## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From Period start date 06/04/2020 To Period end date 05/04/2021**
**Charity name: Gorton Imagination Library**
**Charity registration number: 1177483**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 To promote early education for the public benefit
purposes of the charity in particular, but not exclusively, by the provision
as set out in its of free, high-quality books for children aged under
governing document 5 living in Manchester.
Para 1.17 and -
Summary of the main Providing free, high-quality books to all
1.19
activities in relation to registered children under 5 years living in
those purposes for the identified Super Output areas in Manchester
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public benefit, in Providing financial support to local schools to
particular, the activities, enable them to register their Nursery children
projects or services to receive free books until they are 5 years.
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identified in the Support local families to access activities
accounts. regarding early literacy, adult literacy and
back to work guidance.
Statement confirming Para 1.18 All trustees have read and understood Charity
whether the trustees Commission guidance regarding Public Benefit.
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit
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SORP reference
NA
Para 1.38
Policy on grant making
NA
Para 1.38
Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment
Volunteers offer their time free of charge and
Para 1.38 without claiming any expenses, to attend
Contribution made by meetings, support the charity’s activities and
volunteers access funding opportunities.
The group has received support and training
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around fundraising and the roles and responsibilities of a trustee from Manchester Community Central (MACC). Imagination Library UK, to which we are affiliated, offers support and information. Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
Summary of the main Since the charity was established in June 2015 the
achievements of the number of children registered for the book-gifting
charity, identifying the programme has increased from 27 to around 350
difference the charity’s Para 1.20 currently. We have increased our links to local
work has made to the schools and nurseries from 1 to 6 over the 6
circumstances of its years.
beneficiaries and any This means approximately 21,000 books have
wider benefits to society been gifted, approximately 800 children have
as a whole. received free books; their families have been
supported to help their children be ready for
school and to develop a love of reading.
Because of the experience and networks of our
volunteers, we have developed excellent
partnership working with Sure Start Centres,
Manchester Libraries and Read MCR, Reform
Radio, Adult Education, Speech and Language,
local Housing Associations , Health and Social
Care professionals and other local services and
organisations. This means we are able to work
with the whole family in supporting them to
achieve positive outcomes around health,
education, training and employment. So far at
least 10 parents have been supported back into
work.
Like many organisations, we have had to adapt
the way our ways of working in response to the
pandemic. Children who were already registered
to receive the books continued to do so and we
were able to share home learning activities and
keep in contact with families via email.
SureStart Centres, which remained open but for
‘appointment only’ contacts, invited individual
families in for support if required. Feedback from
families has been positive; one parent stating
that,’ still receiving the book a month gave my
child something to look forward to during
lockdown. We have been able to access funding to
enable these ‘Covid babies’ to be registered onto
the Imagination Library.
From September 2020 we were also able to
support 2 local schools so that they register their
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Nursery children and use the monthly books for class lessons and home learning, knowing that they would all continue to receive them even when the school was closed. Feedback from schools shows how valuable this Catch Up project has been, ‘because the teacher has the same book as all the children, it was much easier to deliver virtual lessons.’ As a group led mainly by volunteers we were nominated for the Queens Award for Voluntary Services and were informed that we had been selected as one of 240 organisations, from over 5,000 who were nominated, to receive this. This has significantly raised our profile and enabled us to access an increasing number of funding streams meaning March 2022 we will change our working name to Manchester Imagination Library to reflect our growing reach.
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 The financial accounts for 2020/21 show a much
financial position at the stronger position from 2019/20 due to successful
end of the period funding bids particularly to address the impact of
the pandemic on babies born between March 2020
and April 2021. We
Statement explaining the Para 1.22 As Dolly Parton and the Dollywood Foundation
policy for holding recommend that Imagination Libraries are a
reserves stating why they universal offer with children receiving the books
are held until they are 5 years of age, we aim to build up
reserves of at least £10K. Figures for the
financial year 2021/22 show we are already close
to achieving this.
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Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £2,000
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 The majority of our funds are allocated to future
reserves expenses to enable us to continue registration for
as many children as possible until they reach five
years of age. The high level of funds held reflects
the difficulties we have had and continue to have
in encouraging families to visit local SureStart
centres to register their children due to ongoing
worries about Covid. From January 2022 these
numbers are rising quickly meaning that funds
held will be used to rapidly increase the numbers
of children registered.
Details of fund materially Para 1.24
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 We have recently been successful with several
uncertainties about the funding bids to enable us to register more babies
charity continuing as a born during the pandemic. Our current bank
going concern balance is approximately £25K to enable us to
support these children who have missed so many
of the opportunities needed to enable them to be
successful at school. The only factor to be
considered is our capacity to continue registration
until these children are five years of age as most
of our funds are given for a limited period of one
or two years. We anticipate that some of these
children will move onto school-based programmes
once they go to Nursery.
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Major funding of about £5K per year has been
provided by our original funder, initially to register
The charity’s principal Covid babies but we gained agreement to divert
sources of funds Para 1.47 £2K to support a schools’ Catch-Up project to
(including any address the deficit of home learning during
fundraising) lockdown. We also received funds from one of our
partners Reform Radio so that the children they
worked with on a Home Language Storytelling
project could be registered on Imagination Library.
Other funds from local authority grants and
smaller successful funding bids.
NA
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
An ongoing risk is lack of funds but we are actively
pursuing digital giving and business sponsorship
A description of the Para 1.46 to secure continuing income.
principal risks facing the
charity
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Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Trust deed
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 CIO whose only voting members are trustees.
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 We select trustees from volunteers with an
methods including details interest and areas of expertise related to early
of any constitutional literacy and supporting families in deprived
provisions e.g. election to communities through our expanding local
post or name of any contacts. Where we find gaps in
person or body entitled knowledge/experience we seek out additional
to appoint one or more trustees through Manchester Community Central
trustees www.macc.org.uk .
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction Para 1.51
and training of trustees
We are affiliated to the Dollywood Foundation and
supported by Imagination Library UK but are a
The charity’s standalone charity.
organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
We have mutually supportive partnerships with:
Reform Radio
Relationship with any Para 1.51 Manchester City Council
related parties SureStart
Read MCR and MCR Libraries
Local Primary schools
Manchester Community Central (MACC)
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name Gorton Imagination Library Other name the charity Manchester Imagination Library (working name)
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uses
Registered charity 1177843
number
Charity’s principal Gorton Sure Start Centre
address Stelling Street
Gorton
Manchester
M18 8LW
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Janet FitzGerald Chair
2 Janet Dexter Trustee
3 Joanne Farrell Trustee
4 Cheryl Pridgeon Trustees Secretary
Hannah Trustees Vice
5
Mahapatra Chair
6 Cllr Julie Reid Trustee
7 Jenny Simpson Trustee
8 Emma Thackray Treasurer
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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 None held in this capacity Name and objects of the NA charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements NA for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **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)** Janet FitzGerald **Full name(s)** Janet FitzGerald **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 25/02/2022
**Gorton Imagination Library**
**No (if any)**
**Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 4/6/2020 4/5/2021
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations 14,249 - - 14,249
Schools Funding - - - -
- - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 14,249 - - 14,249
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total receipts 14,249 - - 14,249
A3 Payments
Books 6,150 - - 6,150
Other payments 72 - - 72
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total 6,222 - - 6,222
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total payments 6,222 - - 6,222
Net of receipts/(payments) 8,027 - - 8,027
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 9,457 - - 9,457
Cash funds this year end 17,484 - - 9,457
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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**|Cash in bank|at year end
**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**17,484**
**-**
**-**
**17,484**|
|**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**||||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name||
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CC16a
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## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
## **Endowment funds**
## **to nearest £**
**-**
## OK
## **Endowment funds to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval
## **Payments OUT to the Dollywood Foundation**
## **Payments OUT**
## **Payments IN from Schools**
|**Date**|**Amount**|**Detail**|**Date**|**Amount**|**School**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**4/14/2020**|£722.70|Service Char|6/30/2020|£18.00||
|**5/5/2020**|£571.15|Service Char|9/30/2020|£18.00||
|**7/13/2020**|£531.10|service Charg|12/31/2020|£18.00||
|**7/13/2020**|£156.31|Service Char|3/31/2021|£18.00||
|**7/13/2020**|£473.50|||||
|9/8/2020|£455.96|||||
|10/30/2020|£383.03|||||
|10/30/2020|£408.72|||||
|12/4/2020|£476.38|||||
|12/4/2020|£271.20|||||
|12/4/2020|£514.93|||||
|2/1/2021|£612.25|||||
|3/1/2021|£572.86|||||
£6,150.09 £72.00
## **Donations IN**
|**Amount**|**From**|**Date**|**Amount**|
|---|---|---|---|
||Insightful Reta|4/6/2020|£42.00|
||J Fitzgerald|4/15/2020|£10.00|
||Insightful Reta|5/4/2020|£42.00|
||J Fitzgerald|5/15/2020|£10.00|
||Insightful Reta|6/4/2020|£42.00|
||Reform Radio|6/12/2020|£1,875.00|
||J Fitzgerald|6/15/2020|£10.00|
||Insightful Reta|7/6/2020|£42.00|
||j Fitzgerald|7/15/2020|£10.00|
||Clarion|7/23/2020|£1,000.00|
||insightful Reta|8/4/2020|£42.00|
||Jigsaw Homes|8/7/2020|£2,000.00|
||J Fitzgerald|8/17/2020|£10.00|
||Insightful Reta|9/4/2020|£42.00|
||Fisher Lega|9/10/2020|£5,000.00|
||J Fitzgerald|9/15/2020|£10.00|
||Insightful Reta|10/5/2020|£42.00|
||J Fitzgerald|10/15/2020|£10.00|
||Insightful Reta|11/4/2020|£42.00|
||J Fitzgerald|11/16/2020|£10.00|
||INsightful Reta|12/4/2020|£42.00|
||J Fitzgerald|12/15/2020|£10.00|
||Reform Radio|12/22/2020|£1,875.00|
||insightful Reta|1/4/2021|£42.00|
|£0.00|j ftzgerald|1/15/2021|£10.00|
||Insightful Reta|2/4/2021|£42.00|
||J Fitzgerald|2/15/2021|£10.00|
||Insightful Reta|3/4/2021|£42.00|
||J Fitzgerald|3/15/2021|£10.00|
||Reform Radio|3/25/2021|£1,875.00|
£14,249.00