# **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT JAN - DEC 2022**
## **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 2022
- 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 2022
- 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 2022**
- 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 2022**_
## **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 2022, 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 2022**_
2021 continued to be a challenging year due to the ongoing Covid-19 impact, resulting in halted travel to our beneficiary destinations, which makes up a large part of our income. However, our efforts to support the local communities in South Africa by our local team were still significant in reach. Our work in Argentina and St Lucia was minimal.
## **2022 income: £165,606**
Below is a summary of progress in each programme country.
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## **Argentina**
In 2022, Argentina dedicated significant efforts to promote both sports and non-sport initiatives within vulnerable communities in the Buenos Aires region. The year commenced with the establishment of the Matanza program, made possible by funding received from the UEFA Foundation. Leveraging our existing connections with schools and grassroots organizations in Buenos Aires, we successfully extended our network to include counterparts in Matanza.
Upon securing stakeholder approval and assembling our team for coaching and life skills sessions, we launched the program in March 2022. Our initial goal was to engage a minimum of 50 children, providing them with three weekly sessions lasting 1.5 hours each. These sessions were divided into life skills modules, encompassing leadership, teamwork, and communication, alongside sport coaching sessions primarily centered around football.
By April, we not only met but exceeded our target by enrolling 90 children aged 6 to 15 years. This achievement captured the attention of the community, leading to discussions with local schools about expanding participation in Matanza. We are actively pursuing partnerships with five additional schools and planning to acquire an extra minibus to facilitate wider outreach.
Simultaneously, our work continued in Barracas, located in the southern part of Buenos Aires, encompassing both sports and non-sports programs. We collaborated closely with our partners in the Catholic Church, who were dedicated to enhancing community living conditions. Over the course of 2022, we impacted 1,500 individuals across various programs, including community healthcare, English education, life skills training, and sports sessions, alongside our childcare initiative.
Furthermore, our team expanded with the addition of six new members. Two new nurses joined the community healthcare project to assist international volunteers in daily activities, while another member assumed a coordinating role in the childcare project. Additionally, we introduced a new Physical Education teacher to enhance our sports projects in Barracas and Matanza.
In November 2022, we made the strategic decision to launch our independent Summer Camp. Previously, we collaborated with the city government, sharing responsibilities and resources for the camp's development. However, thanks to the funding received from the UEFA Foundation and our desire to work closely with the Barracas community, we initiated our standalone project. The Summer Camp's objective was to provide life skills and sports coaching to children aged 8 to 15 in Barracas, with the intention of recruiting more participants for our year-round sessions following the camp's conclusion.
Finally, UTS Argentina hosted 110 volunteers throughout 2022 who contributed to various projects and played a pivotal role in reaching 2,200 children and adults through our sports sessions and community healthcare initiatives. As we welcomed the Matanza community into our fold and acquired additional transportation resources, we aim to expand the reach of our programs to benefit even more individuals.
## **St Lucia**
In February of 2022 we reopened our international volunteer programme, post the global pandemic, welcoming back our highest ever numbers of volunteers and interns over a 7 month period. The lifting of national restrictions of outdoor recreation and school sports meant we were able to reopen our preschool adventure sports programme at Auntie Pinky’s Memorial School and Creative Kids Preschool. We also recommenced school programmes at Corinth Secondary and Balata Primary and started a new community rugby program in Monchy; with in-school introductory sessions twice a week and twice weekly community sessions with newly formed youth team Monchy Sharks.
School holidays meant the return of our free La Clery Easter and Summer Camps after two years. For the first time, we were able to secure sponsorship to provide transport and lunch for all attendees throughout the full 8 weeks.
For 6 weeks during the school summer holidays we collaborated with Students from Excelia business school; La Rochelle, France, to create ‘Boats on Wheels Programme’ providing introductory sailing lessons to coastal communities for children in Saint Lucia.
The project aims to expose children to a sport not normally deemed as easily accessible to most on the island, while imparting skills; opening avenues for success in the sport and employment in the maritime industry. Working in the often overlooked communities of Grios Islet, Canaries, Anse la Raye, Laborie and Dennery, we were able to provide 6 week sailing programmes for over 100 children and have plans in place to continue next year.
## **4. Financial Review**
## _**4.1 Financial Policy**_
For 2022, 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 2022.
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: Sep 2023**
## **5. Independent Examiner’s Report**
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31[st] December 2022, 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: Sep 2022**
## **6. Financial Activities for Year Ending 31st Dec 2022**
## _**6.1 Receipts and Payments**_
|**_6.1 Receipts and Payments_**||
|---|---|
||**Unrestricte**
**d Funds**
**£**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**2022**
**£**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2021**
**£**|
|**RECEIPTS**||
|General Income|15,484
144,631
160,115
14,643|
|JustGiving, VMG & Total Giving Income|-
-
-
2,237|
|
Sales|5,393
-
5,393
-|
|Bank Interest|-
98
98
-|
|**Total Receipts**|**20,876**
**144,730**
**165,606**
**16,880**|
|||
|**PAYMENTS**||
|Beneficiary Payments|-
98,213
98,213
25,713|
|
Sales Costs|-
-
-
-|
|Fees deducted from Income|56
317
373
186|
|Marketing and Event Costs|1,578
-
1578
-|
|
Personnel Costs|-
8,928
8,928
7,350|
|IT Costs (inc JustGiving)|-
-
-
259|
|
Administration Costs|-
1955
1,955
1,833|
|Gift Aid Repayment|-
-
-
-|
|
**Total Payments**|**1,634**
**109,412**
**111,046**
**35,341**|
|||
|**NET SURPLUS**||
|Net of Receipts / Payments|19,242
35,317
54,559
(18,461)|
|
Transfer|0
0
0
0|
|Cash Funds Last Year End|24,120
(6,827)
17,293
35,754|
|**Cash Funds This Year End**|**43,362**
**28,490**
**71,853**
**17,293**|
_**6.2 Statement of Assets and Liabilities**_
||**Unrestricte**
**d Funds**
**£**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**2022**
**£**|
|---|---|
|**ASSETS**||
|Cash at Bank|43,362
28,490
71,853|
|**Total Cash Funds**|**43,362**
**28,490**
**71,853**|
|||-
77,778
77,778
**-**
**77,778**
**77,778**|
|---|---|---|
||**LIABILITIES**||
||Loan from UTS South Africa||
||**Total Liabilities**||
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