||Names ofthe char|Names ofthe char|ity trustees<br>who m|anage<br>the charity|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Trustee name||Office (ifany)|Dates acted if not for whole<br>year|Name of person (or body) entitled<br>to appoint trustee<br>(ifany)||
||Dave Roberts||Chair|1998-2019|Steering|Committee|
||Kevin O'|Brien||2017-2019|Steering|Committee|
||Gary Groves|||2017-2019|Steering|Committee|
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|9|Steve Donoghue||Chair|16-04-19ongoing|Steering|Committee|
|10|Denise Jones|||16-04-19ongoing|Steering|Committee|
|11|Andrew|Leece||16-04-19ongoing|Steering|Committee|
|12|Vanessa|Grifftths||16-04-19ongoing|Steering|Committee|
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|T|e ofadviser<br>Name|e ofadviser<br>Name|Address||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Name ofchief executive<br>or||names of senior staff members<br>(Optional<br>information)|||||||||||
||||~ ~|||~|||||||
|Description<br>ofthe charity's||trusts|||||||||||
||Type of governing<br>document||Incorporated<br>Body||||||||||
||(eg. trust deed, constitution)||||||||||||
||How the charity<br>is constituted||Through<br>the CIO.||||||||||
||(eg. trust, association,<br>company)||||||||||||
||Trustee selection<br>methods<br>(eg. appointed<br>by, elected by)||We asked Sefton CVS if they could assist us recruit Trustees. They <br>their normal Trustee<br>information<br>day and asked people<br>ifthey would <br>willing to trustee<br>for Choose Life.|||||||||held<br> be|
||||Fortunately,<br>people volunteered<br>and|||were elected<br>on by the former|||||||
||||Trustees.||||||||||
|Additional<br>governance<br>issues (Optional<br>information)|||||||||||||
|You may choose to include<br>additional<br>information,<br>where<br>relevant,<br>about:|||As has been stated we our Chair was recruited<br>and <br>Sefton CVS. We then recruited<br>one Trustee<br>through<br>asked a reliable and trusted<br>volunteer<br>to also sit as||||||trained<br>through<br>word of mouth<br> a Trustee.|||the<br>and|
|~|policies and procedures||||||||||||
||adopted<br>for the induction<br>and|||Chair|ofTrustees||||||||
||training<br>oftrustees;||||||||||||
|||||Three Trustees|||||||||
|~|the charity's<br>organisational||||||||||||
||structure<br>and any wider<br>network<br>with which the charity<br>works;||Project Manager,<br>who runs the Project on a <br>On a quarterly<br>basis.||||day-to-day|||basis, and reports,|||
|~|relationship<br>with any related<br>parties;||One ofthe Trustees was <br>now resigned.|the son|ofthe Chair. , he (Simon||||||Donoghue)|has|
|~|trustees'<br>consideration<br>of||||||||||||
||major risks and the system||||||||||||
||and procedures<br>to manage||||||||||||
||them.||||||||||||
||||~<br>~<br>~<br>0|~|||||||||
||||The Charities<br>objectives|are to train||people|in|recovery||from drugs,|||
||||alcohol and commonly<br>ex-offenders|||to go into||educational|||establishments||
|Summary<br>ofthe objects ofthe<br>charity set out in its<br>governing<br>document|||and use their experiential<br>professionals<br>around<br>the <br>lines.<br>We also house men and|knowledge<br>to educate<br>young<br>people and<br> issues ofaddiction,<br>drug dealing<br>and county<br> women<br>with serious addiction<br>problems<br>and|||||||||
||||commonly<br>ex-offenders|straight|from|prison|in an abstinent||||environment.||












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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Summary|ofthe main|We have had 18 residents<br>through<br>the||doors of|Choose Life houses.|
|achievements<br>ofthe charity<br>during the year||It seems we are getting<br>slightly<br>down<br>into the house, and we|more successful<br>at settling<br>residents<br> currently<br>have about four residents<br>who|||
|||have been<br>in the house for 12|months|or more,||





|Brief statement<br>ofthe<br>charity's<br>policy on reserves|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|We have reserves<br>ofL66,246.00 Although<br>the supported<br>a small loss every month<br>we believe we can make up this <br>funding<br>coming<br>in from Choose<br>Life.|housing<br> loss with|housing<br> loss with|makes<br> the|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||This year has been fairly successful||||at|bringing|||in|funding|with|us||
||receiving|funding<br>from|grantscape,||awards|||for all||and Eleanor||Rathbone||
||which has led to our finances|||bein|ve|health|||.|||||
|.Although<br>the SUPPORTED||||||||||||||
|HOUSING<br>Details ofany funds|Nil.|||||||||||||
|materially<br>in deficit||||||||||||||
|Further financial<br>review details|(Optional|information)||||||||||||
|You may choose to include<br>additional<br>information,<br>where|The charity's<br>principal<br>benefits.||funds|come from||Liverpool||||City Council||housing||
|relevant<br>about:<br>~<br>the charity*s<br>principal<br>sources of funds<br>(including|Although<br>in funding|this does not cover <br>we are in a healthy||all our expenses<br>financial<br>state.|||||with|Choose|Life bringing|||
|any fundraising);||||||||||||||
|~<br>how expenditure<br>has||||||||||||||
|supported<br>the key objectives||||||||||||||
|ofthe charity;||||||||||||||
|~<br>investment<br>policy and||||||||||||||
|objectives<br>including<br>any||||||||||||||
|ethical investment<br>policy||||||||||||||
|adopted.||||||||||||||
||~|~ ~<br>~<br>~||~||~||||||||







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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|||f|f|f|f|
|Receipts||||||
|Residents Top Up||8,174||8,174|7,059|
|British Gas Support|Payment|400||400||
|Rental income||73,145||73,145|71,931|
|Awards For All|||9,340|9,340||
|Grantscape|||4,960|4,960||
|Rathbone Grant|||4,000|4,000||
|Workers Education|Association||||6,012|
|Donations||344||344|932|
|Big Lottery|||||9,390|
|Canal Ik River Trust|||||3,548|
|Independent<br>Initiative<br>Loan|||||5,220|
|Total Receipts||82,063|18,300|100,363|104,092|
|Payments||||||
|Travel and subsistence||||||
|Rent payable||26,505|7,835|34,340|34,060|
|Independent<br>Initiative||240||240||
|Utilities||5,232||5,232|2,391|
|Items for properties||1,660||1,660|3,762|
|Salaries||36,748||36,748|31,539|
|Employers<br>pension|contributions|2,818||2,818|2,793|
|Membership/Subscriptions||280||280||
|Maintenance||1,840||1,840|956|
|Managers<br>travel and subsistence||2,523|840|3,363||
|Volunteers<br>Expenses and subsistence||710|650|1,360|2,255|
|Bank charges||7||7||
|Residents<br>Top Up||40||40||
|Council tax||6,505||6,505|3,850|
|Insurance||1,655||1,655|1,079|
|Cleaning||513||513||
|Stationery<br>and office supplies||309||309|37|
|Telephone||660||660|546|
|Internet and computer software||1,008||1,008|1,934|
|Sundries||24||24||
|Room Hire||21f|1,550|1,761|290|
|TV Licenses||159||159|462|
|Accountancy||150||150||
|||89,795|10,875|100,670|85,954|
|Net Receipts For Period||7,732|7,425|307|18,138|
|Net Cash Funds 8/F||77,162||77,162|59,024|
|Net Cash Funds C/F||69,430|7,425|76,855|77,162|





||||Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2023|2022|
||||6|6|
|Monetary<br>Assets|||||
|Cash at Bank|||69,324|68,609|
|Cash in hand|||420|602|
||||68,904|69,211|
|This is represented||By:|||
|Awards For All Grant|||3,425||
|Rathbone<br>Grant|||4,000||
|Unrestricted|funds||61,479|69,211|
||||68,904|69,211|




