## **Youth Shedz** **Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Registered charity No: 1184146** **www.youthshedz.com** ## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT** **1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021** ## **Youth Shedz** Youth Shedz aims to develop a community to reach the most disconnected young people by providing safe spaces for young people aged 13 to 25 to explore their identity and develop pro-social relationships, alongside positive role models. Each Youth Shed is co-produced by participants who are supported and facilitated to test ideas and concepts which help them to build healthier, fulfilling and more stable lives. Youth Shedz provides a nurturing, safe environment where young people can learn and test both life and employability skills. These range from team working, planning, decision making, digital inclusion, entrepreneurship as well as practical skills. ## **Review of activities undertaken for the Public Benefit, 2020 / 2021** This past year in lockdown has presented Youth Shedz with enormous opportunities to really make a difference to the young people in Wales and to help them to grow during these challenging times. The biggest issue with lockdown with young people is mental health and Youth Shedz has helped considerably with this. The main purpose of Youth Shedz is to support those Young People who are being rejected by or cannot cope with mainstream society, normally because of adverse childhood experiences. We have carried out a review of what has happened to the original 21 shedders we first started to help 3 years ago. Most of these shedders were referred to us by the community police or the housing associations. - The 5 Kinmel Bay shedders have now all left school and all have got full or part time jobs. - The 6 Denbigh shedders are now in independent accommodation. Two are at college and 1 is starting an electrician’s apprenticeship and 1 has a part time job. These original shedders are still involved with Youth Shedz and volunteers and recently help at the Shedfest. - Of the 5 Blaenau Ffestiniog shedders, 2 are in college, 1 has moved away and 2 are in part time jobs. - Of the 5 original Abergele shedders, 3 have part time jobs and 2 are in college. Sonia is now working for Youth Shedz and is looking to obtain counselling qualifications. We have now moved onto the next generation of shedders, while still keeping in touch with the original shedders and supporting them when need be. The feedback that we have received indicates that Youth Shedz has had a significant and life changing effect on these young people and enables them to re-join and cope with normal society, with a strong set of life principles. We have gone mobile. We have been gifted, by Grwp Cynefin, a large Vauxhall Movano van which has been fully fitted out as a mobile meeting room with a diesel heater. This is our Betsi Mobile Youth Shedz. We have also moved out of our homes into an office in Llandudno which we rent from another charity. ## **Youth Shedz Foundation Principles** ## **Our Space, Our Place, Our Future!** - 1 We beg, we borrow, but we DO NOT steal - 2 Everybody matters – everybody is valued - 3 There has to be give and take, it’s not a one way street - 4 We live for the moment, but we plan for tomorrow - 5 We accept and we are accepted - 6 We create a safe and secure space where people can turn to - 7 We leave a legacy for other young people to be a part of - 8 We serve our community not just ourselves - 9 We might not have skills – but we will learn the skills we need - 10 We eat together, we BE together - 11 We enjoy the journey together, the highs and the lows ## **Individual Youth Shedz** **Denbigh Youth Shed,** based in the Grwp Cynefin (Housing Association) assisted living building. Up to 6 residential, 8 non-residential 18 to 25 year old shedders. Funded by Grwp Cynefin. Reopened in July 2021. Continue to operate and expand. Lots of activities going on (and lots of issues with the shedders). **Abergele Youth Shed 1** . Franchise with Abergele Community Action (Itaca). Up to 25 shedders as a youth club model attached to the High School, 13 to 18 years old. **Excluded High School pupils** . We are helping 3 pupils from Abergele High School who are in danger of exclusion using the Abergele YS facilities. We are looking to expand this service to other high schools in the area. Funded by Gwynt y Mor. We are also helping 3 pupils from the High School in Blaenau Ffestiniog. **Kinmel Bay Youth Shed** . Based in two sheds at Kinmel Bay Church (KBC) and funded by Gwynt y Mor. The original shedders now have jobs and the Youth Shed is moving onto the next generation, while continuing to support the original shedders. The sheds being used by KBC and others for their local youth and looked after children activities, in conjunction with Youth Shedz. We expect the Kinmel Bay Youth Shed to move to a franchise model. We are doing some 1 to 1 youth counselling. **Blaenau Ffestiniog Youth Shed** . Based in two sheds at the Community Centre, funded by Bangor University and with a local Welsh speaking coordinator. This Youth Shed is moving to the next generation of shedders and is looking to expand the Welsh speaking sheds into Capel Curig and Holyhead. We will need more local Welsh speaking volunteers. Winter activities will be mainly 1 to 1 counselling and working in the High Schools. **Llandudno Junction Youth Shed** . During the summer this Youth Shed was based around outdoor activities and using our van, Betsi Mobile. We have been working with the community police helping 15 of the more vulnerable young people (aged 11 to 16 years old) with 6 core shedders. We are now moving into winter activities. **Betsi Mobile Youth Shedz** . Expand the Mobile Youth Shedz concept and model. We are looking to use the van for 4 days per week. We will use the van to establish more Youth Shedz across North Wales and to do outreach activities with other voluntary organisations, mainly using VR. ## **Activities Report** The Virtual Reality (VR) projects are going well and are very popular with the shedders (and the trustees and volunteers). Youth Shedz is creating our own VR experience and is looking to build an interactive VR meeting and activities suite as well as developing a strong Safeguarding policy and principles for use in the VR environment. Our VR projects aims to remove barriers to engagement of young people who may not be able to visit the traditional Youth Shed due to disability and other factors. The Creative Writing project is very popular with the 12 participating shedders as they learn to express themselves in poetry and prose. We are looking to expand this into other creative arts and activities. We have purchased digital sign making equipment and a 3D digital printer in order to encourage the creative abilities of our Shedders. Our Youth Shedderz are now also making all of their own merchandise, creating enterprise, and developing employability skills. We have purchased a drone and camera equipment to expand the range of creative opportunities. We have been carrying out mobile outreach to the community and providing 1 to 1 support for those shedders that need it. This socially distanced 1 to 1 support is vitally needed and is now a major part of our activities. The ethos of helping our local communities continues; Youth Shedz assisted with organising food parcels, and helping young and older people move accommodation, manned our Soup and Sox van over the year providing outreach to the local homeless community; and the Shedderz created opportunities for outreach to a local school and nursing homes over Christmas. We have supported Youth Shedderz in their projects to reach the community, including the Snap Band project that was a collaboration from Shedderz from 4 different towns - reaching 700 children with their Snap Bands during Lockdown, and the bike light project for 30 young people in Blaenau Ffestiniog. We have carried out a range of outdoor activities with the specific aim of getting young people outside away from the Xbox. These include evening football matched and barbeques, fishing, sailing, and paddle boarding at the local sailing club, etc. We are organising a Shedfest for November which will be a day of mainly outdoor activities for over 60 shedders. We have started to develop our commercial income streams to give us future sustainability. We are printing Youth Shedz mugs and hoodies etc and selling them. We are hoping that this year we will be able to focus on the Employability Skills delivery as a Traineeship. We have raised over £87,000 in grant funding, contracts, and awards, including £5,000 from the Your Community Your Choice award. We have received various awards. On the 30 September 2021 we had £45,000 in the bank account with a budgeted annual expenditure of £75,000. We now employ or contract the Youth Shedz General Manager, three excellent staff part time who started as volunteers and 5 active volunteers. One of our staff started as a Youth Shedder. We are looking to extend their work. We have had wonderful feedback and testimony from our Young Shedderz (and their parents) of how important Youth Shedz has been for them this year. The local community police have commented that the level of anti-social behaviour has significantly decreased. Various pupils are now attending High School full or part time, rather than being excluded. Please see our website www.youthshedz.com and our facebook page @youthshedzcymru for pictures and more details. ## **Youth Shedz Cymru - Objectives for the next 12 months from 1 September 2021** The overall situation is that Youth Shedz is starting to come out of lockdowns and covid restrictions and is emerging into a changed environment. Covid 19 will be with us for at least the next 5 years and we have to adapt and learn to operate safely with the new social and legal environment. There will be a massively increased need for Youth Shedz and the services we offer. Our main role is to concentrate on the mental health needs of the individual young person in a social setting rather than the needs of the many. We expect our funding needs for the next 12 months to be £70,000 of which we already have £45,000 in the bank. We aim to raise at least an addition £50,000 in large grants and £20,000 in small grants. We need to replace the SMF funding (£20k pa) which ends in February 2022. Over the next 24 months we will make a concerted effort to develop revenue streams so that at least 50% of our ongoing core funding comes from ‘contract chargeable services’ rather than grants. It is presently about 10% from the housing associations. However these organisations are having their budgets squeezed which makes the needs for the Youth Shedz services even more needed. We will develop the following chargeable services: Youth Shedz at more housing association supported accommodation units and in prisons Engagement programs and employability skills training with Career Wales Helping High Schools with pupils in danger of exclusion We will develop close working relationships with other organisations, including Youth Services. We will develop the partnership model and aim to have an active partner at each Youth Shed. We will issue the Youth Shedz Franchise Toolkit and aim to have at least 3 franchise Youth Shedz operating with the next 24 months. The first franchise Youth Shedz is starting in January 2022 in Llysfaen with 12 young people. Individual Shed Activity Funding is ongoing and is and needs to be about 15% of our income. We will expand (and trademark protect) our merchandising activities and aim to develop similar fund raising activities for each shed. We will develop and expand our Mobile Youth Shedz concept and aim to use the van at least 4 times per week for Youth Shedz meetings and activities. We will develop other Youth Shedz across North Wales as appropriate, reacting to the needs of the local communities, the community police, and the housing associations. We aim to recruit, induct, safeguard, and train a bank of up to 20 volunteers of which 10 will be committing at least 4 hours per week. We will continue to develop the Youth Shedz Online activities including Face Book, and a dedicated zoom meetings etc. We expect that about 20% of Youth Shedz activities will take place online rather than physically meeting. We will issue the Youth Shedz Online Policy. We will continue to develop the VR experience as this is a very popular way of interacting with the young people. We estimate that we will need at least 15 person days per week for paid coordinators / assistants / administrator and initially up to 24 hours per week of volunteers time. ## **Sources of funds** Youth Shedz principal sources of funds at present are donations, grants, and contracts with Housing Associations. We are looking in the future for at least 50% of funding to come from contracts and commercial activities. ## **Principal risks** The principal risks facing Youth Shedz are based around safeguarding which we discuss at each trustees meeting. We train all trustees, staff, and volunteers on the needs of ensuring good safeguarding at all times. ## **Trustees and meetings** The charity trustees are appointed by the existing trustees in accordance with the Youth Shedz constitution. The Board of Trustees meet regularly throughout the year to carry out their responsibilities. ## **Statement of Responsibility** The trustees will continue to ensure good governance of the charity and will make the necessary arrangements for the proper control and administration of its financial affairs and to ensure that the resources for the administration of those affairs are available. ## **Responsible People** Martin Harrison Chair of Board of Trustees Peter Caldwell Trustee Anthony Jeremy Trustee Alex Webster Trustee Scott Jenkinson General Manager Michaela Margreaves Independent Financial Examiner **Signature of the Chair of Board of Trustees** Date: 28 February 20222 ## **YOUTH SHEDZ** **Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Registered charity No: 1184146** **www.youthshedz.com** ## **FINANCIAL STATEMENT** **1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021** **YOUTH SHEDZ CIO** ## **ADMINSTRATION INFORMATION** ## **History** Youth Shedz was started in 2017 by 4:28 Training (sole trader) / Scott Jenkinson as a training project and in October 2018 we set up the Youth Shedz Board of Trustees and Youth Shedz Ltd (company limited by guarantee). In June 2019 we became a registered charity and started operating as Youth Shedz CIO on the 3 September 2020. Youth Shedz Ltd is now a dormant company. ## **Status** Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission on 28 June 2019, number 1184146 ## **Principal address** 11 St Margaret’s Drive, Llandudno, Conwy, LL30 1TD ## **Charity Objects** To advance in life and help young people in the UK through the provision of facilities in which they can meet to undertake, jointly or individually, creative, physical, or recreational activities and learn to pass on skills and knowledge so as to develop their skills, capacities, and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature, and responsible individuals. ## **Charity Trustees** Martin Harrison (Chairman) Peter Caldwell Anthony Jeremy Alex Webster ## **Bankers** HSBC UK, Llandudno **Independent Examiner’s Report on the accounts to the Trustees of Youth Shedz** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts for Youth Shedz CIO (Charity No 1184146) for the 12 months to 30 September 2021. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity's trustees, 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 Charity'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 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 and that: - the accounting records were kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; - the accounts did accord with the accounting records; - the accounts did comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. 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. Signature Name Michaela Margreaves Date 25 February 2022 - Qualifications HND in Business and Finance, AAT, and Diploma in Internal Auditing (PIIA) Address 4 Dinerth Park, Rhos on Sea, Conwy, LL28 4EZ **Youth Shedz CIO** ## **Financial Statements 1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021** ## **Income & Expenditure** |**Income & Expenditure**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Income**|**Notes**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**|**Restricted Funds**|**Total funds to**
**30 Sept 21**| |Awards & donations||£910||£910| |Gwynt y Mor Community Fund|||£29,419|£29,419| |Comic Relief|||£1,474|£1,474| |Other grants and donations|||£2,674|£2,674| |**Net income carried forward**
|1|**£910**|**£33,567**|**£34,477**| |**New income during period**||||| |Awards & donations||£7,391||£7,391| |Steve Morgan Foundation|||£20,833|£20,833| |Moondance||£9,000|£19,000|£28,000| |HMRC Furlough|||£1,712|£1,712| |Bangor University|||£7,000|£7,000| |Grwp Cynefin|||£6,000|£6,000| |Your Community Your Choice|||£5,030|£5,030| |Shedfest|||£3,823|£3,823| |Other grants and donations|||£10,764|£10,764| |**Sub total new income**||**£16,391**|**£74,162**|**£90,553**| |**Total income**||**£17,301**|**£107,729**|**£125,030**| |**Expenditure during period**|**Notes**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**|**Restricted Funds**|**Total funds to**
**30 Sept 21**| |HQ expenses||£3,606||£3,606| |HQ & Shed salaries and contractors|||£51,386|£51,386| |Van and equipment|||£7,866|£7,866| |Shed expenses|||£17,003|£17,003| |**Total expenditure**||**£3,606**|**£76,254**|**£79,860**| |**Net income carried forward**|1|**£13,695**|**£31,475**|**£45,170**| |**Balance Sheet as at 30 September 2021**||||| ||**Notes**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**|**Restricted Funds**|**Total funds to**
**30 Sept 21**| |Net income carried forward|1, 2|£13,695|£31,475|£45,170| |Cash in bank||£13,695|£31,475|£45,170| |Fixed assets|3||£12,150|| Youth Shedz has no other realisable assets, creditors or debtors. ## **The attached notes form part of these financial statements** - 1 The Financial Statements include all income and expenditure for the 12 months to 30 September 2021. - 2 These accounts have been prepared in accordance with SORP FRS 102 regulations using the accrual basis which in our accounts is the same as the income and expenditure basis, see notes 3 and 4 below. - 3 Youth Shedz has been given, either directly or via grant funding various fixed assets with an estimated realisable value of £12,150. A separate Fixed Asset Register has been issued and independently examined. These assets cannot be sold without written permission from the donor and any proceeds have to be used for charitable purposes. - 4 Any other assets owned by Youth Shedz are of no significant realisable value. Youth Shedz has no significant debtors or creditors at the end of each month and all financial transactions go through the main bank account. - 5 Youth Shedz policy for holding reserves is to ensure that the cash reserves after all liabilities does not drop below 3 months expenditure or £18,000 and that Youth Shedz does not take on any long term liabilities, loan, debts, or overdrafts. - 6 Youth Shedz holds the restricted funds on behalf of the donors and ensures that these funds are only used for their intended and stated purpose. A separate Restricted Funding Report has been issued and independently examined. - 7 These accounts were independently examined and then approved by the Board of Trustees by email on the 28 February 2022 and signed on their behalf by Martin Harrison, Chairman.