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YOUTH FOR CHRIST NORTH EAST

TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2022

CHARITY NUMBER 504262

YOUTH FOR CHRIST NORTH EAST

Contents
	Page
Reference and administrative details	1
Trustees' report	2 - 5
Independent examiner's report	6
Statement of financial activities	7
Balance sheet	8
Notes to the financial statements	9 - 12

YOUTH FOR CHRIST NORTH EAST

Reference and administrative details Year ended 31 July 2022

Charity number

504262

Trustees

Pastor Julian Clarke Aileen Innes Resigned 1 September 2022 Pastor Michael Duff Joel Barwick Appointed 18 May 2023 Stephen Riley Appointed 1 September 2022

Registered office and operational address

Panther House Asama Court Newcastle Business Park Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 7YD

Independent examiner

John Oswald BA FCA Stephenson Coates Audit Limited West 2, Asama Court Newcastle Business Park Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7YD

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YOUTH FOR CHRIST NORTH EAST ANNUAL TRUSTEES' REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2022

The Executive Committee present their report along with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 July 2022. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out on page 9 and comply with the charity's constitution and applicable law.

Structure

Youth for Christ North East (YFCNE) is a registered charity (no. 504262) registered on 1 June 1967 and governed by a constitution dated 12 November 2002. The address of the principal office is Youth for Christ North East, Panther House, Asama Court, Newcastle Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7YD. The names and addresses of the charity's bankers and auditors are stated on page 1. YFCNE is an affiliate member of British Youth for Christ (BYFC) and must comply with the chartering regulations adopted by BYFC.

Governance and management

The Executive Committee during the year comprised, Pastor Michael Duff, Mrs Aileen Innes and Pastor Julian Clark.

New Members of the Committee are appointed by unanimous agreement of the current members. Line Managers meet monthly with the Director and the Executive Committee meets bimonthly with the management to review policy, review performance against current goals and consider future plans. Management regarding current projects and activities makes day to day decisions but more strategic decisions relating to new projects and areas of major expenditure are taken to the Executive Committee.

As we move into the next financial year we will see Mrs Aileen Innes resign from the board and Mr Steven Riley return.

The Trustees in carrying out their respective duties have at all times paid due regard to the Charity Commission guidance on Public Benefit Requirement as laid down out in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006.

Staffing

At the end of the year (31 July 2022)

Centre director (f/t) Mr Jamie Daniels Office manager (p/t) Miss Rebecca Mayo Finance & administration (p/t) Miss Nikola Smith Youth leader (p/t) Mr Jaddai Kambeya Youth leader (p/t) Mr Shannon Sibbald Volunteer (p/t) Mr Brandon Thompson Volunteer (p/t) Mr Callum Daly

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YOUTH FOR CHRIST NORTH EAST ANNUAL TRUSTEES' REPORT (continued) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2022

Aims and objectives

Related Parties

YFCNE exists as part of British Youth for Christ (BYFC) however is totally independent with its own identity and separate strategy and stands financially detached from BYFC and is a registered charity in its own right.

Charitable Aims : Our Mission Statement is

"Taking the Good News relevantly to every young person in the North East of England"

We do this by creating and taking opportunities in the local area to embody the gospel of Jesus Christ, with and on behalf of the local church of our region, in ways that speak to and effectively engage local young people of this generation within the 8-25 age group (with a core focus on ages 11-18). By North East we include County Durham, Wearside and Teesside, but prioritise the area immediately around Tyneside and Northumberland.

To enable us to embrace our mission, the key strategic aims and objectives for the year were as follows:

Growing Leaders Resourcing Churches Equipping Schools Gathering Together

We will continue to embrace these priorities in seeking to be effective in taking good news relevantly to young people whilst also beginning to review what we do and where God is taking us through the lens of Youth for Christ's 4 D's of evangelism: Demonstration, Declaration, Decision, Disciple.

Growing leaders

One of our key objectives is to foster Christian leadership potential within young people from across the region. We continue to develop new initiatives, as well as running our existing programmes to help achieve these goals.

We run an internship programme, ‘The Big Year Out’, designed to provide an opportunity for young people to spend a year (after their A-Levels) working with us to gain valuable experience in both evangelism and outreach, as well as mentoring and development. The Big Year Out gives us the ability to provide focused development with key volunteers and interns with a view to seeing them grow in their gifting. Brandon and Calum volunteered in our 'Big Year Out Programme'.

We are currently working with Churches to help them provide strong mentoring and development to inspire the young people they work with to grow in their leadership gifting and potential. We provide training and advice to Church leaders, as well as direct mentoring for Youth workers in how to develop leadership in young people. We are doing this directly and also in partnership with The 19 Project, a local leadership development programme ran by one of our Trustees.

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YOUTH FOR CHRIST NORTH EAST ANNUAL TRUSTEES' REPORT (continued) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2022

Our staff team continue to meet regularly with a handful of young people to help encourage them in their growth. This has been highly effective, due to the relational methodology and one on one time.

Resourcing Churches

We have worked with a number of key ministry partners to help Churches reach and impact their local communities. We secured funding through Street Games to provide holiday activities to young people across the summer holidays as part of the ‘fit and fed’ initiative. Sessions involve using sport to help unpack Faith and Christian moral ethics to young people while helping families from communities with healthy food and activities. We have worked with approximately 100 young people across the city to deliver this provision.

Working with local Churches across Tyneside and Northumberland we have partnered in providing both sports and activity based groups to engage with young people from local communities.

Our team continue to speak in Church and youth group settings across the region, in multiple Churches from a plethora of different denominations.

Equipping Schools

Over the past 12 months we have seen our schools based projects increased from two (2) to three (3) schools. We have two main schools programmes that we run which are the Xcel Course and Rock Solid.

Xcel is a mentoring course for a hand picked group of students, looking at excelling in character, emotions and lifestyle. We currently run Xcel in 3 schools across the region.

We run ten sessions per week across three schools.

Gathering Together

We had four gatherings throughout the year. At which we gathered about 600 young people over those events from a broad range of denominations and churches.

Our main aim is "seeing young people's lives changed by Jesus" and this flows through all of the work that we do. We are seeing young people engaging with the Christian message, responding to the Gospel and growing in faith and this is happening in all our objectives.

If you’d like further information of all the work we do please go to www.northeastyfc.co.uk.

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Finance

We have continued to stream line our finances and have seen significant improvement in this area. With an increase in our schools engagement, coupled with our regular supporters and Church donors we have had managed through the year. We are currently building a new forward budgeting system to help with our cash flow moving forward.

General

Jamie Daniels, Director of NEYFC resigned on 30 June 2022. The trustees have appointed Julian Clark as stand in Director in the interim until they decide on what to do next.

SIGNED

POSITION Chair of Trustees DATE 14 September 2023

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Youth for Christ North East

I report to the Trustees on my examination of the financial statements of the Youth for Christ North East for the year ended 31 July 2022, which are set out on pages 7 to 12.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011(‘the Act’). You consider that the audit requirements of section 144 of the 2011 Act do not apply and that an independent examination is required.

Having satisfied myself that the financial statements are not required to be audited, I report in respect of my examination of the financial statements carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

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 that in any material respect:

(1) accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

(2) the financial statements do not accord with those records; or

(3) the financial statements do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 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.

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.

John Oswald BA FCA

Stephenson Coates Audit Limited

Chartered Accountants West 2, Asama Court Newcastle Business Park Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 7YD

Date

14 September 2023

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Statement of financial activities (Incorporating Income and Expenditure Account) Year ended 31 July 2022

Note Analysis of Income Donations and legacies Charitable activities Other trading activities Income from investments Total income Analysis of expenditure Raising funds Charitable activities Independent examiner's fee Loan interest Office costs Support staff costs 2 Total expenditure Net income/(expenditure Transfers between funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total funds 2022 2022 2022 £ £ £ 57,595 10,476 68,071 29,227 - 29,227 - - - - - - 86,822 10,476 97,298 - - - 13,480 - 13,480 900 - 900 406 - 406 14,458 - 14,458 85,397 - 85,397 114,641 - 114,641 (27,819) 10,476 (17,343) 3,659 (3,659) - (8,338) - (8,338) (32,498) 6,817 (25,681)	Total funds 2021 £ 54,900 25,097 - - 79,997 - 18,208 900 - 5,716 72,918 97,742 (17,745) - 9,407 (8,338)

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Balance sheet As at 31 July 2022

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Note 31 July 2022 31 July 2021
£ £ £ £
Fixed Assets
Tangible assets 3 313 1,166
Current Assets
Debtors 4 989 -
Cash at bank & in hand 6,123 19,358
7,112 19,358
Creditors: due within one year 5 7,302 3,298
Net current assets (190) 16,060
Creditors: due after one year 6 (25,804) (25,564)
Net Assets (25,681) (8,338)
Funds
Unrestricted ` (32,498) (8,338)
Restricted 6,817 -
(25,681) (8,338)
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These accounts were approved by the trustees on 14 September 2023 and were signed on their behalf by:

Chair

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Notes to the financial statements

for the year ended 31 July 2022

1 Accounting policies

Basis of preparation

The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.

Going concern

The Trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future. Trustees have subsequently reduced support costs whilst mainiting income levels to rectify the deficiency in funds. Accordingly, the financial statements are prepared on the going concern basis.

Income

Donations are generally accounted for when received by the Trust, including provision for any gift aid recoverable. Income from functions and projects is recognised as earned. Investment income is recognised on a receivable basis.

Voluntary assistance

Time is expended on the Charity’s activities and governance which is donated free of charge. It is impractical to quantify the value of the time given, and accordingly it is neither recorded as donated income nor as an expense in the financial statements.

Taxation

As a registered Charity, the Trust is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax, but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.

Restricted income

Donations and legacies for specific purposes are credited to restricted funds and expenditure for these purposes is charged to the funds.

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Notes to the financial statements (continued) for the year ended 31 July 2022

1 Accounting policies (continued) Fixed assets

Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation for motor vehicles is provided at 20% on a straight line basis. All other depreciation is provided at 25% on a straight line basis in order to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its estimated useful life.

2 Staff costs and Trustees remuneration

Salaries Employers national insurance Employers pension contributions	2022 £ 78,988 5,219 1,190 85,397	2021 £ 67,536 4,171 1,211 72,918

No employee received remuneration in excess of £60,000.

No trustee received any remuneration or re-imbursement of expenses.

3 Tangible fixed assets

Cost At 1 August 2021 Additions Disposals At 31 July 2022 Depreciation At 1 August 2021 Charge for year Disposals At 31 July 2022 Net Book Value At 31 July 2022 At 31 July 2021	Computer equipment Motor vehicles Resource equipment Office furniture & equipment 4,668 - 5,182 5,044 - - - 420 - - - - 4,668 - 5,182 5,464 3,519 - 5,182 5,027 1,149 - - 124 - - - 4,668 - 5,182 5,151 - - - 313 1,149 - - 17	Total 14,894 420 - 15,314 13,728 1,273 - 15,001 313 1,166

Fixed assets are held for charitable purposes.

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Notes to the financial statements (continued) for the year ended 31 July 2022

4 Debtors

Trade debtors Prepayments 5 Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year Bank loans Creditors Social security and taxation Accruals Other creditors 6 Creditors: Amounts falling due after one year Bank loans Loans are repayable within 10 years.	2022 £ 989 - 989 2022 £ - 774 5,611 800 117 7,302 2022 £ 25,804	2021 £ - - - 2021 £ 436 - 751 1,800 311 3,298 2021 £ 25,564

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Notes to the financial statements (continued) for the year ended 31 July 2022

7 Statement of funds

Restricted funds

Street Games Heatwave	Balance at 31 July 2021 - - Balance at 31 July 2020 - -	Income 10,476 10,476 Income 20,596 20,596	Expended (3,659) (3,659) Expended (20,596) (20,596)	Balance at 31 July 2022 6,817 6,817 Balance at 31 July 2021 - -

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Authorisation Sheet

Signed by: Julian Clark

Company: YOUTH FOR CHRIST Email: [e-mail] Date: 14 Sep 2023 13:48:06 IP Address: 90.214.238.20

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