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2024-03-31-annual-report

Train 2B Smart Ltd Trustees Annual Report The trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Art 2006, present their report with the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024. REFERENCE AND ADMINisfRATIVE DETAILS Company No. N1665130 Charity No. N1108894 Principal Office 96c Castor Bay Road Lurgan Craigavon BT67 9LF Registered Office 96c Castor Bay Road Lurgan Craigavon BT67 9LF Directors and Trustees The Direttors of the charitable company are its Trustees for the purposes of charity law. The following Directors and Trustees seNed during the year- E. Greene C. Malone P.J. McGibbon Key Management Personnel Chairperson Treasurer Eugene Greene Feargal Hosty Pat McGibbon Snr Secretary Accountants Byrne Mccann & Co. Ltd. 67 Edward Street Lurgan Co. Armagh BT66 6DD Bankers Santander 49 Market Street Lurgan BT66 6AA OBJECTIVES AND A￿1VITIEs Page 2

Train 2B Smart Ltd Trustees Annual Report The Ch3riVs objerts I'the Objects'l are the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation, in particular the provision of facilities for the playing of football. During year 23-24, Train 2B Smart (￿B5) continued to provide mental health and wellbeing through sport and attivity throughout the local and wider Lurgan/Craigavon Community. with the 5 steps to wellbeing being at the heart of our charity ethos. Alongside the charity drop-in sessions for ages 5-6 years held in our safe shared space at Centrepoint, Lurganl led through former Tottenham Hotspur and Northern Ireland International, Gerard Mcmahon), we also fielded affiliated teams from ages 7 through to 18 years and continued our emphasis on enjoyment and play within our afFiliated small sided games teams lages 8 - 101, development at the under 11- 12 level and competitive team5 playing within the Mid U15ter Youth League at under 13 and above. ThBS continued to provide representstion in various Presentations, workshops and Public Events throughout the year, providing children, adolescent and adult personal and professional development with the emphasis of GROW model learning IGOAL REALITY OPPORTUNITY WAY FORWARDI. The ThBS 2010 (under 151 team reached the Mid Ulster Youth Cup final, eventually being narrowly beaten in the final and a5 part of the Volunteer Development Pathway, ThBS encouraged coaches and committee members to take part in various CPD events. Our 30+ Volunteer coaches completed Access Nl checks and Child Protection Courses and we collaborated with the Harry Gregg Foundation. to spread our charity message through feeder Youth sports clubs such as Portstewart FC and Portrush FC. Pat McGibbon Jnr co-ordinated the plannin& preparation and delivery of mental health workshop and continued to deliver and present workshops within schools, colleges, universities and partner Foundations speaking to students at schools at a local level {e.g. Tullygally Primary School and Lismore Comprehensivel and a regional level le.g. Bangor High School and Oakwood Integrated (through the Manchester United Foundation). Pat McGibbon also presented a mental health workshop at Knockbreda FC for youth team Players from the club, emphasising our Charity'lts smart 2 talk message". This message was also promoted on various playing shirts within local senior football in the l Mid Ulster League , with Goodyear FC and Ballyoran FC sporting the key mental health message. Train 2B Smart continued to provide for our service level users at our leased facility in Centrepoint. Lurgan. Sports which included rugby, gaelic, hurling, soccer, athletics and archery were provided for in a safe shared place for 311 those involved. ABC Council events (Midnight Soccer} took place at Centrepoint allowing young people a safe shared space to play football on weekend evenings helping to reduce antl-SOC131 behaviour. The charity continued to promote our plastic recycling Ilts Smart 2 Talk Plastics) projert. collecting and shredding plastics and educating the local community on the processes involved in using old plastics to 3-D Print. In partnership with ABC Council ThBS received funding through the Take 500+ programme for a large 3D printer to help with understanding recycling and the GROW model of learning in the area of plastics. ThBS continued to develop in the Key areas of both governance and organisation, with the Committee and Project Co- Ordinator Pat McGibbon attending scheduled regular meetings in regards to financial, organisational, operational and governance growth. Kirsty Andrews l Tullygally PS Principall was eletted onto the Train 2B Smart Trusteeship and we continued to liaise regularly with Tullygally Primary School, the Education Authority, the Mcclay Foundation. ABC Council and other organisations to build partnership5 which could oversee development of part of the Tullygally PS site into a multi-purpose facility with a nature walking/running trail as part of a vision for children/young people and the local community in line with the 5 steps to Wellbeing. As part of our strategic plan to provide provision for health and wellbeing education through sport and attivity, we continued to oversee planning, preparation for the delivery of a Playing pitch for school and community use at the Tullygally Primary School Sitel short- medium term, 1-3 years), with a health and wellbeing trail being provided on this site in the medium- long terml 3-5 years) The Trustees confirm that they have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. Page 3

Train 2B Smart Ltd Trustees Annual Report A larger charity must provide an explanation of its aims, including details of the issues it seeks to tackle and the changes or differences it seeks to make through its attivities... A larger charity must provide an explanation how the achievement of its aims will further its legal purposes... A larger charity must provide an explanation of its strategies for achieving its stated aims and objectives... A larger charity must provide an explanation of its criteria or measures it Uses to assess success in the reporting period... A larger charity should provide a more detailed explanation of its short-term and long-term aims and objectives... FINANCIAL REVIEW Train 2B Smart Ltd had a deficit of £26636 during the period ended 31st March 2024. Amount of reserves has fallen to £22806. The charitvs policy is to hold reserves in order to continue with its aims in future periods if financi31 uncertainty or significant decreases in income should occur. No foreseen uncertainty at period end. PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS A larger charity must provide a summary of the charity's plans for the future including its aims and objectives and details of any plans to achieve them A larger charity's report should explain the trustees perspective of the future direction of the charity... 5fRucfuRE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Type of governing document is constitution and is constituted by memorandum of association Elected by group. The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Art 2006. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The above report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime as set out in Part 15 of the Companies Att 2006 and in accordance with the Charities SORP IFRS 1021. d on behalf of the board ene Trustee 31 December 2024 Page 4