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REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 08261562 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1207777

Annual Report

Report of the trustees and unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024

Accounts independently examined by Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP - Chartered Accountants

Alliance for Youth Justice , Bootstrap Company, The Print House, 18-22 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL E: info@ayj.org.uk │ W: www.ayj.org.uk │ Twitter: @the_AYJ Charity number: 1207777 │ Company No: 08261562

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Contents

Page Report of the Trustees 1 Independent Examiner’s Report 11 Statement of Financial Activities 12 Balance Sheet 13 Notes to the Financial Statements 14 - 18 Detailed Statement of Financial Activities 19

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The Alliance for Youth Justice

Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 December 2024

The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2024. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).

Reference and administrative details

Registered Company number 08261562 (England and Wales)

Registered Charity number 1207777

Registered office Bootstrap Company, The Print House, 8-22 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL Trustees Chris Bath Tony Book Shadae Cazeau Joanne Cecil (resigned 28.3.2024) Anne-Marie Day John Drew Ahmed Ibrahim (resigned 10.10.2024) Ian Langley Emmanuel Onapa Melvin Riley (resigned 28.3.2024) Lesley Tregear (Chair) Chief Executive Officer and Jess Mullen Company Secretary Independent Examiner Jeremy Harrod FCCA Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP - Chartered Accountants 1st Floor, Healthaid House, Marlborough Hill, Middlesex, HA11UD

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 16 May 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

Lesley Tregear Chair

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Foreword

Lesley Tregear, Chair of Trustees

We are delighted to share the Alliance for Youth Justice's Annual Report for 2024, our first as a registered charity. This milestone marks a significant step in our journey to drive positive change for children in the youth justice system, guided by our 2023-2025 strategy, "Reimagining Youth Justice."

2024 was a year of transition and growth, both within our organisation and in the wider landscape we navigate. The arrival of a new government brought with it a renewed sense of possibility – a chance to improve systems, services and support for children and truly reimagine and reshape the youth justice system.

We continue to pursue systemic change drawing on our cornerstones: the invaluable practice expertise of our members, the powerful voices of young people with lived experience of the youth justice system,

Lesley Tregear, Chair of Trustees

robust evidence and our deeply held values. Together, we crafted "Setting the Agenda," a briefing for the new government, outlining a clear vision for a holistic, child-centred approach. This vision prioritises prevention and early intervention, focusing on four key policy priorities: Keeping Children Safe, Racial Justice, Custody as a Last Resort, and the creation of a dedicated Department for Children.

Our strength lies in our collective voice. By drawing on and platforming our members expertise, amplifying youth voice, sharing robust evidence, and facilitating collaboration, we create an impact far greater than any individual effort.

Jo Cecil, Melvin Riley, and Ahmed Ibrahim stepped down as trustees this year. On behalf of the board, I thank them for their time and contributions. We also said goodbye to Pippa Goodfellow, who stepped down as Chief Executive Officer in April 2024. Pippa's vision and leadership were instrumental in transforming the Standing Committee for Youth Justice into the Alliance for Youth Justice, expanding our reach and impact. We were thrilled that, just before her departure, our application for charitable status was approved, a testament to her hard work. We were equally delighted to welcome Jess Mullen as our new Chief Executive Officer, confident that her passion and expertise will guide us into this exciting new chapter as a registered charity.

Finally, I extend our deepest thanks to our incredible members, our inspiring youth advocates, our generous funders, our dedicated staff, and my fellow trustees. Your support and commitment fuel our mission to build a society that promotes social justice and enables all children to fulfil their potential. We are truly grateful for your partnership on this journey.

Lesley Tregear Chair of Trustees

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Objectives and Activities

The Trustees have referred to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit when reviewing aims and objectives and planning future activities. Through the pursuit of our mission to build a society that promotes social justice and enables all children to fulfil their potential our activities aim to stop costly cycles of harm and offending that impact children, their families and wider communities.

Charitable Objects

The Alliance for Youth Justice /(AYJ) aims to benefit the public by achieving our aims as set out in our constitution. These are:

Vision

A society that promotes social justice and enables all children to reach their full potential.

Mission

We advocate for and with children to drive positive change in youth justice.

Purpose

We bring together the expertise of our members and provide ways for them to collectively shape decision-making.

The Alliance for Youth Justice works to improve youth justice in England and Wales, for the benefit of children, young people, and society.

We do this by:

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Strategic objectives 2022-2025

  1. Improve systems, services, and support

  2. Develop evidence-based solutions

  3. Strengthen our membership

  4. Amplify young people’s voices

  5. Be a more effective organisation

Values

Collaborative: as an alliance, we believe that our collective influence is far greater than the sum of its parts. Our network is underpinned by a collaborative approach and aims to develop new partnerships to further our objectives. We recognise that there is not a level playing field when it comes to delivery of services.

Child-centred: we amplify the views of children and young people and centre their interests, rights, and wellbeing. Rather than promoting a particular service or intervention, we press for change in the best interests of children and young people. We recognise difference and that not all under 18’s are impacted in the same way and that racial disproportionality exists in criminal justice system.

Anti-discrimination: we work to ensure that equity and anti-discrimination informs all thinking about youth justice and our own work as an alliance. We recognise the impact of discrimination and stand up against the oppressive structures, attitudes and actions that create disadvantage in society.

Credible: our work is informed by robust research, data, and analysis. We work with our networks to develop the evidence-base to inform long-term solutions, rooted in the experience of our members and the children and young people they work with.

Independent: we believe in the importance of speaking truth to power and holding the government to account. We do not accept government funding or deliver government-commissioned work. We recognise the lack of trust that many of our communities have in institutions that have continued to fail them .

Tenacious: strongly committed to our principles, we have courage in advocating for change and we don’t give up. Our principles around anti-racism and youth justice are non-negotiable.

Cornerstones

The Alliance for Youth Justice is a membership organisation encompassing a range of organisations, as well as working with associates and children and young people, to bring together our cornerstones of practice expertise, youth voice, research and evidence with our values. At the end of the reporting year we had 83 members and 12 associates. A full list of current members can be found at https://www.ayj.org.uk/our-members. Phase one of our youth advocates project came to an end during the year and we have since been fundraising for phase 2 as well as working through our members to ensure our work is informed by the voices of children and young people.

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Our activities, achievement and performance in 2024

Improving systems, services and support

Setting the agenda for the new government

Leading up to the general election, we proactively established relationships across the political spectrum. Drawing on our members' expertise, insights from our young advocates, and robust research, we co-produced policy priorities for the incoming government. Post-election, we launched our briefing 'Setting the Agenda’, and effectively engaged with new ministers and their officials, to advocate for these crucial priorities.

prevention, early intervention and support over enforcement and punitive approaches.

Supporting our membership

In 2024 our membership grew to 83, with a diverse range of organisations represented including large charities advocating for children and young people, criminal justice campaigning organisations, organisations specialising in participation and youth work, those delivering services in youth custody or in partnership with youth justice services in the community and grassroots organisations working in their communities to meet the needs of children and young people.

Connecting our members

Across the year we curated four members’ meetings providing opportunities for members to engage with decision makers, share their own good practice and learning, and hear about new research and insights.

We established our expert groups focused on each of our co-produced policy priorities, to convene members to share and collaborate and to ensure that our influencing is informed by their expertise. We also brought members and decision makers together throughout the year on a variety of key issues.

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Sharing information, platforming members and amplifying voice

Through our regular newsletters we have shared our work, our members news, and updates about the wider youth justice landscape with 234 individuals working across our membership and 764 wider stakeholders.

Across the year we published four blogs highlighting work to support children transitioning from the youth to adult justice systems and work to support Black and racially minoritised children who are over represented and experience cumulative discrimination and disadvantage in their journeys to and though the justice system. We platformed the work of our members Wipers CIC and Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) highlighting the vital work of organisations led by and for racially minoritised people.

We published comment on a variety of external reports and policy developments many of which expressed our deep concern about the state of conditions in YOIs and STCs, including the use of solitary confinement and concerns about vulnerable children at Wetherby YOI, and demanded the closure of these failing institutions.

Our reports and positions on youth custody and the need for a child first approach throughout the justice system, as well as the report of our Young Advocates were covered in the sector and national press by Children and Young People Now, the Guardian, the Spectator and Russell Webster.

Develop Evidence Based Solutions

Through our Barrow Cadbury Funded project on young people in transition in the criminal justice system we produced two briefings:

Bridging gaps and changing tracks:

Supporting racially minoritised young people in the transition to adulthood in the criminal justice system

Explores how racially minoritised young people experience particularly destabilising transitions due to deficits in support before and after turning 18.

It highlights the crucial role the ‘by and for’ voluntary and community sector plays in addressing these shortfalls,

arguing for reforms to better facilitate and fund the sector’s involvement in racially minoritised young people’s lives.

Adultifying youth custody: Learning lessons on transitions to adulthood from the use of youth custody for young adults

Explores the impact of the significant increase in young adults held in the children’s secure estate across 2023 and 2024 on both under and over 18s. It highlights the questions this raises around the purpose and future of youth custody, and the lessons learnt for custody for young adults.

Both briefings draw from an evidence review; interviews and consultation sessions with children and young people, workshops and expert seminars bringing together professionals from the criminal justice sector, voluntary and community sector, including specialist organisations led by and for Black and racially minoritised communities; academia and legal representatives; visits and meetings with practitioners and civil servants.

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Amplify young people’s voices

Young Advocates project

The Young Advocates project was led by children and young people aged 13–21 with lived experience of the youth justice system who want to be part of a movement to drive positive change, delivered in partnership with Leaders Unlocked with the generous support of BBC Children in Need.

In April we published the Young Advocate’s second report presenting findings and recommendations from engagement with 90 children and young people across England and Wales, exploring the routes into the justice system for young people, compared to pathways out and away from it and focusing on criminalisation, policing, and intervention and diversion.

Working with and through our members to embed youth voice in our work

We were delighted to be able to work with our member organisation Kinetic Youth Limited to engage with 50 children and young people in custody to inform our work. We have drawn on the insights gathered from the children and young people we spoke to in our Adultifying youth custody briefing and our evidence submission to the Justice Select Committee’s Inquiry into resettlement and rehabilitation and their views and experiences will continue to inform our future work as well.

Be a more effective organisation

Becoming a registered charity

Following a significant transformative programme of work to create a more sustainable and effective organisation and to clarify and communicate the charitable purposes of our work, we were delighted that our work for the public benefit was recognised through the gaining of charitable status in April.

Welcoming our new Chief Executive Officer

In May, Jess Mullen joined as our new CEO bringing twenty years’ experience working in the voluntary sector to challenge systemic injustice, including 12 years leadership in the criminal justice sector. Her understanding of the criminal justice system, knowledge of organisations working across the sector and deep commitment to justice reform and challenging racism and discrimination place her in an excellent position to lead the AYJ into its next chapter as a registered charity.

Becoming an anti-racist, anti-oppressive organisation

In September our CEO joined a cohort of charity leaders participating in a year long learning programme, convened and facilitated by ACEVO and Voice4Change and led and delivered by the Social Justice Collective, to support the voluntary sector to go further and faster in its work to become anti racist. The learning from this programme is informing our efforts to put our value of anti-discrimination into practice, considering how we can be anti-racist and anti-oppressive in all our work.

Trustee skills audit and recruitment

During the year three trustees retired or stepped down. We undertook an audit of trustee skills and experience as well as of the diversity of the board before launching a recruitment campaign to recruit new members.

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Our work for the next 12 months

Looking to 2025 we will ensure that we maximise the opportunity presented by the changes in government and continue to work with our members to pursue progress across our three policy priorities during 2025:

Keeping children safe: We will continue to engage with the government to understand and influence the Youth Futures Programme and other forthcoming legislation such as the Police and Crime Bill that will have an impact on keeping children safe.

Racial justice: In February 2025 the Youth Justice Minister announced at an AYJ member’s meeting that the Ministry of Justice will develop a plan to tackle racial disparity in the youth justice system, a step we have long advocated for. We welcome this while being cautious in our optimism. Years of sector-wide efforts and numerous reports have consistently highlighted the systemic racism and cumulative discrimination across the criminal justice system, yet progress has been slow and inadequate. During 2025, to ensure meaningful change, we will collaborate closely with our members and partners, particularly those led by and for Black and racially minoritised communities, to hold government to account in delivering concrete actions that produce tangible impact.

Custody as a last resort: We will begin work to gather further evidence to highlight how the current use of custody violates the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child principles of custody as a last resort and for the shortest possible time and will continue to urgently demand the closure of Youth Offending Institutions and Secure Training Centres.

We will contribute further to the evidence base on children transitioning to adulthood within the justice system. The final phase of our Barrow Cadbury Funded project on young people in transition to adulthood in the criminal justice system will focus on safeguarding examining how the justice system responds to Child Criminal Exploitation and how this changes as children turn 18.

We are awaiting the outcome of a funding bid to resource phase 2 of our young advocates project in 2025, ensuring that youth voice is a central part of our movement to drive change in the youth justice system. Alongside this we will further explore how we can work with and through our members to embed youth voice in our work, outside of specifically funded programmes.

In 2025 the staff team will be further strengthened by the recruitment of a Communications and Engagement Manager to expand our reach and amplify member and youth voices.

We will also elect and induct new trustees to our board bringing further skills in organisational governance, charity finance and strategic influencing and aiming to increase the representation of AYJ members on the board. Recruitment will also aim to address the under representation of people who are racially minoritised, from working class or intermediate socio-economic backgrounds, aged 18-34, have lived experience of the youth justice system and are female on the board.

2025 will be the final year of delivery of our current strategy and so we will undertake a programme of work reviewing our progress towards its aims and considering how we might refresh our direction and activity over the next three years to build on our progress and have even greater impact. This will include incorporating the learning from the Further Faster anti-racism learning programme we are participating in to consider how we can go further towards becoming a transformative anti-oppressive organisation.

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Structure, governance and management

Our governance

The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.

In April 2024 the Alliance for Youth Justice became a registered charity as well as a company limited by guarantee which we have operated as since 2012, originally as the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, changing our name to the Alliance for Youth Justice in 2020. The articles of association were adopted at our AGM held on 28 March 2024.

The charity is governed by a Board of Trustees. Trustees are elected at the Annual General Meeting. Trustees delegate day-to-day running of the charity to the Chief Executive Officer who manages and supports a small team of 1.6 staff. The Chief Executive Officer reports on operational performance through the Chair and financial performance through the Treasurer and financial sustainability subcommittee to the Board. At each board meeting Trustees consider financial and fundraising reports, a risk register and progress towards the AYJ business plan.

The Board currently has two permanent subcommittees:

All subcommittees operate under terms of references approved by the Board. They meet quarterly and feed into board meetings.

Remuneration policy

Remuneration policy is guided by the need to attract and retain the skills and experience required for the running of the organisation, fairness in the context of the market and affordability. The AYJ is proud to support the Living Wage. Pay is reviewed annually and any increases determined by affordability and financial sustainability, the retail and consumer price indexes and the level of other pay settlements. Pay reviews are recommended by the Chief Executive Officer and subject to approval by the board.

Financial Review

Financial performance

The results for the year ending 31 December 2024 are set out in the attached Financial Statements on page 12.

Total income for the year was £147,260 (2023: £218,323). Expenditure for the year was £144,039 (2023: £206,245). The surplus for the year was thus £3,221 (2023 surplus: £12,078). The Fund balances carried forward at 31 December 2024 totalled £102,708 (2023: £99,487) of which £80,367 were unrestricted as to use (2023: £57,085).

Reserves policy

The AYJ aims to maintain free unrestricted reserves of three months and will take steps to achieve this:

The board of trustees review the above criteria annually with reference to the AYJ’s strategy and annual plan and determine the target level of free reserves to meet these.

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Fundraising

The charity did not engage external support for fundraising during the year. No complaints have been received in respect of the charity's fundraising activities during the financial year.

Funders and supporters

We are extremely grateful to all our funders whose generosity allowed us to deliver our work in 2024:

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Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The Alliance for Youth Justice

Independent examiner's report to the trustees of The Alliance for Youth Justice ('the Company')

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by Section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of Section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

  4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)).

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Jeremy Harrod FCCA

Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP Chartered Accountants 1st Floor Healthaid House Marlborough Hill Harrow Middlesex HA1 1UD

5/28/2025 Date

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Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 December 2024

Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
funds
Notes
£
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
115,000
20,000
Charitable activities
Charitable activities
12,260
-
Total
127,260
20,000
EXPENDITURE ON
Charitable activities
Charitable activities
103,978
40,061
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
23,282
(20,061)
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
57,085
42,402
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
80,367
22,341		 2024
Total
funds
£
135,000
12,260
147,260
144,039
3,221
99,487
102,708		 2023
Total
funds
£
209,530
8,793
218,323
206,245
12,078
87,409
99,487

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance Sheet 31 December 2024

Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
funds
Notes
£
£
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
5
4,075
-
Cash at bank
78,006
22,341
82,081
22,341
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year
6
(1,714)
-
NET CURRENT ASSETS
80,367
22,341
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES
80,367
22,341
NET ASSETS
80,367
22,341
FUNDS
7
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
TOTAL FUNDS		 2024
Total
funds
£
4,075
100,347
104,422
(1,714)
102,708
102,708
102,708
80,367
22,341
102,708		 2023
Total
funds
£
1,653
100,881
102,534
(3,047)
99,487
99,487
99,487
57,085
42,402
99,487

The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 December 2024.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 16 May 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:

Lesley Tregear - Trustee

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2024

1. Accounting policies

Basis of preparing the financial statements

The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Income

All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

Taxation

The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.

2. Trustees' remuneration and benefits

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 December 2024 nor for the year ended 31 December 2023.

Trustees' expenses

Trustees are not remunerated. £1,093 was reimbursed for directly incurred travel expenses and room hire for meetings to five trustees.

3. Staff costs

The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:

2024
Employees
2
The number of employees whose employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs)
£60,000 was:
2024
£60,001 - £70,000
1		 2023
2
exceeded
2023
1

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the year ended 31 December 2024

4.
Comparatives for the statement of financial activities
Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
funds
£
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
69,000
140,530
Charitable activities
Charitable activities
8,793
-
Total
77,793
140,530
EXPENDITURE ON
Charitable activities
Charitable activities
74,556
131,689
NET INCOME
3,237
8,841
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
53,848
33,561
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
57,085
42,402
5.
Debtors: amounts falling due within one year
2024
£
Trade debtors
3,700
Other debtors
375
4,075
6.
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2024
£
Accruals and deferred income
1,714		 Total
funds
£
209,530
8,793
218,323
206,245
12,078
87,409
99,487
2023
£
420
1,233
1,653
2023
£
3,047

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the year ended 31 December 2024

7. Movement in funds

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Restricted funds
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Garden Court
Children in Need
TOTAL FUNDS
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Unrestricted funds
General fund
Restricted funds
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Children in Need
TOTAL FUNDS
Comparatives for movement in funds
Unrestricted funds
General fund
Restricted funds
Esme Fairbairn Foundation emergency grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Garden Court
Children in Need
TOTAL FUNDS		 Net
movement
At
At 1.1.24
in funds
31.12.24
£
£
£
57,085
23,282
80,367
2,750
(2,750)
-
29,353
(10,012)
19,341
3,000
-
3,000
7,299
(7,299)
-
42,402
(20,061)
22,341
99,487
3,221
102,708

Incoming
Resources
Movement
resources
expended
in funds
£
£
£
127,260
(103,978)
23,282
-
(2,750)
(2,750)
20,000
(30,012)
(10,012)
-
(7,299)
(7,299)
20,000
(40,061)
(20,061)
147,260
(144,039)
3,221
Net
movement
At
At 1.1.23
in funds
31.12.23
£
£
£
53,848
3,237
57,085
469
(469)
-
2,533
217
2,750
7,475
21,878
29,353
-
3,000
3,000
23,084
(15,785)
7,299
33,561
8,841
42,402
87,409
12,078
99,487

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the year ended 31 December 2024

7. Movement in funds - continued

Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Restricted funds
Esme Fairbairn Foundation emergency grant
Agenda Alliance (Lloyds Bank Foundation)
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Garden Court
Children in Need
TOTAL FUNDS		 Incoming
Resources
Movement
resources
expended
in funds
£
£
£
77,793
(74,556)
3,237
-
(469)
(469)
3,850
(3,850)
-
33,000
(32,783)
217
54,080
(32,202)
21,878
3,000
-
3,000
46,600
(62,385)
(15,785)
140,530
(131,689)
8,841
218,323
(206,245)
12,078

A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined position is as follows:

Net
movement At
At 1.1.23 in funds 31.12.24
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 53,848 26,519 80,367
Restricted funds
Esme Fairbairn Foundation emergency grant 469 (469) -
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund 2,533 (2,533) -
Barrow Cadbury Trust 7,475 11,866 19,341
Garden Court - 3,000 3,000
Children in Need 23,084 (23,084) -
33,561 (11,220) 22,341
TOTAL FUNDS 87,409 15,299 102,708

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Docusign Envelope ID: 406B3CEA-7E14-4EC1-AF6D-7B5C34A24C0A

Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the year ended 31 December 2024

7. Movement in funds - continued

A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Unrestricted funds
General fund
Restricted funds
Esme Fairbairn Foundation emergency grant
Agenda Alliance (Lloyds Bank Foundation)
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund
Barrow Cadbury Trust
Garden Court
Children in Need
TOTAL FUNDS		 Incoming
Resources
Movement
resources
expended
in funds
£
£
£
205,053
(178,534)
26,519
-
(469)
(469)
3,850
(3,850)
-
33,000
(35,533)
(2,533)
74,080
(62,214)
11,866
3,000
-
3,000
46,600
(69,684)
(23,084)
160,530
(171,750)
(11,220)
365,583
(350,284)
15,299

The purposes of the funds are as follows:

Paul Hamlyn Youth Fund

To support a programme of lobbying and campaigning for reform of the youth justice system and to significantly develop the organisation.

Barrow Cadbury Trust

To improve young people's experiences of the transition from youth to adult justice services

Esme Fairbairn Foundation Emergency grant

An additional grant, in response to the rising cost of living, to help the work already funded by Esme Fairbairn Foundation to continue.

Garden Court

To support the creation of a membership internship.

Agenda (Lloyds)

To support the delivery of the Young Women’s Justice Project

Children in Need

To support the delivery of the Young Advocates Project

8. Related party disclosures

There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 December 2024.

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Docusign Envelope ID: 406B3CEA-7E14-4EC1-AF6D-7B5C34A24C0A

Detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 December 2024

INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS
Donations and legacies
Grants
Charitable activities
Subscriptions
Total incoming resources
EXPENDITURE
Charitable activities
Wages
Project costs
Support costs
Management
Travel and meeting costs
Website and email hosting cost
Rent
Other office costs
Governance costs
Insurance
Board and company costs
Bookkeeping costs
Legal fees
Accountancy and legal fees
Total resources expended
Net income		 2024
£
135,000
12,260
147,260
120,296
9,095
129,391
230
1,644
2,748
916
5,538
572
2,985
1,455
2,498
1,600
9,110
144,039
3,221		 2023
£
209,530
8,793
218,323
143,737
44,149
187,886
1,721
2,082
1,848
902
6,553
520
4,857
1,177
4,552
700
11,806
206,245
12,078

This page does not form part of the statutory financial statements

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