Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 09 2021 To 31 08 2022
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
CIO foundation constitution Type of governing document (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 relevant, about:
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Annual training day to be introduced to volunteers and trustees. training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational The charity will expand it age to children as young as 3 years. structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of We may need to consider Ofsted registration for future projects that have major risks and the system been discussed. 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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Review and feedback of engagement from service users within the Creative Arts Covid 19 project 2020/2021, over 400 children took part
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To reach out to schools and other organizations that work within our remit and communities.
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We need to think about expanding our reach and how we do this.
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)
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We have experienced significant disruption to our operational processes.
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This has led to difficulties in funding.
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Disruptions to operating and planning of projects.
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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 days to be identified and planned into the charity diary.
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
Fun Day to be planned and undertaken. We have purchased a colour printer that will be used to print and display artwork, we can use this for poster size prints. We will be focussing on re-engaging volunteers as these are a valuable resource and plan to undertake a further project for Winter 2023. We will hold an awareness day to publicise our aims and mission and to engage volunteers and public from the communities we serve.
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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.
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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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 2022
| Receipts Donations Expenses Professional costs Net surplus for the period Youth Lynks Statement of assets and liabilities as at 31 August 2022 Bank Liabilites Net Liabilities Unrestricted funds |
£ 5 561 240 -796 £ 1,367 -240 1127 -1371 |
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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:
Khatmun Ara
Chairman