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Trustees' Annual Re ort for the eriod p p

Period start date Period end date 01 April 2024 31 March 2025

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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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 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

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

(eg. trust, association, company)

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:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

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 Head Teacher

• Deputy Head Teacher

• Business Manager

• Governor Representative

• Community Representative

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 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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• Safeguarding and child protection

• Reserves policy

• • Complaints policy • Volunteers policy

• Trustees code of conduct

• Health and safety policy

• Financial policy

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

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)

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.

	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 of different 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 designed to help children and young
	people across the four quadrants of:
	▪ Environment
	▪ Skills
	▪ Community cohesion and social capital
	▪ Health and wellbeing
	Activities include:
	▪ Awards for All funded cooking up connections project, a growing and cooking project for the community. ▪ Tesco – Stronger Starts bid / Blackrod Breaking Frontiers ▪ Bolton’s Fund Micro Grant -Community Growing Project
	In addition we have worked in collaboration with Blackrod Primary School to deliver community based activities including:
	▪ Heritage Lottery Fund / Blackrod Remembered – a community and
	school based history project
	▪ ASDA Foundation / Under 18 Better Starts funding in collaboration with
	Blackrod PTFA to support All Starts
	▪ Greater Manchester Opening School Facilities fund – which supported
	the opening of school activities to the wider community
	▪ Tesco – provision of a sensory garden on the school site
	▪ National Lottery ‘Children’s Discovery Nature Trail & Summer
	Workshops.
	▪ Greater Manchester Green Space – Community Garden

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

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

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: ▪ Environment ▪ Skills ▪ Community cohesion and social capital ▪ Health and wellbeing

Section D Achievements and performance We have specified our main activities above, which we also agree to be Summary of the main our main achievements. Throughout the course of the year we have achievements of the charity generated positive outcomes for 313 children from Blackrod Primary during the year School, and over 140 children, young people and families in the Blackrod locality, some of which have benefited from multiple opportunities. We have benefited from volunteer time greater than 226 hours. Section E Financial review The CIO complies with the requirements of the charities Act 2011 with Brief statement of the charity’s regard to the keeping of accounting records, to the preparation and policy on reserves 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. We have an active policy on reserves which is updated annually. Details of any funds materially Not applicable in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

• Expenditure has helped us to achieve the key objects of the CIO. All

• You may choose to include monies are accounted for through achievement of the project outcomes.

• additional information, where We have not used income for investment purposes.

• relevant about: • the charity’s principal The principal sources of funding for BYB@Blackrod through the course

• sources of funds (including of this year has been:

• any fundraising);

• • how expenditure has ▪ Tesco supported the key objectives ▪ Awards for All | National Lottery Fund of the charity; Income ▪ Bolton’s Fund Micro Grant ‘Community

• • investment policy and Growing Project’

• objectives including any ▪ Greater Manchester Greenspace.

• ethical investment policy adopted.

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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) Martin Banks Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc) Date ~~September 2025~~

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