## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From Period start date 01/10/2020 to 31/08/2021 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Swindon & Wiltshire Pride** ## **Charity registration number:1182489** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY**
**FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN**
**PARTICULAR THE ELIMINATION OF**
**DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF**
**SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER**
**IDENTITY.**| |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|**INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT**
**EXCLUSIVELY BY: (1) RAISING THE**
**AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC WITH REGARD**
**TO ALL ASPECTS OF DISCRIMINATION IN**
**SOCIETY AND ISSUES AND DIFFICULTIES**
**AFFECTING THE LIVES OF LESBIAN, GAY,**
**BISEXUAL AND TRANS, QUEER, PLUS**
**(LGBTQ+) PEOPLE; (2) CULTIVATING A**
**SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND**
**DIVERSITY IN PARTICULAR THROUGH**
**CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF LGBTQ+**
**COMMUNITIES (3) ADVANCING EDUCATION**
**IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY WHETHER BY**
**SIGNPOSTING TO OTHER ORGANISATIONS**
**OR SERVICES OR PRODUCING MATERIALS;**
**(4) PRODUCING ANNUAL PRIDE**
**PROGRAMME, AND COMMUNICATE VIA**
**SOCIAL MEDIA STREAMS AND OTHER**
**MEANS OF COMMUNICATION (E.G.**
**NEWSLETTER); (5) STAGING AN ANNUAL**
**LGBTQ+ FESTIVAL; AND C.2 SUCH OTHER**
**OBJECTS AS ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE**
**LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE**
**TRUSTEES SHALL AT THEIR ABSOLUTE**
**DISCRETION DETERMINE.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**In planning our activities for the year, we kept**
**in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance**
**on public benefit at our Trustee meetings.**
**The main activities are summarised below in**
**achievements and performance.**| ## **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|**Throughout the 2021 period, the following**
**activities were achieve to enable s us to**
**achieve our purpose to promote equality and**
**diversity for the public benefit and in particular**
**the elimination of discrimination on the**
**grounds of sexual orientation or gender**
**identity, including in particular but not**
**exclusively by raising awareness, engaging**
**with the community, celebrating the diversity**
**of LGBTQ+ communities and advancing**
**education:**
●
**Pop-up Tour of Wiltshire,**
**collaborating with Trowbridge and**
**Salisbury Pride, raising awareness of**
**LGBTQ+ issues and helping to**
**educate through leaflets, signage and**
**conversation**
●
**Pride Month (June): SWP released 14**
**bespoke frames showcasing a**
**handful of the different Identities**
**within the LGBTQ+ community**
●
**Signposting to support organisations:**
**scheduled regularly on all our Social**
**Media Platforms**
●
**Large selection of different identities**
**available to promote EDI within the**
**community & beyond**
●
**Online shows throughout Lockdown**
**period (between Sept 2020 to April**
**2021: 68,700 views), helping maintain**
**a connection to the LGBTQ+**
**community**
●
**Rainbow walk refurbished in 2021 –**
**received Trip Advisor Award (top 10%**
**of attractions worldwide)**
●
**The Rainbow Bench Project – The**
**Rainbow Bench Project is a place to**
**catch up with a friend, start a**
**conversation and help prevent**
**loneliness. We don't talk to each other**
**enough, so let's make time to stop**
**and say hello, have a chat and make a**
**new friend**
●
**Throughout 2021 SWP has been**
**contacted by people suffering from**
**Isolation, or seeking support and**
**information**
●
**Educational posts continued on**
**Social Media**
●
**LGBTQ+ Support Guide produced for**
**the 1st time, cover LGBTQ+ services**
**in Wiltshire and some key national**
**organisations, 2000 separate copies**
**were printed.**
●
**E-Newsletter distributed via email**
**(reaching 600 recipients)**
●
**Thank you party held on 11th**
**September 2021 for Volunteers**
●
**Continued to be supported by**
**Sponsors that believe in the impact**
**that SWP has (and have built up even**
**more in 2021)**| - **Worked with the Swindon South Parish Council, and developed new relationship (confirmed that SWP can be held in the Town Gardens 2022)** - ● **Merchandise has been impactful (encourage people to seek advice, given young people the opportunity to have a visual impact, pronoun badges avoids people asking the question)** - **SWP led the Pride 365 Campaign, over 30 other Pride Organisations joined us, in turning their logo Black and white)** - **SWP helped other organisations: Swindon Food Collective and Prospect during our Online shows** - ● **Amazing support from Local Artists and Bands during Lockdown** ● **Wellbeing monitored up to and during the event SWP successful organised the annual Pride Event, held in the Town Gardens on 7th August 2021, with over 10,000 people attending:** - **15 Committee Members and 3 Trustees committed to the event across the year** - ● **37 Community Stalls attended to help raise awareness of their Charity or Not for Profit Organisation** - **70 Volunteers across the weekend (over 350 volunteer hours recorded across the weekend)** - **10,000 Pride Guides printed (64pages) with 20-pages allocated for LGBTQ+ Support Organisations (for free publicity)** - ● **Pride Guides & Support Guide distributed across Swindon & Wiltshire.** - ● **Mobiloo attended the Pride Event** ● **BSL Interpreters covered 10 hrs on the Nationwide Main Stage at Pride Event** - ● **At the Pride Event the Wellbeing Zone was managed by The Samaritans trained in Mental Health First Aid** - ● **At the Pride Event the Youth Safe Space was managed by Out of the Can LGBTQ+ Youth Group a local notfor-profit organisation that runs a weekly youth group for 13-19 year olds.** - ● **At the Pride Event the Family Zone was expanded even further in 2021, with Fandangos running a Circus Area** - ● **At the Pride Event the Arts Zone supported by No Added Sugar, this area provides an opportunity for people to engage and have informal conversations in a safe space** - ● **15 hrs of Entertainment on Nationwide Main Stage and Stephen G Sloan Stage.** - **Public Sector Zone promoting services within the local Council. Along with Dorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service and Wiltshire Police.** ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Cash at bank at 31/08/2021 was 32K in**
**unrestricted funds.**
**The Charity finished in a strong position at**
**the end of the period. Due to the pandemic it**
**was difficult to fundraise in 2021 and the**
**costs to stage the event increased. However,**
**retaining the main sponsor for the event from**
**2020 (no event held) gave SWP the financial**
**stability going into 2021.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**During 2021 the Trustees with support from**
**the Treasurer have identified fixed costs that**
**will be placed in the reserves for 2022.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Swindon & Wiltshire Pride Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO Foundation**| |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|**All new Trustees will be made aware of the**
**responsibility of becoming a Trustee, via the**
**SWP Trustee Eligibility Form.**
**The AGM was used to recruit further**
**Trustees. However, advertisements for**
**Trustees ran throughout the year.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**Swindon & Wiltshire Pride**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**SWP**| |Registered charity number|**1182498**| |Charity’s principal address|**1 John Street**
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**year**
**Name of person**
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**(ifany)**| |---|---|---|---| ||Jo Sharpe|Chair|| ||Chris Darcy||| ||Phoenix Stewart|Community
Engagement|| ||Jake Lucas||7th September 2022 to 7th
June 2021| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|N/A| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|N/A| ## **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)** Phoenix Stewart **Position (eg** Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 30/06/2022 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusleesl members of Swindon & Wiltshire Pride On accounts for the year endèd 31st August 2021 Charity no (if any) 1182498 Set out on pages 1of1 tn tlrwiSJ#f¢ nf I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Trust.) for the year ended 3110812021. Responslbililles and As Ihe charity truslees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {"the Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Direclions given by the Ch8rity Commission under section 145(5llb) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters havè Come to my attention (other than thal disclosed below.) in connection with th8 examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examlnef s ststsment I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the ¥Yords in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Signed: Dats: 2410512022 Name: Grace Brown Relevant professlonal qualificatlon(sl or body (if any): MA4T Address: Riverview Portfolio Ltd 1 Market Hill, Caln8, Wiltshir8, SN11 OBT Section B Disclosure Only complele if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts- directions and guidance for examiners). IER October 2018 Give here brief detslls of any ilems that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018 **----- Start of picture text -----**
SWINDON & WILTSHIRE PRIDE 1182498
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/10/2020 31/08/2021
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Merchandise Income 16,551 - - 16,551 3,063
Stall Income 1,895 - - 1,895 310
Funding Income 6,560 - - 6,560 6,144
Craft Income - - - - -
Grant Income 3,250 - - 3,250 1,100
Programme Income 1,250 - - 1,250 100
Sponsorship Income 12,750 - - 12,750 15,000
Event Income 14,534 - - 14,534 -
Parade Income 468 - - 468 220
Interest Income - - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 57,257 ] - - 57,257 25,936
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 57,257 - - 57,257 25,936
A3 Payments
Storage 1,978 - - 1,978 1,667
Insurance 1,376 - - 1,376 -
Sound & Light 4,050 - - 4,050 -
Equipment Hire 3,581 - - 3,581 -
Health & Safety 18,382 - - 18,382 -
Entertainment 10,756 - - 10,756 1,973
Advertising 4,559 - - 4,559 1,637
Merchandise 20,371 - - 20,371 1,871
Travel 542 - - 542 -
Licenses 140 - - 140 -
Consumables - - - - -
Misc 4,354 - - 4,354 1,520
Sub total [ 70,089 ] - - 70,089 8,667
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 70,089 - - 70,089 8,667
Net of receipts/(payments) - 12,832 - - - 12,832 17,269
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 44,636 - - 44,636 -
Cash funds this year end 31,804 - - 31,804 17,269
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 31/05/2022 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
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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**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
CURRENT ACCOUNT
SAVINGS ACCOUNT
CASH
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**24,797**
**-**
**167**
**-**
**6,840**
**-**
**31,804**
**-**
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**funds**
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**funds**
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**to nearest £**
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**funds**
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**-**
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Date of
approval| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 31/05/2022 2