## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 08 2022 To 31 07 2023**
## 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)**
## **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. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Escapeline has the following policies in place, reviewed annually: Safeguarding Policy Code of Conduct Complaints Policy Confidentiality Policy Data Protection Policy GDPR Policy Lone Working Policy Safer Recruitment Policy Risk Register Social Networking Policy Whistleblowing Policy Health & Safety Policy Volunteering Policy Anti-Bullying Policy Reserves Policy Environmental Policy Allegations Policy Cancellation Policy Driving with young person Policy Equality and Diversity Policy Mobile Phone Policy
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**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)**|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 takes a holistic approach working not only with young people
(10-18 years), but also their families and carers, professionals working
with young people and the larger community, to increase awareness of
county lines and teach protective strategies.
We offer the following services:
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.
Targeted support to vulnerable young people (small group or 1 to 1)
identified as being groomed, or at risk of exploitation, by county line
gangs, to assist them to break the cycle and move away from a path of
crime and drugs.We also offer a follow on service, enabling young
people to become peer mentors.
We provide training to professionals in education, health, social care and
the police on child exploitation by county line gangs.
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 non-
judgmental support.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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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.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Major achievements in our 4[th] year include: • We held our first Child Exploitation Conference in Bournemouth in December 2022 focussing on awareness and education with real life stories. It was opened by the Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner and our guest speakers included professionals, and those with lived experience. It was attended by professionals from all over the UK and was a great success and we received really positive feedback. • During the BBC Children in Need in appeal in 2022 our CEO and Youth Mentor were invited to take part in a BBC radio interview. They spoke about the services and support we provide to young people and how our funding from Children in Need has helped us to prevent child exploitation by increasing awareness and education as well as supporting those impacted by child exploitation in the South West. • Escapeline was nominated for a national safeguarding award as a result of the research project we carried out in partnership with Bath University, highlighting the importance of education and peer mentoring. • We put lived experience at the heart of what we do and were proud of our Youth Mentor being interviewed for BBC Radio 4 in which he shared his personal story. • Our CEO is now a member of the Anti Slavery Board in Somerset and attends regular meetings with the police, local authority and other agencies. • Our parent support services have continued to grow, including an in-person parent support group which has proved vital in helping parents who are impacted by child exploitation. We have received really positive feedback about how powerful this support has been to them. • We were proud to have an article published in the British Social Work Journal in 2023, sharing young people’s voices and details of the research project we completed with Bath University. • We launched a new website in the Summer of 2023 with funding from SCF and supported and subsidised by local web-design company Dextrous Designs Ltd. • One of our Social Worker staff members has now qualified as a counsellor and we have launched a new counselling service, predominantly for parents, and some young people, to support their recovery from the impact and trauma of child exploitation. • Our Youth Mentor completed and passed his Counselling and Therapy techniques course. • Our Youth Mentor completed the 3 peaks challenge, vlogging on TikTok during the three days, to increase awareness of County Lines and to educate the general public, as well as raising vital funds for Escapeline.
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
- We secured new multi-year funding to ensure our services can continue to be delivered and we have expanded our services into new areas of Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, as well as continuing our work in Somerset and Dorset.
During the period 1/8/22 – 31/7/23, Escapeline provided the following:
- 16,784 children and young people received county lines awareness training including 1-1 support and small group work
- 570 parents/carers received support and advice
- 2,400 parents received our resource pack
- 1,278 professionals received training on county lines and child criminal exploitation
- 54 shops and businesses in our local communities received awareness training
- 10 local parks were visited where we engaged with and educated 64 parents and 45 young people
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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. On that basis, our reserves target at 31st July 2023 was £49,870 The actual level of unrestricted reserves at 31st July 2023 stood at £34,058 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); BBC Children In Need
- • how expenditure has Somerset Community Foundation Tesco Community Grants via Groundwork UK
- supported the key objectives The Weavers Company Benevolent Fund
- of the charity; Somerset West and Taunton Council
- • investment policy and Dorset Community Foundation objectives including any Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner ethical investment policy The High Sheriff of Somerset adopted. The High Sheriff of Dorset Nani Huyu Charitable Trust Garfield Weston Foundation National Lottery Community Fund Forrester Family Trust Hunts Food Group via SCF Cooper Associates Foundation Postcode Local Trust 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 31st July 2023 had not yet been spent but are fully allocated to be spent to meet specific costs in the subsequent financial year.
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## **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**
L Morris **Signature(s)** C Stone Lisa Morris **Full name(s)** Clare Stone **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer Chair **etc) Date** 09/11/2023
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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees For the Year Ended 31 July 2023
## **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 2023.
## **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: 13 November 2023
**Escapeline 1184475 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 01-Aug-22 31-Jul-23 **To from**
**CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,103**
**17,211**
**6,159**
**620**
**15,000**
**15,760**
**-**
**207**
**58,060**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**58,060**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,200**
**1,779**
**237**
**453**
**5,632**
**1,320**
**172**
**2,513**
**(292)**
**1,431**
**4,841**
**879**
**3,894**
**76**
**445**
**4,586**
**132**
**584**
**500**
**318**
**253**
**3,940**
**35,893**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,534**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,534**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**116,534**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,704**
**-**
**74,279**
**-**
**-**
**862**
**-**
**-**
**4,248**
**180**
**6,475**
**-**
**-**
**- 3,055**
**-**
**2,024**
**-**
**255**
**104**
**-**
**88,077**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,103**
**17,211**
**6,159**
**620**
**131,534**
**15,760**
**-**
**207**
**174,594**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**174,594**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,200**
**1,779**
**2,941**
**453**
**79,911**
**1,320**
**172**
**3,375**
**- 292**
**1,431**
**9,089**
**1,059**
**10,369**
**76**
**445**
**1,532**
**132**
**2,608**
**500**
**573**
**357**
**3,940**
**123,969**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Conference and Events|**3,103**|||||
|Donations Received|**17,211**||||**10,493**|
|Fund Generation- Fund Raising|**6,159**||||**656**|
|Gift Aid Received|**620**||||**80**|
|Grants|**15,000**||||**86,240**|
|Services|**15,760**||||**11,108**|
|Donations Received- Gift Aid|**-**||||**320**|
|Bank Interest Received|**207**||||**2**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**58,060**||||**108,899**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**
Car Hire
Fund Raising Expenses
Electricity
Conference and Event costs
Fundraising Costs
Project Expenditure
Volunteers expenses
Wages Expense
Accountancy Fees
Bank Charges
Computer and Software
Employers NI
Employers Pensions
Funding administration, management &
evaluation
Insurance
Mileage Claims
Office Stationery
Postage and Carriage
Professional Fees
Room Hire & Rent
Staff Training
Subsistence
Telephone and Internet
Travel & Accomodation
Website and filming costs
**_Sub total_ **||||||
||||||**108,899**|
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||**-**|**-**||**-**|**285**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**|**237**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**|**81**|
||**2,200**|**-**||**2,200**|**-**|
||**1,779**|**-**||**1,779**|**-**|
||**237**|**2,704**||**2,941**|**1,104**|
||**453**|**-**||**453**|**169**|
||**5,632**|**74,279**||**79,911**|**62,614**|
||**1,320**|**-**||**1,320**|**1,230**|
||**172**|**-**||**172**|**109**|
||**2,513**|**862**||**3,375**|**2,453**|
||**(292)**|**-**||**- 292**|**504**|
||**1,431**|**-**||**1,431**|**647**|
||**4,841**|**4,248**||**9,089**|**-**|
||**879**|**180**||**1,059**|**1,022**|
||**3,894**|**6,475**||**10,369**|**3,842**|
||**76**|**-**||**76**|**137**|
||**445**|**-**||**445**|**1,095**|
||**4,586**|**- 3,055**||**1,532**|**1,705**|
||**132**|**-**||**132**|**1,283**|
||**584**|**2,024**||**2,608**|**1,460**|
||**500**|**-**||**500**|**635**|
||**318**|**255**||**573**|**691**|
||**253**|**104**||**357**|**1,245**|
||**3,940**|**-**||**3,940**|**-**|
||**35,893**|**88,077**||**123,969**|**82,548**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total payments_ **|**35,893**||**88,077**|||**-**||**123,969**||**82,548**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**22,167**||**28,457**|||**-**||**50,625**||**26,351**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**12,564**||**- 12,564**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**9,308**||**62,380**||**-**|||**71,688**||**45,337**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**44,039**||**78,273**|||**-**||**122,313**||**71,688**|
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## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|C Stone
Signature
L Morris
Accruals - website costs
PAYE Liabilty
Payroll Control Account
Pension Fund
**Details**
Current Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Debtors
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**44,039**
**78,273**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,039**
**78,273**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**450**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
2500
Unrestricted
1046
Unrestricted
388
Unrestricted
340
Print Name
Lisa Morris
Clare Stone|**Endowment**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||L Morris|Lisa Morris|09/11/2023|
||C Stone|Clare Stone|09/11/2023|
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