MAG Annual Report October 2020 to September 2021 |**Charity Name**|**Manhood Academy Global**| |---|---| |**Other names known**
**by**|MAG| |**Registered Charity**
**number**|1191613| |**Principal Address**|Capital Office,KempHouse,152-160 CityRoad,London,EC1V 2NX| |**Trustees**|**Name**
**Role**
**Dates**
**Appointed by**
Sandra White
Safeguarding
Lead
02/10/2020
Registration of
Organisation
Dr Suezella Palmer
Trustee
02/10/2020
As above
Angela Graham
Chair
02/10/2020
As above
Isatou Lovelace
Secretary
06/09/2021
Board of Trustees| |**Advisors**|Kwesi Ochosi current advisor, capacity builder.| |**Management Team**|Davis J Williams| |**Governing**
**Document**|Constitution dated 10th August 2020| |**How the charity is**
**constituted**|Charitable Incorporated Organisation- Foundation| |**Charity trustee**
**selection**|Appointed by existing trustees| |**Governance**|**Organisational chart**| |**Objects**|To advance in life and help young people through:| ||(a) The provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of
social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life
(b) Providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and
capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible
individuals
To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming
socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and
assisting them to integrate into society.
For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society,
or part of society, because of being a member of a socially and economically deprived
community.
It is Manhood Academy Global’s intention to restrict benefits only where reasonable.
For the public benefit to work with young people with protected characteristics under
the Equality Act 2010. As an organisation Manhood Academy Global, helps to tackle
disadvantages that affect children and their families with the protected characteristics
of race African/African Caribbean heritage and gender working with male children
under the age of 25 years old.
“For the public benefit to promote the education (including social and physical training)
of people [under the age of 25 years] in areas that are considered disadvantaged and
affected by the highest deprivation in such ways as the charity trustees think fit,
including by:
(a) Awarding to such persons scholarships, maintenance allowances or grants tenable
at any university, college or institution of higher or further education.
(b) Providing their education (including the study of music or other arts), to undertake
travel in furtherance of that education or to prepare for entry to any occupation, trade
or profession on leaving any educational establishment.”| |---|---| |**Main activities**
**undertaken for**
**public benefit in**
**relation to the**
**objects**|**Main activities**
1)
The Road to Manhood – Teenage session – Community based workshops that
empowers and uplifts young people who are teenagers and are at risk of being
exploited
2)
Superhero Boot camp – Community based workshops that empowers and
uplifts young people who are 8-12 years old and are at risk of being exploited
3)
My Life Matters - Funding from Wandsworth Violent Crime Reduction Unit has
supported the MLM programme,a unique and powerful campaign that
exposes teenagers to Mental Health First Aid, Emergency First Aid,
Understanding your Rights, Resolving Conflict and Understanding Self
Defence**.**We believe that our young people are powerful beyond measure;
the future has been entrusted to them but with power comes great
responsibility.
4)
Parenthood Academy Centre of Excellence
5)
121 Mentoring
6)
Workshops in school and youth centres aim to deliver and promote education
includes social education and physical training| ## **Understanding of Public Benefit** All Trustees have received training in understanding Public Benefit on a number of occasions especially in the board meetings taking place on 21st May 2022 and 3rd September 2022. Board meetings now take place bi-monthly where using the agenda process we are able to question the operations and finance executive teams about progress of delivery in relation to our understanding of public benefit. Please note below: ## **Public Benefit** As Manhood Academy Global as a CIO we are set up to achieve the reduction in poverty, crime, serious youth violence and thus benefiting communities children and families with the protected characteristics of race and age by benefitting young people from age 8 to 18 with African, mixed African and African Caribbean heritage living in the super output areas, by postcode, within the top 10 percentile of the most deprived wards in London and the UK as indicated by the OSN and the Data Store LGA. We will achieve a change from a mindset of being a victim of circumstances to one of proactivity and aspiration. This is transformative work – based on using an asset based approach, people for the local community who care enough and are trained as facilitators and mentors to create trusted relationships that can support children and young people into moving away from risky behaviours to improved and successful strategies to improve life chances. Many of the children do not have a positive male example in their life and are at risk of being drawn into risky behaviour by negative influences in their environment. MAG is set up to ensure that the children and young people have protected factors including a safe space, a trusted adult and positive guidance to support positive development into contributing adults. In the Lammy Review 2017 and ten years earlier, the 2007 Home Affairs Select Committee, reports exploring the issue of Black and minority ethnic groups in the criminal justice system, it was identified that the economic cost to society of £309 million and loss of income re taxes and NI etc were a huge price to pay. It identified that whilst only 3% of the population in the UK, 20% of young people in custody were African/African Caribbean or mixed. Our aim is to reduce these figures. We see that by doing this work the public benefit will be the saving of public monies. Focused disciplined young people contributing to the economic growth of the country and their local area, reduced costs in policing, social work and education. ## **Recreation and Leisure Time Activities and Advancing Education** In Manhood Academy Global we aim to 'advance' **education** by promoting, sustaining and increasing each child’s and young person’s individual and collective knowledge and understanding for their personal and social development, increasing self-esteem and confidence in one’s own abilities by understanding how to set and achieve worthwhile goals and by taking responsibility and supporting others. (Social action/volunteering). We teach them the responsibilities of adulthood and that manhood requires proactive and responsible behaviours. We use goal models to support this. The sessions include debates and research by the young people to explore any of the subjects and come back with answers. I have attached the curriculum for your perusal. ||●
We advance education for the public benefit informally in community
groups working with children and their parents;
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We provide support in the form of mentoring and coaching;
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We provide support students with behavioural problems.
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We provide support to parents so they engage more with their children’s
education and we encourage greater parental involvement
1.
Who will be providing classes? In addition, how are we trustees satisfied they
are qualified?
1.
Sessions are delivered by facilitator’s who’s experience has been
working with children who have had behavioural issues in school or
in the community. The Team leader and Founder has worked in many
schools and is a sought after practitioner.
2.
We have CVs for all team members. Everyone is DBS checked and
trained in the curriculum. Prior to delivery, they work together with
other experienced facilitators. Delivery is done as a group. 121s are
only carried out with specialist qualified staff i.e., Counsellor.
3.
Facilitators with experience in social intervention and transformative
change working (some of us have over 20 years of successful
experience) with those young people considered high risk, living in
the top 10 percentile most deprived wards in the UK.
4.
Work to a tried and tested curriculum developed by the
Founder/CEO/Team Leader on over 15 years of successful change
delivery with young people in PRUs, Addaction (substance misuse
agency).
2.
How are needs assessed
1.
Referral form identifying criteria is initial assessment. Professionals at
schools identifying behaviours, poor educational outcomes, and
social workers with knowledge of a child being involved with the cjs.
2.
Parent self-referral – concerned about involvement in criminal
behaviour, or behavioural change at home e.g. more aggressive or
moody.
3.
Needs of children reviewed through supervision of staff and
curriculum adapted as required. The curriculum is developmental so
as the child increases in responsibility more responsibility is given to
them and they support some of the delivery and support others in
the group. Supervision reports are shared and discussed with
trustees and the CEO to ensure we are still working within our public
benefit.
3.
Our activities include
1.
Workshops – Deliver
2.
Residentials – to do more in depth work and remove young people
from the influences of the streets/urban environment.
3.
Social action opportunities to take responsibility and volunteering to
support the local community.
4.
We are seeking input from either the University of Bedford and/or Goldsmiths
University to carry out an assessment of our educational materials. We are
also looking at NCEF and other professional bodies to assist us with clarifying
our materials. And to explore the longer-term impact of our work.| |---|---| 5. We are in the process of developing a robust evaluation toolbox linked to our **Theory of Change (see attached).** However, we currently have basic evaluation questionnaires to measure what learning has taken place and this is completed by the young people but also by parents and teachers who provide an independent view point. We are still developing our evaluation tools. Beneficiaries receive the following benefits and outcomes: 1. Increased life chances 2. Improved access to job market 3. Improved contribution to family and society 4. Reduced cases of youth violence 5. Increased aspiration 6. Goal Plan 7. Increased confidence 8. Increased self esteem |**Additional matters**
**on activities**|**Contribution made by volunteers**
14 Coaches/Mentors providing support to 30 young people (aged 8 -16), in weekly
sessions, events, fairs and day trips.
4 volunteers providing support with Administration and Finance duties related to day
to day running of the charity.| |---|---| |**Main achievements**
**during the year**|Our main achievements
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We have successfully relaunched our services since the impact of the
pandemic.
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We successfully recruited 5 volunteers to our charity
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We secured funding from Wandsworth Local Authority
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We secured funding from Awards for All-The National Lottery
Charity’s main achievements for the year resulted from the charitable activities
undertaken for the public benefit
Brief narrative describing the results of the charity’s work or give details of the outputs
achieved, for example an output would be ‘ran 150 supervised playgroup sessions for
children aged 2 to 4 years of 3 hours each reaching 89 children and 60 families’
May choose to provide more detailed information re achievements:
Qualitative and quantitative explaining performance
Comparison of performance achieved with objectives set for:
Charitable activities
Fundraising
Investments
Commentary on any Factors within and outside charity’s control relevant to the
achievement of its objectives
Details of any Future plans and any other matters which the trustees believe should be
brought to readers notice
We have run approximately 40 weekly workshops of 2 -3 hours each for young boys
aged 8 - 16. We have worked with 50 boys and 15 families.
We have worked with 20 parents during our weekly parenting sessions (P.A.C.E)
We conducted 20 sessions in 6 schools, reaching out to 45 children as part of the My
Life Matters project.
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We launched My Life Matters Project in the London borough of Wandsworth -
a unique and powerful campaign that exposes teenagers to Mental Health
First Aid, Emergency First Aid, Understanding your Rights, Resolving Conflict
and Understanding Self Defence.
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Facilitated a Camping trip for 14 Young People
MAG was invited to attend the Nne Agwu Storytelling 5 days Family Retreat
created to inspire the creative well-being of the melanin rich UK communities
and support the evolution of the oral tradition of African storytelling.
MAG decided to take a group of young masters for their 'Rites of
Passage' experience. MAG's aim of taking the young masters to extremely
isolated parts of a Rural England, which is alien to their usual surroundings, is
for them to explore and experience a new environment, provide a healing
process for group bonding and communication, allow expression of creativity,
help towards self-development and to provide the basis for cultural, social and
health education.| ||Membership fees received from Parents
Donations received from the community and philanthropists.
Grants received from Wandsworth Local Authority – who funds the My Life Matters
Project.
Grant received from Rolls Royce company to help fund the Camping trip.
As a board of Trustees, we are exploring core funding to be able to expand our work
into the communities that matter so much to us and to ensure young people from
similar backgrounds are able to have the opportunity to access a life transforming
experience with MAG.| |---|---| |**Policy on reserves**|MAG does not currently have a Reserves Policy. In the process of updating the MAG
Financial Policy to include a Reserves Policy.
We would need £7500 to run the organisation for 6 months.| |**Other Information**|Details of key aims and objectives set for the future and planned activities
Seek funding to expand programme in other areas of London
Expand programme to continue to work within Schools
Rites of Passage trip to Gambia 2023/ 2024 for up to 15 boys
To create a Counselling service to support young boys and their parents.| ## **This report has been read and approved by the following Trustees** |**Name**|**Signature**|**Date Approved**| |---|---|---| |Sandra White|San���Wh��e|14 December 2022| |Angela Graham|An�e�� Gr��a�|14th December 2022| Good practice to be signed by 2 trustees Registered Number 12218772 MANHOOD ACADEMY GLOBAL .Micro-entity Accounts 30 September 2021 MANHOOD ACADEMY GLOBAL Registered Number 12218772 licro-entih" Balance Sheet as at 30 September 2021 Nole.s 2()21 2(J2() Current Assets 11,735 5.514 Creditors: amounts falling due wlthfin one year INet current assets (liabililies) (699} 11,735 4,815 Total assets less current liabilities 11,735 4,815 Total net assets {liabilities) 11,735 4,815 Reserves 11.735 4,815 For the year ending 30 September £021 the company was entitled to exemption under section 47- of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006. The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the rquirements of the Companies Act ?006 with respecl to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. The accounls haN'e been prepared in accoTdance with the Illicro￿nt1lY proYi5ions and delivered in accordancc with thc provisions applicablc to companics subjcct to thc small companics rcgimc. Approved by the Board on 27 June 202? And signed on their behalf by: C Lovelace, Director MANHOOD ACADEMY GLOBAL Registered Number 12218772 Notes to the Micro-entitv Account5 for the period ended 30 September 2021 Employees 2021 2020 Averagc numbcr of employees during the pcriod This docum¢nt was d¢liver¢d using ¢leclronic communications and authenticaled in accordance with the r¢gistrar's rules r¢laling to ¢l¢ctronic forni. authentication and mann¢r ot delivery under s¢¢tion 1072 of the Companies Act 2006.