## Powered By Youth
## **Report of the trustees for the year ending 31 March 2025.**
**Completed on:** Thursday, 8[th] January 2026
Reference and administrative details:
- **Charity number:** 1204663
- **Principal address:** Powered by Youth, Unit 152989, Po Box 7169, Poole, Bh15 9el
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity:
|**Trustee**|**Date of appointment**|**Role(if any)**|
|---|---|---|
|Rev Ruth Wells|22/02/2023|Chair|
|Mx Rachel Folgate|13/03/2023|Trustee|
|Mr Jonathan Owen|09/03/2023|Trustee|
Name of chief executive or names of senior volunteers
|PoppySargeaunt|Founder(volunteer)|
|---|---|
|Laura Busby|Founder(volunteer)|
## **Chair’s report:**
This year has seen excellent progress in securing the foundations of the youth-led approach that Powered By Youth will continue to be built upon. As chair, I would like to commend the work of the youth steering group and the founders in all that this year entailed.
## **1. Structure, governance and management:**
|**Type of governing document**
**(eg. trust deed, constitution)**|Constitution agreed by all trustees
on 6thSeptember 2023|
|---|---|
|**How the charity is constituted**
**(eg. trust, association, company)**|A Charitable Incorporated
Organisation|
|**Trustee selection methods**
**(eg. appointed by, elected by)**|Appointed by Poppy Sargeaunt
and Laura Busby (founders)|
## **Additional governance issues**
Our Powered By Youth Trustee’s met once between 31[st] March 2024 to 31[st] March 2025 although our founders met more regularly. This year was again a slow year for the charity as the founders personal circumstances meant development of Powered By Youth’s work was minimal.
A youth steering group was set up to ensure youth voices are threaded through the charities work and decision making; looking at different areas including a logo, branding, website etc as well as developing policies and systems.
## **2. Objectives and activities**
|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**|To act as a resource for young
people who are neurodiverse, or
have characteristics linked to
neurodiversity up to the age of 25
living in Bournemouth, Poole,
Christchurch and surrounding
areas by providing advice and
assistance and organising
programmes as a means of
individual development:
(a) advancing in life and helping
young people by developing their
skills, capacities and capabilities
to enable them to participate in
society as independent, mature
and responsible individuals; (b)
advancing education; both
individually and in the community.
(c) relieving unemployment;
(d) providing recreational and
leisure time activities in the|
|---|---|
||interests of social welfare for
people living in the area of benefit
who have need by reason of their
youth, age, infirmity or disability,
poverty or social and economic
circumstances with a view to
improving the conditions of life of
suchpersons.|
|---|---|
|**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects**|On a monthly basis we ran a youth
session for Neurodivergent Young
People aged 14-25 years where we
focused on developing a range of
skills including:
-
Team Work
-
Problem Solving
-
Resilience
-
Communication Skills
-
Citizenship Skills
-
Life Skills
-
IT Skills
Time was spent delivering lots of
team building activities with our
youth steering group. A local
church kindly gifted us use of their
building for our monthly meetings
where young people began
getting involved in the running of
the charity from planning youth
sessions, to designing publicity
materials and social media.|
## **3. Achievements and performance**
**Summary of the main** We became a member of the BCP **achievements of the** Community Action Network to support **charity**
|**during the year.**|the development of the charity and
build our links in the community.
**- **We have created robust policies for the
charity. The policies which have been
created include:
**- **Safeguarding Children and Young
People Policy
**- **Adult and vulnerable adults
safeguarding Policy
**- **Code of Conduct Policy
**- **Compliments and Complaints Policy
**- **Environmental Policy
**- **Date Protection (GDPR) Policy
**- **Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy
**- **Grievance Policy
**- **Health and Safety Policy
**- **Additionally a PBY risk assessment has
been created to cover our direct work
with young people.
**- Charity Address:**We have now been
approved to have a PO Box Address
(Powered By Youth, Unit 152989, PO Box
7169, Poole, BH15 9EL). This has allowed
us to take our founders home address
off any public information about the
charity including The Charity
Commission website in line with our
GDPR and safeguarding policies.
**- Email Accounts:**A main email address
has been set up for the charity
(PoweredbyYouth@outlook.com).
**- Sign Up Form for Young People:**We have
now created what we hope is a strong
consent form for allyoung people who|
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access the charity. This includes gathering young people information and emergency contacts and consent of media, first aid and travel. **- Website:** We are currently working on the design of a website using CANVA with our youth steering group. We are also working with LCN website company to gain the www.poweredbyyouth.org.uk domain for free as a charity. Once the website design on Canva is completed we can transfer it all over to the domain name. • **Instagram Account:** We have an Instagram account to publicise our work and communicate with young people: @poweredbyyouthest2023. **- Linktree Account:** We have a basic Linktree account which we shall grow over time: https://linktr.ee/poweredbyyouthest2023
## **4. Financial review**
|**Brief statement of the**
**charity’spolicy on reserves:**|Not applicable at this time|
|---|---|
|**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit:**|Not applicable at this time|
|**Further financial review details:**|• **Bank Account:**We now have
a Charity and Community
Bank Account bank account|
set up with The CoOperative Bank. • **Funding:** Several funding grants have been submitted which would look to cover our general running costs including staffing, volunteer expenses, venue hire, pens/ paper, insurance, etc. • **Online Donations:** A just giving page has now been created to set up online donations and campaigns. • **HMRC:** An application has been completed with HMRC to register PBY for Gift Aid which has been approved.
## **5. Other optional information**
Future Plans:
- Securing funding to cover staffing and running costs.
- Creating role descriptions for various roles within the organisation.
- Setting up our HR and Powered by Youth systems for operating such as registers for youth sessions, individual evaluation tools to monitor young people’s individual growth and risk assessments.
- Recruiting young people to join our youth steering group.
## **6. Declaration**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
|Signature(s)||
|---|---|
|Full name(s)|Rev Ruth Wells|
|Position(egsecretary,chair,etc)|Chair|
|Date||
## **Receipts and payments account for the year ending 31[st] March 2025**
||Total funds
2025
(Restricted and unrestricted)
£10|
|---|---|
|**Expenditure Receipts**
**£**||
|Printing/ postage|0|
|Sundries|0|
|Telephone|0|
|Insurance|0|
|**Total Spent**|0|
|**Income**
**£**||
|Donations|10|
|Grants|0|
|Contracts|0|
|**Total Income:**|10|
|||
|Assets|0|
|Liabilities|0|
|||
|**Total Balance:**|10|