**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**
|1
2
3
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Charisma Jones||||
||Naomi Grossett||||
||Karla Simpson||||
||Rochelle
Ampomah-Ababio||||
||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**
**TAR**
March **2012**
1
Doc ID: 1ce97faf4ea34b1b0af6d86579f0003350394b31
## **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
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
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:
- 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.
## **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.**
**TAR**
March **2012**
2
Doc ID: 1ce97faf4ea34b1b0af6d86579f0003350394b31
**To act as a resource for young people by providing advice, assisting and organising programmes of education and other activities as a means of:**
- _a) Developing their skills, capacities and capabilities;_
- _b) Advancing education;_
- _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)**
**TAR**
March **2012**
3
Doc ID: 1ce97faf4ea34b1b0af6d86579f0003350394b31
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
**TAR**
March **2012**
4
Doc ID: 1ce97faf4ea34b1b0af6d86579f0003350394b31
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**
**TAR**
March **2012**
5
Doc ID: 1ce97faf4ea34b1b0af6d86579f0003350394b31
## **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)**
- You **may choose** to include A continued financially challenging year. We need more grant funding
- additional information, where and donor support to upscale and make significant impact. However we
- relevant about: have managed to make a key achievement with this £800 invested
- the charity’s principal income. sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
**----- Start of picture text -----**
Section F Other optional information
**----- End of picture text -----**
## **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**
**TAR**
March **2012**
6
Doc ID: 1ce97faf4ea34b1b0af6d86579f0003350394b31
|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
30.03.2024|Period end date
**To**
29.03.2025|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**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 £**|
|Unrestricted donations monthly& one-off|**3 021**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**3 021**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
|Projects costs|**1 426**|||||**-**|
|Training|**50**|||||**-**|
|MonthlyDonorgifts for christmas|**97**|||||**-**|
|Operational & admin costs|**1 437**|||||**-**|
|Donorbox fees and facebook ads|**53**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**3 063**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
||**- 43**|**-**|**-**|**- 43**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**- 43**|**-**|**-**|**- 43**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
1
Doc ID: d541ccb3477c8a6df3bbcf77aef14890d869df3d
## **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 £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
||||/ 08 / 2025|
||||~~/ 09 / 2025~~|
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
Doc ID: d541ccb3477c8a6df3bbcf77aef14890d869df3d