## **FUTUREHOPE HERTFORD AND WARE**
## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1[ST] JANUARY TO 31[ST] DECEMBER 2024**
## **CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1186296**
## **OFFICE ADDRESS: PIONEER HALL, 11 WARE ROAD, HERTFORD, S13 7DZ**
## **Trustees**
Ian Tyler
Andrea Barker
Jonathan Thompson (has replaced David Abbott)
## **Organisational Structure**
The charity has three Trustees, three paid employees (a Youth Development Worker, a Mentoring Lead and a Project Manager), a volunteer Treasurer and a team of around 15 unpaid volunteers helping with the various services we offer.
## **Objectives and Activities**
The charitable object of FUTUREhope Hertford and Ware is ‘to provide an effective and accessible mentoring and support service in Hertford and Ware to young people between the ages of 11 and 18 inclusive, in order to reduce anti-social behaviour, social exclusion and criminal offending; to advance their education and development and enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals.’
The main activities of the charity are based in the towns of Hertford and Ware through the following programmes:
One-to-one Mentoring: meeting local young people for an hour a week, every week, for a year, to offer support, advice and someone to listen.
A minibus that acts as a mobile youth centre, which goes out into the community to locations where young people are, as well as providing a presence at local events and galas.
Schools Work: running educational sessions and/or group work sessions within the school setting.
An after school Drop In youth club/cafe at our building, where young people can hang out with friends, play games, get refreshments and chat to our team of volunteers.
## **Achievements and Performance**
2024 was another successful year for the charity.
We continued to help large numbers of young people with our key areas of outreach – Mentoring, the Minibus, the Drop In Café and Schools Sessions – all flourishing with a team of amazing volunteers.
We provided 400 hours of one-to-one mentoring with young people who are referred to us by schools, GPs or parents, being assigned a trained and carefully matched mentor and seen every week for a year.
Our mobile youth centre Minibus continued to go out on Friday evenings to meet with young people where they are – local parks and the Lido – and to provide them with a safe, warm space where they can get hot chocolate and snacks, be away from potential trouble and find a friendly non-judgemental team member to listen and offer advice if needed.
Our after school Drop In Café offering table tennis, table football, pool, video games and a chill out zone was attended by an average of 24 young people a week with some sessions serving around 35. A range of different milkshakes went down particularly well.
We delivered a number of different educational sessions in local schools, which were attended by a total of 440 pupils. The topics for these included Drugs and Alcohol Awareness and Internet Safety We also took the minibus into the playgrounds of three schools at lunchtimes for informal sessions where young people could talk to our team and find out more about our services.
Across the year, we put on a series of training workshops for our volunteers and mentors and in September our core team attended a training course organised by an organisation who specialise in delivering impactful sessions in schools. We also had two Strategy Awaydays, in April and June, to consider all aspects of our work and outreach and to formulate plans for moving forward.
Fund-raising events across the year included a coffee morning in April, an Open Day at our building in May, a local art exhibition in June and running a stall at the Hertford Summer Funday. These events helped us to raise not just some very welcome funds but also our profile in the town as we chatted to the community and gave out leaflets detailing our work.
We also attended the Hertford Christmas Gala and the Ware Dickensian Night in the autumn with our minibus. These events gave us the opportunity to park up in the
middle of each town and welcome on-board young people who were out and about to hear more about FUTUREhope and get some free refreshments.
With the help of some local and national grant schemes, we undertook some maintenance work on our building including installing new and more energyefficient lighting and heating in January, and loft insulation in March.
## **Financial Review**
The income and expenditure was as planned for this year. The charity continues to cover all costs for its work, with the figure for Receipts higher than that for Payments and with an increased total for grants compared to previous years. The main revenue of income continues to be from local people and local churches and the charity continues to be grateful for their support in its work.
We are also active in trying to secure local and national grants to fund our outreach work, the upkeep of the building and other running costs.
## **Trustees**
We should also note that as of April 2025 one of our Trustees, David Abbott, has left the position and has been replaced by a new Trustee, Jonathan Thompson. This change has been reflected in our listing on the Charity Commission website.
## **Date: 22/04/2025**
|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|01//01/2024
Period start date|31/12/2024
Period end date
**To**|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**22,445**
**5,244**
**7,965**
**51,100**
**3,614**
**1,263**
**1,073**
**311**
**93,015**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**93,015**
**43,041**
**1,669**
**342**
**849**
**9,798**
**1,068**
**544**
**468**
**628**
**2,785**
**2,150**
**1,942**
**2,743**
**68,027**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**68,027**
**24,988**
**-**
**16,496**
**41,484**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**22,445**
**5,244**
**7,965**
**51,100**
**3,614**
**1,263**
**1,073**
**311**
**93,015**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**93,015**
**43041**
**1,669**
**342**
**849**
**9,798**
**1,068**
**544**
**468**
**628**
**2,785**
**2,150**
**1,942**
**2,743**
**68,027**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**68,027**
**24,988**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Balance brought forward|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||**17,048**|
|Regular donors|**22,445**|||**22,445**||**22,400**|
|Churches|**5,244**|||**5,244**||**5,102**|
|One-off|**7,965**|||**7,965**||**2,439**|
|Grants|**51,100**|||**51,100**||**21,775**|
|Schools|**3,614**|||**3,614**||**2,574**|
|Fundraising|**1,263**|||**1,263**||**7,310**|
|Users|**1,073**|||**1,073**||**1,570**|
|Other and Gift Aid|**311**|||**311**||**6,987**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**93,015**|||**93,015**||**87,205**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**
**Salaries**|||||||
||||**-**|**93,015**||**87,205**|
|||||||**40037**|
|Pensions|**1,669**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,669**||**1,506**|
|Payroll admin|**342**|||**342**||**290**|
|Expenses/resources/staff travel|**849**|||**849**||**1,683**|
|Repairs/cleaning/insurance|**9,798**|||**9,798**||**16,204**|
|Training|**1,068**|||**1,068**||**348**|
|Internet/mobiles|**544**|||**544**||**528**|
|Stationery|**468**|||**468**||**262**|
|Equipment|**628**|||**628**||**1,491**|
|Utilities|**2,785**|||**2,785**||**2,243**|
|Vehicle|**2,150**|||**2,150**||**1,891**|
|Drop-in cafe|**1,942**|||**1,942**||**2,486**|
|Other|**2,743**|||**2,743**||**1,740**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**68,027**|||**68,027**||**70,709**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||||
||||**-**|**68,027**||**70,709**|
||||||||
||**24,988**|**-**|**-**|
**24,988**||**16,496**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**16,496**|**-**||**16,496**||**-**|
||**41,484**|**-**|**-**|**41,484**||**16,496**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
27/03/2025
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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
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**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
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**liability relates**
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
27/03/2025
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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
Futurehope Hertford and Ware
On accounts for the year
ended
31st DecEmber 2024
Charity no
(if any)
1186296
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (Ihe Trusf) for the year ended 3111212024.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Tnjst, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the acLounts in accordan viith the requirements of the Charities Act
2011 (Ihe Acr).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trusvs accounts carried out
under seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5){b} of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
Lxsme to my attention in connection with the examination whith gives rr
use to believe that in. any material respect:
Independent
examinerfs statement
accounting re(xJrds were not kept in accordan with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concems and have o)me acmss no other matters in connection
wtth the examination lo whith attentson should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accnunts to be reached.
Slgned:
Date:
0110412025
Name:
SEAN WILSON
Relevant professional
qualifi¢alion(s} or body
{if any):
Address:
132 Folly Lane
St Ajbans
AL3 SJQ
IER
October 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete Il the examiner needs to highlight matters ol concern {see CC32,
Independent examination of charrty accAwnts'. directs.ons and guidance for
examiners).
Give here brlef detalls of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
OGtober 2018