## **Belper Youth Sports (1200264), Trustees’ Annual Report: Secretary** ## **5 September 2023 to 31 August 2024** ## **Meetings of the Committee** Between September 2023 and the end of August 2024 the committee met 6 times. ## **Trustees for 2023 to 2024** For the period 1 Sept 2023 until the end of the reporting year (31 August 2024), the named trustees were: - Jon Quinn (Treasurer and Acting Secretary to 1 July 2024) - David Higley ( Chair) - Jake Chalmers (Secretary from 1 July 2024) ## **Activities and Achievements** Belper Youth Sports has stayed true to the constitution of the charity; to improve the health and physical education of young people aged between 4 and 21 living in Derbyshire through the provision of amateur sport. During the period September 2023 to August 2024 the charity has delivered/participated in four festivals, offering up to 30 places for young people every week: - **October Half Term Belper Sports Festival** – 5 days of activities - **Easter Belper Sports Festival** – 10 days of activities - **May Half Term Belper Sports Festival** - 4 days of activities - **Summer Belper Sports Festival** – 15 days of activities - **Summer Codnor Sports Festival** - 10 days of activities (new Venture) ## **TOTAL 1,200 young people activity days were delivered** In 2023/24 we were able to increase the number of young person activities days offered the year before and trial an additional two week Summer sports festival at Codnor. This new programme was well received and attended by the local Codnor community. Submitted by: Jake Chalmers, Secretary, Belper Youth Sports Signed: Dated: 8 / 5 / 2025 ## **Belper Youth Sports (1200264), Trustees’ Annual Report: Chair** ## **1 September 2023 to 31 August 2024** ## **Introduction** Belper Youth Sports exists to improve the health and physical education of young people aged between 4 and 21 living in Derbyshire through the provision of amateur sport. We do this primarily through our Youth Sports Festivals during school holidays throughout the year which are free at the point of use for young people. Festivals include a wide range of age-appropriate sports and outdoor activities delivered by accredited sports coaches and commercial providers, and are supported by experienced youth workers and our own volunteers. A healthy lunch and snacks are also provided. The duration and number of places at each Festival is dependent on funding. We work to a budget of £30 per young person per day, made up of £24 from the Derbyshire Holidays and Food (HAF) Fund which is ring-fenced for children eligible for free school meals, and £6 from other sources, notably a £15K grant from Belper Town Council. Belper Youth Sports believes all young people should be able to enjoy and be active during their school holidays regardless of their personal circumstances; we work together with our trusted youth workers from Blend and our sports and activity providers to ensure this can happen for as many young people as possible. The additional grants are crucial for us to provide a high quality and enjoyable experience for young people and to ensure children not eligible for free school meals but living in other challenging circumstances are able to attend. Our relationship with sports clubs and providers is very strong and we work hard to make sure this is mutually beneficial so that coaches and assistant coaches are paid fair rates for their work. ## **Activities and Achievements** 1. Belper October Sports Festival 2. Belper Easter Sports Festival 3. Belper May Half Term Sports Festival 4. Belper Summer Sports Festival 5. Codnor Summer Sports Festival ## **Impact** The impact of Belper Youth Sports increases with each Festival by reaching more eligible young people and ensuring they have a fun, active and enjoyable time and are well fed and looked at throughout the Festival. Our founding model ensures Festivals are free at the point of use for young people, reducing the financial and social pressure on their families for that week buying additional food, and organising and paying for activities. ## **Financial Overview** The charity turnover in 2023/24 totalled **£38,962** with total expenses of **£34,849** . This has enabled us to carry a small reserve into the financial year 2024/25 to cover central costs and fund activities prior to the next round of funding being received. Further details are provided within the Treasurer’s report below. ## **Governance and Management** The model of Belper Youth Sport Festival has been praised by funders, suppliers and most importantly the young participants and their families and school. We are proud to say the model works by offering high quality services which attract and keep young people engaged through the week and wanting to attend. We are pleased to note we remain to have above average attendance compared to other youth projects. Funding for the Holidays and Food programme (HAF) was due to end in March 2025. As this would have had a serious impact on our ability to deliver future festivals we prepared for this eventuality by investigating alternative funding sources and ways of running festivals at lower costs. ## **Gratitude and Recognition** The new team is exceptionally grateful to everyone who was involved in setting up Belper Youth Sports as a charity and everyone involved in helping to run Festivals so they run smoothly and safely. We are continually grateful to our funders and partners, without whose support this work would not be possible: |**Funders**|**Delivery partners**|**Delivery partners**| |---|---|---| |HAF via Street Games
Belper Town Council
Condor Parish Council|Blend Youth Project
Belper Meadows Cricket Club
Codnor Sports Club
Belper Meadows Tennis Club
Eleven Cricket Coaching
Alan Knibbs Coaching
Jason White Coaching|Acclimbatize
Charlie Quinn Coaching
Belper Hammers Volleyball Club
Little Kitchen Catering
Weston Centre (Minibus)
Amber Valley Borough Council
(Access to river and Events
License)| ## **Future planning** It is the expectation of trustees to undertake a similar programme of activities as delivered in 2023-24. ## **Personal statement** I am extremely proud to be part of Belper Youth Sports and fully support its commitment to local young people. Signed David Higley 08/05/2025 ## **Belper Youth Sports (1200264), Trustees’ Annual Report: Treasurer** ## **1 September 2023 to 31 August 2024** ## **Financial Overview** As a charity we continue to try to engage with funders who support our core aims. We have worked hard to become sustainable but rely on funding to ensure our high quality programs can be delivered. Our young people benefit from quality delivery of enjoyable activity and learn about food, nutrition and themselves. We are working harder on resilient and robust justifiable reporting and controls to ensure donors and supporters are getting value for their appreciated and valued investment in the young people within Derbyshire, as well as reviewing our volunteer and provider model to ensure it can scale to meet the clear and increasing demand for the activities we provide to a growing number of young people in need. ## **Income** Over the course of the financial year the charity saw income of **£38,962** from various funding sources including local council SLAs, government supported grant providers, and other, mainly small donations. We continue to look at ways to engage the local business community for support. ## **Expenses** During the financial year, we spent **£34,849** on providing the festival activity through the main school holidays, and increase from Of that spend, the percentage by activity can be summarised as follows: 43% - Coaching and Sports Providers 20% - Youth worker support for young people 15% - Healthy and Nutritious Meal Provision 12% Venue Hire for festivals 5% - Core and Overhead (Operating Costs, marketing, insurance) ## **Cash Flow and Reserves** During the course of the year we saw cash in hand grow from £19,386 to £23,500. This has enabled us to carry a small reserve into the financial year 2024/25 to fund spring activities prior to the next round of funding being received. No assets of significant value nor any liabilities due. ## **Personal statement** I am extremely proud to be part of Belper Youth Sports and fully support its commitment to local young people. I’m truly grateful to our supporters and donors, our sports providers and my trustee oversight and operational delivery colleagues that we can continue to provide engagement to more and more young people with needs. We are learning as we grow, and are committed to continue to provide high quality justifiable service delivery. Signed Jon Quinn 01/09/2025 **Belper Youth Sports Festival** **No 1200264** ## **Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** ## **CC16a** **For the period** 01/09/2023 31/08/2024 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,504**
**17,000**
**458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**

**38,962**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,504**
**17,000**
**458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**

**38,962**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,504**
**17,000**
**458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38,962**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,504**
**17,000**
**458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38,962**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Grant Funding|**21,504**||||||||**30,785**| |Service Level Agreements|**17,000**||||||||**17,100**| |Donations|**458**||||||||**182**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**38,962**||||||||**48,067**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**48,067**| ||||||||||| |
Coachingand Sports Provision|**15,105**||||||||**13,078**| |Food|**5,185**||||||||**8,155**| |Youth Worker Support|**7,098**||||||||**5,038**| |Core and Overhead (Marketing, Expenses,
insurances, licences, professional costs)|
**1,808**||||||||**8,016**| |Venue Hire for Festivals|**4,053**||||||||**1,662**| |Rent|**1,250**||||||||**2,890**| |Travel|**350**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**34,849**||||||||**38,839**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**38,839**| ||||||||||| ||**4,114**||**-**||**-**||**4,114**||**9,228**| ||**-**|

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|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**19,386**||**-**||**-**||**19,386**||**-**| ||**23,500**||**-**||**-**||**23,500**||**9,228**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Details**
Balance 31/8/24 Bank
1|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**23,500**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| |Balance 31/8/24 Bank|**23,500**|**-**|**19,387**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| |1|**-**|**-**|**-**
07/09/2025| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
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