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Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Yellow Brick Road Projects
**Other names charity is known by**
YBRP
**Registered charity number (if any)**
1160315
**Charity's principal address**
Office52a, Orion House, Basepoint
Andover
**Postcode** SP10 3FG
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
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Susy Churchill|Chair of Trustees|||
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David Whewell|Treasurer|||
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Ryan Waters|Trustee|||
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Martie Stanwell|Secretary|||
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Chris Dixon|Trustee|||
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## **Name of Chief Executive**
Siobhan Down
**Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Articles of Association Type of Registered charity Company limited by guarantee Appointed by Trustee board
governing document
How the charity is constituted
Trustee selection methods
**Yellow Brick Road Projects (YBRP)** is managed by the CEO and is run from Office 52a Basepoint, Andover. The team roles are CEO, COO, Quality Assurance Officer, Senior Coach and 2 Project Workers. Coaches and Finance team are paid on a self-employed basis. These sessional staff work for other organisations, as do tutors who deliver the YBRP programmes within their core working hours.
YBRP works with myriad of agencies to deliver the accredited You Matter programmes to young people who are vulnerable to homelessness. Partners with Test Valley Borough Council, Clarion Housing Group, Clarion Futures, Hampshire County Council’s Children’s Services, Supporting Families Programmes, UpSkillU, UK Harvest, Finkley Down Farm, Southern Housing Group, Sovereign Housing, Stitch a Logo, Basepoint, No Limits
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
Yellow Brick Road Projects Trustees Annual Report 2020 -21
|**Summary of the**
**objects of the**
**charity set out in**
**its**
**governing**
**document**|The**Objects**of**Yellow Brick Road Projects**are to advance in life and help young
people, young parents and parents-to-be providing support, advice, education, and
training designed to improve their conditions of life and to help them to develop their
life skills, emotional health and well-being, capacities, and capabilities to enable them
to actively participate in society as independent, mature, and responsible individuals.|
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|**summary of the**
**main activities**
**undertaken for the**
**public benefit in**
**relation to these**
**objects (include**
**within this section**
**the statutory**
**declaration that**
**trustees have had**
**regard to the**
**guidance issued by**
**the Charity**
**Commission on**
**public benefit)**
**Additional details**
**of objectives and**
**activities**
|
1.Act as a resource for young people by providing support, advice, education, and
training relating to life skills
**YBRP delivers life skills learning programmes under the brand of You Matter.** **The**
**charity trains external coaches through the bespoke You Matter Tutor Training**
**programme all programmes are accredited with Laser Learning Awards.**
2.
Provide education and training to people to enable them to help the Charity in
providing support, advice, education, and training to help young people develop their
life skills, emotional health and well-being, capacities, and capabilities.
**YBRP, through its work, develops relationships of trust and respect with young**
**people. The work of the charity is Trauma Informed, our Service users ensure that**
**the programmes meet their needs and work with us to adapt resources accordingly.**
**Peer supporters are volunteers who have taken part in programmes and go on to**
**support their peers on subsequent programmes.**
3.
Work in partnership with other organisations and bodies to help the Charity in
providing support, advice, education, and training to young people to help them
develop their life skills, emotional health and well-being, capacities, and capabilities.
**YBRP creates bespoke learning programmes. This year the charity has delivered the**
**You Matter in School, You Matter at Home one to one coaching programme. The**
**second year of delivering The Legacy Project which is a project. We provide a variety**
**of training resources and services to partners including Universities, these sessions**
**include Making Every Contact Count and Trauma Informed Training.**|
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**YBRP** is proud to be a part of the life journeys of young people and offers volunteering opportunities as a part of the progression for its participants.
Over the last year due to the Pandemic, we moved our services on-line, supported existing learners, worked with new nominations, and vulnerable young people and families Hampshire. We have supported people by telephone, email, video, mailing them welcome packs and Zoom groups. Our team has grown from 5 to 12 and has become more diverse, we have 3 new Trustees and 2 regular donations from private benefactors.
Yellow Brick Road Projects’ services have been dramatically affected by the pandemic. This is probably one of the biggest understatements ever! We all decided that we would not be closed as our services were needed more than ever, so we set about contacting all our funders and supporters asking for flexibility in using the funding we have and thank goodness they all agreed. Vitaly, we knew that money was not the only thing that was needed. It was the emotional scaffolding that enables us all to manage that balance of life with all the new things thrown into the mix – home education, shielding, loss of personal income, relationships, and the day-by-day reports from HM Gov. To address this, we began twice weekly Zoom groups – one for group supervision and one for wellbeing. These have become institutional and have provided a great sense of support and an anchor throughout the summer and beyond.
We were delighted to receive a large grant of £60,000.00 from TNL from the Covid Response fund and TVBC Covid Business grant. These grants have allowed us to continue to deliver services which have increased in like for like costs by 43%. We purchased laptops and data for young people.
We pivoted all our services online which has meant that there was no gap between our programmes. You Matter has now become a 40 week one 2 one coaching programme and has been commissioned by Sovereign Housing to offer to young people who have been unable to access a tenancy due to affordability or other reasons.
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Growing Together has become Growing Together online and we were able to complete You Matter 2 Peer Mentor training online for the first time.
2020 -21 was the first year delivering The Legacy Project – This project is to Engage Young People in Andover to Educate the Community of Andover about the issues around Child Criminal Exploitation and Evolve lives of young people who are at risk. We delivered 2 very successful community webinars; 24 young people are attending weekly mentoring sessions and 35 have had brief interventions with the engagement officer for the project. The project had to evolve from the beginning as Covid restrictions meant that all the plans we had in place had to pivot online.
Due to Covid and not being able to reach young people through the usual channels we launched a new service in Andover #AY – Andover Youth – a detached youth work provision. We recognised that the town’s young people were being affected by lack of engagement with schools, criminal exploitation, and food poverty all of which is exasperated by the pandemic. We are out and about in Andover twice a week and in the school holidays to provide access for young people to trusted adults.
The outcomes which have included:
- Completion of the You Matter programme that were part finished when Lockdown started.
- Continued to support to access services
- Referrals for services to other services for young people
- Weekly check in calls/ texts which have garnered a positive response ‘it’s so nice to talk to someone from outside the home,’ ‘it feels like we have been forgotten by everyone,’ ‘everything I did to maintain my mental health has been closed’
- Sharing activity ideas for children in the home environment
- Sharing ideas for maintaining adult mental health during social distancing restrictions
- Promotion of other services via our Facebook page – increased reach to new audiences –
- Website continued developing and increased our video content
-
- Trained 5 peer mentors who are now supporting the coaches with new learners.
- Tutors became Coaches and worked with young people via telephone/Zoom groups and postal contact whilst working from home.
- Reaching Out Project – Supporting Vulnerable Families at Winton Community Academy
- Mentoring of vulnerable young people via video and phone calls
- Food Matters - 900 hot meals and food deliveries to young people and families in Andover Sept 2020 – March 2021
Our most recent partnership in response to addressing Food Poverty, with local business Finkley Down Farm we are working with them and UK Harvest to provide twice weekly hot meals for young people and families experiencing homelessness and who live in the hostels in the town. These nutritious meals are created using top quality surplus food, prepared at, and delivered by the team at Finkley. As a partnership we received an award for Crisis Innovation – Pandemic Heroes from National Farm Attractions Network. This award was to recognise a unique and important project which brought together addressing food poverty, reducing food waste, and using local businesses premises that were closed due to Covid restrictions.
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Data* Young people and families 272 Contacts phone, text, letters 1594 You Matter programmes - 4 – changed in March due to Covid. You Matter @ Home - 22 You Matter @ Home group 2 Growing Together online - 7 You Matter 2 Peer Mentor training online 1 The Legacy Project Engagement sessions 15 #AY detached youth 15 sessions Agency and forum meetings 606 Face to face meetings 35 – none since Covid 1:1 mentoring sessions 40 Virtual meetings 289 Accreditations achieved 33
*Please note that our data collection method changed in response to Covid these figures represent data collected from 25th March 2020.
The method before this date represented attendance, retention, and achievement
Financial Report The financial information for 2020/21 report shows a basic breakdown of income and expenditure. A full financial report and a copy of the independent inspection can be obtained upon request. Yellow Brick Road Projects - Charity 1160315 Income for 06/04/2020 – 05/04/2021 Unrestricted Income – £104,172 Restricted Income - £115,460 Total Income received £219,632 Expenditure for 06/04/2020-05/04/2021 Unrestricted Expenditure - £74,147 Restricted Expenditure - £106,058 Total Expenditure £180,205 Surplus of £39,427 Unrestricted £30,025 & Restricted £9,402 Current Reserves @ 06/04/2021 £72,096 Unrestricted £39,025 Restricted £ 33,071 We currently hold approx. 4.8-month expenses in reserves. In addition to the monetary income received, we have again received “in kind services” from our volunteers and donors in the form of equipment, advice, practical support, volunteering hours and we also received donations of food and other items. To the value of approximately £13,700.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who have given their time and resource for free; this additional and continued support is gratefully received
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**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 10 January 2022
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## **Yellow Brick Road Projects Charity Number 1160315**
## **Statement of Financial Activies 06/04/2020 - 05/04/2021**
|**Note**
**INCOME**
Grants & Legacies
**1**
Charitable Activities
**2**
Donations
**Total Income**
**EXPENDITURE**
Operational Expenditure
**3**
Charitable Activities
**4**
**Total Expenditure**
**Net Income**
Fund Balances at 6th April 2020
**Fund Balance at 5th April 2021**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**2021**
**2020**
101,463
55,377
156,840
77,189
- 60,083
60,083
75,686
2,709 -
2,709
7,093|
|---|---|
||104,172
115,460
219,632
159,968|
||74,147
24,673
98,820 74,611
-
81,385
81,385 69,975|
||74,147
106,058
180,205 144,586|
|||
||**30,025**
**9,402**
**39,427 15,382**|
||9,000 23,669 32,669 17,287|
||**39,025**
**33,071**
**72,096 32,669**|
Adjusted 2020 Programme Deliver cost to include teaching hours delivered by staf
## **Balance Sheet as at 05/04/2021**
|**Current Assets**
Debtors
Bank Account CAF & Barclays
**Current Liabilities**
Trade Creditors
**Current Assets less Current Liabilities:**
Net Assets
**Funds of Charity**
Unrestricted Funds
Restricted Funds
Total Funds|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**2021**
**2020**
6,197
6,197
14,724
42,653
29,923
72,576
23,486|
|---|---|
||42,653
36,120
78,773
38,210|
||(6,677)
(6,677)
(5,541)|
||0
(6,677)
(6,677)
(5,541)|
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||42,653
29,443
72,096
32,669|
|||
||42,653
29,443
72,096
32,669|
||39,025
39,025
9,000
33,071
33,071
23,669|
||39,025
33,071
72,096
32,669|
01/10/202214:49:46file:///usr/local/liferay-dxp-digital-enterprise-7.0-sp3/tomcat-8.0.32/temp/document3828147603511853672.xlsxIncome & expenditure
|**Income**
**Note 1**
**Grants & Legacies**
Trust - Blagrave
Grants
- OPCC
- HIWCF
- TVBC
- HCC
- GW UK
- TVBC Food Project
- HCC Food Project
- Clarion Food Project
Other Grants
**Note 2**
**Income from Charitable Activities**
- Sovereign Housing
- MECC Delivery 21/22
- Clarion
- Energise me
- No Limits
- HCC
- Solent Univerisity
- Tesco
- TVBC
- YMIS School
- Southern Housing
- Vivid Housing
- Health Watch Hampshire
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Note 3**
**COST OF GENERATING INCOME**
Salaries inc ER NIC & Pension
Staf Training & Wellbeing
Rent
Travelling Expenses
Printing Stationery
Telephone
Computer & software
Insurance
Sundry Expenses
Bank Charges
Professional Fees
**Note 4**
**CHARITABLE TO ACTIVITIES**
Course Delivery
Direct Expenses
Food Matters - Costs
**Total Expenditure**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**2021**
**2020**
20,000
20,000 20,000
25,000 25,000
4,680
4,680 5,000
4,500 4,500 5,000
2,483
2,483 35,287
3,600
3,600 1,500
11,042 11,042
1,920 1,920
2,915 2,915
70,700 10,000 80,700 10,402|
|---|---|
||101,463 55,377 156,840 77,189|
||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**2021**
**2020**
- 29,500 29,500 -
- 10,000 10,000 -
- 7,000 7,000 12,006
- 4,359 4,359 -
- 3,400 3,400 3,400
- 2,483 2,483 -
- 1,500 1,500 -
- 1,166 1,166 -
- 675 675 48,000
- - - 1,600
- - - 6,800
- - - 2,000
- - - 1,880|
||- 60,083 60,083 77,706|
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||**101,463 115,460 216,923 154,895**|
||**2021**
**2020**
**Total**
**Total**
54,911 36,266
3,636 3,695
13,265 12,988
1,970 5,732
1,372 1,447
446 872
14,054 3,423
616 622
305 469
69 60
8,176 9,037
98,820 74,611
73,197 68,096
536 1,879
7,652 -
81,385 69,975
**180,205 144,586**|
## **Total Expenditure**
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## **Yellow Brick Road Project**
## **Receipts and pay**
04/06/2020
## **For the period from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
## **Unrestricted funds**
## **Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
## **to the nearest £**
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Charitable Activities -
Donations 2,709
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Charitable Activities - 60,083
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- -
- -
- -
- -
104,172 115,460
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- -
- -
Sub total [ - ] -
Total receipts 104,172 115,460
A3 Payments
Cost of Generating Income 74,147 24,673
Charitale Income - 81,385
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Sub total 74,147 106,058
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- -
- -
Sub total - -
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|**A5**|**_Total payments_ 74,147**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 30,025**
**Transfers between funds**
**-**||**106,058**
**9,402**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**A6**|**Cash funds last year end**
**9,000**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 39,025**||**23,669**
**33,071**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**
## **Categories**
## **Details**
## **B1 Cash funds**
Debtor
Bank
## _**Total cash funds**_
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
## **Details**
## **B2 Other monetary assets**
## **Details**
## **B3 Investment assets**
## **Details**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **Details**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Creditors (Restricted)
Signature
## **1160315**
**ments accounts CC16a** 04/05/2021
**To**
**Endowment funds**
## **Total funds Last year**
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- 60,083 75,686
- 2,709 7,093
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- - -
- - -
- - -
- 219,632 159,968
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- 98,820 74,611
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101.463
## **Independent Examiners Report**
## **For the Year Ended 5[th] April 2021**
I have examined the financial statements prepared by Yellow Brick Road Project Charity number: 1160315
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act;
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner's report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act; and
-
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act
Have not been met; or
(2) To which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Sandra Burch ACMA Dated
28[th] September 2021