## **Trustees’ Report** ## **Year ended 30 June 2021** Charity number: 1178019 ## **Information** Rosanna Smith Nathan Brooker Prasanna Kannan Gavin Auty Charity number: 1178019 ## **Trustees’ Report** The trustees are pleased to present their annual trustees’ report of the charity for the year of operations from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021. ## **Structure, governance and management** Decade On is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) governed by its Constitution dated 6 August 2017. It is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission. The charity had four trustees throughout the period, three of whom were appointed at the time of registration with the Charity Commission, and the fourth being appointed during the prior year to replace a Trustee who resigned. Trustees are appointed in line with the Constitution, as follows: (1) Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. (2) In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the ## **Objectives and activities** The objective of the CIO is to help young people (18+) understand and be better prepared to enter the workforce by providing practical and relevant careers advice. In shaping the objectives, the trustees have considered the Charities Commission’s guidance on public benefit, including the guidance ‘public benefit: running a charity (PB2)’. We have outlined the problem we are trying to fix, and our proposed solution, as follows: ## Defning the problem: Social mobility is a major problem in the UK. Just 7% of students are privately educated, and yet, they are hugely over-represented in the top professions, accounting for 50% of journalists; 60% of doctors; and 70% of barristers. What is more, the coronavirus crisis will make this situation worse. An LSE report found that there are serious concerns that the pandemic will push Britain’s young people under the age of 25 – the ‘Covid generation’ – into a dark age of declining social mobility because of rising economic and educational inequalities. ## Our solution: The Sutton Trust’s 2019 report on ‘Elitist Britain’ recommends that to tackle issues of social mobility high-quality careers advice needs to be available to young people from all backgrounds. All pupils should receive a guaranteed level of careers advice from professional impartial advisers. But we do not believe this is being done. What we offer: We provide the most up-to-date advice possible. Our mentors are just one or two steps ahead of the people they’re advising – about a decade or so – so they know everything about breaking into their career right now. ## **Achievements and performance** During the year, the focus of the charity was to maintain the current mentoring relationships and to monitor feedback. Proof of concept has been achieved, with around 50 mentors signed up to Decade On, a growing number of mentee connections and glowing feedback from those we have helped. Now, the focus of the charity will be on funding. Future funding will be used in areas such as operations management, marketing and design, to support the ambitious growth plans of the charity, with the aim to assist as many young adults into the job market as possible. ## Being in the early stages of the charity, costs were minimal and isolated to the website running costs and insurance. We were grateful to receive funding from KPMG LLP. We were also grateful for the time of our mentors, all of whom are volunteers. During these initial years, our reserves policy will be to build up reserves so that going-forward, that charity has six months’ operating costs held in reserve. ## R. Smith Rosanna Smith Trustee 18.04.2022 ||**Decade On**|**Decade On**|**Decade On**|**Decade On**|**Decade On**|**1178019**|**1178019**|**1178019**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
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