REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PERIOD ENDING 31 JANUARY 2021 FOR YOUNG & INSPIRED. l.b' >/"lj,I r* **Message of Chair: Page 3** **Trustees Report: Page 4** **Impact: Page 5** **Projects: Page 8** **Independent Examiner's Report: Page 14** **Statement of Financial Activities: Page 15** **Balance Sheet/ Notes: Page 16** ## Message of The Chair ## **Kaila Klein Chair of Trustees 24th Mar '21** **3** **Trustees Mr Yoel Fischer Mrs Sara Adler Mrs Kaila Chava Klien** **Registered Office 26 Clapton Common London, E5 9BA** **Registered Company No: 7493381 Registered Charity No: 1145639** **Independent Examiner De Claron Ltd 3a The Vale London NW11 8SB** ## TRUSTEES REPORT **The trustees are pleased to present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 January 2021. The trustees confirm that the annual report and the financial statements of the charity comply with the current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charity’s governing document and the provisions of the Statement Recommended Practice (SORP) “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” issued in Jan 2015.** **Every child should aspire to achieve but no child should take the test of hunger, abuse or isolation.** **Childhood belongs to all children. No child should be forced to grow OLD prematurely. Together we ensure that all children should have a childhood which empowers them to Grow UP not old.** **Our steering committee, in consultation with peers, have created the ‘bill of rights’ which every child deserves: The four ‘F’ components which are a must for children to enjoy a fulfilling childhood.** **4** **Food:** Access to nutritious meals **Fun:** Recreational daily.. opportunities which user’s cannot afford. We believe that having a happy fulfilling childhood is the basis for a healthy future. We wish to create positive memories for disadvantaged youth by offering holiday retreats, playschemes, trips, and out-ofschool-hour’s fun. **Friends & Relationships:** The chance to develop and maintain positive relationships, with peers, adults and mentors **Future:** We empower users to budget and be financially literate. We also offer job coaching, training and vocational skills courses. Our specialty is working with younger NEET users. **Food Fun Friendships Future** ## Quotes Receiving the breakfast box was so much more than getting food. All we had at home was cheap and stodgy starches that give you a temporary and inflated feel of fullness. My acne broke out terribly and I never showed my camera on zoom sessions or even looked out of the window, i felt bloated, embarrassed and irritated and bareky eft my bedroom only to visit the bathroom-all day. I craved fresh vegetables, iceberg lettuce and wholesome cheese. To me this box gave me a new lease of self esteem. The food was balanced and delightful, I felt amazing afterwards, the consistency in how it came, every morning accompanied by a friendly letter and mind breaking puzzles set the tone for the day and gave me some certainty and helped me feel grounded. I used to feel like I’m cheating my toddler, feeding her tinned and jar food only and takeout on holidays. I didn’t begin to know how to cook anything other than pasta and noodle soup and was clueless how to budget my tight income to choose the most value for money foods. Conquer the Kitchen’ has taught me to budget effectively and prepare nutritious meals for us. Mealtimes have become a meaningful bonding experience (Simi) I joined Art Haven and DMC Drama club as an angry teen. Unmotivated and untalented and just happy to have a somewhere nice to go after chool which serves snacks. Y&I harnessed a talent I never knew I had. I adore anything arts related and have joined an art academy. Y&I arranged my scholarship **5** ## Conversation **with Youth Leadership Council Steering Committee** _**Manny, Interviewer:**_ **Hi Michelle, Hello Eli, Hi Mariam, You are steering Young & Inspired into amazing pathways, do you want to share with us about yourselves and how you joined Young & Inspired?** _**Michelle:**_ I was 8 when I joined Young and Inspired's Breakfast Club. Before that, all I could think about in my morning classes was which one of my classmates I haven't yet panhandled for snacks and where I can find food for till lunch. I failed all my morning classes and aced my afternoon classes after lunch. I haven't missed a breakfast club session since, I now volunteer at breakfast club too. _**Eli:**_ Every day I would look myself in the mirror and wonder why I was so unlikeable. Why no one wanted to be my friend. After joining Young & Inspired DMC club, the therapist gave me a socials- skills-toolbox. Today I am a Leader and Mentor to other struggling kids. _**Mariam:**_ My parents are divorced, I live with my mum, but she must work double shifts sometimes to pay the bills, Young & Inspired's Breeze afterschool club was a life saver for me. **6** **How do you monitor the performance of the young people that you have to lead?** _**Michelle:**_ We distribute and collect surveys to all children who join sessions, we also lead focus groups where we discuss our work in detail. I work directly with monitoring officer and know she uses SDQ and Outcomes stars to measure differences. ## **Are you able to delegate responsibilities efficiently?** _**Eli:**_ We did training for this. In the beginning; I felt like I needed to control everything and only I could execute a task perfectly. I really learned the balance now, and so have my other team mates on the committee. ## **How would you describe your leadership style?** _**Michelle:**_ My leadership skills can be described as creative, open, and encouraging. I always do what I can to foster an environment that is conducive to the learning and growth of peers. **How has covid-19 impacted your lives and the lives of your peers** _**Eli:**_ My mum lost both her Dad and Aunt in one month. My house was so sad and I couldn`t get out. Then I was voted in as steering committee member, things became so much more bearable. We set up a digital device library and shifted most sessions virtually, connecting with my Young & Inspired community and others really helps me survive each day. _**Mariam:**_ The anxiety was the worst. Everyday brought more horrors and tragedies, the media made me scared. Everything made me scared and discussing this with my peers, I realized I'm not alone. The anxiety workshops significantly helped. _**Michelle:**_ The hunger above everything upset me, it was difficult to get up to with little to eat, do thing and meet no-one. When we started doing the breakfast boxes, I was so relieved, and through the feedback forms and discussions I know that others were too. ## _**Thank you Michelle, Mariam and Eli. You are inspiring leaders and an asset to Young & Inspired!**_ **7** Our Covid 19 Response Projects **Support project received an intake assessment and were paired with a mentor and offered oneto-one sessions on zoom, telephone or face-toface in line with government guidelines. Mentors are supervised and supported by qualified licensed therapists with supervision licenses. We also offered weekly group therapy sessions which are particularly helpful in giving the children support and the chance to feel 'normal' with their mental health issues. In addition we delivered a 'children in bereavement' group and virtual art and drama therapy sessions.** **Lockdown-Looks up was first our crises intervention project. We mobilises within 24 hrs and then launched Project Back-on-ourFeat:** ## Back on our Feat: **‘Back on our Feet' is a pragmatic adaption to general services with new specific services to directly address COVID-19 bio-psycho-social effects on disadvantaged children and Young people and steer them to recovery. Our Project has three strands:** **We have also launched an exciting DBT skills workshops for adolescents contending with stressful home environments and relationships which were exacerbated by Covid-19:** **1)Food provision-We Expanded our breakfast clubs to 3 more locations, feeding 100% more children yet in smaller groups and inviting nonschool age children to attend too. During the lockdown we innovated our Breakfast Club through distributing Breakfast Boxes to our children's homes.** -Mindfulness: **Empowering young people to direct attention and to observe and describe what they are feeling and thinking in the moment without judgement. These skills help young people develop a more stable sense of who they are, and can help reduce reactivity to painful thoughts and emotions.** ## 2)Mental Health Support **Covid 19 exacerbated mental health disorders for children with existing conditions and also generated new issues. For Children and adolescents with mental health needs, school closure meant a lack of access to the resources they usually have through schools. In a survey by the mental health charity Young Minds, which included 2111 participants with a mental health illness history in the UK, 83% said the pandemic had made their conditions worse. 26% said they were unable to access mental health support; peer support groups and faceto-face services have been cancelled and support by phone or online can be challenging for many young people. All children signposted for our Mental Health** -Distress Tolerance: **targets impulsivity by teaching adolescents how to effectively distract and soothe themselves while considering pros and cons of their actions. These skills typically replace problem behaviours such as self-injury, substance use, binge eating, and angry outbursts.** **: addresses** -Emotion Regulation **emotional sensitivity, and other unregulated moods such as chronic depression, anxiety, or anger.** -Interpersonal Effectiveness: **8** Projects: Our Covid 19 Response Projects **such as how to ask for what you want, how to say no how to maintain a sense of self-respect and independence in the face of external pressure.** -Middle Path: **targets extreme and nonbalanced thinking and behaviours. These skills involve learning about common areas of conflict and polarization, and reducing this conflict by learning methods to change behaviour, as well as methods of validation and acceptance.** -Phone coaching: **This part of the treatment is designed to promote skills use where it matters most – in daily life. When our clients feel unsure of how to approach a particular situation, they are encouraged to contact their individual therapists for help in using DBT skills.** **this manner of learning was the best option - there is no question that many children lost a huge amount of skills gained during the first two school terms. This is especially true for children in Early-Years and Key-Stage-1, as teachers report now once school has reopened, 'many children will have to start learning to read from scratch'.** **Save our Literacy offered weekly literacy sessions where children practice their literacy skills, and play literacy games with our team of trained volunteers. We supported children who were referred to us by schools, teachers and parents who have lost their basic reading and writing skills during the pandemic. Through our project we are playing a critical role in helping children from low-income homes to catch up their foundational learning skills and succeed in their education.** ## 3) Save our Literacy **During the lockdown all school reverted to online and telephone home-schooling. While** **9** ## Drive Your Car - Agency: Our leadership programs offer year-round experiences where young people can learn, practice and benefit from valuable life and leadership skills. We set the stage for kids as young as 13 to become leaders, first of themselves and then in their communities. Our program supports young people to learn soft skills and connects them with various internal and external volunteering opportunities. ## Savvy & Successful Savvy & Successful creates pathways to employment for 60 NEET adolescents. It incorporates mentoring, career advising, vocational courses, job readiness workshops and liaising with employers to arrange jobs and mediate issues in workforce. It tackles poverty in a holistic through enabling young people to procure employment, manage money and be financially literate. During lockdown we transitioned the project to digital delivery and incorporated a digital-literacy component. Mentors focus on the needs of each beneficiary and meet them where they are, then help them get where they need to be. Thank you Young Hackney Consortium for funding this project. Despite complex economic climate and collapsing job market, we helped 23 young people and supported 18 new young people between 16-25 into employment and more significantly more into further education. **10** ## Breeze after school Play n' Learn Breeze after school Play n' Learn aims to provide a safe, stimulating and fun environment where children from disturbed families, or those living in overcrowded homes or lack parental supervision can access a safe haven and develop socially, physically, morally, intellectually, emotionally and creatively. Breeze After-School Club transitioned to remote delivery and operated 3 days weekly. During the Summer Holidays, we were grateful that we could deliver face to face sessions. It was such a treat to be in each other's company. Research has proven that play is vital for children to learn and grow, both physically and mentally. Play lets them work out their emotions, explore the world around them and discover who they are. Breeze play scheme operates during summer, winter April, and half term holidays. ## Conquer the Kitchen Conquer the Kitchen empowers teenage and young parents with vital cooking, nutrition and budgeting skills and connects isolated, post partum women from various backgrounds through food **11** ## Conquer the Kitchen In response to Covid 19 we launched Food bytes, a virtual community forum supporting young mothers with home cooking and CommunityCabinet Kitchen tool lending library. We stock kitchen essential tools such as blenders, peelers, pots, slow cookers and fun gadgets too, like juicers, pastry making tools, etc. Each appliance can be borrowed for 5 days, after which users must return it washed and cleaned. We then sterilize equipment. Community Cabinets lowers the barrier for consumers who want to eat healthier and cook at home more often by giving them low-cost access to otherwise expensive equipment and offers a solution to people living in crowded accommodation with no space to store equipment. It also prevents waste of purchasing a tool, using it once and abandoning it. ## DMC –Drama Makes me Calmer DMC –Drama Makes me Calmer involves weekly drama sessions and a drama therapy focused summer camps for young people from turbulent backgrounds, or who are exhibiting risk factors of poor mental health. It's inviting individuals to examine their own behaviour, acting as a catalyst for promoting personal development and change. Despite initial teething issues we managed to adjust and we were able to deliver great virtual sessions **12** ## TRUSTEES REPORT **Sarah Adler, Trustee 24th Mar '21** **13** ## Independent Examiner's Report To The Trustees Of Young & Inspired 4 and 13. **24th March 2021** **14** e 31.01.2021 Income & Expenditure Statement e 31.01.Z021 e31.01.2020 Restrtcted Funds Resirlcted Funds Unrestrlcied Funds Funds INCOMINGRFSOURCES DONATIONS RECEIVED 32.115.00 38,969.01 73,908.7 114,SS7.SO CRANTS RECEIVED 62.399.00 93,080.BI 53.390.04 188.702.28 OTHER INCOME GIFT AID CLAIMS 500.00 7,587.50 L.434.00 5,072.50 94.514.00 140,137 3Z 127.Z98.70 309.766.28 TOTALINCOMING RESOURCFS 234.6.51 72 4?7.Q64.98 RFSOURCE5 EXPENDED CHAWTABLE PROGRAMS BACK ON OUR FEAT ART HAVEN BREEZE BRITAIN R US BRUNCH BOX CONQUER THE KITCHEN D.M.C. DRAMA MAKES ME CALMER FIRST AID FLORALART HOhlEWORK BOOSTER CLUB LOCKDOWN LOOKSUP PASSION FRUIT PROIECT SCIENCE CLUB SEASONAL TRIPS SKILLS BUILDINGCOURSES SUNSHINE BREAKFASTCLUB Suviry & SUCCESSFUL SWIMFIT TEACH ME TO REACH WALKING WARRIORS WATER SPORTS WELL REMEDIAL L45.800.00 67,400.00 820.50 2,400.00 17,000.00 18,900.00 22.240.00 23.520.00 1.200.00 23,984.50 11,614.00 9.905.00 10,750.00 14,314£5 L2.900.00 38.200.00 30.870.00 10,842.93 7,000.00 1,686.76 5.000.00 6.000.00 LL.699.66 1.085.00 LQ.360.00 3,380.00 3,269.39 31,240.OQ 19.210.00 7.388.87 15,805.00 ii.000.00 600.00 3.000.00 8,302.00 5,000.00 2,490£4 24.385.00 2,050.00 14,000.00 25.150.00 29.000.00 280.00 6.645.00 239.00 542.93 13,042.93 2L.000.00 Le,442.96 1,000.00 L45.800.00 67.400.00 159,666.24 264.13&49 ADMINisfRATIVEEXPENSES BANK CHARGES FUNDRAISING COSTS ADVERTISING & PUBLICITY INSURANCE LEGALAND ADMIN EXP WAGES EQUIPMENT PURCHASED& OFFICE MAINT. TELEPHONE TRAINING WEB DESIGN & IT 2.50 165.00 250.00 11.020.00 300.00 623.30 1.152.00 1,332.00 25,902.58 3.621.51 68.39 240.00 35.90 3.580.10 loo.00 1.200.00 1,440.00 1.600.00 31,5819 41,ISS.34 1.47.5.90 7.091.7 IZ,S3E.06 NEf INCOMING RESOURCES TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES FUNDS BROUGHT FOkWARD 149,681.42 170.986.80 TOTALFUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 137.950.76 149.68L.42 15 The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477(2) of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31st January 2021. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31st January 2021 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006. The director acknowledges his responsibilities for: (a) ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Section 386 of the Companies Act 2006 and (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year, and its profit and loss for the financial year, in accordance with the requirements of section 393, and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company. These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime and with the Financial Reporting Standards for Smaller Entities (effective January 2015). **ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD** **Director** **Director** **Approved by the Board on: 29 April 2021** **Yours,** **C Lubin** **16** ## _**Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 January 2021**_ **17** **26 Clapton Common London E5 9BA Tel: 020 3475 2134 info@youngandinspired.org.uk www.youngandinspired.org.uk Charity No: 1145639**