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2022-04-05-accounts

Fumble’s Annual Report Financial Year 2021

The Trustees of Fumble are pleased to present their annual report and statement of accounts for the 2021 Financial Year, and confirm that the documents comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 and the Charities SORP (2005).

The Annual Report details Fumble’s objectives, activities, achievements and accounts for the period 6 April 2021 - 5 April 2022, and demonstrates the charity’s success in meeting its objects as a registered charity in the UK.

Charity name: Fumble
Charity registration number: 1188089
Charity address: Castle Green, 7 Castle St, Shefeld, S3 8LT
Names of charity trustees: Charlotte Chorley (Chair)
Adam Waddingham (Treasurer)
Asha Arul (Secretary)
Chris Pugh
Ellie Stone
CEO of the Charity: Lucy Whitehouse
Independent Examiner: Cameron Carswell

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Table of contents

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Introduction to Fumble

Fumble is an award-winning youth charity in the UK. We create a happy, healthy digital world of education on relationships, sexual health and mental health, with young people, for young people. Our ultimate aim is advancing the education of the public - particularly young people up to the age of 25 - on RSHE (Relationships, Sex and Health Education). We do this through our trusted, quality co-created digital content and our programme of RSHE advocacy, training and consulting.

Fumble was established as a charity in 2020 and exists to address the unique challenges faced by young people in the UK today. Growing up in a world of smartphones and social media, the issues they face with regards to sex, relationships, identity and mental health are unprecedented. These issues were exacerbated by the recent COVID-19 pandemic, in which the UN says young people have been disproportionately hit[1] .

More than ever, young people are turning online to ask their questions about sexual health, mental health and relationships. However, a majority of the content currently available is inaccurate, inappropriate or even unsafe. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), for example, found in 2020 that young people feel that sex education in school does not prepare them enough, and instead they use pornography to learn ‘what to do’ during sex.[2] The same survey found that over 40% of young people who knew about pornography believed that watching it made “people less respectful of the opposite sex”.

Fumble is responding to this issue by creating a transformational intervention that, in its first two years alone, has reached over 500,000 young people - especially meeting the needs of those from marginalised groups. We have listened to the young people who have articulated

1 Source: https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sc14170.doc.htm

2 Source: https://www.revealingreality.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BBFC-Young-people-and-pornography-Final-report-2401.pdf

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the need for a new peer-to-peer, relevant, accessible approach[3] and we know that Fumble’s co-created, digital, peer-to-peer RSE programme is an urgent and essential part of the response that young people want and need today[4] . See our recently launched Youth Manifesto to discover more: https://fumble.org.uk/manifesto/

Our mission is to make sure that young people have the skills and knowledge to successfully manage their sexual health, mental health and relationships in the modern world. We do this through our top quality, trusted, co-created digital content and our programme of RSE advocacy, training and consultancy. Critically, all our activities are developed in line with our guiding values to be:

As mentioned above, Fumble especially aims to meet the needs and experiences of young people that have been traditionally left out of mainstream provision of sex education, including:

We are incredibly proud of all we have achieved in the 2021 Financial Year - Fumble’s second year as a registered charity. We invested deeply in our operational efficiency, bringing on a second member of staff (Naz Toorabally as Digital Content and Community Engagement Officer), growing our Trustee Board to 5 people, and building our volunteering team.

We also raised nearly £40,000 in grants from major, well-regarded national funders including The King’s Fund, Unltd, UK Youth and The National Lottery. We launched our successful individual donor programme, and developed our earned income revenue. These operational and fundraising pillars have allowed us to scale our impact and support more young people to access critical RSHE content. Full detail on this impact is outlined below. As we close this financial year, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our members, volunteers, donors and partners for your continued participation, support and investment. We are extremely grateful.

3 Source: https://www.sexeducationforum.org.uk/resources/evidence/young-peoples-rse-poll-2019

4 Source: https://fumble.org.uk/manifesto/

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What do our supporters and the young people we reach say about Fumble?

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Organisation structure in 2021-22

Our Trustees & Staff Team

Trustee Board

Charlotte, Asha and Adam continued in their role as Trustees this year, and we also welcomed two new members to the Board, Chris and Ellie, who were recruited after responding to a competitive public recruitment drive in September - December 2021.

All Trustees have undertaken a number of briefing sessions on their legal obligations as Trustees under charity law. The Trustees are also encouraged to attend appropriate external training events where needed to facilitate the undertaking of their role. None of the Trustees receive remuneration or any other benefit for their work with the charity, and all conflicts of interest must be disclosed to the full Board of Trustees at the earliest possible moment.

Staff (salaried)

Lucy was re-appointed as CEO by the Trustees in April 2022 following an internal benchmarking and performance review that matched skills, experience, and potential against the operational and strategic priorities for Fumble. The Board of Trustees were strongly impressed by Lucy’s performance over the last year and believed that she continues to be the best person to lead Fumble as CEO. Her unique and diverse skill set will continue to be essential to Fumble in this period of growth and, given

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her extensive experience with Fumble, and her track record of performance in the role, the Board felt that keeping Lucy as CEO would allow Fumble to continue operating with the momentum it has generated thus far.

Naz was appointed following a public recruitment drive advertised across local and national job boards, social media and our network of supporters (both individuals and organisations). A talented and experienced health communicator, Naz joined Fumble from a background in sexual health and wellbeing research. An experienced marketing and PR professional, Naz previously worked for a health communication and PR agency, and Decolonising Contraception.

Since year end, as a result of continued success in attracting new funding, we have continued to expand our staff team and have hired Emilie Cousins, Programme Manager, and Paul Bown, Operations & Fundraising Manager. Both new roles will allow Fumble to consolidate and grow our impact in the coming year.

These new hires have been made possible since year end because in the opening three months of FY 2022, we have attracted a further £50,000 of funding so far. We are thrilled and humbled by this expression of support from funders (trusts, foundations and individuals) in our innovative and urgent programme of support for young people.

Core volunteer team (voluntary)

Volunteers are recruited through an open call for new volunteers, advertised publicly on Fumble’s social media channels, email newsletter and website. We also ask relevant partner organisations to share the opportunity with their networks. All prospective volunteers are invited to an open information session to find out more about Fumble, and then invited to apply. Volunteers commit to a minimum of three months and are asked to give approximately four hours of time per month to the role.

Fumble is delighted to attract a significant number of volunteers to support our operations and inform the direction of our charity. Our volunteers are generally young professionals working across the health, education and media sectors. We are delighted that the personal and professional development of our volunteer team forms an additional part of the wider impact Fumble is making for young people in the UK.

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Fumble’s objectives in FY 2021

At the start of the year, Fumble’s CEO and Board of Trustees set several objectives that were focused on consolidating Fumble’s operations and finances in its second year of existence, and growing the impact Fumble was able to deliver to its target audience (young people up to the age of 25). They were to:

We are proud to say that we made significant progress against all of these objectives (details of which can be found in the Activities and Impact section) and that the work we undertook over the last 12 months has complied with our duty to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance.

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Activities and impact in 2021

In this section, we document the main activities undertaken by Fumble over the last year to meet the objectives we established at the start of the 2021 Financial Year (which can be found in the Objectives section above). These objectives were focused on strengthening Fumble’s operations, finances and programme delivery in order to generate significant impact for the young people we support (up to the age of 25 in the UK).

Generate sufficient income to cover Fumble’s start-up phase, with a view to lay the foundation for resilient revenue and funding streams in the coming years

Successes in this area include:

Ensure our core offering is comprehensive, inclusive and accurate, with a focus on developing and delivering a co-created content project with young people

Successes in this area include:

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Consolidate Fumble’s strategic planning, governance and operations processes in order to continue meeting our legal, financial and governance commitments as a charity

Continue growing Fumble’s trusted reputation through earned and owned channels, events and awards

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Thank you from the CEO

Fumble has continued to grow its impact and resilience at an extraordinary pace in our second year as a registered charity, and I am so proud of everything we achieved.

I want to briefly shine a spotlight on some of my personal highlights from the past year of Fumble’s work supporting young people with our happy, healthy online world of education on relationships, sexual health and mental health.

We were proud to partner with Dr Emily Setty and the University of Surrey on the Transforming School Cultures research project, in which we developed a comprehensive guide for schools and educators on delivering top quality RSE. We were also delighted to be selected as one of the first 10 charities to join the inaugural Kings Fund & GSK Grow Programme, which is a real demonstration of Fumble’s innovative and urgent contribution to supporting young people’s physical and mental health.

Fumble really is making a difference to young people’s lives. With over 500 young people having helped to develop Fumble so far, we truly are the co-created RSHE charity that young people want and need today - particularly given the unprecedented challenges of navigating their puberty years in the digital age. We’ve reached over 500,000 young people with our top quality, safe, fun RSHE content online, and we’ve worked with schools, universities, fellow youth organisations, and our passionate community of young people to make it happen.

We are so grateful to everyone who helped us get here: our monthly donors, grant funders (especially this year, The Olwyn Foundation, UK Youth, GSK, The King’s Fund, and the National Lottery Community Fund), our expert advisors and mentors, and all of our wider community of supporters who keep Fumble’s unique and impactful work going. Thank you.

Finally, and most importantly, a huge thank you to our team. Our staff, our volunteers, our Youth Advisory Board, our Trustees, and our Ambassadors - you are Fumble! Over to them: hear why Fumble matters to some of our brilliant team in our ‘Fumble Matters ’ video.

Want to stay in touch? You can sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date with all our news and impact, and you can back us with a donation today to help us support more young people to successfully manage their sexual health, mental health and relationships.

Thank you for reading our Annual Report, and coming with us on this journey.

Lucy Whitehouse, CEO

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We are pleased to have continued Fumble as a going concern, and further, to have increased our income by over 100% in this second financial year. We have demonstrated the efficiency and impact of our operations, and have established that Fumble attracts high levels of support from both funders and individual donors.

Fumble takes its financial health seriously. We have established robust financial controls and processes in place to ensure risk management best practice and the financial sustainability of Fumble.

See below for a detailed breakdown of our operating costs and income during the period.

Changing accounts basis: Receipts and payments

Our accounts have been prepared on a Receipts and payments basis, in line with Charity Commission guidance. This is a change from our Financial Year 2020 accounts, which were prepared on an Accruals basis.

As such, when comparing this year’s accounts with last year’s, note that of the £7,379 Total funds on the Balance sheet at the end of the 2020 financial year, £2,531 of this was unrestricted accrued income relating to the 2021 financial year (see note 7 of the 2020 accounts). This £2,531 unrestricted accrued income from FY 2020 was realised in FY 2021 and is recorded under A1 receipts in the 2021 accounts. The £5,320 cash in the bank at the end of FY 2020 (note 8 of the 2020 accounts) corresponds to A6 Cash funds last year end in this year’s accounts.

Fumble's reserves policy

It is the policy of Fumble to hold in reserves the equivalent of two months of general running costs (including staff costs). In its early growth phase, Fumble’s objective is to continue to increase its reserves over time to reach and maintain three months of general running costs.

This approach is on the basis of Fumble's current commitments and expenditure, and reflects the particular demands of the current, early point in our growth. We will review this reserves policy within 12 months, or if our committed expenditure changes before that point.

Independent Examination

In line with the Charity Commission’s requirements, the following annual accounts have been independently examined.

Independent examiner: Cameron Carswell (as in the previous Financial Year)

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Receipts and payments accounts (CC16a)

Charity name: Fumble Charity number: 1188089

From the period from 6th April 2021 to 5th April 2022

Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments Section A: Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds		 Restricted
funds		 Endowment
funds		 Total funds Last year
to the nearest
£		 to the nearest
£		 to the nearest £ to the nearest
£		 to the
nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations and legacies 24,121 30,775 - 54,896 24,529
Charitable activities 3,620 - - 3,620 657
Sub total(Gross income
for AR)		 27,741 30,775 - 58,516 25,186
A2 Asset and investment sales
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 27,741 30,775 - 58,516 25,186
A3 Payments
Charitable activities 19,858 17,648 - 37,507 19,416
Raisingfunds 335 - - 335 450
Sub total 20,193 17,648 - 37,841 19,866
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
Sub total - - - -
Totalpayments 20,193 17,648 - 37,841 19,866
Net of
receipts/(payments)		 7,547 13,127 - 20,674 5,320
A5 Transfers between
funds		 - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last
year end		 5,248 72 - 5,320 -
Cash funds this year
end		 12,795 13,199 - 25,994 5,320

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Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories Details Unrestricted
funds		 Restricted
funds		 Endowmen
t funds
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest
£
B1 Cash funds Cash funds in bank 12,795 13,199 -
Total cash funds 12,795 13,199 -
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK OK
B2 Other monetary
assets		 Not applicable - - -
Details Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost
(optional)		 Current
value
(optional)
B3 Investment assets Not applicable - -
Details Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost
(optional)		 Current
value
(optional)
B4 Assets retained for
the charity’s own use		 Not applicable - -
Details it Fund to which
liability
relates		 Amount due
(optional)		 When due
(optional)
B5 Liabilities Not applicable -

Trustees’ declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report and annual accounts above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s):

Full name(s): Charlotte Chorley

Position: Chair of Trustees

Date: 15th August 2022

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name Fumble members of On accounts for the year 5 April 2022 Charity no 1188089 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/04/2022 .

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.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

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: Name: Cameron Carswell Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 24 Don Bosco Close Oxford OX4 2LD

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October 2018

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

N/a

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October 2018

IER