**Registered Number: 1156503**
## **Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief**
## **Report and Accounts**
## **4 December 2020**
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## **Contents**
## **Trustees Report**
**Receipts and Payments account for the year Statement of Assets and Liabilities for the year Independent Examination Report**
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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 05 12 2019 04 12 2020
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief
**Other names charity is known by** GESIPR
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1156503
**Charity's principal address** 2 Kerry Hill
Horsforth Leeds **Postcode LS18 4AY**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for whole
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee (if
year
any)
Chair 25/10/2013 to present Board of Trustees
1 [Mary Nelson ]
date
Deputy Chair 01/04/2019 to present Board of Trustees
2 [Akinbombola ]
Akinmade date
3 [Ojinika Emenike ] Treasurer 01/03/2014 to present Board of Trustees
date
Director Community 01/04/2019 to present Board of Trustees
4 [Samantha Esterine ]
Service date
5 [Zainabu Mukwanga ] Secretary 01/09/2018 to present Board of Trustees
date
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document[Charitable Incorporated Organization ]
How the charity is constituted[CIO ]
Trustee selection methods[Appointed by the Charity’s Trustees ]
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- policies and procedures Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed [for a term of [three] years] by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting
- adopted for the induction and of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity
- training of trustees; trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and
- the charity’s organisational experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. [(3) structure and any wider Nominated Trustee[s] (a) [GESIPR] (“the appointing body”) may appoint network with which the charity [12] charity trustees. (b) Any appointment must be made at a meeting held works; according to the ordinary practice of the appointing body.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
- (c) Each appointment must be for a term of [three] years. (d) The appointment will be effective from the later of: (i) the date of the vacancy; and (ii) the date on which the charity trustees or their secretary or clerk are informed of the appointment.
- (e) The person appointed need not be a member of the appointing body.
- (f) A trustee appointed by the appointing body has the same duty under clause 9(1) as the other charity trustees to act in the way he or she decides in good faith would be most likely to further the purposes of the CIO. The Charity’s organizational structure was structured as follows: Chair, Treasurer, Secretary. All other members including Trustees worked in the capacity as volunteers. The charity has established relationship with the Local Authority in Leeds and other line agencies and organizations that contribute to the delivery of the charity’s objectives such as FareShare -
- Charity, The Leeds Community Led Housing Association and HAMARA.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The prevention or relief of poverty in the United Kingdom and Africa by providing items and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
The prevention or relief of poverty [or financial hardship] in UK and Africa by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its** To prevent or relieve poverty through undertaking and supporting research **governing document** into factors that contributes to poverty and the most appropriate ways to mitigate these. To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society, being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a socially and economically deprived community.
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**The One-Stop-Shop Project for female ex-offenders in Leeds** : This project was funded by the West Yorkshire Crime Commissioner’s Safer Communities Fund and Leeds City Council Area Committee Wellbeing Fund. The aim of the project was to reduce crime in the Kirkstall area and make our community safer by supporting the rehabilitative process of female ex-offenders. The project provided a continued support to enhance positive change for these women through counselling, skill building and training for employment, information sharing on women's health matters and general well-being, signposting, confidence building, socializing and befriending as a way of reducing risk of re-offending. A drop-in-centre was established from where beneficiaries were able to access different service providers and trainers.
**Cragside Community-Led Housing Project** : This project was funded by Groundworks UK Community-Led Homes. The vision of Cragside Community-Led Housing Project is to address the issue of homelessness by providing affordable housing targeting Black and Ethnic Minority groups, Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence, Refugees and Asylum Seekers, People with low income, ex-offenders, and single parents. Our goal is to provide permanent and affordable accommodation for as many individuals and families that are at risk of being homeless and reduce the percentage of homelessness in Leeds by at least 10%. In addition, we want to help people come against barriers that are challenging in traditional housing groups. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions, this project was paused. It is hoped that it will be activated once the lockdown restrictions are eased or relaxed.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects**
**The Surplus Food Collection and redistribution Project** : With the support of the Emergency Surplus Food Grant from Resource Action Fund in collaboration with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, this project is on-going, and the delivery capacity has increased. Our partnership with FareShare, HAMARA Charity and two Cooperative Food Stores and the Neighbourly community have been strengthened. The charity has been able to establish and operate a Food Bank, redistribute over 100 tonnes of surplus food and reaching out to over 500 families in the past year, thereby reducing food wastage, food poverty, support lowincome families, those self-isolating and shielding due to COVID-19 pandemic and relieve poverty in Leeds. The additional support received through grants enabled the charity to increase its capacity to deliver more effectively creating more impact.
**The Better Days Youth Project in Leeds:** With support from the Home Office Violence Reduction Unit, and the support of different philanthropic organizations and agencies (Seedling Foundation) the delivery of this project is on-going, and the capacity and impact has increased. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, activities of the project were delivered online. 70 disadvantaged young people were supported through the provision of Ipads with Internet were secured to enable the young people to engage in safe online interaction, group work and do their schoolwork.
The activity provided new opportunities, skills and rewarding experiences to young people through online group work and activity-based learning and interaction. As a result, we were able to divert disadvantaged young people and children from anti-social behaviour and violence especially during the summer when the lockdown was eased.
**The Gateway Project:** With support from the European Social Fund, The Gateway Project supports ex-offenders from BAME background who are challenged with gaining employment due to their record of conviction. The project has supported 20 people, out of which 5 have progressed into full
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time employment, 6 have progressed into education and training, while 3 are into voluntary work. The project is ongoing.
**The Health and Wellbeing for BAME Women Project:** Through the support of the People’s Health Trust, this project provides a platform for women from BAME communities to interact and discuss their health and wellbeing, while also seeking information about access to health and wellbeing support and build their confidence to talk about their health concerns or challenges. 40 women have benefited from this project. This has contributed to increasing opportunities for BAME women to have easy access to information and other health and wellbeing service providers.
**The Engage Project:** This project helped support community members with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) especially during the Covid 19 pandemic. The effect of Covid -19 on various people in the community thus realising that they need help furthermore than the food supply. From our data base of community members who are facing different types of challenges, we develop the engage project to help people with COPD in the community ease their stress and anxiety also create a platform of interaction and virtual experience. This was made possible with the support of Focus 1000 together with the Leads City Council through a donation of 10 Ipads and 3 Laptops with unlimited data.
**COVID-19 Community Support:** Through the support of the Social Enterprise Support Fund, the charity was able to purchase food and essential commodities to continue supporting people living in poverty, the homeless, low -income families and those self- isolating as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional support was also provided to 50 young people online to promote public health and safety messages around COVID-19.
**Cooking for Friendship Project:** Through the support of Near Neighbours, this project serves as a recreational activity for women from different ethnicities including white, Afro-Caribbean and Asian women in Kirkstall. The project activities contributed to reducing problems of increasing mental health among families in the community. As the project aimed at bringing women from different ethnic background together, it also helped to reduce racism against ethnic minorities in the community through the interaction within the project activities. It has helped participants understand each other better and share their experiences with their families. The project also helped to build on the strengths of the local community such as increased collective activities and community -based project activities.
**Additional details of objectives and activities**
- policy on grant making;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Contribution made by volunteers have been the backbone of the delivery of the charity’s activities. There are 5 volunteers that make up the management team. We also have additional 15 volunteers who contribute to the delivery of the different project activities in the community. At community level we worked with 20 community volunteers during the timeline of each project. Volunteer contributions range from project management, Administration, community engagement and coordination, publicity and monitoring and evaluation.
The charity has no policy on grant making. Development of an investment policy is still under consideration.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
**The One-Stop-Shop Project for female ex-offenders in Leeds** : Through this activity, the charity contributed to tackling crime, reduce individual’s risk of offending and anti-social behaviour: 30 Individuals who have had a criminal record and are still at risk of committing further offending were provided support to reduce their risk of reoffending. As a result, risk of reoffending of beneficiaries targeted was reduced. None of them received any caution or had contact with the police during the project timeline. In addition, this contributed to the promotion of community safety and reduction of anti-social behaviour in the Kirkstall community in Leeds.
**Safeguard vulnerable people** : Some of the beneficiaries of project activities were considered as vulnerable due to their circumstances. The charity’s project ensured safeguarding actions such as completing risk and needs assessment for each beneficiary. The charity had in place safeguarding policies for vulnerable adults and children which was used in our work with the beneficiaries. Data protection, confidentiality and information sharing was prioritized.
**The Surplus Food Collection and redistribution Project:** The charity has been able to establish and operate a Food Bank, redistribute over 100 tonnes of surplus food and reaching out to over 500 families in the past year, thereby reducing food wastage, food poverty, support low- income families, those self-isolating and shielding due to COVID-19 pandemic and relieve poverty in Leeds.
**The Better Days Youth Project in Leeds:** 70 disadvantaged young people were supported through the provision of Ipads with Internet were secured to enable the young people to engage in safe online interaction, group work and do their schoolwork. As a result, we were able to divert disadvantaged young people and children from anti-social behaviour and violence especially during the summer when the lockdown was eased.
**The Gateway Project** . The project has supported 20 people with criminal convictions and who were challenged in gaining employment as a result of their criminal conviction. 5 have progressed into full time employment, 6 have progressed into education and training, while 3 are into voluntary work.
**The Health and Wellbeing for BAME Women Project:** Through this activity, the charity was able to contribute to increasing opportunities for 40 women from BAME community to have easy access to information on different areas of need and other health and wellbeing service providers thereby improving their lives, health and wellbeing.
**The Engage Project:** Increased support for community people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this activity, the charity was able to help support community members with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) especially during the Covid 19 pandemic which resulted to the improvement of mental health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation, and improve the impact of positive and safe online interaction.
**COVID-19 Community Support:** Reduce poverty and increased community support through the provision of food and essential commodities for the wider Leeds community targeting the most vulnerable, people living in poverty, the homeless, low -income families and those selfisolating as a result of COVID-19. The charity also contributed to promoting
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Section D Achievements and performance
government health and safety guidelines on COVID-19 and as result help to reduce the spread of the virus.
**Increased and strengthened Partnerships:** The charity has developed new partnerships with 5 new organizations and 8 new funders and other service providers and has strengthened its relationship with existing partnerships and funders giving it more credibility and recognition.
**Organizational Capacity Building:** The capacity of the organization with regards its human resource, financial health and viability and governance have been strengthened over the past year resulting to a more resilient organization. We have been able to support 15 volunteers and 5 trustees with training programmes, strengthened our governance and financial control systems which has resulted in the organization realizing an 80% increase of its annual turnover from the previous financial year.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The development of a reserve policy is under consideration by the charity’s trustees.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details**
- 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.
The Charity’s principal sources of funds: Local Authority and Grants from other Philanthropic organizations. Income from our Fundraising activities between 2019 to 2020 enabled us to deliver 8 projects which contributed to meet our charitable objectives.
Our fundraising activities was mainly through bidding for grants from local authority and other philanthropic organizations. The development of an investment policy is under consideration by the charity’s trustees.
## **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**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Mary Nelson **Position** Chair **Date** 15/03/2021
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**GRASSROOTS ENTERPRISE FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION AND POVERTY RELIEF-GESIPR**
## **Receipts and Payments Account**
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For the year from To 05/12/2019 04/12/2020
Receipts and payments
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Receipts
Donations, legacies and similar income
Membership subscriptions
- - - -
Donations
- -
1,000 1,000
Legacies
- - - -
Gift Aid
- - - -
Other similar income
- - - 3
Sub total
1,000 - 1,000 3
Grants
Grant
200 46,800 48,800 20,320
Other grants
- - - -
Sub total
200 46,800 48,800 20,320
Fundraising (gross)
Other fundraising activities
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Investment income
Bank interest
- 2 2 -
Building Society interest
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - 2 2 -
Total Gross Income 1,200 48,602 49,802 20,323
Asset and investment sales, etc. - - - -
Total receipts 1,200 48,602 49,802 20,323
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## **Receipts and Payments Account (cont’d)**
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For the year from To 05/12/2019 04/12/2020
Receipts and payments
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Payments
Charitable Payments
Wages
- 4,300 4,300 -
Rent/Venue Hire
- -
1,800 1,800
Training costs
- -
1,000 1,000
Utilities
- 550 550 -
Insurance
- 348 348 -
Cost of charity activities
- -
3,971 3,971
Printing and photocopying
- 210 210 -
Internet
- 24 24 -
Advertising & Publicity
- -
1,803 1,803
Telephone
- 200 200 -
Sub total
- 14,205 14,205 -
Fundraising expenses
Travel & Subsistence
- -
1,430 1,430
Professional fees
1,600 1,600 -
Motor Expense
- -
1,144 1,144
Other fundraising costs
- - -
2,320
Sub total
-
4,174 4,174 2,320
Total Gross Expenditure - 18,380 18,380 2,320
Asset and investment purchases, etc.
-
9,000 9,000 15,000
Total payments - 27,380 27,380 17,320
Net of receipts/(payments)
1,200 21,223 22,423 3,003
Cash funds last year end
2 3,000 3,002 -
Cash funds this year end
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
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Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the year
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Cash funds
Bank current account
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
Cash/Floats
- - - -
Total cash funds
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
Other monetary assets
Tax claim
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Investment assets
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Non monetary assets for charity's own
use
Motor vehicles
- -
3,000 3,000
Office Equipments
-
25,500 25,500 15,000
- - - -
Sub total
- 28,000 28,500 15,000
Liabilities
Expenses incurred but not invoiced
- 1,200 1,200 -
Other liabilities
- - - -
Sub total
- 1,200 1,200 -
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## **Contingent liabilities and future obligations**
## **Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees**
|Signature||Print Name|Date of
approval|
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**
**Independent**
**examiner's statement**
**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief - GESIPR|Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief - GESIPR|
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||4 December 2020
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1156503||
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||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 04/12/2020.
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn 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._
**Date:**
15 March 2021||
|||15 March 2021|
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||Olushola Olalekan Shokunbi FCCA||
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||ACCA||
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||Paul Victoria Accountants, 2nd Floor 134 South street, Romford, Essex||
||RM1 1TE||
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**Registered Number: 1156503**
## **Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief**
## **Report and Accounts**
## **4 December 2020**
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## **Contents**
## **Trustees Report**
**Receipts and Payments account for the year Statement of Assets and Liabilities for the year Independent Examination Report**
2
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 05 12 2019 04 12 2020
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief
**Other names charity is known by** GESIPR
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1156503
**Charity's principal address** 2 Kerry Hill
Horsforth Leeds **Postcode LS18 4AY**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for whole
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee (if
year
any)
Chair 25/10/2013 to present Board of Trustees
1 [Mary Nelson ]
date
Deputy Chair 01/04/2019 to present Board of Trustees
2 [Akinbombola ]
Akinmade date
3 [Ojinika Emenike ] Treasurer 01/03/2014 to present Board of Trustees
date
Director Community 01/04/2019 to present Board of Trustees
4 [Samantha Esterine ]
Service date
5 [Zainabu Mukwanga ] Secretary 01/09/2018 to present Board of Trustees
date
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document[Charitable Incorporated Organization ]
How the charity is constituted[CIO ]
Trustee selection methods[Appointed by the Charity’s Trustees ]
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- policies and procedures Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed [for a term of [three] years] by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting
- adopted for the induction and of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity
- training of trustees; trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and
- the charity’s organisational experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. [(3) structure and any wider Nominated Trustee[s] (a) [GESIPR] (“the appointing body”) may appoint network with which the charity [12] charity trustees. (b) Any appointment must be made at a meeting held works; according to the ordinary practice of the appointing body.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
- (c) Each appointment must be for a term of [three] years. (d) The appointment will be effective from the later of: (i) the date of the vacancy; and (ii) the date on which the charity trustees or their secretary or clerk are informed of the appointment.
- (e) The person appointed need not be a member of the appointing body.
- (f) A trustee appointed by the appointing body has the same duty under clause 9(1) as the other charity trustees to act in the way he or she decides in good faith would be most likely to further the purposes of the CIO. The Charity’s organizational structure was structured as follows: Chair, Treasurer, Secretary. All other members including Trustees worked in the capacity as volunteers. The charity has established relationship with the Local Authority in Leeds and other line agencies and organizations that contribute to the delivery of the charity’s objectives such as FareShare -
- Charity, The Leeds Community Led Housing Association and HAMARA.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The prevention or relief of poverty in the United Kingdom and Africa by providing items and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
The prevention or relief of poverty [or financial hardship] in UK and Africa by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its** To prevent or relieve poverty through undertaking and supporting research **governing document** into factors that contributes to poverty and the most appropriate ways to mitigate these. To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society, being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a socially and economically deprived community.
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**The One-Stop-Shop Project for female ex-offenders in Leeds** : This project was funded by the West Yorkshire Crime Commissioner’s Safer Communities Fund and Leeds City Council Area Committee Wellbeing Fund. The aim of the project was to reduce crime in the Kirkstall area and make our community safer by supporting the rehabilitative process of female ex-offenders. The project provided a continued support to enhance positive change for these women through counselling, skill building and training for employment, information sharing on women's health matters and general well-being, signposting, confidence building, socializing and befriending as a way of reducing risk of re-offending. A drop-in-centre was established from where beneficiaries were able to access different service providers and trainers.
**Cragside Community-Led Housing Project** : This project was funded by Groundworks UK Community-Led Homes. The vision of Cragside Community-Led Housing Project is to address the issue of homelessness by providing affordable housing targeting Black and Ethnic Minority groups, Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence, Refugees and Asylum Seekers, People with low income, ex-offenders, and single parents. Our goal is to provide permanent and affordable accommodation for as many individuals and families that are at risk of being homeless and reduce the percentage of homelessness in Leeds by at least 10%. In addition, we want to help people come against barriers that are challenging in traditional housing groups. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions, this project was paused. It is hoped that it will be activated once the lockdown restrictions are eased or relaxed.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects**
**The Surplus Food Collection and redistribution Project** : With the support of the Emergency Surplus Food Grant from Resource Action Fund in collaboration with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, this project is on-going, and the delivery capacity has increased. Our partnership with FareShare, HAMARA Charity and two Cooperative Food Stores and the Neighbourly community have been strengthened. The charity has been able to establish and operate a Food Bank, redistribute over 100 tonnes of surplus food and reaching out to over 500 families in the past year, thereby reducing food wastage, food poverty, support lowincome families, those self-isolating and shielding due to COVID-19 pandemic and relieve poverty in Leeds. The additional support received through grants enabled the charity to increase its capacity to deliver more effectively creating more impact.
**The Better Days Youth Project in Leeds:** With support from the Home Office Violence Reduction Unit, and the support of different philanthropic organizations and agencies (Seedling Foundation) the delivery of this project is on-going, and the capacity and impact has increased. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, activities of the project were delivered online. 70 disadvantaged young people were supported through the provision of Ipads with Internet were secured to enable the young people to engage in safe online interaction, group work and do their schoolwork.
The activity provided new opportunities, skills and rewarding experiences to young people through online group work and activity-based learning and interaction. As a result, we were able to divert disadvantaged young people and children from anti-social behaviour and violence especially during the summer when the lockdown was eased.
**The Gateway Project:** With support from the European Social Fund, The Gateway Project supports ex-offenders from BAME background who are challenged with gaining employment due to their record of conviction. The project has supported 20 people, out of which 5 have progressed into full
5
time employment, 6 have progressed into education and training, while 3 are into voluntary work. The project is ongoing.
**The Health and Wellbeing for BAME Women Project:** Through the support of the People’s Health Trust, this project provides a platform for women from BAME communities to interact and discuss their health and wellbeing, while also seeking information about access to health and wellbeing support and build their confidence to talk about their health concerns or challenges. 40 women have benefited from this project. This has contributed to increasing opportunities for BAME women to have easy access to information and other health and wellbeing service providers.
**The Engage Project:** This project helped support community members with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) especially during the Covid 19 pandemic. The effect of Covid -19 on various people in the community thus realising that they need help furthermore than the food supply. From our data base of community members who are facing different types of challenges, we develop the engage project to help people with COPD in the community ease their stress and anxiety also create a platform of interaction and virtual experience. This was made possible with the support of Focus 1000 together with the Leads City Council through a donation of 10 Ipads and 3 Laptops with unlimited data.
**COVID-19 Community Support:** Through the support of the Social Enterprise Support Fund, the charity was able to purchase food and essential commodities to continue supporting people living in poverty, the homeless, low -income families and those self- isolating as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional support was also provided to 50 young people online to promote public health and safety messages around COVID-19.
**Cooking for Friendship Project:** Through the support of Near Neighbours, this project serves as a recreational activity for women from different ethnicities including white, Afro-Caribbean and Asian women in Kirkstall. The project activities contributed to reducing problems of increasing mental health among families in the community. As the project aimed at bringing women from different ethnic background together, it also helped to reduce racism against ethnic minorities in the community through the interaction within the project activities. It has helped participants understand each other better and share their experiences with their families. The project also helped to build on the strengths of the local community such as increased collective activities and community -based project activities.
**Additional details of objectives and activities**
- policy on grant making;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Contribution made by volunteers have been the backbone of the delivery of the charity’s activities. There are 5 volunteers that make up the management team. We also have additional 15 volunteers who contribute to the delivery of the different project activities in the community. At community level we worked with 20 community volunteers during the timeline of each project. Volunteer contributions range from project management, Administration, community engagement and coordination, publicity and monitoring and evaluation.
The charity has no policy on grant making. Development of an investment policy is still under consideration.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
**The One-Stop-Shop Project for female ex-offenders in Leeds** : Through this activity, the charity contributed to tackling crime, reduce individual’s risk of offending and anti-social behaviour: 30 Individuals who have had a criminal record and are still at risk of committing further offending were provided support to reduce their risk of reoffending. As a result, risk of reoffending of beneficiaries targeted was reduced. None of them received any caution or had contact with the police during the project timeline. In addition, this contributed to the promotion of community safety and reduction of anti-social behaviour in the Kirkstall community in Leeds.
**Safeguard vulnerable people** : Some of the beneficiaries of project activities were considered as vulnerable due to their circumstances. The charity’s project ensured safeguarding actions such as completing risk and needs assessment for each beneficiary. The charity had in place safeguarding policies for vulnerable adults and children which was used in our work with the beneficiaries. Data protection, confidentiality and information sharing was prioritized.
**The Surplus Food Collection and redistribution Project:** The charity has been able to establish and operate a Food Bank, redistribute over 100 tonnes of surplus food and reaching out to over 500 families in the past year, thereby reducing food wastage, food poverty, support low- income families, those self-isolating and shielding due to COVID-19 pandemic and relieve poverty in Leeds.
**The Better Days Youth Project in Leeds:** 70 disadvantaged young people were supported through the provision of Ipads with Internet were secured to enable the young people to engage in safe online interaction, group work and do their schoolwork. As a result, we were able to divert disadvantaged young people and children from anti-social behaviour and violence especially during the summer when the lockdown was eased.
**The Gateway Project** . The project has supported 20 people with criminal convictions and who were challenged in gaining employment as a result of their criminal conviction. 5 have progressed into full time employment, 6 have progressed into education and training, while 3 are into voluntary work.
**The Health and Wellbeing for BAME Women Project:** Through this activity, the charity was able to contribute to increasing opportunities for 40 women from BAME community to have easy access to information on different areas of need and other health and wellbeing service providers thereby improving their lives, health and wellbeing.
**The Engage Project:** Increased support for community people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this activity, the charity was able to help support community members with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) especially during the Covid 19 pandemic which resulted to the improvement of mental health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation, and improve the impact of positive and safe online interaction.
**COVID-19 Community Support:** Reduce poverty and increased community support through the provision of food and essential commodities for the wider Leeds community targeting the most vulnerable, people living in poverty, the homeless, low -income families and those selfisolating as a result of COVID-19. The charity also contributed to promoting
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Section D Achievements and performance
government health and safety guidelines on COVID-19 and as result help to reduce the spread of the virus.
**Increased and strengthened Partnerships:** The charity has developed new partnerships with 5 new organizations and 8 new funders and other service providers and has strengthened its relationship with existing partnerships and funders giving it more credibility and recognition.
**Organizational Capacity Building:** The capacity of the organization with regards its human resource, financial health and viability and governance have been strengthened over the past year resulting to a more resilient organization. We have been able to support 15 volunteers and 5 trustees with training programmes, strengthened our governance and financial control systems which has resulted in the organization realizing an 80% increase of its annual turnover from the previous financial year.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The development of a reserve policy is under consideration by the charity’s trustees.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details**
- 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.
The Charity’s principal sources of funds: Local Authority and Grants from other Philanthropic organizations. Income from our Fundraising activities between 2019 to 2020 enabled us to deliver 8 projects which contributed to meet our charitable objectives.
Our fundraising activities was mainly through bidding for grants from local authority and other philanthropic organizations. The development of an investment policy is under consideration by the charity’s trustees.
## **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**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Mary Nelson **Position** Chair **Date** 15/03/2021
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## **Receipts and Payments Account**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
For the year from To 05/12/2019 04/12/2020
Receipts and payments
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Receipts
Donations, legacies and similar income
Membership subscriptions
- - - -
Donations
- -
1,000 1,000
Legacies
- - - -
Gift Aid
- - - -
Other similar income
- - - 3
Sub total
1,000 - 1,000 3
Grants
Grant
200 46,800 48,800 20,320
Other grants
- - - -
Sub total
200 46,800 48,800 20,320
Fundraising (gross)
Other fundraising activities
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Investment income
Bank interest
- 2 2 -
Building Society interest
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - 2 2 -
Total Gross Income 1,200 48,602 49,802 20,323
Asset and investment sales, etc. - - - -
Total receipts 1,200 48,602 49,802 20,323
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## **Receipts and Payments Account (cont’d)**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
For the year from To 05/12/2019 04/12/2020
Receipts and payments
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Payments
Charitable Payments
Wages
- 4,300 4,300 -
Rent/Venue Hire
- -
1,800 1,800
Training costs
- -
1,000 1,000
Utilities
- 550 550 -
Insurance
- 348 348 -
Cost of charity activities
- -
3,971 3,971
Printing and photocopying
- 210 210 -
Internet
- 24 24 -
Advertising & Publicity
- -
1,803 1,803
Telephone
- 200 200 -
Sub total
- 14,205 14,205 -
Fundraising expenses
Travel & Subsistence
- -
1,430 1,430
Professional fees
1,600 1,600 -
Motor Expense
- -
1,144 1,144
Other fundraising costs
- - -
2,320
Sub total
-
4,174 4,174 2,320
Total Gross Expenditure - 18,380 18,380 2,320
Asset and investment purchases, etc.
-
9,000 9,000 15,000
Total payments - 27,380 27,380 17,320
Net of receipts/(payments)
1,200 21,223 22,423 3,003
Cash funds last year end
2 3,000 3,002 -
Cash funds this year end
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
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Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the year
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Cash funds
Bank current account
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
Cash/Floats
- - - -
Total cash funds
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
Other monetary assets
Tax claim
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Investment assets
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Non monetary assets for charity's own
use
Motor vehicles
- -
3,000 3,000
Office Equipments
-
25,500 25,500 15,000
- - - -
Sub total
- 28,000 28,500 15,000
Liabilities
Expenses incurred but not invoiced
- 1,200 1,200 -
Other liabilities
- - - -
Sub total
- 1,200 1,200 -
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## **Contingent liabilities and future obligations**
## **Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees**
|Signature||Print Name|Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|---|
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**
**Independent**
**examiner's statement**
**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief - GESIPR|Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief - GESIPR|
|---|---|---|
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||4 December 2020
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1156503||
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||2 to 13||
||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 04/12/2020.
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn 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._
**Date:**
15 March 2021||
|||15 March 2021|
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||Olushola Olalekan Shokunbi FCCA||
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||ACCA||
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||Paul Victoria Accountants, 2nd Floor 134 South street, Romford, Essex||
||RM1 1TE||
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**Registered Number: 1156503**
## **Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief**
## **Report and Accounts**
## **4 December 2020**
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## **Contents**
## **Trustees Report**
**Receipts and Payments account for the year Statement of Assets and Liabilities for the year Independent Examination Report**
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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 05 12 2019 04 12 2020
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief
**Other names charity is known by** GESIPR
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1156503
**Charity's principal address** 2 Kerry Hill
Horsforth Leeds **Postcode LS18 4AY**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for whole
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee (if
year
any)
Chair 25/10/2013 to present Board of Trustees
1 [Mary Nelson ]
date
Deputy Chair 01/04/2019 to present Board of Trustees
2 [Akinbombola ]
Akinmade date
3 [Ojinika Emenike ] Treasurer 01/03/2014 to present Board of Trustees
date
Director Community 01/04/2019 to present Board of Trustees
4 [Samantha Esterine ]
Service date
5 [Zainabu Mukwanga ] Secretary 01/09/2018 to present Board of Trustees
date
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document[Charitable Incorporated Organization ]
How the charity is constituted[CIO ]
Trustee selection methods[Appointed by the Charity’s Trustees ]
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- policies and procedures Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed [for a term of [three] years] by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting
- adopted for the induction and of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity
- training of trustees; trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and
- the charity’s organisational experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. [(3) structure and any wider Nominated Trustee[s] (a) [GESIPR] (“the appointing body”) may appoint network with which the charity [12] charity trustees. (b) Any appointment must be made at a meeting held works; according to the ordinary practice of the appointing body.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
- (c) Each appointment must be for a term of [three] years. (d) The appointment will be effective from the later of: (i) the date of the vacancy; and (ii) the date on which the charity trustees or their secretary or clerk are informed of the appointment.
- (e) The person appointed need not be a member of the appointing body.
- (f) A trustee appointed by the appointing body has the same duty under clause 9(1) as the other charity trustees to act in the way he or she decides in good faith would be most likely to further the purposes of the CIO. The Charity’s organizational structure was structured as follows: Chair, Treasurer, Secretary. All other members including Trustees worked in the capacity as volunteers. The charity has established relationship with the Local Authority in Leeds and other line agencies and organizations that contribute to the delivery of the charity’s objectives such as FareShare -
- Charity, The Leeds Community Led Housing Association and HAMARA.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The prevention or relief of poverty in the United Kingdom and Africa by providing items and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.
The prevention or relief of poverty [or financial hardship] in UK and Africa by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its** To prevent or relieve poverty through undertaking and supporting research **governing document** into factors that contributes to poverty and the most appropriate ways to mitigate these. To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society, being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a socially and economically deprived community.
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**The One-Stop-Shop Project for female ex-offenders in Leeds** : This project was funded by the West Yorkshire Crime Commissioner’s Safer Communities Fund and Leeds City Council Area Committee Wellbeing Fund. The aim of the project was to reduce crime in the Kirkstall area and make our community safer by supporting the rehabilitative process of female ex-offenders. The project provided a continued support to enhance positive change for these women through counselling, skill building and training for employment, information sharing on women's health matters and general well-being, signposting, confidence building, socializing and befriending as a way of reducing risk of re-offending. A drop-in-centre was established from where beneficiaries were able to access different service providers and trainers.
**Cragside Community-Led Housing Project** : This project was funded by Groundworks UK Community-Led Homes. The vision of Cragside Community-Led Housing Project is to address the issue of homelessness by providing affordable housing targeting Black and Ethnic Minority groups, Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence, Refugees and Asylum Seekers, People with low income, ex-offenders, and single parents. Our goal is to provide permanent and affordable accommodation for as many individuals and families that are at risk of being homeless and reduce the percentage of homelessness in Leeds by at least 10%. In addition, we want to help people come against barriers that are challenging in traditional housing groups. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions, this project was paused. It is hoped that it will be activated once the lockdown restrictions are eased or relaxed.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects**
**The Surplus Food Collection and redistribution Project** : With the support of the Emergency Surplus Food Grant from Resource Action Fund in collaboration with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, this project is on-going, and the delivery capacity has increased. Our partnership with FareShare, HAMARA Charity and two Cooperative Food Stores and the Neighbourly community have been strengthened. The charity has been able to establish and operate a Food Bank, redistribute over 100 tonnes of surplus food and reaching out to over 500 families in the past year, thereby reducing food wastage, food poverty, support lowincome families, those self-isolating and shielding due to COVID-19 pandemic and relieve poverty in Leeds. The additional support received through grants enabled the charity to increase its capacity to deliver more effectively creating more impact.
**The Better Days Youth Project in Leeds:** With support from the Home Office Violence Reduction Unit, and the support of different philanthropic organizations and agencies (Seedling Foundation) the delivery of this project is on-going, and the capacity and impact has increased. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, activities of the project were delivered online. 70 disadvantaged young people were supported through the provision of Ipads with Internet were secured to enable the young people to engage in safe online interaction, group work and do their schoolwork.
The activity provided new opportunities, skills and rewarding experiences to young people through online group work and activity-based learning and interaction. As a result, we were able to divert disadvantaged young people and children from anti-social behaviour and violence especially during the summer when the lockdown was eased.
**The Gateway Project:** With support from the European Social Fund, The Gateway Project supports ex-offenders from BAME background who are challenged with gaining employment due to their record of conviction. The project has supported 20 people, out of which 5 have progressed into full
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time employment, 6 have progressed into education and training, while 3 are into voluntary work. The project is ongoing.
**The Health and Wellbeing for BAME Women Project:** Through the support of the People’s Health Trust, this project provides a platform for women from BAME communities to interact and discuss their health and wellbeing, while also seeking information about access to health and wellbeing support and build their confidence to talk about their health concerns or challenges. 40 women have benefited from this project. This has contributed to increasing opportunities for BAME women to have easy access to information and other health and wellbeing service providers.
**The Engage Project:** This project helped support community members with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) especially during the Covid 19 pandemic. The effect of Covid -19 on various people in the community thus realising that they need help furthermore than the food supply. From our data base of community members who are facing different types of challenges, we develop the engage project to help people with COPD in the community ease their stress and anxiety also create a platform of interaction and virtual experience. This was made possible with the support of Focus 1000 together with the Leads City Council through a donation of 10 Ipads and 3 Laptops with unlimited data.
**COVID-19 Community Support:** Through the support of the Social Enterprise Support Fund, the charity was able to purchase food and essential commodities to continue supporting people living in poverty, the homeless, low -income families and those self- isolating as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional support was also provided to 50 young people online to promote public health and safety messages around COVID-19.
**Cooking for Friendship Project:** Through the support of Near Neighbours, this project serves as a recreational activity for women from different ethnicities including white, Afro-Caribbean and Asian women in Kirkstall. The project activities contributed to reducing problems of increasing mental health among families in the community. As the project aimed at bringing women from different ethnic background together, it also helped to reduce racism against ethnic minorities in the community through the interaction within the project activities. It has helped participants understand each other better and share their experiences with their families. The project also helped to build on the strengths of the local community such as increased collective activities and community -based project activities.
**Additional details of objectives and activities**
- policy on grant making;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Contribution made by volunteers have been the backbone of the delivery of the charity’s activities. There are 5 volunteers that make up the management team. We also have additional 15 volunteers who contribute to the delivery of the different project activities in the community. At community level we worked with 20 community volunteers during the timeline of each project. Volunteer contributions range from project management, Administration, community engagement and coordination, publicity and monitoring and evaluation.
The charity has no policy on grant making. Development of an investment policy is still under consideration.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
**The One-Stop-Shop Project for female ex-offenders in Leeds** : Through this activity, the charity contributed to tackling crime, reduce individual’s risk of offending and anti-social behaviour: 30 Individuals who have had a criminal record and are still at risk of committing further offending were provided support to reduce their risk of reoffending. As a result, risk of reoffending of beneficiaries targeted was reduced. None of them received any caution or had contact with the police during the project timeline. In addition, this contributed to the promotion of community safety and reduction of anti-social behaviour in the Kirkstall community in Leeds.
**Safeguard vulnerable people** : Some of the beneficiaries of project activities were considered as vulnerable due to their circumstances. The charity’s project ensured safeguarding actions such as completing risk and needs assessment for each beneficiary. The charity had in place safeguarding policies for vulnerable adults and children which was used in our work with the beneficiaries. Data protection, confidentiality and information sharing was prioritized.
**The Surplus Food Collection and redistribution Project:** The charity has been able to establish and operate a Food Bank, redistribute over 100 tonnes of surplus food and reaching out to over 500 families in the past year, thereby reducing food wastage, food poverty, support low- income families, those self-isolating and shielding due to COVID-19 pandemic and relieve poverty in Leeds.
**The Better Days Youth Project in Leeds:** 70 disadvantaged young people were supported through the provision of Ipads with Internet were secured to enable the young people to engage in safe online interaction, group work and do their schoolwork. As a result, we were able to divert disadvantaged young people and children from anti-social behaviour and violence especially during the summer when the lockdown was eased.
**The Gateway Project** . The project has supported 20 people with criminal convictions and who were challenged in gaining employment as a result of their criminal conviction. 5 have progressed into full time employment, 6 have progressed into education and training, while 3 are into voluntary work.
**The Health and Wellbeing for BAME Women Project:** Through this activity, the charity was able to contribute to increasing opportunities for 40 women from BAME community to have easy access to information on different areas of need and other health and wellbeing service providers thereby improving their lives, health and wellbeing.
**The Engage Project:** Increased support for community people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this activity, the charity was able to help support community members with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) especially during the Covid 19 pandemic which resulted to the improvement of mental health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation, and improve the impact of positive and safe online interaction.
**COVID-19 Community Support:** Reduce poverty and increased community support through the provision of food and essential commodities for the wider Leeds community targeting the most vulnerable, people living in poverty, the homeless, low -income families and those selfisolating as a result of COVID-19. The charity also contributed to promoting
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Section D Achievements and performance
government health and safety guidelines on COVID-19 and as result help to reduce the spread of the virus.
**Increased and strengthened Partnerships:** The charity has developed new partnerships with 5 new organizations and 8 new funders and other service providers and has strengthened its relationship with existing partnerships and funders giving it more credibility and recognition.
**Organizational Capacity Building:** The capacity of the organization with regards its human resource, financial health and viability and governance have been strengthened over the past year resulting to a more resilient organization. We have been able to support 15 volunteers and 5 trustees with training programmes, strengthened our governance and financial control systems which has resulted in the organization realizing an 80% increase of its annual turnover from the previous financial year.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The development of a reserve policy is under consideration by the charity’s trustees.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details**
- 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.
The Charity’s principal sources of funds: Local Authority and Grants from other Philanthropic organizations. Income from our Fundraising activities between 2019 to 2020 enabled us to deliver 8 projects which contributed to meet our charitable objectives.
Our fundraising activities was mainly through bidding for grants from local authority and other philanthropic organizations. The development of an investment policy is under consideration by the charity’s trustees.
## **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**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Mary Nelson **Position** Chair **Date** 15/03/2021
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## **Receipts and Payments Account**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
For the year from To 05/12/2019 04/12/2020
Receipts and payments
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Receipts
Donations, legacies and similar income
Membership subscriptions
- - - -
Donations
- -
1,000 1,000
Legacies
- - - -
Gift Aid
- - - -
Other similar income
- - - 3
Sub total
1,000 - 1,000 3
Grants
Grant
200 46,800 48,800 20,320
Other grants
- - - -
Sub total
200 46,800 48,800 20,320
Fundraising (gross)
Other fundraising activities
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Investment income
Bank interest
- 2 2 -
Building Society interest
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - 2 2 -
Total Gross Income 1,200 48,602 49,802 20,323
Asset and investment sales, etc. - - - -
Total receipts 1,200 48,602 49,802 20,323
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## **Receipts and Payments Account (cont’d)**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
For the year from To 05/12/2019 04/12/2020
Receipts and payments
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Payments
Charitable Payments
Wages
- 4,300 4,300 -
Rent/Venue Hire
- -
1,800 1,800
Training costs
- -
1,000 1,000
Utilities
- 550 550 -
Insurance
- 348 348 -
Cost of charity activities
- -
3,971 3,971
Printing and photocopying
- 210 210 -
Internet
- 24 24 -
Advertising & Publicity
- -
1,803 1,803
Telephone
- 200 200 -
Sub total
- 14,205 14,205 -
Fundraising expenses
Travel & Subsistence
- -
1,430 1,430
Professional fees
1,600 1,600 -
Motor Expense
- -
1,144 1,144
Other fundraising costs
- - -
2,320
Sub total
-
4,174 4,174 2,320
Total Gross Expenditure - 18,380 18,380 2,320
Asset and investment purchases, etc.
-
9,000 9,000 15,000
Total payments - 27,380 27,380 17,320
Net of receipts/(payments)
1,200 21,223 22,423 3,003
Cash funds last year end
2 3,000 3,002 -
Cash funds this year end
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
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Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the year
2019/20 2019/20 2019/20 Last Year
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
funds funds funds funds
£ £ £ £
Cash funds
Bank current account
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
Cash/Floats
- - - -
Total cash funds
1,202 24,223 25,425 3,003
Other monetary assets
Tax claim
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Investment assets
- - - -
Sub total
- - - -
Non monetary assets for charity's own
use
Motor vehicles
- -
3,000 3,000
Office Equipments
-
25,500 25,500 15,000
- - - -
Sub total
- 28,000 28,500 15,000
Liabilities
Expenses incurred but not invoiced
- 1,200 1,200 -
Other liabilities
- - - -
Sub total
- 1,200 1,200 -
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## **Contingent liabilities and future obligations**
## **Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees**
|Signature||Print Name|Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
|||||
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**
**Independent**
**examiner's statement**
**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief - GESIPR|Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief - GESIPR|
|---|---|---|
||||
||4 December 2020
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1156503||
||||
||2 to 13||
||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 04/12/2020.
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn 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._
**Date:**
15 March 2021||
|||15 March 2021|
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||Olushola Olalekan Shokunbi FCCA||
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||ACCA||
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||Paul Victoria Accountants, 2nd Floor 134 South street, Romford, Essex||
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