## **YOUTHWORKPLUS** ## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** **For the year ended 31[st] March 2023** Registered Charity Number 1196622 ## **YOUTHWORKPLUS** ## **CONTENTS** ||**Page**| |---|---| |**Reference and Administrative Details**|**3**| |**Annual Report**|**4**| |**Statement of Financial Activities**|**5**| |**Notes to the Financial Statements**|**7**| 2/7 ## **YOUTHWORKPLUS** ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS** **NAME YOUTHWORKPLUS** **c/o Janet Nelsey 3 Longleat Court, Great Holm Milton Keynes MK8 9HD** **ADDRESS c/o Janet Nelsey 3 Longleat Court, Great Holm Milton Keynes MK8 9HD EMAIL youthworkplusmk@gmail.com WEBSITE https://youthworkplus.com/ Trustees Bex Jignasu Ruth Lockwood Daniel Jolliffe Janet Nelsey** **Principal Bankers Lloyds Bank,** 3/7 ## **ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS OF YOUTHWORKPLUS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[st] MARCH 2023** ## **Objectives and Activities** To encourage and strengthen existing youth and children’s ministry. To inspire and cultivate opportunities for new work with the 95% of children and youth not yet connected to churches. Supporting these ministries to see more young lives transformed. Youthwork+ is set up to champion work with youth and children and to help support both volunteers and paid workers here in Milton Keynes and beyond. From our own experience youth and children’s work can be hard, it can be a struggle to know how to begin, draining, lonely, and tough to keep coming up with fresh ideas. On the other hand, we know we really thrive when we feel connected & encouraged, this is where we hope Youthwork+ can really help. ## **Youthwork+ Trustee Meetings** The Trustees met eleven times during this period via Zoom, with an average attendance of 80%. ## **Achievements and Performance** Work has continued with the necessary policies and procedures required for us to be a Registered Charity. Our main achievements over this reporting period have been: Creation and launch of a website and media streams. On the website we post biweekly reviews of recommended resources. To help children and youth workers leaders with ideas and provide a space for people to share ideas and things that work in children’s and youth ministry. During this period, we created 90 youth and children's resources reviews We created a map that shows where children and youth work is happening across Milton Keynes and beyond. The hope is that this would encourage people to work together with their neighbours to do children’s and youth work in their churches and communities and also, to enable us to see where there are gaps in provision. We have a monthly podcast where we discuss youth and children’s work topics. Monthly podcasts available on YouTube apple and Spotify. In this period, we have produced 16 youth and children’s work podcasts, with 1050 podcast listens. We run networks to encourage and support Youth and children’s leaders. One here in Milton Keynes, and a national one online. In collaboration with another organisation, we ran a day retreat for children’s aand youth leaders. We have set up and are engaging with 40 Connections with churches charities and projects in Milton Keynes. And have 55 Connections with churches and charities and projects beyond Milton Keynes. We ran a resource event for the children’s and youth workers across Milton Keynes We have been able to do the above on limited resources. We currently have funds to pay a worker for six hours a week. This was enabled by a diocesan grant that is now coming to an end. We have a handful of small regular givers as well as a couple of donations from one local church. ## **Safeguarding** All our Trustees hold Enhanced DBS Certificates. 4/7 ## **Financial Review** We have been immensely grateful for all the Giving received that has enabled us to carry out this work. We have nine monthly donations, and ad hoc giving from local churches. Our Expenditure is tightly controlled and covers the Salary and Training costs. ## **Reserves policy** It is good practice to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds (if possible), which equates to approximately three months unrestricted payments, about £1,200 to cover emergency situations that may arise from time to time. The balance of £2,200. 5/7 YOUTHWORK PLUS SUMMARY PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT 31-1ts-23 1741oY-21 31-Mar43 8UDGET 3141ar-23 Variance 31-Mar-23 BUDGET 314Iar-24 INCOME Regular Gr¥irvJ - GA Re9ul3r GI￿n9 - not GA Ad Giwng - GA Ad Hc* Grwng - not GA Church Cknatbon5 Diocesan Grant Gift Aid Received Tr31nirvJ Oonations 300.DJ 1.758.C 1.758.C4J 900 900 300 1.008 2,730 -WO.C 500 Crf) 2.000. 0.321.C¥) 200C 992.C 3.780 300 120 120 Conferences & Events In5uraiK* Webst Zotyn Saleguardin9 Administration Rex*urces Bank Chary*s e88 CIJ 43.C 431. 784.C¥) 17.C