## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 04 2021 31 03 2022
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Connect Talent CIO **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1169975 **Charity's principal address** St James’s House Suite E1 8[th] Floor, Pendleton Way Salford **Postcode M6 5FW**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 John Bradbury
2 Kelly Samuel
Adegboyega
3
Arogundade
Olubunmi 18 March 2022
4
Adeleke
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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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**
1 March **2012**
**TAR**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Oladimeji Ojerinola
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by Trustees 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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
2 March **2012**
**TAR**
1. To promote social mobility and access to better life opportunities for students of African and Caribbean descent. 2. Although our services are primarily for the students of Black African and Caribbean descent, where there is spare capacity, **Summary of the objects** we will not exclude students from other minority ethnic groups **of the charity set out in** who are facing barriers to progression post-university. **its governing document** 3. The target group are students in higher education who feel that they are not given suitable opportunities to achieve their full potential. The hope is that as a result of our support these individuals will realise their true potential and become leaders within their chosen field We engaged and supported 96 people in learning and digital support.
50 people have successfully completed level 2 Functional Skills in English and Mathematics whilst 15 successfully completed level 3 diploma in health and social care and progressed to higher education. We provided digital support for 31 successful applications for EU Settlement Scheme.
**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)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
3 March **2012**
**TAR**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
4 March **2012**
**TAR**
Section D Achievements and performance
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
We have successfully engaged 96 people in learning and digital support towards EU Settlement.
We have provided blended learning opportunities for 65 people. 50 people have successfully completed level 2 Functional Skills whilst 15 have successfully completed level 3 health and social care and 31 successful applications for EU Settlement Scheme.
**Section E Financial review**
March **2012**
**TAR**
5
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Connect Talent currently has no reserves. There are few fixed costs and particularly none associated with staff or premises. As the organisation develops it is our policy to hold three months reserves to provide some measure of security for the charity.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- 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)** John Bradbury **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 7/11/2022
6 March **2012**
**TAR**
**Connect Talent CIO 1169975**
**Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 4/1/2021 3/31/2022
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Grants - - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) - - - -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts - - - -
A3 Payments
marketing - - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments - - - -
Net of receipts/(payments) - - - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 1,326 - - 1,326
Cash funds this year end 1,326 - - 1,326
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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
**_Total cash funds_**||**to nearest £**
**1,326**
**-**
**-**
**1,326**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree|balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK|OK||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||
|**charity’s own use**||||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name||
||||John Bradbury|||
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CC16a
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**Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Current value (optional)**
**When due (optional)**
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Date of
approval
11/7/2022
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