**Steps: Mentoring and Coaching Trustee’s Report**
**& Financial Statement Year Ending August 2025** (01/09/24 – 31/08/2025)
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**Charity** : Steps: Mentoring and Coaching
## **Charity Number** : 1189208
Steps: Mentoring and Coaching was registered on 27[th] April 2020. This is its fourth annual report.
## **Objects**
“To advance in life and help people by providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.”
## **Trustees**
Rev Valerie Spencer (Chair)
Rev Tori Venmore-Rowland
Rev Betty Trinder
Mr Peter Orr (Secretary)
## **Treasurer**
Mrs Angela Fox
## **Intro**
We launched the charity in 2020 during a pandemic which shaped how we have operated, initially intending to work with young people, but the need amongst adults for support was considerable, so we expanded our remit to include people of all ages.
The vast majority of sessions take place online via videoconferencing applications or by telephone. A small number of sessions have taken place in-person where that has been preferred. This has allowed staff to engage with clients and to provide much-needed support.
Trustee meetings have mostly remained online due to those early restrictions and the subsequent desire to avoid unnecessary travel for in-person meetings. We will continue to meet online, and in person when this is deemed to be appropriate.
As regards public benefit, it is widely acknowledged that people of all ages continue to suffer from the stresses caused by and impact of the recent pandemic. We know from their feedback that the care and support provided so far has made a difference to our clients, helping them directly and easing the demands on other services.
We anticipate our ways of working being appropriate for the pursuit of our aims now that the pandemic is over and we are all moving forwards.
## **Activities & Achievements**
Over the past year we have been able to support 8 young people mainly in the sixth form college, and 10 adults.
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This has involved one-to-one sessions with all clients where they have talked with and had the support of our members of staff. This has helped these clients deal with the pressures of their situations, whether in personal, educational, or work settings, which have been particularly difficult as a result of the pandemic. Many clients have shared that this support was critical in their navigating this period.
Andy Barnard left the team this year, and Matt Ashpole successfully applied to join us for the start of September.
Rev Tim Weatherstone stood down as a trustee as he moves on to new things, whilst Rev Betty Trinder and Rev Tori Venmore-Rowland joined the trustees.
## **Future Plans**
The relationship with the Sixth Form College is productive and we are pleased to be able to provide on-going services to the students. We will continue to develop this relationship.
We also mentor/coach a number of adults. This tends to be for a longer period than the students which are typically supported for six sessions before a review takes place.
## **Finances**
- Total income: £ 4,462 (01/09/2024– 31/08/2025)
- Total expenditure: £ 3,420
- Assets: £ 5,062
- Sources of income: Grant income, regular and one-off donations from individuals and organisations.
- Main expenditure: Salaries, insurance, training.
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|**Steps**||||**1189208**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For**|**the period**
**from**|01/09/2024
Period start date|**To**|31/08/2025
Period end date|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**560**
**32**
**1,350**
2220
**300**
**4,462**
**4,462**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**560**
**32**
**1,350**
**2,220**
**300**
**4,462**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|fund raiser||||||||||
|Gift||||||||||
|Gift Aid|**560**||||||||**749**|
|Investment interest|**32**||||||||**37**|
|Grant||||||||||
|DSFC|**1,350**||||||||**1,350**|
|hmrc refund||||||||||
|Individual
Misc - oxygen|||||||||**2,575**|
||||||||||**325**|
||||||||||**5,036**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**5,036**|
|||||||||||
|Salaries|**2,674**||||||**2,674**||**3,814**|
|Safeguarding||||||||||
|Training/conf||||||||||
|Expenses annual fees|||||||||**55**|
|HMRC|**479**||||||**479**||**410**|
|Insurance|**267**||||||**267**||**251**|
|safeguarding|||||||||**58**|
|dsfc refund||||||||||
|misc/ web|||||||||**230**|
|||||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**3,420**||**-**||||**3,420**||**4,818**|
||||**-**
**-**
**-**|||||||
|**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_**||||||||||
||||||||||**4,818**|
|||||||||||
||**1,042**||**-**||||**1,042**||**218**|
|||||||||||
||**4,020**||||||**4,020**||**3,802**|
||**5,062**||**-**||||**5,062**||**4,020**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
24/09/2025
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
in Bank on 31st Aug
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
NW Current
NW Saver Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
2470|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
2470|
|---|---|---|---|
|||2,592.00
£||
|||||
|||**5,062**|**-**|
|||||
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
24/09/2025
2