## **KYRIA NETWORK** ## **ANNUAL REPORT** **FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021** CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustg9s1 members of Kyria Nelwork On accounts for the period ended 31 De￿rnber 2021 Charity no lif any) 1193102 Set out on pages 21010 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Ihe above charity (￿he Trust") for the period ended 31 December 2021. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charty's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charilies Act 2011 Ilhe Act") I report in respect of my examination ol the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examinerfs statement come to my attention in connection with the examinalion which gives me cause to believe Ihat in, any material respect.. the accounting records were nol kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounls did not accord with the accounting records., or the 8CCOUTlts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the fom and conlenl of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Slgned: Date: 2611 or2022 Name: Greg Smyth Relevant professional qualification{sl or body (if any): ICAEW Address: Smyth & Co., 4 High Street, Langford, Biggleswade. Beds, SG18 9RR. ## KYRIA NETWORK ## **13 January 2021 to 31 December 2021** **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period from 13th January 2021- December** **2021** **Financial year end: 31 December 2021** ## **Reference and Administrative details** ||| |---|---| |**Charity name**|Kyria Network| |**Other name the**
**charity uses**|Sophia Network| |**Registered charity**
**number**|**1193102**| |**Charity’s principal**
**address**|4 Hanbury Road, Chelmsford, Essex| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---| |**Amanda Jackson**|CHAIR|13th January 2021| |**Olivia Laverne Amartey**|TRUSTEE|29th January 2021| |**Grace Yee-Oi Marshall**|TRUSTEE|29th January 2021| |**Catherine Madavan**|TRUSTEE|29th January 2021| |**Nicola Alice Sims**|TRUSTEE|20th January 2021| |**Tania Bright**|TRUSTEE|13th February 2021| |**Peter Granville Sims**|TRUSTEE|13th February 2021| |**Bev Murrill**|TRUSTEE|13th January 2021- April 29th 2021| |**Rev Martin Hardwidge**|TRUSTEE|13th January 2021- April 29th 2021| **Additional information** 2 ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members:** |||| |---|---|---| |**Amy Summerfield**|**CEO**|**amy@kyrianetwork.co**
**m**| |**Bukola George**|**Finance**|**bukky_g@hotmail.co.uk**| |**Lisa Leonce**|**Diversity and inclusion**
**Officer**|**slisa446@hotmail.com**| ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Summary of the**
**purposes of the**
**charity as set out**
**in its governing**
**document**|**The promotion of gender equality within the Christian**
**church, in the UK and beyond, for the public benefit**
**through education, research, advocacy and awareness**
**raising. Promotion of the Christian faith.**| |---|---| |**The objects of the**
**CIO are:**|**The promotion of gender equality within the Christian**
**church, in the UK and beyond, for the public benefit by.**
● **The elimination of discrimination on the grounds**
**of gender**
● **Advancing education and raising awareness in**
**equality and diversity**
● **Promoting activities to foster understanding**
**between people from diverse backgrounds**
● **Conducting or commissioning research on**
**equality and diversity issues and publishing the**
**results to the public**
● **Cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and**
**diversity**
● **Promotion of the Christian faith**| 3 |**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.**|● **Leadership Blogs**
● **Leadership Focus events**
● **Book clubs**
● **Conferences in regions and nations**
● **Advocacy and advice meetings**
●
**Senior leaders networking and retreats**
● **Rebrand, including consultancy and community**
**feedback**
● **online portal of resources and webs**
**development**| |---|---| ## **Additional information** |**Policies**|**Trustee Job Description and Role**
**Trustee Job Descriptions and Roles**
**Volunteer Deceleration**
**Safeguarding Policy**
**Data Policy and Privacy Policy**| |---|---| |**Volunteers and**
**breakdown in 2021**|**Whole Number: 40**
**Board: 7**
**Council of Reference: 7**
**Canopy:6**
**England: 6**
**Northern Ireland:0**
**Scotland: 9**
**Wales: 1**
**Misc: 4**| ## **Achievements and Performance** **2021 has been a milestone year for Kyria.** **For 12 months we introduced a resource called “Hidden Figures” inspired by the book, and film by Margot Lee Shetterly. Kyria focussed on women leaders who were massively effective in their context but whose names have been obscured through the midst of time. This monthly resource acknowledged their achievements, their grit, their abhorrence of complacency and passivity and invited us to go on a journey of what we too could learn from their stories.** 4 **In February, we partnered with Diamonds to produce a 8 week podcast called “Called to Influence” for 14-18 year old girls which was well received. February also saw Amy our CEO develop stronger networks and links into Wales with a view to establish the network in that nation.** ## **In March, we partnered with International Women’s Day (IWD)** **#choosetochallenge and ran 3 leadership focus events on Choose to challenge, conscious and unconscious gender and racial biases. This was well attended and enhanced our focus to support in this justice area.** **We also launched regular bi-monthly leadership book clubs with an average attendance of 40 per book over a 10 week period. This saw leaders from across the UK and beyond participate.** **April saw the successful launch of an organisational rebrand including new website, new resources and a new online portal to champion, empower and support women leaders across the UK.** **To support this, stronger structures/systems, roles and responsibilities were defined to support and structure our growth. Some of these policies included safeguarding, data protection and privacy policies, volunteer sign up policies and declarations etc. April saw Bev Murrill step down as a Trustee. She remains a volunteer.** **Since becoming a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and rebranding we’ve been able to work with Stewardship to receive monthly financial support from champions and partners who believe and support what we do . Stewardship provides a quick and effective way for one off or regular donations, and also the ability to receive gift aid.** **In 2021 we received a 3 year grant of £5.000 per year to support our work, and towards the end of the year a restricted one off gift of £10.000 to support the growth of the work in Scotland, releasing Kyria Scotland into a new season with its own national leader in 2022 and also the goal to appointment an overall admin support in the same year.** **In May we successfully lead another Leadership focus on ‘Choose to challenge’, exploring conscious and unconscious gender and racial biases, and appointed Lisa Leonce as volunteer Diversity and inclusion Officer to oversee all our volunteers or workers now or in the future.** **Amy Summerfield, our CEO, started early connection and conversation in Northern Ireland with a view to establish the network in that nation.** 5 **May saw Martin Hardwidge step down as a Trustee and Treasurer and the appointment of a volunteer treasurer Bukola George with informal interviews and conversations lead by Amy Summerfield our CEO.** **In June we ran a Leadership focus on the importance of self care and physical health and wellbeing. Another book club was launched this time with around 20 participating.** **In July we ran another Leadership focus on the importance of self care and emotional and mental health and wellbeing. We launched a nation wide prayer team to support and pray over our work and a new Kyria Wales Leader was announced.** ## **August was a quiet month to go slow and recalibrate over summer** **September saw another book club of 30 participate and a national team for Wales starting to develop with one to one meetings with each leader and our CEO.** **October saw another Leadership Focus with an opportunity to highlight, discuss and learn about racial equality God’s way.** **In November we received a 10K grant designated to women leaders in Scotland and the development and recruitment of a Kyria Scotland leader. The team also began a large piece of research and preparation on “The Well”. The Well is an online resource which contains recommended books, blogs, videos, podcasts and websites that we hope will encourage and equip leaders as well as supporting authors, teachers and speakers as they pave the way for women in leadership.** **We met together online, in December, as a team and provided a Christmas reflection for leaders . Every month of 2021 we also provided a online worship hour for leaders.** ## **As a Board we have aspirations and aims for 2022 including the following** - **The appointment of a Kyria National Leader for Scotland** - **The appointment of a ½ day a week administrator** - **The launch of Kyria Wales Team and events** - **The launch of a Kyria Northern Ireland events** ## **Other goals will include:** - **The Well - which aims to resource women in leadership and theology with recommended reading, blogs and articles which really help all** - **12 online monthly Leadership Focus events** 6 - **Providing Top Leadership Tips each Tuesday from women leaders in all spheres of influence** - **The productions of a Podcast to equip and resource leaders** - **Big denominational conversations for advice and advocacy** - **Support for senior leaders Zooms, mentorship 121s** - **Conferences across the 4 UK Nations** ## **Financial Review** |**Review of the**
**charity’s financial**
**position at the end**
**of the period**|
**It has been a healthy financial year for**
**Kyria . We received two grants to the**
**amount of £15k which have made a**
**significant difference, especially to our**
**work in Scotland.**
**In partnership with Stewardship we've**
**benefit through the gift aid scheme**
**and our regular donations have**
**increased to an average of £580 a**
**month. This significant increase has**
**allowed us to build and plan more**
**effectively and strategically as a**
**network.**
**Apart from ongoing payments to our**
**CEO as a sole trader, our biggest**
**expenditure has been rebranding and**
**investment into the**
**website/hosting/design etc.**
**It is important to note that in 2021 our**
**events have been mostly online events**
**due to the pandemic. Therefore**
**budgeting and planning for the future,**
**with more face to face events, will be**
**managed carefully with an ongoing**
**strategy to at least break even and to**
**fundraise at these events.**
**In summary, we are thankful for a**
**stable and healthy financial year,**
**despite challenging circumstances.**| |---|---| 7 |**Statement**
**explaining the**
**policy for holding**
**reserves stating**
**why they are held**|**During November 2021 The Haldane Trust gave**
**£10,000 to be held for the work of Kyria Scotland.**
**The trustees have considered the requirements**
**for reserves based on the main risks to funding,**
**and have decided to aim for 3 months of core**
**operational costs in the unrestricted reserves.**| |---|---| ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## **Signature** ## **Full Name** ## **Amanda Jackson** ## **Position** **Chair** ## **Date: 26 October 2022** 8 ||**Kyria Network**|**Kyria Network**|**Kyria Network**|**Kyria Network**|**Kyria Network**|**1193102**|**1193102**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||13th January2021||**To**||31st December 2021||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**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**|||||||||| |Donations|23,577||**-**||**-**||**23,577**||-| |Grants|-||10,000||**-**||**10,000**||-| |Other|1,350||-||**-**||**1,350**||-| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**24,927**||**10,000**||**-**||**34,927**||**-**| |
|||||||||| |~~**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**~~
**table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**24,927**||**10,000**||**-**||**34,927**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Administrative services|7,200||**-**||**-**||**7,200**||-| |Speakers/Leaders Fees/Gifts|1,496||**-**||**-**||**1,496**||**-**| |Event Venue Costs|29||**-**||**-**||**29**||**-**| |Food/Accommodation|1,631||**-**||**-**||**1,631**||-| |Telephone & Internet|1,132||**-**||**-**||**1,132**||-| |Website cost|3,410||||||**3,410**||**-**| |Postage|36||**-**||**-**||**36**||**-**| |Insurance cost|271||||||**271**||-| |Travel: Mileage|-||**-**||**-**||**-**||-| |Books/resources|11||||||**11**||-| |Travel: Other|101||**-**||**-**||**101**||-| |Bank & transaction charges|39||**-**||**-**||**39**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**15,357**||**-**||**-**||**15,357**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
~~**purchases (see table)**~~|||||||||| |~~**,**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**15,357**||**-**||**-**||**15,357**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**9,570**||**10,000**||**-**||**19,570**||**-**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**9,570**||**10,000**||**-**||**19,570**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| 9 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**|Bank account||||**9,540**||**10,000**||**-**| ||PayPal account||||**30**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**9,570**||**10,000**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||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| ||||||Amanda Jackson||||26/10/2022| ||||||||||| 10