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2023-03-31-accounts

Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project Limited Annual report and unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023

Registered Charity Number: 1114047 Company number: 05317925

Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project Limited

ANNUAL REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 31 March 2023

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Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project Limited Annual report and unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023

Table of Contents

Legal and administrative information .............................................................................................................. 3 Trustees’ annual report ................................................................................................................................... 4 Chair’s introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Structure, governance and management .......................................................................................................... 5 Risk management .............................................................................................................................................. 6 Objects and activities ......................................................................................................................................... 6 The Trustees’ perspective of the future direction of the charity ...................................................................... 13 Financial review ............................................................................................................................................... 15 Reserves policy ................................................................................................................................................. 16 Relationship with any related parties .............................................................................................................. 17 Financial management .................................................................................................................................... 17 Small company provisions ................................................................................................................................ 17 Financial statements ...................................................................................................................................... 18 Independent examiner’s report to the directors of Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project Limited (‘the Company’) ................................................................................................................................... 18 Statement of financial activities ...................................................................................................................... 19 Balance sheet ................................................................................................................................................... 20 Statement of cashflows.................................................................................................................................... 21 Notes to the accounts ...................................................................................................................................... 22

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Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project Limited Annual report and unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023

Legal and administrative information

Registered name

Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project Limited

Other names CHILYPEP

Trustees

Andy Dykes Chair Jane Sedgewick Vice Chair Mick Warwick Treasurer – resigned 31/10/2022 Lulu Pinney Acting Treasurer – appointed 31/10/2022 Andreana Drencheva Bethan Holmes Margaret Anne Robinson

Company Secretary Lesley Pollard

Key Management Chief Executive Officer Lesley Pollard Finance and HR Officer Greer Furniss-Coates Deputy Manager Laura Abbott (resigned January 2023) HOME Hub Manager Marie Ellis

Charity number 1114047

Company number 05317925

Registered office 11 Southey Hill Sheffield S5 8BB

Independent Examiner Susan Cochrane, FCA Seven Hills Accountants Limited 57 Burton Street Sheffield S6 2HH

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Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project Limited Annual report and unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023

Trustees’ annual report

The trustees are pleased to present their annual directors’ report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ending 31 March 2023 which are also prepared to meet the requirements for a directors’ report and accounts for Companies Act purposes.

The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006, the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and the charities Statement of Recommended Practice (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland; FRS 102) issued in October 2019.

Chair’s introduction

During the past year funding and resources for everyday cost of living expenses have continued to change, with energy, food, wages, and in particular charitable donations being squeezed even more tightly. It is therefore remarkable that in this climate of ongoing financial uncertainty that Chilypep has been able to continue to operate at a very high level of delivery for the benefit of young people in the Barnsley, Sheffield and South Yorkshire communities.

As Chairperson for the Chilypep Board of Trustees, it remains a privilege and pleasure to be able to contribute an Introduction for the current Impact and Annual Report, summarising both the quality and the quantity of this amazing organisation’s youth work practices here in South Yorkshire.

While there have been a few staffing changes during the year, with some experienced workers leaving for career progression opportunities, others have subsequently joined the Chilypep team. I remain inspired by their overall collective professionalism to work towards our main aim:

‘ To develop models of best practice and promote the participation of children and young people in the decisions that affect their lives, as well as empowering them to take forward their own ideas and projects to meet their own needs and aspirations .’

Despite the challenging environment around shrinking resources and changes in its personnel, Chilypep has continued to adapt to the needs of local young people. In this respect Chilypep’s work has maintained its growth and development. This Impact and Annual Report will provide further details about how this happened.

Chilypep continues to be a beacon of light for all the people it encounters. Therefore, on behalf of the Chilypep Board of Trustees, an immeasurable thanks to all those who have worked with and for us during this challenging period. Young people locally will, I’m sure, continue to benefit from our collective dedication to the wonderful organisation that is Chilypep.

Andy Dykes, Chair

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Structure, governance and management

The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 15[th] December 2004, and registered as a charity on 5[th] May 2006. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. In event of the company being wound up, members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 each.

Chilypep is led by a voluntary management committee of trustees, currently consisting of six members, including representatives from the public, private and voluntary sectors. Both individually and collectively these members bring a wealth of commitment, knowledge, and experience to support the strategic development of the organisation. The staff team is led by the Chief Executive Officer, Lesley Pollard, who has led the organisation for twenty-two years (Chilypep was originally called the Youth Empowerment Project before becoming independent in 2004). In total some twenty-nine members of staff have been employed throughout the year.

Trustees are recruited in several ways including through open invitation at the annual AGM to members of the charity, and through advertising vacancies where there are identified skills and knowledge gaps within the board of trustees. Potential trustees are required to complete an application form and are interviewed by existing trustees. If selected, DBS and references are sought, and they are then asked to complete an induction of three to six months and work with the board and staff to get to know the organisation before beginning their appointment.

Candidates are then co-opted onto the board of trustees until the AGM where they are officially nominated and appointed. Alternatively, members of the organisation can put themselves forward at the AGM to apply to sit on the board of trustees, and then follow the process outlined above and below.

Chilypep have an induction policy and process for all volunteers, which has been adapted for new trustees. This includes attending meetings and relevant training and having the opportunity to shadow existing trustees. All potential new trustees are sent an induction pack containing all the relevant information, requirements and guidance as advised by The Charity Commission guidance for new trustees.

Chilypep adheres to ongoing safeguarding policies, and we are committed to ensuring the safety of children and young people and to maintaining and updating these policies in line with most recent legislation and good practice guidelines.

Chilypep is registered with The Equality Register and is committed to upholding the requirements of the Equality Act.

Chilypep has achieved the Investors in People standard and is committed to the development, training, support and wellbeing of staff and volunteers.

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Risk management

The board of trustees regularly review and assess the risks faced by the charity in all areas of its work and plan for the management of those risks by following guidance from the Charity Commission ‘Charities and risk management (CC26)’ document. From this Chilypep have developed a risk management register that considers risks to and steps to mitigate risk across governance, operation, finance, external and legal and legislation perspectives.

The organisation usually holds an away day each year involving trustees, staff, young people and partners, where planning and evaluation of the project takes place to set the directional aim of the organisation and to ensure that it is working within the organisation’s Memorandum and Articles. The findings from the away day are then used to refresh the business plan.

During this year, we have held a range of consultation activities for young people to share their views and they have been involved in steering the priority actions of the organisation to ensure we met their needs.

Financial management is carried out under set policies and procedures and the organisation’s accounts are subject to an independent examination annually. Financial reports are made by the management team to the trustees on a bi-monthly basis, timed to coincide with the pre-set board meeting dates.

The finance and monitoring officer, supported by the treasurer and CEO, continues to review, revise, and implement financial policies, procedures, systems, and reporting structures as necessary to meet the changing requirements of the business and its funding bodies. These were last reviewed within the reporting year.

Objects and activities

Chilypep’s Mission Statement is that:

Chilypep works with children and young people to make the most of opportunities to influence and improve their lives and communities through empowerment and participation in a challenging, fun and action-packed way.

The Objects of the Charity are to:

Develop the capacity and skills of socially and economically disadvantaged communities of children and young people in the United Kingdom in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and participate more fully in society.

Public benefit

The board of trustees have complied with the duty in Section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to Public Benefit Guidance published by the Commission.

In shaping our objectives for the year and planning our activities, the trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, including the guidance ‘public benefit: running a charity (PB2)’.

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The charity’s purposes are of public benefit because they improve the lives and communities of children and young people, in that:

  1. Children and young people experiencing disadvantage will have opportunities to develop greater resilience, confidence, knowledge, skills, and capacity to achieve their potential, participate in their local communities and influence issues that affect them.

  2. People who work with children and young people or are part of communities will be aware of and have the skills to respond to and support the needs of children and young people.

The charity carries out these purposes for public benefit through the empowerment and participation of children and young people, achieved by providing services and running projects for and with children and young people in a challenging, fun, and action-packed way.

During this year, the difference we have intended to make for disadvantaged and marginalised young people has been to:

  1. Create opportunities for young people to influence issues and concerns that affect them through social action projects and groups.

  2. Improve young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing and their access to services and support.

  3. Promote and build community cohesion in established communities, and support refugee, asylum seeking and newly arrived young people.

  4. Deliver a range of training and development opportunities for professionals, communities, and young people to promote participation practice and understand young people’s mental health and wellbeing needs.

  5. Deliver gender specific work to support boys and young men to develop their sense of empowerment, wellbeing, and emotional literacy.

  6. Support young people to access and improve opportunities for further/higher education, training, volunteering and employment.

How the achievement will further our legal purposes

Achievement of these aims will further the legal purposes of the organisation in that achieving these differences will meet our organisational aims, mission and public benefit.

Strategies for achieving stated aims and objectives

Chilypep’s current strategic direction is governed by a simple ‘Plan on a Page’ that is reviewed annually and was developed with young people, the board of trustees, staff and volunteers, is reported on at bi-monthly trustee meetings and is reviewed on an annual basis. The plan focuses on 7 strategic areas with objectives agreed for each.

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Our mission is to support and collaborate with children and young people, focusing on three areas of work:

  1. Voice and influence: supporting children and young people to be able to develop their skills and confidence to become activists for change

  2. Emotional wellbeing and self-belief: supporting children and young people to develop resilience and coping skills to manage challenges and have the skills and the confidence to make positive choices for their future

  3. Sustainability: support adults to have the skills and confidence to work collaboratively with children and young people in decision making, and in supporting their mental health and emotional wellbeing

Our organisational strategy for achieving our mission focuses on seven strategic areas with the following aims and objectives agreed for each:

1. Ongoing Services

Aim: We are able to continue to deliver our successful projects and services to achieve the following objectives.

Objectives:

2. Project Innovation

Aim: We develop new and innovative models and projects based on identified needs and priorities to meet the following objectives.

Objectives:

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3. Finance and resource management

Aim: We manage our finances and resources effectively and efficiently.

Objectives:

4. Marketing and communications

Aim: We have effective marketing and communication systems.

Objectives:

5. Quality Assurance

Aim: We can meet the requirements of legislation and appropriate quality assurance frameworks and funders.

Objectives:

6. People

Aim: People involved in the organisation at every level will have the support they need.

Objectives:

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7. Partnerships

Aim: We develop effective partnerships to increase our capacity to meet our aims and objectives.

Objectives:

Outcomes and impact

Although the Pandemic has ended, we are aware of the continued long-term impact of this on children and young people. To that end our focus for the period has been to achieve the following outcomes and impact:

  1. Support young people as the pandemic ends, to engage in positive activities and keep them mentally and emotionally well.

  2. Provide additional support to young people whose mental health and wellbeing has been affected by the pandemic

  3. Provide opportunities for young people to voice their concerns about the impact of the pandemic and support them to have these heard and addressed

  4. Support staff to enable them to remain well both physically and emotionally

  5. Support children, young people and staff to adapt and manage the transitions as the pandemic ends

  6. Develop effective and efficient working patterns that meet the needs of young people based on learning from our experience of hybrid and home working

This has been within the context of our organisational intended outcomes and impact which are that:

  1. Young people engage in participation activity that empowers them to influence communities, decision making and services, and can make tangible changes as a result.

  2. Children and young people develop positive mental health and emotional well-being and can reach their potential to live their best lives.

  3. Young people move towards improved resilience and self-belief, experiencing less isolation and feeling more connected to peers

  4. Chilypep supports other organisations to have the skills and understanding they need to involve young people meaningfully in their work and to understand and support young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing needs

  5. Chilypep’s services and projects meet the emerging needs of young people using new models which can support sustainability

  6. Chilypep’s services and projects improve social cohesion by bringing young people together from diverse groups and backgrounds to build greater understanding and appreciation of diversity between young people and communities

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  1. Chilypep’s services and projects are fully funded. Unrestricted funds are secured to fund core costs and allow organisation to develop independent projects with and for young people

  2. Chilypep engages in and develops alliances and multi-agency partnerships to promote and develop the effective participation of children and young people achieving more impact for children and young people through more effective and efficient partnership working

Strategic, partnership and development work

The CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Chilypep continues to take forward the strategic work of the organisation, developing networks and partnerships, guiding the organisation, developing supportive networks, and sharing learning, resources, and good practice. This has been supported by the senior management team and trustees. Alongside this a substantial investment of the CEO’s time has been to develop partnerships with other organisations, taking part in a wide range of strategic partnerships and networks locally and regionally, as well as to risk manage the effects of the pandemic, inflation, and cost of living increases on the organisation, staff, volunteers, and young people.

This year, the impact of the steep cost of living increases and inflation meant that the organisation had to take stock of the financial viability of the national pay increases and move to our owe pay scales. Staff met with trustees at a workshop to consider and discuss how the organisation could manage the impact, and through this a range of solutions were identified. As a result, the CEO applied to the Keystone Fund for unrestricted funding to develop a more robust funding and sustainability strategy and employ a dedicated person to take this forward. The bid was successful, and work will begin in October 2023.

The main Chilypep base in Sheffield has suffered from degradation over time, and the cost of ongoing maintenance of the building was becoming unsustainable. During the year, the CEO worked in partnership with our Landlord SOAR (Southey and Owlerton Area Regeneration) and Sheffield Council Community Youth Service to develop a bid to the Youth Investment Fund to renovate and extend the building to develop a new youth centre. Young people were supported by staff to develop the bid and work on the design, as well as consult widely with young people in the area. This was a nine-month process which ended successfully in June 2023 when we learnt the bid had been successful, bringing over 1.3 million capital and revenue investment. Over the next 12 months, work will take place to build this much needed community resource and secure Chilypeps’ base in Sheffield.

Working alongside SY-NC (Sheffield Youth Neighbourhoods and Communities) and the S6 Foodbank, our volunteer Shelika is continuing to deliver a food bank from the premises during the year, which has seen 100’s of people receiving food and personal care items. We are also delivering Foodbanks in community venues through the Rubic Project and have become a registered HAF (Holiday Activities and Food) provider, running a range of activities for children and providing meals during school holidays. This has strengthened our relationship with the local community and organisations, and we are now working with partners to develop a community-based IT (Information Technology) project which will

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increase the community’s access to IT equipment through a laptop loan scheme, and access to the internet through a community internet hub that will be based in the building.

We continue to develop the CYP (Children and Young People) Emotional Wellbeing Hub in Barnsley, working closely with Barnsley Place ICS and a range of partners to develop the concept of a young people’s wellbeing hub and office base for our Barnsley team. This year saw the start of a new programme of activities and the expansion of the BRV (Belonging, Resilience, Vocabulary) Boys Emotional Literacy programme. Commissioners agreed a fiveyear funding programme for the Hub in 2019/2020 to support its sustainability, and further work is underway to secure continuation funding for the groupwork and counselling services.

This year the CEO worked in partnership with Barnsley Council and Barnsley YMCA to apply to the Levelling Up fund to carry out improvements and renovations to the building. The YMCA occupy the ground floor and Chilypep leases the first floor. The application was successful, and over the coming year, the building will be transformed with over £2 million investment including new heating, windows, entrances and kitchen facilities. This is part of a wider regeneration programme for the benefit of young people in Barnsley Town Centre, and Chilypep are supporting young people to be engaged in the development and design of a range of new facilities in the Town.

We have continued our involvement with the development of mental health services and support for young people at a strategic level in Sheffield and Barnsley as the new Integrated Care System has been developed.

This year we successfully tendered to deliver the ICS South Yorkshire Children and Young People’s Alliance Voice contract, which began in January 2023. We were then successful in securing additional funding to expand this into specific voice work around mental health services across the ICS. Over the coming years we will work with the Children and Young People’s Alliance to ensure that young people can have a meaningful voice in the development and commissioning of health services across South Yorkshire.

Chilypep’s projects and services, what we have achieved, and the impact we have made Alongside our strategic, partnership and development work, Chilypep also delivered a wide range of projects and activities this year that focus on our strategic aims.

The organisation uses a range of measures to assess impact and achievements including the use of an organisation wide Management Information System (Lamplight) and QuickBooks Online. Recognised impact measurement tools, such as outcome stars and case studies, are used regularly to measure outcomes and impact on young people, and we work with external evaluators to evaluate specific project outcomes and achievements, as well as capturing the learning and development opportunities identified.

For our Annual Report and Impact Report we collate data and information from all the measurement tools, highlighting the impact the organisation has had each year on young people, organisations and at a strategic level. This is shared with The Charity Commission and Companies House, funders, stakeholders, and partners, and with the wider public via our website.

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Our aim is to develop models of best practice and promote the participation of children and young people in the decisions that affect their lives as well as empowering them to take forward their own ideas and projects to meet their own and other young people’s needs and aspirations.

Whilst we can work on a national level and have done so during 2022/23, most of our work at this time is based within Sheffield, Barnsley, and South Yorkshire.

To meet the strategic aims of the organisation, as described above, Chilypep staff have engaged in strategic, partnership and development work as well as running a variety of different projects and services during the reporting period, which are highlighted in pages 5 to 29 of our Impact Report.

Each project or service has an individual plan in place with its own aims, outputs and outcomes that are agreed with funders, and are aligned with the charity’s aims, objectives, outcomes, and impact, and against which each project is measured and evaluated as appropriate.

Future plans

The aims and objectives of future plans and details of any activities planned to achieve them

The charity aims to continue to work on the key themes and areas of work currently being delivered against, whilst developing more partnerships and joint working initiatives over the next 3 years. During 2022/23 we carried out a wide range of consultations and conversations with trustees, staff, and young people to revisit our business plan and redefine our priorities and work.

The Trustees’ perspective of the future direction of the charity

Our experience of past and current activities, knowledge of current trends and issues, and awareness of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis has led us to conclude that we need to continue to maximise opportunities for partnership and collaboration and streamline our overhead costs, as well as generate more unrestricted funding to support and maintain both our projects and our core management team. We also aim to focus more on developing universal youth work activity in Sheffield that will enable young people in their local community to take part in activities and projects that meet our organisational aims and objectives.

One of our key priorities this year was to develop a more robust long term income generation and fundraising strategy for the organisation, and, with the loss of our Deputy Manager due to insufficient long-term secure funding for the post, to increase our capacity to sustain our core management team.

To this end we applied for Keystone Funding for a grant that will enable us to work with Eastside People to develop this strategy, and then employ an Income Generation Officer who will focus on generating unrestricted funds through grants, donor increase and fundraising activity, as well as support major funding bids. This work will begin in October 2023.

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With our base in Barnsley secured we have turned our attention to sustaining and developing our Sheffield head office base and responding to the needs of the local community in the area.

Through our successful partnership with SOAR (Southey and Owlerton Area Regenerationour Landlord), Sheffield Community Youth Service and SY-NC (Sheffield Youth Neighbourhoods and Communities), our successful Youth Investment Fund Grant will, over the coming years, see a tired old building transformed into a vibrant youth and community asset for the local area, and our focus will be on sustaining a universal youth offer to young people as well as maximising the use and revenue potential of a new community resource.

We have worked with commissioners to ensure our work remains integral and relevant to the new strategies and plans that have replaced Future in Mind and have developed relationships with commissioners and strategic decision makers involved in the development of the new regional ICS (Integrated Care Systems) in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw.

Ensuring we are able to engage with and influence the changing world of mental health services for children and young people will be an important part of the future direction of travel for the organisation.

Our lead role in developing a children and young people’s emotional wellbeing hub in Barnsley (H.O.M.E.) at the base is part of this strategy, as it will evidence a model of early intervention, prevention, and multi-agency partnership that we aim to promote across the region. This will enable better opportunities for joint working, shared resources, and a more coordinated and strategic approach to meeting the needs of young people and will create more sustainability through partnership working and reduced running costs.

We also continue to explore more opportunities to do work that focuses on social cohesion, campaigning against injustice and for equality issues, and to extend our youth work offer exploring opportunities to do more grass roots youth work activity.

This year was the second of three years of RUBIC2, a continuation from our National Lottery funded social cohesion project RUBIC (Respect and Understanding Building Inclusive Communities) which will enable us to continue to support refugee and asylum-seeking young people and to implement the learning from the previous three-year project to work with the north-Sheffield community and organisations.

As part of our aim to increase the support offered to young migrants and asylum seekers, we applied for funding from Migrant Help to employ a dedicated Youth Welfare Officer and Assistant Project Worker to support the continuation and development of Happy Group (our group for refugee and asylum seeking young people) and to provide wellbeing support to young people aged 18 to 25 living in accommodation centres. The grant was awarded in March 2023 and will be for 2 years.

Alongside this, the CEO has been as an active member and co-chair of the Sheffield Children and Young People’s Voluntary and Community Sector Network (CYPN), which has over 60 organisations on its membership list, and an active membership of approximately 20 organisations. They meet regularly to consider strategic involvement and influence of the

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sector and opportunities for collaboration and partnership, working to meet the needs of children and young people and increase their opportunities for having a voice and influencing local strategies and decisions that affect them.

With a new Youth Service function now being delivered by Sheffield local authority, Chilypep have continued to engage in helping to shape and influence the new Sheffield Plan for services for young people through our work with the CYP Network. Members of CYPN have also continued to come together to explore the potential for developing a consortium of charities that will work together to attract much needed funding to deliver the aims and objectives of member organisations collectively.

Financial review

Chilypep has had a positive year financially, successfully sourcing additional funding to carry out much needed service provision in Barnsley and Sheffield and South Yorkshire wide.

The proportion of income sources is well balanced between contract and grant funding; however, it highlights a need to increase more donation and legacy-based funding to increase our general reserve to support the charity. Our Keystone Funded project will focus on this. We are very grateful for all the donations we have received throughout this financial year and, alongside fundraising and income generating activities, they currently provide us with 1% of our total income.

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Reserves policy

The trustees have set the target free reserves required at £69,232 to allow for closure costs including staff redundancies (should they be required). Free reserves were £94,989 at the end of the year. The excess in free reserves will be used to fund planned project expenditure in 23/24. We are in a financially stable position in the event of any unforeseen circumstances arising, which would mean the charity would have to close down its services.

The amount of any funds which are restricted and not available for general purposes of the charity stand at £201,322, this amount is planned to be spent over the financial year 2023/24. The amounts that have been designated stand at £283,937 and the likely timing of the expenditure of this amount is over the financial year 2023/24.

Chilypep have been fortunate in that most of our work is either funded from grant giving bodies or through health commissioners and local authorities. Uplifts have been significantly lower that cost of living and inflation increases, and during 2023/24 we will be negotiating with funders about how work can be sustained within these restrictions, which may include a reduction in services if additional funds to meet this gap are not agreed.

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the trustees believe that the charity will continue to operate for 12 months from authorising these financial statements based on funding already secured and in the organisations bank account, some of which is upfront funding for the full year. Not all funding streams are secure this far in advance, however there are sufficient funds secured to allow the organisation to continue for 12 months from the signing of the accounts although this may not be at the current staffing levels.

The recent economic downturn and cost of living crisis will have an impact on our organisation, in terms of staff costs and the cost of services we receive, which we anticipate will rise significantly, and the availability of funding, contracts and commissions, which may diminish. The Trustees recognise this, and will continue to closely monitor the situation, carrying out regular risk assessments and budget and finance reviews and considering a range of options to mitigate the impact on the organisation.

The trustees will develop a plan of action to be taken to reduce costs, should the required income to sustain all the current work not be secured. This may include restructuring the staff team, negotiating additional funding with existing funders, reviewing the organisation overheads and premises, and staff redundancies.

The trustees have an aim to increase the reserves from three to six months running costs to improve the security and sustainability of the organisation

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Relationship with any related parties

We are the lead partner for the second phase of our RUBIC Project a National Lottery funded project. All partners have partnership arrangements that were put in place at the beginning of the project and approved by The National Lottery.

Financial management

Financial management is carried out under set policies and procedures and the organisation’s accounts are subject to an independent examination annually. Financial reports are made by the management team to the trustees on a bi-monthly basis, timed to coincide with the pre-set board meeting dates.

The finance and monitoring officer, supported by the treasurer and CEO, continues to review, revise, and implement financial policies, procedures, systems and reporting structures as necessary to meet the changing requirements of the business and its funding bodies. These were last reviewed within the reporting year.

Small company provisions

The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.

The Trustees’ Report was approved by the Board of Trustees on 22/10/2023___ and signed on their behalf by:

Signed: _______

Andy Dykes, Chair

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Financial statements

Independent examiner’s report to the directors of Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project Limited (‘the Company’)

I report to the charity directors on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2023.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the directors of the Company you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your company’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

Since the Company’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), which is one of the listed bodies.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

  4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to organisations preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Date: ____ 31/10/2023

Signed: _________ Susan Cochrane, FCA Seven Hills Accountants Limited, 57 Burton Street, Sheffield S6 2HH

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Statement of financial activities

(incorporating the income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2023

Income from:
Notes
Donations
Charitable activities
Projects
2
Delivery of training and
consultancy
Other income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
3
Net income/(expenditure)
Transfers between funds
9&10
Net movement in funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 General
funds
£
2,504
-
9,061
8,463
20,028
22,826
22,826
(2,798)
1,090
(1,708)
96,697
94,989		 Designated
funds
£
10
428,809
-
10,955		 Restricted
funds
£
87
464,163
-
16		 Total
2023
£
2,601
892,972
9,061
19,434		 Total
2022
£
5,789
934,915
3,473
8,852
439,774 464,266 924,068 953,029
454,351 404,376 881,553 811,568
454,351 404,376 881,553 811,568
(14,577)
(90)		 59,890
(1,000)		 42,515
-		 141,461
-
(14,667)
298,604		 58,890
142,432		 42,515
537,733		 141,461
396,272
283,937 201,322 580,248 537,733

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Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2023

Notes
Current assets
Debtors
6
Cash at bank and in hand
Total current assets
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
7
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
Total net assets
Represented by:
Funds of the Charity General funds
General funds
Designated funds
9
Unrestricted funds
Restricted income funds
10
11		 2023
£
2022
£
219,413
130,757
600,911
537,503
820,324
668,260
(240,076) (130,527)
580,248
537,733
580,248
537,733
-
-
580,248
537,733
94,989
96,697
283,937
298,604
378,926
395,301
201,322
142,432
580,248
537,733

For the year ending 31 March 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The director's acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to small companies' regime.

Approved by the board of trustees on __ 22.10.23 ____ and signed on behalf of the board by:

Signed: _______ Company number: 05317925 Lulu Pinney, Trustee and Acting Treasurer

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Statement of cashflows

For the year ended 31 March 2023

Note
2023
£
Cash flows from operating activities
Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities
15
63,408
Change in cash and cash equivalents
63,408
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
537,503
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year
600,911		 2022
£
78,034
78,034
459,469
537,503

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Notes to the accounts

For the year ended 31 March 2023

1 Accounting Policies

(a) General

Children and Young People's Empowerment Project Limited is a charitable company in the United Kingdom limited by guarantee. In the event that the charity is wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the charity. The address of the registered office is given in the charity information on page 1 of these financial statements.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (second edition), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) and with the Charities Act 2011.

Children and Young People's Empowerment Project Limited meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention. The financial statements are presented in sterling which is the functional currency of the charity and are rounded to the nearest £.

(b) Income

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Project income (grants, contracts and service level agreements) is recognised on an accruals basis over the period to which the project relates, where specified by the funding agreement. Project income received in advance of the start date of the project is deferred until the start of the project.

Investment income is included when receivable.

(c) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

(d) Tangible fixed assets

All items of capital expenditure below £500 are written off as incurred.

Depreciation has been calculated to write down the cost or valuation, less estimated residual value, of all tangible fixed assets over their expected useful lives on a straight line basis.

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1 Accounting Policies - continued

(e) Debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for services performed in the ordinary course of business.

Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of receivables.

(f) Creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if the company does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.

(g) Financial instruments

The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value.

(h) Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

(i) Defined contribution pension scheme

The charity contributes to a defined contribution pension scheme for the benefit of the employees. The pension costs charged against net incoming resources are the contributions payable to the scheme in respect of the accounting period in accordance with FRS102.

(j) Leases

Rental payable and receivable under operation leases are charged to the SoFA on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

(k) Taxation

As a charity, the organisation is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within the available tax exemptions to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects. No tax charges have arisen in the charity.

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1 Accounting Policies - continued

(l) Funds

Unrestricted funds are donations and other income receivable or generated for the objects of the organisation without further specified purpose and are available as general funds.

Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the funder.

Designated funds are funds set aside at the discretion of the trustees for a specific project.

(m) Going concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis as the Trustees believe that the charity will continue to operate for 12 months from authorising these financial statements. Not all funding streams are secure this far in advance however the trustees will develop a plan of action to be taken to reduce costs, should the required income not be secured.

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2 Income from charitable activities – projects

Funder
Project
The National Lottery Community Fund
Rubic 2
Arnold Clark
Sheffield Support Fund
Austin Hope Pilkington Trust
Rubic 2 Wecome Pack
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group
Barnsley LTP main grant
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group
Barnsley Mental Health - LTP training
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group
Barnsley Mental Health - LTP college
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group
BRV
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group
Barnsley HUB
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Barnsley Assist
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Community Renewal Fund Project
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Emotional Health Wellbeing Support
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Community Renewal Fund Project
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Covid Resilience Funding
Cardiff University
Dentistry Bright Trial
LAC Committee
Rubic 2 Queen's Jubilee Fund
LAC Committee
Community Garden
Mind Sheffield
This is Us Project
NHS Health Education England
CWP Practitioner Trainee Programme
NHS South Yorkshire
Mental Health Work Programme
NHS South Yorkshire
Suicide Bereavement Peer Support
NHS South Yorkshire
Core 20
Peter Sowerby Foundation
Increasing Access Fund
Public Health CYP - Children's Inclusion
Sheffield PHB Project
Learning Service
Reds in the Community
Belonging, Resiliance & Vocabulary
Project
SCHARR
CYP Project
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust CAMHS and STAMP
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust CEW
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust CAMHS Internal Participation Group
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust Alliance Voice work
Sheffield City Council
Rubic 2 Community Garden
Sheffield City Council
Device Loan Scheme
Sheffield City Council
Southey Food Pantry
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group
Sheffield LTP main grant and STAMP
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group
Bereavement by suicide toolkit
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group
MHP Hosting fee
SOAR
HAF (Christmas)
SOAR
HAF (Easter)
SOAR
Let's Build Health Fund
South Yorkshire's Community Foundation Green Social Prescribing Programme
SW Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Creative Minds
SW Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
H.O.M.E
SY Neighbourhoods and Communities
Dryden Connected Project
SYBICS
CYP Transformation plan
The JG Graves Charitable Trust
Community Garden
The Safer Sheffield Partnership
Rubic 2 Safer Sheffield		 General Designated Restricted
Total
Total
Funds
Funds
Funds
2023
2022
£
£
£
£
£
-
-
180,387
180,387
80,624
-
-
1,000
1,000
-
-
-
-
-
1,000
-
52,609
-
52,609
52,937
-
42,448
-
42,448
42,315
-
53,895
-
53,895
52,978
-
83,486
-
83,486
143,849
-
186,371
-
186,371
185,869
-
-
15,000
15,000
15,000
-
-
31,749
31,749
-
-
-
19,999
19,999
-
-
-
-
-
64,999
-
-
-
-
14,272
-
-
6,660
6,660
-
-
-
200
200
-
-
-
1,936
1,936
-
-
-
4,500
4,500
-
-
-
-
-
72,539
-
-
16,000
16,000
-
-
-
8,200
8,200
-
-
-
59,700
59,700
-
-
-
-
-
24,219
-
-
-
-
63,627
-
-
8,466
8,466
-
-
-
-
-
7,160
-
-
23,944
23,944
22,298
-
-
10,000
10,000
-
-
-
9,058
9,058
-
-
10,000
-
10,000
-
-
-
1,000
1,000
-
-
-
-
-
7,500
-
-
877
877
-
-
-
38,881
38,881
37,964
-
-
-
-
20,000
-
-
-
-
10,000
-
-
3,190
3,190
-
-
-
2,937
2,937
-
-
-
-
-
1,056
-
-
9,256
9,256
-
-
-
6,000
6,000
8,000
-
-
-
-
2,500
-
-
225
225
-
-
-
-
-
4,209
-
-
2,000
2,000
-
-
-
2,998
2,998
-
-
428,809
464,163
892,972
934,915

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3 Expenditure on charitable activities

General Designated Restricted Total Total
Note Funds Funds Funds 2023 2022
£ £ £ £ £
Activities 632 31,672 36,966 69,270 48,091
Staff costs 4 20,383 348,162 267,341 635,886 606,086
Grants paid 5 - - 20,304 20,304 9,540
Evaluation/monitoring costs - 252 1,279 1,531 3,753
Office and administration costs 1,811 33,634 64,763 100,208 71,524
Premises and overheads - 38,216 12,631 50,847 69,154
Independent examiner's fee - 2,394 1,026 3,420 3,420
General governance, meetings and AGM costs - 21 66 87 -
Total charitable expenditure 22,826 454,351 404,376 881,553 811,568

No other fees were paid to the independent examiners organisation.

4 Staff Costs

Salaries
Employer's National Insurance
Employer's allowance
Employer's Pension contributions
Other staff costs (payroll fees, DBS checks, recruitment, training and expenses)		 2023
2022
£
£
536,116
504,529
48,297
41,509
(5,000)
(4,000)
43,541
37,009
12,932
27,039
635,886
606,086

No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000.

The average monthly number of employees during the year was 24 (2022: 18).

5 Grants paid

The total amount of grants paid are represented by:

Paid to:
Project paid from:
MESH
RUBIC 2
City of Sanctuary Sheffield
RUBIC 2
Who is Your Neighbour
RUBIC 2		 2023
2022
£
£
6,360
6,360
2,270
3,180
11,674
-
20,304
9,540

All the above grants are paid to an organisation rather than an individual. The funds are initially received from the funders listed and were subsequently paid out to the above organisations to deliver the project in partnership with Chilypep and detailed in the original funding

6 Debtors

Trade debtors
Prepayments
Other debtors		 2023
2022
£
£
202,350
119,496
10,021
9,499
7,042
1,762
219,413
130,757

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7 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Note
Trade creditors
Accruals
Other creditors
Deferred income
8		 2023
2022
£
£
32,104
13,050
5,709
10,018
82
258
202,181
107,201
240,076
130,527

8 Deferred income

Brought forward
Received in the year
Released in the year
Funder
Project
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Suicide prevention and Mental Health training
The National Lottery
Rubic 2
South Yorkshire Community Foundation Green social prescribing programme
NHS SY ICB
CAMHS duty work for 23/24 & 24/25
Carried forward		 Brought
Received
forward
in the year
£
£
15,000
-
82,945
112,181
9,256
-
90,000		 2023
2022
£
£
107,201
65,000
202,181
107,201
(107,201)
(65,000)
202,181
107,201
Released
Carried
in the year
forward
£
£
(15,000)
-
(82,945)
112,181
(9,256)
-
90,000
107,201
202,181		 (107,201)
202,181

Deferred income relates to project income received in advance of the start of the project and given to be spent over multiple accounting years.

9 Designated funds

Brought Income Expenditure Transfers Carried
forward forward
£ £ £ £ £
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley Mental Health - LTP college 10,592 53,895 (53,793) - 10,694
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley Mental Health - LTP training 14,262 42,448 (47,526) - 9,184
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley LTP main grant 6,613 53,254 (55,350) - 4,517
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley HUB 188,615 196,691 (173,836) - 211,470
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: BRV 62,133 83,486 (107,595) - 38,024
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Emergency support Fund 4,375 - (4,285) (90) -
Alliance Voice work: Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust - 10,000 - - 10,000
ASDA Foundation: Connections HUB 48 - - - 48
Public Health CYP - Children's Inclusion Learning Service: Sheffield PHB Project
5,176		 - (5,176) - -
SCHARR: CYP Project 6,790 - (6,790) - -
298,604 439,774 (454,351) (90) 283,937

The above funds have been designated at the discretion of the trustees in order to ensure that the requirements of the funder and the objectives of the project are met in full.

Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley Local Transformation Plan (OASIS, Young Commissioners, Barnsley College, BRV, YMHFA Training, Emergency support fund and project administration costs)

Funding for 3 years to support young people’s participation in shaping mental health services in Barnsley, and provide support through a boys Emotional Literacy programme, Peer mentoring and groupwork projects, personal health budgets, and the establishment of a children and young people’s Emotional Wellbeing Hub. To also deliver a range of Mental Health training to schools and the wider workforce.

Alliance Voice work: Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Funding for the provision of a Children and Young People’s Youth Voice Partnership on behalf of the South Yorkshire Children and Young People’s Alliance.

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ASDA Foundation: Connections HUB

Funding to contribute towards the Connections HUB emergency fund pot.

Public Health CYP - Children's Inclusion Learning Service: Sheffield PHB Project

Personalised 1-1 support for young people experiencing mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties in the form of structured evidence based conversations tools, goal setting and the provision of activities, resources or materials to support young people to achieve their goals.

SCHARR: CYP Project

Funding to support public involvement and engagement activities in Sheffield.

Prior year comparison Brought Income Expenditure Transfers Carried
forward forward
£ £ £ £ £
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley Mental Health - LTP college 13,846 52,978 (55,282) (950) 10,592
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley Mental Health - LTP training 12,775 42,588 (40,301) (800) 14,262
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley LTP main grant 5,333 53,447 (50,667) (1,500) 6,613
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Takeover Challenge bid - - - - -
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Barnsley HUB 68,033 194,286 (102,834) 29,130 188,615
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: BRV 7,370 143,849 (88,206) (880) 62,133
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Waiting List Initiative 5,459 - - (5,459) -
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Emergency support Fund 6,884 - (2,509) - 4,375
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group: Project Administration costs 12 - (12) - -
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council: Rate relief fund 25,000 - - (25,000) -
Create Sheffield: Youth Voice Commission 104 - (104) - -
Seconded staff: Rainbow Heron 48 - - (48) -
ASDA Foundation: Connections HUB 1,591 - (2,543) 1,000 48
Public Health CYP - Children's Inclusion Learning Service: Sheffield PHB Project - 63,691 (58,515) - 5,176
SCHARR: CYP Project - 7,160 (370) - 6,790
SYBICS: CYP Transformation plan - 4,209 (4,209) - -
146,455 562,208 (405,552) (4,507) 298,604

10 Restricted funds

10 Restricted funds
Barnsley work
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Other
Sheffield Mental Health and Health Work
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group
NHS South Yorkshire
Other
Sheffield Asylum seeking and refugee, community and schools work
The National Lottery Community Fund: Rubic 2
Other		 Brought
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
Carried
forward
forward
£
£
£
£
£
57,375
66,748
(102,864)
21,259
7,589
14,466
(14,255)
(1,000)
6,800
4,685
43,002
(23,566)
-
24,121
33,702
38,881
(64,418)
-
8,165
-
75,700
-
-
75,700
-
28,616
(20,416)
-
8,200
24,827
180,490
(169,655)
-
35,662
14,254
16,363
(9,202)
-
21,415
142,432
464,266
(404,376)
(1,000)
201,322

The restricted funds are analysed to the following areas of work:

Barnsley work

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council:

Funding for the projects as listed in note 2, which include: delivering a replicable, scalable Co-Production model of work to identify the barriers to young people in the central area of Barnsley in accessing the opportunities that are currently available, delivering a range of suicide prevention training programmes to the CYP workforce, 1-2-1 support of young people to help them explore and manage their wellbeing, and support to continue the delivery of emotional health and wellbeing interventions.

Other:

Includes funding from SW Yorkshire NHS Trust, The National Lottery Community Fund and Reds in the Community for Barnsley based projects including: hosting bi-weekly creative drop in workshops, and funding to support the delivery of targeted work supporting children and young people who are at risk of entering the criminal justice system.

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Sheffield Mental Health and Health Work

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust:

One Year rolling funding to support CAMHS services to involve young people in service development, design and evaluation and develop Peer Mentoring for service users.

Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group:

Funding for 3 years to work with Sheffield CCG and Public Health to support young people’s participation in shaping mental health services in Sheffield.

NHS South Yorkshire:

Funding to continue to support the development of South Yorkshire CYP involvement work within the mental health work programme, the development of the Sy CYP suicide bereavement peer support work and working to support the reduction of health inequalities at both national and system level.

Other:

Includes funding from Cardiff University, South Yorkshire Community Foundation and Mind Sheffield for work including: a four year dentistry research project to improve dental hygiene in young people, a green social prescribing programme, and an innovative partnership approach talking to communities about their mental health needs and experiences.

Sheffield Asylum seeking and refugee, community and schools work

The National Lottery Community Fund: Rubic 2:

A three-year national lottery funded partnership project (continuing from Rubic) to support social and community cohesion in North Sheffield.

Other:

Includes funding from Arnold Clark, Sheffield City Council, J G Graves Trust, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Austin Hope and South Yorkshire Neighbourhoods and Communities to fund a variety of projects including: launching a Sheffield support fund, projects empowering young people to set up their own social action groups, creating a welcome pack for refugees, creating a community garden and helping to create safer communities.

Prior year comparison Brought Income Expenditure Transfers Carried
forward forward
£ £ £ £ £
Barnsley work
SW Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust: Creative Minds - 8,000 (2,119) - 5,881
SW Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust: H.O.M.E - 2,500 (1,792) - 708
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council: Community Renewal Fund - 64,999 (23,675) - 41,324
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council: Barnsley Assist 1,798 15,000 (15,019) - 1779
The National Lottery Community Fund: Covid-19 Connections Hub Project 9,557 - (8,557) - 1000
NHS Health Education England: CWP Practitioner Trainee Programme - 72,539 (72,539) - -
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council: Covid Resilience Funding - 14,272 - - 14,272
Peter Sowerby Foundation: Increasing Access Fund - 24,219 (24,219) - -
Sheffield Mental Health and Health Work
Anonymous funder: Dentistry Bright Trial 105 - (105) - -
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust: CAMHS and STAMP 3,002 22,298 (20,615) - 4685
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group: Sheffield LTP main grant and STAMP 5,245 37,964 (31,776) - 11,433
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group: Bereavement by suicide toolkit - 20,000 (2,731) - 17,269
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group: MHP Hosting fee - 10,000 (5,000) - 5000
Sheffield Asylum seeking and refugee, community and schools work
Big Lottery Fund: Womens and Girls Initiative 95 - (95) - -
Paul Hamlyn Foundation: Act for Change 62,789 364 (60,555) - 2598
Paul Hamlyn Foundation: COVID-19 Engagement 3,404 - (1,100) - 2,304
Paul Hamlyn Foundation: COVID-19 Emergency Funding 7,058 - (6,206) - 852
The National Lottery Community Fund: Rubic 2 71,703 80,720 (127,596) - 24,827
Austin Hope Pilkington Trust: Rubic 2 Wecome Pack - 1,000 - - 1000
SOAR: Let's Build Health Fund - 1,056 (1,056) - -
Sheffield City Council: Device Loan Scheme - 7,500 - - 7500
South Yorkshire's Community Foundation: Green Social Prescribing Programme - - - - -
164,756 382,431 (404,755) - 142,432

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11 Analysis of funds by net assets

Net current assets
Prior year comparison
Net current assets		 General
Designated
Restricted
Total
Funds
Funds
Funds
2023
£
£
£
£
94,989
283,937
201,322
580,248
94,989
283,937
201,322
580,248
General
Designated
Restricted
Total
Funds
Funds
Funds
2022
£
£
£
£
96,697
298,604
142,432
537,733
96,697
298,604
142,432
537,733

12 Trustee remuneration and expenses, and the cost of key management personnel

The charity Trustees were not paid or received any other benefits from employment with the Charity in the year (2022: £nil) neither were they reimbursed expenses during the year (2022: £nil). No charity Trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity 2022: £nil).

The key management personnel of the charity, comprise the Trustees, the managing director and the finance officer. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the charity were £79,426 (2022: £71,721).

13 Related party transactions

There were no related party transactions, other than those in note 12.

14 Operating lease commitments

As at 31 March 2023 the charity was committed to making the following minimum payments under operating leases as follows:

Payable within 1 year
Payable between 1-5 years		 2023
2022
£
£
19,123
877
39,123
-
58,246
877

15 Reconciliation of net expenditure to net cash flow from operating activities

Net income/(expenditure) for the year (as per the SOFA)
Adjustments for:
(Increase)/decrease in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities		 2023
2022
£
£
42,515
141,461
(88,656)
(102,190)
109,549
38,763
63,408
78,034

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16 Statement of Financial Activities - prior year comparison

Income from:
Donations
Charitable activities
Projects
Delivery of training and consultancy
Other income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
Net income/(expenditure)
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 General
funds
£
2,504
-
9,061
8,463
20,028
22,826
22,826
(2,798)
1,090
(1,708)
96,697
94,989		 Designated
funds
£
10
428,809
-
10,955		 Restricted
funds
£
87
464,163
-
16		 Total
2023
£
2,601
892,972
9,061
19,434		 General
funds
£
4,789
-
3,000
601
8,390
1,261
1,261
7,129
4,507
11,636
85,061
96,697		 Designated
funds
£
1,000
552,944
473
7,791
562,208
405,552
405,552
156,656
(4,507)
152,149
146,455
298,604		 Restricted
funds
£
-
381,971
-
460
382,431
404,755
404,755
(22,324)
-
(22,324)
164,756
142,432		 Total
2022
£
5,789
934,915
3,473
8,852
439,774 464,266 924,068 953,029
454,351 404,376 881,553 811,568
454,351 404,376 881,553 811,568
(14,577)
(90)		 59,890
(1,000)		 42,515
-		 141,461
-
(14,667)
298,604		 58,890
142,432		 42,515
537,733		 141,461
396,272
283,937 201,322 580,248 537,733

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CHILYPEP CWILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S EMPOWERMENT PROJECT Impart Report 2022/23 4., 11 Iiil MENTORINGAND ASIST INVESTORS IN PEOPLE FUNQ)RAI'. REGULATOR Membef 2016 MHFA Englond

Contents

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|||| |---|---|---| |CHAIR’S INTRODUCTION Page 3| |CEO’S INTRODUCTION|Page 4| |Chilypep’s work: an overview| |Who we worked with|Page 5| |What we did|Page 6| |Our Barnsley projects| |HOME Wellbeing Programme|Page 7|FUNDERS| |Talk@HOME|Page 8| |BRV|Page 9| |16+ Transition Page 10| |Young Commissioners|Page 11| |Community Renewal Fund|Page 12| |Support Fund|Page 13| |Training|Page 14| |Our other projects in Barnsley|Page 15 - 16| |Our Sheffield Projects| |STAMP|Page 17| |RUBIC²|Page 18 - 20| |Our other projects in Sheffield|Page 21 - 22| |Our impact| |Impact on young people and local|Page 23 - 24| |communities| |Impact on those who work with|Page 25 - 26| |young people| |Impact on strategies and policies|Page 27 - 28|

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CHILYPEP’S PEOPLE Page 29

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS Page 30

FUNDERS Page 31

“Chilypep has helped me with my confidence and anxiety where now I’m able to do things that have been out of my comfort zone.” Lucy - Young Commissioner, now HOME Volunteer

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Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project

Welcome to Chilypep!

During the past year funding and resources for everyday cost of living expenses have continued to change, with energy, food, wages, and in particular charitable donations being squeezed even more tightly. It is therefore remarkable that in this climate of ongoing financial uncertainty that Chilypep has been able to continue to operate at a very high level of delivery for the benefit of young people in the Barnsley, Sheffield and South Yorkshire communities.

As Chairperson for the Chilypep Board of Trustees, it remains a privilege and pleasure to be able to contribute an Introduction for the current Impact and Annual Report, summarising both the quality and the quantity of this amazing organisation’s youth work practices here in South Yorkshire.

While there have been a few staffing changes during the year, with some experienced workers leaving for career progression opportunities, others have subsequently joined the Chilypep team. I remain inspired by their overall collective professionalism to work towards our main aim:

‘ To develop models of best practice and promote the participation of children and young people in the decisions that affect their lives, as well as empowering them to take forward their own ideas and projects to meet their own needs and aspirations .’

Despite the challenging environment around shrinking resources and changes in its personnel, Chilypep has continued to adapt to the needs of local young people. In this respect Chilypep’s work has maintained its growth and development. This Impact and Annual Report will provide further details about how this happened.

Chilypep continues to be a beacon of light for all the people it encounters. Therefore, on behalf of the Chilypep Board of Trustees, an immeasurable thanks to all those who have worked with and for us during this challenging period. Young people locally will, I’m sure, continue to benefit from our collective dedication to the wonderful organisation that is Chilypep.

Andy Dykes, Chair

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CEO’s introduction

This year, as with most, we have seen the end of some projects, and the start of new pieces of work, all of which are based on the identified needs, issues and priorities of young people. Supporting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in our communities and encouraging social cohesion continues to be our priority. Our work with LGBTQ, Refugee and Asylum Seekers, young people experiencing poor mental health and wellbeing, and those experiencing poverty continues to grow.

This really has been a year of PARTNERSHIPS! In Barnsley we have worked closely with Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and our long term partner and landlord YMCA Barnsley to secure over £2.2m from the Levelling up Fund to upgrade the HOME HUB and YMCA, which will complete the transformation of this iconic building.

In Sheffield, our long term partnership with our Landlord SOAR has led to a successful Youth Investment Fund bid of over £1.3m which, with the support of our partners SCC Community Youth Services and Sheffield Youth - Neighbourhoods and Communities (SYNC), will see our tired old office base transformed into an extended new building, offering a youth centre in the heart of Southey with space for youth clubs and youth activity programmes, community groups, our food pantry and an IT Suite. Works on these are due to commence early 2024.

This year we have also developed our partnerships with the new Integrated Care System and Children and Young People’s Alliance across South Yorkshire, securing funding to support children and young people to have a real say in health services as they are being developed through these new structures. Central to this has been our focus on tackling health inequalities. We have worked with Sheffield University on a range of research projects, and with South Yorkshire ICS, as part of a nation pilot led by Barnardo's and the Institute of Health Equity, to design a Children and Young People’s Health Equity Framework.

As always, all this is only possible because we have a fantastic team of dedicated, committed staff and volunteers. I continue to be amazed by the extraordinary young people who chose to spend their time with us and whose passion and drive sustain us all!

Lesley Pollard, Chilypep CEO

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IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s work: an overview

Who we worked with

Young people and community members

young people young people 349 97 **received one-toparticipated in one support Chilypep’s groups *** Overall, a total of

community 605 members engaged with RUBIC2

2,307

young people engaged in Chilypep activities

*** this figure includes young people we engaged with on a one-off basis through events, school assemblies, consultations, for example**

Professionals, organisations and external contacts

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professionals 157 The number of organisations
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new users have been 346 reached across our social media platforms

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482 Group sessions delivered

One-to-one sessions 530 delivered

26 Training sessions delivered Support Grants successfully 98 distributed

What we did

IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s work: an overview

which equates to 968 hours of group work

which equates to 524 hours of one-to-one work

which equates to 245 hours of training which equates to a total of £ 1,739

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HOME Wellbeing Programme

IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

The Wellbeing Programme at HOME (Help with Our Mental 'Ealth), Barnsley gives young people aged between 11 and 25 access to mental health and emotional wellbeing support. The Wellbeing Programme aims to provide a safe and inclusive environment where young people can feel heard, empowered and supported. This is done by providing weekly and bi-weekly, therapeutic, trauma-informed wellbeing groups. Funded through the NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), HOME is an integral part of delivering early intervention outcomes for young people as set out in the the Children and Young People's Improvement Plan for Barnsley.

The current Wellbeing Programme consist of the following weekly groups:

Mindful Monday Pride@HOME Wellbeing Wednesday Feel Good Friday

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83 young people have 105 sessions have been
engaged in wellbeing delivered
sessions
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This is what some of the young people have said they have achieved/wanted to celebrate as a result of attending the programme:

I tell my mind what to do now Meeting new instead of my people and Settling in mind telling me Improved making well what to do anxiety friends

This is what some of the young people have said the benefits of attending the wellbeing sessions are:

Makes me feel warm Forget and fuzzy inside about my troubles

Brightens my Monday

I see HOME A place to bring my as a big safe worries space, an escapism from school

I can speak about everything, and someone Makes me will listen feel happy

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Talk@HOME

IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

Talk@HOME offers a counselling service for any young person to access once they have registered with HOME. This is a confidential, therapeutic space with a qualified counsellor or with one of our volunteer placement students. Talk@HOME offers twenty sessions with flexibility to extend depending upon the needs of the young person. Within the counselling sessions young people have the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings in a safe environment and are able to share any worries or difficulties they may be experiencing, thereby building confidence and self-esteem. The project is funded through the NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).

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young people have
257 one-to-one sessions 25
engaged in one-to-
delivered
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“I'm more confident in myself, I have learnt coping strategies and I have understood more about myself.”

Young person aged 13 attending Talk@HOME

Of all of the young people who finished their counselling sessions and who completed the end of support evaluation:

100% have reported that they 'made changes' as a consequence of being able to access the HOME counselling service

100% reported that the counsellor made them feel comfortable in sessions

“During counseling, young people can have the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings in a safe environment. They are able to share any worries or difficulties they may be experiencing, thereby building their confidence and selfesteem. For myself, counselling has allowed me to stop living inside my brain. Being able to get out of my thoughts with someone was really objective and made me feel safe to do so. Someone who could offer me clarity and perspective and help me see things from a differently.”

Young person aged 21 attending Talk@HOME

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IMPACT REPORT
Chilypep’s Barnsley projects
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BRV
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The goal of BRV (Belonging, Resilience, Vocabulary) is an 8 to 10 week groupwork programme to support boys and young men aged 11-18 with their emotional literacy. 1-1 support is also offered to those who need more help. Through our group work programme they learn how to recognise, communicate and manage their emotions, gaining a better understanding of themselves. This helps their education and behaviour as well as enabling them to become active, empowered students and citizens. This project is funded through the NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).

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149 young people 39
participated in groups
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young people
165 young people have
supported through
engaged with BRV
one-to-ones
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The BRV Project received referrals through Branching Minds (CAMHS and MHST triage) and delivered BRV programmes at the HOME HUB , and also worked across Barnsley in numerous educational settings including Netherwood Academy, Barnsley Academy Penistone Grammar School, Barnsley College delivering a range of specialised and targeted programmes.

Recently, the work BRV does with parents/carers/guardians has increased due to the positive impact that they have seen on their sons when engaged in the BRV programme, enabling them to reach out for support.

During this period, it has become clear that more work needs to be done with boys in terms of internet and online media safety . To this end, BRV has initiated conversations with stakeholders such as: Young people and parents/carers, Coventry University, Sheffield University, Sheffield Hallam University, NHS (Sheffield and Barnsley), Men's Health Forum, BSARCS, numerous safeguarding teams across Barnsley, Barnsley Leaving Care, Youth Offending Team Barnsley, Reds in the Community (Barnsley Football Club)

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16+ Transition

IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

Our work with 16 – 25-year-olds includes an offer of age-appropriate group work as part of our Wellbeing Programme at HOME, including Wellbeing Wednesday and Pride@HOME. Pride@HOME is a specific wellbeing offer for young people that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community. These sessions, funded as part of our HOME offer by the NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, include support with transitioning through education into work by linking with additional support and access to training, college or higher education.

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We also provide signposting to services, activities, information, and further support enabling young people to be aware of what is on offer to them in Barnsley and the surrounding area. As part of our transitions offer, we undertake some 1-2-1 support helping young people through the transition from school to further education and training as well as from that to higher education and becoming independent. We have a strong partnership with Barnsley College where we deliver wellbeing sessions to students within the College as well as linking young people that attend HOME with the wellbeing team at the College should they need additional support whilst attending College.

Throughout our 16+ offer we work alongside a range of local organisations and services to provide wrap around support, opportunities to learn and develop their life skills and understanding, and additional information and advice. This includes inviting them to deliver sessions as part of the wellbeing programme as well as signposting young people to a range of sessions, advice and guidance provided by them externally. Some of these services include Working Win, BMBC Employment and Skills service including the Youth Employment Hub, Worsborough Mill, Barnsley Museums, Barnsley Civic, The Princes Trust, The Cooperative Bank, The Samaritans, Spectrum Sexual Health Services, YMCA Barnsley, Healthwatch Barnsley, Endorphins, New Beginnings and Sheffield University.

The Pride@HOME group has worked closely with TransBarnsley to ensure young people are able to access to information and support that is specific to the relevant members in the group as they journey through their transition. TransBarnsley are a support group run by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SWYT) that supports young people and adults before, during or after transition. The relationship we have built with TransBarnsley has reinforced the need for additional support that these young people require in their daily life, allowing Pride@HOME young people to engage with another service, utilise their resources online and face to face, attend their training and group support. In this way HOME and TransBarnsley are working together to support young people.

This relationship has had a positive impact on the newly established group, helping some of the attendees from Pride@HOME to regain a social connection and understand their own needs and those of others in the trans community and enabling them to claim their identities . Young people feel that the partnership has also had a positive impact on their emotional health and wellbeing and supported their gender journey .

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IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

Barnsley Young Commissioners

Our Barnsley Young Commissioners are funded by the NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) to have a say in how the services young people use to look after and treat their mental health are run. We run two groups, Escape and Sanctuary, who meet fortnightly and are made up of young people aged 11-25 with lived experience of mental ill health. Whether it's tackling mental health stigma, improving signposting to relevant services or making a positive change to services that already exist to help young people, Barnsley Young Commissioners are up to the challenge!

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157 young people
consulted
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27 young people are
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Last year, Barnsley Young Commissioners took part in several projects, here are two examples:

Barnsley Young Commissioners took part in the Mental Health Nursing Consultation where they reviewed recommendations through lived experience of both relationships with mental health nurses, care and treatment for the Integrated Care System (ICS) and Health Education England (HEE)

Barnsley Young Commissioners took part in the NHS Youth Summit Event 2023 which aims to raise the national profile of children and young people and focuses on how we can address the challenges the NHS is facing together. The day was youth led and through social action, participation and engagement we hope to create and develop ideas for future change in the NHS.

Young people's voices

“When I was first told about the group I was intrigued by the idea, and I became a Young Commissioner because I want to help people and be part of a group.

Chilypep has a positive impact on me because through Young Commissioners I've met new people and taken part in fun activities, had my voice heard and helped raise awareness. I've also had educational opportunities and I've not only put forth my ideas, but the ideas of other young people too. I also enjoy being part of a group who have the same goals and interests as me. I also like to go to the HOME drop-in sessions.

I feel most happy to participate when I feel listened to, and people take on board what I say and respond and I'm able to see changes that have been made. This worked well for me because it meant that I could develop, feedback and learn.”

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Maddy - Young Commissioner aged 16 years old

IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

Community Renewal Fund

The aim of the Community Renewal Fund (CRF) programme was to increase access to employment, skills and training opportunities for young people in central Barnsley. Chilypep worked in partnership with the YMCA and BMBC. Peer researchers were trained and then consulted with young people to identify the barriers to young people in accessing employment, skills, training and development opportunities. Young people then worked with all stakeholders to coproduce solutions to the issues they identified. They also held an Information Fayre, bringing young people and providers together. The programme ran from December 2021 to August 2022 was led by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund and supported by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.

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young people
18 projects/organisation 50 attended the
consulted/involved Information Fayre
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young people
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Key achievements and impact

Development of Young People’s Charter

Co-location of the Youth Employment Hub

The Youth Employment Hub is now co-located at the HOME EWB Hub, with staff on site to support and engage young people to access employment support and get help with their emotional wellbeing and mental health, all in one site in Central Barnsley.

Many of the issues identified by young people as barriers to employment, and the solutions identified through the workshops, have been incorporated into a Youth Employment Charter, meaning it reflects young people’s identified needs and issues. We have worked with Barnsley Council employment and skills team who have agreed to implement the Charter into their practice, and to promote its use wider across Barnsley employers.

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people engaged in life
skills support following
interventions
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people engaged in job
people gained a
12 searching following
qualification following
support
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IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

Support Fund

The Support Fund formed part of Chilypep’s pandemic response. We knew that the effects of the pandemic were really tough and, for many young people, had a huge impact on their finances. That’s why we created the Young Person’s Emergency Fund in response to the COVID crisis. The Support Fund, initially funded by The Big Lottery and Barnsley CCG, was of benefit to young people across Sheffield and Barnsley and, following the pandemic, in 2022/23 Barnsley MBC commissioned this to continue for a further year through their Covid response fund to support young people across Barnsley. This resulted in money for individual young people to support their needs for things like equipment, resources and travel costs.

Top 5 categories of items funded through the Support Fund

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Technology/
Wellbeing Travel/
Clothing books/ Food
items rail card
work clothes
Overall
117 young people benefitted from the grants
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How the Support Fund has helped one young person aged 19 achieving their goals

They were at They feel like They The worker the end of their being self had been supported the college course employed and applying young person in art and not creating content for hospitality to fill in the feeling too and art was their jobs with Support Fund positive about way to a future no success application form the future that would at a drop-in at support their HOME Barnsley mental health

As part of the fund After this they had a voucher they found a for Amazon to tattoo artist spend on items for apprenticeship! content creation and supplies to create artwork as part of setting up as a self-employed artist

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IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

Training programme

Our certified staff run a range of youth mental health and suicide prevention training courses. We were funded by South Yorkshire ICB and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council to deliver this training throughout the year to schools, colleges, charities, businesses, organisations and individuals as part of Barnsley's Mental Health Transformation and Suicide Prevention work. Throughout the year we delivered 26 training sessions and trained 383 professionals and 81 young people.

Breakdown of number of training sessions delivered throughout the year

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6
4
2 2
Youth Mental Adut Mental Applied Suicide Other
BeSpoke
Health First Aid Health First Aid Training Intervention Skills
Training (ASIST)
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“The course is brilliant and really informative!

I think that all organisations should require staff/volunteers/members should have at least one Mental Health First Aider (depending on organisation size), and should attend this course to be able to support people better from a local level and improving culture around mental health.”

Professional attending the Adult MH First Aid training

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According to participants attending the Mental Health First Aid training, on a scale from 1 to 10, on average
is the likelihood of
9.3 +3.0 is the increase in +2.8 is the increase in
recommending the knowledge confidence
course
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IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

Our other projects in Barnsley

HOME (Help with Our Mental 'Ealth): partners’ use of the space

HOME is being developed as an integrated Hub. Young people have told us that they would like to visit a safe, young person-friendly space to access the services they need, so over this year we have been working with partners to be able to offer a range of services to young people from the Hub.

Over this year, the following organisations have been offering their services to young people from the Hub: Compass Be Bereavement Counselling & Parent Support Group, SYEDA Eating Disorder Counselling, Youth Offending Team, Substance Misuse Team, CAMHS group work, Working WIN (SYHA) - Employment & Training support .

Since September 2022, The Youth Employment Hub , a partnership between Barnsley Council and the Department for Work and Pensions have been located at HOME.

They see young people aged 16 - 24 who are in receipt of benefits and are looking to find further training and employment. This partnerhsip has been crucial in supporting this cohort of young people and has meant, where mental health and emotional wellbeing has been barrier, the Youth Employment Hub team can refer straight into HOME.

In 2022/23 we held three stakeholder group meetings with 24 different services represented and four young people representatives from HOME.

Partners delivered over 1,250 hours to over 250 young people through both 1-2-1 and group work offered at the Hub.

As well as as the organisations that regularly use the space, over 100 adults and professionals accessed the Hub through meetings, events and use of the space for training.

In addition to that over 50 young people were referred into the HOME Wellbeing Programme by partner services working within the Hub.

It has also provided a young person friendly space for the service and feedback from the young people since the service moved in, has been extremely positive.

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IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Barnsley projects

Our other projects in Barnsley

Green Social Prescribing

“The social activities were extremely fun; I really enjoyed the bat walk. I would love to do it again because it was interesting to watch and hear the bats communicate. It distracted me from some medical issues that I've had to deal with.”

During August 2022 Chilypep were given funding from the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Green Prescribing programme to carry out Green Social Prescribing in Central Barnsley. This gave young people wonderful opportunities to explore hidden gems and nature spots around Barnsley. We got involved in all sorts of wild wonders, such as weaving willow ornaments, a bat walk, bushcraft days, foraging, a trip to Canon Hall, pottery making and pilates!

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Our mental health can be helped so much by the magic of nature and connecting to the elements and its weird and wonderful creatures.

Young person attending Green Social Prescribing activities

HOMEFest Event

In December 2022, we offically launched the Hub with HOMEFest, a homegrown celebration of HOME's first birthday. This event brought together young people and local services to showcase the HOME programme and its successes over its first year.

HOME Summer Programme

The HOME Summer Programme consisted of 7 workshops. A total of 29 young people aged 11-25 attended, with a majority of young people attending at least 3 of the 7 workshops.

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16 organisations 19
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Photo credit:
Lucy Denny, Chilypep Volunteer
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young people
participated
“I used to use this
building in 1989-92 as
a young person
accessing YMCA
youth clubs. It makes
me feel hopeful every
time I am here.”
Professional attending
HOMEFest
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organisations helped
7
to facilitate the event
young people
29
participated
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STAMP

STAMP (Support, Think, Act, Motivate, Participate) is a Sheffield based, mental health participation project. It is for 14-25-year olds who are passionate about mental health and making a positive change in the world around them. We aim to raise awareness and ‘stamp’ out any stigmas associated with mental health. We also influence the design and development of our local mental health services. The project is funded by NHS Integrated Care Board and Sheffield CAMHS.

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IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Sheffield projects

Over the last year, STAMP have been involved in consultations with a wide range of organisations across Sheffield. Group sessions with other voluntary and community sector organisations have included a visit from two of the managers from Mental Health Matters who wanted to speak with the young people about the new Support Hub service.

STAMP also took part in a consultation with Sheffield Flourish to make their Mental Health Guide more accessible and young person-friendly, as well as continued input in the setting up of Rethink Mental Illness’ Synergy group .

This was followed up by another session focusing on the Support Hub’s sensory corner where the young people created mood boards of their ideas and then visited the service in-person several weeks later.

“STAMP has been a supportive network of friends and staff that have helped me through some difficult times throughout my many years with the group. I love how passionate we all are about creating positive change within our community and improving mental health services for future generations using our own experiences to support our movement.”

Steven, aged 21

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The RUBIC² (Respect and Understanding; Building Inclusive Communities) project supports community cohesion across Sheffield S4/S5 postcode areas. We bring different communities together and create opportunities for people to build more interpersonal connections within and across communities. We work with adults in community settings, young people in schools, and refugee and asylum-seeking young people. The project is funded by the Community Big Lottery Fund, Sheffield University, Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, North East Local Area Committee, Sheffield City Council, The Safer Sheffield Partnership, Southey and Owlerton Area Regeneration Project and JG Greaves.

Work in Schools

The RUBIC² project works with young people in primary and secondary schools in order to further the aim of the RUBIC² project; ‘community cohesion through empowerment’. This is achieved through both short and longer-term work which includes pop-up work shops, awareness raising sessions, outreach sessions, and a variety of courses such as the Young Community Leader and the Dual Delivery Course which focuses on the themes of community, cohesion and raising awareness around migration, refugees and asylum seekers.

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members of school young people
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“The RUBIC² staff team have been amazing with our students at Chaucer School, both in the mainstream school site and in our on site Inclusion Centre.

They have adapted their Pop-Up Workshops to suit the need of our provision and young people; they delivered sessions on awareness raising, critical thinking, and community cohesion to groups with complex needs at risk of permanent exclusion. These sessions helped the students to solve the cycle of sanctions that many of them find themselves in through internal truancy and were able to be self-reflective.”

R e p s ~~YCL~~ Young Community Leader course

Alice Whitfield, Learning, Inclusion and Support Centre Leader, Chaucer School

The Young Community Leaders (YCL) course is a 26-hour course that provides young people with the opportunity to develop skills in teamwork, leadership and social action and to learn methods for community consultations and project planning. Following the completion of the course, the young people are invited to continue to engage with the RUBIC² project through the out-of-school group called YCL Reps. This social action group brings together young people from different Young Community Leaders cohorts and helps them identify issues they want to address together as well as to participate in other enrichment activities. The YCL Reps were instrumental in our Youth Investment Fund (YIF) application and will be involved throughout the development of our new building!

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RUBIC

Work with Refugee and Asylum Seeking Young People

The RUBIC² project has been supporting Refugee and Asylum Seeking Young People (RASYP) through the dedicated youth group named Happy Group. The only refugee-focused youth group in the whole of South Yorkshire, Happy Group was established as a response to needs and challenges identified through consultations in 2017 with RASYP in Sheffield; social isolation, barriers to integrating into the city, challenges navigating through the asylum and care systems, and the need for a ‘trusted adult’.

Delivered in partnership with City of Sanctuary Sheffield (CoSS), the focal point for refugee and asylum-seeker support in Sheffield, and grounded in youth work principles, the weekly Happy Group sessions provide a vital source of stability, opportunities to socialise, engage in personal development, and be supported by experienced youth workers.

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young people
38
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sessions
47
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Community development work

The RUBIC² project supports members of diverse local communities to come together under conditions of relative equality to support community cohesion through positive inter-community relations . As these relationships develop we help groups to identify a shared concern and support them to decide how to address this concern together. We help them to access funding, engage with local statutory and civil society institutions, and provide training opportunities in managing conflict and community development.

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Dryden Estate and Southey Green

IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Sheffield projects

Thanks to the work done by RUBIC², Chilypep has become a registered provider of the Healthy Holiday Activities and Food program (HAF). This national initiative is intended to provide healthy activities for young people and families from deprived backgrounds, with a particular focus on supporting young people on school meals or SEND.

RUBIC² engagement in Southey Green has been delivered in close collaboration with Shaleeka Wilson, a local community volunteer, and has been focused around supporting the existing Dryden Food Pantry and delivering HAF activities.

The Dryden Food Pantry was established during the pandemic, and has been delivered by Shaleeka with support from a local community project Sheffield Youth - Neighbourhoods and Communities (SY-NC). As of January, the Pantry is being supported by Chilypep and RUBIC² staff and delivered by Shaleeka.

The Dryden Pantry runs weekly, and serves 40-50 families. Typically, the Dryden Pantry delivers 30-35 food packages directly from Chilypep’s offices , another 15-20 to a local school, and excess fresh food is taken to Page Hall to support the community group. Approximately 100-150 individuals are receiving food via the Dryden Pantry.

Chilypep and the RUBIC² team are putting in place a partnership agreement with the S6 Food Warehouse to provide a weekly supply of non-fresh staples to the Dryden Pantry in order to maintain provision, and begin delivering food packages to the community group in Page Hall.

“I started this project in 2019 alongside SY-NC to support the families in Southey Green. We set up the Dryden Pantry which has been running from the Chilypep offices. Chilypep have helped me expand the Dryden Pantry through partnership with S6 Food Warehouse.

Myself and SY-NC have provided local children with HAF activities to build relationships and help reduce feuds within the Dryden Estate.

Chilypep staff and the RUBIC² team have been a massive help in supporting me and enabling me to provide the kids with HAF activities during Christmas 2022 and April 2023 school holidays. The activities were well planned and executed the children and staff had an amazing time during all activities. I shall continue to enjoy working with them all and furthering the project.”

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Shaleeka Wilson, Lead Community Volunteer

IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Sheffield projects

Our other projects in Sheffield

' This is us ' art workshops and exhibition

“I felt included and as though my voice was being heard. It allowed me to express my feelings towards mental health and inform others of my viewpoints. I enjoyed being able to do art that expresses my emotions and shines a light on my views and experiences. I really liked that other people could also see it and read the meaning behind it.” STAMP Young person who participated in 'This is us' project

The young people in STAMP were invited to participate in the ‘This is Us’ art project which involved a series of eight workshops centred on the young people’s experiences of accessing mental health services in Sheffield. The young people had access to a range of art materials to experiment with and were able to keep the materials for use in future creative STAMP sessions.

Mental health professionals and journalists from across the city were invited to attend the opening event, ensuring the different community groups had the opportunity to share their artwork and the experiences their pieces were based on in order to improve Sheffield’s mental health services.

The gallery was open to the public for a full month, allowing people from across the city to see the art pieces and to engage with the experiences the community groups had shared through their art and the descriptive labels they had created for their artwork.

The nine young people involved from STAMP reported that they had enjoyed having an inclusive space to express themselves creatively in and that they would love to do more creative projects in the future.

Walk With Us - A toolkit for supporting children, young people and families affected or bereaved by suicide

The ‘Walk With Us’ toolkit, commissioned by South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Local Authorities and NHS, was co-produced with children and young people bereaved by suicide. Children, young people, families, and professionals were involved in the creation of the toolkit and took part in interviews and workshops to create a

resource aimed at supporting other children, young people, and families bereaved by suicide. The toolkit helps others to feel less alone and offers practical advice, while including messages to practitioners about how best to support those affected or bereaved by suicide.

Walk with Us won the 2023 Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Award for Public/Partnerships

“After my work on the toolkit I felt passionate about getting more involved in supporting others who have been bereaved. During my own bereavement there wasn’t much available beyond the traditional counselling routes, and I wanted to change that. I came across let’s talk about loss a national charity that aims to provide safe spaces for people to come together and share their experiences with others who understand. I want people to feel less alone in their loss even if that’s in the form of a coffee with a new friend or a game of mini golf in a room with no judgement.”

Phoebe, 24 years old

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IMPACT REPORT Chilypep’s Sheffield projects

Our other projects in Sheffield

Rubic work with the University of Sheffield

The RUBIC² Happy Group engaged with a series of University of Sheffield research projects:

Everyday Bordering: This research project has been engaging with Happy Group since 2021 and explores the lived reality for people of a migration background in which their legal status determines if/which/how people can access public services. The complexity of legal status determinations means that navigating access is experienced as a barrier or border. ‘Everyday Bordering’ describes the ways in which bordering practices increasingly permeate everyday life, particularly since the introduction of the UK’s 2014 & 2016 Immigration Acts which underpin the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ towards immigration.

Roots and Futures:

This project addresses the fact that minority and migrant heritage are not fully included the mainstream concept of ‘heritage’ which ‘can also bring people from different backgrounds together and forms part of our sense of belonging and identity. To live well in a place, we all need to feel like we belong’. The RUBIC² team decided that participating in this project would help Happy Group members to gain a sense of ownership and belonging and facilitate their integration into the city.

MIMY (Empowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions) project

This is an EU funded project aiming to improve the situation of young migrants across Europe. This project takes a dynamic and complex understanding of integration, understanding it as a fluid process rather than a binary or static state of ‘integrated’ or ‘not integrated’. This project also puts the experiences of young migrants at the centre of its activities by recruiting ‘peer researchers’ to take part in participatory research. A former Happy Group member was recruited to this project as a peer researcher for the University of Sheffield’s research activities under this project.

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Impact on young people and local communities

IMPACT REPORT Our impact

Our priority is always to have a positive impact on the lives and experiences of the young people and local communities we work with. Increasing their sense of personal and collective power, building confidence, and ensuring they have opportunities to challenge, speak out, and make positive life choices, are the driving force of the work we do. These represent a small sample selection of the impact of our work from across the organisation.

“I can be me here”

“I love it here makes me feel warm and welcomed, at least I can be me here, my home is weird so been here allows me to be freely me”

A 20 year old F-M transgender young person was directed and signposted to us in October 2022. They were attending the youth employment hub for their weekly employment reflection. After communication with the lead worker, we arranged an initial assessment to see if HOME Wellbeing sessions would be a place for this young person to attend.

The Youth Hub instigated the contact and supported the young person along to a session where an

initial assessment was undertaken - they struggled with their social anxieties and showed issues with their interaction with other young people of similar ages.

The young person comes from a large household in which others are not aware of the person's gender dysphoria. The young person feels HOME is a place they can be themselves and feels able to connect with others while also going through many transitions, not only their gender. The young person thrives on the activities that enable them to be themselves.

We have also signposted them for additional support from TransBarnsley, however they feel at this time they are not quite ready to access additional services.

The young person has come on in leaps and bounds and feels able to communicate more effectively, they have grown in their self-esteem, confidence and their social anxiety has lessened. The young person also had a short time intervention with Working Win supporting them to apply for a job in which they now are working part time.

They are also attending other sessions that HOME offer including Pride@HOME where they have become a valuable member of the group to raise awareness around young LGBT in Barnsley.

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A shared community garden

Robey Street area

Through the RUBIC² engagement work with the local community we had identified supporting green spaces as a collaborative and therapeutic way of improving the quality of life for residents . We conducted a number of gardening activities in our outreach sessions using recycled tyres as planters, which proved highly successful, not just for participants but for the wider local community. We also ran environment-themed sessions on bug hotel making, using garden herbs for at-home spa and well-being activities, and undertook litter picking sessions in the local area.

Additionally, further engagement with the group and with practitioners highlighted the negative impact of fly tipping and dumping in the local area. In particular, one site of unused land just behind Robey Street had become a major health hazard due to fly tipping and subsequent rodent and insect infestations.

We have helped addressing the littering and fly tipping taking place in this local area, as well as the resulting health and wellbeing impacts, by bringing the community together to turn the derelict land into a beautiful shared garden that is maintained by the local community. The opening event drew in approximately 50 people, including lots of the local community (many of whom brought home cooked food), local councillors and other members of Sheffield City Council (SCC).

Based on this work the SCC are exploring options to build on the success of the community garden to launch a ‘green corridor’ that will beautify the area and contribute to local residents‘ quality of life.

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Community members that took part in the activity

Impact on those who work with young people

IMPACT REPORT Our impact

Supporting organisations to develop their participation practice is a vital part of our work. Delivering training has also increased this year, with a focus on mental health and emotional wellbeing. By involving young people, we can clearly demonstrate the positive role young people have to play in this. Supporting organisations in developing their participation practice

STAMP have formed a strong working relationship with Roundabout’s Safe Space service. Workers from the service have visited STAMP sessions on two occasions to consult with the young people on the service as a whole, and specifically on the design of the Safe Space sensory room. The young people then had an opportunity to visit the service and see how their ideas had been taken on board.

STAMP’s role as key stakeholders in Sheffield CAMHS ’ decisions and plans has continued this year; we have had visitors attend group sessions from CAMHS to get the young people’s ideas on making documents more young-people friendly, input into service design, and in the setting up of new groups for young people first accessing therapeutic interventions through CAMHS.

The young people have been helping with the creation of a report on transitions from Child to Adult Services; during a group session, we ran a consultation around the young peoples’ experiences of being discharged from Community CAMHS and three young people have taken part in semi-structured interviews on their experiences of being discharged from either Community or Inpatient CAMHS. This has also led to the young people feeding into the design for a CAMHS transitions care plan to help improve the experiences of young people being discharged from the service in the future.

In the last year, we have facilitated two interview training sessions which reviewed the interview questions the young people ask when sitting on CAMHS panels. Since then, 16 young people in STAMP have had involvement in the recruitment of CAMHS workers and Chilypep’s own recruitment process, ensuring candidates are suitable and young-person friendly in their approach when supporting current and future CAMHS service users.

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Impact on those who work with young people

IMPACT REPORT Our impact

Impact on partner agencies offering services from the HOME Hub

HOME is being developed as an integrated Hub where partner agencies have been working to be able to offer a range of services to young people directly from the Hub. This is some of the feedback received:

“Being able to use HOME means that I have an accessible town centre base to be able to see a new young person in a neutral environment. This made them feel better and more at ease.

The HOME staff are amazingly friendly and welcoming. I would like to see more support for joint working with HOME from other services.”

Substance Misuse Worker, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

“HOME is a great service to interlink with. Many of our customers are not quite ready for work due to confidence issues and

HOME helps support customers with breaking down these barriers to help move them towards employment.”

IAG Advisor, Youth Employment Hub

“Working from HOME makes working with teenagers and school leavers so much easier

“Being able to offer our service from HOME has increased the confidence of young adults to engage in a new service in their safe space and this has been a major factor in our ability to deliver our work.”

and has a positive impact on the work I do.”

Bereavement Counsellor Compass-Be

“Working alongside HOME has given me the ability to deliver our service in an appropriate setting that meets the needs of the young person and allows ease of access to other services. It is so good for collaborative working and the difference in one of the young people I work with has been huge since attending HOME sessions. Her confidence and self-esteem have grown and eased her isolation.”

Social Prescribing Link Worker

Working Wellbeing Manager, Livewell, SYA

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Impact on strategies and policies

Over the year Chilypep has supported young people to influence a range of local and regional strategies, ensuring that they have affected policy at the highest levels, leading to improved services, support and outcomes for countless young people and promoting the value of strategic youth participation.

Influencing mental health services and #OurFutureSouthYorkshire campaign

This year saw the start of our South Yorkshire wide Voice work, funded by the CYP Alliance as part of the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System (ICS) transformation process. Over the coming years children and young people will be able to shape and influence the priorities and workstreams of the ICS, having a real say in the health and care services they receive.

This year we supported young people to engage in shaping how the Voice work will be delivered, through workshops and group discussions.. We have already begun to do some work including:

The voices of young people have been fed back to both Sheffield and Barnsley CAMHS and will also help inform a wider consultation of barriers to Mental Health services through the ICS and regional NHS forums, influencing the way mental health services are commissioned and delivered in the future.

The #OurFutureSouthYorkshire campaign offers a platform for our communities to tell their stories about the South Yorkshire they want future generations to grow up in. Our hopes for a healthier South Yorkshire are linked to the launch of the Integrated Care Partnership strategy. They want to promote the importance of a child’s first 1,001 days and start a big conversation about health and care.

Young people's feedback will be included in the ICS engagement report to help shape and drive the development of policies and strategies about health and care.in South Yorkshire. The findings can be found here (named ICS Ideal South Yorkshire Consultation): https://chilypep.org.uk/young-peoples-training-resources/mental-health-emotional-wellbeing

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Impact on strategies and policies

IMPACT REPORT Our impact

Influencing migration policy with young unaccompanied refugees

We have worked closely with young people who attend our ‘Happy Group’, a support group for unaccompanied refugee and asylum seeking young people, to support them to have their voices heard and influence local, national and European policy on migration.

This work, in partnership with Sheffield University, has been through three research projects: Everyday Bordering, Roots and Futures, and the MIMY (Empowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions) project, all described on page 22.

Through this work young people have been able to share their experiences to inform, influence and challenge the ‘hostile environment’ agenda and improve responses to newly arrived young people, with one young person going on to become a peer researcher.

This image shows the view from the bedroom of an asylum hotel. The young person took this photo to show that even though they were trapped behind walls and windows, they know there’s an amazing world and city out there.

Walk With Us - A toolkit for supporting children, young people and families affected or bereaved by suicide

Walk with Us won the 2023 Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Award for Public/Partnerships

The ‘Walk With Us’ toolkit, commissioned by South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Local Authorities and NHS, was coproduced with children and young people bereaved by suicide (see page 21 for more details.).

Since it’s launch, the Toolkit has been shared nationally and is being used across the UK by professionals and parents to support affected children. Feedback from across the country is that it has made a huge impact on the way children and young people are supported and provided a valuable resource that is ‘one of a kind’.

As a result of its success, South Yorkshire Integrated Care System has commissioned Chilypep to develop a Peer Support Framework for children and young people to develop more creative ways of supporting children and young people through peer support, as well as to develop an easy-read version of the Toolkit.

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CHILYPEP’S PEOPLE

The people who worked with us 2022/23

A huge thanks to our staff, trustees, volunteers, parents and partners who have given our young people amazing ongoing support and encouragement throughout the 2022/23 year.

Our trustees

Our staff

Andreana Drencheva Andy Dykes, Chair Key management and personnel: Anne Robinson Lesley Pollard Chief Executive Officer Bethan Holmes Greer Furniss-Coates Finance and HR Officer Jane Sedgewick, Vice Chair Marie Ellis HOME Hub Manager Lulu Pinney Acting Treasurer Laura Abbott Operations Manager (resigned January 2023) (appointed October 22) Mick Warwick Treasurer Aidan Mascarenhas-Keyes Emma Norman Amy Sleight Ewan Wadsworth (resigned October 22) Anna Graham Giulia Savini Becks Batley Hannah Cawley Bekah Harris Kate Smith Chantelle Parke Keely Hardy Charly Calpin Kirsty Hartley People who left Clare Turner Marcus Hurcombe Shorna Bird this year Corey Sills Courtenay-Elle Crichton-Turley Steph Brown Anna Graham Emily Inglis Zora King

Most of all, a MASSIVE thank you to each and every young person we’ve worked with this year – you’re the reason we’re here!

People who left this year Anna Graham Charly Calpin Emily Inglis Laura Abbott Mick Warwick (Treasurer/Trustee)

Our volunteers and placement students

Alex Greaves Lucy Denny Anna Graham Marina Schirone Caitlin Louise Mehwish Ijaz Chloe Whitham Omid Asadoullhi Chloe Wildgoose Rachel Mansell Chris Ashton Reece Spanton Damien Pedric Sandranne Clarke Georgie Lee Shaleeka Wilson Hossein Tajdini Sophie Cadman

Independent examiner

Safeguarding and equality

Susan Cochrane, FCA

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Thanks to our partners & supporters

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Al-Mahad Al-Islami School Assessed Year in Social Work Fostering Services Awesome Walls Barnardo's Barnsley Academy Barnsley College Barnsley Healthcare Federation Barnsley Healthcare Federation CIC Barnsley Healthwatch

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (BMBC) Barnsley Museum

Barnsley Older People Physical Activity Alliance Barnsley Personal Online Development (POD) Barnsley Recovery Steps

Barnsley Sexual Abuse & Rape Crisis Services (BSARCS)

Barnsley Support Hub Becton Children and Young People's Centre Beighton CAMHS Team Berneslai Homes Big ambitions Brightbox CAMHS Barnsley CAMHS group work Capstone Foster Care Care for Young Peoples Futures CARE4US Council Centrepoint Chaucer School Circus Archives City of Sanctuary Sheffield Coalfields Regeneration Trust Compass UK Barnsley Concord Park Creative Recovery Dan Jarvis MP Dearne academy Dearne Astrea Academy Deepend Project Endeavour - Outdoor Activities Endorphins Group UK English Institute of sport

Family, Adult Community Education Service (FACES) Firvale Foodbank Greenfield Primary School Greentop Grimesthorpe Family Centre Gripple Manufacturing H.O.P.E in the Community Hatfield Academy Health Visitors Hesley Group Low Laithes Hinde House Academy 2-16 School Holy Trinity School Barnsley Hope House Horizon community college Ignite Imaginations Inclusive Youth Voice Barnsley Independent Domestic Abuse Services (IDAS) James Durrans and Sons Ltd Kendray Hospital Laser Quest Leaving Care Barnsley Local Surgeries Lockwood Primary School Longley 4 Greens Longley Park Sixth Form College Love Music Hate Racism Malcolm Newable Mediation Sheffield Mental Health Matters: Sheffield Support Hub MFM

Migration Matters Netherwood Academy New beginnings NHS

North Derbyshire CAMHS: Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Team

NWG (National Working Group for Exploitation) Oasis Fir Vale School Oasis Primary School

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Outwood Academy Carlton Outwood Primary Academy Darfield Owler Brook School Parks for People Parkwood E-Act Academy

Partnership House

Penistone Grammar School Public Health Nurses (0-19) Barnsley Reds in the community Refugee Council Rethink Mental Illness Rock Steady Rosa Cisernos Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council Roundabout Ltd SAYiT Safe Passage Save the Children SHAFF Adventure Bites Sheffield CAMHS Sheffield City Council Sheffield Flourish Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Sheffield ME and Fibromyalgia Group Sheffield Mind Sheffield Theatres Sheffield United Football Club Sheffield University Shelter Showroom Social Prescribing Team Barnsley South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation South Yorkshire & Bassettlaw Integrated Care System South Yorkshire Eating Disorder Association (SYEDA)

South Yorkshire Police Southey and Owlerton Area Regeneration (SOAR) Southey Library SPA (Single point of access) Spectrum Barnsley St Cuthberts Church Steelers Stepping stones Street Leagues

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Substance Misuse Team Targeted information, advice and guidance (TIAG) Targeted Youth Support Targeted Youth Support (SEND Youth Forum) The Civic

The Corner Sheffield South Yorkshire The Glass Works Barnsley The Hill Primary Academy School The Junction Project (Barnardo’s) The Prince's Trust The Youth Association Theatre Deli Totally Runable Trans Barnsley Transport BMBC UTC Sheffield Uthink - People Developing People Victim Support Voluntary Action Sheffield (VAS) WBW & Pride@home WEA Adult Learning Weston Park Museum Who Is Your Neighbour Winning pitch Working WIN (SYHA) - Employment & Training support Worsbrough Mill YASY (Youth Association South Yorkshire) YMCA Barnsley Youth Employment Hub Youth Justice Service Youth Offending Team

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