**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date **Period end date 1 April 2021 31 March 2022**
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** FLYNNE’S BARN
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1177897
**Charity's principal address** Thorneythwaite Farm
Borrowdale Keswick **Postcode CA12 5XQ**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Anne Darlington|Chair|||
||Claire Wormsley||||
||Katherine Bonner||||
||Richard McKerrow||||
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Katherine Bonner, Robin Ewart-Biggs (co-founders and coordinators)
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
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Every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
To promote and protect the physical and mental health of children and **Summary of the objects of the** young people up to the age of 25 diagnosed and living with cancer and **charity set out in its** other life-changing illnesses by providing holidays and creative **governing document** workshops, outward bound activities, emotional support and practical advice. Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with [section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005] and [section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008]
|**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|This is the fourth reporting year for Flynne’s Barn. It took place during the
COVID-19 pandemic and therefore within the restrictions in place during
this time. As such, activities carried out during 2020/2021 mainly
continued: to lay the ground for future work; and to develop the
Counselling and Family Support project initiated in 2019/2020. Specific
activities are listed in Section D.
The charity aims to alleviate the suffering and distress caused to children
and young people living with cancer and other life-changing illnesses,
and their families, by providing day and residential visits, creative and
outward-bound activities, and emotional and psychosocial support. This
advances health, relieves suffering and distress, and aims to build
resilience and wellbeing.
Flynne’s Barn proposes to meet the needs of beneficiaries by providing
services and facilities through which young people living with cancer and
other potentially life-limiting illnesses can:|
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- a. Meet with others going through similar experiences and receive peer support in a welcoming and nurturing environment, which is safe and secure.
- b. Engage in a range of activities that will help them to get away from the stresses associated with illness and treatment, and to build resilience, confidence, teamwork, positive relationships and hope for the future [improved wellbeing], through:
- a creative hub, where young people will be free to explore a range of art, craft and musical materials [peer to peer, expressive activities]
- specialist-led workshops [skill-based interventions]
- outward-bound activities: abseiling, archery, kayaking, canoeing, hill-walking [physical and emotional well-being].
- c. Engage in professional counselling and family support.
Flynne’s Barn trustees ‘have regard’ to the Commission's public benefit guidance ‘when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant’.
‘Having regard’ to its public benefit guidance means charity trustees should be able to show that:
- they are aware of the guidance
- - they have taken it into account when making a decision to which the guidance is relevant
- - if they have decided to depart from the guidance, they have good reasons for doing so
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and erformance p
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Flynne’s Barn was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 11[th] April 2018. This is the fourth Trustees’ Report.
## **Trustees** :
We have retained a core group of founder trustees. The recruitment of trustees with experience in medical services (paediatric oncology/ wellbeing) and charity fundraising, and with local connections, has not taken place due to the slowing down of overall charity development caused by the pandemic. However, this is still planned to take place as we build stronger connections with professionals in the North West.
## **Strategy 2021-2022**
The strategy from 2020/2021 was reviewed in light of the pandemic and re-formulated for 2021/2022 as follows:
- to carry out our first group residential visit if possible, subject to COVID-19 restrictions, guidance, safety protocols and returning confidence of partner organisations, young people and their families;
- to continue networking with national and local organisations working with young people living with cancer;
- to consolidate the Counselling and Family Support service.
## **The Thorneythwaite site:**
The development of the site reached completion in October 2021. Please note that this development is independent from the charity but, now finished, is available to the charity to use for residential visits and other activities.
Love Productions filming of developments continued, with the subsequent release of promotional footage.
## **Visits and networking**
It has been a key year in the development of the charity as we welcomed our first residential group and continued to establish connections with other organisations. The periods of reflection in 2021 and the networking we have done show that there is a need for us to work more broadly with families affected by a young person’s cancer diagnosis and with professionals working in the field.
Accordingly, while the site was still under development in the summer of 2021, we offered day visits for the Teenage Cancer Trust team based in the North West. Referrals followed, including a family and then a couple. As a result of our growing partnership with CancerCare, we also welcomed their Re-Fresh group for a day visit.
Once development of the site was finished In October 2021, we were able to re-welcome the Re-Fresh girls for our first residential group in collaboration with CancerCare.
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
Different models for Flynne’s Barn visits are evolving. In February this year we hosted a Friendship Support Bubble visit of fourteen teenagers for the week. A young man has since benefited from a solo residential stay as of March 2022.
Over the course of these first residential stays we have continued to strengthen our relationships with local Lake District allies and friends of Flynne’s Barn, including potential providers of activities for visits and residentials.
## **Counselling and family support project**
With the onset of the pandemic and subsequent cancellation of our pilot group visits in 2020, the momentum Flynne’s Barn had been gathering was put on hold. We had therefore decided to set up an online and telephone counselling and support service for young people and their families in 2021. As part of this, we linked up with a number of Cumbria, North West and national organisations, including Cumbria Youth Alliance, CancerCare, Trekstock, Young Lives versus Cancer and the Teenage Cancer Trust team in Manchester.
Through this 2021/2022 period we have continued to commission two qualified and experienced youth counsellors for sessional work, and taken referrals from the treatment centres we’re linked into. Sessions have been taking place via Zoom or telephone; and we plan to offer those using the service to come together for a residential.
The work our counsellors have been doing during this time is invaluable and much needed to support young people not only with the stress of a cancer diagnosis but also with anxieties that have been compounded by the pandemic. This financial year we have generated 19 referrals, compared to the 3 in our launch year 2020/2021. We ran a total of 103 sessions over this 2021/2022 period. Both referrals and total sessions increased 6-fold from 2020/2021 to 2021/2022. We hope to continue this expansion through 2022/2023 as mental health services nationwide are overstretched and young people struggle to access this kind of tailored support.
The project is fully funded for 2022 thanks to much appreciated grants from the E.C. Graham Trust and, for a second time, the National Lottery Community Fund.
## **Fundraising:**
As COVID-19 restrictions have eased during 2021/2022, fundraising activities curtailed by the pandemic have been able to recommence. There have been a range of imaginative fundraising endeavours.
The Isherwood family held a Curry and Cocktails evening in December 2021. Many thanks to the chefs, musicians, all who donated generous auction prizes and to those who enjoyed the evening. £900 was raised.
This year we received a £2,500 donation from St James’s Place to fund the visit for Harry P and his support bubble. Harry also donated £400 to
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Section D Achievements and erformance p cover the costs of transport for the group. These generous donations ensured that the group had a fantastic visit and will also help towards future group visits. As mentioned earlier, the E.C. Graham Trust and the National Lottery Community Fund provided grants covering the counselling and family support project. We also received a significant donation from the Robert Gavron Charitable Trust.
We are very grateful to all who make regular contributions and who think of unique ways of raising funds for Flynne’s Barn.
## **Summary**
The thinking and planning time that we have had throughout the pandemic has shown us that we are in a strong position to be flexible in the support we can offer. Whilst supporting young people will always be at the core of what we do, we anticipate that Flynne’s Barn will work more broadly with families affected by cancer and with the professionals supporting them. It has been special to see this come into fruition and provide our first of many residential stays during this 2021/2022 period.
|**Section E Financial review**|**Section E Financial review**|
|---|---|
|**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit**
**Further financial review details**
You**may choose**to include
additional information, where
relevant about:
•
the charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising);
•
how expenditure has
supported the key objectives
of the charity;
•
investment policy and
objectives including any
ethical investment policy
adopted.||
||The trustees will consider the level of reserves that is prudent for
Flynne’s Barn to have when agreeing the annual budget. Consideration
will be given to future strategy, potential redundancy liabilities, and any
other significant factors that should be taken into account were Flynne’s
Barn to close or move to new premises. The specific reserves policy
including any designation of reserves for specific purposes will be agreed
by trustees on an annual basis.|
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||Non applicable|
||**(Optional information)**|
||Principle source of funding during this period: individual donations|
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**Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Anne Darlington **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair of Trustees **etc) Date** 26/07/22
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**Charity Name N Flynne's Barn 1**
## **Receipts and payments acco**
Period start date
**For the period from**
**To**
01.04.2021
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £ to the nearest £**
## **A1 Receipts**
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Donations 33,824 - -
Grants 10,431 12,465 -
Fundraising events 2,623 - -
Interest on deposit accounts 8 - -
46,886 12,465 -
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - -
- - -
Sub total [ - ] - -
Total receipts 46,886 12,465 -
A3 Payments
Office: postage, stationery, etc. 8 - -
Bank interest and charges 96 - -
ICT 830 1,189 -
Psychosocial Activity materials 207 - -
Governance 1,135 - -
Promotion (audit & evaluation) - 454 -
Promotion (website) - - -
Staffing 2,266 - -
Counselling project - 5,425 -
Residentials 2,567 - -
Sub total 7,109 7,068 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total payments 7,109 7,068 -
Net of receipts/(payments) 39,777 5,397 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 44,009 409 -
Cash funds this year end 83,786 5,806 -
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**
**Unrestricted Categories Details funds to nearest £ B1 Cash funds** Current account **27,734** Despoit account **56,052 -** _**Total cash funds**_ **83,786** (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK **Unrestricted funds Details to nearest £ - B2 Other monetary assets - - - - -**
## **Fund to which Details asset belongs**
## **B3 Investment assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
|**Details**
**Details**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Details**
**Details**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
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## **B5 Liabilities**
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## **CC16a**
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## **Total funds**
## **Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
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33,824 14,708
22,896 -
2,623 -
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59,351 14,720
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96 69
2,019 1,660
207 2,531
1,135 1,171
454 2,590
- 434
2,266 -
5,425 -
2,567 1,833
14,177 10,353
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45,174 4,367
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44,418 39,961
89,592 44,328
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Restricted Endowment
funds funds
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examinerfs report
on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the
Irusleesldirectorsl
members of
On accounts for the year
ended
Charity no.:
77%47
Company no.:
Sot out on pages
I report to the charity twstees on My examination of th8 a(xx)unts of the
Company for the year ended
Responsibilit4e$ and
basis of report
As the charity's twste85 of the Company (rt are also the directors of the
company for the purposes of company law). you are responsible for the
preparatton of the accounts in accrnlance viith the requirements of th8
Companies Act 2006 (Ihe 2006 Acr).
Having satisfied myself that the ac(Unts of the Company are not required
to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 2(K16 Act and are dtgible for
independent examinati. I report In respect of my examination of your
chariVs accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011
(Ihe 2011 Acfk In carrying out my examinatKin. I have followed the
Directions given by the Charty Commission (under section 145(5Xb) of the
2011 ACL
Indopendent
examinerfs ststement
trhe compan
income ex
ed £250,(KMJ
undorta
e examina
inga
member
ble list
]. Delet
not applicable
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I have completed my examination. I confinn that no material matters have
come to my attention (
'} whtch gives me
causo to believe that:
* accx)unting records were not kept in ac(anCe with section 386 of the
Companies Act 2006; or
. the accounts do not accord wtth such records. or
. the accounts do not with relevant accounting requirements under
section 396 of the Companies Aci 2006 other Ihan any requirement that the
accounts give a Irue and fair, view ¥thich is not a matter considered as part
of an independent examination", or
.the acc
have
(FRS10
FER
October 2018
I have no conc8ms and have (X auoss no other matters In InneCtIOn
with the examination to which attention should te drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
' Please delet8 the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply.
Signed:
Dato:
Name:
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
rrf any):
Section B
Disclosure
Only u)mtAete rf the examiner neets to highlight material matters of )nCern
(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.
IER
October 2018