## Registered Charity No 306084
## **ANNUAL REPORT 2021/22**
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# **Nautical Training Corps Annual Report 1[st] May 2021– 30[th] April 2022**
**Registered Charity 306084**
**Information correct at 30[th] April 2022 Please contact** natsec@ntc.org.uk **for current details (Contact details as per correspondence address on page 3).**
## **Contents Reference and Administrative Status**
**Reference and Administrative Status** page 3 Corps’ charity number page 1 Corps’ contact details page 3
## **Trustees’ (National Council) Reports**
Objectives, Policies and Activities Structure, Governance and Management Current Priorities Partner Organisations Investments and Reserves Trustees’ Responsibilities for the accounts Risk Factors
page 4 page 4 page 5 page 5 page 5 page 6 page 6
## **Corps Reports**
Chair Treasurer and Accounts Chief of Staff Safeguarding Report Ships of the Corps contact details
page 8 page 9 - 14 page 15 page 16 page 17
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## **Reference and Administrative Status**
The Nautical Training Corps is an independent unincorporated charity, Registered Charity Number 306084.
## **National Headquarters and Correspondence National Headquarters:**
72 Wick Farm Road, Littlehampton, West Sussex, BN17 7HG
## **Correspondence Address:**
Mrs C Waller, 15 Emberwood, Maiden Lane, Langley Green, Crawley, West Sussex, RH11 7QT Email: natsec@ntc.org.uk
## **Website**
**Patron**
www.ntc.org.uk Rear Admiral R John Lippiett CB CBE
## **President**
Vacant
**Corps Commodore** Vacant
## **Chair**
Mrs Claire Wilkins
## **Corps Chaplain**
Reverend Phil Hiscock
## **National Council Members and TRUSTEES as at 30.4.2022**
Chair - Mrs Claire Wilkins - Reverend - Phil Hiscock Captain Chris Clayton – Chief of Staff Commander Christine Waller - National Secretary
## **Independent Examiner**
Mrs Sam Heard
**Solicitor** None appointed
## **Bankers**
CAF Natwest HSBC Lloyds Santander
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## **TRUSTEES REPORT**
The National Council present the Charity Annual Report and Accounts for 2021/2022. The Reference and Administrative Information, Corps and Treasurer’s Reports and the Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities form part of the Annual Report, which complies with the Charity’s Constitution, the Charities Acts 1993 and 2006 and the Statement of Recommended Practice – Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005).
## **OBJECTIVES, POLICIES AND ACTIVITIES**
The Charity’s objects are, as formally set out in the Constitution at Chapter 1 of the Corps’ Rules and Regulations, to promote the development of young persons in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential, particularly by education in the history and practice of seamanship and seafaring.
Our young people enrol as uniformed cadets and have the opportunity to become instructors from age 16 and progress to officer status. They are encouraged to develop self-confidence and a sense of selfworth through a nautically based structured training programme and a wide range of experiences and activities. Activities include sailing, canoeing, sports, climbing, marching band and shooting, and are available at the Corps’ local Units, its two national activity centres and other organisations’ facilities. Many Units offer their cadets the opportunity to take part in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. Safety and safeguarding are paramount.
The Corps has no paid staff, all instruction being provided by unpaid but trained and vetted volunteers, front line local Units rely heavily on volunteers for help with fund-raising, charity management, premises maintenance and assistance at deck nights and outside events and activities.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
The Nautical Training Corps is a uniformed youth organisation with currently 13 local Units, or Training Ships, in southeast England. Formed in 1944, its National Headquarters (NHQ) moved during the year to a long term leased property 72 Wick Farm Road in Littlehampton which had previously been a local unit’s headquarters and continues to be the National Resource Centre.
The Charity is unincorporated. The Charity and its property are administered and managed by its National Council, whose members are also the Charity’s Trustees. They form a team of elected officers, ex-officio officers and elected lay members; elected members are elected and retire at Annual General Meetings or after laid down periods; and may submit themselves for re-election. Vacancies arising during the year are filled by co-option as suitable candidates become available. Ex-officio officers are drawn from the uniformed Corps and based on the position held.
At the end of the financial year the National Council comprised of 8 people (with vacancies for lay members), all have specific areas of responsibility in addition to those of National Council membership and trusteeship generally. The Charity’s main officers are the Chairman, Commodore, Vice Commodore and Chief of Staff, Corps Chaplain General, National Secretary and Treasurer. The National Council formally meets bi-monthly, its members keeping in contact with each other and the Corps at large as necessary in between meetings. Decisions are made by consensus or on a majority vote.
Operational and training matters are under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, who is responsible to the National Council for the day to day running of the Corps. Three Regional Commanders and NHQ staff with specific responsibilities support the Chief of Staff. Each Regional Commander oversees the activities of three to six Units of the Corps.
Each Unit is run day to day by a uniformed training staff headed by a Commanding Officer, with local fundraising and trusteeship functions dealt with by a committee comprising uniformed and lay members. Units are not independent charities but branches of the national Charity, their committees being technically sub-committees of the National Council, which delegates defined authority and responsibilities while remaining ultimately responsible as trustees for all Corps assets. In effect, National Council maintains the organisation’s charitable, financial and legal framework, relieving ships of most such matters and leaving them free so far as possible to concentrate on cadet activities and
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fundraising. The Charity has revised its arrangements for local financial management to ensure a clear scheme of financial delegation and accountability, including local responsibilities for the custody and control of Corps assets and delegation of expenditure to levels appropriate to the amounts involved and circumstances.
The Trustees at the close of the year, 30[th] April 2022, are shown at page 3.
## **CURRENT PRIORITIES**
1. Focusing on PR and Recruitment
2. Retaining current staff and cadets
3. Safeguarding
## **PARTNER ORGANISATIONS**
The Corps’ partner organisations include:
- Maritime Volunteer Service
- Royal Yachting Association
- Volunteer Action groups across the South of England
- Numerous like-minded and enabling organisations with which we co-operate at local level eg local authorities, schools
## **SUPPORTERS**
The Corps’ received much appreciated funding for training from the Foyle Foundation.
## **INVESTMENTS AND RESERVES**
The Charity’s principal assets are its leasehold properties, its boating, band and other equipment, vehicles and its bank balances. These are held to provide premises and equipment for Corps activities and to fund those activities.
It is the National Council’s policy to regard funds raised by an individual Unit as being at the disposal of the Unit, subject to National Council’s trustee responsibilities to ensure the proper usage of resources. These designated funds are shown on the annexed part of the Corps’ accounts. Items that are specifically held for a certain use, such as grants and funds raised for a project are shown in the accounts as Restricted.
The National Council aims to establish and maintain Corps’ reserves at a level sufficient for the Charity’s operations. Normal fundraising, donation and subscription income finances its day-to-day activities. Capital acquisitions and other major expenditure being funded by legacies and appeals.
The National Council is empowered to invest the Charity’s funds as it sees fit.
## **TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE ACCOUNTS**
Charity law requires the National Council, as Trustees of the charity, to prepare accounts for each financial year that give a true and fair view of the charity’s financial position at the end of the financial year and of its financial activities during the year. In doing so the Trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
- prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business
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The Trustees are responsible for:
- keeping proper accounting records, which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity at anytime, and which enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Charities Act 1993
- safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **RISK FACTORS**
The Corps continues to maintain standards in areas such as financial reporting, safeguarding and safety. We continue to examine the risk factors affecting the Corps on at least an annual basis at our Trustees Strategy Day, and as needed through general meetings and any special meetings required. Some of these risks are:
1. Relevant training for both adults and cadets
2. Quality of our volunteers
3. Ensuring we provide safe environment
4. Financial controls
__________________________________________________ _________________ Trustees(at least 2) On Behalf of the National Council Date
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## **CORPS REPORTS**
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**National Council Chair** – Annual Report 2021/2022
Mrs Claire Wilkins
Well, what an exciting year! All units reopened, cadet numbers up, Lion revived, a new activity centre and a new unit.
Due to all your hard work, our Corps has started to grow again. A sincere thank you to you all for all your time and patience.
It has been nice to see our units have been busy with trips, camps, band and interesting deck nights. It was also good to see so many of you at Founder’s Day. I may not have been there in body but my daughter “face timed” it for me. The wonder of technology!
Many of you completed training, enabling us to offer a better experience to our cadets by providing a stable foundation from Officer training and more opportunities from your Rifle Instructors training. Well done all.
I apologise for not being around much this year but I have been kept up to date and the last couple of months I have been back firing on all 4 cylinders. I will be out and about next year at last and aim to visit you all.
The future is brighter, our Corps is coming along in leaps and bounds and we are becoming great again.
Keep up the good work!
Claire
Mrs Claire Wilkins
Corps Chair
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## **National Council Treasurer -** Annual Report 2021/2022
Sarah Ashley
I would like to take this opportunity to reflect upon the illustrious reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. It was good to see the Nautical Training Corps present on the balcony at the Brighton Pavilion for the Lord Mayor and Lord Lieutenants proclamation to His Majesty the King.
After the previous years of Covid restrictions, the Corps was back to business as usual in 21/22. Fundraising, band engagement income and deck night subscriptions all returned, increasing individual units’ income 12-fold over 20/21. At a national level, grants were received from the Foyle Foundation and the Coop. These funds provided training to enable 6 of our volunteers to qualify in first aid and 22 in rifle shooting. They also paid for the annual online Child Protection training for every adult in the Corps. Grant income throughout the Corps was down £27k from the previous year. This is because the previous year’s grant income was unusually high due to Local Authority Covid support. BBC Children in Need provided the Corps with £25k to purchase three much needed minibuses. Having a central pool minibus for unit hire will save the units expensive vehicle costs and enable cadets to take part in activities where transport to the event might not have been available otherwise.
The majority of units expenditure exceeded their income. This is mainly due to accommodation costs which account for 20% of the Corps expenditure and need to be reduced. Overall, the Corps cash funds have decreased by £15k in the year 21/22. In line with the cost-of-living crisis being experienced by the whole of the country; energy and other costs are likely to increase further in the year 22/23. It is essential that units increase their cadet numbers and proactively fundraise as well as reduce their expenditure wherever possible. I am confident that the Corps can do this, and our funds will increase in 22/23. It was a pleasure attending Founders Day and meeting some of you and I hope to see more of you in the coming year.
Many thanks to all of the organisations who contributed to the Corps in the past year for their donations and grants. You enable our volunteers to provide fun, safe activities for our cadets.
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**Statement of Designated Funds by Unit 30th April 2022**
|**Income**|**Defiance **|**Fortitude **|**Implacable **|**Indomitable**|**Intrepid**|**Montrose**|**Nautilus **|**Resolution**|**Sturdy**|**Swiftsure**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Subscriptons
Uniform Hire
Donations
Grants
Interest
Gift Aid
Cadet Activities
Fundraising
Accommodation Income
Transport Income
Sale of Equipt
Adult Training
Stationery Income
Other||1,157
2,930
1
150
513|1,000
465
1
105
300|345
873
6
30|825
320
2
262
50|700
200
1,100
1,342
100|126
10
350
14|3,271
140
12
1,359
36
1,200
150|180
863
500
2,339|871
75
90
5,034
3,400|
|**Total Income**|**0**|**4,751**|**1,871**|**1,254**|**1,459**|**3,442**|**500**|**6,167**|**3,882**|**9,470**|
||941
173|1,133
873
176
1,423
535
389
70
55|330
1,009
87
988
3,166
1,203
960|941
611
1,666
35
220|1,181
366
1,351
707
465
53|845
911
56
930
1,557
541
100|10
13
1,792
345|1,591
66
1,904
7,725
260|4
65
506
1,056
50
150
115|1,181
192
2,465
1,521
50|
|**Expenditure**|||||||||||
|National Levy
Subscriptions
Public Liability Insurance
Insurance
Donations made
Bank Charges
Cadet Activities
Fundraising
Accommodation Costs
Transport Costs
Purchase of Equipt
Adult Training
Communication Costs
Accountancy
Other|||||||||||
|**Total Expenditure**|**1,114**|**4,654**|**7,743**|**3,472**|**4,123**|**4,940**|**2,159**|**11,546**|**1,946**|**5,408**|
||||||||||||
|Brought Forward from 2020/21 cash|**193**|**145**|**0**|**0**|**20**|**0**|**0**|**289**|**44**|**100**|
|Brought Forward from 2020/21 bank|**7,342**|**8,074**|**10,797**|**40,652**|**14,768**|**4,687**|**15,828**|**6,487**|**479**|**19,396**|
|**Total Brought Forward from 2020/21**|**7,535**|**8,219**|**10,797**|**40,652**|**14,788**|**4,687**|**15,828**|**6,776**|**522**|**19,496**|
|Plus Income 2021/22|**0**|**4,751**|**1,871**|**1,254**|**1,459**|**3,442**|**500**|**6,167**|**3,882**|**9,470**|
|Less Expenditure 2021/22|**1,114**|**4,654**|**7,743**|**3,472**|**4,123**|**4,940**|**2,159**|**11,546**|**1,946**|**5,408**|
|**Amount to Carry Forward to 2022/23**|**6,421**|**8,316**|**4,925**|**38,434**|**12,125**|**3,189**|**14,169**|**1,397**|**2,458**|**23,558**|
Restricted Funds :- Indomitable Capital Building £34,845 and NHQ Training £6,023
All other restricted funds received either prior to or during this financial year have been spent under the relevant restrictions.
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## **Statement of Designated Funds by Unit 30th April 2022**
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Income Tenacity Valiant Zealous Eastern Southern Northern Attentive Lion NHQ Total Corps
Subscriptons 3,427 1,703 882 10,245 24,731
Uniform Hire 590 1,270
Donations 1,844 160 1,000 2,007 10,220
Grants 1,000 500 8,000 32,606 44,565
Interest 1 1 4 0 12 30
Gift Aid 0
Cadet Activities 2,635 948 129 355 560 785 7,926
Fundraising 2,401 568 1,836 12,741
Accommodation Income 30 1,054 60 2,694
Transport Income 36 136
Sale of Equipt 10 210 300 5,684 9,754
Adult Training 425 725
Stationery Income 0
Other 534 6 232 786
Total Income 11,318 4,505 9,788 6 355 0 0 2,914 53,893 115,576
Expenditure
National Levy 1,061 1,061 1,061 9,401
Subscriptions 336 666
Public Liability Insurance 13,068 13,068
Insurance 0
Donations made 33 50 500 583
Bank Charges 20 15 96 96 231
Cadet Activities 1,572 1,104 394 49 936 2,105 11,787
Fundraising 1,039 202 123 2,936 7,670
Accommodation Costs 2,634 525 1,544 65 4,697 4,198 26,468
Transport Costs 244 2,690 911 9,810
Purchase of Equipt 632 428 1,623 2,000 29,538 44,937
Adult Training 100 138 150 1,847 3,790
Communication Costs 39 95 30 9 643 237 1,124
Accountancy 0
Other 273 6 232 1,970 2,923
Total Expenditure 7,354 3,602 7,889 149 936 0 247 7,772 57,407 132,460
Brought Forward from 2020/21 cash 0 0 77 0 0 0 229 0 30 1,127
Brought Forward from 2020/21 bank 4,668 7,144 21,935 3,852 2,624 503 18 5,985 86,144 261,381
Total Brought Forward from 2020/21 4,668 7,144 22,012 3,852 2,624 503 247 5,985 86,174 262,508
Plus Income 2021/22 11,318 4,505 9,788 6 355 0 0 2,914 53,893 115,576
Less Expenditure 2021/22 7,354 3,602 7,889 149 936 0 247 7,772 57,407 132,460
Amount to Carry Forward to 2022/23 8,632 8,047 23,912 3,709 2,044 503 0 1,127 82,659 245,624
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Restricted Funds :- Indomitable Capital Building £34,845 and NHQ Training £6,023 All other restricted funds received either prior to or during this financial year have been spent under the relevant restrictions.
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**Nautical Training Corps**
**No (if any) 306084 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a**
|**For the period**
**from**|**01/05/2021**|**To**|**30/04/2022**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**105,515**
**1,463**
**2,685**
**64**
**2,977**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**112,703**
**489**
**-**
**489**
**113,191**
**125**
**52,433**
**115**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**52,673**
**3,566**
**3,566**
**56,239**
**56,952**
**-**
**206,132**
**263,084**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|||
|Grants,Donations and Subs|**44,999**||**34,516**||**-**||**79,515**||**105,515**|
|Fundraising|**12,741**||**-**||**-**||**12,741**||**1,463**|
|Cadet Activities|**12,751**||**-**||**-**||**12,751**||**2,685**|
|Investment|**30**||**-**||**-**||**30**||**64**|
|Gift Aid etc|**786**||**-**||**-**||**786**||**2,977**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**71,307**||**34,516**||**-**||**105,823**||**112,703**|
||
**9,754**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**9,754**
**-**|||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
|Sale of Assets|**9,754**||**-**||**-**||**9,754**||**489**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**9,754**||**-**||**-**||**9,754**||**489**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||**81,060**||**34,516**||**-**||**115,576**||**113,191**|
|||||||||||
|Fundraising|**7,670**||**-**||**-**||**7,670**||**125**|
|RunningCosts(incudes Cadet Activities)|**76,092**||**4,465**||**-**||**80,557**||**52,433**|
|Professional Services|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**115**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**83,762**||**4,465**||**-**||**88,227**||**52,673**|
||**19,937**
**-**||**25,000**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**44,937**
**-**|||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|Purchase of Assets|**19,937**||**25,000**||**-**||**44,937**||**3,566**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**19,937**||**25,000**||**-**||**44,937**||**3,566**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||**103,700**||**29,465**||**-**||**133,165**||**56,239**|
||**- 22,639**||**5,051**||**-**||**- 17,588**|||
||**- 22,639**||**5,051**||**-**||**- 17,588**||**56,952**|
||**-**|
|**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**227,379**||**35,705**||**-**||**263,084**||**206,132**|
||**204,740**||**40,756**||**-**||**245,496**||**263,084**|
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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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Bank||**203,794**||**40,756**||**-**|
||Cash in Hand||**946**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**||**204,740**||**40,756**||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||Signature||Print Name|||||
||||||||Date of
approval|
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## **NAUTICAL TRAINING CORPS**
## **ANNUAL REPORT and ACCOUNTS 2021/22:**
## **TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE ACCOUNTS**
Charity law requires the National Council, as Trustees of the Charity, to prepare accounts for each financial year that give a true and fair view of the Charity’s financial position at the end of the financial year and of its financial activities during the year. In doing so the Trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for:
- keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the Charity at any time and which enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Charities Act 1993;
- safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE NAUTICAL TRAINING CORPS**
## **YEAR ENDED 30 April 2022**
I report on the attached unaudited accounts of the Charity for the year ended 30 April 2022.
## **RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TRUSTEES AND THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER**
As the Charity’s Trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 does not apply as gross income does not exceed £250,000 and the accounts are prepared on the receipts and payments basis. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of the procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section 145(5)(b) of the Act, whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **BASIS OF INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An independent examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as Trustees concerning such matters.
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S STATEMENT**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 130 of the Act; and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the Act, have not been met.
I confirm that I am a person Independent of the Charity and its Trustees. I have experience/qualifications as follows …ACCA affiliate and 3 years in an Accountant role.
I do not have any close relationships with any of the Charity’s Trustees and I do not have any influence or dealings with the day to day finances, but do have a reasonable understanding of the Corps.
…………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………… Name Samantha Heard Date 12/12/2022 Address 25 Green Vale, Bexleyheath, Kent. DA6 8JT
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## **Chief of Staff Report** – Annual Report 2021/2022
Captain Chris Clayton
Wow, what a year it has been. Looking back, I realise as an Organisation we have moved forward too much in the last year.
At the last year’s AGM, I gave you all a document with the National Operations Committee focuses for the 2022 year and I am pleased to say we have certainly achieved several the focuses with some needing to be carried over to 2023.
We had an extremely successful launch of a new unit in T.S Ranger N.T.C. The unit is thriving, and I look forward to opening 1 possibly 2 new units in 2023.
Cadet and Adult numbers are up across the Corps which is amazing. Even without the launch of T.S Ranger cadet numbers have increased.
NSTC Lion will be back operational very soon which is fantastic. Some fantastic courses are being planned as this report is launched.
We offered training courses throughout the year and have newly qualified Rifle Shooting, Archery and First Aid instructors in the Corps
There are still lots we need to improve and work on but please be assured the organisation is heading in the right direction and in safe hands.
I look forward to sharing more with you at the AGM.
As always thank you to you all for your continued support this organisation continues to develop because of its amazing people.
Captain Chris Clayton
Chief of Staff
Nautical Training Corps
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## **SAFEGUARDING Report to AGM 2022**
It is the **policy** of the Nautical Training Corps (NTC) to safeguard children and young people taking part from physical, sexual, or emotional harm. The NTC will take all reasonable steps to ensure that, through appropriate procedures and training, children participating in NTC activities do so in a safe environment. We recognise that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount and that all children, irrespective of sex, age, disability, race, religion or belief, sexual identity, or social status, have a right to protection from abuse.
## **The policy also applies to vulnerable adults.**
**This policy relates to all** employees, contractors and volunteers who work with children or vulnerable adults during their NTC duties whether at unit level or departmental/national level.
This policy is kept under **periodic review** . The 2022 Review is completed.
**A Corps Safeguarding Team** is appointed. Currently it comprises two Regional Safeguarding Officers and a National Council Safeguarding Lead.
## **The NTC actively seeks to** :
- Create a safe and welcoming environment where children can have fun and develop their skills and confidence and promotes and supports their mental well-being.
- Recognise that safeguarding children is the responsibility of everyone, not just those who work with children.
- Ensure that NTC-organised training and events are run to the highest possible safety standards.
- Be prepared to review its ways of working to incorporate best practice.
## **We will** :
- Treat all children with respect and celebrate their achievements.
- Carefully recruit and select all employees, contractors, and volunteers.
- Respond swiftly and appropriately to all complaints and concerns about poor practice or suspected or actual child abuse.
- Each Unit has a nominated Unit Welfare Officer appointed, for some units this is the Commanding Officer, others have another officer nominated.
- The Safeguarding Team provides for a 24/7 cover. A single telephone number provides for emergency contact.
**Basic Safeguarding Course.** A mandatory course is provided for all newly appointed staff and regular updating encouraged.
When DBS renewal is due an updating Safeguarding Course should be undertaken.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and the thanks of Corps to each member for their vigilance
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## **UNITS OF THE CORPS**
## **Locations and Contacts as at 30[th] April 2022**
## **Northern Region**
Regional Commander: Cdr Dennis Deering northern@ntc.org.uk
Units:
New Addington TS Defiance defiance@ntc.org.uk Copthorne TS Swiftsure swiftsure@ntc.org.uk East Grinstead TS Resolution resolution@ntc.org.uk
## **Southern Region**
Regional Commander: Paul Nicholls southern@ntc.org.uk
Units:
Chichester TS Sturdy sturdy@ntc.org.uk Lancing TS Intrepid intrepid@ntc.org.uk Littlehampton TS Implacable implacable@ntc.org.uk Rose Green, Bognor Regis TS Montrose montrose@ntc.org.uk Portchester TS Tenacity tenacity@ntc.org.uk
## **Eastern Region**
Regional Commander: Cdr Dennis Deering eastern@ntc.org.uk
Units:
Brighton - Hollingbury TS Zealous zealous@ntc.org.uk - Kemp Town TS Nautilus nautilus@ntc.org.uk - Woodingdean TS Valiant valiant@ntc.org.uk Hastings - St Leonards on Sea TS Fortitude fortitude@ntc.org.uk Burgess Hill TS Indomitable indomitable@ntc.org.uk
## **National Boating Centres**
National Sail Training Centre Lion (Portsmouth, Hampshire) lion@ntc.org.uk
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