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Programme for Applied Christian Education
known as:
‘PACE’
Trustees’ Report
and Accounts
Year ending 31 [st] August 2022
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Registered Charity PACE TRUST 1032552/PACE CIO 1195419 Email: office@pacetrust.org.uk www.pace.org.uk ## Contents LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS ……………………………………...……..3 TRUSTEES’ REPORT AIIMS AND OBJECTIVES………………..….…….…….……………………….4 ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE………………………..………..……6 FINANCIAL REVIEW…………………………………………………………….14 GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT……..…………………………………16 RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT.. ……..……………………………………17 **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## Legal and Administrative Details PACE CIO is a Registered Charity (1195419) governed by a Constitution registered on 5[th] August 2021. |**Trustees**
|Katie Davis BSc (Hons)|Chairperson| |---|---|---| ||Sue Wintle FMAAT|Treasurer| ||Siân Cook BA (Hons)|Minutes Secretary| ||(CIO from 1/11/21)|| ||Rev Andrew Corke (LLB)|| ||Rev Canon Chris Strain|(until 31/1/21)| ||Andy Saunders BA (Hons)|| ||Rev Philip Dixon BA (Hons)|| ||(CIO from 19/7/22)|| |**Staff**||| |**Director**
|Sharon Prior|| |**Schools Work Leader**
|Dave Pegg|| |**Schools Workers**
|Keith Jewell|| ||Sarah Jones|| ||(returned from maternity leave Jan 2022)|| ||Lisa Stuart|| |**Pastoral Care Managers**|Pauline Horder|| ||Lynley Wilkes|| ||Sandy Carter (PCW Administrator)|| |**PACE Administrator**
|Laura Wood|| |**Bookkeeper**
|Anita Brown|| |**Registered Charity No**
|1032552 and 1195419|| |**Principal address**
|St Paul’s Throop|| ||Landford Way|| ||Bournemouth|| ||Dorset|| ||BH8 0NY|| |**Phone**
|07375 672098|| |**Email**
|office@pacetrust.org.uk|| |**Website**
|www.pace.org.uk|| The charity has bank accounts with Lloyds Bank and Barclays Bank. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## Aims and Objectives _**Partnering with churches, Serving the schools**_ ## **WHAT WE DO** PACE employs schools workers who partner with local churches to provide excellent learning opportunities in schools so that every student can ask their biggest questions, explore the Christian faith and investigate the life and claims of Jesus. We serve primary and secondary schools in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch with assemblies, lessons, lunch clubs and other activities. PACE also employs pastoral care supervisors to deliver individual professional supervision for pastoral care workers in schools who offer essential practical support for students, their families and the staff. In addition, supervision is provided for members of senior leadership teams in some schools, including Headteachers and Designated Safeguarding Leads. ## **OUR VISION FOR SCHOOLS** These are the things we would love to be able to do for EVERY SCHOOL: **ASSEMBLIES/LESSONS...** Help every student hear something about Assemblies Jesus from people who know him 6 times a year in their assemblies and/or through regular lessons. **CHURCH LINKS...** Identify at least one local church community that Churches is regularly and positively connecting with the school in various ways. In addition to this, in EVERY SECONDARY SCHOOL we would also love to: Lessons **LESSONS...** Provide regular lessons where students have the chance to learn about Christianity from Christians. **CLUB...** Run a weekly lunch club where students can have fun, ask big questions and say what they think. Clubs **----- Start of picture text -----**
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On the supervision side, our vision is to see pastoral care workers and senior leadership teams receive the professional support and encouragement they need, and the space to reflect in depth on the content and process of their work and on good practice. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Secondary school club
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Training session with pastoral care workers
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## Achievements and Performance During 2021 the Trustees of PACE decided to change the governance structure of the charity by becoming a CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation). This has made little difference to how the ministry of the charity is conducted, but it has enabled streamlining of the Constitution under the latest Charities Act which makes PACE much easier to govern and gives more security for the trustees. In September 2021 a director was appointed for 15 hours a week, to relieve the amount of work that Trustees were doing in the day-to-day aspects of leading the organisation. This has proved to be very successful, and she has been working on getting all the policies and procedures in order, making contacts with local church leaders, managing the staff team and planning, and delivering several fundraising events. Also, in September a part-time secondary schools worker was appointed to work alongside the full-time worker, and this has meant that the work in secondary schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has increased throughout the year. There has also been growth in the number of lunch time and after school clubs that can now be facilitated. Throughout the last 6 months of 2020 and into 2021 PACE have been seeking to appoint a PCW Deputy Manager to help with the increased workload in this area for 5-6 hours a week during term-time. This post has been advertised several times, but with very little response, so the Trustees decided to go back to the drawing Board and rewrite the Job Description, increase the salary, and see if that garnered more interest. This will be an important role to fill in 2022. _**“The PACE team provide a fantastic opportunity for our students to contextualise seemingly unfathomable beliefs and difficult ethical issues in the lives of practising Christians, who explain so well what it means for them to believe.”** Craig Stewart - Head of RE at Bournemouth Collegiate School_ **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **SCHOOLS WORK** During the first part of the academic school year there were still some schools who were nervous about letting visitors in following the pandemic. Many had changed how they operate, having smaller classes rather than having each school year in the same space for assemblies. This was an advantage to PACE in many ways as it meant that we were delivering the same assembly or lessons several times and students were able to ask more questions. However, by January 2022 most schools were back to normal and our work continued faceto-face in the schools. ## **Primary Schools** The work in primary schools has been most encouraging this year. As the schools opened up again post-Covid they were very keen to welcome PACE back in for assemblies and lessons. The videos we produced during the lockdowns clearly served to maintain and even strengthen both our relationships and reputation with schools. During the course of the year, PACE visited 32 primary schools to take assemblies. There would have been approximately 10,000 pupils in these assemblies. PACE was also invited to teach RE lessons in six schools, especially in the run up to Christmas and Easter. These lessons focused on specific topics from the Discovery RE and Understanding Christianity schemes of work that schools use locally. In addition to these lessons, PACE contributed to one school’s Easter Experience in a local church and also taught an overview of the Old Testament using ‘Walk Through the Bible’ material. At the end of the summer term we partnered with children’s workers from three local churches to teach ‘It’s Your Move’ transition lessons in two schools to prepare year six students for their move to secondary school. We hope to further develop this work with additional schools in the future. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Secondary Schools** The secondary schools work continues to grow. New schools have come on board and the schools that invite us in occasionally are now inviting us in more regularly. Two secondary schools now have an annual plan for us to lead lessons with every year group each year. Bringing Lisa on board as part-time Secondary Schools Worker has increased our capacity this year. We have continued to produce video content for schools which has received over 100 views a week on Youtube and we know that schools are using the videos in addition to our in-person visits. We have had various partnerships with other organisations including a lesson we have been developing with Teen Challenge Dorset about Drug Awareness and this has opened up new opportunities. Being on the SACRE has led to PACE being one of the “strongly recommended” visitors to schools in the new RE syllabus, to which we have contributed. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **PASTORAL CARE WORK** PACE has three Pastoral Care Work Supervisors working 18 hours a week between them during term-time. This academic year the schools have started to get back to normal after Covid and so the Pastoral Care Team are more able to attend schools to meet up with the Pastoral Care Workers they supervise. PCWs support vulnerable children and families in schools, and these include those who are ‘looked after’, those with EHCPs (Education, Health, and Care Plan) and those with other needs like ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder). Teaching staff have been pushed to the limit over Covid as they were teaching those who were present in school and providing teaching for all children who were home-schooled during this time. Many school staff have reported that children and young people are really struggling after being in and out of school over the past three years due to Covid and this has led to them needing even more support. So, the work of PACE Pastoral Worker Supervisor is never more needed. PACE now support 24 Pastoral Care Workers in 15 schools, 4 Designated Safeguarding Leads in 3 schools and 4 Headteachers in 4 schools. They deliver Networking events for Pastoral Care Workers in schools, which are run every half term and have a threefold purpose - Receive – informal training and supervision - Network – with other Pastoral Care Workers - Reflect – sharing on other Pastoral Care Workers’ good practice This year the topics covered were ADHD in Children, Engaging with Parents, Helping Children and Young People have a Voice, Tourettes, and Sharing Resources. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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The Inset Training Day for Pastoral Care Workers in schools was held in Swanage in June 2022 and covered Creative Ways of Working with Individuals and Groups. It was a great day looking at art, games, puppets, and storytelling. In June 2022 PACE were approached by an academy trust in BCP asking if they could provide professional supervision for their Designated Safeguarding Leads in 13 schools. This was discussed by the Trustees and PCW supervisors and a plan for 2022-2023 academic year put in place. It was hoped that this support would start in September 2022 if a suitable person could be found to cover the work. _**“PACE Supervision is a safe space, a moment to pause and reflect so I am best placed to help families move forward. It’s a helping hand when I feel stuck and a hug when I feel low. Thank you so much.”** Pastoral Care Worker._ _**“I feel I couldn’t do my job without the PACE supervision. I feel SO supported and cared for. I always feel as if I’m held in mind between sessions.”** Pastoral Care Worker._ ## **PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL CHURCHES** PACE want to see every school in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole have Christians help them to explore the Christian faith and for this to happen we need to be in partnership with local churches. PACE work in 79% of the 85 primary schools in BCP – seeing around 8,000 primary students a term. They work in 50% of the 35 secondary schools – seeing around 1,800 secondary students per term. We continued to strengthen relationships and links with local churches throughout the year and face-to-face meetings were possible, which meant PACE could build good relationships with church leaders. This has resulted in increased prayer and giving from more churches in the area. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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‘Set the PACE’ events have been delivered each term and after evaluating the ones run in the previous academic year it was decided to deliver two a term – one on the Christchurch/Bournemouth border and one on the Bournemouth/Poole border. One would be a breakfast event for church leaders and youth workers and the other a lunch. The breakfast meetings have been much more popular than the lunches with over 20 people attending each one. So at the end of the 2022 academic year these were evaluated again and adapted to see if more church leaders can be encouraged to attend, so that they keep up to date with the work of PACE. Prayer meetings for PACE supporters have continued via Zoom during this year and these have proved very popular, as people gathered to pray for the PACE ministry. ## **SPECIAL EVENTS** PACE Carol Service – in December 2021 PACE held their first Carol Service at St Paul’s Throop and this was very well attended. It was a good opportunity to update supporters and potential supporters on the work that PACE are doing in schools. It was agreed with the Trustees that this would be repeated next Christmas. PACE Quiz Evening – In March 2022 PACE held their first quiz evening and it was a great time with over 50 people attending. Again, there was a short part of the evening taken up with explaining the work of PACE to those who had not attended a PACE event before. This helped to increase our prayer support as well as being used as a fundraising opportunity. PACE Cream Tea Event – In May 2022 PACE held their first Cream Tea event and this was attended by over 70 people. It was great weather and so we were outside the whole time. There were games for the children and so there was a great family feel to the event. Some people who attended had not heard about PACE before and one couple gave a substantial gift towards the work on the day and set up a standing order to give regularly to the work. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **MOVING FORWARD** **Ambitions Academy** – as has already been said PACE have been approached by this academy trust to support the Designated Safeguarding Leaders in their 13 schools. It is hoped that this will be possible with the appointment of another member of staff to the PCW supervision team for 6 hours a week. **Teen Challenge** – The secondary schools workers are starting to offer the drug awareness lesson in partnership with Teen Challenge to more secondary schools, with testimonies from people who have recovered from their addiction and become Christians as a result. It is hoped that this will attract schools that PACE are not currently working in. **LIVE IT!, TELL IT!** – The secondary schools team are working in partnership with Agapé UK to develop an 11-16 resource based on their adult resource called Living and Telling. PACE will rewrite the material and feature local youth workers in the video presentations. PACE tend to work mainly with the 95% of children and young people who would never attend a church by going into schools on a regular basis. This project aims to work with the 5% of young people who do attend church, to try and encourage them to share their faith every day at school in their actions and in their words. PACE will work with local youth workers to pilot a day of training in May 2023 for 11–16-year-olds and then evaluate it to see if it is something that can be rolled out nationally and internationally through the Agapé UK networks. This is an exciting project that we hope to get specific funding for. **4:12 Gathering –** PACE along with church youth workers in BCP meet on a regular basis, at least once a term to chat about what is happening in the area and how we might be able to partner on projects. As a result of these meetings, an idea for planning and delivering a training day for volunteer and paid youth and children’s workers surfaced. The plan is to deliver the training day in February 2023 with the hope that we will get 50+ volunteers there to equip, inspire and connect them together from across the area. The title of the day is the ‘4:12 Gathering’ based on the Bible passage 1 Timothy 4:12 about not looking down on people because they are young. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **MOVING FORWARD** **Sponsored Prayer Walk –** An idea developed in the early part of 2022 to have a fundraising event for the ministry and take the opportunity to pray for schools and teachers at the beginning of the school year in September 2022. The plan is to walk from Sandbanks to Hengistbury Head along the beach, which means the walk will pass through each of the main towns that PACE works in. Sponsors will be sought for the walkers and opportunities will be provided to pray along the way. It is hoped this will raise funds for the organisation. **Increase ‘It’s Your Move’ Event –** During June 2022 PACE developed a lesson for year 6 students in schools to help them transition to secondary schools – this lesson is based on the Scripture Union book ‘It’s Your Move’. Two schools approached PACE and asked them to run the lesson in their schools and this proved to be very successful. It is hoped that following evaluation of this project that PACE will be able to offer this lesson in more schools in June 2023. **Volunteers** – In discussion with the Trustees it has become obvious, with the number of requests PACE are receiving from schools, that the team will soon run out of capacity to respond positively to all these requests. As funding is limited another strategy will have to be developed to fulfil these requests. Therefore, moving forward PACE will seek to develop a number of volunteers to work on behalf of PACE in schools. It is hoped that in 2022-2023 the number of volunteers will double to increase capacity. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## Financial Review Income for the year (13 months) has increased by £13,323. There was a revenue surplus of £1,575 (2021: surplus of £27,140). From 2022 all computer equipment, including that shown as fixed assets last year, is being shown as resources used up during the year and not as a fixed asset. Although the increase in income was small, we have been encouraged by the small increases in the donations received from individuals this year (1%) and from local churches (2%), despite the continuing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. We continue to be very grateful to everyone who prays regularly for our work and those who support us financially. The income from Charitable Trusts this year has increased by nearly 14% and these grants have enabled us to expand our work, particularly in secondary schools, and to support a Director. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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It is worth noting that the “other income” reduced in 2022 because of the government’s furlough funding reduction that year. Some of the income from schools for supervision each year overlaps the financial year end. The actual PCW income from schools for 2021/22 was £8,835 which was just a slight increase on 2020/21 (£8,775). The support package is provided to schools at a reduced rate as part of our charitable activities. Efforts have continued to be made to raise the profile of PACE in local churches through regular Newsletters, speaking opportunities and update videos which have been very well received. This year 70% (£89,926) of the total expenses of £127,842 was used to employ two full-time and two part-time Schools Workers (one was on maternity leave until January 2022 which was fully funded by the government). We used 11% (£13,373) to employ three part-time Pastoral Care Supervisors, and 17% (£21,743) for our part-time Director, Administrator and Bookkeeper, and general office expenses including insurance and printing. The remaining 2% (£2,800) represents the assets from the old trust that were written off and training costs. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## Governance and Management The Trustees have taken note of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and are aware of the need for tight financial controls and the responsible management of all resources. The policies and procedures of the Charity are agreed at quarterly meetings of the Trustees, and the activities and general running of the Trust are agreed at regular meetings which are attended by Trustees and the Director. The Trustees have been recruited from local churches and this year Siân Cook and Phillip Dixon have joined us as new Trustees. Sian has a background in Education and is a primary school teacher, whilst Phillip is a Methodist Minister. All the Trustees have given of their time freely, receiving no remuneration or expenses in the year. Trustees examine the Risk Register at each Board meeting to make sure that risks are identified and mitigated against. ## **RESERVES POLICY** It is PACE policy to retain between 2-4 months’ running costs. £23,100 (2021: £19,400) has been designated for this purpose. The Trustees are satisfied that this is sufficient. There have been no related party transactions during the year. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Some of the Trustees and Staff 2021
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PROGRAMME FOR APPLIED CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IPACE CIO} Charlty No. 1195419 RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE PERIOD 1 MARCH 2022- 31 AUGUST 2022 ISIX MONTHS) R¥cwpts bBlorfj 1 klgrth 2022vMe atxwntad th&old PACE Tru¥l Ard ￿sferred to iha CIO accounlas'Olh•r rtoma.. seo no￿ 7 & 8 Unr•8trlctsd Fund* Rostrlcted Funds Total 2022 Nolo RECEIPTS Voluntary Income FundraSslng Sncomè Income from eharita14a aotlvilles Other incom8 Trnnè14rt old P￿E TN•t Total rocolpts 24,824 150 16,256 40,880 130 5,593 5.593 32,059 53 908 40,994 119676 PAYMENTS Costs ol charltable ad¥Ales Totsl paymgnts 38.217 23.577 23,577 N•t In¢omlng re•our¢￿ btrf<)rn trnn•f•rn 29,551 Transf8r8 be￿88n fund5 1301 N•t mov•m•nt In ¢4•h fvnd• 30,361 Cash funds brought forward Ca•h fund• ¢•rrl•d forward 29.521 30.361 59,882 Br•akdo¥m of fund•'. General fund 12,421 17,100 12,421 17,100 13,768 6,000 General fund reserves Ke￿h Jewell's fund 13,768 6.000 10,593 KeRh Jewell's res8rv89 P881or81 Care Work fund Stat•m8nt of A$$•ts at 31 Augu$t 2022 Unrestrlctsd Fund• Rostrlcted Fund• Total 2022 Ca•h funds Cash at Bank and in Hand 29,521 30,361 59.882 Total cash funda 29.521 30.361 59,882 The88 r8ceipls 8nd payrn8nt 8ccount5 and 8tatem8nt of 855818 W8r8 approv•J by th¢ Iruslees and signed on S WintLg- trustee 8nd treasurer Akg&:, KD￿$. NotOS to tho accounts 1. Voluntary Incomo Donations from indiwduals Donations frorn church88 Grants from Charits￿e trusts Unrestrfctod 4,313 5,811 14.500 624 R88trSct•d 16,256 Totsl 20.wj 5,811 2. Fundralslng In¢om• Cr88m tea don8tions BTeakfa51 don8tions 120 120 150 150 3. In¢om• fr4)m ¢harllabl• actlvltl Fees re¢eN8d from pa$loral ¢8re worker, designated safa-guarding lead and head teacher supervlsion 4. Othor Incorn• transforred from old PACE trust Ganeral fund Keith J8W811'8 fund PCW 5UP8rv15ion fuTrJ 40,994 40,994 23,941 23,941 8,118 S. Colts of ¢harltabl• a¢tlvlti School$workers' salari88 PCW 5UP8rv150rs' salad85 Dlrador. admlnlslralor, book-k•èp8r Trav81 & rnlleagg R8sourc88 Telephone Pdnting, p08tagg & ststlongry Insuranc Admln resourc86 Fundraising costs &Jndrl89 25,383 16,29S 6,333 41,678 6,333 9,691 9691 119 865 378 20 20 411 29 220 29 220 6. Fund mov•m•nts R•c•lpt• P•ym•nt• 51.668 38,217 14,100 34,897 5,300 13,711 119676 Tr•n•f•r• 13,0301 3,000 14,1641 700 3,494 General lund General fund reserveB Keith J8well's fund Kèith Jowo11's res0rv6s PCW fund 12,421 17,100 13,7 6,000 10,593 16,965 6,612 20 7. Rec•lpts and paym•nt8 account8 for Pace Trust charlty numb¢r 1032552 For th8 porlod 1st August 2021 to 31st August 2022113 months) Unre8trlctsd Funds Ro8trlcted Fund5 Total 2022 RECEIPTS Voluntary income Fundraising incotno Income from ¢haritab$8 ac￿V￿leS Other income Furtwh, SMP eook Total r•¢8lpts 36,829 678 36,799 73.828 678 6,197 2,291 6,197 20 2,271 PAYMENTS Costs of Charitable Other paym8nts Total p•ym•nts 41,93S 40,994 82.929 26,114 32,059 58.173 68,048 73,OS3 141 101 TrohFl•rs PACE CIO N•t In¢omlno ￿OU￿• b•lor• tran•l•rn Tr8n$fors b8iwa8n lund8 4,377 14,3771 19.533 N•t mov•m•nt In ¢a•h fund• 38.775 Cash fund• brought forward Ca•h funds carrf&d lo￿ard 40.353 19,663 60,016 1,578 130 1,708 Br•akdovm of fundB'. Ggngrol fund 1,578 1,578 130 Kètth Jtwèll'a fund 130 1,578 130 1,708 The58 r8rnalnlng funds r8pre88nt the Bmounts held In tha bank of the old tIU8t at 31st August 2022 I c4mpulèr •quipm6nt that w8s hald In th8 old trust has boon shown as An axp8nsa in thèsè accounts 21 8. Con8011dated Recelpts and payments accounts for the old Pa¢e Trust and the n¢w CIO For th8 porlod 1st August 2021 to 31st August 2022113 months) Unre8trlctsd Funds Ro8trlcted Fund5 Total 2022 Tot81 2021 112mthsl RECEIPTS Voluntary income Fundraising incotno Income from ¢haritab$8 ac￿V￿leS Other income.. Furtwh, SMP eook Total r•¢8lpts 61,453 828 53,055 114.$08 828 11.790 2,291 129 17 11.790 20 10.980 8,421 2,271 PAYMENTS Costs of charitable 78,152 49,891 127,842 88,954 Totsl p￿M#nts 49.691 N•t Incomlng r•BOUrc￿ b•fTh} On aKounts for th? yffir 31* August 2022 Charlty no (11 any) 1032552 out ¢)n p•g 11-zi I re[￿rt to the Irustees on my exaninalion charity llhe Trust'} foT the year ended 31 RMpon•lbllltl8• •nd the charity lrnstees ofthe Tw8t. you are reS￿sible forthe prepar* •1• of r•port ol the 8¢¢ounts h) acclydance wilh the requirements ofth8 Charltm A 2011 fthe fvrf). I Tel￿ In respect of my examlnatlon of the Trusvs aLf4)Urts (￿7￿1