Charity number: 1164021
**The Blagrave Trust CIO Report and financial statements For the year ended 31 December 2021**
## **Reference and administrative information for the year ended 31 December 2021**
|**Charity number**|1164021||
|---|---|---|
|**Registered address**|The Blagrave Trust||
||c/o Cripplegate Foundation||
||13 Elliotts Place||
||London N1 8HX||
|**Trustees**|Trustees who served during|the period and up to the date of this|
||report were as follows:||
||Peter Babudu|Chair|
||Clare Cannock|Safeguarding Lead|
||Segun Olowookere|Finance lead|
||Daze Aghaji||
||Boudicca Pepper||
||Victor Azubuike|appointed March 2021|
||Edward Jacobs|appointed March 2021|
||Barbara Ojei Agwaziam|appointed March 2021|
||Naomi Ambrose|appointed March 2021|
||Tasneem Alom|Resigned Jan 2021|
||Linda Epstein|Resigned March 2021|
|**Key management**|Jo Wells|Director|
||Tessa Hibbert|Regional Partnerships Manager|
||Edd Fry|Programme Manager|
||Philippa Knott Kos|Policy Manager|
|**Bankers**|Coutts & Co||
||440 Strand||
||LONDON, WC2 0QS||
|**Solicitors**|Taylors Vinters||
|**Auditor**|Sayer Vincent LLP||
||Chartered Accountants and|Statutory Auditor|
||Invicta House, 108-114 Golden Lane||
||LONDON, EC1Y 0TL||
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## **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2021**
The Blagrave Trustees present their sixth report and the audited financial statements as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) for the charity’s year ended 31 December 2021.
Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the charity’s trust deed and the Statement of Recommended Practice Accounting and Reporting by Charities: SORP applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102.
## **Objectives and activities**
The Blagrave trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year in January. This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The Blagrave Trust reports the success of each key area of work and the benefits the charity has brought to the young people that it supports.
The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.
## **Our vision is:**
A world where all young people have hope, access to the support they need, a stake in society and influence over their futures.
## **Our mission is:**
To bring lasting change to the lives of young people; investing in them as powerful forces for change; acting upon their right to be heard in pursuit of a just and fair society
## **Our strategic objectives for 2021 were:**
- Increasing civil society’s accountability to young people,
- Investing directly in young people to create change and,
- Ensuring better youth policy directly informed by young people
At the end of 2021 at the November Board meeting, the trustees signed off on our strategy for 2022 – 2026 with the above objectives continuing as we move forward.
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In the pursuit of our objectives we have several further commitments in addition to our 3 core strategic areas:
- To ensure that diverse young people are playing a key role in the fulfillment of our mission and objectives at every level of our work
- To fund organisations and initiatives that prioritize listening to young people, youth engagement and leadership
- To prioritize work with and for young people who are either facing and/or challenging disadvantage or social injustice and that seeks to drive institutional or systemic change
- To add value to our grants by supporting learning, knowledge exchange, and sector collaboration including within the funding community.
- To fund for a minimum three-year period, wherever possible providing unrestricted funding.
- To manage our investments in line with our Responsible Investment policy to both create further benefit to society, avoid harm, and contribute to solutions where possible.
## **Achievements and performance**
The charity’s main activities and who it tries to help are described below. All its charitable activities focus on young people and are undertaken to further the Blagrave Trust’s charitable purposes for the public benefit. Year on year, the Blagrave Trust’s approved grants have been steadily increasing since we became a CIO. The Blagrave Trust does not focus on specific themes of work – rather, we recognize the intersectionality of issues and their relevance to young people’s lives. This means we fund a wide- range of organisations focusing on many different areas some of which are described in what follows.
## • **Strategic objective 1: Increasing civil society’s accountability to young people**
Under this objective area we have a regional programme of work, that primarily supports organisations that are delivering key services and support to young people experiencing challenge and injustice. In addition, we also manage two restricted funds – Restart Youth and The Listening Fund supported by other funders, with specific aims and objectives.
## **Regional programme:**
Using our unrestricted funding, we have continued to invest in exceptional youth charities, primarily in the counties of Sussex, Berkshire, Hants, Isle of Wight and Wiltshire. The majority of these grants are unrestricted and range from £10,000 to £60,000 p.a.
We always prioritize organisations that are working with young people experiencing the greatest challenge and areas that have the highest rates of poverty. In 2021 58% of our funding in the region went to areas of greatest need as determined by the ten local authorities in our region with the highest levels on the index of multiple deprivation.
The young people that are supported through this work include young people experiencing homelessness, mental health challenges, sexual abuse or exploitation, care experienced young people, asylum seekers and refugees, those experiencing racial or other forms of injustice and discrimination and youth unemployment. Types of support are varied, but range from information and advice, training and support to enable high quality youth representation and leadership, counselling and mental health and other forms of youth work. The number of young people that our funding contributes to supporting in the region is in the tens of thousands.
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In addition, we continue to hold three endowment funds in the region with three regional Community Foundations – Wiltshire, Berkshire and Hampshire and Isle of Wight – and these generate small grants used to benefit local people.
In October 2021 we held our annual partner meeting in the region in Winchester, bringing together partners for a day to explore the theme of youth engagement and leadership: when you share power with young people where can you go? The event was attended by over 50 people sharing learning on lived experienced and leadership, including how decision making differs when young people hold power. The event was filmed by one of our Challenge and change partners with short films from the day available here on our website
## **Restart Youth:**
Thanks to National Lottery players, The National Lottery Community Fund awarded us funding to establish a fund for youth organisations in the South East of England to ensure that young people are actively reshaping and influencing services specifically in the aftermath of Covid 19. The aim was that young people have a clear say in how youth organisations reframe their work across the region. The Trust recruited and has worked with a group of paid young Advisors to refine these objectives and to make all final funding decisions for grants of up to £10,000. Grants were made to 21 individual organisations totaling £215,472.00 and work covered a range of work including:
- Friends, Families and Travellers: to employ a young person from the traveller community as an intern for 6 months to conduct outreach and engagement with others to find out what they want from services.
- Sussex Prisoner Families employed young people to scope out and design a befriending service which they’d identified as a need, for others with family members in prison.
- No 5’s team of young researchers conducted wide-scale research with others, which has directly informed the new 3 year organisational strategy.
- Many funded charities took on young people as paid members of their team, some for the first time. This was one of the priorities of our own advisors to the fund which has had clear impact.
- The Advisors’ focus on intersectionality in this fund has had impact: Off the Record employed a young person as an inclusion champion who reviewed top to toe the process for on-boarding young people to their service through an intersectionality lens. The charity has made many changes as a result.
Grant making decisions aligned with Blagrave’s core ambition to promote and empower young people as powerful forces for change, and ensure their voices are heard in matters than affect them. Learning has been a central component of the programme, both on the role of the Advisors and on specific thematic areas emerging, such as intersectionality.
## **The Listening Fund**
TLF is a powerful collaboration supported by several funders that is in its 4th year and will run for a further three years. The fund’s objectives are:
- To drive greater accountability to young people by:
- Supporting adult-led organisations to improve their listening practices and share what they learn across the sector;
- Supporting funders to review their listening practices and cultures, and;
- Providing young people with the power and resources to fund the work that they believe
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is required to improve accountability.
During 2021 TLF has made grants to 9 organisations totalling £207,563.00 in pursuit of these objectives. These organisations will act as listening champions across the wider sector, driving internal change that shares power with young people in a meaningful way and sharing their learning and progress. In addition, the Trust has recruited a diverse group of 10 young people as Advisors who have been working together since the middle of 2021, supported by professional facilitators to design a programme of funding for the remaining years. The advisors have decided to focus their funding on youth leadership and will launch their programme in 2022. Finally, a group called Collective Discovery have been employed after a competitive tendering process to work alongside all the LF partners – funders, delivery organisations and young people – to capture and share learning, supporting Blagrave’s ambition to use this to influence the wider sector.
## • **Strategic Objective 2: Investing directly in young people to create change**
Our work under this objective is more emergent and innovative, evolving as we learn and reflect on which young people in particular our funding is best placed to serve – it is led by two young staff members in collaboration with the young people who are paid Advisors for Challenge and Change. We have two key initiatives under this objective, that have made considerable progress during 2021.
## **Challenge and Change**
In July 2020 we launched a new fund aimed entirely at reaching young people, who are activating their lived experience to create structural and systems level change. The fund was designed by paid the Advisors, who also had delegated responsibility to decide who was funded. The grants range in size from £2,000 to £10,000 and for the vast majority was the first time they have ever received any funding.
During 2021 we have also worked in partnership with the Centre for Knowledge Equity to deliver a programme of support for the young people that we are funding directly. This was in response to what young people themselves said they needed: access to LEX elders for knowledge exchange sessions and a series of ‘masterclasses’ that covered areas such as developing your campaign and influencing policy.
The young people we are funding have made incredible progress. Some of the overall achievements under this fund include:
- Development of peer led spaces supporting health and wellbeing and the co-creation of social change work.
- Establishment of a number of CICs to further their work and leveraging significant on-going investment in those organisations – demonstrating the impact of seed funding and the ability of the young people to scale their work independently.
- Development of websites, social media presence and platforms to grow their web presence and campaigns and training materials to advance their missions.
- The ability of young LEX leaders to pay themselves and their colleagues thereby recognizing and acknowledge the value of their time and the social change work they are doing, in contrast to so much unpaid work expected across the youth sector.
- Challenging sector stereotypes about what is doable and achievable by young people.
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Specific examples of progress by individuals or collectives includes:
- Development of guides by the Young Justice Advisers for young people in the criminal justice system written by them and used to advocate for better policy. They have helped change the lack of information available to young people across the justice and care system, using lived experiences to create resources that would help young adults expand their knowledge of their current situations and how to progress. They wanted young adults in the systems that often get overlooked to feel empowered and like they can have some sort of input into decisions that are made for them, rather than with them. They challenged the thinking of practitioners and decision makers to put a focus on young adults and understand how everyone has potential that needs to be supported.
- Radical Body have purchased equipment that enables inclusive performance opportunities for creatives who struggle to leave home due to disability; early career employment opportunities for six disabled performers and loan of equipment to disabled performers. They have challenged the idea that it is necessary for people to be physically present at venues and events to create meaningful, impactful performances that resonate emotionally with their audiences. They did a performance, for an audience of industry contacts who came away with a changed understanding of the potential for digital events to be powerful tools for access, and an increased awareness of the disabled talent that often goes untapped because they are unable to leave the house.
- Embracing Difference have run a series of workshops on social justice and campaigning for young people who are neurodiverse, autistic, dyslexic and dyspraxic . Through this they have challenged ableism and assumptions about how people are expected to operate in the workplace. As neurodiverse individuals their work is grounded in compassion and research and evidence e.g. that neurodivergent people are statistically more likely to drop out of university, be unemployed, or be in debt. They have linked up with a community of people of colour who are neurodivergent in the social justice space, learning together how to meet the needs of that community.
- Development of Black Trans Foundation, providing mental health support for over 40 young black trans people who otherwise have no access to support including high quality supervision of therapy as per professional requirements. This work has given practical support and hope to a community that feel oppressed, challenging prejudice and investing in their community. They have managed to leverage significant other support and funding on the back of our initial grants.
- Development of Avocados Academy, a CIC providing legal advocacy for care experienced young people. The purpose of Legal Advocacy is to give anyone with any level of care experience, understanding of the legal system through breaking down the jargon and the processes that have impacted their lives. They are exploring how they can share the model they are using nationally. The intention being to enable care experienced people to have knowledge of their rights and entitlements and be supported to access them, challenging, where appropriate, support that they might have been entitled to but are not accessing and developing self-efficacy. Avocados Academy is also creating a community for care leavers in Devon. It has leveraged in significant investment from other funders on the back of our grant.
- Publication and significant national media profile of a book ‘My Journey Home’ on a young person’s experiences of homelessness and mental health, and Lily Allen has bought the rights to the film. This has challenged perceptions of homelessness and the book itself has been distributed across the homelessness sector.
This fund will be re-launched in 2022 for further funding to young people.
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## **The Opportunity Fund**
The Opportunity Fund is a 3-year pilot we initiated and co-produced with Inspire Chili and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation that provides the equivalent of circa 2 days per week basic income to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds aged 18-25 to enable them to pursue the social change initiatives they want – with an emphasis on structural change and/or social entrepreneurialism.
This is an important innovation and a key mechanism by which we can support young people directly and learn about what works. The fund launched officially in Feb 2020 with the first cohort of 10 recruited to the programme – 5 entrepreneurs, and 5 campaigners. Despite the fact that these young people have faced the enormous hurdle of lockdowns just at the moment that they were creating, planning and implementing their social businesses and campaigns, and for some really challenging personal circumstances, they have all nonetheless achieved a huge amount. 2021 saw the recruitment of the second larger cohort of entrepreneurs and campaigners. Two partner organisations are supporting the young people with mentoring, connections, therapeutic help and payment of their wage.
To date the young people have made some incredible achievements including:
- Further developing and growing their businesses reach and finding more permanent locations for their businesses.
- Transitioning from online to in person delivery.
- Developing online and marketing presence for both the social entrepreneurs and campaigners.
Specific achievements include:
- House of Akunna (which is a fashion school primarily aimed at children aged 6-11 years old that provide workshops and courses specialising in fashion design, pattern cutting (for adults), garment construction and sewing) have employed two people from their local job centre under the government’s kick-starter scheme.
- Veegoo have found an outlet in Brighton and continue to donate food through God Harmic pan UK. Veegoo is a vegan catering company with a social aim of providing information to local communities (with a strong focus on south Asian communities) about how to live a vegan lifestyle on a budget. They provide vegan meal kits and food to low income families through food banks and have been providing affordable meal kits to care leavers too, along with workshops and information.
- Jack has been focusing on writing a book based on his lived experience of being in the care system and facing challenges that statistically most young people in care will face, such as being hospitalized, arrested, or imprisoned. His book is focusing on these key areas; Housing, employment and educational opportunities, better mental health support and celebrating the successes of care leavers. He aims for his book to be read by key stakeholders in the relevant government departments to “pop the Westminster bubble and have expert by experience representation across Government Departments”.
- Bashiie (Care to Culture) won £1,000 from the Insight Awards and has invested this money in the necessary equipment to enable her to start her podcast. Care to culture’s goal is to challenge the perception of trauma through live art and build a database of care experienced artists and their success. They aim to alter the statistics of care leavers Not in Education Employment or Training (NEET), return agency to care experienced artists through access to the arts and build resource packs for any Looked After Child (LAC) or Care Leaver (CL) who may need help. Care to culture wants to hand back identity, pull out knowledge and craft the
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confidence needed to navigate care leavers paths successfully. This is done through mental health support, mentorship, commissioning and most importantly the freedom to speak their truth and share their art. “Care to culture helps you to own the story, use the trauma and reshape it into a source of power.”
## • **Strategic Objective 3: Ensuring better youth policy directly informed by young people**
We have made £540,300 in grants to 17 organisations working on a range of rights, justice and policy areas. These include **:** reform of the education system; criminal justice; public health; reform of the welfare state (led by young people); young women’s rights; employment for care leavers; democratic participation; climate and employment policy. These grants range between £25,000 and £100,000 total; most paid in annual instalments over two or three years.
Key successes include:
- Students for Sustainability: high profile youth-led campaign for an education curriculum that prepares young people for and responds to the climate crisis, resulting in a well-received COP26 announcement of Department for Education’s first ever climate curriculum strategy.
- Bite Back: impressively focused and well-connected youth campaign achieving demonstrable policy wins, including a ban on online junk food advertising, for which BiteBack2030 were recognised by the Secretary of State and mentioned in parliament.
- Drive Forward Foundation: expanded their civil service internship scheme, securing 12 month paid internships in central government for 52 care experienced young people over the year. Their policy forum of care experienced young people also prepared and submitted a brief to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and jointly hosted an event with the leadership of that review.
- Youth Employment UK: a leading partner in the establishment and running of the influential Youth Employment Group, specifically focused on getting young people’s voices heard in the group’s work and working closely with government minister and No 10 as well as Opposition leaders on high profile policies such as Kickstart, Youth Hubs and apprenticeships.
- Big Change: launched an ambitious, five-year ‘Co-mission’ aiming for transformation in the objectives and functioning of the education system, working in partnership with a council of 2030 young people and influential organisations across the education system.
- Just for Kids Law: ongoing detailed and high level policy influencing informed by multidisciplinary teams including young people with lived experience of the campaign issues. JfKL co-ordinated a civil society submission to the UN Committee of the Rights of the Child, supported by 90 organisations and launched at a successful online event with the Children’s Minister and Shadow Children’s Minister.
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## **Other cross-organisational areas of progress**
- **DEI, and centering young people in all our work**
We have made substantial progress during 2021 in this area, both in what we fund but also in how we work, including finalizing our DEI policy and embedding this in our new strategy. Key progress and achievements include:
1. Recruitment of 16 self-employed young Advisors during the year, continuing to embed diversity and inclusive practice in grant-making and how we work in Blagrave. The young people come from a range of backgrounds and bring lived experience on multiple issues including race, disability, neurodiversity, and mental health into our decision making.
2. Continued good practice at governance level with a significantly diverse Board.
3. Equitable and inclusive recruitment practice, and equal opportunity monitoring including ensuring representation of age and racial diversity on selection panel for our new Team Assistant.
4. Working alongside other funders on the DEI data standard for grant-making in order to measure and track the extent to which we are reaching diverse groups through our funding. In particular, Challenge and Change is as fund that has actively reached out beyond normal networks to grassroots social changemakers and our funding has supported many individuals who would consider themselves to be outside the status quo of funding, whether they are migrants and asylum seekers, experiencing racial injustice, or have been in the criminal justice system.
5. Support and member of the advisory on the Foundation Rating Practice – a major initiative to rate foundations on diversity, accountability and transparency and drive systemic change. At the time of writing Blagrave Trust was rated in the top 3 Foundations out of 100, for its ability to demonstrate its accountability, transparency and diversity.
6. Transforming our comms, primarily our website but also our public facing documents, to ensure that it appeals and is accessible to a diverse audience including young people.
- **Climate**
In Oct 2019, we became a founding signatory of the Funder Commitment on Climate Change https://fundercommitmentclimatechange.org. This agreement publicly commits us to play our part in climate change whether it be through educating and learning; committing resources; stewarding our investments for a post-carbon future; de-carbonising our own operations. In 2021 we reported on our progress against these commitments. One major area of progress was as a founding signatory to the COP26 Declaration alongside other major asset owners including funders and universities, outlining minimum asset owner climate expectations of asset managers and asking our asset managers to report against these.
## • **Safeguarding**
The Trust has had a safeguarding policy for a number of years, which is reviewed annually. During 2021 we continued to build our expertise in safeguarding through the following:
1. Designation of Designated Safeguarding Lead and 2 staff Designated Safeguarding Officer’s.
2. Full day safeguarding training for whole team and two trustees.
3. DBS checks completed on all staff – the Trust has deemed that although safeguarding
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risks are low given we are a funder and because our direct contact is with young adults over 18, nonetheless as part of our risk mitigation strategy.
4. Further review and updates to our safeguarding policy.
## • **Comms and website**
During 2021 substantial progress was made in advancing communications through a rebranding process and the development of a brand new logo and website, re-created in line with our strategy. This was launched at the end of 2021. The whole process was informed by young people, who were consulted and paid as web designers, to create content including short films and design banners.
## • **Learning report**
The Trust employed the services of a consultant who produced a report ‘Our learning journey three years on – 2018 – 2021’ – this focused specifically on areas of change and achievement including putting power and money in hands of young people; governance reform and - investment strategy. The full report can be found here https://www.blagravetrust.org/wp content/uploads/2021/11/BLA002-Report-FINAL-compress.pdf
## • **Collaborating for wider change**
We have been fortunate to continue working with a whole host of funders during this financial year, many of whom have made substantial or strategic financial contributions to our work. In particular we were thrilled to receive a substantial contribution to our unrestricted funding from the 1989 Charitable Trust, recognized in 2021’s accounts. This generous grant is enabling us to scale our work and ambition appropriately and is already making a significant difference to our ability to be ambitious in our strategy, make significant commitments over the next three years and as well as scaling the staff team, to also pay young people to work alongside us in all areas of our work.
## • **Staffing**
2021 saw us recruit several new staff members to the team to build our capacity to deliver on our new strategy. This included two Youth Led Change lead roles in the first quarter of the year. These are two young people in line with our mission and commitment to centering young people in leadership. We also promoted our Team Assistant to Finance and Governance Lead and at the year’s end started the recruitment of a new Team Assistant. This brings our staff FTE to 6.6 with a total of 8 in the team.
We also employed the services of an independent HR advisor during 2021, who helped us to review all our staff policies and terms in anticipation of the expansion of the team, in order that we are robust and fit for purpose moving forwards. As a result we produced a Staff Handbook that can be annually reviewed and cover all employment policies.
## • **Governance:**
As the Trust sustains its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of its work including its governance, we continue to evolve and reflect on what is required to ensure that the way the Board works is inclusive and accessible for all Board members, whether it be through the way in which we provide written information, other regular communications (e.g.
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Whatsapp) and the tone and nature of the Board meetings themselves.
2021 saw us welcome 4 new trustees appointed in March 2021. All four were selected through an open recruitment process and interviewed by the existing trustees in a transparent process. We were delighted to continue attracting exceptional candidates across race, age, lived experience and class. The new trustees were inducted over a period of a few months, with time spent with the team and fellow trustees.
## • **Feedback**
In line with our commitment to being a funder that models transparent, open communication, minimal bureaucracy and a spirit of partnership in part to free up charity time to be most effective, we continue to gather anonymous feedback from both rejected and successful applicants that gives partners an important opportunity to ‘speak truth to power’. We are proud to report that for partners that are receiving funding from us, all our responses to a range of questions relating to our application and reporting processes and approach of the staff team, were scored a 9 out of 10 and above. Across several questions we received 10 out of 10. The full feedback is available on our website including from charities who we were not able to fund and we encourage people to read the whole for the narrative reflections within **.**
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## **Plans for the future**
2022 will be a critical first year in implementing our 2022 to 2026 plans and work is well underway in particular, a new policy call for proposals has been launched which at the time of writing is receiving considerable interest and is a departure from our previous practice. Other areas of work that are emergent such as supporting the infrastructure for youth led change, will evolve considerably during 2022. In addition other key plans include:
- The induction and start of Blagrave’s new CEO following a successful and rigorous recruitment process. Eli Manderson Evans, starts in his new role on May 24[th] and Jo Wells the outgoing CEO will have remained in post until mid-June, to ensure a well-managed transition, induction and handover process. The services of an independent HR specialist were secured to support the whole recruitment process with a Board HR-sub committee operating from January to maintain strong oversight and leadership throughout the recruitment process, ensuring it was fair and transparent.
- During 2022 the trustees are continuing to explore the potential to align our property portfolio more closely with our Responsible Investment strategy as has always been planned. In particular FIC have been considering what a social impact approach to property might entail whilst also reviewing which of our current properties are higher risk and therefore may be considered for sale in the future.
- Further review of our cash flow and reserves policy in early 2022 with the Finance and Investment Committee with our reserves figure likely to be increased due to increasing grant commitments and scaling of our work
- On-going legal advice on all aspects of our work relating to funding young people and movements to ensure compliance with Charity Law. In May 2022 a session is planned with our charity lawyers, Taylor Vinters and with the full Board.
## **Public benefit**
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers and duties. The public benefit of the Charity’s activities is the support and enablement of vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people and these are achieved principally by the award and monitoring of grants.
## **Structure, governance and management**
The Blagrave Trust CIO was established in October 2015, becoming operational from 24 March 2016 with assets transferred from the previous charity with effect from that date.
The Board meets four times a year, in January, March, July, and November, and gives detailed consideration to monitoring the progress of the Charity in achieving its performance and quality objectives. This includes reporting on returns from investments in securities and properties, grant strategies, approving grant applications and any other adjustments to costs, as well as the identification and management of risk. The Board also meet an additional couple of times during the year for specific learning and reflection sessions.
The Trustees and the Trust Director have developed a budget for the year to achieve the objectives of the Charity and the Trust Director has been charged by the Board to be responsible for the delivery of this plan, reporting to the Board on performance.
The Trustees delegate responsibility for the day-to-day operation and management of the Charity to
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the Trust CEO. The Trust CEO attends charity networking events and meets with colleagues so that any relevant information, such as new Charity Commission requirements, and sectoral developments relating to good practice and impact measurement, are reported to the Trustees.
Where necessary the Trust seeks out other external professional and legal advice.
The Board Finance and Investment Committee also continues to meet at least three times a year to ensure strong oversight and scrutiny of key aspects of our financial management and investments where necessary. In particular, reviewing our property management and portfolio, refining and documenting a clear and transparent process for decisions and drawing this up into a clear policy.
During 2021 a new delegated grants process was agreed by the Board for grants under £20,000. These grants will now be approved by two members of the staff team, including the CEO and do not need to go to the Board for prior approval unless they are flagged as high risk in which case they will still go to the Board for discussion and approval. All grants are then shared with the Board for their information in the following Board meeting.
The Board continues to approve all grants over £20,000. This procedure has significant advantages for our partner charities, meaning that decisions can be made quickly – in between 4 to 8 weeks from first point of contact through to transfer of the funding. For smaller grassroots charities this is hugely welcome.
## **Financial review**
Income for 2021 totalled £2,874,185 with £1,377,415 from the investment portfolio and rent on the investment properties. Expenditure totalled £3,102,049. After the net gain on listed investments of £3,309,231 and the net loss on investment properties of £77,900, the net position was a gain of £3,003,467.
Income from our property portfolios fell slightly, producing a total income for the period of £962,104, in part due to the sale of one property and on-going rent negotiations in other parts of the portfolio, but overall income remains strong. Investment income received was reduced as we only received dividend payments from Cazenove, due to an overall healthy cash balance. The trustees were able to continue the planned programme of grants, growing our overall charitable grant spend as planned. A significant unrestricted grant from the 1989 Charitable Trust of £1million has made a considerable impact and has supported the on-going growth of the team and our grants programme, alongside other restricted income for specific areas of our work.
The Finance and Investment Committee continue to meet regularly throughout the year to review our investment, annual budgeting and property portfolio. In 2021 FIC trustees agreed to increase our reserves in response to our growing charitable spend to ensure a minimum of £800,000 equivalent to c. 3 months expenditure planned for 2022 is kept as a cash balance.
## **Remuneration policy for key management personnel**
Executive pay is determined by the trustees, with decisions being informed by comparison to salaries within the sector, and subject to a “value for money” test. Trustees review salaries, terms and conditions at the November Board meeting and on recommendation from the Director staff implement any rises or changes.
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## **Investment policy**
The Trustees pursue a policy that provides income for current activities while enhancing the underlying capital value of the Trust assets. We have split the management of the Trust’s listed investments between two investment advisers who have been briefed to invest the funds under their control on a medium-high risk basis so as to obtain above average rates of return.
We have also briefed the manager of our commercial property portfolio to continue to obtain above average rates of income return whilst enhancing the capital value of the assets through active management. We review performance to ensure the best outcome for the Trust, and as highlighted earlier in this report are actively engaging with both other Trust and Foundations and new fund managers for a planned move of our investments to align more closely with our mission.
## **Fundraising policy**
The Blagrave Trust does not engage in public fundraising and does not use professional fundraisers or commercial participators. We nevertheless monitor the relevant fundraising regulations and codes to ensure compliance if relevant. During the year there was no non-compliance of these regulations and codes and the Trust received no complaints relating to its fundraising practice.
## **Reserves policy and going concern**
We have agreed to maintain a liquid balance of Trust income equal to no less than three months of annual expenditure to meet forward grant commitments and provide stability in the event of any deterioration in returns from our investments (perhaps resulting from a downturn in the economy) and provide a safeguard against the need to draw on Trust capital. Three months of annual expenditure for the current period equates to over £800,000 to ensure our cash flow and reserves are healthy. The finance and investment committee continue to review this regularly and are satisfied that we are maintaining an appropriate level of liquidity whilst ensuring that excessive funds are not accumulated.
The trustees have identified no significant short or medium term financial risks to the charity’s continued operations, and therefore the accounts have been prepared on the going concern basis.
## **Risk**
We broadly minimise investment risk through the maintenance of a diverse stock market and property portfolio; finance risk by the preparation and monitoring of budgets and clear financial process; strategic risk by the maintenance of good practice in the allocation of grants; and operational risk and regulation compliance risk through the regular review of activities and the use of professional advisers where necessary.
During the year, a comprehensive analysis of risk was developed and shared with the Board, to highlight key risks. In March 2021 our risk assessment analysis was presented to trustees and considerable work was done in developing a clearer framework for assessing risk and delineating between both ‘types’ of risk: reputational, impact, external; finance and operations, and the Trust’s overall risk appetite. This enables key areas of risk to be flagged and mitigation strategies to be articulated, monitored and updated. Whilst key risks are updated before every Board meeting, the overall framework and analysis is re-visited in more detail annually.
During 2021, ongoing instability caused by the pandemic continued to expose our partners to risks including reduced income – but in particular and of overriding concern – the considerable hardship for young people affected as a result of insecure employment, disrupted education and mental
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## **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2021**
health concerns. In particular, our programmes of work where we are funding young people directly and they are living in precarious situations, meant we had to remain flexible to their needs, at times agreeing time extensions for the completion of their programmes of work and paying close attention to safeguarding needs. Risks were flagged relating to funding unconstituted groups, but these were mitigated by seeking clear legal advice and mitigation strategies including running training sessions for all the young people who are funded by us on charity law.
## **Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities**
Law applicable to charities in England & Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the charity’s financial activities during the period and of its financial position at the end of the period. In preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view, the Trustees should follow best practice and:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principals in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the charity and financial information included on the charity’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
## **Independent auditor**
Sayer Vincent LLP were re-appointed as the charity’s auditor during the period and has expressed its willingness to continue in that capacity.
This report was approved by the Trustees on the 12 July 2022 and signed by:
## **Peter Babudu Chair of Trustees**
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## **Opinion**
We have audited the financial statements of The Blagrave Trust (the ‘charity’) for the year ended 31 December 2021 which comprise the statement of financial activities, balance sheet, statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 _The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland_ (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion, the financial statements:
- Give a true and fair view of the state of the charity’s affairs as at 31 December 2021 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, for the year then ended
- Have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice
- Have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
## **Basis for opinion**
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
## **Conclusions relating to going concern**
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on The Blagrave Trust’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
## **Other Information**
The other information comprises the information included in the trustees’ annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit or otherwise appears to be materially
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misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
## **Matters on which we are required to report by exception**
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- The information given in the trustees’ annual report is inconsistent in any material respect with the financial statements;
- Sufficient accounting records have not been kept; or
- The financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- We have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit
## **Responsibilities of trustees**
As explained more fully in the statement of trustees’ responsibilities set out in the trustees’ annual report, the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
## **Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements**
We have been appointed as auditor under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with regulations made under section 154 of that Act.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud are set out below. Capability of the audit in detecting irregularities
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**Independent auditor’s report to the members of The Blagrave Trust**
In identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, our procedures included the following:
- We enquired of management and the Finance and Investment Committee, which included obtaining and reviewing supporting documentation, concerning the charity’s policies and procedures relating to:
- Identifying, evaluating, and complying with laws and regulations and whether they were aware of any instances of non-compliance;
- Detecting and responding to the risks of fraud and whether they have knowledge of any actual, suspected, or alleged fraud;
- The internal controls established to mitigate risks related to fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations.
- We inspected the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.
- We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework that the charity operates in, focusing on those laws and regulations that had a material effect on the financial statements or that had a fundamental effect on the operations of the charity from our professional and sector experience.
- We communicated applicable laws and regulations throughout the audit team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit.
- We reviewed any reports made to regulators.
- We reviewed the financial statement disclosures and tested these to supporting documentation to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- We performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud.
- In addressing the risk of fraud through management override of controls, we tested the appropriateness of journal entries and other adjustments, assessed whether the judgements made in making accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias and tested significant transactions that are unusual or those outside the normal course of business.
Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities _._ This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
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## **Use of our report**
This report is made solely to the charity's trustees as a body, in accordance with section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and regulations made under section 154 of that Act. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity's trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
## 2 August 2022
Sayer Vincent LLP, Statutory Auditor Invicta House, 108-114 Golden Lane, LONDON, EC1Y 0TL
Sayer Vincent LLP is eligible to act as auditor in terms of section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006
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## Statement of financial activities
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
|Note
Income from:
2
3
10
11
16a
16a
Reconciliation of funds:
16a
Grant making
Donations
Charitable activities
Investments
Total income
Investment properties
Listed securities
Gross interest
Investment properties
Listed securities
Net gains/(loss) on listed investments
Net income/(expenditure) for the year
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net (expenditure) before net gains/(loss) on investments
Total funds at start of the year
Net gains/(loss) on investment properties
Linkenholt Countryside Adventure
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
Total funds at end of the year|Restricted
£
496,750
-
-
-
-|Unrestricted
£
1,000,000
-
962,104
415,311
20|2021
Total
£
1,496,750
-
962,104
415,311
20|Restricted
£
280,864
-
-
-
-|Unrestricted
£
-
4,126
1,060,526
725,681
29|2020
Total
£
280,864
4,126
1,060,526
725,681
29|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||496,750|2,377,435|2,874,185|280,864|1,790,362|2,071,226|
||-
-
702,523
-|242,810
129,713
2,022,363
4,640|242,810
129,713
2,724,886
4,640|-
-
412,385
-|234,166
137,803
1,745,496
7,587|234,166
137,803
2,157,881
7,587|
||702,523|2,399,526|3,102,049|412,385|2,125,052|2,537,437|
||(205,773)
-
-|(22,091)
(77,900)
3,309,231|(227,864)
(77,900)
3,309,231|(131,521)
-
-|(334,690)
(115,128)
(204,734)|(466,211)
(115,128)
(204,734)|
||(205,773)
247,291|3,209,240
(247,291)|3,003,467
-|(131,521)
199,889|(654,552)
(199,889)|(786,073)
-|
||41,518
302,390|2,961,949
41,252,794|3,003,467
41,555,184|68,368
234,022|(854,441)
42,107,235|(786,073)
42,341,257|
||343,908|44,214,743|44,558,651|302,390|41,252,794|41,555,184|
All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in Note 16 to the financial statements.
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## Balance sheet
## As at 31 December 2021
|As at 31 December 2021|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Note
Fixed assets:
9
10
11
Current assets:
12
Liabilities:
13
14
16
Tangible assets
Investment properties
Investments
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
Total assets less current liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due after one year
Unrestricted funds:
Total charity funds
The funds of the charity:
Restricted funds
Total net assets
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Net current assets|£
99,798
2,476,804|31 December
2021
£
61,924
12,170,000
29,873,339|£
70,444
746,619|31 December
2020
£
69,988
13,000,000
27,946,350|
|||42,105,263
2,465,427||41,016,338
550,885|
||2,576,602
(111,175)||817,063
(266,178)||
||||||
|||44,570,690
(12,039)||41,567,223
(12,039)|
|||44,558,651||41,555,184|
|||343,908
44,214,743||302,390
41,252,794|
|||44,558,651||41,555,184|
Approved by the trustees on 12 July 2022 and signed on their behalf by
P Babudu Trustee
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## Statement of cash flows
For the year ended 31 December 2021
|For theyear ended 31 December 2021|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Note
17
Movement in cash held by investment manager
Cash flows from operating activities
Net cash used in operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities:
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
Purchase of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments
Purchase of investments
Net cash provided by investing activities
Proceeds from sale of property investment
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year|£
£
(1,780,396)
1,377,435
-
752,100
16,320,869
(15,113,139)
173,316
3,510,581
1,730,185
746,619
2,476,804
31 December
2021||£
£
(2,328,493)
1,786,207
(982)
-
11,552,381
(11,178,320)
177,146
2,336,432
7,939
738,680
746,619
31 December
2020||
||||||
|||1,730,185
746,619||7,939
738,680|
|||2,476,804||746,619|
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Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 December 2021
- 1 Accounting policies
- a) Statutory information
The Blagrave Trust is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission in England & Wales. The registered office and operational address is 13 Elliott's Place, London N1 8HX.
- b) Basis of preparation
The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) - (Charities SORP FRS 102) and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.
The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared to give a ‘true and fair’ view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a ‘true and fair view’. This departure has involved following Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014 rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.
Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy or note. The accounts are prepared using values but presented in the financial statements to the nearest £1. This may cause small discrepancies in the financial statements.
- c) Public benefit entity
The charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102.
d) Going concern The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the CIO's ability to continue as a going concern. The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting year.
- e) Income Income is recognised and included in the accounts when the CIO has entitlement, any performance conditions attached to the income have been met or are fully within the control of the CIO, receipt of the income is probable and the amount can be measured reliably.
- f) Interest receivable Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank.
- g) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT All expenditure is included on an accruals basis and is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:
> Costs of raising funds relate to the professional costs incurred by the charity in managing the investment portfolios, and the associated support costs.
> Expenditure on charitable activities includes the costs of grants undertaken to further the purposes of the charity and their associated support costs
> Other expenditure represents those items not falling into any other heading
Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.
- h) Fund accounting Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets there criteria is charged to the fund.
Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources received or generated for the charitable purposes of the entity.
i) Grants payable Provision for grants are made once the CIO has made a commitment at a meeting of the Trustees and this has been communicated to the grantee. The CIO uses annual reviews to determine whether funding is provided in the subsequent years of a recurring obligation and retains the discretion to terminate a grant. For this reason, an immediate liability arises only for the first year of the funding commitment.
j) Tangible fixed assets Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost or donated value less depreciation. The agreed threshold at which transactions are recognised as fixed assets is when the cost of a single item exceeds £2,000. Depreciation is provided at rates Leasehold property improvements over the term of the lease Plant and machinery 20% reducing balance
over the term of the lease 20% reducing balance
- k) Investment properties Investment properties are included in the balance sheet at their market value and are not depreciated. Listed investments
- Listed investments are included in the balance sheet at their market value and realised and unrealised gains and losses are shown net in the statement of financial activities.
- l) Debtors Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
- m) Cash at bank and in hand Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.
n) Creditors and provisions Creditors and provisions are recognised where the CIO has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.
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Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 31 December 2021
## 1 Accounting policies (continued)
## o) Pensions
The Blagrave Trust operates a defined contribution scheme for its employees.
The CIO has committed to providing a pension to an ex-employee. The payment is intended to cover the cost of the council tax and minor household repairs of the recipient. The provision is calculated by multiplying the estimated life expectancy by the annual cost, discounted at a rate based on a high quality corporate bond of equivalent currency and term to arrive at the scheme liability. The scheme is closed to new entrants and movements in the provision are calculated and credited to the profit and loss account on an annual basis.
## p) Financial instruments
The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measure at their settlement value.
## 2 Income from donations
|Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust
Tudor Trust
The National Lottery Community Fund
Nineteen Eighty Nine Charitable Trust
Zing
Ellis Campbell Charitable Foundation
The Health Foundation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Total income from donations|Restricted
£
100,000
150,000
246,750
-
-
-
-
-
496,750|Unrestricted
£
-
-
-
1,000,000
-
-
-
-|2021
Total
£
100,000
150,000
246,750
1,000,000
-
-
-
-|Restricted
£
-
-
30,000
-
35,000
80,000
15,864
120,000|Unrestricted
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2020
Total
£
-
-
30,000
-
35,000
80,000
15,864
120,000|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||1,000,000|1,496,750|280,864|-|280,864|
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## Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
## 3a Analysis of expenditure (current year)
|Grants awarded (note 4)
Staff costs (note 6)
Investment manager fees
Investment property manager fees
Investment property expenses
Consultancy
Linkenholt Countryside Adventure lease costs
Travel and subsistence
Rental and IT
Administrative costs-general
Conference and networking
Subscription and membership costs
Governance
Depreciation
Audit, accountancy and legal
Support costs
Governance costs
Total expenditure 2021|Raising funds-
investment
properties
£
-
-
-
86,501
113,270
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
199,771
41,048
1,991
242,810|Raising funds-
listed securities
£
-
-
86,675
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
86,675
41,048
1,990
129,713|Grant making
Linkenholt
Countryside
Adventure
£
£
2,353,658
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
112,995
-
- 4,640
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,466,653
4,640
246,292
-
11,941
-
2,724,886
4,640
Charitable activities|Governance
costs
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,530
-
11,392
15,922
-
(15,922)
-|Support costs
£
-
236,300
-
-
-
14,400
-
5,463
24,670
18,241
4,085
5,773
-
8,064
11,392
328,388
(328,388)
-
-|31 December
2021
Total
£
2,353,658
236,300
86,675
86,501
113,270
127,395
4,640
5,463
24,670
18,241
4,085
5,773
4,530
8,064
22,784|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Grant making
£
2,353,658
-
-
-
-
112,995
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,466,653
246,292
11,941
2,724,886||||
|||||||3,102,049
-
-|
|||||||3,102,049|
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## Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
## 3b Analysis of expenditure (previous year)
|Grants awarded (note 4)
Staff costs (note 6)
Investment manager fees
Investment property manager fees
Investment property expenses
Consultancy
Linkenholt Countryside Adventure lease costs
Travel and subsistence
Rental and IT
Adminstrative costs-general
Conference and networking
Subscription and membership costs
Governance
Depreciation
Audit, accountancy and legal
Support costs
Governance costs
Total expenditure 2020|Raising funds-
investment
properties
£
-
-
-
101,115
104,809
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
205,924
26,907
1,335
234,166|Raising funds-
listed securities
£
-
-
109,561
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
109,561
26,907
1,335
137,803|Grant making
Linkenholt
Countryside
Adventure
£
£
1,814,947
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
173,486
-
- 7,587
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,988,433
7,587
161,438
-
8,010
-
2,157,881
7,587
Charitable activities|Governance
costs
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,800
-
8,880
10,680
-
(10,680)
-|Support costs
£
-
170,943
-
-
-
-
-
4,774
3,941
9,970
2,355
6,161
-
8,247
8,861
215,252
(215,252)
-
-|31 December
2020
Total
£
1,814,947
170,943
109,561
101,115
104,809
173,486
7,587
4,774
3,941
9,970
2,355
6,161
1,800
8,247
17,741|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Grant making
£
1,814,947
-
-
-
-
173,486
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,988,433
161,438
8,010
2,157,881||||
|||||||2,537,437
-
-|
|||||||2,537,437|
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Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
4 Grants awarded The Charity undertakes its charitable activities predominantly through grant making and awarded grants to the following organisations during the year ended 31 December 2021. All grants were to institutions, with the exception of those Challenge and Change which were primarily to individuals and collectives:
|
and collectives:|||
|---|---|---|
|Unrestricted grants:
1625 Independent
A Band of Brothers
Active Communities
Aik Saath (Youth Engagement)
Allsorts Youth Project
Amaze
ASD Family Support
Audio Active
Babbasa
Beat Routes
Berkshire Youth
Britwell Youth and Community
Commission Comms and Learning Piece TBC
Dallaglio Rugby Works
Empire Fighting Chance
Enthum House
Esteem
Fellowship of St Nicholas
Friends Families and Travellers
Hasting and Rother Mediation
Hastings Furniture Service
Inner Flame
Isle of Wight Youth Trust
It's your choice
Jamie's farm
Learning 2 Work
Mandala Theatre Company
Motiv8 South Ltd
Music Fusion
No5 Young People
No Limits
Oasis Project
Off the record
Oxfordshire Youth
Peer Power
Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service (PARCS)
Plymouth VCSE (POP)
Readipop
Seeds for Success
Spear Brighton Trust
Starting Point
Stopgap Dance company
Straight Talking UK
Student Hubs
Sussex Prisoners' Families
Tarner Community
Team Domencia
Techresort
The Amber Foundation
Black and Minority Ethnic Young People's Project (BMEYPP)
The Foyer Federation
The Harbour Project
The Platform Project
The Prince's Trust
Unloc
Wealden Works
Xtrax
Yellow Brick Road
Yellow Door
Yellow Submarine
YMCA Downslink Group
Youth Action Wiltshire
Other - Accrual Reversals
Increasing civil society's accountability to young people - Sub-total
Increasing civil society's accountability to young people
Youth Adventure Trust
Youth Options|2021
£
25,400
40,400
20,400
30,000
25,400
400
10,400
30,400
30,400
15,400
-
400
-
-
-
20,400
15,400
10,000
20,400
13,400
15,400
11,131
-
-
10,400
400
400
20,400
15,400
20,400
117,328
30,400
400
400
32,946
25,000
20,400
20,000
8,637
10,000
20,400
400
-
13,056
400
35,400
25,400
400
-
10,000
100,000
24,583
10,400
-
40,400
400
12,400
20,400
400
-
50,400
40,000
-
30,400
(21,731)|2020
£
35,000
-
20,000
10,000
-
-
10,000
30,000
-
15,000
20,000
-
7,500
24,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
-
-
13,000
-
-
30,000
25,000
20,000
-
-
40,000
-
20,000
95,000
-
20,000
-
-
25,000
-
-
-
10,000
-
-
20,000
-
-
25,000
35,000
-
40,000
10,000
-
20,000
10,000
25,000
40,000
10,000
12,000
20,000
40,000
20,000
70,000
40,000
25,000
30,000
2,020|
||1,081,551|1,023,520|
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Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
|4
Grants awarded (continued)
Unrestricted grants Sub-total (continued from previous page)
Advocacy Academy
Our Streets Now
Peace First
The Shelia McKechnie Foundation
The Social Change Agency Ltd
Investing in young people to create change - Sub-total
Big Change Charitable Trust
Biteback 2030
British Youth Council
Campaign Bootcamp
Catch 22 Fundraising
Catch 22 - NWYP Grant Return
Children England
Drive Forward Foundation
Homeless Link
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
Just for Kids Law
Justice
My Life My Say
Prison Reform Trust
Reach Academy
Restless Development
Students Organising for Sustainability
The Big Change
War On Want
Young Women's Trust
Youth Access
Youth Employment UK
Investing in better youth policy - Sub-total
Index of Foundation Diversity
Losing Control
Sector wide initiatives - Sub-total
Investing in young people to create change
Total unrestricted grants
Investing in better youth policy
Sector wide initiatives|2021
£|2020
£|
|---|---|---|
||1,081,551|1,023,520|
||30,400
400
40,000
-
40,400|20,000
-
40,000
6,000
67,500|
||111,200|133,500|
||70,000
30,400
35,400
23,800
-
(15,000)
25,000
30,400
400
50,000
50,400
7,900
30,400
30,000
50,000
-
25,400
-
-
30,400
30,400
20,000|-
30,000
35,000
38,400
15,000
-
25,000
-
20,000
-
50,000
7,500
30,000
-
-
30,000
10,000
30,000
15,000
-
30,000
20,000|
||525,300|385,900|
||10,000
10,000|20,000|
||20,000|20,000|
||-|-|
||1,738,051|1,562,920|
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Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
|4
AIR UK
Alexis Maxwell
Avocados Academy
Black Trans Foundation
Centre for Knowledge Equity
Community Chaplaincy Association
Crossroads
Diaspora Dialogues
Dikhlo Collective
Divergent Thinking
Embracing Difference
Gazala Tehnseen
Hannah Green
Interrupted
It's OK
Kent Refugee Action Network Youth Forum
What Can We Do For Black and Brown Trans People?
Our Streets Now
Radical Body
Radical Start
ReKindle School
RIP: STARS
Steven Hawksworth
Stories of Muslim lived experience
The ClassRoom
The Solidarity Library
The Westbury Collective
Anakartas UK
UK Isn't Innocent
Windswept Workshops
Young Advisors on Criminal Justice
A Band of Brothers
Act on it
Amaze
ASD Family Support
Audio Active
Britwell Youth and Community
Friends Families and Travellers
Mandala Theatre Company
Me2Club
Motiv8
No 5 Young People
Off The Record
Oxfordshire Youth
Solent Youth Action
Stopgap Dance Company
The Mix
Restricted grants:
Grants awarded (continued)
Listening Fund
Gendered Intelligence
Become
Carefree
Peer Power
Challenge and Change Fund
KRAN
LEAP CC
The Beatfreeks
The Foyer Federation
Spark Inside
Launch It
The National Lottery Community Fund (Restart Youth)
Opportunity Fund|2021
£
23,000
23,400
23,000
21,563
23,400
23,400
23,000
23,400
23,400|2020
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
||207,563|-|
||70,930
69,642|31,695
31,695|
||140,572|63,390|
||-
-
-
-
52,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|5,000
4,000
9,000
4,560
21,000
5,500
4,000
4,000
5,000
5,500
4,781
3,300
3,000
4,515
7,500
7,000
5,440
9,661
5,500
6,000
8,000
4,000
2,700
9,000
5,000
10,000
5,200
4,000
5,000
4,500
9,000|
||52,000
10,000
9,011
11,000
10,910
10,550
10,344
11,000
10,865
11,000
11,000
8,673
11,000
10,000
9,414
10,000|190,657
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
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Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
|4
Sussex Prisoners' Families
Techresort
The Roberts Centre
Wealdon Works
Xtrax
Yellow Door
5
Total restricted grants
Auditors' remuneration (excluding VAT):
Prior year overrun and non-audit work
Audit
Depreciation
Grants awarded (continued)
This is stated after charging:
Total grants at the end of the year:
Net (expenditure) / income for the year|2021
£
11,000
10,000
11,000
6,705
11,000
11,000|2020
£
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
||215,472|-|
||615,607|254,047|
||2,353,658|1,816,967|
||2021
£
8,064
12,130
3,600|2020
£
8,247
7,600
-|
- 6 Analysis of staff costs, trustee remuneration and expenses, and the cost of key management personnel
Staff costs in the year were as follows:
|Staff costs in the year were as follows:|||
|---|---|---|
|2021
2020
£
£
210,728
157,230
17,580
11,177
7,992
2,536
236,300
170,943
2021
2020
No.
No.
1
-
£60,000 - £69,999
Employer’s contribution to defined contribution pension schemes
The following number of employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs and employer's national insurance) during the
year between:
Salaries and wages
Social security costs|2021
£
210,728
17,580
7,992|2020
£
157,230
11,177
2,536|
||236,300|170,943|
The trustees received no remuneration for their role as trustees in the year (2020: £Nil). Related party transactions with trustees are disclosed in note 7 below. During 2021, 3 trustees (2020: 4) were reimbursed expenses totalling £164.95 (2020: £411.62).
The average number of employees (head count based on number of staff employed) during the year was 6.6 (2020: 5.2).
The total employee benefits (including pension contributions and employer's national insurance) of the key management personnel were £140,492 (2020: £134,137).
## 7 Related party transactions
Daze Aghaji a trustee received renumeration for her role in supporting the development of the programme Challenge and Change as a Young Advisor – during 2021 she was paid fees of £120 (2020: £900) for her time.
Two serving trustees, Daze Aghaji and Boudicca Pepper received remuneration for their role alongside other young people in consultation sessions during the development of the new Blagrave Trust strategy. During 2021 they were each paid £80 (2020: Nil) for their time.
There are no donations from related parties which are outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties.
## 8 Taxation
The charity is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for charitable purposes.
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Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
- 9 Tangible fixed assets
|Tangible fixed assets||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Net loss on change in fair value
Disposals in year
Investment properties
Fair value at the end of the year
At the end of the year
Net book value
Disposal proceeds
Fair value at the start of the year
At the start of the year
At the end of the year
Depreciation
Charge for the year
At the start of the year
At the start of the year
All of the above assets are used for charitable purposes.
Cost
Additions in year
At the end of the year|Plant and
Machinery
£
14,424
-
-|£
146,648
-
-
Leasehold
improvements|2021 Total
£
161,072
-
-|
||14,424|146,648|161,072|
||10,763
732|80,321
7,332|91,084
8,064|
||11,495|87,653|99,148|
||2,929|58,995|61,924|
||3,661|66,327|69,988|
|||2021
£
13,000,000
(752,100)
(77,900)|2020
£
13,115,128
-
(115,128)|
|||12,170,000|13,000,000|
10 Investment properties
The Trustees valued the investment properties at December 2021 and consider there have been no significant movements in the values brought forward from the previous year. The property investments are all held in England. The properties were not externally valued in this financial year, but internal valuation was undertaken by Arkwrights property on our behalf and on the instructions of the trustees. Property valuation is undertaken on the basis of rental yields and taking into account market conditions. The valuation was submitted to the Finance and Investment Committee for review.
## 11 Listed investments
|Listed investments|||
|---|---|---|
|Cash held by investment broker pending reinvestment
Fair value at the start of the year
Fair value at the end of the year
Additions at cost
Disposal proceeds
Net (loss)/gain on change in fair value|2021
£
27,645,744
15,113,139
(16,320,869)
3,308,035|2020
£
28,224,539
11,178,320
(11,552,381)
(204,734)|
||29,746,049|27,645,744|
||127,289|300,605|
||29,873,338|27,946,349|
The gain of £3,309,231 includes equalisations of £1,196 (2020: Nil)
Total investments comprise:
|Total investments comprise:|||
|---|---|---|
|Listed investments
Cash held for investment
Investment in dormant subsidiary|2021
£
29,746,049
127,289
1|2020
£
27,645,744
300,605
1|
||29,873,339|27,946,350|
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Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
## 12 Debtors
|12|Debtors||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2021|2020|
||||£|£|
||Trade debtors||87,386|55,196|
||Prepayments||12,412|15,248|
||Other Debtors||-|-|
||Taxation||-|-|
||||99,798|70,444|
|13|Creditors: amounts falling due within one year||||
||||2021|2,020|
||||£|£|
||Trade creditors||3,029|17,110|
||Accruals||36,259|73,551|
||Grant commitments||53,600|159,893|
||Deferred income||-|-|
||Taxation and social security||18,287|15,624|
||||111,175|266,178|
|14|Creditors: amounts falling due after one year||||
||||2021|2020|
||||£|£|
||Annuity provision||12,039|12,039|
|15a|Analysis of net assets between funds (current year)||||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total funds|
|||£|£|£|
||Tangible fixed assets|61,924|-|61,924|
||Investment properties|12,170,000|-|12,170,000|
||Investments|29,873,339|-|29,873,339|
||Net current assets|2,121,519|343,908|2,465,427|
||Annuity obligations|(12,039)|-|(12,039)|
||Net assets at 31 December 2021|44,214,743|343,908|44,558,651|
|15b|Analysis of net assets between funds (prior year)||||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total funds|
|||£|£|£|
||Tangible fixed assets|69,988|-|69,988|
||Investment properties|13,000,000|-|13,000,000|
||Investments|27,946,350|-|27,946,350|
||Net current assets/(liabilities)|248,495|302,390|550,885|
||Annuity obligations|(12,039)|-|(12,039)|
||Net assets at 31 December 2020|41,252,794|302,390|41,555,184|
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Notes to the financial statements
## For the year ended 31 December 2021
## 16a Movements in funds (current year)
|Unrestricted Funds
The Opportunity Fund
Total restricted funds
Challenge and Change
National Listening Exercise on Youth Employment
The National Lottery Community Fund (Restart Youth)
Restricted funds
The Listening Fund
Total funds|At 1 January
2021
£
230,000
56,610
-
4,724
11,056|Income &
gains
£
250,000
-
246,750
-
-|Expenditure &
losses
£
(241,864)
(149,158)
(240,394)
(58,051)
(13,056)|Transfers
£
-
191,964
-
53,327
2,000|At 31 December
2021
£
238,136
99,416
6,356
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||302,390
41,252,794|496,750
5,608,766|(702,523)
(2,399,526)|247,291
(247,291)|343,908
44,214,743|
||41,555,184|6,105,516|(3,102,049)|-|44,558,651|
The transfers from unrestricted funds relate to agreed contributions to the relevant restricted funds which the Trustees authorised for grant making and restricted expenditure within each restricted fund.
## 16b Movements in funds (prior year)
|Unrestricted funds
National Listening Exercise on Youth Employment
Total restricted funds
The Opportunity Fund
Restricted funds
The Listening Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund (Restart Youth)
Challenge and Change
Total funds|At 1 January
2020
£
234,022
-
-
-
-|Income &
gains
£
-
120,000
-
115,000
45,864|Expenditure &
losses
£
(55,543)
(71,426)
(332)
(210,276)
(74,808)|Transfers
£
51,521
8,036
332
100,000
40,000|At 31 December
2020
£
230,000
56,610
-
4,724
11,056|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||234,022|280,864|(412,385)|199,889|302,390|
||42,107,235|1,790,362|(2,444,914)|(199,889)|41,252,794|
||42,341,257|2,071,226|(2,857,299)|-|41,555,184|
## Purposes of restricted funds
The Listening Fund - a pooled fund to enhance listening and drive accountability to young people.
The Opportunity Fund - a collaboration to invest directly in young entrepreneurs and campaigners.
The National Lottery Community Fund (Restart Youth): COVID-19 Emergency Funding - a collaboration in the region to provide funding to charities to ensure young people’s voice is central to recovery efforts.
Challenge and Change - a fund to support young people activating their Lived experience to create change.
National Listening Exercise on Youth Employment - a research and advocacy initiative to ensure that youth voice is heard during C19 on employment issues.
- 17 Reconciliation of net income to net cash flow from operating activities
|Reconciliation of net income to net cash flow from operating activities|||
|---|---|---|
|Net income/(expenditure) for the reporting period
(as per the statement of financial activities)
Depreciation charges
Losses/(Gains) on listed investments
Revaluation losses on investment properties
Dividends, interest and rent from investments
Decrease/(Increase) in debtors
(Decrease) in creditors
Net cash used in operating activities|31 December
2021
£
3,003,467
8,064
(3,308,035)
77,900
(1,377,435)
(29,354)
(155,003)|31 December
2020
£
(786,073)
8,247
204,734
115,128
(1,786,207)
171,102
(255,424)|
||(1,780,396)|(2,328,493)|
- 18 Post balance sheet event
As at 30 June 2022, the value of the charity's listed investments is £26,187,389, a reduction of £3.685,950 from the value as at the balance sheet.
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