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2021-12-31-accounts

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date
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From 1 [st] January 2021 o 31 [st] Decembe 2021
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name The Recovery Course
Other names charity is known
by
Registered charity number (if
1170792
any)
Charity's principal address c/o Tonbridge Baptist Church
Darenth Avenue
Tonbridge, Kent
Postcode TN10 3HZ
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Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Name of person (or
Dates acted if not for whole body) entitled to
Trustee name Office (if any)
year appoint trustee (if
any)
Rev Bob Street Chairman Reappointed to third
1 term 9th June 2022.
Term ends June 2025.
Justyn Larcombe Trustee Appointed to first term
2
1 [st] October 2021
Nigel Skelsey Trustee Appointed to first term
3
1 [st] October 2021
Paul Martin Trustee Appointed to first term
4
1 [st] October 2021
Susan Flashman Trustee Appointed to first term
5
Jarvis 28 [th] October 2021
Gavin Wells Treasurer Appointed to first term
6
16 [th] November 2021
Jules Radford Reappointed to second
term 10 [th] July 2019.
Resigned 30 [th]
September 2021
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Steve Burnett Reappointed to second term 18[th] July 2018. Term ended June 2021.

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 N/a
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Type of adviser Name Address
Banker National 130 High Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1DE
Westminster Bank
plc
Independent Anthony Miles- 39 Bidborough Ridge, Bidborough, TN4 0UU
examiner Prouten
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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.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

Recruitment, induction and training of Trustees

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 receive 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.

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 led by Kevin Campbell (Communications, Marketing and Publicity). Risk management Trustees maintain a risk register which identifies 11 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 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

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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 objectives. 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: We are passionate and committed 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:

What we do - strategy and activities

We will achieve our vision of seeing The Recovery Course run in every major town and city by:

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We offer free training and support to churches and Christianbased 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 Grant making include further statements, The charity is not grant making. where relevant, about: Contribution made by volunteers ●policy on grant making; Justyn, the Trustees, Group Leaders and those involved in running The Recovery Course are volunteers, for which the ●policy programme Trustees are grateful. While reasonable expenses of travel to related investment; speaking engagements are met, no payment is made for time ●contribution made by spent. volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main As during 2020, the impact of COVID-19 meant the charity

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Section D Achievements and performance

achievements of the charity during the year

in 2021 had to continue the change in its approach from running “in person courses” to offering 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 offered to contacts around the world.

In the Autumn of 2021, a new board of Trustees was put in place with the number of Trustees being increased from three to six, each new Trustee bringing a fresh set of specialised gifts to the challenges ahead.

Throughout 2022 the charity has come up with a fresh strategy now that COVID-19 no longer appears to be influencing face-to-face meetings quite as much and the biggest changes are in three main areas:

First, our main role is to train and empower community groups to run face-to-face meetings within their area. To this end The Recovery Course Charity will continue to run online courses for those struggling with addictions who don’t have a course near them and individual churches will be part of the online course in order to be trained up in running effective face-to-face courses for themselves, thereby increasing the number of local courses available throughout 2023.

Second, the Charity has developed links with another nationwide organisation, Alpha in Prisons, with a view to training up teams to take the course into prisons where 70-80% of those in prison have addiction issues. The first course is due to start at HMP Pentonville, at the prison’s invitation, in early 2023, It was hoped to start in 2022, but all UK prisons remained in COVID-19 lockdown for much of the first half of 2022. Alpha in Prisons has access to the majority of the 117 prisons in England and Wales so there is a huge amount of potential in this area.

Third, The Recovery Course has been expanding in other countries. In South Africa it runs in churches, rehabs and townships and plans are being explored to run it in secondary schools.

The course continues to run in Australia and there are plans in the USA to run the course in a number of US prisons. We have been approached by two prisons and as with the UK it will have teams provided by Alpha in Prisons USA, but trained by The Recovery Course. Alpha in Prisons has access to the majority of the 151,000 prisoners in 122

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Section D Achievements and performance

Federal institutions.

To date The Recovery Course remains a volunteer organisation so as to keep its operating costs to a minimum (see Section E below).

Section E Financial review

In summary, the charity received £41,377 (2020 £24,468) Brief statement of the in unrestricted income and spent £27,899 (2020 £28,523). charity’s policy on The balance of unrestricted funds at 31[st] December 2021 reserves was £21,210 (2020 £7,730). 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 fixed costs such as salaries, the Trustees have not yet identified any level of reserves which they consider will need to be maintained. Details of any funds None materially in deficit

Further financial 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 (including any fundraising);

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

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Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date

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Charity Name The Recovery Course

N 11

Receipts and payments acco

For the period Period start date To from

Jan 1, 21

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £

to the nearest £

A1 Receipts

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Grants, gits and donations 21,200 - -
The Recovery Conference - - -
Tonbridge Recovery course - -
Speaking & engagement income
Bank interest - - -
Good News Evangelic 3,000 - -
Baptist Insurance 4,000 - -
Compact BL 10,000 - -
Co-op 3,178 - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 41,378 - -
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A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - -
- - -
Sub total [ - ] - -
Total receipts 41,378 - -
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A3 Payments

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Faithworks Wessex - seconded staf - -
The Recovery Conference - - -
Speaking and engagements - - -
Tonbridge Recovery course - - -
Publicity and marketing support 11,550 - -
Poublicity and Marketing materials 615
Fundraising 6,000 -
DBS checks 129 - -
Trustee expenses 36 - -
Tyne Valley - support -
Bank charges -
Just Giving Fees 36
Postage 23
Star Recovery 9,510 - -
Sub total 27,899 - -
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A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
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Total payments 27,899 - -
**Net of receipts/(payments) ** 13,479 - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 7,731 -
**Cash funds this year end ** 21,210 - -

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of

Unrestricted
Categories Details funds
B1 Cash funds Natwest Current a/c
Natwest Investment a/c
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))		 to nearest £
21,210
-
-
21,210
OK
Unrestricted
funds
B2 Other monetary assets Details to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
B3 Investment assets Details asset belongs
Fund to which
B4 Assets retained for the Details asset belongs
charity’s own use

Details

Fund to which liability relates

B5 Liabilities

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

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o (if any) 170792

ounts

CC16a

Period end date

Dec 31, 21

Total funds

Last year

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to the nearest £ to the nearest £
21,200 24,371
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- 50
- 39
- 8
3,000 -
4,000 -
10,000 -
3,178 -
41,378 24,468
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41,378 24,468
- 6,153
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- 276
- 102
11,550 19,084
615
6,000 2,197
129 120
36 74
- 502
- 15
36
23
9,510 -
27,899 28,523
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27,899 28,523
13,479 - 4,055
- -
7,731 5,632
21,210 1,577
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f the period

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Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
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Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
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Current value
Cost (optional)
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Current value
Cost (optional)
(optional)
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Amount due When due
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Date of
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approval
n Wells Jun 30, 22
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the Charity Name trustees/ members The Recovery Course of December 2021 Charity 1170792 On accounts for the no (if year ended any)

Set out on pages One and two

(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 / 12 / 2021 .

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 Act or  the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

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: Name: Anthony Miles-Prouten Relevant professional

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qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: 39 Bidborough Ridge Bidborough, Kent, TN4 0UU

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

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October 2018