2020-09-30-accounts - Cathie Stankevitch Foundation

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date

Period end date

1[st] January 2020 31st December 2020

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1169017 Charity's principal address 35 Whernside

Cathie Stankevitch Foundation

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Widnes Cheshire Postcode WA8 4YW

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
	Lisa Stankevitch
	Stephen Plant
	Anne Marie Hughes
	KerryMetcalf
	SallyHarvey

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)

John Stankevitch

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charity Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Executive Board against Charity Board needs assessment Trustee selection methods

(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.

This report details the progress made by the Cathie Stankevitch Foundation during its fourth year of operation.

Trustees have reviewed the Charities policies and procedures as a Trustee Board and have concluded that our documentation is still valid and relevant to our activities. Small amendments have been made where necessary.

Charity Founder John Stankevitch continues to manage the day to day running of the Charity on a part time voluntary basis. Despite not being part of the Trustee Board, John is authorised by the Trustees to make decisions in the best interests of advancing the Charities objectives.

The current Trustee board in place has been recruited in line with a needs analysis, with the specific need being for Trustees that can play an active role in the Charities activities, through a time commitment. The current Trustee Board had demonstrated a commitment during the challenges faced during the last 12 months.

Section C Objectives and activities

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To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.

Summary of the objects of the For the purpose of this clause, ‘socially excluded; means being excluded charity set out in its from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the governing document following factors; unemployment, financial hardship, youth or old age, ill health (physical or mental), poor educational or skills attainment, poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards).

The Cathie Stankevitch Foundation trustees have read the commission guidance on public benefit and the context of running a Charity and they have applied due diligence to those recommendations throughout the past 12 months. 2020 started out very positively for the Charity with the continuation of our projects and activities which included the ongoing operation of our ReSport Charity Sports shop, which continued to engage with local families and in particular young people, to who which we provided essential sportswear and equipment to enable participation is activities. The shop also generated funds through the sale of items donated by the public, and also items donated through a new partnership with New Balance UK, who provided end-of-line stock, seconds stock and returns stock. Income although small, was enough to cover running costs, but more importantly the high street location enabled the Charity to have a more visible presence and assisted us in our ongoing engagement in the community, which further helped us build relationships with and identify local families who would benefit from our support. Summary of the main activities undertaken for the Through a partnership with Halton People Into Work, the Charity was public benefit in relation to able to offer 6 month work experience placements to long term these objects (include within unemployed individuals. Under supervision from Trustees, the individuals this section the statutory were tasked with operating the shop premises ‘semi’ independently, and declaration that trustees have were able to gain experience in customer services and cash handling, as had regard to the guidance well as gaining knowledge of different types of sportswear and sports issued by the Charity equipment. Commission on public benefit) We also offered similar opportunities through our Schools support programme for young people under the age of 16 who we’re at risk of exclusion from high school education. Overall, this support equated to over 120 hours per week, with 5 individuals engaged each week on an ongoing basis. In the early months of 2020, the Cathie Stankevitch Foundation in collaboration with a group of older gentlemen, launched the first Men’s Shed program from a base in Widnes Town Centre. Numbers grew quite quickly from a modest handful, to over 50 registered men in just over a month. The Mens Shed programme was aimed at socially excluded men. Activities included basic woodwork projects, such as furniture repair. Also music classes in which members that were proficient with a musical instrument would teach in a relaxed group setting. Feedback from those engaged on the programme during the first month was very positive and the CSF worked hard to plan a full year of

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deliverable activities, with the approval of the Mens Shed members.

January was also the month in which the CSF was first approached with offers of household goods as donations. Firstly via our social media channels, members of the public began to engage with us to offer unwanted items that they felt we could re-distribute through our growing network of local families that we’re struggling to furnish their homes.

We had made in public, via our social media channels, that families that we had previously helped with sportswear, we’re also living somewhat in furniture poverty and in some extreme cases we became aware that there were local children and young people without beds.

So with the support of local people we began to accept good quality homewares, and launched an upcycling/cleaning and re-distribution project.

Initial uptake was overwhelming, with the volume of requests for support heavily outweighing the volume of goods that we we’re getting donated.

After such a positive start to 2020, devastatingly after all our hard work, the Covid-19 pandemic forced us to shut out doors and put all activities on hold. The impact was substantial and quite devastating to the people that we’re supported.

Despite our best efforts to support, the Cathie Stankevitch Foundation had to adhere to Government guidance and enforced lockdowns, and for the remainder of 2020 the restrictions continued to impact the Charity greatly, with only brief respite during easing of restrictions.

At the end of 2020 the Charity had still not recovered from the lockdowns but Trustees we’re working hard to build a strategy for 2021 and beyond which would be manageable during the uncertain times of Covid-19.

The CSF Trustees are clear about the charities purpose and aims and about the benefits from our work. There have been no personal benefits to any adults linked to the Charity and no current identified risks to our beneficiaries of the public in terms of delivering our work.

The Trustees are diligent in terms of carrying out our purposes for the public benefit and all decision making processes are made within the trustee decision making framework.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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As with previous years, the impact of our volunteers has been fantastic, with the Charity being driven forward by our enthusiastic group of volunteers which continues to number approximately 10.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

2020 saw the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic and with the majority of our volunteers suffering some level of health issue, the impact on our delivery was greatly affected as volunteers isolated to protect themselves against the virus.

Prior to March 2020 and the arrival of Covid-19, volunteer hours per week we’re between 80 and 100 hours per week, which was very encouraging and enabled us to really drive forward with our plans for the Mens Shed in particular.

The Cathie Stankevitch Foundation didn’t adopt a specific grant making policy during 2020, but through engagement with local families and other volunteer led local organisations, the Charity was in a position to offer small grants to help with provision of white goods such as washing machines, fridges and ovens.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

2020 started with so much promise after such a positive year in 2019. Summary of the main Expectations of a strong performance and lots of community engagement achievements of the charity was justified the Trustee Board felt and the early months of the year were during the year encouraging.

The ReSport Project and shop continued to provide a large volume of free sportswear and sports equipment to families, children and young people who would ordinarily not be able to participation in chosen activities due to not having suitable clothing or the specific equipment required.

Private requests for assistance increase from approximately 1 in 6 during 2019 to 4 in 6, which was the result of our increased social media activity during the Christmas and New Year period in which we first received a donation of goods from New Balance UK. This was highly encouraring, as it demonstrated that we were beginning to penetrate the onling community across Halton and we’re not having to rely as much on our network of local schools.

The Charity distributed over 200 items of clothing including t-shirts, shorts, socks, sweaters, hoodies, tracksuit bottoms, coats in January and February of 2020. CSF has also been able to satisfy requests for assistance with football shin pads, rugby head guards and shoulder pads, cricket whites, karate and other martial arts wear, football boots, tennis rackets and boxing equipment.

As with 2019, 95% of requests for items is for children in need of support, to enable them to participate in school sports activities and also extracurricular sports clubs.

Our Mens Shed Project has shown some real signs of the huge potential to engage the older community across Halton, in particular gentlemen with desirable skills that are either retired or out of work for health reasons.

With a membership of over 50 older gentlemen in just 2 months, with limited activities delivered during our launch months, we are highly positive that this can become something very recognisable and something that can help a considerable number of men.

The Trustee Board as always have done everything in their power to continue to progress of the Cathie Stankevitch Foundation but external factors have meant that despite the hard work, we ourselves have faced substantial barriers.

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Section E Financial review

The Charity has some small reserves. The Trustee Board will meet to Brief statement of the identify the best use of funds to enable the Cathie Stankevitch charity’s policy on reserves Foundation to recover and move forward from the Covid-19 pandemic. Details of any funds materially No funds in deficit in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

The Cathie Stankevitch Foundation main sources of income at the You may choose to include present time are funds raised through the sale of sporting goods through additional information, where the ReSport shop. relevant about:

the charity’s principal Expenditure has enabled the Charity to operate on a day to day basis. sources of funds (including any fundraising); There have been no investments made during 2020.
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) Lisa Stankevitch Full name(s) Kerry Metcalf Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee Trustee etc) Date 03/02/2021

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusleesl mèmbers of Calhie Stankevitch Foundation On accounts forthe year ended 31 August 2020 Charity no (if any) 1169017 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {Ihe Trusf) for the year ended 31 August 2020. Re$ponslbllltle$ and As the charity trustees, you a responsible for the preparation of the basls of report accounts in aordanCe with the Charities Act 20111.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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515)(b) of the Act. Independent examlnerfs statsmenl I have Mpleted my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention I ') in connection with the examination which gives me cause lo believe that in, any material respect,: the accounting rerx)rds were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act. or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or the a¢¢ounls did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair. view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examinats'on. I hav8 no nrn$ and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts lo be reached. . Please délète the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Slgned: Date: 28 September 2021 Name: lan Roberts Relevant professional quallflcatlon(s) or body (if any): Chartered Institute of Taxation: Association of Taxation Technicians IER October 2018

Address: Queensway House Queensway Trading Estate Waterfoo Road, Widnes WA8 OFD Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Glv8 here detalls of any Itèms that the examiner wlshes to disclose. NIA IER October 2018

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