2024-03-31-accounts - The Acseed Initiative

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date

Period end date

From To Day 01 Month 04 Year 2023 Day 31 Month 03 Year 2024

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 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	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address	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)

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)

The charity has a very small number of volunteers, and thus the You may choose to include organisational structure is flat with all activities and volunteers directly additional information, where managed by the Chief Executive. relevant, about: • The primary issue and continuing risk is the difficulty in expanding the policies and procedures adopted for the induction and charity in terms of trustees and volunteers. This has been (and continues to be) due to serious illnesses amongst the existing trustees, time training of trustees; availability of other trustees and volunteers. These factors have continued • the charity’s organisational to impact the running of the charity for a longer period of time than structure and any wider anticipated, and have continued through the period covered by this report. network with which the charity 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 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 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:

Maintenance of the AcSEED wellbeing framework and accreditation criteria.
Assessment of applications from schools and colleges for AcSEED accreditation.
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:

On-going review and feedback of the AcSEED wellbeing criteria and application form.
Review and assessment of applications for AcSEED accreditation.
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:

Number of updates to the AcSEED wellbeing criteria: 0
Total number of new accreditations awarded: 5
Total number of accreditation renewals awarded: 5
Number of news items posted: 1
Number of Newsletters published: 0
Number of News / Newsletter subscribers: 369 (increase of 16)
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 reduced levels of accreditations. This is likely to be due to the reduced level of visible activity from the charity, and once again suggests some additional promotional activities should be undertaken.
Against the defined objectives for this reporting period: o Continue reviewing applications for AcSEED accreditation. ▪ DONE. Reviews are up to date.
o Further re-vitalise news reports and the AcSEED Newsletter.
- No newsletters published due to illness. This urgently needs to be addressed in the next period.
- o Recruit new volunteers. ▪ No time devoted to this due to illness.

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

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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 2024 – 2025 accounting period include:

Continue reviewing applications for AcSEED accreditation.
Further re-vitalise news reports and the AcSEED Newsletter.
Follow up on incomplete applications and expired accreditations.

Note: The objectives for 2024-2025 are intentionally very 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 19 / 01 / 2025

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The AcSEED Initiative	The AcSEED Initiative		No (if any)
Receipts andpayments accounts				CC16a
For the period from	01/04/2023	To	31/03/2024

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 363 - - - - - - - 363 - - - 363 363 - - - - - - - - 363 - - - 363 - - 9,292 9,292	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 363 - - - - - - - 363 - - - 363 363 - - - - - - - - 363 - - - 363 -	Last year to the nearest £
Donations	363				-
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	363				-

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
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IT Services	363				-
Promotion Materials & Activities	-				-
Miscellaneous	-				-
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**Sub total **	363				-

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
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	9,292	-	-	9,292	-
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

26/01/2021

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 B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds	Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Cash in bank account Details Details Details Signature	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 £
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			Current value (optional)
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			Date of approval
		N. Gatherer	19/01/2025

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

26/01/2021