WILDY oung Parents EST.1992 Annual Report 2023 ## **Contents** ## **Annual Report of Trustees** > **3** Introduction > **6** WILD Families > **15** WILD Voices **22** Learning > **28** Partnership **32** Social Value **37** Looking Forward **The Finance & Legal Bits** > **39** Reference, Administration, Governance and Management details > **42** Independent Examiner’s Report > **43** Financial Statements Page 3 **Through the gloomiest days and the darkest nights, we must hold on to sparks of joy and light.** ## **Introduction** 2023 - a year of ‘firsts’ at WILD; our **of joy and light.** first National Young Parent Network, first young dads’ early literacy group, first new parent-to-be groups, first WILD Voices peer-led strategy, and our first housing partnership project. Rising living costs, reduced services, and the policies of austerity are making life even harder for our WILD families, yet they continue to humble us with their strength, determination and kindness. Through collaboration, creativity and connection with our families and partners, we are determined to achieve a fair start for the babies of young parents. ## **A year of** **This year WILD has supported over 700 babies and young parents with:** First Words Together project with the National Literacy Trust, including their first ever online dads programme £50,000 emergency support for families struggling with the cost of living mum & baby group sessions whole family outdoor allotment sessions 200 100 100 100 dads group sessions online sessions including families from Isles of Scilly or 120 who are rurally isolated baby-focused 500 attachment activities parent-to-be support 30 sessions Page 4 ## **A year of** **and supported with:** the start of our WILDled National Network for work with young parent families and £78,000 added value from gifts, goods and donations families with extra support from our Building Futures & Dads projects 140 24 daily online peer 24 support chat groups WILD Voices peer-led 15 sessions individual family attachment60 based sessions First Words Together project with the trips and events - arts, National Literacy Trust, libraries, trains, woods, 60 including their first beaches... ever online dads programme 2000 books for WILD babies Page 5 '• Our WILD Families Page 6 ## **Families - Numbers** We have reached over 700 young parents this year, and worked more closely with 399 of them We have reached 395 children in these families, and worked more closely with 295 of them We have reached dads in half of these families, and then 118 dads have engaged with our longer-term intensive support 105 families have been part of Building Futures, our intensive support for those experiencing complex risk Page 7 ## **Families - reported adversity** childhood abuse childhood safeguarding interventions care experience childhood CSA mental ill health suicidal ideation self harm domestic abuse 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Page 8 Routine enquiry from WILD Workers identifies previous and current adversity. This chart shows the percentage of new parents reporting these adverse experiences. Many young parents are reluctant to report when they first meet us, so these levels rise as they build trusting relationships with our team. ## **Families: Welcome** Our Welcome Work team help new young parent families as early as possible in their parenting journey, and prevent families ‘falling through the gaps’ because services fail to engage with them. Welcome Workers have time for patience and persistence, offering home visiting, community or outdoor meet-ups, online chat and whole family activities, alongside advice and signposting. They work closely with referring partners, especially our midwifery Young Parent partnership pathway. ## **Referral partners** **----- Start of picture text -----**
other health visiting
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“Abby ‘didn’t engage’ with 57 contact attempts but eventually we got an unsolicited facebook message saying _‘I’m not in a good place’_ . Abby was accustomed to rejection and abuse, so found it hard to make herself vulnerable by trusting anyone. By refusing to give up on her, it gave Abby the confidence to reach out and trust us.” Page 9 ## **Families: Infant/parent contact** Although around half of WILD children have separated parents, nearly three quarters of all babies and children do still have contact with both parents. A quarter of WILD children only have contact with one of their birth parents, while 2% do not see either parent. **Relationship with parents** no parental contact contact with mum only 2% 21% contact with dad only 5% contact with both parents 72% Page 10 ## **- Impact:** _**Building Futures**_ **Young parents will be better able to protect their children from harm** **80 60 40** **The next few charts show outcomes for the 75 WILD families whose babies experience the highest level of risk, based on percentages of families who have seen improvements in each area.** **20 0** Page 11 **We believe learning about what works with this group of families can help all our WILD children and young parents.** Page 11 **100** **20** **Impact:** _**Building Futures**_ **- Young Mums & Dads will better understand what their children's needs are and are more able to meet these needs** **80** **60** **40** **0** Page 12 **100** **- Impact:** _**Building Futures**_ **Children at risk of removal are safer because of better family and community support** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **IMPACT: young dads** **Through our more focused work with Dads (n=118), 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) **“Through safeguarding processes, dads often feel scrutinised, unheard and under threat. Their own childhood adversities are revisited by being told, often using language or terminology they struggle with, that they are not good enough, dangerous or should be kept away from their children. This is exacerbated when waiting lists mean support is not offered in time, risk assessments are delayed, and support is not in place to enable contact. Dads feel blamed and defensive, so don’t hear the positives. They hear changes are needed, but don’t know how to achieve them. They know that they need to do work, but the support seems so far away.”** 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Page 14 WILD Voices WILD EIT.194 vo VOICES Noi; Page15 ## **Voices - speaking out** This has been the year of WILD Voices, putting the experiences, voices and ideas of our WILD parents and children centre stage. Rant Club enabled young parents to turn their struggles into comic genius, while WILD young dads influenced men across the UK through their media campaign with the Book Trust to get more dads reading with their babies. Our WILD Voices strategic steering group is taking the lead in ensuring WILD is doing our best for our families, and amplifying their experiences and ideas across the wider system. “I never thought I’d be doing anything like this,” he says. “I think it’s nice for my son to see me step up. I’ve never really done much public speaking or reading aloud. Doing it around kids is something I really enjoy. It gives me a chance to be childish myself, and I can’t get in trouble for it. I can be as goofy as I want. (BookTrust) Page 16 ## **Voices - being heard** **20 WILD parents were visited by the national Covid Enquiry, and shared their experiences of isolation, fear, frustration, trying to do school exams in lockdown, or having a first job in a care home and having to stay in a caravan onsite and not see their families. Another group of young mums worked with Exeter University to produce a new, more accessible advice film about pelvic health after pregnancy. This will be available to new parents, and for training midwives and health visitors. We have worked closely with Cornwall Council’s Children’s Rights Officer, including being filmed and starting a new cross-sector group exploring how to best hear and understand the lived experience of our youngest children.** Page 17 ## **Laura’s advice to others** **“You’ll be ok on your own without your partner. There is more to life than being with someone. Being alone with a child is much better than living with abuse. Try and use your own mind and try and go to things where there is help available. Get the right sort of help from someone who is persistent and forms a relationship with you. It’ll be ok, take the help, don’t fob people off. You might not like what they’re saying, but just listen, take advice and make a safety plan.** They are not seeing the human behind the behaviour. The ‘shut and cut’ approach, with preventative services gone, doesn’t look at the wider context and the journey to that moment in court. Pretending business as usual and not being honest about the perma-crisis that the system is in doesn’t help make change for any family. You don’t get long-term success by closing the door. You get it by building trust and helping them look at the long term and invest in their future. It’s not a quick fix. ” (BF worker) Page 18 **What parents say about** **I love everything about WILD. From meeting new parents & children to learning new ways of parenting and bonding with children by spending time with other parents & children as well as the support offered by WILD for many things. I like that my baby can have a play and explore learning new skills. She loves singing and playing** **Always makes me want to do better** **I really appreciate everything WILD 'Being involved in a group has done for both me and Milo. When where we've all I moved to Cornwall I was so scared experienced the same about not having any friends or thing, we can talk to having a social life, but WILD has eachother and get advice meant that both me and Milo get out without judgement. and have been able to develop really good friendships with other mums. I 'I love how accepting never feel judged by anyone and the everyone is and going workers are all so lovely and somewhere I don't feel supportive. Thank you for everything judged for being myself' you have done for us! 'It’s a non judgemental group who you can share your concerns with and receive amazing feedback. The group helps you to feel like you’re not alone in your parenting journey** **'I love that WILD do not judge, they help guide you. Whenever there’s a worry or issue they are always there. WILD have shaped me as a parent and without them I know I would’ve struggled due to anxiety etc.** **I’ve found wild very helpful and such a lovely safe space. I don’t like mixing with people but even that is nice x** **“I think that wild has helped me decide that I was ready to attend college again. As a young mum that was in college before having a baby it helped to talk my worries through and I have gone back to college and I’m smashing it!”** Page 19 **WILD Voices: what parents say about accessing other services (% of all survey respondents n=113)** Page 20 **WILD Voices: what parents say about accessing other services (% only of those who have used these services)** Page 21 fl Our Learning .l*i*ji Page 22 ## **WILD Learning: Whole family work** Whole family work through our Teams model brings together a skills-mix area team to support babies, mums, dads and non-binary young parents with a holistic approach. There is a strong social care body of evidence for whole family work, and our partners are changing their methods to encompass this. It works, but does come with complexities. Whole family work is often taken to mean the nuclear family but, for young parent families, it is often more intergenerational. This has been increased by the rising number of WILD families who are living in their overcrowded parents’ homes, due to housing shortages. This intergenerational aspect can bring additional challenge, particularly if there are repeated patterns of violent relationships across generations of their family. Improved understanding of abusive relationships can be diluted by the impact of ‘being sucked into the vortex’ of abusive relationships all around them. “Wider family support is a key factor to build resilience to leave and recover from domestic abuse. This doesn’t necessarily work when the wider family are in abusive relationships themselves, and it’s the norm within the family. The young parent comes emotionally out of this environment briefly through professional support, but then they are re-immersed in it, saturated with violence all around them.” **“my mum didn’t keep me safe, and now they’re giving my child to her”** Page 23 ## **WILD learning: Trauma-informed, empathy and humanity** Our team describe the need to understand adversity experienced by each family member. They may have had no experience of typical family structure or positive parenting. The impact of the adversity they have experienced means they may find it hard to be emotionally available for their babies. They may experience mental ill health, negative coping strategies, or have no sense of agency or aspiration. These experiences are all symptoms that result from unresolved adverse experiences; it is not ‘what is wrong with them’, but rather ‘what has happened to them’. Our team acknowledge parents’ sense of helplessness and hopelessness, and that what has happened in their life is not fair. “We share our humanity and vulnerability, we always thank them for meeting us and talking to us, and for being honest with us. We need to let them know we are not an officious professional who thinks we know more than them; we are in it together. We use humour, and match, catch, dispatch to deal with strong emotions and validate their feelings. It takes a long time for them to let their guard down, and that’s when you have to have lots of contact, even daily, and show them that they don’t need to feel embarassed because we are still here” Page 24 ## **WILD learning: Finding Hope** **“you have to have hope to move out of sadness or anger, which can be scary”** Our Building Futures project sticks with families at their lowest points. For some of our families, their children are removed, sometimes permanently, and their loss and grief can be overwhelming. We have learnt that the worse things get, the more important it is to find strengths and hope. Our team use the tactic of talking in ‘the preferred future’, where parents can focus on setting the foundations for future positive parenting, however far away it might be. For example, we move from their focus on their children being out of their care at that moment, to how their children will need and want them to be in the future. Then we can make hopeful plans which help them develop the structures and behaviours they need in order to parent safely. Page 25 ## **WILD learning: Practice Reviews** Through our Teams learning approach, we are introducing regular Practice Reviews in each area. Led by our Enabling Leadership Team, using a Coaching and Signs of Safety approach, the team review our practice around individual families who face complex risks. We look at family history, trauma-informed theory, then reflect on our decisions and behaviours. We are using them to reflect on persistent professional issues* such as disguised compliance, over-optimism, respectful curiosity and ‘thinking the unthinkable’, enabling us to better place the baby at the centre of our thinking. *(National Safeguarding Panel) Page 26 ## **WILD Learning: System Challenges** **Housing Insecurity** : Cornwall’s housing crisis has seen a threefold increase in people living in emergency accommodation. For our WILD families, this means they have experienced frequent moves (often far from home), unsafe or impractical housing, living in shelters where other residents present significant risk, lack of cooking and food storage facilities, and lack of space for baby’s development and play. **Inconsistent keywork** : partner agencies’ lack of capacity, rapid change of keyworkers, cost-saving measures, and recruitment difficulties, result in families having to repeatedly tell their stories, and unable to build the trusted professional relationships needed to effect change. It also makes it harder for our team to develop co-working partnerships with others. **Over-reliance on VCS** : several VCS partners report an increase in system expectations to ‘hold’ families experiencing complexity or in crisis, when their work would historically have been additional and preventative. **Domestic abuse complexity** : the evidence base around needs of babies can appear to clash with domestic abuse theory, and needs careful, knowledgeable handling. Research suggests there is a mutual knowledge gap between child protection and domestic abuse practitioners, and we often still see young mums being held accountable for the actions of their partner/ex-partner. Page 27 Partnership & Opportunities EST. I -LiJi, ## **Opportunities: Working with Others** Our partnerships provide opportunities for WILD, the young parent families we support, and wider young parents too with the development of our national Young Parent Network. **VCS Alliances** : We have representation on the food, housing, mental health, climate, and health alliances, and chair the children/families alliance. This has enabled us to develop co-working, fast referral pathways, and innovative projects. For example, one of our dads team will soon be accompanying housing workers to model ‘courageous conversations’ with families in emergency accommodation. **Local Multi-agency** : We have representation on strategic and developmental groups: Suicide Prevention, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health, EHPIC (maternity), Safeguarding Partnership Board, MARAC, Parenting through adversity, Serious Violence Prevention, ICON and Safer Sleep, Neonatal, Teenage Pregnancy, Trauma-informed practice. We have also developed our Thriving Together partnership, with an increase in WILD families gaining psychological support for early attachment issues. **Repeat Care Proceedings** : After six years of local campaigning, we have finally gained multiagency traction around repeat removals of children. We presented the Nuffield research to our local joint commissioning group, local safeguarding partnership, and community safety partnership. A system-wide group are now developing an offer for parents who have children removed. Page 29 ## **Opportunities: National network** We are reaching far and wide with our new National Young Parent Families Network, with 80 individuals from 50 organisations signed up. We have representation from crosssector practitioners, academics, researchers, policy-makers, and system leaders, from all four UK nations, as well as strong links with a Latin-American young parent network. This graphic (right) demonstrates our network vision. Page 30 ## **Opportunities: Added Value** **As well as funding from our funders and donors, we have also had over £78,000 worth of extra help. We are grateful to all our volunteers, who give their time, resources and expertise so generously. This includes:** Several thousand pounds worth of emergency food, toys, health products, theatre tickets, household goods, books, nappies, train fares, cot bedding, and so much more! Over £55,000 worth of volunteer time, expert consultancy help, first aid training for families, fundraising, therapy for parents, arts projects and workshops, legal advice, artwork donations and events Over £6,000 of training for our team, in every area of running a charity Page 31 Social Value Page 32 ## **Social Value: Skills and behaviours** **The skills and confidence that our WILD families gain, through all our work, mean that their wider communities and society gain too.** **Our ‘extra’ activites, like learning to grow food for your family, budget, speak in public, write a story, sing in front of a crowd, chair a meeting, do first aid, help other families, or complete ‘Kernow Killer’, are all transformative experiences that enable our young parents and their children to develop their identity and take up their space in the world. This means they will be better prepared to be creative, compassionate and well-developed citizens, neighbours, partners, workers and friends.** Page 33 ## **Social Value - A place to call Home** **Homelessness has increased in Cornwall, and numbers in emergency accommodation are treble pre-pandemic levels. Consequently, we are seeing more families experiencing homelessness, insecure housing, or having to stay in overcrowded wider family homes.** **Our dads worker, Luke, takes our housing lead, representing WILD at the VCS Housing Alliance. This work has enabled: a named single point of contact with housing to help our team navigate the housing world more effectively a feedback system where we share families’ experience of homelessness with providers, to improve understanding earlier support for families where accommodation becomes unstable or inappropriate Luke accompanying housing officers to model traumainformed ‘courageous conversations’ with young parents priority route and funding to address housing problems which impact on infant health and safer sleep for babies** “Often, these are single dads that don't have their children full time, but find themselves homeless due to relationship breakups. As it stands, if one of them leave, they are making themselves voluntarily homeless, and this then limits the support they would otherwise be entitled to if homeless. They often end up sofa surfing, living with family or street homeless. This limits their access to their children and has an impact on their mental wellbeing and other aspects of their lives like employment and finance.” Page 34 ## **Social Value - Music and arts** Early years music is embedded in every WILD group session, while parents enjoy regular songwriting, music-making and music technology activities. Our WILD choir performed again at the Tate festival this year, and our WILD parents are soon to launch their music video Acting, comedy stand-up, visual arts, poetry-writing, filming, story-telling, and visits to galleries, museums and theatres....all help our WILD families more confidently express themselves, feel valued in their cultural communities, and broaden their ideas of what is possible. Page 35 Page 36 ## **Social Value - Nature** Access to nature is embedded in our face-toface work. Our allotment forms the core of this, and is supported by family activities on beaches, music in woodland, and play in parks and gardens. This all helps our babies and parents enjoy and care for their natural environemtn, improve their wellbeing, and feel a stronger sense of belonging. This year saw our artist collaboration project “Birds on a Trainline”, where families took journeys and learned about the birds they saw. ## **looking forward** **Next year we will be investing in the future of WILD, for young parent families in Cornwall and everywhere. We will be....** **...hearing more WILD Voices - a wider, louder reach for the needs and rights of babies and their young parents ...creating communications that help us do this, building on our new website ...getting help to navigate the challenging funding environment, to make sure we have the resources to achieve our vision ...growing our network to build influence to change the narrative, and the future, for our WILD babies and families** Page 37 With thanks from our team at WILD, and on behalf of young parents and their children, for your ongoing support of our work towards a fair start for our WILD babies and their young parent families Page 38 The Legal Bits! Page 39 ## REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity number 1097693 WILD Young Parents Project, Lady Guinevere Suite, The Old Art School, Clintn Road, Redruth TR15 2QE Trustees: Dr D McBride (Chair), Ms T Powell (Treasurer), Ms A Ollivier , Ms C Williamson (Appointed Sep 23), Ms S Williams (Resigned Sep 23), Ms C Macfarlane 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 40 ## FINANCIAL REVIEW Wild income for the year was £736,962 (2022 £967,802) with expenditure of £877,388 (2022 £789,137). There is a deficit for the year of £140,426 (2022 surplus of £178,665). This deficit is due to restricted funds received in the prior year being used so the restricted funds carried forward are £233,535 (2022 £460,009) whilst unrestricted funds are £853,351 (2022 £767.303. The trustees have set designated funds to cover capital assets and potential long term liabilities. The free reserves are those after taking these designated funds into account. The free reserves at the end of the year were £356,557 (2022 £294,518) ## TRUSTEE RESPONSIBILITIES The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006 and the applicable Statement of Recommended Practice. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. In so far as the trustees are aware: - there is no relevant information of which the charitable company’s independent examiner is unaware; and - the trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken as trustees to make themselves aware of any relevant information and to establish - that the independent examiner is aware of that information. Approved by the Board on 23rd September 2024 and signed on its behalf by: ......................................... Dulcie McBride Trustee Page 41 ## INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Wild Young Parents Project:** I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 31st December 2023, which are set out on pages 43 to 50 ## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** The trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the 2011 Act and that an independent examination is needed. The charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to: -examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act; -follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145 (5) (b) of the 2011 Act; -and state whether particular matters have come to my attention. B **asis of independent examiner's report** My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. ## **Independent examiner's statement** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: 1)which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: o to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006 and section 130 of the 2011 Act; and o to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities have not been met; 2)or to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 18th October 2024 **....................................................... …………………………… Debbie Risborough, Chartered Certified Accountant Date: Cornwall Community Accountancy Service The Elms, 61 Green Lane, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 1LS** Page 42 BALANCE SHEET ## STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES ||for the year ended 31 December 2023|for the year ended 31 December 2023|for the year ended 31 December 2023|for the year ended 31 December 2023|for the year ended 31 December 2023|for the year ended 31 December 2023|for the year ended 31 December 2023|for the year ended 31 December 2023||||As at 31 December 2023|As at 31 December 2023|As at 31 December 2023|As at 31 December 2023|As at 31 December 2023|As at 31 December 2023|As at 31 December 2023| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Note||Unrestricted
funds||Restricted
income
funds||Total funds||Prior year funds||||2023|||2022|| ||||||||||||||Note|£|£||£|£| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||2023||2023||2023||2022||||||||| |||||||||||||Fixed Assets||||||| |||||£||£||£||£||||||||| |||||||||||||Tangible Assets|11||8,129|||5,907| |Income and endowments from:||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||8,129|||5,907| |Donations and legacies||4||36,740||-||36,740||28,359||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |Charitable activities||5||199,373||498,003||697,376||938,385||||||||| |||||||||||||Current Assets||||||| |||||||||||||Debtors|12|47,006|||47,318|| |Investments||6||2,846||-||2,846||1,058||||||||| |||||||||||||Cash at bank and in hand||1,047,763|||1,193,309|| |Total||||238,959||498,003||736,962||967,802||||1,094,769|||1,240,627|| |||||||||||||Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year|13|(16,012)|||(19,222)|| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |Expenditure on:||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||Net current assets|||1,078,757|||1,221,405| |Charitable activities||7||157,754||719,634||877,388||789,137||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||Total assets less current liabilities|||1,086,886|||1,227,312| |Total||||157,754||719,634||877,388||789,137||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||Net assets|||1,086,886|||1,227,312| |||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |Net income/(expenditure) before investment
gains/(losses)||||81,205||(221,631)||(140,426)||178,665||||||||| |||||||||||||The funds of the charity:||||||| |Net income/(expenditure)||||81,205||(221,631)||(140,426)||178,665||||||||| |||||||||||||Restricted funds|||233,535|||460,009| |Extraordinary items||||-||-||-||-||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |Transfers between funds||||(4,843)||4,843||-||-||Unrestricted funds||||||| |||||||||||||Designated funds||496,794|||472,785|| |Other recognised gains/(losses):||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||Unrestricted income funds||356,557|||294,518|| |Net movement in funds||||86,048||(226,474)||(140,426)||178,665||||||||| |||||||||||||Total unrestricted funds|||853,351|||767,303| |||||||||||||||||||| |Reconciliation of funds:||||||||||||Total charity funds|||1,086,886|||1,227,312| |Total funds brought forward||||767,303||460,009||1,227,312||1,048,647||||||||| |||||||||||||Approved by the Board on __________________________ and signed on its behalf by:
23/09/2024||||||| |Total funds carried forward||||853,351||233,535||1,086,886||1,227,312||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||| |The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.||||||||||||D McBride||||||| |All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities||||||||||||Trustee||||||| Page 43 Statement of Cash Flows Notes to the Accounts |Statement of Cash Flows|Statement of Cash Flows|Statement of Cash Flows|Statement of Cash Flows|Statement of Cash Flows|Statement of Cash Flows| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |As at 31 December 2023|||||| ||||2023||2022| ||||£||£| |Cashflows from operating activities|||||| ||Net income per Statement of Financial
Activities||(140,426)||178,665| ||||||| |Adjustments for:|||||| ||Depreciation of property, plant and
equipment||2,395||3,191| ||Dividends, interest and rents from
investments||(2,846)||(1,058)| ||(Increase)/Decrease in trade and other
receivables||312||(1,342)| ||Increase/(Decrease) in trade and other
payables||(1,992)||3,043| |Net cash provided by /(used in) operating activities|||(142,557)||182,499| |Cashflows from investing activities|||||| ||Purchase of property, plant and
equipment||(4,617)||(1,634)| ||Sales of property, plant and
equipment||-||-| ||Dividends, interest and rents from
investments||2,846||1,058| ||||||| |Net cash provided by /(used in) investing activities|||(1,771)||(576)| ||||||| |Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents|||(144,328)||181,923| ||||||| |Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year|||1,190,961||1,009,038| ||||||| |Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year|||1,046,633||1,190,961| ||||||| |Components of cash and cash equivalents:|||||| ||Cash at bank and in hand||1,047,763||1,193,309| ||Bank Overdrafts||(1,130)||(2,348)| ||||||| ||||1,046,633||1,190,961| ||||||| ## 1 Accounting policies ## 1.1 Basis of accounting The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and 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 (FRS102) second edition - October 2019 (effective 1 January 2019); - the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102); - the Companies Act 2006 and - the Charities Act 2011. 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 1.2 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. 1.3 Fund accounting policy Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees' discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity. Designated funds are amounts that are allocated for specific purposes by the charity itself. Restricted funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose. Revaluation funds are unrestricted funds which include a revaluation reserve representing the restatement of investment assets at their market value. ## 1.4 Income There has been no offsetting of assets and liabilities, or income and expenses, unless required or permitted by the FRS102 SORP or FRS102. the charity has entitlement to the funds; any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met or are fully within the control of the charity; there is sufficient certainty that receipt of the income is considered probable; and the amount can be measured reliably. Donations and legacies are voluntary income received by way of donations and gifts. It is included within the accounts when receivable and only when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the income. Tax reclaims on donations and gifts are included in the accounts at the same time as the gift/donation to which it relates Page 44 Notes to the Accounts continued… Donated goods and services are only included in income (with an equivalent amount in expenditure) where the benefit to the Charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material. The value of services provided by volunteers is not included within the accounts. ## 1.5 Resources expended Liabilities are recognised where there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to the expenditure. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and includes the attributable value added tax which cannot be recovered. Grants payable are charged in the year when the offer is conveyed to the recipient except in those cases where the offer is conditional, such grants being recognised as expenditure when the conditions attaching are fulfilled. Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year-end are noted as a commitment, but not accrued as expenditure. Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them. Support costs are the those costs required to support the charity in carrying out its activities and meeting its objects. Governance costs include costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the Charity, including the preparation and examination of the statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and other costs linked to the strategic management of the Charity including the cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters. ## 1.10 Creditors and provisions 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. ## 1.11 Pension costs The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions are charged in the statement of financial activities as they become payable in accordance with the rules of the scheme. ## 1.12 Leases Rentals under operating leases are charged to the statement of financial activities on a straight-line basis over the lease term. ## 2 Company Status The charity is an unincorporated charity and has no share capital. The charity is registered in England. The members of the charity are the trustees named on page 1 ## 1.6 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its expected useful life, which is reviewed annually. The rates used are as follows: Fixtures and fittings -20% straight line Office equipment - 25% straight line 1.7 Taxation The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities. 1.8 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. 1.9 Cash at bank and in hand Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account. Page 45 Notes to the Accounts continued |3
Statement of Financial Activities - prior year
Unrestricte
d funds
Restricted
income funds
Total
funds
2022
2022
2022
£
£
£
Income and endowments from:
Donations and legacies
28,359
-
28,359
Charitable activities
202,401
735,984
938,385
Investments
1,058
-
1,058
Total
231,818
735,984
967,802
Expenditure
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
190,234
598,903
789,137
Total
190,234
598,903
789,137
Net income/(expenditure) before
investment gains/(losses)
41,584
137,081
178,665
Net gains/(losses) on investments
-
-
-
Net income/(expenditure)
41,584
137,081
178,665
Transfers between funds
27,039
(27,039)
-
Other recognised gains/(losses):
-
-
-
Net movement in funds
68,623
110,042
178,665
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
698,680
349,967
1,048,647
Total funds carried forward
767,303
460,009
1,227,312
4
Donations and Legacies
Unrestricte
d funds
Restricted
income funds
Total
funds
Prior year
funds
2023
2022
£
£
£
£
Appeals and donations
18,494
-
18,494
3,513
Donated goods and services
18,246
-
18,246
24,846
36,740
-
36,740
28,359|5|Incoming resources from charitable activities||||||||||Page 46| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||Unrestricte
d funds||Restricted
income
funds||Total
funds||Prior year
funds|| ||||||||||2023||2022|| ||||||£||£||£||£|| |||Grant Income:||||||||||| |||ACTS435|||-||450||450||700|| |||Awards for All|||-||-||-||9,822|| |||Aim Foundation|||-||30,000||30,000||-|| |||Bennelong|||-||-||-||8,200|| |||Big Lottery|||-||104,496||104,496||99,399|| |||Children in Need|||-||-||-||37,321|| |||Comic Relief Rant Club|||-||86,370||86,370||84,722|| |||Cornwall Council grants|||-||40,550||40,550||90,000|| |||Cornwall Community Foundation 4680|||-||-||-||4,680|| |||Cornwall Community Foundation 4800|||-||-||-||4,800|| |||Cornwall Community Foundation ICB 9997|||-||9,998||9,998||-|| |||Cornwall Community Foundation People in Mind|||-||10,000||10,000||-|| |||Cornwall Community Foundation Police 3500|||-||-||-||3,500|| |||Cornwall Community Foundation Surviving Winter|||-||13,000||13,000||-|| |||Cornwall Community Foundation - CRISIS|||-||-||-||1,000|| |||Garfield Weston|||-||25,000||25,000||-|| |||KPMG|||-||75,000||75,000||82,500|| |||Lloyds Bank Foundation|||-||-||-||52,250|| |||Masonic Charitable Foundation|||-||32,885||32,885||31,885|| |||Sainsburys|||-||1,500||1,500||-|| |||Segelman Trust|||30,000||-||30,000||40,841|| |||Suicide prevention|||-||-||-||-|| |||Sylvia Adams|||-||-||-||160,458|| |||Town Council Grants|||-||200||200||750|| |||Trusthouse|||-||19,992||19,992||19,992|| |||Youth Music|||-||48,562||48,562||44,005|| |||Primary Purpose Trading:||||||||||| |||Cornwall Council|||159,000||-||159,000|||| |||Unrestricted small contract funds|||10,373||-||10,373||2,180|| |||||||||||||| ||||||199,373||498,003||697,376||938,385|| ## Notes to the Accounts continued |6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income|6 Investment income| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||Unrestricted
funds||Restricted
income
funds||Total funds||Prior year
funds| |||||||||2023||2022| |||||£||£||£||£| |||||||||||| ||Interest on cash deposits|||2,846||-||2,846||1,058| |||||||||||| |||||2,846||-||2,846||1,058| |||||||||||| |7|Expenditure on charitable activities|||||||||| |||||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total||Prior year| |||||||||2023||2022| |||||£||£||£||£| |||||||||||| ||Direct costs|||||||||| ||Room hire|||-||1,456||1,456||673| ||Workshop/ programme
resources|||18,951||6,959||25,910||24,245| ||Beneficiary travel and
subsistence|||54||1,342||1,396||1,053| ||Conference and membership
fees|||60||3,454||3,514||10,889| ||Monitoring / Evaluation|||-||9,717||9,717||11,763| ||Grants made|||-||76,800||76,800||80,850| |||||||||||| |||||19,065||99,728||118,793||129,473| |||||||||||| |||||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total||Prior year| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||2023||2022| |||||£||£||£||£| ||Support costs|||||||||| ||Wages and salaries|||72,771||501,983||574,754||504,115| ||Staff NIC (Employers)|||39,467||-||39,467||36,077| ||Pensions|||14,904||-||14,904||13,313| ||Staff training|||628||15,357||15,985||13,134| ||Staff Welfare|||890||20||910||31| ||Rent and rates|||1||20,306||20,307||18,291| ||Insurance|||-||4,326||4,326||3,273| ||Building Repairs and maintenance|||-||466||466||-| ||Telephone and fax|||-||6,838||6,838||11,164| ||Printing, postage and stationery|||-||591||591||644| ||Subscriptions|||-||158||158||-| ||Sundry expenses|||1,437||36,236||37,673||20,477| ||Cleaning|||125||15||140||-| ||Travel and subsistence|||3,987||27,881||31,868||29,062| ||Advertising & Marketing|||1,937||1,834||3,771||2,851| ||Consultancy fees|||-||-||-||150| ||Legal and professional fees|||102||-||102||-| ||Bank charges|||45||15||60||81| ||Depreciation|||2,395||-||2,395||3,191| ||Total Support Costs|||138,689||616,026||754,715||655,854| |||||||||||| ||Governance Costs|||||||||| ||Accountancy fees|||-||2,905||2,905||2,835| ||The audit or independent examination of
the charity's accounts|||-||975||975||975| ||Total Governance Costs|||-||3,880||3,880||3,810| ||Total Charitable Expenditure|||157,754||719,634||877,388||789,137| |||||||||||| |8|Net income/ expenditure|||||||||| |Net income/expenditure is stated after charging:||||||||||| |||||||||2023||2022| |||||||||£||£| ||Depreciation of tangible fixed assets|||||||2,395||3,191| ||Auditors' / Examiners' remuneration|||||||975||975| ||Other fees paid to the auditor or
independent examiner|||||||720||972| Notes to the Accounts continued |9|Staff costs||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||||| ||The average monthly number of employees
during the year was as follows:||||||||||| ||||||||||2023||2022| ||||||||||Number||Number| ||Staff in charitable activities|||||||30||30|| ||Volunteers (nos of people involved excluding
Trustees)||||||||40||6| ||||||||||||| ||The aggregate payroll costs of these persons were as follows:||||||||||| ||||||||||2023||2022| ||||||||||£||£| ||Wages and salaries||||||||574,754||504,115| ||Social security||||||||39,467||36,077| ||Pensions||||||||14,904||13,313| ||||||||||629,125||553,505| ||||||||||||| ||Total employee benefits received by key
management personnel||||||||170,280||156,127| ||||||||||||| ||No employee received emoluments in excess of
£60,000 in either the current or the prior year.||||||||||| ||||||||||||| ||The charity operates a defined contributions scheme with Nest and St James Place. The pension cost shown
represents the contributions payable by the charity to the scheme for the period.||||||||||| ||||||||||||| ||The outstanding contributions at the end of the financial period were: £2,189 (2022: £2,069).||||||||||| ||||||||||||| |10|Trustees' remuneration and expenses||||||||||| ||||||||||||| ||One or more of the trustees has been paid remuneration in the current or prior periods.||||||||||| ||||||||||2023||2022| ||Trustee||||||||£||£| ||D McBride||||||||9,717||9,603| ||||||||||||| |11|Tangible fixed assets||||||||||Page 48| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||||| |||||||Office
Equipment||Fixtures, fittings||Total|| |||||||£||£||£|| ||Cost||||||||||| ||As at 1 January 2023|||||36,368||5,176||41,544|| ||Additions|||||4,317||300||4,617|| ||Disposals|||||(23,748)||(5,176)||(28,924)|| ||As at 31 December 2023|||||16,937||300||17,237|| ||||||||||||| ||Depreciation||||||||||| ||As at 1 January 2023|||||30,461||5,176||35,637|| ||Charge for the year|||||2,395||-||2,395|| ||Disposals|||||(23,748)||(5,176)||(28,924)|| ||As at 31 December 2023|||||9,108||-||9,108|| ||||||||||||| ||Net Book Value||||||||||| ||As at 31 December 2023|||||7,829||300||8,129|| ||As at 31 December 2022|||||5,907||-||5,907|| ||||||||||||| |12|Debtors||||||||||| |||||||||2023||2022|| |||||||||£||£|| ||||||||||||| ||Accrued income|||||||39,750||40,000|| ||Prepayments|||||||7,256||7,318|| ||||||||||||| |||||||||47,006||47,318|| ||||||||||||| |13|Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year||||||||||| |||||||||2023||2022|| |||||||||£||£|| ||||||||||||| ||Trade creditors|||||||3,016||4,033|| ||Taxation and social security|||||||(5,000)||8,877|| ||Accruals and deferred income|||||||1,895||1,895|| ||Bank loans and overdrafts|||||||1,130||2,348|| ||Other creditors|||||||14,970||2,069|| ||||||||||||| |||||||||16,011||19,222|| ||||||||||||| Notes to the Accounts continued |||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |15|Operating lease commitments|||||||||| ||Annual commitments under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:|||||||||| |||||2023||2023||2022||2022| |||||Land and
buildings||Other||Land and
buildings||Other| |||||£||£||£||£| ||Operating leases with expiry date:|||||||||| ||Within one year|||||||||| ||In the second to fifth years inclusive|||18,196||-||18,196||-| ||Over 5 years|||||||||| |||||18,196||-||18,196||-| |||||||||||| Page 49 ## Notes to the Accounts continued |16|Analysis of funds|||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||||||As at 1
January
2023||Incoming
Resources||Resources
Expended||Transfers||As at 31
December 2023| |||As at 1
January
2023||Incoming
Resources||Resources
Expended||Transfers||As at 31
December
2023||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||£||£||£||£||£| |||£||£||£||£||£||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||General Funds|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Unrestricted funds|294,518||238,959||(155,359)||(21,561)||356,557| ||Restricted Funds|||||||||||||||||||||| ||ACTS435|700||450||(1,147)||-||3||||||||||||| ||Aim Foundation|-||30,000||(10,797)||-||19,203|||Designated funds|||||||||| ||Bennelong|8,200||-||(8,200)||-||-|||Potential long term liabilities|466,878||-||-||21,787||488,665| ||Big Lottery|41,599||104,496||(137,907)||-||8,188||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Capital fund|5,907||-||(2,395)||4,617||8,129| ||Cornwall Council Housing Support Grant|40,000||34,000||(71,800)||-||2,200||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Designated fund 3|-||-||-||-||-| ||Cornwall Council Venues|-||6,000||(930)||-||5,070||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||| ||Cornwall Community Foundation - People in Mind|-||10,000||-||-||10,000||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Total Unrestricted funds|767,303||238,959||(157,754)||4,843||853,351| ||Cornwall Community Foundation - 4680|4,680||-||(4,680)||-||-||||||||||||| ||Cornwall Community Foundation - CRISIS|338||-||(349)||11||-||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Total funds|1,227,312||736,962||(877,388)||-||1,086,886| ||Cornwall Community Foundation - Police 3500|3,500||-||(3,500)||-||-||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||| ||Cornwall Community Foundation ICB 9997|-||9,998||(724)||-||9,274||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||17|Net assets by fund|||||||||| ||Cornwall Community Foundation - Surviving Winter|-||8,000||(8,000)||-||-||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||| ||Cornwall Community Foundation - Winter Well Being|-||5,000||-||-||5,000||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||Unrestricted
funds|||Restricted
income
funds||Total funds||Prior year funds| ||Children in Need|10,644||-||(9,369)||(1,275)||-||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||£||£||£||£| ||Comic Relief Rant Club|61,440||86,370||(107,238)||(2,568)||38,004||||||||||||| ||Garfield Weston|-||25,000||(16,544)||-||8,456||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Tangible assets|||8,129||-||8,129||5,907| ||KPMG|76,704||75,000||(127,784)||-||23,920||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Investments|||-||-||-||-| ||Lloyds Bank Foundation|27,250||-||(27,250)||-||-||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Current assets|||861,234||233,535||1,094,769||1,240,627| ||Masonic Charitable Foundation|1,881||32,885||(29,763)||-||5,003||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Creditors: Amounts falling due
within one year|||(16,012)||-||(16,012)||(19,222)| ||Sainsburys|-||1,500||(1,500)||-||-||||||||||||| ||Sylvia Adams|160,452||-||(79,982)||(475)||79,995||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Creditors: Amounts falling due
after more than one year|||-||-||-||-| ||Town Council Grants/Small Contract Funds/Small
projects 1|1,054||750||(1,055)||(500)||249||||||||||||| ||Trusthouse|-||19,992||(12,060)||-||7,932||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||Net Assets|||853,351||233,535||1,086,886||1,227,312| ||Youth Music|21,567||48,562||(59,055)||(36)||11,038||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||| ||Restricted fund 27|-||-||-||-||-||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||| |||460,009||498,003||(719,634)||(4,843)||233,535||||||||||||| Page 50 ## **Contact Us** www.wildproject.org.uk https://www.facebook.com/wildyoungparentsproject/ https://www.instagram.com/wildyoungparentsproject/ All photos copyright WILD YoungParentsProject, with kind permission of WILD families Page 51