**Annual Report** (1[st] September 2021 – 31[st] August 2022) ## **Charity Details:** Registered Address: 14 Middlesbrough Road, South Bank Middlesbrough TS6 6NR Telephone: 07307 848 057 Email: info@wearerubies.org Website: www.wearerubies.org Social Media: @Rubies Charity Registered Charity Number: 1177332 ## **Our Board of Trustees:** Chair: Ruth Fox Treasurer: Alison Vaughan (stepped down in March 2022) Treasurer: Caroline Singleton (appointed in March 2022) Trustee: Jade Wadrop (stepped down in July 2022) Trustee: Vanessa Kirby Trustee: Janet Tuner (appointed January 2022) ## **Our Vision:** Our Vision is to encourage girls to discover their strengths and know their true worth. ## **Our Values:** - **R** Respect - **U** Understand - **B** Believe - **I** Inspire - **E** Encourage - **S** Stay Safe ## **Our Aims:** Our Aims are to support girls to: i) Increase Self-Esteem ii) Build Resilience iii) Stay Safe ## **RUBIES Activities** ## **A message from our Chair of Trustees:** Rubies vision to ‘encourage girls to discover their strengths and know their true worth’ is the overriding aim of all staff and volunteers and has never been more evident than during this past year. Following a traumatic 18 months of covid restrictions, isolation, home schooling, zoom lessons, feelings of being isolated and cut off from friends, it was good to get back into the schools and deliver face to face sessions with the girls again. I’m proud to say that Rubies now delivers sessions in over 20 schools and over this period has worked with over 325 girls across our face to face projects, as well as supporting 450 through the post! Rubies has grown significantly over this past year – with new staff and volunteers joining the team. I want to thank each and every one of them, old and new, for their dedication and hard work – often going over and above what is expected of them. A testament to how Rubies impacts not just the lives of the girls, but those who believe in its cause too. The GLOW group is proving very popular and gives girls a safe place to meet out of school to try new skills and grow in confidence. We continue to be grateful to those who support in other ways – donors, grant givers and those who offer prayer support. Without you Rubies would not exist and we greatly value your input. In true Rubies style – we do not sit on our laurels – we are already planning and looking forward. New schools are coming on board and we are planning new groups and developments including a counselling service. Here’s to another year of supporting girls as they grow into confident young women discovering their strengths and knowing their true worth. ## **Ruth Fox** ## **Chair** ## **Schools Work:** Our Vision is to encourage girls to discover their strengths and know their true worth. Our Aims are to support girls to: i) Increase Self-Esteem ii) Build Resilience iii) Stay Safe During this year we appointed a new Schools Coordinator to oversee our courses. We worked with over 265 girls across Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland in both primary and secondary schools 245 Year 6 girls and 20 Year 7 girls took part in our Self-Esteem courses and the outcomes from these were our best results so far: ## **99% of girls reported that working with Rubies had positive impact on their lives** ## **87% of girls reported an increase in SelfEsteem** ## **85% of girls reported an increase in Resilience** ## **73% reported feeling Safer** 38 girls (& boys) also attended a healthy relationships workshop. This aimed to challenge gender and career stereotypes. ## **Positive Post Project:** The very last Positive Post Project parcels were sent out from Rubies HQ in November 2021. Over the course of the pandemic we designed, packed and posted almost **5500 parcels** to provide support and encouragement for local girls! Thanks to Middlesbrough and Redcar Councils, ROSA, Tees Valley Community Foundation, County Durham Community Foundation and the TS6 ward councillors for funding this innovative project. We know it made a huge impact, with 98% of girls saying it helped them to cope with the pandemic. ## **Fundraising:** We took part in the ‘Big Give’ in March 22 raising over £4000 with match funding for our new girls group. The Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland, Carole Morgan, chose to support Rubies as one of ‘Redcar & Cleveland Mayor’s charities of the year.’ Liz was delighted to collect a cheque for £7000 as a result of her amazing fundraising efforts for local causes. We would like to say thank you to the following funders for supporting our work this year: UK Youth Greggs Foundation Middlesbrough Council Tees, Esk & Wear NHS Trust Woodsmith Foundation Teesside Charity Two Ridings Community Foundation ## **GLOW Girls Group:** The Virtual Girls Group that we had been running online during Covid became a face-to face- group for girls in Years 7-11 in November 2021. The girls decided to call their group GLOW and some of them were involved in the interviews for the first GLOW group leader in January 2022. The group has been a great success and more are planned for 2022. Activities have included being ‘Queen for a Day’ to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and a trip to the Silksworth Ski Centre in Sunderland. Every GLOW session is free and includes food, activities and support from our staff & volunteers. ## **Staff Team:** Our Co-founder and Project Co-Ordinator Krista Coulson stepped down from her role in December 2021. We were very sad to see her go but also wished her well for the future as she began a new university degree. Fran Hutchinson was appointed as our new Schools Co-Ordinator in December 2021 _“What an absolute privilege it has been to work for Rubies over the last year. On taking on the role, I had an idea of what it would be like to deliver the self-esteem courses in schools and to work with the girls, but the real-world experience has been so much more than I expected or could have hoped for._ _The work we do with the girls has a profound effect on them, and to see a difference, in real time, is such a joy. The development from week one though to week eight, is so powerful._ _The girls have an opportunity to learn what they already have inside them, they have worth, they are valuable._ _Whilst not always easy, I’ve had lots of opportunity to study and learn, and am confident in our trauma informed way of working._ _What an honour it is to work alongside the girls as they go on their journey. I feel incredibly lucky to work for this charity and deliver the transformative work that we do”_ Fran Faye Vaughan was appointed in January 2022 to lead our first GLOW girls group. Jane Cavana also joined the staff team in January 2022 as part time Admin & Finance Officer. The whole team, along with the trustees, completed a Strength Finder training day in May 2022. This was a fascinating workshop provided by Catherine Williams to help us look at our strengths both as individual and as a whole team ## **Trustee Board:** We thank and appreciate our trustees for all the support they have given Rubies over the last year. Alison Vaughan stepped down as treasurer in 2022 after supporting us right from the start of the charity. Caroline Singleton joined the board as our new treasurer, alongside Jan Turner who became a trustee having already been our Designated Safeguarding Lead. Jade Wadrop also stepped down after serving as a trustee and volunteer. ## **Volunteers:** In May 2022 we were proud to nominate Nikki Strangeway as RCDVA Volunteer of the Year for her outstanding commitment to our work. Nikki won the category and collected her award at a special event at Guisborough Hall! We also thanked our volunteer team at a celebration event in August 2022 where we recognised the amazing contribution they make to our impact as a grassroots charity. Thank you to them all! ## **Rubies is a CIO. Registered Charity No 117733** ej Annual Accounts (I" September 2021 31" August 2022) CHARITY COhlMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the perlod from 0110W2021 31108f2022 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestrictsd funds Restrictsd funds endowment lund8 Total funds Lost year tothp rth1res1 f loy* n•4re8t£ th• n08r•￿£ tothè n￿re#l¢ trtttt• n•4r•st£ A1 Roc8ipts GiaN5 ReslF Granis unles￿80 Don01￿￿S $7.403 5T,40J 2Y.$63 14,254 3S,012 300 6,318 34,012 1,700 7,4>7 1,820 107 27.$63 14,254 4.074 Incorne from Schaols HMRC Fuiiough Grani Ruule5 to WO￿ Tur￿1 Sumrnerworkshops Girls Gfoup 1S4 154 670 225 670 22$ LOIto Sub total{Gms$ income lor ARI A2 Asset and Inv?•kn•nt ••l••. see tablol. $9.9SO 81.766 Sub total fj9,950 S7,403 117.3SJ 81,766 A3Pa mgnts Admin l.M2 4321 2.152 244 680 8 rvnnin Isuranc• & L al Leasè PU￿￿1 & PmffloVKn Staff Cos15 St8ff Tiaini Tuisth Expen?¢s Volunteef C0315 Schools Mtnlorin P0311ive Po31 PT Bgreavemeni Su On-linè S*xgion• Summerworksh Soeiai A￿1vIll&S AEcouMS $.Z4P 1,200 147 28,493 1.345 IA67 2,3$7 5.08$ 1,700 2A98 8,2U 336 IS,242 41B $.7(tyJ 2,172 106 roi 25 41 3,740 Glns Grwp JusiGivfft 198 27,934 Sub total 76,730 63,560 A4 A86et and Investment pur¢h•$•¥. l$•• tablg) Sub total 27,924 48.806 7&730 63,350 Net 0freceIp￿fpaYMentsJ AS Transfer8 btheen fund$ A6 Ca8h fund8 Lgstyear end Cash fund5 this year end 32,026 40.623 18,416 25.669 57,700 12,717 21.309 38,386 79,D09 19,970 38,3e6 CCXX R1 accowts ISSI 2810Z?023 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period lthrestrKted lunds RestsicE4d lund$ EiidowiXÉlIt funds B1 Co$h fvnd• Ca 4Z7 21.Jo• fotslush lun 57.7DO 21,3D9 R•8tr5¢1• l¥rHI• Endvwm•nt fyt)ds ndffj C￿¢1¢￿￿￿•1> BJ Inv••tmeDt••Mt• CLlp14fi vll 84 Asset8 retsln•d for th• Gh8rlty'8 own PundItr*￿￿ A￿nt￿atr BS Llabllltl08 L*haMDf I#1￿ Irwiees Print N• Date of oval 21 za CAQDLJNJ SI￿] I ccxx F2 ￿V￿$(SSI 28ffj212D23 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section Independent Examiner s Report Report to the trusteosl membèrs of Rubies On accounts for the year ended 3118122 Charity no (if any} 1177332 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('the Trust") for the year ended 31108 12022. Responslbllltl88 and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are ￿sponSible for the preparation basls of roport of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111.the Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 ofthe 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions giv8n by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)Ib) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters hav8 come to my attention in connection with the examination whi¢h gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in a¢cordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independant examinerfs 8tatsment I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a prop8r understanding of the a¢¢ounts to be reached. Slgned: Dato: Name: Relevant professlonal quallflcation(s) or body (if anyl: AAT Diploma in Charity Accounting (The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) Addre88: 44 Nuneaton Drive Hemlington TS8 9PR IER October 2018 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Sectioii Independent Examiner s Report to lh8 trusteesl members of Rubies On accounts for thg year 3118122 Charity no {if anyl 1177332 Sèt out on pages I report to the trust885 on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('the Trust.) for the year ended 31108 12022. Rasponsibi1Sties and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation ba818 of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe ACY). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under se¢lion 145 of the 2011 Acl and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable DireGlions given by the Chanty Commission undor 8ectiM 145(5)(bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no Material matters havè come to my attention in connection with the examination which 9iveb me ause lo believe that in, any material respect.. a¢counliffj records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Acl or the acGounts do not a¢cwd wrth the accounting records Independent examiner'8 8tatement I have no concéms and have come a¢YOSS no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a ow understanding of the accounts to be reached. Slgnod: Date: Namo: Relevant profesgional quallflcatlonlsl or body (If any): AAT Diploma in Charity Accounting (The Institute of Chartered Accountant¥ in England and Wales) Addross: 44 NLmeaton Drive Hemlington TS8 9PR IER Octobor 2018