||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Trustees' Annual Report**|||||**for theperiod**||| |**From **|Period start date|||**To**|Period end date||| ||01|April|2020||31|March|2021| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** North Lincolnshire Children’s Literacy Trust **Other names charity is known by** NLCLT **Registered charity number (if any)[1176961 ]** **Charity's principal address** Ashby Hub |
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||AddyFarmer|Chair of Trust||| ||Sandra Simmons|Vice Chair of Trust||| ||Colin Brabazon|Treasurer||| ||Cllr Julie Reed|Trustee||| ||Hannah Dale|Trustee||| ||Richard Mason|Trustee||| ||Sarah Spencer|Trustee||| ||Fiona Clawson|Trustee||| ||Susan Hollingworth|Trustee||| ||Jayne Hutton|Trustee||| ||Nick/Mel Webb|Trustee||| ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser **|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**In kind support**|Jane Laws|North Lincolnshire Council| |**In kind support**|Emma Wilkinson|North Lincolnshire Council| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted CIO (eg. trust, association, company) **TAR** 1 2019 - 2020 Elected by Trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **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)**|**To advance the education of children in North Lincolnshire by the**
**provision of support to improve their literacy skills.**| |---|---| ||**1) Campaigning to promote the social and economic importance**
**of reading, encouraging a shared responsibly across business,**
**public and voluntary communities, to make a positive**
**difference.**

CLT Website created, which includes a Paypal Giving Fund
donation button.

Facebook and Twitter are used on a regular basis to share with
families information related to literacy, the importance of
reading, latest reports, suggestions, ideas of activities to do at
home etc.
**2) Promoting and supporting new and established children’s**
**literacy initiatives to inspire a generation of children to read,**
**grow and succeed.**

**Making Big Memories with Little Babies**initiative established in
partnership with The Health Tree Foundation, Scunthorpe
General Hospital, ensures that families with babies on the
neonatal intensive care unit receive a gift bag containing a
book, nursery rhyme CD and information about the importance
of families sharing songs and stories with their baby whilst in
hospital to help aid brain development, communication and
bonding.

**Fun Family Literacy Kits**– 500 early year’s packs including a
copy of Addy’s book, A Place Called Home, were distributed
during the 1stlockdown via children’s centres, early years
providers and schools. In addition to this a further 100 primary
school family literacy kits were gifted. £1500 was raised by local
companies, groups and individuals to purchase the kits, plus we
received donations of books, and resources from national
companies including Booktrust, Harper Collins etc. An
application for a further £2000 has been submitted to the local
community grant scheme

**Volunteer Reading Champions**– On hold during Covid/School
Closures. Programme will be relaunched in 2021, but with
recruitment and training delivered via schools.

**Sponsorship of local literacy based events**bringing free
literacy themed activities and events to local children, young
people and their families via the Power of Words family literacy
festival

**Little FREE Library**project commenced, with the installation of
three little libraries in locations

**FREE gifting of ‘A Place Called’**book and resources to families
in need during the Covid-19 crisis.
**3) Facilitating partnership opportunities to promote reading for**
**pleasure across communities.**

North Lincolnshire Council provide FREE support in kind,
includingtrainingand admin. Closepartnerships formed with| **TAR** 2 2019 - 2020 the Words Count, Imagination Library and library teams to increase awareness of the trust and spreading consistent messages about the importance of reading - Health Tree Foundation and local Rotary Clubs support with fundraising for the Making Big Memories With Little Babies Project - Partnerships strengthened with schools and settings through the Volunteer Reading Champion programme. - Partnership formed with Tesco and the Landscape Partnership via the Little Free Libraries project. Section D Achievements and performance  Making Big Memories with Little Babies project continues to **Summary of the main** deliver free reading resources to families with babies on the **achievements of the charity** local NICU ward at Scunthorpe General Hospital. Further **during the year** volunteers have been recruited through the Health Tree Foundation to gift the resources on a weekly basis.  Over 60 Volunteer Reading Champions have now been trained to support children to develop their reading skills. They are working in schools across North Lincolnshire.  £250 donation received from the North Lincolnshire Rotary Swimarathon. This money was used to purchase Volunteer Reading Champion Resource kits.  £2000 funding was secured via the Tesco Bags on Help scheme. This money was used to design, make, install and fully stock 3 Little Free libraries, in the following locations; The ARC, Luddington & Garthorpe School and Belton Kitchen & Visitor Centre. Providing children will free access to quality books.  The Children’s Literacy Trust sponsored the Power of Words Festival free family theatre showing of Gangsta Granny in Baysgarth Park. All tickets sold out, with 500 people attending.  Over 300 copies of Addy’s book ‘A Place Called Home’, plus associated resources were gifted to families via children’s centres during the Covid-19 crisis.  Continue to receive regular small monthly donations from Lincs Lotto  Paypal account set up and PayPal Giving Fund application approved allowing donations to be made to the trust easily. |**Section E Financial review**|**Section E Financial review**| |---|---| |**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit**|| ||**Opening Balance £4435.62**
**Total Income this period £2356.50**
**Total Expenditure this period £1617.76**
**Closing Balance £5174.36**
£2000 of Closing balance is reserved for purchase of future Making Big
Memories with Little Babies Gift Bags.
Remaining balance to be used for existing and new projects 2020/2021| ||FYI – We were able to fund some elements of the Little FREE Libraries
project via the Power of Words Festival, so did not spend the full £2000
grant.| ||| |**Section F**|**Other optional information**| **TAR** 3 2019 - 2020 Projects started at the end of the financial year, which will be completed in 2020. - North Lincolnshire Children’s Literacy Trust website creation - Family Literacy Kit’s – Funding being raised to purchase family literacy resources that will be donated to families in need, who are vulnerable or living in areas of deprivation. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** ## _A.Farner_ Sandra Simmons **Full name(s)** Addy Farmer **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair of Trust Vice-Chair of Trust **etc) Date** 31.04.2020 **TAR** 4 2019 - 2020 ## **North Lincolnshire Children's Literacy Trust Financial Accounts 2020 - 2021** |**Start Date**|**01.04.2020**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**End Date**|**31.03.2021**||||| |||**Money In**|||**Money Out**| |**Date**|**Item**|**£**|**Date**|**Item**|**£**| |15.04.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|7.5|02.04.2020|Liondog - Trust website creation payment 1|£462.50| |07.05.2020|Donation - Paradise Min|100|05.05.2020|Amazon Gift Voucher - Photo Competition Winner 1|£30.00| |12.05.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|6|05.05.2020|Amazon Gift Voucher - Photo Competition Winner 2|£30.00| |13.05.2020|Donation - Shah's Clothes|200|28.05.2020|Winning Moves - 51 packs of Top Trumps for Family Literacy Kits|£202.16| |18.05.2020|Paypal Donations|31.91|03.06.2020|Nettl of Scunthorpe - Bookmarks for Family Literacy Kits|£52.80| |02.06.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|6|03.06.2020|BBD Direct - 24 Junior Scrabble games for literacy kits|£361.15| |03.06.2020|Donation Scunthorpe Lions|200|18.06.2020|Brain Box/Bananagrams ASMODEE/Esdevium Games Ltd|£972.65| |19.06.2020|Donation Scunthorpe Rotary Club|500|18.06.2020|Winning Moves- 40 packs of Top Trumps|£135.92| |19.06.2020|Paypal Donations|2|17.07.2020|Liondog - Trust website creation payment 2|£712.50| |14.07.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|7.5|27.07.2020|Amazon Gift Voucher - POW Competition Prize Winner|£30.00| |04.08.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|6|25.09.2020|Flowers for Rotary - Thank you for Story Sacks|£10.00| |15.09.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|7.5|30.03.2021|POW Match Funding for ACE Bid (BIG SKY NORTH)|£300.00| |21.09.2020|Rotary Swimarathon|250|||| |12.10.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|6|||| |17.11.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|6|||| |09.12.2020|Lincs Lotto Donation|7.5|||| |12.01.2021|Lincs Lotto Donation|6|||| |09.02.2021|Lincs Lotto Donation|6|||| |05.03.2021|Paypal payback|1|||| |09.03.2021|Lincs Lotto Donation|6|||| |30.03.2021|Paypal Donations|30.47|||| |**Totals**||**1393.38**|||**£3,299.68**| |**Opening Balance**||5174.36|||| |**Total Income**|**this period**|£1,393.38|||| |**Total Expenditure this period**||£3,299.68|||| |**Closing Balance (bank balance @ 30.03.2021)**||**3,267.07**||||