## **TREE LIFE CLUB**
## **STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS**
## **for the**
## **YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021**
**LEWIS HASSELL BSc, FCA Chartered Accountant 235 Bury New Road Whitefield Manchester M45 8QP**
## **TREE LIFE CLUB**
## **Contents:**
|Trustees' Annual Report|3|
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|Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities|6|
|Independent Examiner's Report|7|
|Income and Expenditure Account|8|
|Statement of Affairs|9|
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## **TREE LIFE CLUB**
## **TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2021**
Tree Life Club is a charity constituted by Deed of Trust and is a registered charity,
number 1146505.
The address of the charity is 9 Roston Road, Salford M7 4HH
The charity trustees during the period to 31 March 2021 were
E Cohen
D Roberts
D Greenblatt
The trustees carry out the administration of the charity.
## **How our activities deliver public benefit :**
Over the last year we have run [some services were via Zoom and telephone conferences due to Covid 19]
- Youth sessions 4 times a week running a curriculum of social, life skills, healthy living, community service, cultural and sport activities.
- 400 hours of specific therapeutic and counselling.
- We have been running a successful mentoring project.
We have 127 young people currently being mentored, including 41 additional young people this year.
We successfully closed and completed mentoring 37 young people.
Cumulatively over the last 3 years, 196 young people have been mentored.
• During Covid we ran Zoom Classes with 50 vulnerable young people [suffering from emotional health, physical health, depression, stress and anxiety] and their families to improve their mental and physical health and wellbeing. The project will create zoom / conference calls ‘classes’ for:
- Wellbeing- guidance for young people on anxiety, stress and depression.
- Wellbeing – guidance for parents on focused topics using ‘top tip’ videos, guides for bedtime ideas for anxious children; a host of free booklets, colouring sheets; a gratitude journal.
- Nutrition – using workshops, charts and worksheets for healthy lifestyle
- Arts & Craft – using fun worksheets with incentives and prizes, this gives them activities to do to fill their time and relieve boredom
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If young people have a question, they do not want to ask in a zoom session, they texted their query to a volunteer mentor who will call them back with their response. The project continued after restrictions are lifted, for example, to organise groups to discuss the effects of COVID-19 crisis on them, and to provide ideas for how to rebuild connections and friendships and return to school without any anxiety.
The project will continue online to support those children who do not immediately return to school.
• Special Covid project called “Connections Magazine”; a way for young males within the Orthodox Jewish community to stay connected during this period of lockdown as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.
We produced a weekly magazine to be circulated to 200 young people that features the things that are important to them during this moment. We encouraged young people to send in their ideas to be featured, this could be anything from written news articles, advice and tips for studying at home to pictures of their achievements and activities; anything creative they want to send in.
Young people submitted their information on a weekly basis to the staff at Tree Life Club. We will edit, print and deliver the magazine. Each week we will include a competition with an incentive to encourage young people to stay connected.
• Risk assessments to include: deep cleaning of the premises; installation of plastic screens; and tape on the floor to facilitate safe social spacing. It will also provide PPE, and hand- washing facilities for all staff and volunteers.
• Our mentors have been given 10 monthly [besides for holidays] group supervision.
• We ran successful stimulating holiday program [August] with a total of 91 individual young men. The programme started with a healthy appetizing and balanced breakfast to support the young people in having healthy start to the day, followed by professional instructors helping develop new skills.
- This year 12 young people have achieved vocational qualifications in woodwork technology.
The young people have learnt the following new skills : **Social** - improving communications, peer and family relationships, the latter with parents and grandparents, and managing risk taking whilst having fun. **Health** - improving physical, mental, emotional and sexual health with focus on substance use, eating, exercising, stress and anxiety.
**Identity** - developing awareness of, and strengthening, spiritual, personal, political and social identity through self-assessment and exploration.
**Team Work** - understanding group development, dynamics and roles and being able to build, lead and contribute to teams.
**Planning** - ability to create and manage an activity.
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## **Funding**
During the period we secured or maintained our main funding from the following institutions:
Ccolors
National Lottery – Awards For All program.
Forever Manchester
We are very grateful to these funders, and a few others who prefer to remain anonymous, for the confidence they have shown in our charity by their financial support. We are also grateful for the continued support of our private individual donors. These are too many to be listed here but their contribution is particularly welcome especially during these years of economic uncertainty, despite of which they have maintained (in some cases even increased) their support.
The bankers are Natwest, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester .
The income of the charity is by way of grants and donations.
The accountant is Lewis Hassell, 235 Bury New Road, Whitefield, Manchester
M45 8QP
For and on behalf of the Trustees:
……………………………………………………… Date ………………………….
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## **TREE LIFE CLUB**
## **TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE ACCOUNTS**
The trustees are required by charity law to prepare accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity as at the end of the financial year and the surplus or deficit of the charity for that period. It is also the trustees' responsibility to maintain adequate accounting records, safeguard the assets of the charity and take reasonable steps in preventing and detecting fraud and other irregularities.
The Trustees confirm that suitable accounting policies, consistently applied and supported by reasonable and prudent judgements and estimates, have been used in the preparation of the accounts on the basis that the charity will continue, and that applicable accounting standards have been followed.
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## **TREE LIFE CLUB**
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES**
## **FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2021**
We report on the accounts of the Charity for the period ended 31 March 2021 which are set out on pages 8 and 9.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
As the Charity's Trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act) does not apply. It is our responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charities Commissioners under section 43(7)(b) of the Act, whether particular matters have come to our attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner's report**
Our examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanation from you as Trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit concerning any such matters.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with our examination, no matter has come to our attention:-
1. which gives us reasonable cause to believe that in any respect the requirements
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act;
- - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the Act
- have not been met
2. to which, in our opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached
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## **TREE LIFE CLUB**
## **INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021**
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**INCOME**
Restricted - Grants
Unrestricted - Donations
**Less Expenditure**
Wages
Consultancy
Food
Repairs
Activities
Expenses
Accountancy
Rent
Consumables
Maintenance
Depreciation
**Income over Expenditure**|
|**Mar 2021**
£
59,600
77,001
136,601
15,389
24,219
2,380
9,482
11,800
4,942
300
12,000
--
--
--
80,512
**74,834**|**Mar 2020**
£
50,125
14,112
64,237
12,732
3,600
5,500
2,692
9,759
1,730
120
9,000
6,131
--
--
50,664
**13,573**|**Mar 2020**
£
50,125
14,112
64,237
12,732
3,600
5,500
2,692
9,759
1,730
120
9,000
6,131
--
--
50,664
**13,573**|
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## **TREE LIFE CLUB**
## **STATEMENT OF AFFAIRS AS AT 31 MARCH 2021**
|**CURRENT ASSETS**
Bank Accounts
**FIXED ASSETS**
Additions
Equipment
Minibus
Portacabins and land improvements
**LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
Creditors
Bounce back loan
Bank account
Represented by -
**ACCUMULATED FUND**
Opening Balance
Income Over Expenditure|
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|**Mar 2021**
£
1,354
82,087
28,969
5,000
162,089
197,410
24,605
37,505
--
62,105
**135,305**
79,216
56,089
**135,305**|**Mar 2020**
£
--
--
28,969
5,000
80,000
113,939
120
--
34,633
34,753
**79,216**
65,643
13,573
**79,216**|
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