Charity No: 1183806
Report of the Trustees
For the Year Ended 31 December 2020
The trustees of the CIO comply with the purposes of the Charities Act 2011, to present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2020. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the 2[nd] edition of Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' issued in October 2019.
Ruth Generation Foundation is a Christian voluntary organisation, set up as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in June 2019.
We work predominantly with Women and families by providing a unique mentoring programme for building strength, courage and character for life. We aim to address life challenges and struggles due to family breakdowns, marriage difficulties, single parenting, teenage pregnancies and children with challenging behaviours. We provide restorative programmes and empowerment workshops through teachings, mentoring, spiritual and practical support that will strengthen their spiritual, emotional and social life in order to fulfil life purpose especially in marriage and family life. We work in partnership with community organisations, statutory agencies, churches and voluntary organisations to support women with intensive mentoring.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
Objectives and aims
As a small organisation, our main aim is to serve women & girls, mothers and children, families and marriages facing challenges, confronting various life issues especially marriage and family relationships. We focus our support on women who are broken, vulnerable, confused and struggling; mothers with children who have challenging behaviours, violence, knife and gun crimes; and dysfunctional families or marriages broken down.
We are passionate to support them with changes to:
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Rebuild strength, confidence and courage;
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Renew hope and restore purpose;
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Maintain healthy relationships and family life.
We are building links to work in partnership with community organisations, external agencies, churches and statutory bodies, that will provide additional support and complement what we do to meet the needs of our service users.
Public benefit
Ruth Generation Foundation believe everyone can benefit from a mentoring relationship. We promote mental & moral Improvement, ethical standards of conduct, relief of poverty and advancement of the Christian faith for the public benefit of women, mothers, children and families in the United Kingdom.
ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE
In pursuance of the achievement of our aims and objectives, Ruth Generation Foundation sets up activities and projects that best meet the imminent needs of our service users, to bring about positive change.
Current Activities
N aomi & Ruth Mentoring Relationships;
We offer 1-1 mentoring to women & girls who are single, single parents or married. The sessions focused on spiritual and emotional wellbeing, to be enhanced with group empowerment workshops that will ultimately ensure they build strength, courage, positive character and healthy relationship for fulfilling life purpose. The journey of a Ruth mentee is from 6 months to 24 months, with a commitment of 2-4 hours work per week.
The training of Naomi mentors has been put on hold over this year due to the pandemic lock down across the nation. Founding Naomi mentors continued with regular meetings online to strengthen their spiritual and emotional life.
Restorative Programme;
We offer a tailored 1-1 intervention mentoring programme for those going through intense challenges who require emotional healing and inner strength. Like the above 1-1 mentoring relationship this also involves group mentoring sessions, retreat programmes and other techniques to improve spiritual, emotional and physical well-being.
None of these could hold this year due to the pandemic lock down across the nation.
We provided some support with physical needs through various Foodbanks to assist women and families who were affected by the hardship and suffering that came with the pandemic.
We offer more bible study and prayer sessions for service users in the Christian faith, who require support to build their spiritual life, especially over the period to address the fear and anxiety that came with the pandemic.
Prayer movement;
The prayer movement Mothers On The Streets (MOTS), that focuses on praying on our streets for peace, safety and protection of children and young people in London continued but with restricted movement due to the pandemic.
The 3[rd] anniversary of MOTS was held in Trafalgar square in February 2020, a month before the national lock down commenced in UK.
Family/Marriage Intervention Plan;
We are developing our tailor-made support and guidance for this category of service users through family liaison support, techniques for improving or restoring broken families including marriage counselling; in order to i) restore love, peace, unity and harmony in the home; ii) rebuild healthy relationships and functional family lives; iii) renew hope and restore purpose in children & young people.
We are working on establishing links with social services who have expressed interest in this work, as additional support for women who are of the Christian faith on their registers.
Group empowerment sessions;
We are developing the following workshops in conjunction with all mentoring programmes, to focus on character building and understanding healthy relationships. These will include:
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i) Self-awareness & Self-development;
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ii) Strong Emotions;
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iii) Foundation Stones for Life;
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iv) Character building;
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v) Parenting sessions (Woman & child);
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vi) Series: Woman & Health, Woman & Money, Woman & Home, Woman & Beauty;
vii) Healthy relationship building sessions (Woman & Relationships).
Online tools and resources;
We are creating a First Stop Shop for online resources & information, to provide a knowledge bank for women and families to enhance life-long learning. The specific resources currently online are:
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My Child and I Devotions;
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Christian Broadcast messages;
Mothers On The Streets Prayer Movement Trafalgar Square Event
FINANCIAL REVIEW
Reserves policy
It is the policy of the charity to maintain free reserves of the CIO, at a level which equates to at least 3 months of expenditure. This provides sufficient funds to cover management, administration and support costs and to respond to emergencies which may arise from time-to-time.
Funding sources
Funds utilised during the year was received from:
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Individual Donations
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Grants funding – Seedbed Christian Community Trust Ltd
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
As and when we get funding, we hope to execute the following projects;
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Mothers & Daughters’ self-help groups in communities, as an extension of Naomi & Ruth mentoring relationships.
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Befriending & Outreach service for lonely, isolated and hard to reach women & families.
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Financial literacy & planning programme.
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Steps2Living - structured set workshops on Healthy Eating, Weight management & Total Wellbeing programme. To be provided by one of our existing partners.
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Ruth Generation Residential Restoration Home for women and children.
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Ruth Generation Mentoring Centre
STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Charity Act requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the CIO and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the CIO for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees
are required to
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP;
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the CIO and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the CIO and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 20[th] October 2021
Signed on its behalf by:
Sarah Oyedele
Trustee
Charity Name 1183806 Ruth Generation Foundation CC16a Receipts and payments accounts Period start date Period end date For the period To from 01/01/2020 31/12/2020
Section A Receipts and payments
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 548 260 345 - - - 1,153 - - - |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 548 - 260 345 - - - - 1,153 - - - |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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Grants & Donations |
548 | 5,093 | |||
| Events Participants Support | 225 | ||||
| Trustees Contribution | 260 | 435 | |||
| Other Income | 345 | 240 | |||
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| - | - | ||||
| - | - | ||||
| - | - | ||||
| Sub total | 1,153 | 5,993 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| - | - | - | - | ||
| - | - | - | - | - | |
| Sub total | - |
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Total receipts 1,153 - - 1,153 5,993
A3 Payments
| A3 Payments | |||||||||
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| Set-Up Costs (Registrations, Logo, Trade Mark, etc) |
- | - | - | 305 | |||||
| Charity Activities | 130 | - | - | 130 | - | ||||
| Retreat Event Cost | - | - | - | 1,813 | |||||
| Mothers On The Streets Activities/Event Cost |
1,031 | - | - | 1,031 | 698 | ||||
| Website development | - | - | - | 800 | |||||
| Website Subscription | 102 | 102 | 103 | ||||||
| Christmas Donations | - | 90 | |||||||
| Administration costs (Insurance, Printing, Stationery,etc) |
294 | 294 | 243 | ||||||
| Telephone | - | 66 | |||||||
| Online meetings | - | - | - | ||||||
| Training (Care for the family, Covenant Women) |
- | 345 | |||||||
| Miscellaneous Expenses (PCN,Banking fraud) |
310 | 310 | 445 | ||||||
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| - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| Sub total | 1,867 | - | - | 1,867 | 4,907 |
| A4 Asset and investment | ||||||||||
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| purchases, (see table) | ||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Sub total | ||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Total payments | 1,867 | - | - | 1,867 | 4,907 |
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
| - 714 | - | - | - 714 |
1,086 | ||||
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| - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| 1,086 | - | - | 1,086 | - | ||||
| 372 | - | - | 372 | 1,086 |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Details CASH AT HAND AND IN BANK Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 372 - - 372 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Cost (optional) |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| OK | |||
| Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
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| Current value (optional) |
Categories Details CASH AT HAND AND IN BANK
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
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B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
Fund to which Current value Cost (optional) Details asset belongs (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which Amount due When due Details liability relates (optional) (optional) - - - - -
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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Date of
Signature Print Name
approval
SARAH OYEDELE 20 [th ] Oct 2021
ADEYINKA ADEDUNTAN
20 [th] Oct 2021
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