## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 1[st] Jan 2023 **To** 30[th] Dec 2023 **Charity name:** The Harrogate Hub **Charity registration number:** 1163939 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the
purposes of the charity
as set out in its
governing document|Para
1.17|The objects of the CIO are specifically restricted to
such purposes which are exclusively charitable under
the laws of England and Wales as the charity trustees
shall in their absolute discretion determine, including
(but not limited to):
1.1
the advancement of the Christian faith;
1.2
the relief of those in need because of youth, age,
ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other
disadvantage;
1.3
the relief of social isolation and promotion of
social inclusion.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to
those purposes for the
public benefit, in
particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in
the accounts.|Para
1.17 and
1.19|We are a local network which helps churches work
together on mission. We also connect with local
schools, charities and local government because we
believe that we can do together what would be
impossible alone.
Our work can be summed up as “making connections,
sparking collaboration and catalysing systemic change
in our local area.”
This is particularly important given the cost of living
crisis – social need is high and yet resources are very
tight. The more we can communicate with one another
and share resources, the greater the benefit to society
as a whole.
Although our registered charity name is The Harrogate
Hub, we brand ourselves locally as Netmakers.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para
1.18|The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued
by the Charity Commission on public benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para
1.38|N/A| |Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment|Para
1.38|N/A| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para
1.38|Our volunteers are engaged with leading youth work,
either as child mentors in schools or as youth worship
leaders outside of school.
The majority of our work involves coordinating
volunteers and staff from other charities, schools and
churches (rather than our own volunteers), helping
them work together for the good of our local area.| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity, identifying the
difference the charity’s
work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any
wider benefits to
society as a whole.|Para
1.20|Across 2023 we have engaged in the following areas:
**1) Prayer and Worship**
-
Gathered church leaders for monthly prayer
breakfast
-
Gathered people from across 12 different
churches for weekly prayer for the town
-
Coordinated 8 churches of different
denominations for the Good Friday service at
the war memorial which was attended by over
200 people.
**2) Building relationships and connections**
-
Invested a lot of time in meeting with local
stakeholders to better understand how we can
meet the needs of our community and connect
relevant people with one another e.g. NYC
Rough Sleepers Coordinator, NYC Community
Safety Officer, local Imam, local schools etc.
-
Partnered with Wellspring to provide mental
health training for church leaders. Course was
over-subscribed with over 20 leaders in
attendance.
-
Continued to build our Mighty Networks
platform in order to connect people across the
town around social action topics (130
members).
-
Invested in new website to build our brand and
explain the breadth of activity we are involved
in.
-
Continued to grow our social media presence,
using it as a platform to champion and spread
the word about local initiatives.| |||**3) Activating more church member participation**
**in civic life**
-
Partnered with https://licc.org.uk to encourage
church members to bring their faith to life
wherever they already spend their time e.g.
work, school, home, street.
-
Held two training events for church leaders (40
attended) and another two evening
talks/workshops for everyone (60-80 attended).
-
Held training workshop for young adults,
helping them engage and lead conversations
about popular culture.
**4) Youth Work**
-
Gathered churches from across the town to do
joint worship service for about 40 young people
every month. Held in a local café and starting
to be led by the young people themselves.
-
Appointed a pioneer youth worker to reach out
to young people and create new expressions of
youth church.
-
Appointed a Family and Schools Lead to
develop a partnership with TLG
https://www.tlg.org.uk,establishing a mentoring
programme in 1 high school and 3 primary
schools for children who are struggling. So far,
we are mentoring 14 children.
**5) New projects**
-
Coordinated over 30 warm spaces across the
town into one timetable that local
GPs/voluntary services could use for referrals.
-
Coordinated church participation in national
“Shine your light” initiative, where churches
took their carol services out of the building and
into the local community.
-
Brought together Christians from many different
churches who all live in the Jennyfields area.
Encouraged collaboration to serve the
community through listening, prayer,
volunteering at local community café and
engaging with local school.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|N/A| |---|---|---| |Performance of
fundraising activities
against objectives set|Para 1.41|N/A| |Investment
performance against
objectives|Para 1.41|N/A| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|Income: £20,302
Expenditure: £38,753| |Statement explaining
the policy for holding
reserves stating why
they are held|Para 1.22|There is a designated reserve of 6 months running
costs, plus an additional development reserve of
£30k because we are a new charity.| |Amount of reserves
held|Para 1.22|**Total balance c/f: £146,277**
6 months running costs: £18,107
Development reserve: £30,000
Restricted funding: £9,620
Unrestricted reserve: £88,550 balance from sale of
building to be invested in staffing youth work| |Reasons for holding
zero reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund
materially in deficit|Para 1.24|N/A| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23|N/A| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds
(including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|The principal sources of funding are grant funders
and donations from local churches.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A| |A description of the
principal risks facing
the charity|Para 1.46|N/A| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection
methods including
details of any
constitutional
provisions e.g. election
to post or name of any
person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|1.1
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
of the charity trustees.
1.2
In selecting individuals for appointment as charity
trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to
the skills, knowledge and experience needed for
the effective administration of the CIO.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and
procedures adopted for
the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|The charity trustees will make available to each new
charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment:
1.1
a copy of the current version of this constitution; and
1.2
a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report
and statement of accounts.| |The charity’s
organisational structure
and any wider network
with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|The charity has 1 Trustees and 2 Employees.
We network with churches across the Harrogate and
Knaresborough district and connect more widely with
church networks such as Kairos Connexions, New Wine
and Gather.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|N/A| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Harrogate Hub| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charitynumber|1163939| |Charity’s principal address|c/o St Peter’s Church,
Cambridge Rd
Harrogate
HG1 1PB| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||David Wynn James|Chair||| ||Ben Askew|Vice Chair||| ||Martin Woodroofe|Treasurer||| ||Carol Bracher|||| ||Nik Gee|||| ||Alan Garrow|||| ||Ben Clowes||Until May2023|| ||Adam Price|||| ||Moses John||From May2023|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**|| |---|---| |Description of the assets held in this capacity|N/A| |Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how
this falls within the custodian charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from
the charity’s own assets|N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** Declaratlons Th• tru•1￿8 d•clar• that th•y hav• approved the tru•t•••' r•port abov•. Slgn•d on b•h•lf of th• charlty'• tru8t••• Slgnatur•{sl (LrtAJ Full namel81 Pasltlon l•9 Secrètary, Chalr, ètcl fQÉr+SLLrtC Oat• Iq l £**from**||01/01/2023
Period start date||**To**||31/12/2023
Period end date||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |
Gift Aid / Personal Donations|**340**||**-**||**-**||**340**||**360**| |Church Sponsorship|**8,775**||**-**||**-**||**8,775**||**4,863**| |Other Donations|**193**||**-**||**-**||**193**||**396**| |Events|**856**||**-**||**-**||**856**||| |Grants|**-**||**10,138**||**-**||**10,138**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**10,164**||**10,138**||**-**||**20,302**||**5,619**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**5,619**| ||||||||||| |
Creative Agency
Hospitality
Laptop Purchases
Miscellaneous
Publicity
Salary costs
Staff costs
Training
Travel
Web costs
Youth|**12,037**||||||||**15,388**| ||**1,296**||||||||**1,146**| ||**2,928**||||||||**-**| ||**715**||||||||**983**| ||**658**||||||||**319**| ||**15,744**||||||||**14,311**| ||**567**||||||||**-**| ||**3,025**||||||||**2,235**| ||**697**||||||||**337**| ||**1,472**||||||||**1,494**| ||**929**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**40,068**||||||||**36,213**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**36,213**| ||||||||||| ||**- 29,904**||||||||**- 30,594**| ||**-**||||||||| ||**166,539**||||||||**197,950**| ||**136,635**||||||||**167,356**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|1
Cash in bank
Cash in hand
Creditors
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**136,567**
**90**
**136,657**
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**9,620**
**-**
**-**
**9,620**
OK
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|25/09/2024
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| **Details** |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| |**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| |**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**-**|||**-**| |**charity’s own use**||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**| ||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|||**When due**|| ||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**|||**(optional)**|| |**B5 Liabilities**|Creditors||General||**300**||||| |||||||**-**|||| |||||||**-**|||| |||||||**-**|||| |||||||**-**|||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 25/09/2024 2