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2024-03-31-accounts

The Wellbank Foundation

Report and Financial Statements Year to 31 March 2024 Charity Number 1192329

Reference and administrative information

Trustees

Principal Office: 7 Carlton Terrace, Jesmond Road West, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PD

Charity number: 1192329

Auditors:

Bankers: Virgin Money, 154-158 Kensington High Street, London. W8 7RL

Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2024

The Trustees present their annual report and financial statements of the charity for the period ended 31 March 2024. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply with the charity’s trust deed, the Charities Act 1993 and the SoRP: Accounting and Reporting by Charities published in 2005.

Structure, governance and management

The Trust is a registered charity, number 1192329 and is constituted under a trust deed dated 3 November 2021. The Trust was established by an initial gift by Mr and Mrs Robson and per the deed an annual gift will follow in order to fund those successful applications made by North Eastern charities complying with strict criterion. The Trust does not fundraise and seeks to continue the charitable work of allocating the annual gift to deserving charities.

New trustees are appointed by the existing trustees and serve for five years after which they can put themselves forward for reappointment. The deed provides for a minimum of 3 and there is no maximum number of trustees. Of the initial trustees, R Robson was appointed for 5 years, A Robson for 4 years, L Robson for 3 years and E Robson for 2 years.

L Robson was reappointed in December 2023 for three years.

Every quarter the trustees hold a meeting at which the various applications are discussed in order that they should be evaluated and a decision made as to whether a grant should be awarded. Prior to these meetings the applications are reviewed to ensure that those discussed comply with the specific criterion dictated by the trust deed.

All trustees are volunteers and no trustee remuneration was paid during the period. Trustees are required to disclose all relevant interest and register them at the meeting in order that all decisions are made fairly.

Risk Management

The donation is kept in a bank account, with 2 signatories, from which the grants are paid. All of the funds are kept in cash – no investments are undertaken.

Objectives and activities for the public benefit

The objectives state that the trust is set up to provide financial assistance to support activities and projects of registered charitable groups that enhance the lives of those disadvantaged in North East England.

The Trust achieves these objectives by allocating grants to the successful applicants, who deliver their projects. We do not deliver any projects ourselves or incur any costs.

Grant making policy

The applications are considered on an individual basis and their proposals are discussed in detail in order to decide on whether the charity’s request is successful.

Review of the public benefit from the grant funding

During the year to 31 March 2024 we have made grants to many charities, the effect of the funding is evaluated after the period stated within the applications by the charities and reported back to us.

Financial review

A donation was made in the year. At the end of the year there was a balance of £46,336 and grants have been promised in the final quarter of this year to the amount of £16,880. The remaining balance will be carried forward and added to the annual donation of £100,000 which will be made in year.

Grants awarded in this financial period

Grants have been awarded to the following charities for the described projects, the descriptions are the wording provided by the charities:

Northumberland Community Enterprise – Plot to Plate project is a combination of our community garden and allotment projects which we have been running for more than 15 years with our newly planned cookery project. A need for this has become apparent as we assist our struggling community through the cost of living crisis providing advice, guidance and referrals. PLP has a 3 stage process.

Step 1 - Weekly horticulture workshops on a 6 week programme with 5 programmes per year Step 2 - Use produce through our community fridge and Fareshare.

Step 3 – With our support participants plan and host seasonal community events providing their own produce from growing, cooking the food and accommodating the community.

ELCAP – ELCAP’s Shopping Bus Service is currently full and has a waiting list. We three days a week, every week and provide six different runs. The Shopping Bus Service is a door to door service picking up passengers from their homes and taking them to the shopping precinct and supermarket for that day. Our drivers and transport assistants help passengers who are unsteady on their feet to carry bags, fetch items, and board on and off the bus. It is a door-to-door service for people who have difficulties using public transport to go shopping. There may be mobility problems or other special needs. Our accessible mini-buses are ideal for wheelchair users and people who have difficulties with steps. We would like to extend the service to 9 trips a week and this can be started almost immediately. We helped ELCAP to fund the minibus drivers.

Special Lionesses – We would like to provide a multi-sensory theatre experience using the Moonbeam Theatre Company which is a bespoke Arts and Creative company providing specific and targeted performances for children with complex learning disabilities and life limiting conditions. This is specifically for our beneficiaries with additional needs including profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD). This event would take place over the course of three sessions and would commence on the 14th of October. Overall thirty-six beneficiaries would attend this event together with their siblings and parents, immersing themselves in art, sensory stimuli, visual stimulation all within an inclusive and accessible safe space, ensuring their every need is catered for. Allowing the families to access art and performance for possibly the first time.

Newcastle Community Foundation (West End Newcastle) – Over the last year, we have been working to create the following services: Free to Access Community Counselling Service, Creation of the Blakelaw Community Market, Food Pantry, Welfare Rights Services, CAB Services for Older People. Teamed up with Fareshare, Tesco and Asda for free to access food. With all of these essential services the one project that local people are requesting is Family Cooking Sessions alongside our Community Café that employs local people. This newly created service will be aimed at families and older people that are isolated.

Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation – We aim to reduce the financial hardship of Covid-19 and the Cost-of-Living Crisis (reduce family childcare and food costs) by providing a FREE three-day football and sports camp for young people aged 5-13 years at Gateshead lnternational Stadium. For six hours per day attendees can take part in several fun football related games and activities whilst also having the opportunity to try other sports such as Futsal, Golf Football, Street Racket, Touch Rugby, Dodgeball and Basketball. Overseen by skilled youth coaches, our activities are designed improve health and fitness, build friendships, teach important life skills such as

communication, teamwork, leadership skills, responsibility, accountability whilst boosting confidence and improving mental health. We can accommodate up to 150 attendees at 50 young people per day, primarily from low-income communities. We are an inclusive organisation and work with many young people from varied backgrounds including the asylum seeker and refugee, black and Asian communities as well as those with special needs and long-term health issues. A free hot lunch with dessert, along with bottled water and mid-morning snacks is provided and sessions are both indoor and outdoor, depending on the weather. This is a tried and tested project that has proven a massive success therefore we are looking for funding to continue this much-loved community project during the October half term.

West End Refugees – WERS would like to offer a ‘Community Activities and Connections’ (CAC) project to support community cohesion in the North East.

Hextol – We want to start a project in the grounds of a local care home which will involve our beneficiaries and the care home residents. Our food and flower growing project introduces elderly residents to our beneficiaries, who have learning difficulties and/or mental health needs, to reduce social isolation and learn about each other whilst enjoying the therapeutic benefits of gardening. The participants will work in a part of the care home grounds, being involved in planning, building, planting and growing. The project will take place weekly; our team will guide and oversee the participants as they tend the plants until harvest time, when they can enjoy the produce. The project will have three phases: development, building and project. We would like to start this as soon as possible. Initially, we will run this over a period of 12 months as a pilot project. We will evaluate it’s success after this period, taking into account the number of beneficiary placements, the influx of new beneficiaries, feedback from participants, care home staff, and from our own team. Additionally, we will approach beneficiaries' families and support staff through our annual survey. Subject to its success, we will continue beyond 12 months, funding permitting.

Cramlington Voluntary Youth Project – 2024 Outdoors and Active Push On offers more in the way of bike riding, walking, expeditions, archery and a host of team building initiatives. CVYP delivers a limited range of physically challenging activity on a weekly basis but we need to offer it to more children and young people moving forward. Using both sites to operate from; CVYP provides large numbers of children and young people, all wanting to do, and the ChEC site in Kielder which is outdoor focusses. CVYP has its own transport, so we can get out and about with any group from any of our outlets. We helped buy equipment to facilitate more children experiencing more outdoor activities.

Altitude – Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds often face educational disadvantages that significantly affect their long-term prospects. We are introducing a new programme tailored to 16-18 year olds which will offer these people a natural progression in the Altitude programme, allowing them to consolidate and expand upon the skills they’ve acquired. It will inspire them to aspire for success in tertiary education and future careers, building on the skills, knowledge, and capabilities they have gained from Altitude 1600, providing them with a long-term model of support.

Hand of - The Rigg and Furrow Project (RFP) is a week-long arts and environmental science project, in July 2023, for c.30 children identified as having SEND, SEMH, or are LAC or PP. These children live on the outskirts of the West Newcastle, and will travel daily by coach to Capheaton Hall and gardens to take part in a vibrant mixture of hands-on outdoor activities, as well as indoor arts activities.

Participating children will explore the heritage and sustainability of the rural landscape near to where they live. They will work alongside professional musicians and academics from the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University to learn about the history and future of land use in the area. They will create a performance in response to their experiences and newly gained knowledge.

RFP blends environmental science with cultural history, engaging children in topics including farming, biodiversity, food security and rural development, whilst highlighting the rich cultural musical heritage of the North East folk tradition.

RFP addresses two access problems: low socio-economic status, and/or disabilities have a detrimental impact on children’s access to both nature and green space, and music and culture.

The project will run from 26-30 July 2023.

Keyfund Federation Limited – Our project will build on previous success with the Wellbank Foundation by supporting an additional 40 young people residing in disadvantaged communities and facing challenging personal circumstances in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland to come together in small groups to participate in our youth-led development programme, the KEY+ challenge. The KEY+ challenge takes young people through a five-step process. Together, they will be supported by a Facilitator (trained deliverer) to: 1. Think of a project or activity that they really want to make happen 2. Plan what is needed for that project, including a budget, and how they are going to make it work 3. Pitch their project to a panel of friendly volunteers 4. Do their project if given the go ahead by the panel 5. Review and reflect on their project, learning, and development Timescales The Key hope to commence delivery of the project in October 2023 for a 11month project period. We will report back to the Wellbank Foundation in September 2024

on the success and impact of the grant including measurement of increases in skills and confidence, project impact, case studies and quotes from young people engaged. The start and finish time of our project can be flexible and is dependent upon a successful grant from the Wellbank Foundation.

Hatrick – We are seeking funding to sustain and develop weekly physical activity sessions. Aiming to increase and develop aspirations through long term participation in sport. Over the last year Hat Trick has worked in the west end area of Newcastle, on the stanhope street estate, engaging residents in sports provision, which is local, and, in an environment, they feel safe to participate. This project specifically engages young people from ethnically diverse communities and is mixed with significant engagement of female participants. By providing multi sports activities including football, basketball and dodgeball, families feel safe to participate in their locality and with coaches who they know and trust. This also relieves some financial stress for parents, enabling them and their children to take part at no cost.

We will continue 1 weekly sessions with young people and parents. This has proved to be extremely successful over the last year, increasing the levels of physical activity, instilling trust in the community, creating friendships and as a by product tackling anti-social behaviour and racism.

This funding would enable delivery to continue, along with taking our learning and experience to deliver a similar project in 5 other areas of Newcastle in (West Denton/holy spirit church), (Jubilee Estate/hawthorn,) ( Hodgkin Park/Bridgewater/Pendower) (Centre for Sport) (Byker/Dunn terrace (202 words)

We plan to start delivery week commencing 17[th] April 2023 and will deliver 6 sessions a week at all areas for 25 weeks Term time only.

Rockets Community Foundation – “The Launchpad is a newly refurbished inclusive community hub being created in Eastfield, Cramlington. Long recognised as one of the most deprived areas of Northumberland, Eastfield has a lot of issues with anti-social behaviour, a lack of community space, a need for mental health provision, and a need to engage all community groups to increase social inclusion.

Following a community asset transfer to Cramlington Rockets RLFC, a former RFL national community rugby league club of the year, its community arm Rockets Community was changed into a charity to manage the property and surround grass areas.

Currently we are undertaking a £400,000 refurbishment of the site. Currently we are £30,000 short and therefore looking for a contribution to help close that gap.

Working with leading architect and construction firms Ryder and Meldrum, work has already started on the site and is due to complete in June 2023.

Reserves policy

The policy of the trust is to distribute all donations made, consequently the presence of reserves represents a timing difference only. All reserves are unrestricted.

Plan for the next year

The trustees would like to continue funding those deserving charities in order that they may deliver projects that meet our criterion for support.

Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and the UK Accounting Standards. The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare proper statements which provide a true and fair view of the underlying financial transactions. In order to do so the trustees are required to

The trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity and enable them to ascertain to ensure that the financial statements comply with the charities Act 1993, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the charity and financial information included on the charity’s website.

Approved by the trustees on 8 April 2024 and signed on their behalf by

A Robson

Chair of Trustees

Wellbank Foundation

Statement of Financial Activities for the year ending 31 March 2024

Incoming resources
Donation 100,000
Unused grant returned 2,600
Total 102,600
Outgoing resources
Grants 119,387
Net movement of resources (16,787)
Reconciliation of funds
Brought Forward 63,123
Movement (16,787)
Carried Forward 46,336
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2024
Current Assets
Cash at bank 46,336
Net Assets 46,336
Funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds 46,336

Wellbank Foundation

The notes on page 8 form part of these accounts

Approved by the trustees on and signed on their behalf by

A Robson

Chair of Trustees

Wellbank Foundation

Notes to the accounts

1. Accounting policies

a) Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention. They have been prepared in accordance with SoRP: : Accounting and Reporting by Charities published in 2005 and applicable UK Accounting Standards and the Charities Act 1993.

b) Funds structure

The charity receives an annual donation in order to fund any grant requests made during the year. The trustees use their discretion to determine which applications are funded from the available monies.

All incoming resources are received as soon as the charity has entitlement to the resources, it is certain that the resources will be received and that the monetary value of the resources can be determined with certainty.

d) Resources expended

Grants are only made to charities when there are sufficient funds in the bank account. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis.

2. Related party transactions and trustees’ remuneration

Trustees are not permitted to receive and have not received any remuneration for their services as per the trust deed.

The Wellbank Foundation

Report and Financial Statements Year to 31 March 2024 Charity Number 1192329

Reference and administrative information

Trustees

Principal Office: 7 Carlton Terrace, Jesmond Road West, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PD

Charity number: 1192329

Auditors:

Bankers: Virgin Money, 154-158 Kensington High Street, London. W8 7RL

Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2024

The Trustees present their annual report and financial statements of the charity for the period ended 31 March 2024. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply with the charity’s trust deed, the Charities Act 1993 and the SoRP: Accounting and Reporting by Charities published in 2005.

Structure, governance and management

The Trust is a registered charity, number 1192329 and is constituted under a trust deed dated 3 November 2021. The Trust was established by an initial gift by Mr and Mrs Robson and per the deed an annual gift will follow in order to fund those successful applications made by North Eastern charities complying with strict criterion. The Trust does not fundraise and seeks to continue the charitable work of allocating the annual gift to deserving charities.

New trustees are appointed by the existing trustees and serve for five years after which they can put themselves forward for reappointment. The deed provides for a minimum of 3 and there is no maximum number of trustees. Of the initial trustees, R Robson was appointed for 5 years, A Robson for 4 years, L Robson for 3 years and E Robson for 2 years.

L Robson was reappointed in December 2023 for three years.

Every quarter the trustees hold a meeting at which the various applications are discussed in order that they should be evaluated and a decision made as to whether a grant should be awarded. Prior to these meetings the applications are reviewed to ensure that those discussed comply with the specific criterion dictated by the trust deed.

All trustees are volunteers and no trustee remuneration was paid during the period. Trustees are required to disclose all relevant interest and register them at the meeting in order that all decisions are made fairly.

Risk Management

The donation is kept in a bank account, with 2 signatories, from which the grants are paid. All of the funds are kept in cash – no investments are undertaken.

Objectives and activities for the public benefit

The objectives state that the trust is set up to provide financial assistance to support activities and projects of registered charitable groups that enhance the lives of those disadvantaged in North East England.

The Trust achieves these objectives by allocating grants to the successful applicants, who deliver their projects. We do not deliver any projects ourselves or incur any costs.

Grant making policy

The applications are considered on an individual basis and their proposals are discussed in detail in order to decide on whether the charity’s request is successful.

Review of the public benefit from the grant funding

During the year to 31 March 2024 we have made grants to many charities, the effect of the funding is evaluated after the period stated within the applications by the charities and reported back to us.

Financial review

A donation was made in the year. At the end of the year there was a balance of £46,336 and grants have been promised in the final quarter of this year to the amount of £16,880. The remaining balance will be carried forward and added to the annual donation of £100,000 which will be made in year.

Grants awarded in this financial period

Grants have been awarded to the following charities for the described projects, the descriptions are the wording provided by the charities:

Northumberland Community Enterprise – Plot to Plate project is a combination of our community garden and allotment projects which we have been running for more than 15 years with our newly planned cookery project. A need for this has become apparent as we assist our struggling community through the cost of living crisis providing advice, guidance and referrals. PLP has a 3 stage process.

Step 1 - Weekly horticulture workshops on a 6 week programme with 5 programmes per year Step 2 - Use produce through our community fridge and Fareshare.

Step 3 – With our support participants plan and host seasonal community events providing their own produce from growing, cooking the food and accommodating the community.

ELCAP – ELCAP’s Shopping Bus Service is currently full and has a waiting list. We three days a week, every week and provide six different runs. The Shopping Bus Service is a door to door service picking up passengers from their homes and taking them to the shopping precinct and supermarket for that day. Our drivers and transport assistants help passengers who are unsteady on their feet to carry bags, fetch items, and board on and off the bus. It is a door-to-door service for people who have difficulties using public transport to go shopping. There may be mobility problems or other special needs. Our accessible mini-buses are ideal for wheelchair users and people who have difficulties with steps. We would like to extend the service to 9 trips a week and this can be started almost immediately. We helped ELCAP to fund the minibus drivers.

Special Lionesses – We would like to provide a multi-sensory theatre experience using the Moonbeam Theatre Company which is a bespoke Arts and Creative company providing specific and targeted performances for children with complex learning disabilities and life limiting conditions. This is specifically for our beneficiaries with additional needs including profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD). This event would take place over the course of three sessions and would commence on the 14th of October. Overall thirty-six beneficiaries would attend this event together with their siblings and parents, immersing themselves in art, sensory stimuli, visual stimulation all within an inclusive and accessible safe space, ensuring their every need is catered for. Allowing the families to access art and performance for possibly the first time.

Newcastle Community Foundation (West End Newcastle) – Over the last year, we have been working to create the following services: Free to Access Community Counselling Service, Creation of the Blakelaw Community Market, Food Pantry, Welfare Rights Services, CAB Services for Older People. Teamed up with Fareshare, Tesco and Asda for free to access food. With all of these essential services the one project that local people are requesting is Family Cooking Sessions alongside our Community Café that employs local people. This newly created service will be aimed at families and older people that are isolated.

Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation – We aim to reduce the financial hardship of Covid-19 and the Cost-of-Living Crisis (reduce family childcare and food costs) by providing a FREE three-day football and sports camp for young people aged 5-13 years at Gateshead lnternational Stadium. For six hours per day attendees can take part in several fun football related games and activities whilst also having the opportunity to try other sports such as Futsal, Golf Football, Street Racket, Touch Rugby, Dodgeball and Basketball. Overseen by skilled youth coaches, our activities are designed improve health and fitness, build friendships, teach important life skills such as

communication, teamwork, leadership skills, responsibility, accountability whilst boosting confidence and improving mental health. We can accommodate up to 150 attendees at 50 young people per day, primarily from low-income communities. We are an inclusive organisation and work with many young people from varied backgrounds including the asylum seeker and refugee, black and Asian communities as well as those with special needs and long-term health issues. A free hot lunch with dessert, along with bottled water and mid-morning snacks is provided and sessions are both indoor and outdoor, depending on the weather. This is a tried and tested project that has proven a massive success therefore we are looking for funding to continue this much-loved community project during the October half term.

West End Refugees – WERS would like to offer a ‘Community Activities and Connections’ (CAC) project to support community cohesion in the North East.

Hextol – We want to start a project in the grounds of a local care home which will involve our beneficiaries and the care home residents. Our food and flower growing project introduces elderly residents to our beneficiaries, who have learning difficulties and/or mental health needs, to reduce social isolation and learn about each other whilst enjoying the therapeutic benefits of gardening. The participants will work in a part of the care home grounds, being involved in planning, building, planting and growing. The project will take place weekly; our team will guide and oversee the participants as they tend the plants until harvest time, when they can enjoy the produce. The project will have three phases: development, building and project. We would like to start this as soon as possible. Initially, we will run this over a period of 12 months as a pilot project. We will evaluate it’s success after this period, taking into account the number of beneficiary placements, the influx of new beneficiaries, feedback from participants, care home staff, and from our own team. Additionally, we will approach beneficiaries' families and support staff through our annual survey. Subject to its success, we will continue beyond 12 months, funding permitting.

Cramlington Voluntary Youth Project – 2024 Outdoors and Active Push On offers more in the way of bike riding, walking, expeditions, archery and a host of team building initiatives. CVYP delivers a limited range of physically challenging activity on a weekly basis but we need to offer it to more children and young people moving forward. Using both sites to operate from; CVYP provides large numbers of children and young people, all wanting to do, and the ChEC site in Kielder which is outdoor focusses. CVYP has its own transport, so we can get out and about with any group from any of our outlets. We helped buy equipment to facilitate more children experiencing more outdoor activities.

Altitude – Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds often face educational disadvantages that significantly affect their long-term prospects. We are introducing a new programme tailored to 16-18 year olds which will offer these people a natural progression in the Altitude programme, allowing them to consolidate and expand upon the skills they’ve acquired. It will inspire them to aspire for success in tertiary education and future careers, building on the skills, knowledge, and capabilities they have gained from Altitude 1600, providing them with a long-term model of support.

Hand of - The Rigg and Furrow Project (RFP) is a week-long arts and environmental science project, in July 2023, for c.30 children identified as having SEND, SEMH, or are LAC or PP. These children live on the outskirts of the West Newcastle, and will travel daily by coach to Capheaton Hall and gardens to take part in a vibrant mixture of hands-on outdoor activities, as well as indoor arts activities.

Participating children will explore the heritage and sustainability of the rural landscape near to where they live. They will work alongside professional musicians and academics from the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University to learn about the history and future of land use in the area. They will create a performance in response to their experiences and newly gained knowledge.

RFP blends environmental science with cultural history, engaging children in topics including farming, biodiversity, food security and rural development, whilst highlighting the rich cultural musical heritage of the North East folk tradition.

RFP addresses two access problems: low socio-economic status, and/or disabilities have a detrimental impact on children’s access to both nature and green space, and music and culture.

The project will run from 26-30 July 2023.

Keyfund Federation Limited – Our project will build on previous success with the Wellbank Foundation by supporting an additional 40 young people residing in disadvantaged communities and facing challenging personal circumstances in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland to come together in small groups to participate in our youth-led development programme, the KEY+ challenge. The KEY+ challenge takes young people through a five-step process. Together, they will be supported by a Facilitator (trained deliverer) to: 1. Think of a project or activity that they really want to make happen 2. Plan what is needed for that project, including a budget, and how they are going to make it work 3. Pitch their project to a panel of friendly volunteers 4. Do their project if given the go ahead by the panel 5. Review and reflect on their project, learning, and development Timescales The Key hope to commence delivery of the project in October 2023 for a 11month project period. We will report back to the Wellbank Foundation in September 2024

on the success and impact of the grant including measurement of increases in skills and confidence, project impact, case studies and quotes from young people engaged. The start and finish time of our project can be flexible and is dependent upon a successful grant from the Wellbank Foundation.

Hatrick – We are seeking funding to sustain and develop weekly physical activity sessions. Aiming to increase and develop aspirations through long term participation in sport. Over the last year Hat Trick has worked in the west end area of Newcastle, on the stanhope street estate, engaging residents in sports provision, which is local, and, in an environment, they feel safe to participate. This project specifically engages young people from ethnically diverse communities and is mixed with significant engagement of female participants. By providing multi sports activities including football, basketball and dodgeball, families feel safe to participate in their locality and with coaches who they know and trust. This also relieves some financial stress for parents, enabling them and their children to take part at no cost.

We will continue 1 weekly sessions with young people and parents. This has proved to be extremely successful over the last year, increasing the levels of physical activity, instilling trust in the community, creating friendships and as a by product tackling anti-social behaviour and racism.

This funding would enable delivery to continue, along with taking our learning and experience to deliver a similar project in 5 other areas of Newcastle in (West Denton/holy spirit church), (Jubilee Estate/hawthorn,) ( Hodgkin Park/Bridgewater/Pendower) (Centre for Sport) (Byker/Dunn terrace (202 words)

We plan to start delivery week commencing 17[th] April 2023 and will deliver 6 sessions a week at all areas for 25 weeks Term time only.

Rockets Community Foundation – “The Launchpad is a newly refurbished inclusive community hub being created in Eastfield, Cramlington. Long recognised as one of the most deprived areas of Northumberland, Eastfield has a lot of issues with anti-social behaviour, a lack of community space, a need for mental health provision, and a need to engage all community groups to increase social inclusion.

Following a community asset transfer to Cramlington Rockets RLFC, a former RFL national community rugby league club of the year, its community arm Rockets Community was changed into a charity to manage the property and surround grass areas.

Currently we are undertaking a £400,000 refurbishment of the site. Currently we are £30,000 short and therefore looking for a contribution to help close that gap.

Working with leading architect and construction firms Ryder and Meldrum, work has already started on the site and is due to complete in June 2023.

Reserves policy

The policy of the trust is to distribute all donations made, consequently the presence of reserves represents a timing difference only. All reserves are unrestricted.

Plan for the next year

The trustees would like to continue funding those deserving charities in order that they may deliver projects that meet our criterion for support.

Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and the UK Accounting Standards. The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare proper statements which provide a true and fair view of the underlying financial transactions. In order to do so the trustees are required to

The trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity and enable them to ascertain to ensure that the financial statements comply with the charities Act 1993, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the charity and financial information included on the charity’s website.

Approved by the trustees on 8 April 2024 and signed on their behalf by

A Robson

Chair of Trustees

Wellbank Foundation

Statement of Financial Activities for the year ending 31 March 2024

Incoming resources
Donation 100,000
Unused grant returned 2,600
Total 102,600
Outgoing resources
Grants 119,387
Net movement of resources (16,787)
Reconciliation of funds
Brought Forward 63,123
Movement (16,787)
Carried Forward 46,336
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2024
Current Assets
Cash at bank 46,336
Net Assets 46,336
Funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds 46,336

Wellbank Foundation

The notes on page 8 form part of these accounts

Approved by the trustees on and signed on their behalf by

A Robson

Chair of Trustees

Wellbank Foundation

Notes to the accounts

1. Accounting policies

a) Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention. They have been prepared in accordance with SoRP: : Accounting and Reporting by Charities published in 2005 and applicable UK Accounting Standards and the Charities Act 1993.

b) Funds structure

The charity receives an annual donation in order to fund any grant requests made during the year. The trustees use their discretion to determine which applications are funded from the available monies.

All incoming resources are received as soon as the charity has entitlement to the resources, it is certain that the resources will be received and that the monetary value of the resources can be determined with certainty.

d) Resources expended

Grants are only made to charities when there are sufficient funds in the bank account. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis.

2. Related party transactions and trustees’ remuneration

Trustees are not permitted to receive and have not received any remuneration for their services as per the trust deed.

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