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Jan 2020
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date
Day Year 31 Jan 2021
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Stepping Stones to Positivity
**Other names charity is known by**
SSTP
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1187278
**Charity's principal address** The Hub
Rivers Street Southsea **Postcode PO5 4EY**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Cally-Jo Co- Chair
1 Carrington
Windo
2 Ada Gac Co -Chair
3 Glyn Redman Treasurer
4 Nathan Wong
5 Kevin Sulley
6 David Gosden
7 Richard Barrow
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address** Consultant People First (Self 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA Advocacy)
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is Charitable Incorporated Organisation constituted (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
SSTP was incorporated in January 2020.
As the pandemic overtook everything, we took the opportunity of developing the group internally, as well as maintaining contact with Trustees, digitally. And developing promotional information, and social media channels, to take the group forward.
SSTP has not been able to fundraise on it’s own behalf, and we have been supported by People First ((Self Advocacy), the national self-advocacy organisation.
We are now in the process of setting up our own bank account and have developed fundraising plans to take forward selfadvocacy work in Portsmouth.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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|**Summary of the objects**
**of the charity set out in**
**its governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for**
**the public beneft in**
**relation to these objects**
**(include within this**
**section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees**
**have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the**
**Charity Commission on**
**public beneft)**|To promote and facilitate Self Advocacy for people with Learning
Disabilities, Learning Difculties and autism in the Portsmouth
area.
To facilitate group social activities for the aforementioned
people.
Through engagement, education, and consultation We will work
with companies and services to understand and promote the
needs of people with learning disabilities, difculties and
Autism.|
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||Because of lockdown it has been very difcult to drive forward
the plans of the group in terms of expanding the membership
and supporting the wider group of people with learning
difculties, disabilities and autism in Portsmouth to become
stronger self-advocates.
We have focussed on working with Trustees in terms of
strengthening their governance skills
supporting further development of their self-advocacy
skills, and
putting in place development and business plans for the
future.
We have also taken forward work to expand the membership of
SSTP, as a channel and means to supporting the development of
self-advocacy skills.
The Trustees confrm that in carrying out the charity’s work for
the public beneft they have had regard to the Charity
Commission’s public beneft guidance.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Due to us being awarded charity status shortly before restrictions were set in place in March 2020 we have not been able to operate as we did before. We focused on training key trustees in using technology in order to communicate and hold meetings.
We developed a website in order for us to be able to operate and promote the charity encouraging new membership and to enable our members to engage remotely. We developed a new leaflet promoting the charity and encouraging new membership.
We developed an online presence with social media accounts.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The Charity has not been in a position to raise funds as we have not been able to open a bank account due to COVID-19 and lockdown. People First (Self Advocacy) have raised funds to support SSTP.
SSTP has adopted the reserves policy of aiming to have 6 months reserves.
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**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**
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