**Charity Registration Number: 1183956** ## **Pride In North Cumbria** _Charitable Incorporated Organisation_ **Trustees Annual Report & Independently Examined Accounts** _For the Year Ending 30 September 2022_ 1 **Contents** Page 3. Reference & Administrative Details Page 4-8. Trustees Annual Report Page 9. Independent Examiner’s Report Page 10. Accounts for Year Ending 30 September 2022 2 **Pride In North Cumbria Trustees Annual Report** ## _Reference & Administrative Details_ Period Start Date: Period End Date: Charity Name: 1 October 2021 30 September 2022 Pride In North Cumbria Other Names Charity Uses: PiNC Charity Number: 1183956 Charity’s Principal Address: Rainbow HQ 21 Victoria Place Carlisle CA1 1EJ pinc-cumbria@hotmail.co.uk ## Charity Trustees: _Trustee Name_ _Role Dates Acted (if not full year)_ Martin Reeves Chair Rachel Hubbard Secretary Dennis Thompson Treasurer Mary Cameron-Parker Trustee Carl Simmonds Trustee Neil Robinson Trustee ## Senior Employees: _Employee Name_ Pam Eland _Role_ Project Manager ## Accountant: Rosie Murphy (MAAT) RDM Accountancy Services Ltd 69 Mount Pleasant Road Hastings TN34 3SJ 3 _Structure, Governance, and Management_ ## Governing Document A Charitable Incorporated Organisation Foundation Model Constitution (who’s only voting members are Trustees), adopted 18 June 2019. ## Charity Constitution PiNC registered as a Charity on 23 August 2012 with a Constitution dated 14 August 2012 and the Charity Registration Number of 1148688; and converted to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 18 June 2019 with the Charity Registration Number of 1183956. ## Trustees The Charitable Incorporated Organisation is managed by the Trustees who are elected and function as per the Governing Document. ## Organisational Structure The day to day running of the CIO is delegated to employees and volunteers. The Trustees (Management Committee) retain overall control. Pride in North Cumbria works alongside the other LGBT organisations Cumbria Pride and Sticky Bits Café resident at Rainbow HQ centre in Carlisle. _Objectives, Activities, Performance, and Achievements:_ ## Trustees Statement confirming regard to Public Benefit Guidance The Trustees take in to account the CIO’s Objectives and potential Public Benefit for Pride in North Cumbria Service Users and the wider public when making decisions; developing, and carrying out services, projects, and activities and their intended outcomes, while minimising risk. ## Charity Objectives, Main Activities, Projects, Services, Achievements, Public Benefit, difference made to Beneficiaries, & Society ## Objects As per the Governing Document: - - (1) To promote equality and diversity for the public benefit and in particular the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity of those living in Cumbria by raising awareness of the public about the issues and difficulties affecting the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. - (2) To act as a resource for young people in Cumbria particularly those who are LGBT or uncertain of their sexual orientation or gender identity by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of education and other activities as a means of: - - (a) 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. - (b) Advancing education. 4 ## Main Activities, Projects, Services, Achievements, Public Benefit, difference made to Beneficiaries, & Society PiNC’s remit is to help 13 to 25-year-olds. If a younger person gets in touch, PiNC will still offer guidance & signpost the child elsewhere. Barnardo’s has referred young people as part of social prescribing. PiNC has a counsellor for under 18’s. PiNC is not a youth club & is primarily for a minority community. There is a drop-in session between 3pm & 6pm after school, college & university on weeknights that is well attended & staff evaluate each session. Often 10 to 15 young people drop in & there has been up to 24 people in the centre. 32 young people attended the Halloween Party. A monthly drop in session solely for older young people aged 16 to 25 between 6 & 9pm is now held where there has been an InHouse Escape Room, a Movie Night watching & talking about LGBTQIA+ films, a Picasso Pizza Night doing arts & crafts & making pizzas. PiNC has reached out to young people as far as Brampton, Wigton, Silloth, Appleby, & Cockermouth. Young people outside of Carlisle who can’t make it to the weeknight drop in sessions due to time & distance, can attend a monthly Saturday session instead. Drop In sessions offer a safe space for young people to chat about worries or concerns, meet up with friends & chill. Activities help break the ice, especially when new people come & don’t know anyone. Food is also provided so that young people don’t go hungry. It serves as a home from home, non-judgemental place of safety for young people to socialise, escape, discuss, debate, create, laugh, learn, listen & be. Also informing staff by highlighting issues, needs & areas where support is needed & potential projects to appeal to young people’s interests. There are up to 12 young people attending Dungeons & Dragon sessions. The group’s confidence has improved to a point where all young people take turns as storyteller & a second group has been created to run their own parallel story. The group have developed their own support network & are welcoming of walk-in players helping character development & personal progression. The sessions run from 4 to 7pm. The social media & discord group keep young people up to date by posting games, chat, & discussion groups, etc. Also, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & WhatsApp. PiNC has reinstated a text service, so we can message young people directly with what’s on, & also send information about support services. Young people can use this if they have a crisis. The service isn’t 24 hours & PiNC works out the best times & who will look after it & discuss it with the young people to get it right. PiNC is always looking at different ways to communicate & reach young people & find ways to promote & celebrate what PiNC is doing, but are always aware of the need to protect young people’s wellbeing & identities so we don’t out them. We have supported many who see LGBThq as a sanctuary amid unsettling & uncertain experiences in their own lives. We have celebrated together & reached out to a wider network of people who face oppression & discrimination including refugees recently moving to the area. A young person’s mother spoke to PiNC staff at Cumbria Pride & said that PiNC has changed their child’s life & they have improved a lot in confidence. Young people get older, go in to higher or further education & move on. PiNC’s role is to help them build confidence to ready them for this. It helps young people coming to terms with their gender & sexual identity to become more self-accepting adults. ## **PiNC Funding** PiNC funding primarily covers Wages, Room Hire & Project Costs for Young People’s Activities. ## **Centre** The upstairs room is now decorated & new flooring laid & will be used for art activities amongst other things. The centre name is being changed from LGBThq to Rainbow HQ, to remove the LGBT+ specific terminology to help people who are fearful of being exposed. 5 ## **Projects** PiNC has been involved in projects around food & activities including the Holidays & Activity Fund that arranges healthy eating & activities for young people during the school holidays. Activities included a bowling event; a visit to a Wildlife Park; Newcastle Life Centre; Allonby & Silloth Beaches; walking with Alpacas, around Talkin Tarn; Laser Quest & the cinema; ZoobieDoo, Clip & Climb sessions; Mindfulness; Cooking & Baking; Arts & Crafts; & a Drag Doll Workshop. A Breakfast Club pilot ran 2 days a week between 6am & 8am. Active Lifestyle health funding for a sports/exercise project with I-Can fitness, skateboarding & bike riding with Rebike, receiving a free reconditioned bike at the end. Cooking Workshops every 4 weeks covered different countries including Iran & Greece & involved cooking, art & cleaning up after. A Healthy Eating project to assist young people with cooking skills & potentially produce a recipe book from it. An after school Wellbeing Project that young people helped devise to enable them to try activities, they wouldn’t get the chance to try outside of the centre like neuro-linguistic-programming, walking, use of the outdoor gym, cooking, & aromatherapy, to make them feel good about themselves, promoting techniques that calm the mind, mental health & emotional wellbeing. Young people took ownership of a half term Wellbeing Taster Day where they could talk about their own methods of staying calm & positive, supporting their peers to find new methods. An Art History project involved workshops exploring LGBT artists needing Artist & Material Costs. ## **Partnership Working** ## Schools PiNC was asked by a school in West Cumbria to do some joint working to help the school with LGBT+ issues. PiNC delivered LGBT+ training to 4 groups of 30 at Lancaster Royal Grammar School. PiNC also delivered 4 sessions on the same day at Trinity School via ICan, for which PiNC received funding. PiNC plans to promote its Training Package around Cumbria. PiNC helped organise a pride after exams & before the summer holidays at Caldew School. ## Carlisle College PiNC helped to set up an LGBT+ support group at Carlisle College who came to visit the centre, as well as the Student Union. Pam has posted centre activity in a WhatsApp group to them. ## Rainbow Stripes An Awards Ceremony promoting supporting equality in the workplace was held at Energus Centre in Workington. Attendees sat at tables & food & refreshments were provided. ## Free Radicals PiNC initially assisted with setting up & hosting Free Radicals, which eventually set up independently as a CIC, able to apply for funding in their own right, with a centre office space. The Free Radicals pop-up shop generated income & interest by selling LGBT+ related & goods of interest. Lots of pride flags & pronoun badges were sold at a protest against a Hate Preacher. The community around the shop constructively addressed local controversies including hate crime & anti-trans actions & speech by councillors. The shop was considered successful & acted as a meeting point, attracting young people & adults who had not previously been involved & generated a lot of media interest. Big Gay Day took place at the Free Radical Pop-Up Shop before it shut, with an Art Exhibition & Stalls, in partnership with Tullie House & the Library, backdropping a new archive project. Social evenings were held at the shop & other venues, including Open-Mic nights. Free Radicals held various exhibitions including Trans & Non Binary Art Exhibition supporting 15 trans & NB artists; & a Youth Culture Exhibition celebrating 100 years of Youth Culture in Cumbria in partnership with the Museum of Youth Culture. The launch events & exhibitions were well attended at Tribe at the local city centre park. 6 There was a specific LGBT+ element to the Borderlines Book Festival in 2022 that PiNC, Free Radicals & Tullie House helped with & Cumbria Libraries contributed funding to, LGBT+ authors had 4 Book Talks & 2 Workshops ensuring LGBT+ voices were heard & more diversity in Borderlines output. Young People received free tickets to attend. ## Women’s Group A partnership Refugee Women’s Project was set up in association with Multicultural Cumbria & the Cumbria International Women’s Group. The Panah Project holds women-only swimming sessions at Trinity School, to help a diverse range of women from marginalised groups who can’t swim gain a life skill, confidence, & improve technique. They also meet regularly to walk & benefit from nature, including the Lake District, offering a regular safe space, signposting, friendship & community building. The Woman Up Conference was held at Tullie House in partnership with Multicultural Cumbria & aimed to be radically inclusive, representing & giving a voice to as many women as possible, informally educating, boosting solidarity & empowering people with inspirational stories on Maternity, Mental Health, Stereotypes, Body Image & an LGBTQ+ Panel, also raising funds. ## Refugees PiNC has also worked in partnership with Multicultural Cumbria & Carlisle Refugee Action Group, to help refugees staying at local hotel by hosting Refugee Groups at the centre where information, support & an opportunity to socialise & relax are provided. Refugees also get the opportunity to cook & eat authentic foods, which they don’t get at the hotel accommodation. All are invited, minimising exposure for LGBT+ asylum seekers reluctant to come out. ## **Events & Initiatives** ## COP26 International Event PiNC was approached by Sustainable Carlisle & a PiNC representative spoke at a multi organisation COP26 Rally in Carlisle City Centre about LGBT+ issues in relation to environmental issues including the necessity for migration due to a hostile home country & people being forced to live in poor, rundown, out of town areas at greater risk of climate catastrophe due to being ostracised by their indigenous community. - Anti Racist Cumbria Conference ## Some of the employees/volunteers attended & found it beneficial. ## Carlisle United Carlisle United are trying to get equality & diversity minority groups involved including LGBT+, young people & women. Free tickets are available to attend Carlisle United matches. PiNC’s logo is on the banner, which raises awareness of PiNC. Carlisle United can also sign up to the Rainbow Stripes awards. ## Cumbria Pride PiNC had a youth & activity presence at Cumbria Pride including a stall where funds were raised, as well as a youth tent & mini protest. PiNC also participated in a Pre-Pride March. ## Cumbria Royal Variety Performance The Variety Performance took place at Harraby Community Centre in June, raising funds for Cumbria Pride, PiNC & the Air Ambulance with entertainment including Billie Raymond & Razzmatazz & stalls. ## **Future Projects** There are plans to apply for funding to open a centre/café in West Cumbria to improve wider LGBT+ provision, starting with opening a centre for one year to evaluate its performance. There are plans to celebrate PiNC’s 20[th] anniversary, which will include projects, events & partnership work. 7 ## _Contribution made by Volunteers_ There were 6 Voluntary Trustees and 3 Committee Members to the Year Ending 2022. There were 3 additional Volunteers whose help included garden maintenance, running a Breakfast Club & a Counsellor gaining work experience for their qualification. Centre Service Users also helped. Free Radicals, initially hosted by PiNC is now a Community Interest Company in its own right, recruited its own Volunteers for the Pop-Up Shop. ## _Financial Review_ ## Main Funding Sources ## _Funding Grants_ - Arnold Clark - Cumbria County Council - Cumbria Community Foundation - Frances C Scott Trust - Ground Work - Hadfield Trust - National Lottery Awards For All - National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund - Ragdoll Foundation ## _Reimbursements_ - Carlisle City Council Rates Rebate ## _Fundraising_ - Events - Raffle - Pop-Up Shop Sales - Stall Fundraising - Rainbow Lottery - Training Sessions 8 ## Charity’s Financial Position at end of Financial Period Opening Bank Balance: £78,683. Expenditure: £146,949. Income: £146,852. 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