Bardsley Youth Project Registered Charity number: 1152836 Financial statements for the year ended 30th September 2025 Page Contents Chairperson's and Trustees Report Independent Examiner's Report Statement of Financial Activities {Incorporating the Income and Expenditure account) Balan Sheet 8-10 Notes to the Accounts
Bardsley Youth Project Trustees Report for the year ended 30th September 2025 The trustees submit their annual report and the financial statements for the period ended 30th September 2025. Full name Bardsley Youth Project Trustees Eric Bremner (Chair) Rev Steven Medley (Resigned 8 September 2025) Rev Dexter Bracey Rev John Bernard (from 121h May 2025) Janet Powell Julia Lepoidevin Registered Charity Number 1152836 Principal Office Bardsley House Hill Top Coventry CV15EP Bankers CAF Bank Limited 25 Kings Hill Avenue West Mailing Kent, ME19 4JQ Independent Examiner Richard Butler 5 Eastgate Mews Castle Lane Warwick CV34 4BT Governance and management The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. It is operated under the rules of its memorandum and articles of association dated 10th July 2013.
Bardsley Youth Project Chair's report for the year ended 30th September 2025 Bardsley's work has evolved over 20 years now, we have been a Registered Charity over the last twelve of these years. The focus of our charity is homelessness and the prevention of homelessness in the 16 - 25 age group. Demand for Our Services - The number of interactions with most young people has remained constant but there has been a large surge in asylum seekers needing help. Young people helped to September 2025 was 161, 89 of whom were new to us. 43 needed help for four months or more. Many of the young people we assisted were unable to obtain help from any other sour. Our Staff- We thank all of our staff, Simon, Kim, Becky and Rachel for a year of dedicated, full and very caring serrfice to our young people, and Pat our Administrator and Fund Raiser for a highly sucSsful year. Thank you to Reaching Communities for your grants toward salaries currently giving our staff some security of tenure going fop¥vard. Our Fundin Bodies- I would like to thank all our funding bodies - National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund, Lloyds Foundation of England and Wales, Henry Smith Charity, as well as individual and corporate donors for the financial support that made our activities possible. Our Bi Dream - Our dream of a fit for purpose facility to Servi the needs of young people remains with us. but the funds to do it at this point of time don't. We dream on. Our Trustees - Thanks to our dedicated Team. Steve, Dexter. Jan, Julia and John for devoting so much of your busy lives to helping our homeless young people so caringly and well. Steve left us at the end of the year to take up a very demanding employed position, so thank you Steve for your years of Servi and all the best for your future. Thank you John for stepping up to join us mid-year, your Presen has already been positive. We are actively looking for additional Trustees to complement our existing skills and share the load. ort - I thank all who supported our charity in many ways including our voluntary workers and Coventry Cathedral who give us the free use and Maintenan of our base at Bardsley House. Thank you too to Warwick Events who have supported us and our staff in so many ways with funding and mentoring. Approved funding from several Grant Funders will cover a substantial part of our operating costs for the next three years. We have been working to replace Grant income with income from local businesses and other sources and this is increasing. We look forward to serving the young people who need us for many years to come. Eric Br Februa mner, Chair of Trustees 2026.
Trustees Report Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees The Constitution requires that the number of Trustees shall not be less than 3. At the end of September 2025 there were 5 Trustees. Organisational Structure The Trustees form a committee including the following officers: Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. It meets bimonthly. The commrttee has overall responsibility for strategic planning, policy formulation, approval and monitoring of programmes and servIs, finance. risk management, staff and volunteers, and premises. Staff and volunteers Bardsley Youth Project has staff and volunteers. The charity's policy on reserves The charity will aim to keep between three and six months, core running costs in reserves at all times. This is to ensure the Charity is able to meet all of its legal obligations should all funding be withdrawn. Exemptions The trustees have taken advantage of the exemptions available to small companies. including the audit exemption (see statement on balan sheet). Responsibilities of the trustees Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity at the end of the year and of the surplus or deficiency for the year then ended. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to select suitable accounting policies, as described on page 8, and then apply them on a consistent basis, making judgements and estimates that are prudent and reasonable. The members of the Committee must also prepare the financial statements on the going conrn basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business. The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose, with reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the charity. and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud or other iegUlaties. Small company provisions: This report has been prepared in accordan with the special provisions for small companies under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006. Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees: Signed Date
Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Bardsley Youth Project Year ended 30th September 2025 I report on the accounts of the charity, which are set out on pages 6 to 10. Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this period under section 145(1 } of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audrt under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibiltty to.. examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act. follow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act,. and state whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of independent examinerfs report My examination was carried out in accordan with the general directions given by the Charity Commission. 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 explanations from you as trustees conMIng any such matters. The prOdureS undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view, and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. Independent examinerfs statement In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention.. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements.. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act. and to prepare financial statements which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met. or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed Date ofl,,I Zo& Richard Butler (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)
Bardsley Youth Project ststement of Financial Activities (Incorporating the Income and Expenditure account) For the year ended 30th September 2025 2025 Total 2024 Total Note Unrestricted Restricted Incoming Resources Grants and Donations Other Income TOTAL Incoming Resources 81,029 590 81,619 80,401 161,430 590 162,020 131.687 589 132,276 80,401 Resources Expended Activities Discretionary (young people support) General Expenses Equipment, repairs & renewals Office Costs Professional Fees Volunteer Expenses Staffing Costs inc Pensions Staffing Support Costs Training Travel TOTAL Resources Expended 85 6,955 298 439 2,810 2,492 71 46,632 3,731 3.934 1,146 2,112 1,231 9,067 298 439 5,571 2,492 71 109,876 3,731 3,934 987 137,697 2,135 8,838 209 1.155 6.602 3,396 191 105,723 5,553 2,762 1,206 137,770 2,761 63,244 978 70,241 67,456 Net Income (expenditure) Eveson Trust reallocation of funds Totals funds blforward Totals funds clforward 14.163 2,501 65.054 81,718 10,160 (2,501) 2,987 10,646 24,323 (5,494) 68,041 92,364 73,535 68,041 All the activities of the charity are classed as continuing.
Bardsley Youth Project Balance Sheet as at 30th September 2025 Notes 2025 2024 Current assets Cash at bank and in hand 92.364 68,041 Net assets 92,364 68,041 The Funds of the charity Restricted Fund Unrestricted Fund 10,646 81,718 2,987 65,054 Total Funds 92,364 68,041 Exemption from audit For the year ending 30th September 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. DireGtors' responsibilities.. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the period in question in accordance with section 476," The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. These accounts have been prepared in accordance wrth the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime and with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008). The trustees declare that they have approved the accounts above. Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees: Signed Dated
Bardsley Youth Project Notes to the Accounts For the year ended 30th September 2025 1. Accounting policies The financial statements have been prepared in accordan with the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practi applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102 (Charities SORP (FRS102)) and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The financial statements include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the charity is responsible in law. Funds Unrestricted funds represent the funds of the Charity that are not subject to any restrictions regarding their use and are available for application of the general purposes of the Charity. Restricted funds are used solely for the purposes for which they were given. The funds of the Charity have been appropriately analysed and the statement of financial activities has been prepared in accordan with this analysis. 2. Grants & donations 2025 2025 Unrestricted Restricted funds funds 2025 Totsl funds 2024 Total funds Other Donors Reaching Communities (Nat Lottery) Lloyds Foundation Newfield Trust Comic Relief (via Groundworks) JD Sports Foundation Henry Smith Charity Enterprise Foundation 6,029 1,707 76,582 7,736 76,582 25,000 2,112 7,131 94,078 25,000 25,000 2,112 978 2,500 50,000 50,000 2,000 131,687 81,029 80,401 161,430
Bardsley Youth Project Notes to the Accounts For the year ended 30th Septsmber 2025 3. Movements in funds Incoming Resources (Outgoing Reallocation Resources) of funds 2025 2024 Unrestricted funds General Purposes 81,619 81,619 {67.456) (67,456) 2,501 2,501 81.718 81,718 65,054 65,054 Restricted funds Uber Moving on Up Fund Reaching Communities (Nat Lottery) Donations to Warm Hub Eveson Trust Newfield Trust (345) (67,784) 141 8,798 1,707 486 76,582 1.707 (2,501) 2,501 2,112 80,401 (2,112) (70,241) (2,501) 10,646 2,987 Restricted Funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure that meets these criteria is charged to the fund. The above restricted funds have been donated for the following specific purposes. Reaching Communities (Nat Lottery) Uber Moving on Up Fund Newfield Trust Donations to Warm Hub Eveson Trust Staff, Drop-in expenses, Office, Staff Expenses Hot meals for young people at Warm Hub While goods & Carpets for young women Hot meals for young people at Warm Hub Moved to unrestricted funds on agreement with funder
Bardsley Youth Project Notes to the Accounts For the year ended 30th September 2025 4. Trustees, remuneration benefit and expenses During this period, trustees received £Nil remuneration (2024." £Nil) 5. Staff costs and numbers Staff costs were as follows 2025 2024 Salaries 109,876 109,876 105,723 105,723 No employee reiVed emoluments of more than £60,000. The average number of employees during the period was 4 (2024: 4) 6. Independent examination and accountancy services During the period. the cost of the examination and accountancy services was £Nil (2024: £Nil) 10