2023-12-31-accounts - Jericho Road Project

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Jericho Road Project (Registered charity, number 1145740) Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023

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2 - 9	nnual report
10	Independent e	report
11	Receipts & payments account
12	Statement of assets & liabilities
13 - 15	Notes to the accounts

Jericho Road Project annual report for the year ended 31 December 2023

Full name Jericho Road Project

Registered charity number 1145740

Organisation type Charitable incorporated organisation

Principal address

Flat 1A Chestnut Grove, Nottingham, NG3 5AD

Trustees

Susan Clark Kay Wainman Rev Kate Kent Andrea Shea Tina Leonardi, from 12 January 2023

Independent examiner

Units 1 & 2 North West, 41

Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL

Objectives

The objects for which the charity is established are:

(a) To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Faith for the benefit of the public in the City of Nottingham and in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the directors of the Charity may from time to time think fit.
(b) To aid persons who are in need by reason of their involvement in the sex industry and/or drugs abuse and/or homelessness or those who are at risk of becoming involved as such in the City of Nottingham and in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the directors of the Charity may from time to time think fit.
(c) To relieve poverty amongst sex industry workers and their dependants in the City of Nottingham and in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the directors of the Charity may from time to time think fit by providing education and advice on health, housing and financial issues.
(d) To advance education and awareness of the condition and needs of sex industry workers.

Our aims fully reflect the objectives for which the charity was established.

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Governance and management

The CIO is operated under the rules of its constitution registered with the Charity Commission on 19th December 2022. Until 19th December 2022, the charity was a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee with Registered Company Number: 07868116

Trustees are appointed as and when seems fit according to the needs of the charity and in accordance with the constitution of the CIO.

New Trustees would already be aware of the practical work of the charity and are

The obligations of Trustee membership;
and
Most recent Annual Report and Accounts and Fundraising Strategy.

The Board of Trustees are legally responsible for the overall management and control of the charity and meet at least eight times a year.

The day to day running of the charity is delegated to the staff team.

Risk management

The Trustees actively review the major risks that the charity may face. They continually monitor and control these risks to mitigate any impact that they may have on the charity in the future.

Detailed considerations of risk are dealt with by the Trustees.

Through the risk management processes established by the charity, the Trustees are satisfied that the major risks identified have been adequately mitigated where necessary. It is recognised that systems can only provide reasonable, but not absolute assurance, that major risks have been adequately managed.

Key controls used by the charity include:

Formal agendas for all Board and Committee activity:
Strategic planning, budgeting, and accounting:
Formal written policies:
Corporate Risk Statement and Risk Assessment processes
Clear authorisation and appraisal levels: and
Vetting principles as required by law for the protection of the vulnerable.

No major risks are faced or anticipated by the charity.

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Safeguarding Statement

Given the field in which we are called to work, Safeguarding is understandably a major concern; if we are doing our calling effectively, issues will be uncovered from time to time. Care of staff is important; training needs to be robust and always up to date; procedures need to be understood and adhered to; reporting needs to be clear and effective. A very open and positive relationship with other agencies has been a very great help. The board are highly supportive of the staff in the challenges they face.

This year, all our policies, procedures and training for staff, trustees and volunteers have been reviewed and updated. The quality of our reporting continues to improve, and developments within our Lamplight database will help us to remain up to speed in the future.

The Jericho Road Project is very pleased to report a year of both development and of consolidation as significant recruitment has taken place within our staff and volunteer teams, including trustees. We continue to be grateful for the vital support of our funders, charities, local groups, churches and individuals whose generous support marginalised people.

Our achievements:

We were delighted to welcome a new trustee, Tina Leonardi, who has considerable experience within charity work as both trustee and employee.

We also successfully recruited to our staff team and welcomed the addition of a new Support Worker, Office Administrator and later in the year appointed our Prison Visiting and Resettlement Worker. All of whom have settled very well into the team.

We carried a Volunteer Manager vacancy for most of the year and despite this, due to the diligence of the staff, we were able cover the duties for this period as we sought to recruit to the post.

We held a very successful volunteer event in January and are committed to continuing this annually.

Our fundraising work has been strengthened by the addition of two experienced fundraising contractors who work with our internal fundraisers. This has enabled us to increase our funding bids in terms of numbers and size.

Our working relationship with the newly formed PCC of Trinity/St Andrews and partnership in their Compassion work with vulnerable people has been growing through year.

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We continue to engage strongly with statutory and voluntary sector partners and agencies across the city, including local churches and Christian groups.

Work has been ongoing to review and improve our safeguarding systems and training.

We successfully piloted a new course for women in prison which we continue to now provide.

Our street outreach work grew in frequency and volunteer team numbers.

Jericho Road Project continues to be grateful for the support of our founder and President, the Reverend Richard Clark, who is also our Safeguarding lead/advisor to the Board. We are grateful for the strong leadership he provides in this critical area.

And our thanks also to our Patron the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, the Right Reverend Paul Williams.

provide us with a Base for our work in the vice area of Nottingham for which we thank them.

We are most grateful for all the support received from various funders throughout the year including:

J N Derbyshire Trust
Leathersellers Group
The Lady Hind Trust
Maurice & Hilda Laing Charitable Trust
Matthew Wrightson
The Benefact Trust
The Souter Charitable Trust
The Good News Alliance
Evenlode
National Lottery Awards for All
The Sage Trust
The Thomas Farr Charity
Nottinghamshire PCC Hidden Harms Grant
Nottinghamshire PCC make Notts safe grant

Some funders wished to remain anonymous.

Conclusion

We are very pleased to have recruited so successfully to our staff and volunteer teams through the year. This provides us with a strong base for maintaining and in future developing our services.

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In this it also meant that 2023 was a transitional year as some long serving staff left and new ones joined us. It is of great credit to all that the work of JRP continued and has been strengthened in a challenging year.

Our trustees have continued to offer skill, expertise and commitment throughout the year. Their many hours of work are reflected in our sustainability and in the progress we have made. We are also grateful for the other skills and expertise offered to the board, particularly in the area of accountancy and financial management.

As a Christian urb .

Activity in 2023

Aims and Objectives for 2023 were:

Recruit to our Support Work and Office Administrator vacancies
Develop our fundraising strategy and policy engaging external fundraiser/s Recruit 2 x new trustees to our trustee team
Acquire a new outreach van
Continue to develop our Prison and Befriending Work
Grow our volunteer base to further develop our regular outreaches
Develop a housing and housing related support presence including with Green Pastures
Review our Off Street work options

Principle activities, achievements and performance of the year:

New staff being recruited and embedding

Recruitment of a new trustee
Strong recruitment and training of volunteers
Interest from a potential new trustee Continuing outreaches into the city centre
Seeing growth in our Prison and Resettlement activities new course implemented and qualitative work with individuals in prison visiting and in resettlement services
Growth in our outreach work
Re-opening and use of our Drop - in facility
Partnership with Trinity/St Andrews Home Space and The Well initiatives for vulnerable women/people
Successful Volunteer Event in January
Appointing x 2 external Fundraisers

Throughout the year we engaged with a total of 99 individual women.

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Street Outreach we were pleased to increase our number of volunteer teams for outreach and thus the frequency of our outreach session this year. Enabling us to connect with 51 individual street sex workers.
Individual Support and Drop in this year fewer women attended one to one appointments as our Drop in service attracted women to our Base. This shift is a remaining legacy of the Covid season when individual appointments were essential.
Prison and Resettlement We have been able to support 49 women across prison visiting and/or resettlement individuals with regular visits to 5 prisons. The most regular visiting takes place at HMP Foston Hall in Derbyshire. We are providing essential support for women who may be homeless upon release and due to their complex needs may struggle with reintroduction into the community context. 28 women were supported into resettlement upon prison release. Piloting our successful Create: New Beginning 10-week course took place this year. Attracting a very positive response form the women attending.
Befriending Our Befriending work has continued consistently and proactively with regular individual contact with 23 women in person and by phone, text, other means of contact.

Statistics Report 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2023 Totals

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2022 2023
Total Number of different women contacted across project 112 99
Prison Visiting and Resettlement 60 49
Number of different women contacted (PV& R)
Letters/cards/parcels sent 130 79
Number of different women supported upon release/resettlement 21 28
Befriending 23 23
Number of different women supported
Contact in person (e.g. dropping off essentials) 73 46
Number of phone calls/texts (letters in brackets) 269 158 (10)
Outreach 40 51
Number of different women seen
Number of outreach sessions 48 65
On foot outreaches 30 29
Total number of Outreach contacts 151 260
One-to-one appointments/individual support 30 22
Number of different women
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Number of appointments made 52 23
Number of appointments attended 23 4
Number of phone calls/texts 169 97
Drop-in
Number of different women attended 9
Number of women attended 21
Other stats:
Essentials bags given out 39 54
Clothes given out 27 142
Referrals out 56 52
Referrals in 15 26
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*We reopened drop-in and so we referred women to drop-in more than invite them for a 1-2-1 appointments hence the reduction.

Donations and Services in Kind

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Donation or Detail Amount
Service
Seconded Staff Professional Time @ £35 an hour for Chair and £40,550
HR and Staff Rate @ £11.45 for Treasurer
Use of Property Rent Free Premises @ £700 per month and £9,250
free use of Church Rooms for Meetings
Other Total Volunteer Hours @ National Living Wage, £22,700
Trustees' Hours, Donated items including Mileage
and Treasurer's Expenses
Total £72,550
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Other activities

We have been reviewing and developing our Risk Assessment framework, policies and procedures during 2023.
Safeguarding policies have been reviewed and some new procedures introduced.

The Trustees have determined that the appropriate level of free reserves which are not invested in tangible fixed assets should be equivalent to three months of the charit plus possible Staff Redundancy and some Notice Period pay, which is approximately £52,200.

At 31 December 2023, total reserves amounted to £100,151 (2022 - £108,291), free (unrestricted) reserves amounted to £93,271 (2022 - £79,406) and restricted reserves amounted to £6,880 (2022 - £28,885).

Jerlcho Road Project Investment policy The Trustees have the power to invesl in such assets as they see fit and the charity has a policy of keeping any surplus liquid funds in short term deposits which can be accessed readily should the need arise. Public benefit statement The Trustees have considered this matter, in conjunction wilh the guidanc8 contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, and have concluded: That the aims of the organisation continue to be charitable.. That the aims and work done give identifiable benefils to the charitable sector and both indirectly and directly to individuals in need.. That the benefits are for the public, are not unreasonably restricted in any way and certainly not by ability to pay.. and That there is no detriment or harm arising from the aims or activities. Future plans Our obJe¢tlves for 2024 Further develop and strengthen our fundraising stralegy. policy and processes.. Recruit to our vacant Volunteer and Social Media manager post.. Develop our marf(eting, promotions and social media presence- Recruit 1 x new trustee to our trustee team.. Acquire a new outreach van.. Continue to develop our Prison and Befriending Work including the Creat8.. New Beginnings programme.. Grow our volunteer base as appropriate= Develop the operations from our base including running the Kintsugi Hope course - to be piloted.. Develop a housing and housing related support presence including with Green Pastures.. Review our Off Street work options.. Review our options regarding developmentslimprovements lo our Base.. Review and recruit to the senior stsff structure within the organisation.. and Develop Partnership working with other agencies and networks including local churches. Signed on behalf of the charitys Board of Trustees: Signed I,ICiL I Dale Allison Kay Wainman, Chair

Independent e report to the trustees of Jericho Road Project for the year ended 31 December 2023

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Jericho Road Project (the charity) for the year ended 31 December 2023.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

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

accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
the accounts do not accord with those records.

I 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.

Signed ____ Date _______ Jo Employee of Community Accounting Plus

Jericho Road Project Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 December 2023

Jericho Road Project. Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 December 2023 2Q22 2023 Cash assets Bank accolmts Cash in harK Note 108211 80 108291 100071 80 100151 Other monetary assets prepanents 1467 1467 Assets retained for the Charity's own use General eqLkprnent. Printer. cost £500, pchased 03108f23. Llabilltles Salaries IHMRC) kKlependerrt Examination fee SLnJrycrediiors {2032} 17201 (2542) 1798) 196 3536 12752) Th8se financial statsments are accepted on behalf of the tharity by.. Signed Sue Clark, Trustee Dated 13 J. 22fv 12

Jericho Road Project Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023

1. Receipts & payments accounts

Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.

2. Grants & donations

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3. Funds analysis

4. Debtors and prepayments

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5.

Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period.

6. Glossary of terms

Creditors: These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.

Debtors: These are amounts owed to the charity, but not received in the accounting period.

Prepayments: These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.

Restricted funds: These are funds given to the charity, subject to specific restrictions set by the donor, but still within the general objects of the charity.