2024-12-31-accounts - Jericho Road Project

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Jericho Road Project (Registered charity, number 1145740) Financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024

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2 - 11	nnual report
12	Independent e	report
13	Receipts & payments account
14	Statement of assets & liabilities
15 - 17	Notes to the accounts

Jericho Road Project annual report for the year ended 31 December 2024

Full name Jericho Road Project

Registered charity number 1145740

Organisation type Charitable incorporated organisation

Principal address

Flat 1A Chestnut Grove, Nottingham, NG3 5AD

Trustees

Kay Wainman, Chair Sue Clark, Treasurer Tina Leonardi Andrea Shea Huw Davies, since 11/04/24 Rev Kate Kent, until 18/12/24

Independent examiner

Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL

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.

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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.

Public benefit statement

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'.

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

We are committed to continuing to develop and embed safeguarding into our culture at JRP. The vulnerability of the people we support means much of our work we hope will help inform our practice, develop our culture and improve outcomes for our service users.

Our record keeping system, Lamplight, offers a safeguarding module which we have introduced into our practice. It enables co-ordinated working, easier management of cases, and a robust approach to recording, reviewing and acting on safeguarding procedures and risk assessments.

We have also developed Safeguarding Adults Awareness training for all our volunteers, which includes the recommended content set by the Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Adults Board (NSAB)/Nottingham City Safeguarding Adults Board (NCSAB). Further to the minimum standards set by the NSAB/NCSAB, our training course covers topics such as trauma-informed care and empowering our service users.

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. Our Safeguarding Lead offers support and expertise to staff as well as having oversight of every Safeguarding Concern recorded on Lamplight offering guidance and support, where appropriate.

In 2024, 25 separate Safeguarding Concerns were identified and recorded.

The Jericho Road Project is very pleased to report another year of both development and consolidation as our staff and volunteer teams have grown and the recent recruitment of a Volunteer Manager has helped us invest in volunteer recruitment and support.

With the growth of our staff team and the increasing costs around delivering services the support of our funders, charities, local groups, churches and individuals is even more vital.

We are once again very grateful to all those whose generous support enables us to across all our activities.

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Our achievements

We were delighted to welcome a new trustee, Huw Davies, who has volunteered with the project for some time. We are grateful for his contribution to our organisational management as he supports our policies and procedures particularly around Health and Safety.

We were sorry that Pastor Kate Kent stepped down as a trustee at the end of 2024 and are grateful for all she contributed as she served as a trustee for several years and for her continued support. Our grateful thanks to her.

We also successfully recruited to our staff team and welcomed the addition of a Volunteer and Social Media Manager and her impact on our volunteer team through recruitment, training and reviews and in further developing our social media presence.

We were very sorry to say goodbye to our Project Manager (job share) and longstanding staff member, Sharon Brooks in 2024. Sharon has made a significant contribution to the work of Jericho Road Project over many years, her faith and commitment to the women we work with has been unwavering and inspiring to the whole team and beyond. Our very grateful thanks to Sharon.

We held another very successful volunteer event in January and are grateful for the generous support of Cornerstone Church in providing a wonderful venue for this. With a dispersed and diverse volunteer team we value the opportunity to have time together as a team to celebrate, share and learn.

Our fundraising work continues through our experienced fundraising contractors who work with our internal fundraisers. While applying to funders already known to us we have successfully added some new funders to our funding support. In addition to funding applications we ran our own fundraising campaign and have received many generous donations from groups and individuals. We continue to seek to further invest in our outreach work with the purchase of a new minibus, fundraising activities have been taking place and will continue.

Our working relationship with Trinity Church and support of their Compassion work continues and we are grateful for the base we occupy through the kind permission of the vicar. The location in the vice area is invaluable and the continuity of our presence there is a great asset in establishing relationships and connections with the women we work with. We are able to offer services at our base, a familiar, warm, safe and welcome space in an area known to the women.

We continue to engage strongly with statutory and voluntary sector partners and agencies across the city, including the Police, housing and probation services; together with local churches and Christian groups including through Christian Action Network Nottingham.

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Following a period of staff training we successfully introduced the Kintsugi Hope course at our base for women in the community and continue for women in prison. Our opportunities to engage with women in prison continue to grow and we have been developing our through the gate service in order to enable women to receive the range of support they need to successfully transition to community living.

commitment to delivering our vision and mission, those affected by the sex industry in Nottinghamshire". We are grateful for all their considerable hard work.

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

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

generously offered time, skill, and expertise throughout the year. We are also grateful for the other specialist skills and expertise offered to the board, particularly in the area of accountancy and financial management. The Board are committed to our rolling review programme for our policies and procedures; and are grateful for the external expert advice and assistance we have received.

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

Laing Family Trust
Albert Hunt Foundation
Garfield Weston
The Anchor Foundation
Archer Trust
Church Welfare Association
The Benefact Trust
Weavers Company Jones 1986
Acts 435
Thomas Farr
The Souter Charitable Trust
The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust
Evenlode
Nottinghamshire PCC Hidden Harms grant
Nottinghamshire PCC Make Notts Safe grant
** Some funders wished to remain anonymous.

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Conclusion

As we look ahead to 2025, which is 25 years of Jericho Road Project since being founded in 2000; we are pleased to be committed to continue, by the grace of God, as to bring hope and restoration to those

Our objectives for 2024

Further develop and strengthen our fundraising strategy, policy and processes Recruit to our vacant Volunteer and Social Media Manager post
Develop our marketing, 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 Create: 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 developments/improvements to our base
Review and recruit to the senior staff structure within the organisation
Develop partnership working with other agencies and networks including local churches

Principle activities, achievements and performance of the year

New staff being recruited and embedding Volunteer & Social Media Manager appointed who is also a Support Worker and Fundraising Administrator
Recruitment of a new trustee
Strong recruitment and training of volunteers, including safeguarding training
Seeing growth in our Prison and Resettlement activities running two Create New Beginnings courses, an increase bible studies, and prison pick-ups (sometimes working in partnership with the police)
Further development of qualitative work with individuals in prison visiting and in resettlement services
Growth in our outreach work - frequency of outreaches and volunteer base Further developing the use of our drop - in facility
Partnership with Trinity Church Home Space and initiatives for vulnerable women/people
Successful JRP Annual Conference in January attended by volunteers and other supporters
Running two Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Courses at our base
Further development of fundraising activities and embedding of 2 external Fundraisers
Increasing networking with local churches and other organisations, including visiting 8 churches to promote our work

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Principle activities, achievements and performance of the year

Throughout the year we engaged with a total of 94 individual women.

Street Outreach we were pleased to increase our number of volunteer teams for outreach and thus the frequency of our outreach sessions this year. Enabling us to connect with 45 individual street sex workers.
Individual Support and Drop in We increased our drop-in sessions to two regular sessions per week and there has been an increase in individual support and supporting service users in the community. We ran two Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Groups at our base for service users (12 week courses)
Prison and Resettlement We have been able to support 57 women across prison visiting and/or resettlement individuals with regular visits to 1 prison. 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. 23 women were supported into resettlement upon prison release. Two further Create New Beginnings 10 week courses took place this year. Attracting a very positive response form the women attending. 12 Prison pickups.
Befriending Our Befriending work has continued consistently and proactively with regular individual contact with 12 women in person and by phone, text, other means of contact.

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Statistics Report 1st January 2024 - 31st December 2024 Totals
2023 2024
Total Number of different women contacted across project 99 94
Prison Visiting and Resettlement
Number of different women contacted (PV&R) 49 57
Letters/cards/parcels sent 79 91
Number of different women supported upon release/resettlement 28 23
Befriending
Number of different women supported 23 12
Contact in person (e.g. dropping off essentials) 46 54
Number of phone calls/texts (letters in brackets) 158 (10) (86) 1
Outreach
Number of different women seen 51 45
Number of outreach sessions 65 81
On foot outreaches 29 5
Total number of Outreach contacts 260 211
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2023 2024
One-to-one appointments/individual support
Number of different women 22 24
Number of appointments made 23 0
Number of appointments attended 4 4
Number of face-to-face contacts (individual support) N/A 49
Number of phone calls/texts 97 137 (3)
Drop-in
Number of different women attended 9 12
Number of sessions 57
Number of women attended 21 30
Create New Beginnings
Number of different known women attending 6
Number of Create New Beginnings Sessions 11
Number of known women attending 23
Bible Studies
Number of different known women attending 19
Number of Bible study sessions 40
Number of known women attending 173
Kintsugi Hope
Number of different women attending 4
Number of Kintsugi Hope Sessions 18
Number of women attending 26
Other stats:
Essentials bags given out 54 24
Clothes given out 142 153
Personal Safety Alarms given out 18
Food/Drink given out (e.g. flapjacks, hot chocolate, etc.) 271
Referrals out 52 55
Referrals in 26 53
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*We reopened drop-in and so we referred women to drop-in more than invite them for a 121 appointment hence the reduction

**In 2024, 121 appointments became individual contact in person (face-to-face contact) rather than appointment

***We started recording the number of drop-in sessions hosted in April 2024, even if no women attended

****Create: New Beginnings and Kintsugi Hope were new programmes introduced in 202

Donations and Services in Kind

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Donation or Detail Amount
Service
Seconded Staff Professional Time @ £35 an hour for Chair and £55,450
HR, and Staff Rate @ £12.60 for Treasurer
Use of Property Rent Free Premises @ £700 per month and £9,150
free use of Church Rooms for Meetings
Other Total Volunteer Hours @ National Living Wage, £20,750
Trustees' Hours, Donated items including Mileage
and Treasurer's Expenses
Total £85,350
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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 expenditure plus possible Staff Redundancy and some Notice Period pay, which is approximately £58,200.

At 31 December 2024, total reserves amounted to £140,977 (2023 - £100,151), free (unrestricted) reserves amounted to £100,710 (2023 - £93,271) and restricted reserves amounted to £40,267 (2023 - £6,880).

Independent e report to the trustees of Jericho Road Project for the year ended 31 December 2024

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Jericho Road Project (the charity) for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with t

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 _______27/06/25 Jo A, FCIE Employee of Community Accounting Plus

Jericho Road Project Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 December 2024

Jericho Road Project Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024

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

Jericho Road Project Funds analysis Opening balance Receipts (Payments) C108ing balance Restricted funds 25th Anniversary Conference Anonymous Benefact Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Gifts & Blessings for Women Gifts for Women in lieu of Easter eggs JN Derbyshire Trust Notts PCC - Hidden Harm Notts PCC - ke Notts Safe Respect for Nottingham Hygiene Trainii Social Enterprise Souter Charitable Trust Sundry gifts The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust The Abert Hunt Trust The Anchor Foundation The Archer Trust The Church Welfare Associats'on The Jones 1986 Charitable Trust The Lady Hind Trust The uriCe & Hilda Laing Charrtable TrL The New Van Fund The Thomas Farr Charity The Winter Fundraising Campaign The Worshipful Company of Weavers 258 6000 (103) 14266 (6208) 20000 (20000) (14) (50) (3455) 10400 (10400) 10000 (10000) (19) 258 5897 9360 1302 230 89 3455 216 39 213 288 194 288 3000 3000 1019 5000 5000 7000 2000 3000 10000 5000 2500 2500 100 100 3000 2830 3219 3219 5000 5000 6880 115762 40267 82375 (1019) (5000) (5000) (7000) (2000) (3000) (2634) (5000) 7366 1303 (1473) 16

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The transfers above are movements from the general fund to the designated funds.

4. Prepayments

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.

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.