## **Pedal People**
Charity number 1177426 Registered address: 53 Princes Rd, Brighton, BN2 3RH
Pedal People is an independent registered charity launched in September 2017.
## **Trustee's Report for the year ended 30 September 2021**
## **Accessible Cycling**
Year-round wind-in-hair wellbeing
**Disabled | Elders | Health Challenges | Special Educational Needs |Ages 4-100+**
Small independent Brighton charity offering two services:
1. **Elders living in care: Weekly ride schedule** . Uplifting outdoor activity, interaction and wind in hair joy.
2. **Accessible Cycle Hub: Ages 4-100+ cycle out together on range of adaptable, multi-seat trikes** .
- We train carers/friends/family to co-pilot, so all can ride out together (often the first time this is possible for disabled and non-disabled family/friends to participate together.
- Coming out for a cycle ride with us is often participants’ only outdoor and community activity.
- Participants enjoy 6-20Km riding through their community. Taking in parks, seafront and allotments all enjoy interaction and wind in hair wellbeing. Variety of pedal/non-pedal/electric assist/
- Our volunteer cycle pilot team is consistently minimum 50% women, as is our charity board.
- Rides 12 months a year, city-centre, seafront and traffic-free areas enable all to fully explore and be part of their community. Cycling distances is often easier than walking/using mobility aids for many.
- We prioritise people who are living in areas of deprivation in our city, on benefits, low income and who do not otherwise get outside activity.
## **Benefits**
- Accessible cycling improves wellbeing, health, reduces isolation and increases independence.
- Rides are fun with smiles and waves galore.
- We see spirits lifted, people report feeling 'awake again', 'alive', 'happy’, ‘less anxious or depressed’, healthier, fitter, improved mobility and ‘sleeping better’ after rides.
- All return buzzing. People really notice the fabulous, visible cycles and interact positively
## **Structure:**
**Trustee board** : 5 trustees including finance committee of min of 2. Consistent 50% women board plus min 50% women volunteer cycle pilots.
**Advisory group** : Family members, carers and participant riders. Ages 21- 60+
This is their choice as an option instead of trustee. This is because all have high commitments to caring, rehabilitation, physio and other medical appointments and a higher need to closely manage health conditions.
**Staff** : 1 Captain, manages all aspect of the charity including rides, volunteers and pilot team plus sessional and fixed term staff of 1 in this financial year.
## **User led**
- Ride participant feedback collected constantly, with some rides this is verbal or photos. Care home plus pilot team report options every ride.
- Accessible Cycle Hub participants respond via the auto survey sent after each ride as well as via photos.
- 80% of trustees are volunteer cycle pilots in our charity team.
- 1 trustee has lived experience of disability and chronic illness.
- 75% Trustees have lived experience as carers.
- Annual care home and cycle pilot surveys. Anonymous, online and results shared with all participants and team.
## **Achievements**
- Our cycles are out back-to-back and 12 months a year. All cycles community funded and fully used.
- Waitlist – this year while awaiting more expansion into all ages accessible cycling with our Accessible Cycling Hub we have a waitlist of 168.
- 30% increase in ride numbers year on year to 2020.
- 43 trained and supported volunteer cycle pilots. Consistent min. 50% women.
- 100% positive feedback via Care provider surveys on all delivery and outcomes.
- Successfully negotiated with our Council an exceptional grant to buy and site 2 sea containers as our Accessible Cycle Hub base. Opens March 2022. Visible, accessible base, prime seafront community location, enabling wider participation of all ages, families and carers of disabled people.
## _‘I feel back in the land of the living. Everyone waves, I love it.’_ **_Violet, 95**
_The team are always happy, always make us and the residents happy and always happy to assist! They keep everyone warm and happy!_ _ **Care home Manager survey, Jan 2022**
_I look forward to this. I never go out. Everyone was so happy to see weren’t they. I like seeing what everyone is up to. There’s so much fresh air._ ’ **_Jean, 82**
_‘Just amazing! First outside exercise in 2 years since my accident.’_ **_Noah, 20. Recovering from brain**
## **injury**
_‘It’s the best thing I’ve chosen to do’._ **_Tom 40, living with acquired brain injury and 24 hr home care.**
_‘It’s magic being on a bike together, next to each other. I can’t believe how far we can go and it’s great_
_exercise for us both.’_ **_Mark 50, carer for Tom.**
## **Strategic development plan for this year achieved in full.**
Our key aim was to diversify our fleet and offer while still ensuring our sustainability. Due to the impact of covid being evidenced as highest for the elderly and disabled (our two participant groups) we brought forward by 1 year the development of our Accessible Cycle hub due to acute need and a waitlist of almost 200 people. The main elements this year have been:
- Funded a fixed term contract for a ‘Pilot Chief’ assisting on Covid recovery and increased pilot training to meet demand. This was funded by Awards for All and Sport England via Active Sussex.
- Developing our ask for ‘in memory’ donations.
- Developing our income from care home donations.
- Developing our income from individual donors.
- Funded 3 new highly specialised, adaptable side-by-side tandems that are active already as part of our all ages disabled cycling expansion. 2 Kindly funded by The Childwick Trust and 1 community crowdfunded with a 60% individual donation.
- Applied to National Lottery Community Fund for continued funding from 2022 with new 3-year funding application. Continued to develop other funding opportunities if Lottery bid not successful.
## **Finances**
Accounts for year ending 30 September 2021 submitted for independent assessment. The charity is in good financial health having continued to keep costs low and well managed in these very difficult operating conditions due to Covid impact on our participants and volunteer team.
National Lottery Community Fund (39.8% of income). We also thank: Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Ernest Kleinwort Trust, Mascolo Foundation, Sport England, The Childwick Trust and Lottery Awards for All.
Through successful fundraising the charity proves its sustainability looking forward. We have secured 80% funds for our next financial year and are looking to now fund the diversification and extension of our services to all ages disabled people through our developing Accessible Cycle Hub. 3 months reserves maintained together with provision for replacing major parts on the cycles as they enter their fifth year of year-round operation.
October 2021
**Pedal People 1177426**
## **Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 10/1/2020 **To from**
10/1/2020 9/30/2021
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £**
## **Total funds**
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to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations - Boxes 148 - - 148
Donations - Care Homes 5,800 - - 5,800
Donations - Community Fundraising 250 - - 250
Donations - Company - - - -
Donations - In Memory 801 - - 801
Donations - Individuals 22,039 - - 22,039
Donations - Hub 471 471
Refunds 440 - - 440
Grants 53,335 30,660 - 83,995
83,283 30,660 - 113,943
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 83,283 30,660 - 113,943
A3 Payments
Communications/PR 702 - - 702
Booking System 958 - - 958
Insurance 1,399 - - 1,399
Salaries 13,418 28,840 - 42,258
Employment Costs 9,621 - - 9,621
Office Costs 1,906 1,000 - 2,906
Cycle purchase 29,934 29,934
Equipment 2,579 - - 2,579
Volunteer Support 1,945 - - 1,945
Cycle Maintenance 251 820 - 1,071
Sub total [ 62,712 ] 30,660 - 93,372
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 62,712 30,660 - 93,372
Net of receipts/(payments) 20,571 - - 20,571
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 48,707 - - 48,707
Cash funds this year end 69,278 - - 69,278
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Metro Current Account
**_Total cash funds_**||**to nearest £**
**69,278**
**-**
**-**
**69,278**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||OK|OK||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||
|**charity’s own use**||||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name||
||||Brian Moore - Trustee|||
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CC16a
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## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
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68
7,000
1,052
384
-
4,604
-
310
63,450
76,868
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**76,868**
**406 821 751 33,740 7,682 1,702 - 1,504 1,088 1,635 49,329**
**49,329 27,539 - 27,539**
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
## **Endowment funds to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval
2/7/2022
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name PEDAL PEOPLE **members of On accounts for the year Charity no** 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 1177426 **ended (if any)**
## **Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **DD / MM / YYYY** 30 09 2021 .
**Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** ~~[The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to~~ **examiner's statement** ~~undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert nam~~ e of ~~applicable listed body]].~~ _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination ( ~~other than that disclosed below *~~ ) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Date:** 9 February 2022 **Name:** Alex Koupland
**Relevant professional** FCA CTA FMAAT **qualification(s) or body**
**Oct 2018**
1
**IER**
## **(if any):**
**Address:** CALDER & CO 30 ORANGE STREET LONDON WC2H 7HF
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**