Charity number: 1195680
Registered by the Charity Commission for England & Wales
Safer off the Streets
Report and financial statements For the year ended 30.6.23.
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Safer off the Streets Peterborough Partnership
Contents
For the year ended 30[th] June 2023
| Administratve Details | 3 |
|---|---|
| Chair’s Foreword | 4 |
| Trustees’ Annual Report | 5 |
| Statement of Financial Actvites | 8 |
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Administrative Details
Charity number 1195680 Registered office Longhurst Housing Axiom House Cottesmore Close Peterborough PE3 9TP
Trustees
Trustees who served for the full year, or part of the year ended 30.6.23.
Christine Graham Resigned 31.10.22. Fay Hirel Full year Kevin Dawson Full year Sean Evans Full year Anna Lee Appointed 21.2.23. To be ratified 19.10.23.
Bankers HSBC
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Chair’s Foreword
The many challenges of recent years has continued to provide hardship for many, some ending up sleeping rough and ensuring homelessness. There has been no respite and hence the work of Safer off the Streets remains as important as ever at this time.
Since opting to become a registered charity in 2021, the organisation has been very quiet in terms of its direct action with and in support of our partners. Our partners are the many organisations across the city of Peterborough, statutory, voluntary, charitable and faith based, who work directly to support the needs of those who sleep rough and/or are homeless.
This has started to change in 2023. My first activity as Chair has been to reach out to and seek feedback from our partners, asking them what they really need from our organisation in terms of support and how they believe we can add the most value to rough sleepers and the homeless across the city of Peterborough. The very helpful feedback provided has helped us enormously with our strategic planning. An outline will be provided later in this document. Work has already commenced on some of our strategic workstreams, the future looks exciting and very promising.
I wish to thank our partners for providing their feedback and for starting to engage in our activities. Our work is primarily to support our partners, enabling improved collaboration, funding, training and communication whilst contributing to the delivery of the city council’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeper Strategy. Ultimately, this should help our partners assist all those who sleep rough on our streets and those who are homeless.
Anna Lee
Chair of Trustee Board
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Trustees’ Annual Report
The trustees present their report and financial statement for the year ended 30[th] June 2023.
The year in summary
| The year in summary | |
|---|---|
| 2022/2023 | |
| Total income | £ 4,258.17 |
| Total expenditure | £ 668.92 |
| Total funds in bank as at 30.6.23. | £15,942.86 |
| Grants provided to partners | 0 |
| Quarterly Partnership meetngs held | 3 virtual/1 in person |
Structure and governance
The charity trustees are appointed for a period of two years and may be reappointed up to three times, before there must be a break of a minimum of one year. All trustees stood down at the last AGM in October 2022. Christine Graham, Chair, took the opportunity to resign from the board, while Fay Hirel, Kevin Dawson and Sean Evans were all reappointed. Anna Lee was appointed as a trustee and new Chair, in February 2023, replacing Christine Graham. All trustees contribute operational time and expertise to the charity’s activity and there are no staff positions.
Quarterly Partnership meetings are held in January, April, July and October each year. We Invite our partners to join us for information sharing, learning opportunities, discussion, collaboration and problem solving. From April 2023 the decision was taken to hold these ‘in person’ only, to ensure a strong focus to be placed on strengthening relationships between partners.
From August 2023 we will be holding separate quarterly Trustee Board meetings in addition to our Partnership meetings.
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From October 2023 we will be seeking to recruit two further trustees to strengthen our board and help share activity leadership.
Our purpose and our public benefit
The purpose of Safer off the Streets is to promote for the public benefit the relief of those in need due to their experience of or risk of homelessness in Peterborough, in particular but not exclusively through providing information on how and where to access services, supporting engagement with service providers (our Partners), enabling them to better meet need and raising awareness.
Strategic Planning
During March – June 2023, consultation took place with our partners to seek feedback, asking them what they really need from our organisation in terms of support and how they believe we can add the most value to rough sleepers and the homeless across the city of Peterborough. Very worthwhile feedback was contributed, that enabled us to develop our 2023-2025 Strategic Workstreams, as follows:
In our next annual report, we will report on our progress. We are keen to commence activity
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on our strategic workstreams. We will be seeking volunteers locally, plus from the Peterborough educational institutions to do so.
Financial sustainability
During the period of this report, our only fund raising has been via a few regular doners, sending money to us via the CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) system and our donation point on Bridge Street. Unfortunately, our donation point was out of action for many months. A new donation unit was purchased in May 23 and installed. Therefore, very little new money was donated during the period of this report and no fund raising campaigning took place.
Going forward, our fund raising efforts will be increased so that our partners can apply for grants, to enable them to enhance the services they offer to those in need. Donated money may also be spent on partner training, where this will add value to our partners.
Thank you to our partners and supporters
Thank you to our partners for starting to re-engage with our charity and we look forward to learning more about other potential partners and welcoming them to our Partnership meetings.
Thank you to our supporters who have helped to fund our charity over this last quiet period of our operation.
Charity Commission submissions
Our last AGM was held on Monday 18[th] July 2022. Our next AGM will be held on 19[th]
October 2023, where our accounts and Annual Report will be formally approved by our
members (partners). Given the length of time since our last AGM, we will be submitting the required documentation to the Charity Commission during September 2023.
Anna Lee
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Chair of Trustee Board
Full statement of financial activities
For the year 1[st] July 2022 - 30[th] June 2023
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| Opening Balance | £ 12,353.71 |
|---|---|
| Charities Aid Foundation Donations | £ 2,951.98 |
| EasyFundraisingDonations | £ 39.62 |
| Cash Donations | £ 979.81 |
| All Saints Church Donation | £ 250.00 |
| Good Box | £ 36.66 |
| Total Income | £ 4,258.07 |
| Bank Charges | £ 64.32 |
| LiabilityInsurance | £ 172.60 |
| Good Box Invoice | £ 432.00 |
| Expenditure | £ 668.92 |
| Closing Balance | £ 15,942.86 |
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| 2023 | 15,076.43 £ Opening Balance |
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| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | Septembe r |
October | Novembe r |
Decembe r |
Year to Date | |
| Income | |||||||||||||
| CAF Payments - Direct Debit, PayPal |
£180.18 | £159.90 | £208.10 | £221.84 | £290.24 | £135.24 | £135.25 | £207.54 | £183.44 | £1,721.73 | |||
| Cash | £36.20 | £36.20 | |||||||||||
| Other Donation | £250.00 | £250.00 | |||||||||||
| EasyFundraising | £18.87 | £18.87 | |||||||||||
| Bridge Street Donation Point |
£0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £8.46 | £28.20 | £0.00 | £19.74 | £14.10 | £31.02 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £101.52 |
| SUB TOTAL | £430.18 | £178.77 | £208.10 | £230.30 | £318.44 | £135.24 | £191.19 | £221.64 | £214.46 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £2,128.32 |
| Expenditure | |||||||||||||
| Bank Charges | 5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
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| Public Liability Insurance | 172.60 £ |
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| Faulty donation point replacement |
432.00 £ |
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| SUB TOTAL | 5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
609.60 £ |
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5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
5.00 £ |
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- £ |
- £ |
- £ |
649.60 £ |
| 16,555.15 £ Closing Balance |