## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 01/01/2024 **Period start date To** 31/12/2024 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** The Recovery Course
## **Charity registration number: 1170792**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|_For the public benefit, 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_|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|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 and other christian
associations 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:
-
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 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,||
|city|and prison 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|
|The development and distribution of TRC||
|resources is key to the achievement of our||
|goal and forms the tangible product we||
|offer 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 258 page course manual including a|
||section on how to set up and run The|
||Recovery Course|
|-|Written and filmed transcripts of all the|
||weekly talks|
|-|A workbook with weekly ‘Pause for|
||Thought’ coursework 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|
|-|Leaders’ notes for group leaders for|
||each session of the course|
|-|Access to free training and support|
||online|
|-|An annual Recovery Course|
||Conference|
|We|offer free training and support to|
|churches, prisons and Christian-based||
|organisations running or wishing to run The||
|Recovery Course throughout the UK and||
|beyond.||
|||_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.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have all received and
considered the Charity Commission
Guidance, “The essential trustee: what you
need to know, what you need to do”, dated
May 2018|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|The charity is not grant making|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Social investment made by the charity is
practical not financial – achieved through
the course it runs to free guests of their
addiction, and through this to relieve the
burden of addiction of those related to the
guest and the community in which they live|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The Trustees, group leaders and those
involved in running The Recovery Course
are volunteers for which the Trustees are
grateful. While reasonable expenses of
travel to speaking engagements are met,
no payment is made for time spent|
|Other||Nothing further to add|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|It was decided in 2023 that The Recovery
Course would no longer be personally
involved in running their own courses,
instead devoting their time to training up
teams from churches around the country
who would then run their own. In this way
far more people would be reached. In 2024
The Charity developed and ran three free
national online training sessions, which 154
delegates representing 121 churches
attended. Some of these delegates were
representing churches overseas including
Brazil, USA, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya,
Myanmar, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and
Australia.
Due to this increased interest in the Course
since our 2023 Conference, it was decided
that we would run our second national|
Conference in Holborn, Central London, in the Spring of 2025. In Spring of 2024 The Recovery Course was asked by HMP Pentonville to prepare a new shortened version of the course consisting of 6 sessions focusing on relapse prevention. The course ran throughout March and April. Initially restricted to just 12 prisoners, the course had instant appeal and was oversubscribed three times over. For practical reasons this had to be reduced to 24 prisoners and not a single prisoner dropped out. In the summer of 2024 two people were invited to join us as Trustees. Both have a comprehensive understanding of the prison system and their role was to develop this new shortened course with a view to training up teams to take the course into prisons where around 70% of those in prison have addiction issues. The decision was made to launch this new resource at the 2025 Recovery Course Conference. Throughout 2024 The Recovery Course continued to expand in other countries, especially South Africa and Namibia where it runs in churches, rehabs and townships. 2024 was challenging financially and to this end the Trustees employed a Christian Fundraiser for a limited period, with a degree of success. To date, The Recovery Course remains a volunteer organisation so as to keep its operating costs to a minimum.
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|---|---|---|
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|See above|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|See above|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|See above|
|Other||Nothing further to add|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the end of 2024 the charity had £27,278
on account. This equates to 170% of the
operating costs for the year.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The trustees aim to keep six months of
operating expenses but not in reserve –
see below.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Zero|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|The Trustees believe that all funds should
be put to use in support of the aims of the
charity. The three six months of operating
costs are thus not put in reserve, rather
they act as an alert once breached to focus
on fundraising.|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|Not applicable|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Where funds are used in support of the
aims of the charity that reduce the reserves
to three months operating expenses the
Trustees would meet to discuss how to
proceed. To date that has not happened.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**||
|---|---|---|
|You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The charity receives monthly donations,
either through the Charities Aid Foundation,
or via Direct Debit.
The rest of the donations come from grant
and trust applications.|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Not applicable|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The charity maintains a risk register. The
only high risk is identified as an income
shortfall in which case operations would be
scaled down, and the charity would
become a voluntary repository of
information for churches and prisons
running the course.|
|Other||Nothing further to add|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|Effective 17thJune 2019, the charity was
re-registered as a Charitable Incorporated
Organisation, having a foundation
constitution based on the Charity
Commission model.
Prior to this, the charity was originally
constituted as a company limited by
guarantee, incorporated on 29thJuly 2015
and registered as a charity on 16th
December 2016, and having a
memorandum and articles of association.|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|As a CIO|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are selected by the existing
Trustees|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|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 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.|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|_Organisational structure_
During the year the Charity’s CEO retired,
after more than a decade of support and
work, due to ill health.
Two other Trustees also retired after six
and nine years of support respectively.
The Trustees decided to appoint two new
Trustees both with deep experience of
running courses in prisons, as shown on
the register, and to operate as a group with
the Chair and Founder driving the strategy.
The Operational Team continues to be led
led by Kevin Campbell (Course work,
Communications, Marketing and Publicity)
-Kevin is paid for four days a month.|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|Not applicable|
|Other||_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 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.
As the charity no longer runs courses, but
enables others to do this, all those running
the course are asked to confirm that they
have safeguarding arrangements in place.|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Recovery Course|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1170792|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o Tonbridge Baptist Church
Darenth Avenue
Tonbridge
Kent
TN10 3HZ|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||
Rev Bob Street|Chair|Reappointed to third
term 9th June 2022.
Term ends June 2025.|The other
trustees|
||Justyn Larcombe|Trustee|Retired 30 Sep2024||
||Nigel Skelsey|Trustee and
Secretary|Appointed to first term
1stOctober 2021||
||Paul Martin|Trustee|Retired 30 Sep2024||
||Susan Flashman
Jarvis|Trustee|Retired 30 Sep 2024||
||Gavin Marcus
Wells|Trustee,
Treasurer|Appointed to first term
16thNovember 2021||
||Revd Joanna
Davies||Appointed to first term
15th May2024||
||Steven Page||Appointed to first term
15th May2024||
– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name n/a**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **||
|---|---|---|
|**n/a**|||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets held in this capacity|n/a|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are
held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects|n/a|
|Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of
such assets from the charity’s own asset|n/a|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type**|**Name**|**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**n/a**|||
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**n/a**
## **Other optional information**
**n/a**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Full name(s)** Gavin Wells
**Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 14th September 2025
**Charity Name No (if any) The Recovery Course 1170792**
**Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-Jan-24 31-Dec-24
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted**
|
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Grants, gits and donations
5,246
Other
**-**
Bank interest
**-**
GEM Trust
**4,000**
Margeaux L,Stol Kin,Renate L
**-**
Well Trust
**1,000**
Soutar Charitable Trust
**3,000**
SMB Charitable Trust
**1,500**
River Trust
**2,000**
**16,746**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 16,746**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
_AR)_
**sales, (see table).**|
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,500**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,246**
**-**
**-**
**4,000**
**14,500**
**1,000**
**3,000**
**1,500**
**2,000**
**31,246**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,246**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**6,310**|
|||||**2,000**|
||||||
|||||**4,000**|
||||||
|||||**-**|
|||||**4,000**|
|||||**1,500**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**17,810**|
||||||
||||||
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||||
||**14,500**|**-**|**31,246**|**17,810**|
|**A3 Payments**
Free
**-**
The RecoveryConference
**-**
Conference
**60**
Course costs
**330**
Operations and Publicity
**11,625**
Publicityand Marketingmaterials
**489**
Fundraising
**3,163**
DBS checks
**145**
Insurance
**-**
Bank charges
**-**
Just GivingFees
**-**
Postage
**-**
Donation
**-**
**_Sub total_ 15,812**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 15,812**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 935**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end 11,844**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 12,779**
**A4 Asset and investment**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,500**
**-**
**14,500**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**60**
**330**
**11,625**
**489**
**3,163**
**145**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,812**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,812**
**15,435**
**-**
**11,844**
**27,279**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**994**|
|||||**292**|
|||||**14,600**|
|||||**593**|
|||||**5,130**|
|||||**145**|
|||||**220**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**50**|
|||||**22,024**|
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||**-**|
||||||
|||||**22,024**|
||||||
||**14,500**|**-**|**15,435**|**- 4,214**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**11,844**|**16,058**|
||**14,500**|**-**|**27,279**|**11,844**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**funds**|**Details**
Natwest Current a/c
Natwest Investment a/c
**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**16,778**
**-**
**-**
**16,778**
**Unrestricted**|**to nearest £**
**10,500**
**-**
**-**
**10,500**
**Restricted**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**16,778**|**10,500**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**16,778**|**10,500**|**-**|
**B1 Cash funds**
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Cost(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Mr Gavin Wells
Agreement
Error
Agreement
Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
~~**asset belongs**~~
**Fund to which**
~~**asset belongs**~~
**Fund to which**
**Amount due**
~~**(**~~
~~**)**~~|OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
15th March 2025
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Current value**
~~**(optional)**~~
**Current value**
~~**(optional)**~~
**When due**
~~**(**~~
~~**)**~~
Date of
~~approval~~|
|---|---|---|---|
||||Date of
|
|||Mr Gavin Wells|15th March 202
~~approval~~|
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Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material Matters of concern
(see CC32, Independent examinalion of charity accounts: directions and
guidan forexaminers).
Give here brief detalls of
any items that the
examinerwishes to
disclose.
None.
IER
Oct 2018