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2022-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date

Period end date

From To Day 01 Month 04 Year 2021 Day 31 Month 03 Year 2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name The AcSEED Initiative Other names charity is known by AcSEED Registered charity number (if any) 1180412 Charity's principal address 65 Merdon Avenue Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh, Southampton, UK Postcode SO53 1GD

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
**year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Nicholas Gatherer Chief Executive
Maureen Gatherer
Charlotte Gatherer

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)

Nicholas Gatherer (Chief Executive)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document[Constitution - Dated and signed on 22][nd][ October 2018 ]

How the charity is constituted[Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). ]

Trustee selection methods

[Appointed by existing charity trustees. ]

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

The charity has a very small number of volunteers, and thus the organisational structure is flat with all activities and volunteers directly managed by the Chief Executive.

The primary issue and continuing risk is the difficulty in expanding the charity in terms of trustees and volunteers. This has been due to serious illnesses amongst the existing trustees, and the challenging operational environment caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Both of these factors have continued to impact the running of the charity for a longer period of time than anticipated, and have continued through the period covered by this report.

Section C Objectives and activities

To preserve and protect the good mental health of young people at UK schools and colleges by:

(i) Promoting the need for high quality emotional wellbeing and mental health support in schools and colleges.

Summary of the objects of the health support in schools and colleges. charity set out in its governing document (ii) Maintaining and promoting a common framework for emotional wellbeing and mental health support in schools and colleges.

(iii) Providing recognition for schools and colleges that demonstrate their commitment to supporting the emotional wellbeing and mental health of

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their students through compliance with the AcSEED framework.

(iv) Facilitating the sharing of good practices in emotional wellbeing and mental health support in schools and colleges.

(v) Providing parents, carers, and young people with awareness of schools and colleges that are pro-actively supporting the emotional wellbeing and mental health of their students through compliance with the AcSEED framework.

(vi) Ensuring that the ‘voice of young people’ helps to drive emotional wellbeing and mental health support provisions in schools and colleges.

(vii) Ensuring that other charities and organisations can contribute to supporting emotional wellbeing and mental health in schools and colleges within the context of the AcSEED framework.

(viii) Providing appropriate support and services as needed to achieve the CIO objects.

The main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to the charity’s objects include:

  1. Maintenance of the AcSEED wellbeing framework and accreditation criteria.

  2. Assessment of applications from schools and colleges for AcSEED accreditation.

  3. Sharing of information and best practice with respect to mental health and wellbeing support in schools.

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)

As required by section 17(5) of the Charities Act and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, the powers and duties of the charity have been exercised with regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission. Whilst the guidance has not been read by all charity trustees, it has been read and acted upon by the Chair of Trustees and Chief Executive. Through this the trustees ensure compliance with the guidance by aligning all operational activities with the charitable objects/purposes defined in the charity’s Constitution.

The trustees use some key metrics to assess the continued value of the public benefit being delivered by the charity. These include the number of schools and colleges applying for accreditation, the number of schools and colleges applying for re-accreditation, and the number of subscribers to the charity’s Newsletter. See section below on achievements and performance for more information on these metrics for the current accounting period.

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Contributions from the charity’s volunteers include:

  1. On-going review and feedback of the AcSEED wellbeing criteria and application form.

  2. Review and assessment of applications for AcSEED accreditation.

  3. Contributions to the AcSEED Newsletter.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

In this accounting period the charity has achieved the following:
• Number of updates to the AcSEED wellbeing criteria: 0
• Total number of applications received for accreditation: 17
oOf which were renewal applications: 4
• Total number of new accreditations awarded: 14
• Total number of accreditation renewals awarded: 9
• Number of news items posted: 1
• Number of Newsletters published: 0
• Number of News / Newsletter subscribers: 355 (increase of 28)
Other notable achievements include:
• Availability of AcSEED volunteers has continued to be extremely
limited due to personal health issues and various logistical
challenges.
• The data above illustrates that this reporting period has seen
record levels of applications, new accreditations, and
accreditation renewals.
• Further contact from Bromley Youth Council to discuss potential
use of the AcSEED Wellbeing framework in the Bromley area. Not
yet progressed to meaningful discussions.
• AcSEED Chief Executive invited to present at the Mental Health
and Wellbeing Conference in Cardiff in May 2022. An exhibition
stand will also be used to help promote AcSEED in a part of the
UK (Wales) where we have had little exposure. In preparation for
this event (the first live event to be attended since Covid
lockdowns) the AcSEED promotional materials and introductory
presentation were updated.
• Against the defined objectives for this reporting period:
oContinue reviewing applications for AcSEED accreditation
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DONE
oFurther re-vitalise news reports and the AcSEED
Newsletter
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No progress due to lack of available resource.
oReview and update the AcSEED wellbeing criteria and
application forms
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There was no work done on improving the
AcSEED criteria and/or self-assessment forms, so
this remains an open task.
oRecruit new volunteers
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No progress (although existing volunteers retained)

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the

charity’s policy on reserves

The charity does not have a ‘Reserves Policy’ as the income and running costs are very small. The charity only spends money that it has available, and can very quickly terminate any on-going costs to avoid going into debt.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

The only funding contributions to the charity are small ad-hoc private donations.

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

The charity has no significant material assets.

Section F Other optional information

Outline objectives for the 2022 – 2023 accounting period include:

  1. Continue reviewing applications for AcSEED accreditation.

  2. Further re-vitalise news reports and the AcSEED Newsletter.

  3. Review and update the AcSEED wellbeing criteria and application forms.

  4. Recruit new volunteers.

  5. Attend Mental Health and Wellbeing Show in Cardiff.

Note: The objectives for 2022-2023 are intentionally limited to account for the continuing difficulties of operating with limited resources.

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Full name(s) Nicholas Gatherer Maureen Gatherer Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)[Chair ] Date 17 / 01 / 2023

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The AcSEED Initiative The AcSEED Initiative No (if any)
Receipts andpayments accounts CC16a
For the period
from		 01/04/2021 To 31/03/2022

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£
5,264
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-
-
-
-
-
-
5,264
-
-
-
5,264
235
553
76
-
-
-
-
-
-
864
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-
-
864
4,400
-
4,892
9,292		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
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-
-
-
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-
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-
-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £		 Total funds
to the nearest £
5,264
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-
-
-
-
-
-
5,264
-
-
-
5,264
235
553
76
-
-
-
-
-
-
864
-
-
-
864

4,400		 Total funds
to the nearest £
5,264
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-
-
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5,264
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5,264
235
553
76
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864
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864

4,400		 Last year
to the nearest £
Donations 5,264 -
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- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 5,264 5,264 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- -
-
-		 -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
- 5,264 -
IT Services 235 -
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-		 235 -
Promotion Materials & Activities 553 553 -
Miscellaneous 76 76 -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
**Sub total ** 864 864 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- -
-
-		 -
- -
**Sub total ** - - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
- 864 -
4,400 - -
4,400		 -
- - -
-		 - -
4,892 - 4,892 -
9,292 - - 9,292 -

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets		 Signature
Details
Details
Cash in bank account
Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
9,292
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-
-
-
-
9,292
-
OK
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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-
Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
-
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-
-
-
Print Name
N. Gatherer		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
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-
Current value
(optional)
-
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-
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-
-
-
When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
N. Gatherer 17/01/2023

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