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2025-03-31-accounts

CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1183572

ESCAPE2MAKE

Trustees’ Annual Report

and Unaudited Financial Statements

For the year ended 31 March 2025

ESCAPE2MAKE

CONTENTS

Year ended 31 March 2025

Page
Charity reference and administrative details 1
Trustees’ Annual Report 2
Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees 9
Statement of Financial Activities 10
Balance Sheet 11
Notes to the accounts 12

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CHARITY REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Year ended 31 March 2025

Current Trustees

Jennifer Natusch Peter Charnley Laura Yates Fitzsimons, Treasurer Jackie Cahalin Kym Cardona Helen Bingley, Chair

Appointed November 2018 Appointed December 2021 Appointed June 2024 Appointed March 2024 Appointed February 2024 Appointed June 2025

Address

56 Church Street Lancaster LA1 1LH

Independent Examiner

Robert Mitchell FCA CWR Chartered Accountants 20 Mannin Way Lancaster Business Park Lancaster LA1 3SW

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Trustees’ Annual Report

Year ended 31 March 2025

The Trustees of Escape2Make (E2M) present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting policies set out in the notes to the accounts and comply with the charity’s governing document, the Charities Act 2011 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

The Trustees

The Trustees who served the charity during the period were as follows:

Jennifer Natusch Appointed November 2018
Peter Charnley Appointed December 2021
Melanie McKay Appointed January 2022 Resigned 17 June 2025
Jane Samson Appointed January 2022 Resigned 29 June 2025
William Kistler, Chair Appointed July 2022 Resigned 5 June 2025
David Beuzeval, Vice Chair Appointed July 2022 Resigned December 2024
Kym Cardona Appointed February 2024
Kamal Essa Resigned June 2024
Laura Yates Fitzsimons Appointed June 2024
Debbie Bullock Appointed May 2023 Resigned December 2024
Jackie Cahalin Appointed March 2024
Gabby Ogiste Appointed December 2024 Resigned 30 June 2025

Purposes and Aims

Our charity’s purposes as set out in its governing document are:

To act as a resource for young people up to the age of 11-18 living in Lancashire by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of physical, educational and other activities as a means of:

  1. advancing in life and helping young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;

  2. enhancing educational engagement and outcomes for participants;

  3. providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons.

Due consideration has been given to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit by all trustees.

Ensuring our work delivers our aims

Our board reviews our aims, objectives and activities each year. This review looks at what we achieved and the outcomes of our work in this financial year.

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Trustees’ Annual Report (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

The focus of our work

E2M is a pioneering, grassroots, youth-led charitable organisation supporting the wellbeing of 11-18year-olds by providing free creative programmes and ongoing club activity feeding into communitybased events. We contract local creative practitioners, local and national businesses, cultural organisations and universities to facilitate our programmes, which are carefully crafted to inspire and motivate young people to discover new talents, passions, and how these can be used to give back to the community. In 2025, we will launch our first dedicated creative space for young people in Lancaster, which will house our activities.

E2M is fighting back against the repercussions of a decade of statutory youth provision cuts and the now all-consuming presence of social media. Young people resultantly have too little opportunity to access out of school hours provision beyond costly and sport-based clubs and are left to their own devices in their bedrooms with nothing but unhealthy use of television and the internet as entertainment. Bereft of activity, safe space and face-to-face communication, it is unsurprising that young people are officially the loneliest age group, experiencing the poorest mental health in the UK in higher numbers than ever before. E2M is a mental escape from the pressures of school, homelife and anxieties proven to be caused by use of social media, providing a haven for young people to meet face-to-face and create things side-by-side in an offline environment. We support young people to make things, make friends, and make a difference.

Our programmes also provide unique educational experiences for young people struggling with the narrowing options on offer by the national school curriculum. Funding restrictions have gradually forced comprehensive schools to reduce GCSE and A-Level subjects available, all too often resulting in the near extinction of ‘non-core’ subjects, including art, drama, food and design technologies. E2M, by offering vocational skill workshops ranging from ‘zine’ magazine editing and bicycle repair to film making and wild cooking, allows students struggling to fit into the strictly academic school system to experience vocational options offered in colleges and other alternative post-16 educational channels. Discovery of a talent or interest that would otherwise have gone unidentified could encourage struggling young people to stay in education, as well as increasing self-worth and motivation to do well in order to pursue a chosen interest.

Activities

The activities we offer are split into four categories: Centre, Clubs, Projects and Youth Leadership.

Centre

In February 2025, Escape2Make moved into its new home. A Centre in the middle of Lancaster's high street that was co-developed by young people. The space acts as a base of operations for Escape2Make's staff, but also an activity space where most of E2M's workshops are held.

The Centre has opened up new opportunities for Escape2Make's delivery of high-quality youth work. Having this space has allowed E2M to hold a wider variety of sessions, including drop-in style workshops during term breaks and weekly Escape Sessions, which focus on artistic activities that are guided by the attendees, shaping what they'd like to do - where no two sessions look the same.

In 2025 E2M moved most of its regular activity inside the Centre and has received mostly positive feedback from participants, freelance artists, volunteers and other collaborators.

The Centre is supported through three years’ funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, secured in March 2024.

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Trustees’ Annual Report (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Clubs

Our clubs run year-round, including during the school holidays, with free, fortnightly sessions open to all 11-18-year-olds from the region. They are led by creative professionals who work with the young participants to decide on quarterly themes to produce work around. In 2024-25, the clubs we ran were:

Projects

Our projects are ambitious, large-scale clusters of activity leading to a youth-led community-facing event. Each project involves a set of creative programmes, with groups that meet regularly, or full day workshops led by experts and attended by groups of 11-18-year-olds. Each programme works towards a tangible outcome that can be performed, sold or experienced at the final event, to which the wider local community is invited. Our key project in 2024-25 were:

Impact reports for these projects can be found here: - https://escape2make.org/our impact/

Our next project will be the Summer Escape, taking place in Summer 2025.

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Trustees’ Annual Report (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Youth Leadership

Our youth leadership work involves establishing groups of young people to help guide us as an organisation, ensuring we are youth-led in our decision-making. In 2024-25 this work included:

Impact

Advocates of E2M

“The E2M project is a beacon of hope in a world where the young feel lonely, afraid and isolated”. Professor Sue Black, Lady Black of Strome LT. President, St John’s College Oxford University. Escape2Make Patron.

"Escape2Make is a playful, creative local solution to a serious global problem."

Professor Alex Nicholls, founder of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

“There is something unstoppable about an idea that has captured the imagination like this has, where people break the restraints of the word “if” and confidently use the word “when“. So…when young people are drawn, as if magnetically, towards a place that feels safe as well as nurturing and exciting…it creates a theatre of all possibilities. At its heart lies culture and community and a declaration that hope lives in this place. We salute you and congratulate you on moving the dial and watch in admiration”.

Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of Cornwall's Eden Project

“Escape2Make have established a proven track record in the design and delivery of programmes for young people and in communities, that translate into step-change in lives and transformation in places. Within the Lancashire context E2M are establishing a reputation as thought leaders and a respected (authoritative) voice among those working to develop the prospects and opportunities for young (creative) citizens.”

Ed Matthews-Gentle, Strategic Lead, Culture & Creative Industries, Creative Lancashire (Lancashire County Council)

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Trustees’ Annual Report (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

“I am hugely impressed with the vision, values and existing achievements of E2M. Our young people are growing up in a world which has stripped words like ‘connection’, ‘like’ and even ‘friend’ of any real meaning, and E2M acts as an antidote – restoring creativity, communion, intrinsic motivation and critical engagement to their lives”.

Dr Barry J Hymer, Emeritus Professor of Psychology in Education, University of Cumbria

“I believe that E2M’s vision to prevent mental health problems in young people will be immensely successful…. E2M will undoubtedly help counteract the stress, loneliness and lack of resilience that is the root of so many emotional problems in the younger generation”.

Sue Smith, Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Chief Nurse, NHS - University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay

"I believe E2M have the potential to kick-start something amazing, not just for our city, but for the whole UK."

Councillor Phillip Black, Leader of Lancaster City Council

“The innovative approach taken by Escape2Make is something Lancashire Constabulary fully supports. Further, it is an approach that may well overcome criminalising young people at a very vulnerable time in their lives.”

Supt Richard Robertshaw. Operations Superintendent for Lancashire Police, West Division (Blackpool)

“The space is amazing. It is welcoming and was a really calm, relaxing and welcoming atmosphere for me as a practitioner and for the young people attending. It's really versatile – lots of space for activities and lots of great resources to hand too. The staff and team are so helpful.”

Sam Harding, Wellbeing Coordinator & Facilitator, Lancashire Youth Challenge

Financial Review

The total income for the year was £233,056 comprising 63% restricted funds (£145,720) and 37% unrestricted funds (£87,336).

Donations from the public constituted 27% of income (£63,704).

Reserves

As at 31[st] March 2025, the unrestricted reserves stood at £87,594.

The trustees reviewed the reserves policy during the year and agreed that the target for unrestricted reserves would be three months of running costs. The reserves policy and the analysis of income and expenditure will be reviewed on an annual basis.

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Trustees’ Annual Report (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Trustees

Two Trustees received payment for providing professional services to the charity:

2025 2024
Melanie McKay
Services: Craft Club Facilitator £3,112 £1,111
David Beuzeval
Services: Fundraising Consultant £340 £6,920

No trustee had a material interest in any of the charity’s contracts during the year.

Staff

We plan to transfer core staff from freelance to employed status in the next 12 months. We also will continue to draw on appropriate skills and experience from arts and creative facilitators.

Contribution of volunteers

The Charity is supported by highly experienced and dedicated volunteer Board members as well as a small number of volunteers who support the organisation more generally.

Plans for the Future

Centre:

Connect:

EBSA:

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Trustees’ Annual Report (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Risk management

The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. Risk is reviewed by the Trustees on a quarterly basis.

Recruitment

A review of the current management structure is being undertaken.

New Trustees are appointed to the committee following recommendation to and approval by the existing Trustees.

Independent examiner

CWR Chartered Accountants have been re-appointed as independent examiner for the ensuing year.

Signed on behalf of the Board of Trustees

Helen Bingley

……………………………………..

Helen Bingley Trustee

17/09/2025 Approved by the Board on …………………………….……

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Escape2Make

Year ended 31 March 2025

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of ESCAPE2MAKE for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 10 to 20.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the Trust 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 Trustee’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 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:

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.

R Mitchell

………………………………………………… Mr Robert Mitchell FCA For and on behalf of CWR Chartered Accountants 20 Mannin Way Lancaster Business Park Caton Road Lancaster LA1 3SW

17/09/2025

Date: ………………………………………….

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Statement of Financial Activities

Year ended 31 March 2025

Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Note
£
£
Income and endowments
Donations and legacies
3
75,864
–
Charitable activities
4
10,000
145,720
Investments
338
-
Other Income
1,135
-
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Total
87,336
145,720
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Expenditure on:
Expenditure on raising funds:
Charitable Activities
5
110,209
188,852
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Total expenditure
110,209
188,852
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--------------------------------
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Net (expenditure) / income
(22,873)
(43,132)
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Transfers
11
3,647
(3,647)
Net income / (expenditure)
(19,226)
(46,779)
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
106,820
97,187
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Total funds carried forward
87,594
50,408
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============================		 Total
funds
2025
£
75,864
155,720
338
1,135
--------------------------------
233,056
================================
299,060
--------------------------------
299,060
================================
--------------------------------
(66,004)
================================
-
(66,004)
204,007
--------------------------------
138,002
================================		 Total
funds
2024
£
52,426
239,244
-
-
-------------------------------
291,670
================================
181,118
-------------------------------
181,118
================================
--------------------------------
110,552
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-
110,552
93,455
--------------------------------
204,007
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The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses in the year and therefore a statement of total recognised gains and losses has not been prepared.

All of the above amounts relate to continuing activities.

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Balance Sheet

As At 31 March 2025

2025 2024
Note £ £
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand 148,541 175,737
Debtors 9 7,287 29,525
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155,828 205,262
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 10 (17,826) (1,255)
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Net current assets 138,002 204,007
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Net assets 138,002 204,007
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Funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds 11 87,594 106,820
Restricted funds 11 50,408 97,187
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Total charity funds 138,002
================================		 204,007
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These accounts were approved by the Trustees and authorised for issue on 17/09/2025........................................., and are signed on their behalf by:

Helen Bingley

……………………………………..

H Bingley Chair Trustee

Charity Number: 1183572

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Notes to the Financial Statements

Year ended 31 March 2025

1 . Accounting policies

Legal Form

The entity is registered as a charity in England and Wales with registration number 1183572. The address of the charity, the nature of its operations and its principal activities are all detailed in the Trustees’ report and charity administrative details pages in these financial statements.

Basis of accounting

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS102. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011 and UK Generally Accepted Practice.

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis under the historical cost convention. The financial statements are prepared in sterling which is the functional currency of the Charity.

The financial statements have been prepared to give a ‘true and fair’ view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a ‘true and fair’ view. This departure is involved following Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with Financial Reporting Standards applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.

The significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all years presented unless otherwise stated.

Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis

The Trustees have considered the working capital of the charity and, at the time of approving the financial statements, have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The Trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

Income

Income from grants and other donations are included as they are receivable by the charity, except insofar as they are incapable of financial measurement. Included within donations is grant income which is recognised when the charity is legally entitled to receive it.

Donated services where quantifiable and measurable are recognised in income with a corresponding cost to the charity. The charity estimates the open market value of such services.

No income is shown net of expenditure.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

1. Accounting policies (continued)

Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure is recognised where there is a legal or constructive obligation to make payments to third parties, it is probable that the settlement will be required, and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Support costs are those which assist the work of the charity but do not directly represent charitable activities and include governance costs.

Debtors and accrued income

Debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discounts allowed. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid after taking account of any trade discounts due.

Creditors

Creditors with no stated interest rate and receivable and payable within one year are recorded at transaction price. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in expenditure.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents included within the accounts represent amounts held on a deposit account by the charity.

Funds

Unrestricted funds – these are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general activities of the charity.

Designated funds – these are funds set aside by Trustees for a particular purpose from unrestricted funds.

Restricted funds – these are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor. The restricted fixed asset fund represents assets purchased from specific grants and funds future depreciation of those assets.

Financial Instruments

The charity has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

Financial instruments are recognised in the charity’s balance sheet when the charity becomes party to contractual provisions of the instrument.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to offset the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

1. Accounting policies (continued)

Basic financial assets

Basic financial assets, which include cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price, including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised costs using the effective interest method. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Financial assets are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date.

Basic financial liabilities

Basic financial liabilities are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest.

Financial liabilities classified as payable withing one year are not amortised. Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised costs, using the effective interest rate method.

Financial liabilities are derecognised when the charity’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.

2. Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the charity’s accounting policies, the Trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods .

Key assumptions, judgements and estimates

In the opinion of the Trustees’ there have been no significant judgements (apart from those involving estimates) made in the process of applying the above accounting policies.

There have been no key assumptions concerning future and other key sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next financial year.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

3 Income from donations and legacies

Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
£
£
Donations and fundraising
63,704
-
Other income
-
-
Sponsorship
12,160
-
75,864
-
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================================		 Total
2025
£
63,704
-
12,160
75,864
================================		 Total
2024
£
39,351
3,075
10,000
52,426
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Of the income from donations and legacies in the comparative year, £nil was restricted and £52,426 was unrestricted.

4 Income from charitable activities

Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2025 2024
£ £ £
The Areti Charitable Trust - 9,300 9,300 15,000
Banks Lyon Memorial Trust - - - 4,800
3R Foundation - 500 500 -
Lancaster City Council - 900 900 -
Duke of Edinburgh - - - 567
Francis C Scott - - - 40,000
Lancaster Community Fund - 1,000 1,000 -
LDCVS Pots of Possibility - - - 2,500
LDCVS Youth Foundation - - - 2,000
Morecambe Town Council - - - 5,000
National Lottery Community Fund - 82,000 82,000 -
National Lottery Heritage Fund - - - 75,660
Penhale - 5,000 5,000 -
The Fore - - - 4,200
The Lovington Foundation 10,000 - 10,000 -
UKSPF - 4,320 4,320 4,517
Walney Community Fund - 9,500 9,500 -
You Are the Star Trust - - - 10,000
Rank Foundation - - - 60,000
Rathbones - - - 15,000
LANPAC - 2,500 2,500 -
LitFest - 1,200 1,200 -
Safer Lancashire Neighbourhoods - 4,500 4,500 -
Vera Wolstencroft - 25,000 25,000 -
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10,000 145,720 155,720 239,244
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Of the income from charitable activities in the comparative period, £59,200 was unrestricted and £180,044 was restricted funds.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

5 Expenditure on charitable activities

Promotion of Promotion of well-being of young people
Activity Unrestricted Restricted
Total Funds
Total Funds
Funds Funds
2025
2024
£ £ £ £
Programme costs 11,570 4,603
16,173
7,248
Marketing and communication costs 13,225 4,446
17,671
11,128
Contractor costs - -
-
21,855
Office costs 462 139
602
-
Workshop facilitators 19,116 23,223
42,339
45,226
Premises Costs 2,068 10,983
13,051
-
Centre Set Up Costs 19,631 26,148
45,779
-
Venue hire 1,724 5,198
6,922
6,163
Production admin 15,841 27,861
43,702
50,708
Travel and Entertaining 103 971
1,075
821
Subscriptions 94 36
130
614
Support Costs (note 6) 26,374 85,243
111,617
37,355
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110,209 188,852
299,061
181,118
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Expenditure on charitable activities in the comparative period comprised of £23,711 in unrestricted funds and £157,407 in restricted funds.

6 Support costs

Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2025 2024
£ £ £ £
Legal costs 4,883 4,700 9,583 7,670
Employment costs - 6,328 6,328 -
Independent examination 1,422 - 1,422 1,250
Insurance 2,744 - 2,744 2,090
Other accountancy costs - - - 251
Staff Training 2,791 470 3,261 1,370
Staff - Freelance 7,200 72,810 80,010 22,502
Bank and commission charges 3,695 - 3,695 269
Sundries 3,639 935 4,573 1,953
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26,374 85,243 111,617 37,355
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Support costs in the comparative period comprised of £10,501 in unrestricted funds and £26,854 in restricted funds.

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Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

7 Net (income)/expenditure

Net income stated after charging:

Net income stated after charging:
2025 2024
£ £
Independent examiner’s remuneration:
-Independent examination fee 1,320
============================		 1,250
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8 Trustees and key management personnel remuneration

The Trustees of the charity are considered to be the key management personnel of the charity. No salaries or wages have been paid to employees or Trustees during the period. Two trustees received payment for their services which is analysed on page 7.

9 Debtors: Amounts falling due within one year

2025 2024
£ £
Accrued Income 2,083 29,345
Prepayments 5,204 180
============================ ============================
7,287 29,525
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10 Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

2025 2024
£ £
Pensions 182 -
PAYE 490 -
Trade Creditors 15,489 -
Accruals 1,664 1,255
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17,826 1,255
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Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

11 Analysis of charitable funds: Current year

At At
1 April 2024 Income Expenditure Transfers 31 March 25
£ £ £ £ £
Unrestricted Funds
General funds 106,820 87,336 (110,209) 3,647 87,594
Designated funds - - - - -
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Total unrestricted funds 106,820 87,336 (110,209) 3,647 87,594
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Restricted funds
3R Foundation - 500 (500) - -
Banks Lyon Memorial Trust 2,760 - (2,760) - -
The Areti Charitable Trust 15,957 9,300 (13,676) - 11,580
The Fore 3,647 - - (3,647)
-
Rank Foundation 39,045 - (26,981) - 12,064
National Lottery Community Fund - 82,000 (62,513) - 19,487
Lancaster Community Fund - 1,000 (1,000) - -
LANPAC - 2,500 (56) - 2,444
Safer Lancashire Neighbourhoods
-		 4,500 (4,500) - -
Penhale - 5,000 (726) - 4,274
LDCVS Youth Foundation - - - - -
LDCVS Pots of Possibility 1,089 - (1,089) - -
National Lottery Heritage Fund 21,011 - (21,011) - -
LitFest - 1,200 (100) - 1,100
Vera Wolstencroft - 25,000 (25,000) - -
Walney Community Trust - 9,500 (9,500) - -
You are The Star Trust 13,058 - (13,058) - -
Duke of Edinburgh 377 - (300) - 77
Lancaster City Council - 900 (900) - -
UKSPF 243 4,320 (5,181) - (617)
Total restricted funds 97,187 145,720 (188,852) (3,647)
50,408
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Total funds 204,007 233,056 (299,060) - 138,002
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Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

12 Analysis of charitable funds: Prior year

At 1 At
April 2023 Income Expenditure Transfers 31 March 24
£ £ £ £ £
Unrestricted Funds
General funds 18,906 111,626 (23,712) - 106,820
Designated funds - - - - -
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Total unrestricted funds 18,906 111,626 (23,712) - 106,820
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Restricted funds
Banks Lyon Memorial Trust 5,000 4,800 (7,040) - 2,760
The Areti Charitable Trust 13,629 15,000 (12,672) - 15,957
The Fore 3,647 - - - 3,647
Rank Foundation 9,973 60,000 (30,928) - 39,045
Badur Foundation 548 - (548) - -
Brabners 1,500 - (1,500) - -
Duchy of Lancaster 103 - (103) - -
ICB NHS 31,437 - (31,437) - -
LDCVS Youth Foundation 281 2,000 (2,281) - -
LDCVS Pots of Possibility - 2,500 (1,411) - 1,089
National Lottery Heritage Fund - 75,660 (54,649) - 21,011
Neighbourhood Community
Project 737 - (737) - -
The Lovington Foundation 1,066 - (1,066) - -
Walney Community Fund 1,628 - (1,628) - -
You are The Star Trust 5,000 10,000 (1,942) - 13,058
Duke of Edinburgh - 567 (190) - 377
Morecambe Town Council - 5,000 (5,000) - -
UKSPF - 4,517 (4,274) - 243
Total restricted funds 74,549 180,044 (157,406) - 97,187
================================ ================================ ================================ ================================ ================================
Total funds 93,455 291,670 (181,118) - 204,007
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Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

13 Net assets by fund: Current year

Unrestricted Restricted
Funds Funds Total Funds
£ £ £
Fund balances at 31 March 2025 are represented by:
Current assets 105,420 50,408 155,828
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (17,826) - (17,826)
------------------------------- ---------------------------- --------------------------------
Net assets 87,594 50,408 138,002
================================ ============================ ================================
Unrestricted Restricted
Funds Funds Total Funds
£ £ £
Fund balances at 31 March 2024 are represented by:
Current assets 108,075 97,187 205,262
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (1,255) – (1,255)
-------------------------------- ---------------------------- --------------------------------
Net assets 106,820 97,187 204,007
================================ ============================ ================================

14 Related parties

One related party was paid £340 for fundraising consultation work during the year and one trustee was paid £3,112 for facilitating a craft club. In the comparative period two related parties were paid totals of £6,920 and £1,111 for fundraising consultation work and for facilitating a craft club respectively.

15 Control

There was no ultimate controlling party during the current or prior period.

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