## **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum** (Registered charity, number 1155205) **Financial statements for the year end 31 December 2020**
|**Page**|**Contents**|
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|2 - 4|Trustees’ annual report|
|5|Independent examiner’s report|
|6|Receipts & payments account|
|7|Statement of assets & liabilities|
|8 - 10|Notes to the accounts|
# **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 December 2020**
**Full name** Rainbow Parents Carers Forum
**Organisation type** Charitable incorporated organisation
**Registered charity number** 1155205
**Principal address** Beeston Youth and Community Centre, West End, Beeston, Nottinghamshire NG9 1GL
## **Trustees**
Farah Jamil, Treasurer Susan Hopkinson, Chair Richard Owen Joanne Shaw resigned 24/08/20
## **Independent examiner**
John O’Brien, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GL
## **Governance and management**
CIO – Foundation registered 06 Jan 2014. To appoint new trustees, we usually advertise, nominate, propose and elect.
## **Aims and objectives**
To enhance the development and education of disabled children by encouraging parents and their carers to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups and by:
- a) Offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;
- b) Encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas; and
- c) To promote and protect the good health of parents and carers of disabled children and their families by providing a network of parents and carers of disabled children and young people and encouraging and delivering peer support, promoting awareness and helping to implement the improvement of services for them.
## **Objectives and activities**
Charitable purposes:
- The advancement of education;
- The advancement of health and well-being;
- The advancement of citizenship and community development;
- The relief of those in need, by reason of disability or hardship.
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## **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum**
We have met our charitable objectives through the following activities:
- We have tried to run a programme of twice monthly Saturday 'Stay and Play' sessions and family support by a trained individual;
- We have run a programme of monthly Parent 2 Parent meetings giving the opportunity for parents/carers to meet for peer to peer support during the school day;
- We have hosted monthly surgeries with Ask Us Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City Disabled Children’s Team for families to receive support with matters relating to education, health, and social care;
- Communication with our membership via our regular e-bulletin alongside the use of social media, including Facebook and Twitter;
- We have further supported parents and carers of disabled children through offering a programme of training courses and workshops;
- As members of the National Network of Parent Carer Forums we have worked with the Department of Education and our Local Authority to influence and shape the delivery of services for disabled families. This includes attending work stream meetings and supporting parents/carers to act as representatives at those meetings;
- We have postponed an annual conference giving parents/carers. Due to Covid.
## **Benefits to the public** :
- By enabling disabled children and their parents to socialise in a safe, supportive setting to reduce social isolation and improve health and well-being;
- By facilitating a network of peer to peer support to enable knowledge exchange that empowers families to have a voice and be heard;
- By raising awareness of the challenges that our families may experience and signposting to possible solutions that may improve outcomes and reduce distress and hardship;
- By training parents to self-advocate, advocate for others and represent their community;
- By training young people with additional needs to prepare for work and everyday living and finances.
## **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'.
## **Summary of the main achievements during the period**
- Hosted family inclusive sessions when permitted, due to Covid19 restrictions/lockdown, including 14 inclusive supervised play sessions and a small Christmas fun day. Play sessions have varied from indoor facilities to outdoor in a local farm;
- Befriending sessions hosting 25 sessions from online virtual meetings to in person photography training and fun days. We have over 20 individuals who access this opportunity;
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## **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum**
- Breakaway Ambassador was a 9 session course taken by 11 members of our befriending scheme learning how to fundraise;
- Parent 2 Parent support meetings, 12 sessions, a mixture of in person and online;
- Activity packs were given to 22 of our families to ensure they had fun/educational activities during summer due to restrictions;
- Continued to produce regular e-bulletins (28) receiving an average open rate of 42% open. Facebook followers at 559 and our posts reached over 12,250. Twitter tweets received over 85,000 and over 780 profile visits; Website visits during the year 13,759 and an average of 1,150 per month;
- 9th Annual Event scheduled for 24 March 2020 has been rescheduled for 2021. A total of 48 parents/carers had been booked on to attend;
- Representative Meetings that staff and volunteer parent reps took part in spanning over 45 hours worth of meetings;
- 16 Befrienders contributed 142 hours of their time, 9 Office Administrators volunteered 138.65 hours and 2 Parent Support volunteered 42.75 hours;
- Worked in partnership with Nottingham City Council, Nottingham CVS & Children & Young People’s Provider Network, University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University, Notts Clubs for Young People, Contact a Family, National Network of Parent Carer Forums and Trent Autism Parent Support;
- Provided regular updates at each forum meeting on both local and national developments in relation to the SEND Reforms and other areas of interest;
- Increased our support and development of beneficiaries and Junior Volunteers (JV). The JV's contributed about 10 hours of their time over two months worth of sessions;
- We offered 12 Disabled Children Team surgeries and SEND Workshops.
## **The charity’s policy on reserves**
We aim to have a reserves policy and to build up a reserve from any underspent budgets, so that we can meet our statutory liabilities to employees in the event the CIO has to be wound up and also to create a small fund for unforeseen contingencies.
## **Risk analysis**
Becoming self-sustainable in the event of continuation or alternative funding not being available will mean that the current delivery will be reduced to a minimal offer until all reserves are depleted.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
Signed _____________________________________________ Date __________ Susan Hopkinson, Trustee
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## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Rainbow Parents Carers Forum for the year ended 31 December 2020**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Rainbow Parents Carers Forum (the charity) for the year ended 31 December 2020.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity 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 charity’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 examiner’s statement**
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:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. 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 ______________________ John O’Brien MSc, FCCA, FCIE Employee of Community Accounting Plus
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## **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum Receipts & payments account for the period ended 31 December 2020**
|_2019_
Total
**Unrestricted**
Funds
**Funds**
£
**Note**
**£**
**Receipts**
161354
Grants & donations
**2**
25049
361
Fundraising
40
357
Direct payments
876
28
Bank interest
85
-
Sundry receipts
-
162100
**Total receipts**
**26050**
**Payments**
11344
Activities & events
236
779
Equipment, repairs & renewals
3370
661
Insurance
-
1413
Marketing & development
-
2999
Office rental
-
954
Printing, postage & stationery
20
4801
Professional & coordinator fees
1177
130
Publications & subscriptions
-
-
Sessional workers
-
2976
IT support
-
394
Telephone
-
1623
Travel expenses
-
1163
Training & capability
-
722
Volunteer expenses
105
107795
Wages, NI & pension
9180
338
Premises maintenance
355
1521
Office move
-
1743
Hospitality
355
3
Sundry payments
8
141359
**Total payments**
**14806**
20741
**Net receipts/(payments)**
11244
-
Funds Transfer
3934
75003
Cash funds at start of this period
75484
95744
**Cash funds at end of this period**
**90662**|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
164570
-
-
-
-
**164570**
2549
3539
713
1280
8504
872
6035
144
7457
2029
366
190
188
133
72732
-
633
433
-
**107797**
56773
(3934)
20260
**73099**|**_2020_**
**Total**
**Funds**
**£**
189619
40
876
85
-|
|---|---|---|
|||**190620**|
|||2785
6909
713
1280
8504
892
7212
144
7457
2029
366
190
188
238
81912
355
633
788
8|
|||**122603**|
|||68017
-
95744|
|||**163761**|
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## **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 December 2020**
|_2019_
**Cash assets**
**Note**
95713
Bank accounts
31
Cash in hand
95744
**Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
General equipment.
Laptop purchased 29/12/20 at a cost of £575
**Liabilities**
(2342)
Creditors
**4**
(2342)|**_2020_**
**£**
163726
35
**163761**
(1726)|
|---|---|
||**(1726)**|
These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:
Signed ___________________________________ Dated ___________ Farah Jamil, Trustee
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## **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020**
## **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 & donations**
|National Lottery Community Fund
Department for Education
Department for Education Regional
People's Health Trust
HMRC JRS
Active partners
Contact a Family
Sundry donations
**Funds analysis**
**Opening**
**balance**
**£**
**Restricted funds**
Participation &
engagement (DFE)
9937
Rainbow sessions
(People's Health Trust)
7750
Salaries (National Lottery
Community Fund)
542
Regional participation &
engagement (DFE)
-
Rushcliffe Autism
2031
**20260**
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
75484
**75484**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
141132
141132
-
15000
15000
-
2376
2376
-
6062
6062
11375
-
11375
6000
-
6000
4800
-
4800
2874
-
2874
**25049**
**164570**
**189619**
**Receipts**
**(Payments)**
**Funds**
**Closing**
**transfer**
**balance**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
15000
(24937)
-
**-**
6062
(9878)
(3934)
**-**
141132
(72915)
-
**68759**
2376
(67)
-
**2309**
-
-
-
**2031**
**164570**
**(107797)**
**(3934)**
**73099**
26050
(14806)
3934
**90662**
**26050**
**(14806)**
**3934**
**90662**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
141132
141132
-
15000
15000
-
2376
2376
-
6062
6062
11375
-
11375
6000
-
6000
4800
-
4800
2874
-
2874
**25049**
**164570**
**189619**
**Receipts**
**(Payments)**
**Funds**
**Closing**
**transfer**
**balance**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
15000
(24937)
-
**-**
6062
(9878)
(3934)
**-**
141132
(72915)
-
**68759**
2376
(67)
-
**2309**
-
-
-
**2031**
**164570**
**(107797)**
**(3934)**
**73099**
26050
(14806)
3934
**90662**
**26050**
**(14806)**
**3934**
**90662**|
|---|---|---|
|||**73099**|
|||**90662**|
|||**90662**|
## **3. Funds analysis**
The Participation & engagement (DFE) fund provides opportunities for parent carers to have a voice and influence services they receive.
The Regional participation & engagement (DFE) enables participation at a regional level.
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## **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum**
The Rainbow sessions fund monies (PHT) enables the charity to provide support to the members of the social group.
The Salaries (Big Lottery) fund ensures we can provide the best staffing available to support our members and maintain a community led service.
The Rushcliffe Autism fund provides additional support in the Rushcliffe area.
Active Partners Finding supported the supply of bespoke lockdown activity/play packs for families.
The transfer from the Peoples health Lottery represents the release of the restriction by the funder.
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## **Rainbow Parents Carers Forum**
## **4. Creditors**
**£** Independent exanination fee 780 HMRC 395 Pensions 251 Wages 300 **1726**
## **5. Trustees’ remuneration**
- 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.
**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.
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