## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **From** 1[st] January 2020 **To** 31[st] Decembe 2020 r
|Section A|Reference and administration details|Reference and administration details|Reference and administration details|Reference and administration details||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Charity name**||The Recovery Course||||
|**Other names charity is known**
**by**||RecoveryTwo||||
|**Registered charity number (if**
**any)**||1170792||||
|**Charity's principal address**||c/o Tonbridge Baptist Church
Darenth Avenue
Tonbridge, Kent
**Postcode**
**TN10 3HZ**||||
|**Names of the charity trustees**||**who manage the charity**||||
|**Trustee name**|**Ofce (if any)**||**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**||
|Rev Bob Street|Chairman||Reappointed to second|||
|1|||term 10thJuly 2019.|||
||||Term ends June 2022.|||
|Richard Larcombe|||Reappointed to second|||
|2|||term 18thJuly 2018.|||
||||Resigned 13/5/2020|||
|Steve Burnett|||Reappointed to second|||
|3|||term 18thJuly 2018.|||
||||Term ends June 2021.|||
|Jules Radford|||Reappointed to second|||
|4|||term 10thJuly 2019.|||
||||Term ends June 2022.|||
|Emma Heath|||Appointed to frst term|||
|5|||9thNovember 2016.|||
||||Resigned 15/7/2020|||
|Andy Simmonds|Secretary||Appointed to frst term|||
|6|||12thNovember 2015.|||
||||Resigned 15/7/2020|||
|Emma Howden|||Appointed to frst term|||
||||13thMarch 2019.|||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
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Name Dates acted if not for whole year
N/a
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
|**Banker**|National
Westminster Bank
plc|130 High Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1DE|
|**Independent**
**examiner**|John Pavlou|28 Bramble Close, Hildenborough, Kent,
TN11 9HQ|
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Justyn Larcombe, Chief Executive
## Section B Structure, governance and management
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing Effective 17[th] June 2019, the charity was re-registered as a document Charitable Incorporated Organisation, having a foundation (eg. trust deed, constitution) constitution based on the Charity Commission model.
Prior to this, the charity was originally constituted as a company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 29[th] July 2015 and registered as a charity on 16[th] December 2016, and having a memorandum and articles of association.
How the charity is See above. constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Trustees are selected by the existing Trustees.
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
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_Recruitment, induction and training of Trustees_
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.
During the period, the trustees were also charity trustees for the purposes of charity law. Under the requirements of the Constitution, the Trustees are elected to serve for a period of three years (such that each year one third of Trustees retire) after which they must be re-elected for a second or third term.
All Trustees give their time voluntarily and received no benefits from the charity. Any expenses reclaimed from the charity are set out in the financial statements.
Trustees are selected by the existing Trustees firstly to provide the charity with oversight of its addiction recovery activities through relevant knowledge, experience and involvement, and secondly to provide the charity with oversight and governance of administrative matters through relevant legal and financial knowledge and experience. New Trustee induction includes consideration of Charity Commission guidance (CC3) and completion of a Charity Commission Trustee Declaration, discussion of current issues including the financial position of the charity, and completion of DBS checks. Ongoing training includes access to the network and courses run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Charity and Voluntary Sector Group.
Trustees maintain a Trustee Policy Manual which sets out written policies detailing the role of the Board of Trustees, Trustee qualifications, conduct and mode of operation.
## _Organisational structure_
Trustees have appointed Justyn Larcombe, under a written agreement, to act as chief executive and team leader of the charity’s operations including setting vision and policy, representing and promoting the charity externally, building teams to run and supervise The Recovery Course locally, fund raising, and building a network of contacts and agencies that are seeking to run The Recovery Course. The Trustee Policy Manual includes a written job description, and written policies detailing the Chief Executive’s relationship with the Trustees.
Group Leaders on The Recovery Course run by the charity are selected by a nominating group comprising Justyn and those Trustees actively engaged in running the course.
The CEO has appointed an Operational Team consisting of the CEO, Emma Heath (National Partnerships Director) and Kevin Campbell (Communications).
## _Risk management_
Trustees maintain a risk register which identifies 9 major risks under 4 headings: strategic, governance and management; external; operational; and financial. Using the register, Trustees assess the significance and probability of each risk, mitigation, and specific Trustee
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action to monitor each net risk.
## _Safeguarding_
In recognition that those attending The Recovery Course are vulnerable adults, the Trustees have appointed one Trustee to act as Safeguarding Officer providing a formal point of contact for queries and reporting of concerns, and established a written policy on safeguarding. All Trustees and Group Leaders undertake a DBS check. Group Leaders are briefed prior to the commencement of each Recovery Course, provided with support throughout the course, and de-briefed at the conclusion.
## _Related parties_
The charity works closely with Tonbridge Baptist Church, who provide the charity with rooms to run The Recovery Course and catering, and undertake activities to care and nurture those completing The Recovery Course in furtherance of their own charitable objects. However, the charity is not accountable to the Church in a governance sense.
## Section C Objectives and activities
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
**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)**
The charity’s object as set out in the Constitution, which is for the public benefit, is the advancement of education by raising awareness of the issue of addiction and the provision of recovery and support services to those affected by addiction.
The Recovery Course is a Christian charity established to reach those suffering from the effects of addictions of all kinds, including alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, food, social media and other compulsive habits. The charity does this through enabling, equipping and encouraging churches to run the Recovery Course. The course is suitable for people of faith or no faith; the key requirement for a successful outcome is that course attendees have a desire to overcome their addiction.
_Ethos, vision and outcomes_
**Ethos:** Our desire is to see people suffering from the pain and grip of addiction restored to wholeness and a new sense of purpose in life.
**Vision:** Our vision for the Recovery Course is to see as many people as possible set free from their addiction.
**Mission:** Our mission is to facilitate recovery from addiction through Christ and to share the good news of hope, freedom and reconciliation with as many people as possible.
Our **outcomes** , being how we know that we are achieving our vision, is:
- For individuals – ongoing release for many from addictions of all kinds, and protection of that freedom gained through support networks and faith community groups.
- For churches, help with organising, structuring and supporting recovery from addiction of all kinds.
- For society, that individuals and agencies have hope that
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people can be set free from their addictions.
## _What we do - strategy and activities_
We will achieve our vision of seeing The Recovery Course run in every major town and city by:
- maintaining high quality resources;
- - promoting the course nationally;
- - giving easy access to the resources to those who want to run courses;;
- - helping to establish new courses through training and explaining tried and tested methods;
- - establishing a recovery community where those who need it can locate the nearest course easily.
|courses;;
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helping to establish new courses through training and
explaining tried and tested methods;
-
establishing a recovery community where those who need it
can locate the nearest course easily.|courses;;
-
helping to establish new courses through training and
explaining tried and tested methods;
-
establishing a recovery community where those who need it
can locate the nearest course easily.|
|---|---|
|The development and distribution of TRC resources is key to the||
|achievement of our goal and forms the tangible product we ofer||
|for no cost to all those wanting to run courses, so they in turn||
|won’t charge the guests for participating. The resources include||
|the|following:|
|-|A 400 page course manual including a section on how to set|
||up and run The Recovery Course;|
|-|Written and flmed transcripts of all the weekly talks;|
|-|A work book with weekly ‘Pause for Thought’ exercises for|
||the guests;|
|-|A leaders manual;|
|-|A resource section with links to other recovery groups;|
|-|Filmed testimonies of individuals who have found freedom|
||through the course;|
|-|A Family Programme for those afected by the actions of|
||addicts|
|-|Leaders notes for group leaders each week;|
|-|Access to training and support on line;|
|-|An annual Recovery Course Conference.|
|We|ofer free training and support to churches and Christian-|
|based organisations running or wishing to run the Recovery||
|Course throughout the UK and beyond.||
The Recovery Course team are actively involved in running Recovery Courses, as well as supporting new courses with training, leading and speaking. The team also work alongside a number of other addiction-focused charities. Our trustees often speak to the media on issues surrounding addiction, and our CEO speaks regularly to mainstream media specifically on issues of gambling addiction, and has supported national campaigns aiming to include safety-mechanisms within the gambling industry.
_Trustees’ responsibility statement_
The Trustees have due regard to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: policy on grant making;
_Grant making_ The charity is not grant making. _Contribution made by volunteers_ Justyn, the Trustees, Group Leaders and those involved in running The Recovery Course are volunteers, for which the
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- policy programme Trustees are grateful. While reasonable expenses of travel to speaking engagements are met, no payment is made for time
- related investment; spent. One Trustee, Emma Heath (resigned as Trustee on
- contribution made by 17/7/2020) but continues to provide the Charity with volunteers. fundraising support for which she is paid for one day per week.
## Section D Achievements and performance
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the**|During 2020, the impact of Covid19 meant the charity had
to change its approach from running “in person courses”|
|---|---|
|**charity during the year**|to an online course as well as cancelling any planned
conferences.|
||The charity developed and ran a national online course|
||and continued to respond to enquiries received through|
||online links and personal recommendations and resource|
||packs were sent to churches expressing an interest in new|
||recovery courses. In addition to enquiries from the UK,|
||support is being ofered to contacts around the world.|
||The Charity is still focussed on the strategy of seeking|
||clusters of local churches wishing to coordinate local|
||recovery courses such that each church runs a course|
||once a year, but arranged consecutively such that|
||individual delegates may be directed to a course starting|
||within the next term.|
|Section E|Financial review|
|**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on**|In summary, the charity received £24,468 (2019 £22,821)
in unrestricted income, and spent £28,523 (2019 £24,206).
The balance of unrestricted funds at 31stDecember 2020|
|**reserves**|was £7,730 (2019 £5,632).|
||In order to continue and expand the work of the charity,|
||the Trustees will seek further gifts and donations. In view|
||of its continued early stage of development as a charity,|
||and the absence of any fxed costs such as salaries, the|
||Trustees have not yet identifed any level of reserves|
||which they consider will need to be maintained.|
|**Details of any funds**
**materially in defcit**|None|
|**Further fnancial review**|**details (Optional information)**|
|You**may choose**to|_Fundraising_|
|include additional|Since the Charity does not charge churches for providing|
|information, where|The Recovery Course materials, it is dependent on gifts|
|relevant about:|and grants from supporters and grant-making trusts to|
|
the charity’s principal|continue meeting its objectives.|
|sources of funds|During 2020, the continued to avail of the services of|
|(including any|Emma Heath, a trustee(resigned as Trustee on 15/7/2020|
|fundraising);|but continues fundraising), for one day a week to pursue|
|
how expenditure has|grant opportunities. This appointment was carefully
considered and approved by other trustees.|
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supported the key objectives of the charity; investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## 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)**
Robert Street
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**
Chair
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Date
2911012021
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**Charity Name No (if any) The Recovery Course 1170792**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date Period end date **To** 1-Jan-20 31-Dec-20
**For the period from**
## **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, gits and donations 24,371 - - 24,371
The Recovery Conference - - - -
Tonbridge Recovery course 50 - - 50
Speaking & engagement income 39 39
Bank interest 8 - - 8
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
24,468 - - 24,468
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 24,468 - - 24,468
A3 Payments
Faithworks Wessex - seconded staf - 6,153 - 6,153
The Recovery Conference - - - -
Speaking and engagements 276 - - 276
Tonbridge Recovery course 102 - - 102
Publicity and marketing support 19,084 - - 19,084
Fundraising 2,197 - 2,197
DBS checks 120 - - 120
Trustee expenses 74 - - 74
Tyne Valley - support 502 502
Bank charges 15 15
- - - -
Sub total [ 22,370 ] 6,153 - 28,523
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 22,370 6,153 - 28,523
Net of receipts/(payments) 2,098 - 6,153 - - 4,055
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 5,632 6,153 - 11,785
Cash funds this year end 7,730 - - 7,730
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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**|Natwest Current a/c
Natwest Investment a/c
**_Total cash funds_**||**to nearest £**
**7,731**
**-**
**-**
**7,731**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||Agreement Error|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||
||Jules Radford||Mr Julian|D Radford||
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CC16a
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## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
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32,069
1,312
327
12
-
-
-
-
33,720
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**33,720**
**7,514 902 2,207 2,867 15,732 1,100 145 814 440 - 31,721**
**31,721 1,999 - - 1,999**
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Current value (optional)**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval 6-Feb-21