Charity Number: 1157143 


Trustees’ Report and financial statements For the Year ended 31[st] March 2022 



## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

Period start date Period end date 01 04 2021 31 03 2022 

**From To** 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** 

Core 

**Other names charity is known by** 

**Registered charity number (if any)** 1157143 

**Charity's principal address** Core C/O Community Base 

113 Queens Road Brighton **Postcode** BN1 3XG 

**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Mrs E Baldwin||||
||Mrs H Bishop||||
||Mrs C Palmer-Fry||||



## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

Rachael Gale, Founder and Lead Facilitator 

## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Constitution 

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Trustee selection methods 

Appointed by 

(eg. appointed by, elected by) 

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## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

|**Summary of the objects of the**<br>**charity set out in its**<br>**governing document**<br>**Summary of the main**<br>**activities undertaken for the**<br>**public benefit in relation to**<br>**these objects (include within**<br>**this section the statutory**<br>**declaration that trustees have**<br>**had regard to the guidance**<br>**issued by the Charity**<br>**Commission on public**<br>**benefit)**|To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing<br>people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of<br>those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to<br>integrate into society.|
|---|---|
||Over this year CORE has continued its work with young people,<br>specifically developing its accessibility to young people of all<br>gender identities and neuro diversities, who identify as being highly<br>sensitive. Through the groupwork program we aim to give<br>information and support around the trait of high sensitivity, to<br>strengthen**confidence**, promote**optimism**, build**resilience,**and<br>increase**esteem**-CORE!<br>CORE has also offered one-to-one space for young people that<br>have completed the groupwork program to continue looking at the<br>topics covered in a more detailed and individually tailored way.<br>CORE use a creative format for its sessions that engage young<br>people on topics such as identity, influences, relationships, growing<br>and changing, stress and relaxation.<br>The work of CORE takes place in schools and among the<br>community of Brighton & Hove. The focus this year has been<br>secondary schools. Traditionally young people access groups such<br>as these by being referred by their teacher or pastoral staff within<br>the school. We wanted to ensure it was accessible for everyone so<br>developed a self-referral process involving a questionnaire that<br>was filled out by students in their form time on their levels of<br>sensitivity. This enabled young people to self-refer to the group.<br>Through the evaluation forms we have seen that this has brought a<br>greater variety of ways that students have become aware of and<br>been able to access the groups.<br>Exiting the lockdown from Covid-19 pandemic has increased levels<br>of anxiety for those who felt safer and less overwhelmed working<br>from home and many have really struggled to get back to school.<br>There has been a lot of raised anxiety and social isolation for<br>young people throughout this time, the groups have been a lovely<br>way to create a feeling of connection and shared experiences and<br>provide tools for dealing with some of the challenging feelings that<br>sensitive young people have experienced.<br>Throughout the year the Trustees have had due regard to the<br>Charity Commissions guidance on public benefit.|



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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

The work we have carried out this year, in school and the community, has helped many sensitive young people to; 

- Strengthen Confidence 

- • Promote Optimism 

- Build Resilience 

- Increase Esteem 

The achievements have had a particular focus through the post pandemic period of increasing young people’s sense of confidence being back in the school environment, increase sense of connection and shared experiences, therefore reducing their sense of isolation, increase confidence and resilience. 

The topics covered in the groups included subjects such as identity and influences, emotions and challenges, and understanding the impact of stress on the body and brain and tools to support young people at challenging times. 

CORE groups have provided education on sensitivity, some time out to process and work through individual challenges and consider the things that have helped and gone well, it has given young people a shared sense of experience, reducing feelings of isolation and has provided tools and techniques for overcoming challenges. The following comments come from some of the young people we have supported this year, when asked how the CORE work has helped them; _**‘I feel I’ve gotten more confident. I’m handling the comments people throw at me.’ ‘I have had less panic attacks.’ ‘I have missed less school.’ ‘Being able to stand up for myself.’ ‘I have started accepting compliments and I have learnt new ways to calm myself down.’ ‘I have been able to cope with overwhelming emotions better.’ ‘More confident and more able to cope with things.’ ‘The advice has helped me to stay calm and love myself more.’**_ 

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Section E
Financial review
The trustees aim to hold 3 months running costs in reserve.
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Delalls of any funds matsrlalty
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Furthor flnanclal revlew detalls (Optlonal Inforniallon)
We are very grateful to The Sussex Community Foundation for
their grant in the previous year as well as The Chalk Cliff Trust for
their grant this year which has helped us deliver this important
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Section F
Other optional information
Section G
Declaration
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## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

|**For the period**<br>**from**|1st April 2021|**To**|31st March 2022|
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## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|<br>Grants|**5,102**||**-**||**-**||**5,102**||**3,486**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income_<br>_for AR)_|**5,102**||**-**||**-**||**5,102**||**3,486**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment**<br>**sales, (see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**3,486**|
|||||||||||
|<br>GroupFacilitators|**2,323**||**2,361**||**-**||**4,684**||**1,159**|
|GroupResources|**323**||**-**||**-**||**323**||**146**|
|Stationery& Postage|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Travel & Subsistence|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Telephone & IT|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**598**|
|Insurance|**203**||**-**||**-**||**203**||**87**|
|Training|**145**||**-**||**-**||**145**||**115**|
|Administration|**79**||**-**||**-**||**79**||**435**|
|Marketing|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**3,073**||**2,361**||**-**||**5,434**||**2,540**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**2,540**|
|||||||||||
||**2,029**||||||||**946**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**2,350**||||||||**3,765**|
||**4,379**||||||||**4,711**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

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