## **Annual Report**
## **A ril 2021 to March 2022 p**
Registered Charity No. 1189936
## **Chair of Trustees Introduction**
It is an immense privilege for me to be involved in supporting The Kite Trust and the following report demonstrates how hard the team have been working to support LGBTQ+ youth in our area. From the strong foundations on which the organisation was built, Pip has worked tirelessly to grow The Kite Trust, raising essential funds to expand the staff team and the reach of our support. With the wider social, economic and political context as it is, with particular challenges in physical and mental health care, the support provided by The Kite Trust is crucial for providing not just a safe space for LGBTQ+ young people, but spaces where they can feel joy and celebrate who they are without judgement. For me, joy is important protest against oppression and discrimination and I know that everyone at The Kite Trust is deeply invested in bringing positivity to the lives of the young people who engage with us.
I’d like to extend my thanks to all of the staff at The Kite Trust for their hard work and commitment, as well as thanks to all of the funders who support our essential work.
_Ceri Littlechild, Chair of Trustees_
## **Chief Executive Report**
Looking back on 2021-22, I am incredibly proud of how the whole community around The Kite Trust navigated the changing restrictions to make sure that care for each other was at the heart of our activities. The rapidly evolving circumstances that the team were always responding to gave us many challenges, but also many opportunities to try new approaches and develop our services, as well as constant reminders to never to be complacent in trying to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ youth. We once again saw a significant increase in the demand for support and it is testament to the hard work of our staff and volunteers, that that was largely met with an increase in service delivery. Thanks to the support of our funders and donors we have been able to significantly scale up our operations, particularly our support for parents, carers and wider families.
_Pip Gardner, Chief Executive_
Registered Charity No. 1189936
## **Youth Work Programme**
2021-22 marked the reintroduction of face-to-face service delivery after 12 months of remote provision. This was welcomed by both service users and youth workers alike and has resulted in higher attendance and satisfaction rates across the board. Whilst we were still very much in the middle of, and feeling the effects of, the pandemic, we have continued to implement robust COVID protocols and policy to ensure the physical safety and mental wellbeing of all of those involved in service delivery and participation. The safety of everyone involved with the Kite Trust remains our principal concern.
This year we were able to introduce new service offerings including a Disabled and Neurodiverse group; our Swimming Project, providing safe and inclusive spaces for young people to swim together in various locations across Cambridgeshire; and our Trans/Non-Binary/Gender Questioning online group.
## **Support in Numbers**
Across the year we supported 560 service users in total: 466 young people and 94 parents/carers/families. This amounted to 1,538 hours of individual support alongside an additional provision of 248 youth groups and activities. This marks a considerable growth of service users when compared to the years prior; this continues to highlight the evergrowing need for our services to support young LBGTQ+ people and their families.
## **Groups and individual support in rural districts**
Despite some of our face-to-face groups resuming from March 2021 in line with the relaxing of COVID restrictions, the majority of our wider reaching programmes in more rural districts recommenced in September 2021.
We have tried to ensure weekly support in each district to ensure continuity of support for young LGBTQ+ people, especially due to the fact that those in rural areas are more likely to experience isolation. Our rural district offering, since January 2022, therefore now includes:
- Weekly youth groups in East Cambridgeshire (Ely), Huntingdonshire (alternating S t Neots and Huntingdon), and Fenland (alternating March and Wisbech).
- Individual support via phone, text, email and video call to ensure accessibility across the county, together with some face-to-face services in schools and community venues as restrictions have eased.
Group attendance has steadily increased across these youth groups as restrictions eased and due to increased promotion of the existence of these more frequent groups. Across the year our activities included the following:
- Autumn Activity Day
- Bereavement Project
- Cambridge 11-18s Youth Group
- Cambridge 13-25s Youth Group
- D&D Under 18
- Disabled And Neurodiverse Group
- Ely 13-25s Youth Group
- Huntingdon 13-25s Youth Group
- March 13-25s Youth Group
- Family Meet and Eats
- Online Age Based Youth Group
- Parents’ Group
- Peterborough 11-18s Youth Group
- Peterborough 13-25s Youth Group Residential Programme
- School Holiday Programmes
- S t Neots 13-25s Youth Group
- Swimming Project
- Trans+ Group
- Wisbech 13-25s Youth Group
- Young People’s Steering Group for the Mental Health Research Project
## **Individual support**
We continued to deliver the majority of our individual support remotely via video call, text, email and telephone. We have been able to refine our processes by onboarding a new online booking system in January 2022 – allowing our service users to book appointments directly with our Youth Workers. This has made the administrative function much more effective and has increased staff capacity for direct support for young people. From April 2021 to March 2022, we supported 155 initial meetings and 168 1:1 sessions. We also spent approximately 592 hours supporting young people directly between sessions of support – usually by email or text.
## **Residential Opportunities**
We were delighted to be able to run our first residential of the year – ‘Out With Lanterns’ - in February 2022 after having to delay previous residential activities due to the pandemic. We organised a 3 day (2 night) residential trip at Thorpe Woodlands in Thetford Forest for 19 LGBTQ+ young people aged 16 to 25. This was supported by 5 staff members and 3 volunteers. 78% of our service users in attendance had never attended a Kite Trust residential before – highlighting the growth of our organisation in the past year. When asked to describe in their own words, the impact of 'Out With Lanterns' and what they are taking away from participating in the event:
“ _I wasn't expecting the camp to be as important or as emotional to me as it was. I am taking away a new queer family, and a sense of peacefulness that I had forgotten how to experience. I am taking with me a whole bunch of beautiful memories_ .”
“ _Out with lanterns helped me to have time away from a toxic environment at home, I was surrounded by positivity and acceptance. People who understood me and cared to treat me for who I am_ .”
## **Schools**
During 2021-22 we delivered workshops and assemblies for 1,433 students and 357 school staff at schools and colleges across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
## **Rainbow Flag Award**
The Rainbow Flag Award is a quality assurance framework with a focus on positive LGBTQ+ inclusion, for all schools and colleges. More information on the award can be found at: www.thekitetrust.org.uk/schools-services/rainbow-flag-award/
During 2021-22 we worked with over 50 schools and colleges on the Rainbow Flag Award and held a 100% retention across the January, May and September 2021 cohorts. Sign-ups spanned a large geographical footprint including Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Essex, Buckinghamshire and London.
## **Training**
We delivered 107 training sessions to 106 organisations and trained approximately 3,193 individuals, this marked a significant increase in activity which was facilitated by the onboarding of new Associate Trainers.
Highlights from the year have included:
- Successfully bidding to become one of five national LGBTQ+ youth organisations
- selected to roll out to schools the Proud Trust’s inclusive sex education resource
- ‘Sexuality aGender v2’
- Dhiverse including two LGBTQ+ inclusive lessons by The Kite Trust in their R S E
- package to schools
- Schools in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Brixton commissioning training, and
- training requests received from an increasingly wide geographical area, indicating
- that our reputation as an online training provider is growing
Some quotes shared from our trainees include:
_“Excellent course. Trainer made it easy for us to discuss issues that some might find very uncomfortable” (Cambridge City Councillor)_
_"I feel this training was exceptionally informative and well explained. Fantastic signposting too." (Hills Road Sixth Form College Tutor)_
_“The training may increase your understanding and empower you to be more inclusive in your everyday life as well as helping you to challenge the language" (Virtual School Advisory Teacher)_
Registered Charity No. 1189936
Research and Adv oca cy
2021 saw the commencement of our first research project exploring the barriers, challenges and difficulties that LGBTQ+ young people face when trying to access mental health support. This project drew on the experience and knowledge of our service users and key stakeholders, and culminated in the production of our first Research Report which can be found at: https://resources.thekitetrust.org.uk/resources/report-lgbtq-youthand-mental-health
Our key findings included the following:
- Journeys to accessing mental health support are long and complex
- There were barriers in even initiating a search for mental health support
- Once accessing services, LGBTQ+ young people’s needs are not fully met
- Staff lack specific knowledge and understanding relating to LGBTQ+ identities and experiences
- There were additional barriers related to other parts of one's identity
- Wider networks like friends, family and colleges can play a key role in accessing
- mental health support
- LGBTQ+ young people have clear ideas about what good support looks like for them
- and how services can better support them.
## Trustees
The following were trustees for the period April 1st 2021 - 31st March 2022.
- Ellie DeVries
- Catherine Allen
- Ceri Ann Littlechild (Chair)
- Catherine Lee
- Millie Wadkin
- Emily Kell
- Jack Lilley
The following were trustees at April 1st 2021 - and stepped down during the year. We
thank them for their contributions to the charity during their time as Trustees.
- Alicia Bruce-Doig
- Neil Reavey
The following joined as trustees during the year and were trustees at the 31st March 2022.
- Tracey Mwaniki
- Paul R. Owens
Registered Charity No. 1189936
## **Funding**
Total income: £432,307
Total expenditure: £377,640
## **Multi-year Funding**
This year 2021-22 marked the first year in two multi-year funding grants - our 5 year Reaching Communities programme funded by the National Lottery and the first year of our 3-year Children in Need funded project supporting trans and non-binary children. These funding opportunities will allow us to continue delivering and expand our youth work, schools and training services for the benefit of LGBTQ+ young people across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and surrounding areas.
## **Kite Flyers**
Our regular giving scheme, Kite Flyers, continued throughout the year gaining an increasing number of supporters who give regularly by direct debit. More information on the scheme can be found at: www.thekitetrust.org.uk/kiteflyers/
## **We would like to thank all our funders and supporters, including:**
- Cambridge City Council
- Cambridgeshire Community Foundation
- Cambridgeshire County Council
- Children in Need
- Co-op Foundation and #iWill Fund (via Woodcraft Folk)
- East Cambridgeshire District Council
- Hinchingbrooke Foundation
- James Knott Family Trust
- Leys Community Fund
- Living Sport
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The Tudor Trust
- UK Youth
- Youth Investment Fund
Registered Charity No. 1189936
|TheKite Trust|TheKite Trust|TheKite Trust|Charity No
(ifany)|1189936||
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|Periodstart date|01/04/2021|To|Periodend
date|31/03/2022||
## Section A
## Statement of financial activities
|GuidanceNotes
Recommended categories by
activity
Incoming resources (Note3)
Income an d endowmentsfrom:
Grantsfor services
Donations and gifts
Fundraising
Schools andtraining
Interest
Other
Total
Resources expended (Note6)
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Activitycosts
Salaries andassociated costs
General overheads
Property& OfficeCosts
Governancecosts
Total
S01
S02
S03
S04
S05
S06
111
S08
S09
S10
S11
S11
S11
S12
Net income/(expenditure) before investment
gains/(losses)
Netgains/(losses)on investments
Net income/(expenditure)
Extraordinaryitems
Transfers between funds
Other recognised gains/(losses):
S13
S14
S16
S17
Gains and lossesonrevaluation of fixedassetsfor thecharity’sown use
S18
Othergains/(losses)
S19
Netmovement in funds
S20
Reconciliation of funds:
Total fundsbroughtforward
S21
Total funds carried forward
S22
1|Unrestricted
funds
£
F01
Restricted
income
funds
£
F02
Endowment
funds
£
F03
Total funds
£
F04
Prioryear
funds
£
F05|Unrestricted
funds
£
F01
Restricted
income
funds
£
F02
Endowment
funds
£
F03
Total funds
£
F04
Prioryear
funds
£
F05|Unrestricted
funds
£
F01
Restricted
income
funds
£
F02
Endowment
funds
£
F03
Total funds
£
F04
Prioryear
funds
£
F05|Unrestricted
funds
£
F01
Restricted
income
funds
£
F02
Endowment
funds
£
F03
Total funds
£
F04
Prioryear
funds
£
F05|Unrestricted
funds
£
F01
Restricted
income
funds
£
F02
Endowment
funds
£
F03
Total funds
£
F04
Prioryear
funds
£
F05|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||12,113|315,172|-|327,285|2,500|
||28,266|-|-|28,266|1,220|
||15,017|-|-|15,017|1,062|
||56,148|5,563||61,712|3,670|
||28|--|-|28|-|
||-S07|320,735|-|-|50|
||,572||-|432,307|8,502|
||-|||||
||1,425|27,562|-|1,425|357|
||5,023|263,788|-|32,586|732|
||48,934|14,186|-|312,722|39,548|
||5,279|4,100|-|19,465|1,962|
||6,083|-|-|10,183|322|
||1,259|309,636|-|1,259|705|
||68,004||-|377,640|43,626|
|||||||
||43,568|11,099|-|54,667|-35,124|
||-|-S15|-|-|-|
||43,568|11,099|-|54,667|-35,124|
||-|-|-|-|168,357|
||320|-
320|-|-|-|
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||-|-|-|-|-|
||43,888|10,779|-|54,667|133,233|
|||||||
||114,970|18,263|-|133,233||
||158,858|29,042|-|187,900|133,233|
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## Section B
## Balance sheet
|Fixed assets
Intangible assets
Tangible assets
Heritage assets
Investments
Currentassets
Stocks
(Note15)
(Note14)
(Note16)
(Note17)
Total fixed assets
(Note18)
Debtors
(Note19)
Investments(Note17.4)
Cash atbankandin hand(Note24)
Totalcurrentassets
Creditors:amountsfalling duewithin
oneyear
(Note20)
Netcurrentassets/(liabilities)
Totalassetsless current liabilities
Creditors:amountsfalling due after
oneyear (Note20)
Provisionsfor liabilities
Totalnetassets or liabilities
Funds of theCharity
Endowment funds(Note27)
Restrictedincomefunds(Note27)
Unrestrictedfunds
Revaluationreserve
Total funds
Signed byoneor twotrusteeson behalf ofall
the trustees|Guidance Notes
B01
B02
B03
B04
B05
B06
B07
B08
B09
B10
B11
B12
B13
B14
B15
B16
B17
B18
B19
B20
B21|Unrestricted
funds
£
F01
Restricted
income
funds
£
F02|Unrestricted
funds
£
F01
Restricted
income
funds
£
F02|Endowment
funds
£
F03
Total this
year
£
F04|Endowment
funds
£
F03
Total this
year
£
F04|Total last
year
£
F05|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||-||
||||19,240||19,240||
||||||-||
||||||-||
|||-|19,240|-|19,240|-|
||||||||
||||||-||
|||10,773|3,100||13,873|43,714|
||||||-||
|||152,862|22,799||175,661|134,976|
|||163,635|25,899|-|189,534|178,690|
||||||||
|||4,778|16,097|-|20,875|45,457|
||||||||
|||158,857|9,802|-|168,659|133,233|
||||||||
|||158,857|29,042|-|187,899|133,233|
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|||158,857|29,042|-|187,899|133,233|
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158,857
-|-|
||||29,042|-||18,263|
|||158,857||||114,970|
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|||158,857|29,042|-|187,899|133,233|
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approval
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**Note 27 Charity funds**
## **27.1 Details of material funds held and movements during the CURRENT reporting period**
_**Please give details of the movements of material individual funds in the reporting period together with a balancing figure for 'Other funds'. The 'Total funds' figure below should reconcile to 'Total funds' in the blanace sheet.**_
_*** Key: PE - permanent endowment funds; EE - expendible endowment funds; R - restricted income funds, including special trusts, of the charity; and U - unrestricted funds**_
|**_funds_**|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Fund names**|**Type PE, EE**
**R or UR * **|**Purpose and Restrictions**|**Fund**
**balances**
**brought**
**forward**
**£**|**Income**
**£**|**Expenditure**
**£**|**Transfers**
**£**|**Gains and**
**losses**
**£**|**Fund**
**balances**
**carried**
**forward**
**£**|
|Cambridge City Council|R|Core Funding||12,500|-
12,546|46||0|
|Children in Need|R|Project Funded||30,500|-
30,537|37||-
0|
|Clothworkers|R|Project Funded||||||-0|
|CCF|R|Project Funded||12,000|-
11,718|-
282||1,950|
|COOP|R|ProjectFunded||6,950|-
5,000|||-|
|Coronavirus Community Fund|R|ProjectFunded|14,880||-
14,880|||0|
|Cultivate|R|ProjectFunded||9,270|-
8,868|-
402||-|
|Discovery|R|ProjectFunded||||||6,578|
|Fullscope|R|ProjectFunded||43,200|-
36,622|||0|
|Healthy Fenland|R|ProjectFunded|2,233||-
2,271|38||-|
|LGBT Futures|R|ProjectFunded|1,000||-
999|- 1||-|
|Paul Hamlyn|R|ProjectFunded|150|30,000|-
30,150|||1,274|
|Reaching Communities|R|ProjectFunded||72,452|-
71,178|||-|
|Tudor Trust|R|ProjectFunded||36,000|-
36,000|||19,240|
|YouthInvestmentFund(YIF)|R|ProjectFunded||30,000|-
10,760|||-|
|Restricted Target|R|ProjectFunded||12,863|-
13,107|244||-|
|UK Youth Covid|UR|Unrestricted ProjectFunding||25,000|-
25,000||||
|Unrestricted|UR|Unrestricted Core Funding|61,923|111,572|-
68,005|-
92,233|||
|**_Reserves_**|**UR**|**Unrestricted Reserves**|53,047|||92,553|||
|**Total Funds**|||
133,233|432,307|-
377,640|-|||
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|
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|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**
**Independent**
**examiner's statement**|Charity Name
The Kite Trust
31 March 2022
**Charity no**1189936
**(if any)**
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2022.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
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.
The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to
undertake the examination by being a qualified member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW)_._|
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have 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.
**Signed:** MP **Date:** 1 November 2022 **Name:** Mary Price **Relevant professional** ACA, ICAEW **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
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## **Address:**
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## **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** No matters to report. **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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