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www.quintonyfc.co.uk

Quinton Youth for Christ

Registered Charity No 1137368

Annual Report and Accounts 2012/13

Quinton YFC exists to enrich, empower and equip young people in partnership with the local community.

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Summary Report of the Trustees – November 2013

We began our third year in October 2012 facing a number of new challenges in the work of Quinton Youth for Christ. Dani Knox, who has done so much to establish the work of the charity in its first two years, was about to take maternity leave. Added to this, the world of education has been changing. This time last year, three of the schools we work closely with were in the process of converting into academies, with new leadership and changed priorities. One of the tests for any organisation is to adapt to the changing circumstances around in order to serve better the changing needs of a community. We have responded by ensuring that our own activities and priorities fit well into the changing environment. They remain under constant review in order that they may best serve the young people of Quinton, as described on the following pages. At the forefront of our work this year has been Abbie Dunne, our one full-time worker, who joined us in September 2012 and who has risen to every challenge along the way. All of us have been delighted to see her develop and flourish in her role in the absence of Dani. Any worries we may have had about how we would cope without Dani soon disappeared. Tom Spicer completed his placement with us in July 2013. It has been great to see Tom’s development alongside us over the last three years. He has been particularly strong in creative and sporting projects, as well as being a good relational youth worker and mentor for boys. We wish him well as he moves on to new opportunities as a fully qualified graduate youth worker. We are grateful for the involvement of so many local churches in the support of Quinton Youth for Christ through providing venues, providing volunteers, providing financial support, providing prayer support and providing encouragement and advice through our Council of Reference. We look forward to strengthening these links further in the year ahead. The trustees are delighted at what has been achieved in the first three years of Quinton Youth for Christ’s operations through the dedication of both staff and volunteers, and look forward to further exciting progress in the year ahead. They endorse the detailed reports on the following pages.

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Schools work

Mentoring

Mentoring at the start of the school year started well with 13 young people attending sessions with Tom and Abbie. Towards the end of the first term the attendance had decreased a little but those who were still attending seemed to be engaging well. The first term saw 1-on-1 mentoring, paired mentoring and bereavement mentoring with young people in all of the 5 school years. Part way through the school year we were joined by Adam Lawler once a week and he was able to mentor some of the other male students. We have had more referrals for one-on-one work rather than paired mentoring. This means that although the number of pupils worked with has been lower, more one-on-one sessions have been offered. The school were keen for us to keep working with more students and regularly referred them to us. We were encouraged when a parent called and asked for her son to have mentoring and the school referred him to us. We saw a number of the young people that we mentored come off the schools ‘Intervention’ list after their behaviour and work effort improved. Dani and Abbie have also delivered training in mentoring to year out students with national YFC. Pupils worked with (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): – 36 (16 Boys, 20 Girls)

Feedback from pupils:

‘I have enjoyed mentoring because it has helped me change. It has helped me with my anger’ – male year 7 ‘Building up my confidence and being more open has been the best part of mentoring. I have learnt that I shouldn’t let what others think or say hold me down. I should just think of the good’ - female year 8 ‘I have had advice about things that have got to me and it helped. When I talked about my problems it made things easier’ - male Year 9 ‘Evaluating my confidence and happiness every session and knowing I have improved have been the best part of mentoring. It has helped me achieve and overcome things I couldn’t before. My positive emotions are appearing more often, I get along with family members, I have learnt that not everything is my fault’- female year 10 ‘They have helped me think about my future and what I want to do with my life. It has made me notice what I need to get out of school. I feel good and I am feeling positive about my future’ - male year 11 Future work

With Tom moving on from Quinton YFC after his 3 year placement, we will miss his input with the male mentoring. Adam Lawler will still be volunteering a morning a week. For the winter term, Dave Guard a student from Midlands Centre for Youth Ministry, will be joining us for 11 hours a week and therefore will be working with the males for one term. Into 2014, we will be exploring other ways to cover the male mentoring. Dani and Abbie will also be writing and leading mentoring training for YFC Centre directors, workers and volunteers. This will mean we will have a comprehensive training session to be used to train for volunteers with Quinton YFC. We will also be looking at updating our material.

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Group Work Programmes

Model Building Club Tom was asked by the school to run a lunch time model building club with a group of male students. The course ran successfully with 6 year 10 boys and between them they completed 4 models that will be displayed in the school. It was a really good way to engage with students in something they enjoy doing and Tom found that they were much more open to talking whilst they were making the models. Tom was able to share some of his faith with the boys. Reality Babies In May, Dani and Abbie took 6 girls away for a reality babies residential. Since the birth of her own child, Dani was able to make changes to the program that reflected to a greater extent the reality of being a mum. Caleb, her son (6 months at the time) also attended the weekend and added a physical demonstration of looking after a child. Towards the end of the residential the young people were starting to become much more open and share about themselves which gave us a great opportunity to get to know them more. Aspire (course for year 7 to raise their aspirations) Aspire ran quite early in the school year with 5 young people, all girls. After evaluating the course from last year some changes were made and implemented for this running of the course with the aim of making it more interactive and effective. The course ran well and the young people really engaged with it, they took part in all of the activities and discussions and produced good work to show what they had learnt. Their work was collected and will be given back to them after 3 years to remind them of what they are aiming for. We hoped to run another running of Aspire at the end of the school year but had only 1 young person show an interest. We feel that the end of the year is too late for this course so Aspire should be run earlier on. Pupils worked with (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): – 17 (Model club 6, Reality Babies 6, Aspire 5) Feedback from pupils: ‘I do want kids but when I am able to support them’ - female year 9 Reality Babies ‘I’ve learnt I need to trust people more’ – female year 9 Reality Babies ‘It made me think about lots like what I aspire to do and what I really want in life’- female year 7 Aspire ‘It’s made me think about lots like what I want to achieve and what I really want in life’ - female year 7 Aspire ‘It helped me by making me think about what I aspire to do and who I aspire to be’- female year 7 Aspire

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Future working Again due to not being able to replace Tom, we will not be able to run the Media Course which did not run in the previous year. We will also only run the Aspire course at start of year for year 7 pupils when they can benefit from the input at the very start of their secondary school life. As with all our programs, we will be looking at improving the sessions and implementing all the suggested changes we make alongside the delivery of the programmes.

Transition Work – Elevate

This school year we were unable to run Elevate at Four Dwellings Primary due to the school transitioning into an Academy. However, we were able to run Elevate in Worlds End Junior School and Woodhouse Primary School. Worlds End saw our first ever all boys group and consisted of 4 regular attendees. Woodhouse had one boy who attended occasionally but the club was regularly attended by 11 girls. Elevate ran well in both schools with those who attended engaging really well. The students all produced really good ‘work books’ that showed the things they had learnt at the club. Pupils worked with (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): 16 Future Working We aim to be running the transition club in Four Dwellings Primary Academy and are exploring running a fourth in partnership with a local church.

School Health Drop-in

Numbers attending the confidential drop-in have significantly increased over the last academic year with Abbie acting as triage for the facility. Young people come to see the school nurse, contraception and sexual health nurse or Abbie as youth worker. As the provision is confidential, it is difficult to count the number of individual pupils attending the drop-in but we record the number of visits. Pupil visits (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): 255

Other school provision

Abbie has joined Four Dwellings Academy on a day trip to take part in a tennis tournament with pupils from all school years. This was a positive trip in building relationships with pupils and staff.

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After schools work

Football League

The football league for this school year started off with between 12 and 15 young people attending which was a good number to play a football match with. Sadly it was not quite enough to run the football as a league. A meeting was held with Adam Lawler, Quinton YFC and Steve Bownds to discuss the future of the league and what would be the best way to run it. The provision continued to run each week with everyone playing the matches rather than a league system. The players had the great opportunity to play against a team from Aston which was our first more formal game. This went really well and something that we hope can happen again in the future. Young people worked with (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): 15 Future working There is the potential of support from two year out males from national YFC focussing on sport for the next academic year joining the supporting and delivery of this provision.

Internet Café

With Dani unable to run the club due to maternity leave, the decision was made to stop the running of the later evening slot for young people year 8-11. This meant that we only ran provision up to 5pm and therefore numbers are reflected by this. The Internet Café started up well with some young people returning from the previous school year. We then started to see new young people attending the club through word of mouth and through assemblies in primary schools where the club was advertised. We soon started to see a steady number of regular attendees and, as it was smaller numbers than we had seen before, we were able to build really good relationships with the young people. During this school year we also saw our first young leaders join the team of volunteers. The two girls were in year 9 of high school and had attended the club previously. It was great having them with us and seeing them engage with the young people. Young people worked with (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): 46

Total young people visits (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): 515 ‘It’s like a whole lot of friends loving you – it’s like meeting new friends and I like to play all of the games’ - female year 6 ‘It’s not expensive and I like seeing my friends from Primary School’ - female year 7 ‘I like this club because I can meet new friends and the people here are friendly. Also, I get to have sweets and fizzy drinks’ - female year 6 Future work We have received funding from Lloyds TSB to increase the number of nights this provision can run. We will be increasing the provision by a second evening by April 2014 and a third night by April 2015. We are excited to be increasing the work and providing more activities after school for young people.

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Church work

EQ: Mission Events

Our EQ: Mission events ran very well this year. Before the school year began we met as a team and put dates in for 6 events over the year: 2 socials, 2 services and 2 community actions. We had a number of young people attend these events, mostly from St Boniface Church, and they seemed to really enjoy them. Sadly we were not really joined by young people from other Churches but this is to be rectified for future events. The two socials went really well including hiring a football cage that the young people really enjoyed using. The ‘Verve’ services were also successful and really effective for helping young people consider how the Bible and Jesus is relevant to the things the young people face today. Our two community actions took place at William Lench Court (sheltered accommodation) and were very encouraging. We were able to bring younger people together with older people and bridge the generational gap. The residents of the Trust really enjoyed the time and a good relationship has been built which holds potential for future work there. Young people visits (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): 15 Future work We are looking to partner with HOPE to run the EQ work as ‘Mission Academies’. This is training program to equip and inspire young people to engage in mission. We will also look to run socials. New links at the churches with young people who did not attend in the last year have been made to improve attendance from the other churches.

Church Visits

Church visits happened throughout the year to keep Churches up to date on the work of Quinton YFC. Church visits happened at: Quinton Evangelical Church, Quinton Methodist Church, Ridgacre Methodist Church, St Boniface Church, Christ Church Quinton and Paul and Barney’s. Sadly we were unable to visit Church of God of Prophecy due to not being able to contact Benny. It was great to be in contact with the Churches and support them. Future work We are looking to run joint church events looking at reaching, retaining and returning young people to the churches. In particular, this will support the local church members who have children and grandchildren not a part of the church.

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Workers / Volunteers

Tom has now completed his 3 year university course in ‘Youth, community and schools work with applied theology’ and so we have said goodbye to him. Tom has been an amazing asset to the work, particularly with the male mentoring. We will be sad to not have him as part of the team. Some of the male work load is being picked up by Adam Lawler (local church youth worker) and Dave Guard, who is with us on placement for a term. We are seeking a long term solution to cover the male workload. Abbie has completed her first year as our full time youth worker. With Dani’s absence, Abbie has had to step up and lead many projects and increase administrative work load. As a charity, we are incredibly pleased with the amount she has given and the way she has developed. Dani returned to work part time in July (2013) after taking 9 months off for maternity leave. Most of the work to some extent was able to be covered in her absence but with her return, she is focusing on fundraising and strategy. Two of the trustees (Richard Starkie and Jo Whiting) took on extra responsibility in the year to manage Tom and Abbie respectively. As the amount of after school work decreased in Dani’s absence, so did the need for volunteers. However, we are thrilled in being able to train up two young people as volunteers to support the internet café work. Number current volunteers: (Sept 2012 – Sept 2013): 7

Future work:

With the planned increase of after school provision at the drop-in, we will be looking to increase our volunteer numbers.

Other

Dani and Abbie attended the YFC annual conference in January (Tom had a university commitment). After the team separated for a few months due to Dani’s maternity leave, it was a great opportunity to come back together again. Abbie completed the training in:

Engage – a youth work qualification

Midas Minibus driving

Substance Misuse (assessment tool)

Awareness of domestic violence

Domestic violence in young women’s relationships

Supporting young people struggling with self-esteem, relationships and self-harm

Sexual health

Anti-social behaviour and the law

Sexual health and young women

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Finance

The detailed accounts are on pages 11-14 following. It was gratifying to achieve a £7,207 surplus of income over expenditure in the year to 31 August 2013, which once again exceeded our expectations, and resulted in now carrying forward £32,434 towards funding future work. A significant proportion of those reserves arose from grants received which were always intended to finance future work rather than just the year in which they were received. Total income in the year was some 9% lower than in the previous year, attributable mainly to an absence of specific sponsored and fundraising events, less availability of staff for external speaking engagements, and a reduction in grants from the local authority. The latter was largely compensated by an increase in grants from trusts etc, most notably from Lloyds TSB Foundation towards the Internet Café. We are very grateful for all the grants received which are vital to the continuation and development of the work – details are shown in note 4 to the accounts on page 13. Dani’s absence for much of the year inevitably impacted on her ability to continue seeking further financial support needed from individuals and churches. A small number of new supporters, particularly those providing personal support for Abbie, were welcome, but were offset by an absence of the previous level of “one-off” donations and a few others ceasing. Total expenditure also showed a reduction, £3,400, from the previous year. This was mostly because there was no repeat of the start-up costs or of the initial investment in reality babies which had been incurred previously, as well as only minimal expenditure on promotion and fundraising events. The combined costs associated with staff and volunteers in 2012/13 were in fact similar to the previous year, as the additional expense of a salaried worker was largely compensated by the Statutory Maternity Pay refunds receivable in respect of Dani’s absence. Over Christmas, Abbie ran a successful ‘Colin the Conker’ facebook fundraiser raising just short of £40. Following the success of the new followers we got on facebook of last year, it was decided to run the campaign again and this year it actually raised some funds. It was also through Abbie’s initial efforts that we received £4,000 from Grantham Yorke Trust. Dani has also been working on finding volunteers to run the Birmingham Half Marathon on behalf of Quinton YFC. 12 runners have been confirmed. Quinton YFC pay their entrance fee and provide a ‘goodie bag’ including t-shirts, and each runner looks to raise a minimum of £100. We are grateful not only to the runners but also for the businesses that have donated items or sold goods at a reduced cost to allow more of the money raised to go to the work with young people. We hope this to be an annual fundraiser with other volunteers already wanting to run for us in 2014. We are also planning numerous fundraisers for 2014 including raising centre support by at least £100 a month. A charity auction at Edgbaston Cricket Ground is being scheduled for early 2014 in which we aim to gain business sponsorship. We are also exploring ‘ladies nights’ as a creative way to fundraise.

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Legal and Administrative Information

Quinton Youth for Christ was registered with the Charity Commission on 10th August 2010, its registered charity number being 1137368.

The charity is led and managed day-to-day by its Director, Mrs Danielle Knox. The address for correspondence is 11 First Meadow Piece, Quinton, Birmingham, B32 2QJ.

It is governed by its constitution adopted on 30th June 2010.

The following act as Trustees: Office Date Appointed

Richard Starkie Chair 30/6/2010 Jo Whiting Secretary 30/6/2010 Robert Stand Treasurer 30/6/2010 Darren Richards 30/6/2010 Andy King 30/6/2010 Dr Sally Nash 28/7/2010

In accordance with its Constitution, Officers and Trustees are normally appointed by the Annual Meeting for a three year period, and are then eligible for re-election. Bank: Co-operative Bank, PO Box 250, Delf House, Southway, Skelmersdale, WN8 6WT.

Independent Examiner: David Dixie FCA, AIMS Accountants, Dixie Associates Ltd, 34 Swarthmore Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 4JS.

The Charity’s formal objects, as contained in its constitution, are as follows:

(a) To advance the Christian Faith for the benefit of young people throughout the world and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) in QUINTON and its environs;

(b) The advancement of the Christian Faith mainly, but not exclusively by means of proclaiming Christian messages of an evangelistic and teaching nature throughout the world and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) in QUINTON and its environs

(c) To demonstrate, promote and encourage Christian values, including Dignity, Empowerment and Partnership to all young people throughout QUINTON and its environs

(d) The advancement of the education of children and young people through support and mentoring in schools, colleges and other educational establishments, through lunchtime and after school clubs, street-based youth work and other youth provision to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, that they may grow as individuals, and that their condition of life may be improved

(e) To relieve poverty and sickness thereby demonstrating the Christian faith by promoting overseas service, education, practical action and working with those affected, either directly or through relevant relief agencies.

Patron: The Rt Revd David Urquhart – Bishop of Birmingham

Council of Reference: Revd Paul Beetham, Don Crawford, Pastor Benny Matthews, Revd Ray Yates

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Quinton Youth for Christ

Statement of Financial Activities for the Year ended 31st August 2013 2013 2012 Unrestricted Restricted Total Total Note Funds Funds Funds Funds Incoming Resources £ £ £ £

Donations: from individuals 11,283 11,283 11,514 tax refunds on Gift Aid 2,034 2,034 2,461 from churches 3 2,680 2,680 2,372 Grants: from local authority and schools 4 9,000 9,000 16,322 from trusts 4 21,000 21,000 15,395 Sponsored Events and Fundraising 152 152 2,111 Fees for speaking and writing 455 455 1,018 Contributions to activities from beneficiaries 728 728 883 Bank and Deposit Interest 71 71 47 Other income 21 21 70 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total incoming resources 47,424 nil 47,424 52,193 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Resources Expended

Salaries, pension and NI 5 30,869 30,869 24,988 Student accommodation and expenses 6 5,722 5,722 6,168 Intern accommodation and allowance 6 0 0 4,875 Staff training and retreats 390 390 648 Activities and events for young people 7 1,735 1,735 4,155 Telephone, postage and stationery 432 432 453 Promotion, publicity and cost of fundraising events 123 123 797 Insurance 308 308 326 Travel 199 199 268 Start-up costs and equipment 0 0 582 Other expenses 119 119 146 Professional Fees 120 120 0 Contribution to National YFC 200 200 200 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total resources expended 40,217 nil 40,217 43,606 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Net incoming / (outgoing) resources before transfers 7,207 nil 7,207 8,587 Transfers between funds 0 0 0 0 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Net incoming / (outgoing) resources 7,207 nil 7,207 8,587

Total funds brought forward at start of year 25,227 0 25,227 16,640 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total funds carried forward 9 32,434 nil 32,434 25,227 ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

Note: There are no other recognised gains or losses

The notes on pages 13 and 14 form part of these accounts

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Quinton Youth for Christ

Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31st August 2013

1. Basis of Accounting

These accounts have been prepared on an accruals basis under the historical cost convention.

2. Accounting Policies

Recognition of incoming resources: these are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when received, or when the charity has an unconditional entitlement, or when the trustees are virtually certain that they will be received and their monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability. Incoming resources with related expenditure: Where incoming resources have related expenditure, both are reported gross in the SOFA. Restricted funds: Grants and other income intended to fund specific work or expenditure are separately identified in the SOFA, as are the related expenditures. There were no unspent restricted funds at 31 August 2013. Tax reclaims on donations: These are included in the SOFA at the same time as the gift to which they relate. Donated services and facilities: No monetary value has been ascribed to these, but the charity is very grateful to the Four Dwellings High School for the free provision of accommodation and associated services. Similarly no monetary value is attached to the help received from volunteers, which is described in the trustees’ report. Liability recognition: Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources. Assets: It has been considered inappropriate to capitalise equipment purchased for use by the charity, as no individual items have cost more than £400. The charity owns no property, motor vehicles or investments.

3. Donations from Churches 2013 2012

Paul & Barny’s Church, Quinton 1,200 £1,200 St Boniface Church, Quinton 600 £650 Quinton Methodist Church 450 £300 Church of God of Prophecy 0 £122 Quinton Evangelical Free Church 200 £100 St Faith and St Laurence Church, Harborne 110 0 George Road Community Church 100 0 Christ Church at the Quinton 20 0 --------- --------- £2,680 £2,372 --------- --------- 4. Grants received:

from Local Authorities and Schools Birmingham City Council: Teenage Pregnancy Prevention £9,000 £9,000 Other - £7,322 from Other Trusts etc Lloyds TSB Foundation £15,000 Grantham Yorke Trust £4,000 George Henry Collins Charity £500 Wilmcote Trust £500 Mills and Reeve Charitable Trust £400 The Eric W Vincent Trust £300 Stanley Smith Memorial Fund £250 Bewley Charitable Trust £50 ---------- £21,000 £15,395 ---------- ---------- Total Grants received £30,000 £31,717 ---------- ----------

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Quinton Youth for Christ

Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31st August 2013 (continued)

5. Staff Costs 2013 2012

Gross salaries (including maternity pay) £34,848 £24,167 Less Statutory Maternity Pay refunds £(7,299) 0 --------- £27,549 --------- £24,167

Employer’s National Insurance £2,635 £2,241 Less refund of Contributions made in previous year (National Insurance Holiday for new enterprises) 0 £(2,105) ---------- £2,635 ---------- 136

Contribution to employee’s personal pension plan £685 £685 ---------- ---------- £30,869 £24,988 ---------- ---------- The charity had two paid employees during the year. 6. Student’s and Intern’s Costs:

The charity was committed to paying the accommodation and living expenses of a full-time youth work student on placement, who has made a major contribution to the charity’s work for the last three years. Around 66% of his costs of £5,722 in 2012/13 were covered by the personal support donations which he was successful in obtaining. During the previous year the charity also benefitted from the work of an Intern, when her costs of £4,875 were fully covered by a grant from the Church Urban Fund. 7. Activities and Events for young people

This includes the costs of materials and accommodation for residential events, the football league, the local EQ Mission weekend and the running expenses of the internet café 8. Trustees’ expenses:

No trustee claimed or was reimbursed for any expenses during the year, and there were no transactions with trustees or related parties. 9. Funds carried forward and Reserves Policy

It should be noted that the £32,434 carried forward at 31st August includes a number of grants which were sought and obtained to fund the ongoing work of the charity without being specifically attributed to a time period, and are accordingly needed to finance the charity’s activities during the year 2013/14.

It is not the policy of the trustees to accumulate reserves, but to seek each year sufficient funds to finance and develop current activities and meet, so far as possible, commitments to partners, staff and volunteers. The reserves at each balance sheet date will fluctuate and depend on the extent to which advance funding for the ensuing academic year has already been received. The trustees believe the level of funds at 31 August 2013 to be reasonable in the circumstances of the charity; it represents nine months’ budgeted expenditure. 10. Restricted Funds

(See Note 2 above re Accounting Policies).. There were no unspent restricted funds at 31 August 2013.

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