## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 21/09/2021 Period start date To Period end date 20/09/2022**
**Charity name: Be Free Campaign**
## **Charity registration number:**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP
reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE
purposes of the RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY
charity as set out in its REASON OF MENTAL HEALTH IN
governing document ENGLAND: A) PROVIDING
PRACTICAL ADVICE,
INFORMATION AND SUPPORT;
B) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION
OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN
ALL AREAS RELATING TO
MENTAL HEALTH BY TRAINING
COURSES AND EDUCATION.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 - Mental Health Education
activities in relation to and 1.19 - Mental Health Training
-
those purposes for the Early Intervention
public benefit, in Counselling
-
particular, the Public awareness campaigns
-
activities, projects or Community wellbeing
services identified in programmes
the accounts.
Statement confirming Para 1.18 The Trustees have no concerns
whether the trustees with the charity’s operations
have had regard to the
guidance issued by
the Charity
Commission on public
benefit
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## **Achievements and Performance**
Summary of the main SORP Throughout 2022, our school achievements of the reference workshops program continued to charity, identifying the expand and grow, reaching over
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difference the charity’s 1,700 pupils and training 100
work has made to the teachers. Ten children also
circumstances of its received eight weeks of CBT
beneficiaries and any thanks to the Be Free Campaign.
wider benefits to We have continued to develop our
society as a whole. relationships with local universities
and colleges, including the
University of Liverpool, Edge Hill
University and the University of
Chester. We’ve offered placement
opportunities and volunteering for
students who want to work either
in the mental health sector or third
sector in general.
2022 also saw high levels of
expansion and sustainable income
growth. The team worked to
develop a flagship Mental Health
First Responder Course which is
directed towards corporate and
hospitality workplaces to both
train people to become
ambassadors for mental health
and also deliver on our sustainable
income strategy. Our first
workshops were delivered to the
Department of Health and Social
Care’s Mental Health Policy
Makers. Since then, we have been
offered paid contracts with the
DHSC and have been approached
by other government
departments. We are currently
preparing to launch our courses in
the workplace.
We have continued our work in the
community through Art for Mental
Health exhibitions, Music for
Mental Health gig nights and our
new Community Impact initiative.
From November 2022, we have
been running community-focussed
wellbeing workshops in local
venues. We also began planning
for our inaugural Liverpool
Community Impact Awards. The
ceremony will take place in March
2023 and will celebrate many of
the people and community
organisations that make Liverpool
such an amazing city.
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In 2022, our founder Shantanu Kundu met Boris Johnson during his premiership to discuss mental health as well as Shantanu’s role as a baton bearer for the Commonwealth Games. Shantanu went on to meet Rishi Sunak to discuss the NHS and mental health in summer 2022. The Be Free Campaign has also had its latest publication accepted by Pegasus Publishing House and it is set to be released in 2023. We received funding from the National Lottery as well as from M&S and the Albert Hunt Trust. We also moved into a new office space at 54 St James which has become a great hub for all of our charity and volunteer activity. It’s a space where we can work, connect and develop new ideas for the Be Free Campaign together. We have also recently launched a new strategic advisory board to provide advice on issues that need technical input and introduce us to connections and business development initiatives.
## **Financial Review**
Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 financial position at the end of the period
**At the end of the period, our charity's financial position looks positive. We had a total income of £26,877, which is the amount of money we received from various sources. During the period, we spent a total of £15,729 in payments, leaving us with an excess of £11,148. This excess suggests that we were able to manage our finances effectively and ensure that we had more money coming in than going out.**
**Furthermore, when we add the excess of £11,148 to the**
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balance brought forward from
the previous period of £956,
the total balance of the two
bank accounts added together
comes to £12,113. This healthy
cash balance indicates that we
were able to maintain our
financial stability and plan for
the future effectively.
Statement explaining Para 1.22 We have currently opted in to
the policy for holding hold reserves of 6-12 months
reserves stating why running costs in order to
they are held accommodate for any changes
that we saw following the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Amount of reserves Para 1.22 11,148
held
Reasons for holding Para 1.22 N/A
zero reserves
Details of fund Para 1.24 N/A
materially in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 N/A
uncertainties about
the charity continuing
as a going concern
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 CIO
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Application process in
methods including agreement with a trustee
details of any board vote
constitutional
provisions e.g. election
to post or name of any
person or body
entitled to appoint one
or more trustees
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Be Free Campaign
Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity 1189704
number
Charity’s principal 158 Birmingham Road, Walsall
address WS12NJ
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or
body) entitled to
Trustee name Office (if any) Dates appointed
appoint trustee (if
any)
1 Finn Thompson 29/10/2021
Shantanu
2
Kundu
Arabinda
3
Kundu
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
Trustee name
Dates acted if not
for whole
ear
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Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the N/A
assets held in this
capacity
Name and objects of N/A
the charity on whose
behalf the assets are
held and how this falls
within the custodian
charity’s objects
Details of N/A
arrangements for safe
custody and
segregation of such
assets from the
charity’s own assets
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** SHANTANU KUNDU
**Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 01/05/2023
**Charity Name No (if any) Be Free Campaign 118970 4**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**CC1 6a**
Period start Period **For the** date end date **To period from** 20/09/20 21/09/2021 22
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|**Section A Receipts**
**and payments**
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Unrestric**
**ted funds**
**Restric**
**ted**
**funds**
**Endo**
**wmen**
**t**
**funds**
**Total**
**fund**
**s**
**Last**
**year**||||||||||
|**to the**
**nearest**
**£**
**to the**
**nearest**
**£**
**to the**
**nearest**
**£**
**to the**
**neare**
**st £**
**to the**
**neares**
**t £**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**13,592**||**-**||**-**||**13,59**
**2**||**-**|
|Income from Trading
Activity|**6,160**||**-**||**-**||**6,160**||**-**|
|Other (Grant Funding)|**7,125**||**-**||**-**||**7,125**||**-**|
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- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross
26,87
income for AR) 26,877 - - 7 -
A2 Asset and
investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
26,87
Total receipts 26,877 - - 7 -
A3 Payments
Office Rent + Venue Hire
6,883 - - 6,883 -
Office
Equipment/Hardware 502 - - 502 -
Licenses and Permits
527 - - 527 -
Miscellaneous
284 - - 284 -
Staff Cost
6,491 - - 6,491 -
Materials
1,220 - - 1,220 -
Subcontractor Costs
1,440 - - 1,440 -
Prior Year Adjustment - -
1,618 - - 1,618 -
- - - - -
Sub total
15,72
15,729 - - 9 -
A4 Asset and
investment
purchases, (see
table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total
- - - - -
Total payments 15,72
15,729 - - 9 -
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|**_Net of_**|**_receipts/_**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**_(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers**||**11,148**
**-**||**-**|**11,14**
**8**||**-**||
|**between**|**funds**||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last**|||||||||
|**year end**||**965**
**-**||**-**|**965**||**-**||
|**_Cash funds this_**
**_year end_**||**12,113**
**-**||**-**|**12,11**
**3**||**-**||
|**Section B Statement of assets and**|||||||||
|**liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||
|||||**Unres**|**Rest**||||
|||||**tricte**|**ricte**|**Endo**|||
|||||**d**|**d**|**wmen**|||
|||||**funds**|**fund**||**t**||
|**Categories**||**Details**|||**s**|**funds**|||
|||||**to**|**to**||**to**||
|||||**nearest**|**neare**|**neares**|||
|||||**£**|**st £**||**t £**||
|**B1 Cash**|**funds**|Current Account|||||||
|||||**6,450**|**-**|**-**|||
|||Deposit Account|||||||
|||||**5,663**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|
||
|||**_Total cash funds_**||**12,113**|**-**|**-**|||
|||(agree balances with receipts
and payments account(s))||OK|OK|OK|||
|||||**Unres**|**Rest**||||
|||||**tricte**|**ricte**|**Endo**|||
|||||**d**|**d**|**wmen**|||
|||||**funds**|**fund**||**t**||
||||||**s**|**funds**|||
|||||**to**|**to**||**to**||
|||||**nearest**|**neare**|**neares**|||
|||**Details**||**£**|**st £**||**t £**||
|**B2 Other**|||||||||
|**monetary assets**||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||||||||||
|||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belong**
**s**|**Cost**
**(optio**
**nal)**|**Curren**
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**(option**
**al)**|||
|**B3 Investment**|||||||||
|**assets**|||||**-**|**-**|||
||||||**-**
**-**|**-**
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Curren
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asset (optio
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belong nal)
al)
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B4 Assets
retained for the - -
charity’s own
- -
use
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Fund to Amou When
which nt due due
liability (optio (option
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B5 Liabilities
-
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Signed by one or two Date
trustees on behalf of of
all the trustees Signature Print Name
appro
val
15/03/
Shantanu Kundu 2023
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**Charity Name N Be Free Campaign 11**
## **Recei ts and a ments accou p p y**
Period start date
**For the period from**
**To**
21/09/2021
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
## **Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**
|**A1 Receipts**|**13,592**
**6,160**
**7,125**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,877**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,877**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|---|---|---|---|
|Donations|**13,592**||**-**|
|Income from TradingActivity|**6,160**||**-**|
|Other(Grant Funding)|**7,125**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**26,877**||**-**|
|||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||
||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**||||
||**26,877**|**-**|**-**|
## **A3 Payments**
|
Office Rent + Venue Hire|**6,883**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Office Equipment/Hardware|**502**||**-**||**-**|
|Licenses and Permits|**527**||**-**||**-**|
|Miscellaneous|**284**||**-**||**-**|
|Staff Cost|**6,491**||**-**||**-**|
|Materials|**1,220**||**-**||**-**|
|Subcontractor Costs|**1,440**||**-**||**-**|
|Prior Year Adjustment|**- 1,618**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**15,729**||**-**||**-**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Total payments_**|**15,729**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**11,148**|||**-**|||**-**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**|||**-**|||**-**||
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**A6 Cash funds last year end**|1
**965**|||**-**|||13/07/2023
**-**||
_**Cash funds this year end**_ **12,113 - -**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
13/07/2023
2
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the perio**
||||||**Unrestricted**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Categories**|**Details**|||**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**|
|**B1**|**Cash funds**|Current Account|||**6,450**|
|||Deposit Account|||**5,663**|
||||||**-**|
||||**_Total cash funds_**||**12,113**|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|Current Account
Deposit Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|
|||**6,450**|
|||**5,663**|
|||**-**|
|||**12,113**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|OK|
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
## **B3 Investment assets**
**Fund to which asset Details belongs Fund to which asset Details belongs**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
**Fund to which Details liability relates** 3 13/07/2023
CCXX R3 accounts (SS)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature Print N Shantanu
CCXX R4 accounts (SS)
13/07/2023
4
**o (if any) 189704**
## **unts CC16a**
Period end date
20/09/2022
**Total funds Last year**
**to the nearest £ to the nearest £**
|**13,592**||**-**|
|---|---|---|
|**6,160**||**-**|
|**7,125**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**26,877**||**-**|
|**-**|||
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**26,877**||**-**|
|**6,883**||**-**|
|---|---|---|
|**502**||**-**|
|**527**||**-**|
|**284**||**-**|
|**6,491**||**-**|
|**1,220**||**-**|
|**1,440**||**-**|
|**- 1,618**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**15,729**||**-**|
|**-**|||
|---|---|---|
|**-**|||
|**-**||**-**|
|**15,729**||**-**|
|**11,148**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**965**||**-**|
|~~5~~|||
CCXX R5 accounts (SS)
13/07/2023
**12,113 -**
CCXX R6 accounts (SS)
13/07/2023
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## **od**
|**od**||
|---|---|
|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||**-**|
||**-**|
||**-**|
||**-**|
||OK|
||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|
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**-**
**-**
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**Amount due When due (optional) (optional) - -** 7
CCXX R7 accounts (SS)
13/07/2023
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CCXX R8 accounts (SS)
13/07/2023
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Be Free Campaign **On accounts for the year** 31[st] March 2023 **Charity no ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **20 / 09/ 2022** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Date:** 28[th] June 2023 **Signed: Name:** Katie Hall **Relevant professional** N/A **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:**[Accounting Clinic at Liverpool John Moores University, Redmonds Building, ] Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L3 5UG
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
1
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
2