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2024-12-31-accounts

Charity registration number: 1193772

Make Space for Girls Annual Report and Accounts Year ended 31 December 2024

Make Space for Girls

Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024

Contents

Reference and administrative details 3
Report of the Trustees 5
Statement of Trustees' responsibilities 14
Report of the Independent Examiner 15
Statement of financial activities 17
Balance sheet as at 31 December 2024 20
Notes to the Accounts 21

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Reference and administrative details

Charity name Make Space for Girls
Charity number 1193772
Country of Registration Registered in England and Wales with the Charity Commission for
England and Wales (“CCEW”).
The Charity does not operate in any overseas jurisdictions.
Registered address Suite RA01
195-197 Wood Street
London
E17 3NU
Telephone 01373 451318
Email makespaceforgirls@gmail.com
Website makespaceforgirls.co.uk
Legal structure The charity is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
(“CIO”) in England and Wales. The governing document of the Charity
is the constitution of the CIO as approved by the CCEW.
There are no restrictions in the governing documents on the operation
of the Charity or on its investment powers other than those imposed
by law.
Trustees The Trustees are all individuals. No Trustee holds title to property
belonging to the Charity.
The Trustees in office on the date the Report was approved were:
Nadine Grant-Peters
Natalie Louise Howden
Oluwatayo Isa-Daniel (appointed 14 May 2025)
Sian Louise Kilkenny Siddiqi
Margaret Koudelkova
Angela Manning Wood (appointed 8 March 2025)
Caroline Millar
Romy Karen Rawlings (appointed 14 May 2025)
Honor Marina Rhodes OBE
Jennifer Small
Poppy Catherine Todd Smith (appointed 8 March 2025)

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The Trustees who served during the reporting period and, if applicable, their dates of appointment during the reporting period were:

Nadine Grant-Peters (appointed 23 May 2024) Natalie Louise Howden (appointed 23 May 2024) Sian Louise Kilkenny Siddiqi (appointed 4 January 2024) Margaret Koudelkova (appointed 23 May 2024) Caroline Millar Honor Marina Rhodes OBE Jennifer Small (appointed 23 May 2024)

Bankers The Co-operative Bank PLC, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester Accountants JLM Bookkeeping

Exemptions from disclosure None

Funds held as custodian None

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Report of the Trustees

The Trustees present their Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024.

This was the fourth year of activity for Make Space for Girls (the “Charity”). This Report looks at what the Charity has achieved over the reporting period, including the success of key activities and the benefits that the Charity has brought to the groups of people that it has been set up to help. This review also assists the Trustees in ensuring that the Charity’s aims, objectives and activities remain focused on its stated purposes.

Throughout the year, many people have contributed their time, services, advice and funding towards our work. The Trustees are very grateful to all of them.

The purposes of the Charity as set out in its governing document

The objects of the CIO are the promotion of equality and diversity in all and any of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for the public benefit, in particular for the benefit of girls and young women in the reduction and elimination of discrimination on grounds of gender in the provisions of play, leisure and recreational facilities, including by:

Objectives and activities

Parks, play equipment and public spaces for older children and teenagers are currently designed for the default male. The lack of park facilities for girls, and the barriers excluding them from current provision, raises issues of equality in public spaces, and has an impact on their health.

Make Space for Girls campaigns for parks and public spaces to be designed for girls and young women, not just boys and young men.

We raise awareness of the issue, as well as using research and campaigning to ensure that the voices of girls and young women are heard in the planning process.

Above all, we place teenage girls at the centre of all our work.

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During 2024, the Charity’s vision, mission and values that guided its work were as follows.

Our Vision: We want parks and similar public spaces to be as welcoming to girls and young women as they are to boys and young men.

Our Mission: We will use research, engagement and education to campaign and drive an approach to the planning, commissioning and development of parks and similar public spaces that recognises the different needs of girls and young women and find ways to meet those needs.

Our Values:

In November 2024, the Board of Trustees endorsed the following interim mission statement and objectives, to guide the Charity’s work in late 2024 and early 2025.

Mission statement:

We advocate for the creation of parks and public spaces that prioritise the needs of teenage girls, and for places where they feel welcome and want to spend their time.

We want to empower teenage girls, whose needs are often overlooked in the design of public spaces, to be actively involved in their creation and to ensure that their needs are taken into account in policy and planning and within their local communities.

We believe that by creating better spaces for teenage girls, we are creating better spaces for everyone.

Objectives:

We listen to teenage girls and amplify their voices by giving them opportunities to share their experiences of public spaces and their ideas about how to make them better, ensuring these are taken into account in planning and decision-making processes.

We support people and local organisations to be part of the process of change in their communities and to make their public spaces more welcoming for teenage girls and for other groups who do not feel these spaces are for them.

Raising awareness and building networks

We work to raise public and stakeholder awareness about the lack of inclusive spaces for teenage girls and how things can be done differently to create better public spaces for all. We work with individuals and organisations that are committed to gender equity and inclusivity to build a supportive and powerful network of advocates and champions.

We advocate and campaign for change to national and local policy and practice and provide evidence-based guidance and advice to decision-makers. We gather information and research about how teenage girls interact with public spaces, identifying barriers to access and demonstrating the physical, mental and societal benefits of more inclusive public spaces.

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“ The fantastic Make Space for Girls are changing the conversation in development. Both developers and councils have a responsibility in making public spaces accessible for girls to enjoy and feel safe, but the reality is opportunities to do this are often missed. ” Cratus Communications

Our strategy:

During 2024, the Charity’s strategy for achieving its objectives was to prioritise the following areas of action:

Raising awareness

Currently, the disadvantages that teenage girls face in public space are not often acknowledged. Raising public and stakeholder awareness is core to our work.

Engagement

As our key beneficiaries, it is essential that the Charity engages with teenage girls to understand what they want and think, and place them at the centre of our work. At the same time, we are developing best practice for doing this, to ensure that engaging with teenage girls and young women becomes the norm.

Research

Our approach is evidence-based. However, there is currently a significant data gap concerning teenage girls’ usage of parks and public spaces. We both engage in research ourselves and collaborate with others on relevant work.

Influencing the policy and guidance which affects how spaces are designed and built has the potential to create change nationwide.

The end goal of our campaign is for there to be spaces designed by and for teenage girls across the country.

In 2024 the Charity began a review of its objectives, mission, and strategy, in order to build a new Strategic Plan for the Charity’s future work as it enters its fifth year. Having endorsed a new interim mission statement and new objectives for the Charity in November 2024, the Trustees expect to announce the Charity’s new Strategic Plan by mid-2025.

Statement on public benefit

The ‘Objectives and activities’ section (above) and the ‘Achievement and performance’ section (below) set out the activities that the Charity undertakes for the public benefit.

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission in determining the activities undertaken by the Charity.

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Achievements and Performance

All of our activities are undertaken to further the Charity’s charitable purposes for the public benefit. The Charity’s main activities in 2024, grouped under the five pillars of the Charity’s strategy that applied during 2024, are described below.

It is particularly important for us to reach developers, architects, designers and councils, ensuring that the needs of teenage girls are considered from project inception to final design.

In 2024 our outreach has ranged from tailored CPD presentations for local authorities and professional firms such as architects, to major online and in-person events. In the first half of 2024 alone, the Charity spoke to over 1,200 people about our work.

Major examples during 2024 included:

Delivering presentations to local authorities, developers and other stakeholders has a tangible and significant effect on future development of parks and public spaces: Redbridge Council, for example, now requires developers to have regard to the Charity’s online resources, and where major developments are providing or improving parks, open spaces or significant areas of public space, Redbridge Council asks that developers undertake a design review with the Charity. Chelmsford Council also asks developers to have regard to the resources provided on the Charity’s website where major developments are providing or improving parks and public spaces.

We are also bringing awareness of our campaign to a wider audience through traditional media and social media, including blogging on matters important to our campaign, and using our website to publish resources and reports. Our social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky) have more than 9,500 followers combined, with our Instagram posts reaching an average of 70,000 interactions over the year, with around 5,000 unique interactions. In 2024 the Charity’s work and campaign was featured in print media including The Telegraph and Daily Mail newspapers and in Architects’ Journal .

In 2024 we spoke to over 85 teenage girls and young women in over 25 different engagement sessions across the country, working with local councils, universities and developers.

The effect of this is to give girls and young women the opportunity to have their voices heard and understand that they can have an influence on the place in which they live, empowering them, and giving them a real stake in their community. The beneficial effect extends beyond just the immediate participants in the engagement sessions that we have run this year; we have also shared knowledge with local councils, developers and other built environment stakeholders on best practice for

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engagement with ‘hard to reach’ groups, so that the views and needs of teenage girls can be built in to new projects across the UK.

Our major engagement projects in 2024 included a series of three projects working in three schools in Essex (Chelmsford, Broomfield and Maldon), run in collaboration with Social Place and the local council in each area. The projects worked with 39 girls, young women and gender diverse young people to explore how specific public spaces in their areas could become more inclusive, and to give participants the opportunity to engage with the council and demonstrate that they can have an influence over the place in which they live. Their design suggestions received allocated funding to take some of their visions forward.

The Chelmsford project was the winner in the Long Term Youth Engagement category in the Thornton Education Trust Inspire Future Generations Awards 2024.

“ We should not assume we know what young people want from our green spaces, and involving them in the process has been an enlightening experience ”. Chelmsford City Council

The Charity also worked alongside Social Place on a community engagement project on the Lancaster West Estate in London, which appointed three young women residents as ambassadors for the estate to investigate their local communities' experiences and to inform how things could be made better in the estate’s public spaces, contributing to design development alongside landscape architects Turkington Martin.

Research

Research is a key part of our impact, as statistics make the scale of the problem clear both to the Charity and to others. The data that is produced by us and others is an important tool for persuading local authorities, developers and sporting bodies to make the changes we are advocating.

In 2023 the Charity undertook its own research with Parkwatch, a citizen project to count who was using the teenage facilities in their local park over a weekend in May. It showed that 90% of teenage facilities are 90% used by boys and young men. In 2024 we continued to disseminate that research; for example, presenting to over 200 people at the launch of the Impact Report for the Sweaty Betty Foundation (which provided grant funding to the Charity for the project).

In 2024, the Charity published its own new research on use of sports pitches, ‘You shouldn’t need balls to go to the park: Pitches, planning and equal access to public space’ (the “Pitches Report”). In the Pitches Report, we collected data from 84 different local councils across England about the sports teams who use the pitches in their areas, in five sports. The results showed that 90% of demand for sports pitch use is from men’s and boys’ teams. A 1000% increase in women’s teams would be needed to achieve equality of pitch use.

Our 2023 Parkwatch report and our 2024 Pitches Report together show a cumulative effect: if parks or recreation grounds provide a multi-use games area, a skate park or BMX track, and some sports pitches – all of which are each 90% used by boys and men – we are creating spaces where the vast majority of facilities are not used by, or welcoming to, teenage girls and young women. This inequality means that huge amounts of our public spaces are dominated by boys and men, while girls and women have no alternative places to use for sport or for leisure. It also has financial implications: a very large proportion of local authority leisure spending benefits men and boys only. The Charity intends to disseminate the Pitches Report and use it in campaigning during 2025.

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Policy change

Policy work can be diffuse and long term, but it offers significant potential for nationwide impact.

In 2024, the Charity contributed to the Local Government Authority’s call for evidence on supporting women and girls to be active. Our contribution was referenced significantly in the final report and recommendations for next steps, including the Charity’s talking points for consultation exercise with teenage girls.

We also contributed expertise to the London Legacy Development Corporation’s (“LLDC’s”) Handbook for Local Authorities, Developers and Designers on ‘Creating places that work for women and girls’, published this year. LLDC is the first local planning authority in the UK to develop and publish specific guidance on gender-informed planning and design.

In 2023, the Charity was a contributor (along with Leeds University, West Yorkshire Combined Authority and the Green Flag Awards) to the Safer Parks Guidance, a guidance document on how to create parks in which women and girls feel safe and welcome. In 2024 the Safer Parks Guidance continued to be widely disseminated and used, including by Active Travel England as part of its online design guide, and it was shortlisted in The Developer and the Design Council’s Pineapples Awards for great places.

Creating better spaces

In 2024 the Charity was involved in a number of projects to further the objective of better spaces being built for teenage girls across the country.

This included collaborating with the LLDC, which is responsible (including up to the end of 2024 as planning authority) for the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics land, on the Waterden Green project in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to design a green space specifically for teenagers, including a focussed space for teenage girls aged 12-18.

The Charity helped to identify the need to address how the project designed for teenage girls, while also supporting the LLDC to assess and report on their engagement, producing the report and capturing the methodology. The project used an innovative “co-clienting” approach, including 12 workshops, which allowed teenage girls and young women to be placed at the centre of decisionmaking and actively shape the design – in line with our strategy of placing engagement with teenage girls at the centre of our work. The resulting report is an example of best practice in how to engage with young women in a meaningful and non-tokenistic way, and provides a methodology for coclient engagement for future projects.

“ I think the biggest thing with us being co-clients is just the amount our voices were heard and how much what we said impacted the design brief itself; because essentially, it was our thoughts and ideas which created this design brief, which would then be fed to the architectural team. ” Fulgis, 18, co-client of the Waterden Green project and Hackney resident.

In 2024 the Charity also began contributing to Glasgow City Council’s Liveable Neighbourhoods programme, aimed at regenerating four areas of social housing in Glasgow, including by delivering training for the design team on engagement with teenage girls to create more inclusive spaces, and advising on elements of the design.

This year also saw the continuation of our collaboration with neighbourhood community groups in Broomfield Park, Enfield. In this project, led by the Palmers Green Community Café and the Friends of Broomfield Park, and working with Social Place, we engaged with local young women to design a place in the park for them. We are looking forward to progressing this work in 2025.

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Fundraising activities during the year

The Charity actively solicits donations from individuals using the “Givey” platform, and has received donations from professional firms in the build environment sector following CPD presentations. We are also very grateful to individuals who have undertaken fundraising activities for us. All donations are very gratefully received.

We do not sub-contract any fundraising activities to a third party. Whilst we are not registered with the Fundraising Regulator, we will be guided by the Code of Fundraising Practice in any fundraising activity.

We received no complaints about our fundraising activity in 2024.

The contribution of volunteers during the year

The principal volunteers during the period ending 31 December 2024 were Imogen Clark and Susannah Walker, both former Trustees, who undertook core project and administrative work for the Charity on a voluntary basis. The Trustees are very grateful for their work.

The Trustees themselves also undertook certain of the administrative and operational activities of the Charity during 2024 on a voluntary basis.

The Trustees would also like to acknowledge and thank those who have undertaken paid work for the Charity during the year, specifically Katy Baker, Abigail Gaines, Mick Morgan, and Susannah Walker.

Structure, governance and management

Make Space for Girls is a CIO registered with the CCEW. Its governing document is a constitution dated 25 November 2020, as amended by written resolution dated 8 August 2022.

The minimum number of Trustees is two and the maximum number is 12. Every Trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting. In selecting individuals for appointment as Charity Trustees, the Trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of a CIO.

The only persons eligible to be members of the CIO are the Trustees.

In the reporting year, the Charity conducted a recruitment process to appoint a number of new Trustees to the Board. One new Trustee was appointed on 4 January 2024; four new Trustees were appointed on 23 May 2024; and a further four individuals were approved by the Board in Q2 2024 as co-opted Board members, to be appointed as new Trustees in Spring 2025.

In H2 2024, the Board of Trustees approved the formation of four Committees to support the Board and the Charity in furthering the Charity’s purpose and objectives. These are Strategy; Finance; Fundraising and Income Generation; and Communications.

Terms of Reference for the Strategy Committee were approved by the Trustees in November 2024. Under the Terms of Reference, the role and purpose of the Strategy Committee is to support the Board of Trustees to develop a Strategic Plan and, over time, to review and revise it; develop an Operational Plan in liaison with the other committees; and support the Board of Trustees to implement and monitor the delivery of the Operational Plan.

Terms of Reference for the Finance Committee were also approved by the Trustees in November 2024. Under the Terms of Reference, the role and purpose of the Finance Committee is to support the Board of Trustees in overseeing the financial health and integrity of the Charity; and support the Board in financial planning and control to safeguard the assets of the Charity and enable delivery of the Charity’s strategy. The Finance Committee is responsible for delivering financial plans, policies and the Annual Report for approval by the Board of Trustees.

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In 2023, the two founding Trustees of the Charity, Imogen Clark and Susannah Walker, each retired as Trustees. To ensure continuity of systems and operations following these retirements, as well as ongoing best practice and value for money, in 2024 the Trustees carried out a review of the Charity’s organisational systems, internal processes and policies, and an organisational gap analysis. The Board of Trustees approved a new Safeguarding Policy in February 2024 and a new Financial Control Policy in November 2024, with other policies and procedures currently under review. In H2 of 2024, the Charity contracted a part-time Chief Operating Officer on a consultancy basis, to assist the Trustees with this organisational and policy review. This contract ended at the end of 2024.

Financial review

Financial position for year ended 31 December 2024

The financial position of the Charity as at 31 December 2024 and the comparative position for the prior year, as more fully detailed in the accounts, were:

ear, as more fully detailed in the accounts, were:
Net income
Unrestricted Revenue Funds available for the general
purposes of the Charity
Total funds		 2024
£
(12,541)
15,477
15,477		 2023
£
17,461
28,018
28,018

Financial review of the position at the reporting date, 31 December 2024

The Trustees consider the financial performance by the Charity during the year to have been satisfactory. From carried-forward reserves of £28,018 at the start of the year, the Charity received income to support its charitable activities of £45,900 during the year, and incurred expenses of £58,441, resulting in unrestricted funds of £15,447 to carry forward.

Although this resulted in a net income deficit of £12,541 for the year, the amount being carried forward remains greater than our stated reserves policy, under which the Trustees aim to carry three months of operating costs in reserve.

As explained in the 'Objectives and activities' section above, in 2024 the Charity began a review of its objectives, mission and strategy, in order to build a new Strategic Plan for the Charity's future work as it enters its fifth year. While this review has been ongoing, the Trustees considered it appropriate to deploy some reserved funds to ensure continuity of operations. This included increased costs of consultancy, which the Trustees do not anticipate incurring of the same magnitude in 2025.

Policies on reserves

The Trustees aim to keep reserves equal to at least three months of the running costs of the Charity.

Availability and adequacy of assets of each of the funds

The Board of Trustees is satisfied that the Charity's assets in each fund are available and adequate to fulfil its obligations in respect of each fund.

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Risk management

The Trustees have reviewed the major operational and financial risks that could affect the work of the Charity. The Trustees consider the following to be the principal risks that the Charity faces:

Details of the Independent Examiner

Matthew Brown, Member of CPFA Bluecoat Chambers College Lane Liverpool L1 3BZ

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Statement of Trustees' responsibilities

The Charity's Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the Annual Report and Accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities Act 2011 and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, and for the preparation of the financial statements according to the FRS 102 SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice for Accounting and Reporting by Charities) 2019, applicable to all accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019 (the “SORP”).

In particular, if the Trustees prepare accounts on an accruals basis, they are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity as at the end of the financial year and of the surplus or deficit of the Charity.

In preparing those financial statements the Trustees are required to:

The law requires that the Trustees must not approve the accounts unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the surplus or deficit of the Charity for the year.

The Trustees are also responsible for maintaining adequate accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and which are sufficient to show and explain the Charity's transactions and enable the Trustees to ensure that the financial statements comply with regulations made under the Charities Act 2011. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Trustees are also responsible for the contents of the Trustees' report. The statutory responsibility of the Independent Examiner in relation to the Trustees' report is limited to examining the report and ensuring that, on the face of the report, there are no material inconsistencies with the figures disclosed in the financial statements.

This Report was approved by the Board of Trustees on 5 June 2025.

Caroline Millar Trustee

Trustee

Sian Louise Kilkenny Siddiqi

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Report of the Independent Examiner

Report of the Independent Examiner to the Trustees of Make Space for Girls on the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024

I report to the Trustees on my examination of the financial statements of the charity on pages 17 to 29 for the year ended 31 December 2024 which have been prepared in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (the “Act”) and with the Financial Reporting Standard 102 (effective 1 January 2016) as modified by FRS 102 SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice for Accounting and Reporting by Charities) 2019, applicable to all accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2019) (the “SORP”), published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales, and under the historical cost convention and the accounting policies set out on page 21.

Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and the Independent Examiner and the basis of the

report

As described on page 14, you, the charity's Trustees, are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the Act and all other applicable law and with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, applicable to smaller entities, and for being satisfied that the financial statements give a true and fair view.

The Trustees consider that the audit requirement of section 144(1) of the Act does not apply, and that there is no requirement in the governing document for the conducting of an audit. As a consequence, the Trustees have elected that the financial statements be subject to independent examination.

Having satisfied myself that the financial statements are not required to be audited under any legal provision, or otherwise, and are eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:

Basis of Independent Examiner’s statement and scope of work undertaken

I report in respect of my examination of the charity's financial statements carried out under section 145 of the Act. 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 setting out the duties of an independent examiner in relation to the conducting of an independent examination. An independent examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and of the accounting systems employed by the charity and a comparison of the financial statements presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the financial statements, and seeking explanations from you, as Trustees, concerning such matters. The purpose of the examination is to establish as far as possible that there have been no breaches of charity legislation and that, on a test basis of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures made, the financial statements comply with the SORP.

The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and information supplied by the Trustees in the course of the examination is not subjected to audit tests or enquiries and does not cover all the matters that an auditor would consider in arriving at an opinion. The planning and conduct of an audit goes beyond the limited assurance that an independent examination can provide.

Consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the financial statements, and in particular, I express no opinion as to whether the financial statements give a true and fair view of the affairs of the charity, and my report is limited to the matters set out in the statement below.

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I planned and performed my examination so as to satisfy myself that the objectives of the independent examination are achieved and before finalising the report I obtained written assurances from the Trustees of all material matters.

Independent Examiner's statement, report and opinion

Subject to the limitations upon the scope of my work as detailed above, I have completed my examination: and can confirm that:

This is a report in respect of an examination carried out under 145 of the Act and in accordance with Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act which may be applicable; and that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

I have no concerns 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 financial statements to be reached.

Signed:

Matthew Brown - Independent Examiner CPFA Bluecoat Chambers College Lane Liverpool L1 3BZ

This report was signed on 23 June 2025.

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Statement of financial activities

Income and endowments:
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Total income
Expenditure:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net income for the year
Transfers between funds
Net income after transfers
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
5,176
40,724
45,900
800
57,641
58,441
(12,541)
-
(12,541)
(12,541)
28,018
15,477		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
5,176
40,724
45,900
800
57,641
58,441
(12,541)
-
(12,541)
(12,541)
28,018
15,477		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
15,564
41,586
57,150
-
39,689
39,689
17,461
-
17,461
17,461
10,557
28,018

As required by Module 4 of the SORP, the brought forward and carried forward funds set out above have been agreed to the Balance Sheet.

A separate statement of total recognised gains and losses is not required, as this statement includes all recognised gains and losses.

All activities derive from continuing operations.

The notes included on pages 20 to 28 form an integral part of these accounts .

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Analysis of prior year total funds

Income and endowments:
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Total income
Expenditure:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net income for the year
Transfers between funds
Net income after transfers
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Prior Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2023
£
7,144
41,586
48,730
-
31,101
31,101
17,629
-
17,629
17,629
10,389
28,018		 Prior Year
Restricted
Funds
2023
£
8,420
-
8,420
-
8,588
8,588
(168)
-
(168)
(168)
168
-		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
15,564
41,586
57,150
-
39,689
39,689
17,461
-
17,461
17,461
10,557
28,018

A separate statement of total recognised gains and losses is not required as this statement includes all recognised gains and losses.

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Revenue accumulated funds

Accumulated funds brought forward
Recognised gains and losses before
transfers
Closing revenue funds
ummary of funds
Revenue accumulated funds		 Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
28,018
(12,541)
15,477
Unrestricted
and
Designated
Funds
2024
£
15,477		 Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-		 Total
Funds
2024
£
28,018
(12,541)
15,477
Total
Funds
2024
£
15,477		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
10,557
17,461
28,018
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
28,018

Summary of funds

The notes included on pages 20 to 28 form an integral part of these accounts.

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Balance sheet as at 31 December 2024

Notes
2024
£
Current assets
Debtors
8
5,000
965
Cash at bank and in hand
11,487
28,024
Total current assets
16,487
28,989
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
9
(1,010)
(971)
Net current assets
15,477
Total new assets of the Charity
15,477
The total net assets of the Charity are funded by the funds of the Charity, as follows:
Restricted funds
-
Unrestricted funds
Unrestricted revenue funds
12
15,477
28,018
15,477
Total Charity funds
15,477		 965
28,024		 2023
£
28,018
28,018
-
28,018
28,018
28,989
(971)

As required by Module 4 of the SORP, the brought forward and carried forward funds set out above have been agreed to the Statement of Financial Activities.

The Trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of charity legislation with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

The Charity is subject to Independent Examination: the report of the Independent Examiner is on page 15.

The Trustees are satisfied that, although the Charity is not registered under the Companies Acts, if it were so registered, it would be eligible to prepare accounts in accordance with the provisions in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

Approved by the Board of Trustees on 5 June 2025.

Caroline Millar Trustee

Sian Louise Kilkenny Siddiqi Trustee

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Notes to the Accounts

1. Accounting policies

Policies relating to the production of the accounts

Basis of preparation and accounting convention

The accounts have been prepared on the accruals basis, under the historical cost convention, and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard 102 (effective 1st January 2016) and FRS 102 SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice for Accounting and Reporting by Charities) 2019, applicable to all accounting periods beginning on or after 1st January 2019 (the “SORP”).

Going Concern

There are no uncertainties about going concern.

Prior Period Adjustments

Costs incurred on website development of £4,915 in the year ended 31 December 2023 have been expensed in 2023.

Risks and future assumptions

The Charity is a public benefit entity.

Recognition of liabilities and expenditure

A liability, and the related expenditure, is recognised when a legal or constructive obligation exists as a result of a past event, and when it is more likely than not that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement, and when the amount of the obligation can be measured or reliably estimated.

Policies relating to assets, liabilities and provisions and other matters

Debtors

Debtors are measured at their recoverable amounts at the balance sheet date.

Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the Charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably.

Cash and bank balances

Cash held by the Charity is included at the amount actually held and counted at the year end. Bank balances, whether in credit or overdrawn, are shown at the amounts properly reconciled to the bank statements.

Fund Accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the Charity.

There are no designated funds.

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Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor. There are no endowment funds.

2. Winding up or dissolution of the Charity

If upon winding up or dissolution of the Charity there remain any assets, after the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities, the assets represented by the accumulated fund shall be transferred to some other charitable body or bodies having similar objects to the Charity.

3. Significance of financial instruments to the Charity’s position

There are no significant implications of such matters.

4. Net surplus before tax in the financial year

. Net surplus before tax in the financial year
2024 2023
£ £
Net surplus before tax in the financial year is stated after charging:
Trustees’ remuneration - 12,825

5. The contribution of volunteers

The Charity depends on the support of its volunteers, which is much appreciated.

No employees received emoluments (excluding pension costs) in excess of £60,000 per annum.

6. Remuneration and payments to Trustees and persons connected with them

Remuneration payable to Trustees or connected persons
S Walker
Total remuneration		 2024
£
-
-		 2023
£
12,825
12,825

During 2023, Susannah Walker, also as a Trustee, was paid during the year for communications, fundraising and research services, with agreement from the Charity Commission, but also undertook administrative and project work on a voluntary basis.

Employer’s National Insurance contributions on remuneration
S Walker
Pension payments relating to Trustees or connected persons
S Walker		 2024
£
-
-
-
-		 2023
£
649
649
184
184

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7. Trustees’ expenses

The expenses reimbursed to Trustees, or paid directly to third parties, in the current or prior year, were as shown below.

Amount reimbursed to Trustees 2024
£
-		 2023
£
2,568

The nature of the Trustees’ expenses was the reimbursement of travel and subsistence costs incurred in carrying out their duties. The number of Trustees to whom expenses were reimbursed in 2024 was nil (2023: 2).

8. Debtors

Trade debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
Other debtors
. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Accruals
Other creditors
0. Income and expenditure account summary
At 1 January 2024
(Deficit) / surplus after tax for the year
At 31 December 2024		 2024
£
5,000
-
-
5,000
2024
£
110
900
-
1,010
2024
£
28,018
(12,541)
15,477		 2023
£
-
538
427
965
2023
£
-
900
71
971
2023
£
10,557
17,461
28,018

9. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

10. Income and expenditure account summary

11. Particulars of how particular funds are represented by assets and liabilities

At 31 December 2024
Current assets
Current liabilities
At 1 January 2024
Current assets
Current liabilities		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
28,989
(1,010)		 Designated
Funds
£
-
-		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-		 Total
Funds
£
16,487
(1,010)
15,477
Unrestricted
Funds
£
28,989
(971)
28,018		 -
Designated
Funds
£
-
-
-		 -
Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
-		 15,477
Total
Funds
£
28,989
(971)
28,018

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12. Change in total funds over the year as shown in Note 11, analysed by individual funds

Unrestricted and designated funds:
Unrestricted revenue funds
Total unrestricted and designated funds
Total Charity funds		 Funds
brought
forward from
2023
£
28,018
28,018
28,018		 Movement
in funds in
2024
See Note 13
£
(12,541)
(12,541)
(12,541)		 Transfers
between
funds in
2024
£
-
-
-		 Funds
carried
forward to
2025
£
15,477
15,477
15,477

13. Analysis of movements in funds over the year as shown in Note 12

Unrestricted and designated funds:
Unrestricted revenue funds		 Income
2024
£
45,900
45,900		 Expenditure
2024
£
(58,441)
(58,441)		 Other
gains and
losses
2024
£
-
-		 Movement
in funds
2024
£
(12,541)
(12,541)

14. The purposes for which the funds detailed in Note 12 are held by the Charity

Unrestricted revenue funds: these funds are held for meeting the objectives of the Charity, and to provide reserves for future activities, and, subject to charity legislation, are free from all restrictions on their use.

There were no restricted funds in 2024.

15. Ultimate controlling party

The Charity is under the control of its legal members.

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Detailed analysis of income and expenditure for the year ended 31 December 2024 as required by the SORP

This analysis is classified by conventional nominal descriptions and not by activity.

16. Donations, grants and legacies

Donations and gifts from
individuals
Small donations individually less
than £1,000
Total donations and gifts from
individuals
Revenue grants and
donations from non-public
bodies
Small grants individually less
than £1,000
Sweaty Betty Foundation
(restricted)
Total private sector revenue
grants
Revenue grants and
donations from non-public
bodies – prior year analysis
Total donations, grants and
legacies
Total donations, grants and
legacies – prior year analysis		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
4,176
4,176
Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
1,000
-
1,000
Prior Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2023
£
4,000
Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
5,176
Prior Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2023
£
7,144		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
Prior Year
Restricted
Funds
2023
£
8,420
Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
Prior Year
Restricted
Funds
2023
£		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
4,176
4,176
Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
1,000
-
1,000
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
12,420
Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
5,176
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
15,564		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
3,144
3,144
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
4,000
8,420
12,420
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
15,564
8,420

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17. Income from charitable activities – trading activities

Primary purpose and ancillary
trading
T-shirt sales
Total primary purpose and
ancillary trading		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
78
78		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
78
78		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
116
116

18. Charitable income from funders

Contractual payments from
public bodies to fund
charitable activities
Small payments individually less
than £1,000
Homes England
Oxfordshire County Council
London Legacy Development
Corporation
Belper Town Council
Plymouth City Council
Total contractual payments
from public bodies
Contractual payments from
non-public bodies to fund
charitable activities
Small payments individually less
than £1,000
LSE Enterprise
Ballymore (Edgware) Limited
Railway Pensions Nominees
Julia King & Associates
Light Fellows Behaviour
Kinds Cross Central Limited
Glasgow Enlightenment Ltd
Mount Anvil
Action Together CIO
London Communications
Agency
Barratt London
Total contractual payments
from public bodies		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
600
-
-
3,500
1,800
1,000
6,900
Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
3,200
-
-
6,000
5,400
5,000
4,800
2,600
2,500
1,800
1,200
1,000
33,500		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
600
-
-
3,500
1,800
1,000
6,900
Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
3,200
-
-
6,000
5,400
5,000
4,800
2,600
2,500
1,800
1,200
1,000
33,500		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
-
8,500
5,600
-
-
-
14,100
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
12,870
13,000
1,500
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
27,370

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Other fundraising income
Urbanists
Total other fundraising
income
Total charitable income from
funders
9. Total income from charitable
Income from charitable trading
Income from funders
Total income from charitable
activities		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
246
246
Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
40,646
activities
Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
78
40,646
40,724		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
246
246
Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
40,646
Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
78
40,646
40,724		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
-
-
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
41,470
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
116
41,470
41,586

19. Total income from charitable activities

20. Expenditure on charitable activities – direct spending

Travel and subsistence
Parkwatch project
Consulting
Cost of charitable activities
Total direct spending
Prior year analysis
Parkwatch project
Cost of charitable activities
Total direct spending		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
481
-
48,017
5,010
53,508
Prior Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2023
£
-
4,167
4,167		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
-
-
Prior Year
Restricted
Funds
2023
£
7,733
168
7,901		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
481
-
48,017
5,010
53,508
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
7,733
4,335
12,068		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
-
7,733
-
4,335
12,068

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21. Expenditure on charitable activities – charitable trading

Reallocated from support costs
Total charitable trading costs		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
3,233
3,233		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
3,233
3,233		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
9,410
9,410

22. Support costs for charitable activities

2. Support costs for charitable activities
Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
Administrative overheads
Software and social media
677
Insurance and sundry expenses
614
Sundry expenses
276
Website development costs
-
Professional fees paid to advisors other than auditor
Accountancy fees
1,631
Legal fees
35
Costs before reallocation
3,233
Less costs reallocated to specific activities
To charitable activities
(3,233)		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
-
or examiner
-
-
-
-		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
677
614
276
-
1,631
35
3,233
(3,233)		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
824
408
-
4,915
383
2,880
9,410
(9,410)

23. Other expenditure – governance costs

Independent Examiner’s fees
Trustees’ remuneration
NIC on Trustees’ remuneration
Trustees’ defined benefit
pension costs
Trustees’ expenses
Trustee away day
Total governance costs		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
900
-
-
-
-
-
900		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
900
-
-
-
-
-
900		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
900
12,825
649
184
2,568
1,085
18,211

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Prior year analysis
Independent Examiner’s fees
Trustees’ remuneration
NIC on Trustees’ remuneration
Trustees’ defined benefit
pension costs
Trustees’ expenses
Trustee away day
Total governance costs		 Prior Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2023
£
900
12,375
649
184
2,331
1,085
17,524		 Prior Year
Restricted
Funds
2023
£
-
450
-
-
237
687		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
900
12,825
649
184
2,568
1,085
18,211

24. Total charitable expenditure

Total direct spending
Total charitable trading costs
Total governance costs
Total governance costs
Prior year analysis
Total direct spending
Total charitable trading costs
Total governance costs
Total governance costs		 Current Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
53,508
3,233
900
57,641
Prior Year
Unrestricted
Funds
2023
£
4,167
9,410
17,524
31,101		 Current Year
Restricted
Funds
2024
£
-
-
-
-
Prior Year
Restricted
Funds
2023
£
7,901
-
687
8,588		 Current Year
Total Funds
2024
£
53,508
3,233
900
57,641
Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
12,086
9,410
18,211
39,689		 Prior Year
Total Funds
2023
£
12,086
9,410
18,211
39,689

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