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2024-07-31-accounts

Company registration number: 07717026 Charity registration number: 1145626

St Gabriel'si mm [8 Centre Weoley Castle Directors’ and Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 July 2024

St Gabriel's Centre Weoley Castle —

Contents

Reference and Administrative Details 4
Trustees’ Report . 2108
independent Examiner's Report 9 to 10
Balance Sheet 4
Statement of Financial Activities 12
NotestotheFinancialStatements 13to17

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St Gabriel's Centre Weoley Castle

Reference and Administrative Details

Company Registration Number 07717026 Charity Registration Number 1145626 Chairman Emma Clare Sargeant Treasurer Paul Moore Directors James Partington Emma Clare Sargeant Deborah Jewison (appointed 26 October 2023) Joanne Coffey (appointed 26 October 2023) Secretary Emma Clare Sargeant Registered Office St Gabriel’s Centre / 83a Marston Road Weoley Castle Birmingham B29 5LS Accountants RKS Accounting Ltd 104 Blackford Road Solihull BSO 4BXx Bankers Lloyds 153 Weoley Castle Road Weoley Castle Birmingham B29 5QH

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Trustees’ Report

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 July 2024. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities" issued in 2005 in preparing the annual report and financial statements of the charity.

Structure, Governance and Management

Governing document

The company is governed by the provision of the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Appointment of trustees

The trustees are responsible for the administration and management of the centre. They are Directors for the purpose of company law and trustees for the purpose of charity law.

The trustees who served during the year are set out on the charity information page at the front of these accounts and they collectively known as the Board of Directors

Members of the charitable company guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the company in the event of winding up. The total number of such guarantees at 31 July 2024 was 3

Organisation

The company recruits trustees who have an interest in the welfare of the disadvantaged in Weoley Castle and have links with St Gabriel's Church. All trustees resign annually and are reappointed at the Annual General Meeting.

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Objectives and activities

Objects and aims

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The company has provided charitable services to the community of the Weoley Castle area in Birmingham in accordance with its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Our objectives as a Charity are:

So

Financial review

We continue to be very successful in making funding applications for relatively small and short-term grants, although the Trustees will now need to actively seek additional grant funding to secure the ongoing activities of the charity.

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Achievements and performance

Emma Sargeant Chair's Report 2023/2024.

Annual Report for St Gabriel's Centre

Refining Our Vision and Purpose

At the start of the year, the Trustees and Paul Tucker dedicated three focused meetings to examine our Why, How, and What. Guided by Tim Evans during our first session, we explored the fundamental question of why St Gabriel's Centre exists as a charity. This process proved deeply rewarding, revealing a shared heart and vision for our work. These insights have been shared with the PCC of St Gabriel's, and we plan to continue this dialogue with them in the new year.

Strengthening Our Foundations

Paul Tucker and | have collaborated on updating job descriptions and employment contracts for our team, ensuring compliance with current employment laws. We also revised our Staff Handbook, an update that was overdue and necessary to reflect best practices. Paul has been developing a training course for his team, which will launch in the coming year. Alongside this, we plan to introduce our Why, How, What, and updated policies and procedures to our staff team to align everyone with our vision and operational standards.

Safeguarding and Compliance

Deb Jewison and [ have continued to review and enhance our safeguarding policies and practices. This year, we partnered with Thirtyone:Eight as our provider for DBS checks and safeguarding advice. This partnership is a vital step forward in ensuring that our safeguarding efforts remain robust and proactive.

Ongoing Leadership and Support

Paul and | have held regular monthly one-to-one meetings to maintain open communication and provide leadership continuity. These sessions have been invaluable in supporting Paul's work and the broader goals of the charity.

A Year of Stability and Growth

In summary, this year has been a stabilising one for St Gabriel's Centre. We have focused on strengthening our building, human resources, and safeguarding foundations and are now turning our attention to financial sustainability.

Our trustees have worked together to support Paul and his dedicated team, who consistently touch and transform lives in our community. Their ability to walk alongside people, offering time, attention, and care, is a beacon of hope in our community. | am incredibly proud to serve as Chair of this small charity, which continues to make a profound impact in the lives of so many.

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Paul Tucker's Review 2023

Monday Youth Club

We made the decision to stop this club at the first week of February. !t was no longer sustainable as so few young people were attending. A number of regulars had stopped coming for various reasons, and we felt we could not justify the resources needed to keep it going. We gave it a few more weeks in January, but there seemed to be little prospect of numbers growing. Our most regular attendees transitioned to our Tuesday Youth Club, and a few faces that we saw less often sometimes come to this club, too.

Tuesday Youth Club

This club has been going for nearly three years. It is at St Gabriel’s on Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:30pm. Over the past year, it has grown to 20 young people- aged between 12 and 17regularly attending. It is now a roughly equal mix of boys and girls. We now have a sessional self-employed youth worker, Michelle, who has come since May. She primarily focuses on providing a weekly cooking activity. | also attend most weeks due to the growing numbers.

Among the young people, there are a few with ADHD/ASC diagnoses and/or are experiencing various forms of disadvantage. The club provides them with a Safe Space to be themselves- somewhere they can hang out, and we can ‘journey’ with them.

in September, we took 10 of them to the group’s first residential to The Greenhouse at Barnes Close. This proved very successful. Activities were relatively unstructured, including night walks, visits to café and farms, outdoor games, and fires. One young person had never stayed away from home beforeshowing the growing importance of these experiences. One parent also told me how pleased she was that her son came as he had been subject to severe bullying at school.

At the start of the year, our staff team, along with Bev and Michelle, spent four evenings with Phil Hoppner, University of Birmingham, thinking about our youth work, developing our relationships as a team, gaining an understanding of our stories and looking at what we do. This was very beneficial for enhancing our reflective practice and work. We are committed to continuing to offer training opportunities for our team.

Duck Pond Youth Sessions

We have continued doing regular outdoor/detached youth work sessions at the duck pond throughout the year.

Here is a report from Duane, our Community and Youth Worker, that covers the first half of 2024, but it reflects what we do:-

Although we have had significant interactions with over 100 young people in this period, the following insights are with young people who have become regular attendees, joining us most weeks or have been 10 + times.

In football games, it is mainly males who join in, but groups of females often hang around just outside the ‘pitch’ and use the equipment left out for anyone to use. (Swingball, Archery, bowels, tennis, etc)

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We are pleased to witness the area we cover becoming increasingly multicultural, having significant contact and conversations with families from many backgrounds, including - Chinese, Cambodian, African, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Indian, Romanian & the Philippines. Some of these families are regularly seen, often bringing their wider families to join in the fun. From toddlers to Grandparents and visiting families from overseas. We have not witnessed any negativity or racial tension this year. It appears that having a strong team who know the local area and, over time, through ‘spreading’ positivity & building relationships with local people, has created an ‘umbrella’ of safety & tolerance that allows this varied and multicultural community fo come together and play.

Many of these families have expressed appreciation for our positive impact locally.

Another positive change that has become increasingly apparent is the type of interactions between older teenagers and the more junior-aged young people. We have witnessed a complete turnaround in how younger children are accepted and supported during football matches. Some of which can be very competitive. These younger players are welcomed and fully included by the older lads. There has" been a noticeable positive change in language (mostly) and the general way the older lads show a greater degree of responsibility towards their younger teammates. We now often have games with players ages ranging from 6 to18 & have not seen any incidents of negative aggression.

This is a very multicultural area with many issues & struggles faced.

We aim to spread positivity, tolerance and acceptance with the goal of creating future positive role models that can only benefit the local culture.

Our small project appears to have the desired effect backed up by the fact that one of our young people who regularly attended is now a valuable member of the paid staff and doing a fantastic job.

Duane Jennings - Project Leader.

During the summer term- for the first time- we were able to utilise Bev and Michelle on a sessional self-employed basis to provide craft activities at our Monday afternoon sessions. This was a great addition and appealed to younger children and females. It did not take long for them to have a consistent group waiting for their arrival.

In the summer holidays, we were funded by the HAF Program to provide eight afternoons of activities for children, young people and families at the duck pond. Activities included sports, crafts, boxing, breakdancing, drumming, storytelling, food prep and singing. A picnic was also provided for the first 30 children who attended. We were blessed with great weather throughout, and we think at least 200 people came to at least one session, with 30-50 regulars (of which a good number came from our family work at St Gabriel's). Other than that, people came through ‘word of mouth’ or by spotting that something was happening. Overall, there was a fantastic atmosphere and overwhelmingly positive feedback from the community.

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Friday Club/Breakfast Club- St Gabriel’s Centre This gives families with young children a chance to come and have some food, chat and play together. This has continued to grow, and 10-15 families come regularly. A good proportion of the children have additional needs, and the families are experiencing a number of challenges. They love the fact that Friday Club signals the end of the school week and that the children have unstructured time. Due to the club’s busyness, we have hired a new sessional worker, Puraby, to engage with the children. Inspire Sport will also provide an activities worker during the second half of the autumn term. Out of this, we started a weekly Tuesday morning breakfast club for parents, which proved popularespecially Duane’s cooked breakfast and quiz. This soon became a highlight of the week. We have had to pause it during October due to some relationship difficulties between some families, but we hope to restart it soon. . ~ At the start of the summer holidays, we were able to take 8 of our families away for the weekend to The Greenhouse at Barnes Close. A great time was had by all, and for the vast majority of the families, this was their only time away from home during the holidays. The children spent most of the time outdoors playing on the grounds, and the adults bonded by playing cards in the evenings. Love Weoley Castle

We have had termly gatherings which bring people together to plan community events and share positive ideas for our neighbourhood. We have continued to hold these in the evenings to give residents the chance to take part and not be overrun by people representing organisations. The hope is that, increasingly, we are enabling local people to see their own ideas come to fruition.

A great example of this is our regular community events. We supported Weoley Earth Day again in April - which was an idea from a resident. Hundreds of people turned out to engage ina variety of activities on the Square and at the Ruins.

Earlier this year, an opportunity arose to be a part of a local collective called ‘Weoley Weoley Fun’ to organise local events from Oct 2024 to May 2025. | am the convener of this group- Stonehouse Gang, Birmingham Boxing Community Project, Break Mission, Moneicha Dance Academy and us- which enables great partnership working. Funding for this has come through an application made by Break Mission, and we are hopeful this can continue in the future. One particular highlight this year was our involvement in a Community Treasure Tour (facilitated by Thrive Together), whereby a group of community activists/organisers/workers from around the city came to hear about and experience who we are and what we do. Joanne (our trustee) and Nathan (sessional worker) got to tell their story of why they are involved in our community and the positive difference it has made. We even took the group by coach to the duck pond to experience it for themselves. | still hear from the people who came how much they learned from the visit about developing community work over a long period of time.

Funding

In this calendar year, we have been successful in obtaining these grants ~ Warm Welcome BCC (for our Warm Welcome spaces) £6000 - Grantham Yorke (youth work) £5000 - Treasure Tour (community work)£2000 ~ Middlemore (youth work) £2000 - Westhill Endowment (Paul's LWC community role) £10000- split between 2024 and 2025

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- HAF (summer holiday activities) £4500

Overall- it's amazing what we’ve been able to do

for such a small charity in 2024!

Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements

The trustees (who are also the directors of St Gabriel's Centre Weoley Castle for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including FRS 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland".

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. 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 its 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 proper accounting records that can 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.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on 20 January 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

Emma Clare Sargeant Chairman and Trustee

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Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of St Gabriel's Centre Weoley Castle (‘the Company’)

| report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 July 2024.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees of St Gabriel's Centre Weoley Castle (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of St Gabriel's Centre Weoley Castle are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, | report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination | have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act. An independent examination does not involve gathering all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently does not cover all the matters that an auditor considers in giving their opinion on the accounts. The planning and conduct of an audit goes beyond the limited assurance that an independent examination can provide. Consequently | express no opinion as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and my report is limited to those specific matters set out in the independent examiner's statement.

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independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of St Gabriel's Centre Weoley Castle (‘the Company’)

independent examiner's statement

| have completed my examination. | confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of St Gabriel's Centre Weoley Castle as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act: or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records: or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination: or

  4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities [applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)].

| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Chartered Management Accountant 104 Blackford Road Solihull B90 4BX

20 January 2025

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(Registration number: 07717026) Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2024

2024 2023
Note £ £
Current assets
Debtors - 1,985
Bank Accounts 52,221 27,094
52,221 29,079
Funds of the charity:
Restricted 46,399 25,551
Unrestricted 5,822 3,528
Totalfunds 8 92,221 29,079

For the financial year ending 31 July 2024 the charity was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors’ responsibilities:

The financial statements on pages 11 to 17 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 20 January 2025 and signed on their behalf by:

S Emma Clare Sargeant Chairman and Trustee

The notes on pages 13 to 17 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 11

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Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 July 2024 (including Income and Expenditure Account and Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses)

Total Total
Unrestricted Restricted 2024 2623
Note £ £ £ £
incoming Resources
Donations and legacies 5 1,750 66,264 68,014 42,535
Charitable activities 2 40 - 40 64
Other trading activities 6 11,380 - 11,380 12,116
Total income 13,170 66,264 79,434 54,715
Resources expended
Costofgenerating funds _ ~ - (2)
Charitable activities 7 (10,037) (45,415) (55,452) (56,305)
Governance costs 3 (840) - (840) (840)
Total expenditure (10,877) (45,415) (56,292) (57,147)
Net income/(expenditure) 2,293 20,849 23,142 (2,432)
Netmovement in funds 2,293 20,849 23,142 (2,432)
Reconciliation offunds
Total funds brought forward 3,529 25,550 29,079 31,511
Totalfundscarriedforward =8 5,822 46,399 52,221 29,079

Details of Incoming resources and expenditure are given in the notes to the financial statements

The notes on pages 13 to 17 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 12

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2024

1 Accounting policies

The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention, as mofified by the inclusion of investments at market value and in accordance with Companies Act 2006 and the Statement of Recommended Practice : Accounting and Reporting by Charities issued in March 2005.

Fund accounting

General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the trustees for particular purposes. The aim and use of each designated fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the charity for particular purposes. The cost of raising and administering such funds are charged against the specific fund. The aim and use of each restricted fund as set out in the notes to the financial statements.

2 income from charitable activities

Unrestricted
funds Total
General funds
£ £
40 40
Income - After School Club 2024 40 40
Income - After School Club 2023 64 64

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3 Analysis of governance and support costs

Governance costs

Unrestricted
funds Total
General funds
£ £
Independent examiner fees
Examination ofthe financial statements 840 840
Total for2024 840 840
Totalfor2023 840 840

4 Related party transactions

5 Income from donations and legacies

Unrestricted
funds
General
Restricted
funds
Total
funds
£ £ £
Grants, including capital grants:
All Grants 1,750 66,264 68,014
Total for2024 1,750 66,264 68,014
Totalfor2023 11,960 30,575 42,535

6 Income from other trading activities

Unrestricted
funds Total
General funds
£ £
Trading income;
Hall hire 11,380 11,380
Total for2024 11,380 11,380
Totalfor2023 12,116 12,116

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2024

7 Expenditure on charitable activities

; Total Total
2024 2023
Youth Work
CommunityWork
Community Work
Salaries
Salaries
StaffExpenses &Training
StaffExpenses& Training
GeneralAdmincosts
Heat and Light
Hail equipment
Insurance
Repairs
andmaintenance
Bank charges
£
6,808
10,246
204
27,120
520
1,241
272
1,315
1,818
~
2,129
3,685
94
£
6,527
4,848
206
20,211
4,548
-
-
1,235
3,830
404
2,083
12,416
~
55,452 56,305

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2024

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 July 2024

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|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Balance|at|1|Incoming|Resources|Balance|at|31| |August|2022|resources|expended|July|2023| |£|£|£|£| |Unrestricted| |General| |General|Funds A|4,949|24,140|(25,561)|3,528| |Restricted| |Awards|for All|Grants|-|10,000|-|10,000| |Grant Asda|Foundation|-|4,250|-|1,250| |Grant|BCC|Smail|Grants| |Programme|#|2,000|-|2,000| |Grant Grantham|Yorke|-|5,000|-|5,000| |Grant NAC|Small|Grant|-|2,000|-|2,000| |Grant|Sir John|Middlemore|-|2,000|-|2,000| |Grant|Sport|England|-|2,500|-|2,500| |Grant Warm|Spaces|-|800|-|800| |Grant|Westhill|Endowment|“|5,000|-|5,000| |Grant|Youth|-|25|-|25| |Youth|Work|-|-|(6,527)|(6,527)| |Community Work|-|-|(4,848)|(4,848)| |Salaries|-|-|(20,211)|(20,211)| |Funds|-|Balance|B/fwd|(U)|-|-|26,562|26,562| |«|30,575|(5,024)|25,551| |Total funds|4,949|54,715|(30,585)|29,079|

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