
|||||||54,101|28,673|
|7|OTHER GRANTS AND OTHER INCOME|||||2022|2021|
|||||||E|E|
||Arnold<br>Clarke Community|Fund||||1.000||
||Congleton<br>Young People's Trust<br>Ecclesiastical<br>Charities<br>Trust|||||, 200|1,000|
||Equilibrium<br>Charitable<br>Foundation|||||5,000||
||HMRC Job Retention<br>Grant|||||128|3,612|
||Lee Bakirgian<br>Family Trust|||||300|300|
||Leeds Building Society||||||1,000|
||Marketing<br>8 Publicity|||||32|324|
||Martyn<br>Bracegirdle<br>Charitable||Foundation||||500|
||Pennycress<br>Trust||||||300|
||SirJules Thorn Charitable|Trust|||||1,250|
||Warburtons<br>COVID Grant||||||400|
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|9|Fundraising|Cost|||2022f|2021<br>f|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Marketing<br>and fundraising|||coordinator|12,444|12,628|
||Fundraising|Expenses|||108|528|
||||||12,552|13,156|
|10|Capital Expenditure||||2022|2021f|
||Website Development||||150|1,050|
||||||150|1,050|
|11|Debtors||||2022f|2021f|
||Prepayments|and accrued||income|10|385|
|12|Creditors||||2022f|2021f|
||Pension<br>Fund||||473||
||Accruals and|deferred|income||4,455||
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|||||Incoming|Outgoing||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|13 Movements<br>of Major Funds|||At 01/04/21|resourcesf|resourcesf|At 31/03/22f|
|Albert Hunt Trust|||860|2,000|(860)|2,000|
|BBCChildren<br>in Need|||2,016|19,288|(19,353)|1,951|
|BBCChildren<br>in Need Next Steps|||216|7,540|(7,684)|72|
|Baily Thomas Charitable<br>Trust||||3,000|(668)|2,332|
|British Science Association|||82||(82)||
|C4C|||166|900|(166)|900|
|CAF Emergency<br>Fund|||||||
|Card Factory Foundation||||1,000|(878)|122|
|Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation|COVID Grant||||||
|Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation|itit Will Fund||233||(233)||
|Cheshire<br>Communty<br>Foundation|Main Grants||3,581||(3,581)||
|Cheshire<br>Community<br>Foundation|Pandemic|Recovery Grant||1,870|(1,870)||
|CCF/DCMS Community<br>Match Challenge|||||||
|CEC COVID Response<br>&Recovery Grant|||||(211)|623|
|Cheshire East Council<br>Early Help|Grant||||||
|Cheshire East Council<br>New Homes Bonus|||||||
|Cheshire Freemasons||||6,000|(562)|5,438|
|Cheshire Police Safer Communities<br>Fund|||224||(224)||
|Commissioned<br>Cheshire East|||8,897|54,101|(48,479)|14,519|
|Congleton<br>Inclosure Trust||||1,500|(363)|1,137|
|Congleton<br>Town Trust|||500||(500)||
|COOP Coinmunity<br>Fund|||4,715||(4,485)|230|
|Crews Town Council|||769|1,521|(669)|1,621|
|Edward Gostling<br>Foundation||||3,000|(828)|2,172|
|Garlield Weston Fourdation|||10,577||(10,577)||
|Georgia Leigh Ogden Foundation||||3,000|(1,268)|1,732|
|HMRC Job Retention<br>Grant||||128|(128)||
|Macclesfield<br>Town Ccuncil||||1,380|(250)|1,130|
|Morrisons<br>Foundation|||116||(116)||
|MOTO in Coirtmunity<br>Trust|||674||(674)||
|National<br>Lottery Awards 4 All|||1,357||(1,357)||
|National<br>Lottery Community<br>Fund|||394|9,300|(7,144)|2,550|
|NCompass<br>Carers' Choice Grant||||1,640|(599)|1,041|
|Ncompass Take a Break Grant||||3,653|(1,247)|2,406|
|Rotary Club ofWilmslow<br>Dean<br>SirJules Thorn Charitable<br>Trust|||295|1,500|(295)|1,500|
|Sobell Foundation<br>Steve Morgan<br>Foundation|||3,894<br>1,745||(3,894)<br>(1,745)||
|SMF/DCMS Community<br>Match Chailenge<br>Tesco Community<br>Fund<br>The Russell Trust|||1,006<br>2,408|8,624<br>1,500|(8,200)<br>(1.736)<br>(2,408)|424<br>770|
|True Colours Trust|||273||(273)||
|William Dean Trust|||600||(426)|174|
|Williams<br>Family Foundation||||1,500|(12)|1,488|
|Total restricted<br>funds|||46,432|133,945|(134,045)|46,332|
|Unrestricted|||90,572|25.023|32,905)|82,690|
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|General|funds show a surplus||82,690|90,572|
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|BUSINESS||OBJECTIVE|||FOCUS||RESPONSIBILITY||SUCCESS|||ACHIEVEMENTS BY|
|AREA|||||&PRIORITY||||FACTORS|||ear endin<br>31/03/2022|
|SERVICE||Ensure that|service||P1.Maintain<br>equitable||||Equitable|and||All delivery<br>virtual<br>until May 2021;|
|PROVISION||provision<br>is <br>regularly.|reviewed||spread ofservice<br>provision across the||Trustees<br>manager|&|appropriate<br>offer to all|service<br> registered||then outdoor activities only. Backto<br>face-to-face for the summer<br>holiday|
||||||borough,<br>responding|to|||young people.|||programme<br>and continuing.|
||||||identified<br>local need.||||||||
|||||||||||||We extended<br>our PALS programme|
|||||||||||||to the Crewe area and delivered some|
|||||||||||||parent/carer<br>information<br>sessions.|
|PARTNERSHIP||Continue<br>to|build|and|P2. Identify relevant||||FFLworking||with|There have been fewer opportunities|
|WORKING||develop alliances||with|opportunities<br>for||All staff|and|other relevant|||to promote the charity because of|
|||relevant<br>organisations|||collaborative<br>working;||trustees||agencies from all|||post-COVID restrictions.|
|||across the borough.|||including<br>VCFS||||sectors.||||
||||||organisations<br>and|||||||We have continued to maintain<br>a|
||||||leisure providers.|||||||relationship<br>with Franklyn<br>Financial|
|||||||||||||Management.|
|||Build relationships<br>with the business<br>community|||P2.Promote FFL<br>within the business<br>community<br>in order <br>~<br>secure funding|to:||||||Thrive Creative and Prism have<br>continued to offer their services free<br>ofcharge.|
||||||~<br>recruit apprentice<br>volunteers<br>~<br>connect skills and<br>ex ertise|||||||Venues within the community<br>have<br>been used to provide opportunities<br>for young people.|
|RESOURCES||Ensure that physical<br>and human<br>resources<br>are in place.|||P1.Continuous<br>review<br>ofoffice equipment<br>and<br>other physical<br>resources to enable||Manager <br>trustees|and|FFLservice <br>sustainable<br>professional.||is<br>and|The fundraiser<br>worked remotely from<br>Spain from September 2021 to March<br>2022, then from various parts ofthe|
||||||staff team to carry out|||||||UK.|
|||Ensure that|numbers||their duties.||||||||
|||and skills ofstaff||are||||||||Sue Bowden retired in August 2021|
|||maximised<br>the service.|to provide||P1.Maintain<br>the<br>correct balance of skills|||||||and Frankie Goodwin<br>left in October<br>2021.|
||||||within the team to||||||||
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|BUSINESS||OBJECTIVE||||FOCUS|||RESPONSIBILITY||SUCCESS|||ACHIEVEMENTS BY||
|AREA||||||&PRIORITY|||||FACTORS|||ear endin<br>31/03/2022||
|FINANCES &|Ensure that adequate|||||P1.Undertake<br>rigorous|||||Secure financial|||Funders<br>included<br>SirJules Thorn||
|FUNDING|and|sustainable||funds||research offunders'|||Trustees,|manager|future ofthe charity.|||Foundation,<br>Albert Hunt Trust, Card||
||are|in place, in||terms||individual<br>priorities|and||and fundraising|||||Factory Foundation,<br>Cheshire East||
||of:|||||changing<br>conditions||to|coordinator||Medium-|and||Council, Congleton<br>Town Council,||
|||||||inform future|||||longer-term||funding|Georgia Leigh Ogden Foundation,||
||~|current funding||||applications.|||||plans are||in place.|Steve Morgan Foundation,<br>BBC||
|||meeting<br>immediate||needs||P1.Improve||||||||Children<br>in Need, National<br>Lottery<br>N-Compass<br>and Williams<br>family||
||~|being fully||aware||knowledge<br>of national||||||||Foundation.||
|||offunders'||||and local information||to||||||||
|||requirements<br>conditions|||and|prepare for<br>applications.||||||||Finance and funding<br>information<br>seen regularly<br>by the trustees.|is|
|||||||||||||||Funding<br>reports have been||
|||||||||||||||submitted.||
|||||||||||||||We have been commissioned<br>by||
|||||||||||||||Cheshire East Council to deliver||
|||||||||||||||Short Breaks from 1/6/21 for 3 ears.||
|OUTCOMES|Ensure that YPare|||||P1.Define baselines,|||All staff.||YP and families|||||
||given positive|||social||outputs and outcomes|||||report improved|||All activities have been planned to||
||opportunities||for fun||||||||outcomes.|||ensure positive experiences for all||
||and|friendship.||||P1.Review and refresh<br>evaluation<br>systems to|||Involve parents,||Staff fully||aware of|participants.||
||Support families to|||||demonstrate<br>impact||for|children and other||evaluation||process.|Funding<br>reports have been well||
||help their children<br>achieve their potential.|||||YP, volunteers<br>and<br>families.|||relevant agencies.||Funders<br>satisfied<br>with evidence|||received because ofthe evidence<br>provided.||
|||||||Ensure that outcomes|||||provided.|||||
|||||||reflect:||||||||||
|||||||~<br>Ethos ofFFL||||||||||
|||||||~<br>Requirements|of|||||||||
|||||||fund ers||||||||||
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|BUSINESS|OBJECTIVE|||FOCUS||RESPONSIBILITY|||SUCCESS||ACHIEVEMENTS BY|||
|AREA||||8 PRIORITY|||||FACTORS||ear endin|31/03/2022||
|PARTICIPATION|Ensure that|children|&|P1.Ensure that:|||||YP and families are|||||
|OF SERVICE|YP participate<br>in the|||~<br>Parents/carers|are||||participating<br>in the|Young people and families have been||||
|USERS|strategic and|||represented<br>on|the|Chair oftrustees|||strategic planning|asked to|give feedback throughout|||
||operational|planning,||board oftrustees|||||and implementation|the year.||||
||development<br>and<br>monitoring<br>ofservices|||~<br>Families are kept<br>informed<br>of||All staff and|||of FFL's services.|Families|have been|advised of||
|||||changes<br>within|the|trustees||||staffing changes.||||
|||||organisation||||||||||
|||||~<br>Designated<br>trustee||||||||||
|||||works with staff||Designated||trustee||||||
|||||team to identify||||||||||
|||||good practice||||||||||
|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|Our Other Services||leaflet has been||
||accessible|and||FFL is up to date.|||||information<br>and|updated|to reflect new commissioned|||
||appropriate.||||||||guidance.|services,|etc.|||
|||||P2. Review the means||||||||||
||Signpost/refer<br>families|||by which families are||Manager and||||Updates|have been|made to the||
||to other appropriate|||kept informed.||marketing|co-ord.|||website.||||
||services.|||||||||||||
|AWARENESS|Develop training|||P1.Establish<br>links with||Manager,|Activity||Using education to:|||||
||services to|improve||schools and colleges to||co-ordinator||8|promote<br>integration;|We have|been unable to go into|||
||awareness|ofdisability||promote the sale of||designated|||challenge<br>physical|schools|because ofongoing||COVID|
||issues and|promote||training services.||trustee.|||and attitudinal|restrictions.||||
||inclusion.||||||||barriers to inclusion;|||||
|||||P2. Support leisure|||||and celebrate|||||
|||||and play providers|to||||diversity.|||||
|||||promote<br>integration||||||||||
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|||||<br>2021 - 2022|<br>2021 - 2022|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|BUSINESS|OBJECTIVE||FOCUS|RESPONSIBILITY||SUCCESS|ACHIEVEMENTS BY|
|AREA|||8a PRIORITY|||FACTORS|ear endin<br>31/03/2022|
|TRAINING|Ensure that staff,||P2. All staff to identify|||AII staff, volunteers||
||volunteers<br>and||relevant<br>training needs.|Manager|&staff|and trustees are|Safeguarding<br>training<br>has been|
||trustees are|trained||||competent<br>and|provided for volunteers<br>via the|
||appropriately.||P2.Trustees to access|||confident<br>in their|Cheshire East on-line Learning|
||||relevant<br>training<br>and|Trustees||roles.|Lounge.|
||||development|||||
||||opportunities||||All staff received online Epilepsy|
||||||||training. This was provided<br>by an|
||||P2.Volunteer<br>training||||NHS Epilepsy specialist nurse.|
||||programme<br>is|Volunteer|co-ord.|||
||||maintained.|||||
|VOLUNTEERS|Ensure that volunteers||P1.Demonstrate<br>the|||Volunteers<br>are||
||are recruited,|trained,|impact ofvolunteering|Manager|and|retained<br>and valued|25 new volunteers<br>were recruited.|
||mentored,<br>supported||on:|Volunteer|Co-ord.|Evaluation<br>will|This was up on the previous<br>year, but|
||and valued.||~<br>Volunteers|||inform future funding|schools were reluctant to have|
||||~<br>FFL|||bids and|visitors.|
|||||||demonstrate||
|||||||positive outcomes to|Two new office volunteers<br>were|
|||||||funders.|recruited to help with the database.|
|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 <br>social media.|use of|develop a<br>marketing/PR<br>strategy<br>to promote the charity||||There were few face-to-face<br>opportunities<br>to promote the charity<br>because ofpost-COVID restrictions.|
||||P1.AII staff toseek out||||Paul and Gillian represented<br>FFLat|
||||and attend<br>relevant||||Chamber ofCommerce events.|
||||networking/PR|||||
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|||STRATEGI|C DIRECTION S<br>2021 - 2022|TATEMENT|TATEMENT|TATEMENT||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|BUSINESS|OBJECTIVE|FOCUS|RESPONSIBILITY|SUCCESS|||ACHIEVEINENTS<br>BY|
|AREA||&PRIORITY||FACTORS|||ear endin<br>31/03/2022|
|SAFEGUARDING|Ensure that culture,<br>policies, procedures<br>and practice have a<br>clear focus on|P1.Regular reviews of<br>activities,<br>risk<br>assessments,<br>policy<br>and procedures.|All staff &trustees|Parents/carers<br>are<br>confident<br>in FFL's<br>ability to keep their<br>child safe.|||All activity risk assessments<br>were<br>reviewed as COVID guidance<br>changed.|
||effective safeguarding.|P1.Ensure that|||||Regular venues have provided|
|||providers<br>comply with|||||insurance<br>documents.|
|||FFL policy.|||||Safeguarding<br>training<br>has been|
|||P1.Ensure that staff,<br>volunteers<br>and trustees|Manager||||undertaken<br>by 27 volunteers.<br>This<br>course isto be mandatory<br>in future.|
|||are adequately<br>trained||||||
|||and have up-to-date||||||
|||guidance<br>relating to||||||
|||safeguarding.||||||
|||P1.Maintain<br>relevant||||||
|||professional<br>links and||||||
|||networks to ensure that||||||
|||FFL stays up to date||||||
|||with national<br>and local||||||
|||safeguarding<br>policy.||||||
|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<br>to minimize<br>the<br>negative<br>impact they<br>may have on FFL.|on content.<br>P1.Ensure that the risk<br>register is a working<br>document.|All staff &trustees|there are guidelines<br>for handling<br>them.|||Changing<br>COVID guidance was<br>incorporated<br>into the risk register.<br>The impact ofstaffing changes was<br>discussed<br>regularly<br>by staff and|
||||||||trustees. Changes to service delivery|
||||||||were approved<br>by the contract|
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|BUSINESS|OBJECTIVE||FOCUS|RESPONSIBILITY||SUCCESS||ACHIEVEMENTS BY||||
|AREA|||8 PRIORITY|||FACTORS||ear endin||31/03/2022||
|COVID-19|Ensure that|the|P1.Involve staff and|Manager, trustees||||||||
|RESPONSE|charity's response||trustees<br>in the return-|and staff||||||||
||complies<br>with all||to-work risk||||Trustee|meetings|continued to||be|
||Government|guidance|assessment.<br>Ensure||||held via|Zoom.||||
||and that the safety of||that it is incorporated|||||||||
||young people,||into all working||||All activities were||delivered<br>virtually|||
||volunteers|and staff is|practices.||||until May 2021.|||||
||considered.|||||||||||
||||P1.Adapt working|Manager and staff|||All relevant staff were consulted||||on|
||||practices<br>in areas||||the safe|resumption||ofworking|in the|
||||where face-to-face||||office.|||||
||||delivery<br>is no longer|||||||||
||||possible/practicable.||||Staff have adopted|||a hybrid approach||
||||||||to home|and office-based working.||||
||Ensure that|funds are|P1.Research<br>all|Fundraising||||||||
||secured to|enable|potential<br>funding|coordinator|and||We received some|||COVID recovery||
||continuity<br>ofservice-||sources.|trustees.|||funding.|||||
||in whatever|format is||||||||||
||appropriate.|||||||||||



