2025-03-31-accounts - Street Rights

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Street Rights Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Review For year ended 31[st] March 2025

Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Review 2024/25

Street Rights’ charity number: 1190631

Date of registration: 29[th] July 2020

Trustees:

Matthew Hocken, Chair (17[th] October 2022 – date) Simon Le Gouais, Treasurer

Siân Wynne

Registered address:

Street Rights, Room 4 St Margaret’s House, 15 Old Ford Road, London, E2 9PJ

This report covers the period 1[st] April 2024 to 31[st] March 2025

1. Street Rights’ Charitable Purpose

The objects of Street Rights are:

To promote human rights (as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions and declarations), particularly but not exclusively for street-connected children, throughout the world by all or any of the following means:

Monitoring abuses of human rights;
Obtaining redress for the victims of human rights abuse;
Relieving need among the victims of human rights abuse;
Research into human rights issues;
Providing technical advice to government and others on human rights matters;
Contributing to the sound administration of human rights law;
Commenting on proposed human rights legislation;
Raising awareness of human rights issues;
Promoting public support for human rights;
Promoting respect for human rights among individuals and corporations;
International advocacy of human rights;
Eliminating infringements of human rights.

In furtherance of that object but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power:

Street Rights Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Review For year ended 31[st] March 2025

To engage in political activity provided that the trustees are satisfied that the proposed activities will further the purposes of the charity to an extent justified by the resources committed and the activity is not the dominant means by which the charity carries out its objects.

2. Public Benefit

The Trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit to review the charity’s aims and objectives and ensure its activities and future-planning are focused on achieving the charity’s aims and objectives.

3. Activities, achievements and performance in 2024/25

Street Rights’ aim is to promote street-connected children’s rights worldwide. This year marked a step change for Street Rights as we moved from planning and building our work to action.

Last year we established a multi-year, collaborative partnership with Umthombo and Centre for Child Law in South Africa. Both Umthombo and Centre for Child Law are highly regarded as experts in their fields and together we are working to secure justice for street-connected children in South Africa.

In September, we ran consultations with street-connected children and young people in Durban, on the east coast of South Africa. The consultations represent phase 1 of our programme and enable us to understand street-connected children’s lives, the issues they currently face and that they themselves identify to be the most urgent.

In Durban, the consultations highlighted huge poverty, unsanitary living conditions, high youth unemployment and unstable employment in the informal economy, police harassment and violence, high drug dependency (males), children removed from their mother’s care (females) and aspirations for a better life.

Participation was embedded into the consultation process. The children and young people were involved in the planning and analysis of the sessions. They determined what questions were asked and in what way, for instance childcare was provided for the mothers with babies so they could focus on the discussion. As streetconnected children are a highly marginalised and vulnerable group, we obtained ethical approval from the University of Pretoria for the consultations and our structure and facilitation activities were guided by the award-winning Growing Up On The Streets research project. Facilitators were adults who the children and young people know and trust.

One learning from the consultations was that there is limited legal knowledge amongst street-connected children and young people. As a result, we facilitated an additional learning session with the Centre for Child Law and the children and young people in Durban to better understand their rights on the streets and how the law in South Africa addresses their rights. Staff from the Centre for Child Law facilitated a knowledgesharing session and produced a child-friendly leaflet the children and young people could use as a future reference.

Street Rights Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Review For year ended 31[st] March 2025

Our aim into next year is to recreate these consultations in different locations to generate a national picture of street-connected children’s lives across South Africa.

We remain a member of the Consortium for Street Children – the global network for street children organisations – both to learn from our peers and contribute to the sector.

4. Structure, Governance and Management

The Trustees are responsible for the administration of the charity. The Trustees meet quarterly (four times a year) to agree and set the charity’s strategic direction, discuss policy matters and review the operational performance of the charity. This includes through reviewing and updating the charity’s risk register and putting policies and procedures in place to mitigate those risks.

Street Rights’ Constitution sets out how new Trustees are appointed – existing Trustees can appoint new Trustees at any time. When selecting new Trustees, regard is had to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for effective administration of Street Rights. Trustees serve for a period of three years and can be reappointed up to three times.

Street Rights currently has one volunteer, part-time.

5. Financial review 2024/25

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report and financial review of Street Rights.

Income and expenditure:

Street Rights’ income was £4 and expenditure £3,585 for the period 2024/25. A total of £718 was carried forward.

2024/25	£
Income	4
Expenditure	3,585

Total Funds	718

Street Rights has no loans, no debts and no funds held by a custodian Trustee.

Reserves:

The Trustees have considered the risk environment and operating costs of the organisation and have determined a desired range of reserves to be within three to six months’ operating costs plus any legal or redundancy costs associated with winding-up the organisation. At present there are no committed ongoing

Street Rights Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Review For year ended 31[st] March 2025

costs and any wind-up costs would be very limited. The reserves as of 31[st] March 2025 are therefore within the required range.

As the organisation increases its income and begins to incur ongoing operating costs, the unrestricted reserves will be reviewed against the reserves policy as part of the management accounts and going-concern assessment by the Board of Trustees.

6. Trustee Declaration

The Trustees declare that they approve the Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Review above. Signed on behalf of Street Rights’ Trustees:

Matthew Hocken, Chair of Trustees 26[th] January 2026

	Street Rights	Street Rights	Street Rights	1190631	CC16a
	For the period from	01/04/2024	To	31/03/2025

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ - 4 - - - - - - 4 - - - 4 60 - - - - - - - - 60 - - - 60 - 56 - 699 643	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3,525 - - - - - - - 3,525 - - - 3,525 - 3,525 - 3,600 75	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ - 4 - - - - - - 4 - - - 4 60 3,525 - - - - - - - 3,585 - - - 3,585 - 3,581	Last year to the nearest £
Donations	-				3,600
Interest	4				4
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~~*Sub total~~~~(Gross income for~~ AR)*	4				3,604

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Sub total*	-				-
*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					3,604

Bank fees	60				60
Grant to implementing partner	-				-
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**Sub total **	60				60

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					60

	- 56	- 3,525	-	- 3,581	3,544
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	699	3,600	-	4,299	755
	643	75	-	718	4,299

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

26/01/2026

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B1 Cash funds	Signature Details Details Unrestricted funds Details Details Bank balance GBP *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 699 3,600 - - - - 699 3,600 Agreement Error Agreement Error Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) 755 - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Simon Le Gouais	Endowment funds to nearest £
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			Date of approval
		Simon Le Gouais	15/01/2026

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

26/01/2026