## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 11 06 2020 **To** 30 06 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** Always Community
**Other names charity is known by** AC
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1189909
**Charity's principal address** 8 Experian Way NG2 Business Park Nottingham **Postcode** NG2 1EP
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Jacqueline Trustee Trustees
1
Bowen
Maureen Chair Trustees
2
Robinson
3 June Murray Trustee Trustees
4
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
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Name Dates acted if not for whole year
NA
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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Type of adviser Name Address
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
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Type of governing document
Constitution
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
CIO How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by trustees in trustee meeting Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
During this time the charity has implemented its COVID Health and Safety Policy.
- 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;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
‘To promote sustainable development for the benefit of the public, in particular but not exclusively in the East Midlands by:
- (a) the preservation, conservation and the protection of the environment and the prudent use of resources;
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
- (b) the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions
of life in socially and economically disadvantaged communities;
- (c) the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic growth and regeneration.
Sustainable development means “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
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Work undertaken for the benefit of the public this year has been stifled due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. Limited work in Nottingham has included:
- The delivery of community enterprise coaching for individuals and small groups. This has been done by ZOOM.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
- Small group capacity building support and development. This has also been done by ZOOM.
All of the above work supported by Bright Ideas has been **very** limited as we have also invariably been unable to extensively promote the above or engage grassroots communities due to the COVID-19 Lockdown restrictions.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
The contribution made by our volunteers has been a real asset during this time, as we could not have been able to deliver our limited lockdown services without their much appreciated support.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
We thank them for their commitment to the values of the Charity and the communities and individuals they have supported.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The work of the charity this year has largely been stifled due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. As a direct result we have not been able to implement the breath of community support and partnership initiatives envisaged. Work has therefore been limited to grassroots capacity building support through ZOOM and small group organisational review and development. We have also undertaken a level of community enterprise coaching. This again has also been by ZOOM.
Again due to the lockdown, all of the above community development and support work has been very limited (stifled) as we have had to cancel face to face meetings, training sessions and our own organisational development schedules. In addition, we have also as a result, had to operate on a very limited budget and have been very grateful for the voluntary time that has been committed to the charity which has allowed us to undertake the above work in Nottingham at zero cost to the charity. This ZOOM project delivery and the late June arrival of funding accounts for the absence of expenditure.
With the increasing relaxation of the lockdown regulations we expect to be initiating the implementation of our recently funded small Connected Communities Initiative in August. The focus of this project is the opening of new doors of grassroots community partnerships, insights and Cohesion. We also intend to resume small scale work on our community enterprise coaching in August. With the ongoing relaxation of the Lockdown restrictions we expect to also increasingly resume our envisaged grassroots community development outreach and needs led assessment work in the deprived communities of Nottingham. We also expect to resume work on the capacity building of the charity.
Overall due to the COVID-19 Lockdowns it has been a difficult start for the charity in terms of community engagement development, our budget and capacity as we have not been able to engage grassroots communities, extensively deliver needs led projects and access necessary funding as originally envisaged. Therefore, further establishing the charity and our delivery of the above small initiatives on a very limited budget during this time has been an achievement in itself.
In the latter half of June 2021 we were successful in acquiring a small grant form Awards for All grant to initiate our ‘ _Connected Communities’_ Project. We expect to start delivery of this in August 2021. We were also successful in acquiring a small amount of capacity building project development support from Groundworks uk and Enterprise Coaching Development Coaching support from Arnold Clarke. We intend to implement this work in the coming months.
The support of the above looks very promising in terms of community engagement and project development and we are very confident that in the year new, despite the current Covid related restrictions we will have substantially more to report back in 2021-22 having been better positioned to demonstrate the aims and objectives and needs led innovative approaches of
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Section D Achievements and performance
Always Community.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity currently has £200 reserves. It is our intension to build our reserves as the charity grows.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
NA
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
The charity’s very limited income this year has come from our limited community enterprise coaching and community development work. This work was supported by volunteers.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
This has allowed us to make a small first step in community engagement and assist a few small groups in their exploration of community enterprise and also support community group capacity building in terms of their activities and related polices.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- objectives of the charity; Having received Connected Communities funding in late June 2021 we look forward to implementing this project which
- investment policy and underpins our community cohesion principles. We also look
- objectives including any forward to implementing the wider scope of our Always
- ethical investment policy Community key objectives in the context of new and innovative
- adopted. needs led community projects.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
## **Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Maureen Robinson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair **Date** 7th July 2021
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A B C D E F G H I J K
1 Charity Name No (if any)
2 Always Community
3 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
4 For the period Period start date To Period end date
5 from 11th June 2020 30th June 2021
6
7 Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
8 Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
9 to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
10 A1 Receipts
11 Bright ideas 1,385 - 1,385 -
12 Trsutee Donation 100 - 100 -
13 Arnold Clarke 500 - 500 -
14 Groundwork UK - 1,000 - 1,000 -
15 Awards For All 9,996 - 9,996 -
16 - - - - -
17 - - - - -
18 - - - - -
19 Sub total (Gross income for AR) 1,485 11,496 - 12,981 -
20
A2 Asset and investment sales,
21
(see table).
22 - - - -
23 - - - - -
24 Sub total - - - - -
25
26 Total receipts 1,485 11,496 - 12,981 -
27
28 A3 Payments
29 - - - - -
30 - - - - -
31 - - - - -
32 - - - - -
33 - - - - -
34 - - - - -
35 - - - - -
36 - - - - -
37 - - - - -
38 Sub total - - - - -
39
A4 Asset and investment
40
purchases, (see table)
41 - - - -
42 - - - -
43 Sub total - - - - -
44
45 Total payments - - - - -
46
47 Net of receipts/(payments) 1,485 11,496 - 12,981 -
48 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
49 A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
50 Cash funds this year end 1,485 11,496 - 12,981 -
51
52
53 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
54
Categories Details funds funds funds
55 to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
56 B1 Cash funds - - -
57 - - -
58 - - -
59 Total cash funds - - -
60 (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Agreement Error Agreement Error OK
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
61
funds funds funds
62 Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
63 B2 Other monetary assets - - -
64 - - -
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|95|Signed by one or two trustees on
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|96|Chair|||||Maureen Robinson||||7thJuly2021||
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