## **FUTUREHOPE HERTFORD AND WARE** ## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1[ST] JANUARY TO 31[ST] DECEMBER 2025** ## **CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1186296** ## **OFFICE ADDRESS: PIONEER HALL, 11 WARE ROAD, HERTFORD, S13 7DZ** ## **Trustees** Ian Tyler Andrea Barker Jonathan Thompson ## **Organisational Structure** The charity has three Trustees, three paid employees (a Youth Development Worker, a Mentoring Lead and a Project Manager), and a team of around 12 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 19 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.’ We have also started to support some vulnerable young adults (16-25 years old) who live in ‘assisted housing’. 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. - Supporting young adults in a local ‘assisted housing’ project – providing them with games evenings and discussion groups. ## **Achievements and Performance** 2025 was a year of consolidating our offering of services for young people and directing our efforts to the areas of most need. Our programme of providing Mentors for a 12-month period has flourished and we have taken on more young people than ever. In 2025, 28 young people enrolled in the year-long mentoring programme and over 430 hours of Mentoring were provided. Indeed, we are currently being referred so many youngsters by the local schools that we have a short waiting list, and we would benefit from either more volunteers or being able to take on another paid youth worker. Apart from a short period when it was off the road for maintenance, the Mobile Youth Centre Minibus has been a continued presence in the two towns this year. In fact, we have been able to increase the usage, by taking it out for after-school sessions as well and the evenings that we were already doing. By providing a safe, warm, friendly space out in places where young people congregate, we have been able to reduce antisocial behaviour and ensure that young people are protected from harm. We have also been able to run a number of different courses and presentations in local schools as part of their PSHE curriculum - including successful, interactive sessions covering Drugs and Alcohol Awareness, Internet Safety and Healthy Relationships. More than 500 pupils attended these sessions in 2025. We were proud to receive a glowing reference from a local headmaster for the work we do in his school. _“Chauncy School has worked closely with FUTUREhope for many years, and we rely on their services to assist and support our young people through the challenges associated with adolescence. Whether that be individual mentoring, providing specialist workshops in drugs and alcohol awareness, running Personal, Social and Health Education classes or assemblies on a variety of topics, FUTUREhope always delivers, and their work is highly appreciated by our students and their parents. Good people who provide outstanding service to the young people of Hertford and Ware”._ _(Steve Walton, Headmaster of Chauncy School)_ The area of our work that has changed is the Drop-In Youth Café that we ran for around 18 months in our building in Hertford. Although it began well with strong numbers attending, we got to a point where it was becoming harder to draw the sort of young people most in need of help into the building after school. We realised that there was a greater need out in the community where teenagers more naturally congregate. For this reason, we switched our resource from the café to ‘detached’ youth work, with volunteers providing a presence in local parks and public spaces after school. Fund-raising events across the year included a Quiz Night in our building and a Cakes and Cards Sale. These two events helped us to raise not just some very welcome funds (£3,492) but also raise our profile in the town as we chatted to the attendees about our work. We also attended two Community events in 2025 - the Hertford Christmas Gala and the Ware Dickensian Night. 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 the services we provide. We have established a good connection with a number of young people who had been facing homelessness, but who are now living in assisted housing near to our building – supporting them with time, resources and advice where we are able to. We made some more improvements to our old building - gutting and reconfiguring our two toilet areas to provide much better and more modern facilities and to create a disabled/accessible toilet for hall users. ## **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 money in balanced with that for money out. The main source of revenue continues to be from regular giving provided by 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. In 2025 these included funds from the Garfield Weston and Shanly Foundations and the Sovereign Network Group. ## **Trustees** There were no changes to our board of Trustees in 2025 with Ian Tyler, Andrea Barker and Jonathan Thompson all remaining in their roles. ## **Date: 18/05/2026** CHARITY COMMISSION IOR ENGIANO ANO IVALIS FUTUREHOPE HERTFORD AND WARE Recei tsand ments accounts CC16a For the perlod 0110112025 To 31112r2025 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted funds tothe £ tt* th• n••mt £ Endowment fundg to th• n•amt £ Total fund• Last y•Jr to th• n•Jrnt £ tr* the n•av••t £ A1 Recel ts Balance brought lorwaTrJ Re9ular OorK) Chur#ie$ 16.512 5.469 8.623 14,th) Grants 51,100 3,614 3,674 Usw5 (Xher and Gift tota 1,073 311 11.666 ross Income AR) 114.790 114 109.527 set an see table . nv•strnen tota 114.rn A3P• me S*anes Pen&ons Payroll adrnin Exper￿e¥re$OUrct￿Stsff tra R￿￿Jean1r9IlrnsuTrr￿e Training Internevrnobiks s￿b9r1ery EquiprTrenl 52.S22 43.041 35 342 849 9.7 21,474 21,474 $76 1,947 V#hKae OroTrin t Mertonng 1.947 2.150 320 2.592 9,024 2,743 9,024 063 Sub total A4 Afy•et and Investmw Sub tolal 96,W3 927 Not of r•¢•lpts/(paym•nls) A6 Tian8for8 btrtwoen lund8 A6 C•sh fund• laot year end Cash funds th18 year end 18,73 18.7J 41. 18,73 11736 41, CCXX R1 ac￿Unts ISSI 03104r2028 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unmtrlcted Restrlcted funds funds to ne•mt £ to ng•rn•t E Endowment lunds tr* fiealest £ C.ItLgoi ics Dol.iils Bl Cash fund8 Tofal cash fun(ts Unre8trl¢ted fund• to n•arn•t É R••trlct•d funds to £ Endovmient fun tt* ￿•1••1 £ Details B2 Other monetary assets Fund to f¥th￿h Currnnt Details Fund to T*hkh •t Detalls Co•1 loptkn•l) Currnnt B4 Assets r•taln•d for th• charity's own use Fund to f*hkh Amotsnt du• Wh•n du• Dotails BS Llabllltlo• S￿n0￿ by ono or two tru•too• on b¥hull of Bll tl)g Iru#te¥ty 61giialura Prliil N¥41no Dalo ol CCXX R2 accounli ISS) CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of TLI ACHOPL~ pl￿70(2D O IU All£ On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) 1186Lg£ Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ltthe Trusf) for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the ac￿Unts in acc[￿dancE the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 fthe Acr}. I report in respe(X of Tny examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in caffwng out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5){b) of the Ad. I have (xKnpleted my examinatton. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disdosed below ") in connectiorF With the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respecL ac(x)unting records were not kept in accordan￿ wth section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no concems and have come auoss no other matters in conneclion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the b￿CketS rfthey do not appty. Signed: Date: oc Name: $61(KI LL) I LSOIL, Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (If any): Address: 121 FO £T A LAN£ IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to dlsclose. IER October 2018