Annual Trustees’ Report For the year ended 31 August 2022
Youth With a Mission York Charity registration number 1194354
**Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
Deborah Stevenson Elizabeth Fergusson Stephen Bishop
## **Principle Office**
The Barnabas Centre 218 Salisbury Terrace York North Yorkshire YO26 4UU
## **Charity Registration Number**
1194354
## **Bankers**
NatWest National Westminster Bank Plc, 250 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4AA.
## **Trustees’ Report**
The trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2022.
## **Structure, governance and management**
## _**Nature of the governing document**_
Youth With a Mission York is a registered charity, number 1194354, and is established as a charitable incorporated organisation under a constitution dated 23 April 2021.
## _**Recruitment and appointment of trustees**_
The management of the charity is the responsibility of the trustees who are elected and co-opted under the terms of the constitution.
## _**Risk Management**_
The trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular those related to the operations and finances of the charity, and are satisfied that systems and procedures are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks.
## **Objectives and Activities**
## _**Objects and Aims**_
The objects of the charity are:
To advance the Evangelical Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Faith in York and throughout the UK for the benefit of the public mainly but not exclusively through street evangelism, religious education and training and to provide outreach and pastoral care for the community.
## _**Public Benefit**_
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
## **Achievements and Performance**
## _**Review of Activities**_
The last twelve months have been one of change for YWAM York. We have completed our first full year as a charity outside of Covid restrictions. We have gone from being a team of four to a team of three without dropping any of our activities, which has meant that we have had to ask for outside volunteers to help when it comes to our holiday clubs, youth work and children’s work. We have also changed our trustees and the way in which we structure our finances, holidays, personnel objectives and goals.
## _Street Evangelism_
We co-ordinate monthly city-wide evangelism with the Belfrey on the first Friday of the month. From that outreach event, we have seen several people come to faith this year, as well as others
connected with local churches and prayed for in moments of crisis. We have also continued our Saturday evangelisms in which we speak to people in the local markets, host children’s activities on the pavements or perform religious music. We have regularly had local Christians join us at these events, as well as YWAM outreach teams from Brazil and London.
In the coming year, we are projecting to continue our monthly evangelism in different areas of the city as churches are keen to host events in their neighbourhoods.
## _Religious Education_
Through our holiday clubs and weekly children’s work, we continue to teach the children of Leeman Road about what it looks like to be a Christian and what we believe about Jesus. We regularly have 15 children attend our holiday clubs with a waiting list, from which we accept additional children as our number of volunteers permits.
## _Outreach and Pastoral Care to the Community_
We run the Barnabas Centre, a community centre in the Leeman Road neighbourhood of York. We hold a weekly youth night for the local youth and a kids’ club for children after school on a Wednesday. We also hold holiday clubs and half term clubs for primary school aged children in the school holidays. In addition to our children’s and youth provision, we also host holiday activities at Christmas and Easter for the whole family. We partner with the local food bank to provide food for families at these activities, as well as food for families to take home as needed. Our community centre is also open to be used by local charities and religious groups, especially ones who have lost their premises due to pandemic and need a quiet space to meet together. Unite, a group of local church youth workers, uses the Barnabas Centre for their monthly meetings, where they plan how they can work together to support the youth of York.
## _Leadership_
We have had a massive leadership change this year. One of our location leaders, Sharayah, left YWAM and her role as a trustee and returned to the States. Two of our trustees also resigned, in addition to Sharayah, and we appointed two new trustees. That leaves Deborah as our location leader, and we will expand to a leadership team as we continue to grow.
## _Building Development_
We have paid back to YWAM Limited what we owed to pay back the £100,000 that were given by other YWAM locations to pay for the Barnabas Centre in 2011. We had around £30,000 to pay when we began as a charity, and most of that amount was paid off using Covid grants that we received. The remainder was funded by fundraisers that we put on.
We have continued improvements to the base - a member of YWAM Nottingham came to help us fix the stairs and some of our floorboards. We also paid to have our dance floor professionally repaired where it broke whilst being used by one of our renters.
Several cracks have appeared in the walls after the dry summer, which we will consult with the insurance company before we seek to fill them.
## _Closing Remarks_
As a small team, we often find that we have many more opportunities than we have time. We could be involved in outreach and evangelism activities every day of the week, if we wanted. We are
learning how to invest our time in the areas in which we are gifted - especially as regards our local community, children and youth work and helping to develop evangelism and ongoing religious education in the local church.
## **Financial Review**
Income for the year amounted to £12,972 and expenditure £9,163, giving a surplus of £3,810, which was added to our unrestricted fund balance of £7,961 at the end of the year.
## _**Going Concern**_
After making the appropriate enquiries, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.
## _**Policy on reserves**_
As a newly established charity, we aim to continue to retain reserves of three months of expenses, which we have more than maintained this year.
## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.
The law applicable to charities requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the applicable Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations, and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees 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 annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on 17 May 2022 and signed on its behalf by:
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Deborah Stevenson, Chair of Trustees
## **Youth With A Mission York**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 August 2022**
## **Income from charitable activities**
||**£**
**% of Total**
4,182
32%
0%
0%
285
2%
240
2%
7,995
62%
0%
150
1%
120
1%
**12,972**
**100%**|
|---|---|
|**Unrestricted Donations**||
|**Restricted Donations**||
|**Holiday Club Donations**||
|**Grant Income**||
|**Rent Income**||
|**Staff Fees**||
|**Services**||
|**Other Income - Rebate/Refund**||
|**Sales of Product Income**||
|**Total Income**||
## **Expenditure from charitable activities**
||**£**
**% of Total**
95
1%
130
1%
0%
227
2%
111
1%
0%
439
5%
150
2%
163
2%
177
2%
0%
18
0.20%
10
0.10%
0%
41
0.40%
99
1%
274
3%
619
7%
501
5%
0%
6,110
67%
**9,163**
**100%**|
|---|---|
|**YWAM Fees**||
|**Hospitality**||
|**Ministry, Mission and Community**||
|**Holiday Club**||
|**Youth Club**||
|**Warm Space**||
|**Offering Allocation**||
|**Speakers Fee/Honoraria**||
|**Fuel Reimbursement**||
|**Outreach**||
|**Purchases**||
|**Food Purchases**||
|**Miscellaneous Purchases**||
|**Equipment Purchases**||
|**Light & Heat**||
|**Housekeeping**||
|**Council Tax**||
|**Premises Maintenance Costs**||
|**Office Costs**||
|**Telephone and Internet**||
|**9 Brunel Court**||
|**Total Expenditures**||
## **Youth With A Mission York**
## **Balance Sheet as of 31 August 2022**
|**Fixed Asset**|**£**|
|---|---|
|**Total Fixed Asset**||
|**Cash at bank and in hand**||
|**Nat West Current Account**||
|**Barnabas Centre**|3,592|
|**9 Brunel Ct. Pot**|1,630|
|**Funds Pot**||
|**Unrestricted Funds Pot**|2,511|
|**Restricted Funds Pot**|-|
|||
|**Total Funds Pot**|**2,511**|
|**Total Nat West Current Account**|**7,733**|
|**National Petty Cash**|203|
|**Total Cash at bank and in hand**|**7,936**|
|**Debtors**||
|**Trade Debtors**|25|
|**Total Debtors**|**25**|
|**Current Assets**||
|**Inter England Transfers**|-|
|**Total Current Assets**|**-**|
|**Net current assets**|**7,961**|
|**Net current assets (liabilities)**|**7,961**|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**|**7,961**|
|**Total net assets (liabilities)**|**7,961**|
|**Charity funds**||
|**Opening Balance Equity**|3,633|
|**Retained Earnings (bal c/f)**|518|
|**Surplus/(Deficit)**|3,810|
|**Total Charity funds**|**7,961**|