2025-03-31-accounts - Barking And Dagenham Ab Phab Youth Club

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– Managers Activity Report April 2024 March 2025

Projects That Made This Year Shine

It’s been another fantastic year of growth, creativity, and achievement across our projects. We’ve seen young people develop new skills, gain confidence, and discover their potential — all while having plenty of fun along the way. Our dedicated staff and volunteers have worked hard to create opportunities that support independence, wellbeing, and a strong sense of community.

Thrive Group - Ages 11–17

Thanks to the support of Children In Need, our 11–17s have been busy learning, laughing, and developing their life skills.

Building Confidence and Connections: Young people have been learning how to connect with others, get involved in their community, and believe in themselves.

Getting Active: Every week, we’ve delivered at least two hours of sports and exercise, keeping minds and bodies strong.

Healthy Living and Gardening Fun: Our garden has been full of activity. Young people have grown their own ingredients and learned to prepare tasty, balanced meals — discovering that healthy food can be fun and delicious.

Evolve Group - Ages 18-25

Now in its second year, our National Lottery–funded project has helped young adults take exciting steps toward independence and employment.

Through a range of job-readiness workshops, skills sessions, and offsite experiences, participants have explored their strengths, gained practical experience, and developed those all-important soft skills that open doors to the future.

Along the way, they have built confidence in navigating their communities and taken real pride in their achievements.

Trips and Experiences

This year we’ve delivered more trips and special experiences than ever before — and what a year it’s been! Each outing has given our young people the chance to try new things, build friendships, and make lasting memories. The excitement, laughter, and sense of adventure have been incredible to see.

Some of our highlights include:

Better Extreme Trampolining Park: We had an exclusive hire of the park, giving everyone the chance to jump, flip, and bounce the day away. A huge thank you to one of our parents for making this possible.

Restaurant Adventures: We turned into real foodies this year, with group outings to Frankie & Benny’s, Harvester, and Nando’s — great food and even better company! Pantomime Fun: Oh yes we did! Our festive pantomime trip was full of laughter and a great way to celebrate the season together.

Local Favourites: From bowling and mini golf at Moby Golf to laser quest, our local trips were packed with friendly competition and fun.

The Lion King, West End: A truly unforgettable experience — the music, costumes, and performances left everyone amazed and inspired.

Essex Gaming Bus Ltd: An unforgettable evening of gaming fun, with everyone enjoying the range of consoles and friendly competition.

Creative Partnerships: Partner organisations joined our sessions to deliver exciting workshops, including Greenshoes, who ran music sessions and helped create a stunning mural that’s now proudly displayed at The Vibe.

We also had 8 workshops with Lifebrooks where young people explored pottery, mosaic art, and puppetry, developing new creative skills and confidence.

Events

Our community events are always filled with fun and togetherness, from our Quiz Night and Summer Disco, which raised fantastic amounts to help us continue supporting our residential weeks away, to our Halloween Disco—a frightful night full of spooks, sparkles, and plenty of fun—and our Christmas Disco, a joyful way to celebrate the year gone by and share some festive cheer. A huge

thank you to our amazing supporters for always showing up and making these nights such a success!

Careers Fair

A heartfelt thank you to all the stallholders for once again showing your commitment to the SEND community, ensuring families have access to the information, resources, and support they need.

Stubbers Residential – August 2024

We enjoyed another fantastic annual week at Stubbers this August! It was an action-packed adventure, with our young people taking part in a wide range of water and land activities.

This year, members challenged themselves with some brand-new experiences, including high ropes and crate stacking, while also enjoying firm favourites such as XL paddleboarding, laser combat, and kayaking.

We can’t thank our young people enough for making it such a memorable week for everyone — staff, volunteers, and members alike.

Neal’s Garden

Throughout the year, our young people have worked incredibly hard to expand Neal’s Garden.

We now have full use of the Vibe Garden space, helping to create an environment that our young people can truly be proud of when they visit. They’ve been busy painting old tyres to create flower beds and brightening up old plant pots to bring even more colour and life to the garden.

A huge thank you to all the young people, staff, and trustees for their dedication and teamwork in helping this garden grow. A special thank you also goes to our anonymous donors for their generous contributions of ornaments, plants, and materials — your support has made a real difference!

Funders

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all our funders for their incredible support throughout the year. Your contributions have made a real difference in helping us continue our work with young people and their families.

Our funders include:

BBC Children in Need – Funding the Thrive (11–18) project.
National Lottery – Funding the Evolve (18–25) project.
Essex Youth Trust – Funding a large proportion of our Stubbers Residential.
Jack Petchey Foundation – Awards Programme and contributing to the Stubbers Residential.
People’s Health Trust – Funding our sports delivery.
Adobe Community Fund – Supporting digital and arts inclusion workshops and project.

Volunteers and Supporters

I’d like to share my heartfelt thanks to every one of our wonderful volunteers who have given their time, energy, and care throughout the year. Whether you’ve supported the delivery of our sessions, helped nurture the garden over the summer, or joined us on our trips — each of you has played a vital role in making everything we do possible. I’m also deeply grateful to everyone who has supported us through our Amazon Wish List, attended our fundraising events, or partnered with us to deliver sessions at no cost. Your kindness, commitment, and generosity truly make a difference, helping us continue to provide meaningful opportunities and experiences for our young people. Thank you for all that you do — we couldn’t do it without you.

Louise

Youth Development Manager

BARKING & DAGENHAM AB PHAB YOUTH CLUB FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31"MARCH 2025

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BARKING AND DAGENHAM AB PHAB YOUtH CLUB ststement of Funds asat31st Marth 2flS INCOMING RESOURCES Balante as at IstApril 2024 80.198 Surplus forthe y 2,719 Balan¢• a5 at31st Mèrth 2025 82,917 82,917 Anatyslsof fund as at 31st Marth 2025 Re5trrted Funding Balances Chlldren In Need Jack Petchey FtyJn&tM)n don Communtty Foun¢Jation- AdoEe comm.fund London Comrnuntty FoUrtdatn- Vanqu)5Jnd The National totterycommunty Fuftd Peoples Healrh Trist London Youth 5.240 2.500 8,882 7,513 2,942 199 Totsi restrtted Funds 27,957 Unre5trirted Funding B3L3rKes Gerra1 54960 Total UnTe5triCted Funts Summary Unr*ricted Re5trirted Total 27,957 82,917 SLgned . Keith Smth Chair, Ba18 •nd Dagenham Ab Phab Youth Club 51gned Date Paul Billing MAAT Accountsnt. Billing & Co Ltd

BARKING AND DAGENHAM AB PHAB YoufH CLUB ststement of Flnanclal Posltlon at 31 Marth 2015 Fixed A55ets IT Equipment Sports Equipment General EquipmentlResources 3.727 20 80 3,827 Current Assets Cash at bank & In hand 82,917 Current Llabilities Pen51on Contrlbutlons Net Current Assets 86,744 Funds Restrirted fvnds Unrestricted funds 31,784 54,960 86,744

BARKING & DAGENHAM AB PHAB YOUTH CLUB FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31"MARCH 2025