2021-03-31-accounts - Refocus Project Ltd

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	From	Period start date			T o	Period end date
		1	APRIL	2020		31	March	2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name	Refocus Project Limited	Refocus Project Limited

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any)	1150441

Charity's principal address		BIZNIZ POINT
		DARTFORD
		Kent
		DA11DZ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
Trustee name Ofce (if any) Dates acted if not for whole year Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Tara keen Secretary
2 Joanna Oliver Chair
3 Genny Jones Treasurer
4 Karen walker Safeguarding/ Social worker
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Names of the charity trustees who	Names of the charity trustees who	Names of the charity trustees who	manage the charity
	Trustee name	Ofce (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
1	Tara keen	Secretary
2	Joanna Oliver	Chair
3	Genny Jones	Treasurer
4	Karen walker	Safeguarding/ Social worker
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	Names of the trustees for the trustees)	charity, if any, (for	example, any custodian
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address




Name of chief executive or names of senior staf members (Optional information)
Garnet Johnson

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Memorandum Type of governing document

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Company How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)

Elected By Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

To promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential as individuals in particular but not exclusively young people and adults who are at risk from drugs and criminal activity

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Deliver alternative to exclusion projects for those vulnerable to gang culture and crime exploitation Behaviour management programmes in schools and alternative to exclusion projects Mentoring and coaching young offenders and adults

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Projects and Schools Summary of the main achievements of the We reached 7750 young people in schools in Orpington, charity during the year Canterbury, Bromley, Margate, Sevenoaks, Greenwich, and North Kent. The Child sex/crime exploitation sessions are to reach and teach at the earliest ages! To our surprise one Teacher said, “they were fun, engaging and by far the best sessions the schools had ever had, “PRU kids begged their teachers to let them have the session again”, young people off loaded concerns that arose and 99% of the kids said they learnt so much. Over 7000 responses to feedback from CCE/CSE workshops. 95% always say they would reconsider negative behaviours after the workshop, 99% always say that the session was engaging and helpful. 5% will always confess they could still end up in gang culture as the temptation of money is too much. Emergency telephone service During Lockdown we got a small grant to set up a phone line, to support a caseload of 40 vulnerable and at-risk young people aged 11 - 18 years old. Some Case studies During Lockdown we received referrals from parents who were struggling with their young people. Many of these cases required endless amounts of support and mediation between parent and young people at risk. • Many parents were so desperate that they wanted to send their children back to their home countries • Families living in close proximity got into desperate situations that became life threatening • Young people continued to get involved in crime, but used different methods to transport themselves and keep under the radar of the police. Uber taxis, masking as Deliveroo drivers and wearing high viz vest etc • Young people and parents increased their drug use during lockdown • One young girl contacted us who was being sex trafficked and gang raped during lockdown • Sadly, two of our young people were stabbed during lockdown and thankfully survived and we spent many hours supporting the parents and working with the police to help the family to stay safe

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Section D Achievements and performance

Employability Project 2020

Refocus was successful in receiving funding from Kent’s VRU (Violence Reduction Unit) to deliver an employability project, that supported 7 vulnerable young people aged 17-25 with job skills.

We helped young people to understand their own mental and emotional wellbeing, manage, anxiety, isolation, resilience coping away from gaming and addictions, their behaviours and the effects that these can have on their personal development. We addressed issues that have been identified as common factors.

Impact

The success factors of our project were: Getting young people into employment four of the seven young people secured work during a difficult period and three have sustained employment. Giving us success rate of 57%.

All young people now have an updated CV, which they can now use during application stage of Job search and will give them a better opportunity of being accepted for interview.

Covid 19 Survey

One of the most important things that we did to address barriers, was to develop a Covid 19 youth survey that enabled us to gather information, on how the lockdown and restrictions had affected young people and what they would like to see happen, in terms of support in the future.

Our survey reached over 100 young people and gave us an insight into young people mental state during lockdown, how it affected their education, homelife, friendships, employment and what support they would like

post lockdown. The survey helped our services to plan, develop & deliver young people led services and will aid us in developing future projects.

Prisons and Breaking Better

During lockdown we had call from parents where young people were getting arrested within months of lockdown.

We provided over 55 one-to-one-hour slots, using virtual sessions, letter writing, phones calls and visits and workshops for larger groups. It reflected in their feedback that the sessions were helpful and changed perspectives, the process and mindset about what will happen when they leave prison.

Our founder Lennox Rodgers was in and out of prison for 21 years and know the pitfalls and barriers in resettlement. His motivational talks have inspired many to make changes and others to continue to get support until they are released. We are at present developing “Doing time Outside in other prisons, and engage offenders in HM Brixton Prison, HM Elmley Prison, HM Rochester Prison, HM Oak Hill Prison on a small

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Section D Achievements and performance

capacity and we wish to develop this project.

With thanks to the violence reduction unit in Kent we hope to be in two prisons in Kent from July for five months and will be receiving a small grant to do this. However, we hope to raise more money to match fund this piece of work and then to develop the capacity to deliver for longer and to engage more offenders in more prisons, three months before their release.

Impact

We supported over 100 young offenders through our "Doing time outside" programme. 8 young people contacted Lennox directly making conscious decisions to turn their life around in prison and ask for help.

Our future plans We continue providing early intervention and prevention in schools. • Focus more on rehabilitation of young offenders in prison and in the community in 2021 onwards and explore all options to get young offenders out of crime, changing mindsets and into employment. • We hope to develop a cohort of partners and networks with the same goal in mind. • Recruit three young people who we have rehabilitated from offending behaviour via the Kick Start Scheme - We will be supporting some of society’s most vulnerable and marginalised people to break the destructive cycle of addiction and crime initially in Rochester prison and Elmley. Lennox and the team will be delivering lived experience 1-2-1 and group work sessions as part of this project and sharing his story of recovery. This will help to instil hope and show participants that change is possible as they prepare for discharge. • Pull stakeholders and community together to plan and develop a supportive residential rehabilitation unit i.e. housing, employability and training. • Continue to develop our training resources and deliver more training to organisations working with young people. • The Safer Communities Alliance CIC are helping us to collaborate with community and develop a parent forum, that will enable them to meet, share their experiences and speak directly to authorities and professionals including decision makers, with the aim to help shape how services/support should be delivered in the future.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Breaking better – we aim to get more support to increase marketing, social media presence and pursue dates with businesses, community events and conferences.

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Section E Financial review


Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves	Our Charity works to maintain a reserves of at least 3 months running cost for the continuation of our services. The project received some restricted funding which is being carried forward to the new year as we could not run some of the projects due to COVID19.
Details of any funds materially in defcit
Further fnancial review details (Optional information)
Youmay chooseto include additional information, where relevant about: • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); • how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; • investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.	Schools, donations and external small grants have mainly funded our services this year. We have been given a soft loan for the production of the book Breaking Better Don Hanson Charitable Foundation Trust and 40% of the loan is outstanding and the 60% is treated as a donation to the charity out of this is Refocus owes 5% to the co author. If by 2023 we haven’t paid the 40% soft loan it will be written of The proceeds are shown in the accounts and we have a stock value of £39,000

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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Signature(s) Full name(s) Genevieve Jones Position (eg Secretary, Treasurer Chair, etc) Date 28/10/2021

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Refocus Ltd
Receipts and p
For the period 04/01/2020
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted
funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Grants 152,546
Schools and sessionals
Bank Interest 18.06
Gifts and Donations 20,856
Other Income 3,163
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 24,037.57 152,546.24
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
Sub total [ - ] -
Total receipts 24,038 152,546
A3 Payments
Sessional/Administration
Salaries and Sessional 45,285
Uniform and Promotional 401
Accounts
Volunteer 267
Consultancy
Rent 22,230
Website
Insurance
Small Equipment 2,738
Other Expenses
Travel and fuel 250
Printing. Postag and Stationery 0
Adversting/Promotional
Event and Conferences
Marketing
Professional Services
Resources
Book Writer and Breaking Better Book Write of
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Receipts and p For the period 04/01/2020 from

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Trustee meetings
Training and Development
Telephone and Helpline 4,680
Kent Sports- Project Costs 8,115
YEF- Project Costs 553
Kent Community Foundation 2,119
Small general project equipment costs 5,987
Sub total - 92,624
A4 Asset and investment purchases,
(see table)
- -
- -
Sub total - -
Total payments - 92,624
Net of receipts/(payments) 24,038 59,922
A5 Transfers between funds - -
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end 24,038 59,922
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at th
Categories Details
B1 Cash funds
CAF Cash 10,835
CAF Gold 52,874
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
B2 Other monetary assets Breaking Better Book Stock
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Details
B3 Investment assets
Details
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
Details
B5 Liabilities Soft Loan for Book
60% of Loan to be witten of in 2023
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
Signature
of all the trustees
G Jones
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115041
payments accounts CC16a
03/31/2021
To
03/31/2021 03/31/2020
Endowment funds Total funds Last year
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
- 152,546 73,101
- - 1,280
- 18 2
- 20,856 4,301
- 3,163 6,599
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- 176,584 85,282
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- 176,584 85,282
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45,285 38,756
401 1,847
- 250
267 -
10350.00 10,350 3,000
22,230 8,450
2922.59 2,923 90
595.05 595 332
2,738 1,565
1115.79 1,116 213
250 986
171.32 171 695
96.00 96 1,078
38.00 38 1,895
1441.14 1,441 4,269
- 246
- 168
- 15,508
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payments accounts

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59.67 60 187
4803.00 4,803
4,680
8,115
553
2,119
5,987 -
21,593 114,217 79,534
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21,593 114,217 79,534
- 21,593 # 62,367 5,749
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15,539 9,790
- 21,593 # 77,906 15,539
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- 21,593 # 77,906 15,539
he end of the period
Unrestricted funds Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
5,890 4,945
52,874
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5,890 57,819 -
Agreement Error Agreement Error Agreement Error
Unrestricted funds Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
38,430 - -
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- - -
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Current value
Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)
(optional)
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Current value
Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)
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Fund to which liability Amount due When due
relates (optional) (optional)
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50,802
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Print Name Date of approval
Genevieve Jones 10/28/2021
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ members of

Charity Name Refocus Project Ltd

On accounts for the 31/03/21 year ended

Charity no (if any)

Set out on pages

(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended DD / MM / YYYY .

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s 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.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material examiner's matters have come to my attention in connection with the statement examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

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.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: ajr

Date: 04/12/21

Name: Andrew James Rogers

Relevant FCA

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professional qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: 78 Merewood Road Bexleyheath Kent DA7 6PQ

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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