## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 4 202 31 3 2021 **From** 0 **To**
Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Black Families Education Support Group
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1164447
**Charity's principal address** South Vaults
Green Park Station
Bath
**Postcode BA1 1JB**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
- **Name of person (or body)**
- **Dates acted if not for**
- **Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee whole year (if any)**
- 1 Paul Satterly Chair 2 Rod Dixon Vice Chair 3 Andrea Smith Secretary 4 Rashad Azami Treasurer 5 Victoria Miles Trustee 6 Elaine Ward Trustee
- 7
- 8 9
- 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
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**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members**
Jason Pegg Development Manager
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Appointment by Charity Trustees by a resolution passed at a Trustee selection methods properly convened meeting of the Charity Trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The promotion of race equality and cultural diversity in the education system, specialising in the support of Black and Minority Ethnic children and young people, by: Providing a programme of educational activities, including supplementary schooling, mentoring and support services; Providing advice, information and advocacy support for parents/carers in relation to their children’s education; Delivering projects aimed at promoting equality within the education system; Providing information and raising awareness on educational legislation and issues related to race equality and cultural diversity; Working in partnership with other equalities groups who provide services to young people.
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**Section C Objectives and activities Summary of the main** The organisation's purpose is the promotion of race equality and **activities undertaken for** cultural diversity in the education system. This purpose is **the public benefit in** beneficial to both the public in general and to individuals **relation to these objects** defined by reference to the protected characteristic of race. **(include within this section the statutory** The organisation's purpose is of public benefit in the following **declaration that trustees** ways: **have had regard to the** It aims to challenge racism and discrimination within the **guidance issued by the** education system to reduce inequalities between different **Charity Commission on** ethnic groups, particularly in relation to educational **public benefit)** opportunities, academic achievement and school exclusion. It aims to reduce inequalities between different ethnic groups within the education system by delivering projects which tackle discrimination and promote equality, improving attainment and progression for Black and Minority Ethnic pupils.
This work is of benefit to the general public as it seeks to prevent racism and discrimination to create a fairer, just and more equal society where all pupils can achieve, progress and succeed regardless of ethnic background. In addition to the benefit to the general public the organisation's purpose is also of benefit to a particular section of the public who are defined by reference to the protected characteristic of race. This section of the public includes children and young people from minority ethnic backgrounds, and their parents, who suffer from racial discrimination, disadvantage and inequality in relation to the education system.
The main activities undertaken during this period by the charity to carry out its charitable purposes for the public benefit included the delivery of the following projects and services:
A Supplementary School programme to positively impact on the educational achievement, motivation and future aspirations of BME pupils and to promote a positive sense of identity in BME children and young people, enhancing confidence and self esteem and giving them a greater awareness of their history, heritage, culture and language.
A Mentoring programme for Black and Minority Ethnic young people to impact positively on their education and social and emotional well being; enhance their learning and engagement with education and reduce the risk of school exclusion.
An Advice and Advocacy service to support parents in relation to their children's education which seeks to enable parents of Black and Minority Ethnic children to participate more effectively in decisions about their children’s education, helping them support their children by working in partnership with schools and voicing their views and concerns effectively on a range of issues including school exclusion.
In making decisions about the organisation’s purpose and the activities to carry out that purpose the trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the commission’s public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant.
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**Section C Objectives and activities**
Section D Achievements and performance
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Supplementary School Programme** - This year saw the **Summary of the main** organisation’s services affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and **achievements of the** the resulting lockdown with the subsequent ongoing restrictions **charity during the year** and guidance to ensure safe delivery of services. As a result following the initial lockdown the Supplementary School Programme moved to a virtual platform and continued to deliver Supplementary School provision online running for 2 hours each week on Saturdays for pupils aged 12-16. Unfortunately other activities usually delivered as part of the programme including a sports summer school at Bath University and residential were postponed. The organisation’s Supplementary School has created a well organised, caring, positive and safe environment, with all the required policies and procedures in place and in which young people are engaged and positive about the service being provided. The organisation also continues to ensure that the children and young people who access its services are safe from harm and as such continues to ensure its safeguarding policies and procedures are in line with current legislation and good practice guidance. In addition staff make an active contribution to keeping children safe through local child protection processes e.g. child protection conferences, core group and strategy meetings, by contributing to the development and implementation of plans to reduce risks to children and young people. **Advice and Advocacy Service** - During this year the organisation continued to provide information, advice and advocacy support for families in relation to their children’s education. As with the Supplementary School the service was provided virtually online via online meeting platforms and by email. The areas where information, advice and support were provided included exclusion from school and exclusion appeals; Independent Support for Special Educational Needs and Disability; School admissions and school place appeals. In addition the organisation also worked with schools, other voluntary organisations and services through local multi agency networks to continue to identify needs and implement support strategies for children and young people in relation to their education and issues of racial equality. The organisation works within the Local Authority’s Early Help Framework, working collaboratively to identify any extra help that might be needed to ensure children and young people receive the right support at an early stage before their needs increase. This involves attendance at Team Around the Child / Family meetings and other multi agency meetings and forums. **Mentoring Programme** - The organisation found it more difficult to support Black and Minority Ethnic children and young people in relation to their mainstream education through its Mentoring Programme as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting restrictions, mainly as 1:1 mentoring support relies heavily on face to face contact. Despite this some virtual mentoring sessions were attempted and some face to face mentoring resumed towards the second half of the year in schools, although again this was curtailed by a second lockdown in winter 2021. Although the mentoring programme was disrupted by Covid-19 it has continued to achieve success in terms of producing positive outcomes for pupils, in relation to
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
identity, confidence and self esteem. In addition the mentoring programme is working towards ensuring its sustainability through an increasing number of schools paying for the mentoring service.
**Race Equality Policy and Practice Partnership Working** - During this year the organisation has continued to work in partnership with schools, a range of organisations and services within the Local Authority in relation to progressing race equality and promoting good practice within the local education system. In particular this year the organisation has focused on working to address key issues in relation to racial equality and education through the setting up of a new multi agency Race Equality and Education Task Group. This collaborative partnership includes key representatives from the Local Authority, including the Director of Education, school head teachers and voluntary organisations. The main areas of work being discussed and developed over this year included the writing of a Race Equality Charter for schools and the development of a self reporting hate crime app for school students.
**Funding and Sustainability** In relation to funding, this year saw the continuation of Bath and North East Somerset Council’s commission for the organisation to provide an Information Advice and Advocacy service for parents / carers in relation to their children’s education. The Mentoring Programme and School Workshops also provided a source of income generation, although they were affected by the pandemic, they still continue to have the potential to diversify and strengthen the organisation’s income streams and future sustainability going forward. The organisation also successfully secured a number of smaller grants totalling £3,500 from the St James Foundation and SW Community Matters to support the continuation of its services.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The trustees’ policy on reserves is to maintain sufficient reserves to cover 6 months of operating costs for the organisation. This level of reserves is deemed as reasonable and sufficient to secure the organisation’s future sustainability against any unforeseen circumstances or changes.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Section F Other optional information**
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**Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
Signature(s)
Victoria Miles
Full name(s) Paul Satterly
Position (eg Secretary, Chair Trustee
Chair, etc)
Date
19/1/22
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||**Charity Name**
**Black Families Education Support Group**|**Charity Name**
**Black Families Education Support Group**|**Charity Name**
**Black Families Education Support Group**|**No (if any)**
**1164447**|**No (if any)**
**1164447**|**No (if any)**
**1164447**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01-Apr-20|**To**||Period end date
31-Mar-21|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**993**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**993**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**993**
**9,859**
**4,023**
**-**
**57**
**280**
**-**
**411**
**40**
**-**
**14,670**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,670**
**- 13,677**
**-**
**27,109**
**13,432**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**14,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,000**
**14,000**
**-**
**14,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,000**
**-**
**-**
**1,710**
**1,710**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**14,993**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,993**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,993**
**23,859**
**4,023**
**-**
**57**
**280**
**-**
**411**
**40**
**-**
**28,670**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,670**
**- 13,677**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Bank Interest|**-**||||||**-**|
|Incoming resources from charitable
activities|**993**||||||**16,613**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**993**||||||**16,613**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**16,613**|
|||||||||
|Staff costs|**9,859**||||||**24,946**|
|Premises costs|**4,023**||||||**4,158**|
|Administration support costs|**-**||||||**359**|
|Travellingexpenses|**57**||||||**63**|
|Professional fees|**280**||||||**279**|
|Independent Examiner's fees|**-**||||||**420**|
|Incidental costs|**411**||||||**441**|
|Charitable expenditure|**40**||||||**595**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**14,670**||||||**31,261**|
|||||||||
|**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_**||||||||
||||||||**31,231**|
|||||||||
||**- 13,677**|**-**|**-**||
**- 13,677**||**- 14,618**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**27,109**|**1,710**|**-**||**28,819**||**43,437**|
||**13,432**|**1,710**|**-**||**15,142**||**28,819**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
25/01/2022
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank current account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**13,432**
**1,710**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,432**
**1,710**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Paul J Satterly|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||||25 Jan 2022|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
25/01/2022
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner.
report on the accounts
SeEtion A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Black Famili88 Education Support Group
On accounts for the year
ended
3151 March 2021
Charlty no
Ilf any}
1164447
Set out on pages
I report lo the trustees on my 8xamlnatlon of the accA)unls of the above
charity {'tha Trust") for the year ended 31 $1 March 2020.
Responslbillties and As th& charity Irustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of th8 accounts in accordance with the requirernents of the Charities Act
2011 {"the Act.).
I reporl in respect of my examinalion of the Trust's accounts carried out
und&r section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under s6clion 145(5}(b) of the AGt.
I have comp181ed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
com8 to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in connects'on with
the examination which gives m6 caus& to beliève that in, any material
respect..
8ccounting records were not kept in accordance wth section 130 of
Ihe Act or
the accounts do not accord with th8 accounting records
Independent
examinerfs statsment
I have no concems and)a¥8
with the examinatio
which
proper und8rsla
ng of th8
Please delet8
e words in
me across no other rnatters in connection
ttention should be drawn in order to enable a
ounts to be reached.
he bwkgts if they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
30th December 2021
Nama:
Garrett1
Rolavant profosslonal
quallflcatlonls} or body
Ilf any):
F.C.A.
Address:
Unit 23 Leafield Industrial Eslale
Neston, Corsham
Wiltshire. SN13 9RS
IER
October 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only Complete if the examiner needs to highlight mat.ers of concem (see CC32,
Independent ex8minatlon of charity accounts.. dlractions and guidance for
examinars).
Glve here brlef detalls of
any items that the
examinerwishes to
disclos6.
None
IER
October 2018