fya annual report and accounts 2012 13

‘Young People Creating a Better Community’

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Fitzrovia Youth in ActionAnnual Report and Accounts 2012-13

Contents

Annual Report and Accounts 2012-13

Chairman’s Report ......................................................................................... 1Director’s Report ........................................................................................... 2

ProjectsYouth Engagement ........................................................................................ 3 Sports Development Programme .......................................................... 3 Healthy Living Drop-in Programmes ...................................................... 4

Youth-led Volunteering ..................................................................................5 Camden Unity Cup ................................................................................5-6 Fitzrovia Street Party and Community Dinner .......................................7 Drugs Peer Education Project ...............................................................8 Youth Media Project ...............................................................................9-11

Employability Support ....................................................................................12 Mentoring and Work Experience ...........................................................12-13 Study Support ........................................................................................14 Employability through Football ..............................................................15

Staff Team .....................................................................................................16Board of Trustees ..........................................................................................17

Our Funders for 2012 - 2013 .........................................................................18

Financial Report ............................................................................................19 Contents ...............................................................................................20 Legal and Administrative Information ....................................................21 Trustees’ Report ....................................................................................22 Independent Examiner’s Report ............................................................23 Statement of Financial Activities ............................................................24 Balance Sheet .......................................................................................25 Notes to the Accounts ............................................................................26-29

Chairman’s Report

This has been an encouraging year for Fitzrovia Youth in Action. Through the hard work of our staff we have maintained a stable financial situation which has enabled us to expand our activities, develop partnerships with other groups and establish links with local organisations and businesses.

We are particularly pleased, at a time when youth unemployment is a national concern, to be involved with programmes that are helping young people to gain skills and confidence that will help them in the labour market.

We are determined to build on our achievements this year, which means continuing hard work to maintain our income through successful grant and other funding applications. The Trustees wish to thank all our staff whose efforts have enabled us to make this progress and to extend the activities with young people.

I am particularly grateful to our Director, Andre Schott, for his leadership and to all the Trustees for their hard work and for the support they have given to me throughout the year.

Dr June Crown CBEChairman

1Annual Report and Accounts 2012-13

Chairman’s Report ......................................................................................... 1Director’s Report ........................................................................................... 2

ProjectsYouth Engagement ........................................................................................ 3 Sports Development Programme .......................................................... 3 Healthy Living Drop-in Programmes ...................................................... 4

Youth-led Volunteering ..................................................................................5 Camden Unity Cup ................................................................................5-6 Fitzrovia Street Party and Community Dinner .......................................7 Drugs Peer Education Project ...............................................................8 Youth Media Project ...............................................................................9-11

Employability Support ....................................................................................12 Mentoring and Work Experience ...........................................................12-13 Study Support ........................................................................................14 Employability through Football ..............................................................15

Staff Team .....................................................................................................16Board of Trustees ..........................................................................................17

Our Funders for 2012 - 2013 .........................................................................18

Financial Report ............................................................................................19 Contents ...............................................................................................20 Legal and Administrative Information ....................................................21 Trustees’ Report ....................................................................................22 Independent Examiner’s Report ............................................................23 Statement of Financial Activities ............................................................24 Balance Sheet .......................................................................................25 Notes to the Accounts ............................................................................26-29

Director’s Report

As the activities listed in this report testify, 2012-13 has been a very busy and rewarding year for FYA.

While further developing our youth engagement and participation programmes, we were also able to launch new strands of work through which we offered exciting new experiences to help young people raise aspirations and improve their education or career prospects.

Through our In-Sight programme we brought together local businesses and young people to provide work experience placements, mentor support and employability training. We also launched an innovative ‘Road to Success’ programme which used football to help 16-24 year olds improve their employability skills.

Much of our work would not be possible without the support of our partners from the voluntary and statutory sector. We were very excited to further develop our links with Westminster Kingsway College (WKC). One of the most popular new initiatives we launched were our study support sessions where student volunteers from local universities helped WKC students improve their confidence and grades. We also spent some time looking at how we can improve our work as a local charity. We went through a City and Guilds accredited quality assurance programme and were awarded a Bronze Level London Youth Quality Mark. We also embarked on a 12 month programme with the Pilotlight charity and a team of business mentors to review the way our charity operates and put together strategies to help us become more effective, efficient and sustainable.

At a time when funding is becoming increasingly difficult to secure, we are grateful to our staff and our partner agencies for their hard work and close co-operation which has enabled us to continue to deliver our work in these challenging times.

I would like to thank our funders, partner agencies, staff, trustees and volunteers for all their support in helping so many young people in Camden to make a positive contribution to their community.

Andre SchottDirector


Youth Engagement

Through football and drop-in activities, we engaged with children and young people in the Fitzrovia and West Euston areas. Through these activities, our staff build relationships with children and young people and progress them onto our youth-led volunteering activities as they grow older.

Over 100 individual children and young people participated regularly in our healthy living drop-ins and football training sessions.

Sports Development Programme

Our Head Football Coach Tony Blair coaches our Under 13’s team in the Cumberland Market Football Pitch.

We operated two weekly football coaching sessions; one Under 11’s session in the Warren Pitch in Fitzrovia and one Under 13’s session in the Cumberland Market Pitch in West Euston.

Both groups took part in the Camden and Regents Park Youth League where they played competitive 8-a-side football matches in Regents Park throughout the football season.

We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support from Fitzrovia Partnership for the programme. Tony Garratt, the Ambassador Supervisor for the Partnership, is also a qualified football coach, and every Wednesday afternoon helps deliver football coaching sessions to our Under 13’s.

42 young people took part in our football development programme over the year.

Our Under 16’s football team pose for a team photo in the Warren Football Pitch.


Youth Engagement

Healthy Living Drop-in programmes

A Fitness Workshop at our Healthy Living drop-in session at the H-Pod community centre.

We operated two weekly healthy living drop-in sessions. One took place at the H-Pod com-munity centre and was delivered as part of the wider West Euston Healthy Communities Project. We also launched another healthy living drop-in run in partnership with the Fitz-rovia Community Centre.

Both projects aim to increase young people’s awareness of healthy living choices and em-power them to make better and more informed choices about their health. Children and young people take part in cooking workshops as well as fun and informal activities, physical activity and competitive play.

We also worked with our partners in the Surma Youth Centre to deliver AQA accredited activities to young people there.

Young people took part in accredited training in a range of health-related issues, including cooking and healthy eating, boxing, devising your own gym programme, bicycle maintenance, producing a youth magazine, and drugs awareness. We also took the Healthy living group away on a residential weekend to Hindleap Warren in Sussex.

59 young people took part in our healthy living drop-ins over the year and gained the following AQA accredited training modules;

- Healthy Eating; 22 young people- Healthy Living 12 young people- Keeping Healthy; 8 young people

Assistant Youth Support and Community Worker, Rahima Khatun, makes healthy smoothies with a member of our Healthy Living Drop-in Programme.


Youth-led VolunteeringYouth Engagement

Our youth-led volunteering activities are a means for young people to give something back to their community whilst gaining confidence and valuable hands-on work experience. Projects organised by our young volunteers include peer education programmes, community events and media projects.

Steering groups of young volunteers spend on average 3 months planning and organising their activities. After delivering their project, young people take part in employability workshops to help them recognise and articulate the skills they learned through the programme.

A total of 89 young people took part in our youth-led volunteering programme as steering group members.

Camden Unity Cup

The Camden Unity Cup is one of Camden’s largest youth football tournaments and has been running annually since 1999.

The Camden Unity Cup aims to give young people ownership of their football pitches. Young people are supported in stewarding the match days and given the responsibility to create safe environments for others to come into. The Camden Unity Cup also celebrates the importance of local outdoor play areas. The tournament hosts football at its most grass roots level, the pitches used for the tournament are usually concrete pitches often set inside housing estates.


The tournament encourages local young people to set up teams just for the event and young people from all backgrounds and abilities take part each year.

The 2012 event was organised in partnership with the Somali Youth Development and Resource Centre, South Camden Youth Access Point and West Euston Time Bank with match days held in the Bourne Es-tate (Holborn), Regents Park Estate (West Euston) and Cantelowes Sports Pitch (Camden Town).

Three organising committees of young people were formed with young people from partner agencies and in the months leading up to the event, they took part in planning workshops and training sessions to provide them with the event management and stewarding skills needed to organise the event.

We supported 34 young people involved in the steering groups to organise and deliver match days on their local football pitches. Young people in the steering groups gained AQA accreditation in Event Management Training.

A total of 286 young people took part in the 2012 Camden Unity Cup, with 49 teams competing over four age divisions (U10,U12,U14 & U16).

Under 12’s compete in a Camden Unity Cup Festival match day at Cantelowes Sports Pitch.

Youth-led Volunteering


Fitzrovia Street Party and Community Dinner

The young stewards who hosted our 2012 Fitzrovia Street Party and Community Dinner pose for a picture onstage.

The Fitzrovia Street Party and Community Dinner is an annual event which takes place on the streets around the Warren play area in Whitfield Street, London W1, and is aimed at improving relations between young people who spend time in the Warren with residents who live close-by.

Feedback gained from previous events has shown the importance of such initiatives in bringing the community together.

Fitzrovia Youth in Action hosted the 2012 street party and community dinner at the end of the summer holidays. Young people hosted the event on stage, provided entertainment, served the food, organised decorations, tidied up and provided all the stewarding required.

We supported 9 young people in organising the street party.

An additional 32 young people volunteered at the event.

An estimated 350 local residents and guests attended.

A young steward sells raffle tickets at our 2012 Fitzrovia Street Party and Community Dinner.

Youth-led Volunteering Youth-led Volunteering



Drugs Peer Education Project

Students take part in a drug awareness workshop at Westminster Kingsway College.

Since 2005, Fitzrovia Youth in Action has been supporting young people in planning and delivering innovative ways to provide information about drugs and alcohol to other young people.

Following feedback with young people and a grant from the Amy Winehouse Foundation, FYA integrated its OnRoad youth media project with its peer education work and created an innovative youth-led drugs and alcohol awareness programme involving the production of music sound tracks and short films.

Over the year, FYA worked with five groups of young people. Each group attended workshops at least once a week over a period of 8 to 12 weeks. Participants took part in drugs and alcohol awareness training. Each group then produced a sound track as well as a music

video to help spread awareness among young people about drugs and alcohol. The films and sound tracks formed the basis for peer education workshops which they delivered to other young people at their youth clubs in Camden.

Young people from these groups have also taken part in employability workshops to evaluate the skills gained and practice to articulate these.

Partner agencies involved in the project were Dragon Hall, Granville Youth Arts, Castlehaven Community Association and Westminster Kingsway College.

We also worked with Westminster Kingsway College and delivered drugs peer education training to students involved in four different vocational courses and supported them in organising drug awareness marketing campaigns in the college.

A member of our drugs peer education steering group records their awareness-raising soundtrack in a professional music studio.



The Albany police station kindly lent us the use of their custody suite to film the music video for “Harsh Reality”, which also featured a soundtrack produced by members of our drugs peer education project.

In total, we provided 130 young people with drugs and alcohol training, of which;

- 42 completed Music and Film Production training

- 36 completed AQA accredited training in Writing and Recording Song Lyrics

- 36 gained AQAs in Drug Awareness training

- 32 delivered peer education training to 150 other young people

Youth Media Project

Young members of the On Road media team film our 2012 Fitzrovia Street Party and Community Dinner.


Fitzrovia’s On Road media project supports young people in exploring issues of concern and provides media training to enable young people to use media get their messages across.

The project provides opportunities for young people from different backgrounds to have a better under-standing of each other and allows policy makers, practitioners and the adult community in general to be better informed about the needs of disadvantaged young people.

During 2012/13, we integrated our media work across most of our youth volunteering and employability pro-grammes.

Our work culminated in a showcase at the end of the year which presented films young people had made during 2012/13 covering a variety of topics, including: drugs issues, conflict, community cohesion, and em-ployability.


Our young members present their films to an audience of hundreds at the 2012 Camden Youth Action! Showcase.

The Camden Youth Action! Film Showcase event was organised and hosted by steering group of young people. The group worked flawlessly over a 3 month period, to ensure the showcase would promote the positive contribution young people can make towards the community. The event, held at the Camden Centre, was almost packed to capacity with over 300 guests.

Twelve young people formed the steering group for the event. Eight young people completed AQA accredited training in;

- Event Management- Leadership- Organising a Community Event

Young people host the 2012 Camden Youth Action! Showcase.



Shahel Ahmed presents the ‘Backlash’ film.

One of the films shown at the showcase was produced by a group of young people who wanted to explore conflict between groups of young people in the West Euston area. Their film ‘Backlash’ interviews people who were affected by the racial conflict between young people in the area 15 years ago and makes comparisons to the territorial conflict which affects young people today.

Twelve young people spent four months working on the film and completed AQA accredited training in Film Making.

A local young person shares his views on youth conflict.


Employability Support

During 2012/13, we launched a number of new initiatives to provide an additional pathways (on top of our volunteering programme) for young people to develop their employability skills through practical experiences.

Our ‘In-Sight’ programme allows young people gain awareness into the world of work through work experience placements and mentoring opportunities. The programme also supports university students in providing study support sessions at a local community college to help young people improve their confidence and grades.

We also pioneered a new programme, called ‘Road to Success’ which used football to help young people develop their employability skills.

Mentoring and work experience

A young person working with her mentor during her placement at The Royal British Legion.

Young people are matched with mentors from a range of top businesses who lend a helping hand at a crucial point in young people’s development. Each young person is matched with a mentor from the industry they’re interested in and invites them into their workplace for practical work experience. Young people taking part develop their confidence and ambitions with mentors providing valuable insights into their area of work and supporting mentees in planning their future careers.



Matheus Ferreira gets stuck in to his work experience placement at GMS Estates, a private property company. Matheus did so well at his placement that GMS offered him a paid internship.

The first cohort of mentoring took place during the February 2013 half term when nine placements were successfully completed. Our target is for 100 young people to be provided with mentoring and work experience opportunities over the next year.

“Most people my age don’t realise how important work experience is but it gives you the chance to see whether you like the type of work environment that you’re aiming for. The fact that I put myself up for this experience is something which I’m very proud of.” Young person, 16yrs

“I gained valuable life experiences thanks to my great mentor. Her patience and willingness to support me throughout the programme made it an enjoyable experience and I will use it this year when making big decisions about my future.”

Young person, 18yrs

“Being a mentor was and continues to be very rewarding. It’s a mutual learning process and I found that I benefitted from it as much as (I hope!) my mentee did.”

Mentor, Valentina Lewis, the Royal British Legion

“Working with a young person was so rewarding. It strengthened my patience, understanding and skills in the work place too. But more than this, it was a chance to make a real and lasting difference to their future.”

Mentor, Vivienne Bushrod, the Guardian



Study Support

Fitzrovia Youth in Action has partnered with Westminster Kingsway College to deliver study support sessions for their A Level students. Volunteer students from local universities including University College London (UCL), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and the London School of Economics (LSE) facilitate and deliver daily sessions aimed at building confidence, expanding knowledge and improving grades.

The programme launched in January and the peer led approach has proven very popular with students from Westminster Kingsway College.

75 young people from Westminster King-sway College attended study support sessions on a regular basis.

32 students from local universities helped deliver study support sessions.

Above and left: volunteer students from local universities run study support sessions at Westminster Kingsway College.



Employability through Football

The ‘Road to Success’ project used football as a tool to engage with 16-24 year old young people who needed support with developing their career goals and employability skills.

The main focus of the project was working with a group of young men who formed an 11 a side football team and participated in the Islington Midweek Football League. Weekly employability workshops were interwoven with football training sessions and were used as the developmental core of the project.

Above and right; Members of our ‘Road to Success’ programme engage in football and employability development workshops.

Out of the core group of 30 young people who took part;

- 71% showed an increased in their self-concept and image- 69% showed improved understanding and confidence in personal and professional skills- 67% felt increased confidence in their employability skills- 60% felt they had improved their ability to plan for the future


Staff Team

Director Andre Schott

Mentoring Programme ManagerCara French (November 2012 onwards)

In-Sight Project OfficerAsma Begum (November 2012 onwards)

Youth Participation OfficersShipon Hussain Raja Miah Reshma Biring (December 2012 onwards)

Project Manager – Employability through FootballSamson Osinnowo (until November 2012)Simon Bucknor (November 2012 onwards)

Football Staff Anthony Blair (Head Coach)Zinuk Ahmed (Football Coach)Tony Garret (Football Coach, secondment Fitzrovia Partnership)

Resource ManagerRowena Knight

AdministratorKausar Ali (until May 2012)

Finance OfficerShahed Sattar


Board of Trustees

ChairmanDr. June Crown CBE

TreasurerAnastasia Prunella Matthew

TrusteesJohn BraimeRobert BrooksVicky Grant Esta Orchard Simon Wallace


Our Funders

We would like to thank our funders for 2012/13;

Aldenham Club Trust

Amy Winehouse Foundation

Big Lottery Fund

London Borough of Camden

BBC Children in Need

Circle Housing

City Bridge Trust

Derwent London

Forward Foundation

Garfield Weston Foundation

GMS Estates

Hilden Charitable Fund

Home Office

Jack Petchey Foundation

John Lyon’s Charity

London Community Foundation

Tudor Trust

West Euston Partnership


Our Funders

Charity Registration Number 1136697

Company registration Number 06922343 (England and Wales)

Fitzrovia Youth in Action

Trustees’ Report and Unaudited Accounts

For the Year ended 31 March 2013

Contents


Legal and Administrative Information ....................................................21

Trustees’ Report ....................................................................................22

Independent Examiner’s Report ............................................................23

Statement of Financial Activities ............................................................24

Balance Sheet .......................................................................................25

Notes to the Accounts ............................................................................26-29

Legal And Administrative Information

Trustees Dr. June Crown CBE John Braime Robert Brooks Anastasia Prunella Matthew Esta Orchard Victoria Grant Simon Wallace Secretary Andre Schott Charity number 1136697 Company number 06922343 Registered office 66-68 Warren Street London W1T 5NZ Accountants Silver Levene LLP Chartered Certified Accountants 37 Warren Street London W1T 6AD


Trustees’ Report

The trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2013. The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply with the charity’s constitution, applicable law and the requirements of the statement of Recommended Practice. Objects of the charity The charity was established by a charitable deed in August 2000. The objects of Fitzrovia Youth in Action are to promote the establishment in the lives of children and young persons in the London Borough of Camdenand the City of Westminster particularly, but not exclusively, the provision of training in life skills and healthy exercise, the promotion of racial harmony, the provision of sports activities, creative art activities and other recreational and educational activities so as to assist such children and young persons to grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and so that their conditions of life may be improved. The trustees who served during the year were: Dr. June Crown CBE John Braime Robert Brooks Anastasia Prunella Matthew Esta Orchard Victoria Grant Simon Wallace

The trustees periodically review procedures and staffing to ensure that they adequately address the needs of the charity. Any risks are assessed during the process and action taken to mitigate them. Internal risks are minimised by the implementation of procedures for authorisation of all transactions and projects to ensure quality of delivery for all operational aspects of the charitable company. On behalf of the board of trustees

Prunella MatthewHonorary Treasurer

Dated: 3rd December 2013


Independent Examiner’s Report

We report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2013, which are set out on pages 3 to 8. Respective responsibilities of trustees and examinerThe charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is our responsibility to:(i) examine the accounts under section 43 of the 1993 Act (ii) to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 43 (7) (b) of the 1993 Act; and (iii) to state whether particular matters have come to our attention. Basis of independent examiner’s report Our examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair view’ and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. Independent examiner’s statementIn connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: (a) which gives us reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: (i) to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the 1993 Act; and (ii) to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act; have not been met; or (b) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Silver Levene LLP Chartered Certified Accountants37 Warren Street London W1T 6AD Dated: 5th December 2013


Statement of Financial ActivitiesFOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013


Balance SheetFOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013

The company is entitiled to the exemption from the audit requirement contained in section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, for the year ended 31 March 2013. No member of the company has deposited a notice, pursuant to section 476, requiring an audit of these accounts. The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Act and for preparing accounts which give a true and fair value of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its income rescources and application of resources, including its income and expentidure, for the 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 accounts, so far as applicable to the company. These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies regime within part 15 of the Companies Act 2006. The accounts were approved by the Board on: December 3rd 2013

Dr. June Crown CBE Chairman


Notes to the AccountsFOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013

1 Accounting policies 1.1 Basis of preparation The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards, the Statement of recommended practice, “Accounting and Reporting by Charities”, issued in March 2005 and the Charities Act 1993 and Companies Act 2006. 1.2 Incoming resources All incoming resources are recognised once the charity has entitlement to the resources, it is certain that the resources will be received and the monetary value of incoming resources can be measured with sufficient reliability. 1.3 Resources expended Liabilities are recognised as resources expended as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to the expenditure. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Governance costs comprise all costs involving the public accountability of the charity and its compliance with regulation and good practice. Irrecoverable VAT is charged against the category of resources expended for which it was incurred. 1.4 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its expected useful life, as follows: Fixtures, fittings & equipment 15% reducing balance basis 1.5 Company status The charity is a company limited by guarantee. The members of the company are the trustees named on page 1.

2 Donations and legacies Donations and gifts 3 Investment income Interest receivable


6 Trustees None of the trustees (or any persons connected with them) received any remuneration during the year.



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