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

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND

AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

FOR

RISE NORTH EAST

RISE NORTH EAST

CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

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Reference and Administrative Details	1
Report of the Trustees	2 to 17
Report of the Independent Auditors	18 to 20
Statement of Financial Activities	21
Balance Sheet	22
Cash Flow Statement	23
Notes to the Financial Statements	24 to 43

RISE NORTH EAST

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

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 K E Storie N Erevik G R Nash D Henderson S Gordon A Pilkington S Bell A Puri J Cairns K Pearce K Spencer (appointed 1 April 2025) S Campbell (appointed 1 April 2025)

Key Management Personnel

Clare Morley, CEO David Marrin, Chief Operating Officer Adam Brougham, Strategic Director Helen Selfridge, Director of Commercial, Marketing & Communications

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

BK Plus Audit Limited, Azzurri House, Walsall Road, Aldridge, Walsall, WS9 0RB

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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 31 March 2025.

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objects and Aims

The charity has the following objectives:

• 1 To promote the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities through increased community participation in sport, active recreation and physical fitness;

• 2 To advance and further the education of the public in relation to physical fitness, nutrition, active recreation and lifestyle, including through the provision of courses, training programmes, research and resources;

• 3 To provide or assist in providing facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation, physical education or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity, disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the aim of improving their life condition;

• 4 To advance the education of the public, particularly, but not exclusively, those working with children or vulnerable adults, their carers and families, and children, young people and vulnerable adults themselves, in child and vulnerable adults protection; and

• 5 To advance such other charitable purposes beneficial to the community and consistent with the objects set out above.

Objectives, Strategies and Activities

Rise is one of 42 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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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES - continued

Public Benefit

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

• Developing a strong granular understanding of place and people. We seek to understand what will work best in creating the conditions for people to be active, by using our knowledge of the local area (the market, audiences and organisations), its demographics, resources and politics, and using it to guide and influence decision making and investment;

• Brokering and facilitating effective partnerships between a wide range of organisations to improve the local system and to better coordinate resources and delivery;

• Supporting local government and making the case for sport and physical activity across wider departments and agendas (e.g. health and wellbeing, transport and planning etc.); and

• Supporting local organisations to secure greater investment into sport and physical activity.

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.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

STRONG AND INFLUENTIAL SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP

Our ambition: physical activity has a prominent and sustained place at the strategic table across the systems of our region.

Our impact:

Empowering our future healthcare professionals

Evidence suggests that 1 in 4 people would be more active if advised by a healthcare professional. This would reduce the number of inactive adults in England by 2.9 million which would provide vast personal health benefits, reduce the strain on the NHS and boost the economy.

We've been working for years to integrate physical activity into healthcare, and more recently we've concentrated our efforts upstream to support the future workforce. In partnership with Newcastle University's Faculty of Medicine and the physical activity clinical champions (PAC) universal offer trainers, we've evolved our training and development for medical students, empowering them to better understand and advocate for physical activity.

We've improved shared knowledge and understanding and provided first-hand experience of physical activity prescription in situ by giving students PACC training embedded within their first semester, plus access to activity clinic shadowing opportunities, enabled by partnerships with primary care.

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360 students undertook training this year:

• 95% improved their knowledge and understanding of the benefits of physical activity for patient health;

• 92% agreed that the training would allow them to better undertake a future health role more effectively;

• 92% felt that promoting physical activity would be more of a priority following the training.

Access to 29 activity clinics were offered to medical students, with 172 bookings made:

• 100% agreed that attending the shadowing session complemented PACC training learning outcomes;

• 92% were interested in further shadowing opportunities.

"It was really useful to see the theory that we learnt in the training put in place in real life people, and the benefit to them." Medical student

"It aided my knowledge of how doctors can encourage patients [to] include movement into their lives." Medical student

"This project has really given the students that insight into what challenges their patients face in a community setting. I think understanding that community focus is really at the heart of what any medical student really needs to know because ultimately they'll be applying that understanding in their daily practice." Dr Scott Walker, Newcastle University

Developing proactive social prescribing solutions

As well as this focus on the future, we're working here and now to reduce the strain on the NHS.

With physical activity already recommended in 98 NICE guidelines, the NHS is advocating for movement to be integrated into system-wide care. This year, in collaboration with primary care colleagues, we've successfully embedded a sustainable, activity-based, proactive solution into their practice. Our new Activity and Wellbeing Coach sits within the multi-disciplinary team, allowing practices to offer a wider, more tailored programme of group-based support than traditional social prescribing provides, enabling patients to live healthier, longer and more independent lives.

274 patients, living with various health conditions, are actively engaged in programmes championed by staff from Birtley, Oxford Terrace and Rawling Road Primary Care Network. Across frailty, weight management, MSK and women's health cohorts:

• 93% achieved their primary health goal;

• 95% of patients reported improved health;

• 74% have increased physical activity outside of supported sessions;

• 99% would advocate for their programmes to friends and family.

The impact of this innovative work has been highlighted in an evaluation by our academic partner NIHR NENC ARC. Findings suggest that this collaborative approach is a valuable system asset, enhancing the delivery of proactive personalised care, improving health outcomes and providing the potential to reduce healthcare use.

Our work has helped to strengthen individual behaviours that influence longer term change. Of a 75 person sample:

• 98% agreed that participating improved their confidence in being active;

• 97% agreed that participating encouraged them to be more active than before;

• 92% remained active 12 months after finishing the programme.

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The unique difference in this approach is that it allows primary care teams to proactively identify their patients from healthcare records and directly engage with them using existing health tech services. Working in this way has allowed our health partners to strengthen patient support based on hyper-local need and better tackle health inequalities.

Place-based working

All communities face different problems, which need bespoke solutions. We work directly with communities and local partners to understand and address these specific issues across all our place-based working from Berwick to South Tyneside to Gateshead and Newcastle.

In September 2024, on behalf of a consortium of partners, we secured Sport England place-based expansion development award funding. The focus of the development award is to gain a deeper understanding of the barriers that people in Gateshead and South Tyneside face to becoming more physically active. Here are some of the ways we've been working in the first six months:

• Developing a multi-agency Place Partnership Steering Group in each local authority area, including partners from the local authority, health, VCSE sector and Violence Reduction Unit;

• Strengthening relationships with place partners and helping to deepen their understanding of whole systems and place-based approaches;

• Developing collaborative relationships with other organisations working to address barriers to physical activity beyond Gateshead and South Tyneside at local and regional levels;

• Beginning the process of asset mapping in Gateshead and South Tyneside;

• Facilitating two System Leadership Programmes for partners and stakeholder identified as leaders in their respective local authority areas;

• Recruiting roles to gather insights on the barriers to physical activity faced by residents to ensure that evaluation and learning is at the forefront of this work.

Health, Wellbeing and Learning in the Early Years conference

We hosted our third annual early years conference for professionals from across the North East to gain professional development, share, learn and network. Over 100 participants experienced fantastic speeches and workshops. Huge thanks to our headline sponsors The Education Network and The North East Combined Authority, and our associate sponsors The Alnwick Garden and Lilidorei and Ability Consultants.

"Each workshop has been inspiring and will inform my practice."

"It has really opened my mind more professionally and personally."

"Best conference ever. Imaginative, interesting, Ben is brill, great motivational speaker."

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Participation in boards and networks

• We attend the Housing and Developer Fund for Sport and Play panel for Northumberland Council, providing upgrades to facilities, play areas and equipment to increase the opportunities for participation across the county.

• We're a member of the Active Partnership Network's Community of Practice for Active Environments steering group. We've worked to advocate for integrating Sport England's Active Design Principles into local planning policies and practice and promoted child-friendly planning and design and youth engagement in planning, regeneration and neighbourhood management.

• We've been actively involved in the panels for Playing Pitch Strategies and Local Football Facility Plans.

• Throughout the year, we continued our support to Newcastle City Council's Public Health team as they continued their Sport England-funded Core Cities programme, focussing on active travel, supporting girls to move more, physical activity within drug and alcohol treatment programmes, workplace wellbeing and a whole system approach to physical activity for the city.

BUILDING BACK FAIRER

Our ambition: using physical activity to support communities to move through, and past, the Covid-19 pandemic and emerge stronger and more resilient.

Our impact:

Improving health wellbeing and learning in the early years

In England, only 9% of 2-4 year olds and less than half of 5-18 year olds achieve the Chief Medical Officers' physical activity guidelines. This has a direct impact on their school readiness, academic and health outcomes in childhood, adolescence and beyond.

We're working to address this by delivering targeted programmes to break down barriers for children, young people, families and practitioners and reduce inequalities for our most underserved communities.

• Ready to Play: following the huge success of and demand for our early years bursary, we developed the Ready to Play project, supporting staff through training, offering equipment and resources for staff and parents. The project tackled wider health and social outcomes such as school readiness, social and communication development, but increasing sustainable physical activity and wellbeing was the focus through active play. Over 150 organisations applied to take part, so with funding and spaces limited, we were able to train 34 practitioners and indirectly reach 14,360 children across Northumberland and Tyne & Wear, significantly higher than the aim of 1,000 children.

• Our Bodies Are Made To Move animation: following requests, we developed an animation and workshop to quickly and effectively communicate the benefits of physical activity for children and young people and the guidelines supporting this.

• Physical literacy: Sunderland City Council's Public Health team approached us to upskill their early years practitioners with physical literacy training to improve knowledge and confidence. We worked in collaboration with them and Together for Children to provide our Active Start training and resources for 56 professionals working in the early years sector, who reach over 2,500 children.

• Through UKSPF and NECA funding, we fully launched Step Outdoors to use the power of nature-based outdoor play to boost children's learning and wellbeing, supporting school readiness, parent/carer and staff confidence, and support community connection.

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"I have been incredibly fortunate to work with Rise recently. Their enthusiasm and genuine passion for improving outcomes for children shines through everything they do and their commitment to making sure disadvantaged children have the best possible outcomes is inspiring. As a trainer and keynote speaker it is extremely rewarding to work with an agency whose ethos aligns so strongly with my own. It also helps that they are always so welcoming and supportive when I visit!" Ben Kingston-Huges (Award winning trainer)

Women's Wellbeing in South Tyneside

We launched a new holistic employability support service in collaboration with Women's Health in South Tyneside (WHiST) and South Tyneside Council, thanks to UKSPF funding that aimed to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK by investing in communities, supporting local business, people and skills.

The project supported women by providing a personalised, person-centred approach. Service users received one-to-one support to identify barriers preventing them from considering employment and worked collaboratively with a key worker to develop individualised plans to overcome those challenges. Sessions focused on improving physical and mental well-being, raising confidence and self-esteem, communication and life skills. In addition to delivering engagement activities, the funding also supported WHiST to reopen the crèche which helped to remove childcare barriers.

To ensure the service reached those who would benefit most, our key worker was based in WHiST, an established locally trusted organisation, and launched a range of referral pathways from partners such as probation, Impact Family Services, South Tyneside Adult Recovery Service and the local VCSE sector.

Throughout the 12 month project:

• 23 economically inactive women have engaged with key worker support services;

• 279 individuals engaged in life skills opportunities;

• 172 individuals engaged in education/lifelong learning opportunities.

Of those women engaged in wellbeing activities:

• 77% reported reduced anxiety and depression;

• 70% reported improved health and fitness;

• 70% reported improved self esteem;

• 77% reported improved confidence;

• 64% reported reduced social isolation.

"I'm now less isolated, more focused and positive, have made friendships and have a reason to come out of the house."

"Helped [me] get fitter and find time for exercise around having young children. Good for confidence."

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COMMUNITY BUILDING

Our ambition: ensuring physical activity supports communities’ ability to develop, integrate and thrive.

Our impact:

Opening School Facilities (OSF) Fund

The final year of the Opening School Facilities (OSF) programme marked the most impactful phase of our three-year delivery, supporting a further 19 schools, bringing the total to 87 and exceeding our original programme target. This year, we particularly focused on recruiting SEND schools, including alternative provision, and culturally diverse communities, helping ensure the programme reached those most in need of additional support.

A further £1,025,031 was distributed in this final year, a record for us which contributed to our total funding distribution of £2,620,860 across the full programme. This funding enabled schools to open their facilities and deliver targeted inclusive, needs-led physical activity opportunities designed to meet the needs of children, young people and families.

Throughout the year, schools delivered 6,801 extra-curricular sessions, resulting in over 123,000 places taken up by children and young people, the highest participation across all three years, bringing our overall participation total to 176,304.

Our Breaking Down Barriers scheme continued in Year 3, supporting more OSF users to access essential items such as footwear, swimwear, coats, and sports kit to participate in sessions, reducing cost and stigma. An additional 15 schools (bringing the overall total to 34) accessed up to £500 worth of Decathlon vouchers, supporting over 800 children and young people.

"Being in the worst percentile of deprivation in the country, funding like this is sometimes the only way some of our students can keep up with the demands of social groups, allowing them to participate in sports." OSFfunded school

The year culminated in a vibrant Impact Celebration Conference in March 2025, with thanks to sponsorship from the North East Combined Authority, The Education Network and Enrich Education.

"OSF funding has provided our school with renewed ambition to improve our pupils lives through physical activity on their bikes. Many non-riders are now able to ride, and families are also taking opportunities to ride during the weekends or after school." (Denbigh Community Primary School)

"We would like to sincerely thank the OSF programme/Rise for enabling our school to facilitate a wide variety of inclusive daily sessions for children with complex learning difficulties and disabilities at lunchtimes and after the school day over the past three years. Their support is greatly appreciated and has enabled many children with special educational needs and disabilities to engage with physical activity during extra-curricular sessions. Thank you." (Cleaswell Hill School)

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This Girl Can

Women need to have access to opportunities to be physically active in ways that work for them. We developed This Girl Can Newcastle (TGCN) with Newcastle City Council focusing on three underserved groups, to understand the barriers to being physically active:

• Pregnant women and women who have children under one;

• Women aged 55+;

• Women in ethnically diverse communities.

There are two main aims:

• To create a network of VCSE organisations and volunteers who can own and empower appropriate and accessible physical activity opportunities for women and girls across Newcastle;

• To upskill professionals within services relevant to women and girls in the city (for example, family hubs and leisure operators) to be advocates for physical activity through their interactions with women and girls and how they practically support more women and girls to use their community assets and services;

To ensure we create a strong, effective and enduring network to tackle physical inactivity in women and girls, our coordinator has been working with colleagues in the local authority and, leisure, health, VCSE and education sectors to:

• Develop a Theory of Change Model;

• Gather further insight into the barriers to physical activity experienced by women and girls;

• Deliver Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC) training to social prescribers, leisure staff and the VCSE sector;

• Facilitate collaboration between organisations working with women and girls;

• Undertake Ripple Effect Mapping (REM) to capture the collaboration happening across the women and girls network.

Multi-Sports and PlayZones project

Multi-Sport and PlayZones engage with local communities across the country to create outstanding sports and activity spaces and tackle inequalities in participation. There are 15 PlayZones built or planned for our area and we also give advice and guidance in Teesside and Cumbria.

We're implementing and coordinating a test and learn scheme for the activation of Multi-Sports sites, with seven pilot projects across a broad range of Football Foundation and Lawn Tennis Association facilities and communities.

As a leader, advocate and catalyst:

• We give guidance in planning, community engagement and delivery oversight;

• We've co-ordinated the convening of regional PlayZone leads to align strategy, share insight, and strengthen consistency across implementation;

• We regularly contribute to the national group, updating progress reports to inform the national monitoring, evaluation and learning, and represent local issues and concerns.

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Health and wellbeing in the natural environment

Access to nature can improve health and wellbeing and we've developed our relationships to support the green social prescribing agenda in nature, including attending workshops with the Wildlife Trust and Natural England in Ashington and Houghton-Le-Spring.

In addition, we attended a greener health and wellbeing network event at Elemore County Park hosted by Natural England and the Wildlife Trust, and a wellbeing and the environment event organised by Connected Voice.

TACKLING OUR CLIMATE CRISIS

Our ambition: physical activity supporting the drive to reduce the rate of global warming and limit climate change.

Our impact:

Environmental sustainability

As an organisation we have a commitment to make a difference through sustainability and health, setting an example for and supporting organisations and partners on their environmental sustainability journey. We've pledged to half our carbon emissions by 2030 and to help achieve this target, we enrolled in Investors in the Environment Accreditation and in November 2024 we achieved a green award, which is the highest level of accreditation.

We've focused on sustainable travel and participation in national campaigns such as World Environment Day and Plastic Free July. In August 2024 to coincide with the Paris Olympics our staff cycled 584 miles, representing the distance from our North Shields office to the Olympic Velodrome in Paris. The challenge promoted active travel, a key component of our sustainability plan, whilst fostering team engagement and reducing our carbon footprint.

Active travel

Active travel means making journeys in physically active ways such as walking, wheeling, cycling or scootering with the aim of making active travel the natural choice for short journeys. Here are some of the ways we're making this a reality:

• We're part of the Newcastle Sustainable Schools working group, which has been formed to evaluate all the options and interventions for active travel to schools across the city with an aim to provide a more comprehensive and co-ordinated offer;

• We contribute to the Active Travel forum which meets regularly to discuss more general active travel options across Newcastle;

• We attend the Northumberland Cycling, Walking and Wheeling Board and advocate for active travel opportunities;

• We attended a Transport Needs Assessment session organised by South Tyneside Council to consider what is already available and what could be done to improve transport options for all residents within the borough.

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Active travel needs to be inclusive and open to everyone. That's why we've continued to raise the awareness of inclusive cycling needs and inclusive active travel opportunities across the region. We've been working with a network of organisations including Sustrans, Wheels for All, Activity Alliance and North Tyneside Council to support inclusive cycling, including along the major new North Tyneside coastal route where there are plans to look for a suitable hub location. We've also worked with partners in Gateshead and Northumberland on this important agenda.

HEALTHY MINDS FOR HEALTHY LIVES

Our ambition: the role of physical activity in supporting mental wellbeing, as well as physical wellbeing.

Our impact:

Supporting men's mental health in Berwick upon Tweed

Many men in the town face challenges including unemployment, poor health, isolation and poverty. In the last year, our Key Worker supported 28 young men aged (16-30) through their own unique situation, treating each as a person.

• 78% reported improved mental and emotional wellbeing;

• 91% demonstrated reduced risk to violence and anti-social behaviour;

• 91% understood of consequences of substance misuse;

• 70% self-reported increased feelings of safety;

• 87% of families reported less concerns for the individuals since engaging with the programme;

• 57% increased engagement in physical activity.

We employed a Community Development Worker to develop greater opportunities for young people to be more physically active, improve their social opportunities and tackle inequalities. She undertook a consultation with young people living in Berwick that engaged around 350 people to find out directly from them what they need.

Aiming to support participants into paid work, she has facilitated initiatives that can improve skills, confidence, physical activity levels, reduce isolation and provide social opportunities such as employability and wellness courses. To support life skills of young people, she has launched an orienteering challenge, alongside supporting local organisations to start junior darts and musical theatre opportunities.

Safeguarding and sport welfare

We're committed to ensuring that children, young people and adults at risk can take part in physical activity and sport in a safe environment. To reinforce this, we joined the International Safeguards for Children in Sport initiative.

Our sport welfare officers are part of a network funded by Sport England and the National Lottery that support sports clubs and organisations to create safer, more inclusive and welcoming spaces. They collaborate with a wide range of experts and support club welfare and safeguarding officers and volunteers, providing them with training, often focusing on inclusive club development, adopting high safeguarding standards and sharing best practice tips.

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For Keeping Your Child Safe in Sport Week in October we ran a workshop for parents and carers about working together with clubs, and linked with YGam to offer a session on raising awareness of e-gaming and gambling harm in young people. For Safeguarding Adults Week in November, we worked with partners to organise free workshops on drug and alcohol harm, and preventing radicalisation. In March we ran an event focusing on inclusion in sport with over 50 attendees from local sports and community clubs and supported by a wide range of partner organisations.

HARNESSING DATA, DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY

Our ambition: ensuring technological developments are utilised to drive the physical activity agenda forward.

Our impact:

To make sure our work is effective and based on what our communities need, we have a dedicated research and insight team. Working with Rise colleagues and external stakeholders, the team plan and undertake research, insight, monitoring and evaluation to understand needs, support influencing and to identify the impact of investments interventions and partnerships and keep funders updated on our activities and outcomes.

This has included:

• using Social Value Engine software to explore the feasibility of capturing the social value created by specific activities and interventions we deliver;

• creating a new monitoring, evaluation and learning framework to capture the impact of our work in Berwick, that includes use of The Outcomes Star;

• undertaken evaluation of our work in Berwick, our women's wellbeing project in South Tyneside and our early years Step Outdoors programme.

We've loaned activity trackers to three schools as a limited pilot, which has highlighted groups of children who are most and least active in those schools, helping us to see the impact of PE and playtimes on activity levels and identify times of the day and groups of children that are less active. This has fed into our work with the schools and focused our support.

CELEBRATING THE WORK THAT UNDERPINS OUR IMPACT

To help us achieve all this amazing work, so many different vital supporting elements are in place that cut across everything that we do. Here are just some of them.

Supporting our people

As part of our commitment to supporting the wellbeing of our staff and giving them the best chance to thrive, a 4-day working week has now been adopted permanently and embedded.

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Rise Workplace Wellbeing

We were thrilled to launch our Rise Workplace Wellbeing e-learning programme at the end of last year. Designed to support employees' mental, physical, and emotional health, the programme is already making an impact. We're proud to be working with fantastic organisations, including local authorities, education partners, and the NHS — with all income generated reinvested into our charitable work. We are looking forward to continuing our work in this space with businesses and organisations across the North East.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in all our work. Our goal is to have a workforce that thrives but is also representative of the communities we work with and for - so establishing a sense of belonging for our team and our partners.

Governance

Good governance keeps us on track and held to account. We are proud to be compliant with Sport England's Code for Sports Governance at Tier 3, the highest level.

Funding

Thank you to our funders - both new and returning. We're incredibly grateful for your support.

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:

• delivering a variety of specific programmes, including School Games and the Together Fund;

• developing and maintaining networks to enhance the planning, coordination and delivery of physical activity and sport;

• supporting the development of more and better opportunities for inactive communities to become more active;

• coordinating and delivering training courses to help to upskill the frontline workforce to be able to have the confidence and competence to support their beneficiaries to be more physically active; and

• undertaking research and producing insight to identify gaps in provision and enable partners to better utilise physical activity within their offer.

The financial position for the year shows net expenditure of £8,888, including net income on restricted funds of £81,860 (unrestricted net expenditure amounted to £90,748).

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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 £365,000 - £415,000 in free reserves.

The directors have designated £327,000 (2024: £477,000) of reserves to cover:

• Staff redundancy costs of £175,000 should these become necessary on a closure of the charity (2024: £142,000);

• £127,000 ringfenced to cover self-funded roles within the organisation during 2025-26 (2024 deficit budget: £310,000); and

• a contingency budget of £25,000 (2024: £25,000) for consultancy costs, including legal costs, that would be needed should the charity be required to close in the future.

As at 31 March 2025, undesignated reserves, including those being accumulated to be held towards the equivalent of 3 months' operating costs, were £335,706 (not including the fixed assets) . This is a minimum of £29,294 and a maximum of £79,294 short of the target of holding £365,000 - £415,000 for 3 months' operating costs for 2025-2026.

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.

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:

• Budget planning for the next financial year, starting in October,

• Approval of annual budget in May,

• Regular consideration by trustees of financial results and variations from budget,

• Monitoring of performance against the annual plan,

• Delegation of authority and separation of duties.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

FUTURE PLANS

Looking forward to 2025-2026 there are significant changes for Rise that will change the way that we operate but are designed to improve our ability to deliver our charitable objects.

Of key strategic significance for 2025-2026 is the transfer of the staff and assets from County Durham Sport into Rise. This grows the geographical coverage of Rise to incorporate all seven of the local authorities that form part of the new North East Combined Authority. Following the transfer, we will need to spend time understanding the new geography and building relationships with new partners and stakeholders. We will also need to review how the charity is structured, and make changes as necessary, in order to ensure that we are delivering in an efficient and effective manner.

During the year, we will also refresh our Rise Together 2021-2031 strategy. The original strategy was heavily influenced by Covid and did not factor in the transfer of a neighbouring active partnership into Rise, meaning that this year is a good time to revisit the strategy and update it where necessary to ensure that it is fit for purpose for the duration of its term. A refreshed strategy will also lead on to an updated Implementation Plan for the remaining duration of our current Sport England system partner funding period (i.e. through to March 2027).

From an operational perspective, the following areas will be significant during the forthcoming year:

• Sport England place-based investment continues to provide significant opportunities to develop placebased working in more parts of our region. We anticipate that a further three local authority areas will become eligible for funding, joining Gateshead and South Tyneside who came on stream in 2024-2025. In addition, those LA areas that do not receive place expansion investment will also become eligible for Sport England's Place Universal Offer during the year.

• Following a first year of operation for the new North East Combined Authority, which provided us with various opportunities to work in schools and early years settings, we anticipate that further opportunities to work with the Combined Authority in the children and young people’s space will become live. This will sit alongside opportunities to:

• support youth voice work in partnership with the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board; and

• understand the new approach from Government to school sport and physical activity and ensure that this is delivered in a way that supports the needs of inactive children and young people in particular.

• Following the launch of our Workplace Wellbeing offer in late 2024, the promotion and development of this offer will continue in 2025-2026 as a key vehicle through which we seek to diversify our income streams.

• Our offer of support for grassroots sports clubs and organisations will grow during the year, with support for environmental sustainability now offered in addition to our existing safeguarding and welfare support. For groups and sports in certain situations, we will also be able to open up opportunities to apply for revenue funding to activate facilities that have previously received capital funding from the Football Foundation.

• Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion continues, with our inaugural DIAP (Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan) from 2024-2025 setting us up well to continue into a new DIAP for the year.

• With significant changes taking place in the health landscape, and with the launch of the NHS Ten Year Plan forecast for this coming year, we will continue to engage with partners and stakeholders to support the integration of physical activity into both prevention and treatment pathways.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

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.

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:

• The roles and responsibilities of the trustees

• The main documents relating to the organisation, including the Articles of Association

• Financial and strategic plans and projections

• Information about specific programmes and projects

• Trustee Code of Conduct

• Conflicts of interest

• Fit and Proper Person Declaration

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.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

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. Under that law, the trustees have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law).

Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they 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

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;

• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in business.

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:

• there is no relevant audit information of which the charitable company's auditors are unaware; and

• the trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the auditors are aware of that information.

AUDITORS

In accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006, a resolution for the re-appointment of BK Plus Audit Limited as auditors of the charity is to be proposed at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 26 November 2025 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 2025 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:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the charitable company's affairs as at 31 March 2025 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

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:

• the information given in the Report of the Trustees for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

• the Report of the Trustees has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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:

• adequate accounting records have not been kept or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

• the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• certain disclosures of trustees' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or

• the trustees were not entitled to take advantage of the small companies exemption from the requirement to prepare a Strategic Report or in preparing the Report of the Trustees.

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:

• enquiry of management around actual and potential litigation and claims;

• reviewing minutes of meetings of those charged with governance;

• reviewing financial statement disclosures and testing to supporting documentation to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations;

• auditing the risk of management override of controls, including through testing journal entries and other adjustments for appropriateness, and evaluating the business rationale of significant transactions outside the normal course of business;

• challenging assumptions and judgements made by management in their significant accounting estimates.

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.

Colin Chater FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of BK Plus Audit Limited

Chartered Certified Accountants and Statutory Auditors Azzurri House Walsall Road Aldridge Walsall WS9 0RB

26 November 2025

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCORPORATING AN INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

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 £ 229 - 18,249 27,770 46,248 146,151 (99,903) 9,155 (90,748) 771,487 680,739	Restricted funds £ 394,200 1,347,606 3,250 - 1,745,056 1,654,041 91,015 (9,155) 81,860 304,361 386,221	2025 Total funds £ 394,429 1,347,606 21,499 27,770 1,791,304 1,800,192 (8,888) - (8,888) 1,075,848 1,066,960	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

The notes form part of these financial statements

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BALANCE SHEET 31 MARCH 2025

Notes FIXED ASSETS Tangible assets 13 CURRENT ASSETS Debtors 14 Cash at bank CREDITORS Amounts falling due within one year 15 NET CURRENT ASSETS TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES NET ASSETS FUNDS 18 Unrestricted funds Restricted funds TOTAL FUNDS	2025 £ 18,033 112,091 1,122,643 1,234,734 (185,807) 1,048,927 1,066,960 1,066,960 680,739 386,221 1,066,960	2024 £ 14,892 125,335 1,059,927 1,185,262 (124,306) 1,060,956 1,075,848 1,075,848 771,487 304,361 1,075,848

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 26 November 2025 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 2025

Notes Cash flows from operating activities Cash generated from operations 20 Net cash provided by/(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	2025 £ 44,098 44,098 (9,152) - 27,770 18,618 62,716 1,059,927 1,122,643	2024 £ (177,656) (177,656) (4,706) (3) 28,735 24,026 (153,630) 1,213,557 1,059,927

The notes form part of these financial statements

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025

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

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:

• the donor specifies that the grant or donation must only be used in future accounting period

• • periods; or

• the donor has imposed conditions which must be met before the charity has unconditional

• • entitlement.

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.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

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 Computer equipment 33% reducing balance

Impairment of fixed assets

A review for indicators of impairment is carried out at each reporting date, with the 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 in 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 at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued

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.

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	2025 £ 229 394,200 394,429 2025 £ 13,456 8,043 21,499 2025 £ 27,770 2025 £ 1,347,606	2024 £ 197 243,629 243,826 2024 £ 4,891 4,852 9,743 2024 £ 28,735 2024 £ 1,111,980

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6. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS

Direct Costs £ Charitable Activities 1,790,101 7. SUPPORT COSTS Other £ Charitable Activities 6,011 8. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting): Auditor's remuneration Depreciation - owned assets Deficit on disposal of fixed assets	Support costs (see note 7) £ 10,091 Governance costs £ 4,080 2025 £ 4,080 5,454 557	Totals £ 1,800,192	Totals £ 1,800,192	Totals £ 1,800,192
			Totals £ 10,091
				2024 £ 3,840 4,827 2,097

9. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024.

Trustees' expenses

There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024.

10. STAFF COSTS

Wages and salaries Social security costs Other pension costs	2025 £ 1,019,768 91,719 86,781 1,198,268	2024 £ 852,395 80,860 75,162
		1,008,417

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10. STAFF COSTS - continued

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

Management and administration Charitable activities	2025 10 21 31	2024 9 17
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The number of employees whose employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) exceeded £60,000 was:

£70,001 - £80,000	2025 1	2024 1

The total employee benefits of the charity's key management personnel amounted to £286,466 (2024 - £267,891).

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11. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES Unrestricted Restricted funds funds £ £ INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donations and legacies 197 243,629 Charitable activities Charitable Activities - 1,111,980 Other trading activities 7,866 1,877 Investment income 28,735 - Total 36,798 1,357,486 EXPENDITURE ON Charitable activities Charitable Activities 122,935 1,419,156 NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) (86,137) (61,670) Transfers between funds 4,706 (4,706) Net movement in funds (81,431) (66,376) RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward 852,918 370,737 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 771,487 304,361

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

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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/tutor 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 £ 1,347,606 1,347,606 891,814 7,097 10,313 28,747 24,571 12,240 11,242 93,654 28,355 67,452 23,433 6,039 - 1,204,957	Other Grants £ 395,550 395,550 219,491 16,886 17,710 24,802 21,445 3,108 378 8,043 264 110,349 482 1,770 25,008 449,736	Total £ 1,743,156 1,743,156 1,111,305 23,983 28,023 53,549 46,016 15,348 11,620 101,697 28,619 177,801 23,915 7,809 25,008 1,654,693

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13. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

COST At 1 April 2024 Additions Disposals At 31 March 2025 DEPRECIATION At 1 April 2024 Charge for year Eliminated on disposal At 31 March 2025 NET BOOK VALUE At 31 March 2025 At 31 March 2024 14. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR Trade debtors Accrued income Prepaid expenses	2025 £ 23,381 55,079 33,631 112,091	Furniture and equipment £ 53,984 9,152 (10,201) 52,935 39,092 5,454 (9,644) 34,902 18,033 14,892 2024 £ 40,991 41,576 42,768 125,335

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15. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
Trade creditors Social security and other taxes VAT Other creditors Deferred income Accrued expenses Deferred income at 1 April 2024 Released to incoming resources Amount deferred in year Deferred income at 31 March 2025	2025 £ 66,362 24,167 5,252 1,957 81,500 6,569 185,807		2024 £ 68,313 - 2,754 - 45,701 7,538 124,306 £ 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	2025 £ 7,680	2024 £ 7,680

17. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

Fixed assets Current assets Current liabilities	Unrestricted funds £ 18,033 767,013 (104,307) 680,739	Restricted funds £ - 467,721 (81,500) 386,221	2025 Total funds £ 18,033 1,234,734 (185,807) 1,066,960	2024 Total funds £ 14,892 1,185,262 (124,306) 1,075,848

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

Unrestricted funds General fund Self-funded roles and budget deficits Redundancy Fund Contingency Restricted funds SE Systemic Role SE Delivery Role Access to Schools Royal Foundation - Coach Core Disability Tennis Network Together Fund NHS - CNTW Police and Crime Commissioner - Phase 2 SE Multi-Sports Playzone Project Awards for All - Berwick Sunderland CC Active Start Safeguarding Project - National Network Community Foundation - South Shields Community Foundation - Berwick Dev Worker Community Foundation - Waiting Well (3 LAs) Health Integration / Social Prescribing Extension Multi Sport Activation Fund Bernicia - Berwick Dev Worker LNER This Girl Can Newcastle NECA NoT Poverty Reduction Place Based - Gateshead Place Based - South Tyneside TOTAL FUNDS	At 1/4/24 £ 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	Net movement in funds £ (99,903) - - - (99,903) (66,646) 2,646 (8,003) 150 (10,248) 1,400 (36,416) (4,110) 795 (10,000) (940) 17,746 (6,391) (7,738) 4,272 (10,367) 50,640 1,294 1,200 10,681 14,741 59,235 87,074 91,015 (8,888)	Transfers between funds £ 159,155 (183,000) 33,000 - 9,155 (6,509) (2,646) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (9,155) -	At 31/3/25 £ 353,739 127,000 175,000 25,000 680,739 90,146 - - - - 1,400 - - 12,967 - - 52,571 - - 4,272 - 50,640 1,294 1,200 10,681 14,741 59,235 87,074 386,221 1,066,960

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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 Disability Tennis Network Health Integration Together Fund NHS - CNTW Police and Crime Commissioner - Phase 2 SE Multi-Sports Playzone Project PE & School Sport Alliance Awards for All - Berwick Sir James Knott - Berwick Post Sunderland CC Active Start Safeguarding Project - National Network Community Foundation - South Shields Community Foundation - Berwick Dev Worker Community Foundation - Waiting Well (3 LAs) RW Mann - Step Outdoors NoT Health Integration / Social Prescribing Extension Path 2 Paris UKSPF - South Tyneside Multi Sport Activation Fund Hadrian Trust - Berwick Dev Worker Alpkit Foundation - Step Outdoors Hospital of God - Berwick Dev Worker NENC Core20 - Early Years Bernicia - Berwick Dev Worker LNER This Girl Can Newcastle North Tyneside VODA - UKSPF CYP NECA NoT Poverty Reduction Place Based - Gateshead Place Based - South Tyneside TOTAL FUNDS	Incoming resources £ 46,248 793,475 105,000 76,661 17,621 29,600 - 500 1,400 - 28,000 20,209 1,350 - 5,000 - 109,849 - - 13,672 1,000 5,314 11,500 126,619 77,000 1,500 200 2,320 9,943 9,386 14,461 45,374 9,967 36,750 80,693 110,692 1,745,056 1,791,304	Resources expended £ (146,151) (860,121) (102,354) (84,664) (17,621) (29,450) (10,248) (500) - (36,416) (32,110) (19,414) (1,350) (10,000) (5,000) (940) (92,103) (6,391) (7,738) (9,400) (1,000) (15,681) (11,500) (126,619) (26,360) (1,500) (200) (2,320) (9,943) (8,092) (13,261) (34,693) (9,967) (22,009) (21,458) (23,618) (1,654,041) (1,800,192)	Movement in funds £ (99,903) (66,646) 2,646 (8,003) - 150 (10,248) - 1,400 (36,416) (4,110) 795 - (10,000) - (940) 17,746 (6,391) (7,738) 4,272 - (10,367) - - 50,640 - - - - 1,294 1,200 10,681 - 14,741 59,235 87,074 91,015 (8,888)

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Comparatives for movement in funds

Unrestricted funds General fund Self-funded roles and budget deficits 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 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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Comparative 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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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 - Community Football & Multi-Sports Capacity (programme started pre-April 2024)

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 - Thriving Communities (programme started pre-April 2024)

Through the Thriving Communities Fund we are working 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 (programme started pre-April 2024)

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 and local sports clubs and delivery organisations, promoting good practice and safe sport at a local level, and helping to create safer environments for participants.

Sport England - Football Multi-Sport Activation Fund

This funding is provided by Sport England and aims to help activate eligible local facilities, providing support to help local groups to access new and improved facilities. The fund aims to increase physical activity levels and has a particular focus on culturally diverse communities, those from lower socioeconomic groups, women and girls, and those with a disability or long-term health condition.

Sport England - This Girl Can Newcastle

Funding provided by Sport England to deliver a revamped This Girl Can Newcastle programme, supporting women and girls facing barriers to being physically active across the city. The work involves helping to create a network of VCSE organisations and volunteers who can empower women and girls to access physical activity opportunities, and upskilling professionals and operators to be advocates for physical activity.

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Sport England - Place Expansion Gateshead & South Tyneside

This is part of Sport England's significant national investment into place-based work, focusing upon the places that have the greatest need. The funding will enable us to work with key local partners in Gateshead and South Tyneside to develop a deeper understanding of the places, their audiences, the barriers and enablers to residents being active, to better understand community needs and develop stronger relationships with key local stakeholders to increase physical activity levels.

Active Partnership Network DfE - Opening School Facilities (OSF) Capacity Funding (programme started pre-April 2024)

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.

British Olympic Foundation

This funding is provided by the British Olympic Foundation to run the 'Path to Paris' programme, which aims to inspire and influence schools, families and local communities to get moving by virtually travelling to Paris (linked to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games).

Youth Sport Trust - Education Alliance

Funding provided from the Youth Sport Trust for us to plan, organise and deliver a Secondary School PE Conference in partnership with the Tyne & Wear and Northumberland Education Alliance.

North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NENC ICB) Core 20 Plus 5

This project builds on a previous pilot and aims to address concerns around school readiness. The project involves providing equipment and training to schools, nurseries and wider organisations that serve high proportions of disadvantaged 0-5 year olds so that the practitioners can increase physical activity levels, address health inequalities and improve early development and school readiness.

Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust (Underspend) (programme started pre-April 2024)

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.

North East Combined Authority (NECA)

Funding provided by NECA to support their aspirations focused on reducing and preventing child poverty. The project we have been funded for focuses on providing early intervention for vulnerable children aged 2-11 years old to improve physical and mental wellbeing, in addition to seeking to change school culture to embrace physical activity, play, movement and wider emotional health and wellbeing. It includes bespoke school visits, the development of bespoke action plans to facilitate change, Step Outdoors sessions for parents and carers, and training and resources for practitioners to support them to embed physical movement in the early years for child development.

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South Tyneside Council - UKSPF (programme started pre-April 2024)

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.

North Tyneside Council - UKSPF

Funding provided by North Tyneside Council through the UK Shared Prosperity programme to deliver a project co-designed with families which supports their and their children's needs. The project involves the delivery of physical activities to develop motor skills, encourage social interactions, improve physical and mental health, as well as connecting children with their local environment.

Sunderland City Council - Active Start (Underspend) (programme started pre-April 2024) 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.

County Durham Sport - Infrastructure & Environment (programme started pre-April 2024) 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.

Coach Core (programme started pre-April 2024)

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 across Northumberland and Tyne & Wear, which will enhance the local coaching offer and provide the apprentices with valuable training and experiences.

Lawn Tennis Association - Disability Tennis Network (Underspend) (programme started preApril 2024)

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 2024)

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.

Awards for All - Berwick-upon-Tweed (Underspend)

Funding to help employ a 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 (programme started pre-April 2024)

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.

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Bernicia - Berwick-upon-Tweed (programme started pre-April 2024)

Funding to help employ a 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 (programme started pre-April 2024)

Funding to help employ a 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.

Hadrian Trust

This funding provided by the Hadrian Trust is to support our project in Berwick-upon-Tweed which focuses on improving the wellbeing of vulnerable young people in the town.

Community Foundation - Berwick-upon-Tweed (Underspend) (programme started pre-April 2024)

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 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 (Underspend) (programme started pre-April 2024) 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.

Community Foundation - Waiting Well

Funding to run an Every Move Matters health and wellbeing programme in Newcastle, Gateshead and South Tyneside for people referred from the NHS Waiting Well Preparing Well Programme.

London North Eastern Railway (LNER)

Funding provided by LNER to run a programme focused on interventions and activities to improve the physical and mental health of young people in Berwick-upon-Tweed, including raising their aspirations, building life skills and improving employability support.

R W Mann Trust

Funding provided to support our Step Outdoors project in North Tyneside, a project which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of disadvantaged young children and their families by increasing activity levels outdoors.

Alpkit Foundation

This funding from the Alpkit Foundation is to support our Step Outdoors project, which engages children and families from deprived areas in an outdoor learning programme to build confidence, independence and physical and mental wellbeing.

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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 £10,000 with the school. At the balance sheet date the amount due to John Spence Community High School was £nil (2024 - £2,420).

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 £47,944 with these organisations. At the balance sheet date the amount due was £nil (2023 - £nil).

20. RECONCILIATION OF NET EXPENDITURE TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Net expenditure for the reporting period (as per the Statement of Financial Activities) Adjustments for: Depreciation charges Loss on disposal of fixed assets Interest received Decrease/(increase) in debtors Increase/(decrease) in creditors Net cash provided by/(used in) operations	2025 £ (8,888) 5,454 557 (27,770) 13,244 61,501 44,098	2024 £ (147,807) 4,827 2,097 (28,735) (5,789) (2,249) (177,656)

21. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS

Net cash Cash at bank Total	At 1/4/24 £ 1,059,927 1,059,927 1,059,927	Cash flow £ 62,716 62,716 62,716	At 31/3/25 £ 1,122,643
			1,122,643
			1,122,643

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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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