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2024-03-31-accounts

SAFE! SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CRIME LIMITED

ANNUAL REPORT AND AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

Charity Number 1143532

Company Number 07630170

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INDEX

Page
General Information 3
Trustees’ Report 4
Trustees Responsibilities 13
Audit Report 14
Statement of Financial Activities 18
Balance Sheet 19
Statement of Cash Flows 20
Comparative Statement of Financial Activities 21
Notes to the Accounts 22

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Charity number 1143532
Company Number 07630170
Principal & registered office address Basement Office
Premier Place
190-196 Garsington Road
Oxford
OX4 6FG
Trustees Sarah Breton
Charlotte Buckingham
Simon Clements (Vice Chair until 15 November 2023, then
Chair)
Karen Cushing
Sue Davie (Treasurer)
Ray Hipkin
Elizabeth Jones (Chair to 15 November 2023)
Tracey Lawrence
Jay Smith
Nadia Wager
Michael Watkinson
Chief Executive Chloe Purcell
Auditors Caroline Webster FCA
UHY Ross Brooke
Windrush Court
Suite I
Abingdon Business Park
Abingdon
OX14 1SY
Bankers The Co-operative Bank
P.O. Box 250,
Delf House,
Southway,
Skelmersdale
WN8 6WT

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2024

The Trustees present their report together with the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024.

Objectives and Activities

Vision and Strategy

SAFE! was established in 2008 from a recognition that experiencing a crime can have an enormous impact, and a concern that it can be especially devastating for children and young adults, who may struggle to cope and recover without appropriate support. Our Vision is clear – ‘ for children and young people to feel safe, thrive and achieve their potential’.

We seek to achieve our vision through the provision of quality and meaningful interventions for children and their families across the Thames Valley. SAFE! provides open access, inclusive, and free services for young people and families affected by crime, helping them overcome the effects of what has happened to them and regain their quality of life. SAFE! practitioners offer a range of pragmatic strategies based upon protective behaviours and restorative approaches that are designed to increase confidence, build resilience and improve future safety. By listening attentively and putting their needs at the heart of the process, SAFE! empowers young people, giving them a voice and helping them and those around them to build protective communities where they can feel safe.

Working proactively with a wide range of partner agencies, SAFE! promotes the rights of young people, parents and families affected by crime, and by disseminating best practice guidance and resources the charity encourages any adult to feel confident in supporting a young person they know through hard times. With the rise in sexual abuse, domestic violence and internet crime the world can be a scary place, and SAFE!’s unique, innovative and compassionate service seeks to help young people live happy and adventurous lives.

Values

All our work is underpinned by our core values. SAFE!...

SAFE! continues to review and reflect on these values to ensure that they remain a clear focus for the services offered to children and their families. Biennial away days with both staff and trustees help to support this process.

Impact and Evaluation

To ensure our work is making a difference and supporting the achievement of our vision, we evaluate the impact of our work with every child and family. The people we exist for help to shape our work and their feedback helps to ensure we always strive to improve our approach and continue to make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2024 (continued)

Achievements and Performance

Our Service Activity

The Young Victim Service

This was the final year of our second contract with Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner for the provision of services for Young Victims of Crime and generally saw consolidation of the locality system and consistent provision of services across the region.

YVS’s standard offer to young people is for professionally trained project workers and senior practitioners meeting young people either remotely online or on the phone, or in person at home or school, and offering up to six or twelve individually tailored support sessions. This support is based primarily on Protective Behaviours and Restorative Approaches and is designed to support young people to feel safer and more confident, and to help them develop resilience so that they can thrive and return to a happy childhood, adolescence and young adulthood.

The locality structure enables SAFE! to ensure that all those accepted into the service have appropriate needs to be addressed by the support on offer. In total the service received 1014 new referrals, and 965 of these were accepted into service following the triage process. During the year the Young Victim Service was in contact with 1,570 children and families.

Work took place to re-design the service offer in line with the specification for the new contracts being re-tendered by the OPCC. Over the summer and autumn we worked to prepare a robust tender and found out that we had been successful in December. A new 3-year contract for services for young people victimised by crime started in April 2024, so the last part of the financial year saw significant mobilisation for this work.

Specialist Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Services

With additional funding from the Ministry of Justice, via the OPCC, we were able to appoint a 4[th] Children’s Independent and Sexual Violence Advocate (ChIDSVA) to support children and families in Milton Keynes where we were seeing particularly high demand. This meant we now have 4 ChIDSVAs working across the region. These roles work alongside the Young Victim Service providing specialist support to children and families going through a criminal justice process following an experience of sexual harm or domestic abuse. Support can range from helping a young person to report or liaise with the police, through to understanding what the court process will entail, and supporting with understanding decision making and getting onward support. Across the year over 280 children and young people were supported by the ChIDSVA service.

Funding also continued for the specialist domestic and sexual violence project workers who support children following such an experience, both one to one and in groups. We continued to deliver DAY programme groups, focusing on healthy relationships and domestic abuse awareness, running six distinct sessions across the year in a mix of online and in-person.

During the year SAFE! was approached by A2Dominion to work in partnership with their Oxfordshire Domestic Abuse Service and to deliver specialist support for children living in refuges in the county. From the autumn 2023 SAFE! began running weekly SafeSpace groups in refuges in Banbury and Oxford City, providing protective behaviours and creative groups for all 9 child residents.

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2024 (continued)

Buckinghamshire County Council agreed to extend funding for the SASH Bucks partnership where SAFE! works together with Sexual Abuse and Assault Support Service for Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes (SAASS BMK) to run a specialist service for Bucks children and families affected by domestic abuse combining SAFE!’s practical and emotional support offer with AVMKSAASS’s therapeutic counselling offer in one holistic service. Over the course of the year 150 children benefitted from 121 sessions, across project work, counselling and ChIDSVA support. Parents and carers were also offered support in their own right by the dedicated Parent Support Worker. The service is currently funded until September 2025.

Building Respectful Families

At the beginning of this financial year we had just ended grant funded periods from Children in Need and the National Lottery. We had a new lottery grant starting in July and had been able to negotiate use of underspend, alongside a grant from the Quilter Foundation, to bridge the gap in funding until the new grant started.

BRF is SAFE!’s service that focuses on supporting families experiencing Child and Adolescent on Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA). CAPVA includes behaviour used by a young person to control, dominate or coerce parents. BRF supports families experiencing CAPVA to break behaviour patterns such as physical violence to parents, damage in the home and an imbalance of power. Working with both parents/carers and young people who are willing to make changes, it aims to help families communicate and equip them to build stronger relationships.

The new grant from the National Lottery was a smaller annual contribution, but extending for 3 years, and with a greater focus on professional consultation and training than previously. In addition to the lottery funding we were able to secure grant funding from the Masonic Foundation for three years. This funding specifically sought to build capacity for sessional practitioner time, and to support BRF to run an annual family activity day. BRF also continued to be funded by NHS England, via Forensic CAMHS, to host a Neurodiversity specialist post to work with families specifically with a young person with a diagnosis, or suspected diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental condition, also experiencing CAPVA.

Time was spent re-designing the service offer and introducing new levels of service to include information, advice and guidance to families and professionals. Despite the reduction in funding, in the financial year the service was able to provide support to 210 families experiencing CAPVA, with individual and/or group support with 57 children benefitting from individual 121 sessions, 52 parents/caregivers attending a group and 165 parents/caregivers receiving support 121.

Parent & Carer Support Work

This year we have continued to develop our work with parents and carers across all services. With a dedicated coordinator for parent and caregiver support work, we have been able to embed and extend this crucial element of support. We have been grateful to the Southall Trust for their continued funding over this financial year, as well as a contribution from the young victim service contract in order to extend the work. We continued to deliver support for parents/carers both through an online caregivers support group, as an add-on to the Young Victim Service. This six week course, delivered entirely online, combines peer support with guidance and advice, and strategies for self-care. In addition, parents/carers are offered one to one support from their own practitioner. As part of our SASH Bucks service we were able to appoint a dedicated parent/carer support worker to provide one to one support to parents.

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2024 (continued)

Through both the Young Victim and SASH services we worked one to one and in groups with 66 parents/caregivers this year. In addition, through our case work with children referred into the Young Victim Service, practitioners provided distinct support to 113 parents through phone calls, conversations at the end of sessions, advocacy and signposting.

Through our new contract with the OPCC starting in April 2024 we have built parent/caregiver support into the main work of the service.

Safer Streets

SAFE! received funding as part of a joint piece of work coordinated by the PCC through the Home Office’s Safer Streets Fund. SAFE! was initially funded from January to September 2023 to work in schools in Banbury to provide twelve-week workshops to groups of students around gender empowerment, healthy relationships and social action. Through the project we worked in 4 educational settings in Cherwell working with groups of up to 15 students. Following the initial six weeks of guided workshops, the students were encouraged to develop a social action project in response to what they had learned over the following six weeks. Between the four schools the young people developed a choose your own adventure game, a poster campaign and leaflets, and a video about consent. Students were also invited to help us create a new SafeStories video. This animated video joins our library of resources and will be published in September 2024.

We also received funding for the Safer Streets 5 programme which plans to replicate the scheme in Oxford City, Slough and High Wycombe in the following financial year. Funding was received in this financial year to support mobilisation for this project which is supporting the employment of two additional staff in Slough from next year.

Training and Resources development

This year the Building Respectful Families team delivered 5 CPD accredited Introduction to CAPVA courses, training a total of 58 delegates to learn how to recognise CAPVA and respond with greater confidence in their own practice. This has made a positive contribution to workforce development across Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire and within many sectors, education, health and social care, youth justice and within many voluntary sector organisations. This year we were commissioned to deliver 3 bespoke CAPVA courses by Buckinghamshire County Council. In addition, the team delivered a ‘bite-size’ training session to an additional 22 professionals in Berkshire.

SAFE! has also continued to train professionals in Protective Behaviours in both online and face to face courses. This year we have trained 44 professionals in a Protective Behaviours approach.

Placements and Volunteers

Thanks to the appointment of a dedicated Placement and Volunteer Coordinator we have been able to increase the number of students on placement. Over the course of the financial year we had 6 student Social Workers on placement from Oxford Brookes, Bucks New and Winchester Universities.

This new role has also helped us to begin to increase the number of volunteers working in SAFE! This year we have had 3 volunteers join the organisation supporting in a range of areas from fundraising, social media and parent support.

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2024 (continued)

Work also started to introduce a SAFE! Young Champions scheme into the organisation, offering follow-on opportunities for young people to support SAFE! through volunteering. An initial group of young people met during the mobilisation period for the new contract to help inform some areas of development.

Our supporters

Our work is only possible because of the incredible support we get to ensure we have the funds to continue to provide our vital services. Our thanks go out to all those who have supported the work of SAFE! over the last twelve months. Special thanks go out to the following organisations and individuals who have generously funded or contributed to the work of SAFE!:

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2024 (continued)

Financial Review

Review of the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Our contract with the Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for our Young Victim’s Service accounted for 50% of the organisation’s income for the year at a value of £571,292. Our Building Respectful Families (BRF) Service was funded primarily by the National Lottery’s Reaching Communities fund, continued support from NHS and a new 3 year grant from the Masonic Charitable Foundation, in total providing £157,477 income in the year.

We received further funding from Ministry of Justice for our CHIDSVA Programme, and the continuation of the specialist domestic and sexual abuse project worker posts, of £258,819. We were delighted to receive a further year’s funding from Buckinghamshire County Council for £97,564 for the continuation of our SASH Bucks programme.

Unrestricted income was raised through professional training, alongside smaller grants and donations. The total Charitable Income for the year was £1,146,236, a reduction on the prior year of £160,848. This was primarily due to the loss of Children in Need funding, and reduced amounts in the year from PCC, Lottery and Buckinghamshire County Council. Restricted Income amounted to £1,126,101 and Unrestricted Income £21,135. It remains a commitment of the trustees to mount a fund-raising campaign to build our unrestricted reserves.

Charitable Expenditure amounted to £1,314,597 of which Restricted Expenditure was £1,280,173 and Unrestricted £34,424. The net reduction in funds in the year reflected the planned use of restricted funds carried forward from the prior year.

Reserves

In the Trustees view, the reserves should provide the charity with adequate financial stability and the means for it to meet its charitable objectives for the foreseeable future. The Trustees propose to build and maintain the charity’s reserves at a level which is at least equivalent to six months’ operational expenditure. The Trustees review the amount of reserves that are required to ensure that they are adequate to fulfil the charity’s continuing obligations at each Trustees meeting. Full details of both Income and Expenditure can be found in the Notes accompanying the Accounts.

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2024 (continued)

Plans for Future Periods

Over the next 5 years, SAFE! will continue to drive forward in the delivery of the services it provides as it seeks to achieve its ultimate vision - for children and young people to feel safe, thrive and achieve their potential.

Priorities for 2024/25 include:

Through review and development of organisational infrastructure and a gap analysis, we aspire to implement changes to support increasing the amount of unrestricted income and diversifying income streams.

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2024 (continued)

Structure, Governance and Management

Governing Document

The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 11 May 2011 and registered as a charity on 24 August 2011. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. In the event of the company being wound up members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1. SAFE! is currently registered with both Companies House and the Charity Commission.

Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees

The directors of the company are also charity Trustees for the purposes of charity law and under the company’s Articles are known as Trustees. At every annual general meeting, one third of the Trustees retire by rotation and, if eligible, may offer themselves for re-election.

The Board of Trustees is made up of individuals with an interest in the work of the charity and/or particular skills to offer the charity. Following the governance review, SAFE! has recruited a number of new trustees with specific skills and experience in business and charity.

Trustee Induction and Training

Trustees are recruited for their knowledge and expertise. This may relate to the criminal justice system, adolescent mental health, bullying, academic research, business, charity, finance, health and safety and law and practice. Potential Trustees are approached informally about joining the Board of Trustees. They are made aware of the obligations of charity Trustees and referred to the guidance provided by the Charity Commission on the responsibilities of charity Trustees. They are then invited to attend a meeting of Trustees as observers and if the potential Trustee still wishes to be a Trustee of the charity and the existing Trustees are in agreement about their appointment, they are invited to become members of the Board of Trustees. Potential Trustees are asked to provide references and attend a formal interview, and if appointed to the role they receive induction and training.

The Board of Trustees currently comprises 11 members. It meets as a full Board every three to four months and is responsible for the strategic direction and policy of the charity. Trustees are encouraged to remain informed about their duties as Trustees and have been circulated with Charity Commission communications on issues that pertain to the good governance of the Charity.

During the past year, Liz Jones stood down as Chair on 15 November 2023, and Simon Clements became Chair. We are delighted that Liz is remaining as a trustee, and grateful for her leadership during her time as Chair.

A Finance Sub-Committee and a Governance Sub-Committee meet quarterly and report into the board meetings.

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Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

A system of delegation is in place and day to day responsibility for the provision of services and operation of the charity rests with Chief Executive, Chloe Purcell. The Chief Executive, working closely with the Chair of Trustees, is responsible for ensuring that the work of the charity is carried out in line with the strategic direction determined by the Board of Trustees.

Risk Management

The Trustees recognise and accept their responsibility for ensuring that risks to which the charitable company is exposed are reviewed and steps taken to mitigate potential damage by the use of appropriate preventative controls and corrective action. The Trustees are aware of the requirement under the Statement of Recommended Practice 2019 to regularly assess operating strengths and weaknesses. At their meetings, the Trustees ensure that they address potential areas of risk for the charity. Ray Hipkin has been appointed as the Lead Trustee for Health and Safety and as such he has conducted a review of the risk management systems within the organisation. The Risk Register is kept under review, and identified risks are brought to every Trustee meeting. This involves identifying risks and establishing systems and procedures to mitigate those risks, whilst implementing practices designed to minimise any potential impact on the Charity and its beneficiaries should any of those risks materialise.

Public Benefit

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in Section 17(5) of the 2011 Charities Act to have due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission. In preparing this report, the Trustees have taken advantage of the small companies’ exemptions provided by section 415A of the Companies Act 2006.

Fundraising Standards

Less than 1% of income in 2023/24 is from donations or individuals being sponsored to take part in events such as Oxford Half Marathon. More than 99% of income is from statutory bodies, and trusts and grant making bodies.

Disclosure of information to auditor

Each of the persons who are Trustees at the time when this Trustees' report is approved has confirmed that:

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/director on 18 September 2024 by

Simon Clements - Chair of Trustees

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The trustees (who are also directors of Safe! Support For Young People Affected by Crime Limited for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

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

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and 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.

This report was approved by the Board on 17 September 2024 and signed on its behalf by

Simon Clements – Chair of Trustees

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the Members of Safe! Support for Young People Affected by Crime Limited

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Safe! Support for Young People Affected by Crime Limited (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31 March 2024 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheets and Statements of Cash Flows 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, including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's 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 other information comprises the information included in the trustee’s annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the

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other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. 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 course of 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.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

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

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

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

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

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Trustees’ Responsibilities Statement set out on page 13, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of a trustees’ annual report and 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

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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.

Auditor's 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 an auditor’s report 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.

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. The specific procedures for this engagement and the extent to which these are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

As a result of these procedures, we considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and identified the greatest potential for fraud in the areas in which management is required to exercise significant judgement, such as the disclosure of adjusting items. In common with all audits under ISAs (UK), we are also required to perform specific procedures to respond to the risk of management override.

We also obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework that the charity operates in, focusing on provisions of those laws and regulations that had a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The key laws and regulations we considered in this context were the Companies Act, Charities Act and tax legislation.

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: http://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

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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 auditor's 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.

Caroline Webster (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of UHY Ross Brooke, Statutory Auditor

Suite I Windrush Court Abingdon Business Park Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 1SY

Date 28 October 2024

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SAFE! SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CRIME LIMITED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

Notes
Income
Donations
2
Income from charitable
activities
Contracts and grants
3
Training courses
Income from other trading
activities
Fundraising events
Book sales and royalties
Investment income
Bank interest
Total income
Expenditure on:
Generating funds
Charitable activities
4
Total expenditure
Net income before
transfers
Transfers between funds
Net movement of funds in
year
13
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
13		 Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
10,637
-
9,068
-
159
271
20,135
757
33,667
34,424
(14,289)
-
(14,289)
137,443
123,154		 Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
1,126,101
-
-
-
-
1,126,101
-
1,280,173
1,280,173
(154,072)
-
(154,072)
193,381
39,309		 Total
Funds
2024
£
10,637
1,126,101
9,068
-
159
271
1,146,236
757
1,313,840
1,314,597
(168,361)
-
(168,361)
330,824
162,463		 Total
Funds
2023
£
7,067
1,286,416
13,271
-
72
258
1,307,084
792
1,174,517
1,175,309
131,775
-
131,775
199,049
330,824

The Statement of Financial Activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.

All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

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SAFE! SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CRIME LIMITED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2024

Notes
Current Assets
Debtors
9
Cash at bank
Creditors
Amounts due within one year
10
Net Current Assets
Total Net Assets
12/13
The Funds of the Charity
Unrestricted income funds
Restricted income funds
12/13		 2024)
£)
33,455
232,766
266,221
103,758
162,463
162,463
123,154
39,309
162,463		 2023
£)
42,256
512,025
554,281
223,457
330,824
330,824
137,443
193,381
330,824

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

These accounts were approved by the Board of Directors on 17 September 2024 and are signed on behalf of the board by:

Simon Clements Director and Chair of Trustees

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SAFE! SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CRIME LIMITED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

Cash flows from operating activities:
Net movement in funds for the reporting period (as per the statement
of financial activities)
Adjustments for:
Decrease in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period		 2024
2023
£)
£)
(168,361)
131,775
8,801
(11,545)
(119,699)
191,399
(279,259)
311,629
(279,259)
311,629
512,025
200,396
232,766
512,025

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SAFE! SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CRIME LIMITED COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

Income
Donations
Income from charitable activities
Contracts and grants
Training courses
Income from other trading
activities
Fundraising events
Book sales and royalties
Investment income
Bank interest
Total income
Expenditure on:
Generating funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net income before transfers
Transfers between funds
Net movement of funds in year
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Unrestricted
Funds
2023
£
7,067
-
13,271
-
72
258
20,668
792
2,822
3,614
17,054
-
17,054
120,389
137,443		 Restricted
Funds
2023
£
-
1,286,416
-
-
-
-
1,286,416
-
1,171,695
1,171,695
114,721
-
114,721
78,660
193,381		 Total
Funds
2023
£
7,067
1,286,416
13,271
-
72
258
1,307,084
792
1,174,517
1,175,309
131,775
-
131,775
199,049
330,824

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1. Accounting Policies

The following accounting policies have been used consistently in dealing with items which are considered material in relation to the charity’s accounts.

(a) Basis of Accounting

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) and the Companies Act 2006.

The charity is a public benefit entity.

The financial statements have been prepared on a going-concern basis. The trustees consider that the charity holds sufficient reserves to achieve an orderly closure in the unlikely event of a loss of funding.

The financial statements are presented in sterling which is the functional currency of the charity and rounded to the nearest £.

(b) Going Concern

The need for our services continues to grow significantly and the impact of our work with children and young people is clear. We have worked to ensure the organisation is in a good financial position to continue its work, with commitment from key funders including:

The current funding from the Ministry of Justice for our specialist Domestic Abuse/Sexual Violence service is due for renewal at the end of March 2025. The Trustees have completed scenario planning for both securing renewal of the funding and not securing it and they are not concerned about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern under either scenario.

During the year, our unrestricted reserves reduced only slightly. Our Business Plan for 2024-2026 has clear priorities of raising additional unrestricted funds and this will be supported with our new website.

(c) Fund Accounting

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

Restricted 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.

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(d) Income

Income from donations, grants and contracts is recognised where there is entitlement, probability of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Investment income, trading income and other income are recognised on a receivable basis.

(e) Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis. Expenditure includes any Value Added Tax which is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.

(f) Taxation

The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within section 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or section 252 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects.

(g) Pensions

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the charity in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable under the scheme by the charity to the fund. The charity has not liability under the scheme other than for the payment of these contributions.

(h) Cash at bank

Cash at bank includes a current account and instant access savings account.

(i) Creditors

Creditors are recognised where the charity has an obligation that will result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably.

(j) Debtors

Debtors are recognised where there is an obligation that will result in the transfer of funds to the charity and the amount owing can be measured,

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2 Income from Donations

Income from Donations
Donations
Trusts & Grants		 Unrestricted
£
9,637
1,000
10,637		 Restricted
£
-
-		 2024
£
9,637
1,000
10,637		 2023
£
4,067
3,000
7,067

3 Income from Charitable Activities

Unrestricted
£
Young Victim Service - Police & Crime
Commissioners Fund
-
Building Respectful Families
-
National Lottery Reaching
Communities Fund
-
Children in Need
-
-
-
NHS
-
-
Quilter Foundation
-
-
Masonic Charitable Foundation
-
DAY Programme – Oxfordshire County
Council
-
CHIDSVA Programme – Ministry of Justice
-
SASH MK Programme – Milton Keynes
Council
-
SASH Buckinghamshire – Bucks CC
-
Parent Support – W F Southall Trust
-
Safer Streets
-
Blueprint Project – in partnership with
Donnington Doorstep
-
SafeSpace Refuge – Oxfordshire CC
-		 Restricted
£
571,292
111,685
-
30,000
-
15,792
-
258,819
-
97,564
3,000
30,096
-
7,853
1,126,101		 2024
£
571,292
111,685
-
30,000
-
15,792
-
258,819
-
97,564
3,000
30,096
-
7,853
1,126,101		 2023
£
634,733
199,704
48,556
18,002
10,000
-
-
145,422
17,142
167,253
3,000
14,204
28,400
-
1,286,416

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4 Expenditure on charitable activities

Salaries
Project worker fees
Office and venue costs
Training fees and accreditation
Travel and expenses
Recruitment
Consortium expenses
Website, IT, Case Mgt System, Phones
Other project costs
Research/consultancy
Professional fees incl insurance and HR
Governance - Audit		 Unrestricted
£
22,898
-
5,726
539
-
-
-
1,859
-
-
1,772
873
33,667		 Restricted
£
1,003,690
87,296
28,885
32,362
52,780
3,839
-
39,303
17,479
-
9,712
4,827
1,280,173		 2024
£
1,026,588
87,296
34,611
32,901
52,780
3,839
-
41,162
17,479
-
11,484
5,700
1,313,840		 2023
£
910,131
95,424
20,960
26,365
42,865
5,174
4,000
48,654
7,321
-
8,623
5,000
1,174,517

5 Auditors Remuneration

Auditors Remuneration
2024 2023
£ £
Audit Fees 5,700 5,000

6 Staff Numbers

The average number of persons employed, analysed by activity, was:

2024 2023
No No
Charitable activities 35 32

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7 Staff Costs

Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Admin assistance – outsourced costs
Pensions		 2024
£
908,957
78,647
-
38,984
1,026,588		 2023
£
804,068
69,978
-
36,086
910,132

No employee earned £60,000 p.a. or more.

No trustee received any remuneration or expenses.

Remuneration paid to key management personnel amounted to £166,772 (2023: £146,519). Pension costs for key management personnel amounted to £8,339 (2023: £7,119).

8 Related Party Transactions

There were no related party transactions in the year.

9 Debtors

Grants and contracts
Prepayments
Other debtors		 2024
£
13,938
17,040
2,477
33,455		 2023
£
41,197
-
1,059
42,256

10 Creditors – Amounts Falling Due Within One Year

0 Creditors – Amounts Falling Due Within One Year
Taxation and social security
Accruals and other creditors
Deferred Income
Trade creditors		 2024
£
21,711
5,700
74,387
1,960
103,758		 2023
£
17,925
5,936
194,170
5,426
223,457

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11 Operating leases - lessee

Total future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:

Not later than one year
Later than one and not later than five years
Later than five years		 2024
£
20,760
5,190
-
-
25,950		 2023
£
17,300
21,625
-
-
38,925

12 Analysis of Net Assets between Funds

Current year
Fixed Assets
Cash
Other Current Assets/Liabilities
Creditors more than 1 year
Provisions/Pensions
Previous year
Fixed Assets
Cash
Other Current Assets/Liabilities
Creditors more than 1 year
Provisions/Pensions		 Unrestricted
£
193,457
(70,303)
-
-
123,154
Unrestricted
£
-
318,644
(181,201)
-
-
137,443		 Restricted
£
39,309
-
-
-
39,309
Restricted
£
-
193,381
-
-
-
193,381		 2024
£
232,766
(70,303)
-
-
162,463
2023
£
-
512,025
(181,201)
330,824

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13 Movements on Funds

Current year
Restricted Funds
Building Respectful
Families (Children in
Need)
Building Respectful
Families (Lottery)
Building Respectful
Families (NHS)
Building Respectful
Families (Masonic
Foundation)
Building Respectful
Families (Quilter
Foundation)
Young Victims Service
(Police and Crime
Commissioners)
Parent Support
Blue Print Project
SASH MK
SASH Bucks
SafeSpace Refuge
MoJ
Safer Streets
Total Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Total Funds		 Balance
1 Apr 2023
£
1,388
31,248
2,236
-
10,000
58,532
383
1,214
-
78,174
-
-
10,206
193,381
137,443
330,824		 Income
£
-
111,685
30,000
15,792
-
571,292
3,000
-
-
97,564
7,853
258,819
30,096
1,126,101
20,135
1,146,236		 Expenditure
£
(1,388)
(111,815)
(31,534)
(9,212)
(10,000)
(629,775)
(3,208)
(1,214)
-
(175,465)
(7,913)
(258,819)
(39,830)
(1,280,173)
(34,424)
(1,314,597)		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Balance
31 Mar
2024
£
-
31,118
702
6,580
-
49
175
-
-
273
(60)
-
472
39,309
123,154
162,463

Fund Descriptions

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Previous Year
Restricted Funds
Building Respectful
Families (Children in
Need)
Building Respectful
Families (Lottery)
Building Respectful
Families (NHS)
Building Respectful
Families (Quilter
Foundation)
Young Victims Service
(Police and Crime
Commissioners)
Parent Support
Blue Print Project
SASH MK
SASH Bucks
DAY Programme
MoJ
Safer Streets
Total Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Total Funds		 Balance
1 Apr 2022
£
1,164
14,759
-
-
1,126
1,905
2,607
21,961
-
34,733
405
-
78,660
120,389
199,049		 Income
£
48,556
199,704
18,002
10,000
634,733
3,000
28,400
17,142
167,252
-
145,423
14,204
1,286,416
20,668
1,307,084		 Expenditure
£
(48,332)
(183,215)
(15,766)
-
(577,327)
(4,522)
(29,793)
(39,103)
(89,078)
(34,733)
(145,828)
(3,998)
(1,171,695)
(3,614)
(1,175,309)		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Balance
31 Mar
2023
£
1,388
31,248
2,236
10,000
58,532
383
1,214
-
78,174
-
-
10,206
193,381
137,443
330,824

13 General information

SAFE! is a private company limited by guarantee (incorporated in England and Wales) and has no share capital. In the event of the company being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the company. The company’s registered office and principal place of business is Basement Office, Premier Place, 190-196 Garsington Road, OXFORD OX4 6FG

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