Charity number 1166257 ## Brighton and Hove Faith in Action TRUSTEES REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR 29[th] JULY 2020 – 28[th] JULY 2021 ## **CHARITY INFORMATION** ## **Board of Trustees** Dina Abadeir (appointed 16[th] November 2020) Sabri Ben Ameur Rik Child Simon Lewis Titular Archbishop of Selsey, The Most Reverend Jerome Lloyd OSJV DD FRSA (Chair) Fiona Sharpe The Ven Martin Clifford Lloyd Williams Andrea Zanardo ## **Secretary:** Rik Child ## **Registered office** BMECP Centre 10A Fleet Street Brighton BN1 4ZE ## **Independent Examiner** Ray Goldring RJ Accounts 65 Warren Way Barnham Bognor Regis West Sussex PO22 0LR ## **Charity number** 1166257 1 ## **Brighton and Hove Faith in Action** |**CONTENTS**
|**PAGE**| |---|---| |Report of the Independent Examiners|3| |Trustees' report|4| |Status of the charity and principal activities|4| |Trustees|4| |Governance and Decision Making|5| |Induction of Trustees|5| |Activities During the Financial Year ending 28thJuly 2021|5| |Statement of financial activities|8| |Balance sheet|9| |Explanation of the Statement of Financial Activities|10| |Plans for Financial Year ending July 2022|10| |Reserves Policy|11| 2 Independent Examinerfs Report to the Trustees of Brighton & Hove Faith in Artion Independent &xamlnerfs report to the trustees of Brighton & Hove Farth in Artion I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 28 July 2021. Responsibllities and basis of report As the charitrfs trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company lawl you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ( the 2006 ACV). Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your chariws accounts as Ca￿led out under sertion 145 of the Charities Att 20111'the 2011 ACV). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) Ib) of the 2011 Att. Independent examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confim that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe: Accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Att: or The accounts do not accord wtth those records; or The ac¢ounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act otherthan any requirementthat the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination- or The accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Prattice for recounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland IFR51021). I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connertion wtth the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in orderto enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Ray Goldrin& Accounts, 65 Warren Wa Barnham, Bognor Regis, West Sussex P022 OLR Date ## **TRUSTEES' REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 28[th] July 2021** The Trustees submit their report and financial statements for the year ended 28[th] July 2021 ## **Status of the charity and principal activities** The charity is registered as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) number: 1166257 registered on 30[th] March 2016. The object of the CIO is: To promote for the public benefit the efficiency and effectiveness of faith based charities and the efficient use of resources for charitable purposes by faith based charitable and not for profit organisations in Brighton and Hove with the aim of relieving poverty, financial hardship or other social or economic disadvantage by developing collaborative work between faith based organisations that provide services and support to individuals in need. For the purpose of this clause, charities are organisations that are established for exclusively charitable purposes in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Not for profit organisations are independent organisations which are established for purposes that add value to the community as a whole, or a significant section of the community and which are not permitted by their constitution to make a profit for private distribution. ## **Trustees** The Trustees, who are also the Directors of the charitable incorporated organisation, served during the year and to the date of approval of the accounts as follows: List of trustees who served on the board for at least a portion of time from 28[th] July 2020 to 28[th] July 2021 ||28thJuly 2020 to|28thJuly 2021|| |---|---|---|---| |**Trustee**|**Appointed**|**Office(if any)**|**Re‐appointed**| |Simon Lewis|February2014|Vice Chair|November 2018| |Dina Abadeir|November 2020||March 2021| |Sabri Ben Amuer|March 2017||February2020| |Richard ‘Rik’ Child|June 2017|Treasurer/Secretary|March 2021| |Jerome Lloyd|February2018|Chair|March 2021| |Fiona Sharpe|May2018||February2020| |Martin Lloyd Williams|November 2018||March 2021| |Andrea Zanerdo|October 2018||March 2021| 4 ## **Governance and Decision Making** Brighton & Hove Faith in Action (BHFA) is an association model charitable incorporated organisation, which means our members have the greatest say over how our organisation is run. The Board of Trustees is drawn from the membership by election and governs the charity and meets at least four times a year to discuss and review strategy, planning, development and financial matters. Day‐to‐day management of the organisation is delegated to the Project Co‐ ordinator. The board of trustees were appointed at the inaugural meeting in February 2014. At every AGM a third of the board (the longest serving trustees) is obliged to retire, however they may stand for election and be reappointed. Additional board members may be co‐opted onto the board between AGMs. The officers of the board of trustees are elected at every AGM. Non‐ trustees may be co‐opted to serve as officers (such as secretary). The minimum size of the board is three and the maximum is 15. Any decision may be taken either at a meeting of the charity trustees; or by resolution in writing or electronic form agreed by all of the charity trustees, which may comprise either a single document or several documents containing the text of the resolution in like form to each of which one or more charity trustees has signified their agreement. Where appropriate and necessary, sub‐committees or working groups are established, with delegated authority from the full Board to undertake detailed reviews. These are most commonly known as “Faith Partnerships” working on specific areas of interest. The _Combatting Faith Hate Partnership_ , chaired by Fr Jerome Lloyd, the Chair of BHFA, has been almost completed during 2020/21, the _Homelessness Faith Partnership_ has been established as a project to deliver _Street Support_ for Brighton & Hove, and operates as a steering group including the local authority and local agencies. ## **Induction of trustees** All new trustees are sent a copy of the constitution and the minutes of the last board of trustees’ meeting. They are added to the trustees’ email group, a short biography is posted on the BHFA website and they are added to the BHFA registration with the Charity Commission. New trustees are also sent a copy of the Charity Commission document _CC3 – The Essential Trustee: What you need to know._ ## **Activities During the Financial Year ending 28[th] July 2021** ## Faith Council The _Faith Council_ has continued to meet on‐line in response to the pandemic and has focused on helping faith groups organize their responses to the pandemic and navigating the regulations and risk assessments that have been necessary so faith groups can re‐open with the minimum of risk. 5 To this end, the Faith Council has met and worked consistently with faith leaders and representatives from statutory services and enjoyed excellent contact with the police, local authority (especially public health) and voluntary sector leaders. Faith Council is also the venue for discussion and presentation of new ideas with which faith groups may choose to become involved. During the year, BHFA has set up and deployed _Street Support – Brighton & Hove_ , establishing a working group of faith leaders and other agencies. The Faith Council is also looking closely at undertaking some work on _social prescribing_ and will be setting up a similar working group in the near future. BHFA continues to send its newsletter twice a month which goes to almost 400 recipients which includes local councillors, council officers, the police and other statutory services and interested parties. Feedback to BHFA has been extremely positive. ## Combatting Faith Hate BHFA was obliged to put its _faith tour_ on hold having visited both the _Bodhisattva Centre_ and _Middle Street Synagogue_ before the Covid pandemic. During the latter part of the year (2020) BHFA continued to film in other churches, synagogues and mosques as part of a virtual faith tour and with projects of all faiths that were helping meet need for food and social contact as the pandemic and the various lockdowns progressed. These videos are available via the YouTube Channel and on the BHFA website. During June and July of 2021, the charity made its final film for the project, interviewing young Christian, Jewish and Muslim people of faith who live and work in the city, asking them about their faith and also how they were received by their peers and by wider society. This film will be shown in secondary schools and used along with a scheme of work (lesson plan) to precipitate discussion about faith and society, as well as beliefs, and how people of faith can play a role in society and how competing belief sets might exist alongside each other. ## Homelessness The charity decided that it should respond strongly to the persistent problem of homelessness within the city. After discussion with trustees, the charity convened a working group of organisations operating in the field to discuss the possibility of developing a resource that could be used directly by those who are experiencing homelessness and those who are supporting them. There had been a previous attempt to populate a website and App known as _Street Support,_ which would constitute a live database of all the services accessible to those who needed them as evidence shows that the speed of an intervention and how quickly services can be provided to those who have just become homeless significantly influences the outcome. _Street Support_ provides up to date information on services offered and unlike paper‐based information or static websites, offers logins for the organisations participating, ensuring the information remains up to date. A City Administrator is employed for this purpose, to curate the information and expand the database, keeping the relationships alive with the various services listed and ensuring they are regularly reviewed. 6 ## Social Prescribing The charity received funding from the Arthur and Doreen Green Fund, distributed by the Sussex Community Foundation to undertake a pilot study involving the faith community in social prescribing. The project will work with faith communities to provide social prescribing in their venues, improve the ability of leaders to make connections locally and thereby signpost people better to other social prescribing options, helping people to access the help they need. Some local mapping of services offered could will also be undertaken, working with other agencies. ## Office The charity opened an office in the centre of Brighton & Hove, shared with the Racial Harassment Forum, with whom it is planned that joint projects could be undertaken together in the future. ## Annual General Meeting The previous BHFA AGM was held on 16[th] March 2021 and the meeting re‐appointed Rev Canon Martin Lloyd‐Williams, Dina Abadeir, Rabbi Andrea Zanardo, Rik Child and the Mt Revd Dr Jerome Lloyd as trustees who had retired by rotation in line with BHFA’s constitution. The meeting received a report from Acting Chair, Mt Rev Dr Jerome Lloyd. Titular Archbishop of Selsey, detailing the year’s activities. The subsequent trustees' meeting also voted to appoint Jerome Lloyd as Chair, Simon Lewis as Vice Chair and Rik Child as Treasurer. Rik Child will continue to operate as Company Secretary in line with the requirements of both the Companies Act and Charities Act. 7 ## **Statement of Financial Activities** ## **For the Period 29th July 2020 to 28th July 2021** |**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Incoming resources**
Homelessness Work ‐ Street Support
Social Prescribing
Reps Fees
Third Sector Investment Programme
Free Reserves
CAF Donation
Faith Hate Partnership
FEE Sundries
**Total Incoming Rescources**
0
**Resources expended**
Homelessness Work‐Street Support
893
Reps fees
BHFA costs
BHFA Faith Event
Third Sector Investment Programme
CAF Donation
Faith Hate Partnership
Social Prescribing
**Total Resources Expended**
**893**
**Net Incoming(Outgoing) Resources**
**(893)**
**Total Funds Brought Forward**
**5,234**
**Total Funds Carried Forward**
**4,342**|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
28,000
2,000
800
8,525
39,325
16,903
800
9,459
1,477
**28,639**
**10,686**
**7,055**
**17,741**|**Total**
**Funds**
**£**
28,000
2,000
800
8,525| |---|---|---| |||39,325| |||17,796
800
9,459
1,477| |||**29,532**| |||**9,794**
**12,289**
**22,083**| 8 ## **Brighton and Hove Faith in Action Balance Sheet at 28th July 2021** |**Current Assets**
**Cash at Bank**
**Total Current Assets**
**Liabilities**
**Creditors**
**Net Current Assets**
**Net Assets**
**FUNDS**
**Designated Reserve ‐ Funds**
**Restricted Income ‐ Faith Hate Partnership**
**Restricted Income ‐ TSIP 2020‐23**
**Restricted Income ‐ Postcode Trust**
**Restricted Income ‐ Awards for All**
**Arthur and Doreen Green Fund (Sussex Community Foundation)**
**Total Funds**
**Signed as a true reflaction of the financial position on 28th July 2021**
**________________________________________________________**
**The Most Reverend Dr Jerome Lloyd OSJV DD ‐ Chair of Trustees**|**2021**
**£**
**24,991**
**24,991**
**2,908**
**0**
**2,908**
**22,083**
**4,342**
**1,942**
**1,701**
**7,386**
**1,712**
**5,000**
**22,083**
**_________________**
**Date**| |---|---| 9 ## **Explanation of the Statement of Financial Activities** ## **INCOME & EXPENDITURE** The accounting year 2020/21 shows significantly greater income than any previous year as the charity’s trustees continue to develop the charity and seek funds for projects directly relevant to the most vulnerable members of the community in Brighton & Hove. There is one staff member who works part time for the charity across all project areas. The staffing compliment will increase as the charity’s projects grow in number and complexity. ## Income Street Support ‐ £28,000 was raised during the year to support the work of researching and launching the Street Support website for Brighton & Hove. Funds were kindly donated by the Post Code Trust, Holland Road Baptist Church, the National Lottery, Sussex Police and the Sussex Community Foundation. Further funds will be required year on year to ensure the site remains live and the network is developed. Significant publicity has been undertaken around the launch of the site and this will continue through the next financial year. Social Prescribing – funds were received from the Sussex Community Foundation to undertake a pilot project with faith communities, meeting needs within the community, especially loneliness and resocialisation after the Covid lockdowns. Reps fees – The Chair of Trustees, Fr Jerome Lloyd continued as faith rep during the accounting year and will seek to represent the interests of the faith community at events and “Reps Council” meetings organised by Community Works, the voluntary sector infrastructure organisation that serves the city of Brighton & Hove. The charity received £800 and the funds were passed to the Chair of trustees against expenses for this work. Third Sector Investment Programme (TSIP) – BHFA continues its representational work on the contract for 2020‐2023. Funding levels reduced a little for the 2020‐2023 contract which reflects the continuing squeeze on public finances which will be exacerbated still further by Covid‐19. ## Expenditure Funds were spent on Reps fees, the continued delivery of the _Faith Hate Partnership_ (income received in a previous accounting year) and on setting up the _Homelessness Faith Partnership_ as well as undertaking the representation work of the TSIP contract _._ Expenditure was directed towards overheads such as insurance, room rental, Zoom and other software licences, filming and self‐employed salary costs. ## **Plans for Accounting Year ending 28[th] July 2022** BHFA expects to continue to run the Faith Partnership and hold the TSIP contract for the remainder of the three‐year period (2020‐2023). BHFA will work with Community Works and other local partners to bid for similar infrastructure development work for the financial years 2020‐2023. 10 The _Combatting Faith Hate Partnership_ will be finalised in the early part of the new financial year with the showing of the film about young people of faith in RE lessons in the various secondary schools in Brighton & Hove. BHFA will continue to operate _Street Support for Brighton & Hove_ as the _Homelessness Faith Partnership_ galvanising the desires of people of faith to play a stronger role in tackling homelessness, seeking to work alongside and support established projects as well as devising new projects with interested parties. The charity hopes to work with the local authority to improve the situation for those people seeking accommodation due to homelessness and to undertake some innovative research work as to what the faith community can offer the wider community across homelessness, social isolation and other areas of social intervention where there is a need. BHFA will endeavour to build community through its social prescribing projects, improve the lives of those that attend and map out not only the offerings of the faith community but also other activities available for people to attend in the various localities in the city. The charity will maintain its office accommodation and build partnerships with faith organisations, BAMER organisations and more widely in the sector seeking to undertake project work together. ## **Reserves Policy** The trustees seek to maintain reserves at a level to cover three months of operating costs for the charity as a minimal amount needed to maintain cashflow and ensure the charity is able to fulfil its charitable objects and financial obligations. At present, free reserves stand at £4,342. Some of this funding will be used to develop the _Homelessness Faith Partnership_ while further more substantive funds are sought. A minimum of £3,000 will be held as a reserve with formal designation to be included in the Annual Accounts 2020/21. 11