## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1 Sep 2024 31 Aug 2024 **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Positive Social **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1189911 **Charity's principal address** 6 Home Farm Close Ockbrook Derby **Postcode** DE72 3SQ ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||KerrySaxby|Chair||| ||Mark Saxby||Resigned 17 Sep2024|| ||GeoffreyPeel|||| ||Andrew Townsend|||| ||Katherine Coggan|||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by resolution at meeting of trustees - (eg. appointed by, elected by) March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The advancement of the protection of the public, in particular but not exclusively children and young people, by the provision of talks, workshops, training and by such other means as the trustees shall think **Summary of the objects of the** fit on the positive and safe use of social media designed to protect them **charity set out in its** from harm arising from its incorrect or unsafe use, and from contact with **governing document** unsuitable material on the Internet or similar media. The trustees follow the guidance of the Charity Commission to ensure the activities of Positive Social are for the public benefit. The charity works with schools and other groups to teach young people to use social media positively and constructively and to avoid the negatives, such as bullying, addiction, self-worth issues and hindering, **Summary of the main** future career prospects. Young people gain an understanding of how **activities undertaken for the** social media can provide opportunities for the future and promote **public benefit in relation to** community cohesion. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** Social media is an inescapable part of young people’s lives and of the **declaration that trustees have** world that surrounds them. When used in the right way, it can have a **had regard to the guidance** positive impact on the young people, if not it can have a very negative **issued by the Charity** impact and can lead to addiction, relationship and self-worth issues, **Commission on public** mental health issues and self-harm. **benefit)** Positive Social also delivers sessions for teachers, leaders, parents and carers, equipping them with the knowledge they need to support young people in their social media use and through any issues that may arise. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 2 Section D Achievements and performance Positive Social continued to see an increase in demand for its sessions **Summary of the main** during the 2024-25 year. **achievements of the charity during the year** We worked with 50 schools and 1 college, delivering 271 sessions to pupils. 217 of these were in state secondary schools, 34 in state primary schools, 9 in special schools, 1 in a private school and 10 in a college. We also delivered 2 sessions to Explorer Scouts groups and 2 with other youth groups. 208 sessions were delivered free of charge to year 7 & 8 pupils in schools, benefitting approximately 6,200 children. Over 7800 children received sessions in total. Parent sessions were delivered in five schools, one of which also had a session for teachers. We revisited schools we had worked with previously and began to work with new schools. We also delivered 10 online Parent & Carer sessions, including 4 on behalf of external organisations to their members or employees, as well as a session for teachers and children at a Digital Leaders Conference. All of the young people’s sessions resulted in commitments to change their behaviour on social media, such as checking privacy settings, leaving social networks that didn’t make them feel good when using them or spending less time on phones. The parents’ and teachers’ sessions equipped attendees to support young people and to make decisions around their children’s social media and smartphone use. We continued to work with schools in the East Midlands, West Midlands, London, Kent and Lancashire, and also worked with some in Merseyside and Oxfordshire. New deliverers were trained to enable us to reach these areas. ## **Section E Financial review** N/A **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; We were pleased to see an increase in total income which came mainly from paid for sessions delivered to primary school children and those in school years 9-13, and from individual donations. This significantly increased our capacity to deliver free sessions to children in years 7 and 8. We also continued to receive income from corporate sponsorship, donations and fundraising, as well as a small grant. - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **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.** ## **Kerry Saxby** **Trustee 29 June 2026** March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Positive Social 1189911 Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **For the period To from** 1 September 2024 31 August 2025 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** ||||**Unrestricted**
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**funds**|||**Total funds**||**Last year**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||| |Session Delivery|||**7,264**||||||||**7,264**||**2,008**|| |Individual Donations|||**3,676**||||||||**3,676**||**2,186**|| |Corporate Session Sponsorship|||**590**||||||||**590**||**660**|| |Corporate Donations|||**530**||||||||**530**||**1,501**|| |Corporate Fundraising|||**418**||||||||**418**||**2,304**|| |Grants - General|||**-**||||||||**-**||**300**|| |Grants - Specific Sessions|||**400**||||||||**400**||**800**|| |Gift Aid|||**1,116**||||||||**1,116**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||**13,994**|||**0**|||**0**||**13,994**||**9,759**|| |||||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**||||||||||||||| |**table).**||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|||| ||||||||||||**-**|||| ||**_Sub total_**||**0**|||**0**|||**0**||**0**||**0**|| |||||||||||||||| ||**_Total receipts_**||**13,994**|||**0**|||**0**||**13,994**||**9,759**|| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||| |Delivery costs (free Year 7 & 8 sessions)|||**8,153**||||||||**8,153**||**4,478**|| |Delivery costs (other sessions)|||**4,058**||||||||**4,058**||**784**|| |Admin, general expenses &|management||**3,025**||||||||**3,025**||**1,233**|| ||**_Sub total_**||**15,236**|||**0**|||**0**||**15,236**||**6,495**|| |||||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**||||||||||||||| |**(see table)**||||||||||||||| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| ||||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| ||**_Sub total_**||**0**|||**0**|||**0**||**0**||**0**|| |||||||||||||||| ||**_Total payments_**||**15,236**|||**0**|||**0**||**15,236**||**6,495**|| |||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|||**-1,242**|||**0**|||**0**||**-1,242**||**3,264**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**5,365**||**-**|||**-**|||**5,365**||**-**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|||**4,123**|||**0**|||**0**||**4,123**||**3,264**|| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
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approval| |||Kerry Saxby|6/26/2026|