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2024-03-31-accounts

REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 07176549 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1135223

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

FOR

RISE NORTH EAST

Read, Milburn & Co Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors 71 Howard Street North Shields Tyne and Wear NE30 1AF

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CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

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Reference and Administrative Details 1
Report of the Trustees 2 to 26
Report of the Independent Auditors 27 to 29
Statement of Financial Activities 30
Balance Sheet 31
Cash Flow Statement 32
Notes to the Financial Statements 33 to 51

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REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

Registered Company number 07176549 (England and Wales)

Registered Charity number 1135223

Registered Office

Royal Quays Business Centre, Coble Dene, Royal Quays, North Shields, NE29 6DE

Trustees M Cormack P A Price (retired 14 November 2023) K E Storie S Gordon N Erevik G R Nash D Henderson A Pilkington S Bell A Puri J Cairns K Pearce (appointed 4 December 2023)

Key Management Personnel Clare Morley, CEO David Marrin, Business & Strategy Director Lee Sprudd, Strategic Director (until April 2023) Adam Brougham, Strategic Director (from May 2023) Helen Tong, Business Development Director

Bankers

Barclays Bank PLC, 53 Fawcett Street, Sunderland, SR1 1RS The Co-Operative Bank PLC, PO Box 250 Delf House, Skelmersdale, WN8 6WT Nationwide Building Society, Nationwide House, Pipers Way, Swindon, SN38 1NW Virgin Money, 83 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3ES National Westminster Bank Plc, 250 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4AA.

Auditor

Read, Milburn & Co., 71 Howard Street, North Shields, NE30 1AF

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The trustees, who are directors for the purposes of company law, present the annual report together with the financial statements and auditors' report of the charitable company for the year ended March 2024.

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objects and Aims

The charity has the following objectives:

Objectives, Strategies and Activities

Rise is one of 43 Active Partnerships across England. We are primarily funded and supported by Sport England and, operating as a strategic agency, our vision is to create a higher quality of life for communities that need it the most in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear. We are here to help our partners to unlock the power of physical activity and to collectively effect long-term system change in order to positively impact more lives across our region. Our partners include local authorities, NHS organisations, the Police & Crime Commissioner, educational institutions, and various voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations across our region.

We are particularly focused on tackling inequalities - health, social, economic and environmental - that have stubbornly existed across our region for many years.

Fundraising Disclosures

The charity is required to report how it deals with fundraising from the public. The charity does not use a professional fundraiser or commercial participator to raise funds. Any monies raised direct from the public follow all guidelines set out by the Charity Commission and UK law in every aspect. We respect the privacy and contact details of all public donors.

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Public Benefit

We have a strategic remit to reduce levels of physical inactivity by:

We also receive funding from Sport England and other bodies to manage, coordinate and deliver specific projects. These projects are often overseen nationally with local responsibility being driven by us.

The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England & Wales.

ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE

STRONG AND INFLUENTIAL SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP

Place-Based Work in Berwick-upon-Tweed

Over the past 12 months we gleaned a more in-depth understanding of the wider social health and wellbeing issues faced by young adult males across Berwick-upon-Tweed and the surrounding rural areas.

Over the 3 years that the service has been operating the Key Worker has supported 72 young men with issues such as adverse childhood experiences (ACE's), poor mental health, isolation, employability, further education/training, housing, poverty, debt, alcohol/substance misuse, relationship advice/family support and a lack of support for those aged 16+ with additional needs.

As the Key Worker role has grown and we have established our presence in Berwick it was identified that there was a need for additional capacity; due to this funding was secured during 2023/24 to employ a Community Development Worker who will start in April 2024. The Community Development Worker will not only support the Key Worker but also provide us with the capacity to enhance the place-based approach we have adopted in Berwick by allowing us to provide wider community support such as facilitating careers events, implementing wellbeing and employment programmes, and collaborating with partners to establish additional youth provision.

In September 2023 we established a VRU Key Worker Steering Group, and building on insight received from those involved, convened a Partnership Networking event in conjunction with Thriving Together. The event brought together over 30 individuals from health, the local authority, the VCSE sector and the Violence Reduction Unit to share knowledge and insight of services available within Berwick.

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Grief and Loss Course: We were approached by partners from St. Oswald's Hospice who were keen to work with us to run a programme focused on grief and loss linked to mental and physical wellbeing. The course, titled 'Personal Loss and Wellbeing,' incorporated workshops, 1:1 support around grief and loss which could be linked to addiction, job loss, death etc. alongside wellbeing. The attendees engaged in art and craft activities and walk and talk sessions. 9 participants attended and feedback included: 'after the recent bereavement of my husband, the course was my first point of contact with others, I found a calm and safe environment to help me sort out my thoughts', 'the course has really helped me with my recovery from addiction' and 'this has helped in so many ways that I can’t describe.'

Employability Course: To further support our work around tackling unemployment we coordinated a holistic employability course in conjunction with Newcastle United Foundation. The programme was targeted towards young people aged 16-30 years old not in education, training or employment and included a Level 1 employability qualification delivered by Newcastle United Foundation. In addition, the attendees received advice and guidance around mental and physical wellbeing provided by ourselves, guaranteed interviews with local employers from various sectors across Berwick including Haven Holiday Parks, Country Style Foods and PGL Ford Castle, and possible volunteering opportunities with the Lifeboat (and a free lunch!). 9 young men attended the course with 5 receiving job offers from Haven Holiday Park and 2 receiving job offers from PGL. Feedback from the course showed that 77% of attendees agreed/strongly agreed that they had a better understanding of job opportunities in Berwick, 77% felt more confident in looking for a job, with 1 individual stating that 'it's allowed me to apply for a job I would love to do'.

Women's Wellbeing Programme - South Tyneside

In January 2024 we successfully secured £130,018 of funding from the South Tyneside UK Shared Prosperity Fund to deliver a Women's Employability service. Through the funding we appointed a Key Worker who will be based within South Tyneside and will start delivering support in April 2024.

The service, which is a collaborative approach with women's charity Women's Health in South Tyneside (WHiST), Public Health South Tyneside, local Primary Care Networks and First Contact Clinical Social Prescribing Team, delivers a holistic employability support service. Although the service primarily supports young women with children/caring responsibilities or those living with poor mental health, the Key Worker will provide support for all females who are economically inactive.

The aim of the project is to support the service users to progress towards employment through tackling barriers such as low self-esteem and confidence. The project combines intensive 1:1 support with the Key Worker alongside a universal offer in conjunction with WHiST which offers support to improve mental and physical wellbeing.

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Moving Social Work

During the academic year 2023/24 we used the strong relationships we have with the developer of Moving Social Work, and further education, to coordinate the delivery of Moving Social Work to health and social care students at Northumberland College and Sunderland College.

Moving Social Work is an education programme designed to encourage social workers to speak about physical activity to people with disabilities and other groups. It is evidence-based and was co-produced with multiple stakeholders including Social Work England, social workers, people with disabilities, Disability Rights UK, leaders in county councils and the NHS.

During December 2023 and February 2024 all students studying health and social care at Northumberland College and Sunderland College received the training as part of the curriculum, thereby helping them to better understand the importance of physical activity and to be advocates of it in the future.

- Place Based Expansion Gateshead and South Tyneside

In January 2024, Sport England confirmed the two areas for place based expansion across our geography would be Gateshead and South Tyneside.

Since January we have convened two multi-partner engagement meetings in each area with representatives from the Local Authority (including Public Health, Culture and Leisure Services and Early Help), the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and VCSE sector. In order to strengthen the breadth of partners involved in the place based expansion work we have undertaken stakeholder mapping exercises both internally and externally, which has led to conversations being held with anti-poverty leads in both areas, the Citizen's Advice Bureau and numerous other partners.

We are also active members of the North East Cluster and the Co-Design Group which has convened specific sessions focusing upon leadership and the sector led improvement tool.

The initial phase of this project has involved lots of preparatory work in the lead up to the development award phase, including lots of work understanding the National Evaluation Learning Partners work around conceptual frameworks, Theory of Change Models, the 10 conditions for tackling inequalities in physical activity and the Maturity Matrix.

Active Design

Following the launch of Sport England Active Design in May 2023 we attended an event with our planning and public health local authority partners at Sunderland City Council to discuss how to ensure that the principles of Active Design are included in local policies and guidance across the North East. Since this time, we have been working with our local authority partners to try to get Active Design referenced in planning policies and physical activity strategies across the region.

In tandem we have quarterly catch-up sessions with the Sport England Planning Manager for the North and the North East Regional Stakeholder Manager for Active Travel England to share good practice and to discuss and input into active travel and environment opportunities across the region.

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Gateshead Playing Pitch Strategy

We have been actively involved over the last 12 months as part of the Gateshead Playing Pitch Strategy Steering Group who have been working to refresh and update the strategy. This has involved assessing the current playing pitch offer within the borough, discussing how the facilities can be sustained, planning for future requirements and providing development options for some of the land. It has been useful to be part of this group to understand the current situation within Gateshead and to seek to ensure that adequate playing pitch facilities are provided in the future.

Active Partnerships Active Environments Community of Practice

We are part of the steering group who lead on the organisation of the Active Partnerships Active Environments Community of Practice. Over the last 12 months we have organised sessions on Active Design, how active environments can help priority audiences to become more active in parks, an introduction to planning and how to effectively engage in the system, and how to use wayfinding opportunities. The community of practice allows us to share experience from a local perspective and to learn how this fits into the national picture in terms of active environments and travel.

Planning Consultation Support

We have continued to respond to consultations on Local Plans and Supplementary Planning Documents during this last year including amongst others commenting on the MetroGreen Area Action Plan in Gateshead. This has further helped to strengthen our relationships across the region with planning officers and we hope to continue this momentum over the coming months as we look to see what the planning reforms proposed by the Government entail and the impact that this will have on planning policies and guidance at a local level.

Physical Activity for Health Pathways Framework

Our strong leadership across health integration and social prescribing spheres enabled us to position ourselves well with health and physical activity sector partners last year. Sector-wide confidence in our role as a trusted system-partner created an opportunity to support Move Consulting and the APNO in developing a framework and guidance to support the development of Physical Activity for Health Pathways. We look forward to joining a national group of 39 organisations, which includes Active Partnerships, local authorities, Integrated Care Boards, Primary Care Trusts, leisure providers and community-based organisations, to explore practices and solutions for physical activity for health pathways.

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Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC) Training

During the 2023/24 academic year we were able to deliver PACC training as part of the curriculum for Year 1 students studying medicine and dietetics at Newcastle University.

Through previous work, we had identified barriers to professionals being able to access CPD training once in the workforce due to issues such capacity and time commitments. Therefore, through embedding PACC training in the curriculum we aimed to increase physical activity knowledge of the future professional workforce whilst they were attending university.

Over 350+ students studying medicine, including the Accelerated Medicine programme and Dietetics, undertook the training at Newcastle University in December 2023.

Evaluation of the training highlighted that pre-training only 3.74% of participants said that they had an advanced or good level of knowledge around the Chief Medical Officer's Physical Activity Guidelines. This improved significantly after participation in the training, with 83.23% reporting an advanced or good level of knowledge. In addition, 95% of students who attended the training stated that they felt more able and confident about promoting physical activity to patients after the training than they did beforehand.

Walk Leader Programme

We worked in partnership with Newcastle City Council and the Ramblers to deliver free Walk Leader Training to organisations and individuals across Newcastle. 86 individual walk leaders have been trained to date from a range of different organisations across Newcastle. The long-term aim of the programme is to have trained walk leaders in place to deliver free, enjoyable and easily accessible walks across Newcastle, which are open for anyone to join.

CIMSPA North & South of Tyne Skills Accountability Boards

We sit on CIMSPA's Skills Accountability Boards for both North and South of Tyne. The aim of the boards is to bring together key partners from the physical activity spectrum, to work collectively to advocate for greater importance being given to the role of physical activity in the development of Local Skills Improvement Plans. We also sit on a sub-board focusing on the development of the curriculum of various sports courses at Northumberland College, where we have advocated for a much wider view of physical activity, in comparison to what courses at the college have traditionally offered.

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Physical Activity Clinical Champions within Higher Education

Ongoing work utilising Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC) training, and other emerging physical activity-centric training programmes such as Moving Social Care, has developed a mechanism for local healthcare professionals, provider workforces, and related Medical School Students to improve shared knowledge and understanding of physical activity for long-term condition management.

The initial adoption of PACC training within our Primary Care Network activity partnership programme, which successfully upskilled over 200 health and third sector practitioners led to our PACC training expansion into higher education. This later work, allowed physical activity training to be delivered to over 300+ medical and dietetic students at Newcastle University, supporting the professional development of future healthcare workforces.

As a result of this successful partnership working, we are finalising work to embed PACC training within university curriculum for the 2024-25 academic year. Faculty staff have set an ambitious target for all year 1 medical students to complete PACC training within semester 1. We have extended this development offer further by providing students with first-hand experience of physical activity for health improvement by way of access to shadowing opportunities at several of our activity clinics in partnership with our primary care partners. Again, faculty staff have tasked students with attending a minimum of 1 activity clinic within semester 1. This collaborative approach has captured the attention of other Active Partnerships and Public Health Teams, and we hope shared learning opportunities result in programme refinement and wider adoption across neighbouring university sites.

Children and Young People Health Pathways

We have enhanced connectivity and relationships with key health partners, influencing and enabling a more comprehensive use of physical activity-based support within routine health and care pathways.

Following the successful development of our previous Health Pathways work, South Tyneside pathways editors requested support to co-develop similar best-practice guidance related to the importance of physical activity for infants, children and young people. Through this cross-theme collaboration we will be able to influence the shared knowledge and understanding of the health benefits associated with physical activity, and raise the awareness of opportunities to prescribe physical activity to infants, children and young people as part of routine clinical practice and wider personalised care.

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Health, Wellbeing and Learning in the Early Years Conference 2024

Due to the success of our first Conference, we delivered a further Early Years Conference in March 2024, which was yet again a sold out "inspirational and wonderful" event with over 100 attendees. During the conference, delegates heard from insightful and knowledgeable experts, including international keynote speaker, author and multi award-winning trainer Ben Kingston-Hughes. They also took part in engaging and interactive workshops in Poverty Proofing, SEND and risky play to name a few and explored the marketplace where they had the opportunity to find information and support for their work with children.

We were also grateful to have financial support to make the event happen from headline sponsor 'The Education Network', and wider supporters Ability Consultants, The Alnwick Castle and Gardens, the North East Combined Authority, PaddlePod and The Grand Hotel Gosforth Park.

The inspiration, enthusiasm and positivity in the room was infectious and continued to highlight the need for the sector to come together to learn, share and network.

Step Outdoors

With funding from the Integrated Care System, we were able to develop our own nature-based outdoor learning pilot, Step Outdoors, which is a train the trainer cascade model of CPD, with resources for Early Years staff to support them to get the children in their settings outdoors to develop 'school readiness' outcomes. The pilot was delivered in partnership with South Tyneside Public Health and co-produced with Early Years professionals at all levels.

Sunderland Physical Literacy Training in Early Years

Sunderland Public Health identified that physical literacy and physical development skills of young children is a key concern resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. The lack of these skills can have a direct impact on children's school readiness, academic and health outcomes in childhood and beyond.

Public Health approached us to upskill their early years practitioners with physical literacy training and offer them support using our insight, knowledge and resources. We worked in collaboration with Public Health and Together for Children to provide our Active Start training and resources for professionals working in the early years sector across the city. We delivered 5 courses to 56 staff from across 36 early years settings which will have a direct impact on 2,500 children across Sunderland.

This will continue to provide opportunities for further collaboration and influence of system partners, as well as supporting training in the early years sector to help improve skills, knowledge and confidence.

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Secondary PE Lead Conference

For the second year running, we delivered the Northumberland and Tyne & Wear Secondary PE Lead Conference, in partnership with the Youth Sport Trust and Active Education Alliance. It was great to see so many secondary school PE Leads come together which provided invaluable learning, insight and knowledge, focusing on the successes, barriers, challenges and opportunities faced by PE leads within secondary education settings. We took a solution focused approach on how we work together collaboratively as wider system partners to mitigate some of the barriers and challenges to ensure our workforce is supported and our children and young people thrive.

We were supported by Northumberland College, who hosted the event in their new STEM building. We had a thought-provoking morning with our keynote speaker Neil Moggan who delivered such a different and informative session. Neil focused on the power of trauma informed PE and early intervention wellbeing programmes in schools, and their ability to transform relationships, wellbeing, engagement, behaviour and progress in the short-term, and children's life chances in the long term. We also had speakers/presentations across the day from Ofsted, curriculum development and planning, School Games and the Post 16 reform on PE & Sport which made the day the success it was.

Active Education Alliance

We facilitate the termly Active Education Alliance, which is a strategic partnership covering Northumberland and Tyne & Wear with diverse senior representation from across education, health, local authorities and the wider children and young people sector etc. We have amended the Terms of Reference to ensure that the Alliance remains fit for purpose. The group focuses on wider outcomes for children and young people in an educational setting, to tackle the rising widening inactivity levels of children and young people, using physical and mental health/wellbeing as a vehicle to achieve wider outcomes.

We use local data, insight and lived experience through meaningful youth voice and consultation to drive and inform our work for meaningful results. The Alliance works collaboratively with system partners to share and advocate our learning to help partners see things differently, in order to feed into wider systemic policies and plans, and influence key decision makers in order to create a higher quality of life for children and young people.

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Girls Active

We have been working in collaboration with the Youth Sport Trust to roll out the Girls Active programme across secondary schools in Newcastle, expanding on the success of the programme in Northumberland a couple of years ago. The Girls Active programme helps schools understand what motivates disengaged and inactive teenage girls to take part in PE, enabling teachers to work with girls through consultation and leadership to make the necessary changes to their PE, sport and physical activity provision to engage all girls in ways that appeal to them.

8 secondary schools and 1 primary school (focusing on a targeted transition programme) are engaged in the 2 year programme. Each school has selected 10 girls who will lead the change through their school, and who all attended an inspiration leadership day in February 2024 at St James's Park. Our staff, alongside Youth Sport Trust staff, worked with the girls and the teachers, in collaboration with key Newcastle based stakeholders, to discuss barriers to participation and to learn skills for leading change.

The girls will now have continued support so that they feel empowered to have their voices heard, and to enable them to have a stronger active female voice in school to make positive change happen. We are excited to see what the girls do next in their leadership journey throughout the programme.

Active Start

Active Start is a programme of training and resources for staff who work with children aged 2 to 5 years. It aims to support staff to integrate physical activity and movement into all areas of the Early Years Foundation Skills to support children's physical and holistic development. We delivered a further 3 training days in 2023/24, upskilling a further 50+ early years practitioners.

BUILDING BACK FAIRER

Inclusive Cycling

We have been actively involved in raising the profile of inclusive cycling within the North East region to give it a much higher priority than it currently has. We have been working with national charity Wheels4All to connect them within the region as they previously had little presence locally and we have completed an audit of the opportunities and facilities available across the area to support the formation of a disability cycling network.

We will continue to focus on improving the advocacy and representation of people with disabilities on decision-making groups, committees and boards so that lived experience is used in the planning and implementation of new infrastructure. This is an under resourced sector and by forming a regional disability cycling network and securing sources of funding, medium- to long-term support can be given to the development of adaptive cycle hubs and schemes.

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Crowdfunding Role

Sport England provided us with funding to enable one of our staff members to have the dedicated capacity to provide direct support and guidance to organisations wishing to access one of Sport England's crowdfunding offers, Places & Spaces and Active Together. From April-November 2023, we supported 13 campaigns that went on to raise £187,011, including contributions from Sport England totaling £73,850. 2 of the projects also received further significant financial support to expand their impact, Birtley Pool receiving £272,000 from the Community Ownership Fund and Young Asian Voices receiving £150,000 in further support from Sport England.

Regarding locality data for the campaigns, 38% of the campaigns were from organisations located in an IMD area 1-3, 31% of the campaigns were from organisations located in an IMD area 4-6, and a further 31% of the campaigns were from organisations located in an IMD area 7-10. The member of staff also produced an evaluation report for Sport England, detailing their experience of the role. This has since been used to help inform Sport England's decision-making process regarding the Movement Fund Partner Role to help support the roll out of Sport England's Movement Fund, which will be launched in April 2024.

Coach Core

In September 2023, the third cohort of Coach Core apprentices supported by ourselves began their apprenticeships. In total, there were 17 apprentices enrolled at the start of the programme from 10 different employers. In addition to returning employers such as Tumble Gymnastics Centre, Sunderland Community Action Group and Newcastle Eagles, we were delighted to be able to welcome 3 new employers to the programme, Active Families, the National Trust (Souter Lighthouse) and New Hope North East.

We also decided to go above and beyond our obligations as the system partner for Coach Core in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear, by paying for the use of Wallsend Boys Club for the apprentices' education days, which greatly enhanced the learners experience, in addition to funding a Level 2 Multi Skills qualification for all of the apprentices that they otherwise would not have received.

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Primary Care Partnerships

We have significantly developed our 'Every Move Matters' service model, and its integration within local primary care settings. This work has not only refined the conditions that improve the acceptability and inclusion of physical activity within health and care pathways but it has also improved our reputation as a valuable and trusted health system partner. An example of this trust can be found in our work in Birtley and Central Gateshead Primary Care Network, where Primary Care ARRS funding was secured to co-fund an activity-centric social prescribing post, ensuring that physical activity features as a core element of pro-active personalised care. The role combines health coaching with direct physical activity delivery, providing significant opportunities to change physical, mental, and social factors impacting on health outcomes.

Over the past year we have facilitated the delivery of 22 activity and wellbeing interventions (234 sessions) that specifically target adults at greater risk of poor health outcomes. In partnership with 11 GP Practices, our programmes have supported 359 patients. These patients improved their health-related outcomes significantly across the duration of our programmes.

Evidence-to-date, provided by the NENC Applied Research Collaborative, has confirmed that our programme of work has been effectively implemented in primary care settings and was received enthusiastically by participants and staff members alike. Participants felt reassured and safe, finding confidence in the collaboration between NHS and VCSE delivery partners.

We have worked hard to leverage this work into ongoing partnership conversations with local NHS Foundations Trusts and our Integrated Care Board, with the hope that our approach can be considered for wider adoption.

Early Years Bursary

The results of our 2023 Early Years Survey informed us that funding was a barrier to training and equipment to support child development and school readiness. In response, we developed our Early Years Bursary scheme. This allowed early years providers to apply for funding to buy equipment or access training that they could not afford and give children the opportunity to become more physically active which in turn increased confidence, self-esteem, reduced anxiety and improved social skills with them having a more positive attitude to physical activity. We awarded £5,400 to 15 early years providers, with 576 children benefitting directly from the scheme.

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Ready to Play Early Years Programme

On the back of the huge success and demand of our Early Years Bursary Scheme, we received funding from the Integrated Care System to grow this offer as part of our continuing support for the development of the early years sector. We knew from our insight that a key barrier to delivering physical activity in the settings was a lack of CPD and funding for resources and equipment to support their work.

Our Ready to Play Programme was available to early years settings across Tyne & Wear and Northumberland to improve physical activity opportunities for under 5s in a fun and accessible way, based on individual and community needs. The project also tackled wider health and social outcomes such as school readiness and social and communication development, although the focus was on increasing sustainable physical activity and wellbeing.

The programme had a huge demand with over 150 organisations applying to be part of Ready to Play, however the allocated funding only allowed for 15 settings to be supported. We therefore funded a further 5 organisations to come on board, with those 20 organisations/settings having a collective reach of just over 14,000 children (and their families) per year, hence having the opportunity to have a huge positive impact on the lives of thousands of our residents.

COMMUNITY BUILDING

Football Foundation Multi-Sports Investment

Last year we reported that we were successful in securing a 3-year regional role to support the Football Foundation's investment into new multi-sport facilities (Playzones, 3G pitch installation and grass pitch improvement) to make up 40% of their portfolio. A member of our team was therefore seconded into the parttime role of Network Manager.

Working across the Active Partnership areas of Rise, Active Cumbria, County Durham Sport and Tees Valley Sport, the Network Manager has been providing additional capacity within the Active Partnership network to strengthen the relationship between local delivery and Sport England's 'Uniting the Movement'. This aims to help ensure that the right type of facilities are provided for the communities that need them the most, whilst following the requirements drawn from local consultation. The Football Foundation aim to deliver over 240 Playzones by 2025.

In addition to supporting the Foundation's investment into new multi-sport facilities, we have been chosen to pilot the administration of the Sport England Activation Fund which seeks to activate the multi-sport and Playzone facilities. This pilot will result in 7 projects being supported through the Activation Fund during 2024-25.

School Streets

We have been actively involved in the process of implementing School Street Closures across the region. We were part of the planning and launch of the 2 School Street pilots in South Tyneside in September 2023. The School Street closures have been deemed to be successful with the local authority hoping to launch further closures over the next year. We have also been discussing School Streets with Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland and hope to see the number of closures increasing in the future.

The general consensus and feedback to date shows that the closure of the streets lowers congestion, improves air quality and can help to boost the number of children walking, cycling and scootering to school each day.

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Play Streets

North Tyneside has a strong legacy of Play Streets which has been facilitated by Play Meet Street North Tyneside. However, after many years of supporting the Play Streets offer Play Meet Street North Tyneside no longer have this responsibility and North Tyneside Council are now offering the support service.

The co-ordinator of Play Meet Street North Tyneside now has some capacity to support other local authorities across our region to introduce Play Streets and we have been working with the co-ordinator to establish what a regional offer could look like and provide. This has included liaising with 'Playing Out', which is the national charity that supports Play Streets.

We have been, and continue to, work together and aim to provide a Play Streets offer as part of our placebased work moving forward and where appropriate, which will hopefully result in Play Streets being offered more widely across our region.

Welcoming Places South Tyneside

South Tyneside have been developing their Warm Spaces offer following their introduction to the borough. These spaces have been renamed Welcoming Places and the local authority have been working on extending the offer across the borough.

As part of the Together Fund Resilience investment, in June 2023 we funded Inspire South Tyneside, the umbrella body for the voluntary and community sector across South Tyneside, to provide a physical activity offer to 10 Welcoming Places. Prior to establishing which places would provide the physical activity offer, people attending the Welcoming Places were asked what activities they would be interested in attending. Programmes for each of the 10 places were matched to the consultation responses.

Following the initial programme, the local authority has continued to provide physical activity as an offer where this has been possible. They have also extended the programme to include investing in projects which offer a cultural experience alongside physical activity.

S106 Housing Developer Fund Panel for Sport and Play

We have been a panel member for the Northumberland County Council Section 106 Housing Developer Fund for Sport and Play for several years. Every quarter there is a panel meeting which assesses the submitted applications for sport and play opportunities to be funded from Section 106 money, which is a financial contribution or payment made by developers to local planning authorities to mitigate the impact of development on the local area to provide necessary infrastructure and amenities.

Since the Northumberland Local Plan was adopted on 31st March 2022 the money received from developers through S106 contributions has started to transition away from the old process and we have been able to input into the types of sport and play offers that have recently been approved for funding. During this last year we have attended the panel meetings and contributed to the assessment of whether the submitted applications are appropriate and acceptable.

Going forward we will continue as a panel member to seek to ensure that the sport and play provided through the funding is targeted in appropriate locations and is available to the wider communities located in the local area.

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE: COMMUNITY BUILDING - continued

Transport Needs Assessment

There has been a lot of regional work undertaken recently on transport needs and transport poverty where people do not have equitable access to transport options. Northumberland County Council completed a Health Needs Assessment of Public and Community Transport, the conclusions of which seek to prioritise sustainable public and community transport and support those at highest risk of transport-related exclusion. We will continue to support Northumberland County Council in seeking to achieve the priorities in terms of transport need.

Alongside the need to provide suitable transport options for local communities we are a Member of the Northumberland Cycling and Walking Board where active travel is considered as an important transport choice. We have been involved in the audit of the walking offer across the county to create walk ready communities, with work progressing to consider what interventions are required to improve the walking offer county wide.

In addition, we are working with South Tyneside on transport equality and there will be a workshop in midlate 2024 which we will be attending as a partner organisation.

Opening Schools Facilities (OSF)

The Department for Education's £57 million 'Opening School Facilities' fund is a 3-year investment that aims to provide support and funding into schools to develop and increase their extra-curricular opportunities and activities for children, young people and families. It aims to open up school facilities for the local community outside of the normal school day.

The programme is co-designed and co-delivered with and by children and young people, giving them a voice to empower them through leadership and volunteering opportunities. It aims to support them to access fun needs led inclusive and diverse opportunities that will support their personal and social development whilst looking after their physical and mental wellbeing.

During 2023-24, using our insight and local knowledge, we worked intensively in collaboration with wider strategic system partners to recruit schools to the programme and support them with their action plans and funding applications to provide new extra-curricular opportunities. These opportunities aim to help children and young people and the wider community to become more active, with a focus on reducing inequalities and inactivity.

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE: COMMUNITY BUILDING - continued

Wellbeing Wanderers Family Pilot

We worked in collaboration with Wallsend Children's Community and Wallsend Parks to empower and enable a community champion to develop the 'Wellbeing Wanderers', after they identified that there was a gap in provision. This is a needs-led co-designed intervention for local families and young children to meet in the local park to walk, socialise and play, boosting their physical and mental wellbeing through gentle exercise.

All of the respondents said that the sessions "boosted their wellbeing and inspired them to continue to be more active outdoors with your family". The group has continued, with the group lead transitioning from being a volunteer to being paid to facilitate the group by the local council. We have continued to support the group through providing training for the leader, and through providing support with further funding and resources to support outdoor active play.

On the back of a local survey we ran with families, the group have recently supported us to co-create our new 'Step Outdoors' families programme, created with and for families. This pilot has had a huge positive impact, not only on the beneficiaries, but also with regard to how we have worked collaboratively based upon need and how the community has been empowered to lead sustainable change.

Bite Back Community Food Champion Programme

In 2023, we provided additional funding to support Bright Futures Young Women's Project to participate in Phase 2 of the Bite Back Community Food Champions Project. The project sought to enable grassroots change to the food environment, by supporting young people to identify and address issues in their local areas.

Phase 1 projects enabled us to support 54 young people from across 5 VCSE organisations to work together to identify issues, engage with professionals and develop and implement solutions. Projects included a series of workshops to identify issues, develop solutions and deliver a 'pitch' to an audience of local political leaders, business owners, creatives, and other influencers. Groups received feedback on their plans, with the chance to secure funding to bring their idea to life and recruit additional expert support to strengthen their campaign ideas. The Bright Futures project focused on improving economically disadvantaged households' access to healthy food. The successful project resulted in children receiving a discount on healthy items from a local business.

It was inspiring watching the young people's confidence grow throughout the project, from the pitch launch event to them developing their campaign ideas in Phase 2. The young people learnt so many new skills, such as confidence, resilience, negotiation, public speaking, decision making, teamwork, research and more. More importantly, it was fulfilling seeing that they believed in their ideas and themselves, thereby raising their aspirations in life.

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School Games

The School Games Programme inspires children and young people to be physically active for life through positive experiences of daily activity and competition in school. Working in collaboration with the Northumberland and Tyne & Wear School Games Organisers (SGOs), 66,621 children and young people have participated in the School Games programmes and events throughout 2023/24.

Youth voice is at the heart of the School Games offer, which provides a fun and enjoyable way of engaging young people through school sport, physical activity, and movement, whilst also creating opportunities and positive experiences which can support their wider development. Young people have engaged in fun activities, events and competitions, as well as becoming young leaders/ambassadors, delivering peer to peer research, and volunteering at events.

SGOs have participated in a wide range of CPD opportunities, including in topics such as youth voice, tackling inequalities, Trauma Informed PE, and supporting and engaging visually impaired children and young people to participate in different sports and activities. We hugely appreciate the hard work of the SGO network, without whom this would not have been possible.

TACKLING OUR CLIMATE CRISIS

Newcastle University Tree Planting Initiative

We worked in partnership with Newcastle University to deliver a tree planting project to encourage staff at the university to be more physically active. Through the project university staff would plant / 'earn' a tree by attending an exercise class, gym session or sporting activity, with a target set of 650 trees to be planted. The staff engaged brilliantly with the challenge, registering 1,722 attendances from 253 individual colleagues, well above the target set. 15 members of staff from the university then went and planted the 650 trees on the Newcastle United Golf Course in Cowgate, as part of a 1.4km hedge rejuvenation.

Investors in the Environmen t

Last year we were delighted to report that we had been awarded the Investors in the Environment Bronze level accreditation. In November 2023 we continued our commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions and to minimising our environmental impact by achieving the Silver Award through Investors in the Environment.

We are persisting to work towards the SME Climate Hub Pledge and 10-year Rise Together Strategy to halve our carbon emissions by 2030 and to reach net zero emissions by 2050. In 2024/25 we will continue with our commitment by working towards the Green level Investors in the Environment accreditation.

Sport England Every Move

Prior to the completion of the Sport England Every Move Strategy we were actively involved in the Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change consultation and we supported the development of the Strategy through the focus group sessions. We were able, as part of the group sessions, to report on our own Environmental and Sustainability journey and the steps that we have taken. We are looking forward to supporting the roll out of the Every Move Strategy with our partners in the coming months.

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Active Partnership Climate Collaborative Convention

In November 2023 we attended the first Active Partnership Climate Convention which was organised by the Active Partnership Climate Crew. The event was arranged to bring together representatives from Active Partnerships to discuss our role in relation to Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change issues. At the event we were able to share our experience in trying to achieve our pledge to halve our carbon emissions by 2030 and to reach net zero by 2050. We were also able to listen to what other Active Partnerships have been doing in this space.

Following the event, we were asked to share with Active Partnership colleagues some of the work that we have been undertaking. There are plans for a second Collaborative Convention in November 2024 when we will be able to discuss our progress further.

Eco Education Event

We attended an event organised by Eco Education North East which provided details of the requirements for schools to have a Sustainability Lead by April 2025. We believe that this provides an opportunity and link between sustainability, climate and physical activity and we are continuing to consider how we can input and assist schools with the sustainability requirements from the Department for Education.

Active Travel Forum - Newcastle

Newcastle City Council have re-established their Active Travel Forum which meets on a regular basis with partners from across the sector to discuss how to improve active travel opportunities within Newcastle. We are part of the forum and have been able to share with the members the work that we have been doing around the inclusive cycling offer within the region. Also, members of the forum have been able to connect us with organisations that could support inclusive cycling and possible cycling hubs. It is a good opportunity for making connections and information sharing, and the group will be looking to formalise the actions that they intend to take to improve active travel opportunities across the city in the near future.

Sector Led Improvement (SLI) Workshops

We have attended the SLI workshops for South Tyneside, Gateshead and Newcastle and facilitated the table discussions on active travel and active environments at both the Gateshead and Newcastle workshops. The SLI workshops were established by a regional leadership group comprising representation from the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), Active Partnerships, Sport England and Local Authorities who agreed to undertake a sector led approach using the International Society for Physical Activity and Health - 8 Investments that Work for Physical Activity.

These workshops have enabled a greater understanding of what is in place in each of the local authority areas with regard to active travel and environments, and it has highlighted where further work is required. We are keen to continue with the conversations in each of the local authority areas in the future. The whole approach has helped to increase and reaffirm our relationships with partners in these areas.

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Green Social Prescribing

We have been discussing with Natural England opportunities for green social prescribing to support people to engage in nature-based interventions and activities to improve their mental and physical health. This culminated in us attending an event in Ashington which was hosted by Natural England and the Northumberland Wildlife Trust which showcased opportunities for green social prescribing. Following the event Natural England are hosting a further session in Sunderland later this year with Durham Wildlife Trust.

We are continuing to have conversations with Natural England about how the outcomes and learning from the events in both Ashington and Sunderland will be able to inform our work and whether there are opportunities for green social prescribing as part of our place-based work in the future.

The events have enabled us to speak to people within nature-based organisations, form new partnerships, and better understand our natural environment and its potential to benefit local residents' mental and physical health and wellbeing.

HARNESSING DATA, DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY

Children & Young People Active Lives Survey

We have continued to build relationships with schools through different programmes such as Opening School Facilities, School Games and Girls Active, which has helped us to ensure that schools complete the Active Lives Survey. We use our bespoke online digi-hub for easy access to the surveys and now also email a QR code to schools which feedback has shown to be extremely helpful, as pupils can now scan the code in the classroom for easy access to the surveys. We have aimed to raise the profile of the Active Lives Survey by presenting the national and local insight, findings and trends from the latest reports to School Games Organisers and stakeholders through the Active Education Alliance.

The data from the Active Lives Survey has been used in other presentations, such as at the ISPHA workshops and in the new Physical Activity Clinical Champions Children & Young People training that is currently being developed, helping to raise the profile further. Further collaboration is also underway with our wider Active Partnership Network to drive forward learning to potentially adapt our practice to better meet the needs of the schools, children and young people.

Trialling New Concepts

Last year we reported that during the summer of 2022 we worked in partnership with Northumberland County Council and the Great Northumberland Forest, to launch a pilot project for staff at Northumberland County Council, utilising a free-to-use app to plant trees in the forest. We reported that the concept testing was a success and that we would be investigating the development of our own bespoke app that we could provide to organisations to encourage their employees to be more active. Unfortunately, we have not been successful in securing funding to develop our own individual app, however, we were successful in bidding for funding from Bupa to plant trees within our local community.

This resulted in us collaborating with Newcastle University in January 2024 to run a fitness challenge for the university staff. In total the physical activity undertaken equated to 650 trees which staff planted with ourselves and the North East Community Forest in a local area within Newcastle. The project will contribute to seeking to tackle the UK's deficit of woodland coverage and will help to reduce air pollution and flooding, improving biodiversity and water quality.

For further examples of our work in 2023-2024, please see our Annual Impact Report.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW

During the year, investment was derived from a variety of sources including Sport England. The investment was made available to achieve various objectives, including:

The financial position for the year shows net expenditure of £147,807, including restricted funds of £66,376 (unrestricted net expenditure amounted to £81,431).

Policy on Reserves

The calculation of free reserves is based on the definition included in the charity statement of recommended practice (SORP), which provides recommendations for accounting and reporting for charities. The trustees have examined the requirements of the charity to hold free reserves - those reserves not invested in tangible fixed assets, excluding long-term liabilities, or designated for a particular purpose. The trustees consider that it would be appropriate to hold the equivalent of 3 months' operational costs (salaries, overheads and some operational delivery) which would equate to holding approximately £265,000-£315,000 in free reserves.

The directors have designated £477,000 (2023: £492,000) of reserves to cover:

At the year end, undesignated reserves, including those being accumulated to be held towards the equivalent of 3 months' operating costs, were £279,595 (not including the £14,892 fixed assets) . This is £14,595 within the target of holding a minimum of £265,000 for 3 months' operating costs for 2024-2025, and a maximum of £35,405 short of the target of holding £315,000 for 3 months' operating costs.

The trustees have prepared a budget and cashflow forecast and have concluded that the charity continues to be a going concern for the foreseeable future. On that basis, they have continued to adopt the going concern basis when preparing the financial statements.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW - continued

Key Management Personnel

The Board, who give their time freely (and no trustees received remuneration through the year) have considered who the Key Management Personnel (KMP) of the charity are, as noted in the Reference and Administration Details above. Together with the Board, those KMP are those in charge of directing and controlling, running and operating the activities of the charity on a day-to-day basis. The pay of the KMP is reviewed annually and normally increased annually in line with contributions towards the average cost of living increases. The trustees benchmark against pay levels of other charities and similar organisations within the sector and the region. Pay levels are set using this information together with the budget and forecast information, ensuring that the charity can afford any proposed increases. The Board sets the remuneration of the CEO.

Internal Control and Risk Management

The trustees continue to keep under review all the major risks to which the charity may be exposed. The charity's internal financial controls are designed to provide reasonable assurance against material misstatement or loss. These include:

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FUTURE PLANS

Looking forward to 2024-2025, the implementation of our Rise Together strategy will be heavily influenced by a few key factors:

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FUTURE PLANS - continued

In addition to the above key factors, there is a lot of planned and new work to take place in the year, including (but not limited to):

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STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Nature of Governing Document

Rise North East (Rise) is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 3 March 2010. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company. The latest amendment to the Articles of Association, which govern the company, were made by special resolution on 2 November 2021.

In the event of the company being wound up, members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1.

Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees

The directors of the company are also trustees of the charity for the purposes of charity law and under the company's Articles of Association. Each trustee retires after an initial term of four years, but at the AGM following their 4th anniversary, they can be re-appointed for another four-year term. They then must have a break of four years before seeking re-election.

Directors/trustees, including the Chair, are recruited by open advertisement against a published skills and experience specification. One trustee was recruited, Karen Pearce, and one trustee stood down, Patrick Price, during the year ended March 2024.

All trustees, including the Chair are volunteers and so receive no remuneration.

Induction, Training and Evaluation of the Board

All new trustees receive a Trustee Information Pack and are invited to attend induction briefings with the Chair and the Chief Executive Officer. This process covers the following areas:

Trustees also receive regular updates on items that might impact upon the charity's strategic planning and operations and are provided with opportunities to meet and engage with employees.

Organisational Structure

The Board comprises all the trustees. The Chief Executive Officer acts as secretary and has no voting rights.

Compliance with the Sport England / UK Sport Code of Governance

In December 2021, Sport England and UK Sport published an updated Code of Governance to which Rise, as a Tier 3 funded organisation, must be fully compliant with. In the year, Sport England confirmed our compliance with the code. However, in line with Sport England timings, our Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan is still to receive final Sport England sign-off.

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees (who are also the directors of Rise North East for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

AUDITORS

In accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006, a resolution for the re-appointment of Read, Milburn & Co. as auditors of the charity is to be proposed at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 5 November 2024 and signed on its behalf by:

S Gordon - Trustee

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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Rise North East (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31 March 2024 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report, other than the financial statements and our Report of the Independent Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

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Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Trustees.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

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Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Independent Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. In this regard, our procedures include the following:

Because of the field in which the charity operates, we have identified the following areas as those most likely to have a material impact on the financial statements: Health and Safety; Employment Law; and compliance with the Companies and Charities Acts.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

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Nicholas J Liley (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Read, Milburn & Co Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors 71 Howard Street North Shields Tyne and Wear NE30 1AF

2 December 2024

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

Notes
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
5
Charitable Activities
Other trading activities
3
Investment income
4
Total
EXPENDITURE ON
Charitable activities
6
Charitable Activities
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
Transfers between funds
18
Net movement in funds
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD		 Unrestricted
funds
£
197
-
7,866
28,735
36,798
122,935
(86,137)
4,706
(81,431)
852,918
771,487		 Restricted
funds
£
243,629
1,111,980
1,877
-
1,357,486
1,419,156
(61,670)
(4,706)
(66,376)
370,737
304,361		 2024
Total
funds
£
243,826
1,111,980
9,743
28,735
1,394,284
1,542,091
(147,807)
-
(147,807)
1,223,655
1,075,848		 2023
Total
funds
£
418,329
1,160,351
6,594
6,225
1,591,499
1,513,488
78,011
-
78,011
1,145,644
1,223,655

The notes form part of these financial statements

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BALANCE SHEET 31 MARCH 2024

2024 2023
Notes £ £
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 13 14,892 17,107
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 14 125,335 119,546
Cash at bank 1,059,927 1,213,557
1,185,262 1,333,103
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 15 (124,306) (126,555)
NET CURRENT ASSETS 1,060,956 1,206,548
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES 1,075,848 1,223,655
NET ASSETS 1,075,848 1,223,655
FUNDS 18
Unrestricted funds 771,487 852,918
Restricted funds 304,361 370,737
TOTAL FUNDS 1,075,848 1,223,655

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 5 November 2024 and were signed on its behalf by:

S Gordon - Trustee

The notes form part of these financial statements

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CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

Notes
Cash flows from operating activities
Cash generated from operations
20
Net cash used in operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
Sale of tangible fixed assets
Interest received
Net cash provided by investing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents
in the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the
beginning of the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the end
of the reporting period		 2024
£
(177,656)
(177,656)
(4,706)
(3)
28,735
24,026
(153,630)
1,213,557
1,059,927		 2023
£
(99,126)
(99,126)
(4,429)
-
6,225
1,796
(97,330)
1,310,887
1,213,557

The notes form part of these financial statements

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by 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) (effective 1 January 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102). They also comply with the Companies Act 2006 and Charities Act 2011.

Basis of preparation

Rise North East meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy notes.

The financial statements have been prepared in Sterling, rounded to the nearest Pound (£) which is the functional currency of the entity.

Going concern

The trustees have considered the financial position and prepared forecasts covering 12 months from the approval of the financial statements and on conclusion of this work and given the strong cash balance, consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Estimation uncertainty and judgements

The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported.

There are no material estimates or judgements in these financial statements.

Income and endowments

All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Donations and legacies

Donations are recognised when the charity has been notified in writing of both the amounts and settlement date. In the event that a donation is subject to conditions that require a level of performance by the charity before the charity is entitled to the funds, the income is deferred and not recognised until either those conditions are fully met, or the fulfilment of those conditions is wholly within the control of the charity and it is probable that these conditions will be fulfilled in the reporting period.

Grants receivable

Grants are recognised when the charity has an entitlement to the funds and any conditions linked to the grants have been met. Where performance conditions are attached to the grant and are yet to be met, the income is recognised as a liability and included on the balance sheet as deferred income to be released.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

Income and endowments

Deferred income

Deferred income represents amounts received for future periods and is released to incoming resources in the period for which it has been received. Such income is only deferred when:

Other trading activities

Income from other trading activities is recognised with the delivery of events and services

Charitable activities

Income from contracts and supply of services is recognised with the delivery of the contracted service. This is classified as unrestricted funds unless there is a contractual requirement for it to be spent on a particular purpose and returned if unspent, in which case it may be regarded as restricted.

Expenditure

All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably. All costs are allocated to the applicable expenditure heading that aggregate similar costs to that category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated on a basis consistent with the use of resources, with central staff costs allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges allocated on the portion of the asset’s use. Other support costs are allocated based on the spread of staff costs.

Charitable activities

Charitable activities comprise those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.

Support costs

Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, for example, allocating property costs by floor areas, or per capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage.

Governance costs

These include the costs attributable to the charity's compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements, including audit, strategic management and trustees' meetings and reimbursed expenses.

Tangible fixed assets

Individual fixed assets costing £200 or more are initially recorded at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.

Depreciation and amortisation

Depreciation is provided on tangible fixed assets so as to write off the cost, less any estimated residual value, over their useful economic life as follows:

Asset class Depreciation method and rate Sports equipment 33% straight line Office equipment 15% reducing balance

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Tangible fixed assets

Computer equipment 33% reducing balance

Impairment of fixed assets

A review for indicators of impairment is carried out at each reporting date, with recoverable amount being estimated where such indicators exist. Where the carrying value exceeds the recoverable amount, the asset is impaired accordingly. Prior impairments are also reviewed for possible reversal at each reporting date.

Taxation

The charity is considered to pass the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable company for UK Corporation Tax purposes. Accordingly, the charity is potentially exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively to charitable purposes.

Fund structure

Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity.

Designated funds are unrestricted funds set aside for specific purposes at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted income funds are those donated for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.

Pension costs and other post-retirement obligations

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as an expense in the period in which the related service is provided. Prepaid contributions are recognised as an asset to the extent that the prepayment will lead to a reduction in future payments or a cash refund.

Debtors and prepayments

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand, 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.

Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result I the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised a their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

Financial instruments

All financial assets and financial liabilities of the charity qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value.

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2.
DONATIONS AND LEGACIES
Donations
Grants
3.
OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES
Conferences and similar events
Other income
4.
INVESTMENT INCOME
Bank interest receivable
5.
INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
Activity
Grants
Charitable Activities
6.
CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS
Charitable Activities		 Direct
Costs
£
1,531,327		 2024
£
197
243,629
243,826
2024
£
4,891
4,852
9,743
2024
£
28,735
2024
£
1,111,980
Support
costs (see
note 7)
£
10,764		 2023
£
288
418,041
418,329
2023
£
5,309
1,285
6,594
2023
£
6,225
2023
£
1,160,351
Totals
£
1,542,091

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7. SUPPORT COSTS

SUPPORT COSTS
Governance
Other costs Totals
£ £ £
Charitable Activities 6,924 3,840 10,764

8. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)

Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting):

Auditor's remuneration
Depreciation - owned assets
Deficit on disposal of fixed assets		 2024
£
3,840
4,827
2,097		 2023
£
3,840
5,711
709

9. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2024 nor for the year ended 31 March 2023.

Trustees' expenses

There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2024 nor for the year ended 31 March 2023.

10. STAFF COSTS

Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs		 2024
£
852,395
80,860
75,162
1,008,417		 2023
£
775,914
70,889
73,543
920,346

The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:

Management
Charitable Activities		 2024
9
17
26		 2023
9
14
23

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10. STAFF COSTS - continued

The number of employees whose employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) exceeded £60,000 was:

£70,001 - £80,000

2024 2023 1

The total employee benefits of the charity's key management personnel amounted to £267,891 (2023 - £221,662).

11.
COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
Unrestricted
Restricted
funds
funds
£
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
571
417,758
Charitable activities
Charitable Activities
-
1,160,351
Other trading activities
6,594
-
Investment income
6,225
-
Total
13,390
1,578,109
EXPENDITURE ON
Charitable activities
Charitable Activities
47,031
1,466,457
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
(33,641)
111,652
Transfers between funds
4,429
(4,429)
Net movement in funds
(29,212)
107,223
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
882,130
263,514
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED
FORWARD
852,918
370,737		 Total
funds
£
418,329
1,160,351
6,594
6,225
1,591,499
1,513,488
78,011
-
78,011
1,145,644
1,223,655

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12. INCOME RECEIVED FROM PUBLIC INVESTORS

Income
Expenditure
Staff costs (including on costs)
Equipment hire/purchase
Hire of facilities
Promotion/publicity/insight
Coaches fees/expenses
Transport/travel costs
Training
Other: office related costs, phone and ICT
Other: professional fees
Other: grants to local organisations
Other: refreshments/misc
Other: other operational costs including
programme delivery
Other: management fee		 Sport
England
£
1,111,980
1,111,980
755,656
1,996
2,245
18,591
700
7,516
6,773
64,060
48,916
74,916
19,209
88,571
-
1,088,259		 Other Grants
£
244,429
244,429
152,116
52,629
3,833
10,127
20,312
951
292
2,638
2,075
42,480
1,987
10,135
23,995
323,570		 Total
£
1,404,780
1,404,780
907,772
54,625
6,078
28,718
21,012
8,467
7065
66,898
50,991
116,506
21,196
98,706
23,995
1,411,829

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13. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

COST
At 1 April 2023
Additions
Disposals
At 31 March 2024
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2023
Charge for year
Eliminated on disposal
At 31 March 2024
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2024
At 31 March 2023
14.
DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
Trade debtors
Accrued income
Prepaid expenses		 2024
£
40,991
41,576
42,768
125,335		 Furniture
and
equipment
£
57,075
4,706
(7,797)
53,984
39,968
4,827
(5,703)
39,092
14,892
17,107
2023
£
48,584
2,406
68,556
119,546

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15. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
Trade creditors
VAT
Deferred income
Accrued expenses
Deferred income at 1 April 2023
Released to incoming resources
Amount deferred in year
Deferred income at 31 March 2024		 2024
£
68,313
2,754
45,701
7,538
124,306		 2023
£
22,103
-
99,700
4,752
126,555
£
99,700
(99,700)
45,701
45,701

16. LEASING AGREEMENTS

Minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases fall due as follows:

Within one year 2024
£
7,680		 2023
£
7,680

17. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

Fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities		 Unrestricted
funds
£
14,892
835,050
(78,455)
771,487		 Restricted
funds
£
-
350,212
(45,851)
304,361		 2024
Total
funds
£
14,892
1,185,262
(124,306)
1,075,848		 2023
Total
funds
£
17,107
1,333,103
(126,555)
1,223,655

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Budgeted Deficits in Future Years
Redundancy Fund
Contingency
Restricted funds
SE Systemic Role
Access to Schools
Royal Foundation - Coach Core
NLD PA Strategy - Thriving Together
Disability Tennis Network
MIND
Thriving Communities
Together Fund
NHS - CNTW
Police and Crime Commissioner -
Phase 2
UK Youth Project
ICS Child Health Inequalities Fund
SE Multi-Sports Playzone Project
VONNE - Going Green
PE & School Sport Alliance
ICS Healthier Together
Awards for All - Berwick
Sunderland CC Active Start
Safeguarding Project - National
Network
Community Foundation - South
Shields
Community Foundation - Berwick Dev
Worker
Health Integration / Social Prescribing
Extension
TOTAL FUNDS		 At 1/4/23
£
360,918
244,000
143,000
105,000
852,918
185,452
20,648
1,065
1,200
11,273
1,633
9,609
5,474
111,787
759
3,000
2,402
10,162
2,000
1,009
3,264
-
-
-
-
-
-
370,737
1,223,655		 Net
movement
in funds
£
(86,137)
-
-
-
(86,137)
(17,445)
(12,645)
(1,215)
(1,200)
(1,025)
(1,633)
(9,609)
(5,474)
(75,371)
3,351
(3,000)
(2,402)
2,010
(2,000)
(1,009)
(3,264)
10,000
940
34,825
6,391
7,738
10,367
(61,670)
(147,807)		 Transfers
between
funds
£
19,706
66,000
(1,000)
(80,000)
4,706
(4,706)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(4,706)
-		 At
31/3/24
£
294,487
310,000
142,000
25,000
771,487
163,301
8,003
(150)
-
10,248
-
-
-
36,416
4,110
-
-
12,172
-
-
-
10,000
940
34,825
6,391
7,738
10,367
304,361
1,075,848

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued

Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Restricted funds
SE Systemic Role
SE Delivery Role
Access to Schools
County Durham Sport - Infrastructure &
Environment
Royal Foundation - Coach Core
NLD PA Strategy - Thriving Together
Disability Tennis Network
MIND
Thriving Communities
Together Fund
NHS - CNTW
Police and Crime Commissioner - Phase 2
Sunderland Uni Graduate Intern
UK Youth Project
ICS Child Health Inequalities Fund
Places & Spaces - Crowdfunding
SE Multi-Sports Playzone Project
VONNE - Going Green
PE & School Sport Alliance
ICS Healthier Together
Awards for All - Berwick
Northumbria Uni Intern
Sir James Knott - Berwick Post
Sunderland CC Active Start
Safeguarding Project - National Network
Bupa Foundation/Groundwork UK
Community Foundation - South Shields
Community Foundation - Berwick Dev Worker
Health Integration / Social Prescribing Extension
UKSPF - South Tyneside
Hospital of God - Berwick Dev Worker
Bernicia - Berwick Dev Worker
Moving Communities
TOTAL FUNDS		 Incoming
resources
£
36,798
794,552
105,000
76,661
17,052
32,800
300
-
3,500
23,240
74,950
-
40,550
500
5,650
-
17,943
19,484
3,000
-
-
10,000
1,042
5,000
10,000
44,517
2,496
9,901
9,826
18,929
3,399
180
614
26,400
1,357,486
1,394,284		 Resources
expended
£
(122,935)
(811,997)
(105,000)
(89,306)
(17,052)
(34,015)
(1,500)
(1,025)
(5,133)
(32,849)
(80,424)
(75,371)
(37,199)
(500)
(8,650)
(2,402)
(17,943)
(17,474)
(5,000)
(1,009)
(3,264)
-
(1,042)
(5,000)
(9,060)
(9,692)
(2,496)
(3,510)
(2,088)
(8,562)
(3,399)
(180)
(614)
(26,400)
(1,419,156)
(1,542,091)		 Movement
in funds
£
(86,137)
(17,445)
-
(12,645)
-
(1,215)
(1,200)
(1,025)
(1,633)
(9,609)
(5,474)
(75,371)
3,351
-
(3,000)
(2,402)
-
2,010
(2,000)
(1,009)
(3,264)
10,000
-
-
940
34,825
-
6,391
7,738
10,367
-
-
-
-
(61,670)
(147,807)

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Comparatives for movement in funds

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Budgeted Deficits in Future Years
Redundancy Fund
Contingency
Restricted funds
SE Systemic Role
NS - Workforce
TW - Workforce
Access to Schools
County Durham Sport - Infrastructure
& Environment
Royal Foundation - Coach Core
NLD PA Strategy - Thriving Together
Disability Tennis Network
MIND
Tackling Inequalities Fund
Children and Young People
Programme
Thriving Communities
Police and Crime Commissioner
Barclays
Rollover - Primary Role
Commonwealth Games
Together Fund
Bikeability
NHS - CNTW
Police and Crime Commissioner -
Phase 2
UK Youth Project
ICS Child Health Inequalities Fund
SE Multi-Sports Playzone Project
VONNE - Going Green
PE & School Sport Alliance
ICS Healthier Together
TOTAL FUNDS		 At 1/4/22
£
542,130
185,000
131,000
24,000
882,130
-
10,455
9,656
-
4,263
4,024
-
11,523
2,353
198
39,070
20,949
11,469
5,780
115,376
11,500
-
3,241
13,657
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
263,514
1,145,644		 Net
movement
in funds
£
(33,641)
-
-
-
(33,641)
189,881
(10,455)
(9,656)
20,648
(4,263)
(2,959)
1,200
(250)
(720)
(198)
(39,070)
(11,340)
(11,469)
(5,780)
(115,376)
(11,500)
5,474
(3,241)
98,130
759
3,000
2,402
10,162
2,000
1,009
3,264
111,652
78,011		 Transfers
between
funds
£
(147,571)
59,000
12,000
81,000
4,429
(4,429)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(4,429)
-		 At
31/3/23
£
360,918
244,000
143,000
105,000
852,918
185,452
-
-
20,648
-
1,065
1,200
11,273
1,633
-
-
9,609
-
-
-
-
5,474
-
111,787
759
3,000
2,402
10,162
2,000
1,009
3,264
370,737
1,223,655

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued

Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Restricted funds
SE Systemic Role
SE Delivery Role
NS - Workforce
TW - Workforce
Access to Schools
County Durham Sport - Infrastructure
& Environment
Royal Foundation - Coach Core
NLD PA Strategy - Thriving Together
Disability Tennis Network
MIND
Tackling Inequalities Fund
Children and Young People
Programme
Rugby Football Union - Families Fund
Thriving Communities
Police and Crime Commissioner
Barclays
Rollover - Primary Role
Commonwealth Games
Yorkshire Sport - Creating Active
Schools
Together Fund
Bikeability
NHS - CNTW
Police and Crime Commissioner -
Phase 2
Sunderland Uni Graduate Intern
UK Youth Project
ICS Child Health Inequalities Fund
Places & Spaces - Crowdfunding
SE Multi-Sports Playzone Project
VONNE - Going Green
PE & School Sport Alliance
ICS Healthier Together
Northumbria Uni Intern
TOTAL FUNDS		 Incoming
resources
£
13,390
793,475
105,000
-
-
76,661
13,358
23,576
3,000
4,000
3,500
-
-
9,000
34,312
-
-
-
-
13,862
201,346
34,324
158,288
31,000
4,500
17,000
4,787
19,404
18,772
2,000
1,009
4,985
950
1,578,109
1,591,499		 Resources
expended
£
(47,031)
(603,594)
(105,000)
(10,455)
(9,656)
(56,013)
(17,621)
(26,535)
(1,800)
(4,250)
(4,220)
(198)
(39,070)
(9,000)
(45,652)
(11,469)
(5,780)
(115,376)
(11,500)
(13,862)
(195,872)
(37,565)
(60,158)
(30,241)
(4,500)
(14,000)
(2,385)
(19,404)
(8,610)
-
-
(1,721)
(950)
(1,466,457)
(1,513,488)		 Movement
in funds
£
(33,641)
189,881
-
(10,455)
(9,656)
20,648
(4,263)
(2,959)
1,200
(250)
(720)
(198)
(39,070)
-
(11,340)
(11,469)
(5,780)
(115,376)
(11,500)
-
5,474
(3,241)
98,130
759
-
3,000
2,402
-
10,162
2,000
1,009
3,264
-
111,652
78,011

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The specific purposes for which the funds are to be applied are as follows:

Sport England - Systemic & Delivery Funding

This is our core funding, provided by Sport England, which focuses on us influencing local systems to create more opportunities for people to take part in sport and physical activity. It aims to tackle the inequalities that affect people's participation in sport and physical activity whilst supporting the aims and objectives of Sport England's 10-year strategy 'Uniting the Movement'. Our work focuses upon helping local partners to unlock the power of physical activity and collectively affect long-term system change to positively impact more lives across our region, particularly those who need it the most.

Sport England - Together Fund (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided by Sport England as a continuation of the Tackling Inequalities Fund, which was set up to help the sport and physical activity sector through the Covid-19 pandemic. The Together Fund is targeted towards increasing the physical activity levels of culturally diverse communities, those from lower socio-economic groups, and those with a disability or long-term health condition.

Sport England - Community Football & Multi-Sports Capacity (programme started pre-April 2023)

This funding is provided by Sport England to help to strengthen the relationship between local and national strategy and delivery, and to connect local resource, intelligence and experience to national programme design. It aims to maximise the impact of the targeted investment into community football, tennis and multi-sport facilities, ensuring that they are delivered in the communities that need it the most, with an overall priority focus on tackling inactivity.

Sport England - Places & Spaces (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided by Sport England to provide us with designated capacity to work closely with community sport and physical activity groups to raise awareness of Sport England's Places & Spaces crowdfunding programme and support such groups to successfully access this funding stream. The focus is to create and improve local facilities to enable and encourage more people to be physically active.

Sport England - Thriving Communities (programme started pre-April 2023)

Through the Thriving Communities Fund we work to influence local commissioning strategies and support partners through capacity building to make the best use of, and combine, local resources. The project aims to improve and increase the range and reach of available social prescribing community activities - especially for those people most impacted by Covid-19 and health inequalities. It is funded by Sport England and some of the local Directors of Public Health.

Sport England - National Safeguarding Network

Funding provided by Sport England to appoint two Sport Welfare Officers as part of the national network being created across England in response to the Whyte Review. The Welfare Officers will support National Governing Bodies of Sport, promote good practice and safe sport at a local level, and help to create safer club environments for participants.

Sport England - Moving Communities

Funding provided by Sport England for us to engage the services of 4 Global to bring together participation data into a secure online platform. The platform aims to help inform and inspire local decision makers with getting communities moving.

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Active Partnership Network DfE - Opening School Facilities (OSF) Capacity Funding (programme started pre-April 2023)

Awarded by the Department for Education via the Active Partnership Network for us to assist with the delivery of the £57m national OSF programme. The project aims to support schools to open up their sports facilities outside of the school day, to both school and community users, in order to create sustainable change in increased physical activity levels in communities where they are needed most. The programme is targeted towards helping to encourage and enable more women and girls, people from disadvantaged and culturally diverse communities, and children with special educational needs and disabilities to become more active.

North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) - Child Health Inequalities Fund (Underspend) (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided by the ICS Child Health & Wellbeing Network to upskill and empower the early years workforce to support children aged 3-5 years old to have the best start in life, engaging in fun outdoor active learning to improve their physical and mental wellbeing.

North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) - Healthier Together (Underspend) (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided by the ICS Child Health & Wellbeing Network via the Healthier Together VCSE Programme to deliver an Active Start project aimed at enabling and encouraging more under 5s to be more physically active.

Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust (Underspend) (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided to make improvements to the health and wellbeing of staff in the ICS workforce. The programme aims to provide physical and mental health benefits to people and address wider health inequalities.

VONNE - Going Green Together (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided through VONNE to help us to deliver a climate action project to reduce carbon emissions and address the climate emergency.

Northumbria University Intern (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided via Northumbria University linked to its internship programme, which provided support to enable us to appoint a graphic design intern on a short-term basis in 2023.

Sunderland University Graduate Intern (programme started pre-April 2023)

ERDF funding provided via Sunderland University linked to its internship programme, which provided support to enable us to appoint a research and insight intern during 2022-2023 and into April 2023.

Gateshead Council - PE & School Sport Alliance (Underspend) (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding transferred to us from Gateshead Council to support more children and young people of secondary school age to become more active, which could involve supporting the delivery of a secondary school conference in partnership with the region's PE & School Sport Alliance.

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South Tyneside Council - UKSPF

Funding provided by South Tyneside Council through the UK Shared Prosperity programme for a specific project focused on supporting women into employment, particularly targeting young women with caring responsibilities and those living with poor mental health. The project is being delivered in partnership with local charity Women's Health in South Tyneside (WHiST), public health and some other local partners and will focus upon improving physical and mental wellbeing, as well as developing life skills.

Sunderland City Council - Active Start

Funding provided to us to facilitate a training offer to early years practitioners in Sunderland. The training will focus on Active Start physical literacy and aims to increase the physical activity levels of children aged 0-5 years old.

Thriving Together Northumberland (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided via Northumberland's Thriving Together Steering Group to support the delivery of workshops linked to Northumberland's Physical Activity Strategy, which aims to get more people physically active across Northumberland.

County Durham Sport - Infrastructure & Environment (programme started pre-April 2023) Funding provided by County Durham Sport (the active partnership for County Durham) to expand the reach of our Infrastructure and Environment Strategic Lead to also deliver their work programme across the full LA7 area.

UK Youth - Community Food Champions (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding provided by UK Youth for us to support local community organisations to work with groups of young people to create social action projects that aim to address issues within their local food environment. The project aims to create positive youth-led partnerships within local communities and targets young people from both low-income backgrounds and culturally diverse populations.

Coach Core (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funded by the charity Coach Core, this is a national apprenticeship programme which involves numerous local employers supporting young people to undertake a placement with them alongside a sporting qualification. We are responsible for managing and overseeing the programme locally in Northumberland and Tyne & Wear, which will enhance the local coaching offer and provide the apprentices with valuable training and experiences.

Mind (programme started pre-April 2023)

This funding is focused on us leading the development of a regional network of sport, physical activity and mental health organisations.

Lawn Tennis Association - Disability Tennis Network (Underspend) (programme started preApril 2023)

This funding from the Lawn Tennis Association is focused on providing more tennis opportunities for people with disabilities.

Northumbria Police & Crime Commissioner (programme started pre-April 2023)

Funding to employ a Link Worker in Berwick-upon-Tweed to work with young men who are struggling with poor mental health and who need support to access help and services locally, including access to physical activity support.

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St Oswald's Hospice

Funding provided for a project delivered in conjunction with St Oswald's Hospice in Berwick-uponTweed aimed at anyone who has experienced grief or loss. The project incorporated workshops and 1:1 support around grief and loss to improve physical and mental wellbeing, and it included art and craft activities and walk and talk sessions.

Awards for All - Berwick-upon-Tweed

Funding to help employ a new Community Development Worker to support the wellbeing of vulnerable young people in Berwick-upon-Tweed, linked to the increasing demand for our support services in the town and the widening of our offer to young people.

Sir James Knott - Berwick-upon-Tweed

Funding to support the employment of our Link Worker in Berwick-upon-Tweed to work with young men who are struggling with poor mental health and who need support to access help and services locally, including access to physical activity support.

Bernicia - Berwick-upon-Tweed

Funding to help employ a new Community Development Worker to support the wellbeing of vulnerable young people in Berwick-upon-Tweed, linked to the increasing demand for our support services in the town and the widening of our offer to young people.

Hospital of God - Berwick-upon-Tweed

Funding to help employ a new Community Development Worker to support the wellbeing of vulnerable young people in Berwick-upon-Tweed, linked to the increasing demand for our support services in the town and the widening of our offer to young people.

Community Foundation - Berwick-upon-Tweed

A grant to support the mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable young people in and around Berwickupon-Tweed. The funding will help to employ a new Community Development Worker linked to the increasing demand for our support services in the town and the widening of our offer to young people.

Community Foundation - South Shields

Funding to run an Active Ageing project in South Shields to support older people to increase their physical activity levels, mobility and wellbeing, whilst also aiming to reduce isolation.

Bupa Foundation/Groundwork UK

A grant received from the Bupa Foundation Green Community Grants programme (and managed by Groundwork UK) for the 'Step into Nature' project. The project aims to address climate change, by creating a digital app that enables users to track their zero-carbon physical activity and receive naturebased rewards (e.g. tree planting) when they meet their targets.

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19. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

John Spence Community High School

One of the trustees is a teacher at the school. During the year the charity incurred expenditure totalling £9,898 with the school. At the balance sheet date the amount due to John Spence Community High School was £2,420 (2023 - £nil).

Active Families North East / Active Families Training Academy

One of the employees is married to the owner/director of Active Families North East and Active Families Training Academy. During the year the charity incurred expenditure totalling £25,111 with these organisations. At the balance sheet date the amount due was £nil (2023 - £nil).

20. RECONCILIATION OF NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Net (expenditure)/income for the reporting period (as per the
Statement of Financial Activities)
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charges
Loss on disposal of fixed assets
Interest received
Increase in debtors
Decrease in creditors
Net cash used in operations		 2024
£
(147,807)
4,827
2,097
(28,735)
(5,789)
(2,249)
(177,656)		 2023
£
78,011
5,711
709
(6,225)
(95,118)
(82,214)
(99,126)

21. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS

Net cash
Cash at bank
Total		 At 1/4/23
£
1,213,557
1,213,557
1,213,557		 Cash flow
£
(153,630)
(153,630)
(153,630)		 At 31/3/24
£
1,059,927
1,059,927
1,059,927

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22. LEGAL STATUS

The charitable company is limited by guarantee, incorporated in England & Wales, and consequently does not have share capital. Each of the trustees is liable to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 towards the assets of the charity in the event of liquidation.

The company's registered number and registered office address can be found within Reference and Administrative Details.

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