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2024-03-31-accounts

Trustee’s report for the Kinesiology Association (KA) for the year ending 31[ST] March 2024

Introduction

The Trustees present their annual report and accounts for the year ending 31[st] March 2024. The board of Trustees are very happy with the performance of the charity during the year and its position as at the 31[st] March 2024. The charity’s assets are adequate to fulfil its obligations. The board of Trustees consider that the charity remains in a strong position to continue its activities during the coming year.

Name, registration details and constitution of the Charity

Charity Name: The Kinesiology Association. The charity is also known by the name KA

Legal registration details: Type of Charity: Charitable Incorporated Organisation Date of initial incorporation: 24[th] March 1988 Charity registration number: 299 306

Registered Office and operational address and details: 15 Cygnet Drive, Durrington, Wiltshire SP4 8LQ UK

Telephone: 01980 881646

Email: admin@kinesiologyassociation.org

Website: www.kinesiologyassociation.org

Administrator: Clare Cooper. From 1[st] February 2024

Legal Structure of the charity

The charity is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in England & Wales. The governing document of the charity is the constitution of the CIO as approved by the Charity Commission in England & Wales (CCEW).

There are no restrictions in the governing documents on the operation of the Charity or on its investment powers other than those imposed by Charity Law.

The Trustees are all individuals

Nature of the Governing Document and constitution of the charity

The charity is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association for a CIO, and Bye laws.

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Trustees

The Trustees are the governing body of the KA and there are currently 5 in number. The KA submits annual accounts and an annual report to the Charity Commission.

Current

Trustees

:

Linda Belcher

Chris Halls

Christiane McKenzie

Allison Prebble

Sarah Tompsett

Statement of Trustees responsibilities

The Trustees, in collaboration with its subscribing members, are continually finding ways to contribute in furthering the aims and objectives of the KA to promote kinesiology making sure the best and most appropriate promotional methods are employed

The Trustees delegate day to day management of the charity to the administrator Clare Cooper. Additional paid support is provided by Linda Belcher, one of the Trustees, in the form of paid work to engage on nominated projects in the development of our training programme which is essential to the continuing strength of the association.

Independent Examiner:

Ian Barr, I A Barr & Associates, 24 Craigmore Road, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, PA20 9LB

Objectives and Activities of the Charity

A summary of the objectives of the charity as set out in its governing document:

In June 2022 we removed from our objectives, ‘to undertake research’. To undertake meaningful research is too costly to undertake for a small charity, instead our resource is now more focused on providing training material for students who want to become trained in kinesiology, so they in turn will provide kinesiology treatments to the general public at a local level.

Public benefit that is provided by the Charity

The Trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit in

managing the activities of the Charity. In this respect the main purposes and aims of the Charity are to:

The major risks to which the charity is exposed and reviews and systems to mitigate risks

An on-going risk to the organisation is where members are impacted by issues around cost of living and their clients either stop making appointments or reduce the frequency.

The trustees also take a very sympathetic view to any members who is experiencing hardship and will review on a case by case basis whether membership fees could be waivered for a period of time

We are constantly looking at ways we can ‘add value’ to our members so they can appreciate the help and support we provide as an association.

The introduction of the new training material for use by our approved tutors has seen an increase in membership numbers which has reversed the decline we have had during the previous 2 years. New members with the income from their membership fees are essential for the on-going success of the association.

Professional Standards

A revised Code of Ethics was published in June of 2020. A video explaining the changes was made available to members. The CoE are explained to all new students on the new KA training courses.

In 2023 we introduced a Code of Conduct for our Tutors to ensure we are keeping focus on the training part of the association which is increasingly becoming a major area for investment. As this is a major focus for the association, we closely monitor this.

We have developed a student feedback process to gain input from students so we can provide feedback to tutors and monitor any changes we need to make to our training materials.

We have invested both time and money with our tutors to run feedback days to obtain and provide feedback to improve the student’s journey.

We continue to be registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC). This was part of a very strong working relationship with the Kinesiology Federation. The CNHC was set up with government support to protect the public by providing a UK voluntary register of health practitioners. CNHC's register has been approved as an Accredited Register by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for Health and Social Care, a body accountable to Parliament. This is important for public awareness of the professionalism of Kinesiology and is a continuation of the high professional standards as originally developed by the National Occupational Standards (KNOS) group, of which the KA was a part. In addition to recognition of professionalism and providing further confidence in kinesiology to the public, the long-term goal is, by belonging to the CNHC, working with GP’s and the NHS may, in future, be more easily attainable. Acceptance of kinesiology therapy by more private health care insurers may also be possible.

KA Diploma Members are now able to register with the CNHC.

The KA maintains its data protection registration with ICO annually. The Trustees have worked to ensure the Charity and its members understand and apply the GDPR regulations.

We now have an online complaints process to make the whole are more transparent for complaints to be handled. In 2023_24 we received 1 x complaint about a practitioner which resulted in us making recommendations to the practitioner about changes in their working practice

Meetings

The Trustees meet monthly via zoom. This has made a big difference to our meeting costs, and whilst zoom is great, we do believe we need to continue to meet face to face to develop the strong working relationship between the trustees and the administrator, particularly when we have new trustees on board. The trustees continue to have a very strong working relationship

and work in a very honest and transparent manner.

In addition to taking minutes of the zoom meetings we also keep a digital copy of the recording of the meetings.

Affiliations and working in partnership with others

We continue to work closely with the Kinesiology Federation

(KF) We have worked with the KF on a number of projects:

Balens Insurers

The KA have worked with Balens Insurers for many years to provide a relevant competitive block scheme insurance for the membership, students in training and the Trustees. To be accepted for insurance, members need to hold a current first aid certificate.

e-mango – Administration system and website

Since the introduction of the new administration system, we continue to see the planned efficiencies and cost savings from the admin system. The system has also enabled us to organise the numerous on- line CPD training sessions and to be able to register delegates so we know who is attending our events. The admin system makes it much easier for the administrator to identify the number of members at any particular period, to clearly show the number of members who are joining, progressing or resigning. During the last financial year, we made significant changes to the members section of the KA website to make it much easier

for members to navigate and to appreciate to vast amount of information which is available to them.

We have significantly reduced the amount of paper originating from the office, as members can now print of their invoices and membership certificates, change their own contact details

The admin system also provides us with an instant view as to members CPD activity.

Members can pay for events on-line; they can manage their own CPD log and maintain their own Directory listings.

All our events and email are managed through the admin system which enables us to have greater control and co-ordination in these areas.

We continue to have a robust platform which has allowed the smooth handover to our new administrator, Clare. Due to the platform being on ‘the cloud’ the retiring administrators can continue to access the platform and provide any required on-going support to Clare

Membership

As of February 2024, we had 519 members: 189 Professional Diploma, 59 Professional Certificate, 9 Professional Associate, 154 Associate, 73 Foundation, and 35 Affiliate.

Income 2023_24

The majority of our income of £60,454 comes from membership fees and events ,

Our actual membership income has reduced this year, not as a result of losing membership subscription income but because we are giving members the option to spread costs throughout the year, resulting in less of a peak in March and more evenly spread during the year

Membership subscription fees have remained the same for members for last 25 years.

Expenditure 2023_24

Our total expenditure is £66,717

43% £28,759 is on admin fees,

6.5% £4,445 on marketing,

11%, £7, 502 on KA events,

16.7% £11,155 on training costs,

Major activity in 2023_24

The development and production of the new KA foundation and diploma training courses continues to be a significant focus for the organisation. The printed training material is very well received by students and tutors. We have spent a lot of time and money this year producing online training materials for our students to use as reference material.

Students for our courses come from 2 main areas, the general public who have either had a kinesiology balance and want to learn how to muscle test and from existing practitioners from other modalities such as Nutritionists who realise that muscle testing provides them with additional skills to make them more effective as practitioners.

We have increased our expenditure on Google adverts both to attract students to join our courses and to promote our members to the general public mainly through running a key word campaign.

Our social media activity instigated by Sarah Tompsett continues to attract new members schedule to produce 2 posts per week and currently we have over 1,130 people following us, representing both individuals and organisations. In any month our posts are reaching over 3,500 people

One change in the structure of the organisation saw the resignation of our current administrators Clive and Julie who have been running the organisation since 2017. The recruitment and handover process has been a time-consuming activity and been successfully completed. Clare Cooper the new administrator is now in position and developing her role. Clive and Julie remain available to provide any support as required

Supporting the membership

As a membership organisation we continually look to see how we can offer support to our members. Since the lifting of COVID restrictions we are once again able to offer CPD events where we organise interesting speakers on a great variety of subjects. This has taken a while to get members back into the ‘habit’ of attending physical meetings.

There is certainly a massive attraction to meeting up with colleagues but we are now being impacted by the cost of attending events and the environmental impact of travelling to locations

We can provide members with ‘Pop Up’ display stands which we ship and return at no cost to promote

members at local events.

The admin office can also provide laminated A4 and A3 poster with the members contact details overprinted

Leaflets and postcards are available to the membership.

We can produce short promotional videos for our members which they can use on their website and on social media.

We continue to offer our members an easy to use, low-cost professional website which allows members who do not currently have a site to gain a web presence. We have a pool of images the members can use and through the work with the ASA we are developing words and phrases which the members can use and not be concerned they are violating the advertising rules.

We also provide one-one coaching to professional members who would like help in developing their business.

Facebook

We have both Associate and Professional closed groups on Facebook. This is an excellent way to share questions, concerns and ask for advice between the membership. It is also an excellent source to communicate new research in the field of kinesiology and it enables us to link with many other excellent Kinesiology groups and their members all over the world, as well as other related therapies. The site is monitored by a volunteer member, the Trustees and the administrator to make sure only good relevant material appears there.

Grant making policies for members Money for talks

We normally provide expenses to Professional members when working in care homes, hospices, NHS or schools.

This provides an opportunity to increases public awareness of kinesiology at a time when other therapies such as Reiki and yoga are being explored in some schools. Payment also offered to members when they give talks and demonstrations.

Tutor Training Bursary

The KA provides a teacher training a bursary to support members who wish to become tutors of KA training courses. This Bursary was taken up by 2 students this last year. The bursary is for the Award in training and Education (AET) qualification for professional members who qualify to become a tutor teaching Systematic Kinesiology. The KA pays for the costs quoted by The Academy of King’s Training as follows: £200 online, £240 face to face in the London area and £300 outside of London. We have set a limit of £5000 per annum for the total number of students applying for the AET bursary.

Regional shows

The Trustees are increasingly supporting the membership to attend and organise more shows and local shows around the country. We provide banners and leaflets to members for all events. These shows have been put on hold for the moment due to lockdown but we are starting to receive enquiries from our members for future events. Our main event this year

will be CarFest in August

Continued Professional Development (CPD)

The annual CPD requirement, to maintain their Professional status, consists of 21 hours which is equivalent to 3 days postgraduate training each year. The membership is highly motivated in self- directed learning and the CPD requirement is easily fulfilled with four association days, regional meetings and an increasing number of related courses, available in various forms. This last year, after review, combinations of suitable material which members can use to achieve their CPD and which provide flexibility of choice were incorporated and are from the following areas: submitting a case study, support on a KA stand at a Trade Show, seminars run by supplement or Nutrition companies, subjects which are allied to kinesiology, advanced kinesiology techniques, energy work, flower essences, aromatherapy oils, tapping, sound therapy, practice management and business development, interpersonal skills and marketing and relevant social media; on-line material; webinars and podcasts (with member providing a synopsis of a minimum of 400 words) and magazine subscription. Relevant literature is also acceptable (read or audio, with a written synopsis requirement) and we have developed an online reading room with suggestions. If a member is under-going Tutor training, they do not have to submit additional CPD for the year in which they are training. First Aid, A&P and Nutrition qualifications do not count towards the CPD requirement. Members need to submit their completed yearly CPD 31[st] December.

Our new admin system allows the administrator and the members to easily check and see whether they are maintaining enough CPD hours to complete the required CPD activity during the year.

Newsletter / member updates

We produced 12 newsletters / updates during this last period. The newsletters are sent via email with back issues available to our members on the KA website. Whilst informing members of forthcoming seminars they have also provided a range of topical information, professional members CPD, a series of ‘how to’ videos to help members better understand their dashboard on the KA website, various kinesiology techniques and more recently dealing with the Coronavirus.

Alan Noguer Bursary

During this financial year we introduced the Alan Noguer Financial Hardship Bursary. The intention is that the Bursary will be for a student who has completed their Foundation Course but has financial difficulties affording their continuation with the Diploma Course. The award of £1250 will be paid by the KA direct to the tutor

The development of the HealthHelpers initiative was borne from our focus on public benefit.

Public Benefit

We are not just using our income to promote kinesiology we are promoting that our members, in conjunction with the Kinesiology Federation, can help people with their health issues.

Our recent Facebook posts have included posts on breathing correctly, drinking more water, ways to manage a headache rather than taking pain killers and this theme will continue with more posts. We will continue with the emphasis on advising the public how they can help themselves.

At the CarFest event in August 2024 we will be demonstrating a number of self-help techniques for the public to use.

Policy on reserves

As at the end of March 2024 our bank accounts are £84,402

Again, this year the trustees agreed to continuing our support of the training programme with the understanding that we would, if necessary, use part of our reserves to fund any desired activity. We managed to undertake all the desired activity which was mainly the production of on-line training material with -£6,776 being used from our reserves. This use of reserves is not a true reflection of our finances as there has been a shift in how we collect membership fees. See earlier notes on income

The Trustees have agreed we will continue in future years to use additional reserves to further develop our training materials.

Trustees are confident that adequate reserves are in place to support the full activities of the charity.

Gift aid

The KA is recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid and for this last financial period we received £6,640 in gift aid which compared to the previous year of £6,633.

Availability and adequacy of assets of each of the funds

The board of Trustees is satisfied that the charity’s assets in each fund are available and adequate to

fulfil its obligations in respect of each fund.

Share capital

The organisation has no share capital

Financial reporting

Now the KA is a CIO and a non-company charity, we have changed our yearly accounts to Receipt and Payment accounts.

Signed on behalf of the KA Trustees

Mr Chris Halls KA Trustee

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Kinesiology Association 299306
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 1st April 2023 31st March 2024
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Membership Donations 36,543 - - 36,543 43,637
Training materials 7,115 - - 7,115 12,658
Gift Aid 6,640 - - 6,640 6,633
KA events 9,120 - - 9,120 17,826
Donations 174 - - 174 593
Interest received 862 - - 862 150
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Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 60,454 ] - - 60,454 81,497
A2 Asset and investment sales,
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 60,454 - - 60,454 81,497
A3 Payments
Administrator fees 28,759 - - 28,759 27,942
Association cost - - - - -
Grants 478 - - 478 467
Insurances 662 - - 662 649
Marketing 4,345 - - 4,345 6,688
Meeting costs 669 - - 669 4,065
Rent 1,826 - - 1,826 1,992
Mem Man System (software) 6,897 - - 6,897 2,376
Print, Post, Stationery 193 - - 193 130
Professional cost 850 - - 850 1,310
Trustee expenses 1,209 - - 1,209 707
KA event 7,502 - - 7,502 15,045
Training 11,155 - - 11,155 20,195
Telephone etc 288 - - 288 294
Sundry Costs 1,884 - - 1,884 1,873
Sub total [ 66,717 ] - - 66,717 83,733
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
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Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 66,717 - - 66,717 83,733
Net of receipts/(payments) - 6,263 - - - 6,263 - 2,236
Balancing figure -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 90,666 - - 90,666 92,901
Cash funds this year end 84,403 - - 84,403 90,666
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Kinesiology Association On accounts for the year ended 31$1 March 2024 Charity no (If any) 299306 Set out on pages 12-13 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('the Trust") for the year ended 3110312024. Responslbilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Chartties Act 2011 {"the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts Carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have ¢ompl6ted my examination. I confirm that no material matters have ome to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me ause lo believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no Goncerns and have come across no other matters in Gonnection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Independent examiner's statement Signed: Date: 0410612024 Name.. lan Barr Relevant profossional qualificationls) or body (if any): ACMA Address: 24 Craigmore Road Rothesay, Isle of Bute PA20 9LB Section B Disclosure IER October 2018

Give hore brief detatls of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018