**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date 01 january 2023
Period end date 31 December 2023
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Youth Organisations in Uniform West Midlands CIO **Other names charity is known by** YOU WM **Registered charity number (if any)** 1198465 **Charity's principal address** West Midlands Lieutenancy 11 Waterloo Street Birmingham **Postcode B2 5TB**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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||LadyDiana Crabtree|CharityTrustee|Appointed 1Mar 23|The existingTrustees|
||Mr N Sarling|CharityTrustee|Appointed 1 Mar 23|The existingTrustees|
||Mr C Houghton|CharityTrustee|Appointed 1 Mar 23|The existingTrustees|
||Mr K Aldridge|CharityTrustee|Appointed 1 Mar 23|The existingTrustees|
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Type of adviser Name Address** N/A
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by existing trustees
(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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES OF YOUTH ORGANISATIONS WHOSE MEMBERS WEAR UNIFORMS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:
- (a) Consulting with the uniformed youth organisations to develop appropriate plans for delivery and implementation.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
- (b) Providing guidance to young people, parents and carers to enable them to choose the most appropriate uniformed youth organisation.
- (c) Enabling capacity building of the uniformed youth organisations by advice to attract and develop adult volunteers.
- (d) Supporting collaboration between uniformed youth organisations for mutual benefit.
- (e) Raising awareness of the public benefit of membership of
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uniformed youth organisations to the individual and the community through advocacy, events and public relations.
**‘West Midlands’** is the Cities of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall.
**‘Uniformed Youth Organisations’** are those units which are located in the West Midlands of The Army Cadet Force, Boys Brigade and Girls’ Association, Combined Cadet Force, Fire Cadets, Girls’ Brigade, Girlguiding, RAF Air Cadets, Sea Cadet Corps, Scouts, St John Ambulance and the Volunteer Police Cadets, together with such other youth organisations as the Trustees may in the future consider suitable for inclusion.
**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 main activities are as specified within the five action areas of the Objectives above, namely:
- Consultation between the youth organisations for public benefit
- Providing information and guidance to parents, carers and young people
- Enabling capacity building, partricularly in adult volunteers
- Supporting collaboration
- - Raising awareness of the public benefit of the young people’s organisations
In planning the activities of the Charity the Trustees have had regard to the guidance given in Section 17(5) of the Charities Act and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and Performance
This is the second Annual Report of the YOU WM Charity, which came about **Summary of the main** following discussions between leaders of the eleven Youth Organisations in **achievements of the** 2021 with the Charity being registed as a CIO on 31 March 2022. **charity during the year** A call for additional Trustees was circulated in autumn 2022 which subsequently led to the appointment of four additional Trustees in March 2023, all having a depth of hands-on experience with youth organisations.
A number of recent studies have reinforced the value of the YOU WM organisations :
The Scouting impact study on 2022-23 reported an increased sense of adventure, independence, leadership skills, better communication, connectedness, respect, trust and wellbeing. Girlguiding reported that its girls
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Section D Achievements and Performance
are 23% more confident that UK girls generally. An MoD study by the University of Northampton (The Denny Report) into the social impact and ROI from expenditure on the Cadet Forces reported improved educational outcomes, enhanced employability and increased resilience. These positive outcomes are also reflected in adult volunteers and in positive community impact. The organisations reviewed and updated the YOU WM action plan in September 2023 to include activities to support the main pillars of the Objectives, key elements of which are: **Providing Information and Guidance.** It was agreed in December 23 that our website would be upgraded to incorporate a search facility and additional information. This was funded in early 2024 and is being executed. **Promoting Adult Volunteering.** A programme of meetings (in each of the seven local authority areas) has commenced, involving the local leaders of the YOU WM organisations, LA Youth Services, local volunteering agencies and other key stakeholders to identify avenues for capacity building and to participate in potential events. A series of video clips have been produced in which youngsters and adult volunteers speak about what they have gained from involvement with their youth organisation. **Collaboration between organisations.** A number of opportunities for two or more of the YOU WM organisations to help each other with resources, training and advice have been facilitated; collaborative momentum is building in various areas. A major leadership event for young people from the eleven organisations was successfully held in September, which will be repeated in 2024. Through our contacts with ‘YOU London’, YOU WM facilitated attendance at the Colonels Parade and The King’s Birthday Parade ( Trooping of the Colour) by groups from the YOU WM organisations. **Raising awareness and advocacy.** Our local workshops have ensured that civic, and voluntary leaders are kept aware of the contribution that the YOU WM organisations are making to the development of the young people of their communities. A schedule of local civic awards was assembled and distributed to our organisations to help them ensure that outstanding adult vounteers and young people are recognised. We published a YOU WM Newsletter in November. Our action plan will be reviewed and updated in mid-2024 to identify further opportunities to fulfill the Charity’s objectives. A YOU WM Youth Forum is planned to be set up in 2024 to ensure that the views of young particpants are heard. We are working on collaborative events in the areas of youth music, DoE Gold expeditions and Public Speaking. We are grateful for the continued funding from the Montal Trust, Rowlands Trust and Dudley MBC and will be actively seeking additional funding in 2024 to support both core and additional activities. Sincere thanks are due to the leaders of the eleven youth organisations, the Trustees, WMRFCA, the Lord-Lieutenant, Deputy Lieutenants and staff of the WM Lieutenancy and other local supporters for their enthusiastic commitment to YOU WM and to our funders for supporting our important work in the community.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The Charity’s policy on reserves is to maintain sufficient reserves to fund **Brief statement of the** the planned activity of the Charity for at least 12 months in the future. **charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
- The Charity’s principal sources of funds are:
- You **may choose** to include - Grants from grant making charities with an interest in young
- additional information, where people and community development
- relevant about: - Public and private sector bodies
- • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **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)** CATHERINE RUTH CANTY **Full name(s)** GEORGE ROBERT MARSH **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** TRUSTEE and CHAIR TRUSTEE **etc)**
**Date** _24 October 2024_
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|**Charity Name**|**1198465**|||
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|**YOUTH ORGANISATIONS IN UNIFORM WEST MIDLANDS**||||
|**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|01/01/2023
Period start date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**|31/12/2023
Period end date|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,000**
**2,000**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,000**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,000**
**2,000**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,000**
**-**
**11,267**
**539**
**186**
**631**
**1,450**
**792**
**14,865**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,865**
**- 2,865**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|DudleyMBC Donation|**5,000**||||||||**-**|
|Rowland Trust Donation|**2,000**||||||||**-**|
|Montel Trust Donation|**5,000**||||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**12,000**||||||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**
RunningCosts||||||||||
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|J Richardson Coord Services|**11,267**||**-**||**-**||**11,267**||**-**|
|Catering for Meetings
_Leadership Event:_
Insurance
Speaker Fee and Expenses
Catering|**539**||**-**||**-**||**539**||**-**|
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||**186**||**-**||**-**||**186**||**-**|
||**631**||**-**||**-**||**631**||**-**|
||**1,450**||**-**||**-**||**1,450**||**-**|
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|PowerloopLtd IT Svcs|**792**||**-**||**-**||**792**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**14,865**||**-**||**-**||**14,865**||**-**|
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|**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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||**19,310**||||||**19,310**||**-**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
1|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
19310.00
**-**
**-**
**19,310**
OK|**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
OK
25/10/2024|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due (optional)**
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GEORGE R MARSH|**Endowment**
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