## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/09/2022 to 31/08/2023** ## **Charity name: Creative Opps CIO** ## **Charity registration number: 1190916** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The object of the CIO is to advance in life and relieve
the needs of young people aged 6-30, with a focus on
young people who are socially and/or economically
disadvantaged, through:
(a) facilitating their access to knowledge, learning
opportunities and experience;
(b) providing support and activities which develop
their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them
to participate in society as responsible individuals.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Through our 2023 Mentoring Programme, we
matched 12 young people from underrepresented
communities with creative professionals to work
together on the next steps for their creative industry
and academic goals. Mentors and mentees met for
two hours a month either remotely or in person, over
a six-month period. We provided both parties with
training and ongoing support, as well as food and
travel costs for those who met in-person.
We also brokered paid creative industry work
placements for 10 young people facing barriers to
participation in the creative industries. We partnered
with organisations including Box to Box Films, DRIFT
Studio, Voices Radio, Woodburner Music, Poet in the
City and Orbital Sound. We secured an expansion of
the Box to Box internship offer from 4-week part-time
to 6-month full-time placements and worked with
Islington Giving to provide 200-hour long placements
for young people from the borough.
Building upon our strategic aim to deliver user-led
programmes, designed by and for young people, our
staff team, Trustees and Youth Board engaged in
sociocracy training, and we have secured funding to
pay our five Youth Board members to continue to
develop our strategic vision for the year ahead.| Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public ~~benefit~~ Para 1.18 The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Through our 2023 mentoring programme, mentees
took part in activities ranging from attending
photography events, gigs and exhibitions to BBC work
shadowing and running on film shoots. Mentees have
consistently reported increased levels of confidence
and emphasised how the programme has given them
the means to pursue their creative dreams, which they
wouldn’t otherwise have had access to. Through their
participation, multiple mentees have gone on to secure
paid work in film and non-profit sector organisations,
as well as enrolling on university courses and
producing their own creative output.
Our work placements have primarily been offered to
young people living in Islington, which ranks within the
top 16.7% most deprived local authorities (IMD 2019).
The difference made to participants circumstances is
evidenced not only through several young people
gaining paid roles in the film and music industries but
in how they have taken the skills and confidence
gained through the placements back into their own
communities. For example, one participant is now
helping to provide guidance and support to another
young person who is passionate about documentary
making. Another participant recently founded a mutual
support group for black and queer people interested in
music production and poetry. Our five Youth Board
members continue to be instrumental in driving
Creative Opps’ strategic vision, supporting with
recruitment, interviews and safeguarding training, as
well as researching potential partner organisations. As
they continue to build upon their previous experience
and develop leadership and decision-making
capabilities, we are confident that they will take these
skills into wider society.| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The remaining funds for this reporting period are
designated for completion of our 2023 Mentoring
Programme, funding of the CEO’s salary and to
sustain our reserves. We actively seek to diversify our
income streams and have a robust strategy in place to
ensure that we are financially sustainable. The key
areas we consider in this regard are grants from trusts
and foundations, partnerships with creative industry
employers to generate charitable income and regular
donations. The Trustees are confident that we can
continue to maximise our impact and deliver
sustainable programmes that serve the young people
we work with.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Trustees have established a reserves policy
whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or
invested in tangible fixed assets (‘the free reserves’)
held by the charity should be kept at the equivalent of
three months running costs. At this level, the Trustees
feel that they would be able to continue the current
activities of the charity in the event of a significant drop
in funding. If this happens, it would then be necessary
to consider how the funding would be replaced or
activities changed.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£9,500| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/a| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|The Trustees are confident that there are no ongoing
concerns and will be able to sustain the organisation.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|We’re incredibly grateful for the support from the
following funders who have enabled us to grow our
work over this reporting period: The Blagrave Trust,
National Lottery Awards for All England, Zing, The
Lovington Foundation, Islington Community Chest,
Islington Giving & Owl Inc.| |---|---|---| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s

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Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|The charity trustees may at any time decide to
appoint a new charity trustee, whether in place of a
charity trustee who has retired or been removed.
A new trustee is selected via an open recruitment
process, whereby a specific role (for example, Chair)
is advertised. Applicants take part in an interview, and
one person is selected provided there is a quorum of
the sitting Board.
The charity trustees will make available to each new
charity trustee, on or before their first appointment:
(a) A copy of the constitution and any amendments
made to it.
(b) A copy of the CIO's latest trustees' annual report
and statement of accounts.| |---|---|---| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Creative Opps CIO| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Creative Opps| |Registered charity number|1190916| |Charity’s principal address|MILDMAY COMMUNITY CENTRE
WOODVILLE ROAD
LONDON
N16 8NA| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
| |---|---|---|---|---| |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|Lucy Rolington|Co-Chair||~~**(if any)**~~| ||Edi Whitehead|Co-Chair||| ||Joshua Pugh|||| ||Emer May Morris|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| 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 rf not for whole year **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|N/a| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/a| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|N/a| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details N/a ## **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)** _EDI WHITEHEAD_ **Position (eg** _CO-CHAIR_ **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** _25 JANUARY 2024_ ||**Creative Opps CIO**|**Creative Opps CIO**|**Creative Opps CIO**|**Creative Opps CIO**|**Creative Opps CIO**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||**1/9/2022**||||**31/8/2023**||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Grants|**36,125**||**29,162**||**-**||**65,287**||**10,170**| |Charitable Activities|**3,000**||**-**||**-**||**3,000**||**-**| |Access to Work Payments|**- 0**||**16,978**||**-**||**16,978**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**39,125**||**46,140**||**-**||**85,265**||**10,170**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|
**39,125**||**46,140**||**- 0**||**85,265**||**10,170**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Salaries and Employer's costs|**15,275**||**32,471**||**-**||**47,746**||**-**| |Dues and subscriptions|**1,396**||**-**||**-**||**1,396**||**-**| |Other expenses|**96**||**-**||**-**||**96**||**-**| |Small Equipment|**300**||**-**||**-**||**300**||**-**| |Other professional services|||**6,739**||**-**||**6,739**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|
**17,067**||**39,210**||**-**||**56,277**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **|
**17,067**||**39,210**||**- 0**||**56,277**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**22,058**||**6,930**||**-**||**28,988**||**10,170**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **|
**22,058**||**6,930**||**-**||**28,988**||**10,170**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at Bank £30,831||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||Agreement Error||||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| ||||||`EDI WHITEHEAD`||||`25 JAN 2024`| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|**Creative Opps CIO**|**Creative Opps CIO**|**Creative Opps CIO**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31stAugust 2023|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1190916| ||||| ||1-3||| **Respective** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. **responsibilities of** The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year **trustees and examiner** under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: - examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act, - to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and - to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. - **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner’s statement** by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. - **Independent** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention - **examiner's statement** 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements: - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act - have not been met; or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**||25/01/2024| |---|---|---| |||| ||Genevieve Jones|| |||| ||Association of Accounting Technicians|| |||| ||71 St Marks Avenue|| **IER** 1 Gravesend Kent DA11 9LN ## **Section B Disclosure** N/a **IER** 2 **Give here brief details of** N/A **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **IER** 3