Faith in Schools Newham
Statement of financial activities For the year ending 31[st] July 2022
The Wakeling Partnership
24 Ethelburt Avenue,
Southampton
SO16 3DD
FAITH IN SCHOOLS
Trustee Report 2021-2022
Registered Address for the charity:
58 Reginald Road,
Forest Gate London. E7 9HS
Faith in Schools is a registered charity No. 1147664
and a partner trust with Scripture Union
Trustees
Mark Waterfield (Chair) Brian Smith (Vice Chair) Jill McWilliam (Safeguarding) Susanne Daswani (Church Liaison)
The trustees met five times during the year financial year. At these meetings they ensured the finances of the charity were in order, as well as made plans with the director to ensure the charities aims continue to be met. The trustees are in agreement that this is the case, and the accounts have been independently examined successfully.
The following statistics and activities report on the impact of our work for the duration of the academic year from Sept 21 – July 22.
Achievements and Activities
This report tells of our work in schools and with churches in Newham. Our aim is to advance the Christian faith amongst children and young people in their schools, in partnership with their local churches.
Our vision is for every child and young person in schools to have the opportunity to meet, in their RE lessons, local Christians and discover what it means to be a Christian in the 21[st] century.
This year we attempted to expand our session beyond Newham supporting schools in the North West in Merseyside. We also completed our first year of delivering a Knife Crime project ‘What’s The Point’ to primary and secondary schools in Newham.
As we return to our regular expected service figures since the Covid pandemic, we have continued to experience a growth in overall demand for our services which outstrips our staffing capacity to fulfil. We have also seen new volunteers coming through.
We taught 949 lessons in 46 different schools teaching 29,400 pupils. We saw over 4500 pupils at the Easter Experience and the Christmas Journey. 154 volunteers from local churches have given over 1982 hours of their time supporting what we do in schools. Our average lesson score was 5.5 out of a potential score of 6 from lesson evaluations by teachers. This demonstrates sustained high-quality provision consistent with the last seven years.
What’s The Point? - Schools Knife Crime Prevention
This year, FiS and Newham Youth For Christ were successful in bidding for funding to run a Knife Crime project in 6 schools in Canning Town and Custom House. Local residents voted for the project, which aims to support young people to change the culture around youth violence.
Following the recent stabbing of Junior Jah last year, what
we offer schools is relevant to the experience of their learners and take a multi-agency approach to educating pupils about the risks and the consequences of carrying a knife. WTP is an opportunity to work intensively with key influencers in Yr10, to take them on a learning journey, and give them a platform, skills and the confidence to present what they think to their peers using their own voice.
“Pupils gained awareness of knife crime; developing an urgency to help prevent others getting hurt; and are eager to work together and share their ideas” Mr Cox, Eastlea School
We are excited to be delivering this project with volunteers from the local community who have direct experience of
being involved in a culture of youth violence and knife crime. ‘What’s The Point’ has saved 1 young person’s life who learned what to do to keep themselves alive following a knife attack.
“This really impacted me - I get what it felt like for a parent to lose someone, and what it’s like being in a prison cell.” Royal Docks Pupil Yr10
In addition to the 3 secondary schools, we also ran the pilot project in 3 primary schools working with Yr6. These children are well aware of youth violence, gang activity and knife crime in their area. Overall, we worked with 120 children and young people who in turn reached further 500 students. Several church leaders (Isaac, Kamal and Dave) came to share their story of loss of a loved one to Knife Crime, and about forgiveness or non-retaliation to prevent knife crime from escalating.
“(WTP) will change your view of carrying knives. If we spread the information to others it can really make a difference in the community and reduce Knife Crime.” Yr10 Pupil Royal Docks
A Belated Commissioning
On 16th November, Faith in Schools’ supporters, church leaders and volunteers joined our Schools Workers to pray together for the first time since lockdown to commission our team, the RE:Discovery resources, and ‘What’s the Point?’
It was a blessing for people to connect or reconnect face to face, something everyone seems to appreciate more in 2021. We were joined by the Bishop Peter of Barking and Myles MacBean National Director of Scripture Union who shared their views on why Christian Schools Work is so vital. We learned about the inspiration behind these mission initiatives and that after Covid, donuts are apparently not as popular as you might think.
Easter Experience & Christmas Journey – live and in person!
As we recovered from the disruption and social distancing of the pandemic, our ‘Christmas Journey’ December 2021 saw us host 2,525 pupils , deliver 84 sessions, to 29 schools, with 67 volunteers from 36 churches, over 10 days, including 1 baby!
Sharing their faith with pupils from across the borough, our annual ‘Nativity with a difference’ saw 44% more children and 3 times more churches than last year.
Church and school communities were able to share love, (not viruses) thanks to loads of sanitiser as well as careful planning of Faith in Schools staff, teachers and churches.
“Fabulous and engaging. The children really enjoyed it. Very in formative and consolidated their learning from school.” Plaistow teachers.
Due to the Omicron wave, about a third of schools joined on Zoom but still had a wonderful time:
“It was really engaging and children thoroughly enjoyed watching and remained engaged at all times through the singing and acting! Well done to all involved - we hope to see you in person next year!” (Odessa RE Lead)
A special mention to the Forest Gate churches: Emmanuel, St Marks, St Saviour, Ridley, Woodgrange Baptist and All Saints who thankfully kept calm and carried on hosting without Alice who was selfisolating due to Covid.
In the New Year, Faith in Schools supported Newham churches to deliver the biggest Easter Experience since the pandemic. Volunteers from 35 churches gave 747 unforgettable hours to local children aged 8-9 so they could explore the impact of Jesus’ Resurrection first-hand in their lives today. Working together, they encouraged 2,190 pupils from 32 schools to paint, sing, act, craft, move and garden their way through Holy
Week. The school staff, parents and children are from all faiths and none, so for many it was their first time in a church and to meet a Christian .
”Thank you and well done for an excellent day last week, our children really enjoyed it. A great mix of activities and it engaged all our children. Please pass on our appreciation to all your volunteers. We look forward to working with you in future.”
Safeguarding
The trustees have reviewed the charities practices and procedures around safeguarding of children who we come into contact with in schools. They have agreed that our practices are fit for purpose and are happy for the charity to continue to work under the safeguarding policies of the schools we work with. All volunteers have gone through our safeguarding training. There have been no instances of concern and no complaints received about the charities practices and procedures. All volunteers who work with us are DBS’ed through Scripture Union.
Our finances and figures
Our finances for this period go from April 2021 to July 2022. In this time our income was £ 152,786 our expenditure was £ 145,776 . Our charity continues to be in a positive financial position which required trustees and charity management to make some difficult decisions around staffing and capacity. Since Covid a number of grants that were open to funding our work have changed their priorities (towards for example food banks), along with some of our existing funders finding it difficult to give what they used to. We have also seen our local giving diminish somewhat as the cost-of-living rises, Of the £ 87,863 balance left in our account, £ 32,567 is in restricted funds. The remaining £ 55,296 in unrestricted funds is allocated towards wages from September 2022.
FiS Income 2021 – 2022
FiS Expenditure 2021 – 2022
Falth In Schoolj 1st guSt 2021 to 31st July 2022 Restrlcted Ggneral FurK14 Fund 2021111 Totsl Totsl Rolpts Donatlons and other slmllar recelpts Donabons and tax r&l8imed Grants HMRC Comd Supwt othgr Incomg Sale of resources Investment IoMe Other Income 43.840 9.605 43,840 108.633 23,3 97,182 99,028 12 301 12 301 621 Charltable Payments & Actfvltles Salanes and Pension Donations Travel Resc4Jrces Conferences Training IT & Equipment weble Christmas Joumey Easter Experience WTP Expenses Synerg Sharing Farth in SclK)ols Sundries Repayment Pn"nling, Stsmps & stsb.ery Managèment and Admlnlstratlon costs Accounts FinanrA Fees Admin & Fees Insufance 77,575 44,761 122,336 159,146 55 322 322 115 497 499 132 274 4WJ 11,008 2,305 274 11,008 2.305 1.394 21x1 620 2,666 458 620 2.666 458 833 455 630 630 16 2.513 899 650 16 1.200 1,313 899 1.705 881 Nel receiptslPayments Transfer bets¥een funds Balance Broht loard from previcAJS ar Balance carried forvArd al end of period 12721 20,167 12.672 7.282 {20,1671 68.181 7.010 8.468 80.853 72.385 111 k(Xnb.rg date dnged. Previw5 is ts 16 months to Jldy 21 ti1st wrrent fou5 are fry 12 ryKffjih5 lo end lY 22.
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llldepend¢nt ExAmltt¢r'8 Report on the Aceounts Report to the trustees of Faith in Schwls Re8iSter¢d charity numb¢r 1147664 counts forthe year end 3 I. July 2022 Regpetdve t¥bIlItII oftrn8tee8 emIller Th¢ trust¢¢s #re Tesrwsible for the pr¢prlltion of the acwunts. Th¢ ¢h¥rity'5 tn consider that audii is not required for ihis year under stIOn 144(21 of the Charities Act 2011 (thc 2011 Act) and that an independent examinatlon l5 needeiL It is my resibIlity to: examine the accounts under se¢iion 145 of the 2011 Act. to follow the procedure5 laid down in the gcneral DircctlOIE5 given by the Chprity Commission undLY section 145(5)Ib) of the 2011 Act. and to st* whether particular matters have come to my attenti(xTr. Basis of irtdepelldetst CmIner'S report My examination w&s cwried out in accordanee with the General DtTeCtiOnS given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination in¢ludes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a Comparison of the aectsunts presented with those retord5. It a]so include5 consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the account& ond se¢ktng explanations from you as lrnstL%S concerning any such matters. The proCedUS undertaken do not pmvide all the evidence that would be required in an audiL and consequendy I do not expr&5s an audit opini¢)n on th¢ vi¢w givcn by the ac¢owits. In conneciion with my examination. no matter has come to my attention: (l) which gives me SOnable cause to believe that tn any material respect the requiremettts: to keep accountin records in accordance with tiOn 130 of the 2011 Act. and to prepare accoun which accord with the accounting records comply with th¢ taountÉng wuirements of the 2011 Aci ve beert met; or {2) to whieh. in m understanding of k opiti10 attention should be drawn in order th enable a pro e accounts to be reach. SiA Name Mwk Wakeling Athlrtss Th¢ Wakeltng Partnership 24 Ethelburt Avenu4 Southampton S0163DD Telephone 0203-336-7460