## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 08 2021 To 31 07 2022** ## 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** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Jane Alexander-
Carr|Chair||| ||Clare Stone|Treasurer||| ||Ann Shaw|SafeguardingLead||| ||Lisa Morris|PolicyLead||| ||Kirsti Nelson|Education Lead||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **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)**| |---|---|---| |**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| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **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 **TAR** March **2012** 2 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 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 and a face-to-face support group for parents of young people who find themselves at risk of exploitation. The service provides confidential, independent and nonjudgemental 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. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|Major achievements in our 3rdyear include:
Developing and implementing a targeted seven week education
programme in schools to small groups of young people identified as
being at risk of exploitation in order to assist them out of a path of crime
and drugs. This programme has led to a number of important
disclosures, regarding county line activity, leading to the police carrying
out disruptive work and arrests.
Developing and piloting a parent support group for parents whose
children are at risk of exploitation, or being exploited, by criminal gangs.
The group meets every two weeks, providing advice, training and a
chance to discuss their concerns. It has been well received and we plan
to roll this out to other areas of SW England.
Creating a campaign to provide safe places in towns for young people
who feel threatened or targeted by criminal gangs. The scheme uses S
signs in windows of shops and cafes indicating that young people can
come inside and ask for assistance.
Working with the University of Bath on a research project looking at the
benefits of peer mentoring. Following this research, we have expanded
our targeted education programme to train young people who have
moved away from county lines to educate other young people on how to
avoid being recruited and how to stay safe. Our peer mentors presented
their work to the National Anti-Slavery Board.
Provided awareness training to professionals in Dorset as part of Pan
Dorset.
Expanded our team with two new part-time project workers, bringing a
wealth of experience in education and social work.
Received a Development Grant from Somerset Community Foundation
to help strengthen and grow the charity.
During the period 1/8/21 – 31/7/22 Escapeline provided the following:
• 7,978 children and young people received county lines awareness
training
• 460 children and young people received one-to-one support and
small group work
• 148 parents/carers received support and advice
• 600 parents received our resource pack
• 353 professionals received training on county lines and child
criminal exploitation
• 50 shops and businesses received awareness training
• 22 parks were visited where we engaged with and educated 151
parents and 120 young people| |---|---| **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **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. On that basis, our reserves target at 31st July 2022 was £41,274 The actual level of unrestricted reserves at 31st July 2022 stood at £9,308 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: - You **may choose** to include Fee income from training and workshops - additional information, where Donations from the public - relevant about: Fundraising events - • the charity’s principal Grants during the year from the following: sources of funds (including any fundraising); Children In Need - • how expenditure has Arnold Clark Somerset Community Foundation - supported the key objectives The Geoff Herrington Foundation - of the charity; Somerset Open Mental Health - • investment policy and The Fairfield Charitable Trust objectives including any Tesco Community Grants via Groundwork UK ethical investment policy The Weavers Company Benevolent Fund adopted. Somerset West and Taunton Council Dorset Community Foundation Hinkley Point Community Fund – via SCF The High Sheriff of Somerset – via SCF Avon & Somerset Police Crime Prevention Fund – via SCF 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. During the year we closed our physical office premises and moved to remote working, which has proved effective and enabled us to reduce our costs, therefore freeing up more funds to spend on our project work **TAR** March **2012** 5 rather than on overheads. A number of grants received during the year ended 31st July 2022 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** ## **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 Alexander Carr| |---|---|---| ||Clare Stone|Jane Alexander Carr| ||
Treasurer|Chair| ||18/10/2022|| ||18/10/2022|| **TAR** March **2012** 6 Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees For the Year Ended 31 July 2022 ## **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 2022. ## **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: 27 October 2022 **Escapeline** **1184475** **Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01-Aug-21 31-Jul-22 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**10,493**
**320**
**2**
**656**
**80**
**-**
**11,108**
**-**
**22,659**
**-**
**-**
**22,659**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**10,493**
**320**
**2**
**656**
**80**
**-**
**11,108**
**-**
**22,659**
**-**
**-**
**22,659**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**86,240**
**-**
**86,240**
**-**
**-**
**86,240**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**86,240**
**-**
**86,240**
**-**
**-**
**86,240**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**10,493**
**320**
**2**
**656**
**80**
**86,240**
**11,108**
**-**
**108,899**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**10,493**
**320**
**2**
**656**
**80**
**86,240**
**11,108**
**-**
**108,899**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations Received -Non Gift Aid|**10,493**||||||||**60**| |Donations Received - Gift Aid|**320**||||||||**4,160**| |Bank interest received|**2**||||||||**-**| |Fund Generation - Fund Raising|**656**||||||||**395**| |Gift Aid received|**80**||||||||**1,759**| |Grants|**-**||||||||**95,189**| |Services|**11,108**||||||||**5,880**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**22,659**||||||||**107,443**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**107,443**| ||||||||||| |Outreach Work|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**-**| |Marketing& Website costs|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**600**| |Project Expenditure|**675**||**429**||||**1,104**||**1,276**| |Resources for Education Programme|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**-**| |Volunteers expenses|**72**||**97**||||**169**||**489**| |AccountancyFees|**828**||**402**||||**1,230**||**1,200**| |Bank Charges|**109**||**-**||||**109**||**34**| |Car Hire|**285**||||||**285**||**190**| |Computer and Software|**1,695**||**758**||||**2,453**||**1,989**| |ConsultancyFees|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**-**| |Electricity|**81**||**-**||||**81**||**141**| |Employers NI|**504**||**-**||||**504**||**-**| |Employers Pensions|**647**||**-**||||**647**||**708**| |Fund RaisingExpenses|**237**||**-**||||**237**||**219**| |Insurance|**889**||**133**||||**1,022**||**1,018**| |Mileage Claims|**1,584**||**2,258**||||**3,842**||**3,041**| |Office Stationery|**137**||**-**||||**137**||**187**| |Postage and Carriage|**1,095**||**-**||||**1,095**||**198**| |Premises Expenses|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**15**| |Printing|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**316**| |Professional Fees|**1,705**||**-**||||**1,705**||**1,207**| |Recruitment Expenses|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**272**| |Rent|**1,143**||**140**||||**1,283**||**2,289**| |Repairs and Renewals|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**-**| |Wages Expense|**10,129**||**52,485**||||**62,614**||**63,484**| |Staff Training|**362**||**1,098**||||**1,460**||**276**| |Subsistence|**635**||**-**||||**635**||**255**| |SundryExpenses|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**195**| |Telephone and Internet|**196**||**495**||||**691**||**728**| |Travelling|**610**||**635**||||**1,245**||**919**| |Website costs|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**537**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**23,618**||**58,930**||**-**||**82,548**||**81,783**| ||||||||||| |**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_**
CXX R1 accounts (SS)|||||||||| ||||||||||**81,783**| ||||||||||| ||||||||**26,351**||**25,660**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**45,337**||**19,677**| ||||||||**71,688**||**45,337**| ||||||||||27/10/202| 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**
**Details**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**Details**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Debtors
Current account
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
**Details**
Pension
Accountancy
C Stone
Signature
J Carr|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**9,308**
**62,380**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,308**
**62,380**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,073**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
unrestricted
**156**
unrestricted
**1,230**
Print Name
Jane Alexander Carr
Clare Stone|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||OK| |||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**When due**
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approval| ||Jane Alexander Carr|18/10/2022| ||Clare Stone|18/10/2022| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 27/10/2022 2