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2024-03-31-accounts

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 2023 31 03 2024

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.

Objectives and Activities

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:
• Continuing to establish ‘partnerships’ with local schools
• Continuing to plan and develop the Workshop & Speaker
events
• Continuing to build networks with other similar or
potential ‘partner’ charities, organisations or people
• Maintaining an online presence via the website and social
media
• Continuing to explore new sources of income such as
grants and fundraisers
• Starting to explore alternative activities which could
further work towards the charity’s purposes
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements
where relevant about:		 Not applicable for this period.

Achievements and Performance

Summary of the main Volunteer Recruitment & Training achievements of the charity, We continued to develop volunteering opportunities and identifying the difference the preparation/training sessions, which involved: charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its • collaborating on the development of workshops based on beneficiaries and any wider university STEM subject studies or STEM workplaces benefits to society as a whole. • discussing personal experiences as women in STEM • school-specific safeguarding awareness • health and safety awareness Workshop & Speaker Events We continued to work towards implementing ideas for improving future events, based on feedback forms completed by the pupils and feedback given by teachers. Fundraising We started to explore potential outreach to other organisations, which saw an increase in donations to the charity for this period. Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths are becoming an increasingly significant feature in of all our lives, even more following the Covid-19 pandemic. 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.

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Financial Review

Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period

Cash in the bank on 31 March 2024 was £434 in unrestricted funds.

Statement explaining the Sufficient funds are held to cover the annual cost of

policy for holding reserves maintaining an online presence/communications and

stating why they are held recruiting/training volunteers. This will be reviewed at the next Annual General Meeting.

Amount of reserves held £200

Reasons for holding zero Not applicable for this period. reserves

Details of fund materially in Not applicable for this period. deficit

Explanation of any Not applicable for this period. uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern

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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

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.

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 29 January 2025

Charity Name No (if any) femSTEM 118139

Receipts and payments accounts CC16a Period start Period end For the period date To date from 01/04/2023 31/03/2024

Section A Receipts and payments Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricte
d funds
to the nearest
£
535
535

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535
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44
129
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173
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173
362
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73
435		 Restricte
d funds
to the
nearest £
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-
-
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-
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-		 Endowmen
t funds
to the nearest
£
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-		 Total
funds
to the
nearest £
535
535
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535
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44
129
-
173
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173
362
-
73
435		 Last year
to the nearest
£
Donations 535 233
Sub total(Gross income for AR) 535 233
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
**table). **
Sub total
-		 -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
233
Website(incl. hosting) - 158
Domain(incl. security protection) 44 44
Microsoft 365 Online Business
Essentials		 129 129
Public LiabilityInsurance - 75
Sub total
406
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
406
362 - - 362 -
173
- - - - -
73 - - 73 -
435 - - 435 -
173

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

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Unrestricte Restricte Endowmen
d funds d funds t funds
Categories Details
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B1 Cash funds Cash at bank
434 - -
Total cash funds -
434 -
(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 29/01/2025
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