THE OUTLOOK TRUST FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED Annual Report 2023 2023 has been a successful year for the Outlook Trust. We have provided our six activity weekends. The weekends have been well attended with some oversubscribed. We also undertook our longer sailing residential in the summer. This year we picked our boat up in Cowes from UKSA which proved to be quite an adventure. A massive thank you to Jonny (Cormack) who joined our board of trustees in 2022. He has been a real boon this year helping launch and recover our boats and driving our youngsters down to the isle of Wight for the sailing week. He has provided a great deal of support to our charity for many years now. We have certainly made good use of our bus this year with no issues travelling down to the Isle of Wight.. We benefitted from the use of Ghyll Head Outdoor Activity Centre. They also providedour water activities The bespoke Safeguarding training designed specifically to meet the needs of The Outlook Trust was successfully delivered, to all staff involved in supporting participating children. This twas delivered by our two Safeguarding Officers on the first two weekends of the season. We are still refining our policies and procedures in collaboration with the RYA Safeguarding team. Trustees have met regularly to discuss ongoing matters and monitor effective use of our resources. We are reaching new children and families. The Facebook Page has worked well giving up to date information. More parents are becoming directly involved. A big thanks to Fiona, Evelina and all the parents who have supported us with donations this year.Thank you for your support in fund raising. We always need your support. Trustees Jeff Davies Brian Harrington John Lee Jonathan Cormack ## THE OUTLOOK TRUST FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED The Summer sailing this year was a great success. All participants were actively engaged. The skipper Mark did an excellent job in involving all the youngsters all the time in sailing the boat. They all came back with a good understanding of what is required to sail a large yacht at sea. We picked up the boat in Cowes. This was kindly donated by UKSA. A big thank you to Jonny for driving and giving up a week to support us. We have made good use of our new Drascombe gig !Out on the Full”. The boat has been purchased for us by The Wooden Spoon, a trust which raises funds for charities who support children and adults with disability.This now allows all participating children to sail at the same time in our two boats. A big thank to all our volunteers and trustees for their support in 2023 If we manage to fund raise successfully it will be plain sailing through the forthcoming year. We will be proposing six weekends this year as well as our sailing week. If you can think of any sporting events fun runs etc where you might attract sponsorship please consider us. If you know of any charitable trusts or companies offering support please let us know or if you feel confident enough apply on our behalf. I am happy to provide any information and support you require Thank you to the cyclists who support our lakeside rides .Without these wonderful people giving their time freely at weekends we could not operate. Trustees Jeff Davies Brian Harrington John Lee Jonathan Cormack ## THE OUTLOOK TRUST FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED Things are looking promising for 2024 and we are frantically improving, repairing replacing and preparing boats for next season. We have also made the decision to replace our Humber Safety RIB as sadly this year it proved to be unreliable. It was purchased 22 years ago so it has served us well over the years. A special thank you to John, Rob, Julie and other staff at Ghyll Head Outdoor Activity Centre. They have made us very welcome as well as letting us store and moor our boats. We will be using the centre"s accommodation and services in the forthcoming year. Every penny we raise goes to supporting our special participants. We rely upon our volunteers to make the weekends work. A big thank to Gerard, Ollie, Victoria, Anne Jackie and Sarah and of course John fellow trustee for his help this year. We say farewell to Saliha as a trustee but she is still going to support us next year. We also wish to thank The Primary Club, Sport England The Finn Family Trust Happy Holidays. St James Place Charitable Foundation, The Noble Trust and Red Funnel Ferries for free passage to the Isle of Wight Jeff Davies Trustee Trustees Jeff Davies Brian Harrington John Lee Jonathan Cormack ## **The Outlook Trust** **Income and Expenditure Statement 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023** |**Income**
**£**
Amazon
33.70
Charities Aid Foundation
90.00
Contributions
4,821.00
Donations
5,625.00
Happy Days Charity
1,250.00
New College
360.00
RYA
5,260.00
SJP Ch Found
2,500.00
The Noble Charity
1,500.00
The Prim Club Sw Gra
5,000.00
Wooden Spoon
10,500.00
Zurich insurance
1,047.50
**Total income**
**Expenses**
Accommodation
10,045.44
Food for activities
1,577.65
Fuel
1,441.51
Go Ape
285.00
Independent examiner
200.00
Insurance and Tax - Minibus
1,174.67
Insurance - Boat
1,054.53
Insurance - Trailer
108.57
Licence
628.80
Memberships
200.00
Office supplies
60.97
Registrations
103.00
Repairs - Boat
5,014.38
Repairs - Minibus
660.00
Repairs - Trailer
1,690.20
Safety equipment
696.25
Sailing week
2,185.72
Travel
68.20
Total expenditure
**Net Surplus/(deficit)**|**£**
**37,987.20**
**27,194.89**
**10,792.31**| |---|---| |**Bank balances brought forward @ 1 January 2023**
HSBC Current account
Surplus/(Deficit)
**Closing bank balance @ 31 December 2023**
**Funds**
Restricted fund
General fund|41,783.26
10,792.31
**52,575.57**
25,000.00
27,575.57
**52,575.57**| |---|---| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Sectlon A Independent Examlner'g Report Report to the trusteesl members of rH£ OUTLOOK fRu3T On a¢¢ounts for the year ended 31.12. 20?3 Charity no {if any} IQEISLkO Set out on pages Irp.rnp.mbAr lo irtlude the Daue numbers of acklitional shte., I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trust'l for the year ended 31112 laoa3. Responsibilities and As the ¢harity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 {'the Acf). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5}{b} of Ihe Act. Independent ￿ he charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualrfied to examinerfs statement undertake the examination by being a qualrfied member of linsert name of applicable listed bodyll. Delete I l rf not applKable. I have completed my examinalion. I confinn that no material matters have come to my attention (other than Ihat disclosed below ? in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect,: the accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act., or Ihe accounts did not accord wrth the accounting records.. or the accounts did not comply with the applicable rquirements concerning the fom and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no con￿M5 and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper underslanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the worfs in the brackets if they do not apply. Slgned: Date: 13.oa.ao2 Name: eNJNIFe£ HoEfo Relevant professlonal quallficatlon(sl or body (If any): rneM6É£ A55CXIAfi¢TrJ OF TÉCN N)ICi Afvjs . IER October 2018 Addre88: 1061 h130￿J k &0 I i+. mA£tsT ST£&r,-Th_o.£MT 6£ADff0￿ , eJ0I3 3eNI Section Dlsclo8iire Only complete Il the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of charity 8ccounls.' directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here detalls of any Items that the examiner wlshes to disclose. IER O¢tober 2018