## **UNITED THROUGH SPORT**
## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT JAN - DEC 2020**
## **Progress and Accounts for the Charity**
**United Through Sport is a UK Registered Charity (number 1102107)**
## **Table of Contents**
## **1. Charity Details**
- 1.1. Charity Name and Contact Details
- 1.2. Charity Trustees for year ending 31[st] December 2020
- 1.3. Professional Advisors and Bankers
**2. Charity Objectives and Governance**
- 2.1. Charity Vision and Objectives
- 2.2. Management and Governance
- 2.3. Funding Policy
**3. Charity Achievements and Performance**
- 3.1. Achievements for 2020
- 3.2. United Through Sport Beneficiaries
## **4. Financial Review**
- 4.1. Financial Policy
- 4.2. Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
## **5. Independent Examiner’s Report**
- 5.1. Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
- 5.2. Basis of the independent examiner’s report
- 5.3. Independent examiner’s statement
**6. Financial Activities for Year Ending 31st December 2020**
- 6.1. Receipts and Payments
- 6.2. Statement of Assets and Liabilities
## **1. Charity Details**
## _**1.1. Charity Name and Contact Details**_
## **Charity Name:**
United Through Sport
## **Registered Charity Number:**
1102107
## **Correspondence Address:**
Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY, United Kingdom.
## _**1.2. Charity Trustees for year ending 31[st] December 2020**_
## **Mr David Burton (Chair) Mr Nicholas Mould Mr Ben Spier**
## _**1.3. Professional Advisors and Bankers**_
## **Bankers:**
CAF Bank, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4JQ.
## **Independent Examiner:**
Egle Vainauskyte
## **2. Charity Objectives and Governance**
## _**2.1. Charity Vision and Objectives**_
United Through Sport is a sports development charity operating on an international basis to support individual and community development in deprived regions throughout the world. The charity works with a reliable and accountable network of vetted grassroots charities and not-for-profit organisations located in specific target countries, through which sponsored programmes are run and managed. United Through Sport works in partnership with these organisations to raise awareness and funds as well as advising on project direction and policy.
The Vision of United Through Sport, as ratified by the charity trustees is as follows:
1. To bring people together to play sport, have fun, build friendships and advance community development.
2. To develop people to their full potential in:
- Sport
- Education
- Health
3. Use sport as a tool for development – through it’s direct benefits, by developing life-skills and addressing critical issues
All projects funded by United Through Sport must fulfil this Vision. The target countries for United Through Sport during the year were South Africa, Argentina and St Lucia.
## _**2.2. Management and Governance**_
Trustees are elected by the majority vote of the existing trustee body. Additional trustees are introduced to the charity provided it is considered that they bring significant benefit to the organisation through their specific skills and their dedication to the United Through Sport Vision. There is no official limit on trustee numbers, but the body is not expected to rise above three members at present.
The chair of trustees is responsible for the induction of any new trustee which involves awareness of a trustee’s responsibilities, the governing document, administrative procedures, and the Vision of the charity.
The trustees annually review the risks that the charity faces. The friends and members of the charity are currently protected through employers liability and public liability insurance. In addition, the charity works with a trusted network of registered charitable organisations overseas to avoid the risk of irresponsible, fraudulent or criminal use of funds.
## _**2.3. Funding Policy**_
During the course of 2020, funds were distributed at the point of need. All beneficiary payments were reviewed and approved by unanimous trustee vote.
Funds are allocated in response to requests from trusted organisations responsible for projects in the target countries. Each request must be accompanied by an outline proposal which identifies the cost, benefit and sustainability of the projects requiring funding.
## **3. Charity Achievements and Performance**
## _**3.1. Achievements for 2020**_
2020 was an extremely challenging year. In March the global pandemic (Covid-19) put a halt to many operations, severely impacting travel related activities. In South Africa and Argentina efforts were made in supporting communities with medical and food supplies but St Lucia had to come to a complete stop.
## **2020 income: £101,957**
Below is a summary of progress in each programme country.
## **South Africa**
Unprecedented has been the word that has been repeatedly heard at different stages throughout the Covid 19 pandemic of 2020. Certainly, at United Through Sport it has been a year that we will never forget and like for so many individuals and organisations has been full of challenges like we have never seen before.
In spite of this, I am extremely proud of the way we have come through this difficult period as an organisation. Our staff members have been absolutely immense and have continued to serve the communities throughout the peaks of the virus. Since April our staff have been on the frontlines working tirelessly in the most needy parts of the communities, distributing food parcels, health and hygiene packs and providing psychosocial support for the children within our programmes. No doubt at times staff were scared, but never once did any of the team hesitate to do their duty in assisting the communities to pull through such massive hardships.
Our funders and donors have been unbelievably supportive this year! Every donor we have, remained consistent with their commitment of backing throughout the year, never withholding support where it was needed and never questioning any request to transfer funds to alternative areas of need which are normally outside of our scope of work. Due to their on-going backing and in many cases increased support during 2020, not only were we able to adapt and continue to meet the changing needs of our children and youth, but we were also able to maintain all 20 full
time staff members and 16 part time staff members in a time when many around them were losing their jobs.
Finally, our partnerships with other NGOs have been invaluable and helped us increase our reach and depth of impact but also provided moral and emotional support in the darkest periods. We managed to collaborate with many NGO partners during this period but a particular mention must go to Masinyusane and Masifunde whose unwavering leadership allowed us to collaborate to form Project Unity and distribute more than 13,000 food parcels, feeding more than 80,000 people with over 1,600,000 meals.
This year has been hugely challenging, but like many things in life, there is no growth without struggle and little learning without hardship. We have learned many valuable lessons this year and now more than ever have faith in the power of what can be achieved if we work together.
Thank you to all our partners in 2020 together we have made a significant impact in the lives of young South Africans and are moving towards 2021 re energised and reinvigorated to do even more.
## Nick Mould
Director of United Through Sport in South Africa
## **Our Mission and Vision**
**Our Mission:** To use sport as a tool to support the children in the Nelson Mandela Bay area in breaking the poverty cycle and transforming their lives for good.
**Our Vision:** Transforming the lives of our participants allowing them to reach their pathway to success, contributing to the sustainable development of South Africa.
## **The United Through Sport pathway to success model**
## **1. Early Childhood Development Literacy Programme**
Amanda receives the literacy support that her teacher has identified that she needs. She gets one-on-one reading coaching twice a week from a United Through Sport Literacy Educator as well as participating in reading clubs and book borrowing. This gives her a strong literacy foundation, unlocking her ability to learn new topics in school, growing her confidence and boosting her towards her potential.
## **2. Mass Participation Programme**
Amanda is introduced to physical education and sport and gets to explore her sporting potential, move her body, gains a positive self-identity, boosts her self-confidence and emotional well being all while learning about important life skills and critical issues – including mental, sexual and physical health.
## **3. Girls Unite**
Amanda chooses to enter the Girls Unite programme to continue her pathway of success. Here she learns more about female-specific life skills, is able to explore the changes she is experiencing, builds positive peer relationships and learns self-defence. She is equipped with the knowledge of her self-worth, boosting her self-confidence and continuing to grow her personal identity and her ability to cope with the challenges of life in the township.
## **4. Junior School of Excellence**
With the support that Amanda receives from the ECD literary program and throughout her schooling career, she is achieving her academic and sporting goals. She enters the Junior School of Excellence, where she is able to access support four days a week – getting additional tutoring
in English and Maths, sports coaching and mentorship from a trusted coach. Her grades are improving and her confidence on the netball court is growing, boosting her self-esteem.
## **5. Senior School of Excellence**
Amanda is a hard worker academically and athletically. With the support of her mentors at United Through Sport she receives a full scholarship for the next five years to a top level (former model c) high school. She starts her high school career at one of the top schools in South Africa! She continues to receive support from her mentors, getting guidance on how to successfully navigate this transition into a different school environment as well as support with the step up in academics. Amanda spends five years in a positive learning environment, boosting her academic ability, receiving high level sports development and interacting daily with children from a variety of backgrounds improving her social connectedness and ability to interact in different environments!
## **6. YOUth First Network**
Amanda graduates from high school and wants to continue her journey with United Through Sport's support. She joins the YOUth First Network to get guidance from United Through Sport staff and support from her peers about how to access tertiary education. Through the guidance provided, she applies and receives a scholarship at a University. She starts her university career with the continued guidance from the United Through Sport team. Some of her peers do not qualify for the University pathway, but are supported by United Through Sport into vocational programmes and job skills training.
## **7. Meaningful Employment**
Amanda has graduated from University and has successfully entered into her first job. She is confident to enter into this new stage with the knowledge that she has the support from her mentors at United Through Sport, she continues to receive support in her first year of employment with budgeting, finance and workplace etiquette training.
## **Programmes Results**
**Early Childhood Development Literacy Programme** Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education, Partnerships for Goals, Decent work and economic growth
Literacy is often a barrier to a child’s success, standing in the way of meaningfully engaging in the classroom and learning. In South Africa, roughly 60% of children cannot read at appropriate levels by the age of 10, stunting their further learning ability for the rest of their life. We have created an early child development literacy programme that focuses on Grade R - 3 participants who are identified as needing extra support through a literacy assessment.
In 2020, UTS reached 195 participants (50% female participation) in our learn to read sessions, providing them with one on one literacy training twice a week. A total of 2322 one on one literacy sessions took place this year!
Our participants enter the sessions not being able to read at an age-appropriate level. They are provided with a supportive and focused environment where they feel safe to explore and improve their reading and comprehension abilities. We carefully track their progress and our participants graduate from the programme once they have shown that they have reached appropriate literacy levels that allow them to read to learn.
This year, our participants showed a 93% improvement in reading and writing and 89.5% of the participants improved their confidence to read aloud.
502 children took part in the active library project, encouraging a passion for reading and knowledge! This includes reading clubs, treasure hunts and book borrowing - contributing to their passion for reading.
**Jobs Created:** 21 jobs created
## **Mass Participation Programme**
Sustainable Development Goals: Good Health and Well-being, Reduced Inequalities, Decent work and economic growth
The schools and communities that we work in are under-resourced and sport is often not offered or limited. As a result children miss out on the key health, emotional well-being and life skills developed from participating in structured sport and physical education. Our Mass Participation Programme focuses on bringing sport and physical education to these schools and utilizing it as a tool to teach valuable life skills centred around health and emotional well-being. We partnered with 19 primary schools in the Nelson Mandela Bay area and assisted with delivering their physical education curriculum, direct sports coaching and critical issues conversations.
This year we have reached 2690 participants, with 51% female participation. Our participants reported an improvement in the following areas: 93% improvement in health, 82% improved school attendance, 91% improvement in emotional wellbeing, 87% increased teamwork, 89% increased communication skills, 82% increased confidence. They also reported a 20% improvement in HIV/AIDS knowledge and 20% improvement in their gender attitudes. **Jobs Created:** 10 jobs created
## **Girls Unite/ Boys Unite**
Sustainable Development Goals: Good Health and Well-being, Gender Equality, Decent work and economic growth
South Africa has one of the highest gender based violence rates in the world. The entrenchment of gender roles in the communities we work in is a contributing factor to the high rates of gender-based violence. On top of this girls often face more discrimination and barriers to learning and personal development. We have created two programmes to address gender norms and roles in our partner schools – providing girls and boys with the opportunity to challenge their gender views and stereotypes.
Girls Unite reached 121 girls this year, focusing on their upliftment, building their self-confidence and resiliency and challenging their gender perspectives. We also provide them with practical self protection skills and access to health and hygiene products. Our Boys Unite programme reached 80 participants this year, challenging their gender stereotypes, building their empathy and encouraging them to be advocates for girls.
The two programmes provide the participants with peer learning groups, discussion about sexual health, building positive peer relationships, extra literacy sessions and access to lay counselling.
Additionally, the girls receive self-defence training, access to sanitary products and discussion about body confidence.
The programmes have contributed to the improvement in our participants’ confidence, leadership and resilience. Improved problem-solving abilities were exhibited in 100% of the girls as well as an ability to respond to challenges and knowledge of who/how to reach out when needing help. Academic improvements were also picked up in 86% of the girls.
**Jobs Created:** 8 jobs created
## **Junior School of Excellence**
Sustainable Development Goals: Good Health and Well-being, Quality Education, Reduced Inequalities, Zero Hunger, Decent work and economic growth
At our Junior School of Excellence programme, we focus on personal development support, improved academic performance and sport skills development. Our participants attend the programme four days a week after school. The sessions include tutoring, personal development support, psychosocial support and sports training. Our participants also receive a meal at each of the sessions, fulfilling one of their basic needs.
This year we had 194 fully committed participants with 41% female participation. Through our academic support, our participants achieved a 79% improvement in their English scores, 88% improvement in their Maths scores and 93% improvement in understanding their schoolwork.
Through our coaches’ mentorship and guidance, our participants reported that since joining the programme they have experienced: 80% improved knowledge in identity, 72% improved knowledge in conflict resolution, 66% improved social capital, 84% improved knowledge on abuse and 96% increase in their hope for their future. They also reported a 98% improvement in their happiness and a 98% improvement in their self-confidence.
Through our support, 24 of our participants obtained fully funded scholarships to top-level high schools for their five years of study. **Jobs Created:** 18 Jobs Created
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Matthew is a 13-year-old participant in the Junior School of Excellence who has participated in the programme since 2019. He has been raised by his single, unemployed father and has three other siblings. His father solely relies on the childrens’ social grant to cater for the household expenses and their needs.
At the start of the programme, Matthew showed great potential in hockey, but lacked social skills and had very low self-esteem. His academics were poor and he gave the facilitators and teachers challenges with his behaviour and aggression. As a result, he was a loner who hardly socialised with the other participants and chose not to make new friends.
During his participation in the programme, Matthew massively improved his social skills, opened up to making new friends and participated fully in class activities. His academics have improved. In this year particularly, Matthew’s mindset changed a great deal, and he has had a more positive attitude.
As a result of his determination, consistency and continued hard work, Matthew will be in the Senior School of Excellence next year, at a top English-medium high school.
The opportunity that Matthew has received will put him in a better position to realise his big dream of playing for the national team one day. He will now stand a good chance of going to University, which is definitely not an opportunity that his father would have been able to afford him. His teachers, coaches and mentors are all very proud of the transformation Matthew has undergone in these last 2 years going through the UTS programme!
## **Senior School of Excellence**
Sustainable Development Goals: Good Health and Well-being, Quality Education, Reduced Inequalities, Partnerships for Goals, Decent work and economic growth
Education is a big problem in South Africa, with the majority of children attending under-resourced, poor performing schools resulting in only 3% of children who start education in a township school continuing to University and only 41% of children who complete school receiving the necessary grades to enter University. Our programme focuses on getting our participants fully funded scholarships to some of the top high schools in the country, with a commitment to fund the full five years. The focus is on supporting them with access to top level education to enable them to continue to Higher Learning and ultimately employment. This year we reached 86 participants (42% female) and have reached 136 participants over the past five years.
Through the support of our mentors and coaches, our participants have achieved 100% matric pass rate, 100% achieved university passes (enabling them to enter tertiary education) and 88% have entered tertiary education or employment after exiting high school. **Jobs Created:** 31 Jobs
## **YOUth First Network**
Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education, Reduced Inequalities, Partnerships for Goals, Decent work and economic growth
High Youth Unemployment continues to hamper the growth and development of the majority of the South Africa population. Pre-Covid 19 youth unemployment in Nelson Mandela Bay was 55%, rising to 81% in the townships. In both cases it is higher for females than males.
Our YOUth First Network focuses on providing opportunities for youth to access Higher Education, vocational training and practical job skills training. We also have a bridge to employment aspect that assists the youth with connections to local employers and assists in preparing them for applications and interviews. We also provide practical support in the early stages of employment to assist the youth to retain their first job for more than 12 months (statistically, people who keep their first job for more than a year are 80% more likely to receive further employment).
This year 91 youth have enrolled or completed our YOUth First Network, with 68% female participation. Out of our 91 participants some of them chose to continue their education with 20 enrolled at University, 7 enrolled in FET (Further Education and Training) Colleges and 11 are enrolled in vocational training programmes. Through this programme we have assisted 46 youth with finding and maintaining employment and 11 youth with starting their own businesses or focusing on extra sources of income.
To date, we have a 98% employment placement rate of youth completing the programme, 96% of youth report the programme improved their confidence to enter the working world, 100% reported the programme improved their emotional well being and self-esteem and 92% reported that the programme improved their preparedness for the working world.
**Jobs Created:** 46 Jobs Created
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Meet Amanda
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Amanda is passionate about the beauty industry, she entered the program in February after struggling to find meaningful employment for the past three years and having no clear path to change her situation. Through the United Through Sport programme Amanda was supported with soft skills training to prepare her for the working world including: CV writing, interview skills, project management and conflict management.
In the next stage with financial support from the YOUth First programme, she entered a vocational training course at Total Concept majoring in nail art and make-up artistry, which she recently completed. Towards her final month at Total Concept she was offered a full time job as a make-up artist! Amanda is currently a make-up artist at Total Concept and is building up her clientele base!
“I am grateful for this opportunity that United Through Sport Youth Pathways presented to me, I have always been confused with what I wanted to do career wise, but with the consultations I had with the youth program coordinator. I connected with my purpose and found my passion along the way. I am now employed doing something I genuinely love.”
Amanda truly resembles the change we want to see in the youth of Nelson Mandela Bay!
## **COVID-19 Response**
COVID-19 had a resounding impact on the communities that we work in, our participants and their families. With the sudden closure of schools, our participants were cut off from their support systems - feeding schemes, psychosocial support and their coaches. Many of the families of our participants experienced a loss of income or loss of jobs during the national lockdown, leading to further food insecurity.
With the disproportionate negative impact COVID-19 has had on poorer communities, United Through Sport had to quickly adapt to meet our participants’ needs and the needs of their families. COVID-19 showed us that social innovation and collaboration is key to successfully create change and have an impact on the communities that we work in during challenging times
We focused on meeting basic needs (food and sanitation packs) and psychosocial support of our participants and their peers. Shifting away from our usual programme focus and facing a larger need than we are accustomed to, we realized that we needed to start effective partnerships to address the growing needs in the Nelson Mandela Bay community.
We co-created Project Unity to address the need for food support. We partnered with two other organizations in the Nelson Mandela Bay area: Masinyusane and Masifunde. We pooled our resources, funding and our relationships with various schools to meet the unprecedented need. We asked teachers at the schools we work in to nominate 3 - 5 children from their classes that they know are most vulnerable. We created a list of the most vulnerable families in the communities and drew up a distribution schedule to make sure our limited resources could help as many families as possible.
To date, we have distributed 13,081 food parcels, benefitting 81,364 people, assisting 80 schools and assisting 26 communities.
## **QuaranTV and QuaranTimes**
Psychosocial support was another key issue that we needed to address during this crisis, particularly during the lockdown. With our participants suddenly unable to attend school, spend time with their peers and having to navigate a changing environment, we needed to support their social and emotional needs.
We created QuaranTV, a provincial TV programme that is broadcast on local networks in the afternoon. The programme focused on providing information about COVID-19, fun activities to do at home and educational support. To date, we have produced 60 episodes and have reached an estimated audience of 12,000, with an estimated minimum reach of 2710 UTS participants.
“ _I really like the show, I enjoy trying the activities at home and it helps me remember UTS before COVID. I am so thankful to be a part of this programme.”_
" _When it comes to lockdown family life, in my family we have strived to build better relationships with each other through sharing meaningful family fun activities. Thanks to UTS and JSE, this has become easy with their presentation of QuaranTV."_
We also created QuaranTimes, a periodical that was distributed with the feeding packs. QuaranTimes focuses on key information about COVID-19, how to protect yourself and how to support children’s social and emotional needs during lockdown. We distributed 4900 QuaranTimes periodicals this year.
We also distributed the Treasure Box support education support packs throughout the lockdown period, distributing 5000 books.
## **Facilities Built:**
Literacy Centre at Isaac Booi Literacy Centre at Astra (see photos below)
## **Conclusion**
In spite of all of the challenges 2020 has brought, overall it has been a successful year for United Through Sport. Financially we maintained a strong position, programme wise, we were still able to achieve impact in our existing programmes as well as expand their reach and we were able to respond to community needs in light of the Covid 19 crisis on a large scale.
Literacy Facilities at Isaac Booi – a Library and 3 literacy centres
Young children playing and learning at Isaac Booi Literacy Centre
Inside a literacy centre at Isaac Booi
Literacy Centre and Library at Astra
Inside the Literacy Centre at Astra – not fully complete yet
## **Argentina**
The Civil Association United Through Sport represents a social educative and sport entrepreneurship oriented to enrich cultural and social integration of the citizens in Barracas and Rodrigo Bueno Units. We have the support of local and international volunteers who carry on our projects.
The inclusion of our international volunteers guarantees a better interest in our community to learn the English language while they do a specific sport of their choice. It is the case of an informal approach with a lot of girls and boys from the 21-24 Unit as well as from the nearby sports center unit.
Our main goal as an NGO, is to develop actions throughout education and sport to link these two different communities represented by our nearby Pereyra Park facility and the 21-24 Unit.
With this idea, since March 2020 with the beginning of the pandemic, our activities were forced to close due to the characteristics of our projects, which are strongly linked to cultural and sport exchange and the reliance of international participants.
With this new reality, we moved all our activities virtuality to engage with the local community and developed our Spanish website for United Through Sport http://unidosporeldeporte.org.
We launched our _**Cup of Culture**_ program, that consists of virtual meetings between our local and international volunteers to develop conversations in English and Spanish to encourage a cultural and linguistic exchange.
Likewise, we implement a donation campaign of staple food and personal hygiene products to give out to the Evita Soup kitchen and to Rodrigo Bueno Unit. During the months of April, May, June and July we gave donations to collaborate with the soup kitchens hard work.
In August 2020, we launched the lunch box donation program with the name “ _**Real food as a Right**_ ”. The campaign was a collaboration between the nutritionist-Instagram influencer Fiorela Vitteli and United Through Sport Argentina, with the goal of donating nutritious lunch boxes to the community of Rodrigo Bueno Unit. We managed to donate more than 1000 lunch boxes in the course of 4 months.
Planning ahead to 2021 and alongside CESSAC N° 6 and 21-24 Unit we will develop a community health program whose goal is to develop an active and effective research of hypertensive people. The work of the research will be carried out by local and international volunteers as well as medicine students who will be collaborating with the development of the research and the interviews production to the future beneficiaries of the program.
Finally, throughout 2020, the organization continues working alongside the Sport and Social Change Network, a group of civil associations and foundations, which use sports as a way of promoting values and social integration. The network is sponsored by NIKE, who helps and collaborates for the growth of the member organizations and assists throughout donation and logistic support.
## **St Lucia**
The breakout of the global COVID pandemic in March 2020 meant a suspension of the vast majority of our Caribbean operations.
Twelve of our international volunteer placements were cut short after only 6 weeks. However impact was made with the establishment of a new youth rugby programme in the Monchy community, including in-school lessons conducted by our coaching team. Further another 14 preschoolers benefited from completing a 7-week swim programme.
During the periods of lockdown, focus had to shift to sending aid packages of food and resources to remote communities in need, and the provision of virtual lessons/coaching for our School of Excellence participants. In preparation for the resumption of recreation sport in St. Lucia, UTS Caribbean was assisted by our partners at UTS Netherlands in sending 1000 Euros of sports equipment to our projects.
## **4. Financial Review**
## _**4.1 Financial Policy**_
For 20, United Through Sport has taken a low-risk policy to investment and had no liabilities to address at the close of the year.
The charity has a reserves policy to ensure that unreserved cash balances do not fall below £10,000 at any time. This policy will remain in 2020.
At present the charity only supplies payments to beneficiaries for initiatives which are sustainable without a guarantee of future support from United Through Sport. The charity therefore has no fixed future financial commitments to beneficiaries and will offer support on a case-by-case basis until further notice. This implies that the charity’s reserves policy is dictated only by operational expenditure and not by future commitments to beneficiaries.
The charity has a target of distributing 75% of total income to beneficiary projects in country, with 25% retained for UK administration.
## _**4.2 Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities**_
Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which show a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and its financial activities for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operational existence.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which 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 1993. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Signed on Behalf of the Trustees by David Burton.
**Signed:**
**Date: Oct 2021**
## **5. Independent Examiner’s Report**
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31[st] December 2020, which are set out in Section 6.
## _**5.1 Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**_
The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act)) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts (under section 43 of the Act);
- to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the Act); and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## _**5.2 Basis of the independent examiner’s report**_
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. 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 I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## _**5.3 Independent examiner’s statement**_
In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the trustees have not met the requirements to ensure that:
- proper accounting records are kept (in accordance with section 41 of the 1993 Act); and
- ● accounts are prepared which agree with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Act; or
(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed:**
**Date: Oct 2021**
## **6. Financial Activities for Year Ending 31st Dec 2020**
## _**6.1 Receipts and Payments**_
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|Unrestricte|Restricted|Total Funds|Total|
|d Funds|Funds|2020|Funds|
|£|£|£|2019|
|£|
|RECEIPTS|
|General Income|13,110|87,180|100,290|235,942|
|JustGiving, VMG & Total Giving Income|914|709|1,623|4,816|
|Sales|-|-|-|18|
|Bank Interest|-|45|45|122|
|Total Receipts|14,024|87,933|101,957|240,899|
|PAYMENTS|
|Beneficiary Payments|-|82.073|82,073|231,272|
|Sales Costs|44|-|44|3|
|Fees deducted from Income|146|111|257|669|
|-|-|-|
|Marketing and Event Costs|1,922|
|Personnel Costs|-|12,340|12,340|11,160|
|IT Costs (inc JustGiving)|-|273|273|401|
|Administration Costs|-|10,727|10,727|10,328|
|-|-|-|-|
|Gift Aid Repayment|
|Total Payments|189|105.524|105,714|255,755|
|NET SURPLUS|
|Net of Receipts / Payments|13,835|(17,591)|(3,756)|(14,856)|
|Transfer|(21,098)|21,098|0|0|
|Cash Funds Last Year End|35,752|3,758|39,510|54,367|
|Cash Funds This Year End|28,489|7,265|35,754|39,510|
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_**6.2 Statement of Assets and Liabilities**_
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|---|---|---|---|
|Unrestricte|Restricted|Total Funds|
|d Funds|Funds|2020|
|£|£|£|
|ASSETS|
|Cash at Bank|28,489|7,265|35,754|
|Total Cash Funds|28,489|7,265|35,754|
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