## **Friends of Ashtead Youth Club Charity Annual Report 21/22** 

## **Refec�ons from our Youth Worker** 

**Refec�ons from the Chair of our Charity** 

## **An Inclusive Community** 

It has been an amazing year, where we have further established our weekly youth clubs, delivered School holiday schemes, seen our first D of E group complete their Bronze Award. The Rally Kar�ng has been popular once again and all of this has taken place with the support of our local community who con�nue to generously support our work. 

difficult �me. It has given young people the opportunity to reconnect with friends and to meet new people. I have been fortunate to see the great work that Richard, Ollie and our young volunteers do on Thursday evenings, and I know that the young people who a�end the Youth Club have had an amazing �me. 

We are proud of our Club’s inclusive ethos, where any young person who wants to come along is welcomed. 

Many of our members are happy just �cking along and take a role in making our community inclusive. Other members need a li�le more support to feel happy and comfortable with us. 

## **Youth Clubs** 

## **Working in Partnership with East Surrey YMCA** 

We run two Youth Clubs on Thursday night every week. Both remain popular with a regular 50 plus young people a�ending each week. Young people enjoy the opportunity to socialise with their friends and enjoy team sports, we are ac�vely working with our membership to expand the programme in whatever direc�on they are interested in.   Our Youth Workers are supported by a team of senior members who help run the evenings and work alongside other members. 

**Developing Young Leaders** 

**Developing Young Leaders Our Community Approach** Our team of young leaders form a We are living in a challenging vital part of our staff team and are social and financial context. invaluable in delivering the work Through suppor�ng a range of with our membership. groups from within the community, there is o�en One of our team par�cipated in something going on almost every the Ashtead Rotary sponsored day of the week. Rotary Youth Leadership Training In addi�on to our own work, this Course, developing their skills and confidence which culminated in would include, Mar�al Arts, Clubs for young people and him presen�ng his development young adults with addi�onal journey to the whole club needs, out of school child-care membership and we host groups offering wellbeing opportuni�es for our adult community. 

We are very fortunate to be teamed up with the well-established Youth Work team at the YMCA. This partnership affords us the benefits of our youth work team being part of a much larger organisa�on, suppor�ng professional standards, accountability and a connec�on with experienced and knowledgeable managers. We are looking forward to developing our partnership further over the next year. 

for everybody (a Universal Service), staff will naturally spend a li�le more �me and energy with those youngsters who can most benefit from our exper�se. This is so we are able to support them as they make their way through their transi�on from childhood to becoming a young adult (Early Help and Targeted Support). 

## **How we manage our money** 

Our income comes from groups who use the building, formal grants, local grants, fundraising and dona�ons from individuals. 

## **Recognising Young People’s Achievements** 

It is a stated aim of our charity to ac�vely deliver a programme that supports young people’s growth and development in order that they become socially mature and ready for the workplace. We have a variety of approaches that range from posi�ve encouragement on a day to day basis, we are very excited to be developing formal recogni�on through the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award run in partnership with Ashtead Rotary and the Pheonix Project. 

|and dona�ons from individuals.||
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|**Between April 21 and March 22**||
|Our income amounted to|£26927|
|Our expenditure amounted to|£10010|
|Breaking down to:||
|Youth Work Stafng|£0 r/f 22/23|
|Youth Work Ac�vi�es|£3439|
|Buildings costs|£541|
|Cleaning materials|£310|
|Minibus costs|£1824|
|Administra�on inc Insurance|£3990|
|Our reserve as of 1/4/22 was  £16818||



## **Our Commi�ee** 

## **Our Supporters** 

We are very apprecia�ve for the **Trustee’s** support of local organisa�ons and Glen Jordan – Chair & Finance individuals. Most recently this has Ian Parkinson – Premises & IT included Ashtead Rotary Club, Richard Leary – Youth Work & Ac�ve Surrey, and Ashtead Partnerships Churches Tea Tent. **Colleagues** Chris Townsend – SCC Our Village Day Raffle was supported by many local Mary Cooper – MVDC businesses, to whom we are very Gareth Evans – Rotary grateful. 

## **Our plan for the next year…………** 

We are very happy with the way we have developed since taking over the Youth Club from Surrey County Council in 2021. Our priori�es over the next year will include: 

- 1) Con�nuing to deliver a consistent developmental Youth Service with our young people. This will include weekly Youth Clubs, the D of E Award and Rally Kar�ng Project. 

- 2) Further develop the capacity of the Commi�ee so we have the people resources to grow the charity and scope of services we offer. 

- 3) Con�nue to improve the quality of the building fabric and range of community groups that can work with us to meet the wider needs of the Ashtead Community.