## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From Period start date To Period end date**
**Charity name: Choices For You**
## **Charity registration number:1192611**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 Relief of Unemployment
purposes of the charity
as set out in its
governing document
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and To include activities / games to
1.19
activities in relation to encourage people to feel empowered
those purposes for the to make the right choices. How we
public benefit, in deliver? We provide a safe and secure
particular, the activities, learning environment where
projects or services beneficiaries can freely express
identified in the themselves. Our employment course
accounts. can be delivered • Classroom based •
Online • Group • 1:1 Workshop Dates
These will be determined with
beneficiaries in due course. Additional
workshops can then be programmed
in as required. 1:1 mentor support is
optional Feedback evaluation At the
end of each workshop, evaluations by
the participants will be completed via
feedback forms and submitted to the
Choices for You trainer. We can assess
each beneficiary learning
development throughout the course
and will measure outcomes, impact
Diamond Programme – Regain Your
Value (Soft Skills) Leadership/
Personal Development Training Who
do we help? We offer a 6-week ‘Soft
skills’ leadership and personal
development employment training
programme to beneficiaries from
social and economic disadvantage
communities to enhance their skills.
Our programme is designed for
beneficiaries who are identified as
unemployed, long term unemployed,
those who are NEET, beneficiaries
who have been made redundant or
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unemployed due to the recent Covid
19 pandemic. Training programmes
can either be accessed online or
delivered through face-to-face
classroom facilitation. Our
programmes are designed to help
with the relief of unemployment for
the public benefit. What we cover
Leadership and Personal Development
skills • Develop an understanding of
personal leadership and development
• Introduction into collective
leadership – Group work, why it’s
important to work with others •
Create a structured personal
leadership plan – Education, Training,
employment • Build self-confidence
and become more work ready through
the development of key skills
including, Positive thinking, planning
skills, team building, responding to
change • Identify barriers that
beneficiaries may face that will
prevent them from moving into a
positive outcome • To help develop
confidence and increase self-esteem
by advancing public speaking skills •
Enhance communication skills,
Interpersonal skills • Encourage
decision making • Work / Life Balance
• Action plan to help identify
employment, training or education
goals, aims and objectives How we
deliver We provide a safe and secure
learning environment where
beneficiaries can freely express
themselves. Our employment course
can be delivered either • Classroom
based • Online • Group • 1:1
Statement confirming Para 1.18 Trustees received the Charity
whether the trustees Commission guidance on being a
have had regard to the Trustee, what the role entails and a
guidance issued by the special online meeting was held to
Charity Commission on discuss any questions. Agreement to
public benefit the role was confirmed by all
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## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference
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SORP reference
N/A
Para 1.38
Policy on grant making
It is the intention of Choices For You to
Para 1.38 invest back into the community by
Policy on social providing pre- employability/
investment including leadership programmes to support
program related people back into work. Pre pandemic,
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investment we held public speaking events for
the community, but due to Covid we
have delayed face to face e
Public speaking events until spring
2023. Our cancelled events hindered
our outreach service during our first
year.
Our current Trustees and team are
Para 1.38 volunteers who have contributed their
Contribution made by expertise and time to the charity. We
volunteers are a new start up charity that
registered in December 2020 during
Covid 19 Pandemic.
N/A
Other
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
Our main achievements were our
public speaking events for
International Women’s Day in March
Summary of the main 2020. We expanded our events into
Para 1.20
achievements of the two local arears and our speakers all
charity, identifying the went into positive outcomes including
difference the charity’s work, university, and college. Due to
work has made to the Covid 19 our events did stop and will
circumstances of its resume in Spring 2023. We have
beneficiaries and any helped support beneficiaries via
wider benefits to society online platforms during the Covid 19
as a whole. pandemic. We have been hindered by
events completely out of our control ,
however we have been connecting
with outside organisations and
helping people online.
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We have achieved a lot, however we
registered during the pandemic, and
Achievements against Para 1.41 it has been difficult as our outreach
objectives set work was limited
We received our first funding from
The National Lottery in mid-August
Performance of 2021 and we saw activities ground to
fundraising activities Para 1.41 a halt due to Covid
against objectives set
All activities ground tom halt due to
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uncertain times with Covid 19
Para 1.41
Investment performance pandemic
against objectives
We are however booking beneficiaries
onto face-to-face courses, now we are
out of a pandemic.
N/A
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 30 [th] June 2022
financial position at the £9,700 in the bank with no
end of the period outstanding debts
Statement explaining Para 1.22 At present we do not have funds in
the policy for holding reserve, but we will review our current
reserves stating why status and set a reserve budget
they are held
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 We are not in debt to any other
supplier and will review our current
status and set a reserve budget
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 Due to the pandemic, we do not owe
reserves any monies in case of refunds, or any
other expenditure
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 N/A
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 It is an uncertain time for us all, and
uncertainties about the we are currently in a cost of living
charity continuing as a crisis. It will take time for operations
going concern to get back to pre pandemic times,
and we will need to focus on
fundraising activities, and recruiting
more volunteers to help with the
running of the charity. We are all at
the mercy of government restrictions
and funding.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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We have received funding from The
National Lottery Community Fund and
The charity’s principal will need to focus our attention on
sources of funds Para 1.47 community funding soon. We will look
(including any at holding community events and
fundraising) sponsored activities.
Work in progress
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
A description of the Para 1.46
principal risks facing the
charity
Other
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 Charity Incorporated Organisation
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Trustees are selected, Interviewed by
methods including board of trustees, and voted in.
details of any Charity Commission documentation of
constitutional provisions responsibilities of a Trustee are given.
e.g. election to post or
name of any person or
body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Trustees are selected, interviewed by
board of trustees and voted in.
Policies and procedures Charity commission documentation of
adopted for the Para 1.51 responsibilities are given. Choices For
induction and training of You has policies in place for financial
trustees controls, Data protection and
safeguarding.
Choices For You has a board of
trustees that meet every 6 weeks
The charity’s
organisational structure Para 1.51 Other volunteers have participated to
and any wider network work in a practical capacity when
with which the charity required.
works
N/A
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Choices For You
Other name the charity Choices For Youth
uses
Registered charity 1192611
number
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||Charity’s principal
address|85 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 7LT||
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Charlene Maines
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2 Adrian Samuel Chair
3 Rodger Seaman
4 Lisa Baldock
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
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Director name
N/A
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
Trustee name Dates acted if not for
whole year
N/A
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements N/A for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **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)** C.Maines **Full name(s)** Charlene Maines
**Position (eg** Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 30/06/2022