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Period start date Period end date 13 December 2021 31 March 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name BYB@Blackrod

Other names charity is known by N/A Registered charity number (if any) 1197101

Charity's principal address Blackrod Primary School

Manchester Road Blackrod Bolton Postcode BL6 5SY

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
year		 Name of person (or body) entitled to
appoint trustee(if any)
Ian Dryburgh Chair n/a BYB@Blackrod
Martin Banks Trustee n/a BYB@Blackrod
Rachael Littlefair Trustee n/a BYB@Blackrod
Julie Ramsden Treasurer n/a BYB@Blackrod
Katherine Mead Trustee n/a BYB@Blackrod

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Foundation CIO Constitution

How the charity is constituted

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Trustee selection methods

By appointment

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

BYB@Blackrod is an independent registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation which is managed by a board of ex-officio trustees aligned to Blackrod Primary School.

The Headteacher,Deputy Headteacher, Business Manager and Governor Representative of Blackrod Primary School (each, the office holder) shall automatically (ex officio) be a charity trustee, for as long as they hold that office and the community representative is appointed.

These trustee members are supported by Associate Member Trustees who are important members of our community bringing expertise, experience and challenge but who do not have voting rights. All trustees are provided with the a trustee induction pack prior to become a member and the Associate Member Trustees are volunteers.

BYB@Blackrod have policies and procedures which are managed and monitored by trustees on a regular basis, including:

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There is also a process of internal management for all externally funded projects to ensure both accountability and internal auditing of finances.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The objects of the CIO are to advance in life and relieve needs of young people up to the age of 18 through: a) The provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life; b) Providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society.

Throughout the year activities have taken place which have helped children and young people across a wide range of ages which have given the opportunity to develop their skills, capacities and capabilities. Throughout all activities, trustees have had due regard to the charity commissions public benefit guidance and have taken into account both the guidance and the objects of the charity.

Activities throughout the course of the year have included the provision of recreational and leisure time activities which were designed to help children and young people across the four quadrants of:

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Activities often crossed the four quadrants through for example using gardening projects to encourage children to learn to grow food from the land and eating healthy food. This included a partnership with ASDA and subsequent funding of £629 plus an in-kind donation of time to develop within children healthy eating and growing and refurbish areas of the secret garden on the site of Blackrod Primary School, a partner to the CIO. Asda delivered activities for children in school time through our facilitation of the partnership. This benefited 315 children.

We have planted over 345 trees in the community to further develop in children the skills of planting and growing and have fostered links with LEAF education. We supported a visit to take 35 children to an active, educational school farm teaching children about different aspects of farming. We aim to support the school in the year ahead to become a Farming Demonstration School.

As a CIO we have engaged with the NHS initiative, Every Mind Matters where children and their parents have taken part in trial initatives designed to foster a healthy mind and body. Children and families have engaged in sessions relating to mindfulness, yoga, woodland wellbeing and eco-art. They have been given guidance and have been made aware of the Every Mind Matters initiative designed by the NHS. Throughout this iniatiative we have directly engaged 30 children / parents from within the Blackrod community, and have had further engagement with over 300 families within the Blackrod community sharing with them the Every Mind Matters resources. We were granted funding of £500 for this project.

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As part of our quest to further develop community cohesion and social capital, we took nine disadvantaged children on a planned, and risk assessed flight with a charity focusing on giving children good experiences at Christmas time. This gave them an experience of their lifetime as they met Santa Claus.

In relation to skills and additional learning, a partnership with the Octagon through the two year ‘Into the Woods’ project continues to take place in collaboration with Blackrod Primary School. This was established prior to the establishment of the formal CIO constitution. It has meant that there has been direct engagement with children across the school several activities and sessions including:

Assemblies - Reception, key stage 1, 2 – the Octagon worked with 530 children in total over 4 hours.

KS2 workshops - Four x 1.5 hour workshops were delivered to KS2 classes (6 contact hours) A total of 120 children participated (30 in each)

Summer school 2021 - 10 days of summer school were delivered, in total (48 contact hours). 30 children participated over a two week period.

In addition, after school club ran for one week and 20 children participated. It has been and continues to be a very successful project.

We have held a series of family focused bikeability sessions in collaboration with the Active Lives team at Bolton Council. Through these sessions which ran out of school time we taught 4 adults and 3 children how to ride bikes safely in their local community. More sessions are planned.

We have developed an initiative with Bolton Library and Museum Services which has enabled children and young people from within Blackrod Primary School to see local artworks within the school building.

Finally and in addition, we have recently been successful in obtaining funding from Awards for All to the value of £9,950 to deliver an inter-generational project called ‘Cooking up Connections.’ This is in the planning stages.

We were also pleased to receive SEED funding from the University of Manchester to set up the CIO initially.

Finally we have coordinated engagement with out of school providers, Forest Horizons to give additional opportunities to young children.

As trustees we have due regard to risks and auditing measures throughout all of the projects and have a reporting mechanism back to each trustee meeting on each project as well as reporting as appropriate to funding providers.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

We would like to thank all volunteers for their valued contribution to the development of BYB@Blackrod and would like to thank all partners for their continued support.

As we continue our strategic development for the year ahead we will continue to focus on the objects of the constitution and to further develop activities in each of the four quadrants of:

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

We have specified our main activities above, which we also agree to be our main achievements. Throughout the course of the year we have generated positive outcomes for over 300 children, young people and families in the Blackrod locality, some of which have benefited from multiple opportunities.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The CIO complies with the requirements of the charities Act 2011 with regard to the keeping of accounting records, to the preparation and scrutiny of statements of accounts, and to the preparation of annual reports and returns. The reserves are kept to meet needs relating to contingency, cash-flow, commitment conservation, and closure. As the CIO is newly established we are in the process of reviewing our policy on reserves in line with Charity Commission guidance and will be creating a new reserves policy.

Details of any funds materially Not applicable in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

The principal sources of funding for BYB@Blackrod through the course of this year has been:

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

Asda  the charity’s principal Awards for All | National Lottery Fund sources of funds (including Bikeability any fundraising); NHS Forest Frontiers

Income and expenditure have helped us to achieve the key objects of the CIO. All monies are accounted for through achievement of the project outcomes.

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Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Ian Dryburgh Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair / Trustee etc)

Date 22 November 2023

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BYB Financial Report Financial Period 14/12/2021 - 31/03/2023

Date Description Credits Debits Balance
OpeningBalance £0.00
17 May2022 Asda Foundation Grant £629.00 £629.00
23 May2022 Forest Frontiers BYB01 £100.00 £729.00
14 June 2022 Forest Frontiers BYB02 £100.00 £829.00
04 July2022 M Howard B/Qexpenses ASDA Grant £53.50 £775.50
Sept 2022 - Aug 2023 £775.50
10 October 2022 EveryMind Matters £500.00 £1,275.50
12 October 2022 Forest Frontiers BYB05 £140.00 £1,415.50
08 November 2022 F Ansari Yoga sessions EveryMind Matters £120.00 £1,295.50
15 November 2022 SEED Balance £825.80 £2,121.30
17 November 2022 C BradleyYoga EveryMind Matters £50.00 £2,071.30
02 December 2022 LotteryFundingGrant CookingUpConnections £9,950.00 £12,021.30
10 January2023 Forest Frontiers BYB06 £50.00 £12,071.30
11 January2023 All Stars Bank Acct re Halloween BYB Event £420.00 £12,491.30
11 January2023 School Fund Bank Acct re Halloween BYB Event £176.22 £12,315.08
10 February2023 C BradleyYoga EveryMind Matters £50.00 £12,265.08
Balance £12,714.80 £449.72 £12,265.08
Signed by one or two
trustees on behalf of all the
trustees		 Signature Date of
approval
Julie Ramsden 22/11/2023
Katherine Mead 22/11/2023