||Trustees' Annual Report|Trustees' Annual Report|Trustees' Annual Report|Trustees' Annual Report|Trustees' Annual Report|for theperiod|for theperiod|for theperiod| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||From|Period start date|||To|Period end date||| |||1|4|2023||31|3|2024| ## 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 |1
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0|Trustee name|Office (if any)|Dates acted if not for whole
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appoint trustee (ifany)| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Paul Satterly|Chair & Acting
Treasurer||| ||Rod Dixon|Vice Chair||| ||Andrea Smith|Secretary||| ||Victoria Miles|Trustee||| ||Elaine Ward|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| 10 11 12 13 14 - 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 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 Constitution Type of governing document (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 properly Trustee selection methods convened meeting of the Charity Trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## Section C Objectives and activities 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; Summary of the objects of the Providing advice, information and advocacy support for parents/carers in charity set out in its governing relation to their children’s education; Delivering projects aimed at document 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. The organisation's purpose is the promotion of race equality and cultural diversity in the education system. This purpose is beneficial to both the public in general and to individuals defined by reference to the protected characteristic of race. The organisation's purpose is of public benefit in the following ways: It aims to challenge racism and discrimination within the education system to reduce inequalities between different ethnic groups, particularly in relation to educational opportunities, academic achievement and school exclusion. It aims to reduce inequalities between different ethnic Summary of the main activities groups within the education system by delivering projects which tackle undertaken for the public benefit discrimination and promote equality, improving attainment and in relation to these objects progression for Black and Minority Ethnic pupils. (include within this section the statutory declaration that This work is of benefit to the general public as it seeks to prevent racism trustees have had regard to the and discrimination to create a fairer, just and more equal society where guidance issued by the Charity all pupils can achieve, progress and succeed regardless of ethnic Commission on public benefit) 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 2 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. ## Section D Achievements and performance Supplementary School Programme - This year saw the organisation’s Summary of the main Supplementary School Programme running during the academic year, 2 achievements of the charity hours each week on Saturdays for students aged 11-16. This year’s during the year curriculum included work to inspire and raise the aspirations of girls and young women along with work celebrating the history and legacy of the Windrush generation. 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 when necessary 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. The areas where information, advice and support are provided for families can cover a range of areas including exclusion from school and exclusion appeals; Support for families around Special Educational Needs and Disability; 3 School admissions and school place appeals. In addition, the organisation works with schools, other voluntary organisations and services to continue to identify needs and implement support strategies for children and young people in relation to their education and issues of racial equality where necessary. The organisation is also committed to working 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 can involve attendance at Team Around the Child / Family meetings and other multi agency meetings and forums. Mentoring Programme - The Mentoring Programme continued to provide 1:1 mentoring support face to face for children and young people in schools. The programme responded to new referrals coming in from schools throughout the year. It demonstrated its potential to achieve success in terms of producing positive outcomes for pupils, in relation to identity, confidence and self esteem. In addition the mentoring programme continues to make an important contribution to the organisation’s sustainability through 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 continued roll out of a Race Equality Charter for Schools achieved through working with its partners on the Bath and N.E. Somerset Race Equality and Education Task Group. The Charter aims to provide schools with a robust and consistent framework to enable them to identify issues relating to race and racism, develop effective actions to address those issues and achieve lasting, positive changes in relation to race equality within the education system across B&NES. More than 50 schools across the Local Authority have signed up to the Charter and the organisation continued its work throughout this year with task group partners to support schools with the effective implementation of the Race Equality Charter. 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 Race Equality Training Workshops also provided two sources of income generation, continuing to diversify and strengthen the organisation’s income streams and future sustainability going forward. The organisation also secured funding for its work during this year from South Gloucestershire Local Authority to deliver mentoring provision; the Bath Women’s Fund for supplementary school work aimed at supporting Black and Minority Ethnic girls and young women and Black South West Network for development work aimed at strengthening racial justice organisations across the South West: St James’s Place Charitable Foundation for a contribution towards running the supplementary school. Section E Financial review 4 The trustees’ policy on reserves is to maintain sufficient reserves to cover Brief statement of the charity’s 6 months of operating costs for the organisation. This level of reserves is policy on reserves 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 Section G Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. 5 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, Chair Trustee
etc)
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16/12/24
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6 ||**Black Families Education Support Group**
**Charity Name**|**Black Families Education Support Group**
**Charity Name**|**Black Families Education Support Group**
**Charity Name**|**1164447**
**No (if any)**|**1164447**
**No (if any)**|**1164447**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
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Period start date|**To**||31-Mar-24
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**funds**
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**£**
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**15,000**
**15,175**
**3,780**
**10,000**
**1,250**
**3,109**
**48,314**
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**-**
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**9,470**
**796**
**707**
**68**
**420**
**101**
**-**
**11,562**
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**-**
**-**
**11,562**
**36,752**
**- 4,060**
**17,114**
**49,806**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**10,500**
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**32,692**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Bank Interest|**-**||||||**-**| |Incoming resources from charitable
activities|**-**||||||**28,519**| |Bath and N E Somerset Council|**-**||||||**-**| |St Johns Foundation|**15,000**||||||**-**| |Black South West|**15,175**||||||**-**| |Bath Ethnic MinoritySCA|**3,780**||||||**-**| |South Gloucestershire Council|**10,000**||||||**-**| |St James Place Charitable Foundation|**1,250**||||||**-**| |Others|**3,109**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**48,314**||||||**28,519**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**28,519**| ||||||||| |Staff costs|**9,470**||||||**24,089**| |Premises costs|**796**||||||**4,610**| |Administration support costs|||||||**-**| |Travellingexpenses|**707**||||||**551**| |Professional fees|**68**||||||**313**| |Independent Examiner's fees|**420**||||||**420**| |Incidental costs|**101**||||||**15**| |Charitable expenditure|||||||**300**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**11,562**||||||**30,298**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**30,298**| ||||||||| ||**36,752**|**- 4,060**|**-**||
**32,692**||**- 1,779**| ||**- 4,060**|**4,060**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**17,114**|**-**|**-**||**17,114**||**18,893**| ||**49,806**|**-**|**-**||**49,806**||**17,114**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 17/12/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
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approval| |||Paul Satterly|20Dec24| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 17/12/2024 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl members of c￿2..1$1￿ Name Blad( Families Education Supporl Group On accounts for the yèar ended 31" March 2024 Charity n (if any) 1164447 Set out on pages I report lo the trustees on my examinatTron of the accounts of the above charity {-th8 Trusf) for the year ended 31si March 2022. Responsibilities and As the d￿rIty trustees of the Trus( you are responsible for the preparation of basls of report the accounts in accordance wtlh th8 r8quiraments of Ihe Charities Act 2011 (Ih8 Acr). I rer￿ in respeL# of my examination of the Twsvs accounts ¢arried out under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Act and in caryng out my examination, I have folk)w8d th8 applicable Directions given by the CharÈiy Commission under section 145(5Xb} of the Act I have ¢ompl818d my examinalion. I 1X)nfi￿ Ihat no material matters have come lo my attention (other than Ihal disGk)sed L￿1(>W ') in Gonnection with the oxamination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material ￿spect. accountiro records were rKIt kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not aco)r Nn15f anyl 1161447 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a Forthg porfod from ol￿r-23 31-Mar-24 Section A Receipts and payments Unrosldcted Restricted Endovment Total fwids La6t year A1 RvAlpts Bank IntorF3t nc 1D and N E S(rnr¥tr* Cwél Stjoh￿ Fi￿nd2￿ 81th* SoLth Wosl Bath NlntiritySCA GIoLk￿eTthIre Cwrd SIJEmeE Pkca cha￿￿t￿8 Fowdab txhors Sub tot81(Gross I￿)n* for AR) 15.000 15.175 3.780 111,QQO 29) IS175 iO.f 5B.014 A2 Asset and Inspstsmnt {5ee table). Sub total 40.314 10,500 58,814 28.519 A3Pa ènts 79 796 4810 1rd¥eI￿ry Pfofessi¢t&4lfèaB 707 313 (ydetrtalco51s 1Dq 15 11.S62 4122 A4 A88et aNI in¥•sknMnt purchase Sub to t1.562 14.560 2&122 30298 36.7 4.060 A5 Tyansfeys belween funda A6 Cagh ftjnts last￿at end Cash funds Ihis yaar 17,114 17.114 49.e06 18.893 17.11 CCXX R1 aco)urtslSSI 17112r2024 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrnstrleted furKIs Restricted funds ga¥etst£ Endowment Categories Detsils B1 Cash funds Totalcash funds 49,806 a￿$)) OW. OK Urnstrlcted R8strlct8d fvnds funds OK En(knwmeTht funds nMr9at£ Del￿1$ t¢*J*¥rt5tÈ Detslls Cost B3 InveBtmont assets F￿￿to￿hlch Cwronlvaluo B4 Assets retalngd fvy the charws obyn use Detsll$ BS Llabllltles Swd byort0rt￿IwS￿￿ o behaWof811 Its trLthes Dat8 of foval Paul Satterly 05101125 CCXX R2a¢&xJ(ts(8S} 17n2￿024