## **Annual Report 1[st] April 2020- 31[st] March 2021**
**Register Charity No: 1165254**
## **Vision**
Trowbridge Future will transform the life of the communities of Trowbridge, by giving a voice to those most vulnerable, to see the change they want to see in their town.
## **Charitable Objectives**
Trowbridge Future aims to develop the skills and capacities of the residents of the disadvantaged communities of Trowbridge and surrounding areas (as outlined in our charitable objectives). This will be achieved by providing local people with the opportunities to come together, build stronger relationships, help local people feel better about where they live and support them to improve their community and the things that matter to them.
## Trowbridge Future has three core programmes areas:
## **Youth**
To provide a sustainable, regular, constructive and professional youth provision in Longfield, Seymour and Studley Green neighbourhoods to enable the young people growing up within them to reach their full potential and develop the activities and facilities that they would like to see.
## **Community**
To create stronger, vibrant communities in Trowbridge where residents have pride in their communities and the confidence to identify issues they face and come together to address them.
## **Neighbourhoods**
To support local residents in Longfield, Seymour and Studley Green neighbourhoods to come together and respond to issues of concern to improve the environment where they live.
## **Annual Update**
The past year has been the most challenging in Trowbridge Future’s history due to the impact of the COVID pandemic. Trowbridge Future were able to be agile to community needs and changing Government guidelines through the hard work of our responsive team. As an organisation, Trowbridge Future can be proud that we were able to continue to operate through this time and leverage COVID specific funding to meet the needs of the most vulnerable residents in Trowbridge. We continued to make connections with our regular attendees, deliver essential
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response work to those most at need whilst working hard to navigate the COVID rules and ensure that Trowbridge Future deliver its activities safely.
Following our hardwork delivering COVID response work, we had the exciting news that we had received 3-yr National Lottery Funding. This enabled all our staff to move on to permanent contracts and increase our staff team to extend the range of activities we are able to deliver.
Key Successes
- Launched a new dedicated youth and community space on Studley Green (the most deprived area of Trowbridge)
- Taken over the running of Seymour Community Hub, our second Community Hub which also provides an office space for our core staff team
- Started a new community fridge on Seymour Estate and created a template to be replicated in Studley Green and Longfield.
- Undertaken the preparation to re-launch five youth sessions across Trowbridge in Longfield, Seymour and Studley Green
- Implemented our Kindness card, a scheme by which young people earn credits for the number of acts of kindness that they have undertaken within the community.
Youth Programme
During the past year, the youth team continued to support young people remotely through individual online contact and individual mentoring of four young people who had been identified as having significant safeguarding concerns. The youth team delivered 108 activity packs that supported individual mental health wellbeing as well as an Easter themed pack with activities to complete over the Easter holidays. The delivery of packs enabled staff to be able to offer doorstep wellbeing check ins with both parents and young people. The team were able to offer 16 weeks of online zoom sessions, over two sessions per week. In the late summer/autumn the youth team were able to offer a series of outdoor activities using sports and play equipment we had fundraised for
through the Magic Little Grant scheme. In March 2021, the youth team sent out Trowbridge Future positive postcards to children and young people to keep up emotional morale as lockdown continued in some form. In preparation for reopening activities in April 2021 the team had prepared both the Studley Green and Seymour Cabin in readiness for delivering five youth sessions each week, using Longfield Community Centre as a third venue.
The creation of a dedicated youth space on Studley Green was a key achievement of the
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year. Working with Silcoa DIY SOS team (part of Selwood Housing) we were able to transform the portakabin shell into a working youth and community space. Local artist Tom Miller worked with young people to grafiti the front of the building and enable further youth ownership of the space.
Building on the community spirit that has developed across Trowbridge during COVID, Trowbridge Future have established a kindness
card. Young people from our groups who complete three random acts of kindness can now be rewarded with a voucher to spend in local independent businesses as a way of building greater connections across the town.
We recognise coming out of lockdown that there is an increased need for social and emotional support we are working with the local secondary schools, local Child Wellbeing Partnership to explore ways of addressing this. We are also looking at developing a dedicated youth and community space on Longfield to ensure there is appropriate youth-led provision within all three of the most deprived areas of Trowbridge. Our youth team are committed to advocating for young people and will look to launch our youth ambassador programme to facilitate this process.
## Community Programme
Throughout lockdown the community team worked hard to connect with our core Hub visitors through phone calls and doorstep visits, ensuring to help them with their immediate needs such as help with shopping and collecting prescriptions. The team were also able to deliver wellbeing packs and gardening packs to vulnerable people who ordinarily participated in Hub groups such as our BeYoutiful Ladies Group. In partnership with Trowbridge Town Council the team were able to deliver and source essential food items to many further vulnerable members of the community.
In September 2020 we were able to re-open the Hub in The Shires offering support and signposting in areas such as mental health, housing, benefit advice, health needs and caring for the elderly. We saw an increase in anxiety and isolation, with much of our work supporting loneliness, unemployment, food and energy poverty, many people having to choose to either buy food or pay their gas and electribity bills. We were able to support referrals to the food bank, signposting to energy vouchers, debt advice and where appropriate PIP applications. In November 2020 we were able to re-establish a Community Fridge for our Seymour Hub reading around 50 individuals each week with unsold
food items from Marks and Spencer, Lidl and Greggs. We were fortunate to run our BeYoutiful Ladies Group for several weeks to help boost self-confidence, self- **Trowbridge Future Annual Report 19/20** 3
and
esteem
support
stress
management.
volunteer We were also able to supported several organisations in Chippenham and Warminster looking to establish similar Community Hubs as ourselves.
Neighbourhoods Programme
We chose to pause the Neighbourhood and Safer Communities Partnership Meetings during this time, referring people to our Community Team to gain support during lockdown. This led to positive conversations with the Seymour Community Association and the decision to take over the running of the Community Hub on their behalf. This will be used as an opportunity to springboard our Neighbourhoods Programme in February 2022 in line with our Lottery application and Strategic Plan 2020-2023.
Governance
Through National Lottery support we have been able to recruit an additional HR and Finance Officer that will continue the development of the charity in the following areas:
- _Robust financial policy and procedures._
- _Streamlining our HR and Policies and Procedures_
- _Creating online accounting and payroll system._
- _Put in place sound financial management so that Trustees receive a regular financial statement and a budget projection._
A Strategic Planning day is planned with senior staff and trustees to revisit ourStrategic Business Plan to last from 2020 to 2023 to review our current vision, aims, objectives and outcomes and future direction of the charity.
## Impact and Evaluation
Bath University will be working with Trowbridge Future as a External Evaluators to enable us to track the impact of our work and the positive journey of change that people who engage in our services move into.
## Finance
Our account have been externally examined and submitted to the Charity Commission within the deadline. Trowbridge Future secured £149,791 in funding (restricted and unrestricted) and £155,037 in payments.
Secured gift in kind; consumables, furniture, ICT equipment, training for staff and volunteers, jackets for youth and community staff.
Trowbridge Future carried a small deficit of £5,246 in 2020-21, this is due to designated project costs that were carried forward from the previous financial year, as project activities were delayed due to the impact of COVID-19.
## Staf Training
All staff and volunteers have access to a wide portfolio of training including: Safeguarding, Safeguarding Children and young people, GDPR, Health and Safety,
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Fire Marshall, First Aid, Drugs and Alcohol awareness, The Prevent Duty, Child Protection, Moving and Handling, Level 2 Nutrition and Health.
All staff and volunteers completed Mental Health First Aid training in July 2021. The senior manager have all started completing their Level 3 ILM in Management Training.
## Community Partners
Trowbridge Future staff have worked hard to develop strong, active local partnerships to co-deliver services and provide effective signposting for our most vulnerable clients. These partnerships include: John of Gaunt School, Alzheimer’s Support, Centre for Independent Living, Breakthrough Homeless Charity, Storehouse food bank, Julian House, Amber Housing, Love Sounds, Selwood Housing, Rough Sleepers Team, Sarah Bec: Helping the Homeless in the South West, Trowbridge Town Hall, TUGS: mental health users group, Rucksack project that offers free clothes and essential items to local children in need, Social Services, Youth Offending Team. Trowbridge Lions Trowbridge Sensory Garden, Wiltshire Youth for Christ, National Citizenship Service, Stronger Families Team.
Trowbridge Future are currently members of NVCO, Youth Action Wiltshire, UK Youth, Educare and Neighbourly.
## **Finance Review**
- Reserves Policy
The policy no reserves is to make sure there is enough money for the charity to continue to keep working in the community for at least the next 3 months and look to grow this to up to 6 months running costs.
Principal sources of funding:
- Grant and support in-kind from Trowbridge Town Council.
- Grant applications to National Lottery, Trowbridge Local Youth Network, Wiltshire and Swindon Foundation, WII Fund and a range of charitable trusts
- - General fundraising.
- Donations from ASDA, Banner, Lidl and TESCOs.
Expenditure this year has been deployed to support the key objective of the youth and community programmes through wages of the Chief Executive, Youth Manager, Community Manager, youth and community support staff, training, equipment and consumables.
There is no investment policy.
- Trustees
Jo Trigg, Chair Margaret Howard, Vice Chair Colin Kay Stewart Palmen Alison Jones Tracy Sullivan Pat Baker
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Elizabeth Gifford (joined May 2020)
Independent Examiner: Peter Charles Mason Smith
## **Declaration**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature
Full name: Joanne Trigg
Position:
Date:
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|**Trowbridge Community Area Future**|**Trowbridge Community Area Future**||**1165254**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|01/04/2020|**To**|31/03/2021||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**32,134**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,134**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,134**
**32,299.00**
**-**
**-**
**473.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,772.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,772**
**- 638**
**-**
**14,685**
**14,047**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**117,657**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**117,657**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**117,657**
**48,448.00**
**73,474.50**
**-**
**342.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**122,264.50**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**122,265**
**- 4,608**
**-**
**29,821**
**25,214**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**149,791**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**149,791**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**149,791**
**80,747.00**
**73,474.50**
**-**
**815.00**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**155,037**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**155,037**
**- 5,246**
**-**
**44,506**
**39,261**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Grants & Donations|**32,134**||||**90,938**|
|Returned Grant|**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**32,134**||||**90,938**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
|n/a|**-**|||||
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||||**90,938**|
|||||||
|Wages, Salaries and NI|**32,299.00**||||**57,347**|
|Admin Costs|**-**||||**16,014**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|Insurance|**473.00**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**32,772.00**||||**73,361**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
|n/a|**-**|||||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
||||||**73,361**|
|||||||
||**- 638**|**- 4,608**|**-**|**- 5,246**|**17,577**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**14,685**|**29,821**|**-**|**44,506**|**44,506**|
||**14,047**|**25,214**|**-**|**39,261**||
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**|**the period**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Cash at Bank
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
n/a
**Details**
n/a
**Details**
**Details**
Portakabin
Sports Equipment
Printers, Computers and Phones
Emma Moorhead|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**25,214**
**-**
**-**
**25,214**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**200**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||**14,047**||**25,214**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**14,047**||**25,214**|**-**|
||||||OK|
||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||Emma Moorhead|||**200**||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Independent Examiners' report to the trustees of Trowbridge Area Communities Fund (TCAF) trading as Trowbridge Community Area Future**
I report on the accounts for the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity's trustees (who are also the directors for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act)) and that an independent examination is required.
Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under Section 145 of the 2011 Act
- to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under Section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act); and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of the independent examiner's report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view ' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statements below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect, the requirements
- to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of Sections 394 and 395 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) have been met; or
- (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Peter Charles Mason Smith 14 Windsor Drive Trowbridge Wiltshire BA14 0JZ petercmsmith@aol.com
- 4 September 2021