ESCAPING VICTIMHOOD Registered Charity No. 1121708 Company No. 6356205 TRUSTEES. REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 Report of the Trustees Independent Examinef s Report Financial statements ESCAPING VICTIMHOOD Report of the Board of Trustees for the year ended 31 Ma￿h 2024 Charitable Status Escaping Victimhood is a charity. registered in England, number 1121708. It is also a company limited by guarantee, registered in England number 6356205. Trustees The Board of Trustees, who are the charity trustees, and directors of Escaping Victimhood {the charitable company), have pleasure in presenting their report, which incorporates the report of the directors for the purposes of company law, and the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024. The trusteesldirectors who have held office at any point during the year ended 31 March 2024 and to the date of this report are as follows... Trustees". Nigel Byford (Chair) Tim Newell Kevin Piper Morag Robertson Amandipkaur Singh (appointed 20 June 2024) Company Secretsry.. Kevin Piper Registered Office.. 21, Ludlow Drive, Thame, Oxfordshire OX9 3XS Independent Examiner.. Peter J Stevenson, FCA Bankers: The Cooperative Bank PO Box 8888 Swindon SN12 1TS Structure, Governan¢• and Management The charity is established via the memorandum and articles of the company. adopted in 2007. All new Trustees are recruited on the recommendats.on of organisations and people with whom the charity works, or by existing Trustees,. they are given an induction pack and offered appropriate training in order to fvlfil their role. Objectives and activltl•s The objects of Escaping Victimhood are to relieve persons in the UK who are in need, sickness and distress as a result of crime or disaster, and the families thereof. also, to advance public education and awareness by research into relevant issues. The charity runs residenb'al, experiential workshops for those who have been affected by serious crime, and through this work seeks to infomi other groups and agencies about the potential to meet the unmet needs of victims of serious crimes. Achievements and porformance The last year has seen the conb'nued recovery of the delivery arm of EV from the restrictions of the Covid years. Over the last year we have run two successful workshops with very positive evaluation reports from participants. Another workshop is being held in October 2024. Although we lost our regular base for running workshops in Birmingham, we have managed to secure an alternative arrangement based in Sheffield which has proven to be more cost effective with good transport links. Achievemonts and perforniance (continued) Given the limttation on many victs'ms of serious crime. there was a call on us from some past participants for support. Part of our hopes in the past has been to develop a past participants acts'on group to continue to support EV and to maintsin the development they had achieved through the workshop. Our executive officer developed online work to provide support having consulted some of the beneficiaries. This involved working with Through Unity, a charity working with the same client group. Our funding was considerably improved as a result of the unrestricted donation from the Chiltem Quakers. Publlc Benefit The Trustees of the charity have had due regard both to the objectives of the charity, as set out above, and also to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission, in exercising their powers and duties. Flnancial Revlew Thanks to an unrestricted donation from the Chiltern Quakers. for the year ended 31 March 2024 the charity made an overall surplus of £35,700 (2022123 an overall deficit of £10,127). On restricted funds there was a deficit for the year of £3,572 (2022123 deficit of £1,908). In total, the reserves carried foTrvard amounted to £77,817 (2022123 £42,117). None of the trustees is paid by Escaping Victimhood, and there were no related party transacts'ons. expenses paid to one trustee totalled £83 (2022123 £123 to tsvo trustees). The average number of employees was O (2023.. 0). The charity recognises the support it receives through the voluntary assistance of a number of individuals. ReseThes and Investment Pollcy The trustees believe that the charity's assets are available and adequate to fulfil the obligations of the charity as a whole. Surplus funds a￿ placed on deposit when appropriate, and the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis. Golng concern Under all scenarios reviewe(J, the charity has sufficient reseprfes to enable it to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months from the date of signing this report. For this reason, it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Future plans Funding continues to be challenging for the Trustees of EV. We have retsined the services of our consultant who continues to explore grant options. However, the board has been able to secure a clear agreement with the National Homicide Serrfice to fund direct referrals from their service to EV. Not only does this provide a clear source of funding but it also builds in a clear vehicle for support post programme for their participants. For those not referred directly by the Homicide Setvice a clear individualised plan of acts'on is agreed by the course facilitators with the participant and their referring agency. The Escaping Victimhood Board is currentiy finalising its strategic plan for the next 5 years and in doing that we have benefited from a new Trustee who has joined us this year and has been a fomer participant of the workshop thereby adding addits'onal 'lived experience, to the Boards thinking. Rlsk management The trustees believe the principal risk to which the charity is exposed is any reduction in income available to fund future workshop programmes, and the ability to run residential workshops in the future. The level of fvture commitments is carefully monitored in order to manage these risks, and strenuous efforts are made to foster links with key relevant grant-making trusts and funders. wth applicable law and regulations. and prudent and w•parn the finaKo1Stst￿ts on the gw c(xK•m unl688 It * inapprowhato 10 prBsum• that ts clwty wdl c¢Jnlinu8 In b￿lne￿. at any b'm? tha ffinanc￿l poslilon of the ¢hanty and lo enablo that the financial ststements irregularitns. and &2ch Tntstse Iws taken all the stap8 that he cf She ￿ght to have takn a8 a dir8cttY in ordar to make Ihom8elve8 aware of any rnlevant 1nfrnti￿ and to asiablish Ilot exwriner 18 8warn of thal And slgned by order of the bc•d by Chaimwn li £L Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Escaping Victimhood I report to the charity trustees on the accounts of the chanty for the year ended 31" March 2024, which are set out on pages 5 to 8. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity trustees of the company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. 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 examinab'on, I report in respect of my examination of your company's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011. In carrying out my examination, I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)Ib) of the 2011 Act. Independent Examlnerfs Statement I have completed my examination. I confim that no matters have come to my attention in connects'on with the examination, giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 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 charities 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. rek¢ J. OA Peter J. Stevenson Chartered Accountant 8 Harbord Road Oxford OX2 8LJ Date.. 22 October 2024 oroo o 1 year 35,217 (o) {0) 43,861 (1,261) 79,078 (1.261) (o) SHARE CAPITAL Escaping Victimhood is a company limited by guarantee and as such does not have any issued share capital.