# **Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Report**
# **of Youth Empowerment Platform (YEP)**
(For the period 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025)
## Contents:
|1|Trustees’ Annual Report|2-3|
|---|---|---|
|2|Financial Review|4|
|3|Financial Report|4-5|
Charity reference number 1192003
Postal Address 54 Seagrim Road BH8 0BD
Website: yepbame.co.uk
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## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
## **Our Aims and Purposes**
To help young people aged 11 to 18 years old to positively advance in life. Our target group are but not exclusively, young people from BAME (BLACK, ASIAN, AND MINORITY ETHNIC) backgrounds. Our purpose is:
The provision of recreational and leisure time activities in the interest of social welfare, designed to positively improve their life view and develop their resilience.
Providing support and activities which explore and develop their individual skills, capacities, and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals in later life.
## **Our Activities**
At YEP, we support a young people-led social activities and event programmes that bring young people together to address mental, physical, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing in a safe environment.
However, during the period it was decided that this would be our last year to engage young people in YEP activities. This is because these activities would not be possible without su�icient ongoing funding and adequate reliable volunteers’ input. A communication on stoppage of YEP was sent out by the Lead Trustee on 15[th] Sept 2025.
Despite this decision, YEP has continued to sign post parents to di�erent activities in the community through this WhatsApp (online) group as we wound-down YEP activities in the period.
## **Our Achievements**
## **Networking**
Over the period we met at Kings Park for games and social e�ects including meeting new friends and confidence building networking. We had another face-to-face activity at Boscombe beach for our summer BBQ party. At the end of the year, we held our Christmas party at Nando’s restaurant.
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## **Wellbeing**
to support mental health and fitness of the young people that attended.
We have had face to face group meetings with guest speakers and online advisory sessions to discuss di�erent topics of interest to the young people. These were purposed to share life experiences on wellbeing.
## **Empowerment:**
We have had online discussion panels and face to face meetings. Particularly of note we had a guest speaker who delivered a topic on identity and cultural matters among the young people. We also had a Q&A presentation by a young student from Bristol university; furthermore, we another student talking about university apprenticeships and the working world.
## **Breaking Barriers**
Like the previous year the young people with their parents had a networking session with Dorset police where they met face to face and had opportunities to engage with tools of law enforcement like sitting in the police car and meeting the police canine team.
## **Our Governance and Management**
The governing document for YEP is our constitution. The YEP trustees have been constitutionally elected and charged with fiduciary duties to oversee and interpret how YEP’s charitable purposes are being fulfilled in accordance with the YEP constitution and in accordance with the regulator (the UK Charity Commission) and UK law. This includes making the Annual Return that includes the financial reports as required by the regulator.
Current list of Trustees includes Ms Alima Jalloh-North, Dr Eva Muhumuza, Pastor Ade Bamgboye, Mrs Kundai Muzura (Lead Trustee). The work done by all our trustees is highly appreciated.
This Trustees’ Annual Report was approved by the YEP Trustee Committee and signed on their behalf by Dr Eva Muhumuza, Trustee.
……………………… ……………Date……………29/01/2025…………………… _Dr Eva Muhumuza_
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## Financial Review
## **Summary**
All our activities on o�er to our young people are free. Our principal charity income source is mostly from grants. During the period YEP graciously received unrestricted funding from Dorset Community Fund to whom we are most grateful.
We are pleased to have also received income from, members donations and grant from funding partner organisations. Despite this support, its however sad not to be able to progress the YEP agenda beyond this year due to shortage of funding.
## **Financial Report**
## **Statement of Financial Activities For the period 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025**
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General Restricted Total 2025 Total 2024 Notes
Fund (£) Funds (£) (£) (£)
Receipts
Donations -
10.00 10.00 43.87
Funding Grants - -
2,000.00 2,000.00
-
Total Receipts
2,010.00 2,010.00 43.87
Payments
Cost of Raising Funds - - - -
Cost of Charitable -
Activities 1,749.00 1,749.00 3,076.27
Administration and -
Compliance Costs 378.05 378.05 367.21
Donations - - - -
-
Total Payments
2,127.05 2,127.05 3,443.48
- - - -
Net receipts /
(payments) 117.05 117.05 3,399.61
-
Total funds brought
forward 251.56 251.56 3,626.17
Total funds carried -
forward 134.51 134.51 226.56
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## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities For the period 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025**
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General Restricted Total 2025 Total 2024 (£) Notes
Fund (£) Funds (£) (£)
Current Assets
Cash at bank
134.51 134.51 251.56
Cash in hand -
-
Total Current Assets -
134.51 134.51 251.56
Debtors
Gift Aid (HMRC) -
- - -
Investments
-
Prepayments -
- - -
Insurance -
- - -
Total Assets -
134.51 134.51 251.56
Liabilities
-
Totals -
- - -
Net Assets less -
Liabilities 134.51 134.51 251.56
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## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
The members have not required YEP to obtain an audit of its accounts for the accounting period 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 using the Receipts and Payments basis.
The accounting records consist mainly of cash records, reconciled to activity in our bank account the Co-op bank current account.
The General Fund is unrestricted for both income and expenditure. There were no Restricted Funds.
Increase or decrease of reserves pertains to cash or property assets. Cash reserves are aimed to cover contingent expenditure.
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This Financial Report for the period 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025 including the notes to the financial statements, was approved by YEP and signed on its behalf by Dr Eva Muhumuza, Trustee.
……………………… ……………… Date……………29/01/2025……………… _Dr Eva Muhumuza_
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