Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
From 13[TH] SEPTEMBER 2024 To 12[TH] SEPTEMBER 2025 Charity name: SASHA’S PROJECT
Charity registration number: 1195793
Objectives and Activities
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| Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document |
Para 1.17 | What the charity does: The Advancement of Health or Saving of Lives Who the charity helps: Children/young People How the charity helps: Provides Advocacy/advice/information Where the charity operates: Hampshire Surrey Berkshire |
| Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts. |
Para 1.17 and 1.19 |
Sasha's Project supports the young people of our community. We run a drop-in centre every weekend (open 8pm-6am) in Fleet for any young person who is struggling with their mental health. We also offer telephone support every evening (9pm until midnight) open to any young person in Hampshire. We supply Christmas Boxes across the UK, providing gifts for all those 13-25yrs who will be on a mental health unit on Christmas Day. We provide Hospital Bags for young people who end up in ICU. The charity also hosts a Service of Reflection each year |
| Statement confirming | Para 1.18 | The trustees are aware of and have had |
| whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit |
training regarding public benefit. | ||
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SORP reference |
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| Policy on grant making | Para 1.38 | |
| Policy on social investment including program related investment |
Para 1.38 | |
| Contribution made by volunteers |
Para 1.38 | Our Listening Volunteers contributed 1,050 hours of their time to running the crisis drop-in centre. Our Telephone Support Volunteers contributed 420 hours for the newly launched service. In addition, our Listening Volunteers and Community Volunteers contributed 142 hours of their time supporting information, awareness and community events. Our Listening Volunteers have completed over 203 hours of training from Health & Safety, Safeguarding to Suicide Prevention and Intervention |
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Achievements and Performance
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| Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole |
Para 1.20 | What we have achieved since 13th September 2024 to 12th September 2025: We continue to operate our drop-in centre every Friday and Saturday night, 8pm – 6am and are open to all young people aged 13yrs to 25yrs. The crisis drop-in centre has been open for 105 sessions supporting young people and their families. There were only 2 closures of the drop-in centre due to volunteer illness. We attended 18 awareness/information events, increasing our visibility in larger forums like Hampshire County Council and the Health & Wellbeing Board, continuing our work with Hampshire ‘Voices’, the charity Inquest and both Hampshire and Surrey Suicide steering groups. We did suicide awareness and prevention presentations to North Hampshire Urgent Care and Calthorpe Park School, Parents Support In addition to supporting the young people of our community, we have also been supporting their parents, families and friends. Parents especially are desperate for information and support, often feeling that they are alone, with no one to turn to. Our volunteers have received additional training to better equip them to offer the best support and they are to be commended in the way that they have stepped up to provide this additional service |
Christmas Box scheme. Sasha’s Project Christmas Box Scheme is about delivering a box/bag of Christmas gifts to young people who are spending Christmas Day on a mental health unit. Being an in-patient is hard at the best of times, but at Christmas it is particularly difficult, especially if the young person is unable to see family and friends on Christmas Day. This is a project where communities, individuals and groups come together to donate gifts, which are divided up into festive bags. Our Volunteers take great delight in playing ‘Santa’ and delivering all the bags on Christmas Eve to the young people in hospital units throughout Hampshire. ICU Hospital Bags program Sasha’s Project ICU Hospital Bag program provides hospital bags for young people (age 13-25yrs) who ended up in intensive care as the result of a suicide attempt. The program continues at both Frimley Park hospital and Wexham Park hospital. We have received some very touching feedback from young people who have used the bags, confirming that they make a real difference at such a difficult time. Social media. We continue to work on our social media output and were delighted to be able to launch our website which we are continually updating. Although we’re not as efficient as we should be, we are improving! Outreach work We continue to operate our Outreach project, with our Listening Volunteers taking information and awareness into our local community. It’s an opportunity for young people to get to know us and also for connections to be made with other professionals/groups who work throughout the night. Service of Reflection We continue to host our Service of
Reflection in November 2025. It is a wonderful event, supporting our community who have been bereaved by suicide. It’s a non-religious, compassionate gathering with music and words. Occasions such as these are very much part of suicide prevention by supporting those bereaved, who are at high risk of suicide themselves. Raising Awareness We continue to work on implementing our Mission statement, particularly “to challenge and change public perception about the stigma of mental health issues, inspiring others to do the same, alongside promoting a zero tolerance of suicide”. We have achieved this by raising awareness of the charity through the following networking and events:Farnborough Sixth Form Open Days Farnborough College of Technology Open Days and Wellbeing Day at UCA, Farnham It is important to open up conversations around mental health and suicide within our community which all our volunteers continue to do in their daily lives, both socially and at their places of work. These random conversations make an impact and raise awareness. These conversations are also had at the numerous forums, panels and meetings which we attend, where we advocate for young people’s mental health to remain on the agenda. Plans for the coming year: We have a number of projects which we are planning to implement in 20252026. We are looking to improve the technical aspect of our Telephone Support Service and also to extend our outreach work, enabling us to extend our support to a wider community.
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Additional information (optional)
| Achievements against objectives set |
Para 1.41 | |
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| Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set |
Para 1.41 | |
| Investment performance against objectives |
Para 1.41 | |
| Other |
Financial Review
| Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period |
Para 1.21 | The Charity has seen reasonable income for the period with little expenditure which helps us to continue saving for our goal of supporting young people every day of the week. We have ringfenced our donations for a crisis house and in addition we hold a small |
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| reserve for emergency expenditure. | ||
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| Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held |
Para 1.22 | Enough is held in reserves to cover any outgoing expenses for 6 months |
| Amount of reserves held | Para 1.22 | £4,000 |
| Reasons for holding zero reserves |
Para 1.22 | N/A |
| Details of fund materially in deficit |
Para 1.24 | N/A |
| Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern |
Para 1.23 | N/A |
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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) |
Para 1.47 |
Our principal income is from donations and grants and fundraising. |
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| Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted |
Para 1.46 | |
| A description of the principal risks facing the charity |
Para 1.46 | |
| Other |
Structure, Governance and Management
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| Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter) |
Para 1.25 | Constitution |
| How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO) |
Para 1.25 | CIO |
| Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees |
Para 1.25 | Selection method is application to the Board, over 16’s only, max number of trustees is 10 at any one time. Applicants need to be in line with the charities mission and values. |
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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees |
Para 1.51 |
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| The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works |
Para 1.51 | |
| Relationship with any related parties |
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Reference and Administrative details
| Charity name | Sasha’s Project |
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| Other name the charity uses | N/A |
| Registered charity number | 1195793 |
| Charity’s principal address | Waverly House Waverly Avenue Fleet Hants GU51 4NN |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Angela Forster | Chair | |||
| Steve Forster | Secretary | |||
| Charlotte Tickner | Treasurer | |||
| LucyPage | Young people | |||
| Perdita Forster- Rampton |
Communication | |||
– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
Director name
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year
Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
Additional information (optional)
Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of Name Address adviser
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Exemptions from disclosure
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
Other optional information
Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Charlotte Tickner Full name(s) Angela Forster Position (eg Secretary, Chair Treasurer Chair, etc) Date 15[th] January 2026
Charity Name No (if any)
Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts
Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 13/09/2024 12/09/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 24 078 1 499 1 038 - - - - - 26 615 - - - 26 615 1 632 1 072 1 168 4 630 114 128 8 744 - - - 8 744 17 871 - 80 248 98 119 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 24 078 1 499 1 038 - - - - - 26 615 - - - 26 615 1 632 1 072 1 168 4 630 187 128 8 744 - - - 8 744 17 871 |
Total funds to the nearest £ 24 078 1 499 1 038 - - - - - 26 615 - - - 26 615 1 632 1 072 1 168 4 630 187 128 8 744 - - - 8 744 17 871 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donations | 24 078 | 25 893 | ||||
| Grants | 1 499 | 6 972 | ||||
| Fundraising | 1 038 | 3 199 | ||||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
26 615 | 36 064 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| Staff Training | 1 632 | 398 | ||||
| Office | 1 072 | 3 510 | ||||
| promotions | 1 168 | 427 | ||||
| Other | 4 630 | 1 370 | ||||
| ICU Bags | 114 | 45 | ||||
| Fundraising | 128 | |||||
| **Sub total ** | 8 744 | 5 750 | ||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| 17 871 | - | - | 17 871 | 30 314 | ||
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| 80 248 | - | - | 80 248 | |||
| 98 119 | - | - | 98 119 | 30 314 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | the end of the period | |
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| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds |
Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) current account saving Details Details Details Signature |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - 28 118 - 70 000 - 98 118 - Agreement Error OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Charlotte Tickner |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Date of approval | |||
| Charlotte Tickner | 30th September 2024 | ||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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