Colemeadow Road North Moons Moat Redditch Worcestershire. B98 9PB ## **POWER UP** ## **Trustees Annual Report. June 2025** Charity Name: POWER UP Mentor Foundation Registered Office: 5 Colemeadow Road, Redditch, Worcestershire; B98 9PB Charity Registration Number: 1200077 ## **1.0 Objectives & Activities** The Power Up Mentor Foundation is dedicated to providing invaluable mentorship to young individuals aged 12 to 18 years. Our core initiative revolves around providing professional and qualified mentors with ILM status from the business and commerce community. These mentors offer guidance, support, and expertise to students in various schools and colleges aiming to nurture their skills and realise their potential. The scheme has and will remain completely mentee centric for the local communities, which is a core value of the trustees, its behaviours and activities. This shall be achieved by offering one-to-one mentoring sessions within the recognised protocols of safeguarding, wellbeing and DBS procedures. The ClO shall operate in England and Wales. Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the ClO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. ## **2.0 Achievements & Performance** During the period expansion was experienced in the sense that additional schools were being involved and we had more qualified mentors. Data was gathered in terms of number of sessions but was inconsistent and no performance measures were being taken by the trustees to change. In summary it is best described as the pains of growth. Such growth however was celebrated and recognised through social media posts, website and an event held at the Headquarters which highlighted the benefits and outputs but at the same time provided some exposure to expand. New methodologies and techniques were shared amongst the team and deployed with the mentee sessions. They proved to be very useful and will be considered as part of the training and development of mentors for the very near future. Funding remains to be a concern as Worcestershire County Council are restricted in allocations. A separate team was set up to secure funds as well as ongoing donations from individual and company sponsors. Applications were made to the National Lottery and other schemes during the period. The funds are to be deployed for the ongoing administration and the mentor training programme, which is currently funded by the charity. In addition, capital and operation funds will be required for a new CRM system in the next operating period. ## **2.1 The Future Plans** Although expansion is the key activity, the trustees recognise that the quality of the mentor process remains a key objective and that the scheme is “Mentee Centric.” The trustees will develop a comprehensive business plan that includes sales, marketing, delivery and metrics, while clearly defining our priorities and boundaries with realistic time frames. There is also to be a real focus on the importance of teacher recognition and school engagement and extending geographical boundaries to Birmingham and Hereford. ## **3.0 Structure, Governance and Management** As part of the “Pains of Growth” and expansion plans, it was decided that new people with different skills, talents and experience were to be added to the board. In addition, a more defined structure with duties and responsibilities were to be included and allocated to individuals. Mark Ridings chose to retire from work and at the same time resigned as a Trustee. Expressions of sincere thanks and recognition were made to Mr Ridings for the hard work and commitment in establishing the scheme. Mr Rob Milford, Mr Nigel Pugh and Mr Fin Heath were appointed during the period. The constitution was reviewed and remained unchanged, operating in all age groups in England and Wales. ## **4.0 Names of Charity Trustees** 1. Finance & Treasurer – Julie Angela Dyer 2. Funding – Finlay Thomas Heath 2. Sales & Chair – Simon Gretton Hyde 3. Communications, Marketing & PR – Katrina Diane Kerr 4. IT, CRM & Systems – Nigel Darren Pugh 5. Operations – Darren Joseph Houlcroft 6. Process, Procedures & Governance – Robert Milford ## **5.0 Funds held as Custodian trustees on behalf of others** There are no funds held at current on behalf of others. ## **5.1 Additional Information** During the period, the Chair and Founder of the scheme chose to retire as the CEO at FAUN Zoeller (UK) ltd. The facility at Redditch will remain the location for the training and donations to continue. The registered office however is to change and The Board of Trustees will decide and advise accordingly to the necessary bodies and organisations. ## **6.0 Declarations** All declarations have been made as part of the original submission of application to the charity commission. S.G.Hyde Founder, Trustee & Ambassador )WER , Mentor Foundation C.l.O. Appendix A CHARITY (WAIIISYQII FQV FI￿14￿0 INL)VIAIF5 Recel •nd cci To Soctlon A Recelpts and payrnenla lknrKlr ctpd 111371 1211￿xi3 l.Tl IJ 11.X2J 1*2 )WER , Mentor Foundation C.l.O. Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period LlnrosirtCLod R•striCtsd EndoYmi£nt funds r•v••t¢ 81 C•sh fund¥ 2&9 2S. d8 D•L*Is F￿r￿1￿￿14th D•tsii* 11fy*W¢h B4 rnlaln•d forth• BS Nam• JULE A DYER CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of POWER UP Mentor Foundation On accounts for the year ended 3110812024 Charity no (If any) 1200077 Set out on pages Appendix A I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Ihe above Chartty (°the Trusf) for the year ended 3110812024. Responslbllltles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of th8 accounts in accordance with th8 requirements of the Charities Act 20111.the Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions glven by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me Cause to believe that in, any rnaterial respect: accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the aGcounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connedion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts lo be raached. Date: 0710712025 Signod: Namè: Richard Horton Relevant professional quallfi¢ation{s) or body (if any): Chartered Accountanl Member of ICAS (The Inslltute of Chartered Accountants of Scolland) Address: 53 Meadowcroft Hagley DY9 OLJ Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of Charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief datails of any items that the examinerwishes to disclose.