**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** ESCAPELINE
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1184475
**Charity's principal address** PO Box 987 Taunton Somerset **Postcode** TA1 9QB
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
|**Accountant**|Albert Goodman LLP|Goodwood House, Blackbrook Park Avenue, Taunton,
TA1 2PX|
|**HR & Employment Law**
**Consultant**|Peninsula Business
Services Ltd|The Peninsula, Victoria Place, Manchester, M4 4FB|
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
CEO – Lisa Hooper
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by agreement with CEO and Board of Trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. trust, association, company)
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
Escapeline has the following policies in place, reviewed annually: You **may choose** to include Safeguarding Policy additional information, where Code of Conduct relevant, about: Complaints Policy • Confidentiality Policy policies and procedures Data Protection Policy adopted for the induction and GDPR Policy training of trustees; Lone Working Policy • the charity’s organisational Safer Recruitment Policy structure and any wider Risk Register network with which the charity Code of Conduct Policy works; Social Networking Policy • relationship with any related Whistleblowing Policy Health & Safety Policy parties; Volunteering Policy • trustees’ consideration of Anti-Bullying Policy major risks and the system Reserves Policy and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To promote for the benefit of the public in Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall, in partnership with the police, the protection of people and property from, and the prevention of, criminal acts. 2. To relieve the needs of young people and children who have been exploited by criminal gangs in Somerset and the surrounding counties, in particularly but not exclusively, by the provision of counselling, education and pastoral support
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Escapeline provides education and support programmes to children and young people, aged 10-18 years, raising awareness of child exploitation and grooming, teaching them what to look out for and protective strategies.
We also provide training to professionals in education, health, social care and the police on child exploitation by county line gangs.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
Escapeline offers parents awareness workshops and 1-1 support on county lines and child exploitation, and how to keep their own children safe.
We also strengthen community knowledge of, and responses to, child exploitation by running awareness-raising campaigns, working closely with services and providing online resources.
We have a 1-1 telephone advice support service for parents of young people who find themselves at risk of exploitation. The service provides confidential, independent and non-judgemental support.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
Escapeline works closely with a number of volunteers who assist with our parent support programme, overseen by our CEO.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Major achievements in our 2[nd] year operating as a charity include: **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** Developing resource packs and workshops for primary and secondary **during the year** schools, providing longer term support for groups of at-risk children. Developing a Parent Resource Pack to provide advice and support to parents. The pack can be emailed to parents via the schools we work with. Developing business and community flyers and circulating these in towns throughout the region to increase awareness of the signs of exploitation and how to report suspicious activity. Improving our monitoring and evaluation process using Survey Monkey feedback forms for all services. Receiving grants from high-profile funders including Children in Need, Comic Relief and the National Lottery. Recruiting and training a youth mentor with lived-experience who has an excellent rapport with the young people we support. Appearing on a major BBC news report on County Lines, raising Escapeline’s profile and reputation, nationally. Offering a flexible service of virtual or face to face training and support, to continue to adapt to the Covid-19 crisis. Expanding the Board of Trustees, to include Kirsti Nelson, as an education specialist. Developing a Business Plan to improve governance and a Social Media plan to increase awareness. Received the High Sheriff of Dorset Award in recognition of our work in the county.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The Board has considered the charity’s requirements for reserves in light **Brief statement of the** of the risks to the organisation and has established a policy whereby the **charity’s policy on reserves** unrestricted funds not committed should equate to six months of our fixed overhead expenditure. Therefore, our reserves target at 31[st] July 2021 was £44,905 The actual level of reserves at 31[st] July 2021 stood at £ The Board aims to continue to build reserves through planned operating surpluses as activities allow, together with careful budgeting and promotion of fundraising activities. Where reserves held are greater than six months overhead expenditure, the charity will seek to use the difference as match funding for projects with which it is involved. The reserves policy is reviewed annually by the Board of Trustees to ensure it reflects any changing requirements of the charity
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
- Our principal sources of funds are fee income from training and
- You **may choose** to include workshops, donations from the public, and grants from the following:
- additional information, where Youth Endowment Fund
- relevant about: Avon & Somerset Police
- • the charity’s principal The Woodward Charitable Trust sources of funds (including The Leathersellers Company Charitable Fund any fundraising); Somerset Community Foundation
- • how expenditure has Quartet Community Foundation Dorset Community Foundation
- supported the key objectives The Weavers Company Benevolent Fund
- of the charity; Comic Relief via Groundwork UK
- • investment policy and The National Lottery objectives including any Tesco Community Grant via Groundwork UK ethical investment policy Children In Need adopted. Expenditure of these funds has enabled us to carry out our Education Programme, provide Parent Support Services, Training to Professionals and Detached Youth Work.
This has increased the awareness of the risk of child exploitation by county line gangs in the South West. It has enabled professionals to identify children who are being groomed so that interventions can be made to support them in escaping potential exploitation. We have successfully engaged with young people who were being drawn in to county line gangs so that we can support them to move away from county line gangs and pursue their education. We have supported a number of parents and carers whose children were being groomed and exploited, and supported their local communities in working together to combat county line gangs. A number of grants received during the year ended 31[st] July 2021 had not yet been spent but are fully allocated to be spent to meet specific costs in the subsequent financial year.
## **Section F Other optional information**
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## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|C Stone|J Carr|
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||Clare Stone|Jane Carr|
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Treasurer|Chair|
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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees For the Year Ended 31 July 2021
## **Escapeline**
## **Independent examiners report to the Trustees of Escapeline**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts for Escapeline (“the charity”) for the year ended 31 July 2021.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 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 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:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the 2011 Act; or
2. the accounts do not comply with these records
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.
## **Michelle Ferris BSc(Hons) FCA DChA**
Albert Goodman LLP Chartered Accountants Goodwood House Blackbrook Park Avenue Taunton Somerset TA1 2PX
Date: 28 January 2022
**1184475**
**Escapeline**
**Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01-Aug-20 31-Jul-21 **To from**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**60**
**4,160**
**-**
**395**
**1,759**
**5,202**
**5,880**
**-**
**17,456**
**-**
**-**
**17,456**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**89,987**
**89,987**
**-**
**-**
**89,987**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**60**
**4,160**
**-**
**395**
**1,759**
**95,189**
**5,880**
**-**
**107,443**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations Received -Non Gift Aid|**60**||||||||**2,959**|
|Donations Received - Gift Aid|**4,160**||||||||**2,540**|
|Fee Income|**-**||||||||**7,700**|
|Fund Generation - Fund Raising|**395**||||||||**484**|
|Gift Aid received|**1,759**||||||||**-**|
|Grants|**5,202**||||||||**34,805**|
|Services|**5,880**||||||||**-**|
|Loan|**-**||||||||**1,900**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**17,456**||||||||**50,388**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**50,388**|
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Outreach Work|||||||**-**||**84**|
|Marketing& Website costs|**-**||**600**||||**600**||**-**|
|Project Expenditure|**-**||**1,276**||||**1,276**||**1,214**|
|Resources for Education Programme|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**45**|
|Volunteers expenses|**175**||**315**||||**489**||**432**|
|Bank Interest received|**0**||**-**||||**0**||**-**|
|AccountancyFees|**1,200**||**-**||||**1,200**||**-**|
|Bank Charges|**34**||**-**||||**34**||**-**|
|Car Hire|**190**||**-**||||**190**||**62**|
|Computer and Software|**867**||**1,121**||||**1,989**||**1,297**|
|ConsultancyFees|||||||**-**||**1,441**|
|Electricity|**141**||**-**||||**141**||**-**|
|Employers Pensions|**708**||**-**||||**708**||**84**|
|Fund RaisingExpenses|**219**||**-**||||**219**||**65**|
|Insurance|**889**||**129**||||**1,018**||**268**|
|Mileage Claims|**585**||**2,456**||||**3,041**||**14**|
|Office Stationery|**40**||**147**||||**187**||**583**|
|Postage and Carriage|**198**||**-**||||**198**||**377**|
|Premises Expenses|**-**||**15**||||**15**||**-**|
|Printing|**-**||**316**||||**316**||**200**|
|Professional Fees|**973**||**234**||||**1,207**||**303**|
|Recruitment Expenses|||**272**||||**272**||**89**|
|Rent|**1,578**||**711**||||**2,289**||**2,400**|
|Repairs and Renewals|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**15**|
|Wages Expense|**2,188**||**61,296**||||**63,484**||**19,925**|
|Staff Training|**186**||**90**||||**276**||**1,010**|
|Subsistence|**74**||**181**||||**255**||**333**|
|SundryExpenses|**195**||**-**||||**195**||**53**|
|Telephone and Fax|**321**||**407**||||**728**||**178**|
|Travelling|**5**||**915**||||**919**||**239**|
|Website costs|**335**||**202**||||**537**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**11,100**||**70,683**||**-**||**81,783**||**30,711**|
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|**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_**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)||||||||||
||||||||||**30,711**|
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||||||||**25,660**||**19,677**|
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||||||||**45,337**||**19,677**|
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Debtors
Current account
**Details**
**Details**
Pension
Accountancy
J Carr
Signature
C Stone|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**11,569**
**33,769**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,569**
**33,769**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**85**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
unrestricted
**139**
unrestricted
**1,200**
Print Name
Clare Stone
Jane Carr|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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approval|
||C Stone|Clare Stone|24/01/2022|
||J Carr|Jane Carr|24/01/2022|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
28/01/2022
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