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DIVIRSITY LMNG SERVICES IA ￿fflpany linited by gu￿) Report and Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 March 2021 Rgglstored Compant Nunts . 04459816 Charlty Rtytstr•tlon Nuth: 1098916

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Tntslees. Annual Report During the period of April 2020 to March 2021. Diversity Uving Serrfices. funds were used to implement the following projects: Take the Leap is a funded project by Erasmus + Programme (KA2 - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of g<)od praclices). The project was initiated and is coordinated by DlYOt￿￿.DLs is UK registered Company and charity was set up to promote diversty and inclusion. Among their objectives is to create opportunlties for young people who might otherwise feel excluded from the world of l)usiness. The project implemented by 5 Partners.. Dlversty Living ServiCes,M￿lIl (Sweden). EptoJQo￿ {Italy). (Latvia) and As (The Republic of North Macedonia). The project was initiated and is coordinated by Diversity Living Services (DLS). DLS is UK reglstered Company and chamy ihat was set up to promote diversity and Inclusion. Among thelr objectlves is to create opportunities for young people who might otherwise feel excluded from the world of business. This underpins eveNhing we have been irying to wrth this project. The wodd of buslness is an extremely unequa playing field. If you come from ihe wrong background you'll find a number of barriers slandlng In your way. However, many people feel excluded. Take the Leap Project aims to offer disadvantaged young people wtlh fewer opportunities the support they need to build successful careers as enlrepreneur8. Entrepreneurshlp offers a solutlon which can create jobs. improve inclusion, social mobility and enhance the prospects of the next generation. In a world wthich is becoming more connected and reliant on digital. there Is a host of opportunitles for enlerprising start-ups. Europe's future may depend on the extent to which it allows the ne￿ generatlon to embrace those opportunrties. The Take the Leap proied aims lo fill this gap by developing, piloting and introducing online and face-t￿faCe workshop-based training programme, and an innovative online Training Package geared sensitively io the specific needs of a young person facing social exclusion.

Entrepreneurship training plays a crucial role in providing aspiring business owners with the key ingredients they need to be successful * the first time of asking. By so doing, we can level the playing field and give young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, some of the support their wealthier counterparts take for granted. If we are successful in Ihis, everyone benefits. Young people will have a route out of povety. In doing so they will drlve grovrth and employment opportunities for Ihe wider economy. Most of all, we'll be unloC￿'ng the hldden polential within many people which all too often goes to waste. The project was initiated to meet the following outcomes: Tralned young people wilh fewer opportunities have increased knowledge and skills to slart up their own business through the selfnrolment to the tralning course Young people have increased confidence of ￿artIng a business as the result of improved knowledge of the challenges and how to overcome them. Young people have improved motivation. practical knowledge and skills for entrepreneurship or start￿p among young people with fewer opportunlties A new digital resources creating in the fonn of our online Training Package geared to the specific needs of soclally excluded youth. The training course wlll conlribute to personal development for effective and successful slart4Jp of a business Young people have acqulred skj'lls and knowledge aboLrt enlrepreneurship and are able to start successful business Young people will learning new skills and build confidence to start thelr own businesses. identify and use the opportunities available. The Iralnlng course provKle best practices and skllls in delivering entrepreneurship lh can be used by youth workers and yOLrth organlsations Youth workers and youth organlzations have Ihe training course as a lool to dellver training to young people with fewer opportunities They have a new tool including methodologies for delivering enlrepreneurshlp training for young people. Project ObJecllv¢8.' To Improve young people's skn'lls, experience and knowledge In relalion to entrepreneurship To support opportunrties for young people in acquiring and developlng key competences. including basic skills in order to foster employability, socio- educational and personal development. as well as participatlon in civlc and social life. To support groups underrepresented among entrepreneurs. To increase youth workers and organisations capacrty. competencies and professionalism by designing new methods and tools that will conlribute to increasing

professionalism. capactty and cooperation of organisations to provide effeclive support and training io young. To further professionalisation and competences development of youth workers and organisations. To improve youth organisations, ability lo facilitate entrepreneurship training. providing socialiy excluded young people with bridges to self*mploymeM and enterprise. To create m￿e and equal opportunities for all young people in education and the labour market and business start-up. To offer disadvantaged young people wrth fewer opportunilies the supwrt they need lo build successful careers as entrepreneurs. Developing new learnlng materlals about entrepreneurship as new innovative tools and training for young people: Partners worked together to prepare the maln Imellethal Output of the project: A training course for young people, yOLrth workers and youlh organisations: Each partner worker on a specific module lo produce content in word. power point and pdf Revisions of the draft modules to ensure Ihe qualty and effective use by young people and youth workers and organisations Design the full conterrt as word, pdf and Power Poinl verslons An introduthory anlrnated video was produced for each module Translalion of the10 in natlonal languages Designing a dedicaled bespoke website to host the project results (v4WW.takelheleap.org.uk) as one place for accessing resources ab(xrt entrepreneurship Involved young people as volunteers lo corrtrlbute to the development of10 by researching the information to be featured on Ihe websfte. Consultations with young people and stakeholders to provide Inputs Into the draft of the training course Translation of the training material (muhilingual section of the webslte). project results are upload on the project website or k. Other platforms were created for further proje activrty and resutt dissemination Mulliplier events were organised online or face-ttrface depending on the situation of covid-19 restrlctlons in each country participating in the project. Other actiwties include email newsletters. social media using relevant hashtags and groups. featuring the project results in local and national media. and designing video to increase awareness of the project results. Projecl Achlevements: A new online and faCtrt￿face muhillngual trainlng course (specialised MOOC) about entrepreneurship for young people and the webstte that hosts it: V4ThVW.takethdeap.org.uk

A mullilingual 5-day training module in form of syllabus with an introductory video presentations. tert pdf/PowerPoint versions to download, for individual learning. and as a tool for Iraining young people by youth workers and organisalions About 500 young people, youth workers and youth organisations across Europe have been reached by the dissemination acttvilies of the project Over 150.000 people have been reached through online media. events. & disseminalion of open-aecess resources A new bespoke website containing the above project results 30 young people participaled in the online volunteering activrlies by ereatlng their own website (www.proudslep.org.uk) and produced a job websile directory and researched the webslte content featured on the website. The funding fTom London Community Foundation. National Lottery Communty Fund and City Bridge Trust (London Communty Response Fund} was used to pay wages for sessional workers who implemented ihe following activities: Media and health professionals ( BBC, The Guardian and the Intenslve Care National Audrt and Research Centre) have found that there is 'emerging evidence. to suggest coronavlrus is having a disproportionate impact on BAME communff(ies. The Intensive Care Nalional Audrt and Research Centre found that 34% of more than 3,000 critically 111 coronavirus palierrts ideirtified as BAME communities. Health professionals polnt out that underlying heahh condrtions that are prevalenl in BAME communities such as diabetes. heart dlseases, kldney diseases and high-blood pressure could also be a factor. Black and other mlnortty ethnlc individuals make up a large share of jobs considered essential in tackling the vlrus. They are overrfepresenled among families living in poverty and oVer￿OWded housing. Self-isolatlon in larger households could be difficuft, for example. They're also more likely to be in low-paid jobs or key workers- Crucial transport and delivery ￿eff, heahh cere asslstsnts. hosprtal cleaners, adutt soclal care workers as well as In the NHS. All of which bring Ihem inlo more corrtact wrth coronavirus thatthey can brlngto home and so Increase their risk to serious-illness and death. The followlng actlvftleG were Impleme￿.. .Identlfied and contacled 150 BAME people to assess whal their needs are .Providing information and advice through video conference system( Zoom.us) and online through our frnewsletter that reaches 1.800 subscribers .Disseminated covid related support and information through our frnewsletter with 1,800 BAME subscribers wrth particular focus to NHS Advice and infomiation and Govemment recommendations for selfyroleetion against COVID-19. .Service users were helped thorough on&l(Fone support: direct email messages. Zoom meetings and telephone

.Referred families to Enfield Food Bank .Explained the COVID-19 legislation in relalion to renting and eviction to 4 people who faced eviction after having lost thwr jobs .Provided advice about access to child benefrt to a migrant family with one parent who has lost a his job. They have told us thal Iheir application was successful. .Provided advice to a group of wornen In relation to their righis regarding domestic violence .Disseminated information about all governrnent support available including self- employment grants. businesses grants and loans.job retention scheme and urged our service users to apply DLS implemented the Mayor of London Citizen Led Engagement pro5ect about undertaking research about Effective ways of ending S￿lOuS youth violence In London. The research aimed to resporKI to the following questions: .How parents can contrlbute to fight serious youth violence ? .What the Government and the Mayor of London should do to end serious youth vlolence ? .Which communlty services for young people are need to flghl serious youth violence ? .How can young people be Involved or mobllised to flght serous youth violence? The funding for Home Office Vulnerable Children's Charltles Funding uplift in light of COVIDI 9 was used lo implement the following actlvities.. .Young people receivlng Infomiation onllne through FB page .Created a Facebook page where 150 young have subscribed to receive information about job opportuntties. starting a business. elc. .A stand was organlsed in Edmonton Green Library every Saturday to enable young people have access lo the infomiation al>)ul opportunrl￿s and services .One-tiTrone meeting wilh 17 Young people at Edrnonton Green Library to dlscuss their needs and signpost them to various services .Rtrconne¢ted with our young people to find out what they needs are, particularly Young People NE .Signposted young people to other sources of help if needed regarding access lo services and opportunities back to school. housing benefrts. and employment .Organlsed one Zoom meeting per momh for al least 10 young people .Organised one factrttrface group meeting for at least 15 young people. Challenges: Due to the Covid-19 ￿ls1S, most of the project factrto-face and physical activities such as workshops, the ontrto-one health coaching and advice sessions. outreach and mobile health stands could no longer go ahead as planned. Since the March 2020 when the covir>19 pandemic stsrted. we have been able to continue providing seprfices to OUT 175 young people who are registered lo our

servlces. Those young people include 30 young people who were involved in the Youth Violence Project that was funded by the Mayor of London. However. DLS staff worked hard to ensure that health information was stlll provided online and through the DLS newsletter. DLS staff also adapted to the circumstances by calling the service users to provide as much information. guida1￿ and support as possible. As there is no more drop-ln option to our premises and the library was closed due to COVID-19, we have had to use the contact details of our past service users to arrange telephone advice and ZOOM rneetlng. Our service users then helped us io identify other participarrts. h was not possible to dlsplay leaflets In public areas as usual done. The only optlon was to use email. telephone. trnewsletter arKI Zoom meeting.

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DIVERSITY LMNG sERV￿Es STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTMllES find￿ Income & EXP￿11•) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 Fun Funds Funds Fun WCOAIING R&%)URCES Vc4unlary Inccyne Gov Granl- Furfough Total Incom• R••¢w 1￿&,316 ICg,316 1&8.152 109. RESOURCES EXPENDED Charftaw Acti¥llle• LotteryFund. R8&hlg Isknj Upt Gc>J I and Wenbthgl Grer LoThlcfi Aulh Brib'8h WEra5mus London c(￿m￿lty FrAJrKlakn) City Tr￿81 Refuge CourK Gov•m•nc• eo•ts Tot4 Re•oUr￿ Exp￿￿￿1 35.V28 ,&28 133,358 12,C(il 3,742 ,415 8.7&5 1S) 4,392 4,392 11 N•t In¢oTrdng l(krtgokno RI1￿ RECONCILL4TK)N OF FUN08 Total Funds Brought Forward Totd Fun￿ Carrl•d Fornwd 49) 14,417 The stal•ment olfin•ndal •cllvllS•1 all •nd lo•w In th•y•w. AW kncornlng OU￿0$ and •xwded d•rfv• frorn Mntlnuing 11

DIVER8rrY LMNG SERVICES BALAPKE SHEET AT 31 MARCH 2021 Fu Fund• Total Fun Fund¥ FIXEDASSETS TarffJlt Assets 525 CURRENT AS8ET8 Debto C&h at Ba￿ ￿ in Harnj 10 10 2.1x5 42346 41346 l(M5 42,346 44,391 2.045 17,014 CREDITORS.. Arn￿nts faiing %wthin C￿ y 11 3,572 NETCURRENY ASSET8 41414 NET ASSETS 12 ACCUMULATED FUNDS UnreslrKbJ 34,146 34,146 9, 14,417 Tow Fun 12 ywetstsj 31 March 3)21 or￿&y 31 March trd1i) ax)xdm 476 Of￿ C4Jmwth Act lal ertsuring that th8 chw)tat4& c£Thp¥Ty thc(xn wHth Sli)rn 386 397 oflke Companw Act Ib) preparing final￿￿ stskrwts gi¥ a In aTrJ far the st ofaffa'rs ofb ¢tharitail8 company as at the eTrJ of exh finatK41 su￿uS c thgllore&h fin￿Cla year rda￿ the rquwents ol 394 395 and oknse ¢omrAy th& 18quirwn6mts ofth8 Cclnpwies Actl(6 to ststh. sJtsTaS apt4Katle to the Ch￿1￿ ¢￿Mpany. TW fin￿￿raT skknnls pYep•J in w?a klDMsk)ns clPart 15 of U Cornpaw Act 20(￿ rdating to ch8ntable srnal ccfflpaw ￿ vith the FiroKh81 ReW Skndwd fc Smdlw Entitss January Xiisi tehdfty.. axl sh3￿j C￿ ts L 11 Nhm•d.TnMt•• /,,1204£ 31 12

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Notss knmlng part ofthe Fknancid Sta1•M￿fOrthoYw•nd￿ 31 Ilvth 2021 as the carityen I￿ ty ts yfrxmm. Idl Rgwuroj Ex￿ndId Expenditu￿ Fs rwnis&J as a is I￿￿7￿j. ExthibJTe in¢hJde5 ￿ VATTAth# c￿n¢4 h fijty LI a5 to ites' trading l(y fund raiwng wrwses mdudry the ch￿$ . Chantabb expwdthre c(¥rynses Ilw casts inoJnwJ by th8 charty in I1￿ ts benk4￿. linclJ(18s ¢cots Ihat can be dwKto Il•)¥• tosts of an iThJiretl nabjm sw¥t th￿Tr. ol the ch8nty 8nd ind￿le ts audit lees costs bj Its str ollhe thaity. . costs are thated be￿n the e￿￿1￿re Cat￿￿$ olthe a basB de￿gn￿l io refrtt th8 use ofthe resowce. Costs relatDlg to a p8rt•xlar ctss we prowatè b8¥L4 e.g. ￿x￿areaS, per • ￿e5￿M3￿j wje as LNJI 4. (•) Flx•d Ats•l• Flxed assets lèxcbjding li￿ts} Std at cost dewe0￿. The ttjsts of JdfvJ￿)s orthw (¥)sting bdow£ 1,CKIJ fyjt Li k¥o￿le￿ al ra185 cakulaknl to rtè off the cost ofexh asseto¥erts ￿rful Its, al rms ￿ ethnd al 4 yg¥s 2. Incomlng R••ouff•• Irorn AcMiM to fvrfh•rth•ChwW• ObJK 20 2020 Vduntary Ir¥) Gov G￿t. Furt 109,316 109,316 34,596 143.91 158,152 3. ImiMtm•Tht In¢om• 2020 Totsl 14

  1. Totsl Resourcu EX￿nded Totsl Gov•rnan¢• co•ts Support ¢o¥ts Man•gem•nt Wages and Session￿ workws Rent Insuran Telephone Postago and statio Membership and subsryiptknns Computer expense8 SurKlry Expen Legal aThJ consuttancy Travel and mortor expenses W0￿shop and rcw h Rgfreshmgnl Small equipment Pffjdl procossing Destgn, printing & publScolk*n Voluntgor expenses Training Training 8 le8mlng mthials SeThlce charges Repairs and rel￿￿1& PubltC4ty S).1e4 11114 6,379 2,531 1552 163 13 4,913 2,758 1,245 2,215 557 1.243 27.487 11,594 1,212 2,0 916 107,17 lTrforni•tlon ts¢hnology Fixluras and fitts'ngs Computsr fjquipfflgrt 1,1CQ 3,022 3,49) Oth•r Rates and watsr othor 3 No de￿pknn 115 Total v•soU￿￿ •xp•nd•d N•t Incomthll•xp•ndlturn)

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  1. Tangible Flxed Aslets Totsl At 01 A￿11 a120 Jditrc At 31 March S)21 DepM¢i•t At 01 April 2020 Foru* year Al 31 March 2021 Ilet Book Value At 31 MaTch 2021 5,355 5,355 1,350 6.705 1,235
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  4. An*•l• ol Il•tA••d• Trt Fund• Fund• Funth TangiE4e Fixed A88&ts Current Assets Current Li8￿1￿.6$ 44,391 1.977 Totsl NetAM•l• a at 31 M¥Gh 2021 17

  5. Tanglble Flxed As¥ets Flxtum & Fldn & Equ1￿￿ C05t Al 01 Atxl SJ20 Addibons Al 31 March 2021 Dew•ciatloTr Al 01 Awil 3)20 For t￿ year Al 31 M*ch 2021 Ikt Book V•lu• Al 31 March 2021 6,705 6,705

  6. Dotlorn T￿le D8btors CAh8rC*bti)rs 2,045
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l& Movements In Funds At01Aw 04rtgolng TrMl•r At 31 Ilar 2021 Reotrkted Funth: Lottery Fund- Reaching Communities Prwamme {StsThJ Up for Good He4th and Wellbring Biitish QIU￿rf 1,397 .415 e4),415 8thsh Cr¥Jndl EUErams London Comm¢Jnity F￿Nja Cty 8riJge Tnt Refuge Counril 1&814 eil,415 8.785 60.415 8,7&5 15,814 19) 170 Unr•JtrIC￿ Funds G8n8ral Funds l Furfwh Int8r8st 4,914 TotalUnr•th¢t•dFumh ￿914 Totl Fund• 17