**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 09 2020 **To** 31 08 2021
Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** YOUTH LYNKS **Other names charity is known by** COMMUNITY YOUTH LYNKS
> **Registered charity number (if any)** 1179546
**Charity's principal address** 65 CORNYX LANE
SOLIHULL **Postcode B91 2SF**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 KHATMUN ARA
2 ALIYAH KHANUM
3 NASIMA BEGUM
4 LATIFAH
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
CIO foundation constitution
(eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO foundation constitution How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed trustees. Recruitment through advertising (eg. appointed by, elected by) locally, and through social media, from within the community and those that understand the aims and objectives of the charity.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where Annual training day to be introduced to volunteers and trustees. relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and The charity will expand its age to children as young as 3 years. training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider We may need to consider Ofsted registration for future projects that have network with which the charity been discussed. 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 act as a resource for young people up to the age of 19 living in Birmingham and Solihull **Summary of the objects of the** by providing advice and assistance and organizing programs of **charity set out in its** physical, **governing document** educational and other activities as a means of: (a) advancing in life and helping young people by developing their skills,
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capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;
(b) advancing education;
(c) relieving unemployment;
(d) providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons;
(e) Preserving and protecting the health and wellbeing.
(f) Reducing engagement in crime and anti-social behaviour
## Objectives and activities
The trustees will review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year.
Physical, educational, health and wellbeing aims are key to the Charity’s aims and objectives. We also want to add the objective of:
reducing anti-social behaviour and reduction of engagement in crime for young people.
We look forward to continuing to develop our work within these key areas to focus on for the next financial year:
We look forward to setting up and running our next projects and looking at expanding our funding goals and achieving these.
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- We need to think about expanding our reach and how we do this.
- We need to put in place manager in place that will co-ordinate events and operational activities of the charity.
- We need to explore greater funding streams to fund projects.
## **Covid 19 challenges in operating**
- Significant disruption to our operational process
- Difficulties in funding
- Disruptions to operating and planning projects
**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)**
- Impact on health of volunteers, trustees and working processes of the charity.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
Training for volunteers and volunteer day to be identified and planned into the charity diary.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
**We need to re set and identify new volunteers, that will be willing and committed to carrying out the work of the charity.**
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
In the Trustees’ view, the reserves should provide the charity with adequate financial stability and the means for it to meet its charitable objectives for the foreseeable future.
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
The trustees review the amount of reserves that are required to ensure that they are adequate to fulfil the charity’s continuing obligations on a quarterly basis at their finance meeting
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
Single small donations from individual donors.
- 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.
## **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)** K.ARA **Full name(s)** Khatmun Ara **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee/ chair **etc)**
**Date** 03 / 12 / 2022
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## **Youth Lynks**
## **Income and Expenditure account, for the period ended 31 August 2021**
|Receipts
Donations
Expenses
Professional costs
**Net surplus for the period**
**Youth Lynks**
**Statement of assets and liabilities**
**as at 31 August 2021**
Bank
Liabilites
Net Liabilities
**Unrestricted funds**|£
555
5728
240
**-5413**
£
1,922
-240
**1682**
**-5988**|
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The financial statements above were approved by the trustees and authorised for issue on 03/12/2022, and signed on their behalf by:
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Khatmun Ara
Chairman
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