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2022-04-05-accounts

ANNUAL REPORT 2021/2022

Little Edi Foundation

Charity No. 1169242

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE – TESS GRIGGS

Welcome to our 2021/2022 Annual report.

I can look back with pride and know this was the year that Little Edi Foundation began to emerge. We took the step to move to a larger premises and through endless networking and community work, we began to get noticed in the Essex area.

This brought us a wonderful sponsor who allowed us to push on with our projects with financial backing, donations were up and we were successful with our grants.

Our team of volunteers and youth helpers grew and parents within the project took on roles within the foundation voluntarily.

Our charity ethos of ‘paying it forward’ and a ‘sense of community’ were becoming the reality. I couldn’t do any of this without the backing of the Trustees who work so hard behind the scenes.

Tess Griggs

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About Us
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About the Little Edi Foundation

Founded in 2016, the Little Edi Foundation is an Essex based non-profit where children and young people are at the heart of the organisation. Our organisational objective is to help children and young people have equal access to education and learning development, enabling them to reach their full potential. To achieve this, we provide volunteering opportunities for disengaged young people from Essex, to learn key skills and building their confidence to take on new challenges.

During the pandemic the Little Edi Foundation responded to community needs across Essex, prioritising supporting families from Essex, who are most vulnerable to the virus and its impacts.

Unable to travel because of covid restrictions still in place and delivering food parcels and supplies during lockdown, a group of families were identified as needing more support,

These families lacked financial and emotional support from the government and their children were suffering because of it. We felt our help was needed.

Our Community Project was born.

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Fundraising
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With covid restriction still in place, fundraising had been impossible, the Little Edi Foundation previously relied on many Charity events to bring in the muchneeded revenue, our new Community project would need regular financial support.

With the help of charities such as Fareshare, Co-op Local Community Fund and local grants from Essex County Council and Chelmsford Borough Council, we could continue supplying the community with food and hygiene supplies. A member of the Trustees took a course in Grant Writing to enable us to apply for larger grants outside of local government. With this experience we won large grants from Arnold Clark Community Fund and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Food donated through local supermarkets through Fareshare

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Fundraising
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The Little Edi Foundation Van donated by our local sponsor

A local sponsor took an interest in the charity and all the work we were doing for their local community.

They pledged future financial support, with this support amongst many other activities, we were able to fund a new unit to run the charity from, this enabled us to take deliveries in and somewhere for donations to be dropped off.

They also recognised we needed transport to help deliver food and donations, they funded the lease of a new sign written van.

The new Little Edi HQ and unit to store food, clothes and accept donations

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Community Project
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As children and young people are at the heart of the organisation, our Community Project aims to reduce the detrimental impact of COVID-19 to the health, social and mental well- being of children and young people in our communities across Essex. We recognised we needed to support them as a group of families rather than just individuals, to give them a sense of community.

To respond to community members urgently in need of our support we have been:

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Community Project
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Once a month a Coffee Morning is held in the local church village hall. Fresh fruit and vegetables are ordering in for every family on the project invited to attend, clothes for adults and children that have been donated are laid out for families to choose from.

Books, and an art table are supplied to occupy the children and refreshments are provided for everyone. It gives us a chance to engage with our families and children and listen to them. We often have a guest from other local charities and support systems to provide help and advice and assistance where necessary.

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Education
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At the Little Edi Foundation, we believe every child deserves equal access to education.

Unfortunately, during the pandemic many children were unable to attend school and missed out on key opportunities to learn and develop

It came to our attention that many of the families on our project had no access to a home computer to attend home schooling in lockdown, we secured a donation of 50 laptop computers so all the families on the project could attend home classes.

Once back in school they could be used for homework.

Laptops donated and refurbished by a local technology company free of charge.

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Education
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Due to the impact of local children missing education opportunities during lockdown, the Little Edi Foundation launched its first ever Summer School in July 2020. Due to its success we decided to make it an annual event. We offered the children on our project aged 3-13 years old, 1:1 tuition with an experienced schoolteacher offering them the opportunity to go over any areas of difficulty. Over 5 days the children got to partake in activities including sports, mindfulness, arts and crafts and an animal petting zoo.

All children were offered transport for the week and packed lunches all paid for by our local sponsor.

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Education
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The Foundation secured a donation of 6000 books from another local charity, the Ihezi Foundation.

We used some for a community library for our youth forum to run. The remaining were offered to local libraries and schools

Following feedback from our families in 2020, research showed there is very limited financial support in Essex for school uniform, for example, statutory grants are only available in exceptional circumstances.

In order to better support local children and young people, we set up a school uniform project to raise funds and provide emergency financial support for those in need. This year we have successfully raised sufficient funds to buy new school uniform for all the children on our project

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Youth Development
Education
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Our organisational objective is to help children and young people enabling them to reach their full potential. To achieve this, we provide volunteering opportunities for disengaged young people from Essex, to learn key skills and building their confidence to take on new challenges.

Although our youth activities have been limited throughout the pandemic, we continue to create new opportunities for disadvantaged and disengaged young people to get involved in social action. Some of the activities volunteered for:

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Meet The Team

Tess Griggs Sarah Bonaney Joshua Brown

Paul Karcheski. Celia Catchpole

The Trustees

The Little Edi Team are a team of unpaid Volunteers, their time and knowledge comes at no expense to the charity, all the donations and funds raised go straight to the charity.

They take responsibility for using the resources efficiently, achieving measurable results and being accountable to the supporters, partners, people, and most of all, the children and communities with whom the charity work with.

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Little Edi Foundation 1169242

Receipts and payments accounts For the period 4/1/2021 To from

4/1/2021 3/31/2022 To

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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations 31,594 - - 31,594
Fundraising 4,029 - - 4,029
DBS Contributions - - - -
Aid Trip Contributions - - - -
Grants 19,627 - - 19,627
55,250 - - 55,250
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 55,250 - - 55,250
A3 Payments
Stationery 856 - - 856
DBS Checks - - -
Event Costs - - -
Aid 16,888 - - 16,888
Clothing 6,507 - - 6,507
IT - - -
Just Givin Costs 216 - - 216
Promotional material - - -
Insurance 389 - - 389
Motor 4,076 - - 4,076
Parking 28 - - 28
Professional - - -
Purchases 1,761 - - 1,761
Rent 6,367 - - 6,367
Light & Heat 607 - - 607
Repairs 2,267 - - 2,267
Sundry 213 - - 213
Computer 126 - - 126
Training - - -
Travel 799 799
Sub total [ 41,100 ] - - 41,100
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 41,100 - - 41,100
Net of receipts/(payments) 14,150 - - 14,150
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 22,037 - - 22,037
Cash funds this year end 36,187 - - 36,187
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Unrestricted Restricted
Categories Details funds funds
B1 Cash funds Current Account
Current Account
Cash		 Total cash funds to nearest £
27,711
8,476
36,187


to nearest £
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account(s))		 OK OK
Unrestricted Restricted
funds funds
B2 Other monetary assets Details to nearest £
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to nearest £
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B3 Investment assets Details Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost (optional)
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B4 Assets retained for the Details Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost (optional)
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charity’s own use






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Fund to which Amount due
B5 Liabilities Details liability relates



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Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees		 Signature Print Name

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

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CC16a
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Last year

to the nearest £

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932
15,338
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3,088
6,000
25,358
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25,358

1,498 191 - 17,061 - - 216 - 325 217 2 300 - 21 2,196 - - 13 - 168 107 22,271

22,271 3,087 - 18,950 22,037

Endowment funds

to nearest £ - - - -

OK

Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -

Current value (optional) - - - - -

Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)

Date of approval

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the Charity Name The Little Edi Foundation trustees/ members of 31[st] March 2022 Charity 1169242 On accounts for the no (if year ended any)

Set out on pages 1 & 2

(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2022 .

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the basis of report preparation of the accounts in accordance 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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material examiner's matters have come to my attention ( ~~other than that disclosed~~ statement ~~below *)~~ 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 Charities Act or;

I have no concerns 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.

Signed:

Date: 29/12/2022

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IER

October 2018

Name: Kristian Coles

Relevant MAAT (AAT) professional qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: Unit 3A, Thames Enterprise Centre Princess Margaret Road East Tilbury, Essex, RM18 8RH

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

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IER

October 2018

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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IER

October 2018