## **Free Movement Skateboarding**
# **Annual Report and Financial Statements 29 July 2019 – 31 August 2020**
**UK Charity No. 1184649**
|**Contents**|**Pages**|
|---|---|
|Reference and administrative details|2|
|Report of the Trustees|3|
|Statement of Financial Activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account)|10|
|Notes to the financial statements|12|
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
|**Reference and Administrative Details**|**Reference and Administrative Details**|
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|Registered office
and operational
address|73 Marshal’s Drive, St Albans, Herts, England, AL1 4RD
Agias Zonis 53, Athens, Attika, Greece, 11256|
|Trustees|Trustees appointed as of the submission of this report.
David Ascott
Emma Terry
Daniel Schweppestedde|
|Full Time Staff|William Ascott
Lefteris Xanthakis
Denia Nicholas
Constantina Xafi|
|Sessional Staff|Giannis Katsaounos
Denia Kopita|
|Bank|Barclays Community Account
Barclays, 86 Town Centre, Hatfield AL10 0JP|
|Independent
Examiner|Mike Richmond
5 Traherne Close, Hitchin, Herts, SG4 9DS|
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## **Report of the Trustees**
The Trustees present their report and the independently examined financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2020.
Reference and administrative information set out on page 3 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the memorandum and articles of association and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities (Charities SORP FRS 102).
## **Structure, governance & management**
The organisation is a UK Charity, number 1184649.
All Trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity.
The Trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work for the 12 months in the year ending 31 August 2020. The Trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits the charity has brought to those groups of people that it is set up to help. The review also helps the Trustees ensure the charity's aims, objectives and activities remain focused on its stated purposes.
## **Objectives**
1. The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation for the public benefit by providing facilities capable of improving health including but not limited to skateboarding.
2. To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life.
## **Charitable Activities and Public Benefit in the past year**
FMS managed to deliver skateboarding sessions to its beneficiaries despite delivering 2 months of sessions with its van unusable and completely losing all December sessions for the same reason.
In addition, COVID-19 restrictions kept us away from sessions for 15 weeks, from early March ’19 to the end of June ’20.
Finally, tightening restrictions on NGO access to camps by the government meant we could not return to sessions after COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.
However, during that very challenging year, we managed to
- successfully fundraise for and purchase a Greek vehicle, which has decreased the resources required to maintain and use for sessions, while increasing its availability.
- significantly diversify fundraising by improving the process of researching and completing grant applications.
- start new collaborations with other local organisations, and increased outreach to overcome government sanctions on camps and COVID restrictions.
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- maintain contact and involvement with beneficiaries over the COVID restrictions period through social media, creating DIY content and involving people with creative ideas, contests and raffles.
- attend and present at the Good Push Summit hosted by Skateistan in South Africa, furthering networking with fellow skateboarding NGOs and improving knowledge on NGO governance and sustainability along with educational programming.
- successfully fundraise in order to provide every staff member with access to psychological support, at least once a month.
- follow our 3-year plan of transitioning to a fully local team to increase local participation and ownership of the project with the full team of 6 (4 core, 2 sessional) now 5/6 local.
- continue the development of the International Volunteer Scheme until the first COVID wave hit, maintaining international outreach and some fundraising and also allowing for a long-term internship position.
- institute a COVID-19 policy which was advised and reviewed by a medical professional to safeguard the team and participants health.
## **Session Statistics – July 2019 – August 2020**
1. Eleonas Camp
2. Schistou Camp
3. Inner City Sessions (St. Nikolaos Park, Velos/Halcyon Days, Kampani str. shelter)
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SCHISTO CAMP- NATIONAUTIES
SCHISTO CAMP-GENDER SPUT
KurOi5tan
i%_
116
Iraq
7%
Female
38%
5yrl
22%
Male
62%
Atshanlstan
INNER CITY- NATIONALITIES
Greete
9%
Iran
4% Albanla
3%
Spain
Syria
1% Cuba
Slerra Leone
1%
Kurdistan
3%
1%
Ghana
Nigeria
1%
India
1%
Sweden
1%
Ukraine
Other
15%
Lebanon
1%
Afghanisiart
2%
Iraq
2%
Bangladesh
## **Notable statistics July 2019 – August 2020:**
- **461** unique young people attended
- **176** sessions delivered
- **23** ethnicities reached
- **5** distinct locations in the Athens, Attica region
- **37%** female participation across all sessions
- **68%** retuning participants
- **38%** returned to 4 or more sessions
## **Future Plans and Changes**
In the Next Year
- Take advantage of COVID-19 lockdown down time to improve internal procedures, rewrite policies, clarify our advocacy messaging and better express our Vision, Values and Mission statement.
- Launch a new website to improve the way we are getting our message through.
- Continue to diversify fundraising by expending our merchandise taking advantage of our new parttime position for researching and completing grant applications.
- Register as a Greek charity and start a youth/community center to secure a private location to host the Women’s Program, other classes and launching the Youth Leadership Program in Inner City neighbourhoods in order to help with integration.
- Continue to establish closer relations with other skateboarding NGOs across the world; for information/resource sharing and collaborations.
- Organise fundraising events in the UK and internationally, to raise awareness and extra funds.
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In the Next 3 Years
- Build a permanent skatepark in Athens, creating a hub for integration and the growing skate scene, and allowing us a safe space to run skateboarding, educational and creative workshops all year round.
- Handover all operations on the ground to a mixed local and refugee team, who have been trained up to these positions over the course of a couple of years.
- Continue facilitating smaller projects in various locations; using knowledge, experience, and a network of volunteers to help other projects start up.
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The financial results are set out in the attached receipts and payments account. All charity funds are maintained at Barclays.
**Free Movement Skateboarding No 1184649 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a** Period start date Period end date **For the period To from** 29-Jul-19 31-Aug-20
|**Section A Receipts and**
**payments**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**56.770**
**4.172**
**325**
**2.481**
**4.948**
**2.000**
**5.525**
**4.956**
**81.177**
**3.462**
**-**
**3.462**
**84.639**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5.341**
**-**
**-**
**5.341**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5.341**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**56.770**
**4.172**
**325**
**2.481**
**4.948**
**7.341**
**5.525**
**4.956**
**86.518**
**3.462**
**-**
**3.462**
**89.980**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Grant from Help Refugees|**56.770**||||**56.974**|
|
Donations|**4.172**||||**14.539**|
|Merchandise|**325**||||**1.998**|
|Other|**2.481**||||**-**|
|Volunteer scheme|**4.948**||||**-**|
|Other Grants|**2.000**||||**-**|
|Staff donations|**5.525**||||**-**|
|Partnerships|**4.956**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**81.177**||||**73.511**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||
|**Van fundraiser**|**3.462**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**3.462**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**||||||
||**84.639**|**5.341**|**-**|**89.980**|**73.511**|
**A3 Payments**
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|Staff stipends|**44.644**||**-**||**-**||**44.644**||**28.647**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Instructors|**1.214**||**-**||**-**||**1.214**||**4.335**|
|Motor expenses|**2.182**||**402**||**-**||**2.584**||**5.059**|
|Marketing|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Rent|**12.497**||**-**||**-**||**12.497**||**11.860**|
|Household expenses|**1.169**||**-**||**-**||**1.169**||**958**|
|Travel|**35**||**-**||**-**||**35**||**1.117**|
|Merchandise|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**999**|
|Other|**2.970**||**-**||**-**||**2.970**||**2.300**|
|**_Sub total_**|**64.711**||**402**||**-**||**65.113**||**55.275**|
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**table)**||||||||||||
|**Loan repaid**||||||||||||
|||||**-**||**-**||||**1.400**||
|Van purchase||||||||||||
|||**6.187**||**-**||**-**||**6.187**||||
||**_Sub total_**|||||||||||
|||**6.187**||**-**||**-**||**6.187**||**1.400**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**||**70.898**||**402**||**-**||**71.300**||**56.675**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||||||||||||
|||**13.741**||**4.939**||**-**||**18.680**||**16.836**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||||||||||||
|||**19.286**||**-**||**-**||**19.286**||**2.450**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||||
|||**33.027**||**4.939**||**-**||**37.966**||**19.286**||
**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**|**Details**
Barclays Main account
Barclays Merchandise account|**Details**
Barclays Main account
Barclays Merchandise account|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**19.597**
**4.844**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**19.597**
**4.844**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**4.939**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**4.939**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Barclays Main account||**19.597**||**4.939**||**-**|
||Barclays Merchandise account||**4.844**||**-**||**-**|
||PayPal||**8.586**||**-**||**-**|
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**33.027**|
|---|---|---|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
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## **Statement of Responsibility of the Trustees**
FMS’ Trustees are responsible for preparing the report of the Trustees’ and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:
- Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently (in this case on a receipts and payments basis);
- Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## In so far as the Trustees are aware:
- There is no relevant information of which the charity’s independent examiner is unaware; and
- The Trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant information and to establish that the independent examiner is aware of that information.
The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
The opinion of the trustees is that the charitable organisation is entitled to the exemptions conferred by Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small charities.
The trustees acknowledge the following responsibilities:
- The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476
- The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charities subject to the small companies’ regime.
## **Signed on behalf of the trustees**
Name: David Ascott Date:
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Inde
endent Examlners Re
ortto the Trustees of Free Movement Skateboardln
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Free Movement Skateboarding for the year ending 31,
August 2020.
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As the charity trustees of Free Movement Skateboardin& you are responsible forthe preparation of the accounts in
accordafice with the requirement5 of the Charities Att 20111'the ACVI.
I report in respect of my examination of Free Movement Skateboardin8'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 Charities
Commlssion under seetlon 145151 Ibl of the Act.
Indt
endent Exarninerfs Stattment
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with
the exarnination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
Accounting records were not kept in respect of Free Movement Skateboarding as requlred by Section 130 of
the Act.. or
The èccounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connectson with the examination to which the attentlon
should be drawn In this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed..
Name.. Mike RSchmond
Relevant Professional quallflcatlon or membershlp of professional bodies lif anvl..
Address.. S Traherne Close, Hitchin. Herts, SG4 9DS
Date..
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The trustees acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with provision applicable to charities subject to the small companies’ regime.
The financial statements were approved by the Trustees and authorised for issue on 01/02/2021 and signed on their behalf, by:
## David Ascott
## **1. Accounting policies**
## **a) Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP FRS 102), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (August 2014) and the Companies Act 2006.
These accounts have been prepared on a cash received and paid basis in accordance with the exemption for small charities.
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