## **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| 3 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 4 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 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|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.| ## **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|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||| 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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**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** 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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc) **
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Clive Lance Neville Ruggles|Susan Elizabeth Hills| ||
Chair|Secretary| ||25 March 2025|| ||25 March 2025|| 11 |**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).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_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)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_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**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**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)
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(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**
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**to nearest £**
**-**
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the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
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**own use**|**Details**
**Details**
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**Details**
**Details**
Signature
conference venue invoice|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**20,084**
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Clive Ruggles|**Endowment**
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**(optional)**| ||||**25 January 2025**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| |||Clive Ruggles|05/03/2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 31/03/2025 2 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 C*cemL*r 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