2022-03-31-accounts - The Bank Youth Project

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– The Bank Youth Project Registered Charity, Number 1075067

MANAGEMENT GROUP ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022

Management Group Members Alison Irens Trustee and Chair Elaine Baker Trustee and Vice Chair Deborah Sterling Trustee, Hon. Treasurer and Funding Group Chair Zoë Williams Trustee and Hon. Secretary (resigned July 2021) Pauline Yau Trustee and Hon. Secretary (July-Feb 2022) Peter Brewer Trustee (and Chair until Oct 2021) Rev. Mark Rylands Trustee Alison Thomas Trustee Jo Heagarty MG member (resigned Dec 2021) Tonia Lewis MG member (resigned June 2021) Cllr Sarah Parker Khan Ashburton Town Council Representative (resigned Jan 2022)

Staff

Julian Skinner Lead Youth Support Worker (part-time) Michael Park Asst. Youth Support Worker (part-time) Cheyann Wood Asst. Youth Support Worker (part-time, left July 2021) Tegan Warburton Asst. Youth Support Worker (part-time, left Dec 2021) Meadow Smith Trainee Youth Support Worker (part-time, left Dec 2021) Blair Chadwick Asst. Youth Support Worker (part-time, left March 2022) Kate Martin Asst. Youth Support Worker (part-time, from Feb 2022) Jerram Hall Asst. Youth Support Worker (part-time, appointed March 2022) Lesley Booker Administrator and Fundraiser (part-time) Narelle Lucas Cleaner (part-time)

1. Introduction

We have emerged from Covid restrictions and now are better attended than we have been for many years. We have gone through difficult situations with staffing, and now have a brilliant and enthusiastic team. We have had changes to our Management Group, but still have a committed core group.

In July 2021 Zoe Williams, BYP’s longest serving Trustee, retired, and remains an actively interested friend of BYP. In October 2021 Peter Brewer also stepped down as Chair of BYP after 15 years in the role, happily continuing his role as a Trustee. Thank you to Deborah for her hard work managing our finances.

2. Membership and Attendance

On 13 April 2021, BYP re-opened for drop-in evening sessions following the third National Lockdown. A re-opening campaign in collaboration with DYS SPACE campaign about reopening of Devon Youth Clubs, included distribution of leaflets - produced with help from Dartmoor National Park - to local schools. Attendance began to grow gradually, and BYP adjusted its Covid precautions in line with the latest National Youth Agency advice (including use of masks, ventilation, number limits, etc). Although attendance was initially fickle as members and their families re-gained confidence, by 2022 attendance numbers were consistently among the highest in BYP’s history. Among new members are many whose

families moved to Ashburton during the pandemic and who were excited to have the opportunity to integrate with the community and make new friends through BYP.

Programme

(a) Advice and Support Services

BYP continues to be a source of information, advice, support and guidance to the young people of Ashburton and the surrounding area, including:

Group discussions and one-to-one sessions with qualified staff, with the emphasis on promoting positive values
Working 1-2-1 to support young people with mental health issues
Employment advice, referencing, and CV writing
Advice and support on issues relating to training, education, health, sexual health and contraception, drugs and alcohol, relationships and family matters, housing and benefits
Leaflets and access to information via the internet
Signposting and referral to other specialist agencies.

Being able to provide a wide range of support services for young people offers a great sense of ‘peace of mind’ for them, allowing them to make informed decisions based on good quality, up-to-date information. Having a diversity of personality within the staff team, coupled with the appropriate training, allows more choice for members to be able to engage with whom they feel most comfortable.

(b) Youth Club Activities

BYP has continued to offer a variety of creative, developmental, educational, recreational and social activities, including: -

Life skills, including speaking, communicating and self-expression
Debates and discussions, and homework help
Outdoor team games, and indoor games including pool and table tennis
Quizzes, competitions
Arts and crafts activities
Music activities
Outdoor sports, swimming and team building activities.

The Youth Support Workers delivered these activities with support from responsible and dedicated young volunteers, whose help continues to be particularly valued with the increasingly popular and energetic Wednesday sessions for younger members.

With a DYS SPACE Covid Relief Summer Activities grant, BYP hired Ashburton Swimming Pool for three successful evening outdoor pool parties in the summer, as well as enjoying use of the Sands Sports Court and Ashburton Recreation grounds for outdoor sports activities.

The staff team monitor behaviour, follow BYP’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, and regularly receive training.

(c) Personal Development

BYP works to support members’ wellbeing and positive development as individuals, family members and members of the local community in the following ways: -

Being able to ‘let off steam’ safely

Sessions to help members develop self-esteem and self-confidence
1-2-1 care and ‘Safe Place’ support for young people with mental health problems
Awareness raising for members on issues affecting young people, such as health and wellbeing, bullying, LGBTQ, homophobia and equal opportunities
Encouragement of socially isolated members to become more active
Training and positive experience for volunteer senior helpers with guidance from trained youth workers
Helping members with homework issues, or wider educational questions
Involvement of members in staff recruitment, planning, organising and leading activities in the BYP programme.

Issues emerging among members this past year included gender fluidity, to which the youth team responded, following training based on the ‘Proud2b’ movement.

(d) Community Engagement Activities

While many community activities were cancelled again this past year, BYP continued to work in a number of ways to engage with the local community, including: - participation in: -

Remembrance Day wreath laying ceremony
Christmas advent window and support for the Rotary Christmas appeal
BYP updates in Around Ashburton
Bank Youth Project website and FaceBook updates
Art & Media workshops
Working in partnership with local businesses, organisations and individuals to bring BYP to the attention of the local community and to involve more people in volunteering as adult helpers, and as members of the management group
Ashburton SOUP fundraising appeal, where three senior helpers contributed to making a pitch for art supply funding for BYP - winning the most votes of the evening and raising £300 for art projects
Performance by a group of members in an Ashburton Arts Centre open mike event.

5. Staffing

There have been several staff changes in the past year, as well as the need for cover and closures at times in response to staff illness and positive Covid test results. Cheyann Wood resigned as an Assistant Youth Support Worker in July due to family bereavement. Tegan Warburton, previously a session volunteer, joined the youth team, working with Julian Skinner and Michael Park. Meadow Smith worked with supervision and training as a trainee youth support worker, while BYP researched alternative apprenticeship and training options, following withdrawal from the apprenticeship programme with Petroc. Both Tegan and Meadow left for new jobs in their fields of interest in December 2021. After two rounds of advertising and interviewing early in the new year, the Youth Team welcomed Blair Chadwick from January to March, then Kate Martin in February and at the end of March, Jerram Hall.

Lesley Booker continued work as administrator throughout the year.

Senior helpers, Sunny Smith, Jess Clark, Megan Keogh Taylor and Zoe Mandel, supported sessions at BYP, particularly the Wednesday sessions for younger members.

Staff training this past year included a full-day Emergency First Aid training course, arranged by BYP with places and costs shared with Ashburton Arts Centre and the Bungalow Youth Project in Buckfastleigh. Staff members also completed required Child Protection training,

and two members of staff completed the four-part Sexual Health training required to continue to participate as a Devon C-Card scheme provider.

The Management Group approved increases in staff pay from January 2022 following a review in relation to JNC and NJC scales.

6. Premises

BYP members were involved in proposing ideas to improve and make better use of BYP’s small outdoor space. A successful application to Devon Safer Communities Trust raised £1,000 to begin the project of transforming the courtyard into a more useful and welcoming social space. It was determined that some repairs to the chimney were needed first to ensure safety, which delayed work over the winter months. Once this was complete, minor modifications to the access ramp were completed with Steve Chew volunteering his time and skills to re-weld the ramp handrail, so that members can begin the final stages of decorating after the Easter break.

Regular checks and replacements, as needed, of fire safety equipment, lights, etc. continued, and a lock was replaced in the basement door.

7. Funding

BYP is fortunate to have continued support throughout this past year from the National Lottery Community Fund with payments of £25,019 in August 2021 and in February 2022.

DYS SPACE granted £4,400, as well as a separate summer activities grant.

We are also extremely grateful for the support we receive from the community, which includes donations large and small, regular and one-offs:

Ashburton and Buckfastleigh Rotary Club Ashburton Post Office Ashburton Town Lottery Ashburton SOUP contributors Buckfast Abbey Trust Devon Safer Community Trust Outgoing Ashburton Portreeve, John Nutley Stone Park neighbourhood Anonymous donors

8. Conclusion

We now look forward with confidence for the coming year. We have a great team, both staff and Management Group, which gives us a firm foundation on which to build our future.

Alison Irens Trustee & Management Group Chair

Lesley Booker Administrator

Julian Skinner Lead Youth Support Worker

BANK YOUTH PROJECT ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022 Prepared by 3 Town Hall North Street Ashburton TQ13 7QQ

BANK YOUTH PROJECT FOR THE YEAR ENOED 31 MARCH 2022 CONTENTS Pg• Charity Infomati¢n TN$le¢s' Report lTrJependent Exami5 Rep¢rt Income and Expenditure AceoLtrnt ststementofAsBets and Liabilities

8W4K Yoimi PROJECT FOR ThE YEAR ENDED 31 IAARCM 2022 CHARITY INFORMATION Thi$t••$ Chairman ison IrEnS W8 (aimw Elaine Baker Hon. TaSur Deborah Storllng Hon SeClary Zoe Williarrts Irotired, July 202tI pauli Yau (resigned. February 20221 Pthr Brew•r R¢v. MaH¢ RYnd Ali¥on Thoma5 Trustee5 R•pr•s•ntatS¥•s Ilr. Srnh Park•i-Kahn IAshburton Town ¢oun¢il, re$igned. JaNary 2022) Charity Numb•r 1075(7 Pthoip•l Offi0• 10 Ea51 Street AshIrtOrt Devon TQ137M B•nk•rd Naknal Westmin81er Bank Ac ¢ownt•nts Dawès Aec£untants Lnited 3 The Towm Hall North Stre•t A6hbwton Davon TQ13 7QQ Page I

BANK YOIITH PROJECT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARC1 2022 TRUSTEES, REPORT The Trustees presentthw"r report and the finanual ststwnonts for th? year ended 31 March 2022. Gowmlng Instrument The ¢haritys objects and regulalrons are Tegulated by 8 conslituh'on dated 14 January 1998, as amended in September 2(X11 and OCtor 2010 with the Itten consent ofthe Charity Commissicmers, and k% consb'tuted a5 an uninco0[Ied a550ciation. The objects ofthe Charity continue to be Ihe provLsion of confidenth.al inlomiation, health adw and other supwi $grvicg$. to enabb young people befften the ages 019 10 25, but PriDrib"sin9 13 to 19, to: Have access to appropriate support andlgarning environments Realw their capty to b81ive in lulfil th8ir own Wtsntial as lThJidU3ls and members ofsociety. The charity is Drganised with an executive cornrnitte2 to oversee planrung, with 8 rnember of the ¢ommfttee belng Mminated as chairwho is in charge ofthe day to day running ofthe charity. Trust5 and Prtnclpal offir$ The chantys Trust88s for the above year 8re listed on page 1. Trustees ¢lth or apwinted atgeneral mgetirwJs of Trustees. D•vdopm•nl Actlvlti•s and Achl•v•m•nts BYP is an essential part ol the labri¢ ol the communty ofAshburton. It Ser the youth of our tovm exceptionally well and importanc£ rAnnol be underestimated. BYP emerged from the Ihird IcKkdown wrth membership and populanty of the elub gYowrYJ by March 2022 to highest levels in ¥r$. Flnances The Tw$lees cnInUe to tlY $8•k n•w grants to •nsur• tht eontinuallLYh oftha Trusys activthes. Reserves Polky It 15 the policy of the Tnlstees tr) hold a General Reserve to cover at 8$tOne quarter ol annual running easts. estimated at £12,000 when last reviewed. The Trustees also maintain a Burlding Reserve of at least £5,000 towards exterMI fflaintena¥u ¢o$ts oftho Bank buikliro folLowing its fomial transfer from St Lawrence TrusL ASIVrt to tho Bank Youth Proie¢L BYP also hokts a Noti and Redundancy Reserve ¢aluJlated ts) meet statutory redundarKy payments in tho evont BYP ceases to trade, currently estimated ol £7,500. The allocaticfi offfijnds betsveen Re6erve A¢nts, to refi8Ct separate amounts Teferred to, is revwed annualty. Page 2

BANK YOUTH PROJECT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 IWICH 2022 TRUSTEES, REPORT l¢ontlnued) Trustees. ResponslbllStles Charity law requires the trustees to praparg Ihg ffinanual $tstem8nts for &a¢h fin¥n¢ial year whith gwe a true and fair view of the state of affair5 ollhe charity and of rts finan1 activii for that period. In prepxrlng those firt8nck81 statements the tnjstees 8re requlred to.. lal Select suitable accounting pol$ and then apply them consistendy. Ibl Make judgements and èslimates that are reasonable and prudent Icl Regulab"ons made lder S44 ofthe Charibes Act and wilh appIlbI¢ a0Unting standards, subject to any material deparbJr05 di5d05ed and explainad in fjnanci81 statements. Idl Prepa the finanoal 5taternents on a going corrn b8sr6 unloss it 18 inappropriate to assume that the ehaity will eonb.nue ta Operate. The Trustees are responSiefor keeping proper èCCOUnting recorrls whidt disclose Y Tea50nable a¢¢uTacy at any b.me the financial postbon of Iht Gharrty 8nd to enable them to 8n5ur8 thatthe fin8tTrri81 st8tements compty wilh the Charities Art 1993. They ale also responsible for safeguarth.ng Ihe assets of the charity 8nd henc* lor t8kirg T8asonabl& skp5 forthe prevention and (kteetion of fraud or other irregularities. This Report was approved by the Tru5tee5 on Monday 11th Juty 2022. Sign8d on behalf of th& Trusiees Ali$on Iwn¥ Chairman Page 3

BANK YOUTH PR(XIECT INDEPEPIDENT EXAMINER% REPORT W• rw ortsth&fflnon(4RI 8tst8mwt•ofknk Yr•Jth Pr(18ctt)n poge85 to 7 forth&sw Bnded 31 M8r¢h 21YI2. au4tt requlrwnents of geclkn 43(21 oflhe Ch8ddegAct 1993 (the Act)¢J)ts Mt aFWyand that BA•l• of Innd•ni•xmln•V* r• urwwal knrngor Sn lh• 8ccuunl4 soeklry exF4anatknn8frcffi you ?$ Tnlee5 P(0per•ct•JnA9 rècords an kept in actordance 41 rlthgAd 111hty 2023 D& ACA FCCA TQ137r)3 Page4

BANK YoiJfH PROJECT 114COME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDEO 31 PMRCH 2022 2022 restrl 2021 RECEiwrs Donallon$ *nd Grants- Anonymous DonoT Ashburton & BuCkfa8ueh Rotary Ashburtm Quakers Ashburton Soup Bkfast Abbey Trust Community cash cc41ecaions Dartmor National Park Devon Safer Communities Trust DYS SPACE First Aid Training Facebook donations Fleel Carav8n$ HMRC JRS Grant National Lottary Community Fund Portrwvo 73 1250 270 51 148 200 1,000 5,540 322 3,)0 500 10,615 47,0 50.038 Oth•r R•c•lpts- Café Sales and Subs Lettings Bk Interest 1,895 33B 188 1,191 TOTAL RECEIPTS 62.470 66,336 Page 5

BANK YIYJTH PR¢>JECT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022 INCOME AND EXPENorruRE ACCOUNT InI¥•d> 2022 2021 PAYMENTS Acr4>untancy Ad¥ewti$ing & P0t)n ano Subs¢riptions 1,052 110 135 87 15 Café canIng Curriculum Costs & EqPment General Equlpment Iconsumabknl Insuran 171 194 2291 163 20 PostwJe PPE Re6 & Sdng Salwies staff Costs IXrna5 Patyl staff Tralnlng & Re¢rullma)I staff Tr8¥el & Expenses stationery Sundri•s T0phOne & lTht•met utiitt 14 1,529 43.561 80 1.314 33,857 S57 238 65 109 155 14 581 549 1.057 TOTAL PAYMENYS 41.610 RECEPTSIIPAYMENTSI FOR THE YEAR 8,1t7 23.825 14•t¢uTh•nt4ss•1s broughtfonvard131 20211 62,316 .491 N•t•urr•ht*ss•ts wrl•d f•Thvwd131 M•r¢h 20221 68N33 62A16 Page 6

BANK YOUTH PROJECT AS AT 31 MARCH 2021 STATEmr OF A88ETS ANO LIABILITIES 2022 2021 FIXED A88ETS Freehold Property- 10 East Street, Ashburton 1XI,OIXs 130,000 CURRENT ASSETS Debtors and Prepayments Bank Account- Current - Notie¢RR6dundancy {3648) BuildiNgs146281 - General129681 38.010 7,503 10,229 23,C5 73 36.913 7.502 10,226 18,003 57 Cash 72,703 NET CURREiif A8SET8 208,820 202.703 DEDUCT CURRENT UA8ILmE8 Credrtors 10.387 10,387 NET ASSETS 198A33 192.316 REPRESENTED BY:. ACCUMULATED FUND Unrestricl8d Funds Revaluation Reserve 6B.433 130,000 62,316 130,000 19WJ 191316 Gener Reserve5 I]udE £15,C¥JO from NLCF Sarniarked for dÈv8knpment Page 7

BANK YOUTH PROJECT ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022 Prepared by 3 Town Hall North Street Ashburton TQ13 7QQ

BANK YOUTH PROJECT FOR THE YEAR ENOED 31 MARCH 2022 CONTENTS Pg• Charity Infomati¢n TN$le¢s' Report lTrJependent Exami5 Rep¢rt Income and Expenditure AceoLtrnt ststementofAsBets and Liabilities