Registration Number1189275
Trustees Annual Report for Year 01/04/2022 - 31/03/2023
Aim and purposes
As a Charity, we are seeking to transform lives through the provision of temporary accommodation and services for those who are homeless and at risk of homelessness through a night shelter, supported housing, and other projects
Objectives and Activities
We are a supported housing scheme with a distinctive Christian Ethos but open and inclusive of anyone needing support. We work holistically with each individual through work-related projects, counselling, support for tenancy management, and removal of barriers to independent living and recovery, through creating a positive community. We aim that through our work we will demonstrate and share the Love of God in action to bring change and hope for a better future with those we serve
As a Trust, we have continued to support Mansfield District Council in its obligations to this sector to deliver high-quality services that deliver good value for money outcomes. We do this by working with other agencies in our locality with whom we have developed good working relationships these include alcohol and drug services (CGL), including Framework, YMCA, and Statutory agencies such as the probation service, these relationships have been beneficial, both for the current residents who have accessed services such as CGL, and for us as a Charity. Although we are still in an early development phase, we have become more widely known in this sector and have received more referrals in this period, particularly for our holistic provision support and ethos.
We have been developing our core values which include a clear Christian Ethos with love and care for our residents, with whom we grow as a strong supportive community alongside our, staff, volunteers, and trustees offering a holistic program covering residents physical, Spiritual, emotional, social and well-being needed with a well-structured program which includes providing education and training to prepare for access into the workplace.
Our aims for this period were
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To open a second property
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Reviewing the Implementation of operational Policies and Partnership Audit from Exaireo
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Recruitment of additional Trustees, Business Development, Communications, and media, Properties & health and safety,
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Recruitment of a project Fundraising volunteer
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Develop a woodworking workshop to provide skills and meaningful work experience for residents
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Continue to develop clear, effective processes for transformational change
Achievements and Performance
We have had a stable year with one of the female residents moving on to a substance rehabilitation centre in Wales. We then took the decision based on the referrals to accept men into the house. This brought a period of stability in which we have been able to invest time, and skills into the residents and fine-tune our working practices and processes as both the residents have been very keen to engage with our program and services being offered at other agencies. The result of this has been to meet our objective of transformational change enabling us to gain valuable experience of the value of structure in the recovery process. Both residents have become part of a local church community have found positive peer friendships and enjoyed all the opportunities for work experience and community offered. This has had a significant impact on the well-being of the residents who have flourished in this environment.
We have continued to train and see our support worker develop more into this role, being able to support each resident with an individual support plan, and also develop the pathways where the progress of each resident can be monitored, and amended as needed. The support worker has received Training via the Exaireo with whom we have a formal partnership Trust, and online professional development courses. We have started to look at further investment into the support worker to be able to supervise new staff, in our future development plans.
We have continued to develop the allotment project with all residents taking a keen interest in this project with a few volunteers. We have been in negotiation with Ashfield Voluntary Action who have been running a woodworking and recycling centre workshop. We anticipate being able to start in 2022/23 an initial day per week to teach residents basic woodwork skills and produce saleable products to help support the continuation of the workshop, and also to provide meaningful work experience and skills development for residents and others who would like to be involved. Our long-term aims would be to increase the number of days and formalise the skills training to provide certification through a local college, or NVQ provider.
In February 2023 we signed a long-term lease with a local Landlord to open a second property which would provide 4 bed spaces, and would also provide an office for our support worker. We expect completion in April 2023.
Financial Review
Our total income of £ 37,129 is drawn mainly from housing benefit income. With £ 5,711 in individual donations, £ 1,131 in tenant contributions, the loan of £2500 from the Exaireo Trust was repaid in this period. The majority of our costs of £ 39,857 are directly related to the housing and wages for the support worker. The Trust has made a loss this year of £5,228. This leaves the Trust with a small amount of working capital and which we anticipate will be increased once the new property is operational.
Reserves policy
Our current bank balance of £ 5,621 covers our reserve policy leaving £621 of working capital at the end of the current period.
Staff and Volunteers
We continue to have a small team of volunteers and staff which is appropriate for this stage of our development with 1 house occupied by 2 residents. This will increase in 2022/23 1.5 full time staff. We thank all of those volunteers and staff for their commitment and time given to this rewarding and challenging work.
Structure, governance, and management
We continue with our simple structure of a small Trustee Team.
We anticipate new trustees to be in place by June 2023, as we are in consultation with a new potential trustee to cover Safeguarding and Therapeutic services. We continue to recruit others for the next stage of our development. The current Trustees are:
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Revd Mark Herd-Chair & Safeguarding
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Mrs. Julia Terry Operations and Admin
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Mr. Rod Hobbs-Finances
Thank you
We also would like to thank the Exaireo Trust based in Loughborough who have given us access to their professional experience and expertise in this charitable sector and who continue to closely support us to develop this work in Mansfield. We also would like to thank you our support worker and volunteer team for their continued generous giving of time and skills.
Vision for 2022/23
We are working towards opening a second house and continuing to offer a different supported housing project in Mansfield. This will need a period of stability in 2023, to further development of resident pathways with auditable progression and to recover working capital and reserves.
Rev’d Mark Herd-Chair of Trustees
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES 1189275 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the perfod from To 01104r21Y22 31108r2tr23 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restricted fund$ Endowment lunds Totsl fun(ts Lasty A1 Receipts 107 S.711 Tenant Rent Hwwng eenefit 1.131 30.287 1954 Sub totsl(Gross income for AR) 3?22 107 37.129 25,388 A2 Asset and Investment sales, {seE tabl•l. Sub total 150Q 522 107 27,888 A3 Payments Wages 4424 7.107 7.107 1556 15332 3.297 5.570 Rewrs Insurance StalfTrainirws(thl AMU Costs Sta(wageNan lure ProfessioTral Fees 1S.232 1,979 1.979 735 1,9f9 472 174 314 1.919 Sub total A4 Asset and investsnent pur¢hase5. tsble Sub totsl 39.857 4256 Net of recei{paYMents) . A5 Trdnsfvr¥ between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this Yrend . 5,33S 107 &632 5,217 10.849 107 4228 3D10112024
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted Restricted nds En(Jowment Categories Details B1 Cash fvnds Total cash fvnds Endowment funds Detaily Detal 84 A88ets retalned for the Gharity's own us• rri-; Details BS Liabilitie8 11 Srgned by one behaKof al the tpjste Dale of leilllP CCXX R2 ISS)
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES 1189275 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a F¢x the riod from To Section A Receipts and payments Unrestrtct•d funds Rèstrictèd Endowment Al Re¢eipts Donabon TerAnt R&it 107 5.711 1.131 19,554 Sub total(Gll ITncome for AR) 107 37.129 (8ep tsble). Sub total 107 A3 Rent vlibe5 Rep[¥ 7.IOT 7.107 55TO staftTTrininfft" rxjal Costs 174 314 1.919 I19 4r2 59 Sub totsl A4 A8get and Investmnt table Sub total Net of rnceip(payrnents) . A5 Trarf•rs bèlwÈen lunds A6 Cash funds last J*ar end C•sh funds this y•ar ènd . 10 4632 5217 10 10 CGLX R1 x£ounts {SSI
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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independenl Examinei's Report Report lo the truslee81 members of CROSSROADS TRUST On accounts for the year ended 3110W2023 Charity no (if any) 1189275 Set out on pages I report lo the Iwstees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Twsf) for the year ended 3 110312023 R•sponsibililies and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation ba8ls of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of Ihe Charities Act 2011 fthe Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trusl's accounts carried out under SeCtn 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have lollowed the applicable Directions given by ihe Charity Commission under seclion 145(5)(b) of the Acl. I have completed my examinatK)n. I confirm that no material matters hav8 come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives m8 cause to believe that in. any malerial respect- accounting records were r•ol kept in accondance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts (k+ not accord with the accounting records Indendent examiner's statement I have no cOnmS and have come across no other matters in connection with th8 examination to which attenlion should be drawn in order to enable a proper underslanding of the accounts to be reached. Slgned: Dale: Name: Elaine Carol T¢Jwnsend Relevant professional qualification(s) or body {If any): Assooat8 of Ihe chartered institute of Management accountants Address: 52 Chartwell Road Kirkby In Ashfield Notts. IER October 2018
Section B Disclosure Only ¢¢Jnplet8 if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern {see CC32, Independ8nt 8xamination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examlner wishes to dl8cIo80. IER October 2018