## **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. - **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**|**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.| - **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 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. ## **Additional information (optional)** **You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:** - **Achievements against objectives set** - **Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set** - **Investment performance against objectives** ## **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** ## **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** 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**
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**£**| |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)_**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
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**173**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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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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