SWAP Trustees Annual Report
Trustees (Directors) during the year were: Name Position Date Shane Ingham Chair 31 December 2019 Yvonne Oliver Trustee 16 December 2020 David Saltonstall Trustee 02 January 2020 Brendon Bennett Trustee 15 February 2021 Janice McNamara Trustee 18 October 2022
Principal Address
24 Akeds Road Halifax HX1 2TR
Bankers
Lloyds TSB Commercial Street Halifax West Yorkshire
Governing Document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 01 Aug 2019
Charitable objects
TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF EX-OFFENDERS LIVING IN HALIFAX AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, BUDDYING, ASSESSMENT, AND INDUCTION PROGRAMMES, AS WELL AS A DAY CENTRE SERVICE, TRIPS AND ACTIVITIES.
Review of Progress and Achievement
1. Administration
Ian Collinson continues as Project Manager; Paul Whitehead delivers the Drugs/Alcohol Interventions along with 2 very capable volunteers. We also have a further 5 volunteers performing various duties assisting with the development of the service who provide a further 80 hours per week between them. SWAP is responsible for Prison Assessments and assessments for those referred via other means. The Service also inputs and disseminates information on the database, which provides amongst other thing crime reduction figures and abstinence from drugs/alcohol statistics. One of the main functions is running recovery groups using volunteers.
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3. Financial review
There are no funds in deficit at the year end and no funds are held on behalf of any other organisation.
4. Activities
The main focus of the work of SWAP involves advocacy and support when clients first approach the service or are referred by Prisons, Probation Service, or other agencies. This is important to prevent a return to crime within the first few weeks on release. Crime is usually for acquisitive crime to pay for such things as tobacco, trainers and mobile phones, which are essentials rather than, as historically regarded, luxuries.
SWAP also provides services to Alpha House Calderdale and Claver Hall in Shelf; mainly drugs testing and drugs treatment therapy. SWAP also organises leisure activities provided through the Day Centre which is managed by SWAP. This year provided a trip to Scarborough in partnership with Alpha House, Ten Pin Bowling, Walking Trips, Cinema, and other day trips.
5. Achievements and performance
Good partnership working has been established and developed within both local prisons; mainly Leeds, Wealstun and Doncaster prisons. There are also good working relationships with the Probation Service and the Police Prolific Offender Team, and more recently, a good working relationship with staff at Recovery Steps which is a Humankind project that prescribes drugs/alcohol medication. SWAP also provides advocacy with criminal justice services and personnel.
Performance, monitoring and evaluation continues to improve with the use of our custom designed data base which SWAP records all activity and clients’ progress.
SWAP assess potential residents for suitability to the project and to provide a safe welcome after prison. An Initial needs assessment is undertaken to ascertain the financial status of accepted clients and help with signing them up for benefits, providing loans or gifts, (depending on financial status) for tobacco, clothing, mobile phone, mobile phone data costs and fuel costs. This is to ensure equity across the service user population.
Shane Ingham Chair
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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of FQ hJEL PT£R On a¢counts for the year ended Si RCH Zot Charlty no Ilf any) I Ig<711 Set out on pagos I report to the trustees on my examination of the a¢counls of the above arity ('the Trust.) for the year 8nded 31 / o/ R•spon8ibilltl•s and AS th& charrty trustees of the Tnmt. you are responsible for th.e preparation basls of report of the ac¢ounts in accrnCe with the requirements of thg Charities Act 2011 {Ihe Acr). I report in resp8d of my examination of the Trust's account8 Garried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in ¢arying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions grven by the Charity Commission under section 145(511b) of the Act. I have com eted my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention {0&1") in connection with the examinat whith gNes me cau$6 lo believe that In, any material Indepondent examlner'8 8tatsmont accounting records were not kept in aCrdance wrth se10n 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accwd wth the accounting record8 I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enabto a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Heas• delete Ihe M¥ds the brack81s Mthey do 8ppfy. Dats: Slgnod: Name: Rel•vant prof•88lonal quallfi¢atlonl$l or body (If any): Addrèss: IER October 2018
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