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Salford CVS Making a difference in Salford Annual Report For the year ending 31st March 2024 Beih Itlsgired

Contents

Introduction Alison Page, Chief Executive

A Year in the Life of Salford CVS

Foreword Grace Dyke, Chair

Legal and Administrative Information

Our Strategic Priorities

NAVCA Core Functions of Infrastructure

Looking Back, Moving Forward - Plans for 2024/25

Policies

Structure, Governance and Management

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Financial Review

Funds Held as Custodian

Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

Report of the Independent Auditors to the Trustees of Salford CVS

Statement of Financial Activities

Balance Sheet

Cash Flow Statement

Notes forming part of the Financial Statements

Organisational Information

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Introduction - Alison Page, Chief Executive

Being Inspired

When you’ve been in a job a fair while, in my experience you need to be

regularly inspired in order to be able to keep on doing what I call the ‘hard and boring stuff…’

It’s not surprising I’ve been in a reflective mood whilst writing this introduction – winter 2023 was notable for many things, including my 60th birthday… and Spring 2024 marked my 11th completed year as the Chief Executive of Salford CVS.

What keeps me in this job is the need to (a) make a difference (no wonder that became the Salford CVS strapline when I came into post); and (b) to feel inspired , at least some of the time.

So I’m pleased to report that there is much to read in this report that I feel is both impactful and inspiring – I hope you do too.

Please have a read (with a cuppa) of this annual report when you get chance – we’ve printed a few copies and it’s available on our website too, along with all of our other recent reports. In fact, please do take a look at our website in any event – www.salfordcvs.co.uk - it’s recently had a refresh!

In this annual report you’ll read about our work as the local infrastructure organisation (LIO) for Salford – organised in four chapters (the NAVCA core functions of local infrastructure). NAVCA are our national membership body.

You’ll also get a flavour of all the work we’ve been doing with other LIO partners across Greater Manchester , particularly via 10GM Ltd , the social enterprise, guided by cooperative principles, that we ‘co-own’ alongside Action Together (Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside), Bolton CVS, and Macc (Manchester).

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I t’s been a tumultuous year, internationally, nationally, and locally –

And, as ever, communities are picking up the pieces.

During the past 12 months, much of the VCSE sector (voluntary organisations, community groups, charities, the community work of faith organisations, social enterprises) – broad as it is – has experienced what it always does – the need to manage often

increasing and more complex demand alongside a lack of recognition and scarcity of funding (the two usually go together).

For anyone who is about to tell me I shouldn’t be ‘too political’, I say this… the personal is political , and it’s not possible for anyone running a charity such as ours to refrain from having an opinion. I’ve been here in Salford too long and am too old not to speak up !

On that note, happy reading…

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Timeline of events A Year in the Life of Salford CVS… some highlights from 2023/24 April

We started the year by organising visits for Cllr Sharmina August and Rebecca Long-Bailey MP to Salford’s Women’s Refuges, run by Salford Women’s Aid. We joined them in meeting some of the women currently housed there, hearing first-hand about the impact of this work.

We secured UK Shared Prosperity Fund E11 funding, aimed at supporting local infrastructure organisations, such as Salford CVS, across Greater Manchester

We organised a big Essential Information Day, in person, where VCSE groups and organisations could drop in to discuss the A-Z of the support we provide, from advice on legal structures to information about our Wellbeing Matters social prescribing partnership programme

May

Spring 2023 saw us work to revitalise our Salford4Good fundraising arm, with some key external events including a high profile Art Battle fundraiser at Media City, where we raised much-need funds to redistribute to our sector

We took part in the Yemeni Community Association’s cultural day event in Eccles, learning more about what they offer in the local community

We held a range of our quarterly Vocal VCSE Forums, including two practitioner forums – Environment and Volunteer Coordinators

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June

We were excited to join with other anchor organisations in organising We Invented the Weekend, Salford’s new fabulous festival of free time – recruiting, training and supporting volunteers at the two day event in MediaCity

We attended the launch of the new Local Anchors Network at The Lowry Theatre – led by local social enterprise Unlimited Potential - part of the city’s work around creating a more inclusive economy

This was a busy month, featuring lots of events, and we were pleased to take part in the Salford Business Awards and The Pink Picnic event

July

We attended the Living Wage Foundation’s annual awards, this year held at the National Football Museum in Manchester. Salford CVS is proud to have been an accredited Living Wage Employer since 2013 and a recognised Living Wage Funder since 2018.

We organised a world café conversation event at Buile Hill on the topic ‘Access to Primary Care’, to explore barriers and come up with solutions as to how VCSE and primary care colleagues could work together effectively in order to support local people to access timely and appropriate support

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August

We were pleased to take our Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation colleagues out and about in Salford to visit some of the VCSE core partners from our VCSE Learning, Skills and Work partnership – we visited The Broughton Trust, The Shed (Salford Foundation) and Salford Loaves and Fishes

As part of our role in Greater Manchester’s VCSE Leadership Group, we helped organise a small round table event between VCSE Leaders and NHS GM Integrated Care, meeting with senior colleagues including Sir Richard Leese and Mark Fisher – resulting in a renewed commitment to The Compact (national agreement) and the GM VCSE Accord

September

Every year, on 10th September, organisations around the world get together to raise awareness about suicide prevention. In Salford, local charity START organise an annual Reach Out: Start to End Suicide procession and vigil, which this year our CEO was very proud to be asked to host.

Our annual Seldom Heard young people event, with a range of young people sourced via VCSE groups and organisations and city leaders, took place at Pendelton Gateway. The themes were mental health and safety in public places. We were pleased to once again work with young leaders from Salford Youth Council to organise and co-host.

We organised a large grants celebration and learning event, focused on the impact of our Third Sector Fund. The event was held at The Lowry (a registered charity), and featured a range of keynote speakers and some fantastic stories of how our grants make a difference to the people and communities of Salford.

We helped organise and participated in our annual 10GM partnership and collaboration networking day, with over 100 staff coming together from Salford CVS, Bolton CVS, Action Together and Macc at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester (birthplace of the Trades Union Congress).

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October

October was a busy month for events, with us taking the stage to present the impact of our grants programme and personal recovery support fund work at the Achieve BST (Bolton, Salford, Trafford) drug and alcohol recovery partnership event, led by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH)

As partners in the Salford Living Well community mental health service (delivered in partnership between GMMH, START, Six Degrees, Mind in Salford, Salford CVS and Wellbeing Matters) we were pleased to help run a big event at Buile Hill Park Hall

The highlight of our October was once again organising and delivering a fabulously impactful Annual VCSE conference on the theme of Justice for Disabled People

November

In November Salford CVS was very proud to become accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as a Living Hours Employer

We held an event at The Lowry for our Wishing Tree Seeds of Change project, delivered by Salford CVS with The Lowry as part of the Salford Family Hub partnership. The project sought to connect with children, young people and families across Salford by providing a creative consultative mechanism for them to shape services within the Family Hubs.

This year we held our 50th Annual General Meeting since we became Salford CVS in 1973 (after Manchester and Salford Council for Social Service amicably split to become Manchester CVS and Salford CVS). We had a great turnout from our members, as always, and ended the night with our ever-popular ‘Pitch in Sixty Seconds’ activity, with three organisations sharing a prize totalling £1,750.

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December

It was fabulous to once again hold our in-person Heart of Salford event – we’d had a gap during the COVID years, finding alternative ways to celebrate volunteering and voluntary action. A highlight in our calendar, this year we went back to our roots by holding the event at Buile Hill Park Hall.

We were pleased to be joined by shortlisted stars from the world of volunteering and voluntary action, alongside guests including Paul Dennett, our Salford City Mayor; Cllr Gina Reynolds, Ceremonial Mayor; Paaniz Afrang, Salford’s Youth Mayor and Tom Stannard, Chief Executive of Salford City Council.

Salford Social Enterprise City, which Salford CVS co-facilitate alongside the Business Group Salford , held their annual Festive Sup event at the New Oxford in Bexley Square. It was a chance to socialise for local emerging and established social enterprises, and to pitch for small investment; with those attending voting (but not for their own initiative).

The calendar year ended with us organising a Vocal VCSE Leaders networking event and festive lunch – a much-needed chance for frontline VCSE Chief Executives to get together!

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January saw our Chief Executive attend the annual Salford Holocaust Memorial event, where she once again lit a candle on behalf of the lesbian and gay community

The weather was challenging on the day of our aptly named Answer Cancer ‘winter warmer’ cancer champions event, but that didn’t stop us celebrating the fantastic work of our volunteer champions from across a wide array of communities of geography, identity and experience in Greater Manchester

One of the roles Salford CVS plays in Salford and Greater Manchester is as a partner in civil contingencies work. This month saw us deliver Reception Centre training to some of our staff, partners and local volunteers, who 9 3 want to help us make a difference in our city at times of crisis.

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February

This month we were pleased to be able to organise a round table event with Mark Fisher, Chief Executive of NHS GM , and a small number of our Salford VCSE Leaders. The discussion acknowledged the difficulties the NHS in Greater Manchester found itself in (financially and in terms of delivering outcomes), but also with a clear understanding of the role the VCSE sector plays and can play and a joint commitment to work together more closely going forward.

The 10GM Ltd annual general meeting took place at the

Friends Meeting House in Manchester, where a good turnout of partners heard about achievements during the year and plans for the future. Salford CVS’ Chief Executive is a Founder Director of 10GM and gave an overview of the history of the 10GM partnership.

February also saw us take the council’s Chief Executive, Tom Stannard , and Deputy Mayor, Councillor John Merry , on in-person visits to three VCSE organisations in Salford – this quarter they were to Eccles-based MS Therapy NW centre, Barton Athletic Club and the Yemeni Community Centre. As ever, the work of Salford’s VCSE sector and the difference it makes was very evident to see!

March

This month saw the Our Business GM launch event representing the work 10GM and Cooperatives UK are undertaking together around supporting the social economy in Greater Manchester (GM). The launch featured a

supportive speech from the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, with a wide range of key partners from across sectors in GM in attendance. This work is funded via UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Our CEO was pleased to attend the annual GM=EqAl (Greater Manchester Equality Alliance) event at the St Thomas Centre in Manchester to hear more about members’ work on a wide range of initiatives

The year 2023/24 ended with us participating in the annual Greater Manchester Moving conference, held at The Lowry in Salford. Salford CVS are core members of the Salford Physical Activity Alliance.

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Chair’s Foreword - Grace Dyke

It is my pleasure to present Salford CVS’ 2024 Annual Report.

This year has been one of great progress and impact, driven by our three core strands of work: Influence, Connect, and Develop.

These pillars fulfil our mission to ‘Make a difference in Salford’ .

Infuence

At Salford CVS, we believe in giving a voice to the VCSE sector to ensure its perspectives are included where decisions are made. We held numerous Vocal VCSE forums meetings and events this year, spanning various sectors including children and young people, health and wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion to name a few. We’ve continued to ensure that organisations across Salford, from grassroots to larger charities and social enterprises, are treated as equal partners in strategic discussions that impact the communities we serve and contribute to the city’s key strategies and programmes.

Connect

Our membership grew and we built connections within our membership and beyond, which is fundamental to what we do. A highlight for me this year was our annual conference, which was themed ‘Justice for Disabled People - The Role of the VCSE sector’.

It provided an opportunity for the sector to network, collaborate and plan positive action. Our annual 'Seldom Heard' event, which took place in September, always inspires me due to its forward-thinking and inclusive approach to partnerships and decision-making. The event connected young people with city and civic leaders to share their concerns and experiences of life in Salford – with the leaders committing to action which we will follow up next year.

Develop

This past year, we continued to provide crucial capacity-building support to the sector, including grants administration, training, and advice for members. We’ve administered significant funding, supporting groups and organisations to collaborate and deliver services that truly make a difference. Our Volunteer Centre continues to support the strategic development of volunteering, while developing new opportunities and championing the role of volunteering within the city. Finally, I want to acknowledge the changes to our Board of Trustees. Whilst we bid farewell and express our huge gratitude to Adam Webster, who has served with incredible dedication as Vice-Chair, we are thrilled to welcome four new trustees: Francesca Todde, Aderonke Apata, Lewis Hellewell, and Teresa Pepper. Their diverse experience and unwavering passion for the city and our sector will help us navigate the challenges ahead, while continuing to support the organisation and its members to make a difference in Salford.

Grace Dyke

Chair, Salford CVS’ Board of Trustees

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Legal and Administrative Information

The Charity (no. 519361) is a Company Limited by Guarantee (no. 01948293), with its governing document being its Memorandum and Articles of Association. The liability of the members in respect of the guarantee is limited to £10 each. As of 31st March 2024 there were 1,035 full members and 11 associate members. The charity’s trading name is Salford CVS. The Directors are appointed according to the Articles of Association and are referred to as the Board of Trustees.

Salford CVS & Volunteer Centre Registered address:

The Old Town Hall, 5 Irwell Place, Eccles, Salford, M30 0FN

Board of Trustees

Grace Dyke

Chair, maternity leave January – August 2023

Adam Webster

Acting Chair, January – August 2023, Vice Chair Sept 2023 – June 2024

John Phillips Treasurer

Ray Mashiter Barbara Bentham

Yen Siang Tan Ben Whalley Francesca Todde Appointed 27th February 2024

Aderonke Apata Appointed 26th March 2024

Council Representatives

Non-voting ambassadors Cllr Sharmina August to 4th September 2024

Senior Management Team

Alison Page – Chief Executive Kirsten Robinson – Deputy Chief Executive

Bethan Kelly – Chief Operating Officer (appointed May 2024)

Lewis Hellewell Appointed 27th February 2024

Teresa Pepper Appointed 27th February 2024

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Salford CVS has stringent processes in place that benchmark all paid roles against best practice industry standards. As per Board agreed systems, pay scales are appraised annually against role responsibilities, which ensure fair and appropriate remuneration commensurate to all role responsibilities. Salford CVS does not engage in any bonus or performance related pay systems.

The Trustees, who are also the 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 31st March 2024. The Trustees have adopted the provision 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 1st January 2019).

Principle Objectives permitted by their constitution to The charity’s principle objectives as set out in make a profit for private its Memorandum of Association are: distribution. Voluntary organisations and social To promote any charitable purposes enterprises do not include local for the benefit of the public government or other statutory principally but not exclusively in the authorities. local government area of Salford and its environs (area of benefit). And in particular, build the capacity of third-sector organisations and provide them with the necessary support, information and services to enable them to pursue or contribute to any charitable purpose. 13 ~~8~~

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Public Benefit Outcomes

Salford CVS operates for the benefit of its membership and our ethos is demonstrated in public benefit to the citizens of Salford. Trustees have referred to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the Strategy, Vision, Mission and Values of the organisation and our thematic strands of work.

In particular, the Trustees have considered how our planned activities, developments and decisions affect our impact on Salford citizens. We use monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate our outcomes and impact, which further demonstrate our public benefit.

Underlying this is our commitment to Quality, which is one of our six Values.

Custodian Funds

The charity holds funds on behalf of other organisations as a custodian.

There are a number of reasons why the organisations cannot hold their own funds, including: the organisation is too small to operate a bank account; there are not sufficient people in the organisation for adequate controls as stipulated by a grant provider; or, the organisation does not feel it has appropriate resources to handle its own funds.

When a fund is taken on by the charity, there is both an application form and ID provided by the organisation; or, the terms from the grant provider are that the funds are held by the charity. Any movement of funds must be supported by written authorisation from a designated member of the organisation.

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Our Strategic Priorities

Ensuring our work delivers our objectives

During the year 2023/24 we continued to deliver against the strategic priorities outlined in our Strategic Plan , which sets out for stakeholders our mission, vision, values, strategic priorities and associated work strands. With Board agreement we had decided to extend our current plan until late 2024 due to a pending election and potential change in government.

Salford CVS determines its priorities in consultation with our staff and trustees, our members and wider VCSE sector colleagues, public sector partners and

other stakeholders and continue to review these annually.

Our Strategic Plan 2025 – 2028 and associated priorities are being refreshed by our Management Team during 2024, in consultation with our wider staff team and Board of Trustees (and informed by our members, partners and operating context), with the draft coming to the Annual General Meeting in December 2024 for discussion with our members, before being launched in January 2025.

Theme Work Strands Funding and Contracts and Investment Fundraising Commissioning Voice Representation Influencing

Share Resources Information Volunteer Governance Good Practice Community Poverty Inequality

Trading Campaigning Collaboration Brokerage Wellbeing

Compliance

Quality

Social Value

Impact

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Salford CVS is the citywide infrastructure organisation for the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector; providing specialist information, advice, development support and opportunities for influence and collaboration.

We provide support for organisations to establish and develop including training for their staff, volunteers and trustees. Our Volunteer Centre provides support for individuals who want to volunteer and assistance for organisations developing volunteer programmes.

Salford CVS has a proud history of making a difference in Salford since 1919 , initially as Manchester and Salford Council for Social Service, before we separated in 1973 to become Manchester CVS and Salford CVS.

We are a well-respected partner in this city and have excellent relationships with both VCSE and public sector organisations. We are financially stable with a clear business plan and a highly skilled and motivated staff team and board of trustees.

As a membership organisation , we work hard to address the needs and represent the interests of over one thousand Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) member organisations.

Our Annual General Meeting is always widely publicised and well attended, with a clear focus on our status as a membership organisation and how we endeavour to engage, involve and support our members throughout the year.

Mission Statement Making a Difference in Salford

Vision

A robust Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector that meets the diverse needs and aspirations of the people of Salford x

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Values

Making a difference through

Passion

Passionate about the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector

Innovation Innovative in our approach Quality Quality at the heart of all our activities

Cooperation

Stronger when we work cooperatively with others to achieve our vision

Diversity

Impact

Celebrating diversity and promoting equality in Salford Demonstrating impact and making a difference every time

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NAVCA Core Functions of Local Infrastructure

Salford CVS is a long-standing member of NAVCA , the national membership body for local VCSE infrastructure organisations. We have aligned our Annual Report for 2023/24 against the NAVCA, nationally recognised four key functions of local VCSE infrastructure , reporting on our progress during the year against these functions.

What follows is a snapshot of our activities and achievements during 2023/24 under those four headings:

Leadership and advocacy

Partnership and collaborations

Capacity building

Volunteering

Some areas of our work more closely align with these headings than others – for instance our work on Grants and Investments and our Communications work in reality operate across all four headings. However, for ease of compiling this report, we have chosen to describe our activities under one heading for each of our areas of work…

Leadership and advocacy: Local infrastructure organisations are leaders in their communities, strengthening our sector’s voice and influence on key decision-makers and funders. They support and empower vulnerable and marginalised communities, working towards a more equal society.

Partnerships and

collaborations: Local

infrastructure organisations create opportunities for collaborative

working by building networks and partnerships between local organisations and strategic partners. Through nurturing these relationships, communities are better equipped in both the development of ongoing projects and times of crisis.

Capacity building: When local voluntary and community organisations have access to practical support, people and

communities become more resilient and able to flourish. Local infrastructure organisations can provide training, resources or advice to facilitate community development.

Volunteering: Volunteering is integral to thriving communities. Local infrastructure organisations encourage and

nurture volunteering opportunities, so that people can build connections and work together on things they care about, driving positive change locally.

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Leadership and Advocacy

IN Salford

During the year 2023/24 Salford CVS and our wider team of Vocal VCSE Representatives continued to work in close partnership with public and independent sector colleagues, including by contributing to the vision for The Salford Way – a blueprint for working together to tackle poverty, inequalities and ill health and aiming to create a more inclusive and green economy that benefits local people and communities.

Salford CVS strategic staff and our Vocal Forum VCSE sector colleagues played a key role in the city during 2023/24, acting as the sector’s voice and seeking to influence Salford’s strategic partnerships and their sub-groups, including:

Provider Collaborative Board

Health and Wellbeing Board

Clinical and Care Professional Leadership Forum

Living Well Mental Health Collaborative

0-25 Advisory Board

Safeguarding Children’s Partnership

Safeguarding Adults Board

Community Safety Partnership

Skills & Work Board

Culture & Place Partnership

Climate Action Board and three sub-groups

Strategic Housing Partnership

City Leaders

Health Locality Leaders

Equality Network

Women & Girls Commission

Locality Board for Health and Care (now known as the Salford Integrated Care Partnership Committee)

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During 2023/24 a key focus for Salford CVS was to refresh our system for recruiting and supporting Vocal VCSE Representatives , leading to us introducing monthly online reps meetings for all of the health and social care reps.

We then held a big in-person event for all of Salford’s Vocal VCSE reps , including those on other (non-health) partnership boards such as 0-25 Advisory Board, to discuss how we effectively participate and what key points we wanted to make in the various partnership boards. We also discussed plans for how we manage broader feedback to the wider VCSE sector.

Annual VCSE Conference

One of Salford CVS’ functions in the leadership and advocacy space is to encourage and mobilise voluntary and community action by creating opportunities for our sector to come together, share learning and insight, and galvanise VCSE action .

A key arena for this work is our Annual VCSE Conference – a large, wellattended in-person event that we organise for our sector every year. The theme in 2023 was Justice for Disabled People: The role of the VCSE sector in Salford.

Salford CVS and some of our VCSE reps also participated in an important planning workshop with members of the Salford Integrated Care Partnership Committee. They agreed seven key priorities that the Salford system would focus on in response to NHS GM ICS setting GM-wide priorities in it’s new strategy: Improving health and care in Greater Manchester 2023-2028 gm ~~eee~~ -icp-strategy ~~ee~~ -190423.pdf

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We managed to secure some fantastic speakers, including the inspirational Scottish entrepreneur, television personality and professional traveller Amar Latif OBE - “The blind guy who wants to show you the world” . Amar was our morning keynote speaker, who after he had us all spellbound during his engaging and inspirational presentation, then stayed behind to meet a massive queue of excited delegates who wanted to speak to him.

The conference inspired many of us in the room to think about our VCSE services and how we can make them more accessible, effective and timely.

In addition to our two keynote speakers, we managed to secure a wide variety of workshop speakers, who shared their expertise on different areas / themes, answered questions, and facilitated productive discussions.

There were eight workshops in total, led by Salford CVS staff and expert VCSE practitioners from across the sector, which covered a broad range of issues, including unlocking potential; barriers to inclusion and how to overcome them; tackling exploitation and abuse of Disabled people; and navigating the impact of multiple identities in life.

Our afternoon keynote speaker was the Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett , who committed to ensure that in Salford the voices and views of Disabled people would be heard by both politicians and officers at the council.

When conference participants were asked what they had found most interesting, quite a few referred to the presentation by Amar Latif. This is a quote from one person, which was echoed by many others:

“Listening to Amar Latif was inspirational and shows what is possible with self-belief”

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Seldom Heard

Another key piece of work during 2023/24 on the theme of leadership and advocacy was our work on trying to ensure the voices of some of Salford’s seldom heard young people were amplified and taken notice of by key leaders in the city. Working with Salford Youth Council , we organised a well-attended event to bring together young leaders and city leaders from the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors.

The purpose of the event was to enable marginalised young people , who seldom have a voice in the city and little means of accessing the main city leaders, to meet with these city leaders, present and discuss key issues of importance and seek pledges from those leaders to act. The principle behind this event is that it is young people led, so following a number of engagement sessions facilitated by Salford CVS before the event itself, the young people selected the theme for the 2023 event as Mental Health & Safety in public places .

Staff from Salford CVS identified a number of underrepresented young people’s groups operating within the city and made contact with them to explore and secure their involvement in the event. We then worked with them in advance of the event itself.

The event was opened by Alison Page, CEO of Salford CVS and Paaniz Afrang, Salford’s Youth Mayor. Members of Salford Youth Council also attended to support the facilitation of the event alongside Salford CVS staff. They did a sterling job of staffing reception, signing everyone in and escorting them to the correct places. They also supported the groups of young people and facilitated a getting to know each other ice-breaker for everyone attending, which included Tom Stannard, Chief Executive of Salford City Council. The young people’s groups presenting to city leaders were: GM Youth Network; 42nd Street; Bridgewater Youth; Irlam Girls; Mancunian Way

After the event leaders made pledges to address the issues raised by the young people, which Salford CVS then followed up on after the event to ensure progress was being made. Two of the many positive comments from the event:

“The environment created feels authentic, passionate and driven by young people!” “Whilst the focus was absolutely serious, it exceeded my expectations in terms of youth ownership”

Seldom Heard is a priority annual event in the Salford CVS calendar and we continue to work with young people and city leaders throughout the year.

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Voice and influence

Another key function of Salford CVS in the leadership and advocacy space is strengthening the VCSE sector’s voice and influence with key decisionmakers and funders.

We achieve this in a number of ways – by organising larger events such as our Annual VCSE Conference and Seldom Heard ; by convening round tables for our VCSE Leaders with key public sector colleagues. During this year we organised round table events with our City Mayor , the new interim Director of Adult Social Care; and the new Director of Children’s Services at the council.

We also organised World Café Conversation events - one between the wider VCSE sector and public sector colleagues from primary care and another with adult social care colleagues.

During 2023/24 we also planned and facilitated 20 Vocal Forums and five Vocal Roundtables with a collective attendance of 387 participants from Salford’s VCSE sector.

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Vocal VCSE Leaders Forum

Between April 2023 to March 2024 members of the Salford Vocal VCSE Leaders Forum came together Blah regularly to work in partnership with our public sector colleagues to build a better, fairer, greener, safer and healthier Salford.

During the year we planned, facilitated and chaired seven Vocal VCSE Leaders Forum meetings.

We also organised five Vocal VCSE round-table events, which were well attended with 387 people participating.

These included an event introducing the new Interim Director of Adult Services at the council, Maggie Kufeldt.

At this roundtable, Vocal VCSE leaders heard from Maggie about the priorities, challenges and opportunities facing Adult Services. We then had an engaging Q&A and discussion session, led by Salford CVS’s CEO. We reached agreement with Maggie that we would all work better together in the following ways going forward:

Vocal Leaders acting as a critical friend – providing information about what is and isn’t working to Adult Services

In return, Maggie committed that she would ensure her services would scale up coproduction with the VCSE sector

This approach continued with the arrival of the new Strategic Director of Adult Services, Becky Wilkinson, in early 2024; with our CEO and Strategic Lead of Health and Care taking Becky on a ‘magical mystery tour’ to visit and meet relevant VCSE groups and organisations across the city.

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Also this year we held a round table with Melissa Caslake , the new Director of Children’s Services at Salford Council. Vocal VCSE Leaders met with Melissa at an event we held at Salford Lad’s Club , which included scene setting from Salford CVS, a presentation from Melissa and questions fielded from leaders. A productive discussion followed with actions agreed by both parties to alleviate challenges and progress how the VCSE sector and local authority work together to effectively support the children and young people of Salford.

Developments later in the year included exploring transport solutions and out of area placements and looking at potential VCSE solutions to these problems, with some progress made and work still ongoing at the time of writing this annual report.

Both Maggie and Melissa, along with Charlotte Bailey, the new CEO of the Salford Care Organisation, identified cost of transport as a key issue and cost drain in Salford. As a direct response, we organised a workshop on VCSE Transport Solutions for Adults and Children’s Services.

As a result of this, Salford CVS and Vocal VCSE Leaders started working with Northern Care Alliance and Salford City Council’s Children’s Services to develop a VCSE Transport Solution, as an invest to save exercise. This work is ongoing in 2024.

Round table event

We ended the calendar year in December 2023 by organising another round table with Paul Dennett, Salford’s City Mayor. Paul began the event, which was chaired by CVS’ CEO, by providing a broad description of the development of the Council’s corporate plan, including the underpinning financial picture, alignment with the Greater Manchester Strategy, the Workforce Strategy and the Annual Directorate Business Plans.

He emphasised that, although financial pressures within Salford and in the wider Greater Manchester Health and Social Care system present real risk and uncertainty over the potential of delivering aspects of the plan, the Mayoral team and the wider council remain committed to the people of Salford and to working productively with the VCSE sector in Salford, through the leadership of Salford CVS.

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This was followed by a presentation about the VCSE sector in Salford and the challenges, strengths and opportunities our sector was facing, delivered by Alison Page, CEO of Salford CVS.

Leaders then posed questions to the City Mayor and a productive discussion was had, with a commitment for continuing dialogue and partnership working with Vocal VCSE Leaders.

Paul stated an ongoing commitment to close strategic working with CVS and the wider sector and specifically to looking at issues regarding contracting and use of the Social Value Portal.

VCSE Mayoral Manifesto and Hustings event

In March 2024, Vocal VCSE Leaders developed a VCSE Mayoral Manifesto for Salford to present to candidates at a Hustings event we organised for April 2024 with a view to getting some commitments. At the event candidates, including incumbent Mayor Paul Dennett, committed to all bar two of the manifesto asks. www.salfordcvs.co.uk/salford-vcse-electionmanifesto-2024

We also fed into the development of a GM VCSE Manifesto for use with

GM Mayoral candidates and at relevant GM hustings.

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The event was held at Buile Hill Park Hall, with a focus on coproducing solutions to some of the key issues being faced.

Access to Primary Care world café conversation

The event was designed to be a collaborative, solution-focussed space in which representatives from all parties could work to identify both ‘quick wins’ and opportunities that could be developed in the medium to long-term to help relieve the strain on the current system across Salford.

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Salford CVS offered to organise and run an Access to Primary Care world café conversation to bring people from primary care, including GPs, and community and VCSE reps together to explore issues and come up with proposed solutions, in a safe space.

A number of quick wins, medium and long term goals were identified and individual organisations in attendance pledged to support the realisation of some of them. For example, one of the ‘quick wins’ was to work together to ensure consistent messaging; and Age UK Salford made a pledge to educate the older people in Salford they work with in relation to this.

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Our impact

A key function of this annual report is for us to reflect on the impact of our work and share with our members .

One such example of impact arose from our work with statutory sector colleagues working in the area of children, young people and families. We sit, alongside two VCSE reps, on the city’s 0-25 Advisory Board , chaired by the Director of Children’s Services, and during the year were asked to give a detailed annual presentation (on behalf of the Vocal Children, Young People & Families VCSE Forum), about the work of the VCSE sector and to raise any challenges, issues, concerns or solutions that the sector may have.

As a result of this presentation and the impact it had on those attending from the public sector, we were then asked to give a VCSE update at every meeting, becoming a standing agenda item. Developing and maintaining close links with statutory sector colleagues, particularly when there are regular changes of personnel, is a key role Salford CVS plays in the city.

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seeking to become a Family Hub national pilot, which in turn led to the creation of two VCSE engagement posts, hosted by Salford CVS.

Salford CVS are now a core delivery partner for the Family Hub work within the city, and during 2023/24 our two workers visited 83 different VCSE groups and organisations to raise awareness of the Family Hub Partnership; leading to 24 VCSE organisations becoming formal delivery partners in the Family Hub work.

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Another example of our impact during the year relates to our work on the Salford Community Safety partnership. We worked with VCSE sector colleagues to influence the shaping of the Salford Community Safety Strategy refresh and ensured that the VCSE sector were included and recognised for the work that they do to deliver against the priorities of the partnership, in particular tackling Anti-Social Behaviour and Protecting Vulnerable Adults.

For instance, our work leading the Salford element of the VRU CommunityLed programme (GM Violence Reduction Unit, funded via 10GM), which created and facilitated a partnership of VCSE organisations in Salford, whose work with young people in targeted areas of the city has made a significant contribution to the reduction of reported anti-social behaviour.

In terms of our work as members of the Salford Safeguarding Adults partnership, focused on the topic of protecting vulnerable adults, we worked with members of our Vocal VCSE Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Forum to ensure that the lived experiences of victims and survivors were included in the Domestic Abuse Safe

Accommodation Needs Assessment and worked hard together to influence the development of the accompanying Strategy.

Members of this Forum also provide regular feedback to the Community Safety Partnership’s sub-groups on the issues and challenges faced by victims and survivors of Domestic Abuse. This has directly resulted in the provision of additional training for housing officers.

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Making a difference

Other examples of impact include our work around lobbying for VCSE contracts with NHS GM. Salford CVS are involved in strategic lobbying work in both Salford and Greater Manchester to try and ensure consistent and fair settlements for NHS contracted VCSE organisations.

For instance, Salford CVS’ Chief Executive, in her role as founder member of the GM VCSE Leadership Group and co-chair of its Commissioning and Investment subgroup, helped organise and lead a small round table event with the Chair of NHS GM, Sir Richard Leese, and Mark Fisher, Chief Executive of NHS GM (pictured below), which led to them committing NHS GM to observing the VCSE national Compact and four codes of practice. Since that event, much work had been undertaken with NHS GM behind the scenes to produce a position paper and practical approach to VCSE contracting, including a key risk being added to the NHS GM over-arching risk register. Although there is much more to do, this has been a good start…

As a related action, our CEO proposed that each local infrastructure CEO ask to present to their own Locality Board, in each of the 10 localities in Greater Manchester, to present on the issues for our sector was facing and ask for a risk to also be logged on their local risk registers.

In Salford, our CEO gave a presentation to the Salford Locality Board about those ICB VCSE contracting risks, which was then added to the Salford locality risk register to ensure that it continued to be monitored and escalated to NHS Greater Manchester. Our CEO also presented on Salford Council VCSE contracting and the key issues facing the sector, including no Cost of Living increments, ongoing plus 1 contracting poor practice, and the looming cliff edge of contracts ending. Both NHS GM Salford locality colleagues and Salford Council colleagues have been receptive to having further dialogue as a result of these interventions, with us seeing some practical benefit in terms of contract values and contract extensions in some cases. This remains a work in progress…

In February 2024 as part of this lobbying work we held a small round table event between a small number of VCSE Leaders and Mark Fisher, Chief Executive of NHS GM, at our offices in Eccles, where a broad range of issues were frankly discussed, including mainstreaming and commissioning, sectoral relationships, social prescribing, workforce development and the increasing cost of operations due to the cost of living crisis. As a result of the round table event, issues relating to VCSE workforce were shared with Mark and our sector is now involved in overall workforce planning and change in GM. We continue to meet with and influence the NHS senior leadership team on an ongoing basis.

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Salford’s approach to the Social Value Portal

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Vocal VCSE leaders continued working with Salford City Council to try and influence the decision for the Social Value Portal to be used for all contracts over the value of £75K as we felt that this is not a fit for purpose tool for use by the VCSE sector to demonstrate their social value.

As a result of this lobbying work by CVS and partners, Salford City Council has introduced some additional measures that are suitable for the VCSE sector to demonstrate their social value against.

They have also negotiated with the Social Value Portal to reduce the % fee paid by those VCSE organisations that win contracts in Salford.

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In Greater Manchester, Salford CVS continued to play a proactive role in the following strategic partnerships:

VCSE-led:

10GM partnership and relevant working groups

GM Local Infrastructure Network

10GM / GMCVO monthly catch up

GM Inclusive Economy Group

GM Strategic VCSEF Emergency Response and Preparedness Group

GM Alternative Provider Collaborative

Cross-sectoral:

GM Person Centred and Community Approaches

GM VCSE Hospital Discharge Alliance

GM Live Well Steering Group

GM Youth Alliance

GM Social Value Alliance Steering Group

GM VCSE Accord Partnership Forum

GM Tackling Inequalities Board and sub-groups (GMCA)

GM Cost of Living Response Group (GMCA)

GM Moving

GM Living Wage Action Group (chaired by Andy Burnham)

NHS GM Integrated Care Partnership Board

GM ICP People and Communities (Engagement) Group

GM Primary Care Blueprint

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Partnerships and Collaborations

Family Hubs

In 2022 Salford City Council received Department for Education (DfE) grant funding for the ‘Family Hubs and Start for Life programme’. Our role as a delivery partner was to engage the VCSE sector, the wider community and volunteers in this work.

The first stage of the project for us was scoping the children, young people and families VCSE sector during 2023.

Family Hubs are early help centres based in local communities, offering support and services for children, young people and families aged 0-19 (and up to 25 if the young person has SEND). Services offered include antenatal, child’s health, early help, parenting support, baby socials and more.

200 VCSE groups and organisations were contacted to raise awareness about the Family Hub and Start for Life programme and explore if they would like to become partners or deliver their work from a Hub. 24 VCSE partner organisations signed up during the first stage.

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As a way to engage communities, Salford CVS developed The Wishing Tree project.

The Lowry agreed to work in partnership with us and together we created the ‘seeds of change’ box, which we located within VCSE organisations and the Gateway Centres as a way to seek the views of people who used the buildings.

There were 384 wishes posted into the box which was displayed in 13 different venues .

We then collated the ideas and shared a report with Salford City Council to inform the further development of services within the Family Hubs. A tree was then built with all the wishes displayed and exhibited at The Lowry, with an event held there in Autumn 2023 .

Salford CVS also supported the recruitment of volunteers for some of the VCSE organisations who are Family Hub partners, the Youth Hubs and the Family Hubs. We continue to manage a number of volunteers on behalf of the Family Hubs, whilst supporting the development of their volunteer

management policies and procedures to assist with the further development of volunteering within the Hubs.

www.salfordcvs.co.uk/salford-family-hubs

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Living Well collaborative

In April 2023, the mental health service Living Well Salford was entering its 5th year of operation. Salford CVS have been involved from the outset, when we helped craft a proposal to the Innovation Unit to be one of four national pilots.

The pilot that began in Broughton was subsequently rolled out across all five areas of Salford, following a hub and spoke model. A core multi-disciplinary team (MDT) supported five MDT neighbourhood-based teams, all of which consisted of GMMH, Primary Care and VCSE staff working together in an integrated, person-centred and trauma-informed way. Core VCSE partners in the Living Well work from the outset have been START in Salford , Mind in Salford and Six Degrees . Wellbeing Matters have also played a key role in the service, employing a Living Well Community Connector to effectively and seamlessly bridge between the two services.

By the end of the year, there were eight VCSE pathways funded to receive ‘warm’ handovers from the Living Well team, or to undertake joint working.

There were over 1,200 referrals into VCSE pathways in 2023/24 and over 700 translation activities (translation of documents and translation appointments).

During the year 2023/24, as part of the Living Well Community Network plan, the VCSE Strategic Lead employed by Salford CVS devised a model that simultaneously promoted staff wellbeing and embedded learning about the VCSE sector.

12 wellbeing sessions were offered that provided time for staff’s own wellbeing and team building, on themes related to a VCSE offer in Salford that Living Well clients can access via Wellbeing Matters or signposting.

During the year 2023/24 Salford CVS received funding to employ a Strategic Lead for the Living Well work, which really helped us embed an approach to ensuring the VCSE sector was at the heart of the model.

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Wellbeing sessions delivered by Salford CVS’ Strategic Lead

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57 staff took part in these sessions - 42 from the core Living Well team (GMMH, START in Salford, Mind in Salford, Six Degrees) and 16 from additional VCSE organisations funded to receive Living Well referrals.

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Wellbeing sessions delivered by Salford CVS’ Strategic Lead

In February 2024 Salford’s open access VCSE led Listening Lounge was launched.

The VCSE offer means that Living Well VCSE Recovery Workers (provided by START in Salford) and Peer Support workers (provided by Mind in Salford) will now be able to offer support during drop-in hours in the same Listening Lounge space as the Home Based Treatment (HBT) service. No appointment will be necessary and the VCSE team can offer advice and one-off interventions, a listening ear and a place to chat for people in a self-defined crisis, referrals to other services and the option to talk to someone with livedexperience. If needed, pathways are in place to escalate to the HBT team for a more formal mental health assessment and support.

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Wellbeing Matters partnership

During the year 2023/24 the Wellbeing Matters partnership has continued to inspire change via its approach to making a difference by working collaboratively with a wide range of VCSE, health and statutory partners. Empowering our residents and communities though our wellestablished social prescribing offer and building capacity in our sector through grants and volunteering has enabled us to ensure high quality community offers continue to be the beating heart of Salford.

Our core partnership of Salford CVS, START in Salford, Social adVentures, Big Life, Inspiring Communities Together and Langworthy Cornerstone continued to work together collaboratively throughout the year, despite having to make some swift adjustments due to losing Helping Hands from our partnership (they sadly closed down in early 2024).

Wellbeing Matters continued to be well embedded within primary care during the year and have continued to evidence how social prescribing can help complement clinical support by empowering and enabling individuals referred to us to focus on what matters to them (not ‘what’s the matter with them’).

Wellbeing Matters helps them to manage their health and wider wellbeing effectively - by engaging with healthy behaviours through effective management of long-term conditions, improved mental health, improved lifestyle behaviours and connection into a wide array of community groups and activities.

Having dedicated Community Connectors working alongside our extended partnerships within mental health services ( Living Well ), Salford Care Organisation ( Home First and Long COVID ) and with young people (working with Salford City College ), has meant we have been able to continue to have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of some of the most vulnerable people in our city.

Our connections into key movements across the city, such as the Vocal VCSE Networks , the Salford Creative Health Network , Salford’s Physical Activity Alliance , and the Salford Living Well partnership, means we are well placed to influence, connect, and facilitate positive change.

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Our Development Workers have continued to champion Salford CVS’ VCSE membership organisations, enabling them to connect into the Wellbeing Matters programme. The support has helped them to grow, become sustainable and inclusive through providing tailored advice and guidance and linking them in with the Salford CVS grants team to access additional funding .

Our Community Connectors and Development Workers continued to work together closely during 2023/24 to highlight gaps in provision to feed back to our sector and create more offers. We have hosted and coordinated a wide range of networking meetings during the year in order to bring groups and organisations together to create further opportunities for peer support , working collaboratively and sharing learning .

Through our volunteering development work we have created a network of new volunteering opportunities and volunteering events, which in addition to bringing people together has had a positive impact on our communities and local environment. Developing new opportunities has enabled us to place even more volunteers .

At Wellbeing Matters we are passionate about sharing what our vibrant community and VCSE offers, continuing to deliver high-quality activities and services and creating real impact through connections and capacity building.

During 2023/24 we continued to grow and:

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Mr D was referred to Blah Wellbeing Matters due to experiencing barriers to receiving suitable support; he explained he is Deaf and is having mobility issues and housing benefit concerns.

One of our Community Connectors met with him at his GP practice, along with a BSL interpreter. He explained he wanted to socialise, get active and manage his diabetes. We spent some time discussing what mattered to him, then proceeded to share a menu of options. He identified that he didn’t want activities that were solely for the Deaf community and that he wanted to broaden his options and find other interests.

(a specialist social enterprise), who agreed to help him access the gym on a 1:1 supported basis and connected him into a chair-based exercise class.

We facilitated an appointment to complete his assessment at the GP practice, which resulted in him accessing the chair exercise class and the gym with specialist support.

Through the BSL interpreter, Mr D also shared that his housing benefit had been stopped due to him not answering a phone call for a review! This is an all too familiar issue in Salford…

We discussed his needs and interests; after which he chose to be referred into Active Lifestyles at Beyond Empower

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However, after supporting him to contact ForHousing and Salford City Council, we then facilitated a connection with his housing officer - who can be contacted by text - which resolved the issue and ensured there is a record on his file to mitigate this happening again.

To socialise, he was supported to engage with people outside of the Deaf Blah community through activities at RHS Garden Bridgewater .

To ensure he was able to access fully without any accessibility issues, we arranged transport, a BSL interpreter and use of a mobility scooter for him.

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Age Friendly partnership

The Age Friendly Salford partnership, comprising Inspiring Communities Together (lead partner), Age UK Salford and Salford CVS, continued to grow and develop during the year 2023/24.

January 2024 saw the partnership move onto a new 3+2 year contract with Salford City Council and NHS GM (Salford locality). The Age Friendly Salford programme is designed to enhance the quality of life for older people across Salford through a wide range of activities and community support. Salford CVS leads on the ‘Strengths and Gifts’ component of this programme, comprising:

A Community Learning programme

Learn with Lunch sessions

Community Learning

Salford CVS provides essential training and support to organisations across Salford to help their paid staff and volunteers become better informed and more prepared in supporting older people in our city. This includes topics such as Nutrition and Hydration, and Falls Prevention. By equipping organisations with better knowledge, we’re making sure they’re contributing to the health and wellbeing of older people too.

During 2023/24:

290 people participated in our community learning programme

We delivered 49 training sessions

All things volunteering

“ I have just been diagnosed with COPD after a chest X ray, but I’m at a one only on the scale and fairly active. I had a cough. I started smoking when I was 14 and carried on for 15 years. It took my husband to have a heart attack for me to stop. It’s very valuable for you to do things like this as GPs have not got much time these days. I now know what to do, thank you.’‘ Breathe Better training attendee

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Learn with Lunch

Our Learn with Lunch sessions provide essential content for older people in our communities on everything from pensions credit to wills and power of attorney. Conversational in approach, these sessions are a bedrock for the wider partnership as they often act as a gateway to referring older people to other activities delivered by other programme partners - the essence of partnership working.

During 2023/24:

We issued all of our Age Friendly Salford volunteers with Certificates of Recognition

Why does it matter?

This partnership has a long track record of delivering real impact in Salford.

Volunteering

Volunteers are integral to a wide range of Age Friendly Salford activities. All our volunteers are trained as

Wellbeing Champions , so that they can support the wellbeing of participants across our programmes.

This year, our volunteers have supported activities including Tech & Tea, Walk & Talks, and Brew & Chats.

During 2023/24 the partnership supported 879 older people in total .

That’s 879 older people living more healthy, happy lives 😊

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Falls Prevention workshop at the Energise Centre

Falls prevention is an ever-increasing priority for the city.

In April 2023, we ran one of our successful Falls Prevention workshops at the Big Life Energise Centre in Pendleton. These workshops are a critical way of reducing falls amongst older people in Salford. Falls Prevention workshops are always conversational, enabling people to share their lived experience.

Early on, several participants shared that they’d had falls before. Causes were wide-ranging, including anything from uneven lawns to wearing flip flops. The training went through all different ways of avoiding falls, including:

Installing solar lights in the garden to light up at night

Placing touch lamps by the side of the bed

Having everything within

comfortable reach – e.g. no cups and plates in high up cupboards!

Strength and balance are also key, so the trainer took participants through a range of exercises they could do at home, or through classes available locally. One participant was already practicing Tai Chi - an excellent exercise for strength and balance. Participants were grateful for the workshop, and it was clear that workshops like this are crucial to help prevent falls, particularly as people are often afraid to ask for help.

“I realised I needed this course to help me live alone” workshop attendee

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The Salford VCSE Learning, Skills, and Work Programme – now named Elevate Salford – embodies the spirit of inspiration through partnership and collaboration, aiming to uplift those furthest from the labour market in Salford by providing learning, upskilling, and income maximisation opportunities

Funded by the Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation , with support from Salford City Council, Salford CVS is pleased to be leading such an innovate partnership. Since its inception, Elevate Salford has aligned with the city’s wider Skills and Work agenda, creating pathways to progression and success for residents, fostering hope and resilience through the collaborative efforts of its delivery partners.

Over the past year, Elevate Salford has been delivered by Salford CVS, alongside five core charity partners –

Mustard Tree, The Broughton Trust, Salford Loaves and Fishes, Salford Foundation , and Groundwork Greater Manchester - offering traumainformed, strengths-based, transformative initiatives that address the diverse needs of vulnerable communities in Salford.

Through the provision of grants, managed by CVS, an additional seven VCSE organisations joined the partnership during 2023/24, increasing their capacity and adding specialist provision to our programme. They are Gaddum, Breakthrough UK, Greater Manchester Youth Network, Ability Cooperative, Salford Involved, ItsHer Story CIC , and Flowhesion Foundation .

Having a broader partnership has enabled us to provide comprehensive holistic support to our participants, ranging from mindfulness, art therapy, and gardening to digital literacy, job readiness, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. These services are aimed at participants facing various barriers to engagement and progression, including physical and learning disabilities, offending backgrounds, refugees, history of domestic abuse, experience of addiction, or modern slavery.

Together we have enrolled 448 participants in the programme during 2023/24, facilitating progression for 50% of this cohort into accredited training and securing over 100 ‘real’ Living Wage jobs.

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Collaboration has been the cornerstone of Elevate Salford's success so far. The synergy between Salford CVS and our 12 VCSE partners has enriched the quality of our offerings to Salford residents. For instance, Salford Foundation and ItsHer Story CIC joined forces to introduce engaging solutions for women seeking income maximisation – a collaboration particularly impactful in bridging the digital divide and enhancing employability skills for very vulnerable participants.

Meanwhile, Groundwork’s tailored approach to CSCS training has provided invaluable support throughout the partnership, resulting in various success stories of individuals achieving accredited learning and securing ‘real’ Living Wage paid, sustainable employment.

Through our combined initiatives, we have achieved an impressive employment rate amongst participants facing seemingly insurmountable barriers to progression. This reflects the significant impact of our collective work and the transformative power of partnership working in the VCSE sector.

The programme’s success is also driven by our commitment to effective networking and continuous improvement. We regularly engage with employers, Salford City Council’s Skills and Work Board, IAG networks, DWP, and the city’s educational establishments, to understand our participants’ needs and adapt our activities accordingly.

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training and joined the Preparation for Work in Construction course, working hard to complete his work, manage his behaviours, and contribute to sessions by sharing his real-life experiences. He gained qualifications ranging from his CSCS card to a level 1 in Customer Service. Lee also

Lee’s story

‘Lee’ was a self-confessed ‘jail bird’ who spent a lot of time in prison and wanted to change his life. On joining the Elevate Salford programme through Salford Loaves and Fishes , he admitted not having any focus or Blah direction, in addition to his struggles with inappropriate behaviours, drug addictions, and finances.

Persistent and tailored engagement with Lee allowed him to gain the confidence to take part in our Surrealist Writing Project, a six-week course delivered in partnership with creative writing specialists from Salford University . He started to read and develop an interest in philosophy and science. Through the partnership, he was introduced to Groundwork GM , who tailored their support to Lee’s various challenges. At Groundwork, Lee undertook CSCS

demonstrated mentoring skills by supporting his peers throughout the course.

He has since explored other learning opportunities, and regularly attends RHS Garden Bridgewater to work on a Community Grow Project. For him, the programme has opened opportunities he never imagined, giving him renewed confidence and excitement for the future.

“We are based in an area that is within the highest 1% of deprivation in the UK and many of our community members live in absolute poverty. The Elevate Salford programme has enabled us to offer one to one support, offer workfocused sessions and brought a wide range of opportunities to our communities through partnership working that they would not have experienced otherwise. We have already had many fantastic outcomes and the results highlight how impactful and successful the partnership is already, as it continues to grow from strength to strength.” Jennifer-Anne Smith, CEO, Salford Loaves and Fishes

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As we look to the future, Salford CVS are dedicated to building on this success, exploring new partnerships, and expanding our reach to support even more individuals in Salford. Together, we will continue to make a measurable difference, empowering individuals and driving community progress.

The story of Elevate Salford is one of collective effort and shared success, reflecting the profound impact that can be achieved when the VCSE sector works together with a common purpose.

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The Answer Cancer programme is a Greater Manchester (GM) VCSE partnership between Salford CVS (on behalf of 10GM), BHA for Equality, Unique Improvements social enterprise, and Voluntary Sector North West.

We have been working together to deliver this innovative VCSE-led cancer screening engagement partnership programme, commissioned by NHS England, since 2019. The programme works with VCSE organisations, including faith groups, across GM to reach communities who have not engaged with traditional NHS messaging to raise awareness of cancer and to increase the uptake of breast, bowel and cervical cancer screening. We do this in a variety of innovative and inspiring ways, which allow us to speak directly to community groups, faith communities, local residents, workplaces and service providers.

One of the most important ways Answer Cancer delivers its message is by enlisting Cancer Champions . These individuals play a key role in raising awareness through having important conversations with family, friends, work colleagues and those in their community or organisation.

During 2023/4 we signed up 173 new Answer Cancer Champions , taking the total number of Champions to over 4,600. During the year our champions held 1,272 events and had 13,911 awareness-raising conversations . The ability of Champions to speak directly to their peers ensures that the important messages of cancer awareness and the importance of screening are reaching into diverse communities across GM.

Our Champions are supported through our training courses - a mixture of online and face to face - providing the most up-to-date information on the screening programmes as well as giving participants the skills and confidence to share this knowledge. During this year, 613 people attended 62 training courses.

The Answer Cancer programme’s Engagement Team support communities by travelling to where people are already engaged in activities to deliver awareness sessions and hold stalls at community organised events.

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The team members speak many community languages and during this period they held 124 sessions and stalls resulting in 8,654 conversations taking place, with a further reach of 30,000 through taking part in activities such as local radio shows.

The programme provides small grant funding to VCSE and faith groups across GM to support them in raising awareness - and during this period 17 groups received funding totalling £87,000 . This funding enabled them to carry out 592 activities where they supported 2,983 individuals. 1,172 people directly committed to attend their screenings and 283 were practically supported to attend their appointment as a result of the work of these funded groups.

The Answer Cancer ‘Bee Seen Get Screened’ campaign is a hugely successful part of the programme’s work as it reaches over 80,000

employees across Greater Manchester. Employers sign a pledge to give their staff paid or flexible time off to attend their screenings and through recruiting Organisational Answer Cancer Champions who raise awareness amongst their colleagues. During 2023/24 100 organisations - large and small; VCSE, statutory and private - signed up to the pledge.

Our work with communities, workplaces and stakeholders has ensured that cancer awareness messaging has reached many more individuals across GM who have attended their screening appointments as a result.

“I am a woman of Black African heritage, and being a Cancer Champion gives me confidence to speak to my community about cancer. There is a stigma in our community about cancer and people don’t usually talk about it so being a Champion helps raise awareness in the community and hopefully encourages others to speak up and seek support when they need it.”

“My partner discovered she had breast cancer because she attended a cancer screening session. Thankfully, she recovered. Going to these appointments is one of the most important things you can do. When I saw the pledge, I spoke to my HR lead and asked them to help me bring this policy to my workplace.”

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The Pink Picnic

On Saturday 17th June 2023, Answer Cancer had a stall at Salford’s Pink Picnic, where we provided information and had conversations with attendees to raise awareness of cancer Blah and promote the importance of cancer screenings.

During the day, a member of the team had a conversation with a lesbian couple about the importance of checking their breasts, discussing how any changes are important to act on. Both women were very well informed about this subject, but during the conversation, the engagement worker also asked if they were both up to date with their cervical smear tests. One member of the couple sighed, and looked at her other half, saying,

“I’m up to date, but my wife isn’t. She won’t go and I’m worried about her!”

The engagement worker encouraged the other woman to talk about why she wasn’t taking up her invitations for a cervical smear and found out that she was worried about discomfort. The engagement worker was able to offer her reassurance that she could talk to healthcare professionals about her fears and ask for help. Both women were really encouraged by this conversation with the Answer Cancer engagement worker and said that they would support each other to follow this up with their GP practice, which they went on to do.

What we learnt from this

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10GM is a joint venture to support the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector in Greater Manchester.

When we talk about the VCSE sector in Greater Manchester, we mean voluntary organisations, community groups, the community work of faith groups, and those social enterprises where profits will be reinvested in their social purpose. https://10gm.org.uk/about/

The founding members of 10GM are Action Together, Bolton CVS, Macc, and Salford CVS.

10GM Ltd is a Company Limited by Guarantee that is jointly owned by these four local infrastructure organisations (LIOs), run on cooperative principles that are locked into our governance by a Collaboration Agreement , with the Chief Executives of each partner LIO operating as a Director of the company on behalf of their locality organisations. The partners work strategically and collaboratively with a shared purpose to champion local voluntary and community action and social enterprise across the city-region in order to improve the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of Greater Manchester’s people and communities.

Here in Salford during 2023/24 we (Salford CVS) delivered a range of initiatives as part of the 10GM family, including:

Answer Cancer: GM VCSE cancer screening engagement (NHS England) – see page 49

GM Walking and Wheeling grants (GM Moving) – see page 64

GM Inspire grants (GMCA) – see page 64

Achieve Asset Fund (as part of GM Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust’s drug and alcohol recovery programme in Bolton, Salford, Trafford) – see page 64

GM VCSE Accord delivery (GMCA / NHS GM) - see Leadership and Advocacy chapter, page 19

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Violence Reduction Alliance

Facilitation (GM Violence Reduction Unit / GMCA)

This year the delivery area was expanded to include Charlestown and Pendleton due to an increase in hate crime within the area. There was also the addition of new partners, in particular Europia and Warm Hut . The following activities were delivered:

Manchester United Foundation – Street Reds programme which is community football for ages 8-18, plus personal and social development delivered in Ordsall on Friday evening

Oasis Hub MediaCityUK –

open access Friday Night Youth club, delivering a range of activities including arts and crafts, cooking and baking, games, sports, etc.

Odd Arts – working in the Albion Academy with a group of young people around addressing discrimination within the school using theatre, storytelling and film

Europia – working with Eastern European families in Salford

Warm Hut – working with Black African young people

Mancunian Way – detached street-based youth work

Swinton Lions – community cohesion and sports work in primary schools

Salford Community Leisure –

open access Friday night sports, including swimming sessions

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Workforce development (NHS GM)

The 10GM Workforce Development Programme provided a range of learning and professional development opportunities across Greater Manchester, including specific leadership courses for existing leaders of VCSE organisations and for future leaders during 2023/24.

In Salford we completed some local bespoke work on the topic of leadership and workforce development as part of this 10GM initiative.

E11: Local infrastructure

development support (UKSPF via GMCA)

The E11 GM Infrastructure

The programme also conducted a range of survey and insight work , including payroll, pay and conditions and utilised professional HR support by securing favourable conditions for our sector to access their services.

The long-term legacy of the programme includes a GM VCSE Recruitment Portal, Workforce Hub and a shared support service – see more via the link below. https://10gm.org.uk/10gmswork/workforce-

Development Programme aims to improve the VCSE locality infrastructure support in place by taking a selfassessment approach to improvement. 10GM contracted with GMCA to be the interface between GM and localities to deliver this work.

Consequently, Salford CVS

self-assessed our strengths and areas for development using a Greater Manchester shared framework to identify gaps and needs.

development/vcseworkforce/HR

This assessment enabled us to prioritise the delivery of training and support for social entrepreneurs and social enterprises ; improve awareness of social investment and provide support to become investment-ready; and improve our social value support offer.

Between April 2023 - March 2024 Salford CVS provided support to 94 self-defined social enterprises in Salford.

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Growing Togetherness CIC

An example of this work involved supporting Growing Togetherness CIC Blah with funding and helping them gain some external contracts. This included one-to-one support and group training. Directly as a result of our support, they were commissioned by the Working Class Movement Library to develop and maintain their community gardens for two years. We also supported them to negotiate a lease with Salford City Council.

E26: Social Economy development support working with Cooperatives UK on the Our Business programme (UKSPF, via GMCA)

We responded to a tender opportunity on The Chest and won lot 2, which focuses on locality support for the social economy.

Cooperatives UK won lot 1, which focused on creating a GM platform.

From April 2024, as part of this work, Salford CVS will be delivering bespoke specialist support to social economy organisations in Salford - such as cooperatives, social enterprises, community businesses and registered charities who are trading.

You can find out more about this work on the 10GM website: - https://10gm.org.uk/10gms work/currentwork/

In winter 2023 10GM were successful in securing a contract with Greater Manchester Combined Authority to support Greater Manchester’s growing social economy .

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Capacity Building

Information and Information, Advice and Guidance guidance

During 2023/24, Salford CVS continued to enable VCSE groups and organisations to support diverse communities across Salford. Throughout this period, it was evident that the Salford CVS groups and organisations were tackling the impacts of poverty and mental health.

Key achievements:

This year, we provided 464 information and guidance support sessions to a diverse range of VCSE groups and organisations. The variety and scope of the VCSE groups and organisations we support continues to be staggering. From arts to sports clubs, heritage projects to homelessness, the breadth of our work is astounding.

During the year we supported:

Examples of our work include supporting both Visit from the Stork and Agecroft Chapel Restoration Association with their successful Charity Commission applications.

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Funding

Funding remains our number one request for support. During the year, we supported Salford-based VCSE groups and organisations to successfully apply for £1,868,000 from outside Salford and in addition to the grant funding we manage at Salford CVS. This includes funding from regular grant funders such as the

Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with members describing it as an ‘extremely valuable resource’ and an ‘amazing tool’ . This investment underscores our commitment to providing members with the resources they need to thrive, fostering growth within the VCSE sector, and enhancing our membership value.

National Lottery Community Fund,

Sport England alongside a range of other funders such as the Manchester Guardian Society, Community Ownership Fund, Alex Ferry Foundation and Valencia Communities Fund.

It is fair to say that the operating environment for VCSE groups and organisations became more difficult during 2023/24, with less funding available – a number of grant-making trusts ‘paused’ their funding offers and statutory sector funding, particularly via NHS GM and the local authority in Salford, more or less dried up during the year. All of this against an uncertain backdrop of governmental instability and increasing levels of poverty.

Consequently, to give us the best chance of maximising available sources of funding, we decided to invest in the

IDOX Open4Community Funding Portal to enhance our membership offer.

This platform allows members of Salford CVS to independently search for funding opportunities, streamlining processes and freeing up our staff time. Access to the portal is an exclusive benefit for members of Salford CVS, with training sessions provided for its use.

Essential Information Day

Our Essential Information Day at Elm Bank Conference Centre provided a one-stop-shop for Salford VCSE groups and

organisations to receive support on various topics.

The event, attended by 49 VCSE groups and organisations, offered popular sessions on sourcing funding, support with governance issues, alongside focus groups on a range of issues.

Promoted through various channels, the event received positive feedback, with attendees praising CVS’ ‘knowledgeable and helpful staff.’

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Supporting external awards

Blah

At Salford CVS we work closely with the Greater Manchester Lieutenancy to spotlight the excellent work being done by Salford-based VCSE groups and organisations.

The five organisations were:

Women With Wings CIC

Princes Park Garden Centre

https://manchesterlieutenancy.org

Feed My City

This year five Salford CVS members received the King’s Award for Voluntary Service for their hard work and dedication to making a difference to the lives of people in Salford and beyond.

The Volunteers of Caritas Diocese of Salford

Special Educational Needs Family Support Group

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Supporting Social Enterprises

During 2023/24 supporting social enterprises to establish, develop and grow became a key focus for us, with additional capacity provided through funding from the UK Shared Property Funds managed by GMCA and devolved to 10GM. Funding from the E11: Infrastructure Development Programme enabled us to employ a part-time Social Enterprise Development Worker, with us providing activities including a Social Enterprise Development Breakfast, alongside one to one support and specialist training and development services.

Training

In 2023/24 we delivered 65 training sessions and briefings to 641 people. Alongside our regular training around funding, safeguarding, volunteering, and good governance, etc, this year new training included:

Safeguarding

During 2023/24, Salford CVS continued to provide children and adults specialist safeguarding support to local VCSE groups and organisations, including delivering 73 information, advice and guidance sessions to Salford VCSE groups and organisations.

Training remains a core part of our safeguarding offer, and this year we provided:

Nine Adult Safeguarding sessions to 98 people

Five Working Together to Safeguard Children sessions to 65 people

In addition to the adult and child safeguarding sessions that are open to all groups, we provide bespoke safeguarding training to individual organisations. This year included delivering training to partner organisations from Elevate Salford.

How and when to have a meeting

Introduction to setting up a CIC

Canva: The Basics

In addition, we commissioned a range of external training, Activity Alliance delivered Inclusive Communications and consultant Rob Jackson delivered Ethical Issues in Volunteer Engagement .

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Mandem Meetup

Mandem Meetup was established to create judgement-free environments for men. Initially they offered talking circles and nature walks for mental health improvement and conducted homelessness outreach. In 2021, they approached us to become a CIC as they anticipated trading income.

However, it became clear that a CIC legal structure was unsuitable for their long-term ambitions, and during 2023/24 we assisted them in the process of becoming a charity. They received their CIO status in August 2023.

We provided them with various funding and training support throughout this period, including Adult Safeguarding Basic Awareness, Working Together to Safeguard Children, Becoming a Trauma Informed Organisation, and Win That Bid.

They also secured several Salford CVS-administered funds, including a Suicide Prevention grant.

During the year Mandem Meetup expanded its services to include photography, poetry, BJJ, bushcraft, football, and holistic activities - all provided free of charge. It has also now established a Wolverhamptonbased group. Furthermore, it collaborated with We Are Survivors to support sexual abuse survivors, a partnership that came about through meeting at our AGM.

Over the past two years, Mandem Meetup has evolved into a vibrant VCSE organisation, significantly impacting the men it supports. Their work was recently highlighted on BBC One’s Countryfile episode ‘Ramble for Children in Need.’

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Salford Loaves and Fishes

During 2023/24 Salford Loaves and Fishes, a Salford-based charity, found itself grappling with an escalating demand for its services. This increase

was driven by various factors, including the processing of asylum seekers, a rise in homelessness, and the soaring cost of living. The organisation was struggling to meet this growing demand due to limited financial resources and they urgently needed additional funding to meet demand and sustain their essential work in the community.

Salford CVS met with them to assess their needs and came up with a plan to tackle their funding challenges. We alerted senior figures within the local authority and the City Mayor to address the issue of how demand was being deflected by council officers onto them without appropriate resources, which led to the City Mayor visiting and the council agreeing to invest in their support services. We then helped them secure a Reaching Communities grant worth £250,000 to stabilise the organisation - and continue to support them with

additional funding applications to help them sustain their services for the long-term. We engaged and paid for specialist consultant to conduct an SROI Impact Report on the organisation. This report has become a critical asset in their fundraising activities and supports their ongoing negotiations with statutory organisations for financial support. We also made them a core delivery partner in our learning, skills and work partnership programme, leading to a core investment of £100,000 p.a. for three years.

Our support has enabled Salford Loaves and Fishes to secure critical funding to sustain their vital services to the community. This work highlights the significance of strategic partnerships and targeted interventions in sustaining charities. With the right support, organisations can overcome financial hurdles, sustain and develop their services, and continue to impact their communities positively.

www.salfordloavesandfishes.org.uk/

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Grants and Investments

During the year 2023/24, Salford CVS awarded several hundred grants to support community-led and communityfocused projects across Salford. These ranged from pocket park improvements to established city-wide health and wellbeing programmes; the range and impact of the projects is inspiring and testament to the strength and diversity of the city’s VCSE sector.

The Salford Locality Plan remains a cornerstone of the Salford CVS grants programme, with £750k being awarded through the Third Sector Fund (TSF) this year, funded by NHS GM Integrated Care Partnership (Salford locality), for initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of Salford residents. This fund was divided into several grant ‘pots,’ including the Wellbeing Fund, the Volunteers’ Expenses Fund, the Grow Well Fund, and the Impact

The Third Sector Fund provides Community Asset grants to provide ongoing support for

Wellbeing Matters and Salford’s social prescribing ecosystem . Awards enable VCSE organisations to boost their capacity to receive and support referrals from Community Connectors for new or existing health and wellbeing activities. Examples of funded activities include fitness sessions, peer support groups, and

nutrition workshops.

‘ This award will massively help us get the groups running longer and give us a chance to reach out and help more people. We can now schedule in more days with Brew Crew and finally get the Invisible Illness group up and running. These groups give people a safe place to go and socialise with other people. Whether it’s expressing their illnesses to people who understand, or playing dominoes over a sandwich and a brew, we offer something to make life easier. We are extremely grateful for this opportunity and hope by making people’s lives better we can live up to expectations. Thank You!’ Hugo Webb, Friends in Need Salford, Wellbeing Matters’ Community Asset Fund 62

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‘’I think this is great to have the possibility to develop children, support parents and give us a sense that someone cares and understands us.’’

Parent beneficiary from Together Family Centre, supported by the Short Break Care Fund

In September 2023, Salford CVS celebrated the achievements and impact of our Third Sector Fund at a showcase event at The Lowry Theatre .

Over 100 guests joined us for an afternoon that highlighted the increasingly important work of the city’s VCSE sector in supporting the health and wellbeing of our communities .

The Salford CVS-led

The Salford City Council-supported Short Break Care Fund awarded grants of over £120k for two-year projects offering a range of activities for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Supported activities included sports, arts and crafts, and outdoor learning, providing parents with respite from their caring responsibilities for a short time.

Elevate Salford: VCSE Learning Skills and Work programme , funded by the Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation with support from Salford City Council, has provided grants and investments to support care leavers, disabled people, carers, homeless people and other priority groups with bespoke employment support, training, volunteer and work placements.

These awards enable the VCSE sector to provide much-needed support to those furthest from the jobs market.

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Arts and culture in Salford received a welcome boost from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, with Salford CVS working with Salford City Council to create the Whose Art, Whose Culture? VCSE fund, alongside wider strategic investments, which were shaped by the Salford Culture and Place Partnership. Funded projects explore and celebrate the art, culture, and heritage of Salford’s diverse communities, from white workingclass history in Weaste, through to Orthodox Jewish communities in Broughton, and the lived experiences of Disabled People. Read more in this blog:

Other Greater Manchester-wide funds managed by Salford CVS in 2023/24 included the GM Walking and Wheeling Fund (via GM Moving), Answer Cancer Fund (Public Health England funding to the Answer Cancer partnership), the Cancer and Inequalities Fund (NHS GM via 10GM) and the Achieve Asset Fund : Salford and Trafford (via GM Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust). We have recently secured the GM Walking and Wheeling Fund contract for the third consecutive year for delivery in 2024/25.

www.salfordcvs.co.uk/whose-art-whoseculture-summer-our-city

Independent creatives from across Greater Manchester were also supported to invest in their creative offer and delivery of arts and culture projects, with the help of a small grant of up to £2k through the Greater Manchester Inspire Fund. This £300k city-regional programme (2023-25) is supported by Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Salford CVS, with the support of our 10GM partners, successfully tendered for this work via The Chest procurement portal.

Demand for food support across the city continued to be high during the year, with £190k of Household Support Fund monies being channelled into VCSE food response activities, including food banks and clubs. Members of the Salford Food Share Network were also invited to apply for a grant through the Community Cooking Fund to run cooking skills workshops for lowincome families with a child under the age of five – part of the Promoting Healthy Living in Early Years programme.

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Community Cooking Fund

Salford CVS worked alongside Salford City Council, Salford Public Health, NHS GM (Salford) and wider health colleagues to shape and deliver the Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Early Years pilot. CVS staff attend monthly meetings to review the progress of projects, from oral health and infection control to food insecurity and maternal health, and worked towards further integration of services and teams to support families across Salford.

https://tinyurl.com/promotinghealthylifestyles

The Community Cooking Fund , launched in April 2023, awarded grants to food banks and clubs in the Salford Food Share Network for projects to upskill and build the confidence of parents and carers on low incomes in cooking healthy, nutritious, lowcost meals from scratch. It also aimed to increase access to energy-efficient cooking equipment including slow cookers and air fryers, which families were invited to take home with them if needed so they could implement what they learnt at home.

Total awarded: Over £35k Number of grants awarded: five Beneficiaries: 120+ families

Sessions delivered: 40+

Outcomes - A wealth of benefits have been achieved for low-income families with young children, most notably improved cooking skills, increased knowledge of and access to healthy ingredients and recipes. Several wider outcomes have also been achieved, including new friendships being formed between parents / carers, improved family relationships, and improved food hygiene skills (some participants were also supported to obtain a Food Hygiene Level 2 certificate). Many Community Cooking Fund projects, such as at Langworthy Cornerstone , actively involved children in the cooking sessions.

“ I have come to this country from another part of the world. I don't know anything about local recipes but after joining this course I have learned so many different dishes. I would really like the opportunity to join any further cooking courses, would take part without a second thought.” Beneficiary, Social adVentures 17

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At first Mrs S was reluctant to participate in the walks, but other women told her more about the group and the benefits walking at a Coffee and Chat session and encouraged her to attend. Mrs S had never been to the countryside before. She liked the idea of going on these types of trips, however she was worried about walking…

GM Walking and Wheeling Fund - Changing Life Directions, FIT4LIFE WOMEN Project

Changing Life Directions is a women-led charity dedicated to helping women who face seemingly impossible barriers find a way to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives. The majority of women the charity supports do not drive and are often stuck at home during the day. In December 2023, the charity received a grant of £2,180 through the Walking and Wheeling Fund to deliver walks in their local area to empower the women, build their confidence and ultimately to support them to walk independently. Walking routes were designed to incorporate key services including the GP and library, to help familiarise participants with these. Walks were also held further afield in the surrounding countryside.

One participant on the walks, Mrs S, was a 59-year-old woman who suffers with arthritis and type 2 diabetes. She was referred to Changing Life Directions by her doctor via social prescribing.

“The girls [volunteers] said they will hold my hand and I can have one or even two women to help me walk if I want, they were very helpful and reassuring. I had never been

anywhere nice outdoors , same things every day, wake up, cook, clean etc. They said outdoors will be good for my mood. So, I said I will go for a little bit. We went in a group of 10. It was nice chatting with each other, I did get tired so we stopped for a break and a drink and biscuits. It was actually ok the walk, the fresh air felt nice, nobody was rushing, it was slow and relaxing. I made it all the way and felt so happy, we went on the swings and I laughed so much. I forgot about all my problems and felt free. We stayed in the park for one hour enjoying ourselves. I could not believe what I did on that day, it was the best day.”

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Backroom Services

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) support for VCSE groups and organisations

In 2023/24 we supported 1,175 individuals to complete a DBS check, of which 373 were for Salford organisations, the rest being from organisations across Greater Manchester and beyond. 427 were for paid staff and 748 for volunteers. The chart below shows the reach we have across GM.

Picture from our visit to Salford Women’s Centre to complete DBS checks for their staff and volunteers

Salford CVS provides advice, guidance and eligibility checking to organisations who have staff or volunteers who work with vulnerable adults or children and are eligible to apply for a DBS check for their role within the organisation. We offer a face-to-face appointment at our office in Eccles or for people unable to come to the office, we provide a postal service and video call ID check.

We offer site visits for GM VCSE organisations who have ten or more checks to be completed. In the past 12 months we have visited seven organisations in person. We also on occasion provide training to VCSE organisations’ staff members so they can complete their own eligibility and ID checks. This is completed face to face or online.

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Financial services and support provided to VCSE groups and organisations

Holding Accounts – 18 ‘Holding’ accounts were in operation during the year. This service provides members organistions with access to grants and other funding which they may not be otherwise have had access to.

Salford CVS prides itself on providing expert and accessible support to VCSE organisations in Salford. During 2023/24 the support provided included:

Payroll – 1,193 payslips were generated for an average 96 employees per month, organisations were also supported to comply with pension legislation.

“I really do not know what to say, because whatever words I quote will not do you justice…The YCA have been using the CVS payroll service for the last 13 years. The advice given by Salford CVS payroll service has been priceless. The effectiveness, efficiency and continuous support you offer, I just cannot thank you enough. Whenever we have an AGM or the issue of payroll is brought up, I have always been proud to say that CVS are our payroll department. You have always been there whenever we have needed advice or support. Thank you for everything.” Gadri Audhali, Yemeni Community Association

"As the group's treasurer, I couldn't have done what I have with the veterans memorial garden project over the last two years without the holding account we opened with Salford CVS. Conventional banks and building societies no longer cater for small community groups like ours but the funds we have raised for the project had to be held somewhere and we're very grateful to Salford CVS for their assistance."

Glenn Croston – Treasurer of Salford Veterans Association

Administrative support, including minute-taking

During 2023/24 Salford CVS continued to provide administrative support to the following VCSE partnerships:

Salford Third Sector Consortium, Wellbeing Matters, Elevate Salford, Answer Cancer

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Salford Third Sector Consortium

Salford CVS continued to provide hub support for the Board of Directors of the Salford Third Sector Consortium during 2023/24. This included convening and minuting Board meetings; and producing management and annual accounts.

During 2023/24 there were concerns about the lack of sustainability of funding streams into the consortium and in July 2023 the Board of Directors conducted a review of Salford Third Sector Consortium’s contribution to the Wellbeing Matters social prescribing programme – its remaining major contract.

As a result of the review, the Board of Directors felt that the organisation didn’t have the capacity needed to effectively support or contribute to the delivery of the programme and so therefore considered that it created an additional level of bureaucracy for the anchor organisations (and members of the consortium) that were embedded partners in Wellbeing Matters (for transparency, Salford CVS are the lead partner and accountable body for Wellbeing Matters, but are NOT members of Salford Third Sector Consortium).

It was therefore agreed to inform Salford CVS of the intention to cease their involvement in Wellbeing Matters beyond March 2024 and to put a resolution for closure to the membership at their Annual General Meeting (AGM).

At the AGM, which was held at Salford CVS on 31st October 2023, a Special Resolution was presented to the membership proposing closure of the organisation. This proposal was unanimously voted for.

The organisation will cease to operate on 1st April 2024 and will apply for dissolution in July 2024.

One of the legacies of Salford Third Sector Consortium is a strong VCSE partnership, Wellbeing Matters, delivering social prescribing across Salford.

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Information and Communication

The current Salford CVS’ communications team has now been in place for just over a year and it has been an exciting and inspiring time. We hope that our communications have also been inspiring 😊

We have had some lovely feedback from colleagues and beyond. We feel privileged to be able to showcase the work of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector in Salford.

Half of the proceeds of the sale of the paintings then went to our fundraising initiative, Salford4Good. In total £1,619 was raised for our Cost of Living Crisis Fund, which we then redistributed to local good causes.

“You are such an amazing team and colleagues and people in general. So thank you! Our comms has been very inspiring...”

Events

For our stall at the event we asked the people attending to draw what Salford meant to them.... see the image below for some of the results!

We have supported Salford CVS’ busy events calendar this year with promoting attendance, developing promotional materials and PowerPoints and taking photos and posting on social media at the events. For example, we helped partner with Art Battle MCR for their event at Salford Quays. It was a brilliant event with local artists competing against each other, hosted by celebrity Dr Ranj .

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Campaigns – Awareness Days

This year we aligned our work with various national awareness days, weeks and months. For instance, we highlighted some of the amazing women in Salford on International Women’s Day . These women were very happy to be recognised and thanked for their work.

Another big highlight of the year was our 20th Heart of Salford awards .

We introduced (subtitled) films to this year’s awards to showcase the inspiring projects and volunteers to the audience. This also added interactive element to the event with the audience voting on the winner after watching films of the shortlist in each category. We created a total of 23 films for the awards ceremony. Some of the films and photos from the event can be viewed on our website: www.salfordcvs.co.uk/heartsalford-awards-2023-0

“Denise was happy just to be noticed, she said it meant a lot.”

“That’s so lovely whoever shared those words, I really appreciate it and it’s made my week!” Nic Spiby-Roberts

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Communications Guidelines

This year we refreshed our Communications Guidelines for our colleagues, making them shorter, informative and easy to use. We incorporated new learning from our experiences and training, especially around inclusive communications and accessibility. We worked on the content and design for this early in 2024 and launched it, alongside a quiz, at our Salford CVS staff away-day in February 2024. Feedback from colleagues was really positive!

Social Media

We continued to update our social media channels daily during the year, focusing on sharing information and news and also showcasing both Salford CVS’ work and that of the VCSE sector. From evaluation of our platforms the most popular posts are always the human stories… Our followers across all of our social media channels continue to grow.

E-Bulletin

We refreshed and added new features to Salford CVS’ weekly E-Bulletin, including awareness days and blogs.

‘Thank you for sending through the bulletin. They’re always amazing, informative and extremely useful.’ Micky Dacks, Chief Executive Officer, I4YPC

Website

We worked hard to keep our website updated and make it more engaging and inspiring, and commenced working on a new version of the website, alongside our colleagues at Macc in Manchester, working with Civi-CRM developers, Circle Interactive. This will be launched during autumn 2024. One of the new exciting features will be an ‘Impact’ area, showing both the impact of the VCSE sector in Salford and also the impact of Salford CVS’ support to the sector.

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Social Prescribing Day / Wellbeing Matters

We created significant content this year for Social Prescribing Day (14th March) in order to bring social prescribing in Salford to life. We worked closely with Wellbeing Matters colleagues on showing the impact of social prescribing in Salford.

This included formatting a report on the impact of social prescribing, creating engaging visuals of statistics, and producing two films - which bring to life the process and the impact social prescribing in Salford has on the local people who access it.

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Creating Padlets as easy-to-access noticeboards

During the year we built on the noticeboards we had in place using the Padlet platform to create and update noticeboards of events and groups.

For instance, we created a Padlet of ‘Community groups and resources for Disabled People’ to link in with the theme of our VCSE conference, ‘Justice for Disabled People’.

As a result of our successful approach to using Padlets, we were approached by the digital charity Catalyst , who wanted to create a guide for their website on how Salford CVS have utilised Padlet and what we have learnt.

They hadn’t heard of any other charities using it as we have. The guide they produced using Salford CVS as a case study can be found at:

www.shareddigitalguides.org.uk/guides /events-resources-padlet-cvs

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Volunteering Volunteer Centre services and activities

The year began with the excellent news that we had once again passed with flying colours the Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation (VCQA). This national accreditation, managed by our national membership body NAVCA, demonstrates the breadth and quality of our Volunteer Centre services.

A particular highlight this year was the return of our Heart of Salford awards - the first time since pre-COVID that we’ve been able to run the awards as a big in-person event, and our 20th to boot!

Here are a selection of highlights from 2023/24:

Events and Outreach

This year we have attended many community events to promote our services. Our outreach is crucial to ensure all residents of Salford feel that volunteering is accessible to them and their communities. The map below shows some of the places we have been to on this year’s roadshow. read more detail at: https://tinyurl.com/VCpadlet

As well as one-to-one advice and support for volunteer-involving organisations, during the year we also delivered a varied programme of training for Volunteer Coordinators. This training, along with our Volunteer Coordinator Network practitioner meetings, helped us to empower those who manage volunteers and keep them up-to-date date with good practice.

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Volunteers’ Week 2023

During Volunteers’ Week in June 2023 we organised and toured across Salford to promote our Volunteer Centre services to as many local people as possible.

We also invited VCSE organisations to share quotes, stories and films on the difference volunteering makes to both their group / organisation and also the individual volunteers. These stories demonstrate the impact volunteering can have and we hope they will inspire others to volunteer too.

www.salfordcvs.co.uk/volunteer-stories

“When you get good feedback it makes you feel 10 feet tall. It’s been very good for my health.” Margaret, volunteer

We Invented the Weekend Salford’s festival of free time

We supported the recruitment and management of volunteers for the We Invented the Weekend festival in June 2023, which was attended by thousands of people. We also helped secure the participation of a wide range of community and voluntary groups and organisations.

For instance, we recruited an additional 22 volunteers to support the event, with CVS staff also helping. Volunteers enriched the event by meeting and greeting the public, providing way-finding and signposting people to activities.

One volunteer said:

“I am proud that I played a small part in such a great community event. Well done Salford CVS and thank you to everyone who made it happen.”

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Heart of Salford awards

We were delighted to celebrate our 20th Heart of Salford awards .

On Thursday 14th December, shortlisted nominees and invited guests joined us at Buile Hill Park Hall to celebrate the achievements and the difference that volunteers and VCSE organisations make in Salford.

Dignitaries in attendance included the Ceremonial Mayor of Salford , Cllr Gina Reynolds (pictured above with colleagues from local charity START ).

All nominees received a certificate, and we shared short films about all of the shortlisted nominees present, which provided insight into the difference they were all making to Salford’s diverse communities.

‘Winners’ were decided on the day by the audience, who voted in each category. Each winner received a handmade wood award, crafted by START.

The Heart of Salford awards put Salford on the map as a city that values its volunteers and VCSE organisations.

It raises awareness of the social value that they give and helps nominees feel appreciated .

“It’s so wonderful to celebrate all the amazing, positive and impactful volunteering of so many special individuals, groups, organisations across Salford. It’s a celebration like this that reminds us all of the kindness and social value that Salford is rightly known for.” Feedback from awards attendee

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Community Response Volunteers

Our Community Response Volunteers have assisted with a number of community initiatives across the year, from helping at festivals such as We Invented the Weekend and Sounds of the Other to delivering festive hampers to local families in need.

‘The weekend went really well. All of the volunteers were absolutely fab. Two volunteers brought their own litter pickers and bin bags and even had some kids getting involved with the litter picking! They were all lovely and I hope we can work with them again in the future. Thank you - really appreciate it.’ Sounds of the Other

Volunteer Coordinators’ Network

Our quarterly Volunteer Coordinators’ Network meetings in 2023/24 continued to provide an opportunity for Volunteer Coordinators to connect, share good practice and discuss topical issues related to volunteering.

“ These meetings allow open communication and shared visions. They are extremely beneficial and have enabled me to team lead the people who volunteer for Aspire, ensuring person-centred placements, mutual benefits and that they are valued for what they do” . Heather Yates, Volunteer Team Leader, Aspire

Training

As well as organising our regular training courses such as Volunteering and the Law, during 2023/24 we have facilitated some completely new sessions, such as Kindful Leadership. Our training programme enables Volunteer Coordinators / Managers to keep up to date with good practice and deliver positive volunteering experiences. Sessions we delivered during 2023/24 included:

How to Lose a Volunteer in 10 Days

Kindful Leadership

Volunteering & the Law

Ethical Issues in Volunteering

For each event we invite guest speakers and facilitate discussions on topical themes. This year we organised a range of guest speakers, including Mustard Tree, Imperial War Museum North and BASIC charity . These meetings provide a crucial space for Volunteer Coordinators to network, support and learn from each other.

From the Top Down for Volunteer Managers

“I really enjoyed the day. I found the group activities interesting and thoughtprovoking and the content was engaging.” Training attendee

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LGBT Foundation training

Working in the community is full of inspiring moments. This year, our bespoke training for LGBT Foundation demonstrated three things - exceptional organisations, exceptional volunteering, exceptional impact.

Firstly, a truly memorable warm welcome on arrival was delivered by a volunteer receptionist, showing the impact volunteering can have. A tour of the building followed, which showed they had been purposeful in creating an organisation full of warmth and heart, with spaces for both creative work and focused work.

When delivering the bespoke ‘How to Lose a Volunteer in 10 Days’ training for their Volunteer Coordinators, it was clear we were having a real impact. Their participants were highly engaged, with regular debate on how to apply learnings practically.

We walked away feeling confident that the session would ripple through to even better volunteer experiences for local people.The day ended the way it started – with a warm goodbye from a volunteer.

“Thank you so much for such fantastic training! We really appreciate your time and energy... It’s been so great working with you and I’m looking forward to working more closely with you going forward.”

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Marcus - individual volunteering

On moving to Salford, Marcus wanted to contribute to the community he now lived in and give back some of his free time through volunteering. After finishing his PhD at university, Marcus found a job that provided training in coding.

The Salford CVS volunteering portal offered him a way to research current volunteering opportunities and he registered for an IT role with local charity Sovereign House GH , utilising his knowledge to support young people in learning how to code.

Marcus joined Sovereign House GH charity in May 2023 and, after volunteering as a classroom assistant for a few weeks, he took over the role of IT Tutor from someone who was leaving. Coming from a background in teaching adults, he found the transition to working with small groups of teenagers relatively smooth.

We followed up with Marcus at the beginning of April 2024 to find out how his first year of volunteering had gone. He was very positive about his experience , which allowed him to not only help students to develop but also made him feel more invested in the community. Rather than PowerPoint, he made the lessons more engaging by creating coding puzzles for them to attempt themselves which moved them on ‘leaps and bounds’.

“My volunteering experience has been so rewarding. The students are fantastic, and the small class size allows me to spend time with them as individuals and provide that extra support. I always come away from class with a spring in my step.”

Our volunteering portal is a good first step to learning about different types of opportunities in your local community: www.salfordcvs.co.uk/volunteer17 opportunities

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“It is great that companies take time out to do this – thank you for organising for us.” Heather from Aspire

Employer Supported Volunteering

The Bibby Line Group contacted us in July 2023, enquiring about volunteering for some of their employees based at Salford Quays who wanted to ‘Donate a Day’ as part of their ‘Giving Something Back’ programme.

We linked them to local social enterprise Aspire , who needed help restoring their sensory gardens at their site in Swinton. The volunteering took place in November, so, dressed for the very mixed weather, the volunteers all got stuck in. The walkways were cleared, enabling wheelchair access, and beds were starting to become clearer for planting later in spring.

The employees had a great time and although it was physically demanding, they worked at their own pace and could see the impact they had made. Heather spoke to us all about her hopes to develop the sensory garden further, building a forest school for young adults with autism and making the whole area accessible to all.

Speaking to the volunteers afterwards, they fed back to us that they had really enjoyed their morning and were happy to come back again and help in the future.

“Thank you for the wonderful support you have given Bibby – it is very much appreciated 😊 ”

Emma, CSR Coordinator, Bibby Line Group

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During the year 2023/24 we:

Once again secured the ~~~~ Volunteer Centre Quality Award Played a strategic role promoting volunteering across the city of ~~~~ Salford *

Recruited and trained a team of Civil Contingencies volunteers in Salford and led on this work in Greater Manchester

Continued to promote the ~~~~ Salford Volunteer Charter * Commenced work on the refresh * of the Salford Volunteering Strategy*

Connected 213 people to external volunteering opportunities via our online volunteering portal

Provided bespoke in-person information and guidance to 82 individuals seeking to volunteer

Held one to one conversations about volunteering with 444 local people

Delivered a range of formal training and networking opportunities

Participated in the Greater Manchester Volunteer Centre’s Network

Actively took part in the national NAVCA Vision for Volunteering conversations

Recruited, managed and mobilised events volunteers

across the city

Held stalls promoting volunteering across the city at a wide range of events

Helped create 150 new volunteering opportunities

Supported 145 volunteer-involving organisations with information and guidance and good practice

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Looking Back, Moving Forward – our plans for 2024/25

Last year our commitments were very much about embedding our work in a wide range of partnerships and delivering against our key functions and stated priorities.

Most of those priorities still remain relevant and so will continue to be the focus of our energies going forward…

Specifically, in the year 2024/25 we will focus on:

Delivering our local infrastructure contract with Salford City Council, focusing on the four key functions of local infrastructure: Leadership and Advocacy, Partnerships and Collaborations, Capacity-Building and Volunteering

Augmenting and improving our Vocal model for voice and influence , including ensuring we have proactive VCSE sector representatives on all of the major strategic partnership boards in Salford – including

health and social care, wider wellbeing, creative health, physical activity, arts and culture, inclusive economy, tackling inequalities, skills and work, housing, and more; alongside playing a visible and effective role in Greater Manchester

Managing a diverse portfolio of grants and investments on behalf of a range of funders, with our health and wellbeing-focused Third Sector Fund, commissioned by NHS Salford GM (Salford locality), as the cornerstone

Convening and coordinating key VCSE partnerships and collaborations in Salford and Greater Manchester, including Wellbeing Matters, Elevate Salford, Answer Cancer GM

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6 Delivering as a key partner in a range of VCSE and cross-sectoral partnerships Timeline of events , including: Age-Friendly Salford, Family Hubs, Living Well, Salford Culture and Place Partnership, Salford Place Partnership (GM Moving), GM Violence Reduction Alliance, GM Live Well , and the 10GM partnership Leading on the State of the VCSE Sector in Greater Manchester research, working with GMCVO and locality infrastructure colleagues from across GM Organising our annual in-person VCSE conference, planned for October 2024, focusing on the topic of Climate Change Supporting volunteering and volunteer-involving organisations in Salford by delivering a range of online and in-person volunteer brokerage, training and good practice support; including organising events and activities during Volunteers’ Week (1st-7th June) Frou RS’ ~~—=~~ Organising our prestigious 20th Heart of Salford awards, celebrating volunteering and citizen / community action in Salford

Working with Salford’s Culture and Place Partnership to support the delivery of a wide range of arts, culture and heritage events, which includes managing grants and recruiting volunteers to support a vibrant programme across the city’s diverse communities

Gaining the LIQA (local infrastructure) quality award as a companion to the VCQA (Volunteer Centre) quality award we achieved this year

Redeveloping the old courtroom in Eccles Town Hall to become a much-needed meetings and events space

Securing future funding to ensure our sustainability

AND continuing to…

Lobby for recognition and resource for the VCSE in Salford and beyond

Resource and develop civil contingencies and humanitarian assistance work

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Work with our 10GM colleagues www.10gm.org.uk to further develop our joint venture, whilst working closely with GMCVO and other locality and thematic infrastructure bodies across and within Greater Manchester

Play a key role in Greater Manchester strategic partnership work as part of the GM VCSE Leadership Group and associated activities, including supporting the ongoing development of the GM Alternative Provider Collaborative for the social sector as part of our NHS GM work

Champion a range of relevant campaigning activities, including the Living Wage Foundation’s ‘real’ Living Wage, Refugees Welcome, GM’s We Stand Together, and more…

…and to ensure that Salford CVS remains as needed and as relevant as it was when it was established in 1919!

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Policies

Risk Management

The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular those related to the operations and finance of the charity; and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate their exposure to major risks. The charity’s organisational Risk Register is regularly reviewed, as per the agreed Board work programme, with remedial action taken as required.

Excluded from the Reserves Policy are funds associated with:

Therefore, in order to demonstrate transparency, accountability and sound financial management, the Salford CVS Reserves Policy clearly justifies the amount of reserves kept back each year.

Steps taken to establish the level of reserves

Reserves Policy

The Salford CVS Reserves Policy is to maintain a sufficient level of reserves to enable usual activities to continue over a period of up to six months should a shortfall in income occur and also to take account of potential risks and contingencies that may arise from time to time. The required reserves to achieve this are £1,411,476.

In order to make a judgment on the amount of reserves, the Board of Trustees have considered the risks in respect of expenditure, unrestricted income and, where appropriate, restricted income and where funds can only be realised by the disposal of a fixed asset.

Also taken into consideration are any externally identified potential major risks to income and expenditure during the year under consideration.

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Investment Policy

The Board of Trustees have considered the most appropriate policy for investing funds and has invested £2,730,422 in the following fixed-term accounts.

When the account matures the funds are rolled over provided the Trustees consider the interest rate is acceptable:

Grants

The company does not make significant grants in its own capacity but acts only in partnership with various local and national government departments and other strategic partners (e.g. 10GM) to administer the distribution of grants to other local charities, community organisations, social enterprises and schools.

Distributions are made in strict accordance with the criteria set by the original funding body and are included in the provision of services when payable.

The company itself distributed £1,750 at its 2023 AGM in the form of a ‘Pitch in 60 Seconds’ event for members.

The balances of funds are to be held in bank deposit accounts.

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Structure, Management & Governance

The Trustees are responsible for the strategic management and direction of the organisation, working in conjunction with the Chief Executive.

Day to day strategic, operational and financial management is delegated to the Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive.

During the year the Board met for one strategy meeting and eight business meetings.

Members of the Board of Trustees are elected by the membership at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). Officers of the Board of Trustees are appointed by the Board at the next Board meeting following the AGM.

Members of the Board serve for a three-year term, although they can be re-elected at the end of that term. Additional members can be co-opted to the Board at any time of the year and serve until the next AGM.

Co-opted members can then either stand for election at the AGM or be re-appointed at the first meeting of the Board after the AGM.

Trustees are inducted by the Chief Executive / Deputy Chief Executive and Chair and are provided with a handbook outlining their responsibilities.

Trustees complete an annual skills audit and are given opportunities for training.

The organisation is affiliated to the following national organisations that provide advice, guidance and support:

National Association for Voluntary & Community Action (NAVCA)

National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

Social Enterprise UK (SEUK)

Charity Finance Group (CFG)

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Financial Review

During the year the charity had a surplus of £188,477 on unrestricted income. This surplus is the net result of income received from providing sales and services and management fees.

Funds Held as Custodian

As of 31st March 2024 Salford CVS acted as custodian for the following organisations:

The deficit on restricted funds of £124,394 is a result of restricted funds received in prior years being utilised in the year 2023/24.

As of 31st March 2024, the Charity has designated reserves of £669,003 for specific projects as shown on note 19 to the accounts.

As of 31st March 2024, the Charity has unrestricted reserves of £843,556, designated reserves of £669,003 and restricted reserves of £1,946,027 - a total of £3,458,586.

At 31st March 2024 the Charity had free reserves amounting to £1,479,410.

Total £43,868

Funds are held as custodian for organisations that do not have access to bank accounts or that wish Salford CVS to act as their banker. The funds were received and placed within the accounts as current liabilities. Details of Custodian Funds are reported to the Board on a quarterly basis.

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Statement of Trustee Responsibilities

The Trustees (who are the Directors of Salford Community and Voluntary Services for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Practice).

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for the period. In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees are required to: xh Rag oe oe

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

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In so far as the Trustees are aware:

Auditors

Wyatt, Morris, Golland Ltd, Chartered Accountants, have intimated their willingness to continue in office as auditors to the company and will be proposed for re-appointment.

The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Signed on behalf of the Trustees

Grace Dyke (Chair)

Approved by the Trustees: 21st November 2024

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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Salford Community and Voluntary Services (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31st March 2024 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies.

The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report.

We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the Financial Reporting Council's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

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Conclusions Relating to Going Concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other Information

The Trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our Report of the Independent Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves.

If based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

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Matters on Which we are Required to Report by Exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of Trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees Responsibilities, the Trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

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Our Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements

We have been appointed as auditors under Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulators made or having effect thereunder.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Independent Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:

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We assessed the susceptibility of the charity's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:

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There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities . This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

Use of Our Report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, o r for the opinions we have formed.

Wyatt Morris Golland Ltd

Statutory Auditors

Eligible to act as an auditor in terms of Section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006 Park House

200 Drake Street

Rochdale

Lancashire OL16 1PJ

Date: 21st November 2024

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Statement of Financial Activities Including an income and expenditure account

THE NOTES ON PAGES 102 TO 155 FORM PART OF THESE ACCOUNTS.

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Salford Community and Voluntary Services Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2024

Balance Sheet As at 31st March 2024

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

The members have not deposited notice, pursuant to Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006 requiring an audit of these financial statements.

The Trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for

a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and

These financial statements have been audited under the requirements of Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011.

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 on 21st November 2024 and were signed on its behalf by:

Grace Dyke – Trustee

b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.

John Phillips – Trustee

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Cash Flow Statement For the period ended 31st March 2024

Note 1 – Reconciliation of net income to net cash flow from operating activities

Note 2 – Analysis of changes in Net Funds

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Notes forming part of the Financial Statements

1. Accounting Policies

Basis of preparation and assessment of going concern

Critical accounting judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

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 1st 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.

The Trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.

In the application of the Company’s accounting policies, management is required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates. The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimated are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods. Management does not consider that there are any key sources of estimation uncertainty that have a significant effect on the amounts recognised in the financial statements.

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Incoming Resources

Income is recognised when the charity has an entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

b) Legacies and interest receivable These are included when receivable by the charity.

Resources Expended

Resources expended are included in the statement of financial activities on an accruals basis, inclusive of any V.A.T. which cannot be recovered.

a) Donations and grants

Income from donations and grants, including capital grants, is included in incoming resources when these are receivable except as follows:

Certain expenditure is directly attributable to specific activities and has been included in those cost categories. Certain other costs which are attributable to more than one activity are apportioned across cost categories on the basis of the Directors’ best estimate.

The company does not make significant grants in its own capacity but acts only in partnership with various local and national government departments and other key partners (e.g. 10GM) to administer the distribution of grants to other local charities and community organisations.

Distributions are made in strict accordance with the criteria set by the original funding body and are included in the charitable activities when payable.

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Fund Accounting

Funds held by the charity are either:

Unrestricted general funds - these are funds which can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the Trustees.

Designated funds - these are funds set aside by the Trustees out of unrestricted general funds for specific future purposes or projects.

Restricted funds - these are funds that 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.

Separate asset accounts are not maintained for each fund if a better return can be obtained by consolidating the assets. However, they should always be readily accessible, dependent on the fund involved.

Tangible Fixed Assets

Assets acquired by means of restricted capital grants for time limited projects are depreciated over the life of the project. Depreciation is provided on other fixed assets at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life:

Investments

General investments

Investments are a form of basic financial instrument and are initially recognised at their transaction value and subsequently measured at their fair value as at the balance sheet date using the closing quoted market price. The statement of financial activities includes the net gains and losses arising on revaluation and disposals throughout the year. The charity does not acquire put options, derivatives or other complex financial instruments.

The main form of financial risk faced by the charity is that volatility in equity markets and investment markets due to wider economic conditions, the attitude of investors to investment risk, and changes in sentiment concerning equities and within particular sectors or sub-sectors.

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Programme Related Investments

These are made directly in pursuit of the organisation’s charitable purposes and further the objects of the charity. Whilst they may generate a small amount of income they are not made for those purposes and are often not on commercial terms.

They are valued at cost less impairment. The impairment is based on the Trustees perception of the recoverability of the investment.

Taxation

The company is a registered charity and as such is entitled to the exemption from tax to the extent that the income received falls within section 505 I.C.T.A. 1988 and section 256 C.G.T.A. 1992 and is applied to charitable purposes only.

Pensions

Contributions in respect of the company's defined contribution pension scheme are charged to the income and expenditure account for the year in which they are payable to the scheme.

Government Grants

Government grants are recognised when there is reasonable assurance that the company will comply with the conditions attaching to the grant and the grant will be received.

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2. Net Income for the year

The net income for the year is stated after charging

3. Donations and Legacies

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Restricted Income continued

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4. Charitable Trading Income

5. Other Income

6. Total Incoming Resources

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7. Charitable Activities

Depreciation

All grants were paid to VCSE groups, organisations and primary schools in the Greater Manchester area. All were paid on behalf of the funders, who had requested the charity administer the funds for distribution. The charity retains a proportion of the funds for management and administration costs.

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8. Grants Distributed

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Other

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Grants analysis 2023/24

Third Sector Fund

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Fund Grants Amounts Total
Defibrillator Fund 2 £1,500 £3,000
Minimum recipient £110 and
Food Response Fund 26 £104,000
maximum recipient £5,000
Minimum recipient £8,134 and
Impact Fund 20 £346,882
maximum recipient £20,000
Minimum recipient £3,708 and
Responsiveness Fund 4 £54,208
maximum recipient £27,000
Minimum recipient £4,413 and
Healthy Schools Fund 12 £147,382
maximum recipient £15,000
Volunteers’ Expenses minimum recipient £286 and
33 £28,423
Fund maximum recipient £1,000
Volunteers’ Week Minimum recipient £202 and
24 £10,295
Activities Fund maximum recipient £500
Minimum recipient £315 and
Wellbeing Fund 44 £60,378
maximum recipient £1,500
Wellbeing Matters’ Minimum recipient of £488 and
31 £190,080
Community Asset Fund maximum recipient £10,000
Minimum recipient £1,920 and
Youth Wellbeing Fund 10 £26,886
maximum recipient £3,000
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Other Funds

Fund Number
of grants
Amounts
Total
10GM Cancer &
Inequalities
10GM VCSE Test
& Learn
Access
Inequalities
investments
Achieve Bolton,
Salford and
Trafford Asset
Fund
Community
Cooking Fund
Cost of Living
Crisis Fund
(Salford4Good)
Early Years
Nursery awards
Family Hubs
Food Fund
Blended		 17
Minimum recipient £700 and maximum
recipient £2,000
£30,491
11
Minimum recipient £695 and maximum
recipient £4,400
£22,503
33
Minimum recipient £25 and maximum
recipient £9,000
£29,990
198
Minimum £20, maximum £15,000
£257,979
5
Minimum recipient £5,210 and maximum
recipient £7,995
£35,471
7
Minimum recipient £4,439 and maximum
recipient £10,000
£53,879
71
Minimum recipient £250 and maximum
recipient £1,250
£23,250
8
Minimum recipient £500 and maximum
recipient £5,000
£34,611
1
£350

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Other Funds continued

Fund Number of
grants
Amounts
Total
GM Moving
Walking and
Wheeling Fund
Answer Cancer
Grants and
Investments
Albert Gubay
Charitable
Foundation
Learning, Skills
and Work
Hate Crime
grants
Household
Support Fund		 38
Minimum recipient £777 maximum
recipient £5,000
£95,282
17
Minimum recipient £1,983 maximum
recipient £8,000
£86,848
14
Minimum recipient £3,000 and maximum
recipient £15,000
£132,213
9
Minimum recipient £375 and maximum
recipient £750
£5,774
40
Minimum recipient £250 and maximum
recipient £18,000
£190,000

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Other Funds continued

Fund Number of
grants
Amounts
Total
Emotional
Wellbeing and
Mental Health
NAVCA
Short Break
Care
Healthy
Holidays Fund
Disability
programme
Steve Dixon
Memorial Fund
Salford CVS’
AGM grant
Living Wage
Accreditation
UKSPF E26
Arts & Culture		 6
Minimum recipient £500 and maximum
recipient £20,000
£22,500
1
£1,000
10
Minimum recipient £300 and maximum
recipient £7,500
£62,637
16
Minimum recipient £725 and maximum
recipient £10,000
£93,625
3
Minimum recipient £5,000 maximum
recipient £30,000
£45,000
6
Grants of £500
£3,000
3
Minimum recipient £250 and maximum
recipient £1,000
£1,750
3
Minimum recipient £79 and maximum
recipient £158
£317
26
Minimum recipient £2,163 and maximum
recipient £20,000
£238,106

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9. Support Costs

10. Staff Costs

None of the Trustees received any remuneration from the charity. None of the Trustees were reimbursed for travel expenses (2023 - Nil).

Two key personnel received total emoluments of £148,102 between them. Both employees earned in excess of £60,000 per annum including gross salary, national insurance, pension contributions and benefits.

The average number of employees in the year calculated on a full-time equivalent basis was 38.4 (2023 – 33.4).

11. Transfers Between Funds

Some transfers between restricted funds have been made where one fund has ended and other similar projects have been undertaken. These transfers are within the scope of the restricted terms of the fund.

Certain transfers have been made from unrestricted funds where projects have had an excess of expenditure over income. See note 18 for further details.

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12. Comparatives for the Statement of Financial Activities

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13. Tangible Fixed Assets

14. Investments

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Salford Credit Union Investment – Programme Related Investment

Salford CVS made this investment as a result of the Pennington Bequest, a bequest held since 1974. This bequest came from an ex-resident of Salford who emigrated to Australia, leaving approx. £12,000 to provide an ongoing income for our organisation. The terms of the bequest stated that the money be used for charitable purposes for the benefit of Salford people who are in need.

In 2015 an investment fund for the Pennington Bequest was closed and the proportion relating to Salford CVS, £53,115, was transferred to the direct control of Salford CVS. In 2016 Salford CVS' Board of Trustees agreed to invest funds into a programme that would provide long-term benefit to the people of Salford and therefore saw the ‘programme related investment’ of £7,000 into Salford Credit Union as an ideal opportunity.

The Trustees do not expect to recover this investment and hence in 2019 it was written down to £1 in the accounts.

Greater Manchester Community Renewables Ltd (GMCR)

In 2019 Salford CVS’ Board of Trustees agreed to invest £4,000 in GMCR’s community shares offer to fund the installation of solar panels on schools and community buildings, helping them save money, reduce their carbon footprint, and inspire children and the community to learn about energy and climate change. The schools earmarked in this round of the community shares offer were Salford primary schools. Further information can be found here: www.gmcr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GMCR-Share-Offer-2019.pdf

Salford Red Devils RLFC – Community Share Offer

In 2023 Salford CVS' Board of Trustees agreed to invest £1,000 in Salford Red Devils RLFC community shares offer to support the digital and data transformation of the Club, allowing greater community access. Further information can be found here: - - 1684939078_salford_red_devils_ community_share_document digital(1).pdf (crowdfunder.co.uk)

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15. Debtors

16. Creditors – Amounts Falling due Within One Year

At 31st March 2024, Salford CVS held funds as custodian trustee on behalf of 16 voluntary / not for profit organisations based in Salford (2023 – 17 organisations). Details are given in the Trustees report.

There was no deferred income in the year, in 2022/23 there was £131,250 deferred income. The brought forward deferred income was fully utilised in the year.

17. Analysis of Net Assets Between Funds

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Transfers

Where the transfer is an expense to unrestricted funds it represents a recharge of central costs as allowed for under the funding agreement. Where the transfer is received from unrestricted funds it is to cover a shortfall on restricted funding.

Additionally, transfers between restricted funds represent funds being utilised to support joint grant schemes.

Details of Restricted Funds

Area of Funder Description of Work Work Salford CVS, alongside all of the other local infrastructure organisations in Greater Manchester, are working to deliver the priorities articulated in the Greater GM VCSE Manchester VCSE Accord – a tripartite agreement 10GM Accord between the VCSE sector, GMCA and NHS GM ICB, and endorsed by all 10 Local Authorities. Funding for this work flows through 10GM (part-owned by Salford CVS) Salford CVS designed and managed a VCSE cancer and inequalities grants programme on behalf of 10GM. Cancer Grants were awarded to VCSE groups and Inequalities 10GM organisations (via a panel process) across Greater grants Manchester. This funding was secured via the GM Cancer Alliance (NHS GM). UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a government funded initiative, with funds flowing into GMCA and then out to all 10 local authorities, and also to 10GM in terms of support for all 10 local infrastructure organisations via UKSPF E11 10GM the E11 VCSE Infrastructure element of the UKSPF funding. The funding is to be used to strengthen our delivery support offer for the local VCSE sector in Salford.

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VCSE Test
and Learn
Violence
Reduction
Work
Workforce
Development
Colleges
Connector
Colleges
Connector
Violence
Reduction
Work		 10GM
10GM
10GM
Association of
Colleges
Salford City
Council –
public health
Bolton CVS		 This piece of work is being coordinated by 10GM and
delivered in localities in support of the GM Population
Health Board’s ambitions regarding tackling health
inequalities. Salford CVS are delivering a small pilot
piece of work working with a PCN in support of cancer
screening and cancer support.
This work is coordinated by 10GM on behalf of the
GM Violence Reduction Unit and provides support for
a part-time Violence Reduction Facilitator post and
funding for a VCSE Violence Reduction Alliance in
Salford.
10GM secured workforce development funding from
NHS GM to develop a GM-wide VCSE leadership
training and mentoring programme; along with a
GM-wide VCSE workforce and recruitment portal:
https://gmworkforcehub.org.uk/
In addition to the GM-wide work, each local
infrastructure organisation in Greater Manchester
localities was awarded a small amount of funding to
deliver some bespoke support to their local VCSE
sector.
To provide Wellbeing Matters’ Community Connector
support to Salford City College students (delivered via
Salford Third Sector Consortium). Match funded by
Salford City Council’s Public Health team (see below).
To provide Wellbeing Matters’ Community Connector
support to Salford City College students (delivered via
Salford Third Sector Consortium). Match funded by
The Association of Colleges.
Salford CVS continued to deliver work in our locality as
part of the 10GM-managed (via Bolton CVS), Violence
Reduction work, including employing a part-time
Violence Reduction Alliance Facilitator for Salford and
supporting a local VRU VCSE Alliance.

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|||| |---|---|---| |Achieve| |Greater|Grants and investments scheme to support people| |Bolton,| |Manchester|in recovery from drug and alcohol use. Salford| |Salford and| |Mental Health|CVS operated this scheme on behalf of 10GM,| |Trafford Asset| |NHS Foundation|across the local authority areas of Salford and| |Recovery| |Trust|Trafford.| |Fund| |GM Moving|Salford CVS, on behalf of 10GM, were| |Walking and|commissioned by Greater Sport (GM Moving) to| |Greater Sport| |Wheeling|manage a GM-wide VCSE small grants scheme to| |grants|get more people walking and wheeling.| |A three-year partnership project between the| |Salford VCSE|Salford CVS, The Albert Gubay Charitable| |The Albert Gubay| |Learning,|Foundation (AGCF) and Salford City Council -| |Charitable| |Skills & Work|providing a range of services to support, train and| |Foundation| |programme|prepare people furthest from the job market to gain| |skills and employment.| |A three-year partnership project between the| |Salford VCSE|Salford CVS, The Albert Gubay Charitable| |Learning,|Salford City|Foundation (AGCF) and Salford City Council -| |Skills & Work|Council|providing a range of services to support, train and| |programme|prepare people furthest from the job market to gain| |skills and employment.| |Age Friendly Salford is a partnership initiative| |between three local charities – Inspiring| |Communities Together (lead partner), Age UK| |Age Friendly|Inspiring| |Salford and Salford CVS – and funded by Salford| |Salford|Communities| |City Council. In January 2023 the partnership won| |programme|Together| |an open tender to continue to deliver this| |programme of work for the next three years with| |the option of a further two year extension.|

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Individual donations received via Just Giving and Charities Cost of Living Aid Foundation, plus Crisis appeal donations from Salix Homes, Salford Council, ForViva and Barton Athletic

Individual donations Ukraine via Just Giving, plus a Appeal transfer of funds from Salford CVS reserves

NAVCA - Cost of Living grants

NAVCA

‘Wellbeing Received via GM Matters’ Health & Social Care additional Partnership (through data Bolton CCG) - now management NHS Greater support Manchester ICB

Answer Cancer: Greater Manchester Cancer Screening Engagement Programme

NHS England (via GM Health & Social Care Partnership – now NHS Greater Manchester ICB)

Appeal to raise funding to provide grants to local frontline charities and community groups to enable them to carry on supporting Salford residents, by providing food, helping keep homes warm, looking after children, giving advice and guidance.

Appeal to support organisations working with the Ukrainian community.

Salford CVS secured a modest amount of funding from its national membership body, NAVCA, to award a small number of grants to local VCSE groups who were providing targeted locality support to residents experiencing significant impact from the cost of living crisis.

Contribution to the Elemental Data Management System, supporting the Wellbeing Matters programme to link directly to general practice.

Answer Cancer is a VCSE sector-led response to cancer in Greater Manchester. This initiative is a partnership of four VCSE organisations: Salford CVS (accountable body) - on behalf of 10GM - VSNW, BHA for Equality, and Unique Improvements. Using grants, investments, engagement and training with identified communities, Answer Cancer aims to increase cancer screening rates in GM, especially within communities where take-up is currently low.

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|||| |---|---|---| |Access|NHS Greater|Small investments to enable specialist community| |Inequalities|Manchester ICB|groups in Salford to work closely with targeted| |investments|(Salford)|communities to tackle health inequalities.| |This project is part of the wider Wellbeing Matters| |Green Social|NHS Manchester|programme and uses Social Prescribing to connect| |Prescribing|(GMHSCP PCCA|people’s health and wellbeing needs to green and| |pilot|Pilot Project)|blue spaces in Salford. Funding for this work ceases| |in early 2023/24.| |Salford CVS successfully applied to NHS GM| |(Salford Locality) for an innovation fund grant to| |develop and deliver a pilot project between two| |Innovation|NHS Greater|VCSE partnership programmes we lead| |Fund|Manchester ICB|(Wellbeing Matters and Answer Cancer) to explore| |using social prescribing to support participation in| |cancer screening in one of Salford’s health| |neighbourhoods.| |Health|NHS Greater|Health coaching for Wellbeing Matters’ Community| |Coaching|Manchester ICB|Connectors (link workers).| |NHS Greater|To provide a Home from Hospital VCSE Support| |Community|Manchester ICB –|Worker to work as part of the Home First Discharge| |Led Support|previously NHS|Hub at Salford Royal Hospital.| |Salford CCG| |Funding received| |Dementia|To provide small grants to VCSE organisations to| |in previous years| |Support|support people living with dementia in their| |from NHS Salford| |Fund|community.| |CCG| |This grants scheme is designed to fund a range of| |Emotional|NHS Greater| |projects aimed at improving and sustaining the| |Wellbeing|Manchester ICB –| |mental health of Salford residents as part of the| |and Mental|previously NHS| |city’s Living Well approach to mental health and| |Health grants|Salford CCG| |wellbeing.|

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|||| |---|---|---| |Salford CVS continues to design, manage and| |Third Sector|NHS Greater|administer this grants and investment fund. The| |Fund grants|Manchester ICB|aim of the fund is to invest in VCSE organisations| |programme|(Salford)|and schools in Salford to help improve the health| |and wellbeing of Salford residents.| |Salford CVS successfully applied to NHS GM, via| |VCSE Live| |NHS Greater|10GM, to develop and deliver a pilot project in| |Well & Social| |Manchester ICB|Little Hulton, using a social prescribing approach to| |Prescribing| |(Salford)|help local people ‘live well’. This is part of a| |Support| |GM-wide programme.| |Key elements of this work include sector voice and| |NHS Greater| |VCSE Voices|representation at key partnership boards and| |Manchester ICB| |Matter|forums across the city and within the five health| |(Salford)| |neighbourhoods.| |This programme takes Person and Community-| |Centred Approaches (PCCA) to health and| |wellbeing, helping transform how we deliver| |population health benefits in Salford. Salford CVS| |Wellbeing|NHS Greater| |are the accountable body and lead partner for the| |Matters|Manchester ICB| |Wellbeing Matters programme, which incorporates| |programme|(Salford)| |interdependent workstreams around social| |prescribing, volunteering and capacity-building the| |VCSE ecosystem. The programme is delivered in| |partnership with Salford Third Sector Consortium.| |Additional funds to employ a .5 post to support the| |Social|NHS Northern|health system’s Long COVID Clinic (delivered by| |prescribing|Care Alliance|Salford Third Sector Consortium as part of the| |Wellbeing Matters programme).| |Ordsall &|To provide Wellbeing Matters’ Community| |Community| |Claremont PCN|Connector support to Ordsall and Claremont| |Connectors,| |(now renamed as|Primary Care Network. (Delivered via Salford Third| |Wellbeing| |South East|Sector Consortium). At the year end there were| |Matters| |Salford PCN)|3.6 Community Connector posts.|

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|||| |---|---|---| |Grow Well| |Royal Horticultural|Contribution to the Third Sector’s Fund’s| |grants - match| |Society (RHS)|Grow Well grants.| |funding| |To promote and enable better access to services| |for Disabled people living in Salford by capacity-| |Salford City| |Disability|building local Disabled people-led and| |Council – public| |Project|impairment-focused VCSE groups and| |health| |organisations. Includes an investments fund,| |training budget, and capacity-building support.| |Funding to employ two Family Hub Workers who| |support the engagement of VCSE organisations| |Salford City| |Family Hub|and volunteers in the new Salford Partnership| |Council| |Family Hubs. A small VCSE grants programme| |sits alongside these posts.| |Salford CVS administer these grants on behalf of| |Hate Crime|Salford City|Salford City Council as part of Greater| |grants|Council|Manchester’s work to tackle hate crime across| |the city-region. The aim of the fund is to support| |Salford VCSE activities during Hate Crime week.| |Healthy| |Salford City|Grants to support activities during school| |Holidays Fund| |Council|holidays.| |grants| |GM Obesity|Salford City|Capacity-building work and grants support to| |Pilot|Council|local food projects tackling obesity in Salford.|

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|||| |---|---|---| |Salford City Council commissioned Salford CVS| |to carry out this research as part of their Joint| |Strategic Strengths and Needs Assessments|.| |JSSNA|Salford City| |The purpose of the research was to capture the| |Research|Council| |strengths that the VCSE sector bring to improving| |the health and wellbeing of adults within the city| |of Salford.| |Grants to frontline VCSE organisations to support| |people in food need in Salford due to the cost of| |Household|Salford City|living crisis. Managed by Salford CVS in| |Support Fund|Council|partnership with Salford Foodshare Network.| |Resourced via DWP Household Support funding| |from Salford City Council.| |Salford CVS administer these grants on behalf of| |Salford City Council. The aim is to promote| |Short Break|Salford City| |innovation and development in the provision of| |Care grants|Council| |group-based short break care for Disabled| |children in Salford.| |This work brings together VCSE organisations| |Children,|working with children, young people and families| |Young People|Salford City|in Salford. It provides broad-ranging| |and Families|Council|representation of the interests and views of the| |LIO work|VCSE sector to relevant strategic partnerships.| |Also includes child safeguarding.| |This work brings together VCSE organisations| |working in the field of health and social care in| |Infrastructure,| |Salford City|Salford. It provides broad-ranging representation| |Health &| |Council|of the interests and views of the VCSE sector to| |Social Care| |relevant strategic partnerships. Also includes| |LIO work| |adult safeguarding.|

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|||| |---|---|---| |Funded by Salford City Council to support the| |VCSE sector to be engaged and involved in all| |aspects of strategic city partnership work, ensuring| |they understand, actively contribute to and| |influence key partnership areas of work. Includes| |organising and facilitating sector representation on| |all key partnership boards in the city.| |Strategic|Also supporting and enabling the VCSE sector to| |Salford City| |Development|operate effectively within the Salford social,| |Council| |LIO work|economic and political environment. Involves| |operating a robust programme for voice and| |influence, including organising various themed| |Vocal Forums and strategic workshops on a| |regular basis and an annual VCSE conference.| |Strategic comms is also a key area of work,| |including ensuring Salford’s VCSE sector are| |informed and engaged in relevant developments at| |city-region and national levels.| |Part-funded by Salford City Council to support| |volunteering development, good practice and| |brokerage services in Salford – by the city’s only| |Salford|accredited Volunteer Centre. This includes| |Volunteer|Salford City|supporting the delivery of the Salford| |Centre LIO|Council|Volunteering Strategy, operating a bespoke| |work|volunteering portal for the city and organising the| |prestigious annual Heart of Salford volunteering| |awards. Also funded by Salford CVS reserves and| |income generation activities.| |Whole Family| |Salford City|To provide a dedicated Community Connector to| |Community| |Council– Youth|support the work of the Salford Youth Justice| |Connector| |Justice service|service.| |post|

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||| |---|---| |Investments to frontline VCSE organisations| |undertaking Trauma Informed Training delivered by| |Trauma|Salford CVS. Resourced by Salford City Council,| |Salford City| |Informed|Public Health. To promote and enable trauma| |Council| |Practice|informed practice of VCSE groups and| |organisations in their work programmes.| |Salford CVS was successful in securing UK Shared| |Prosperity Funds (via Salford City Council / GMCA),| |UKSPF E3| |Salford City|under the E3 measure, to refurbish the old| |Court Room| |Council|courtroom in Eccles Town Hall (unused for many| |Development| |years), and turn into a climate-friendly, VCSE and| |community meeting space.| |Salford CVS was successful in securing UK Shared| |Prosperity Funds (via Salford City Council / GMCA),| |under the E6 measure, to design and manage arts| |UKSPF E6|and culture grants on behalf of the Salford Culture| |Salford City| |Arts and|and Place Partnership. 50% of the funds were| |Council| |Culture|allocated to larger cultural events, with the| |remaining 50% going to grants for VCSE groups| |and organisations, under the heading ‘Whose Art,| |Whose Culture?’| |To provide Wellbeing Matters’ Community| |Community| |Connector support to Walkden and Little Hulton| |Connectors,|Walkden &| |Primary Care Network. (Delivered via Salford Third| |Wellbeing|Little Hulton| |Sector Consortium). At the year end there were| |Matters|PCN| |three Community Connector posts.| |Salford4Good is our fundraising initiative designed| |Income| |to make it easier for individuals and businesses to| |Salford4Good|Generation| |give time, skills, money and resources to local good| |(fundraising)| |causes. Salford CVS is the accountable body.| |One|Fund resourced by partner charity The Broughton| |The Broughton| |Broughton|Trust to support Wellbeing Matters’ clients who live| |Trust| |Fund|in Broughton accessing emergency items.|

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Details of Funds that Ceased during 2023

Area of
Work		 Funder
Description of Work
Little Hulton
Big Local
Local
Delivery
pilot –
physical
activity
GM VCSE
Public
Health
(10GM)
Age Friendly
Salford
programme		 Big Lottery -
Big Local
Trust
Salford CVS fulfilled the role of Local Trusted
Organisation (LTO) for Little Hulton Big Local (LHBL),
providing financial management, coordination and
project management support to ensure the effective
implementation of the Big Local Plan objectives.
This included employing LHBL’s paid staff. This project
ceased in April 2023.
Greater Sport
Salford CVS worked in partnership with Salford City
Council and Salford Community Leisure to deliver the
Salford local pilot work around physical activity on behalf
of GM Moving and Sport England. We focused on
improving levels of physical activity via providing
development support and small grants to local VCSE
groups. This project ceased in 2023/24.
NHS England
A programme using the NHS CORE20PLUS5 model as
a framework in which to explore how long term,
sustainable VCSE and Primary Care Network (PCN)
partnerships within an Integrated Care System can drive
targeted action in health inequality improvement.
Inspiring
Communities
Together
Age Friendly Salford is a partnership initiative between
three local charities – Inspiring Communities Together
(lead partner), Age UK Salford and Salford CVS – and
funded by Salford City Council. In January 2023 the
partnership won an open tender to continue to deliver
this programme of work for the next three years.

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||| |---|---| |NHS Greater| |Manchester ICB|A programme of work to recruit ‘History Makers’ to| |Make| |- previously GM|support making smoking history across GM. The| |Smoking| |Health & Social|programme also involved encouraging smoke-free| |History| |Care|places and events across Greater Manchester.| |Partnership| |GMHSCP)| |NHS Greater| |Salford CVS are holding a small community| |Manchester ICB| |Big Reset|engagement budget to support a number of| |- previously| |Conversation|community organisations to reach into specific| |NHS Salford| |communities of geography and identity.| |CCG| |Salford City| |Council|Community Champions funding enabled scaling up| |Community| |(MHCLG)|of outreach and engagement with people identified| |Champions| |COVID|as being at increased risk from COVID-19. This| |programme| |engagement|work has now ended.| |funding| |Hughie’s|Fund resourced by partner charity START in| |START in| |Helping|Salford to support Wellbeing Matters’ clients| |Salford| |Hands|accessing emergency items.| |Youth| |Match funding for our Third Sector Fund’s| |Wellbeing|Talk Talk| |Youth Wellbeing Fund.| |Fund|

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Designated Funds

The Trustees agreed that provision should be made to earmark part of general funds to specific projects or reserves over the next three years.

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20. Contingent Liabilities

There were no contingent liabilities of a material amount for which provision has not been made in the accounts.

21. Commitments

Capital commitments

There were no capital commitments at 31st March 2024 (2023 - £nil).

Operating Lease Commitment

At 31st March 2024 the charity had an operating lease commitment in respect of plant and machinery of £nil. It has a lease for property rental of £23,840 p.a., the full value of the lease is not included as there is annual release clause included.

Pension commitments

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in independently administered funds. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the company to the funds and amounted to £90,869 (2023 - £77,189). The amount due to the pension fund at the year-end was £nil (2023 - £nil).

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22. Related-Party Transactions

Salford Community and Voluntary Services provide management and administrative support to Salford Third Sector Consortium on behalf of the Trustees of that organisation. During the year, Salford Community and Voluntary Services re-charged Salford Third Sector Consortium £12,000 for this ‘hub support’. This amount was included within voluntary income under unrestricted grants / contracts.

Salford Lads and Girls Club received two grants from the Charity totalling £10,500. A Trustee of Salford Lads and Girls Club is a Trustee of the Charity.

Yellow Jigsaw received funding for services provided totalling £930. An employee of Yellow Jigsaw is a Trustee of the Charity.

Gaddum received three grants from Salford CVS totalling £23,000. An employee of Gaddum is a Trustee of Salford CVS.

Salford Unemployed Community Resource Centre received two grants from Salford CVS totalling £13,708. An employee of Salford Unemployed Community Resource Centre is a Trustee of Salford CVS.

10GM Ltd is owned by Salford CVS, Bolton CVS, Action Together and MACC. The Chief Executive of Salford CVS is a Director of 10GM Ltd. Salford CVS have received funding from 10GM during the period totalling £501,564.

African Rainbow Family received one grant from Salford CVS totalling £500. An employee of African Rainbow Family is a Trustee of Salford CVS.

Voluntary Sector North West are a delivery partner on the Answer Cancer Programme of which Salford CVS is the accountable body. Voluntary Sector North West received £104,751 as part of this work. An employee of Voluntary Sector North West is a Trustee of Salford CVS.

Greater Manchester Youth Network received one grant from Salford CVS totalling £9,830. An employee of Greater Manchester Youth Network was a Trustee of Salford CVS.

Humans MCR received five grants from Salford CVS totalling £13,000. An employee of Humans Manchester is a Trustee of Salford CVS.

All the above transactions took place on an arms-length basis.

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Our quality marks

Volunteer Centre Quality Award (NAVCA)

NAVCA Quality Award

Trusted Charity Mark (via NCVO) – Trusted Partner

Campaigns we support

Living Wage Employer (Living Wage Foundation)

Living Wage Funder (Living Wage Foundation)

Living Hours Employer (Living Wage Foundation)

Show the Salary

Open To All

Disability Confident Employer

Dementia Friendly organisation

Answer Cancer Organisational Champion (Answer Cancer GM)

GM Good Employment Charter supporter

Lift the Ban

Refugees Welcome

We are members of

The Business Group Salford

Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce

GMCVO

Voluntary Sector North West

NAVCA

NCVO

Social Enterprise UK

Charity Finance Group

We co-own 10GM Ltd, along with 156 Action Together, Bolton CVS and Macc

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Thank you to our funders

Salford City Council

NHS GM Integrated Care Partnership

NHS GM Integrated Care Partnership (Salford locality)

Greater Manchester Mental Health – NHS Foundation Trust

Northern Care Alliance – Salford Royal Hospital

Northern Care Alliance - Salford Care Organisation

NHS England

Greater Sport / Greater Manchester Moving

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

UK Shared Prosperity Fund (via Salford City Council)

UK Shared Prosperity Fund (via 10GM / GMCA)

Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation

Eccles and Irlam Primary Care Network

Walkden and Little Hulton Primary Care Network

Ordsall and Claremont Primary Care Network

Swinton Primary Care Network

Broughton Health Alliance

Inspiring Communities Together (Age Friendly Salford partnership)

Bolton CVS

(GM Violence Reduction Alliance work via 10GM)

10GM Ltd

Salford Third Sector Consortium

NASP (National Academy for Social Prescribing)

NAVCA

Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Talk Talk

Royal Horticultural Society

The Broughton Trust (One Broughton Fund)

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Thank you to our core partners

Wellbeing Matters Answer Cancer GM

START in Salford

Social adVentures

Big Life

Inspiring Communities Together

Langworthy Cornerstone

Age-Friendly Salford

Inspiring Communities Together

AgeUK Salford

BHA for Equality

Unique Improvements

Voluntary Sector North West

10GM Ltd

Action Together (Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside) Bolton CVS Macc (Manchester)

Elevate Salford: …and to all of our other VCSE

VCSE Learning, Skills and Work and public sector partners 😊

Mustard Tree

The Broughton Trust

Salford Foundation

Loaves and Fishes

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Thank you to our...

Staff (at 31st March 2024)

Elizabeth Atkinson Samuel Bate-Francis Sandrine Beaunol Dominic Bell Gill Bruder Ella Bulbeck Jenny Capper Michael Carroll Ashley Chapman Susan Crabb Tamara Davies Jeremy Engineer Hannah Flint Ben Fowler Bysshe Harkavy Samantha Hill Grace Kennedy Carolanne Mack Betsy Mak Anne-Marie Marshall Niamh Meehan Noah Mellor Klaudia Miskis Andrew Mossop Helen O'Brien Nicola O'Neill Imogen Openshaw Beatty Osborne Alison Page

Bruce Poole Hannah Powell Claire Roberts Kirsten Robinson Simon Robinson Rachel Sadler

Ganga Samarawickrama Hannah Stirzaker Mayuri Theobald Michelle Warburton Martyn Willcock Jane Williams

Trustees

Grace Dyke Adam Webster John Phillips Ray Mashiter Barbara Bentham Yen Siang Tan Ben Whalley Francesca Todde Aderonke Apata Lewis Hellewell Teresa Pepper

Non-voting ambassadors Cllr Sharmina August

Volunteers

Thanks to everyone who has volunteered with Salford CVS to make a difference in Salford

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Contact Us

Salford CVS & Volunteer Centre Registered address: The Old Town Hall 5 Irwell Place Eccles Salford M30 0FN

Tel: 0161 787 7795 Email: office@salfordcvs.co.uk

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