Annual Review 2013-2014

Review ANNUAL

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2013-2014

NORWICH OPENS FOURTH HOUSE THE BIG SLEEP OUT Raising awareness for World Homeless Day

FOCUS ON NOTTINGHAM

A NEW PARADIGM TO SHARING

How to become a Hope into Action investor

Congregation comes together to buy a house

Contents

Comments from the Chair of Trustees

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Comments from the Chair of Trustees Gavin Bateman

It is a bitter-sweet honour, for which I am really thankful having stood down as Chair of Trustees on 1st April 2014, to have this final opportunity to reflect on a truly amazing year for Hope into Action; its tenants, its partner churches and those engaged in investing in such kingdom riches.

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The Year at a Glance Comments from the Executive Director Ed Walker

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Peterborough Cathedral Leads the Way

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Helping the Homeless of Lincoln

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News

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Please Support Us

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The Hope into Action story has been such an incredible one and the privilege of seeing lives changed for the better is unequalled. The grant-funders and investors have been mind-blowing and continue to prove that this work and vision is highly valued. That is why it was so gratifying to see the first pilot-franchisees go through their training and make their own steps into Lincoln and Wolverhampton. We pray for protection, wisdom and success for this expansion.

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What Makes us Get up in the Morning

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Focus on Nottingham A New Paradigm to Sharing

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An ‘Inside’ Look at the Need

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Financial Statements

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We continue to see and hear amazing testimonies from the team about tenants turning their lives around, coming off methadone, turning away from crime, building trusting relationships, finding jobs, as well as finding peace and purpose in their lives. For this last year and for the first 4 years I thank God for all these blessings, and I know the team under new Chairmanship will continue to look to his guidance when things do not go so well. What God is doing in these peoples lives, through these churches and Hope into Action frontline staff is truly wonderful. At the

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Outcomes

The Year at a Glance

heart of all we do are the people, be they homeless, in prison, or simply lost and we continue to answer the call to serve them through enabling churches.

The amazing staff team continues to grow, but I am persistently amazed by what this team accomplishes with so few people. It is a tribute to the way they work collectively driven by a passion and vigour for what they are doing. Our own and church volunteers (and interns) are the catalyst lighting the fire that is Hope into Action, their commitment and diligence is a real inspiration to me personally and the Trustees.

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The amazing staff team continues to grow, but I am persistently amazed by what this team accomplishes with so few people.

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Finally, I want to thank Ed for inviting me on this amazing journey over this last 4 years. A journey for Hope into Action that I know has only now just begun. But I must end with another challenge to push again for 2014/15, to drive for new franchises, new towns and new churches; to push for new investors from across the country that can release their capital to be used for kingdom purposes, enabling churches to home the houseless. There is still much to do.

• Ardva opens house in Lincoln • Opened 1st house in Nottingham

APR 2013

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MAY 2013

14TH HOUSE

JUNE 2013

• Opened 10th house in Peterborough with St Marks Church

JULY 2013

AUG 2013

15TH HOUSE

SEPT 2013

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• Opened 2nd house in Norwich

• Opened 3rd house in Norwich

• Opened 4th house in Norwich

• House opened with Peterborough Cathedral • 12th house opened in Peterborough with Emmanuel and St John

OCT 2013

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JAN 2014

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FEB 2014

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20TH HOUSE

21ST HOUSE

MAR 2014

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Comments from Executive Director

Ed Walker

Well, once again, it has been a great and exciting year. We started with 13 and ended with 21 churches housing the homeless. We opened our first house in partnership with a Cathedral, 3 more in Norwich, our first ‘multiple-investor’ house in Nottingham (read page 8) and much more. In total we housed over 64 people, and now have over 28 in Peterborough at any one time.

Perhaps most inspiring is the churches and church volunteers seeing, hearing and understanding the need and being prepared to step-up, sacrifice their time, love and energy to build non-judgemental, caring relationships with those that need it most.

We have also assessed, selected and trained 2 franchisees to replicate our work into new cities. Our first ‘franchisee house’ opened in Lincoln in partnership with St Peters Church and another will shortly open in Wolverhampton.

We are piloting this approach and will then evaluate it before deciding if it is something we can do again.

Peterborough Cathedral leads the way Peterborough Cathedral became our first partner cathedral and also our first home to house a family rather than individual tenants. We would like to thank Canon Jonathan Baker and the mentors in the Cathedral congregation for all of their hard work. We hope to be able to partner with many other Cathedrals as we expand into new cities across the country.

In December 2013, Hope into Action trained two people in how to replicate our business model in their cities as part of our franchise programme. Ardva, our franchisee in Lincoln, opened her first house in March this year.

I also mention the sad news that Stuart Mitchell passed away on 31st March 2014. Stuart was a lovely man, a friend to all of us and a great tenant. It was a great privilege to know him and we are extremely grateful to his family for raising a collection for us at his funeral.

Finally may I explain our belief that we see ‘homelessness’ and the ‘other issues’ our tenants arrive with as purely symptoms. The root cause of their sufferings, 95% of the time, is relational poverty. Our aim, therefore, is not just to provide tenants with a home but also a richness of relationships they have never before experienced.

Success to us is church volunteers, out of their pews, engaging with our tenants in a meaningful way and our tenants feeling loved. It is from the security of these relationships that the below outcomes (page 16) have been achieved. Recent examples include a church volunteer being the birthing partner of a tenant or another driving a tenant from Peterborough to Manchester to visit his dying father. When we hear stories like that- we feel we have succeeded in our mission and trust that from those relationships will come changed lives….. both in church members and tenants.

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Helping the homeless of Lincoln – a franchisee perspective

Bishop and MP opens 10th House We began 2013 with 9 houses in Peterborough and finished with 12. The opening of our tenth house in the City, a partnership with St Marks Church, was attended by The Bishop of Peterborough and the local MP Mr Stewart Jackson.

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40 volunteers from St Peter in Eastgate Church, Lincoln gave up their time to help get her first house up and running.

“I did a lot of research and realised there isn’t anything like this in Lincoln. Our belief statement does not

The dream is for every church in Lincolnshire to house the vulnerable and enable them to rebuild their lives.

Ardva already had experience of working with vulnerable people, having been a foster carer for fifteen children. However opening a house was a new challenge, but being a franchisee with Hope into Action gave her access to a tried and tested business model, marketing resources and advice whenever it was needed.

Ardva Boyes-Brewer gave up her job, sold her large house to live in a smaller one and fund a second property to help home the vulnerable and homeless of Lincolnshire. Once she had bought the home, @hopeintoaction

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discriminate against age or sex. I am personally funding the first two homes. I hope by the third home to be able to employ a support worker. The wonderful thing that makes it special is the church commits between five and seven volunteers to come alongside the tenants in the home. They come as a friend – not to convert – but to stand as a witness of God and shine for God.” Ardva.

If you would like to find out more about becoming a franchisee please call us on 01733 558301.

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NEWS NORWICH In February we opened our 4th house in Norwich.

This house was opened in partnership with Gateway Vineyard Church. We have move two tenants into the home. The fifth house will be opening soon.

Since opening our house in partnership with East Norwich Youth Project and St Francis Church, we have housed 3 tenants. All have retained their tenancies, one has attended a full time college course as well as a part time job. She hopes to go to university when her course finishes.

Another tenant has completed a 3 week work placement, doing very well. Her mentor from the church has been a great role model for her filling that ‘grandmother’ role in her life, teaching her to knit, taking her to the garden centre and baking with her. This really is a model of how tenant and church volunteer works!

CAMBRIDGE We have now opened our second home in Cambridge in partnership with Barnwell Church, Cambridge. We now support six tenants in Cambridge.

THANKS GIVING SERVICE Thank you to all who attended our Thanks Giving Service this year at Bretton Baptist church, Peterborough. It was an opportunity bring together tenants, mentors, church leaders, investors and staff to celebrate what we have achieved together this year. We also managed to raise nearly £2,000 at the event. Thank you.

CSJ AWARD WINNER

What makes us get up in the morning?

In November we were delighted, honoured and humbled to receive the CSJ (Centre for Social Justice) award.

Hope into Action has grown from the vision of one man in 2010 to a dedicated group of twenty staff and volunteers spread across six cities. But what makes people want to work or volunteer for Hope into Action?

200 charities and projects were considered and there were six winners. We would like to dedicate this award to all our church volunteers, who have given up their time, energy and love and also to our tenants who are the real heroes of our story.

On the evening Ed gave a speech talking about how churches and Christian investors have stepped up to meet the need. The audience included many high profile figures such as Iain Duncan Smith, Lord Archer, The Duchess of Westminster, Jonathan Aitken, Davina McCall and Esther Ranson.

Please Support Us On Friday 10th October up to a hundred people will sleep rough for the night outside Peterborough Cathedral to coincide with World Homeless Day and raise money to continue our work at Hope into Action.

This event, the first for Hope into Action, brings together staff, tenants, friends, mentors and church leaders from any of our partner churches to spend a night sleeping rough.

We cannot pretend to understand how hard life must really be for those who have to sleep in doorways or on benches every night by us spending one night in the cold and wet.

We have the luxury to know that on the Saturday morning

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we can go home to our loved ones, have a hot meal, a shower and change our clothes. Many don’t.

The aim is to raise awareness of the work which we do at Hope into Action to get people off the streets and into one of our 28 houses spread across six cities. There are still many people sleeping rough who need our help. We can’t do this without your continued support. We want to raise as much money as possible to help us train mentors from our partner churches to work with our tenants.

To support the Hope into Action Big Sleep Out 2014, visit our Just Giving Page at www.justgiving.com/ hopeintoactioneastofengland www.hopeintoaction.org.uk

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For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.

Deuteronomy 15:11

“I have worked in the homeless sector before. The difference in working for Hope into Action, and it is a huge difference, is knowing that everything we do is guided by prayer. I am working with inspiring people who are motivated.”

Jenny, Support Worker in Peterborough “I loved my previous job and I was passionate about it, but Hope into Action enabled me to use what I’d already learnt and build on it. Its holistic nature enables me to meet needs in every aspect of an individual’s life. There aren’t many organisations you can say that about.”

Kate in Norwich “I couldn’t understand why the church population seemed so devoid of the ‘poor’ from our streets. There seemed a disconnect between the words I read in the Bible and the reality I saw in churches. Bringing the two populations together is what I find I’m passionate about.”

Ed “Working here isn’t just a job it is a calling to help those who are vulnerable in our society. I had never worked for a charity before, but I wanted to do something which would

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make a real difference to other people’s lives rather just my own.” Duncan “I am thankful that I am in a position to help others whose lives have been a tougher journey than mine.

Working for Hope into Action lets me do my bit to help the homeless.”

Emma

Did you know?

Every donation makes a difference to us.

For example a £20 donation covers the cost of moving a vulnerable person into one of our houses. £30 keeps a tenant in a house for a week.

To make a donation visit www.hopeintoaction.org.uk

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Focus on Nottingham

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Focus on Nottingham

Hope into Action opens two houses in Nottingham:

Congregation comes together to buy Nottingham house

Twelve compassionate churchgoers invested £10,000 each to buy a home for the homeless.

Some of them had the money sitting around in a building society account and felt this would be a good use for it.

Each have used their own savings to buy the threebedroom home. Their aim is simple – to help vulnerable people off the streets and give them a second chance at life.

Nigel Adams, director at Hope Nottingham, said: “After hearing about the scheme run by Hope into Action we decided to contact churches in the local area to invite people to invest in a property.

Charles Hume, a member of the investor group, said “For me, this is a sound investment in bricks and mortar.

But we also are investing in the process of restoration for individuals who, for whatever reason, have been dealt a poor hand in life. It’s really difficult for them to make the step back into what we would consider the normal rights and privileges of an individual in our country. For me personally, and the position I’m in personally, it felt obvious to be involved in this.”

“We sent out a note in one of our newsletters and had 12 people come forward and agree to put in an equal amount of money. The churches other role is to provide support for tenants who go into the home. Some of the church team will provide mentoring and pastoral care.”

The 12 investors, who come from five churches across Nottingham, signed up for the project after hearing about Hope into Action.

The house will remain the property of the 12 investors, but will provide a safe place to live for long-term homeless people for at least the next five years..

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One of the biggest things for homeless people is that they can become very isolated and don’t know how to form relationships with other people – that’s one of the biggest hindrances to getting back into normal life.

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Homeless people, who are from a variety of backgrounds, will come from various referral agencies and Hope into Action assess them to see if they fit our criteria for coming into the house. Some of them could be former prisoners or people whose family circumstances have left them with nowhere to stay but all of them are in desperate need of our help.

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Canon Alan Howe, Vicar of Christ Church in Chilwell, said: “We are delighted to support this radical use of money from members of local churches and most importantly see people mentor and be-friend the tenants in the house.”

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We opened our 2nd church in March. The book of Acts talks of people ‘sharing…so there was no needy amongst them’ the below is an article about a 21st century group of people trying to do something similar.

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During the period covered by this report Hope into Action launched in Nottingham – we recruited staff and opened our first house in partnership with St Saviours Church. Two former street sleepers moved in May 2013: one went on a literacy course and volunteers every week for the church, another was employed by a church before moving into a full-time rehab.

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When you put money into stocks and shares you are sharing your money with the wealthy – how many poor stock brokers do you know? In so doing you are enabling the rich to get richer. In part this leads to a greater stretch between rich and poor and a more divided society. By putting money into homes for the homeless the poor benefit from your wealth; it leads towards a more just society. Not only that but they feel that society cares for them. One tenant said: “Having lived in hostels run by the state for the last 8 years, I cannot believe that someone in my community would want to buy a house for me.”

Another said to an investor, “You have done more for me than my parents ever did.”

A new paradigm to sharing WRITTEN BY ED WALKER

Just imagine how much money is saved by Christians in your area then think what might be possible with that wealth if it was undammed?

If we can successfully access this seam of money, held by Christians, ‘stored up in barns’ as Jesus described it, then we might be able to see the churches, once again, at the fore-front of social reform in the area of homelessness offering a more community based response to homelessness.

Hope into Action are trying to use investment capital more directly for purposes of church based social action and in so doing promote a new form of wealth management. We would love to see investment, currently pent up, flowing into homes for the homeless.

The Bible uses words like ‘give to’ but it also uses words like ‘share.’ The current money paradigm and culture in our churches is to give away 10 per cent of earnings to a good cause or the church and save or spend the rest elsewhere. Hope into Action are saying that for those who have savings or an investment portfolio why not ‘share’ your money with the poor by investing in a house?

Jesus told a parable about a man who stored his wealth in barns. He said to the person who did so, ‘You fool!’

Currently Christians and the church have billions of pounds stored up ‘in barns’ (ie banks, stocks, shares)’.

Would Jesus think this wise? We want to encourage Christians to ‘share’ their money with the poor.

The parable of the talents immediately precedes the verses about ‘when I was hungry you fed me, in prison you visited me, etc.’ (Matthew 25). Jesus linked money and values. We are giving people a way they can do the same by saying: ‘as part of your investment portfolio please invest also in the poor’. This model fulfils so much of what Jesus spoke about money: people can fulfil the parable of the talents, serve the poor, build up the church, build up their riches in heaven, provide the poor wanderer with shelter and get away from storing money in barns all in one stroke.

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This is how it works: • Using the investment capacity of the church, one house is bought in a reasonable area of their community. (A deposit and a mortgage is required, though you can purchase the house outright).

• The house is used to support 2 people in a vulnerable situation.

• The rent/ housing benefit pays a return on the investment.

• The Hope into Action provides: the professional support (referrals, needs assessments, key working, sign-posting, tenancy, benefits etc).

• The church provides: community, non-judgemental relationships, practical support and prayer.

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We started 4 years ago with one house in partnership with Bretton Baptist Church in Peterborough. We now have 21 houses open in 7 cities and a further 4 in the pipeline. We have diverted over £2 million of investment capital to the poor. We have enabled rich Christians to wisely link their values with their money. Most recently we have opened a house where 12 people have invested £10,000, an exciting 21st century model of ‘sharing’ based on the apostles precedent as described in Acts 2 and 4. Most importantly for us, however, each house is in partnership with a church who provide pastoral support in partnership with our professional workers. In such a way we are able to provide a holistic, professional, long-term relational approach to the poorest in our cities and towns.

As a result we are seeing people give up crime, come off drugs, get jobs and turn their lives around.

If you are interesting in becoming an investor please call us on 01733 558301.

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Jesus linked money and values. We are giving people a way they can do the same by saying: ‘as part of your investment portfolio please invest also in the poor’

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Our aim is to see lives transformed, people healed and broken relationships mended

An ‘Inside’ look at the need

Outcome

1st 2 yrs

Have maintained their tenancy

BY ANDY LANNING - TRUSTEE

Have abstained from crime

I’ve been a Prison Chaplain for nine years. In that time I’ve had invitations to speak at many places about the Church’s role in prisons. My first talk at any church or meeting will always contain one story in particular. You may have heard it before but I make no apology for repeating it here; the phrase “Lest We Forget” is not confined to the battlefields of Europe but also to our own doorsteps. I then read out the following article: FROM THE PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH 17 JANUARY 2007: A HOMELESS man at the centre of a murder investigation who had turned his back on an appalling life of crime.

He was found in a disused outhouse, where he lived, in Central Avenue, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough.

Today, it emerged that Sean Rodgers (36), had changed while he was in prison, and had vowed to change his ways.

A close friend, who did not want to be named, said: “The last letter I received from him in prison “He realised he had done some pretty bad things, which he felt awful about, and he wanted to sort his life out.

“He had a very bad childhood and was a very damaged man, but he knew he needed to change.”

But Mr Rodgers found life on the outside very difficult, and was soon sleeping in a freezing cold outhouse and drinking heavily.

However, friends claimed he had curbed his violent tendencies and kicked his drug habit.

A post-mortem examination has been held, but the cause of Mr Rodgers’ death has yet to be ascertained.

Sean Rodgers is an extreme example of what happens to many men and women who make great progress ‘inside’ but with so little support on the outside they then slip down the ladder again. Sean happened to come to faith in prison. What he did not find was a local church to be

part of on release …. or a place to live. We help people irrespective of their faith and we want to see churches helping anyone who wants to turn their life around – Christian, Muslim, Atheist. My colleague Jackie Wiegman puts the need on release this way: “Without question many prisoners dread being released more than they dread coming into prison. For those prisoners who do not have had a stable family to return to on release the prospect of trying to make a new life from scratch is overwhelmingly difficult.

Many prisoners make good progress in prison; some find faith some don’t but many begin to believe that there is a better life beyond the often chaotic one they’ve only ever known but they can’t do it on their own. What makes all the difference is having the right support when they leave the safe and secure environment of the prison. The basics - a roof over their head and employment are important but it’s the mentoring and moral support that’s so vital too - people to befriend them and to encourage them on in difficult moments – a loving community that might welcome them in …….”

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What makes all the difference is having the right support when they leave the safe and secure environment of the prison.

76% 78%

Have volunteered

24%

Have got Employment, Education, Training (EET)

Have improved family relations Have not abused alcohol or drugs

16% 64% 73%

% yr ending 04/13 (37 tenants)

97% 94% 39% 22% 83% 89%

% yr ending 04/14 (65 tenants)

Quote from Tenant

96%

“Finding a home means I feel I can get a job.”

92%

“A couple of times, when I was feeling down, I have wanted to go back on ‘a job.’ I know I could earn so much more money that way. But I phoned up my mentor from the church, had a good moan, and then when I put down the phone I was ok again.”

34%

“I like helping others, especially those who have been through a similar path to me.”

32%

“Finding work has made me feel so much better about myself. Since finding a home things have really begun turning around for me.”

69% 88%

“Being with my family again after about 10 years was the best Christmas ever.”

“I feel so much freer, I find my hearing and my senses have improved so much. I just feel much more alive.”

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Peterborough tenant

Sarah had many issues when she first came to the house in Norwich and initially had trouble with the house mates and wanted to leave. She has bounced from one housing provider to another for the last few years, and by spending time with her, supporting her and talking through her issues, we have enabled her to patch up the issues with her house mates and taught her about not running from difficult issues.

Since then she has been successful in attending a 3 week training course by a very respectable employer and starts a job with them. She has also met her biological father for the first time and started a relationship with him.

Rob had spent 20 years being homeless, living on the streets, in hostels, involved in drugs, heroin addiction and more. He had managed to get clean in rehab but was never able to stay clean ‘in community’. He moved into one of our houses in October 2013 and a member of the church team paid off some of his debts. In January Rob gave up all drugs and drug substitutes and has been clean ever since. He said “The difference this time is I have a family from the church. I can phone my mentor up anytime.” Rob has led a discussion group with the church and regularly volunteers for Hope into Action.

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Financials

Financials

Statement of financial activities account including income and expenditure account

Balance Sheet

As at 31 March 2014

For the year ended 31 March 2014 Unrestricted Funds

Designated Funds

Restricted Funds

Total 2014

£

£

£

£

Tangible assets 75,614

-

512,315

587,929

337,108

432

-

-

432

221

76,046

-

512,315

588,361

337,329

Incoming resources from charitable activities

126,822

-

-

126,822

83,684

Total incoming resources

202,868

-

512,315

715,183

421,013

Investment income

Resources expended Costs of generating funds Costs of generating donations and legacies Net incoming resources available

1,327

-

-

1,327

150

201,541

-

512,315

713,856

420,863

219,649

5,619

115,795

341,063

179,305

2,100

-

-

2,100

1,512

223,076

5,619

115,795

344,490

180,967

Charitable activities Provision of housing Governance costs Total resources expended Net (outgoing)/incoming resources before transfers

(20,208)

(5,619)

396,520

370,693

240,046

Gross transfers between funds

(4,163)

355,414

(351,251)

-

-

(24,371)

349,795

45,269

370,693

240,046

Fund balances at 1 April 2013

61,509

222,538

121,389

405,436

165,390

Fund balances at 31 March 2014

37,138

572,333

166,658

776,129

405,436

Net (expenditure)/income for the year/Net movement in funds

£

2013 £

£

£

Fixed assets

Incoming resources from generated funds Donations and legacies

2014

Total 2013

The statement of financial activities also complies with the requirements for an income and expenditure account under the Companies Act 2006.

642,120

293,187

Current assets Debtors

16,175

33,161

Cash at bank and in hand

151,494

99,866

167,669

133,027

(33,660)

(20,778)

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Net current assets

134,009

112,249

Total Assets less Current Liabilities

776,129

405,436

166,658

121,389

Designated funds

572,333

222,538

Other charitable funds

37,138

61,509

776,129

405,436

Income funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds:

The company is entitled to the exemption from the audit requirement contained in section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, for the year ended 31 March 2014, although an audit has been carried out under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011.

No member of the company has deposited a notice, pursuant to section 476, requiring an audit of these accounts under the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

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 view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, 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 within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

The accounts were approved by the Board on 28 July 2014 Mr G Howard Trustee Company Registration No. 07309173

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Hope into Action met me at the prison gates.

They found me a house and gave me work experience in the office. This year I qualified as a fork lift driver and now I have a job in Peterborough. It has been a great year.

Thank you to everyone who support Hope into Action, you have made a real difference to my life.

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