5th ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date **From** 6th April Period end date **To** April 2020 April 2021 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Great Yarmouth Unemployed Workers Centre **Other names charity is known by** GYUWC **Registered charity number (if any)** 1166609 **Charity's principal address** Acorn Centre, 8-9 Regent Street Great Yarmouth, Norfolk **Postcode NR30 1RN** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Paula Waters-Bunn|Chair & Centre
Manager||| ||Claire Wardley|IT Manager||| ||Ruth Thacker|Secretary||| ||Julie Bailey|Treasurer||| ||Sarah Bilyard|Trustee||| ||Daniel Sadullah|Trustee||| ||Chris Connellan|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **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 Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointment, three by Board Members and four by the Great Yarmouth Trustee selection methods Trades Union Council - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** (1) The relief of unemployment for the benefit of the public in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** (2) To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people in East Norfolk who are socially excluded on the grounds of unemployment and unwaged to relieve the needs of such people and assist them to integrate into society, in particular by: (a) providing a local network group that encourages and enables members of the unemployed and unwaged community to participate **TAR** March **2012** 2 more effectively with the wider community; (b) increasing, or co-ordinating, opportunities for members of the unemployed and unwaged community to engage with service providers, to enable those providers to adapt services to better meet the needs of that community. (c) providing advice and assistance to unemployed and unwaged persons who, through lack of means, would otherwise be unable to obtain such advice. (3) To educate the public concerning the nature, causes and effects of unemployment and conduct or sponsor research concerning the impact the local economy has on unemployment and make available the useful results thereafter to the public. The main activities in the year were benefits advice and assisting the unemployed find employment. The Board has paid due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant. The objects and aims of Great Yarmouth Unemployed Workers Centre fall within the subsection 3(1) of the Charities Act 2011. **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)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** March **2012** 4 Section D Achievements and erformance p Throughout this period, we have seen a global pandemic and life as we **Summary of the main** know it has been changed for the foreseeable future. There was very **achievements of the charity** little activity by the charity over these 12 months due to the national **during the year** lockdowns. We have however, continued to offer assistance with our clients that had filed PIP applications and attended appeal court hearings in person and electronically. The outcomes of these were successful for our clients so we do continue to provide a well understood process as to how to help our clients in this field of the benefits system. The centre was only open for a few weeks and we mainly concentrated on recruiting and training new volunteers, before another lockdown was called unfortunately. **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** Reserve set at £1000.00 of unrestricted funds. The amount required to **Brief statement of the** operate for three months. The policy is under regular review. **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - 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** One of our founding advisors, Mrs Alison Warner has retired during the pandemic and I would like to say thank you so much for all the time, tears and effort you have given to this small charity. Without you we would not be the success that we are and had the outcomes that we have. You will be missed and have left a hole no one could possibly fill. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** P Waters-Bunn **Full name(s)** Mrs Paula Waters-Bunn **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 15/04/2021 **TAR** March **2012** 6 ## **SECTION A RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS** ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Last Year| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 RECEIPTS**|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|| |Donations|2162|||2162|4857| |Grants|9640|0||9640|0| |Gift Aid|0|||0|0| |Misc|0|||0|0| |Sub total|11802|0||11802|4857| |Total Receipts|11802|0||11802|4857| |**A2 Asset sales 0**|||||| |**A3 PAYMENTS**|||||| |Room Hire|1400|||1400|3500| |Tel / Net|261|||261|256| |Insurance|373|||373|373| |Subscript|0|||0|0| |Adv / Print|||||0| |Stat / Cons|42|||42|118| |Volun Exp|||||0| |Training|0|||0|0| |Fundrais exp|||||| |Bank Chgs|||||| |Sundries|||||| |Hards Grants|||||0| |Misc||||0|21| |**Sub Total**|**2076**|||2076|4268| |**A4 ASSET/ INVESTMENT PURCHASES 0**|||||| |**TOTAL PAYMENTS**||2076|||4268| |**NET OF RECEIPTS (PAYMENTS)**||9726|||-589| |**A5 TRANSFERS**||0|||0| |**A6 CASH FUNDS LAST YEAR END**||2681|||3200| |**CASH FUNDS THIS YEAR END**||12407|||2681|