## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 1 Jan 2022 **Period start date To** 31 Dec 2022 **Period end date** **Charity name:** Alice Ruggles Trust **Charity registration number:** 1186309 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To preserve and protect the health and safety of
the public from the dangers of coercive
control and stalking and to bring about
lasting improvements in the management of
perpetrators and the protection of victims
specifically by:
(1) raising public awareness;
(2) ensuring that relevant legislation is effec-
tive and adhered to, and in particular
ensuring that stalking offences result in
immediate action both to protect the
victim and to deal effectively with the per-
petrator. The Trust will achieve this by, for
example, providing education and training
for police, military and other relevant
agencies;
(3) campaigning for improved legal measures
relating to stalking and related offences;
and
(4) supporting research into ways to improve
the protection of victims of stalking and
the management of perpetrators.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Raising public awareness**
_PSHE relationship safety resource_. During 2022
our freely available package of accredited
materials and lesson plans on stalking and
coercive behaviour for Key Stage 4 students (14-
to 16-year-olds) were downloaded over 4000
times during the year and we have received
positive feedback from across the country.
Community support teams from eleven police
forces have now undertaken to deliver our PSHE
lessons in schools in their areas. We have also
designed a school assembly, with accompanying
walkthrough notes, and in December launched
an offer to deliver this in person in Leicestershire
and other areas where representatives of the
Trust are available.| 3 _“Is it stalking?” video_ . Our three-minute animated video to raise awareness of stalking and encourage victims to seek help sooner, launched in December 2021, has been translated into Welsh with the aid of a grant from the Welsh Government for delivery to schools throughout Wales. _Social media_ . We continue regular social media messaging on multiple platforms, aimed particularly at young people. ## **Professional training and best practice** _Short courses and qualifications for professionals working with young people._ In 2022 we created a shorter (three-hour) version of our CPDaccredited “SafEE” course in collaboration with St Mary’s University, Twickenham. This aims to upskill professionals working with young people so that they recognise stalking and respond appropriately. By the end of the year, over 500 people had successfully completed SAfEE courses. _Training and CPD_ . During 2022 the Trust delivered more than 20 presentations and online or physical training packages to a range of professional practitioners in criminal justice, offender management, social and healthcare, and domestic abuse caseworkers across England and Wales, particularly in Devon and Cornwall, London and the Home Counties, the North-east, South and mid-Wales, Wiltshire, and elsewhere. Trust representatives also delivered talks to psychology and criminology students at several Universities. _NHS_ . We have continued to collaborate with Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys (TEWV) NHS Foundation Trust to develop a range of materials to educate their staff and service users— particularly young people using their children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)—about stalking. _Conference._ Our fourth day-conference, held in October, focused on cyberstalking, perpetrator interventions, and multi-agency working. There were 11 speakers across the day and a record attendance of 192, both physical and on-line, representing a range of criminal justice, social care and healthcare professionals, as well as academic researchers and educators. ## **Research** _Early perpetrator intervention and safety_ . In collaboration with the University of Derby we 4 |||have conceived an on-line tool providing
targeted support for young people at risk of
experiencing or perpetrating stalking, and now
plan its development and piloting by CAHMS
services around the country.
**Campaigning**
Following
the
“Gracie’s
Law”
debate
in
parliament in January, we initiated a campaign
to provide ring-fenced funding that would
ensure that there are stalking advocates (ISACs)
available in all police areas in England and
Wales. This campaign is ongoing.
**National Stalking Consortium**
The Alice Ruggles Trust is a member of the
National Stalking Consortium, formed in 2014,
and attends regular consortium meetings. This is
a collaboration of organisations working in
stalking. Its overall aim is to improve support to
victims of stalking throughout the UK.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees confirm they have given careful
consideration to the Charity Commission’s public
benefit guidance when setting the Trust’s objec-
tives and planning its activities during the year.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other 5 ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|During 2022 the Trust has continued to increase
its impact in raising awareness amongst young
people and their support networks of the
dangers of coercive control and stalking, both
through
formal
education
and
informal
engagement. Our PSHE resources have been
delivered by teachers or community police at
several thousand schools around the country;
we have a significant social media presence; and
our freely available animated video, now
available in English and Welsh versions, has been
distributed widely both within schools and via
social media.
Our engagement with professional practitioners,
particularly in the police and CPS, has had a
significant impact upon training and procedures
around stalking, as has our training for profes-
sionals working with young people through our
new SAfEE short courses. The impact of Alice’s
personal story is at the heart of all our
messaging.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| 6 ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Our main sources of income during 2022 were (i)
individual donations and fundraising and (ii) fees
for conferences and professional training, which
together raised over £31,000 during the year.
This has enabled us to sustain our core activities
and maintain a stable financial position during
the year.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We seek to expand our activities going forward
and recognise that a funding model based
largely on personal donations and training
income is unsustainable as the charity grows.
Given the uncertainties that we face in doing
this, we have built up an equitable reserve that,
after taking into account staffing commitments,
we aim to continue to maintain at a level where
it will sustain the current level of activities for at
least 12 months following any unforeseen
circumstances.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£ 40,000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|No uncertainties in the foreseeable future| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| 7 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Apart from the first Trustees, every Trustee must
be appointed (for a term of 3 years) by a
resolution of the Trustees called at a special
meeting of the Trustees.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Alice Ruggles Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1186309| |Charity’s principal address|Fargate House
Main Street
Tur Langton
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Alexia Garbett||to 19 Mar 2022|| ||Kelda Henderson|||| ||Dawn Anderson||from 19 Mar 2022|| ||Anne Headley|Treasurer|from 19 Nov 2022|| ||Susan Hills|Secretary||| ||Emma Kay|||| ||Maria Mellins|||| ||Clive Ruggles|Chair||| ||Emma Ruggles|||| ||Nicholas Ruggles|||| ||Catriona Sibert|||| ||Leonard Smith|||| ||Rachael Wheatley|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** 9 ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** 10 ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
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**Chair, etc) **
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Clive Lance Neville Ruggles|Susan Elizabeth Hills| ||
Chair|Secretary| ||11 Apr 2023|| ||11 Apr 2023|| 11 |**Alice Ruggles Trust**|||**1186309**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2022|**To**|31/12/2022||| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Donations and fundraising,including gift aid|**15,039**||**-**||**-**||**15,039**||**30,910**| |Fees for conferences andprofessional training|**16,424**||**-**||**-**||**16,424**||**7,313**| |Grants|**-**||**1,000**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**| |Reimbursements of expenses|**7**||**-**||**-**||**7**||**310**| |SMP rebate|**2,547**||**-**||**-**||**2,547**||**-**| |Sales of informative materials|**50**||**-**||**-**||**50**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**34,067**||**1,000**||**-**||**35,067**||**38,533**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**38,533**| ||||||||||| |
Staffingcosts|**31,045**||**-**||**-**||**31,045**||**24,806**| |Informative materials|**271**||**1,000**||**-**||**1,271**||**18,848**| |Costs of trainingand awareness-raisingactivities|**3,118**||**-**||**-**||**3,118**||**817**| |Costs of fundraisingactivities|**448**||**-**||**-**||**448**||**415**| |Trustee expenses|**337**||**-**||**-**||**337**||**155**| |Insurance|**346**||**-**||**-**||**346**||**346**| |Advertising|**415**||**-**||**-**||**415**||**-**| |Sundries (stationery, postage, phone, software
licences)|**308**||**-**||**-**||**308**||**234**| |Platform fees|**495**||**-**||**-**||**495**||**403**| |Bank fees|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1**| |**_Sub total_ **|**36,783**||**1,000**||**-**||**37,783**||**46,025**| ||||||||||| |**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_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**46,025**| ||||||||||| ||**- 2,716**||||||||**- 7,492**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**54,474**||||||||**61,966**| ||**51,758**||||||||**54,474**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|1
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Bank account
PayPal account
Cash|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**47,520**
**4,181**
**57**
**51,758**
OK
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**funds**|03/08/2023
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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OK
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**Endowment**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) |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**|**Details**
**Details**
SMP held in credit
Sundry debtors
**Details**
Signature
Conference expenses payable
**Details**|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,083**
**-**
**700**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**7,285**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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Clive Ruggles|**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**31 July 2023**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| |||Clive Ruggles|25/03/2023| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 03/08/2023 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of The Alice Ruggles Trust On accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022 Charity no (if any) 1186309 Set out on pages 1and2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('the Trusy) for the year ended 3111212022 As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation Responsibilities and of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act basis of report 2011 ('the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 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 confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: 3 August 2023 Name: Georgina F Martlew Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: Orchard Close Lazonby Penrith CA10 1AJ 12