Trustees Annual Report 09-12-2024
Divine Purpose
1179506
9 Earlsmead Road, London, NW10 5QD
Trustees
Ngozi Ijanboh
Margaret O’Sullivan
Samson Ijanboh
Simone Davies
We are a CIO with a board of 4 trustees at present.
As per the constitution section 10, the rules of recruitment are as follows:
•Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of 3 years or indefinitely by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
•In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
Objectives
Our objectives are as follows as per the constitution;
To provide a greater opportunity for young people less privileged in society.
Working with youths, providing information and advice about help and support available from ourselves and other organisations.
Running community events, organising day trips activities and excursions for service users, thereby building a closer community.
Achievements
A quiet year financially, due to lack of funding.
This summer we ran a hugely successful summer camp in South Kilburn, in partnership with Connect Stars.
This consisted of a youth club session every Monday for 4 hours, during the summer holidays, based at the Vale Community Centre in South Kilburn. Situated in an ideal situation, consisting of a large hall, small outdoor space and a fenced off playground, ideal for physical activities.
During the camp, we took our young people on several trips, including Kayaking, Cinema, bowling and laser tag.
Serving between 25-30 young people within South Kilburn and 4 young people from another borough, per session.
Before the implementation of our project, we carried out a needs assessment survey in the community with 3 youth volunteers.
These youth volunteers were involved in the planning and implementation of the project and also ran several aspects of the programme, according to their skill set.
We desire to make this a permanent feature in every project we do, and aim provide qualifications for our young volunteers, based on the work they do with Divine Purpose.
Our evaluation session with our young people identified the desires of a permanent youth club for our young people. A place to call their own.
We are now able to run a permanent youth club every Monday from the Vale Community Centre, providing we can acquire the funding to do so.
We are aware of the great need in the area and aim to be part of the solution.
Over the past 3 years we have been able to provide water sports activities to our young people, courtesy of one of our partners, The Phoenix Outdoor Centre.
It come to our attention that most of our children, who are from the BAME community, can not swim!
According to Swim Nature, 95% of black adults and 80% of black children, don’t swim.
In Asian communities, 93% of adults and 78% of children don’t swim.
As we know, members of the BAME community are highly underrepresented in wate sports and we believe one of the biggest factors is, they do not even know how to swim.
We are now in the process of developing Learn to Swim project for the young BAME community.
Although the government promises all young people should be able to swim by time they leave primary school, there is quite a large number of children who missed out on learning this vital life skill, during the pandemic, due to lock- down. We aim to reach those young people who are in years 8, 9, 10 and 11. They will learn to swim with peers their age, before they leave secondary school.
This will allow them to explore, learn new skills and possibly take-up water sports careers.
Vision
We are continuing with the fight to obtain a small premises to engage further with the community, running a permanent youth club.
To run drop-in sessions for young people and provide a safe space to interact as many young people have no access to outside spaces unless it’s the local park.
This will enable us to hear the voice of the young people directly and allow us to implement further services, based on their needs and desires.
We will continue to run as many activities/ daytrips as possible especially during half term holidays in order to sustain the young people who have very limited opportunities of engaging in activities.
We aim to establish a Youth Board for South Kilburn and equip our young people to direct future services for the young people of South Kilburn and advocate for those things, they are passionate about.
At present we have no outstanding debts, we do not have any savings.
We continue to run with a voluntary workforce, to develop and grow the charity.
Tr Nam Ng02i ljanboh