## **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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## **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 ]
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted[Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). ]
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
> [Appointed by existing charity trustees. ]
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **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:
- 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**
|In this|accounting period the charity has achieved the following:|
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|•|Number of updates to the AcSEED wellbeing criteria: 0|
|•|Total number of applications received for accreditation: 17|
||`o`Of 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:|
||`o`Continue reviewing applications for AcSEED accreditation|
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DONE|
||`o`Further re-vitalise news reports and the AcSEED|
||Newsletter|
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No progress due to lack of available resource.|
||`o`Review 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.|
||`o`Recruit 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:
- All of the charity’s operational activities are performed by a very small
- • the charity’s principal number of unpaid volunteers. sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- The only regular payments required for activities that support the key
- • how expenditure has objectives of the charity are: 1. Web site hosting and email accounts.
- supported the key objectives 2. Printing and distribution of award certificates.
- of the charity;
- investment policy and There are other occasional / ad-hoc costs such as: objectives including any 1. Conference attendance fees. ethical investment policy 2. Promotional materials. adopted.
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)**||
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|**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**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,264**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,264**
**235**
**553**
**76**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**864**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**864**
**4,400**
**-**
**4,892**
**9,292**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,264**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,264**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,264**
**235**
**553**
**76**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**864**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**864**
**4,400**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,264**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,264**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,264**
**235**
**553**
**76**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**864**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**864**
**4,400**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations|**5,264**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,264**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_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**||**-**|
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|IT Services|**235**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**235**||**-**|
|Promotion Materials & Activities|**553**|||**553**||**-**|
|Miscellaneous|**76**|||**76**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**864**|||**864**||**-**|
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|**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**||**-**|
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||**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**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,292**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
N. Gatherer|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
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||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
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|||N. Gatherer|17/01/2023|
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