The Bridge Project Tadcaster Receipts & Payments Accounts For the Year ended 31st August 2022
The Bridge Project Tadcaster For the Year ended 31st August 2022
Index
TRUSTEES' REPORT PAGE 2 - 5 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT PAGE 6 RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS PAGE 7 STATEMENT OF ASSETS & LIABILITIES PAGE 8
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TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT for THE BRIDGE PROJECT, TADCASTER
Charity number 1166825 01/09/2021 – 31/08/2022
The Vision of the Bridge Project Tadcaster is to bring love, hope and faith to the young people and their families of Tadcaster and the surrounding villages.
The Aim is to create safe places in which healthy relationships can grow. This is achieved by means of assemblies and after school clubs for both primary and secondary ages, daytime clubs for parent, toddlers and babies, faith-based groups, courses, holiday clubs, detached work and lunch clubs with schools. We welcome all who come, regardless of faith or none.
During the year there have been several significant developments:
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The resignation our new operations manager,
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A decision to restructure the staffing arrangements at the project
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The resignation of three trustees and the addition of a new one to the board
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The continuing gradual easing of Covid pandemic restrictions.
The Operations Manager
Beth Cookson, who had been Operations Manager since February 1[st] 2021, gave in her notice during the summer of 2022 owing to family reasons. Although Beth had been in post for only 18 months she had achieved an enormous amount in terms of tightening up the running of the project overall, supervising and mentoring the three youth workers and initially filling the role of lead for Multiply, the diocesan-funded initiative for developing ‘Worship in the Community’. Because Beth was employed for only 8 hours per week she handed on this latter responsibility to Sharon Masterman, one of the youth workers, early in 2022.
Before she left The Bridge (retiring on September 30[th] 2022 i.e. at the beginning of our next financial year) Beth advised the trustees that the youth workers needed more supervision and that accordingly her successor would need to be employed for at least three full days per week or the equivalent. This resulted in the plan to restructure the staff, as described below.
The Bridge owes a considerable debt to Beth for all her hard work and achievements during her relatively short time in post and we thanked her warmly for her efforts on her departure.
Decision to Restructure the Staffing at The Bridge
Following Beth Cookson’s recommendation a small group of trustees – myself, Priscilla Smith and Lindy Illingworth, met with Beth on two separate occasions over a total of 4 hours, to pray and think over a new staffing structure. We decided the following:
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To increase the hours of the team leader/operations manager to 24 hours per week.
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To adapt Sharon Masterman’s post to include working as the Multiply link with the York diocese.
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To replace the third full-time youth worker post with two 16 hour per week posts, one male and the other female.
This change to the structure would be cost-neutral and would also provide better overall staffing for the project going forward.
The proposed changes will be subject to appropriate expert legal and human resources advice.
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Changes in the Board of Trustees
During the year three trustees confirmed their decision to resign from the Board.
Rachel Brammar has served as a trustee for 10 years, for the first 5 of which she was also Treasurer. Anne Smart took over as Treasurer from Rachel in 2017 and has remained so since.
Jonathan Beckerlegge has been a trustee for 6 years and given valuable expert financial advice. The Bridge is extremely grateful to all three for their faithful and much appreciated service.
A new trustee, Jane Cross, will join the Board at the AGM in November and three other people have been approached and invited to consider doing so in the near future.
The Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions
The improvement in the overall pandemic situation has meant an increase in activities of the project, which are gradually getting back to normal pre-pandemic levels. Various clubs have restarted at The Barn and outreach within Tadcaster has continued. School visits have restarted at 2 local primary schools but not yet at Tadcaster Grammar School.
A number of feedback comments and a youth case study shown below give a flavour of how the work of The Bridge is appreciated.
Some Feedback Comments
Every year we ask our beneficiaries to give us feedback on how we’re doing through a survey. This year we asked the following two questions and got this feedback:
The Bridge Project has helped me by…
“Gaining more confidence in my day to day life and has pushed me to do things I wouldn’t have normally
done.”
“building my confidence in things I didn’t expect to enjoy.”
“Making friends and new skills.”
“The project has got my daughter out of the house, she enjoys youth group and she is shortly commencing a volunteering course.”
“Boys club was really good and helped me talk about my feelings and helped me understand how others might feel.”
“Having more confidence.”
“Providing a safe, welcoming setting. Being supportive & giving me confidence to learn new skills during volunteering & also attending with my young children.”
Please tell us what you like about the Bridge Project…
“The sense of community and the fact you can go and always just chat to someone if you need to.”
“Fun, friendly and a great place to be.”
“The staff are kind and helpful, they support me.”
“I appreciate Christian aspect of activities.”
“So approachable & genuinely good people who want to make a difference.”
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The Staff
Our three staff – Sharon Masterman, Andy Pocock and Kate Ellarby, continue to do excellent work. Their various roles were described in detail in last year’s report. Sharon is now the link with Multiply (see above) and attends the various training days run by the Diocese in that connection. Andy has taken on increasing responsibility for finance, while Kate has done excellent work on fundraising. All three staff were appraised by Beth Cookson during the summer of 2022.
Activities
Over this time period the staff team have continued to run as many activities and groups as possible in a very difficult period. Online youth groups, prayer meetings over zoom, food deliveries to families in need, one to one prayer and pastoral care, as well as a number of face-to-face groups where restrictions allowed. Our Takeaway Church sessions have proved popular and continue on a monthly basis. As the impact of the pandemic became less, groups began to open up again, including holiday clubs, youth groups, mums and toddler groups, girls and boys self-esteem courses as well as our continued one to one sessions. The sessions we run are frequently changing to meet the needs of the people of Tadcaster, but we consistently connect with those with the highest level of need even in the midst of the pandemic.
Finance
I am determined that, by the time I demit office as chairman, The Bridge Project should be on a sound financial basis. Over recent years the situation has been too often famine rather than feast.
Our financial support comes from two main areas – personal giving and grants from various philanthropic organizations. We face several challenges in funding, in particular that many grant making organisations are reluctant to fund faith based projects. Furthermore, sharing our location with another youth charity means that we may not benefit from postcode-specific funding. Finally, we have been disadvantaged by the fact that in the past not all our trustees have completed recognised Safeguarding training, an absolute requirement of some funding organizations. This shortcoming has now been remedied.
The income to the charity over the past year has been:
From grants £62,847 From donations £17,022 From fundraising events £1,206 Charitable activities £4,710 Total £85,785
Our annual budget is around £90,000.
Our total grant income is slightly down on last year but personal giving has increased significantly, also that from fundraising, although the latter still contributes only a small amount. Overall income is the same. We continue to work on increasing all three of these, also our own fundraising.
We have taken steps to establish a reserve account and a long term aspiration is to set up an endowment fund.
None of what has been achieved through The Bridge project during the past year could have happened without our wonderful Heavenly Father’s provision in so many different ways. Without Him we would be nothing. Truly He is our infinitely compassionate and merciful God, who we know will ‘continue to be our guide even unto death’.
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Structure, Governance and Administrative Information
Organisation Type Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
Governing Document The Constitution of The Bridge Project Tadcaster
Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees
Trustees are recruited and appointed by the existing Board of Trustees and bring expertise in medical, professional, business, education, youth work and charitable Christian service.
Trustees Induction and Training
All trustees are given the essential trustee pack and are required to complete basic safeguarding training. They are DBS checked.
Investment Policy The Bridge Project has no investments Registration History The Bridge Project Tadcaster was registered on 29/04/2016. Registered charity number 1166825
Linked Charity Lower Wharfe Ecumenical Youth Project 1091839
Registered Address Healaugh Old Hall, Healaugh LS24 8DA
Trustees
Rachel Brammar MA Hons Jonathan Beckerlegge FCA Dr Mark Denyer MB, BS, FRCP James Simister Priscilla Smith M Theol PGCE Lindy Illingworth Appointed in 2021/2022.
Treasurer: Anne Smart Clerk to the Trustees: Helen Sharples
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees' report above Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees
mark denyer Signature _____ mark denyer (May 15, 2023 11:04 GMT+1)
May 15, 2023
Date: ______
Trustee signing: Dr Mark Denyer MB, BS, FRCP
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts
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Report to the trustees/
members of [The Bridge Project Tadcaster]
On accounts for the year
ended
31st August 2022 Charity no 1166825
Set out on pages 7 TO 8
Responsibilities and basis of As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance
report with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of
the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable directions
given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's I have completed my examination.
statement - matter of concern
identified I have identified a matter of concern in my report because I have concerns in the adequacy of
the record keeping in respect of the restricted funds expenditure, due to changes in people
dealing with the finance function, there is a lack of reconciliation as to when and how
restricted funds have been spent, although I have no material concerns that the funds have
not been spent in accordance with restrictions, I was unable to verify the exact nature of the
expenditure. I have given recommendations that the records are transferred to a
computerised system tailored to charities to ensure that all payments are allocated to the
correct funds moving forward.
I confirm that no other material matters have come to my attention in connection with the
examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
• accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
• the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I confirm that there are no other matters to which your attention should be drawn to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Date:
Signed:
MISS C L BARNARD
Name:
FCCA CTA ATT (Fellow) FMAAT
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body (if any):
3 & 4 PARK COURT
Address:
RICCALL ROAD
ESCRICK
YORK YO19 6ED
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| The Bridge Project Tadcaster | The Bridge Project Tadcaster | The Bridge Project Tadcaster | The Bridge Project Tadcaster | The Bridge Project Tadcaster | The Bridge Project Tadcaster | The Bridge Project Tadcaster | 1166825 |
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| Receipts and payments accounts | |||||||
| For the period from | 1st September 2021 | 31st August 2022 | |||||
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 18,228 2,846 47,780 - 1,864 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ 15,067 |
Total funds to the nearest £ 18,228 2,846 62,847 - 1,864 - |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donations & Fundraising | 18,228 | 18,228 | 6,256 | ||||
| Subscriptions | 2,846 | 2,846 | 893 | ||||
| Grants | 47,780 | 15,067 | 62,847 | 78,415 | |||
| Gift Aid | - | - | 309 | ||||
| Other Income | 1,864 | 1,864 | 187 | ||||
| Conference Income | - | - | |||||
| Sub total A2 Asset and investment sales, etc. Total receipts A3 Payments |
70,718 | 15,067 | 85,785 | 86,060 | |||
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| 70,718 | 15,067 | 85,785 | 86,060 | ||||
| 2,243 51,800 899 1,164 1,218 216 2,497 3,657 480 |
16,906 50 690 1,899 |
2,243 68,706 899 1,214 - 1,218 - 216 - - 3,187 5,556 480 - |
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| Costs of GeneratingFunds | 2,243 | 2,243 | 5,808 | ||||
| Staff Costs | 51,800 | 16,906 | 68,706 | 58,822 | |||
| Travel Expenses | 899 | 899 | 462 | ||||
| Admin Costs | 1,164 | 50 | 1,214 | 1,739 | |||
| TrainingCosts | - | 4,051 | |||||
| Insurance | 1,218 | 1,218 | 2,376 | ||||
| General Costs | - | 768 | |||||
| Subscriptions | 216 | 216 | 884 | ||||
| Equipment | - | 539 | |||||
| Telephone and Internet | - | 144 | |||||
| Rent | 2,497 | 690 | 3,187 | 3,342 | |||
| Resources & Activity | 3,657 | 1,899 | 5,556 | 3,559 | |||
| Professional Fees | 480 | 480 | 2,820 | ||||
| Grants | - | 670 | |||||
| **Sub total ** | 64,174 | 19,545 | 83,719 | 85,984 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, etc. Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end **Cash funds this year end ** |
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| - | - | - | |||||
| 64,174 | 19,545 | 83,719 | 85,984 | ||||
| 6,544 | - 4,478 | 2,066 | 76 | ||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||
| 1,187 | 9,371 | 10,558 | 10,482 | ||||
| 7,731 | 4,893 | 12,624 | 10,558 |
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The Bridge Project Tadcaster 1166825
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period from 1st September 2021 To 31st August 2022
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Categories Details funds funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B1 Cash funds Current Account 7,639 4,893 -
Cash Account 92 -
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Total cash funds 7,731 4,893 -
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets Prepayments 1,128 - -
Gift Aid 1,954 - -
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Fund to which asset Current value
Details belongs (optional)
B3 Investment assets -
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Fund to which asset Current value
Details belongs Cost (optional) (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the Equipment unrestricted - 7,598
charity’s own use - -
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Fund to which Amount due When due
Details liability relates (optional) (optional)
B5 Liabilities Independent Examiners Fee unrestricted 480
Rent unrestricted 696
Hire of Equipment unrestricted 47
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name Date of approval
Mrs Priscilla Smith
mark denyermark denyer (May 15, 2023 11:04 GMT+1) Dr Mark Denyer MBBS FRPC May 15, 2023
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