Thrive Leeds
Charity number 1182938
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 August 2023
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Thrive Leeds
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 August 2023
| Contents | Page |
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| Trustees' report | 2 to 4 |
| Examiner's report | 5 |
| Receipts and payments account | 6 |
| Statement of assets and liabilities | 7 |
| Notes to the accounts | 8 to 10 |
Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
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Thrive Leeds
Trustees' report for the year ended 31 August 2023
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
Catherine Armstrong Emmanuelle Bastide-Wilson Treasurer Helen Oakley Wilkins Copeland Secretary Dr David Cundall Chair Revd Graham Doel Vice-Chair Rev Nicola Robinson Rev Simon Nicholas Jones Rev Mark Stennett Rev Angela Hughes
Resigned 26 September 2023 Appointed 30 November 2022 Appointed 5 October 2022 Appointed 5 October 2022
Charity number 1182938 Registered and principal address Bankers Chapel Allerton Methodist Church The Cooperative Bank Town Street 19/20 Commercial Street Chapel Allerton Leeds Leeds LS1 6AL LS7 4NB
Registered in England and Wales
Independent examiner
Katy Sargeant ACA
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 11 April 2019 and is governed by a constitution.
Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees
Each partner church nominates two trustees. Nominated trustees serve for a term of four years. The Trustee Board may appoint up to three co-opted trustees who serve a term of three years and are appointed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
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Thrive Leeds
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 August 2023
Objectives and activities
The charity's objects
The area of benefit is the geographical area served by the partner churches in Leeds.
The objects are specifically restricted to the following, for the public benefit:
The advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the partner churches.
To advance in life and help children, young people and their families through:
the provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life.
providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.
The charity's main activities
Youth work. We run two youth clubs per week during school term times. Totally Tuesday for children aged 9-12 years, and WOW for children aged 12+
Messy Church’ is a monthly gathering on Sundays where children and their families meet for craft and social activities and take part in informal worship.
Work in schools. We lead assemblies in local primary schools, run groups for vulnerable children in transition from primary to secondary school and a girls’ group in a high school.
An annual holiday club at the beginning of the school summer holidays. This lasts for three half-days and is for children aged 4-11 assisted by young volunteers and many adult helpers.
Meanwood Youth Partnership: Working with other local agencies – InterACT, Carr Manor Community School and C.A.T.C.H - we are the lead partner in developing a new initiative working with young people in Meanwood. Some of the areas served are in the top 1-2% of the government’s 2015 indices of deprivation.
Public benefit statement
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance about public benefit.
Achievements and performance
A highlight was the young volunteers' awards event, where we celebrated the commitment and growth of young leaders during the year. It has been so encouraging to see young people giving their time, gifts and energy across our groups; for the benefit of their peers and community. It was great to join with local community organisation InterACT for the awards event and see 15 local young people, who came from different groups, but were connected by their volunteering achievement. These events will become a regular part of our rhythm at Thrive, as we see young people having the opportunity to lead and volunteer in a way that nurtures and grows the gifts that they bring.
Messy Church is a vibrant gathering involving people of all ages. We are excited to see more volunteers from the local community getting involved.
Totally Tuesday (for 9-12s) and WOW (for young people aged 12+) have fully recovered after Covid and had successful residential weekends in Autumn 2022 - these are times for exploring faith and deepening friendships while enjoying the countryside away from the stresses of school.
Our schools' work, particularly facilitating a group to empower vulnerable girls, was appreciated by the girls and well-evaluated by the school.
Holiday Club had a 'Time-Travellers' theme and about 55 children came.
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Thrive Leeds Trustees. r•port (contlnued) for the year ended 31 August 2023 Achievements and perfommnce contlnufrd Our tm'ggesl development wth the Meanwood Youth Project this year has been the strengtheniro ol the after- sthool 'drop-in' 5essK)ns for high school sdentS Thursday aftemoon5 at stsInCk Church, These sessions are run jointly wilh IntefACT and Cr Manor School wrth young erS taking key rdes in develcping 8r delivering the activities. Everw)ne is eagerly anltcipallng the Inslallallon of a mcJular building which will bè used as B bas6 for this wort, P18nrning peitnission for this was linally granted in Oct(kner 20231 Flnanclal revlew The nel receipts for the ygar re £30,798, Sncluding nel reclypts of £4,393 on unrestn'cled fund5 and nel rec&trts of £28,405 on restricted funds 8Tter transfers. Res¢r¥ policy The charity's Iree reSe8s, al Ihe year end were £32,114. Our Oicy IS that we will dways have in reserve an amount of money equiv81enl lo Ihe runnino (x)sls ol Ir charity lor three months plus redundancy payments plLB any other cost5 associated with ck)sing the charlty. This currently gives a reseNes taiget of approximately £17k. Thrive's reswves f¢y this accounb'ng yeaf were slgnificanlly in excess of the re5eNes p)licy primarity b45 Ihe actual cc6t of the Meanwoc¥J Pfoj8cI was UnCertan so il was jdent 10 have resefves in case of 8n unavoif18ble overspend wilh the buihjing cc6ts. Approved b Ihe board of trustees on .. Signed.. ITrusteel Nama..
Thrive Leeds
Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Thrive Leeds
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 August 2023, which are set out on pages 6 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 charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 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.
Signed: …………………………………… Name: Katy Sargeant ACA
15/4/2024
West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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Thrive Leeds
Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 August 2023
| Notes 2023 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants (2) 35,947 Individual donations 8,115 Subscriptions from clubs and activities 5,553 Other income 11 Total receipts 49,626 Payments Salaries and on costs 36,039 Sessional staff - Events and activities 4,686 Training and development 657 Equipment and resources - Other admin and governance costs 41 Phone, IT and internet 252 Office expenses 993 Premises costs 1,638 Travel expenses 125 Insurance 442 Independent examination 360 Total payments 45,233 Net receipts / (payments) 4,393 Fund balances brought forward 27,721 Fund balances carried forward (3) 32,114 |
2023 Restricted funds £ 32,556 - - - 32,556 - - 6,151 - - - - - - - - - 6,151 26,405 23,797 50,202 |
2023 Total funds £ 68,503 8,115 5,553 11 82,182 36,039 - 10,837 657 - 41 252 993 1,638 125 442 360 51,384 30,798 51,518 82,316 |
2022 Total funds £ 58,062 2,092 5,008 666 65,828 30,136 200 5,531 1,037 954 235 246 160 1,690 301 332 360 41,182 24,646 26,872 51,518 |
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Thrive Leeds Statement of assets and Ilabllltles as at 31 August 2023 2023 Unrestride 2023 Restrided 2023 Total 2022 Total Cash funds Cash at bank Cash in hand Total cash funds 32,104 io 32,114 50,202 82,308 10 82.316 51.518 50,202 51.518 Debt0 and prepayments 2023 Debtor5 Prep8ymenls 464 442 906 Liabllitleg 2023 ¢al5 P&nsion eil 1,123 202 1,325 The fln8ndal slalements tre aptKoved by the t()¥d ol Iruslees on . Signed: .. (Trusleel Name..
Thrive Leeds
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023
1 Accounting policies
Basis of accounting
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
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.
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Thrive Leeds
Notes to the accounts continued for the year ended 31 August 2023
| 2 Grants and donations 2023 Unrestricted funds £ Chapel Allerton Baptist Church 12,835 Chapel Allerton Methodist Church 4,000 Charles and Elsie Sykes Foundation - INTERACT Church - Magic Little Grant 500 Methodist Youth Activities 5,000 The Shepherd Building Group - St Matthew's Church 4,000 Stainbeck United Reformed Church 5,100 The Cooperative Community Fund - Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes (TMCP) 4,000 Yorkshire West District Advance Fund Benefact Trust - Leeds City Council (MICE) - Leeds North and East Methodist Circuit - Leeds Older People Forum - National Lottery Community Fund - W W Spooner Charitable Trust - Other grants and donations 512 35,947 3 Restricted funds Balance b/f Incoming £ £ Meanwood Youth Project 23,797 31,606 Transition work - 850 Residentials - 100 23,797 32,556 |
2023 Restricted funds £ - 4,000 2,000 3,215 - - 1,000 - 15,000 1,792 - 5,000 - - - - - - 549 32,556 Outgoing £ 6,151 - - 6,151 |
2023 Total funds £ 12,835 8,000 2,000 3,215 500 5,000 1,000 4,000 20,100 1,792 4,000 5,000 - - - - - - 1,061 68,503 Transfers £ - - - - |
2022 Total funds £ 14,000 4,000 - - - 8,000 - 4,000 2,400 400 - - 3,000 412 5,000 2,500 10,000 4,000 350 58,062 Balance c/f £ 49,252 850 100 50,202 |
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Fund name
Meanwood Youth Project
Transition work
Residentials
Purpose of restriction
Funding from a variety of sources to create a modular building which will be sited in the grounds of Stainbeck United Reformed Church to act as a base for work with young people in the area.
Transition work - supporting young people in local schools moving from Year 6 to Year 7, through small group work and mentoring. Residentials - weekend away activity breaks for our regular youth groups.
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Thrive Leeds
Notes to the accounts continued for the year ended 31 August 2023
4 Related party transactions
Donations from trustees and related parties 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.
| Details of remuneration and benefits Richard Hamlin |
2023 £ - - |
2022 £ 200 200 |
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Legal authority for the payment
The legal authority for the payment is via a provision within the charity's governing document.
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