KIDS against PLASTIC Trustee Report year ending 2024
Trustee Annual Report
The Trustees present their annual report and financial statements of the Charity for the year ending 31 March 2024. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the Charity’s governing document.
Status and Governing Document
Kids Against Plastic became registered as an CIO (Foundation) on 13 Sep 2018. The charity is governed by its present constitution which was adopted on 13 Sep 2018 and as amended on 01 Oct 2021.
Administrative information
Charity name: Kids Against Plastic
Charity registration number: 1179917
Registered address: 87 Redhill Road Arnold Nottingham NG5 8GX
Governance and management
The charity is governed by its board of trustees. The trustees who continued to serve during the year:
Tim Meek - appointed 19th May 2018
Kerry Meek – appointed 19th May 2018
Andrew Jackson - appointed 19th May 2018
Britta Bayman - appointed 5th July 2018
Amy Meek - appointed 20th September 2020
Alastair Creamer - appointed September 2020
Harry Waters - appointed 17th September 2021
Simon Terry - appointed 17th September 2021
Ella Meek - appointed 17th September 2021
During the year, TIm Meek, Kerry Meek, Alastair Creamer and Andrew Jackson stepped down from their roles as trustees.
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Bankers
Santander 2 Triton Square Regent’s Place London NW1 3AN
Independent Examiner
Lynne Cullis Waterloo House, Unit 127, M11 Business Link Parsonage Lane Stansted, Essex, CM24 8GF
Board of trustees
The trustees are responsible for the governance and strategy of the Charity. During this financial year, all Trustee meetings were held by Zoom. The mixture of trustees brought a balanced mix of skills in governance, business, and administration.
Kids Against Plastic supports the principles of good governance set out in the Charity Governance Code for smaller charities.
Trustees have independent control over, and legal responsibility for, the Charity’s management and administration. They must: comply with the Charity’s governing document and the law; act in the Charity’s best interests, manage the Charity’s resources responsibly; act with reasonable care and skill; and ensure the Charity is accountable.
Related parties
Related parties are the Trustees and those individuals connected with them including family members and business associates.
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.
Each Trustee is required to disclose potential or actual conflicts of interest to the Chair at Trustee meetings when relevant. In line with Charity Commission guidance, details of positions held by Trustees outside of the Charity are available to the public by request to the chair.
A charity Trustee or connected person may enter into a contract for the supply of services, or of goods that are supplied in connection with the provision of services, to the charity where that is permitted in accordance with, and subject to the conditions in, section 185 of the Charities Act 2011. A charity Trustee may receive a one-off payment of services such as specialist services, administration or secretarial work.
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Initiatives and performance
Financial Review:
In 2023 - 2024 the Charity had an income of £34, 269 and expenditure of £35, 287
Independent examiner’s report
The independent examiner’s report was completed by Lynne Cullis from Wastepack Group, January 2024.
Kids Against Plastic initiatives updates
Plastic Clever Schools www.plasticcleverschools.co.uk
The Plastic Clever Schools initiative is based on the Plastic Clever scheme and was developed to specifically support schools and students to reduce their plastic usage. The scheme aims to empower young people to become educated on plastic waste, and to be the changemakers against it in their schools and communities. Plastic Clever Schools has three stages to it that schools work through – Inspire, Investigate and Act. These stages take schools through the process of raising awareness of plastic pollution within the whole school, auditing the most-used plastics in school, and reducing their use of them. In mid-2021, Kids Against Plastic partnered with the environmental organisation Common Seas to help deliver the Plastic Clever Schools programme (see more below under ‘Partnerships’) and still continue to work with them.
The KAP Club
The KAP Club is a group of over 330 young people from 10+ countries that KAP supports and works with to encourage them to act on issues they are passionate about or interested in. Amy and Ella run a weekly Zoom meeting called the KAP Connect, where club members take part in activities and run their own, present to the others about topics that they are interested in and share what environmental actions they have been doing each week, and take part in the weekly challenges to win points.
Children from the club also receive regular newsletters, covering what they may have missed at a meeting, or charity and club updates generally. The club is a great source of community for the members, as they give and receive advice on their actions and develop their skills with a supportive group around them, even becoming friends with fellow members no matter the distance between them in person.
As part of the KAP Club, Amy and Ella work more closely with a small group of youth members in the Development Team, to allow them to run their own challenges and activities as part of the Club, and also provide them opportunities outside the meetings (such as joining them at public speaking events). The KAP Club also uplifts the campaigns of youth members - including Skye’s KAPtat campaign, and Ali’s One in a Million pick up.
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Litter picking + Be Plastic Clever app
The litter picking app created in partnership with Esri continues to be used to record litter picking all over the world. Many of the KAP Club members record their litter picking totals using the app. It has been promoted and used regularly to support Ali’s One in a Million pick up campaign.
Climate Clever Schools
Climate Clever Schools is a schools programme, similar to Plastic Clever Schools, which is based on information and advice from the Be Climate Clever book. The programme encourages schools to think about their impact on the environment and find ways to reduce it to become more sustainable.
Amy + Ella action
INKGA Young Leaders forum
Amy continued her work as part of the Ingka Young Leaders Forum, joining fellow youth members in meetings with IKEA leadership in discussing how social and environmental topics intersect with IKEA’s business strategy. She also spoke to General Managers at IKEA about how they can motivate employees to be engaged with the culture of IKEA and help it become more sustainable.
Duke of Edinburgh
Amy continued her collaboration with the Duke of Edinburgh award, speaking to the new cohort of Youth Ambassadors about Kids Against Plastic, and the potential that the Duke of Edinburgh award has to develop youth social action at a grassroots level.
Best Heroes Award
Amy and Ella were given an award as part of Best Magazine’s Best Heroes Awards 2023.
BBC Bitesize filming
Amy presented a series of GCSE Geography videos commissioned for BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4vb7v4/watch/zbdjfdm
Partnerships overview
Common Seas
Common Seas have partnered with KAP going forwards from 2021 on the Plastic Clever Schools initiative. They have supported development of new resources and a revamp of the Plastic Clever Schools website. Common Seas have also led Plastic Clever Schools outreach into other areas within the UK and abroad.
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Wastepack
Wastepack have been supporters of KAP for years, and have donated prizes for various events throughout the year.
Rotary
KAP have been working closely with Rotary District 1220 on reaching schools across Nottinghamshire as part of the Plastic Clever Schools initiative. Since then, other Rotary groups have also worked alongside KAP to promote Plastic Clever and Climate Clever schools. Rotary groups have also attempted to become Climate Clever themselves.
Nexus
Nexus is an educational supplies company working hard towards a more sustainable business. They are keen supporters of KAP, offering a 27% discount on their refillable glue stick products for any schools that have signed up to the Plastic Clever Schools initiative (making the refillable glue sticks the same price as normal school glue sticks).
Nexus fostering
Nexus Fostering are a fostering agency making a difference to the lives of vulnerable children and young people in foster care throughout England since 2002. Nexus have collaborated with KAP through the funding of Be Climate Clever books which are then given to schools that subscribe onto the Climate Clever Schools initiative.
Calendar of events:
April 2023
19th - Visit to Parklands school for presentation
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25th-27th - World Retail Congress, Barcelona
28th - Assembly at Arnold View Primary school
May 2023
6th - King’s Coronation in Westminster Abbey
7th - Downing Street Community Heroes lunch
19th - Phoenix School assembly
26th - Arnold Mill assembly
June 2023
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8th - MSC Euribia launch presentation
9th - Haddon Primary and Nursery assembly
26th - KAPtat meeting at Tesco HQ
30th - Willow Farm assembly and workshop
July 2023
3rd - Podcast interview
8th - 9th Sustainability show
30th - KAP PICKnic
August 2023
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6th-13th - International Summer Week, Sardinia
September 2023
16th - Rotary Action Conference
October 2023
1st - Green School Conference, Cambridge
11th - DofE Ambassadors event
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17th - Sustainability in Hospitality conference
18th - Best Magazine Best Heroes Awards
21st - Chester Zoo Youth Symposium
November 2023
1st - St James’ Palace event
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3rd - speaking at Steve Backshall Oceans tour
18th - speaking at Roundtable Global Youth Awards 2023
December 2023
8th - Interview with Weather channel USA
February 2024
17th - St Pauls’ Cathedral Event
March 2024
1st - PCS assembly and workshops in Chesterfield schools
8th - PCS assembly and workshops in Chesterfield schools
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KIDS agnSt 27th-28th - Ernest Cook Event 12
| Kids Against Plastic | Kids Against Plastic | Kids Against Plastic | Kids Against Plastic | Kids Against Plastic | 1179917 | 1179917 | 1179917 | CC16a | |
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| For the period from |
Period start date 1st April 2023 |
To | Period end date 31st March 2024 |
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| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||||
| A1 Receipts Donations 33,045 Fees Reimbursements 697 Funding Sales - Sundry 113 Charities trust 414 - 34,269 - - Sub total - Total receipts 34,269 A3 Payments Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ 33,045 - 697 - - 113 414 - 34,269 - - - 34,269 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| 32,941 | |||||||||
| 3,700 | |||||||||
| 1,175 | |||||||||
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| 39 | |||||||||
| 29 | |||||||||
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| 37,884 | |||||||||
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| 37,884 | |||||||||
| Postage | 289 | - | - | 289 | 114 | ||||
| Digital services | 954 | - | - | 954 | 526 | ||||
| Physical resources | - | - | - | 526 | |||||
| Travel and accomodation | 1,854 | - | - | 1,854 | 4,494 | ||||
| Printingand consumerables | 24 | - | - | 24 | - | ||||
| Fees | 25,991 | - | - | 25,991 | 32,954 | ||||
| Merchandise | 1,053 | - | - | 1,053 | - | ||||
| Bank charges | - | - | - | 7 | |||||
| Sundry | 73 | - | - | 73 | 271 | ||||
| Subsistence Web services Paypal Servies Events & Advertising |
- | 58 | |||||||
| 2,811 | 2,811 | 813 | |||||||
| - | 221 | ||||||||
| 330 | |||||||||
| Donation | 1,908 | 1,908 | |||||||
| Sub total | 35,287 | - | - | 35,287 | 39,984 | ||||
| - - Sub total - Total payments 35,287 Net of receipts/(payments) - 1,018 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end - Cash funds this year end - 1,018 A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
- - - - - - - - |
- - - - - - - - |
- - - 35,287 - 1,018 - - - 1,018 |
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| 39,984 | |||||||||
| - | - | - 1,018 | - 2,100 | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - 1,018 | - 2,100 |
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 Santander Paypal Co-op Details Details Details Go Pro Latop Osmo Camra & Rode Go Sony XLR K3M mic Recording equipment Filming equipment Details Signature M K Bye Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ to nearest £ 1,640 - 258 - 50,514 - 52,412 - Agreement Error OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) Unrestricted 410 Unrestricted 1,199 Unrestricted 484 Unrestricted 580 Unrestricted 297 Unrestricted 695 - - - - - - - Print Name Martyn K Bye Harry Waters 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 |
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| to nearest £ Endowment funds |
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| Current value (optional) |
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| When due (optional) |
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| Date of approval |
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| M K Bye | Martyn K Bye | 27/01/2025 | |
| Harry Waters | 1/28/2025 |
CHARITY (OMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the ;, accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees On accounts for the year ended SI MA¢crf 2024 Charity no lif any) Liiqqtl Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"Ihe Trust") for the year ended 3 l 0 3 20 Responslbllities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation ol Ihe accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accoLtnt8 carried oul under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commis under section 14515){bl of the Act. Independent I examiner's statement u I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material Matters have come to my altention in connection with the examination dis61.) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records wer8 not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act,, or the accounts did not accord the accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accoLAnts set out in the Cliarilii,: {Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requireii)L'iil that the accounts give a 'lrue and fair, view which is not a maller considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in conne(:lioii with the examination lo which attention should be drawn in this report iii order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts lo be reachefl Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Slgned: Date: Name: LYKJKJ E LLLIS Relevant professional qualifi¢atlonls} or body IER Oct 2018
lif any): Address: Section B Disclosure Only complete if Ihe examiner needs to highlight material mallers of Concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charlly accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give herè brlef details of any items that the examinerwishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018