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Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity CIO

Annual Report 2022-2023

Registered in England and Wales, charity no. 1198852, company no. CE028957

Contents.

Reference and Administrative Details for Year Ended 31 March 2023. .......................................... 3 Donors, Partners and Supporters. .................................................................................................. 5 Message from Chair of the Board of Trustees. ............................................................................... 6 Our Mission, Values and Objectives. .............................................................................................. 7 Aspirations. ............................................................................................................................... 7 Priorities and Objectives. ........................................................................................................... 7 Progress..................................................................................................................................... 8 How Our Activities Deliver Public Benefit. .................................................................................. 9 Achievements and Performance. ............................................................................................. 10 Performance Overview and Plans for the Future. ......................................................................... 12 Income Generation .................................................................................................................. 12 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ................................................................................................. 14 Beneficiaries of Our Services .................................................................................................... 14 Financial Review. ..................................................................................................................... 21 Structure, Governance and Management. ............................................................................... 22 Trustee Recruitment ................................................................................................................ 23 Related Parties and Relationships with Other Organisations. ................................................... 24 Remuneration Policy for Key Management Personnel.................................................................. 25 Risk Management. ....................................................................................................................... 25 Fundraising Statement. ................................................................................................................ 25 Statement of Responsibilities of the Trustees. ............................................................................. 26 Auditors....................................................................................................................................... 27

Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity CIO is an independent charity which was registered with the Charity Commission on 5 May 2022 (charity no. 1198852) and launched in April 2019 (it previously operated as The Mayor of Greater Manchester’s Charity, charity no. 1180418).

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Reference and Administrative Details for Year Ended 31 March 2023.

Trustees Charitable Trust (1180418) CIO (1198852) Tim Heatley, Chair (Founding Tim Heatley , Chair (From Trustee) 05.05.2022) Rev Ian Rutherford (From 18.12.2018) Gillian Duckworth, Ex Officio (From 26.09.2022) Philip Kemp (From 16.11.2021) Rev Ian Rutherford (From 05.05.2022) Lauren Rosegreen (From 16.11.21) Philip Kemp (From 05.05.2022) Erica Boardman (From 18.07.2022) Lauren Rosegreen (From 05.05.2022) Michael Gerrard (From 18.07.2022) Erica Boardman (From 18.07.2022) Sharon Jones (From 11.03.2019. Michael Gerrard (From Resigned on 31.12.2022) 18.07.2022) Beth Houghton (From 11.03.2019. Bradley Russell (From Resigned on 31.12.2022) 26.09.2022) Darren Thwaites (From 14.05.2020. Chris Monkman (From Resigned on 11.07.2022) 26.09.2022) Liz Treacy (Founding Trustee and Ex- Ben Hui (From 26.09.2022. Officio. Resigned on 23.09.2022) Resigned 06.08.2023) Sharon Jones (From 05.05.2022. Resigned on 31.12.2022) Beth Houghton (From 05.05.2022. Resigned on 31.12.2022) Darren Thwaites (From 05.05.022. Resigned on 11.07.2022) Liz Treacy (From 05.05.2022. Resigned on 23.09.2022)

Patron Mayor Andy Burnham Key Management Sarah Nurton March 22 – June 22 Acting Head of Charity Tom Allanson June 22 – Nov 22 Interim Head Fran Darlington-Pollock Nov 22 – July 23 Head of Strategic Development Aug 23 - Chief Executive

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Registered Offices Broadhurst House Tootal Buildings 56 Oxford Street Manchester M1 6EU Company CE028957 Registration Number (CIO) Charity Registration 1198852 Number Auditors Slade & Cooper Ltd Beehive Mill, Jersey Street Manchester M4 6JG Bankers[1] Co-operative Bank 6th Floor, Balloon Street Manchester M60 4EP Barclays Bolton Wellsprings Leicester LE87 2BB Solicitors Shoosmiths Solicitors LLP The XYZ Building, 2 Hardman Boulevard Spinningfields Manchester M3 3AZ

1 Note: the Barclays account was utilised by the previous entity (charity number: 1180418) and the Co-op account was set up and is used for the new Incorporated entity (charity number: 1198852). The Barclays account is being kept active until the charity is satisfied that no more funds are entering or exiting the account in relation to the previous entity.

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Donors, Partners and Supporters.

We are extremely grateful to all our partners, our many individual donors, and to those who support us with time, donated services and expertise. Those deserving particular mention include:

Suez UK JCDecaux Together The Warehouse Project GFT ProofID Hope Direct Elevate GM

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Message from Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Homelessness has no place in Greater Manchester, but we know that change is only possible as a collective, collaborative effort. Looking back over the last 12 months, we are proud of what we have achieved in a political, social and economic climate that remains challenging. The continued cost of living crisis not only risks increasing the number of people accessing the services and organisations our funding supports, but also complicates our ability to raise the funds in the first place. Where households and businesses alike are struggling, we must forge new partnerships and create new opportunities to align with the charity.

A strategy to respond to the wider crises around us has always been at the heart of our grant making and planning, made visible through our expanded grant making priorities in response to Covid-19, and our commitment to expanding the operational team. Only by investing in the team and capacity of the charity can we realise the level of fundraising needed to truly support the system we were set up to enable.

This has not been without challenge, and we have seen difficulties in internal recruitment and staff turnover. But at the same time, we have seen successes. Despite the difficulties in fundraising, we have maintained an active and vital grant making programme, and continued to support the flagship A Bed Every Night. We have expanded the staff team, and seen the appointment of our first ever CEO. We have also seen a new calendar of events introduced, building on the success of our DJ Battle and Raise the Roof 2, and hosted our first ever annual dinner.

The numbers speak for themselves, and though we have made an impact, more is needed. As we now look forward, we are ready to refresh the look and feel of the charity, helping to revitalise its position within the minds of the business community as the only way in which to support A Bed Every Night and, more broadly, strategically support vital initiatives to stop homelessness before it becomes a reality. At the same time, we will continue to develop the charity itself, whether within our aspiration to become full members of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter, or our public commitment to do more to ensure that we are truly representative of the people of Greater Manchester who we exist to support.

No one should face a night on the streets. No one should be without a home. We will continue to do all that we can to support the front-line organisations working with people across Greater Manchester at risk of or experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping.

In Greater Manchester, we don’t walk on by.

Tim Heatley, Chair of Board of Trustees

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Our Mission, Values and Objectives.

We believe homelessness has no place here in Greater Manchester so we bring businesses, communities and people together to make that vision a reality. We champion innovative work that can really make a difference and ensure Greater Manchester is leading the way on tackling this social problem.

We’re a place-based funder, working at the centre of a network of activity and action to tackle homelessness in Greater Manchester. We listen to those who have experienced homelessness and the challenges faced by people supporting them. We learn from what works and act on where money is needed. As a result of the diverse board of Trustees and the Charity’s Patron (Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester), the Charity has the ability to bring together public, private and third sector stakeholders for public benefit. This is how we live our values: to be effective , pioneering , and collaborative .

Aspirations.

To be the go-to for charitable giving to tackle homelessness in Greater Manchester and to support those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
To establish a sustainable fundraising model safeguarding the longevity of the charity.
To establish and champion best practice in the convening and partnership of public, private and third sector stakeholders for public benefit.

Priorities and Objectives.

The purposes of the Charity as set out in the governing document are:

“To advance any such charitable purpose for the general benefit of the inhabitants of Greater Manchester (according to the land of England and Wales) as the Trustees shall see fit from time to time and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) the relief of poverty and distress of people who are suffering from the effects of homelessness or the threat of homelessness.”

The main activities undertaken in relation to these purposes are fundraising and grant making. The Charity raises money primarily through corporate and public donations, and, looking forward, has established a new calendar of events to support fundraising activity. The Charity provides targeted funding through monitored grant programmes to a range of social impact organisations and programmes across Greater Manchester. In this accounting period, these grants were focussed on organisations providing support to people either experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity CIO strives to create the conditions for innovative interventions alongside more traditional charitable tactics. Raising funds and making

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grants enables us to support key initiatives that will significantly impact on the issues that we are focused on. These impacts are measured though grant management reports, collated data and case studies.

Progress.

Since our launch, we have donated more than £2m to our flagship scheme, A Bed Every Night. Deliberate and targeted investment in A Bed Every Night meant that while England saw a 26% rise in rough sleeping in 2022, Greater Manchester only saw a rise of 9%.

More than £1m has been donated to targeted prevention work designed to stop homelessness before it becomes a reality, emergency relief in times of economic pressure, and activities designed to build local capacity within key networks and outreach support for those working to end homelessness in Greater Manchester. Yet despite the relatively small increase in the numbers of people rough sleeping for Greater Manchester, this rise is still mirrored by growth in the number of people accessing A Bed Every Night and the number of new users of that service. Numbers in temporary accommodation remain high across the region and the wider cost of living crisis continues to challenge families and individual’s ability to afford their homes.

As we look to increase our grant making to support more preventative work alongside our continued commitment to A Bed Every Night, we have identified three priority areas for activity:

Diversify income streams and grow fundraising potential;
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trusted voice urging action on homelessness in the city region; and,
Champion innovative practice as a funder and maximise the added value we offer to our charity partners and all
engaged within the homelessness sector.

These priority areas underpin all our activity within the charity, each with the intention to increase fundraising capacity to grow our grant making across our three inter-related priority grant areas: Emergency Response, Places and Spaces, and Targeted Prevention.

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These three strands of grant making are highly interdependent: sustaining an effective and universal response for people rough sleeping is critical, but to alleviate the pressure on and need for such a response requires looking upstream. More needs to be

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done to stop homelessness before it becomes a reality (targeted prevention) and effectively support people in precarious housing situations (e.g. support to the temporary accommodation and the wider ecosystem of homelessness support (organisations working to support people across Greater Manchester at risk of or experiencing homelessness) captured within our places and spaces strand).

The Charity has a Grant Making Policy in place which sets a clear and transparent framework for grant making in line with strategic priorities. This ensures there is a segregation of duties between funding design and application assessment. Application assessment happens with a panel of Trustees who then make recommendations for grant awards to the full board of Trustees for approval. Moving forward, the Board of Trustees and operational team are refining the grant making process to better align with fundraising capacity over the year, and to better support the charity partners and ecosystem within which we fund. This includes introducing a two stage process (for applications of more than £5,000) and moving from a rolling, open application process to fixed dates in the financial year. For transparency, these changes as implemented are detailed on our website.

The Trustees review the aims, objectives, and activities of the Charity each year. This report looks at what the Charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The Trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits the Charity has brought to those groups of people that it is set up to help. The review also helps the Trustees ensure the Charity's aims, objectives and activities remained focused on its stated purposes.

The Trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the Charity's aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the Trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.

How Our Activities Deliver Public Benefit.

The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit when reviewing the Charity's aims and objectives, in planning future activities, and setting the policies for the year.

The Charity achieves public benefit by funding a range of charitable and social impact organisations who are delivering frontline work with people and communities right across Greater Manchester.

Grant making activities in this area have delivered benefits including:

Emergency accommodation for people who would otherwise have no other option.

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Supporting young people at risk of homelessness during the ‘Cost-of-Living Crisis’.
Building a stronger network of individuals, organisations and stakeholders working towards ending homelessness in the region.

The aims of the organisation continue to be charitable. The aims and the work done give identifiable benefits to the charitable sector and both indirectly and directly to individuals in need. There is no detriment or harm arising from the aims or activities.

Achievements and Performance.

The Charity's main activities and who it seeks to help are described below. All its charitable activities focus on fundraising and grant making and are undertaken to further Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity’s charitable purposes for the public benefit.

Fundraising

The Charity was successful in fundraising £479,612. This came from a range of sources.

Corporate donations totalled £184,853 which included a significant donation of £100,000 from Suez Waste Management, who continue to support the Charity substantially each year as part of their multi-year social value commitment.

Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity CIO generated £154,130 via its own website and JustGiving page. Included in this, the Charity’s patron Andy Burnham, who donated £12,375 over the year. The Charity also receive donations through PayPal Giving, Charities Aid Foundation, Benevity and Work for Good.

In addition, the Charity received donations via contactless donation points hosted by hotels and other businesses around Manchester, Salford and Trafford. These devices had a pre-set donation of £3 raising £8,262 (before fees) over the year.

Within the above total, an individual JustGiving campaign was launched in November 2022 to support the income target for ‘A Bed Every Night’. The ‘1000 Beds for Christmas’ campaign raised £27,954 via a dedicated JustGiving page. Funds were topped up a further £20,000 through a corporate partnership with Together.

Finally, in partnership with StreetSmart, £5,000 was raised from a campaign that asked restaurants to add £1 to their bills through November and December. Funds were ringfenced to the Charity for some participating restaurants in the region.

Events

This year saw the return of large-scale fundraising events. On 2[nd] December 2022, alongside the 1,000 Beds for Christmas campaign, we delivered a celebrity DJ Battle

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featuring our Patron, Mayor Andy Burnham and his Merseyside counterpart going headto-head in a musical battle. The evening featured celebrity guests welcomed to the stage in front of a large crowd at The Archive Room, Mayfield Depot. Proceeds from ticket and bar sales on the night went to the charity, assigned to A Bed Every Night. Online and text donations were also encouraged. The event received local and national press attention as well as footage from the event receiving over 70,000 views, raising the charity’s profile. The event raised £9,945.22 with a further £15,074.10 raised between 2[nd] and 8[th] December via JustGiving and through the website. The boost in donations is attributed to the raised profile and media attention during this period.

In January 2023, SJM Concerts and Liam Fray (of The Courteeners) committed to raising funds for the charity via some of the proceeds from ticket sales for their 15[th] anniversary gig for their debut album. This took place at O2 Ritz Manchester to a sell-out crowd of 2,000. The concert was named Raise the Roof 2, in reference to a charity concert previously held in 2019. The gig raised an incredible £25,000 for the charity to go towards A Bed Every Night.

Alongside those two headline events, the Charity also benefited from funds raised at a performance of Handel’s Messiah by Manchester Baroque in December 2023 and the annual 24-hour run against homelessness, organised by the RunWild running society. RunWild notably raised over £10,000 with approximately 1,000 participants over the course of the 24 hours. Both events committed their fundraising towards A Bed Every Night. We were also the nominated charity of the year by FACT3, whose staff took part in several fundraising events to raise funds throughout the year.

Grant making

During this accounting period the Charity’s grant making went to A Bed Every Night and the homelessness ecosystem (wider charity partners working to support people at risk of or experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping):

A BED EVERY NIGHT (ABEN)

This major city-region wide multi-partner programme provides emergency accommodation for people who find themselves rough sleeping on the streets of Greater Manchester. As a founding funder of this flagship scheme, our support remains a fundamental component of the universality and distinctiveness of ABEN. Our funds ensure that people with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) or restricted eligibility are able to access this service. We are uniquely positioned within the partnership network delivering ABEN to ensure NRPF groups can access the service. We receive regular reporting on outcomes from this programme which continues to demonstrate on-going

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reductions in the numbers of people experiencing street homelessness since the inception of the scheme in 2018, and the peak in rough sleeping in 2017.

In total, we have awarded ABEN £2.1 million since it launched. During this accounting period, Trustees committed £250,000 to A Bed Every Night for the period 2023/2024 (compared to £300,000 in previous reporting period).

FUNDING TO THE HOMELESSNESS ECO-SYTEM

In this accounting period three 2-year grants came to an end. These were part of a final phase of Covid-19 ‘Build Back Better’ grant programme first awarded in 2020. The grants went to Manchester Men’s Room (£10,000), Manchester Refugee Support Network (£19,034) and JustLife Foundation (£25,000). These grants funded three roles delivering support for refugees, people from the LGBT+ community, and people in Unsupported Temporary Accommodation, respectively.

This accounting period saw the start of our grant to Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (£30k for three years) to part-fund a Network Manager, the network’s first member of staff. This grant, originally committed in the 2021/22 accounting period, is designed to support growing the network and encourage collaborative working across the homelessness ecosystem in Greater Manchester. Two more grants were committed in this accounting period, to Coffee4Craig (£14,250) and Embassy Village (£30,000). At Coffee4Craig, the money contributed to funding a Fundraising Manager to support this vital frontline organisation’s financial security. For Embassy Village, the funds will cover a support worker post once the construction of the village is complete. Construction has been significantly delayed, so this grant has yet to commence. Funds will be held until Embassy Village commences.

Finally, the charity donated £5,000 to LandAid to establish a £20,000 pot of funding for a winter relief fund for youth homelessness, named the Keep Snug Scheme. Through delivery partner, Greater Manchester Better Outcomes Partnership (GMBOP) vouchers and funds were distributed to young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness as the Cost-of-Living Crisis was biting in Winter 2022/23.

Performance Overview and Plans for the Future.

Income Generation

As we entered our fourth accounting period, the fundraising landscape remained a challenge. We have not seen a return to the income levels seen between 2018 and 2020, which in part has been attributed to the early wins secured through our founding patron,

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Mayor Andy Burnham’s election. Though public fundraising has remained relatively constant, corporate support has been more difficult to secure. For corporate partnerships, the continued cost of living crisis and rising costs of doing business are contributing to these challenges.

Alongside macroeconomic factors affecting corporate support, we have faced internal challenges particularly in relation to staff turn over and difficulty in recruiting. As a small staff team, this affected long-term planning and capacity for fundraising.

However, in November 2022 a new Head of Strategic Development was employed bringing the staff team to two (1 FT, 1 PT). A business plan was developed, and the charity began recruitment for two new part-time members of staff. By March 2023, interviews had taken place to employ a Digital Engagement Officer and an Office Administrator. A staff team of four was realised in April 2023 within the allocated budget. The increased capacity improves the outlook for the Charity’s fundraising for the next reporting period.

Despite a drop-off in corporate support, the Charity did secure £20,000 matched funding towards the 1,000 Beds for Christmas winter campaign from North West firm, Together. The Charity also benefitted from £5,000 sponsorship from GFT to further rollout contactless donation devices across Manchester. This funding supported the installation of three contactless donation devices, including a prominent device at Victoria Train Station.

A long-term commitment from SUEZ Waste Management of £100,000 per year continued to fund foundational costs, including staff salaries. This ensures that wider fundraising can prioritise grant making, and creates the space to develop longer term plans for more sustainable income streams. JCDecaux continue to make an annual payment of £25,000 which goes towards our grant to the Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network. A generous partnership with The Warehouse Project raised a further £19,087.

Alongside the developed business plan, the Charity began making plans for more fundraising events in 23/24. The goals for these events are not only to engage business and members of the public in fundraising for the charity, but also to reach different audiences of Greater Manchester and spread our activity more widely across the cityregion. The Charity’s first ever fundraising dinner was organised to take place at the start of the 23/24 accounting period, kicking off a new financial year with a refined fundraising strategy.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity CIO values diversity. We are committed to cultivating and upholding a culture of inclusion, equal opportunity and anti-discrimination practices. This is mirrored both within our governance structure and in operational decision making.

At Board level, we nominated a DEI champion – Lauren Rosegreen. Within this role, Lauren has attended a roundtable event discussing unconscious bias in the workplace and how to tackle it. Lauren has used the insights from this roundtable to inform her participation in Board-level discussions. Lauren also created an DEI form for trustees and operational staff so we could develop a clearer picture of the composition of our team and identify gaps. While much of the activity around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has been focussed on our recruitment practices as the staff team has expanded, a new agenda for the next financial year has been established. This includes defining DEI statements (beyond those included in relation to recruitment and our statement of inclusive practice within our Ethical Code of Conduct) and formalising our use of specific terminology and language (beyond standard lines guiding best practice in the context of homelessness and rough sleeping).

Alongside appointing a Board level DEI champion, Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity CIO signed up as supporters of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter, with an intention to submit an application for full membership in 2024. The Good Employment Charter is a voluntary membership scheme requiring all signatories to develop and refine working policies and practices to deliver inclusive, fairly compensated, secure, flexible employment where health and wellbeing thrives.

In practice in relation to diversity, equity and inclusion, and implemented new practices within our approach to recruitment. For example, this includes anonymous shortlisting, sharing interview questions in advance of the interview and testing job description text for gender bias.

We acknowledge more work needs to be done in this area and in the next financial accounting period plan to address this more proactively.

Beneficiaries of Our Services

The benefits of our grant making this financial period reach across Greater Manchester. Through supporting frontline charities, we enabled them to deliver direct benefits to people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The following section highlights some of the key impact and reporting from our grants.

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A Bed Every Night (ABEN)

The role of ABEN has changed: it is increasingly to support those at risk of rough sleeping for the first time, in addition to addressing the enduring needs of those already experiencing entrenched street homelessness. Though established in 2018, the need for ABEN remains. As of January 2023, there were 582 people in ABEN accommodation on an average night with 172 people new to the system, compared to 526 people in January 2022 and 145 new move-ins. This represents a 9.6% increase in people using the service and a 15.6% increase in new move-ins.

The direct impact of our funding towards ABEN focuses on provision for people with Restricted Eligibility or No Recourse to Public Funds. According to the ABEN annual report:

229 individuals who did not have recourse to public funds (Restricted Eligibility / NRPF) were referred to ABEN.
Of those 91% were accommodated. Among those that were not accommodated the majority did not arrive at the accommodation following referral.
groups of interest (Rough Sleepers, Criminal Justice, and Women). The majority of individuals identified that they had mental health needs.
The average length of stay was 80 nights.
55% of those who exited ABEN were considered to have been ‘moved on’ positively. 44% were considered to have been ‘moved on’ neutrally. 1% were considered to have had a negative exit.
There were increases in the number under the age of 25 (equivalent to 165 additional cases); those whose asylum status is anything other than ‘British national’ (equivalent to 212 additional cases); and those who are in employment (equivalent to 104 additional cases).
There were smaller but notable increases in the number of people supported whose nationality was Afghani, Eritrean or Sudanese – and among those who spoke English as a second language.

JustLife Foundation

JustLife Foundation supports and advocates for people who are hidden homeless and living in temporary accommodation in the region. All their work is aimed at making stays in temporary accommodation as short, safe and healthy as possible.

The grant awarded in 2021 that came to an end in July 2022 was £25,000 for the 2[nd] year of a 2-year grant (£50,000 in total over 2 years). This grant was awarded to continue

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support for the ‘mobile’ JustLife team, reaching people in Unsupported Temporary Accommodation[2] (UTA).

Key Reporting Points

Over 148 people in UTA had been intensively supported since the beginning of the grant in September 2020.
The grant spanned periods of lockdowns during the pandemic to post-pandemic challenges of increasing homelessness and use of Temporary Accommodation. The mobile team have continuously adapted to changing conditions throughout the grant period.
The ‘discovery’ of further UTA was continually made during the grant period, thus stretching their support further. This is testament to the idea that people in UTA are ‘hidden homeless’ and ‘hard-to-reach’.
A member of the mobile team reported that being ‘on the ground’ with the van meant that trust was slowly built with more reluctant residents and landlords. When positive results were made, it encouraged other residents and landlords to engage. The element of having a familiar face was reported as highly effective.

The model of the JustLife mobile team was to support both tenants and landlords towards mutual benefit. A staff member at JustLife said,

‘The approach of working with both tenants and landlords at the same time with Justlife advocating for both can be tricky at times although in the main it has resulted in issues being addressed and evictions avoided.’

The model of working with both tenants and landlords is an innovative practice that recognises the complex nature of UTA and how landlords and tenants can interact in mutually positive way to improve conditions and avoid evictions.

Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN)

MRSN is a grass-roots organisation directly managed by refugee communities in Manchester. Their services are designed to help refugees and asylum seekers gain the tools needed to resettle in the UK and flourish in their lives.

MRSN received £38,102 since 2020 over a 2-year grant. The funding for the 2[nd] year of the grant (£19,034) was awarded in July 2021, bringing the grant to an end the following year. The grant funded a caseworker and continued to build the ‘Immigration Integration’ strand

2 Unsupported Temporary Accommodation is private, short-stay accommodation in which households do not have permanent residency status and have limited access to local authority support to find settled accommodation.

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of their work, supporting people with Leave to Remain through their Refugee Integration Service (RIS).

Key Reporting Points

from the RIS. Throughout the whole grant period, many more people were supported in-person and over the phone.
The demand on the service meant that priority was given to elderly refugees, refugees with severe mental health problems, refugees with learning difficulties, people with acute health conditions and people with limited mobility.
The RIS supported people at stages of transition from supported accommodation to their own tenancies. Support therefore focussed on the practicalities of maintaining accommodation and building personal resilience and independence.

Men’s Room

The Men’s Room is an arts and social support charity that works creatively to empower disadvantaged and marginalized young men, Trans and non-binary people. Their work engages people who may be experiencing homelessness, sex working or experience of sexual exploitation, offenders and those struggling with mental health problems and substance misuse.

The Men’s Room received £35,119 since 2020 over a 2-year grant. For the 2[nd] year, a partial award of £10,000 was granted in September 2021 towards the salary of a part-time caseworker. The full amount for year 1 (£18,619) had been awarded in July 2020. The parttime caseworker supported with The Men’s Room provision of wrap-around support for LGBT+ men and trans people, working closely with accommodation providers, Riverside Housing.

Key Reporting Points

During the funding period, the caseworker had supported 18 people, working with 17 intensively.
The Men’s Room had worked closely with the LGBT Foundation to increase support for service-users. They also increased access to sexual health services / advice by having a practitioner on sight regularly.
Peer‘hidden homeless’ and harder to reach. During the grant period, referrals also came from the NHS and Social Services, increasing engagement between The Men’s Room and other service provision.
It took some time to build a relationship between Riverside Housing and the funded caseworker. There was uncertainty on Riverside’s part as to why the caseworker was onsite and what their role was. However, once the caseworker was more

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-around support.

Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN)

The GMHAN brings together everyone across Greater Manchester working to end homelessness. In November 2021, £90,000 was awarded over three years towards the salary of a full-time Network Co-ordinator. This role is hosted by Greater Together, who recruited a co-ordinator to start in June 2022, hence the grant commencing within this accounting period. The purpose of the Network Co-ordinator’s role is to increase the strategic voice of the GMHAN across the region.

Key Reporting Points

Impact and Actions

The Network Co-ordinator continually visited charities across the region to expand the network.
They gathered feedback from the sector on Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s Prevention Strategy (originally co-produced with GMHAN).
They worked with Street Support Network to run a winter campaign which highlighted the needs of a range of different smaller charities over the winter period, in order to help the public give effectively.
In December 2022 the work of GMHAN was awarded the IOPD Award for Best Practice in Citizen Participation for their on a legislative theatre project which developed the Greater Manchester Homelessness Prevention Strategy.
GMHAN created three Task Groups: Deliver, Lobby and Learn. This focussed the network around these key themes and produced actionable points for the network at their regular meetings.
GMHAN and StreetSupport worked together to improve the usability of the HAN website, making it easier to navigate and more accessible.

Events and Outcomes:

GMHAN co-ordinated an Employment, Training and Education (ETE) event that put the voices of people facing homelessness at the centre of discussions around barriers to ETE. A range of resources were produced and shared from this event to encourage good practice and system change.
There were 2 Junior Chamber International x GMHAN events connecting businesses and charities with fundraising and volunteering opportunities.
GMHAN hosted Greater London Councils and Greater London Combined Authority to share learning about homelessness network building.

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A network discussion was hosted on discharge from hospitals and the risks experienced by people with no fixed address. This led to the co -production of a role designed to prevent homelessness at the point of hospital discharge. An organisation has been selected to host the role and they will advertise the position in Autumn 2023.

LandAid – Keep Snug Scheme

In December 2022, £5,000 was donated to LandAid towards a winter relief fund for young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. LandAid had committed £10,000 themselves and needed a further £10,000 committed to deliver the fund. Alongside delivery partner, Greater Manchester Better Outcomes Partnership (GMBOP), our funding meant that £20,000 was made available to frontline youth homelessness charities across the region to distribute to young people in the form of vouchers, payments of bills, white goods, clothing, etc. The funds were distributed through frontline charities via GMBOP’s Pathfinder project. It was named the Keep Snug Scheme and was designed to support young people as the Cost-of-Living crisis was biting. The fund covers both the emergency response and targeted prevention strands of our strategy.

Of the £20,000 pot, £19,823 was distributed between December 2022 and April 2023. The highest type of expenditure supported people with warm clothing (33%) followed by bills (16%), food (12%) and heating (9%). The rest of the expenditure helped with other essentials.

Some noteworthy demographic breakdown figures were reported:

77% of the participants were aged 18-25 years.
While 38% of participants disclosed that they were job seekers (16%), NEET (10%) or not seeking work (12%), 25% disclosed that they were in full-time or part-time work (22%), or a full-time student (3%). Shockingly 13% disclosed they were in fulltime work, highlighting the wide-reaching impact of the cost-of-living crisis.
19% disclosed that they had children.
Participants came from 9 boroughs of Greater Manchester (all but Trafford).

GMBOP reported,

‘The Keep Snug Fund brought much-needed relief to young people worried about staying warm and facing escalating costs. Progression coaches working alongside young people on the Pathfinder project identified those who would benefit from the scheme and put in applications. We were able to help 77 participants in the programme. Coaches reported that access to the fund had a significant impact on the overall well-being of participants reducing stress and

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anxiety caused by concerns about bill payments or clothing for themselves or their children.’

The Keep Snug Fund demonstrated collaborative funding to bring support to the region at a financially tough time for everyone, particularly those already facing hardship.

Coffee4Craig

Coffee4Craig is a key support service in Manchester city centre that provides front-line, drop-in support for people rough sleeping and at risk of homelessness. They are a vital part of the homelessness ecosystem and the only indoor ‘after hours’ drop-in centre in the city.

An award of £14,250 was made to Coffee4Craig in December 2022 towards the salary of a role that would focus on marketing and fundraising. This was made to support Coffee4Craig in securing better financial stability.

Key Reporting Points

The grant enabled them to employ a full time ESG co-ordinator, facilitating the development of a clear strategy for creating, maintaining and developing relationships with corporate supporters.
They now feel they have a robust process and tangible reasons for corporates to partner with them.
Coffee4Craig reported that a key lesson for them was that this role was vital to be able to continue to operate at capacity.

A senior manager said,

The funding has had a noticeable positive impact on the charity as a whole and also the individual we have been able to employ. On a charity wide basis we have a better, more supportive offer for any new and existing corporate supporters. This has in turn freed up the resources that were being utilised in this area in a very hit and miss fashion to be reallocated more appropriately for better outcomes on the front line and allowed for a better offer at both ends of the charity. Relocating resources depending on the staff team skills has meant a better work balance and more confidence in the team and their individual ability .

The grant demonstrated how support for one are of a charity’s work can free up resource effectively to support their operations as a whole. In this case, having a staff member focus on corporate support meant that other staff could maintain focus on their vital frontline delivery.

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Embassy Village

Embassy Village is a project that will provide safe and secure homes for people who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness with in-house start to end support and routes into work. People are housed and then surrounded by the support and training they need to leave the cycle of homelessness. The village will be located in central Manchester, providing 40 homes and a Village Hall that will become a community hub and training and mentoring facility for residents.

In June 2022, £30,000 was awarded to Embassy Village to fund the salary of a Resettlement Team Leader who will be based in the village. The release of this grant funding has been delayed due to delays in building the modular housing project. The charity has regularly met with Embassy Village to receive updates on the progress of the village. Trustees have confirmed that they are happy to wait for completion of the village before releasing funds. The last update was that the village was expected to be completed in Winter 2023/24.

Financial Review.

In the period up to end of March 2023 income totalled £479,612. The Charity made grants totalling £299,250. This positioned the Charity at the end of March 2023 with a cash balance of £132,563 and total charity funds of £144,148, which includes the £60,000 Reserves. This is an increase in reserves compared to the previous accounting period 2022 but lower than 2021, but given the challenges we faced in the homelessness sector (rising needs and reducing resource), Trustees felt that for maximum public benefit grant making should remain at the highest commitment possible.

Income raised during 2022-23 continued to be reduced compared to the charity’s first two accounting periods that covered 2018 to 2020. In 2018-20, the charity was the sole beneficiary of a single event raising £800k; and a major £500k donation from a company as the pandemic took hold. Both were unique. However, beyond those two examples, further factors contributing to the lowered income generation include; a) caution from donors as the Cost-of-Living crisis took hold; b) ongoing concern from business regarding inflation and uncertain economic conditions; c) a lack of a major landmark donation; d) staff turnover and difficulty in recruiting inhibited capacity for fundraising.

The Charity has historically run with exceptionally low operating costs, which was only made possible by the extraordinary commitment of the founding Trustees, who were highly proactive and involved in the day-to-day running of the Charity in the early years. This significant Trustee engagement had to re-occur for a short period when the staff team was significantly reduced. Now, with an expanded team, the Charity continues to

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mature and the shift to a more long-term, sustainable, staff-led model is now embedding. The staff bill for this accounting period was £49,723.

Other overheads also increased with investment in social media driven online fundraising and legal fees which were incurred as the Charity progressed its application for Incorporation to a CIO (completed in February 2023). These were considered essential spend, demonstrating how the charity is maturing and developing.

A paper was presented and discussed at the September 2022 Board about The Charity as a Going Concern. While it has been a challenging year financially, it was agreed that there were numerous measures in place to ensure the Charity remains secure operationally into the future, these include:

a) Grants are never committed ahead of income secured
b) Staff costs are covered by a long-term annual commitment
c) Overheads are low and the Charity aims to keep overheads low by not paying for premises or entering into long term contracts/leases
d) The Charity policy is to hold at least £60,000 in reserves. The decision to keep minimum reserves at £60,000 was approved as this continues to be an appropriate level of funding (approximately 6 months of usual operating costs).
e) That developing a sustainable staff team would increase fundraising capacity.

Structure, Governance and Management.

Following advice from our auditors, and to strengthen our governance structures, the charity took the decision to incorporate (approved in March 2022). Operating as a CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation) required registering as a new charity (registered 5[th] May 2022), with the final deed of transfer moving assets from the charitable trust (1180418) to the new CIO (1198852) approved January 2023 and taking effect as of 1 February 2023.

The Board met bi-monthly throughout this accounting period, with additional Special Meetings called when necessary. Three Sub-Committees underpin the operations of the Charity and ensure that all areas of governance are regularly monitored, improved and the responsibilities of Trustees are fully discharged. Sub-Committees meet monthly and are delegated to make recommendations to the full board. Sub-Committees comprise:

Finance, Audit and Risk
Funding and Investment
Ethics

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The Board of Trustees administers the Charity.

The operational team has delegated authority for operational matters.

A tiered financial delegations scheme is in place.

The year saw shifts in Trustee memberships, with resignations in July 2022, September 2022 and December 2022. Recruitment of new Trustees took place in July 2022 and September 2022, adding key skills to the Board, including the recruitment of a chair for the Finance, Audit and Risk sub-committee.

Trustee Recruitment

The charity on-boarded 6 new Trustees in 2022/23. The Board of Trustees worked alongside the Operational Team to identify skills gaps on the Board and to address the need to replace Trustees who were stepping down. Trustees proceeded on the basis of an ‘open’ recruitment round, accepting CV’s and Cover Letters from 25th May 2022 to 30th June 2022. Upon the point of application, the Acting Head of Charity initially met with candidates and shortlisted before 2 Trustees met with shortlisted candidates for an informal interview. Recommendations were brought to Board for discussion in June and Mike Gerrard and Erica Boardman were appointed on 18th July 2022 at a Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees. Ben Chi Yum Hui, Bradley Russell and Chris Monkman were appointed on 26th September 2022 at a Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees. Finally, Gillian Duckworth was appointed Trustee ex-officio, upon her taking the role of Solicitor & Monitoring Officer at Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Gillian began her Trusteeship on 26th September 2022.

All Trustees received a welcome induction and policy pack that outlined the charity’s history, the role of being a trustee and charity policy. The following policy and guidance documents were shared with new Trustees:

Campaigning and political activity guidance
Charity Governance Code
Charity trustee: what’s involved (CC3a)
Ethical Fundraising Policy
Funding & Investment sub-committee Terms of Reference
Constitution
Online Harassment Policy
Social media Policy

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Grant Making Policy
Data Protection Policy
Data security Policy
 The Essential Trustee

Upon recruitment, all Trustees completed the following documents:

Written acceptance of Trusteeship
Trustee Eligibility Declaration

The charity also offered and facilitated the delivery of external governance training for any new Trustees that were interested in taking part.

Related Parties and Relationships with Other Organisations.

The Patron, Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester does not have a decisionmaking role but supports the Charity through ambassadorial activities. He also makes regular donations personally.

The Charity received some in-kind support from related parties in this accounting period for which we were incredibly grateful.

JCDecaux Ltd. provided (and continues to provide) the Charity with free marketing space on 17 digital screens across Manchester city centre. This has been valuable for promoting the Charity’s fundraisings campaign and sharing information about homelessness in the city. JCDecaux reserve the 32” Community Interactive Screen we have access to for the benefit of their community and charity partners, actively offering free Share of Time. As this is not a commercialised unit, they do not place a price on it.
Adam Richardson Creative supported the Winter Campaign with content creation (video and graphics), worth £2,250
Mount Digital provided project support for social media advertising of our winter campaign, worth £3,200
Fuzzy Duck produced a Winter Campaign video worth £9,750
Font Communications supported with drafting and dissemination of Press Releases, worth £1,700

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Elevate GM supported with event management, worth £10,000
Capital & Centric supported with artwork for a fundraising event, worth £8,000
Badger & Coombes provided media support for a fundraising event, including sound, tech, streaming services and pre-production, together worth £6,360

Remuneration Policy for Key Management Personnel.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for defining the Charity’s pay policy and deciding on the salaries of the staff. Benchmarking with similar sized charities is undertaken. To refine existing processes, a formal pay policy was approved by the Board of Trustees 1[st] June 2023.

Risk Management.

The Charity operates a risk register which is reviewed by the whole board on an annual basis and by the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee on an ongoing basis.

The principal risks that the Charity faced during this account period largely remained the same as previous years:

The recent churn in Trustee and Staff, mitigated by the creation of an interim Head of GMMC for continuity and extended handover periods.
The challenging economic climate and the vast shifts in income making future .
projections difficult to estimate
The impact on levels of need and anticipated increases in levels of homelessness that many across the sector expected to arise.
The risk of reputational damage having a high- profile patron – this is an ongoing risk for the Charity and is mitigated by consistently high standards of ethics, due diligence and external reputational awareness.

Fundraising Statement.

Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity CIO ensures that all fundraising abides by its values and ethical principles as outlined in its Ethics Policy and Ethical Code of Conduct. This is overseen by both the Ethics sub-committee of the Trustees. The Charity does not employ an external agency to conduct its fundraising activities on its behalf. The Charity also remained fully registered with The Fundraising Regulator during this accounting period.

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There has been no failure by the Charity, or by any person acting on its behalf, to comply with fundraising standards or scheme for fundraising regulation that the Charity or the person acting on its behalf has voluntarily subscribed to.

The Charity is mindful of its responsibilities to protect vulnerable people and other members of the public from behaviour which may be an unreasonable intrusion on a person’s privacy, is unreasonably persistent or places undue pressure on a person to give money or other property.

Statement of Responsibilities of the Trustees.

The Trustees are responsible for preparing financial statements for each financial period which give a true and fair view of the Charity's financial activities during the period and of its financial position at the end of the period. In preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view, the Trustees follow best practice and:

Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently.
Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP.
Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.
inappropriate to presume that the Charity will continue in operation.

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Charity's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the

In so far as we are aware:

There is no relevant audit information of which the charitable company's auditor is unaware; and

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The Trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the auditor is aware of that information. preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Auditors.

Slade & Cooper Ltd were re-appointed as the Charity's auditors at the Finance, Audit and Risk subcommittee of Trustees on 14[th] December 2022 and have expressed their willingness to continue in that capacity.

The Trustees’ annual report has been approved by the Trustees on 29[th] November 2023 and signed on their behalf by

Tim Heatley

Chair of Board of Trustees

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Independent Auditors’ Report to the Trustees of Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity CIO

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of The Mayor of Greater Manchester’s Charity (the ‘charity’) for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and the related notes. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity’s trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

In our opinion the financial statements:

give a true and fair view of the state of the charity’s affairs as at 31 March 2023, and of its incoming resources and application of resources, for the year then ended;
have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the trustees’ annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

Independent Auditors’ Report (continued)

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:

the information given in the financial statements is inconsistent in any material respect with the trustees’ report; or
sufficient accounting records have not been kept; or
the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records; or
we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page 12, the trustees are responsible for the preparation of financial statements which give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditor under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with regulations made under section 154 of that Act.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect

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Independent Auditors’ Report (continued)

of irregularities, including fraud. The specific procedures for this engagement and the extent to which these are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

enquiry of management and those charged with governance around actual and potential litigation and claims.
enquiry of the charity's staff, management and those charged with governance to identify any instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations.
reviewing minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.
reviewing financial statement disclosures and testing to supporting documentation to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
auditing the risk of management override of controls, including through testing journal entries and other adjustments for appropriateness, and evaluating the business rationale of significant transactions outside the normal course of business (if these have occurred).

Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/Our-Work/Audit/Audit-and-assurance/Standards-and-guidance/Standards-andguidance-for-auditors/Auditors-responsibilities-for-audit/Description-of-auditors-responsibilities-foraudit.aspx. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Slade & Cooper Limited Statutory Auditors Beehive Mill Jersey Street Manchester M4 6JG

Date:

Slade & Cooper Limited is eligible to act as an auditor in terms of section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Statement of Financial Activities

for the year ended 31 March 2023

Unrestricted funds Note £ Income from: Donations and legacies 3 520,872 Total income 520,872 Expenditure on: Raising funds 4 56,726 Charitable activities: 5 Optional subheading 398,294 Total expenditure 455,020 7 65,852 Net movement in funds for the year 65,852 Reconciliation of funds Total funds brought forward 77,066 Total funds carried forward 142,918 Net income/(expenditure) for the year	Restricted funds £ - - 2,443 - 2,443 (2,443) (2,443) 3,673 1,230	Total funds 2023 £ 520,872 520,872 59,169 398,294 457,463 63,409 63,409 80,739 144,148	Total funds 2022 £ 426,519
			*426,519*
			40,301 585,138
			*625,439*
			*(198,920)*
			*(198,920)* 279,659
			*80,739*

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Balance Sheet

as at 31 March 2023

Note £ £ Fixed assets Tangible assets 11 2,239 Total fixed assets 2,239 Current assets Stock - Debtors 12 27,585 Cash at bank and in hand 13 132,563 Total current assets 160,148 Liabilities Creditors: amounts falling due in less than one year 14 (18,239) Net current assets 141,909 Total assets less current liabilities 144,148 Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year - - Net assets 144,148 Funds of the Charity: Restricted income funds 15 1,230 Unrestricted income funds 16 142,918 Total Charity funds 144,148 2023	£ £ 6,737 *6,737* - 33,980 350,498 *384,478* (310,476) *74,002* 80,739 - *80,739* 3,673 77,066 *80,739* 2022	£ £ 6,737 *6,737* - 33,980 350,498 *384,478* (310,476) *74,002* 80,739 - *80,739* 3,673 77,066 *80,739* 2022
		*6,737* *74,002*
		80,739 -
		*80,739*
		3,673 77,066
		*80,739*

The notes on pages 34 to 36 form part of these accounts.

Approved by the trustees on 29/11/2023 and signed on their behalf by Tim Heatley

Tim Heatley (Trustee)

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity Statement of Cash Flows

for the year ending 31 March 2023

Note Cash provided by/(used in) operating activities 18 Purchase of tangible fixed assets Cash provided by/(used in) investing activities Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents in the year	2023 £ (217,935) - - (217,935) 350,498 132,563	2022 £ *73,819*
		(9,619)
		*(9,619)*
		64,200 286,298
		*350,498*

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023

1 Accounting policies

The principal accounting policies adopted, judgments and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

a Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), second edition - October 2019 (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared to give a 'true and fair view' and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a 'true and fair view'. This departure has involved following Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), second edition - October 2019, rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note.

The charity was incorporated as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered as a charity on 5th May 2022 in England and Wales. The assets and liabilities of the unincorporated charity was transferred to the new charitable incorporated organisation which commenced trading on 1st February 2023. These are the CIO's first set of financial statements prepared in accordance with FRS 102. The comparative figures show are for the old unincorporated charity. They have been presented in these accounts for information only to assist the readers of the financial statements.

b Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the Charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

c Income

Income is recognised when the Charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Income received in advance of a provision of a specified service is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.

d Donated services and facilities

Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the Charity has control over the item, any conditions associated with the donated item have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the Charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), general volunteer time is not recognised; refer to the trustees’ annual report for more information about their contribution.

On receipt, donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the Charity which is the amount the Charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

e Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds comprise accumulated surpluses and deficits on general funds that are available for use at the discretion of the trustees/directors in furtherance of the general objectives of the Charity and that have not been designated for other purposes.

Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been put aside at the discretion of the trustees / directors for particular purposes.

Restricted funds are funds subject to restrictions imposed by the donor or by the specific terms of the appeal under which the funds are raised.

f Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with use of the resources. Costs relating to a particular activity are allocated directly, others are apportioned on an appropriate basis (eg. estimated usage).

Costs of raising funds are those costs incurred in trading activities that raise funds.
Expenditure on charitable activities comprises those costs incurred by the Charity in the delivery of its activities and services, and include both the direct costs and support costs relating to these activities.
Governance costs include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the Charity and include the audit fees and costs linked to the strategic management of the Charity.
Other expenditure represents those items not falling into any other heading.

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

g Allocation of support costs

Governance and support costs have both been duly allocated to grant making activities. No apportionment is necessary because this is the sole charitable activity.

h Operating leases

Operating leases are leases in which the title to the assets, and the risks and rewards of ownership, remain with the lessor. Rental charges are charged on a straight line basis over the term of the lease.

There are no operating leases in the period ended 31 March 2023.

i Tangible fixed assets

Individual fixed assets costing £865 or more are capitalised at cost and are depreciated over their estimated useful economic lives on a straight line basis as follows:

Computer Equipment 3 years Website Development 2 years

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

j Debtors

Other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid.

k Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

l Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the Charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

m Financial instruments

The Charity accounts for basic financial instruments, debtors and prepayments and creditors and accruals, at the undiscounted amount of the cash or other consideration expected to be received or paid.

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

n Pensions

Defined contribution scheme

Contributions in respect of the Charity's defined contribution pension scheme are charged to the SOFA for the year in which they are payable to the scheme.

2 Legal status of the Charity

The Charity is an incorporated Charity, registered as a Charity in England & Wales.

3 Income from donations and legacies

Current reporting period Donations Donated services Total Previous reporting period Donations Donated services Total	Unrestricted £ 479,612 41,260 520,872 Unrestricted £ 409,697 5,100 414,797	Restricted £ - - - Restricted £ 11,722 - 11,722	Total 2023 £ 479,612 41,260
			520,872
			Total 2022 £ 421,419 5,100
			426,519

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

4 Cost of raising funds

Membership scheme Fundraising events Platform fees Marketing Restricted expenditure Unrestricted expenditure	2023 £ 460 10,000 11,313 37,396 59,169 2023 £ 2,443 56,726 59,169	2022 £ 2,176 - 18,415 19,710
		40,301
		2022 £ 13,777 26,524
		40,301

5 Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities

Current reporting period Grants awarded Staff costs Marketing Depreciation Bank charges Support costs (see note 6) Governance costs (see note 6)	Grant Making Activity £ 299,250 49,723 4,498 108 4,200 40,515 398,294	Total 2023 £ 299,250 49,723 - 4,498 108 4,200 40,515
		398,294

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

5 Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities (cont.)

Previous reporting period Grants Awarded Staff costs Marketing Depreciation Bank charges Restricted expenditure Unrestricted expenditure Analysis of Grants awarded A Bed Every Night (ABEN) Homelessness Sector Grants Wider Community Response Governance costs (see note 6) Support costs (see note 6)	Grant Making Activity £ 459,034 86,638 2,882 210 4,360 32,014 585,138 2023 £ - 398,294 398,294 2023 £ 250,000 30,000 19,250 299,250	Total 2022 £ 459,034 86,638 - 2,882 210 4,360 32,014
		585,138
		2022 £ 105,000 480,138
		585,138
		2022 £ 300,000 105,000 54,034
		459,034

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

6 Analysis of governance and support costs

Current reporting period Basis of apportionment Office costs General spend Audit fees Governance Accountancy services Governance Legal and professional Governance Previous reporting period Basis of apportionment Office costs General spend Audit fees Governance Accountancy services Governance Legal and professional Governance 7 Net income/(expenditure) for the year This is stated after charging/(crediting): Depreciation Auditor's remuneration - audit fees	Support £ 4,765 16,160 19,590 40,515 Support £ 5,819 14,664 11,531 32,014 2023 £ 4,498 4,200	Governance £ - 4,200 - - 4,200 Governance £ - 4,360 - - 4,360 2022 £ 2,882 4,360	Total 2023 £ 4,765 4,200 16,160 19,590
			44,715
			Total 2022 £ 5,819 4,360 14,664 11,531
			36,374

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

8 Staff costs

Staff costs during the year were as follows:

ff costs during the year were as follows:
Wages and salaries Social security costs Pension costs Redundancy and termination costs Recruitment costs	2023 £ 44,843 - 194 - 4,686 49,723	2022 £ 81,625 3,912 1,101 -
		86,638

No employees has employee benefits in excess of £60,000 (2022: Nil).

The average number of staff employed during the period was 2 (2022: 3). The average full time equivalent number of staff employed during the period was 2 (2022: 3).

The key management personnel of the Charity comprise the trustees and the Head of GMMC. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the Charity were £29,231 (2022: £74,254).

9 Trustee remuneration and expenses, and related party transactions

Neither the trustees nor any persons connected with them received any remuneration or reimbursed expenses during the year (2022: £nil).

No trustees received travel and subsistence expenses during the year (2022: £nil).

There are no donations from related parties which are outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties.

Where any transactions take place between the Charity and member companies and organisations with which the trustees might be connected, they are on normal commercial terms.

Members of the the Board of Trustees are representatives of the business, education and training, and voluntary sector communities. Close working relationships exist between the Charity and these representatives, which have proved invaluable to the Charity in establishing improved links within the community and identifying relevant policy developments and prospective funding.

No trustee or other person related to the Charity had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the Charity, including guarantees, during the year (2022: nil).

The patron of the Charity donated a total of £12,375 during the period. (2022: £15,125).

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

10 Corporation tax

The Charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within Chapter 3 of Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects. No tax charges have arisen in the Charity.

11 Fixed assets: tangible assets

Cost Additions Disposals Depreciation Charge for the year Disposals Net book value At 31 March 2022 At 1 April 2022 At 31 March 2023 At 1 April 2022 At 31 March 2023 At 31 March 2023	Computer equipment £ 1,867 - 1,867 459 622 - 1,081 786 1,408	Website £ 7,752 - 7,752 2,423 3,876 - 6,299 1,453 5,329	£ 9,619 - - Total
			9,619
			2,882 4,498 -
			7,380
			2,239
			6,737

12 Debtors

Trade debtors Prepayments and accrued income	2023 £ 366 27,219 27,585	2022 £ 5,000 28,980
		33,980

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

13 Cash at bank and in hand

2023 £ Cash at bank and on hand 132,563 132,563 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 2023 £ Other creditors and accruals 16,780 Grants Payable - Taxation and social security costs 1,459 18,239	2022 £ 350,498
	350,498
	2022 £ 8,848 300,000 1,628
	310,476

14 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

15 Analysis of movements in restricted funds

Grant Making Good Box Total GrantMaking Good Box OneGM Total GoodBox Previous reporting period Current reporting period	Balance at 1 April 2022 Income Expenditure Transfers Balance at 31 March 2023 £ £ £ £ £ 3,673 (2,443) - 1,230 3,673 - (2,443) - 1,230 Balance at 1 April 2021 Income Expenditure Transfers Balance at 31 March 2022 £ £ £ £ £ 5,728 11,722 (13,777) - 3,673 105,000 (105,000) - - 110,728 11,722 (118,777) - 3,673 Donations to enable the purchase and installation of contactless donation devices	Balance at 31 March 2023 £ 1,230
		1,230
		Balance at 31 March 2022 £ 3,673 -
		3,673

OneGM Donations to provide support to communities most disproportionately affected by the pandemic under three themes: a) food poverty b) mental health and wellbeing c) homelessness

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

16 Analysis of movement in unrestricted funds

General fund Designated fund Name of General fund Previous reporting period General fund Current reporting period	Balance at 1 April 2022 Income Expenditure Transfers As at 31 March 2023 £ £ £ £ £ 77,066 520,872 (455,020) - 142,918 77,066 520,872 (455,020) - 142,918 Balance at 1 April 2021 Income Expenditure Transfers As at 31 March 2022 £ £ £ £ £ 168,931 414,797 (506,662) - 77,066 168,931 414,797 (506,662) - 77,066 Description, nature and purposes of the fund The free reserves after allowing for all designated funds Funds specifically designated towards the salary costs of the Charity Manager (role since replaced)	As at 31 March 2023 £ 142,918
		142,918
		As at 31 March 2022 £ 77,066
		77,066

17 Analysis of net assets between funds

Current Reporting Period General fund £ Tangible fixed assets 2,239 Other net current assets/(liabilities) 140,679 Total 142,918 Previous Reporting Period General fund £ Tangible fixed assets 6,737 Other net current assets/(liabilities) 70,329 Total 77,066	Designated funds £ - - - Designated funds £ - - -	Restricted funds £ - 1,230 1,230 Restricted funds £ - 3,673 3,673	Total £ 2,239 141,909
			144,148
			Total £ 6,737 74,002
			80,739

Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)

18 Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities

Net income/(expenditure) for the year Adjustments for: Depreciation charge Decrease/(increase) in debtors Increase/(decrease) in creditors Net cash provided by/(used in) operating	2023 £ 63,409 4,498 6,395 (292,237) (217,935)	2022 £ (198,920) 2,882 (30,117) 299,974
		73,819

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Contents.

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Reference and Administrative Details for Year Ended 31 March 2023.

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Donors, Partners and Supporters.

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Message from Chair of the Board of Trustees.

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Our Mission, Values and Objectives.

Aspirations.

Priorities and Objectives.

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Progress.

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How Our Activities Deliver Public Benefit.

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Achievements and Performance.

Fundraising

Events

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Grant making

A BED EVERY NIGHT (ABEN)

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FUNDING TO THE HOMELESSNESS ECO-SYTEM

Performance Overview and Plans for the Future.

Income Generation

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Beneficiaries of Our Services

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A Bed Every Night (ABEN)

JustLife Foundation

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Key Reporting Points

Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN)

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Key Reporting Points

Men’s Room

Key Reporting Points

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Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network (GMHAN)

Key Reporting Points

Impact and Actions

Events and Outcomes:

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LandAid – Keep Snug Scheme

GMBOP reported,

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Coffee4Craig

Key Reporting Points

A senior manager said,

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Embassy Village

Financial Review.

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Structure, Governance and Management.

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Trustee Recruitment

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Related Parties and Relationships with Other Organisations.

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Remuneration Policy for Key Management Personnel.

Risk Management.

Fundraising Statement.

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Statement of Responsibilities of the Trustees.

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Auditors.

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Opinion

Basis for opinion

Conclusions relating to going concern

Other information

Independent Auditors’ Report (continued)

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

Responsibilities of trustees

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements