## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date
Period end date
**From** 6 April 2024 **To** 5 April 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Somewhere Else**
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1166621 Charity's principal address** 39 Bishopton Lane STOCKTON-ON-TEES **Postcode TS18 1PT**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(ifany)**|
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||Dr Gill Martin|Chairperson|||
||Maryum Duberia||||
||Nexhmie Ahmetaj||To 9 December 2024||
||Mumtaz Din||||
||Tobias Alec Phiri
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||Mirjana Brati||To 9 December 2024||
||Ursula Ruth Hicks||From 9 December 2024||
||Clair Jones||From 9 December 2024||
||Peter John Chapman||From 9 December 2024||
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**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)**
Dr Carole le Darcy – Founder and Chief Executive
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods Trustees are appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at (eg. appointed by, elected by) a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
## **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**
Somewhere Else exists to address the needs of lonely and socially excluded individuals in the Tees Valley area.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
Its ultimate aim is to promote social inclusion, combat loneliness, encourage a sense of belonging and to increase feelings of self-worth and value.
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**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)**
Somewhere Else was founded in 2015 because of the recognition that lonely and socially isolated individuals of all age groups are often susceptible to mental and physical health problems. The organisation exists to address the needs of lonely and socially excluded individuals in the Tees Valley area.
It seeks to do this by:
1. Providing a therapeutic and welcoming space
2. Organising structured activities designed to build self-esteem and encourage integration
3. Devising individualised support plans to achieve agreed goals
4. Developing a referral scheme with local authority and other support services.
The Trustees acknowledge the current Charity Commission guidance on ‘public benefit’ and are assured that the Somewhere Else’s objectives and activities are beneficial to the general public.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grant making;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
In May 2024, the Somewhere Else Trustees, chaired by Gill Martin, acknowledged the possibility of having to close the charity down, due to a funding constraint. Together with the Clinical Director and Founder, Carole Le Darcy, they faced the problem of how to maintain some level of services, and return the charity to programmatic and financial sustainability.
As knowledge of these problems became known by local organisations working with and for asylum seekers and refugees, there was determination that this excellent service should not be lost, bearing in mind the prevailing inadequate level of mental health services in the area for folk in the RAS community. This led to informal discussions about ways in which the service provided by Somewhere Else could be maintained. These discussions were encouraged by local Stockton charity Refugee Futures _(Reg. Charity No: 1159508)_ and the administrator of “The Stockton Project” which is part of the charity Lempriere Pringle 2015 _(Reg. Charity No: 1161516)_ .
Discussions took place over several months between Gill and Carole of Somewhere Else, Sam Franklin of J&N Franklin Trust; Peter Chapman of
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Section D Achievements and performance
the Stockton Project (and Vice Chair of Refugee Futures) and members of the board of Refugee Futures, together with legal advisers, Muckle LLP in Newcastle. As a result agreement was reached for:
- Refugee Futures to become Sole Member of Somewhere Else
- - Governance of Somewhere Else to be strengthened by appointing the Chair, Vice Chair and Treasurer of Refugee Futures as Trustees of Somewhere Else.
- A new commitment of funding from J & N Franklin Trust together with new funding from The Stockton Project for 2 years, to enable Somewhere Else’s position to stabilise, and then to develop on a sound sustainable basis.
We are pleased to report, that despite this proving to be a challenging period of uncertainty for the organisation and for Gill and Carole in particular, the new arrangements have been embraced successfully, and a new sense of opportunity and development now prevails.
This renewed sense of hope, has been underpinned by:
- the development and adoption of a 3-year Strategic Plan,
- the appointment of a new trustee with senior experience of mental health therapeutic issues,
- - the appointment of a qualified accountant, who is also a refugee, to provide bookkeeping services, regular financial reports and preparation of annual accounts,
- - the appointment of two professional fundraisers, and the drafting of a strategic fundraising plan.
- The tremendous commitment from Carole, who founded the charity, and Gill Martin who handed over the role of Chair to Peter Chapman midyear, is warmly acknowledged. In addition the work of the trustees, counsellors, and other supporters is greatly appreciated. It has been a roller coaster experience, but the foundations are now in place to underpin the development of the charity’s work and its regional reach for some years ahead.
## **Clinical Summary**
- Individual appointments - 376
- - Creative Groups - 48
- - Kurdish Men’s Group - 49
- - Albanian Groups - 23
- - English Classes - 23
- - Iranian Groups - 6
- - Individual supervision delivered - 30
## **Section E Financial review**
In the year ended 05 April 2025, our receipts totalled £80,617 **Brief statement of the** _(2024: £46,327)_ and our payments £67,798 _(2024: £52,066)_ which **charity’s policy on reserves** resulted in a net surplus of £12,819 _(2024: deficit of £5739_ ). Our bank and cash balances on 05 April 2025 totalled £16,161 _(2024: £3,341)_ . Of these total balances, £1,883 _(2024: £5,858)_ carried restrictions as to their use. Other assets, in addition to our bank and cash balances, and liabilities comprised computer equipment and payroll related payments to HMRC and our pension provider,
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and in 2024, an employee.
It has not yet been possible to establish an appropriate level of Reserves, but the Trustees will focus on this in the coming year.
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
Funds received are mainly grants from National Lottery, J & N Franklin Trust, and Stockton Project of Lempriere Pringle 2015.
- 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**
## **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)[Peter John Chapman ] Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** _Chair of Trustees_ **etc) Date** 24 November 2025
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**1166621**
**CC16a**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
## **Somewhere Else**
|**For the period**
**from**|**06-Apr-24**|**To**|**05-Apr-25**|
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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 £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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Donations,legacies andgrants|**46,928**||**31,450**||**-**||**78,378**||**42,762**|
|Fees for charitable services|**275**||**-**||**-**||**275**||**725**|
|Room Hire|**1,930**||**-**||**-**||**1,930**||**2,840**|
|Bank interest received|**34**||**-**||**-**||**34**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**49,167**||**31,450**||**-**||**80,617**||**46,327**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**46,327**|
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Salaries & national insurance|**30,879**||**15,452**||**-**||**46,331**||**29,216**|
|Pension contributions|**1,493**||**749**||**-**||**2,242**||**3,082**|
|Rent|||**12,000**||**-**||**12,000**||**14,400**|
|Utilities(eg. light,heat,water)|||**2,498**||**-**||**2,498**||**2,673**|
|Telephone,internet &postage|||**518**||**-**||**518**||**396**|
|Insurance|||**314**||**-**||**314**||**202**|
|Professional Services - WorkshopFacilitation and Interpretation|||**250**||**-**||**250**||**700**|
|Other Professional Services|||**1,625**||**-**||**1,625**||**-**|
|Other|||**2,019**||**-**||**2,019**||**1,398**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**32,372**||**35,425**||**-**||**67,797**||**52,067**|
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|**A4 Asset and investmentpurchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|Computer Equipment|**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**52,067**|
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||**- 2,517**||||||||**9,081**|
||**14,278**||||||||**3,341**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
|**es at the end of the period**||||
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|~~1~~
Bank Current Account
Petty Cash
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**13,922**
**356**
**-**
**14,278**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|~~1~~
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,883**
**-**
**-**
**1,883**
OK
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||**-**|
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||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|~~1~~|**-**|**-**|~~/11/2025~~
**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Outstanding pension payments
Outstanding PAYE payments
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Computer Equipment|**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Restricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**Unrestricted**
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Peter John Chapman, Chair of Trustees|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of approval|
|||Peter John Chapman, Chair of Trustees|24 November 2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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Independent Examiner's Report
I reportto the Trust8es of Somewhere Else. Charity number 1166621 on the accounts
ended 5"April 2025.
Respective responsibllltleg of the Trugtees and Ind•ndent Examinor
As trustees ofthe charity, you are responsibleforthe preparation ofthe accounts in
accordancewith the requirements ofthe CharitiesAct20111'theAcV)
I report In respect of my examination oftheTrust's accounts carried out under section
145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination. I have followed all the
8ppllcable Directions given bythe Charity Commission under section 145{5)Ibl ofthe
Act.
Ind•p•ndent Examln•rf8 Statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no rnaterialmatters have come to my
attention in connection with the ex8mination which gives me cause to believe that in,
any material respect:
The accounting records were not kept in accordance with sectlon 130 ofthe
Charities A¢t' or
The accounts dld not accord with the accountlng records: or
The accounts did not Complywith the applicable requirements concerningthe
form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports)
Regulations 2008 otherthan any requirement that the accounts give a'true and
fair, viewwhich Is not a m8tter consldered as part of an independent
examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other m8tter8 in connection with the
examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in orderto enable a
proper understandingof the accounts to be reached.
Suzanne Mines
2410912025
5 Reeth Road
Stockton on Tees
TS18 5HB