## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 1 January 2021 **To** 31 December 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Northampton Street Pastors **Other names charity is known by** NSP **Registered charity number (if any)** 1161154
**Charity's principal address**
9 Tower Street Northampton **Postcode** NN1 2SN
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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9|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Adam Eakins|Vice Chairperson|From March 2021|The Trustees|
||Paul Worth|Chairperson|From March 2021|The Trustees|
||Richard Johnson|(Treasurer)|From March 2021|The Trustees|
||Phil Snelson||Stepped down AGM
March - 2021|The Trustees|
||Martin Hill||March - June 2021|The Trustees|
||Sarah Williams||From March 2021|The Trustees|
||Morcea Walker||From Sept 2021|The Trustees|
||Paul Lavender||From Nov 2021|The Trustees|
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
- How the charity is constituted
Standard Ascension Trust Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
Trust managed by Management Committee with 6 members
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Trustees are appointed from local churches by existing Trustees
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
- Northampton Street Pastors has a licence agreement with Ascension Trust and operates under their policies and procedures.
- Representatives of Northampton Street Pastors regularly attend meetings with Police and Local Authorities.
- All Trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits.
- All Street Pastor volunteers need to complete an application form and to provide two references. They are then recommended for training following an interview by existing Street Pastor Team Leaders.
- DBS checks are carried out on all Street Pastors 3 yearly.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Licence Agreement executed with Ascension Trust particularly but not exclusively by means of caring, listening and helping people on the streets and at various venues.
To relieve sickness and financial hardship and promote and preserve good health by provision of funds, goods or services of any kind including the provision of counselling and support.
To enhance education in accordance with Christian principles
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**Street Pastors** Patrols were suspended during the previous winter 2020-2021 Covid lockdown. As restrictions eased limited patrols began again in April 2021. Patrols were working to the normal aims of Provision of items to improve safety, health and the condition of the people the Street Pastors meet, including flip-flops, bottles of water, space blankets and lollipops. **Summary of the main** Taking time to listen to and talk with people we meet whilst on patrol, **activities undertaken for** including but not limited to those attending night clubs, door staff, shop and **the public benefit in** restaurant staff and homeless people. **relation to these objects (include within this** Provision of practical advice and support, including prayer, when requested, **section the statutory** enabling people to enjoy their evening out and get home safely. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the School Pastors guidance issued by the** Work with schools including weekly patrols were suspended during Covid and **Charity Commission on** did recommence for a short while but these were suspended due to reduced **public benefit)** numbers of volunteers and a lack of engagement from the schools. In the autumn of 2021, the trustees began exploring various options to see if the work might be restarted with a new remit. The work for this is ongoing. **General** The trustees have paid due regard to the guidance provided by the Charity Commission on public benefit in deciding what activities the charity should undertake.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
**Results for 2021 Partner and Community Links** Street and School Pastors enjoy very good links and work closely with partner organisations - these include the Northamptonshire Police, Northampton Town Centre Task Group, Pub Watch, Single homelessness Forum and the schools they are involved with. Street and School Pastors are well regarded and very much appreciated by these partners and particularly in the NTE (Night Time Economy).
**Covid-19 pandemic**
Despite the testing circumstances of the pandemic, the trust has successfully completed the training of three new Street Pastor recruits and patrols are now fully operational.
## **Our Volunteers**
All patrols are carried out on a voluntary basis, there are 22 active Street Pastors. Street Pastors have collectively done over 408 hours patrolling the streets.
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## **Interventions**
Street Pastors continue to have interventions with everyone in the night time economy along with clubbers.
Street Pastors escorted 16 people to taxis and dealt with 65 other vulnerable people, they helped to calm several situations that may have escalated into fights, removing 1078 bottles and swept up 56 lots of glass, thus protecting many vulnerable folk.
## **Trustees**
At the last AGM the Chairperson changed from Adam Eakin to Paul Worth. Two trustees stepped down due to changes in personal circumstances and we have recruited two new trustees in their place.
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## **Recruitment**
We have recruited and trained three new Street Pastors. Funding has been secured and video commissioned to help promote the work of Street Pastors and to recruit others into this valuable work from local churches.
## **Staffing**
Keith Holland-Delamere stepped down from the role of Street Pastor coordinator, a new appointment was made, Hilary MacCallum, unfortunately she felt she was not suited to the job and the role is currently vacant. The trustees are actively seeking to recruit. Teresa Brown continued as Administrator for both Street and School Pastors.
Tim Briggs stepped down as School Pastor coordinator and Trustee Adam Eakins is working with the School Pastors to find a way forward.
## **Students**
Relations continue with the University and in December 2021 a team of Street Pastors was invited to patrol on a special Wednesday night student event. This was appreciated by students and staff alike.
## **Section E Financial review**
Aim to always to hold three months running costs in reserve.
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- 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
Grants have been received from a local charity, together with funding from Northampton Borough Council’s Partnership Fund
Donations have been received from individuals and local churches.
Expenditure has supported training, equipment, and salaries for 25 hours per month each for a Street Pastor Co-ordinator (12 months) and a School Pastor Co-ordinator (9 months) to administer the services delivered. Expenditure also includes the payment of an additional 20 hours per month administrative support.
No funds are invested.
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ethical investment policy adopted.
## **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)** Paul Leslie Worth **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair of Trustees **etc) Date** 8 March 2022
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Charity Name No (if any)
Northampton Street Pastors
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 1-Jan-21 31-Dec-21
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Grants 2,000 1,650 - 3,650
Donations 2,798 - - 2,798
HMRC JRS Grants 480 - 480
Training Income - 70 - 70
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
4,798 2,200 - 6,998
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
-
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table). -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
-
Total receipts 4,798 2,200 - 6,998
A3 Payments
Licence Fee 967 - - 967
Training - 250 - 250
Consumables - 48 - 48
Insurance 259 259
Staff costs 8,386 - 8,386
Equipment 111 - 111
Publicity 125 125
Funraising costs - - -
Sub total [ 1,462 ] 8,684 - 10,146
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
-
Total payments 1,462 8,684 - 10,146
-
Net of receipts/(payments) 3,336 - 6,484 - -3,148
A5 Transfers between funds 6,000 6,000 - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 5,824 1,559 - 7,383
Cash funds this year end 3,160 1,075 - 4,235
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank|**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**3,160**
**-**
**-**
**3,160**|
|**to nearest £**
**975**
**-**
**-**
**975**|
||(agree|balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK|Agreement Error||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|
|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**
**-**|
|**charity’s own use**||||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name||
||||Richard Johnson|||
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## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**6,325 3,428 1,474 - - - - - 11,227**
**11,227**
**1,783 250 115 9,286 439 250 12,123**
**12,123 -896 - 8,279 7,383**
## **Endowment funds**
## **to nearest £**
**-**
OK
## **Endowment funds to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval 2/14/2022