The Dylan Rich Legacy
Registered Charity no. 1201084
Annual report and accounts For the year ended 30[th] November 2024
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| pp. 2-5 | Trustees’ annual report |
| p. 6 | Receipts and payments account |
| Statement of assets and liabilities | |
| p.7 | Notes to the accounts |
Trustee’s annual report for the year ended 30[th] November 2024
The Dylan Rich Legacy
Full name Dylan Rich Legacy Organisation type Charitable Incorporated Organisation Registered charity number 1201084
Principal address 189 Musters Road West Bridgford Nottingham NG2 7DQ
Trustees
Michael Rich (Chair) Craig Jones Carole Fry (Secretary) Clare Low Simon Low (Treasurer) Anna Rich Anita Jones Chris Fry
Governance and management
The charity is operated under the rules of its constitution adopted 9[th] January 2022. Charitable incorporated organisation registered on 21[st] November 2022.
Trustees are appointed each year at an AGM. Trustees serve for a year and can be reappointed each year. An election process is undertaken to appoint trustees as chair, secretary and treasurer.
Objectives and activities
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To promote the benefit of young people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and the surrounding areas by:
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a. The advancement of amateur sport
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b. The relief of poverty
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c. To advance in life and help young people through: the provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life
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To promote, for the benefit of the public, the preservation, conservation and protection of wildlife and nature conservancy in Kenya, including by promoting and supporting employment opportunities for local people.
Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit
In order to fulfil the charitable purposes outlined above, the charity makes grants to existing organisations that it considers well placed to deliver benefits in line with those purposes. This includes both funding existing projects and working with organisations to deliver new projects.
During 2023-24, the charity has continued to work with 3 existing partner organisations on this basis:
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Belong (Nottingham). Total funding during 2023-24: £4,190. Belong continued to deliver free weekly football sessions for communities in Nottingham that it supports.
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Nashulai Maasai Conservancy (Kenya). Total funding during 2023-24: £5,000. The funding continued the partnership with Nashulai which provides nature conservancy and delivered additional projects to reach out to young people through football.
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AJ Academy (Nottingham). Total funding during 2023-24: £7,670. Funding continued to support regular free sport sessions and mentoring and support for young people in the city.
It has also begun to work with 2 further partner organisations:
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Fountain of Life Academy (Kenya). Total funding during 2023-24: £2,500. The organisation supports young people in the town of Narok, where Dylan visited in 2019. It has used the funding to launch a new football academy as a vehicle to engage and mentor young people in the town and improve their life chances.
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Ndera Conservancy (Kenya). Total funding during 2023-24: £4,223. A new partnership began with a conservancy set up along the Tana River, the only place in the world where two highly endangered species of monkey are found.
Public benefit statement
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit, ‘Charities and Public Benefit’.
Summary of the main achievements during the period
Project activity
During the year, the charity continued to work with partner organisations to which it had provided grants in previous years. Funding was granted to Belong, an organisation
supporting asylum seekers, refugees and migrants across Nottingham, to continue hosting free weekly football sessions for young people who would otherwise be unlikely to participate. During the summer a tournament was held to mark 2 years of partnership. The partnership established last year with the AJ Academy continued, providing weekly sports sessions for young people in the city. The organisation works closely with schools and partners including the police to provide mentoring and support alongside the sport. The charity has seen demand for sessions like rising as other sources of funding become harder to find.
The partnership with the Nashulai conservancy in Kenya also continued, with funding contributing to conservation work, additional rangers, tree planting and river restoration. A special football tournament in Dylan’s name was also held, providing valuable outreach for neighbouring communities and engaging young people with the conservation work and wider social objectives promoted by Nashulai. In July, two of the trustees travelled to Kenya and were able to visit Nashulai, meet the rangers and the captains of the teams that played in the Dylan Rich tournament.
Two new projects were funded during the year, both in Kenya. In Narok, where Dylan visited in 2019, a football academy has been established by the Fountain of Life organisation, using the sport to provide outreach, engagement and mentoring for young people in an area of very high unemployment. Funding will support the project to host regular football sessions and mentoring. A donation of kit for the project from the UK was also made during the year as part of the trustees visit to the country.
The final project is located at the Ndera conservancy along the Tana River, where two highly endangered species of monkeys are found. Dylan was particularly fond of monkeys as a child and the project here will initially support additional monitoring surveys and protection activities including rangers. The project is being funded through Tusk, a globally recognised charity that provides support to smaller conservation charities and projects around the world. Tusk will provide the trustees with in-country expertise, advice and due diligence as the project progresses.
Fundraising
During the year a total of around £14,000 was raised through fundraising activities, regular giving and donations. Regular giving has slightly increased and a range of fundraising activities took place, mostly based around supporters taking on running or cycling challenges and seeking sponsorship for these. A third annual birthday football tournament was also held to mark Dylan’s birthday in January.
Governance
The trustees continued to meet on a regular basis and confirmed the appointments of chair, secretary and treasurer for a further year. A new charity bank account was set up
and funds are in the process of being moved across from the previous temporary account. Trustees have improved the forecasting in place for the charity and increased grants above income during the year in order to make use of more of the accumulated funding for charitable purposes. Whilst the charity has no formal policy on reserves, it will continue to strike a balance between maintaining funds to delivery projects in the medium-long term, and making grants in order to put its resources to use in line with its charitable objectives.
Signed
Michael Rich, Chair of Trustees 29[th] September 2025
The Dylan Rich Legacy
Receipts and payments account
For the year ended 30[th] November 2024
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total Funds | ||
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| Funds | Funds (1) | |||
| Notes | £ | £ | £ | |
| Receipts | ||||
| Bank interest | 1,061 | - | 1,061 | |
| Fundraising | 2 | 7,404 | - | 7,404 |
| Grants and | 3 | 4,452 | - | 4,452 |
| donations | ||||
| Rafle tickets | 2,128 | - | 2,128 | |
| Total receipts | 15,045 | - | 15,045 | |
| Payments | ||||
| Grants paid | 4 | 23,583 | - | 23,583 |
| Total Payments | 23,583 | - | 23,583 | |
| Net | (8,538) | (8,538) | ||
| receipts/(payments) | ||||
| Cash funds at start of | 52,094 | - | 52,094 | |
| this period | ||||
| Transfers between | - | - | - | |
| funds | ||||
| Cash funds at end | 5 | 43,556 | 43,556 | |
| of this period |
Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.
Statement of assets and liabilities as at 30[th] November 2024
Cash assets (bank accounts) £43,556 Liabilities nil
Notes to the accounts
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Restricted Funds . During the year the trustees agreed to remove restrictions on funds indefinitely. Most donors and fundraising events were no longer specifying the charitable objective for which funds should be used. The amounts for which donations were made with a preference for one of the charitable objectives were very small and would easily be matched by the grants made for each objective during the year.
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Fundraising . As set out in the summary of main activities, there were around 6 specific fundraising events or campaigns that took place during the year with income ranging from £120 to almost £4,500.
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Grants and donations . Grants and donations includes one-off donations
(£2,470) and regular giving (£1,982). No grants were received during the year.
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Grants paid . As set out in the summary of main activities, grants were paid to a total of 5 different existing organisations, three in Kenya and two in Nottingham. During the year, a standard grant agreement was developed and utilised as a condition of funding.
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Cash Funds . During the year a new charity bank account was set up (May 2024). The previous temporary account will be phased out and closed. The trustees noted that the new account offers less return in terms of interest, but this is outweighed by the benefits for transparency and good governance of moving all funds to a dedicated separate charity account.
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Trustees’ remuneration . Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefit during this period.
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Related party transactions . There were no related party transactions during this period .
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Previous period comparison . This excludes the initial opening donation during 2022-23 from the unincorporated entity.
| 2022-23 | 2023-24 | |
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| Receipts | 9,350 | 15,045 |
| Payments | 15,590 | 23,583 |
These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:
Simon Low, Trustee (29[th] September 2025)