Migrant English Support Hub
Charity number 1180429
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2022
Migrant English Support Hub
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022
| Contents | Page |
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| Trustees' report | 2 to 5 |
| Examiner's report | 6 |
| Receipts and payments account | 7 |
| Statement of assets and liabilities | 8 |
| Notes to the accounts | 9 to 10 |
Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
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Migrant English Support Hub
Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2022
Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position Dates James Simpson Chair Hannah Jameson Trustee / Secretary Carl Banks Trustee Julie Linley Trustee Emma Taylor Trustee Resigned January 2022 Martin Nickson Trustee Edyta Bancer Appointed September 2021 Esther Derbyshire Appointed September 2021 Stephen Woulds Appointed September 2021
Charity number
1180429
Registered in England and Wales
Registered and principal address Bankers c/o St Vincents Centre HSBC UK Bank Plc 4 Berking Avenue 33 Park Row Leeds Leeds LS9 9LF LS1 1LD
Independent examiner
E J Beverley
West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
Structure, governance and management
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 24 October 2018 with amendments to the constitution on 5 August 2021.
Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees
The trustees of the charity are appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
Objectives and activities
The charity's objects
For the public benefit to advance the education of adult migrants in the Yorkshire and Humberside region, and further afield as the trustees see fit, in particular but not exclusively by assisting in the provision of access to education through providing comprehensive information about local opportunities for language education.
The charity's main activities
Migrant English Support Hub (MESH) is a Leeds-based charity which aims to support the coordination of adult English language provision across Yorkshire and the Humber, helping to met the needs of the region's most disadvantaged and marginalised migrants.
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
Public benefit statement
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular promotion of access to education for adult migrants in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
A range of different groups have continued to benefit from our work:
ESOL learners across the Yorkshire and Humber region can find out about available classes to meet their needs, including online provision.
ESOL providers, tutors and volunteers have been supported as they made the difficult transition to online ESOL provision, and helped to understand and meet the needs of their most vulnerable learners through a time of crisis.
Organisations supporting ESOL learners are able to offer better advice to their clients about availability of ESOL.
Funders including local authorities can make use of the newly developed analytics to have a better understanding of ESOL provision in their area.
Achievements and performance
Achievements and performance April-June 2021
Developing the use of analytics from the website to provide more detailed reporting for local authorities and providers. We can provide information on a range of issues, for example the number of classes with childcare, free classes, online classes etc. We hope that this information will give providers and local authorities a more detailed overview of provision in their area and help them to plan future provision.
Training directory : we completed an audit of ESOL training opportunities across the region. This information will be used to create a new area of the website and will be ready to go ‘live’ in September.
Networking events : we delivered another online networking event in May. The title of the event was ‘Making ESOL local: a networking event to explore the potential of localised ESOL teaching materials’. We delivered the session twice. Feedback was positive indicating that there is a strong interest across the region in this topic.
Developing locally referenced ESOL teaching and learning materials. ESOL tutors and volunteers were sent a questionnaire and have contributed their views and ideas. This has proved to be a popular topic which we developed further at our recent networking event.
Achievements and performance July-Sept 2021
Developing website analytics : We can now use the website analytics to provide more detailed reporting for local authorities and providers. We hope that this information will give providers and local authorities a more detailed overview of provision in their area and help them to plan future provision. Information will be disseminated via the resettlement board, ESOL leads in each local authority and ESOL providers.
Learning English Plus
https://learningenglishplus.org.uk/
Our new website was launched on September 27th- Learning English Plus. The new site provides support for ESOL tutors, volunteers and providers. It includes ESOL teaching resources with a local focus, a ‘staff room’ where news items and information about events can be shared, and a training directory listing local and national ESOL training opportunities. We are confident that the new website will be useful to everyone working to support ESOL learners and will complement the current website.
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
Achievements and performance (continued)
Wider reach : We have attended meetings with #loveESOL, a London based consortium who have successfully lobbied the London Mayor to commit to providing a ‘Learning English’ website for London. We were really pleased to learn that our website was cited as part of their successful campaign- the attached video link mentions LEYH. We have also talked to Lancashire County Council who are interested in developing a website. It is good to know that people in other regions are recognising the need for the co-ordination of ESOL and seeing LEYH as an example of good practice.
Achievements and performance Oct-Dec 2021
Learning English Plus: LE+ was launched on September 27th and feedback since the launch has been very positive. We have attended a number of subsequent online events to publicise the new website. Many of the resources listed are useful for tutors and volunteers outside the region, and we have therefore publicised the new website more widely. We are delighted to be getting positive feedback from across the country as well as within our own region.
Developing website analytics : We have now made use of the website analytics to provide detailed reports for individual local authorities and providers. At the beginning of October reports were sent to the ESOL lead in each local authority, and were also made these available to ESOL providers. The reports include information about the number of providers in each area, the number of classes with childcare, free classes, online classes etc. We hope that this information will give providers and local authorities a more detailed overview of ESOL provision in their area to help plan future provision.
Networking : We held a networking event for ESOL tutors in October. We ran the session twice and were really pleased that Alex Stevenson from the Learning and Work Institute (LWI) accepted our invitation to deliver a presentation based on his recent research on the future of ESOL. ESOL tutors also had the opportunity to network with others from their area. The 2 events were both well attended and received positive feedback.
Wider reach : As mentioned above, the launch of LE+ has given us an opportunity to publicise the work of MESH more widely. As a follow up from the networking events we were invited to contribute to a conference being organised by the LWI. MESH’s success is in large part due to its partnerships with local authorities, Migration Yorkshire and a range of others across the region. The LWI conference provided an opportunity to promote this as a successful way of supporting ESOL provision.
It is encouraging that the need for the co-ordination of ESOL is being discussed across the country and that LEYH and now LE+ are being seen as examples of good practice. We were really pleased to contribute to Migration Yorkshire’s online Integration Festival in November.
Achievements and performance Jan-March 2022
We welcomed a new Development Worker to the team in January. She has brought new skills and already made a significant contribution to the development of local ESOL teaching materials.
We have been working at widening membership of the Project Advisory Group (PAG) as over time various members have moved on to other roles. We have re-established links with colleagues from the DWP and the libraries service and made new connections with public health staff in Leeds. We are also working closely with Migration Yorkshire to increase representation within the PAG from people with lived experience of migration, especially refugees.
As an outcome of links made with public health, we are now working closely with them to devise a set of ESOL teaching materials to share with ESOL tutors. The materials will help to raise awareness of a range of health issues that particularly affect migrant communities.
We contributed to Migration Yorkshire’s Hong Kong Welcome Programme to explain how to access ESOL classes. The session was well attended, and we enjoyed the experience of having direct contact with learners.
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
Achievements and performance (continued)
Our local ESOL teaching materials were launched on LE+ at an online event at the end of March. The resources demonstrate how local authority websites can be used to develop teaching materials that help learners to become familiar with local services at the same time as learning English. Feedback was very positive. The majority of attendees stated that they intended to use the materials and a high number were interested in getting involved in the production of further resources.
‘So good as they are relevant and useful resources to empower and help learners deal with their day-to-day life and local services.’ ‘I liked how you integrated local information and dialect- very helpful for learners’ ‘This will be a great help to us. Thankyou’
Feel Created are currently designing a new page for LEYH where we will feature wider learning opportunities for ESOL learners. We are aiming for this to go live in April. We already have providers who have expressed an interest in this development.
Financial review
The net payments for the year were £10,749, including net payments of £2,493 on unrestricted funds and net payments of £8,256 on restricted funds after transfers.
Reserves policy
The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year end were £18,171. Our reserves policy is to hold 2-3 months' worth of salary expenses.
The Trustees are still considering the upper and lower level of reserves since we now have a different staffing structure.
At the end of the funding period, end December 2022, we plan to hold a cash reserve to meet the costs of 3 months' worth of salaries and 3 months' worth of website maintenance and support costs, a minimum of £25,000.
Approved by the board of trustees on 09/01/2023
Julie Linley (Trustee)
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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Migrant English Support
Hub
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 March 2022, which are set out on pages 7 to 10.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the CIO as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
E J Beverley
17/01/2023
West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2022
| Notes 2022 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants and donations (2) 30 Total receipts 30 Payments Salaries, NI and pensions (3) - Payroll charges - Equipment 240 Website development 90 Phone, software and internet 1,015 Printing and stationery 24 Training 40 Conferences and membership 165 Bank Charges 15 Insurance 334 Independent examination 600 Total payments 2,523 Net income / (expenditure) (2,493) Fund balances brought forward 19,944 Fund balances carried forward (4) 17,451 |
2022 Restricted funds £ 96,750 96,750 81,767 788 - 22,155 7 289 - - - - - 105,006 (8,256) 27,058 18,802 |
2022 Total funds £ 96,780 96,780 81,767 788 240 22,245 1,022 313 40 165 15 334 600 107,529 (10,749) 47,002 36,253 |
2021 Total funds £ 106,619 106,619 61,263 702 329 7,179 1,093 180 - 115 - 170 600 71,631 34,988 12,014 47,002 |
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Statement of assets and liabilities
| as at 31 March 2022 2022 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 17,451 Total cash funds 17,451 Other monetary assets Grant due for the period January to March 2022, received July 2022 Assets retained for the charity's own use (cost in 2019) Apple IPad HP laptops x 4 Liabilities Independent examination |
2022 Restricted £ 18,802 18,802 |
2022 Total £ 36,253 36,253 £ 12,315 12,315 £ 325 1,372 1,697 £ 600 600 |
2021 Total £ 47,002 47,002 |
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The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 09/01/2023
Julie Linley (Trustee)
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Notes to the accounts continued
for the year ended 31 March 2022
1 Accounting
Basis of
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
Taxation
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
| Grants and donations Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) Leeds City Council Donations Staff costs and numbers Gross salaries Social security costs Employment allowance Pensions |
2022 Unrestricted funds £ - - 30 30 |
2022 Restricted funds £ 96,750 - - 96,750 |
2022 Total funds £ 96,750 - 30 96,780 2022 £ 78,392 5,214 (4,000) 2,161 81,767 |
2021 Total funds £ 44,996 61,623 - 106,619 2021 £ 59,528 3,131 (3,131) 1,735 61,263 |
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2 Grants and donations
3 Staff costs and numbers
The average number employees during the year was 4.9, being an average of 2.6 full time equivalent (2021: 4.0, 1.9 FTE). There were no employees with emoluments above £60,000.
| Defined contribution pension scheme | 2021 | 2020 |
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| £ | £ | |
| Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year | 2,161 | 1,735 |
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Notes to the accounts continued
for the year ended 31 March 2022
| 4 Restricted funds AMIF project |
Balance b/f £ 27,058 27,058 |
Receipts £ 96,750 96,750 |
Payments £ 105,006 105,006 |
Transfers £ - - |
Balance c/f £ 18,802 18,802 |
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Fund name
Purpose of restriction
AMIF project To improve the integration of Refugees in Yorkshire and Humber through a ‘whole-region’ approach.
Funding is administered by Migration Yorkshire, as part of a multi-agency funded project. The overarching administrative body for Yorkshire is Refugee Integration Yorkshire and Humber.
Our part in this wide-ranging project, is to further develop the website, networking, resources, information for policy and ESOL provision and contribute to annual events.
5 Related party transactions
Trustee expenses
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
Trustee remuneration and benefits
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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