## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 13th November 2023 31st March 2025 **To**
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
|**Charity name**
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|
The Eden Complex|
The Eden Complex|
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Flat 24 Lansdowne House||
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||**Postcode**|BH1 3JR|
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Chief Executive Officer (Voluntary): Rachel Young
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Foundational Model) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are appointed by resolution of the existing trustees. Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The Eden Complex exists to promote and protect mental, emotional and physical wellbeing by providing a safe, supportive and inclusive environment for the local community, particularly, but not exclusively, young people in and connected to the night-scene. The charity advances the arts through education and creative participation in the performing arts, promotes good citizenship through workshops, training and community involvement, and advances the Christian faith for the public benefit through inclusive pastoral care.
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During the charity’s first year of operation, volunteers were recruited and trained to promote and protect the holistic wellbeing of members of the public, primarily but not exclusively young adults in and connected to the night-scene in Bournemouth. Activities included active listening and pastoral support delivered both within and outside of the night-time context. Practical welfare support and informal wellbeing conversations were provided during night-time outreach, with individuals signposted to relevant professional services where appropriate.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
The charity undertook early-stage development activities to advance the arts and public education of the arts. This included creative and performing arts outreach in Bournemouth town centre, incorporating visual arts, live performances and DJ-led creative expression by emerging local and national artists through public-facing performances and community engagement. Activities supported public participation in and learning about the creative and performing arts, alongside preparatory engagement and planning to develop future performing arts opportunities.
The charity promoted good citizenship through volunteer training that encouraged positive social behaviour and supported safer wellbeing focused creative engagement within Bournemouth’s day and night-time economy.
The charity provided inclusive pastoral care for members of the public.
The trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, which was considered through quarterly meetings when planning and overseeing the charity’s activities during the reporting period.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
During the charity’s first year of operation, the primary achievement was the successful establishment and delivery of early-stage charitable objectives aligned with the charity’s objects, focused on public wellbeing, community engagement, and creative outreach.
We recruited and trained a team of nine volunteers to deliver inclusive pastoral support, active listening, and informal wellbeing conversations for members of the public, within the night-time economy and wider Bournemouth community. During the reporting period, wellbeing support was provided to thirty-seven individuals, practical welfare support to four individuals and ongoing wellbeing support to seven individuals. A further five individuals were sign-posted to relevant professional wellbeing services.
The charity recruited, supported, trained and promoted eight emerging, local and national artists through public facing creative and performing arts activity. Creative outreach engaged approximately eighty members of the public in Bournemouth town-centre through informal participation, observation, and conversation, increasing access to the arts and encouraging inclusive creative engagement with the public.
Volunteers were recruited to support the strategic development of the charity. A comprehensive business plan has been produced for the growth of the charity. During the year, the charity has been approved stage one of a grant-funding process, which is intended to support the expansion of services and further delivery of the charity’s objectives.
As a newly established charity, the year focused on strategizing, developing governance, recruiting and training volunteers, networking and building partnerships. These activities will enable the charity to expand its reach, impact and strategic development going forwards.
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the**
**Brief statement of the** The trustees do not currently hold a formal reserves policy, as the charity **charity’s policy on reserves** is in its first year of operation and early stages of development with minimal income. At the year end, the charity held £9 of unrestricted funds, carried forward to support ongoing activities. The trustees will develop a reserves policy as income, scale and operational requirements increase.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
WHITTINGHAM **Signature(s)** A.G. WHITTINGHAM **Full name(s)** ANDREW GRAHAME **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc) Date** 31/01/2026
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||**THE EDEN COMPLEX**|**THE EDEN COMPLEX**|**THE EDEN COMPLEX**|**THE EDEN COMPLEX**|**THE EDEN COMPLEX**|**1205691**|**1205691**|**1205691**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**||Nov-23||**To**||Mar-25|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**505**
**5**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**510**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**510**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**505**
**5**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**510**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**510**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donation|**505**||||||||**-**|
|Refund of Bank Charges|**5**||||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**510**||||||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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|Virtual College - SafeguardingTraining|**67**||**-**||**-**||**67**||**-**|
|Bank Charges|**66**||**-**||**-**||**66**||**-**|
|Software Subscriptions & Online Tools|**349**||**-**||**-**||**349**||**-**|
|Printing& Stationary|**19**||**-**||**-**||**19**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**501**||**-**||**-**||**501**||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
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**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
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**Cost (optional)**
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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