## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01 July 2021 Period start date To 30 June 2022 Period end date Charity name: The Norfolk Reading Project** ## **Charity registration number: 1176987** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance the education of children in**
**Norfolk by the provision of trained**
**Reading Support Volunteers in schools.**| |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|**We provide trained and DBS checked**
**Reading Support Volunteers, who**
**regularly listen to children read**
**(normally aged 4 – 7 yrs old), on a one-**
**to-one basis, in schools.**
**We aim to provide this voluntary**
**support in communities and schools**
**where it is needed most.**
**The Norfolk Reading Project (TNRP)**
**benefits schools, teaching staff,**
**parents, volunteers and obviously the**
**children whom we are supporting.**
**Good literacy skills underpin all learning**
**and success in later life but in Norfolk**
**as many as 1 in 4 children leave school**
**unable to read and write.**
**Our aim and activities are to improve**
**upon these frightening statistics.**
**It is a truly intergenerational project, as**
**lack of literacy skills has such a knock-**
**on effect in later life. Illiteracy excludes**
**people not only from accessing the**
**school curriculum but also from the job**
**market and ultimately from supporting**
**their own children with reading.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Our Trustees are fully aware of the**
**public benefit offered by our charity. All**
**Trustees are regularly forwarded Charity**
**Commission News and guidance on**
**matters.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Our volunteering in the year to 30 June**
**2022 also experienced some disruption**
**due to Covid, however by September**
**2021, only a small minority of Norfolk**
**schools were not accepting volunteers.**
**There was still some hesitancy from**
**older Reading Support Volunteers to**
**return to schools early on, but with**
**more than 70 new volunteers having**
**been trained during the year to 30 June**
**2022 (66 were DBS checked by TNRP**
**and others had these undertaken by**
**either schools or other organisations.**
**Following a questionnaire sent out to**
**teachers all confirmed that the**
**volunteers helped improve the**
**children’s reading ability. A quote**
**“****_Opportunities to be heard in every_**
**_sense, reading out loud to an interested_**
**_and invested adult ……children treasure_**
**_this time._**
**_”_**| |Other||| ## **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 has been wonderful to see the return**
**of our Reading Support Volunteers to**
**most of the primary schools this**
**academic year as the need for reading**
**support has become more vital**
**following the disruption to education as**
**a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic.**
**The percentage of KS2 children meeting**
**expected standards across reading,**
**writing and maths has fallen when**
**compared to its pre-pandemic levels in**
**2019. Consequently, the disadvantage**
**gap index has risen to its highest level**
**since 2012 – this indicates that the gap**
**in attainment between disadvantaged**
**and other pupils has widened.**
**TNRP has focused on providing trained**
**Reading Support Volunteers to schools**
**in more disadvantaged communities to**
**try to address this issue. We have**
**trained over 70 new volunteers this year**
**across the county including 9 sixth form**
**students from Norwich School. This**
**new joint venture saw students**
**choosing to volunteer with TNRP as part**
**of their weekly Community Service and**
**they provided support to 3 local primary**
**schools. Feedback from the schools**
**was very positive regarding the help**
**that the young people were able to offer**
**the children and this will be an ongoing**
**collaboration.**
**We have also joined forces with The**
**Norfolk Community Foundation and The**
**National Literacy Trust on a new**
**Literacy Project in Norfolk. This project**
**is again focusing on increasing the**
**number of trained reading volunteers to**
**schools in some of the most**
**disadvantaged areas of Norfolk. Local**
**businesses were approached to provide**
**employer supported volunteers to sign**
**up to the Reading Buddies scheme,**
**these volunteers were trained by The**
**National Literacy Trust, DBS checked**
**and placed with local schools for 1 hour**
**every week . The schools would identify**
**students for one-to-one reading support**
**with the Reading Buddies – this is in**
**addition to our TNRP Reading Support**
**Volunteers, providing a two-pronged**
**approach. The project will start in**
**Thetford which has 10 primary schools,**| **all looking for additional reading support and we hope that this will then be rolled out to Norwich and Gt Yarmouth later in the year. In support of this project the new Mayor of Thetford Jane James selected TNRP as her charity of the year and has been promoting both our charity and the importance of literacy skills in her independent bookshop in the town. She has offered the use of her events room for future local training sessions. TNRP has been very fortunate to receive grants and donations to enable us to continue to offer help to Norfolk primary schools. We received £2000 from the New Endeavour Rangers Fund via The Norfolk Community Foundation to help us to recruit and train volunteers for the Gorleston and Gt Yarmouth area. We have already placed new volunteers in to schools across the town and have our first local training session planned for later in the year. Zoe Brown from Mancroft Learning again shared her Dyslexia expertise with 40 of our volunteers at a workshop in January which was the first opportunity for everyone to share their experiences since the start of the pandemic. We would also like to thank Town Close House School and the staff for their continuing support for TNRP, providing a safe and accessible training venue throughout this difficult period when many other buildings were closed. Most importantly we would like to thank all the wonderful Reading Support Volunteers who give up their time to help children to master the most important of skills. “To learn to read is to light a fire, every syllable that is spelled out is a spark “ – Victor Hugo** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**Main objectives of attracting and**
**training more volunteers than in the**
**previous year were achieved (DBS**
**checks year to 30.6.22 – 64 vs year to**
**30.6.21 – 44).**
**In addition, a project in the more**
**challenged town of Gt Yarmouth began**| |---|---|---| |||**taking shape. Plus, talks on The New**
**Literacy Project in Thetford with The**
**Norfolk Community Foundation, The**
**National Literacy Trust, TNRP and**
**Thetford’s Mayor commenced.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**A grant from the New Endeavour**
**Rangers Fund of £2,000, via the Norfolk**
**Community Foundation, was applied for**
**and awarded during the year to attract**
**and train new volunteers in the Gt**
**Yarmouth and Gorleston areas.**
**No further grants were applied for as**
**grant monies from a previous grant**
**(which was delayed due to the**
**pandemic) were still being spent on**
**training volunteers. Work on the Gt**
**Yarmouth and Gorleston campaign only**
**commenced late February 2022.**
**In March 2022, planning on a new joint**
**project in Thetford with the Norfolk**
**Community Foundation and The**
**National Literacy Trust commenced and**
**TNRP became the Mayor of Thetford’s**
**chosen charity.**
**During the year to 30 June 2022 our**
**donations exceeded those of the**
**previous year.**
**Once again, no event fundraising was**
**carried out due to continuing**
**uncertainty with Covid issues.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the year-end our bank balance of**
**£10,520.79, which is made up of mostly**
**unrestricted funds, more than covered**
**one year’s ‘normal expenditure’.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Our income is derived totally from**
**grants and awards, donations and**
**fundraising events. We aim to hold**
**unrestricted reserves to cover one**
**year’s ‘normal’ expenditure. Restricted**
**reserves are held until the appropriate**
**purchases allocated to that grant or**
**award are made.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£10,520.79**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **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|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Currently, with only two trainers we**
**have identified a need for additional**
**trainers to mitigate against loss of**
**trainers. We have an additional trainer**
**due to start in 2023 to assist in this area.**
**Regarding our selection of volunteers to**
**train we ask for references and in line**
**with our safeguarding policy all**
**volunteers have to be DBS checked.**
**To keep our volunteers enthusiastic and**
**relevant in our aim to improve literacy**
**levels in schools, we regularly hold**
**coffee mornings and workshops to**
**allow for continued exchange of**
**experiences and volunteer knowledge.**| **We also communicate with our volunteers via email and our regular newsletter ‘In The Loop’.** Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |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|**Appointed by a resolution passed at a**
**properly convened meeting of charity**
**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|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**TNRP is a member of Voluntary Norfolk**
**which is a charitable support**
**organisation specifically for charities**
**working with children.**
**We also benefit from guidance, funding**
**opportunities and webinars offered by**
**the Norfolk Community Foundation who**
**offer support to voluntary groups and**
**charities across the county.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Norfolk Reading Project| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|TNRP| |Registered charity number|1176987| |Charity’s principal address|College Barn
Cake Street
Old Buckenham, Attleborough
Norfolk
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Anne Thorley|Joint Founder and
Chair||| ||Alison Margaret
Gilmour|Secretary||| ||Sarah Jayne
Anthony|||| ||Sally Nicola
Watson|||| ||Lesley Patricia
Penniket|Treasurer||| ||Lorraine Hall|Vice-Chair||| ||Elaine Julie
Simpson|||| ||Anne Williams|||| ||Margot Christine
Paterson||5.10.2021 – 30.6.2022|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Anne Thorley|Lesley Patricia Penniket, Treasurer| ||
Chair|| ||7.12.2022|| ||7.12.2022|| **Charity Name No (if any) The Norfolk Reading Project 1176987 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01-Jul-21 30-Jun-22 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**50**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**50**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**50**
**1,598**
**-**
**8,269**
**9,867**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,000**
**922**
**1,142**
**200**
**468**
**1,028**
**-**
**30**
**-**
**-**
**3,790**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,790**
**- 1,790**
**-**
**2,443**
**653**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,000**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,648**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,648**
**922**
**1,142**
**200**
**468**
**1,028**
**50**
**30**
**-**
**-**
**3,840**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,840**

**- 192**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,000**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,648**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,648**
**922**
**1,142**
**200**
**468**
**1,028**
**50**
**30**
**-**
**-**
**3,840**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,840**

**- 192**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Fundraising Events**|**-**|||||**4,500**| |**Awards**|**-**|||||**1,560**| |**Donations**|**1,648**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**1,648**|||||**6,060**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**
|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**6,060**| |||||||| |**DBS Checks**|**-**|||||**634**| |**Books and reading aids**|**-**|||||**1,268**| |**Venue costs**|**-**|||||**-**| |**Printing, Stationery & IT**|**-**|||||**1,482**| |**Advertising**|**-**|||||**781**| |**Sundry**|**50**|||||**-**| |**Bank charges**|**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**50**|||||**4,165**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**4,165**| |||||||| ||**1,598**|**- 1,790**|**-**|
**- 192**||**1,895**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**8,269**|**2,443**|**-**|**10,712**||**8,817**| ||**9,867**|**653**|**-**|**10,520**||**10,712**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 06/12/2022 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Cash at bank HSBC (Trustees of the**
~~**Norfolk Reading Project A/C 41315102)**~~
**Details**
**Details**
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**to nearest £**
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**653**
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**-**
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**653**
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**LESLEY PATRICIA PENNIKET FCCA**
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