2024-12-31-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 1 Jan 2024 Period start date To 31 Dec 2024 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	In accordance with our mission of to foster generations of young people who understand stalking, the potential risks of stalking, and what they can do about it, we continue to make our educational resources about stalking (PSHE lessons for KS3 and KS4 students and assemblies for year 7 upwards, with accompanying teacher notes) freely available to teachers via the TES and our own websites. By the end of 2024 the download rate of assemblies from the TES website alone had exceeded 300 per month. This year we have been increasingly proactive in having these resources delivered into schools by Trust staff and volunteers. We match interested schools with local volunteers across the UK but

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have also targeted two areas—Co. Durham/ Darlington and Northumbria—where grantfunding has enabled us to reach a much higher proportion of schools. The Durham and Northumbria projects are being formally evaluated by academic colleagues in three Universities. As these evaluations have progressed, their findings have enabled us to update and improve the resources themselves. As part of this process, we have commenced work on a new animated video targeted at younger age groups. Our social media presence continues to grow significantly and we launched a much improved new website during the year.

We have also begun building an ‘Experts by Experience’ group of young victims of stalking who wish to use their stories to promote change and raise awareness.

During 2024 the Trust collaborated with St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and the Stalking Threat Assessment Centre (STAC) to develop an e-learning resource on stalking awareness that was successfully delivered in training to the Metropolitan Police, Crown Prosecution Service and London Probation.

Trust staff and representatives delivered presentations and on-line or physical training packages to various professional practitioners in criminal justice, offender management, social and healthcare, as well as media interviews concerning our schools work and the National Stalking Consortium’s super-complaint on the police response to stalking.

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, including delivering a training day for senior personnel and safeguarding managers.

We have also continued to act as a critical friend to the Northumbria Stalking Intervention Project (NSIP), to contribute to the Findaway project, overseen by Wearside Women in Need, and to work with the Knowledge Exchange Network to ensure our messaging has a foundation in the latest research.

Our sixth annual conference, held in November, was extended for the first time to two days and introduced the ART awards to recognise and celebrate people and projects doing exceptional work to tackle stalking. Our autumn conferences

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have become a highlight in the calendar for many professionals working in the stalking sector. This year’s focused on best practice in the multi-agency working that is essential in tackling stalking, and was addressed by the government’s Minister for Safeguarding, Jess Phillips. Statement confirming Para 1.18 The Trustees confirm they have given careful whether the trustees have consideration to the Charity Commission’s public had regard to the guidance benefit guidance when setting the Trust’s objecissued by the Charity tives and planning its activities during the year. Commission on public benefit

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

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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	Our core work—to foster generations of young people who understand stalking, the potential risks of stalking, and what they can do about it— continued to grow through our formal lessons and informal engagement. Our assemblies and PSHE resources have been delivered by teachers, Trust staff and volunteers, and community police, reaching tens of thousands of students from year 7 upwards around the country, and particularly in the north-east of England where we have had focused projects. Ongoing evaluations have triggered continual improvements in the messaging; our social media presence continues to expand; and our freely available animated video, available in English and Welsh, continues to be distributed widely both within schools and via social media, with another in production. We believe that all this, together with our work to upskill professionals, focusing particularly upon those working with young people, are not only helping to improve outcomes for today’s stalking victims but helping to bring about significant and sustainable change in the longer term by increasing public awareness about the seriousness of stalking and helping prevent people developing stalking behaviours in the first place.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41
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Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	While our regular sources of income have remained broadly static this year (donations and fundraising £10.4K; professional training £22.5K), grant funding for three projects (delivering school assemblies in Co. Durham and Northumbria and developing e-learning modules for police training in London, totalling £58.4K) have generated significantly increased income, matched by the expenditure necessary for their delivery. We have sustained our core activities and maintained a stable financial position during the year.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	We continue to 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 as this happens, 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 core activities for at least 12 months following any unforeseen circumstances.
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£ 38,000
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

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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 LEICESTER LE8 0PJ

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Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 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 (ifany)
	Claire Alderton		from 14 Aug 2024
	Dawn Anderson
	Tiffany Cater
	Mark Haggan
	Susan Hills	Secretary
	Emma Kay
	Maria Mellins
	Clive Ruggles	Chair
	Nicholas Ruggles
	Catriona Sibert
	Rachael Wheatley		to 16 Sep 2024

– 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

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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

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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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date
	Clive Lance Neville Ruggles	Susan Elizabeth Hills
	Chair	Secretary
	25 March 2025
	25 March 2025

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Alice Ruggles Trust			1186309
Receipts andpayments accounts					CC16a
For the period from	01/01/2024	To	31/12/2024

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £		Restricted funds to the nearest £		Endowment funds to the nearest £		Total funds to the nearest £		Last year to the nearest £
Donations and fundraising,including gift aid	10,362		-		-		10,362		10,859
Fees for conferences andprofessional training	22,536		-		-		22,536		21,090
Grants	58,385				-		58,385		500
Bank interest	294		-		-		294		-
SMP rebate			-		-		-		-
Sales of informative materials			-		-		-		-
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	91,577		-		-		91,577		32,449
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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Sub total	-								-
Total receipts A3 Payments
									32,449
Staffingcosts	44,757		-		-		44,757		26,596
Informative materials	5,015				-		5,015		115
Costs of trainingand awareness-raisingactivities	7,778		-		-		7,778		17,036
Costs of fundraisingactivities	469		-		-		469		442
Staff training	527						527		36
Trustee expenses	104		-		-		104		221
Insurance	356		-		-		356		356
Social Media	979		-		-		979		752
Sundries (stationery, postage, phone, software licences)	459		-		-		459		588
Platform fees			-		-		-		303
Bank fees	-		-		-		-		-
**Sub total **	60,444		-		-		60,444		46,444
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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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
									46,444
	31,133								- 13,995
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	37,763								51,758
	68,896								37,763

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 £ 65,827 3,054 15 68,896 OK	31/03/2025 Restricted funds Endowment funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - OK OK	Endowment funds to nearest £
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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 Sundry debtors Details Details Signature conference venue invoice	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - 400 - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) 20,084 - - - - Print Name Clive Ruggles	Endowment funds to nearest £
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			25 January 2025
			Date of approval
		Clive Ruggles	05/03/2025

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

31/03/2025

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WAIES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts S•cWon A Ind•p•nd•nt Eximln•r'• R•port Report to the trusteg91 mem1￿ra of Alice RU￿j1&S Trust On a¢¢ounts lor th• y•ar •nd•d 31 CcemLr 2024 char￿ no Ilf anyl 1186309 S•t out on pig•S I report to the truste8s on my examination of the accLJunts of th• abo¥e charity 1.the Trust'l for the year end￿ 31112124 ResponslbllR￿s and As the charity trnstees of the Trust, you a￿ responsible lor the pfyparation bas1$ of rèport of the ac￿Unts In accordance the requi￿rnents ofthe Charitses Act 2011 1.the Act'i. I report in respect of my examination of the Tru5t'5 accounts carn8d out under 58Ction 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicatde Directions given by the Charty Cornmis$40n under sethon 145lSllbl of the Act. I have cornpleted my exarnination. I confimi that no material matters ha come to my atteniiorTr in conr￿ctIon with the examination bvhich 9ivas mè cause to believe that In. 8ny material ￿speCt. accounting record5 ￿re not kept in accordance S*¢tion 130 of th& Att or thè accounts do nol ac￿rd with the aceounb'ng r8cx)rds Ind•p•nd•nl •x•minor'6 Statsmont I have no concem$ aTh# have com8 a(xoss no other matters in connethon th the exarnination to which attentson should be drawn in order to enab proper understanding ol the accounts lo be reached. Slgned= Dat•: 202 N4m•'. Georgina F Mart￿W R•lovar4t prof•sslonal qualificationlsl Of btsdy Ilf anyl: Addr•ss". Orchard Close Lazonby P8nrith CA10 1AJ IER OCto￿r 2018