## **Trustees’ Annual Report** ## **For the period** |**For the period**|**For the period**|**For the period**|**For the period**|**For the period**|**For the period**|**For the period**|**For the period**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**From**|Day|Month|Year|**To**|Day|Month|Year| ||01|04|2021||31|03|2022| ## **Reference and Administrative details** > **Charity name** femSTEM **Other name the charity uses** > **Registered charity number** 1188139 > **Charity’s principal address** 32 Ormskirk Avenue, Manchester, M20 1HF **Names of the trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) for whole year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Alice Kelly Chair 2 Helen Macadam 3 Catherine Greenfield **Additional information** The charity had no corporate trustees for this period. The charity had no custodian trustees for this period. The charity owned no property for this period, therefore no trustee held title to property belonging to the charity. **Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional information)** Alice Kelly ## **Exemptions from disclosure** > **Reason for non-disclosure of** Not applicable for this period. **key personnel details** ## **Funds held as custodian trustee on behalf of others** Not applicable for this period. **Structure, Governance and Management Description of charity’s trusts Type of governing document** Constitution (24 February 2020) **How is the charity constituted?** CIO **Trustee selection methods** Trustees are appointed or reappointed annually at the **including details of any** Annual General Meeting held in November. **constitutional provisions** ## **Additional information (optional)** **You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:** Not applicable for this period. - **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** - **Relationship with any related parties** ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**| |---|---| |**Summary of the purposes of**
**the charity as set out in its**
**governing document**|To promote the education in STEM (Science, Tech,
Engineering and Maths) for girls and young women under the
age of 19 years in the UK, in particular those from
disadvantaged backgrounds, by providing information,
guidance and opportunities to connect with relevant
networks and women role models.| |**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.**|In planning our activities for the period the trustees kept in
mind the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on
public benefit.
The main activities for this period were:
• Starting to establish ‘partnerships’ with local schools, in
particular those with a higher proportion of students
from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Planning and coordinating the Workshop & Speaker
events in schools
• Recruiting volunteers via the University of Manchester
volunteering programme, including attending their
annual Volunteer Fair
• Training volunteers for the Workshop & Speaker events in
schools, including hiring a meeting room to hold a
training/preparation session
• Continuing to build networks with other similar or
potential ‘partner’ charities, organisations or people
• Maintaining an online presence via the website and social
media| - Starting to explore new sources of income such as grants and fundraisers With the continued restrictions on visitors and larger gatherings in schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic, only a small number of the charity’s planned in-person activities could take place during this period. ## **Additional information (optional)** > **You may choose to include further statements** Not applicable for this period. **where relevant about:** - **Policy on grant making** - **Policy on social investment including program related investment** - **Contribution made by volunteers** ## **Achievements and Performance** > **Summary of the main** Volunteer Recruitment & Training **achievements of the charity,** We began promoting the charity volunteering opportunities **identifying the difference the** to university students in October 2021: **charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its** • online via Manchester University’s Volunteering Hub **beneficiaries and any wider** • in-person via Manchester University’s Volunteer Fair > **benefits to society as a whole.** Within a month we had over thirty volunteer applications, which were then followed up with a one-to-one online meeting. Potential volunteers for femSTEM were then invited to a preparation/training session, which involved: - collaborating on the development of workshops based on their university STEM subject studies - discussing sharing their personal experiences as women in STEM - school-specific safeguarding awareness - health and safety awareness ## Workshop & Speaker Events We began promoting the charity Workshop & Speaker events to local schools in October 2021, with the first event held in December 2021 with six student volunteers. The event ran in two parts: - 1) Speaker currently working in a STEM job – a short presentation followed by Q&A - 2) Workshops delivered by the student volunteers – a number of ‘stalls’ where pupils had some hands-on experience of studying different STEM subjects, along with hearing the students talk about their own inspiring journeys so far in STEM - At the end we asked each Year 9 pupil to complete a feedback form, with the following results: `-` of those who answered ‘No’ before the event to having considered choosing to do STEM in the future, 21% said ‘Yes’ they are now more likely to do so (58% ‘Not Sure’) `-` of those who answered ‘Not Sure’ at first, 44% said ‘Yes’ they are now more likely to choose to do STEM in the future The Covid-19 pandemic has served to accelerate STEM becoming an increasingly significant feature in of all our lives. Therefore it has benefits to the futures of the girls and young women themselves (who are missing out on fulfilling, challenging and rewarding jobs), their schools, STEM industries (who are missing out on a huge amount of untapped potential – only 26% of the core STEM workforce in the UK are women) and wider society as a whole if STEM fields become more diverse and gender balanced as soon as possible. |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---| |**You**|**may choose to include further statements**|The Covid-19 pandemic continued to impact| |**where relevant about:**||of the charity’s ability to operate as outlined| |•|**Achievements against objectives set**|in its charitable objectives for the majority of| |•|**Performance of fundraising activities against**|this period. Although schools, universities| ||**objectives set**|and workplaces had started to reopen, the| |•|**Investment performance against objectives**|restrictions on visitors and larger gatherings| |||either remained in place or were reinstated| |||during early 2022 following the rise in cases| |||due to the Omicron variant. As the| |||restrictions ease we will shift our focus to| |||scaling up these activities so that we can| |||have an impact on the circumstances of a| |||greater number of the charity’s beneficiaries.| |**Financial Review**|| |---|---| |**Review of the charity’s**
**financial position at the end of**
**the period**|Cash in the bank on 31 March 2022 was £246 in unrestricted
funds.| |**Statement explaining the**
**policy for holding reserves**
**stating why they are held**|Sufficient funds are held to cover the annual cost of
maintaining an online presence/communications and
recruiting/training volunteers. This will be reviewed at the
next Annual General Meeting.| |**Amount of reserves held**|£200| |**Reasons for holding zero**
**reserves**|Not applicable for this period.| |**Details of fund materially in**
**deficit**|Not applicable for this period.| > **Explanation of any** Not applicable for this period. **uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern** ## **Additional information (optional)** **You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:** - **The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)** For this period the only source of funds was donations. The principal risk facing the charity is grant requests not being accepted or a lack of further fundraising funds. - **Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted** - **A description of the principal risks facing the charity** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature** Alice Kelly **Full Name** Alice Kelly **Position** Chair **Date** 31 January 2023 **Charity Name No (if any) femSTEM 118139** **Receipts and payments accounts CC16a** Period start Period end **For the period** date **To** date **from** 01/04/2021 31/03/2022 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricte**
**d funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**250**
**250**
**-**

**-**
**250**
**122**
**44**
**129**
**37**
**75**
**30**
**437**
**-**
**-**
**437**
**- 187**|**Restricte**
**d funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowmen**
**t funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**250**
**250**
**-**
**-**
**250**
**122**
**44**
**129**
**37**
**75**
**30**
**437**
**-**
**-**
**437**
**- 187**|**Last year**
**to the nearest**
**£**| |Donations|**250**||||**730**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**250**||||**730**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table). **|||||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|
**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||||**730**| ||||||| |Website(incl. hosting)|**122**||||**122**| |Domain(incl. security protection)|**44**||||**44**| |Microsoft 365 Online Business
Essentials|**129**||||**129**| |Leaflet/Banner Printing|**37**||||**-**| |Public LiabilityInsurance|**75**||||**-**| |MeetingRoom Hire|**30**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|||||| ||||||**295**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||| ||**-**||||| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|||||| ||||||**295**| ||||||| ||**- 187**|**-**|**-**|**- 187**|**435**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**||**-**|

|**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**435**||**-**||**-**||**435**||**-**| ||**248**||**-**||**-**||**248**||**435**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Unrestricte Restricte Endowmen d funds d funds t funds Categories Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B1 Cash funds** Cash at bank **246 - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **246 -** (agree balances with receipts and Agreement payments account(s)) Error OK OK **Unrestricte Restricte Endowmen d funds d funds t funds Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B2 Other monetary assets - - - Fund to which Cost Current value Details asset belongs (optional) (optional) B3 Investment assets - - Fund to which Cost Current value Details asset belongs (optional) (optional) B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use - - Fund to which Amount When due liability relates due (optional) Details (optional) B5 Liabilities -** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf Date of of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval Alice Kelly Alice Kelly 31/01/2023