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Company registration number: 03555482 Charity registration number: 1070896 Charity registration number: SC052556

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

(A company limited by guarantee) Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

KM Chartered Accountants 1st Floor, Block C The Wharf Manchester Road Burnley Lancashire BB11 1JG

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Contents

Reference and Administrative Details 1 to 2
Trustees Report 3 to 16
Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities 17
Independent Auditors' Report 18 to 21
Statement of Financial Activities 22
Balance Sheet 23
Statement of Cash Flows 24
Notes to the Financial Statements 25 to 33
PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide
Reference and Administrative Details
Trustees Mr A Airey
Mr H J H Biggs-Davison
Mrs A G Bowen
Ms H Denny
Ms S J Fitchett
Mr L H Poultney
Dr A C Rebair
Mrs K J Smith
Mrs P Torrance
Secretary Mr G Flynn
Senior Management / Leadership Mr G Flynn, CEO
Team Miss L Kerrigan, Head of People and Culture
Charity Registration Number 1070896
Scotland Charity Registration SC052556
Number
Company Registration Number 03555482
Registered Office 2 Bankside
Crosfield Street
Warrington
WA1 1UP
Auditor KM
Chartered Accountants
1st Floor, Block C
The Wharf
Manchester Road
Burnley
Lancashire
BB11 1JG

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Reference and Administrative Details

Bankers

CAF Bank 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ HSBC 107 Blackburn Road Accrington Lancashire BB5 1JP Nationwide Building Society 22 Sankey Street Warrington Cheshire WA1 1TD Virgin Money 1st Floor 40 St. Vincent Place Glasgow G1 2HL

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The trustees, who are directors for the purposes of company law, present the annual report together with the financial statements and auditors' report of the charitable company for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Trustees

Mr A Airey Mr H J H Biggs-Davison Mrs A G Bowen Ms H Denny Ms S J Fitchett Mr L H Poultney (appointed 13/06/2024) Dr A C Rebair Mrs K J Smith (appointed 13/06/2024) Mrs P Torrance

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objects

The objects of the charity as set out in the Articles of Association are:

To advance the education of the public into the causes and effects of suicide, especially, but not exclusively, concerning young people.

To contribute to the prevention of suicide by young people, and where possible, to offer assistance to them, their families and/or their carers.

Aims and activities

Campaigning for effective and accessible services for young people.

To promote public awareness of the importance of emotional well-being and positive mental health.

Co-operating with professional and voluntary bodies working in the suicide prevention field.

Encouraging the promotion of emotional well-being and positive mental health at all levels of education.

Promoting awareness of the risk of mental or emotional distress during adolescence and throughout life, and helping to remove the stigma of such occurrences.

Encouraging and disseminating examples of good practice in suicide prevention.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

PAPYRUS had a good year in 2024-25. Our planned growth to reach the parts of the UK that hitherto we had often been unable to, our long-standing aim to have a 24/7 helpline and our desire to grow our volunteering offer were our three key goals for this and the previous year. The first and second of these three were achieved. The last one, volunteering, remains a challenge and we mean to continue to hold this out as a goal for the coming years.

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Strategic Direction

Our overall strategy was set out under three headings at a time when the suicide prevention ‘sector’ becomes ever busier and competition creeps in for ever-decreasing pots of funding and depleting budgets:

o Be sustainable

o Be innovative

o Be a leader

We also set a high bar in defining our preferred culture:

o Belong and Connect

o Make mindful decisions

o Strive for Excellence

During this year, PAPYRUS had 124 colleagues on payroll and engaged with hundreds of volunteers who work collaboratively across the UK to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives. We continued to achieve this by shattering the stigma surrounding suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to emotional distress.

Volunteering

During the year, we appointed a new Volunteering Manager to support our volunteer coordinators accross the UK. Together, the team wants to engage with more volunteers to aid our life-savings work. We are indebted to those who gave their time, skills, ideas, support and lived experience during the year 2024-25. We are looking forward to growing our offer and engaging more people who can help young people relate better to PAPYRUS in their own communities and help us to learn how to develop and shape our suicide prevention efforts to meet their needs.

HOPELINE247

HOPELINK safety plans were viewed a total of 10,570 times during this period. It is powerful to know we are not just creating these plans alongside our young people, but they are using them independently to keep themselves safe from suicide.

Language Line - we had 300 Language Line calls during this period – the most requested language by far was Arabic (66 calls).

ORCHA – we saw an increased use of our app library during this period as our contacts explore different support options to manage their wellbeing. Over the year there were 9,847 visits to our app library website. 1,385 apps were downloaded from the library to help support our contacts with a range of different factors including anxiety, depression, self-harm, neurodiversity, and sleep.

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The Student Room - In September 2024 we were asked by The Student Room to provide 8 weeks of support on their online discussion forum as students navigated receiving results for their exams. Our suicide prevention advisers visited the forum each day to provide support to anyone disclosing thoughts of suicide. After the success of the eight-week project we now have a full-time presence on the forum offering support every day to students struggling with thoughts of suicide.

Our night team on HOPELINE247 grew which led to the introduction of webchat during the night service meaning we were able to support beneficiaries across all platforms 24/7 and a contributing factor to the increase in webchat stats.

We launched our partnership with Sheffield CAMHS in August 2024 enabling us to reach more young people with out of hours support.

Feedback from April 24 – March 25:

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People and Culture

We have continued to deliver against our progressive People and Culture Strategy focused on enabling and equipping all colleagues to be empowered to deliver their roles.

Organisational design and change management

There have been significant changes in the funding landscape across the voluntary sector. These impacted directly on our charity this year. We undertook a change management process which resulted in changes to the focus and expectations of roles and the removal of some roles across the charity. We have worked to create a sustainable business model and an organisational structure and new ways of working which underpin and enable this.

Employee wellbeing and support

We have an excellent employee wellbeing provision and support all colleagues in their roles through effective one to one meetings, debrief sessions and reflective practice along with Clinical Supervision and the Simply Health Scheme which provides access to an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling sessions, wellbeing guidance and financial support with medical costs. We have enhanced this with the introduction of wellbeing action plans designed to help employees to manage their mental health, physical health and wellbeing at work, and to set out how the charity and their manager can support them. We have also partnered with Money First Aid and have a certified Money First Aider in the charity who can assist colleagues in overcoming financial difficulties and help to create a supportive and understanding work environment.

Policies and working arrangements

We want to be an Employer of Choice and to attract and retain employees who support us to successfully achieve our mission. We operate an effective hybrid working policy across the charity and offer flexible working opportunities. In April 2024 we enhanced our family friendly policies increasing our maternity and paternity pay and leave arrangements to support our employees. We have also introduced a Carers Policy and Menopause Policy in line with good employment practice.

Leadership and Management Development

We have delivered a Leadership and Development Management Programme focused on equipping leaders and managers with the capability and confidence to manage their teams and business areas. We have introduced coaching into our people management practices as part of developing our workplace culture. We will continue to focus on the development of our leadership team to aid growth, innovation and overall organisational success.

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Employee Engagement and Employee Voice

We held two employee events focused on creating connection and belonging. These events were successful and provided all colleagues with the opportunity to engage with others and our future strategy. As part of these events, we consulted with all employees to identify our internal values which underpin who we are, how we work and how we behave. We have completed our annual Employee Engagement Survey and are taking steps to address any areas for improvement.

Performance Management

We continued to embed a new Performance Development Review Process across the charity. All employees were provided with a toolkit to support them with this process. This process is key to providing clarity of expectations to all employees ensuring these are aligned directly with our strategy.

Learning and Development

We have continued to invest in the ongoing development of our teams through tailored mandatory and job specific training. We are continuing to develop our manager and colleague toolkits providing resources including podcasts, reading materials, tools, and techniques to support individual and team development alongside more formal learning and development opportunities. We will continue to do this in the year ahead.

Safeguarding

We recognise the inextricable link between suicide and safeguarding. As a charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide, suicide prevention will always be our primary focus. However, we recognise that those affected by suicide or those who have been thinking about ending their life may have suffered or be suffering from abuse. We are committed to ensuring we take the appropriate steps to safeguard all those who come into contact with us. We will work with young people to empower them to seek the necessary support, ensure their immediate safety, and we will share information with statutory services when we believe someone is suffering, or has suffered, significant harm. When sharing information, we will always seek to inform the person who is at the centre of the safeguarding concern.

We have continued to review and enhance our practices and tailored training packages for all staff and volunteers to enable this. We use the MyConcern software package to capture all safeguarding concerns across the charity and use the anonymised data from this system to review our practices and inform our services, products, and interventions.

Health and Safety and Facilities

Working with our Health and Safety Competent Person (Risk Support Services Ltd) we have reviewed our Health and Safety policies and practices across all sites. In the last 3 months we have moved our Community Services team to home working, and we have ended the leases on a number of office spaces across the UK refocusing our resources on delivery. We have implemented new policies, health and safety arrangements and risk assessments to ensure that safe working practices are in place for these new working arrangements. We have implemented new risk assessment processes for all our activities ensuring that the safety of those we work with, and employ is paramount in our decision-making processes and delivery.

Includability Committed Employer and Equality Diversity and Inclusion

We are an Includability Committed Employer. Committed Employer Status is a standard of workplace certification, designed for businesses to demonstrate real commitment to inclusion, sustainability, wellbeing and ethical leadership which is awarded following an external verification process.

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In October 2024 we were nominated for four awards following our successful achievement of Includability Committed Employer status

We were nominated for:

We won the ED&I Award and the verification partner stated that we gave an excellent insight into our work across all six of the key areas, in particular advocacy at the leadership level and the inclusion of ED&I into day-to-day activities. ED&I is incorporated into our business strategy along with the values and culture ensuring it is at the heart of everything that the organisation delivers. We have an ED&I working group in place supporting the development and delivery of our ED&I action plan.

We continue to work hard together, learning and improving.

These nominations reflect the excellent work we already do and have done and our unwavering commitment to building a better, more inclusive future at PAPYRUS.

Preventing Young Suicide in Communities

Across the UK, we achieved a great deal. What follows is a snapshot of our activities which come together to achieve our vision of few young suicides.

Scotland

England South

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England Central

Northern Ireland

Across Northern Ireland, we have:

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These is a selection of quotes given by HL247 contacts from Northern Ireland:

England North

• Delivered 21 ASISTS / 97 SPARKS / 48 SPOTs /114 SPEAKs

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Grants and Commissioned Income

Individual Giving

We saw a 14% increase in regular givers, reaching 732 monthly supporters in 2024/25. This growth strengthens our foundation of sustainable and predictable income.

Successful emergency appeal launched

For the first time PAPYRUS Launched an Emergency Appeal at the end of January to respond to rising costs and demand for our services. By end of March 2025, we had received 2,758 donations, raising £123,654.

Big Give Christmas Challenge success

During the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2024, we achieved our target in less than 12 hours. In total, we raised £89,568.

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Legacies

We launched a Free Will Offer partnering with Octopus Legacy and received seven legacies.

Challenge Events

We improved our processes in order to launch the Move Towards Hope 247km Challenge in line with Emergency Appeal – 51 fundraisers and raised £23,816. Our most successful online fundraising campaign via Facebook ads, with very low spend.

Great North Run 2024, biggest event yet raising £49,434 with 54 runners.

Community

A team JustGiving page was set up in memory of 16-year-old Max Turton, friends, family members, and fellow school pupils came together fundraising through various events and have raised £51,182.

HOPEWALK 2024 – raised in total £15,304 and we had the mayor of Warrington attend.

Nathan’s Run is an annual event organised by Gail and Len Wilson in Crosby in loving memory of their son, Nathan. The event raised an incredible £6,753 in 2024.

Corporate Partnerships

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Social Media

We retained and grew our presence on social media across various platforms. This remains a key point of information and communication for many of our stakeholders. It is always important to remember that some people will never contact a helpline or interface directly with a charity but will benefit greatly from its messages online. This makes social media a lifesaver for many.

Print and Broadcast Media

We continue to monitor how young suicide is portrayed by the media and try to educate journalists to write and broadcast in a safe and sensitive way.

From April 2024 through to March 2025, PAPYRUS featured in 15,362 separate media stories. Around 88% of that coverage (13,516 stories) was online with a readership of 10.6 billion. Broadcast media accounted for 12% of our coverage (1,846 stories) with a combined radio and television audience of almost 1.5 billion.

Around 71% of the online coverage was attributed to local and regional outlets, with national coverage making up 15%, international coverage was 8% and trade/industry press accounting for 6%.

We had some fabulous media coverage and the highlights included:

Trustees

The PAPYRUS Board of Trustees met consistently throughout the year, receiving reports from the senior leadership team on progress against our strategy. From January to March 2025, given that finances were depleting, an oversight group of trustees and members of the senior leadership team met very regularly to monitor progress in the process of change which reduced our overheads and staff costs, bringing the charity into a stonger position going forward.

The Trustees are grateful to everybody who makes PAPYRUS the charity that it is; our staff, our volunteers and the myriad supporters across the country. With our funders, they help us to keep children and young adults suicide safer. Many of them offer their time, skills and financial support to PAPYRUS have themselves be touched by a young suicide in their lives.

As we move forward into 2025, we remain hopeful that PAPYRUS can, in many ways, be here for life.

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Public benefit

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide has complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006.

Through our charitable activities PAPYRUS aims to directly benefit young people who are feeling suicidal or give practical advice and support to the friends or families of such a young person. We also benefit young people who may not be in immediate need and those who work with, or otherwise come into contact with, young people.

Though we are not a bereavement support charity, we work closely with people who have been touched by young suicide, both those who have been bereaved and others who support a young person who is struggling with life or who may be at risk of suicide.

The Trustees consider that the work of the charity over successive years has significantly contributed to the prevention of suicide among young people and has given considerable support to those who have been personally affected by a suicide in their families or in their own communities.

Through our work on relevant committees, through government departments, with mental health workers, other charities, educational professionals and the media, we aim to reduce stigma, increase help-seeking behaviour, and improve access to mental health services for young people in the UK and thereby reduce the number of young people who take their own life.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Financial position

The Statement of Financial Activities shows total income of £5.31m (2024: £5.62m), which is a decrease of £0.31m. Whilst this does show a reduction in income, in the last financial year the charity did account for a one-off legacy of £0.75m.

The main way income is generated is through donations, legacies, grants and fundraising activities.

Expenditure of £6.90m includes staff costs of £4.90m (71%), compared with £5.45m in 2024 with staff costs of £3.79m (69%). The increase in costs is largely due to the expansion of the services PAPYRUS provide, including the recruitment of additional staff and the new offices spread across the UK.

Due to the expansion of the charity, this year the financial statements show a deficit of £1.59m (2024: surplus of £0.17m), an outcome the Trustees are aware of and have acted to ensure continued running of the charity moving forward.

Reserves policy

The trustees have agreed a policy on the analysis and use of reserves.

At the financial year end reserves are as follows:

Closedown reserve £940,000 - based on the greater of £0.15m or 25% of budgeted expenditure. General reserve £28,598 - remainder and to include within budgeted spend in the current year.

Restricted fund balances at the year end amounted to £134,962.

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Fundraising

The charity is registered with the Fundraising Regulator and as such is required to report on how we comply with the standards established by the Regulator and advise as follows:

We do not engage professional fund raisers or have commercial participators.

There are no failures to comply with the Fundraising Regulator's standards.

The charity engages with supporters who wish to fundraise for us and follows up their activities.

There have been no complaints about our fundraising activities.

Papyrus by its very nature is sensitive to both the public and our supporters with full compliance with GDPR in the way we communicate with them.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide is a company limited by guarantee governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 29 April 1998 and amended by a number of Special Resolutions since that date, the most recent being 27 November 2020, to allow for current governance arrangements. It is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission.

Appointment of Trustees

As set out in the Articles of Association, the Chair of the Trustees is nominated by the Trustees. All Trustees serve for a period of three years, up to a maximum of nine years.

Organisation

The Board of Trustees/Directors, which can have up to 13 members, administers the charity. The Board meets bi-monthly. The Chief Executive directs and manages the day to day operations of the charity and has delegated authority.

Risk Management

The charity confirms that the major risks to which the charity is exposed, as identified by the Trustees, have been reviewed and that systems have been established to manage those risks. The Trustees have a risk management strategy which comprises:

Finance and strategic resources committee that meets regularly and monitors risk and report to the Board of Trustees as a standing item at each board meeting. An annual review of the risks the charity may face.

The establishment of systems and procedures to mitigate those risks identified.

The implementation of procedures designed to minimise any potential impact on the Charity should those risks materialise.

Comprehensive insurance cover which includes employer's liability, professional indemnity and public liability as well as usual material insurance cover.

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Disclosure of information to auditor

Each trustee has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a trustee in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charity's auditor is aware of that information. The trustees confirm that there is no relevant information that they know of and of which they know the auditor is unaware.

The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on 15 December 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

......................................... Mr H J H Biggs-Davison Trustee

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Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities

The trustees (who are also the directors of PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including FRS 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland".

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that can disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Approved by the trustees of the charity on 15 December 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

......................................... Mr H J H Biggs-Davison Trustee

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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide (the 'charity') for the year ended 31 March 2025, which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising Charities SORP - FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and applicable law (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinion on other matter prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the charity and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Trustees Report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities (set out on page 17), the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The specific procedures for this engagement and the extent to which these are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below.

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:

We assessed the susceptibility of the charity's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of noncompliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and its trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

...................................... Mark Heaton FCCA DchA (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of KM, Statutory Auditor 1st Floor, Block C The Wharf Manchester Road Burnley Lancashire BB11 1JG

15 December 2025

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Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2025 (Including Income and Expenditure Account and Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses)

Note
Income from:
Donations and legacies
4
Charitable activities
5
Other trading activities
6
Investment income
7
Total income
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
8
Policy, Education and Hopeline
9
Total expenditure
Net (expenditure)/income
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
20		 Unrestricted
£
1,678,517
1,170,603
1,487,214
48,550
4,384,884
(471,123)
(5,630,800)
(6,101,923)
(1,717,039)
(1,717,039)
2,685,637
968,598		 Restricted
£
-
923,961
-
-
923,961
-
(793,499)
(793,499)
130,462
130,462
4,500
134,962		 Total
2025
£
1,678,517
2,094,564
1,487,214
48,550
5,308,845
(471,123)
(6,424,299)
(6,895,422)
(1,586,577)
(1,586,577)
2,690,137
1,103,560		 Unrestricted
£
2,428,319
1,283,516
1,841,666
64,189
5,617,690
(473,371)
(4,974,289)
(5,447,660)
170,030
170,030
2,515,608
2,685,638		 Restricted
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,500
4,500		 Total
2024
£
2,428,319
1,283,516
1,841,666
64,189
5,617,690
(473,371)
(4,974,289)
(5,447,660)
170,030
170,030
2,520,108
2,690,138

All of the charity's activities derive from continuing operations during the above two periods. The funds breakdown for 2024 is shown in note 20.

The notes on pages 25 to 33 form an integral part of these financial statements.

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(Registration number: 03555482) Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

Note
Current assets
Stocks
15
Debtors
16
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year
17
Net assets
Funds of the charity:
Restricted income funds
Restricted funds
Unrestricted income funds
Unrestricted funds
Total funds
20		 2025
£
36,154
767,781
932,805
1,736,740
(633,180)
1,103,560
134,962
968,598
1,103,560		 2024
£
42,750
1,092,095
1,965,999
3,100,844
(410,706)
2,690,138
4,500
2,685,638
2,690,138

The financial statements on pages 22 to 33 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 15 December 2025 and signed on their behalf by:

......................................... Mr H J H Biggs-Davison Trustee

The notes on pages 25 to 33 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 23

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Statement of Cash Flows for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Note
Cash flows from operating activities
Net (expenditure)/income
Adjustments to cash flows from non-cash items
Investment income
7
Working capital adjustments
Decrease/(increase) in stocks
15
Decrease/(increase) in debtors
16
Increase in creditors
17
Net cash flows from operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Interest receivable
7
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 April
Cash and cash equivalents at 31 March		 2025
£
(1,586,577)
(48,550)
(1,635,127)
6,596
324,314
222,473
(1,081,744)
48,550
(1,033,194)
1,965,999
932,805		 2024
£
170,030
(64,189)
105,841
(6,749)
(866,927)
111,335
(656,500)
64,189
(592,311)
2,558,310
1,965,999

All of the cash flows are derived from continuing operations during the above two periods.

The notes on pages 25 to 33 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 24

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

1 Charity status

The charity is limited by guarantee, incorporated in England and Wales, and consequently does not have share capital. Each of the trustees is liable to contribute an amount not exceeding £10 towards the assets of the charity in the event of liquidation.

The address of its registered office is: 2 Bankside Crosfield Street Warrington WA1 1UP

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the trustees on 15 December 2025.

2 Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)) (issued in October 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

Basis of preparation

PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy notes.

Going concern

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern nor any significant areas of uncertainty that affect the carrying value of assets held by the charity.

Income

All income is recognised once the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of the income receivable can be measured reliably.

Donations are recognised when the charity has been notified in writing of both the amount and settlement date. In the event that a donation is subject to conditions that require a level of performance by the charity before the charity is entitled to the funds, the income is deferred and not recognised until either those conditions are fully met, or the fulfilment of those conditions is wholly within the control of the charity and it is probable that these conditions will be fulfilled in the reporting period.

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PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Legacy gifts are recognised on a case by case basis following the grant of probate when the administrator or executor for the estate has communicated in writing both the amount and settlement date. In the event that the gift is in the form of an asset other than cash or a financial asset traded on a recognised stock exchange, recognition is subject to the value of the gift being reliably measurable with a degree of reasonable accuracy and the title to the asset having been transferred to the charity.

Expenditure

All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably. All costs are allocated to the applicable expenditure heading that aggregate similar costs to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of resources, with central staff costs allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges allocated on the portion of the asset’s use. Other support costs are allocated based on the spread of staff costs.

These are costs incurred in attracting voluntary income, the management of investments and those incurred in trading activities that raise funds.

Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.

Support costs

Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, for example, allocating staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage.

Governance costs

These include the costs attributable to the charity’s compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements, including audit, strategic management and trustees meetings and reimbursed expenses.

Stock

Stock is valued at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell, after due regard for obsolete and slow moving stocks.

Fund structure

Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity.

Restricted income funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.

Pensions and other post retirement obligations

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme which is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the charity has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

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PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

3 Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

Judgements

In the application of the charity's accounting policies, the trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both periods.

Key sources of estimation uncertainty

The estimates and assumptions which have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities are as follows.

Deferred and accrued income

Deferred and accrued income is based on the assumption that the amounts received or to be received are recognised in the period in which the work was done. Any amounts estimated are based on past experiences and amounts received after the year end. These judgements are regularly reviewed to reflect the changing environment.

4 Income from donations and legacies

Unrestricted

Legacies
Donations from individuals
Gift aid reclaimed		 General
£
110,309
1,264,072
304,136
1,678,517		 Total
2025
£
110,309
1,264,072
304,136
1,678,517		 Total
2024
£
793,632
1,367,640
267,047
2,428,319

5 Income from charitable activities

Unrestricted

Sale of merchandise
Suicide prevention training
Grants		 General
£
14,327
321,304
834,972
1,170,603		 Restricted
£
-
-
923,961
923,961		 Total
2025
£
14,327
321,304
1,758,933
2,094,564		 Total
2024
£
12,181
316,910
954,425
1,283,516

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PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

6 Income from other trading activities

Unrestricted

Unrestricted
Fundraising
7
Investment income
Interest receivable on bank deposits
8
Expenditure on raising funds
Costs of generating donations and legacies
Staff costs
9
Expenditure on charitable activities
Unrestricted
Note
General
£
Governance and
support costs
10
684,226
Policy, Education and
Hopeline
4,946,574
5,630,800		 General
£
1,487,214
Unrestricted
General
£
48,550
Unrestricted
General
£
177,182
293,941
471,123
Restricted
£
-
793,499
793,499		 Total
2025
£
1,487,214
Total
2025
£
48,550
Total
2025
£
177,182
293,941
471,123
Total
2025
£
684,226
5,740,073
6,424,299		 Total
2024
£
1,841,666
Total
2024
£
64,189
Total
2024
£
156,235
317,136
473,371
Total
2024
£
564,783
4,409,506
4,974,289

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PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

10 Analysis of governance and support costs

Support costs

Unrestricted

Unrestricted
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs		 General
£
489,523
53,679
65,233
608,435		 Total
2025
£
489,523
53,679
65,233
608,435		 Total
2024
£
410,453
47,722
54,820
512,995

Governance costs

Audit of the financial statements
Other fees paid to auditors
Legal fees
Bank charges
Other governance costs		 Unrestricted
General
£
6,600
960
45,633
5,965
16,633
75,791		 Total
2025
£
6,600
960
45,633
5,965
16,633
75,791		 Total
2024
£
6,000
1,620
20,220
6,599
17,349
51,788

11 Trustees remuneration and expenses

No trustees, nor any persons connected with them, have received any remuneration from the charity during the year.

During the year, the trustees were reimbursed £2,906 (2024: £413) for the cost of travel to attend trustee meetings and £99 (2024: £43) for refreshments.

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PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

12 Staff costs

The aggregate payroll costs were as follows:

Staff costs during the year were:
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs		 2025
£
4,214,212
416,826
228,413
4,859,451		 2024
£
3,264,299
327,614
199,694
3,791,607

The monthly average number of persons (including senior management team) employed by the charity during the year expressed as full time equivalents was as follows:

2025
No
Charitable activities
124
The number of employees whose emoluments fell within the following bands was:
2025
No
£60,001 - £70,000
3
£70,001 - £80,000
1
£80,001 - £90,000
1
£90,001 - £100,000
-
£100,001 - £110,000
1		 2024
No
103
2024
No
3
1
-
1
-

The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the charity were £493,324 (2024 - £441,434).

13 Auditors' remuneration

Audit of the financial statements
Other fees to auditors
Accountancy support		 2025
£
6,600
960		 2024
£
6,000
1,620

14 Taxation

The charity is a registered charity and is therefore exempt from taxation.

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PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

15 Stock

Merchandise
16 Debtors
Trade debtors
Prepayments
Other debtors
17 Creditors
Trade creditors
Other taxation and social security
Other creditors
Accruals		 2025
£
36,154
2025
£
172,700
170,264
424,817
767,781
2025
£
123,674
102,967
27,958
378,581
633,180		 2024
£
42,750
2024
£
187,428
144,571
760,096
1,092,095
2024
£
110,764
80,808
27,554
191,580
410,706

18 Obligations under leases and hire purchase contracts

The total value of future minimum lease payments was as follows:

The total value of future minimum lease payments was as follows:
Within one year
In two to five years		 2025
£
155,105
59,207
214,312		 2024
£
155,105
214,311
369,416

19 Pension and other schemes

Defined contribution pension scheme

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The pension cost charge for the year represents contributions payable by the charity to the scheme and amounted to £153,716 (2024 - £137,440).

Contributions totalling £27,958 (2024 - £25,354) were payable to the scheme at the end of the year and are included in creditors.

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PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

20 Funds

Unrestricted
General fund
Contingency
Close down reserve
Restricted funds
Total funds
Unrestricted
General fund
Contingency
Close down reserve
Restricted funds
Total funds		 Balance at 1
April 2024
£
Incoming
resources
£
Resources
expended
£
Transfers
£
Balance at
31 March
2025
£
1,645,637
4,384,884
(6,101,923)
100,000
28,598
100,000
-
-
(100,000)
-
940,000
-
-
-
940,000
2,685,637
4,384,884
(6,101,923)
-
968,598
4,500
923,961
(793,499)
-
134,962
2,690,137
5,308,845
(6,895,422)
-
1,103,560
Balance at 1
April 2023
£
Incoming
resources
£
Resources
expended
£
Balance at 31
March 2024
£
1,475,608
5,617,690
(5,447,660)
1,645,638
100,000
-
-
100,000
940,000
-
-
940,000
2,515,608
5,617,690
(5,447,660)
2,685,638
4,500
-
-
4,500
2,520,108
5,617,690
(5,447,660)
2,690,138		 Balance at 1
April 2024
£
Incoming
resources
£
Resources
expended
£
Transfers
£
Balance at
31 March
2025
£
1,645,637
4,384,884
(6,101,923)
100,000
28,598
100,000
-
-
(100,000)
-
940,000
-
-
-
940,000
2,685,637
4,384,884
(6,101,923)
-
968,598
4,500
923,961
(793,499)
-
134,962
2,690,137
5,308,845
(6,895,422)
-
1,103,560
Balance at 1
April 2023
£
Incoming
resources
£
Resources
expended
£
Balance at 31
March 2024
£
1,475,608
5,617,690
(5,447,660)
1,645,638
100,000
-
-
100,000
940,000
-
-
940,000
2,515,608
5,617,690
(5,447,660)
2,685,638
4,500
-
-
4,500
2,520,108
5,617,690
(5,447,660)
2,690,138		 Balance at
31 March
2025
£
28,598
-
940,000
968,598
134,962
1,103,560
2,685,638
4,500
2,690,138

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PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

21 Analysis of net assets between funds

Unrestricted

Unrestricted
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets		 General
£
Designated
£
661,778
940,000
(633,180)
-
28,598
940,000
Unrestricted
General
£
Designated
£
2,056,344
1,040,000
(410,706)
-
1,645,638
1,040,000		 Restricted
£
134,962
-
134,962
Restricted
£
4,500
-
4,500		 Total funds
at 2025
£
1,736,740
(633,180)
1,103,560
Total funds
at 2024
£
3,100,844
(410,706)
2,690,138

22 Related party transactions

There were no related party transactions in the year.

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