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## 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**
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8|**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|||
||Louise Andrews||||
||Katherine Bonner||Until 19/06/2023||
||Karthica Indramohan||As of 19/06/2023||
||Richard McKerrow||||
||Dr Ananth Gouri Shankar||As of 19/06/2023||
||Laura Walter||||
||Claire Wormsley||Until 23/08/2023||
## **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)
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How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation Every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
## **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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To promote and protect the physical and mental health of children and young people up to the age of 25 diagnosed and living with cancer and other life-changing illnesses by providing therapeutic residentials and counselling services. We offer creative 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]. This is the sixth reporting year for Flynne’s Barn. We have been able to **Summary of the main** scale our activities, notably providing a greater number of residentials **activities undertaken for the** and shifting our focus to independent Flynne’s Barn group visits and **public benefit in relation to** Partnership Stays rather than family visits (as outlined in section D). We **these objects (include within** have continued to develop the Counselling and Family Support project **this section the statutory** initiated in 2019/20. Specific activities are listed in Section D. Our Online **declaration that trustees have** Community Group, set up following a residential in 2022/23 to provide **had regard to the guidance** ongoing connectedness and peer support, has also progressed this year. **issued by the Charity Commission on public** The charity aims to support children and young people living with cancer **benefit)** and other life-changing illnesses, and their families, by providing residential visits, creative and outward-bound activities, and emotional and psychosocial support. This advances health, relieves distress, and aims to build resilience and wellbeing. Flynne’s Barn proposes to meet the needs of beneficiaries by providing
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services and facilities through which young people living with cancer and other potentially life-changing illnesses can:
- 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: e.g. abseiling, archery, canoeing, hill-walking [physical and emotional well-being]
- _`o`_ connection with nature and the environment [physical and emotional well-being].
- b. Maintain as sense of community and connectedness, and access peer support through our Online Community Groups.
- 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
Flynne’s Barn was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation **Summary of the main** on 11[th] April 2018. This is the sixth Trustees’ Report. **achievements of the charity during the year**
**Trustees** :
We have retained a core of two founder trustees and recruited four
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## Section D Achievements and performance
additional trustees since the beginning of Flynne’s Barn, including two new recruits this year. All of our new appointments have highly relevant experience in cancer support in the NHS and/or the third sector.
## **Strategy 2023-2024**
- to deliver more of our independent group residential stays and consolidate this specific service;
- to continue networking with national and local organisations working with young people living with cancer;
- to expand the Counselling and Family Support service.
## **Visits and networking**
It has been an important year for the development of the charity as we’ve continued to provide residentials and establish connections with other organisations. During this period we employed a Youth Coordinator to facilitate and develop our residentials.
We provided 12 residentials, supporting a total of 89 beneficiaries. Four were our independent Flynne’s Barn Group Stays. Four were Partnership Stays, with Teenage Cancer Trust, and Spread a Smile. The remaining four were family stays.
Over the course of these residentials we have continued to build new and strengthen existing relationships with local Lake District allies and friends of Flynne’s Barn, including activity providers.
## **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 and the Teenage Cancer Trust team in Greater Manchester.
During the 2021/22 period we recruited two sessional youth counsellors and have taken referrals from the treatment centres we are linked into. Sessions have been taking place via Zoom or telephone. Some of those using the service have registered for residentials, and, similarly, attendance at residentials can be a pathway to the counselling service. Both services aim to break down the isolation that can be associated with a cancer diagnosis and are seen as distinct but complementary sources of support for young people following a cancer diagnosis.
The work our counsellors have continued to carry out through 2023/24 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 Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis. For 2023/24, referrals (45) and sessions delivered (266) have steadily
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Section D Achievements and performance
increased from 2021/22, (33 and 225 respectively).
## **Online Community Group**
Following the creation of the Online Community Group after our first Flynne’s Barn Group Stay residential in 2022/23, the group has continued into 2023/24. It entails a monthly online meeting over Zoom to maintain connections and provide continued access to peer support for visitors. The core group since its inception continue to participate, alongside some new members who were welcomed in 2023/24.
## **Fundraising:**
There have been a range of imaginative fundraising endeavours. Activities and events throughout the year have raised over £6,000; including food evenings, two music events that we have named Barnfest, and sponsored runs, to name a few. The E.C. Graham Trust, Raj Munglani Trust, Cumberland & Westmorland Freemasons and Masonic Charitable Foundation have all also contributed valuable grants and donations towards our work. We also have a number of core regular donors who contribute monthly. We are very grateful to all who make regular contributions and who think of unique ways of raising funds for Flynne’s Barn. **Summary** This 2023/24 period has been successful, particularly in terms of refining our core services and shifting focus onto the residential models we had envisaged at the inception of Flynne’s Barn. The support we offer has expanded and evolved throughout this period – we are excited to see how our services continue to develop.
**Section E Financial review** The trustees will consider the level of reserves that is prudent for Flynne’s **Brief statement of the** Barn to have when agreeing the annual budget. Consideration will be **charity’s policy on reserves** 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. **Details of any funds materially** Non-applicable **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** Principle source of funding during this period: individual donations You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: the charity’s principal sources of funds (including
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any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|||
|---|---|---|
||Anne Darlington||
||Chair of Trustees||
||15/10/2024||
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||**Charity Name**
**Flynne's Barn**
|**Charity Name**
**Flynne's Barn**
|**Charity Name**
**Flynne's Barn**
|**No (if any)**
**1177897**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01.04.2023|**To**|Period end date
31.03.2024|
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**22,749**
Grants
**19,000**
Fundraisingactivities
**17,206**
Bank interest
**1,533**
Partnershipresidential fees
**-**
Other
**-**
**60,488**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 60,488**
**A3 Payments**
Residential services
**25,806**
Counsellingservices
**2,602**
Staffingcosts
**17,090**
Service development
**7,215**
Charityadministration
**4,791**
Fundraisingcosts
**1,157**
**_Sub total_ 58,661**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 58,661**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 1,827**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**85,875**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 87,702**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**3,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,000**
**-**
**10,910**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,910**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,910**
**- 7,910**
**-**
**7,910**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**22,749**
**22,000**
**17,206**
**1,533**
**-**
**-**
**63,488**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**63,488**
**25,806**
**13,512**
**17,090**
**7,215**
**4,791**
**1,157**
**69,571**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**69,571**
**- 6,083**
**-**
**93,785**
**87,702**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**22,749**|**19,428**|
||||**22,000**|**17,419**|
||||**17,206**|**8,239**|
||||**1,533**|**500**|
||||**-**|**806**|
||||**-**|**111**|
||||**63,488**|**46,503**|
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|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
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|||**-**|**63,488**|**46,503**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**25,806**|**10,588**|
||||**13,512**|**11,890**|
||||**17,090**|**16,475**|
||||**7,215**|**657**|
||||**4,791**|**2,700**|
||||**1,157**|**-**|
||||**69,571**|**42,310**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**69,571**|**42,310**|
||||||
||**- 7,910**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 6,083**|**4,193**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**7,910**||**93,785**|**89,502**|
||**-**||**87,702**|**93,695**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Current account
Deposit account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**9,664**
**-**
**78,038**
**-**
**87,702**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Anne Darlington
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Anne Darlington|15.10.2024|
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLANO AND WAIES '.
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I report to the ttU5tee5 my ey3rnination of the
tOUnts ofthe above
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basis of report
As the chariirfs trustees. you are reswnsible for the preparatton of the
a(xounts in accordan 7•rith the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
rthe Acr).
I rewrt in respect of my examinati of Ihe Tllr$ accounts carTied ckrt
under sectton 145 of 2011 Act and in (arrying out my examination. I
have followed all the aptAicable DITertns given by the Charity Commissir
under section 145(5)(b} of the Acl.
Independent trhe charity's gTOSS income eXded £250,000 and l am qualthed to
examinerfs statement undertake the eyaminath)n by being a quaified rneMb of [insert name
applicable listed LKxJyll. Delete [ ] rfnot appfvcable.
l ccffipleted my exInation. I nfIrM that no material matteTS have
cJJne to my attl)n in wAh the exinatiOn (other than that
disdosed below") whth gives me cause to believe that in. any m*rial
the acc(wnting re(x)rd5 were not kept in accordan with section 130
the accounts did not acmrd vrith the a(xx)unting records: or
the accounts dmj not u)mpty byith appltcable requirefflents
con¥Tj the form and o)ntent of accounts set out in the Charibes
(Ac£ounts and Repts> Regulations 2008 other tt)an any requiretnent
that the acwjnts gtve a Yrue and lairf Vlew which is not a matter
COnsK as part of an independent examination.
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wtth the examination to whith attention shoukj be drawn in this report in
order to enable a prOr understsnding of the awjunts to be reached.
. Please delete the words in the brackets rffhgy do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
Name:
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qUaficatiOn{s) or body
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