'Tr bliLD oung Parents EST.1992 bllli Annual Report 2022 ## **Contents** Trustee report 1 to 31 Reference and administrative details 32 Independent examiner ’ s report 33 Statement of financial activities 34 Balance sheet 35 Statement of cash flows 36 Notes to the accounts 37 to 48 **Introduction** 2022 - thirty years since WILD was started by a group of young parents, and since then more than 15,000 people supported through our work. Our first WILD parents are nearly 50 years old now, and it was amazing to see some of them at our 30-year celebration, sharing their experiences with our newest families. While their journeys were different, some of the challenges they faced 30 years ago still remain. For our 2022 families, the pandemic, and then the rise in living costs, have made it even harder to build a healthy, safe, happy family environment. We are proud to share their incredible resilience and achievements, and promise to go forward working together for a fair start for young parent families. Page 1 ## **A year of** ## **This year WILD has supported young parent families with:** **over 400 face-to-face group sessions for young mums and their babies over 120 sessions for families at our allotments over 120 online group sessions reaching rural areas and Isles of Scilly over 100 group sessions for dads** **over 500 baby-focused activities - building attachment, language, and positive relationships more than 100 families intensively supported by our Building Futures and Dads Focus teams over 60 individual family attachment-based sessions** **music, singing, signing, songwriting, and choir performances First Words Together pilot project, helping families learn to love reading over 1000 books given to our WILD children dads-curated national art exhibition over 60 trips and events – Eden, arts, libraries, nature walks, beaches, and our 30th year anniversary More than £50,000 emergency support for families struggling with cost of living** Page 2 ## **Families - Numbers** We have reached over 600 families this year We have worked more closely with 352 families, including their 392 children We have worked with dads in half of all families, and then 104 dads have engaged longer-term with our specific support for dads 82 families have been part of Building Futures, our intensive support for those experiencing complex risk **'WILD has supported me in many ways, throughout any situations I have been through. The support from WILD after leaving a domestic abuse relationship & the mental health struggles has been brilliant. In my experience, WILD has helped me change for the better & supported me through difficult life events. I don’t normally put my trust into professionals/workers, but I have with WILD and I'm so glad I did'** Page 3 ## **Families - Children's safeguarding needs** Through our Welcome Work team's guided conversations, WILD seeks to build a picture of our families' lived experience. From the outset of working with WILD, families' safety is a priority for support. From the initial referral information, from these Welcome Work conversations, and from ongoing building of relationships with families and other professionals, we record safeguarding needs. The graph (right) shows the level of need where we know full data, as a percentage of all born children (n=292). social work assessment child in need plan child protection plan care proceedings risk of sexual harm risk of physical harm risk of neglect 0 10 20 30 40 Page 4 ## **Families - parental adversity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Our Welcome team also identify complex challenges for new young parents joining WILD, shown as percentages in the graph (left, n=352) For parents supported by our Building Futures project, 62% report safeguarding interventions in their own childhood, and 18% are care experienced Page 5 ## **Families - Post-pandemic and cost of living** using public transport having a secure home keeping home warm paying for electric having enough food 0 20 40 We are seeing increased food and fuel insecurity, debt and homelessness, and associated increases in mental health crises and family conflict. The graph (left) from our annual survey (n=111) shows the percentage of parents finding things harder. Despite energy caps and benefit allowances, our families’ income simply does not meet their outgoings, and this is complicated by our local housing crisis. We are having to help families meet these basic needs before they can work on other changes. We also continue to see the effects of pandemic on ‘lockdown babies’, with delayed language development - already a risk factor for the babies of young parents 60 WILD is also feeling the impact of both cuts and capacity issues in partner agencies. In the voluntary sector nationally, it is being talked of as the ‘triple whammy’ effect of increase in need, increase in costs, and decrease in funding. Page 6 ## **IMPACT: parental mental health** coping with stress support from friends and family feeling good about myself interested in new things feeling confident feeling relaxed 0 20 40 60 80 **'Our sessions help parents find more nuanced language to talk about and identify emotions, and our creative projects help them 'get the emotions out' rather than suppress or dissociate'** **All our work focuses on emotional wellbeing and resilience. For those parents with risk factors for suicide, we help with safety plans and access to services. We have joined the multiagency suicide prevention group, local and regional perinatal mental health groups, and promote Towards Zero campaign. The graph (left) from our survey (n=111) shows the percentage of parents whose mental wellbeing has improved after working with WILD.** Page 7 ## **IMPACT: infant mental health** . Infant mental health is predicated on the mental health of their parents, so we focus on whole-family mental wellbeing. It also depends on parents’ ability to mentalise; to understand, empathise and respond to their baby’s feelings. For some of our WILD families, this is more challenging, and we have supported them individually, using evidence-based methods. The graph (below, n=135) demonstrates the percentage of these families who have experienced improvements: improved capacity to mentalise more confidently express feelings and needs improved coping to manage strong emotions **'I feel like the bond between us has changed and I'm different going into my second pregnancy' 'I'm more confident, I feel like I'm more fun as a parent' 'I am led by Akshay, I use a playful tone and give him space and it's got easier as I know what he wants if he needs me'** 20 0 40 60 Page 8 ## **IMPACT: parenting** singing and making music confident as a parent good routine feeding learning to talk learning new skills being active playing together enjoying time together 0 20 40 60 80 This year we have focused on the relationship between parents and their children, resulting in positive improvements in parenting skills, and increased motivation for parents to engage in joint activities. Our survey (completed by 111 parents) demonstrates percentage of families with improvements in parenting areas. Page 9 ## **IMPACT: health** getting help with health worries feeling healthy feeling safe at home eating healthy food spending time outside getting exercise 0 Families have identified significant improvements in physical health and wellbeing, seen in our survey graph (left) of percentage of families where health factors have improved. Although positive change can be seen in all areas, the cost of living crisis has reduced the number of improvements in healthy eating and keeping warm. 25 50 75 Page 10 ## **IMPACT: young dads** **Through our more focused work with Dads (n=104), we have been able to record (as percentages):** Better co-parent communication More confident caring for their child Enjoy time with child more Better able to cope in time of crisis Calmer at trigger points Better able to express emotions Reduction in symptoms (anger, anxiety, low mood, depression etc) **“Keep up the tough work lads. Our kids are gonna be something special with such strong support behind them. Happy Father’s Day”** 0 25 50 75 Page 11 75 50 25 ## **IMPACT: families facing complex challenges** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## The next three graphs demonstrate how Building Futures (BF) parents (n=129) can meet their children's needs, and keep them safer, after working with the project. The initial section of each bar shows the percentage of all the BF families we have worked with, and the top up section shows percentage when a substantial piece of work has taken place (n=84) (ie length of time, intensity of work etc). For example, for indicator 1, 68% of all BF families have met this criteria, but this rises to 89% when we have worked more substantially. are: The indicators as represented on the first chart (left) 1. Practical care appropriate for developmental stage 2. Capacity to mentalise childs development 3. Parents can confidently express needs, experiences and feelings 4. Parents use coping strategies to manage strong emotions 5. Children can trust parents to be available, consistent & not scary/scared 6. Parents notice child's mood/cues, provide appropriate & consistent response Page 12 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ## **IMPACT: families facing complex challenges** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Page 13 This second graph (left) has indicators represented as: 1. Parents understand the impact of childhood trauma 2. Parents are honest with professionals, and understand what needs to change 3. Parents engage with safety planning, and keep to safety arrangements 4. Parents make decisions based on their child's safety 5. Parents have internal locus of control 6. Parents reduce violent, abusive or harmful behaviours ## **IMPACT: families facing complex challenges** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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1. Better communications between parents 2. Parents can negotiate and model positive relationships 3. Grandparents work in partnership with parents 4. Parents use community resources and can identify supportive neighbours 5. Families take part in young parent group activities 6. Parents have other young parent friends 25 0 4 5 6 1 2 3 Page 14 ## **... What parents say about** **'The support given and** **the one to one phone calls really helps and cheers me up if I’ve been feeling down'** **'WILD taught me how to become a better man, father and partner' 'I love how accepting everyone is and going somewhere I don't feel judged for being myself'** **'My partner, daughter and me, WILD means the world to us, it’s such a friendly and warming environment for us to feel like a family, meet new people, and learn new ways of bonding' 'Everything, WILD has been so comforting, helpful and just absolutely amazing. It was a difficult start to fatherhood however with the help of WILD I feel so much better.'** **'I like that it’s with other mums my age, other than wild I don’t know of any other mums my age who have been or going through similar myself' situations to me.' 'The way it helps me be a better dad and helps me get confidence when taking my child to the groups. As I'm with people in the same boat'** Each year we use Net Promoter Score. Any score over zero is positive, and anything over 50 is considered excellent. The most popular reasons parents gave for being with WILD were the friendship, sense of belonging and shared experience with other parents, and the support they received in feeling welcomed, safe, comforted, included, and able to talk about difficult experiences without judgment Page 15 ## **Projects: Dads national exhibition** Our biggest Dads’ project yet, two whole years in the making, including navigating a pandemic. Finally, SIMPLE TRUTHS arrived; our national exhibition with the Arts Council and Newlyn Art Gallery... Page 16 # From their allotment shed in Camborne, each WILD dad selected an artwork that resonated for him, from the 8000 pieces available in the Arts Council Collection **----- Start of picture text -----**
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.J• DAVID BATCHELOR [b.1955] DAN HOLDSWORTH [b.1974] Blackout 27 C-type photographic print mounted onto aluminium, 2010 Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London JOHN ISAACS [b.1968] Untitled (Monkey) Wax, hair, glass, metal and plastic, 1995 Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London Pink Pimp Mix Found concrete mixer, neon, 2006 Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London WILD Dad: It says new beginnings, bringing life to an old space. Sometimes I take life too seriously - this made me smile it reminded me to lighten up. WILD Dad: l used to isolate myself a lot, this touches on what l used to be like, what I've moved on from. WILD Dad: You can feel the power in this. It has a destructive look to it. I feel it represents my mental health. WILD EST.1992 **"The playful, predominantly hopeful selection of pieces is testament to WILDs work, finding positive solutions for what can often feel like impossible situations…** **…conversations we had around the dads choices of artwork revealed much about their day to day struggles, their hopes, their sense of humour - it felt important to convey some of this through the labelling of the works, enabling their voices to indeed be heard. The exhibition opened in February 2022 and has been universally loved by gallery staff and visitors alike”** Newlyn Gallery Page 19 ## **Projects: Rant Club** New to WILD is our partnership with Trifle Gathering Productions (TGP), a trauma informed, social impact theatre group. Together we have developed our playful theatrical world, ‘Rant Club’, where anger, frustration and irritation are celebrated. The work enables a safe connection with anger, through imagination, bravery and wholehearted storytelling. Themes have included relationships, isolation, grief, health anxiety, feeling abandoned by friends, trust, living in Cornwall, boredom and frustration, relationships with professionals, birth stories, sleep, and being judged as a parent **'It's like a release and relief to let it 'They hold the space so well and so all go' safely that the parents can rant and feel like its contained and feel like they are really listened to and heard' 'Happy rants are something I’ve never tried before. I did a happy rant about how supportive my 'That felt parents have been and that feels really nice' like therapy!'** Page 20 ## **Projects: Music** **Early years music is embedded in every WILD group session, while parents enjoy regular songwriting, music-making and music technology activities. Our WILD choir is going strong, performing at a choir festival at Tate St Ives, and headlining our 30 year celebration. 79% parents who have taken part (n=154) now find it easier to do musical activities at home with their children.** Page 21 ## **Projects: Building Futures** **W** ILD's Building Futures work aims to support parents to better understand and meet their child's needs, and be able to protect their child from harm. Through this focus WILD wants children who are at risk of removal to be safer. Our earlier graphs for families facing complex challenges demonstrate the positive impact for children and parents. At the end of the year, Nuffield, the leading research body in this area, released their latest report about repeat care proceedings. They identified that 42% of women having repeat removals of children were aged under 20 at entry to motherhood. We were pleased to see that the holistic, longer-term support we offer was similar to Nuffield's recommendations for all families experiencing care proceedings. "There is consistent evidence that with the right help, repeat removals are not inevitable, and that despite the recovery challenge, many mothers can engage with services and turn their lives around" Nuffield Family Justice Observatory 2022 Page 22 ## **Focus: Communication** Whole family work at our allotment, using poetry and song to engage families together in natural surroundings, has increased parental confidence in building communication skills. Our team now all use narration across activities, as a tool to build vocabulary. This is alongside Makaton, which we see helping children who are struggling with verbal development. Families tell us that since joining WILD, 79% have found it easier to help their child to build speech and language. Partnerships with Book Start mean that over 1000 books have been given to our WILD children, and Literacy Trust are codelivering First Words Together in our groups. Page 23 ## **Focus: Nature** The outdoors has become integral to our work, with nature now embedded in our day-to-day delivery. Our allotment forms the core of this, and is supported by family activities on beaches, music in woodland, workshops at Eden, and play in parks and gardens. We see the positive impact that a combination of nature, creativity and group belonging has on children’s wellbeing. We were delighted this year when Tom, our young dad allotment volunteer, won BBC Cornwall's Volunteer of the Year Make a Difference Award. Page 24 ## **Focus: Safety** One in four WILD children have needed multi-agency safeguarding support, while one in six have experienced complex risk. Specific areas of concern this year have been: Neglect Impact of parental mental illness and suicidal ideation Impact of cost of living crisis Risk of SUDI, especially related to unstable housing We have responded with: using our decision-making grid across our projects to manage higher risk continuing external supervision for all team members specific training on neglect, mental ill health and safer sleep increased membership of our safeguarding team streamlined MS Teams safeguarding planner, with action monitoring **"I’m so grateful that WILD didn’t give up on me and helped me to get some confidence”** Page 25 ## **A Teams approach** This year we have further developed our Vision, Mission and Logic Model, to focus on how we can best prevent the transmission of intergenerational disadvantage for young parent families, so that our WILD babies will not have to face the same difficulties that their parents have experienced. As part of this, we have moved towards a Teams model of working, bringing together teams of people, with mixed skills and experience, to work together on the team's mission. Our model values expertise rather than status, and enables new voices to be heard, and new solutions to be found. Our Teams are focused in three areas: **Families** **Operations** **Strategy & Learning** Families' teams will deliver WILD's work with a whole family approach, supporting WILD's vision and the change we seek with & for young parent families. Operations Teams will ensure an enabling infrastructure, keeping families at the centre of planning and decision, to achieve WILD's vision. Strategy and Learning Teams will learn, share, develop and inform WILD's practice, strategy and vision. Page 26 ## **partnership and influence** **Working with others in Cornwall** WILD is a key local VCSE charity, and our CEO is Chair of the Voluntary Sector Forum's Children and Families Alliance'. WILD also leads the Alliance's Early Support Working group, and an early years covid recovery partnership. Our team represent us at local food, housing, mental health and wellbeing alliances, MARAC, multi-agency suicide prevention and perinatal mental health groups, and the new Start for Life plans. We have delivered local training for health visitors, foundations for life team, childminders and early years leads. WILD's CEO is VCS representative on the safeguarding children partnership Board and chairs the Learning Group for the partnership, while young parents' films and stories were shared at a Tripartite safeguarding conference. Our 30 year celebration brought together over 200 guests at Eden, where our young parents collaborative film closed the event. This film was then shown at Cornwall Council's provider conference, reaching over 200 representatives from commissioned organisations. Page 27 ## **reaching further** ## **Building our national influence** Our #BelieveInUs Team are leading our development of national network of organisations, people, policy makers and campaigners connected to young parent family work. We hope through this collective work to share a stronger voice for the needs of young parents families and inform systemic change. We have already made significant progress: contact with over 40 individuals and organisations from across the UK, including all four nations international presentation to Charities Aid Foundation America, about the needs of young parent families mentoring of other charity leaders, where our CEO is a mentor for the Kings Fund Grow programme hosting an international learning exchange from our friends at Jakairá, working with young parents across Argentina our CEO has met with the Chair of the National Lottery, presented to the England Board, and been part of the development of their new strategy our Chair and CEO hosted a visit from the national lead for parenting and FNP, and many of our families met Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom MP, to discuss government plans for a stronger focus on early years our team have led workshops for Youth Music (early years), Research in Practice (working with young dads), Page 28 ## **Extra stuff** As well as funding from our grantmaking partners and commissioners, we are supported by the extra help we get from young parent and community volunteers, and from people and organisations who give us their time, expertise, resources, goods, food, discounts, advice, training and heaps of free stuff! This is all worth over £65,000 of added value for our families. And the experiences, skills and confidence that our young parents gain, through all our work, mean that their wider families and communities will benefit too. **and our online reach continues to grow; one of our storytime videos has had over 130,000 views!** Page 29 ## **looking forward** We have ambitious plans for the next year. We want to build more influence for change, both locally and nationally, by increasing our work on our national alliance and networks, and by much wider sharing of the voices and experiences of young parent families. We will be developing our parent-to-be offer, expanding our outdoor work, and starting our new Young Parent Forum where families will guide our work. Our plans to be a learning organisation will be kickstarted by the creation of our learning framework, and we will be developing our Practice Model for intergenerational change for young parent families. And watch out for our super-choir, music videos and new website! Page 30 With thanks from everyone at WILD, and on behalf of the young parents and their children, for your ongoing support of our work towards a fair start for young parent families **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity number 1097693 WILD Young Parents Project, Lady Guinevere Suite, The Old Art School, Clinton Road, Redruth TR15 2QE Trustees: Dr D McBride (Chair), Mr P Trenoweth (Secretary - retired at AGM) Ms T Powell (Treasurer), Ms A Ollivier , Ms T Allen (ended trusteeship at AGM), Ms S Williams, Ms C Macfarlane (joined as Trustee at AGM) Independent examiner: Debbie Risborough, Cornwall CAS ## STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes an unincorporated charity. WILD's Constitution was adopted on 8 November 2002 and amended by special resolution dated 21 April 2003, and is a registered charity. WILD is governed by a Committee of Trustees, three of whom retire annually. Trustees are appointed according to professional expertise and lived experience, and elected at AGM Induction of all trustees includes staff and trustee information handbook (detailing all policies and procedures), informal induction and mentoring through meetings and networking. Trustees may attend staff and multiagency training Decisions taken by trustees; CEO appointment, and policy, critical procedure, strategy, and annual budget agreement and oversight Decisions delegated to Chief Executive; leadership of staff team, management of senior team, fundraising, strategic budget management, strategic partnership development and maintenance, strategic vision planning Decisions delegated to senior team; operations co-ordination and delivery, HR and management of staff team, budget management, policy development Collaboration is essential to our work at WILD. We have substantial partnerships with our multi-agency colleagues, old and new, which are outlined later in this report. Risk is assessed using SWOT analysis and resulting Risk Register, which is completed annually, and is supported by the Local Authority. Action points to address risk include; reserves policy, ring-fenced redundancy costs, financial management systems policy, and safeguarding procedures Page 32 **Wild Young Parents Project INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT** ## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Wild Young Parents Project** I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of Wild Young Parents Project for the year ended 31 December 2022 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Summary Income and Expenditure Account, the Balance Sheet, the Statement of Cash Flows and the related notes. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the trustees of the charity (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act. Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the charity are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** As the charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. I have completed my examination. I can confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the 2006 Act ; or - the accounts do not accord with those records; or - the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements under section 396 of the 2006 Act 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; or - the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102). I have no concerns 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 understanding of the accounts to be reached. Debbie Risborough Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Cornwall Community Accountancy Service The Elms, 61 Green Lane Redruth Cornwall TR15 1LS 21 September 2023 Page 33 ## **Wild Young Parents Project STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES** ## **for the year ended 31 December 2022** |**Notes**
**Income and endowments**
**from:**
Donations and legacies
4
Charitable activities
5
Investments
6
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
7
**Total**
Net gains on investments
**Net income**
8
Transfers between funds
**Net income before other**
**gains/(losses)**
**Other gains and losses:**
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought
forward
**Total funds carried**
**forward**|**Unrestrict**
**ed funds**
**2022**
**£**
28,359
202,401
1,058|**Restricted**
**funds**
**2022**
**£**
-
735,984
-|**Total**
**funds**
**2022**
**£**
28,359
938,385
1,058|**Total**
**funds**
**2021**
**£**
3,745
958,402
7| |---|---|---|---|---| ||231,818
190,234|735,984
598,903|967,802
789,137|962,154
616,716| ||190,234
-|598,903
-|789,137
-|616,716
-| ||41,584
27,039|137,081
(27,039)|178,665
-|345,438
-| ||68,623|110,042|178,665|345,438| ||68,623
698,680|110,042
349,967|178,665
1,048,647|345,438
703,209| ||767,303|460,009|1,227,312|1,048,647| The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. Page 34 ## **Wild Young Parents Project BALANCE SHEET** |**Fixed assets**
**at**
**Notes**
Tangible assets
11
**Current assets**
Debtors
12
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors:**Amount falling due within one year
13
**Net current assets**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
**Net assets excluding pension asset or liability**
**Total net assets**
**The funds of the charity**
**Restricted funds**
14
Restricted income funds
**Unrestricted funds**
14
General funds
Designated funds
**Total funds**|**31 December 2022**

**2022**
**£**
5,907
5,907
47,318
1,193,309
1,240,627
(19,222)
1,221,405
1,227,312
1,227,312
1,227,312
460,009
460,009
294,518
472,785
767,303
1,227,312|**2021**
**£**
7,464| |---|---|---| |||7,464
45,976
1,009,506| |||1,055,482
(14,299)| |||1,041,183
1,048,647| |||1,048,647| |||1,048,647| |||349,967| |||349,967
691,216
7,464| |||698,680| |||1,048,647| Approved by the board on 21 September 2023 And signed on its behalf by: D McBride Trustee 21 September 2023 Page 35 ## **Wild Young Parents Project STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS** ## **for the year ended 31 December 2022** |**Cash flows from operating activities**
**Net income per Statement of Financial Activities**
**Adjustments for:**
Depreciation of property, plant and equipment
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
Increase in trade and other receivables
Increase in trade and other payables
**Net cash provided by operating activities**
**Cash flows from investing activities**
Purchases of property, plant and equipment
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
**Net cash used in investing activities**
**Net cash from financing activities**
**Net increase in cash and cash equivalents**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year**
**Components of cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and bank balances
Bank overdrafts|**2022**
**£**
178,665
3,191
(1,058)
(1,342)
3,043
182,499
(1,634)
1,058
(576)
-
181,923
1,009,038
1,190,961
1,193,309
(2,348)
1,190,961|**2021**
**£**
345,438
3,184
(7)
(16,420)
9,939| |---|---|---| |||342,134
(3,316)
7| |||(3,309)| |||| |||-| |||338,825
670,213| |||1,009,038| |||1,009,506
(468)| |||1,009,038| Page 36 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **for the year ended 31 December 2022** ## **1 Accounting policies** ## **Basis of preparation** 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) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £. The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS102. ## **Change in basis of accounting or to previous accounts** There has been no change to the accounting policies (valuation rules and method of accounting) since last year and no changes have been made to accounts for previous years. ## **Fund accounting** Unrestricted funds These are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objects of the charity. These are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular Designated funds purposes. Revaluation funds These are unrestricted funds which include a revaluation reserve representing the restatement of investment assets at their market values. Restricted funds These are available for use subject to restrictions imposed by the donor or through terms of an appeal. Page 37 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **Income** |**Income**|**Wild Young Parents Project**
**NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**| |---|---| |Recognition of income|Income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA)| ||when the charity becomes entitled to, and virtually certain to receive,| ||the income and the amount of the income can be measured with| ||sufficient reliability.| |Income with related|Where income has related expenditure the income and related| |expenditure|expenditure is reported gross in the SoFA.| |Donations and legacies|Voluntary income received by way of grants, donations and gifts is| ||included in the the SoFA when receivable and only when the| ||Charity has unconditional entitlement to the income.| |Tax reclaims on donations|Income from tax reclaims is included in the SoFA at the same time| |and gifts|as the gift/donation to which it relates.| |Donated services and|These are only included in income (with an equivalent amount in| |facilities|expenditure) where the benefit to the Charity is reasonably| ||quantifiable, measurable and material.| |Volunteer help|The value of any volunteer help received is not included in the| ||accounts.| |Investment income|This is included in the accounts when receivable.| ||This includes any gain or loss resulting from revaluing investments| |Gains/(losses) on|to market value at the end of the year.| |revaluation of fixed assets|| |Gains/(losses) on|This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments.| |investment assets|| |**Expenditure**|| |Recognition of|Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis. Expenditure includes| |expenditure|any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of| ||the expenditure to which it relates.| |Expenditure on raising|These comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary| |funds|income, fundraising trading costs and investment management costs.| |Expenditure on charitable|These comprise the costs incurred by the Charity in the delivery of| |activities|its activities and services in the furtherance of its objects, including| ||the making of grants and governance costs.| |Grants payable|All grant expenditure is accounted for on an actual paid basis plus an| ||accrual for grants that have been approved by the trustees at the end| ||of the year but not yet paid.| |Governance costs|These include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional| ||and statutory requirements of the Charity, including any| ||audit/independent examination fees, costs linked to the strategic| ||management of the Charity, together with a share of other| ||administration costs.| |Other expenditure|These are support costs not allocated to a particular activity.| ## **Taxation** The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities. Page 38 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **Tangible fixed assets and depreciation** Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life: Office Equipment 25% straight line basis Fixtures & Fittings 20% straight line basis ## **Trade and other debtors** Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due. ## **Cash and cash equivalents** Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash at bank and on hand, demand deposits with banks and other short-term highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less and bank overdrafts. In the statement of financial position, bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings or current liabilities. In the Statement of Cash Flows, cash and cash equivalents are shown net of bank overdrafts that are repayable on demand and form an integral part of the company's cash management. ## **Trade and other creditors** Short term creditors are measured at the transaction price. Other creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due. ## **Leased assets** Where the charity enters into a lease which entails taking substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership of an asset, the lease is treated as a finance lease. Leases which do not transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to charity are classified as operating leases. Assets held under finance leases are initially recognised as assets of the charity at their fair value at the inception of the lease or, if lower, at the present value of the minimum lease payments. The corresponding liability to the lessor is included in the balance sheet date as a finance lease obligation. Lease payments are apportioned between finance expenses and reduction of the lease obligation so as to achieve a constant rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability. Finance expenses are recognised immediately, unless they are directly attributable to qualifying assets, in which case they are capitalised in accordance with the charity's policy on borrowing costs. Assets held under finance leases are depreciated in the same way as owned assets. Operating lease payments are recognised as an expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term. In the event that lease incentives are received to enter into operating leases, such incentives are recognised as a liability. The aggregate benefit of incentives is recognised as a reduction of rental expense on a straight-line basis. Page 39 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **Pension costs** The charity operates a defined contribution plan for its employees. A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which the company pays fixed contributions into a separate entity. Once the contributions have been paid the company has no further payments obligations. The contributions are recognised as expenses when they fall due. Amounts not paid are shown in accruals in the balance sheet. The assets of the plan are held separately from the company in independently administered funds. ## **2 Company status** The charity is an unincorporated organisation that is controlled by the trustees. ## **3 Statement of Financial Activities - prior year** |**Income and endowments**
**from:**
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Investments
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
**Total**
**Net income**
**Net income before other**
**gains/(losses)**
**Other gains and losses:**
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**
**4**
**Income from donations and legacies**
Appeals and donations
Donated goods and
services|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2021**
**£**
3,745
269,121
7|**Restricted**
**funds**

**2021**

**£**
-
689,281
-|**Total**
**funds**
**2021**
**£**
3,745
958,402
7| |---|---|---|---| ||272,873
72,491|689,281
544,225|962,154
616,716| ||72,491|544,225|616,716| ||200,382|145,056|345,438| ||200,382|145,056|345,438| ||200,382
498,298|145,056
204,911|345,438
703,209| ||698,680|349,967|1,048,647| ||**Unrestricted**
**£**
3,513
24,846|**Total**
**2022**

**£**
3,513
24,846|**Total**
**2021**
**£**
3,745
-| ||28,359|28,359|3,745| Page 40 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## 5 **Income from charitable activities** ||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Total**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||**2022**|**2021**| ||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**| |Grant Income||||| |ACTS435|-|700|700|2,305| |Arnold Clark|-|-|-|1,000| |Awards for all|-|9,822|9,822|9,585| |Bennelong|-|8,200|8,200|-| |Big Lottery|-|99,399|99,399|80,417| |Big Lottery Dads|||-|100,141| |CAF Bank|-|-|-|21,103| |Carew Pole|-|-|-|5,000| |Children in Need|-|37,321|37,321|-| |Children in Need Next
Steps|-|-|-|36,821| |Comic Relief|-|84,722|84,722|19,894| |Comic Relief Recovery|-|-|-|7,310| |Cornwall Community
Foundation - 2996|||-|2,996| |Cornwall Community
Foundation - 4680|-|4,680|4,680|-| |Cornwall Community
Foundation - 4800|-|4,800|4,800|-| |Cornwall Community
Foundation - 9990|-|-|-|9,990| |Cornwall Community
Foundation - CRISIS|-|1,000|1,000|1,000| |Cornwall Community
Foundation - P Health|-|-|-|15,000| |Cornwall Community|-|3,500|3,500|-| |Foundation - Police 3500||||| |Cornwall Council|-|90,000|90,000|20,000| |Cornwall Council COMF
funds|-|-|-|163,980| |Garfield Weston|-|-|-|25,000| |KPMG|-|82,500|82,500|-| |Lloyds Bank Foundation|-|52,250|52,250|-| |Masonic Charitable
Foundation|-|31,885|31,885|-| |Segelman Trust|2,000|-|2,000|-| |Suicide Prevention|38,841|-|38,841|-| |Sylvia Adams|-|160,458|160,458|99,517| |Tesco Groundworks|-|-|-|1,000| Page 41 ## **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** |Town Council Grants
Trusthouse
Winter Well Being
(Cornwall Community
Foundation)
Youth Music
**Primary Purpose Trading**
Cornwall Council
Unrestricted small contract
funds
6
**Income from investments**
Interest on cash deposits|-
-
-
-
159,380
2,180|750
750
19,992
19,992
-
-
44,005
44,005
-
159,380
-
2,180|-
-
1,000
66,221
159,000
110,122| |---|---|---|---| ||202,401|735,984
938,385|958,402| |||**Unrestricted**
**Total**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
1,058
1,058|**Total**
**2021**
**£**
7| |||1,058
1,058|7| Page 42 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## 7 **Expenditure on charitable activities** |**Expenditure on charitable activities**||| |---|---|---| |_Direct expenditure on_
_charitable activities_
Volunteer expenses
Room hire
Workshop / Programme
Resources
Creche resources
Beneficiary travel and
subsisence
Conference and
membership fees
Monitoring/Evaluation
Grants made
_Support Costs_
Wages
Staff NIC (Employers)
Pensions
Staff training
Travel and subsistence
Rent & rates
Insurance
Telephone and fax
IT expenses
Printing, postage and
stationary
sundry expenses
Marketing and promotion
Consultancy fees
Bank charges
Depreciation
_Governance costs_
Accountancy fees
Independent examination
of the charity's accounts|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
**£**
(160)
18,451
18,291
-
3,273
3,273
-
11,017
11,017
-
147
147
-
644
644
1,812
18,813
20,625
-
2,851
2,851
-
150
150
-
81
81
3,191
-
3,191
15
120
135
35
638
673
1,161
22,967
24,128
-
211
211
137
705
842
7,398
3,491
10,889
-
11,763
11,763
24,846
56,004
80,850
134,318
369,797
504,115
10,190
25,887
36,077
2,220
11,093
13,313
386
12,748
13,134
4,685
24,242
28,927
-
2,835
2,835
-
975
975|**Total**
**2021**
**£**
17,658
2,500
8,147
4,490
779
18,152
-
-
101
3,184
-
-
6,487
8
34
1,955
9,400
18,570
458,830
30,636
12,005
8,064
11,899
2,842
975| ||190,234
598,903
789,137|616,716| Page 43 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** |8|**Net income before transfers**||| |---|---|---|---| |||**2022**|**2021**| ||This is stated after charging:|**£**|**£**| ||Depreciation of owned fixed assets|3,191|3,184| ||Independent Examiner's fee|975|975| ||Other fees paid to the auditor or|972|920| ||independent examiner||| |9|**Trustee remuneration and expenses**||| One or more of the trustees has been paid remuneration in the current or prior periods. |**Other**
**Trustee**
D McBride
**Remuneration**
9,603
**Pension**
-
**benefits**
-
10**Staff costs**
Salaries and wages
504,115
Social security costs
36,077
Pension costs
13,313
553,505
No employee received emoluments in excess of £60,000.
Remuneration of key management personnel, consisting of 4 employees was:
Total employee benefits received by key management
156,127
personnel
The average monthly number of employees during the
year was as follows:
**2022**
**Number**
Charitable Activities
30
30|458,830
30,636
12,005| |---|---| ||501,471| ||146,637
**2021**
**Number**
30| ||30| Page 44 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## 11 **Tangible fixed assets** |At 31 December 2022
**Net book values**
At 31 December 2022
At 31 December 2021
12**Debtors**
Prepayments and accrued income
13**Creditors:**
amounts falling due within one year
Bank loans and overdrafts
Trade creditors
Other taxes and social security
Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income
**Cost or revaluation**
At 1 January 2022
Additions
At 31 December 2022
**Depreciation and**
**impairment**
At 1 January 2022
Depreciation charge for the
year||**Office**
**Fixtures &**
**Equipment**
**£**
**Fittings**
**£**
34,734
5,176
1,634
-|**Total**
**£**
39,910
1,634| |---|---|---|---| |||36,368
5,176|41,544| |||27,270
5,176
3,191
-|32,446
3,191| |||30,461
5,176|35,637| |||5,907
-|5,907| |||7,464
-|7,464| |||**2022**
**£**
47,318
47,318
**2022**
**£**
2,348
4,033
8,877
2,069
1,895
19,222|**2021**
**£**
45,976| ||||45,976| ||||**2021**
**£**
468
870
9,021
1,708
2,232| ||||14,299| Page 45 **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **14 Movement in funds** |**Movement in funds**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Incoming**|||| ||**At 1**|**resources**
**(including**
**other**|**Resources**
**expended**|**Gross**
**transfers**|**At 31**
**December**
**2022**| ||**January**|**gains/losses)**|||| ||**2022**||||| |||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**| |**Restricted funds:**|||||| |**Restricted income funds:**|||||| |ACTS435|746|700|(746)|-|700| |Arnold Clark|90|-|(90)|-|-| |Awards for all|-|9,822|(9,822)|-|-| |Bennelong|-|8,200|-|-|8,200| |Big Lottery|15,520|99,399|(73,320)|-|41,599| |Big Lottery Dads|23,398|-|(21,949)|(1,449)|-| |CAF Bank|1,100|-|-|(1,100)|-| |Carew Pole|4,650|-|-|(4,650)|-| |Children in Need|-|37,321|(26,677)|-|10,644| |Children in Need Next|||||| |Steps|2,584|-|(2,584)|-|-| |Comic Relief|499|84,722|(23,282)|(499)|61,440| |Comic Relief Recovery|1,716|-|-|(1,716)|-| |Cornwall Community|||||| |Foundation - 2996|2,996|-|(2,996)|-|-| |Cornwall Community|||||| |Foundation - 4680|-|4,680|-|-|4,680| |Cornwall Community|||||| |Foundation - 4800|-|4,800|(4,800)|-|-| |Cornwall Community|||||| |Foundation - CRISIS|613|1,000|(849)|(426)|338| |Cornwall Community|||||| |Foundation - P Health|15,000|-|(15,000)|-|-| |Cornwall Community|||||| |Foundation - Police 3500|-|3,500|-|-|3,500| |Cornwall Council|-|90,000|(50,000)|-|40,000| |Cornwall Council COMF|||||| |funds|127,144|-|(115,918)|(11,226)|-| |Garfield Weston|25,000|-|(25,000)|-|-| |KPMG|-|82,500|(5,796)|-|76,704| |Lloyds Bank Foundation|-|52,250|(25,000)|-|27,250| |Masonic Charitable|||||| |Foundation|-|31,885|(30,004)|-|1,881| |Sylvia Adams|96,327|160,458|(96,333)|-|160,452| |Tesco Groundworks|804|-|(804)|-|-| |Town Council Grants|-|750|-|-|750| |Trusthouse|-|19,992|(19,992)|-|-| Page 46 ## **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** |Winter Well Being
(Cornwall Community
Foundation)
Youth Music
Small Contract Funds
_Total_
**Unrestricted funds:**
**General funds**
**Designated funds:**
Potential long term
liabilities
Capital fund
_Total_
**Revaluation Reserves:**
**Total funds**||(1,007)
-
-
1,007
25,707
44,005
(47,641)
(504)
7,080
-
(300)
(6,476)|-
21,567
304| |---|---|---|---| |||349,967
735,984
(598,903)
(27,039)|460,009| |||691,216
231,818
(187,043)
(441,473)
-
-
-
466,878
7,464
-
(3,191)
1,634|294,518
466,878
5,907| |||7,464
-
(3,191)
468,512|472,785| ||||| |||1,048,647
967,802
(789,137)
-|1,227,312| Purposes and restrictions in relation to the funds: Restricted funds: All restricted funds have been allocated in accordance with the agreed grant budgets and reports. Transfer of funds from restricted to general funds relate to adjustments to allocations made in prior years. Designated funds: Potential long term Monies set aside to meet any potential liabilities the charity may liabilities have if there were ever a need to close the organisation. Capital fund In accordance with the charity sorp capital expenditure is transferred to a capital designated fund which is then reduced by depreciation as appropriate. ## **15 Analysis of net assets between funds** |Fixed assets
Net current assets|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
5,907
761,396|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
5,907
761,396|**Restricted**
**funds**

**£**
-
460,009|**Total**
**£**
5,907
1,221,405| |---|---|---|---|---| |||767,303|
460,009|1,227,312| Page 47 ## **Wild Young Parents Project NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **16 Commitments** |**Commitments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**2022**|||**2021**|| ||**Land and**
**buildings**|**Other**||**Land and**
**buildings**|**Other**| ||**£**||**£**|**£**|**£**| |**_Annual commitments under non-cancellable_**|**_operating leases_**|**_are as_**|||| |**_follows:_**|||||| |In the second to fifth years inclusive|18,196||-|-|-| ||18,196||-||| |**_Pension commitments_**|||||| |||**2022**|||**2021**| ||||**£**||**£**| |Unpaid contributions due to the fund|||||| |are included in other creditors and|||||| |amounted to:||2,069|||1,708| **17 Related party disclosures** ## _**Controlling party**_ The organisation is controlled by the trustees; thus no single party controls the company. Page 48