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COMMUNITIES EMPOWERMENT NETWORK

Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements For the year ended

31 March 2023

Charity Registration No: 1099111

COMMUNITIES EMPOWERMENT NETWORK

CONTENTS

Legal and administrative information Report of the trustees

Independent examiner’s report

Statement of financial activities

Balance sheet

Notes to the financial statements

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2023

e support to parents by way of early intervention support, to prevent issues before ddition to challenging unfair education practices by schools and local authorities, by behalf of young people, in order that every child receives their right to a full ntitlement by being included in school. This evolution has also included extensive with the Runnymede Trust to create a Research team as an additional strand to . These talks began in August 2022 and the expectation is that the project will begin 2023.

ely grateful to our current funders, BBC Children i unity Fund (NLCF) and the Esmee Fairbairn Founda to deliver the main services despite not yet havingf . However, although efforts have been poured into inimal team, due to lack of capacity as a result of fu ffectively delivered. In order to remain active, CEN has continued to seek funding and in with The Runnymede Trust, in June 2022, CEN made a bid to th Fund (NLCF) one of its core funders from whom the organisation its funding. CEN is often competing against an increasing numbe and as a result, successful applications are not always assured and 2022, when it was discovered that the NLCF funding bid had no with a funding deficit. In fact, the immediate future gave the orga to continue meaning that CEN would not have the resources r operational obligations nor to be able to realise any project deve ambitions.

On the back of this decision by NLCF, another funder, Esmee Fairbairn (EF) to whom CEN had also made a recent bid, advised CEN to withdraw this bid from consideration with the assurance that it would be unlikely to succeed. Instead, rather than the two years of funding that had originally been requested, CEN was encouraged to redraft the funding bid and reduce the sum requested to £60,000 over one year towards unrestricted core costs. Thankfully, this redrafted bid was success anted on March 8" ally to allow the organisation to stabilise by minimis for 12 months and ucturing.

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR

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1 Improved outcomes for
children at risk of exclusion
delivered through
empowering parents
through advocacy,
information and training
2 Core functions of the
organisation are
strengthened
3 Partnerships are actively
explored for future of the
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Prior to this, EF has funded CEN for ove funder has in CEN’s ability to achieve th meant that CEN, has had to pause som outcomes designated, while the organisa

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  1. support amaximum of 75 cases via continued advocacy representation using existing Educational Advocacy volunteers (including reaching 75 parents through CEN’s early intervention programme, Parent Empowering Parents (PEP)) 2. have developed and delivered a Fundraising action plan as part of a medium to long-term strategy plan

  2. actively explore delivery and referral partnerships both to maximise current impact and to plan for a sustainable future of CEN

In addition to the funding challenges, the year to March 2023 has also been an exceptional year for CEN in relation to personnel, with staff absent due to health-related challenges including the CEO, who from October 2022 to January 2023 was forced to take time off due to ill-health and another member of staff was asked to act up to fill the role. In March 2023 the Parent Coordinator resigned after a series of issues and absences. And in addition the Triage Administrator was also absent as a result of sickness which finally resulted in her resignation.

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tion of the accounts of Communities Empowerment 3. nsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance 2011 (the 2011 Act). he trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the (b) of the 2011 Act.

hat the charity has prepared accounts in accordance with s preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) in preference to the s: Statement of Recommended Practice issued on 1 April regulations but has now been withdrawn. e in order for accounts to provide a true and fair view in d Accounting Practice effective for reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2015. | have completed my examination. | confirm t no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause elieve that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in resp f the trust as required by section 130 of the 2011 Act, or 2. the accounts do not accord with those reco r 3. the accounts do not comply with the ap ble requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charitie counts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent exam n. | have no concerns and have come across no oth atters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report der to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Michael Kyriakides ACA

Chartered Accountants 7 Forest Road, Sutton Surrey SM3 9NT This report was signed on 29 January 2024

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