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DOWNRIGHT J7Special Hull and East Yorkshire Down Syndrome Support ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 1ST NOV 2023 TO 31ST OCT 2024 Downright Special Bodrnin Road Church Office, Pad5tow C105e, Bodrnin Road, Bran5holm8, Hull HU7 4HE Tel.. 01482 420160 E-m￿1.. enquirS0s@downrlghtspe¢ial.¢o.uk Registered Charity Nufflb8r'. 1175863 FR www.downrightspecial.co.uk FUNDRAI&Mi HEOULATOR

Contents

Foreword from the Chair ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Background ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Our Pledge ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Safeguarding Statement ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Meet the Team ................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Our Trustees ................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Our Staff ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Our Volunteers ............................................................................................................................................................ 7 Review of our Activities of the Year ................................................................................................................................ 8 Education .................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Downright Special Early Development Groups ....................................................................................................... 8 Downright Special Education Outreach Work with Schools ................................................................................... 9 Support to Families ................................................................................................................................................... 11 Social Events .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Other Support ....................................................................................................................................................... 13 Downright Special Health .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Supporting Young People – Building a Brighter Future Project ................................................................................ 15 Advocacy ................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Awareness Week / World Down Syndrome Day .................................................................................................. 16 New Parent Packs .................................................................................................................................................. 18 Networking ............................................................................................................................................................ 18 New Website ......................................................................................................................................................... 18 Communication with parents and carers .............................................................................................................. 18 Training ..................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Fundraising ................................................................................................................................................................ 20 Financial Review ............................................................................................................................................................ 22 Income ...................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Expenditure ............................................................................................................................................................... 23 Looking to the future .................................................................................................................................................... 24 Declaration .................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Appendix: Unaudited Financial Statements .................................................................................................................. 25

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Foreword from the Chair

Over the past 12 months, Downright Special has continued to grow, innovate, and provide exceptional support to children, young people, and their families. This year has been one of significant achievements, reflecting our commitment to education, health, and advocacy.

We were delighted to welcome seven new babies to the Downright Special family, ensuring that their parents received immediate support. Our Friday morning sessions and curriculum were redesigned to enhance engagement, effectiveness, and inclusivity. This year also saw the launch of Downright Dance, providing weekly sessions for young people aged 11-25, helping them build confidence and friendships through movement.

A major milestone was the completion of key updates to the Down Syndrome Care Pathway, which was successfully launched on the new Integrated Care Board (ICB) website. This was recognised as an example of best practice when presented at the Hull SEND Inspection. Additionally, our brand-new website was launched, making it easier than ever for families, professionals, and supporters to access vital information.

Recognising the importance of training, we introduced regular sessions for neonatal unit doctors, ensuring they are equipped with the knowledge to support families effectively. We also delivered training sessions for Hull’s health visiting teams, broadening awareness and understanding of Down syndrome.

To further enhance educational support, we initiated a new project to create a bank of differentiated resources for the KS3 secondary school curriculum. Our biannual survey of parents and schools provided invaluable insights that will guide our future services.

Financial sustainability is key to our success, and we were thrilled to secure our largest grant to date— £78,000 over three years. This funding will allow us to continue delivering essential programmes and expanding our reach.

These accomplishments are a testament to the hard work of our dedicated team of staff, volunteers, and supporters. We remain committed to enhancing our services, advocating for best practices, and ensuring that every child and young person with Down syndrome receives the support they need to thrive.

As we look ahead, we are excited about the opportunities to build on this success, and we thank every individual and organisation that has contributed to making this year so remarkable.

Lizann Lowson Chair of Trustees

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Background

The Downright Special Network was established in June 2007 to:

The work undertaken by staff, because of the fundraising and donations received, allows us to focus on our enduring priorities of:

Our Pledge

Downright Special recognises that each individual with Down syndrome is unique and that some may have more complex needs. We pledge to create an environment where all individuals and their families feel welcome and supported, regardless of diagnosis or ability.

Safeguarding Statement

Downright Special is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults with a care and support need, engaged in the breadth of its activities. Downright Special believes that everyone has the right to be safe from harm and should be able to live free from fear of abuse, neglect and exploitation.

Downright Special takes its responsibilities for safeguarding children extremely seriously and we believe safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. We follow safer recruiting guidelines. All Downright Special posts are subject to enhanced DBS disclosure. All our staff and volunteers who have contact with families must attend Level 1 Safeguarding training as a minimum with several of our staff receiving further training including safer recruiting, vulnerable babies and Makaton safeguarding workshop. Our safeguarding policies can be found on our website - - - https://www.downrightspecial.co.uk/our story/about downright special/#policies

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Meet the Team

Our Trustees

We had five trustees on the board this year.

Lizann Lowson Appointed October 2019 Chair since July 2020 Gavin Beresford Appointed May 2017 Neil Findlay Appointed October 2022

Angela Broekhuizen Appointed June 2016 Treasurer since June 2021 Michelle Marie Appointed April 2022

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Our Staff

We have eight part-time members of staff who: ensure the smooth running of the charity; deliver our Friday education sessions; deliver outreach work in schools; deliver training courses for parents and professionals and who develop our work on health and wellbeing.

The team members are:

Gillian Bowlas
Charity Manager		 Louise Smith
Charity Organiser
Sam Findlay
Health Lead		 Katie Bewell
Specialist Teacher (KS1) &
Designated Safeguarding
Lead
Laura Nichols
Early Years Advisor		 Dr Nicola O’Riordan
Advisory Teacher (KS2 to
KS4)
Sarah Hyde
Toddler Group Leader		 Susanne Townhill
Baby Group Leader &
New Parent Contact

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Lauren, Becky & Jess,
Friday Group Volunteers
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Our Volunteers

To keep our costs as low as possible, the Charity uses many volunteers, including several parents, and we owe a huge debt of gratitude to each one of them who helped us this year.

These volunteers assist with running Friday sessions, laminating resources, organising social and fundraising events, designing publications and resources, helping with social media, managing our website and IT systems, running our bookstall, charity tin collections and managing the accounts.

Many thanks to: Lisa Bell, Poppy Bell, Harry Bewell, Rose Bielby, Lisa Bloomer, Bob Bloomer, Rachel Bowlas, Angela Broekhuizen, Tone Broomfield, Louise Brown, Toni Bullock, Becky Constable, Neil Findlay, Jill Lambert, Jessica Ross, Karl Svenson, Lauren Ward and all the amazing volunteers who helped at our Christmas and Awareness Week events this year.

Lauren, Becky and Jess Friday Group Volunteers

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Review of our Activities of the Year

Education

OUR PRIORITY WAS TO EMBED A NEW FORMAT FOR OUR WEEKLY FRIDAY EARLY INTERVENTION SESSIONS AND TO INCREASE SUPPORT TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS WITH INCLUSION AND DIFFERENTIATION

Downright Special Early Development Groups

Our Downright Special early development groups run on a Friday during term time and continue to be a great success for children from birth to approximately five years old. In this year had around 16 children who attended Friday mornings and, this year, we delivered 37 sessions. These sessions are a chance for parents to get together, have a coffee, share experiences and provide mutual support. The children get the chance to play and make friends. Most importantly the sessions also incorporate ‘lesson time’ when the children are put in small groups to work on their speech, language and communication skills, numeracy and literacy in a way that is tailored to the specific learning

profile of children with Down syndrome. We provide lots of bespoke visual resources to support the children’s learning and parents are given these to continue the work at home. We use Makaton sign language throughout the morning, helping parents and children learn the signs they need to communicate with each other and help with learning new words. We have established a tried and tested curriculum of activities which is reviewed annually to ensure the latest teaching methods are used. The curriculum also helps us to track progress and record milestones for each child. In September this year we altered how we organise the mornings to increase opportunities for sensory activities, enhance the transition between our different teachers and ensure the sessions are even more child orientated whilst continuing to alter our approach for children with specific social communication needs.

Our baby group continues to be incorporated into Friday mornings, with our youngest children enjoying a range of sensory activities and learning some of the early skills, such as taking turns and making early speech sounds in a relaxed and fun environment. It is also a chance for parents to see a demonstration of some the activities they can do at home to support their child’s development and for parents to learn some of the most useful sign language to help with their baby’s communication skills.

Also, an aspect which is crucially important, Downright Special Fridays offer

parents and carers the opportunity to chat over coffee, share their experiences and offer peer-to-peer support whilst the children play in a safe environment. However good a statutory agency may be, there are some things that only another parent will understand and be able to offer the mutual support which is so often needed. The Friday group is striking visual evidence that there is no “type” of parent who will have a child with Down syndrome, and we have a diversity of ages and cultures in the group. New dads can also be reassured it certainly isn’t a “mother and baby” group, as we have several fathers attending regularly.

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Downright Special Education Outreach Work with Schools

Downright Special Education aims to support effective inclusion in mainstream schools. Our three part-time members of staff provide support to 52 children in mainstream nurseries, pre-schools and schools. We have continued to increase our support to mainstream secondary schools as more of our children choose to continue their education this way. We supported ten children in mainstream secondary. The number of schools and nurseries receiving direct support from us is around 46. Our specialist teachers have visited schools to assess children and advise

teaching staff, provided training for schools on the learning profile of children with Down syndrome, assisted with formulating effective Individual Education Plans (IEPs), written reports for the Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) process, and attended annual reviews and transition meetings. We also continue to provide Education Resource Packs for each child we support when they begin their formal education.

“[They have] gained confidence when interacting socially with other adults and peers at school. An increase in time engaged in activities and more understanding of the setting and routines which has ultimately improved self-regulation and behaviour throughout the day. Overall happiness and enthusiasm have improved for coming into school and the setting, as well as improvement with speech and communication in all aspects.”

Laura Nichols is our Early Years Advisor and, in addition to leading a Friday morning early intervention group, Laura’s remit is to provide support and advice on inclusion of a child with Down syndrome in mainstream nursery or preschool settings. She ensures our children get the best start to their education before they even reach statutory school age. Laura had 11 children on her caseload and provided support to 10 different settings this year.

Katie Bewell is our Specialist Teacher, delivering groups on Friday mornings and afternoons with her outreach work focused on children in Key Stage 1. She supports school staff with differentiated resources and advice, modelling the evidence-based interventions recommended for each individual child. Katie had 16 children on her caseload this year.

Dr Nicola O’Riordan is our Key Stage 2-4 Advisory Teacher. Nicola has been instrumental in providing outreach support to our KS2-KS4 children and supporting the children, staff and parents in the transition to secondary school. Nicola had 25 children on her case load. A highlight this year, as per our objective to increase support to secondary schools on inclusion and differentiation has been being able to increase Nicola’s hours to four days a week from three, enabling her to start a new project to build a bank of resources to assist secondary schools with differentiating the KS3 curriculum. So far Nicola has completed work on the science curriculum, working alongside staff from Hessle High School. This will be shared with other schools in our area.

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Very importantly, we continue to offer small-group sessions at our Downright Special Friday group for school-age children and their TAs to the end of Key Stage 1. This year, we had 7 children attending these afternoon sessions in two different teaching groups. These structured lessons cover the core elements of the curriculum, including reading, writing, literacy, numeracy, and speech and language development. Having the TAs attend means they can see a demonstration of how to practically apply the specific teaching

techniques which ensure our children’s learning is maximised. They are given resources they can take away for use in the classroom and have plenty of opportunity to ask for advice on any issues they may be facing in the classroom, or to get guidance on next steps. It is also useful for them to meet other TAs to share experiences and learn from each other. We also continued monthly groups for children who have recently moved into KS2 and are ready to do some focused work on developing comprehension skills using a heavily scaffolded version of the ‘Language for Thinking’ speech and language programme. This group is led by our KS2/4 advisor Nicola O’Riordan.

Feedback from Teaching Assistants

“My overall confidence has improved to feel I am supporting the child in the best way I possibly can. Ensuring I am doing all to make sure that the child’s school life is giving what’s needed to help with progress in all aspects of the child’s life not just educational. And working to that child’s needs and specific goals rather than pushing a curriculum that doesn’t meet their needs. Just my overall understanding has greatly improved so as a TA I feel like I have the tools needed to give that child the most suitable support.”

“The whole team at Downright special have been amazing! The support and care they have given me, the child and the parents is first class. They have taught me so much and guided me in so many areas of how to ensure the child has all his needs met. I am truly grateful to each and every one of them for everything they have done for us all. Amazing, kind, hardworking and care so much for every child, parent and carer they come in contact with. Lovely, genuine people.”

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Support to Families

Our priorities during the year were to offer a variety of social events including social event opportunities for older children/ young adults and to continue to offer support in all aspects of care, health and education

Social Events

Parents told us how important it is to them to have social events and chances to meet up with other families. Social events allow our families to get together, share experiences, pass on tips, support each other, and celebrate their children’s achievements. The events also give the children a chance to make friends with other children with Down syndrome and develop what we hope will be lifelong friendships and support networks. These events are just as important as our formal activities and this year we made it a priority to offer as many social events as possible with a mixture of events for all ages and the whole family and age-specific events. We knew how much our older children valued events just for them where they could socialise with their peers of the same age.

We organised 16 social events in total this year. For each event we have considered the suggestions from parents of children with complex needs to help make the events as inclusive as possible. We have:

Social Events for All Ages

In addition to these whole-family events, we ran the following sessions for different age groups with over 70 of our children attending at least one event this year.

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Pre-school/Primary age events:

Youth Club Events (12-25)

Events for Parents

From parents’ feedback we had the request to give parent/carers a forum to meet up for a chat, so had started to run regular cuppa and chat sessions! The November session was well attended with parents helping to wrap the Christmas presents but the rest of the plans for the year were cancelled due to poor attendance. We are looking at trying to understand better what parents would prefer to do if anything.

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Other Support

New and Expectant Parents

We continued to support families new to parenting a baby with Down syndrome to offer support and information and this year welcomed seven new babies to our special family. Through the hospital and health visiting teams, families are usually put in contact with us within a week of the birth or if a parent knows antenatally then we provide support through the pregnancy. We set straight to work not as lone “advisors” but instead using the extensive network we have built up to put the new parents in touch with others. As our database has grown to over 140 local families, we can now go so far as to match new parents to those of similar ages, situations and with babies who have similar medical conditions. For a new parent, there is nothing better

than speaking to somebody who knows exactly what they are going through and can give them a glimpse of easier times a couple of years down the road, and there is nothing that our families with older children like better than reaching out to give new parents support, reassurance, advice and hope for the future. Fantastically, our families are working together for mutual benefit, which was always our ambition.

Advice

Our team are on hand throughout the week to give advice on all aspects of the care and education of children and young people with Down syndrome.

We have a closed Facebook group for parents, giving them a safe place to share useful information, ask questions and provide mutual support.

We have supported several families this year with advice on filling in benefit forms, in providing reports and advice for Education and Health Care Plans, with advice on SEND law and with support in choosing schools and nurseries. We have been able to help seven families with their applications for claiming Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or appealing against decisions.

Online Library

We have an online library system, where we catalogue all of the books, information and resources we have and make it easy for parents and carers to view the list and arrange to borrow items. The system also makes it easier for us to log the whereabouts of all our resources. We continued to add to the library as new publications become available.

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Downright Special Health

To continue to develop the health agenda with a focus on the care pathway, maternity services and understanding best practice around supporting children with dual diagnosis.

This year we were delighted to be able to continue to fund the role of our Downright Special Health Lead, Sam. Downright Special has always had a strong focus on education and the aim of the Health Lead role is to bring this same level of expertise and knowledge to the understanding of the health needs of children with Down syndrome.

Sam has been supporting our families with:

In addition, this year Sam has:

• Led the annual update to the Down syndrome care pathway , contacting relevant professionals, updating the pathway with the latest evidence-based information and working with local NHS commissioners to ensure the updates were included and rolled out to the new Integrated Care Board website. The Down Syndrome Care Pathway can be found here: https://humberandnorthyorkshire.org.uk/ourwork/downsyndromepathway/. This year, additions and updates to the Pathway were focused on the 0-19 Service, Local Authority Early Years Provision and IPaSS/SaPTS.

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Supporting Young People – Building a Brighter Future Project

Our priorities were to continue the Building a Brighter Future project, looking at Downright Special’s role in supporting young people with Down syndrome post-16.

This year we have continued to work on the outcomes from the working group of parents who shared their views on the issues faced when our young people become adults. The group identified five themes: lack of clarity about what happens at each stage of the transition to adulthood; worries about the legal implications of becoming an adult; safety of their young person; wellbeing of parents/carers; social opportunities for their young person; the need for ongoing speech and language therapy.

The feedback told us how much the young people and families valued regular social events. In addition to the social events we

arranged this year (the favourite being the Mocktails event at the trendy Humber St Gallery café) we were delighted to start our weekly dance group “Downright Dance” in April. We sent a survey out to the young people themselves to ask what they wanted, and we now have 10 young people of all abilities who come along to the session led by dance teacher Joanna, supported by volunteer Rose. They all feedback every week how much they love it. It has been amazing to see the friendships develop, their confidence growing as well as seeing them learn new skills to build their fitness and strength.

“Monday dance class has really brought out the best in my daughter”, Feedback from a parent

As mentioned in the Education section we have also increased the hours of Nicola our KS2-4 Advisory Teacher so that she can work on developing resources for secondary schools to differentiate the curriculum and to also have more time to support young people to choose the next steps after school as they transition into college and other settings.

We are continuing to work through the rest of the action plan from the project.

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Advocacy

Our priorities during the year were to work collaboratively with our NHS partners to review and communicate the Down Syndrome Care Pathway, to actively participate in Down Syndrome Awareness Week and to raise the profile of the charity.

Awareness Week / World Down Syndrome Day

Part of our mission is to act as a voice for the children and parents we support. We aim to change perceptions and raise awareness of what it really means to have Down syndrome.

For Awareness Week this year we had a successful social media campaign, along the theme of #EndTheStereotypes to raise awareness and dispel some of the myths about Down syndrome.

We also had several schools and other supporters wearing their #LotsofSocks on World Down Syndrome Day to raise awareness or hosting coffee morning and bakes sales.

Our charity manager delivered a World Down Syndrome day assembly to a local primary school and also delivered a session to Sixth form Health and Social Care students at a local college.

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We ended Awareness week again this year with a Charity Football Match, organised and led by First Touch UK / head coach Karl Southwick, dad to Mia.

A team of Downright Special friends and families played a full match against a team of parents from the football academy in a fun but competitive game that everyone enjoyed whilst raising funds for the charity and awareness. Thank you so much to Karl, the players and everyone else involved in organising a brilliant day!

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New Parent Packs

Our new parent packs continue to be available on the maternity and neonatal wards. Midwives can give these packs out to parents knowing they are receiving up-to-date information on parenting a child with Down syndrome. A version of these packs is also available for those with an antenatal diagnosis. The packs available to download from our website:

Networking

We have continued to build networks with groups nationwide, through the DSUK-led Facebook group for those running parent support groups with the aim of making a difference by sharing support, services, knowledge and expertise, making sure we are delivering the best service possible to our families and running our groups as efficiently as possible. We attended the annual DSUK parent support group leaders conference.

We continue to be affiliated to the Down’s Syndrome Association and attend the affiliated groups monthly meetings. We work with the local Parent Carer Forums to feedback views from parents of key issues affecting them and build connections with other local charities to share experiences locally.

In November we were invited with paediatrics to talk to an inspector from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as part of the CQC/OFSTED Joint Hull SEND inspection to showcase the local Down syndrome care pathway as an example of good practice that could be shared with other areas.

New Website

We were delighted to launch our lovely new website this year. https://www.downrightspecial.co.uk/. The website has been redesigned to make it easier than ever for families, professionals and supporters to connect with the charity, stay up to date with what we are doing and learn about the difference we make. This was a major piece of work, but we are so pleased that we now have an up-to-date fresh looking welcoming website that reflects the charity’s values and ethos, reflecting Down syndrome in a positive way.

Communication with parents and carers

Making sure we hear the issues facing parents so that we can properly represent their voices is very important to us. We regularly review and update communications and engagement action plan, and we have two parents on our board of trustees, ensuring that we are continuing to deliver services that maximise the benefit to the families we support. We send regular emails to parents, send a half-termly update newsletter to parents and communicate frequently via our social media channels and closed Facebook group. This year we sent out our biannual survey for parents and for schools. Overall the feedback was excellent and we are acting on the ideas that we received, in particular social event suggestions and feedback on timing of training.

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Training

Our priority during the year has been to continue to offer a range of training for parents, schools, and health professionals.

One of our aims is to promote the awareness of Down syndrome and support successful inclusion. One of the ways we do this is providing training which is accessible to schools, parents and professionals working with our children. We minimise how much we charge for these courses to ensure no child is disadvantaged.

We have had a successful year delivering a comprehensive programme of training to professionals in education and health and to parents. This year we have noticed a decrease in the numbers of schools able to release staff for training but despite this over 300 parents and professionals attended training either online or in person.

Teachers attending our workshop on curriculum planning and differentiation

We delivered 14 training courses for schools this year including: Introduction to Working with Children with Down Syndrome; Maths using Numicon; Teaching Reading; Curriculum Access, Working Memory, Promoting Positive Behaviour, Preparing for Successful Transition, Signing and a workshop on Curriculum Planning and Differentiation. We continued to offer some of these courses on an INSET training basis.

We organised three training sessions / workshops specifically for parents on Toilet Training, Sensory Processing and Introduction to Signing.

Training for professionals in health is also important to us. For the first time Susanne and Gillian delivered two training sessions on delivering the news that a baby has Down syndrome, to around 16 neonatal doctors and other staff on the Neonatal Intensive care unit at Hull Royal Infirmary. This training is planned to be delivered each time there is a new rotation of doctors on the unit. They also delivered training to the Hull 0-19 team of health visitors and school nurses, reaching around 40 members of staff over two sessions. Our teaching team delivered training to the Speech and Language Therapy Service on using the ‘See and Learn’ speech sounds and vocabulary programme with children with Down syndrome.

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Fundraising

The work of Downright Special is only made possible by the generosity and efforts of many people who have supported us by awarding us a grant, raising funds, or donating goods and services. Our plan in this year was to continue to have a broadly based fundraising strategy, rather than relying on one type of income. Community fundraising continues to be a challenge and so we chose to increase the proportion of income to be received from grant. Our targets for this year were: grants/trusts (75%), community (20%), training (3%), other (2%). These targets are monitored at trustee meetings. Our continued focus on grants has reaped rewards in 2024, with successful grants received from:

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Grants Amount
Anonymous Trust 1 25,000.00
The National Lottery Community Fund 17,746.00
Matthew Good Foundation 10,000.00
STA15 10,000.00
Sir James Reckitt Charity 5,000.00
Masonic Charitable Foundation 5,000.00
Joseph+Annie Cattle Trust 5,000.00
Brian Murtagh Charitable Trust 5,000.00
Hull Aid in Sickness Trust 3,000.00
Lloyds Bank 2,669.00
Hull&East Riding Charitable Trust 2,500.00
ERVAS (Dynamix Friends Fund) 2,000.00
Barratt Charitable Foundation 1,500.00
Co-op Community Fundraising 1,020.16
Magdalen Trust 1,000.00
Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Fund 850.00
CMS Foundation 750.00
Tesco Bags (Groundworks) 375.00
KCOM 150.00
£98,560.16
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We were delighted that a charitable trust (who wish to remain anonymous) awarded us a grant of £78,000 to be paid over 3 years, with the first £25,000 paid to us in this year. This is to support the running costs associated with our work with children aged 0-8 years old and gives us real security and confidence that we can continue to deliver our services into the future.

Our income from grants was 100% of our target this year. In 2023 we had invested £1,200 in paying for 30 hours of a bid-writer’s time to help us with our grant applications in this year and this has proven to be a very successful strategy again.

Our community fundraising & donations income saw a 5% increase compared to last year. We have continued to work very hard to raise funds through our bookstall, raffles, auctions and encouraging families to take part in our Down Syndrome Awareness Week activities. We raised around £4800 during Awareness Week through families and friends taking part in a number of challenges, including a sponsored football match, bake sales, dance schools wearing Lots of Socks, Facebook donate buttons, Lots of Socks in schools and nurseries, donations and matched funds and raffles.

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We continue to be the charity of the year for Portia House, Hessle High.

We had several individuals and teams who undertook amazing challenges this year including walking from Hull to Edinburgh, abseiling from the top of Anfield Stadium and taking part in tough mudders!

Overall, our income this year increased by 5% compared to last year (from £126K to £132K on a cash basis), surpassing our expectations. This gives us confidence for 2024-2025 that we will be able fund the charity in line with our budget of £138k for covering increased cost due to inflation, minimum wage increases and cost of living increases whilst continuing to grow the charity’s offer to families.

It is important to highlight we receive no statutory funding, and do not currently charge our parents or the schools and early years settings we support for the majority of the services we offer. The only charge was a heavily subsidised rate for school staff to attend training courses and small charge for the weekly dance sessions.

Every penny goes towards building a brighter future for children and young people with Down syndrome and making a huge difference to their lives today. Our heartfelt thanks go to those who supported us by raising funds or providing goods and services between November 2023 and October 2024. These include:

Andy Harness Emma Carter Jean Nejrup Newland School for Girls Andy Smith (in memory of Margaret Smith) Frederick Holmes School Joanna harker P&J Whomsley Angela Broekhuizen (Sietske Broekhuizen) Genesis Nursery John Hutton Pizza Pie Appleton Primary Gillian Bowlas Joseph Bentley Premier Molescroft Arthouse H Kemp & Son Judy Sugden Roger Coates Ashley Henshaw Helen Foster Karl and Kerli Southwick Roger Vine Bethune Pharmacy Hilly Lambert Kerry Farmery Sandhills Bookstall Bob Bloomer Holderness Academy Kingspan Access flooring Scientific Laboratory Supplies Braham & Dixon Holly McGuirk Kristian Parker & Andy Blakeston St Andrews (Kirkella) Primary Chiltern Primary Hornsea Luncheon Club Lauren Keighley St Mary's College and Sixth Form Delilah-Rose's Family Ideal Boilers Lesley Beadle Susan Norrie Dominik Bielawski In memory of Aunt Margaret (Anon) Lisa Bloomer Toni's Deli Don Bremner Jan Coates Little Einsteins Nursery Virgin Money Holderness road Eltherington group Janis Robinson (in memory of Tony Saunders) M L Tuffnell Zenith Developments

Thanks also to everyone who:

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Financial Review

Income

Our levels of income (including deferred income of £24,331) saw a 5% increase compared to last year in line with our plans and our highest annual income to date. This year we saw increases in donations (up £5k, 25%) in part because of one donation of £7500 from a local business for which we were very grateful. Income from grants was down 3% compared to last year but met the target we had set ourselves for this year. (Please note in the accounts £24,330 of the grant income has been deferred, so grants income looks lower than it actually was.) We also had increases in deposit account interest and training income.

We continue to fundraise ourselves with our bookstall at Sandhill Garden Centre Café, and income from sharing the use of our printer. Our campaigns for World Down Syndrome Day generated around £4800 and we ran several raffles.

Fundraising from individuals taking part in sponsored events continues to play a vital role in securing sufficient income to run the charity, although income from this continues to be much reduced compared to before the pandemic and we continue to look for innovative ways to encourage individuals to fundraise for us.

Note: The figures in this chart include deferred income. A full summary of the accounts is appended to this trustees’ report.

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Expenditure

In line with our plans, our overall expenditure increased by just under 5% compared to last year. This was due to us increasing the hours of our Advisory Teacher by an extra 1 day a week in order to carry out our plans to build a bank of resources to support secondary schools with differentiated the curriculum and to provide increased support with planning the transition from secondary to post-16 education settings.

We continue to invest in specialist resources and making bespoke materials which can be used in our education sessions or given to families and schools to support the development of the children.

This year our spend on social events increased in part due to the increase in costs of events in line with the cost of living increases this year and because we started our new weekly Downright Dance project.

We are very grateful to the many individuals who purchased office supplies and specialist resources from our Amazon Wishlist, helping to keep these costs as low as possible.

We have invested in new IT equipment including three iPads and a laptop (with thanks to funding from grants) and also invested in a new website, moving the hosting to a new provider.

We keep our costs as low as possible through gifts in kind from local businesses, such as reduced accountancy costs from Harris Lacey and Swain, employment law advice from Gosschalks solicitors, telephony support from The One Point and many more. The One Point also very kindly continued to donate their time free of charge to support us with our IT systems following our migration to Office 365 last year,and then supporting us to ensure a seamless transition for our website hosting to our new provider.

We are hugely thankful for the incredible efforts from our team of volunteers, who have enabled us to continue to be so cost effective.

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Looking to the future

This year we have been working on refreshing our five-year strategy. Our plans for the next 5 years continue to be centred on expanding our range of services in line with the increasing age range of the children and young people we support so we can continue to support their evolving needs and help them reach their potential. Our goal is to support children and young people through their secondary school years and beyond to further education and employment. We also want to ensure that we continue to be sustainable in the short term whilst we continue to deliver our core, current activities.

Some of our plans in each of our priority areas are:

Education

Health

Support

Advocacy

Training

Underpinning Activities

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We actively encourage as many people as possible to get involved in whatever way they can. If you would like to do something ‘Downright Special’, please contact office@downrightspecial.co.uk

Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees,

Lizann Lowson (Trustee)

Appendix: Unaudited Financial Statements

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REGisfERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1175 Report oftht Thutots •d U••lldlted Fiunciil Sfai¢Kllts Cor the Ytar Ended 31 Ortober 2024 The Downr￿1 Spttknl NOt￿rt[ Suite I The Rivttside Buildi Hcssle Ead York5hwt HU13 ODZ

The DowjJT￿t Specul NetWTrTk Contents olthe fmillcial Ststernemts for the Yer Ended 31 Ortober 2024 P¢e Rport octhe Tnmtots ltsdÈ￿￿dtht Report Stttment ol Fin•Dcial Aclivl¢l¢J Bl#nee Sh¢el 6 to 17 Detail￿ St•¢wn¢fji of FinD¢l*l AellwitltA

Report oftheTrknsttts for the Ye•r Ended 31 Ortober 2024 The trusl¢cs pr¢s¢nt their rtport the fir￿n¢la1 5tatr￿￿nts of thr ch¥ity for the year ended 31 Cktobcr 2024. Th¢ trustees have ￿0p1¢d th¢ prov¢$ions of ActountÈng artd Re[￿r￿n% by Charrti¢s.' Ststemtnt of Re￿mMended Praclice plitable to charities preparing their 111 •fWTdJnr¢ with the Fir￿n¢la1 Reporting Standard 4ppliG4bl¢ itt the UK and R¢publi¢ of ITel2nd (FRS 102) (effedive l 20151. OfvJECT]VES AND ACTIvrriES Public b￿erst Th¢ clwity trusitts have complied their duty kn h•v¢ r¢wd w pd>lic beKfit published by the Commi5$1011 iti ex¢Tcising th¢ir pow¢t of duii¢s. ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE CbritAblt etivitiu For a full T¢Vi¢W of the Charity$ Ye￿rting year includin8 its obj¢¢tiv¢s od Airm plans for the future ple￿¢ s¢¢ Charity r¢port lo which thu¢ a¢¢omts ore attacF& FINANCIAL REVIEW R¢s¢rY¢s ptylley The clwity'5 poli¢y 1$ to hold nine months of running costs in r¢s¢rves. Based ott 2024 levels of expenditure this would ¢qu•te to £90.O78. The level of hcld in r¢s¢ry¢s Ai the year end £93,51012023- £104,368) This i$ made up of £82,341 unr¢styi¢ted furKls12023- £75.8331 And £l1.169 funds12023- £28,535). Th¢ Trwttts recognise thit the l¢vel of furth h¢ld in reserves doe5nl me¢t nin¢ mondk8 of nJhrtin8 cosu. In order ¢0 combli this. the trustees ue xtively pursuin8 new sow¢¢s of fi￿di￿R #s as reducing costs in order to limi¢ the deficit. DI￿uS$10tt$ 4r¢ held 01 e¥h Committee meeting ￿8•[dIng this $ubjttt •nd will be re￿eSsed at the end of the n¢kn fin•Kial yew. STRucfuRg. GOVERNANCE AND WAGEME Covernlng documtttt The charity is controll¢d by its 8OV¢rniD8 document as a C1witabl¢ In¢orpor•ted Or88nisotion {fourthtion ttv)dell. Th¢ objects ofthe chwiry WMI the day to diy nmnini of ¢h•riry were whpn th¢ ¢onvwsiots to • CIO took plc¢ in 2017. R¢¢rnltthtst #P￿￿tment olnew trurte Trustttj ￿e 4ppoind by exi$till8 Iriist¢es. OryaDlvtloTh•l stru<ture For a fvll expl4n￿lOn of the oryn1￿￿onIJ strucNre see the C1J•rity$ fEPOrf. Day to d•y resp)D$ibility has betn dek8ated by the tru51ee5 kn th¢ Charity fjilliln Bowlls. Politle¥ and Prts¢ethres The followin8 poIAcies and procedures wri¢t¢n or review￿ updated.. ¢hildr¢n'$ sWiD¥ policy and procedur¢5, aduli s•f¢su￿dI￿l policy. photogTThphy arwj filming plicy. he4]th ond safety policy. employee h￿dI¥M)k, tqual opportunities policy. r¢s¢ry¢s policy. lorte wY¥rkin% Folicy, fllJwKithl op¢rnting pYrKedures. risk register. stT8tegy, fi￿drAisIng str￿eSY. complaints pro¢edur¢, GDPR p)licy, %￿l￿nIetr h￿db￿ S￿1¢ ¢oll¢aion iins poli¢y. luduetiott l￿d trgining of tn￿le￿ Trustees arc ￿q￿red to familiarise themselY¢s the ch•rity$ gO￿rn￿8 OJc¥ment. safrgu¥Jding policy ¢mployee handb￿k. The handbwk WVCT5 J raDyF of ￿lIcieS applicabl¢ ty tr￿lletS or employees includiThg confidentiality. prote￿￿￿, h¢oJth and safety. ¢xpense5 ¥nd us¢ of rharity telephones and tT. All trust¢¢s wer¢ i$$ued with Charity Commrssion'5 Tr Essential TnJ5tee'. New trv51tts aTr J15Q Wvtn the lst antwal repon and slatrrn¢nt of ￿Counts. Six Trustee medin8s ￿1¢ held dwin8 th15 r¢portithS Eiod and all DKdings wrre qmte. aviilAble for all meetings on requc5L

lkn Downr￿$ Speril Nrfwork Report of theTrustees for the Yur Ended 31 October 2024 SfRucfuRE. GOVERNANCE AND MAfACEMENT Related parti The Charty 15 aff111￿¢d to th¢ Down'5 Syndrome AsY)ciatio￿ a or8ahisation. REFERENCE AND ADMif41STRATIVE DETAILS Registtrtd Charity nllmbey 1175863 Pribtlpl ddrtts Bodmin Road Chwch Office Pad510w Close Hull HU7 4HE TTri¢¢¢J A Breekhuizen G D Beresford L LowsoTh M Marie N Findkny lThdeptrÈdent Ex•min•r Huri$ Lac¢y ond Swiin Th¢ Riverside Buildin8 Htt$l¢ East Yorkshire HU13 ODZ Soli¢ilors Goss¢knlk$ Qu¢¢Th5 G4rd¢ns Doek Street Hull Easl Yorkshi HUI JDZ Bnk CAF Battk Ltd 25 Kin85 Hill Av¢nu¢ Kings Hill We$1 Mollin8 Kent ME194JQ COMMEYCEMEp¥f OF AcfiviTILS The Downright Spe¢ial Charity Iwe8istralion Thumber 11211711 wnvert¢d kn a ajtritable Fncorwated 0￿￿1$￿tIo￿ o 22 Novcrnber 2017 all the funds wert tttrtsferred from the charity io the CIO. Approved by orderof the TrM)ard of trustees on....... .......... .. 4rwJ siyKd its brhrylf by: P¥gc 2

IndeFndent EJ•wiaees Ryrt i• ihe Trwttts of Th Dow?r¢ht Spteixl NetWOTk Indyndent tA•￿i￿t.$ report t• thetrth ofThe DownTitht Swill Network I rew>rt to the charity trustees on my ex•mintht) oftht of The Dowwilht Special {the Tn￿) for th¢ y¢Hr ¢nd¢d 31 O¢wber 2024. RwoDslbilitlés Dd bJi8 of rq￿rt As the charity tnJst¢¢s of the Tnjsi you are respjusibk for thr of the acco￿ts in aw)rd•n¢¢ w¢th the r¢quiretw)ts of the Charitics Act 2011 (Ih¢ A¢n. I report in respect of my ¢xwniMtiott of the Tn￿.5 xcounts Urr1￿ Stttion 145 of the Act and in ¢￿ing out my exAmination I have followEd ￿] •ppli¢abk Direction$ 8iven by the awity ComTnisw Section 14515Xb) of theA¢t. Ind¢p¢hd¢At I have ￿Mpleted my exwnithation. I confi￿ thai M ￿trrIa1 rmttern hv¢ ¢ome to my attention in ￿nn¢¢tion with the ¢XAmin8tLOII 8iVln8 me cause to belI￿e thai in •thy mrial respecL accounting TeGord5 w¢r¢ N)1 kept in rejpect of the ThLSt •5 rtquirtd by Seaiw 130 of the Act.. or the accounts do not •CCOTd thtss¢ T¢¢Otds: or the a¢counts do tyot ¢omply with the applic•bl¢ Tequirments ¢ottcemitt8 the fo￿ arbj Content of Kwunts s¢i ou¢ ill the Chan'ties (Accounts And R¢wi$1 Re8ulations 2008 othv •tty miuirement that the x¢ounts give 4 tru¢ flir vi¢w ￿1¢h is Mt a mther Co￿ld¢r¢4 u pffi of m irdeFtht Ex￿1n•t10]L l knv¢ no ¢oncerns 8nd have come ￿T051 no oth¢r matters in COnne￿On wryth the tx•miMtiott 10 Wthich •#entioTr should be drAwm in this r¢w)rt in order to enable • proper unde￿1￿8 of the Kcounts to be reKW. Richard D La Harris Lw lhd Sx Suite The Riverside Buildin8 H¢s$l¢ FAst Yorkshire HU13 ODZ Date..

The Spteill Network Ststtrtnt of ￿￿#￿till Activitaes for th¢ Yor 31 Ottoher 2024 2024 2023 Total fvnd INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donation5 and legKie5 11.901 451 12J66 17.260 ChiTlt#ble adiwi¢iis Charitable 53.541 41.011 94.552 108.030 Inv¢stmcnt irKome 1.413 1,075 T•¢il 66.862 41.469 108.331 126.365 XPENDrruRE ON Chritble #ctivltlts Ch•rithbl¢ 63264 54.154 117.418 112.836 Oth¢1 I,TPI 1,771 997 Tot•1 65,035 54,154 119.189 113.B33 NET INC.OMEIIEXPENDITURE) 1.127 4.681 112.6151 14.6811 {10.8511 11532 Tr*nJfers between fundj 12 Nrt movemen¢ in funds 6.508 117.3661 {10.8581 12,S32 RECONCILIATION OF FVNDS Total funds broughi forward 75.133 21.535 104.368 91.836 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 82J41 11,169 93.510 104.368 Page 4

B*J•ue¢Shttt 31 Otto￿￿ 2124 2024 Total 2023 Jnd5 Intattgible Tangible assets 1.870 1.985 1.870 1985 1.540 3J55 3.855 1.540 CURREPIT A&SKIS Debtors Cash ￿ bank io 311 81.784 388 117284 328 105.640 35.500 8IIT2 35,500 117.672 105,968 AThunts falltng due ￿1n one year (3.686) (24331) (28.017) {3.140) 78.486 11,169 89,655 102.821 TOTAL ASSETS LLSS CURRENr LIABILITIES 82J41 11.169 93,510 104.368 11,169 93,510 104,368 FUNDS Utrt5tri¢tcd fimds Restricted fiwds 12 81341 11,169 75.833 28,535 TOTAL FUNDS 93,510 104,368 The fiThatLcial ststements were approved by the Board of Trustee5 aDd for issue ..l. fé￿.￿￿¢￿. iQZf. aTrl wrre 5igrd on its Ertlwjfby..

The Dovrnryht S￿1] Netvrnrk for tb¢ Yt•r Ended JI ort0￿r 2024 ACCOUNTING POLICIES Baals of pryring the f￿A￿tIl gtseemeDts The financial statements of the charity. thicb is i p￿11¢ entity ￿1￿¢￿ FRS 102, hav¢ bE¢n pr¢pATed i occordanc¢ with thc Charities SORP {FRS 102) 'Accounting and ReFKffting by Charities.. Statement of Recommended Practice applicgble lo chan.iies prewing their accounts in gc¢ord8nce with the Financi81 ReportjJl8 Standard ipplicabk itt the UK •J)d Republic of Ireland IFRS 1021 l¢ff¢ttiv¢ l January 2019),, Fina￿111 Reporting Siandard 102 Thc Fina￿￿81 Rcponing Stsndard •pplic•blc in th¢ UK and Republic of Irel•t)d' and the CTharities Aci 2011. The fittanttal statements hve been prepared under the hisiorÈcal cosi ¢ortvention. Ixtome Incom¢ ￿￿e1Ved for 5¢TViUS pro￿ is •¢coun￿ for on In •￿n￿lS buis. donations. gifts and le8Acies ve included in fvll in the income Ind expettdiNre account ¢8 they w¢ r¢¢¢iv¢d. Any $ignifi¢•nl Lk>n8tiOn5 •r¢ inrluded in th¢ irKomc and cxp¢rMlilvr¢ account at thc ITUStee$' estim&te of their mavket Y￿Ut kn received. The value of Vol￿tsry help is Th)t i￿l￿ded in ac¢ounts. Grants and other fundin8 of a revenue •r¢ defewred WMI releued kn the income and expenditsre acuunt over the perhod io which Ily relate. BAnk i¥Jler¢st li inclth in the incomt Ind ¢xFThJibJre w)unt on In accnwb5 bA¥iS. Exptnditsre Liabilities are re￿gnIsed u expendi1￿ •s %yon a5 ther¢ is • legal or ¢onJtnKtive obli8at)n committin8 the chltity to that expehdiiiire. t¢ is probble that A trnsfer of ecorKxnic btntfits will be required in s¢ttlement #rtd the )nh)unt of th¢ oblig•lion b¢ rn¢asur¢d T¢liably. Exp¢ndilur¢ is %round for on an accrnals basis and h been classified under h¢adings thai a88regaie all ¢051 relad 10 the caie80ry. Where costs CAn1￿1 be directly iitr¢buled ￿ particular hedin8s ￿Y h&ve all0￿[e￿ ￿ xtivities on i b¥is ¢oNisieN with the us¢ of T¢soiifc¢s. lulan￿bI¢ 455¢15 Intangible i5xts Ire initially r¢¢ognised at C051. The ￿5t irbcludes the Purchase price ¥ThJ any direcily attribuiible Costs necessary to brtth8 the ￿Se1 into its innded use. Dirttdy Nribut&ble costs m•y inGlude l¢yl f¢¢$, r¢gi$itxtion costs, ot oth¢r ditedly r¢14kd ¢xp¢nditute. After initial r¢¢ogniihM. ihtawble tssets are carried ￿ c4Xt less any accwmjiated wMrtiMtion hd * AJmyl•t¢d impirrn¢rrf105X5. lrttAn8ible ¥sets with finite weful live$ xrc xmortised over their useful lifr. The wN)rfi5lllion mctlK)d us¢d r¢fl¢Gts th¢ p•ltern in which th¢ w¢t'$ ecoTh)mic b¢n¢fits Jr¢ exp￿ted to bc consumed. If that pattern cannot be reliably delermined. the S￿1&hI-ll￿e ￿)etIm)d is applRd. Th¢ PCTiod of 4mortisation is dthrmin¢d b￿d on the exp¢dd u5¢fv1 life of the rf wlhich 5hJl Tr)t exceed 10 years unle55 a shorter perb)d 1$ approprith. Th¢ amrtis•tion Fw¥)d and m¢tlw)d T¢vi¢74Yd •nd •ny changes art •¢Munted for PTOSFrtively. IntsnKible asseL8 wilh indefinite ￿Se[￿l lives e noi amortised. IL$￿ad ttsted fot impiTm¢J)t annually or more frequently if there 15 an iThJication of impairnKnL Tingiblt fiied 1sJets tkpT¢cialion is PTovided al the follo*ing annual TaKs in Order to off ea¢h asset over irs esllmatsd usefvl Compuier equipment 33% OTh cost Pale 6 Thtinu¢d...

The DowDri¢bt Spewl N¢¢w•rk Notu to the Fin•Mi•l Ststerynts- tontinued for the Yer Ended 31 O¢tober 2024 AccouNfiNC POLICIL8- tontillued Txtio Th¢ rh•rity is exempt from t&x on its chvÈtable •ctith. Unre5tri¢ied fimd5 b¢ used in •¢¢•Tdwv with tk clwitableobjectives Itthe dis¢rtti￿ ofth¢ trustr¢s. R¢stri¢d fimds C￿ i)nty be used for pArticular re5tsictd PWp)￿ Thithiti th¢ obj¢¢ts of the charity. Restrictions •rise kn Specifi￿ by the domr or th fi￿d$ are for particular restrictr41 pwposu. Fwth¢r exp1th￿iOnOf the rthture pw of exh furA is inchjdd i) th¢ firwial stattments. E5timate5 Dnd j¥d8¢m¢Dts ￿ ¢ont¢nu￿1Y eVal￿ated and Ve based on histori¢￿ txp¢rithce &nd other fxtors. includinB expeclallons of firtwe events thit ￿ b¢li¢v¢d to be re¥onable ￿der the circumstantt5. AIthou8h thes¢ ¢$lim)tes Are b￿ed ON the Th￿treS best krKWI￿gr of th¢ eventy or actions. ictsal Te5uIts ujtimthly differ from thcx CS¢imt¢s. The Tnwees do noi ¢4Msid¢r the￿ to be any Tn41¢ri￿ ¢S¢imi$ jud$¢m¢nts. Fln•ncl•l lllstrnlbemts Th¢ comp8rty only f￿￿¢1￿1 wets and financi￿ liabiliti¢S of a kind qugjify as basic financial in5trum¢nts. B￿1¢ instruneots. inclthling trade and other debton bl ¢redi￿r$. •T¢ iDltially Tecoyised at transaction value and $ubxqu¢ntly rnethsurtd •t their srttlement value. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES 2024 2023 EJnalioni 12J66 17.260 INVESTMEKf INCOMZ 2024 2023 Deposit interes1 1,413 1.075 Pa8e 7 ¢on¢inu¢d...

Nottt to tbe Fin•D¢il S¢atements- conlitiuEd for tht YtT Ended 31 Octobtr 2•24 INCOME FROM CHARITABLE AcfiviTIES 2024 2023 Activity Charitable Charitable Charitablt Charitabk Fundr4iSiO8 events Prinier rental incorne Training incl 14.917 322 5,084 74229 4.159 {1.938) 4.385 101.424 94.552 108,030 Unrestricted sT￿ts of £35,750 Ttt¢iv¢d in the ye•r. These Ntre from the following.. Bartatt Chariiable Foundation CMS Foundation Hull artd East Ridin8 Choriuble Tru51 JATn¢$ R¢¢kitt Ch8rity Joseph and Annit Cittle Tn Kcom Math¢w Good Foun￿110 STA15 Yorkshirt Buildin8 Society Chvit•ble Tntst 1.500 750 2.500 5.000 5.000 150 10,000 10,000 850 35,750 Res¢Ti¢tsd of £31,479 wu¢ received in the yur. Thex from th¢ folJowin8'. Anonym04]s Tru$t I Brian Murtagh Choritsble Trn Dynamix c￿0P COmm￿lty Foundiiion Hull Aid in Si¢kne55 Lioyds Bank M¥8d•l¢n Trust MCF Muoni¢ Te$co Th¢ N*tiohd IAJttery Community Fo￿all0￿ 12.500 1,020 3.000 2.669 375 3.915 38.479 Tot 74.229 Page 8 Continued...

The DowDricbt Sptril Notrs to the Fin•n¢ial Ststellwity- ttlntillued fot the Ytr Ended 31 October ZQ24 TRUSTEES. REMUNERATION AND BENEFfTS There were no tru5tees' T￿￿￿￿tion or other b¢n¢fits forth¢ ended 31 October2024 nor forthe y¢¥r end 31 October 2023. steu. ttpen There were no trustees, expen￿ ￿14 for ts ye•r 31 Odober 2024 Mr for th¢ y¢w ¢thd¢d 31 Octhbet 2023. AFF Costs The averw monthty numbEroftmpkny#s durin8 the )r•r followy.. 2024 2023 Genernl stsff No employe¢s received tH￿hNn¢￿ty ex¢eM of £60,000. Total staff costs in the Ye￿￿￿tr to £11,183.64 {2022- £83.6111. COMPARAT1VL8 FOR THE STATEMENf OF FINANCIAL ACTIVMES Urwestricted Kestricied fijnds Total funds INCOME AND ENDOWMEM FROM Donations afbd lewies 17251 17.260 Chirlibl¢ itflvlf aiarithble 29,306 78.724 108,030 1.075 1.075 Tot•1 47.639 78.726 126.36S EXPENDITVRE ON Chrlt*ble #ctlvltks Ch•ritAble 54J62 58.474 112,836 997 T•tsl 55.359 58.474 113,833 NET INCOMV(EXPENDrtURE} {7.720) 20.252 12,532 RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total f￿d5 brtyjghi forward 83.551 8285 91,836 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 75.831 21,537 104,368 Pa8e 9 ntu)u¢d...

Notes to the FinJKi•l ststeD￿Trts- for tht Yt#r Ethdtd JI Ortobtr 2024 INfAf4GIBLE FIXED ASSETS Development COST Addition5 2.040 AMORTISATION Charge for year 170 NET BOOK VALUE Ai 31 (klober 2024 1,870 At 31 Ckknber 2023 TAiYCIBLE FIXED Assm Compur equipmcnt COST Ai l November 2023 Additions 3,024 2,046 At 31 October 2024 5,070 DEPRECIATIO Ai l November 2023 awg¢ for y¢ 1,484 1,601 Ai 31 October 2024 3.085 IYET BOOK VALUE Ai 31 October 2024 1,985 At 31 (ktober2023 1.540 io. DEBTORS.. AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WmllN ONE YEAR 2024 2023 Prep*ym¢ths 388 328 Page 10 ¢ontinued...

Notes to the FxDDci¥I S¢¥t¢ments- tolltitiued fgrthe Yur Endtd 31 October 2024 ii. CREDITORS: Amoll￿[s FALLING DIJE wmiiN ONE YEAR 2024 2023 T•Mtion tyJ so¢id ￿￿lty Other creditors 2.426 25.591 1,940 12(KJ 28.017 3.140 12. MOVEMgKf IN FUNDS Net TTaThsfeT5 At At 31.10.24 in fiuKIs UDrestricted G¢neral fund 75.833 l.127 4,681 82.341 Rtstrkted Hclp for H¢￿th Hull Aid in Sickness Child￿￿ In Need MCF Mawni¢ Irotunonger5 Dynamix Play¢n of P¢opl¢'$ Postrode L£thry The Nation￿ Lottery Commuruty Futhd KCOM 3,998 (3,998) 2,314 671 1201 2.314 67 1,529 613 2.730 (683) 682 {14.3561 (3891 19981 {8941 {4,2781 4.100 682 14J56 1.732 998 194 4Jn 1.343 Tes¢0 Transforming Car¢ IHEY Smile) Brion Myrtigh ch￿lIable frust 4,100 28.535 112,6851 14.6811 TOTAL FUNDS 104.361 110,858) 93.510 Pageii ¢ontinlled...

The DoTnrW Sptti•l Network Iyotts to tbt FiDan¢il StiteDmits- con¢in￿ed toriht Ytar Ended 31 Oct•btr 2024 12. MOVEMEPIT IN FUNDS- toTrtiti4ed Net movement in fwLd4 included in the abovc follow7.. Incomitt8 Resources resotsr¢¢s t4￿￿ed MovemetLt iti fijnds UnreJlTirted funds General fund 66.162 {65,0351 1,827 Rtjtrktsd fun Help for Health Hull Aid in Sicknc Children In Nttd MCF M￿nIC Cowop ComrnuThity Fundrni$tn8 Dyrbamix Pl•yers of Peopk's Posts)d¢ L Th¢ Nation￿ Lottery c.ommunity Fund KCOM 2.532 12.532} {6861 {671 13,7991 11.020} 2,314 1671 1.201 1.020 682 114,356} 13891 19981 18941 14.278} 114.356) 16.3041 (998 11.269 14.2781 112.$00) {9001 {458) 12,669) 11.000} 5.915 375 TTan5forning Care (HEY Smile) AnonytrKus Trll$i I Brian Murtagh Clwit*bleTru# Ideal Boilers Lloyds Blnk M•8dakn Tnj 12.5 4.100 451 2,669 41,469 154,154} (12.6151 TOTAL FLNDS 108.331 (119,189) 110.858} Page 12 ¢orbtinucd...

The Drnrryht Sptci*l Ne(￿ NoteJ t• th¢ fm•Dci•I StAtemthts- t￿tIn￿ed for the Year Ended 31 Ottober 2024 IL MOVEMENf IN FUNDS- tontinued ComprAtlvw for movemMt in N¢t At 31.10.23 itt funds Unr¢strAtted fun General fiv 83.551 (7,718) 75.833 ReJtTlct¢d lknnds Help for Heilth Children In Need MCF fvlJsthni¢ Hospital Saturday Fur R¥Dk Foundation Ironn￿￿tr$ Two ￿'ding$ Arnold Clwk COMM￿1￿ FyThd ttyngmix Pl•y¢Jy of People's Posttode Loiiery Thc N4tIOn￿ Lotytry Commllttity Fund Toy Trwt KCOM 2.041 67 11,2011 467 1.950 3.998 67 1.529 2.730 (4671 {i.0001 683 11,6451 (9921 {1.2321 14.356 613 1.645 992 1.232 14,356 1.732 735 11.3001 998 894 4,278 Tesco Trark8(orniing C4Te IHEY Smil¢) 894 4.278 1,285 20,250 28.535 TOTAL FVNtK8 91,836 12.532 104.368 Page 13 ontitlued...

Notes to the FiMn¢i•l Stattments- eoD¢iDwl fgr tht Year Ended 31 Ortobtr 2•24 12. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS- tODIiDlled Compgrative rKt in fwlds uKlwJ¢d IJJ th¢ abobr w¢ Is follm.. Movement Unrns¢rif¢ed Get￿Tal ffij￿J 47,639 (55.3S7) (7,7181 Rtjtrkeed fund¥ Help for Heilth MCF Masonic Hospitsl Sanbrday Fund Rank Foundation Iroffttrw)ngcTS Two Ridings Amold Clk Commuttity Fund Dynlmix Players of People's Postcode Lottery Th¢ Not1<)n￿ lJ)n¢ry Commwity Fw Toy TTusr Beacon W8t KCOM Te5 Transforn)in8 Cart (HEY Smil¢l WO Stre¢¢ Chwithbl¢ Fourtdton 3.672 (1.7221 (22701 (4671 (1.0001 {12.7651 11.6451 {9921 {3.2321 (10,6441 18.9031 {1.3001 {8.0001 {21 (2311 {2,3031 13.000} 1.950 2,730 14671 (i.000} 683 {1,6451 9921 (1.2321 14.356 997 {1.3001 13.448 25.(K&l 998 894 4.278 1.125 6,511 71,726 {58,4761 20,250 TOTAL FUYDS 126.365 {113,833) 12,532 Pw14 continued...

The Downrlght Nethork to the FiMnei#l Ststements- for the Yt•r Ended 31 Oteober2K4 12. MOVKMENf IN FUNDS- ¢wthbuÈd A CUTr¢nty¢•T 12 and wior yur 12 months conthind w$iti￿ is u follows: Net Trlnsftrs At 1.11.22 Ai 31.10.24 in fund5 fillds UDmtrided funth 83.551 (5.891) 4.611 82.341 Rtstrltted f￿nth Help for Hcalth Hull Aid in Si¢kne55 Children In Ne¢d MCF MAxsni¢ Hospit81 Saturday Fund Rthk FowMl•tion Ironmongers Two Ridin8S Arnold Clark Communiry Fw DYr￿MIK The Nional CommuDty Fund Toy Tntst Bri￿ MurtaBh C1withbltTnu¢ 2,041 1.950 1314 (671 3.931 {4671 11.ooDI 683 {1.6451 19921 1550} 608 Iijoo) 4,100 {3.9981 2.314 67 {iJoi} 467 2.730 {6831 1.645 1232 735 i Joo 682 .343 4,100 8213 7.565 (4.681) 11,169 TOTAL FUNDS 91.836 .674 93.510 Pagt 15 ¢onOny¢d...

The DowDT¥ht SpEci¥I IY¢twoTk Notes to the Financial StsteJnents- Continued for the Yer Endtd JI Ortobtr 2024 12. mOVEmEP￿ IN FUNDS- A cwrem ye•T 12 th￿)nthS prior ye4r 12 combined tti rth)wenrt in fimds. included tn the above Ire s follows.. Incomin Regow¢e5 Movement in fvnd$ Uttrestrltttd fu•ds G¢n¢t•l fwml 114JOI (120,392) {5,891) Help for Health Hull Aid in Sickthe Children In Nttd MCF Masonic c¢￿0P Community Fundr#isiN8 Htsspi¢•l ￿tUrdaY Fund Rgnk Foundation Ironmon8ers Two Ridings Arnold Clark Community Dyttamix Pl•y¢rs of P¢opl¢'5 Poslcod¢ Lottery The Nalional kn)ttery Community Fund Toy Trusi Bcacon Lodge KCOM 6.204 (4.254) 16861 {671 (6.0691 (1.020) 14671 11.0001 112.765) 11.6451 {992) 14,550) 125,000) 115207) 11.300) 18,0001 11.000) 11,500) 16,5811 (3.000) 112,500) {900) {458} 12,669) 11.000} 1,950 2,314 1671 3.931 10.( 1.020 14671 {I,0001 683 {1,6451 19921 (5501 13.441 25,000 15.815 {1.300) Testo TTD$fomiing ca￿ (HEY Smik) wo Str￿ CThritable FourKlatioTh Amnymous Tru$1 I Brian Murt4gh Clwitable TnK Jdeal Boilers Lloyds BAnk Mthgd4i¢n TDJst 1.5¢)0 6.581 12.51)0 4.100 458 2.669 120.195 {112,630} 7,565 TOTAL FUNDS 234.696 1233.022) 1,674 Page 16 ontitku¢d..

1)t DowDr¥ht Speriil Ne￿r￿ for Iht Y￿r EDdtd 31 Ottober 2•24 13. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES There were no re￿ted paTty fra￿￿110n$ forth¢ y¢ar¢Thl¢d 31 October2024. Pa8e 17