2024-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 April 2023 31 March 2024

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Family Matters York Other names charity is known by 1088274 Charity's principal address St Chad’s Church, Campleshon Road, York Postcode YO23 1EY ~~—~~

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1088274

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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|||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |Dates acted if not for whole|Name of person (or body) entitled| |Trustee name|Office (if any)| |year|to|appoint|trustee|(if any)| |1 Mrs Jill Ross|Co-Chair| |2|Mrs Joanna Bloss|Co-Chair| |3|Mr Howard Landon|1 April 2023 – 14 August 2023| |4|Mr Luke Hale| |5|[Dr Linsay ]| |Cunningham| |6| |7| |8| |9| |10| |11| |12| |13| |14| |15| |16| |17| |18| |19| |20| |ae| |Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)|

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Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Accountant	Peter Taylor	36 Alwyne Grove, York YO30 5RT

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Mrs Kath Weston

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Trust Deed

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted

• (eg. trust, association, company)

Appointment by trustees meeting in accordance with Declaration of Trust Trustee selection methods

• (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The objectives of the organisation are the advancement of public education in matters concerning marriage, parenting, family life and relationships, with a view to strengthening and enriching family life. The charity continues to work actively towards its objectives.

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In setting the objectives and planning the activities for the year, the trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit at the trustees’ meetings. The following activities for the public benefit in York and the surrounding area have been undertaken this year:

• Six different parenting courses exploring parenting in the early years, the primary years, and the teenage years; parenting children with additional needs; handling anger in the family; and supporting child emotional wellbeing. All of these courses have taught parents how to

• Summary of the main recognise problem areas, to reflect on their practice, and to use tools activities undertaken for the and strategies to improve communication or the handling of difficult public benefit in relation to situations and to enrich family life. •

• these objects (include within The delivery of a mentoring service (called Reconnect) supporting this section the statutory couple relationships, through which client couples meet with a declaration that trustees have support couple over five sessions. Couples learn from the experience had regard to the guidance of their mentors and are shown, through role play and examples, how issued by the Charity they can strengthen their relationship. Topics discussed include love Commission on public languages and the importance of showing affection; how to recognise benefit) the causes of conflict and ways to manage it more effectively; and strategies for improving communication.

• A number of events aimed at couples in committed relationships which provide information and prompt private discussion between two partners on the following topics: commitment, connection, collaboration and cherishing each other.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

This financial year has seen some staffing changes with the departure of the General Manager in October 2023. We were grateful to have the services of an interim manager while we recruited for a new permanent Charity Manager, who started in March 2024. The team also moved office in September 2023 and we have been made to feel very welcome at St Chad’s Church in York. In total this year we have served 251 individuals. This has been achieved through the following: • 17 parenting courses (3 of which were delivered online), covering 6 different topic areas, which directly benefitted 181 parents (we estimate that for every parent who attends a further 3 people were impacted, making a total of 543 indirect beneficiaries). • Six couples embarking on our Reconnect mentoring service. • Four Time Out for Couples events attended by a total of 58 individuals. Our provision continues to be well received and to make impacts on local families. Eighty-three per cent of parents who attended our parenting courses over this financial year reported an improvement in their relationship with their children, and 92% felt more confident in their parenting since starting on one of our courses. We invite all participants to provide feedback to inform the development of our provision and to understand our impact. Here is a selection of participants own words about the difference made by attending our courses and events: ‘Things are calmer – we’re more consciously topping up our son’s selfesteem and checking in on ourselves and our own anger in response to his anger outbursts.’ (Parent) ‘I am more aware of what is going on and better able to understand my children’s behaviour.’ (Parent) ‘We communicate a lot better with the skills learnt on the course which has eased family life.’ (Parent) ‘My youngest teen is communicating more openly and says we "get her" now.’ (Parent ‘I now see us very much as a team, making decisions that are best for us and not individuals. We are happier and more in love.’ (Couple) ‘We have become more open and honest and listening to each other. The relationship has improved.’ (Couple) ‘Less phone time. More couple time. More listening, less judgement.’ (Couple) This year has been an important one for programme development, in our work with parents and couples. After launching the A Mind of Their Own parenting workshop on emotional wellbeing in March 2023, we have run it successfully a further two times. It has also been expanded to form a three-week course following service user and facilitator feedback about needing more time to cover topics in depth. Over the course of the year, we have partnered with a York school and a multi-academy trust (which runs six primary and secondary schools across the city) to offer taster

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

sessions of two of our parenting courses, immediately followed by the respective full course. The taster sessions were limited to school parents, but the full courses were open to anyone living in the York area. This enabled us to respond to schools’ concerns about some of their families’ support needs and to ensure our provision remained accessible to all. We continue to work collaboratively with a number of schools and churches to meet the needs of their communities.

Regarding our offer to couples, we have developed and launched a new resource for couples wanting to invest in their relationship. We wanted to make it easier for couples to engage with our support and were aware that our Reconnect mentoring programme of five sessions seemed, to some, like a big step. To help bridge this gap we now provide single session events called Time Out for Couples . These evening events provide an opportunity for couples to sit together at a private table and discuss the ideas presented from the front (a mixture of spoken and video content). We successfully ran our first event in June 2023 with three further sessions throughout Autumn 2023 and January 2024.

In August 2023 we launched our new branding and website. We worked hard with a graphic designer through Spring 2023 to develop a visual representation of our charity’s identity, reflecting our aims of supporting people to feel more connected with one another and providing them with the tools to strengthen their relationships. We have also worked to increase our online presence and level of engagement on our social media channels.

We have had the valuable support of many volunteers throughout the year through their roles facilitating parenting courses, mentoring couples, and in administration. Some of our services would struggle to run without our dedicated volunteers. This year saw the development of the role of the ‘Parenting Co-Facilitator’, which is designed as an intermediate step towards becoming a lead Parenting Facilitator. The full facilitator training is costly and an investment worth making if our volunteer facilitators are committed to the role. However, we wanted to offer volunteers the option of trying the role first, through the co-facilitator role. Our Parenting Support Lead delivered the first co-facilitator training in February 2024.

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Section E Financial review ~~ee~~

Brief statement of the

charity’s policy on reserves

It is the current policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted funds at a level which equates to at least three months’ unrestricted expenditure. This provides sufficient funds to cover management and administration and support costs. Unrestricted funds were maintained at least to this level throughout the year.

Details of any funds materially

in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

From April 2023-March 2024 our principal sources of funds were:

• Grants – awards from The National Lottery Community Fund, York Common Good Trust, The Albert Hunt Trust and the Feoffees of St Michael’s Spurriergate.

• Gifts from regular donors.

• Gifts from donor churches.

• Donations from service users.

• how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

• investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

~~eee~~ Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration ~~eee~~

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Joanna M Bloss Jill R Ross Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Co Chair Co chair etc) ~~ee ee~~ Date 14 11 24 ~~|~~

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	Family Matter York	Family Matter York				No 1088274	No 1088274
	Receipts andpayments accounts								CC16a
For the period from ~~ee~~			01/02/2023		To		31/03/2024
Section A Receipts and payments
	Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds		Endowment funds		Total funds		Last year
	to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
General Income	12,033		-		-		12,033		11,679
Grants	23,000		-		-		23,000		53,000
	-		-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-		-
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	AR)35,033		-		-		35,033		64,679
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - Total receipts 35,033 - - 35,033 64,679 ~~——————~~
A3 Payments
Staff Costs	44,080		-		-		44,080		43,794
Office Rent	2,100		-		-		2,100		1,652
ParentingFacilitators	1,435		-		-		1,435		3,259
Marketing	700		-		-		700		700
Professional fees	839		-		-		839		1,186
Office Costs	2,543		-		-		2,543		1,620
	-		-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-		-
**Sub total **	51,697		-		-		51,697		52,211
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - Total payments 51,697 - - 51,697 52,211 ~~——————~~
Net of receipts/(payments) - 16,664 - - - 16,664 12,468 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - - Cash funds this year end - 16,664 - - - 16,664 12,468 ~~=====>>~~

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

			Unrestricted Restricted		Endowment
Categories		Details	funds funds		funds
			to nearest £ to nearest £		to nearest £
B1 Cash funds	32,480 - - - - - - - - 32,480 - - Total cash funds Bank Accounts ~~—_——~~
		(agree balances with receipts and payments	(agree balances with receipts and payments
		account(s))	Agreement Error OK		OK
			Unrestricted Restricted		Endowment
			funds funds		funds
		Details	to nearest £ to nearest £		to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~===>~~
		Details	Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets	- - - - - - - - - - ~~===~~
		Details	Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use	~~= ~~		- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~===~~
			Fund to which Amount due		When due
		Details	liability relates (optional)		(optional)
B5 Liabilities	- - - - - ~~===~~
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees		Signature	Print Name		Date of approval
			Jill Ross
					14/11/2024
			Joanna Bloss
					14/11/2024

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of Family Matters York

On accounts for the year 31 March 2024 Charity no 1088274 ended (if any) Set out on pages 7,8 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2024 .

• Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

• accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or

• the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

• Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: Date: 14/11/24 Name: Peter Taylor ~~Cs~~ Address: 36 Alwyne Grove York YO30 5RT

October 2018

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

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