Trustees' Annual Report for the period Period start date Period end date 30 03 2024 29 03 2025 From To
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Youth Link Networks
Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1185081
Charity's principal address Flat 5 82 Parchmore Road Croydon Postcode CR7 8LW
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any) |
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| Charisma Jones | ||||
| Naomi Grossett | ||||
| Karla Simpson | ||||
| Rochelle Ampomah-Ababio |
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| Abosede Alaka | 20 September 2024 | |||
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)
Type of adviser Name Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document
Constitution
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How the charity is constituted
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed By
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
The relief of poverty or financial hardship anywhere in the world by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects with long-term sustainable methodology.
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To act as a resource for young people by providing advice, assisting and organising programmes of education and other activities as a means of:
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a) Developing their skills, capacities and capabilities;
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b) Advancing education;
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c) Relieving unemployment’.
Within this financial year we used funds to restart our farming work in Uganda again. We haven’t been successful in securing grant aid funding on a larger scale to upscale our projects but as we have a running office that we pay for annually in Uganda (this also contains all our sewing equipment for the Pretty Box Project as storage until we can secure more funds and reconvene the much needed projects), we saw it fitting to budget for a small scale project so that we can still be present in the communities, reach young people and generate an income.
The project launched (but has historical roots going back from 2012 before the charity was registered with the COC) is entitled Farm & Crunch. We planted 12,000 tomato seeds, 10,000 seeds germinated and 8,000 Summary of the main yielded fruits. So we unfortunately lost out on 4,000 tomatoes. activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to We harvested 300 buckets of tomatoes weighing 35kg eachgiving a these objects (include within combined total of 10,500kg worth of tomatoes. this section the statutory We received 50 customers minimum who purchased our produce in declaration that trustees have different quantities, most of our customers were women with only 6 being had regard to the guidance men and 20 teenage mothers. issued by the Charity The total cost to run the project was £1,722. We spent £1,426 on the Commission on public benefit) project directly from our donations and the outstanding £296 coincides with operational and administration costs that supported the project.
After all the tomatoes were sold, we generated £800 which was used to invest in Cohort 2 which started in December 2024.
For cohort 2 we followed the same structure and tomato amount but unfortunately the heavy consistent rains damaged all 12,000 seeds planted. The entire lower village was flooded as a result and people were evacuated. We have now discontinued our hire due to its positioning and hired as plot more uphill to mitigate the problem. We are in desperate need of more resources, equipment and funding to achieve the scale impact that we would like to.
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and erformance p After all the tomatoes were sold for Farm & Crunch cohort 1, we generated Summary of the main £800 which was used to invest in Cohort 2 which started in December achievements of the charity 2024. during the year
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Section E Financial review
The £500 reserve fee remains unchanged.
Brief statement of the
charity’s policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially in deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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You may choose to include A continued financially challenging year. We need more grant funding
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additional information, where and donor support to upscale and make significant impact. However we
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relevant about: have managed to make a key achievement with this £800 invested
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the charity’s principal income. sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
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Section F Other optional information
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Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Abosede Alaka Full name(s) Karla Simpson Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee Chair etc) ~~07 / 08 / 2025~~ Date
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| Charity Name | No (if any) | |||
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | CC16a | |||
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Period start date 30.03.2024 |
Period end date To 29.03.2025 |
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 3 021 - - - - - - - 3 021 - - - 3 021 1 426 50 97 1 437 53 - - - - 3 063 - - - 3 063 - 43 - - - 43 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 3 021 - - - - - - - 3 021 - - - 3 021 1 426 50 97 1 437 53 - - - - 3 063 - - - 3 063 - 43 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| Projects costs | 1 426 | - | ||||
| Training | 50 | - | ||||
| MonthlyDonorgifts for christmas | 97 | - | ||||
| Operational & admin costs | 1 437 | - | ||||
| Donorbox fees and facebook ads | 53 | - | ||||
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| **Sub total ** | 3 063 | - | ||||
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| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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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 B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds CCXX R2 accounts (SS) |
Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Details Signature 2 ~~k~~ |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - 43 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Abosede Alaka ~~0~~7 ~~arla simpson~~ 07 |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Date of approval |
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