## **Registered Charity Number 1141235** ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNT YEAR ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2021 ## CONTENTS PAGE Legal and Administrative Information Trustees Report Independent Examiners Report Financial Review Review of year event Chairman’s Statement ## Legal and Administrative Information CONTACT DETAILS Full name of the charity: **THAI BOXING COMMUNITY CENTRE(TBCC)** Address: **UNIT 4, 44a GLOUCESTER ROAD, CROYDON SURREY CR0 2DA** Telephone: **07552162638** ## ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION **TRUSTEES** serving during the year period Chair **Mr Siddiqui Shahzad** Secretary **Mr Mark Jones** Treasurer **Mrs Yvonne Nankani** ## **BANKERS:** LloydsTSB 125 Balham High Rd London, SW12 9AT ## **ACCOUNTANT** Andrew Hardy 80 West Hill, Crystal Palace, London, SE19 1BS ## TRUSTEES' REPORT - YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2021 The Trustees present their Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2021 ## **Status and administration** Thai Boxing Community Centre is a registered charity, number1141235 ## **Structure, Governance and Management Governing Document** The governing document is the Constitution adopted on 1st June 2020 ## **Appointment of New Trustees** New appointed Trustees are elected by the charity members at the annual general meeting. The Management team has the additional option of coopting three additional members. Training and support, familiarity of the Charity, context of its operation, operational framework, question, and answer pack for new trustees ## **Risk Management** The Management Team at Thai Boxing Community Centre constantly monitor and review the major practical and financial risks. A 5 _-year_ business plan in place to ensure that our objectives are achievable. ## Mission Statement: We are now living in a time where we are seeing the level of criminal activities and general public disorder in our streets and neighbourhood, perpetrated by young people, escalate to epidemic levels. Some of the key contributing factors are drug/alcohol related, unemployment, inadequate affordable community facilities for young people, truancy leading to poor education, mental illness, low socio-economic background, the breakdown of family dynamics, behavioural problems to mention a few. The list is exhaustive. There is also the other perspective of health issues as mentioned previously mental illness but also obesity is on the increase in children/young people due to the more sedentary lifestyle influenced by technology. We believe everything we are encountering in society at large is primarily due to choices, poor choices which is depicted by our environment and lack of opportunities, whether perceived or actual. These factors fashion one’s mindset which translates out in behavioural responses. Thai Boxing Community Centre strongly believe that this self-destructive mindset/behaviour can be changed. We believe that every young person can, when given the opportunity, in a place of acceptance, with guidance, support and encouragement can aspire and achieve remarkable things. We believe every person counts. ## **OBJECTIVES OF TBCC:** To advance in life and help young people through: - The provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life - Providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities, and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals ## **STRATEGIES IMPLEMENTED TO ACHIEVE ITS OBJECTIVES:** ## **This Strategic Plan is intended to: -** Set long-term objectives and short-term goals for the organisation. Provide the Management Team with a longer-term framework within which to plan, at the corporate level, those programmes that contribute to the TBCC’s aims and objectives. Provide the TBCC committees and subgroups with strategic guidance and longerterm plans within which to organise their activities. Give the Executive Committee a benchmark against which to monitor progress and performance of programmes. Day to day management and implementation of the strategic plan is the task of the Management Team. The core planned activities of the organisation continues whilst the continual building of partnership with new and existing groups are developed. ## **Financial review Reserves policy** The Trustees intend to accrue financial sustainability with a view to building up reserves equivalent to at least six months operating expenditure. ## **Financial position** The total income and expenses for the year as detailed in the accounts. ## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities** Charity law requires Trustees to prepare Financial Statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the situation of the Trust and of the Statement of Financial Activities for that period. In preparing those Financial Statements the Trustees are required to: - select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently - make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent - state whether policies are in accordance with the applicable accounting standards - prepare the Financial Statements of a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to Presume that the Charity will continue in operation. The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Trust and to enable them to ensure that the Financial Statements comply with the Charities Act 1993. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. 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Corn S•etlon B Stst•m•nt""of ••••l• Ind H•bllltl•• •t:.th• •nd.of..th•'p•rf0dw￿ *•ir Z•F iyirrtl ## **ACTIVITIES OF THAI BOXING COMMUNITY CENTRE** This year the world has been impacted by a Global Pandemic which has seen a colossal loss to human life and to the economy worldwide. The Covid pandemic has changed our lives immensely. This year has been an exceedingly difficult year for all, many have lost loved ones, others faced a long recovery after having covid related illness and survived. Some due to loss of income struggle to meet basic needs to live e.g., buying food, pay bills etc. We have seen mental health problems rocketed to phenomenally high numbers. This pandemic sent us in a new and very isolated way of living and a great deal of uncertainty for the future. This we saw had quite devastating negative effects on some but for others it was an opportunity to propel them into new creative and innovative ways of now working and providing a service. We saw the negative impact of lockdown, social distance, and isolation. A vital aspect of human survival, for our well- being, physical and mental health is to socially engage with others. Now we are forced into this abnormal way of living in order to survive. We as an organisation recognised that we had to look at new ways to reach out to the community and deliver our service. We initially delivered sessions online and in the local park when unable to gather indoors. When lockdown was gradually lifted and we were allowed to gather with restricted numbers, TBCC reopened gradually. The required Covid safety measures stipulated in the Government guidelines were implemented to maintain the safety of both the public and staff. During this bleak time, we were fortunate to secure funding via various Funders and the Local Council to assist us to continue to operate. Members of the community also generously donated to the centre. Before talking about the activities that we manage to deliver throughout the pandemic, we would like to acknowledge all who contributed to the continual operation of our service, to whom we are extremely grateful and want to thank for the support made to TBCC keeping it alive. We say thank you to: - Sport England - Big Lottery/Award For All - Jack Petchey Foundation - Advice Support Knowledge Information (A.S.K.I.) Charity - Place At My Table Charity - Local Giving - Crowd Funder - Croydon Voluntary Action - Neighbourly Community Fund - Donations ## ONLINE THAI BOXING AND FITNESS SESSIONS One of the first activities we provided was to reach out to our service users, their families, and the local community, offering free online fitness and thai boxing sessions to help keep everyone active. The response initially was slow because this was quite alien to many, but we did have a steady number of people who engaged regularly. Some people found it hard to motivate themselves to attend session because they preferred to have face to face interaction. Also, during this time, a self-defence class was created for girls and their mothers in response to an incident in which a young girl was attacked on her way to school in the community. This was to help equip young girls and ladies to have some degree of knowledge in how to protect themselves when travelling. The course was also online. This went well. ## SPORT ENGLAND FUNDING We were fortunate to receive two separate fundings from Sport England throughout the year to be use as follows: - £7000 to help cover the rent expenditure during this period when income was affected by the lockdown. - £3840 to commence Return To Play Initiative – Fight To Survive project The Return To Play Initiative by Sport England was to aid sport centres/facilities in providing opportunities for communities to re–engage in physical fitness activities again. The project we delivered is called Fight To Survive. The aim is to deliver one hour exercise sessions once or twice a week over a 6month period. To deliver safely and adhere to the government rules of restricted numbers indoor, we catered for three groups. These groups are mothers and daughters which took place twice a week, fathers and sons took place once a week and young men ages 13 to 17 years took place once a week. This project successfully achieved its target. We had good response with the mothers and daughters’ group and the young men especially. ""•• NEIGHBOURLY COMMUNITY FUND Funding was received from the Neighbourly Community Fund to give support with running cost. This was used to contribute towards operational cost. ## CROWDFUNDER -AVIVA A total of £976 was received from Crowdfunder and was used to fund a project Stay Active Stay Positive. This project was a mixture of thai boxing sessions and fitness exercise delivered to mothers and daughters. This was accessed online initially when in lockdown phase but once lifted it was delivered face to face indoors. The project ran for 17weeks in total. A portion of the funding was allocated to general operational cost, £544.47 was used to contribute to the rent. ## LOCAL GIVING- CORONA VIRUS FUND We received two payments from Local Giving to deliver online sessions. These catered for range of different sessions targeting diverse groups. The first payment of £500 covered instructor costs for: Six sessions of Thai Fitness for 18 years and over Eight sessions of fitness for ladies only over 25 years Six sessions of general fitness for all. All sessions were one hour per week. The second payment was £543.24. This payment enabled us to continue running the online sessions already started but also add a few more classes. We were able to start Ladies only 18 to 25 years, Mothers and Daughter online, Fathers and Sons Children sessions in categories 6 to12 years, 13 to 17 years, and 18 to 25 years ## JACK PETCHEY FOUNDATION AWARD This is our consistent yearly funder who release funds to us three times per year a total of £750. This is used to run the scheme of celebrating and cheering our young people on their continual achievement. The winners can choose how to spend their award of £250 on anything of their choice. This year they chose to spend on equipment. ## CROYDON VOLUNTARY ACTION Collaboration with CVA our local council voluntary support organisation, helped us to deliver more activities to the community. We had the privilege of working in conjunction with them on the This Girl Can Campaign run by Sport England to get more woman engaging in sport or some sort of activity especially during the pandemic. We delivered hourly sessions once a week for 10weeks. We provided online Thai boxing sessions targeting 10 to15 women. A total of £700 was received from CVA to fund this project. ## ADVICE SUPPORT KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION (A.S.K.I.) & PLACE AT MY TABLE These are two charities, in the local area, who have both supported the continual work of TBCC. They have both made contributions. The total amount received from A.S.K.I. is £1975 and from Place At My Table is £900 making a grand total of £2875. The monies were used to help with the operational cost and payment for instructor running youth sessions. ## AWARD FOR ALL A sum of £10,000 was received from Award For All on 26[th] March 2021 to fund the running of the project Changing Lives Through Muay-Thai. This project is due to commence 1st April 2021. The project will target working with disadvantaged young people from the BAME community. The sessions will be free Thai Boxing sessions Monday to Saturday for one hour. ## BOUNCE BACK LOAN In view of the challenges and uncertainty of the future and the government incentives offered to charities and businesses to give loans to maintain operational support. A total of £20,000 has been secured. ## **CHAIR’S GENERAL STATEMENT** We recognised that the Covid Pandemic impacted the whole community at large and therefore saw the necessity to provide support for all ages and not just for young people. We are proud to say we were able to work together with other community agents to give our community members both young and old the opportunity, throughout the pandemic, to stay physically and mentally healthy, as much as possible, by engaging in the projects we were able to provide. These activities we were able to deliver throughout the year seamlessly, because of the overlapping of the various funding received and the amazing donations. This aided the participants to engage for extended periods beneficial for better health outcomes and positive mental state. This was successfully accomplished overall. I would like to thank all the funding agencies who supported TBCC to enable it to provide a valuable service to the community The work at TBCC could not happen without the amazing team who faithfully and tirelessly committed their time and efforts and adapted as needed to ensure an excellent service was delivered and everyone was kept safe. A team that TBCC is proud of. A big thank you to you all. We have made it through this very unusual challenging time, let us look forward to facing another year growing from strength to strength.