## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1/1/2020 Period start date To 31/12/2020 Period end date**
**Charity name:** Exmoor Young Voices
## **Charity registration number:** Exmoor Young Voices
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|For the public beneft, to develop the
capacity and skills of members of the
socially and economically disadvantaged
community of exmoor, with particular
reference to capacity and skills among
young adults under the age of 30: providing
opportunities for learning through
experience; working to provide
opportunities to raise issues and suggest
solutions to stakeholders; involving young
adults in collaborative efort so that they
gain confdence in their own ability and the
ability to infuence decisions that afect
them.
By helping young adults living in or near the
rural areas of Exmoor to develop their
social and economic potential through
participating in a range of educational and
recreational activities.
By enabling young adults to use their
expertise to improve their communities, to
share best practice and advise
organisations on how young adults can be
heard.
The promotion for the beneft of the public
of rural regeneration in areas of social and
economic deprivation (and in particular in
Exmoor) by all or any of the following
means:
(a) the relief of fnancial hardship:
(b) the advancement of education, training
or retraining, particularly among young
disadvantaged adults, and providing young
disadvantaged adults with work
experience, including informal training that
supports young adults and those who work
with young adults to realise their potential
and enhance their employability, enterprise,
fnancial literacy and life skills.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|1.
Recruit 80 volunteer young
members, helping young residents
and workers to stay on Exmoor,
contributing to population balance,
environment, and caring
2.
Educate 9 public authorities,
Consultative Forums, and Parish
Councils, about the needs of
Exmoor young people re: housing,
rents, mortgages, fnance, planning,
sites, section 106, digital inclusion,
travel costs, wages
3.
Partner Exmoor National Park,
Somerset West and Taunton
Council, Caractacus and other
housing authorities
4.
Raise funds for educational
sessions
5.
Communicate regularly across
Exmoor National Park and its fringes
to reduce rural isolation
6.
Inform Housing Associations of the
shared housing need
7.
Win further Foundation Grants to
establish a small loan fund for
housing young people
8.
Continue negotiations with a loans
and grants organisation
9.
Maintain the promise of three
Exmoor cottages as legacies
10.
Support cases for housing young
people
11.
Plan a follow up Summit of the
major authorities to seek promises
of how they will prioritise the needs
of young people, once C19
restrictions allow for an efective,
attended event
12.
Maintain pro bono advisory services
for self build, fnance, fund raising,
housing
13.
Create a self build project for young
people in housing need
14.
Conduct seminars, Members
meetings, Parliamentary, ITV, and
BBC presentations, as C19
restrictions allow
15.
Identify potential self build sites
16.
Ensure the Trustees have and
understand the Charity Commission
Guidance on public beneft
17.
Appoint two, new Young
Coordinators|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have had regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity Commission
on public benefit|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|No action to date. Under consideration at
present with partner agency Lendology|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|None formal, though working on developing
a self build pilot project for young residents|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Substantial, almost total throughout
lockdowns and C19 restrictions|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference
||Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.
Para 1.20
EYV has been active throughout the C19 crisis
as the Young Coordinators, Members, Trustees,
and Advisors have been keeping our 497
followers in touch with regular information
about:
• housing opportunities,
• job vacancies,
• business grants,
• business openings,
• accessing services,
• National Park information,
• support groups during and after the crisis,
• volunteering opportunities,
• caring for the vulnerable,
• schooling and at home assistance,
• activities for younger children,
• support to young parents,
• finance support,
• EYV’s Facebook and website, including the
most recent ITV interviews.
EYV’s immediate C19 recovery schedule
includes:
1.
A Zoom AGM of the Trustees
2.
An Executive Meeting: ‘distanced' on
Exmoor, in the open
3.
An EYV Committee and Members
Open Meeting, either Zoom or at our
sponsors, The Rest and Be Thankful,
Wheddon Cross, if safe and appropriate
4.
Annual Report and Accounts to the
Charity Commission
5.
Completing the Cosmic Enterprise
training
Priority work, Summer and Autumn, included:
•
Wessex Resolutions project - plan for
grants and loans to young residents
•
Plan Summit - the follow-up seminar for
Exmoor Partners’ Promises of Change
to enable young adults to continue
living and working in the National Park
•
West Somerset Opportunity Area:
developing focus groups for 11 to 25-
year-olds.
•
Keeping up with the information flow,
across Exmoor, to young people,
authorities and voluntary organisations
about opportunities and changes.
•
Funding the next three years’
development.
•
Publishing EYV’s Digital Inclusion
Survey results, liaising with Selaine
Saxby, North Devon MP
•
Council for the Preservation of Rural
England
Priorities for information and updates:
•
Exmoor National Park;
•
Wessex Resolutions;
•
Community Development Foundation;
•
West Somerset Opportunity Area;
•
Somerset and Devon County Councils;
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Strong, though negotiating Covid ‘holiday’
for annual grant with one organisation was
difficult and delayed development|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The accounts hold a Foundation Grant
from another charity, reserved in
preparation for the self build project|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£20,000|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23|None|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Public authorities and charitable
foundations; pro bono services amounting
to considerable resources in kind from
professional advisers and funders|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|None|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Geographical spread of catchment area;
lack of public and other transport; low
wages; poor digital connectivity; the C19
pause on face to face contact; the heavy
burden on young members to sustain work,
incomes, travel and young families|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing
document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions
e.g. election to post or
name of any person or body
entitled to appoint one or
more trustees|Para 1.25|Appointed by Trustees|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The Charity's organisational structure is:
4 Trustees; a Committee of 14 young
adults; 2 Young Coordinators; seven
professional (voluntary) advisors;
quarterly meetings of the Membership
(suspended during C19 lockdowns); 24
public bodies as supporters.|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|24 public organisations support Exmoor
Young Voices|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Exmoor Young Voices|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|118 2091|
||Charity’s principal address
The Old Post Ofce, Hawkridge, Dulverton,
Somerset, TA 22 9QW|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**|
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0|William
Lock|Chair|||
||Marion
Silverlock|Secretary|||
||Justin
Tyers|Trustee|||
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional** ~~**information)**~~
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
**Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Marion Silverlock **Position (eg** Secretary **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 31/10/21
||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||
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||**Exmoor Young Voices**|||||**1182091**|||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||
||||1/1/20||||12/31/20||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||
|Grants|**5,835**||**-**||**-**||**5,835**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**5,835**||**-**||**-**||**5,835**||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
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|**_Total receipts_ **|
**5,835**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**5,835**||
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Chairman's Expenses|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Co-ordinator Cost|**3,601**||**-**||**-**||**3,601**||
|Travel & Subsistence|**484**||**-**||**-**||**484**||
|Meeting Costs|**29**||**-**||**-**||**29**||
|Admin Expenses|**20**||**-**||**-**||**20**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**4,134**||**-**||**-**||**4,134**||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
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|**_Totalpayments_ **|
**4,134**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**4,134**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**1,701**||**-**||**-**||**1,701**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**30,625**||**-**||**-**||**30,625**||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**32,326**||**-**||**-**||**32,326**||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|Co-op Bank A/c 6581 5997||||**32,326**||**-**||
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||**_Total cash funds_**||||**32,326**||**-**||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||
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**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||
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||||||**-**||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||
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**CC16a Last year to the nearest £ 21,150 - - - - - - - 21,150 - 0 - 0 21,150 78 3,300 232 644 156 - - - - 4,410 - 0 4,410 16,740 - 13,885 30,625 Endowment funds to nearest £ - -**
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**-** OK **Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)** Date of approval
CCXX R4 accounts (SS)
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