## **The Purple Penguin Club** **Be included; family support; social skills and lots of fun!** Registered Charity number 1167387 **fun@purplepenguinclub.org.uk www.purplepenguinclub.org.uk** ## The Purple Penguin Club ## Annual Charity Report April 2024 - April 2025 ## **Message from Carron Beckwith:** ## **Chairperson 2024-2025** The Purple Penguin Club have had another hugely successful year supporting many more children, young people, and families. Firstly, The Board of Trustees would like to congratulate both Wendy and Ellen for continuing to develop The Purple Penguin Club and support our committed and hard-working staff team of supervisors, playworkers and volunteers. The growth in provision now includes an additional Saturday club reaching more families, children and young people within Barking & Dagenham, and giving them much needed respite and support - with this year even seeing the inclusion of our first Summer Scheme! The Board of Trustees are hugely proud to be involved in such a wonderful charity, and are very excited as always to see the developments in 2025/2026! ## **The George Bose Award:** The George Bose Trophy is an annual accolade presented to a staff member who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and contributions to the charity. Last year’s recipient, Fija Khan, will be presenting this year’s award to Robert Shuffle. Robert has been a vital part of the Purple Penguin Club since 2016, playing an instrumental role in its establishment and ongoing success. As a dedicated volunteer, he attends every trustee meeting, ensures all documentation is meticulously maintained, and provides invaluable support in organizing and running events. Additionally, Robert has taken on the responsibility of planning, preparing, and hosting the quiz night at our AGM, showcasing his unwavering commitment to the organization. ## **Objectives and Activities** The past year has marked a period of substantial growth for the charity, and we are pleased to announce the establishment of a third club, now operating on Saturdays. This expansion enables us to better address the diverse needs of children and young people within the borough. The Sunday group continues to cater to younger members and those requiring a quieter, calmer environment with the support of qualified early-years staff. Meanwhile, the Saturday clubs are tailored to our older members, offering opportunities for fostering independence and life skills in preparation for adulthood. We are immensely proud of the dedication and expertise demonstrated by our strong staff teams across all three clubs, ensuring the highest quality of care and activities for every child. At the start of this year we increased our provision offer from 40 sessions per year to 46 sessions per year giving an average of 3 extra sessions per year to each family. This small increase in respite care is crucial for families as it provides temporary relief from caregiving responsibilities, allowing caregivers to recharge emotionally and physically while reducing stress and preventing burnout. We were able to offer a variety of day visits and overnight stays in the Spring and Summer of 2024 including weekend trips to Lambourne End and a 2-night residential trip to Stubbers Activity Centre, this was made possible thanks to funding received from Essex Youth Trust, the Jack Petchey Foundation and last years quiz night. We were able to offer many exciting activities to the members including canoeing, climbing, bell boating, pony rides, swimming, and sensory trails. We were also fortunate enough to be able to take some of our more able children and younger staff members on a residential trip to Stubbers in March 2025 thanks to funding from UK Youth with a focus on developing team building and communication skills. (Photo to the right: Staff and children learning Makaton at Stubbers) We were really happy to be offered the chance to develop one of the rooms at the vibe into a sensory space for the children to use. Sensory spaces provide children with a calm and therapeutic environment away from the noise and movement of the main areas. This helps children to regulate their emotions and prevent overwhelm in a space that feels safe and reassuring. We are incredibly grateful that the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham recognised the huge benefit of this kind of space and fully funded the building work and much of the equipment. We had a successful funding grant from Tesco’s community grant to help pay for the rest of the equipment needed. ## **Achievements and Performance** We continue to receive grants from the Jack Petchey Foundation which allows us to purchase extra equipment and activities which would not otherwise be possible. Over the past year they have part funded our residential trip to Stubbers, and paid for some children’s party entertainers to visit for our Christmas parties. They also funded trips to Call of the Wild Zoo, as well as guided tour of The London Stadium for some of our football loving members. We are incredibly grateful for their support. Last year’s award winners were: Yasser, **March 2024** Kajus, **June 2024** Jayden, **November 2024** ## **Jack Petchey Leader award** The Jack Petchey Foundation Leader Awards recognise the exceptional commitment of adults who go above and beyond in their roles at schools and youth organisations, demonstrating outstanding dedication to supporting young people. During this period, staff and children nominated Samin Hoque (right) for a Jack Petchey Leader Award. Samin is a reliable and dedicated member of our team, recognised for his consistent willingness to assist his colleagues and his approachable demeanour. ## **The Barking and Dagenham Youth Forum** We were really proud to be chosen as Barking and Dagenham’s young mayors charity for the year, the BAD youth forum members worked so hard fundraising for us by holding bake sales, having a sponsored sleep over and taking part in fundraising activities in their schools. We would love to say a special thank you to the youth forum members for their hard work: David Anyanwu McKenzie Norton Raspreet Singh Jacqueline Frimpong Cara Thompson Jessica Muca Muhammad Kiani Along with a grant from the Jack Petchey foundation the money raised by the BAD youth forum was spent on our new fantastic bouncy castle! The children, young people (and staff!!) love this at club so much each week and it gets so much use. ## **Financial Review** We have ended this year in a stable financial position, as we continue to grow we have made the decision to move over to a different way of managing our accounts. We would be keen to hear from anyone with accounting knowledge who might be interested in joining our board as trustee, please let us know if this is something you or someone you know might be interested in. ***** Due to the way our sessional staff holiday pay is calculated and paid, this figure includes money held in reserve for this payment (sessional staff holiday pay is calculated and paid at 6 monthly intervals) **----- Start of picture text -----**
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£249,043.55
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£60,547.19
£43,912.77
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Income Outgoing Net Payroll HMRC Payments Money at bank
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## **Structure, Governance and Management** **----- Start of picture text -----**
LBBD Commissioning team
Trustees x7
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• ICO
Charity Managers
• CHARITY
Wendy Darling COMMISSION
Ellen Shuffle
LBBD Children with disabilities
team
Supervisors (7)
Team Leaders (5)
Playworkers (63)
Volunteers (2)
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## **Looking forward:** Instead of residential trips this summer we are instead providing a 3 week playscheme in August based from Dagenham Rugby Club in addition to running the Saturday and Sunday clubs. We believe this will be far more accessible to meet the diverse needs of our children and young people. We have an exciting programme of activities booked including visits from the soft play bus, swimming sessions, day trips to Lambourne End and Stubbers, trips to Eastbrook end park and Hainault forest, we cannot wait for the summer to begin! Some of our hard working staff (above), Learning archery (below) in aub Month rom6th BrouqhtForwtyd £61670.20 .37 EL859.45 ÉIL23&CQ 6.02&57 E4513. QL98& £L448.45 67&07 £4.4con £16.3C8.37 ,33&48 ¢￿ty01￿9 N¢tPoymll rox/NI lrtg t4etPoyrdl To¥/NI NetPoyroll Tax/r41 At8fjnk £6L41&78 £45.495m AtBGo* £32,Il&SI thcoff <￿￿01￿0 Payroll Tux/NI £37,35134 £1,5X58 £￿.723.79 £L20S.56 £1475Q49 £L887.48 £17.$6&36 £L539.32 5,38& £6,865.19 £14,789.46 £L351.16 Outgol Ouwnq Tux/NI T￿/111 AtBtrnk £53.OA92 At8•nk £4176L25 At80ft £36,139.57 Novwaiz4 In(offle L￿￿01￿0 Poyroll Tox/NI £4&024(i) £1332. £17,36&67 £L439.16 aL57ZTr) EL946.&8 QO,846.59 £L392.56 £14,649.79 £L077.E6 £IS.012.79 £1.17&16 Outqol Poyroll Tox/NI Paymii T￿1￿1 AtBonk É59.022.79 At8on* £4Q4(Q96 At8oftk É43.79114 Jan.2025 Fets-￿5 In¢om• £￿tI)Irl P¥yroll TaxlNI £39,120.79 Q227.96 s,￿.29 379. In¢om• Ou¢801 Pwoll T•W41 £23.240.C £4.285.47 ll5.￿.01 QX6.$9 £L7F￿.0) £1,265.62 E14,3X( El,812.24 Jt801 Pay￿1 T￿mI Af &nk £4fm.38 At Bjnk .22&31 At B•nk .57&41 To5th T•xlNI perfvw)nth ÉW.32 £L448.45 336.48 ÉLX6. £1.539.32 1.351.16 £1,439.16 £1,392.56 £1,176.16 fl,379.30 £2,X6.59 fl.812.24 Income April 2024 VAY 2024 June 2024 July 2024 Au8USI 2024 September3)24 October 2024 November 2Q4 December2024 January 202S February 2025 h 2025 April 3) £L707.22 £oco £ar Plyroll Tttn41 At Bank X$47. TotalTa¥1141 £17.24&* I confirm that I have checked the accounts forthe year 2024-2025 and l am satisfied that this is an accurate account of the charty's income and expenditure forthe year. I confirm that trustees have been presented with a financial report quarterly fortheir examination throughout this period. Ms Amanda Heary. CharityTreasurer CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts ,Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of The Purple Penguin Club On accounts for the year ended 2025 Charity no (if any) 1167387 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (￿he Trusf) for the year ended 0510412025. Responsibilities and As the charty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confinn that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ") in connection with the examinalj'on which gives me cause to believe Ihat 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 Independent examiner's statement I have no COn￿rnS and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not apply. Slgned: Date: (*. 01. 202 Name: Ml MhfLL LUOY Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: IVI Chyénl) is 2AqLLI 07) IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of con￿rn (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brlef detalls of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018