2022-03-31-accounts - Eagle Recovery Project

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

	Period start date	Period start date			Period end date	Period end date
	01	04	2021		31	March	2022
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Section A Reference and administration details

Eagle Recovery Project

Charity name Eagle Recovery Project Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1165430

Charity's principal address 28B King Henrys Walk Islington London Postcode N1 4PB

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
Michael Haven			Trustee Management Team
John Kennedy
Michael Sanderson	Chair	Appointed July 2021 and elected Chair
Ritchie Philip	Chair EMC
Vanessa Relf
Maxine Richmond		Stepped down December 2021
TraceyWilkinson		Appointed July2021













Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

CIO Foundation

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Trustee selection methods

(e.g. appointed by, elected by) Appointed by existing Trustees with agreement from Management Committee

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include In September 2021 Eagle joined the CLERO. (College of Lived Experience additional information, where Recovery Organizations.) This was set up to promote best practice and relevant, about: develop a common framework for measuring achievements. Dame Carol Black is involved in the group which includes a number of large and small • policies and procedures recovery organizations led and run by service users.

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

Two members of the management team attend CLERO meetings and report back on meeting content and potential new ideas for activities and approaches to assisting our vulnerable client base.

the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;

The trustees introduced the NCVO Governance Wheel to assist in identifying governance that needed strengthening and enabling the management team to focus on

t rustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

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Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)	The advancement of good health for the public benefit but not exclusively by improving the good physical health and mental wellbeing of people recovering from Drug and Alcohol abuse with the aim to achieve positive change Personal development and a healthy abstinence lifestyle. Providing facilities to develop their life skills, participation in sports and healthy recreation–Providing advice and information for their benefit and use, - Supporting their participation in the wider community; - Improving their awareness of their physical healthy needs through Complementary therapies and by offering training with a view to increasing and improving their quality of life.
	It has been a challenging twelve months with pressures on several fronts. Firstly, the COVID 19 restrictions meant that outdoor activities were restricted in numbers until fully lifted in late July 2021. Pressure from our main funder following an anonymous complaint restricted access to our grant funding from October through to the end of the twelve-month period. Lack of access to meeting rooms at our physical base and spiritual home (28B King Henrys Walk) added to difficulties in managing and developing coherent strategies moving forward. Gardening, the external support group, counselling and badminton activities continued as they are considered core to Eagles and were funded from reserves thus seriously depleting Eagles financial robustness This meant expanded project plans being on hold until the issue was resolved with resolution being greatly delayed through funder continued its policy of working from home reducing coherence and coordination of the funders response to Eagle queries on the detail of the complaint and resolution processing. Despite COVID restrictions being fully lifted in late July internal access to meeting rooms for social activities at Eagles spiritual home and Gardening Club centre was not lifted until the following financial accounting period. This led to increased costs of regular management & trustee meetings in Cafes as a lower cost option to hiring external Islington based meeting rooms. Regular Group Activity support In April 2021 theGardening clubopened up to service users as most of the beds had been built and 9 fruit trees planted including apple, plum, quince and apricot. EagleOutdoor Wednesdayssports & social in Clissold Park continued with increased numbers of 15 allowed with outdoor badminton,croquet and boules. Sandwich food wasprovided using

Summary of the objects of the
charity set out in its
governing document
Summary of the main
activities undertaken for
the public benefit in
relation to these objects
(include within this section
the statutory declaration
that trustees have had
regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit)

The advancement of good health for the public benefit but not
exclusively by improving the good physical health and mental
wellbeing of people recovering from Drug and Alcohol abuse with
the aim to achieve positive change Personal development and a
healthy abstinence lifestyle. Providing facilities to develop their life
skills, participation in sports and healthy recreation–Providing
advice and information for their benefit and use, - Supporting their
participation in the wider community; - Improving their awareness of
their physical healthy needs through Complementary therapies and
by offering training with a view to increasing and improving their
quality of life.

It has been a challenging twelve months with pressures on
several fronts.
Firstly, the COVID 19 restrictions meant that outdoor activities were
restricted in numbers until fully lifted in late July 2021.
Pressure from our main funder following an anonymous complaint
restricted access to our grant funding from October through to the
end of the twelve-month period.
Lack of access to meeting rooms at our physical base and spiritual
home (28B King Henrys Walk) added to difficulties in managing and
developing coherent strategies moving forward.
Gardening, the external support group, counselling and badminton
activities continued as they are considered core to Eagles and were
funded from reserves thus seriously depleting Eagles financial
robustness
This meant expanded project plans being on hold until the issue was
resolved with resolution being greatly delayed through funder
continued its policy of working from home reducing coherence and
coordination of the funders response to Eagle queries on the detail
of the complaint and resolution processing.
Despite COVID restrictions being fully lifted in late July internal
access to meeting rooms for social activities at Eagles spiritual home
and Gardening Club centre was not lifted until the following financial
accounting period. This led to increased costs of regular
management & trustee meetings in Cafes as a lower cost option to
hiring external Islington based meeting rooms.
Regular Group Activity support
In April 2021 theGardening clubopened up to service users as
most of the beds had been built and 9 fruit trees planted including
apple, plum, quince and apricot.
EagleOutdoor Wednesdayssports & social in Clissold Park
continued with increased numbers of 15 allowed with outdoor
badminton,croquet and boules. Sandwich food wasprovided using

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a local take away shop until the weather deteriorated in September. The Wednesday event attracted 10-12 members each week.

Pilates in the Park

Quiz & Bingo continued throughout the year over Zoom account attracting 8-10 people each week.

Eagles professionally supervised Counselling service managed to keep four clients in counselling support delivered via Zoom through much of the twelve-month period providing emotional stability to the Eagle client base.

Eagle Tuesday Badminton club finally opened up at Sobell in August attracting 8-10 members each week over the remaining eight-month period.

Monday evening activities

In June Eagle went bowling at Rowans once number restrictions were lifted to fifteen per group

An Eagle External Thursday Support group running weekly on Thursday evenings was started in September and continues to attract 6-8 people each week looking for like-minded recovery colleagues without the social element of Eagle. There is always a need to give those in recovery options.

One Off Events

Sunday Cinema took Eagle to the Rio Dalston on the 20[th of] June. Fifteen members saw a Danish Oscar winning comedy “Another Round” with mixed reactions to the movie but thumbs up for helping people get out and about.

Early July saw Eagle celebrate their 10[th] Birthday in Clissold Park much to the delight of one of its founders (Mike Sanderson) who congratulated the team on their creativity and ingenuity throughout the Pandemic period when access to meeting rooms and kitchen resources for food preparation were curtailed.

Later in the month Eagle organised 20 members to visit the Banksy exhibition in Covent Garden with everybody emerging determined to hunt down a “ Banksy ” and make their fortune! A good time had by all but no millionaires!!

August saw twenty hardy Eagle souls leaping into the sea on their annual beach day out to Soothed. No deaths, no divorces and no relapses but buckets of fish and chips devoured.

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August frolics were followed by management team EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) training delivered via a two-day training course delivered by Genesis Consultancy Limited.

Better Lives allowed Eagle to host a separate Eagle 10[th] Birthday barbecue which attracted 27-30 attendees

In September Eagle ran a Recovery month barbecue in coproduction with Better Lives with some 30 people attending. Good to know there is enthusiasm for treatment services and recovery in Islington

In October a large group (20) saw the latest James Bond film at our local independent cinema, the Rio. Everybody came out wondering where they had parked their Aston Martins. Hey ho the 30 bus was still running.

The remainder of the twelve-month period was largely consumed with issue resolution around Lottery Funding and keeping the remaining activities on track.

However, Eagle ingenuity kicked in again with a Christmas party held at the site of Eagles Thursday evening support group with Better Lives allowing hot food preparation at 28B King Henrys Walk. Some thirty people attended and ended the year in a festive mood.

The New Year brought more issue resolution work lightened by the management team organizing a Jack the Ripper tour in East London which gave vent to gallows humour being directed at whoever had lodged the anonymous complaint. The tragedy being that because the complaint was never delivered to Eagle directly there was no opportunity to respond. However, tragedy turns to triumph in the following financial year. Another chapter for you all to read when it emerges.

Over the 1[st] quarter of 2022 Eagle was in contact with the Recoverist Theatre group negotiating a co-produced series of drama workshops for the following operating year.

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Reference needs to be made to the following volunteers and their service over this pandemic period and who went the extra mile for their fellow service users.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grant making;
policy programme related investment.
contribution made by volunteers.

Ritchie Philip who led two barbecue teams, the Christmas party food preparation and took on the running of the Thursday evening external support group.

Mick Havens who ran Zoom Quiz nights through the year in addition to the blood curdling Jack the Ripper tour.

John Acton who held all the activities together, worked tirelessly on resolving issues raised by Eagles main funder drafting correspondence with evidential proof of the integrity of Eagle finances. He also led co-production with the gardening project and negotiated a co-production with the Recoverist Theatre group for the following operating year.

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Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Eagle kept alive the mental wellbeing of a significant number of their members throughout the pandemic and post pandemic period with the Eagle Management Committee being the main point of contact for many members. Job done in extraordinary circumstances with pressure coming from both cash flow and premises access restrictions. The management team stepped up and served their community.

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Section E Financial review

At the end of this financial year we held only 6% of our increased annual Brief statement of the income in reserves. Our original aim stated 50% but the commitment to charity’s policy on reserves the expanded project backed by increased funder commitment followed by the funder income freeze will require us to build up reserves over the next few years.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

The principal source of funding is a quarterly grant from the Reaching Communities team at the National Lottery.

the chari ty’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising0
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Michael Sanderson Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 18th January 2023

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	Eagle Recovery Project	Eagle Recovery Project	Eagle Recovery Project	1165430 No (if any)	CC16a
	Receipts and payments accounts
	For the period from	01/04/2021 Period start date		31/03/2022 Period end date

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £	Restricted funds to the nearest £	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £	Last year to the nearest £
National Lottery Reaching Communities	-	13,105 - - - - - - -	-	13,105	-
Donations	240		-	240	-
Income from Amazon Smile	11		-	11	-
Interest earned	1		-	1	-
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	252	13,105	-	13,357	-
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Sub total*	-	-	-	-	-
*Total receipts* A3 Payments
	252	13,105	-	13,357	-

Charitable Activities Overheads Professional fees Printing and Stationary Telecomms Training	815	23,304 5,854 1,380 588 1,224 1,140 - - -	-	24,119	-
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	-		-	588	-
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**Sub total **	815	33,489	-	34,304	-

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*
	815	33,489	-	34,304	-

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	8,253	16,034	-	24,287	-
	3,340	- 0	-	3,340	-

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Details	Unrestricted funds to nearest £	Restricted funds to nearest £	Endowment funds to nearest £
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1 *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	3,340	-	-
	OK	OK	21/01/2023 OK

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		Date of approval
Michael S	anderson	18//1/2023

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

26/01/2023