**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** from: 1 April 2023 to: 31 March 2024 **Charity name:** Safer Greenwich ## **Charity registration number:** 1164754 ## **Objectives and Activities:** |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|The objects of the CIO are to: -
To promote for the public beneft in Greenwich, in partnership
with the police and the local community, the protecton of people
and property from, and the preventon of, criminal acts.| |---|---| |Summary of the main
actvites in relaton to those
purposes for the public
beneft, in partcular, the
actvites, projects or
services identfed in the
accounts.|In practce the objects mean the trustee meetngs ofen but not
exclusively focus on organising the local safer neighbourhood
board meetngs with the aim of:
-
promotng a safer Greenwich for the community
-
improving the efciency of the police
-
increasing community involvement in the preventon and
soluton of crime
-
In the period 1 April 2023 - 31 March 2024, the Board of Trustees
met on 2 March 2023, 11 June 2023, 26 October 2023, 31 August
2023, 16 November 2023 & 29 February 2024, where items
confrmed/agreed were:
-
Annual Report and Accounts
-
Recommendatons to the AGM to Appoint an
Independent Examiner of Accounts
-
Organisatonal arrangements for the 26 October 2023
AGM
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Monitoring 2023-2024 MOPAC funded projects.
The Board oversaw the following SNB meetngs: -
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23 June 2023;
which featured a presentaton on the work
to reduce violence against women & girls (VAWG),
rebuilding trust, protectng women and girls at home,
online and in public spaces. This was followed by a range
of questons and answers including around accountability.
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21 Sept 2023:
which featuredpresentatons on a detailed| 1 ||-
-|update on Hate Crime in Greenwich, as well as a New Met
for London event. This was followed by a range of
questons and answers including around accountability.
7 December 2024:
featured presentatons on staf
changes in Neighbourhoods in Greenwich & an
introducton to the Cryptocurrency Fraud Team. This was
followed by a range of questons and answers.
21 Mar 2024:
featured a presentaton on how police
address medical/safeguarding needs of disabled people
who are in police custody/care. This was followed by a
range of questons and answers including around
accountability.| |---|---|---| |Statement confrming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
beneft|The main actvites undertaken for public beneft are ensuring
that the meetngs of the Greenwich Safer Neighbourhood board
hold the local police to account for their actvites.|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
policies and
procedures adopted
for the inducton and
training of trustees.

the charity’s
organisatonal
structure and any
wider network with
which the charity
works.

relatonship with any
related partes.

trustees’
consideraton of
major risks and the
system and
procedures to
manage them.|The Charity has developed a range of annually updated policies
and procedures to ensure that it is well governed including a
code of conduct and confict of interests policy.
Safer Greenwich (SG) contracts its administratve support to
METROGAVS and also receives support from the Royal Borough
of Greenwich’s Community Safety team and the Metropolitan
Police
The Trustees have a risk management policy and methodology
designed to identfy risks and actons that could be taken to
mitgate risks|| |---|---|---|---| 2 **Achievements and Performance** |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the**
**charity, identfying the**
**diference the charity’s**
**work has made to the**
**circumstances of its**
**benefciaries and any wider**
**benefts to society as a**
**whole.**|The main actvites undertaken to the public beneft are ensuring
that the meetngs of the Greenwich Safer Neighbourhood board
hold the local police to account for their actvites.
Safer Greenwich has been working on securing funding from the
Mayor’s Ofce for Policing and Crime’s (MOPAC) for projects
based in Greenwich which aim to prevent and/ reduce crime.
Projects include:
**Reducing Violence in our Community:**VAWG
- Bystander
training, personal safety sessions, engagement with relevant
local organisatons, workshops with actors and crime
professionals & community safety workshops by local police
team, aimed at tackling the behaviour of young boys showing
signs of misogyny and inappropriate behaviour.Tackling Hate
Crime
Campaign
to highlight what hate crime is and how to
report it
**Improving Trust & Confdence Workshops:**local workshops
across the borough to engage and help build the trust and
confdence of residents with police, in terms of recent Casey
Report and the MET Police response with the Turnaround Plan.
**Tackling Crime in Greenwich Conference:**based on a borough
wide survey, to enable community members to understand the
police are listening, responding and supportng their needs and
enabling them to reduce risk of crime happening.|| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)

how expenditure has
supported the key
objectves of the charity;

investment policy and
objectves including any
ethical investment policy
adopted.|The Charity’s principal source of funding is MOPAC. A small
amount of this funding is designated for administratve support
and the remainder is distributed to local community
organisatons to prevent/reduce crime.
The Royal Borough of Greenwich contnues to provide support in
kind|| |---|---|---| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** 3 |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Consttuton agreed by Trustees 30 July 2015 & updated
20 September 2019| |---|---| |How is the charity
consttuted?
(e.g unincorporated
associaton,CIO)|Charitable Incorporated Organisaton| |Trustee selecton methods
including details of any
consttutonal provisions e.g.
electon to post or name of
any person or body enttled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Elected by AGM| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Safer Greenwich| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|n/a| |Registered charitynumber|1164754| |Charity’s principal address|c/o METRO GAVS, 1stFloor, Woolwich Equitable House,
7 General Gordon Square, Woolwich, SE18 6FH| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**
1 Cheryl Spruce
2 Karen Hughes
3 Claire Wheeler
4 Rob Sayers
5 Ivanhoe Norona
6 Carlo Salvatore
7 Cristyn Sharkey|**Ofce (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) enttled**
**to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---| ||Chair||n/a| ||Treasurer||n/a| ||||n/a| ||Deputy-Chair||n/a| ||||n/a| ||||n/a| ||||n/a| 4 n/a 8[Roger Tester] ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 5 ## **SAFER GREENWICH ANNUAL ACCOUNTS** **YEAR ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2024** ## **SAFER GREENWICH** ## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT** |**FOR THE YEAR**|**ENDING 31 MARCH 2024**|**ENDING 31 MARCH 2024**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Notes UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL**|||**TOTAL**| ||||**FY2023/24**| |||**FY2022/23**|| |||**£**|**£**| ||**£**|**£**|| |**INCOME**|||| |Other Income|4|-|-| |-|-||| |Charitable Activities 5||-
|46,929
| |46,929
|23,267||| |**TOTAL INCOME**
||**-**|**46,929**| |**46,929**|**23,267**||| |**EXPENDITURE**|||| |Charitable Activities 6||-|33,283| |33,283|14,677||| |Governance|7|-|-| |-
|3,900||| |**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**||**-**|**33,283**| |**33,283**|**18,577**||| |**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**2 -
|||**13,646**
| |**13,646**
|**4,690**
||| |**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**|||| |TOTAL BROUGHT FORWARD||| |---|---|---| |**28,260 23,570**||| |TOTAL CARRY FORWARD||| |**41,906 28,260**||| |**SAFER GREENWICH**||| |**BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st MARCH 2024**||| |**Note**||**FY2023/24**| |**FY2022/23**||| |Fixed Asset
|**-**|| |**-**||| |Current Assets||| |Debtors and Prepayments||-| |-||| |Cash at Bank 8||| |41,906 28,260||| |Creditors: Amounts due within 1 year 9||-| |-||| |NET CURRENT ASSETS||41,906| |28,260||| |TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES||41,906| |28,260||| |CREDITOS: Amounts due after 1 year||-| |-||| |**NET ASSETS**||| |**41,906**
**28,260**
||| TOTAL FUNDS OF THE CHARITY 10 UNRESTRICTED FUNDS - 207 RESTRICTED FUNDS 41,906 28,053 **TOTAL CHARITY FUNDS 41,906 28,260** ## **SAFER GREENWICH** ## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **FOR THE YEAR PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ## **1) ACCOUNTING POLICIES** The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below, and have been consistently applied within the accounts. a) Basis of accounting The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, with the exception of investments which are included at market value. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard 102 (FRS 102), the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” published in 2020 SORP (FRS102) and applicable charity and company law. The charity has taken advantage of the reduced disclosure framework and has not prepared a Cash Flow statement. ## b) Incoming Resources/ Income Incoming resources are recognised on an accruals basis, except that donations and legacies are recognised only upon receipt unless the donor advises otherwise. Grants & contracts are treated as income for the period to which the funder assigns the funds so matching income with the associated income for the period to which the funder assigns the funds so matching income with the associated costs of the services. ## c) Charitable activities expenditure Charitable activities consist of expenses incurred to further the company's aims and objectives of developing and maximising the effectiveness of the charity. Charitable expenditure includes the costs of training, sponsorship, grants and support to such organisations. The costs of liasing with member organisations, the preparation of directories and conferences are included as well as a suitable proportion of support costs, which, in the directors' opinion, relate to such activities.Salaries and consultant's fees, equipment depreciation and office overheads & consumables are apportioned between charitable activities, costs of generating charitable income and governance costs according to a best estimate of the time taken on each activity. d) Stocks of materials & literature Stocks of materials and literature are written off as incurred. e) Going concern basis The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis. ## f) VAT Where appropriate expenditure includes irrecoverable value added tax. g) Fund Accounting Unrestricted funds are available for the use in the furtherance of the charity's objectives. Restricted funds are subject to restrictions imposed by donors as set out in the notes to the accounts. ## h) Debtors Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid after taking account of any trade discounts due. ## i) Creditors Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity 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. ## **SAFER GREENWICH** ## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **FOR THE YEAR PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** |
|**2024 **|||**2023**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**2) NET OPERATING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)**|||**£**||| |**£**|||||| |The net operating surplus/(defcit) of income over|||||| |expenditure is stated after charging: -||-|||-| |Staf costs (note 3) -|-|||-|| |Depreciation of equipment -|-|||-|| |**3) STAFF COSTS**||**£**|||**£**| |Staf costs for the year were as follows:|||||| |Salaries||-||-| |---|---|---|---|---| |Social security costs|||-|-| |Defned contribution pension costs||-||-| |**The average number of persons**|**employed by the**|||| |**charitable company since 2020 is nil**||||| |**4) OTHER INCOME**||**£**||| |**£**||||| |Other Income||-||-| |**SAFER GREENWICH**||||| |**NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**||||| |**FOR THE YEAR PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**||||| |||**2024**||**2023**| ||**Deferred**|||| ||**Income**|||| ||**Movement**|||| |||**TOTAL 2024**||**TOTAL**| ||**2023**|||| |**5) ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES INCOME £**||||**£**| |**£**||||| |RESTRICITED FUNDS|-|46,929||23,267| |TOTAL RESTRICTED FUNDS|-|46,929||23,| |267||||| |**6) EXPENDITURE**
||**£ **| |---|---|---| |**£**||| |Restricted Funds||| |Mayor’s Ofce for Policing & Crime (MOPAC)
|33,283|| |14,677||| |TOTAL RESTRICTED FUNDS
|33,283|| |14,677||| ||**£**|| |**£**||| |**7) GOVERNANCE & SUPPORT COSTS**
|**-**|| |**-**||| |**£**||| |**£**||| |**8) DEBTORS and PREPAYMENTS**
||**-**| |**-**||| |**SAFER GREENWICH**||| |**NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**||| |**FOR THE YEAR PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**||| |**2024**||| |**2023**||| |**9) CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year**||**£**| |**£**||| |Deferred Income|||-
||-| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Other Creditors and Accruals|||-|-|| |**10) ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS**||**RESTRICTED**|||| |**UNRESTRICTED TOTAL**|||||| ||||**£**|**£**|| |**£**|||||| |Fixed Assets||-|-||| |-|||||| |Current Assets
||41,906|||| |- 41,906|||||| |Creditors|-||-||| |-|||||| ||**41,906**||**-**||| **41,906** ## **SAFER GREENWICH ANNUAL ACCOUNTS** **YEAR ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2024** ## **SAFER GREENWICH** ## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT** |**FOR THE YEAR**|**ENDING 31 MARCH 2024**|**ENDING 31 MARCH 2024**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Notes UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL**|||**TOTAL**| ||||**FY2023/24**| |||**FY2022/23**|| |||**£**|**£**| ||**£**|**£**|| |**INCOME**|||| |Other Income|4|-|-| |-|-||| |Charitable Activities 5||-
|46,929
| |46,929
|23,267||| |**TOTAL INCOME**
||**-**|**46,929**| |**46,929**|**23,267**||| |**EXPENDITURE**|||| |Charitable Activities 6||-|33,283| |33,283|14,677||| |Governance|7|-|-| |-
|3,900||| |**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**||**-**|**33,283**| |**33,283**|**18,577**||| |**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**2 -
|||**13,646**
| |**13,646**
|**4,690**
||| |**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**|||| |TOTAL BROUGHT FORWARD||| |---|---|---| |**28,260 23,570**||| |TOTAL CARRY FORWARD||| |**41,906 28,260**||| |**SAFER GREENWICH**||| |**BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st MARCH 2024**||| |**Note**||**FY2023/24**| |**FY2022/23**||| |Fixed Asset
|**-**|| |**-**||| |Current Assets||| |Debtors and Prepayments||-| |-||| |Cash at Bank 8||| |41,906 28,260||| |Creditors: Amounts due within 1 year 9||-| |-||| |NET CURRENT ASSETS||41,906| |28,260||| |TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES||41,906| |28,260||| |CREDITOS: Amounts due after 1 year||-| |-||| |**NET ASSETS**||| |**41,906**
**28,260**
||| TOTAL FUNDS OF THE CHARITY 10 UNRESTRICTED FUNDS - 207 RESTRICTED FUNDS 41,906 28,053 **TOTAL CHARITY FUNDS 41,906 28,260** ## **SAFER GREENWICH** ## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **FOR THE YEAR PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** ## **1) ACCOUNTING POLICIES** The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below, and have been consistently applied within the accounts. a) Basis of accounting The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, with the exception of investments which are included at market value. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard 102 (FRS 102), the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” published in 2020 SORP (FRS102) and applicable charity and company law. The charity has taken advantage of the reduced disclosure framework and has not prepared a Cash Flow statement. ## b) Incoming Resources/ Income Incoming resources are recognised on an accruals basis, except that donations and legacies are recognised only upon receipt unless the donor advises otherwise. Grants & contracts are treated as income for the period to which the funder assigns the funds so matching income with the associated income for the period to which the funder assigns the funds so matching income with the associated costs of the services. ## c) Charitable activities expenditure Charitable activities consist of expenses incurred to further the company's aims and objectives of developing and maximising the effectiveness of the charity. Charitable expenditure includes the costs of training, sponsorship, grants and support to such organisations. The costs of liasing with member organisations, the preparation of directories and conferences are included as well as a suitable proportion of support costs, which, in the directors' opinion, relate to such activities.Salaries and consultant's fees, equipment depreciation and office overheads & consumables are apportioned between charitable activities, costs of generating charitable income and governance costs according to a best estimate of the time taken on each activity. d) Stocks of materials & literature Stocks of materials and literature are written off as incurred. e) Going concern basis The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis. ## f) VAT Where appropriate expenditure includes irrecoverable value added tax. g) Fund Accounting Unrestricted funds are available for the use in the furtherance of the charity's objectives. Restricted funds are subject to restrictions imposed by donors as set out in the notes to the accounts. ## h) Debtors Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid after taking account of any trade discounts due. ## i) Creditors Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity 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. ## **SAFER GREENWICH** ## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS** ## **FOR THE YEAR PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** |
|**2024 **|||**2023**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**2) NET OPERATING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)**|||**£**||| |**£**|||||| |The net operating surplus/(defcit) of income over|||||| |expenditure is stated after charging: -||-|||-| |Staf costs (note 3) -|-|||-|| |Depreciation of equipment -|-|||-|| |**3) STAFF COSTS**||**£**|||**£**| |Staf costs for the year were as follows:|||||| |Salaries||-||-| |---|---|---|---|---| |Social security costs|||-|-| |Defned contribution pension costs||-||-| |**The average number of persons**|**employed by the**|||| |**charitable company since 2020 is nil**||||| |**4) OTHER INCOME**||**£**||| |**£**||||| |Other Income||-||-| |**SAFER GREENWICH**||||| |**NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**||||| |**FOR THE YEAR PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**||||| |||**2024**||**2023**| ||**Deferred**|||| ||**Income**|||| ||**Movement**|||| |||**TOTAL 2024**||**TOTAL**| ||**2023**|||| |**5) ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES INCOME £**||||**£**| |**£**||||| |RESTRICITED FUNDS|-|46,929||23,267| |TOTAL RESTRICTED FUNDS|-|46,929||23,| |267||||| |**6) EXPENDITURE**
||**£ **| |---|---|---| |**£**||| |Restricted Funds||| |Mayor’s Ofce for Policing & Crime (MOPAC)
|33,283|| |14,677||| |TOTAL RESTRICTED FUNDS
|33,283|| |14,677||| ||**£**|| |**£**||| |**7) GOVERNANCE & SUPPORT COSTS**
|**-**|| |**-**||| |**£**||| |**£**||| |**8) DEBTORS and PREPAYMENTS**
||**-**| |**-**||| |**SAFER GREENWICH**||| |**NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**||| |**FOR THE YEAR PERIOD ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**||| |**2024**||| |**2023**||| |**9) CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year**||**£**| |**£**||| |Deferred Income|||-
||-| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Other Creditors and Accruals|||-|-|| |**10) ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS**||**RESTRICTED**|||| |**UNRESTRICTED TOTAL**|||||| ||||**£**|**£**|| |**£**|||||| |Fixed Assets||-|-||| |-|||||| |Current Assets
||41,906|||| |- 41,906|||||| |Creditors|-||-||| |-|||||| ||**41,906**||**-**||| **41,906**