Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statements for the period 1[st] April 2021 – 31[st] March 2022
The Trustees of RISE present their annual report and accounts for the year ending 31 March 2022 and confirm that they comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011, the trust deed and the Charities SORP (FRS 102).
REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION DETAILS
| CHARITY NAME | RISE–Reach, Inspire, Support, Educate |
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| CHARITY NUMBER | 1165274 |
| CHARITY’S OPERATING ADDRESS | 12 Massams Lane Formby Liverpool L37 7BE |
TRUSTEE INFORMATION
| TRUSTEE NAME | OFFICE HELD (if any) | DATE APPOINTED |
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| Pip Coysh | 21.08.15 | |
| Louise Evans | Chairperson | 1.5.19 |
| Lisa Summers | Treasurer | 4.4.21 |
OUR AIMS
RISE (Reach, Inspire, Support, Educate) is a registered charity which is based within the Sefton Area. RISE is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). As stated within our Governing Constitution document our aims are
“To promote and protect the good health of children and young people in the Merseyside and Lancashire regions who are either carers or bereaved by the provision of support groups and leisure opportunities.”
RISE supports two specific groups of children and young people – ‘young carers’ (those whose lives are affected by a close family member with physical, mental or learning needs and disabilities) and bereaved children (those who have been bereaved of a parent or sibling). These groups provide a place where the children can come together to share experiences, worries and emotions but most importantly to have fun with other children in similar situations or with similar experiences to themselves, which helps them to realise that they are not alone.
We endeavour to provide trips to places which may be inaccessible to them within their current home situations. For the young carers, we provide them with opportunities for ‘responsibility free fun’ (i.e. the children can be free of any responsibility for siblings or parents and can relax and just be children). For the bereaved children, we aim to provide them with ‘guilt-free fun’ (as often following the death of a parent or sibling, then children can experience feelings of guilt if they enjoy themselves or laugh – worrying that them enjoying a situation will appear to other family members as showing “that they don’t care.”).
OUR OBJECTIVES
Our objectives are set to reflect our educational aims and the ethos of the charity. It is important to us that we maintain and enhance the success of the organisation. Our key objective for the year was to increase the number of schools and young people that we support. This would in turn lead on to
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Helping young people achieve
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Improve emotional wellbeing
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Improve networks of support
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Improve confidence and resilience
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Improve academic engagement
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Helping schools achieve
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Improved achievement leading to improved attainment
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Improved relationships and communication with families
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Improved awareness and tolerance across the school community
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Increased school staff’s support and knowledge
OUR VOLUNTEERS
We are extremely fortunate to have volunteers working both within RISE and as a RISE champion within each school base. These volunteers have provided the young people with an opportunity to talk, offered support to their families and other colleagues and staff within school, raised awareness and understanding of the issues facing these young people. Without the dedication and support of these volunteers, RISE would not be able to help and support the young people in the ways that we do and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their efforts.
REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES, ACHIEVEMENTS & PERFORMANCE
Despite a heavily disrupted year due to the ongoing challenges presented by the Covid pandemic, the charity was able to provide support to 3 schools in the Sefton local authority area. Whilst the typical model of encouraging children and young people to mix with others with similar experiences from other schools was severely limited due to risk assessments in place from the schools, group support was able to continue. We were only able to run one organised activity day at Awesome Walls in Liverpool but this was a great success and children enjoyed overcoming their fear of heights as well as encouraging one another.
We were able to facilitate sessions with creative activities in schools. The children were able to create pieces of art, decorations and biscuits and used these opportunities to talk to one another, and to the adults present, about their fears and worries. This development of peer support continues to be one of the main strengths of the charity’s work and has been positively reported on by both the young people attending and their families. The growth in resilience and ability to cope has been strengthened considerably by the facilitation of these groups by experienced volunteers.
To meet demand from children and young people who have been bereaved, we built upon our ‘talk therapy’ sessions and formally used the services of a qualified counsellor. This was
highly valued by the children and young people and their families and received extremely positive feedback.
We have continued independent fundraising and received some money from a private donation.
FINANCIAL REVIEW (Total receipts, donations, gift aid, net result
OUR FINANCES IN SUMMARY
In summary, at the end of this financial year (to 31[st] March 2022), we have received income of £500 and have spent £1853 providing the trips and activities listed. This leaves a surplus as at 31[st] March 2022 of £5992 which will be used to continue with trips, activities and counselling sessions for our children and young people. Please see Receipts and Payments annual return.
FUTURE PLANS
We will endeavour to build upon our successful counselling sessions which have been so well received. We will also aim to promote the model for schools to facilitate their own sessions to support the children within their schools so relying less on the volunteers of RISE and making the approach more sustainable in the future. We will look forward to returning to previous levels of trips and external activities which have been so hindered this past year.
DECLARATION
The Trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ Report Above.
Signed on behalf of the Charity’s Trustees
| Signature : | |
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| Full Name : | Louise Evans |
| Position : | Chairperson |
| Date : | 15.12.22 |
| RISE (Reach, Inspire, Support, Educate) | RISE (Reach, Inspire, Support, Educate) | RISE (Reach, Inspire, Support, Educate) | 1165274 |
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | |||
| For the period from |
01/04/2021 | To | 31/03/2022 |
CC16a
| For | the period from |
01/04/2021 | To | 31/03/2022 |
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| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 500 - - - - - - 500 - - - 500 270 - 240 102 945 - - - - 1,557 - - - 1,557 - 1,057 - 7,028 5,971 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - 280 16 - - - - - - - 296 - - - 296 - 296 - 317 21 |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 500 - - - - - - - 500 - - - 500 550 16 240 102 945 - - - - 1,853 - - - 1,853 - 1,353 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donation | 500 | - | ||||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
500 |
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| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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Coach hire |
270 | |||||
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| Activitycentre hire | 240 | 560 | ||||
| Craft materials | 102 | - | ||||
| Specialist services | 945 | 350 | ||||
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| **Sub total ** | 1,557 | 910 | ||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| 910 | ||||||
| - 1,057 | - 296 | - | - 1,353 | - 910 | ||
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| 7,028 | 317 | - | 7,345 | 8,255 | ||
| 5,971 | 21 | - | 5,992 | 7,345 |
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 B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities |
Details Cash in deposit account Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Details Details Signature |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 5,971 21 - - - - 5,971 21 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 Louise Evans |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Date of approval |
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| Louise Evans | 15.12.22 | ||