## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021** ## **Charity name: A MILE IN HER SHOES** ## **Charity registration number: 1183760** ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||SORP
reference|| |Summary of the purposes of the charity as set
out in its governing document|||Para 1.17|The objects of the charity are to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing
people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially
excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For this purpose, ’socially excluded’
means in particular women who are excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of
being homeless or at risk of homelessness.| |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|The charity’s main activities are providing fitness sessions, including running sessions, to
women affected by or experiencing homelessness and/or multiple disadvantage. Please see
more detail under Achievements and Performance.| |Statement confirming whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public benefit|||Para 1.18|When planning the charity’s activities and developing the charity’s direction the trustees have
considered the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||||| ||SORP
reference|||| |Policy ongrant making|Para 1.38|Notapplicable||| |||| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Not applicable| |Contribution made by volunteers|Para 1.38|With only a few paid personnel, volunteers play a very important role in the charity. They lead and assist
at the sessions we run. We are grateful for all their help and support in delivering such a positive impact to
our beneficiaries.| |Other||None| ## **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|**Operational achievements through activities delivered**
We are proud of having found creative ways to continue to support beneficiaries during
the Covid 19 pandemic lockdowns. For our beneficiaries, the continued support we
provided at this time was especially valuable. The need to adapt and flex our model of
support has also allowed A Mile In Her Shoes to think differently about how to deliver our
impact, and demonstrated our resilience in the face of huge challenges to our delivery
model. Activities delivered:
`o`Core group activity sessions: Where lockdown restrictions allowed, we
continued to deliver our group activity sessions. As well as fun running-
based games sessions, we now provide sessions including other fitness
elements requested by beneficiaries. These include boxercise, Zumba,
mindfulness and yoga elements. Some sessions are outdoors and some
are indoors; this has allowed more opportunities for women to engage who
lack confidence in exercising outdoors.
`o`One to one sessions and small group sessions: Our groups benefited from
the exemption for support groups for most of the more restricted lockdown
periods, although this was not clear at the outset of the pandemic.
Nevertheless, we took a decision not to deliver our usual size group
sessions. Several factors were relevant, including: infection risk to
members, volunteers and coaches (including if they’d have had to use
public transport); what members and coaches were comfortable with; and| the risk that although our group activities were permitted, they might result in comments, approaches or harassment from the authorities or the public, which could be particularly traumatic for members. We introduced short one-to-one sessions which were enjoyed, and allowed very small group sessions to go ahead. - Funded by the GLA through its Team London project, a new model was developed to help women suffering from social isolation to join 'parkrun' to help tackle loneliness and depression through exercise. Initial development work with social prescribing link workers was put on hold because of covid but regular exercise sessions to prepare women for parkrun started in July 2020 in three London areas. Although parkrun was closed throughout 2020, TL approved the use of any unspent money to continue throughout 2021 so that the goal of transitioning women (from small group highly structured sessions to joining the large groups of parkrun runners to achieve the 5k run) could be met. - Reach of activities: Overall our reach was lower due to the continued lockdown into 2021. Although many of the usual restrictions did not impact on our operations, we had to make a risk assessment based on the wellbeing of the women we work with, our volunteers and coaches. We continued with one to one sessions where appropriate. We had nine active face to face sessions at the end of 2021 and anticipate seeing a return to pre-pandemic levels of exercise going into 2022. - • The trustees are persuaded that the charity’s work has made a positive difference to its beneficiaries’ circumstances. Evidence of this includes positive feedback from them indicating an improvement in physical and mental wellbeing and in overall motivation to be more active and get things done in spite of continued restrictions. ## **Organisational development** In addition to ongoing service delivery, the charity achieved some organisational development goals which will enhance our ability to make a difference to our beneficiaries’ circumstances in future. These include: • Putting in place a sub-committee system in 2021, again to increase efficiency and allow for more focus on strategic points when the board meet as a whole. • A renewed focus on fundraising coming out of the pandemic in order to generate a sustainable model. ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against objectives set|Para
1.41|As a microcharity, objectives are mainly determined by those set out in grant requirements. During the
reporting period, the charityfulfilled requirements set out in maingrants.| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising activities
against objectives set|Para
1.41|No objectives set.| |Investment performance against
objectives|Para
1.41|Not applicable| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s financial
position at the end of the period|Para
1.21|Receipts totalling of £4,269 were received of which £1,700 related to restricted grant funding from Greater
London Authority.
£2,569 of unrestricted income was generated from fundraising activities.
Expenses totalled £28,396 in the period of which £8,156 related to the delivery of the Comic Relief activities,
£8,091 for the Greater London Authority project and £4,813 for Homeless Link. The most significant costs
include payment of the Community Coaches to deliver sessions and associated costs of running the sessions
such as kit and venue hire.
Unrestricted reserves at the end of the period were £11,281 and restricted reserves were £4,123.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the policy
for holding reserves stating why
they are held|Para
1.22|The charity holds reserves to meet any unforeseen expenditure, to safeguard against needing to suddenly
cease the support we provide to our beneficiaries and to fulfil any outstanding obligations to contractors and
suppliers.| |Amount of reserves held|Para
1.22|Our reserves policy is minimum 3 months operating costs.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para
1.22|Not applicable| |Details of fund materially in deficit|Para
1.24|Not applicable| |Explanation of any uncertainties
about the charity continuing as a
going concern|Para
1.23|None| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|In 2021 the charity’s principal sources of funds were grant income from
Comic Relief, Team London and Homeless Link and individual fundraising
donations.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and objectives including any
social investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|Not applicable| |A description of the principal risks facing the
charity|Para 1.46|•
End of significant grants
•
Inability to grow unrestricted income
•
Personnel resource| |Other||Not applicable| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution (CIO foundation model)| |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|The constitution requires that:
•
Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed
for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly
convened meeting of the charity trustees.
•
In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the
charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and
experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures adopted for
the induction and training of trustees|Para
1.51|Incoming trustees were provided with a welcome pack that included our constitution, core information about
the charity’s vision, mission, strategy and operating model and minutes of the most recent board meetings.
We also shared the Charity Commission’s trustee welcome pack, which sets out the roles and
responsibilities of charity trustees. In normal circumstances, new trustees would have been given
opportunities to visit and participate in fitness sessions, in order to see first-hand the work we do and to meet
our members, coaches and volunteers.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider network with
which the charity works|Para
1.51|Not applicable. The charity is governed by a board which is supported by a number of sub-committees
dealing with finance and fundraising, governance and operations.
Paid staff include a programme manager and 1 community coach. Coaches are supported by volunteers (8
currently).| |Relationship with any related parties|Para
1.51|Not applicable| |Other||Notapplicable| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|A MILE IN HER SHOES| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|NA| |Registered charity number|1183760| |Charity’s principal address|c/o Capital Office
Kemp House
152-160 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Carli-Louan Foster|Treasurer||| ||Mary Nicholls|Co-chair (from 7 October 2019 to 26 November 2020)|Trustee until 26 November
2020|| ||Jennifer Cirone|Co-chair (from 7 October 2019 to 26 November 2020), Chair
(from 26November 2020 to28 January2021)||| |4
5
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12|Nicola Miller||Trustee from 26 March 2020
to 29 July 2021|| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Sarah Bridget
Evershed|Secretary||| ||CeliaRoberts|||| ||Ross James
Perriam|||| ||Clare Louise
Jenkins||Trustee from 18 August
2020|| ||Anna Lucy
Robertson Bird||Trustee from 18 August
2020|| ||Victoria Kate
Parker||Trustee from 18 August
2020|| ||Katherine Victoria
Burt|Co-chair (from 26 November 2020 to 28 January 2021|Trustee from 18 August
2020|| **Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved** – None **Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity** – None **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** – No assets held in this capacity ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|||| |**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||| |None (but Nicola Miller acted as voluntary chief executive for a period ending early 2020)|||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details Not applicable ## **Other optional information** The charity trustees have had regard to the related Charities SORP Committee note of 23 March 2020 saying trustees should consider if information needs to be included to explain the impact of the COVID 19 situation on their charity. This information has been included elsewhere in the report but is summarised here. - Delivery of services/activity sessions was restricted as noted in the section on operational activities and achievements. A Mile in Her Shoes are proud of having found creative ways to continue to support beneficiaries during the Covid 19 pandemic lockdowns. For our beneficiaries, the continued support we provided at this time was especially valuable. The need to adapt and flex our model of support has also allowed A Mile In Her Shoes to think differently about how to deliver our impact, and demonstrated our resilience in the face of huge challenges to our delivery model. - Our beneficiaries will have experienced significant change during the Covid-19 pandemic. For the small number who access our services who are rough sleepers, they will have been brought into temporary housing as part of the governments "Everybody In" scheme. The aim of this was not only to give rough sleepers a roof over their head during the public health emergency but also to engage rough sleepers with support to exit homelessness during this period. Many of our beneficiaries live in temporary housing which includes hostels, refuges and other types of supported housing. These are close living situations with shared facilities and therefore service disruption in these services will have been significantly disrupted in order to manage transmission. Staffing levels and contact time with staff will have been severely restricted and women will have been living in close contact with little opportunity to do anything else but remain in their rooms for significant periods of time. Women experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantages frequently have additional health conditions and many of our beneficiaries are Black and Minoritised women who are at increased risk of adverse outcomes from Covid. This will have additionally impacted upon many of our beneficiaries. - Team London All of our three target settings, Ealing, Lambeth and Brent are active. However, the pandemic meant that there was a long time-lag both in developing contacts and relationships with Social Prescribing link workers and getting referrals, particularly in Brent where sessions are only started in November. We now have effective contacts with five link workers. ## **Declarations** ## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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||**A Mile In Her Shoes**|**A Mile In Her Shoes**|**A Mile In Her Shoes**|**A Mile In Her Shoes**|**A Mile In Her Shoes**|**1183760**|**1183760**|**1183760**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01/01/2021||**To**||Period end date
31/12/2021||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Transfer from A MileIn HerShoes (1167381)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |MiscellaneousFundraising|**2,569**||**-**||**-**||**2,569**||**3,339**| |CorporateDonation|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Grants|**-**||**1,700**||**-**||**1,700**||**37,760**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**2,569**||**1,700**||**-**||**4,269**||**41,099**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**41,099**| ||||||||||| |
First Aid Training|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Community Coaches|**4,890**||**18,975**||**-**||**23,865**||**12,200**| |Admin Support|**264**||**308**||**-**||**572**||**1,687**| |Session delivery & Clothing|**330**||**1,472**||**-**||**1,801**||**3,102**| |Professional fees|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Operating costs|**1,531**||**270**||**-**||**1,801**||**2,595**| |Trustee & volunteer expenses|**323**||**35**||**-**||**358**||**1,973**| |Marketing|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**376**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**7,337**||**21,060**||**-**||**28,396**||**21,934**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**
**table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**21,934**| ||||||||||| ||**- 4,768**||||||||**19,165**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**16,049**||||||||**-**| ||**11,281**||||||||**19,165**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**|1
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
**Details**
Bank balance
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**11,281**
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**11,281**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**4,123**
**-**
**-**
**4,123**
OK
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
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**funds**
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29/04/2023 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2