## **RIVERSIDE PARENTS & CARERS ASSOCIATION** Registration Number: 1184485 **ANNUAL REPORT July 2020 – June 2021** ## **Who are we?** The Riverside Parents & Carers Association (RPCA) is a CIO, charity providing free services for children under the age of 5 years old and their families in the London Borough of Southwark. ## **Registration Number: 1184485 Our aims are:** To provide free regular soft play sessions for under 5s and their parents/carers. We want to keep our sessions free and open to all local families from any social background. To encourage low-income and economically deprived families to engage in a community activity and have access to help and assistance from other services offered by the London Borough of Southwark where necessary. For all families to keep engaging and attending our sessions to receive support from their peers, our staff and other professional experts in child development in order to help identify families with additional need that we may be able to support and/or refer. Our staff members provide a safe, stimulating environment for our families to play, learn and develop and a great platform for parents to meet other parents. Staff members are fully trained to safeguard all children attending our sessions and to help our local families, their babies and young children to achieve the best start in life. Sessions are held at Salmon Youth Centre, 43 Old Jamaica Road SE16 4TE Riverside Parents & Carers Association 2 ## **How we operate?** We currently have 3 Trustees, who meet regularly typically on a monthly basis along with our Operations Manager. We regularly advertise and promote the need for additional volunteers and committee members. We are actively looking to add Trustees to our board, most likely actioned post Covid. Any Trustee / Committee member must declare any relevant personal interest. Address: Tayler Bradshaw Accountants 16 High Street SAFFRON WALDEN CB10 1AX Phone: 07538726555 Email: info@riversidesoftplay.co.uk Website: www.riversidesoftplay.co.uk ## **Trustees** Linda Hudson Flat 2, Haredale House, East Lane, London SE16 4UZ Nathan John 16, Gomm Rd, London SE16 2TX Roger O'Sullivan 1 Falkland Place, London NW5 2PN Riverside Parents & Carers Association 3 ## **Finance** ## **Finance** - a) The Trustees shall keep proper accounts of all monies belonging to Riverside Parents and Carers. - b) The Treasurer/ Trustees will be responsible for managing the financial affairs of Riverside Parents and Carers. - b) All payments made from the account must be reviewed/ approved in the committee meetings by at least two members. - c) Annual independently examined accounts shall be provided as part of our obligations to submit to the Charity Commission - d) All funds shall be lodged in the Riverside Parents and Carers bank account, with secure access to trustees/ Treasurers only e) The income for the organisation shall be applied solely towards the objectives and aims of the 
organization as set out above and no payment shall be made to any member or honorary officer except the repayment of out of pocket expenses. Riverside Parents & Carers Association 4 ## **Finance Statement** 2020/21 remained a challenging period logistically, given the ongoing restrictions for Covid. We focused on maintaining a service, continuing our partnership with the Children centre and looking for opportunity to provide a meaningful service to the community. This was our second year of operating as a Charity, so RPCA looked to leverage the status to gain additional funding routes. However, our main contributions continued to come from from Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Children's Centre, who will continue to support us over the 2021/22 period. RPCA Trustees meet monthly, with the core aim to monitor our ongoing Financial position, Safeguarding obligations and SLA’s (expectations set by our funders). We are solvent, with low turnover and have no creditors, however, we continue to monitor our costs and seek additional funding streams. We are dependant on our funding and have sourced additional streams to steams. We would welcome any additional enquires around funding, support, volunteers, or individuals keen to become Trustees. Riverside Parents & Carers Association 6 Independent Examiner Statement Ncwton 6 tarncr lJiffliLcd LHAKI E*ED ALLUUNYAN'rs IrÉF￿On the atcaunts Offth￿ atK￿￿ ch￿tt¥lDrth￿￿lrB￿1￿4 >Y￿￿￿?03}. Inconnect￿n with m*terha5 CCIIIEto m¥attent￿￿.. 111 whKh lib*5 merthisonatdeiau5eto that ￿ any Mater￿ ￿1P￿tthe requrements.. to leep xco￿11￿ re¢ord5 xcordance¥Jith Se(ticffj L3Oof 2011 kt and to prepay xcowts atcard with tbp xcowrtir•r2cord5and the ac(Dunt￿greq￿￿erneTrtsofthe 2011 kt nrt b￿￿n met n*charrtV"5 tru5teesJxe rwwn5i14e fcrthE Preparati￿ vfthe K(Dunt5. Thecharit*51ru5teE5 con5hlerthatanaLKkt ￿ T￿1 required lor urthr sect￿￿ 144121 th¥iti?5 ktlOII (the l Artl ￿dth* an￿02pE￿Ierf evawffjationi5 r*ed2d. Itis to." 145 ofthe 2VII Art to fdbJ*thÈ ￿￿￿￿Jr*S lawj in lor￿1 dirÉdw]nqv*on b¥tho crrnmitffl l￿d sectmin 14gSXbl c4 thp 2011 to state ¥Jhtthèrpèrt*I￿f fflatto￿ h*ocom• knmyattqntyin Drndwatts F(A Ne￿*￿ &64rT*r Ltd 47Ttspsf￿d Parad Trttenhèrn 13 hJrn5ry in pneTrldroctK￿51￿?nIrythE (harilv cwimis5￿n An ezaminatw Incl￿1￿5 a rE￿￿￿the￿[loU￿tynIr￿Y￿rtsk￿pt tythecharrtyarAI corrwrison ofth*xcounts pwniod ￿thth0￿è rncords. It aso indudps conSpJeratNifbofan¥ IIlUSual theacEoL*ltsaTrJ soeknn8eWanationsfrom astruSlQ•S coKemin8 an¥ suth matters. The pracedures underta*endo not prowdeal the e¥￿￿¢that￿￿ be required in an aULknt and consequen￿¥ no opin￿￿ 15 asto *thetherthe accounts ￿7$ent d*aKvKW andlhe¥epNt s ￿mit 200
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## **Breakdown of Visits by Child’s Post Code** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Visits in April Visits in May Visits in June
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## **Average of 93 visits per month (of which ~94% Kids from SE16 and SE1 Postcode** Figures taken from booking form - children only who attended Riverside Parents & Carers Association 10 ## **Quantitative Data for Q2 2021 (Covid-19 Measures)** ## **New registrations** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Total new family registrations over the quarter: 61** Figures taken from booking form - children only who attended Riverside Parents & Carers Association 11 ## **Re-opening sessions for children 0-5 years old** ## **Outdoors sessions** From April 19[th] , we were able to re-start some regular and reliable services to the local families in partnership with Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Children Centre. We were offered by Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Children Centre to use Ellen Brown Centre at Spa Garden and Rotherhithe Children Centre at Southwark Park . At this stage, we were only running outdoors sessions according with Covid-19 Government guidelines. We created an outdoors programme that offered exercises, music and movement, storytelling, crafts activities and play doh. Later on, when restrictions were eased we also incorporated music instruments, water and sand play, role play with Home corner, tricycle, scooters joining in with _the 50 Things app launched by Southwark Council ._ These sessions were soon fully booked and we also offered a waiting list service. **Ellen Brown @ Bermondsey Spa Gardens on Mondays @10:00 – 11:10 Rotherhithe Children’s Centre @ Southwark Park on Tuesdays @10:00 – 11:10** We encouraged parents and carers to download the app and we also incorporated some of the “things” in our sessions to empower parents and carers to do with their child/children at home too. Riverside Parents & Carers Association 12 ## **Re-opening sessions for children 0-5 years old** ## **Baby session – (0-12 months old) – Ellen Brown Centre** We heard our community feedback and from Mid-May we were able to add one more session per week targeting babies that were born during lockdown and couldn’t experience any activities, socialise and interact with other children and adults. It has been a Bliss to see so many babies and mums playing, interacting, making friends, singing , clapping and experiencing the world. **Baby session @ Ellen Brown Centre on Wednesdays @10:00 – 11:10** Riverside Parents & Carers Association 13 ## **Soft Play Planning and Development Outcomes and Equality Impact** ## **Incorporating the 50 things app --- #4 Make your Mark** Every week we offered at least one activity to Make your mark in the world to work with families. From painting , how to make play doh, vegetable printing etc… Riverside Parents & Carers Association 14 ## **Soft Play Planning and Development Outcomes and Equality Impact** ## **50 things to do before you are 5** Riverside Parents & Carers Association 15 ## **Soft Play Planning and Development Outcomes and Equality Impact** ## **Storytelling and crafty session -- The very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle** Riverside Parents & Carers Association 16 ## **Soft Play Planning and Development Outcomes and Equality Impact** ## **Storytelling and crafty session -- The very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle** Some caterpillars have visited our Gardens! Riverside Parents & Carers Association 17 ## **Soft Play Planning and Development Outcomes and Equality Impact** ## **Make your mark in the world** ## Sunflower collage Planting cress seeds **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Riverside Parents & Carers Association 18 ## **Soft Play Planning and Development Outcomes and Equality Impact** ## **Setting up role play outside** Riverside Parents & Carers Association 19 ## **Soft Play Statistics 2017-2021 Visitor numbers (children) growing each year until Covid** ## **Total Visits by Year** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Closed
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
1117 1166 1124 1126 1142 1139 1129 1217
1056
1011
981 939 966
860 899 870 894
831 823 732 800 831 780 794 726 754
692 686 676
613 616 630 636
470
441
351
306
228 218
149 130
100
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## **2017 = 8727 visits** ## **2018 = 9122 visits** ## **2019 = 10,486 visits** ## **2020 = 2,183 visits** **2021 = 1225 (end April to 7[th] December – we closed early because of the increased cases of Omicron)** ## **Comments:** - 2020 – Lockdown started end of March and we were closed as per government guidelines. From September, October we offered a few outdoors sessions for very limited number of families. Then came another lockdown until March 2021. - 2021 – Re-opened with outdoors sessions at the end of April maximum 15 adults. **From July – we re-started Soft play Session indoors back at Salmon Centre (30 adults maximum)** Riverside Parents & Carers Association 20 ## **Soft Play Statistics 2017-2021 New family registrations growing each year until Covid** ## **New Family Registrations by Year** **----- Start of picture text -----**
79
74
69
64 65 66
61 61 61
57 58 57
55
52
49
47
4544 44 43 4445
40 41 41 41
35
31 33 28 33 27 32 29 30 27
24
22
19 19
17
12
6
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**2017 = 471** ## **2018 = 501** **2019 = 544** ## **2020 = 132 (Jan – March)** **2021 = 182 (end April to 7[th] December – we closed early because of the increased cases of Omicron)** ## **Comments:** - 2020 – Lockdown started end of March and we were closed as per government guidelines. From September, October we offered a few outdoors sessions for very limited number of families. Then came another lockdown until March 2021. - 2021 – Re-opened with outdoors sessions at the end of April maximum 15 adults. **From July – we re-started Soft play Session indoors back at Salmon Centre (30 adults maximum)** Riverside Parents & Carers Association 21 ## Profit and Loss Statement ## **Riverside Parents and Carers Association** ## **Year ended 30th June 2021** |**Funding / Monies Received**
Funding Grants + Donations
24,372.01
Total Funding / Monies Received
**Expenses**
**Salaries**
15,626.20
**Rent**
2,000.00
**Other Expenses**
965.94
Total Expenses
**Surplus for the Year**
**Opening bank balance**
**Closing bank balance**|**24,372.01**
**18,592.14**
**5,779.87**
**2,264.53**
**8,044.40**| |---|---|