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Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statements for the period 1[st] April 2024 – 31[st] March 2025

The Trustees of RISE present their annual report and accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025 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
CHARITY NUMBER	1165274
CHARITY’S OPERATING ADDRESS	12 Massams Lane Formby Liverpool L37 7BE

TRUSTEE INFORMATION

TRUSTEE NAME	OFFICE HELD (if any)	DATE APPOINTED
Louise Evans	Chairperson	1.5.19
Lisa Summers	Treasurer	4.4.21
Karen Ascroft		1.5.22

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

Helping young people achieve
Improve emotional wellbeing
Improve networks of support
Improve confidence and resilience
Improve academic engagement
Helping schools achieve
Improved achievement leading to improved attainment
Improved relationships and communication with families
Improved awareness and tolerance across the school community
Increased school staff’s support and knowledge

OUR VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers maintain the charity either as trustees or working within the schools and with our children and young people. 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

This year has seen much more limited work being carried out due to restraints on the time available from the trustees who were also working directly with the children and young people. We carried out just one trip to Crosby Hall Education Trust (CHET) with pupils from one of our schools. Group support facilitated by a trustee continued in one school. Due to limitations on the time of the trustees, no external grant funding has been applied for. Trustees will look into options for dissolution of the charity.

FINANCIAL REVIEW (Total receipts, donations, gift aid, net result

OUR FINANCES IN SUMMARY

In summary, for the financial year ending 31[st] March 2025, we have received income of £0 and have spent £1523 providing the trips and activities listed. This leaves a surplus as at 31[st] March 2025 of £1043 which will be used to continue with trips, activities and support sessions for our children and young people. Please see Receipts and Payments annual return.

FUTURE PLANS

We will 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 to close the charity in the coming financial year.

DECLARATION

The Trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ Report Above.

Signed on behalf of the Charity’s Trustees

Signature :
Full Name :	Lisa Summers
Position :	Treasurer
Date :	20.10.25

RISE (Reach, Inspire, Support, Educate) 1165274 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 To from

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - 96 750 420 195 62 - - - - 1,523 - - - 1,523 - 1,523 - 2,566 1,043	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - 96 750 420 195 62 - - - - 1,523 - - - 1,523 - 1,523	Last year to the nearest £
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A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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ActivityMaterials	96				193
ActivityCentre Hire	750				-
Coach Hire	420				-
SupplyCover	195				-
Bank Charges	62				62
Specialist services	-				60
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**Sub total **	1,523				315

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*
					315

	- 1,523	-	-	- 1,523	- 315
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	2,566	-	-	2,566	2,881
	1,043	-	-	1,043	2,566

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

20/10/2025

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)) Cash in deposit account Details Details Details Signature	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 1,043 - - - - - 1,043 - 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 Lisa Summers	Endowment funds to nearest £
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			Date of approval
		Lisa Summers	20.10.25

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)