Changing Lives Together
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Changing Lives Together Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts 2018/19 Registered Name: Community Foundation in Wales Registered Company Number: 03670680 Registered Charity Number: 1074655 Contents 3. Welcome 4. How we make a difference 5. How we work 6. What we did in 2018 8. Our impact 12. Our plan for 2019 14. Our trustees 16. Financial review 19. Objectives and activites 20. Structure and governance 26. Statement of trustee responsibilty 27. Independent auditors report 30. Consolidated statement of financial activities 31. Consolidated and charity balance sheet 32. Consolidated statement of cash flows 33. Notes to the Financial Statements Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts - Year ended 31 March 2019 2 Welcome Croeso! Community Foundation Wales changes lives by working in partnership with our generous donors and hundreds of community groups across Wales. I am very pleased to report that we have had another successful year and have significantly extended our grant- making, continuing to develop strong partnerships with philanthropists and donors. This year we have distributed £2.1 million of grants to people in Wales, delivering incredible work in our communities. This means that, since our creation 19 years ago, we are now approaching an astonishing total of £25 million investment into communities throughout Wales. These impressive figures mean we are able to continue to encourage generosity and philanthropy to help strengthen Welsh communities. We make no apology for focusing on local community groups. They are often overlooked by funders and yet, in a country like Wales, they provide the glue that often keeps our communities alive; bringing people together and transforming the quality of life. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my fellow trustees and the team at Community Foundation Wales for all of their hard work. They bring passion, commitment and enthusiasm to our overall focus - to create a stronger Wales. They meet with donors and potential philanthropists, while seeing how our funding drives change through the fantastic work of community groups. We have maintained our policy of visiting all parts of Wales, visiting local projects and holding open sessions with the public to better understand local opportunities and challenges. This is a key part of how we work closely with communities all over Wales. Our partnership approach extends beyond Wales in that we are able to offer funders the ability of delivering programmes in tandem with other areas of the UK. We are active supporters of UK Community Foundations, which has a strong track record of successful programme delivery, as well as offering insight to funders who are looking to develop their impact in Wales. This is an area in which we are looking to provide stronger leadership and we have been working in partnership with other funders such as the Welsh Government and WCVA to establish ways that we can better support the sector in this area and attract new investment into Wales. Research published by CAF and UK Community Foundations projects a three-fold growth in Donor-Advised Giving in the UK over the next 10 years. It gives me great pleasure to share our story for 2018/19 through our annual review and accounts. The year ahead will be an exciting one as we continue to build on our strengths and change lives together. Thank you for your continuing support of Community Foundation Wales. Alun Evans Chair, Community Foundation Wales Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts - Year ended 31 March 2019 3 2018/19 How we make a difference In 2018/19 we distributed grants of £2.1 million to over 430 projects across Wales. Below shows how these grants are distributed to support people across Wales: Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts - Year ended 31 March 2019 4 How we work Our staff, together with our trustees, revised our values to ensure they are relevant and aligned with our purpose. These values underpin everything that we do: • We are good partners Values • We care about the people we work with • We make a difference We work to an Ethical Policy and also an Ethical Investment Policy which states that our investment portfolio should have no direct exposure to companies which have significant Ethical holdings in tobacco, arms, gambling and pornography investments. We are a Living Wage employer and are working towards our Living Wage Friendly Funders status. We protect the information you give us. We work within the new GDPR regulations and our Privacy Notice sets out how Community Foundation Wales uses and Your data protects information that you give us, is published on our website at https:// communityfoundationwales.org.uk/privacy-policy/ Your We are serious about high standards and promote good fundraising practice. We are registered with the Fundraising Regulator and work to the Code of Fundraising Practice. donations If you would like to raise a complaint we can assure you that your concerns will be taken Reporting seriously and addressed and responded to as quickly as possible. complaints We are accredited through UK Community Foundations and Investors in People. Quality Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts - Year ended 31 March 2019 5 What we did in 2018 We focussed on four priority areas last year: 1 Effective team • All team members had 360 feedback and have built development plans based on this. • A new values framework was agreed and is now used in all aspects of how we work. • We have agreed plans to upgrade our office into a modern, more suitable workspace. Improve 2 knowledge • We carried out grant programme workshops to support high quality applications. • We also held a webinar and meetings with interested groups and partners to gain richer insight into this area. This learning was used to shape a Trust and Foundation project which will begin in 2019. Whilst we made some progress on this, we were unable to complete this area of our work in the way we had hoped in the year, due to other pressures. This has been prioritised for 2019/20. Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts - Year ended 31 March 2019 6 Raise our 3 profile We launched our new brand We were the beneficiary We attended the North and website, providing a charity for the Wales in London American Festival of Wales in stronger focus on the impact dinner where BBC newsreader Washington, meeting many and change caused by our Huw Edwards highlighted our supporters and also running a funding, and more support for important work in supporting workshop about the community grant applicants and advice and young people from Wales. foundation and the need for information for donors. North American investment into Wales. 4 Growth • As a small team, we focus our energies on business areas that are most likely to help us generate the funds we need for community groups. Our priority areas are growing Donor-Advised Giving and Trust and Foundation programmes. • This year we met our income target for the year and kept our expenditure below budget. • We agreed a partnership approach to working to increase trust and foundation investment into Wales and will invest in this ourselves. • We created the role of Donor-Advised Giving, Manager to meet the growth of interest in Donor-Advised Funds and to work with professional advisors to support their clients. • We presented to partners at STEP Wales, to help inform estate planning professionals on how we can support their clients. Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts - Year ended 31 March 2019 7 Our impact Investing in community sport for our children Newport Cricket Club were awarded £2,000 to purchase an artificial cricket wicket to help meet the growing demand on the cricket ground. The new artificial cricket wicket has provided an all-weather surface resulting in less matches being cancelled and more cricket being played. It has also been used to develop relationships with three local Asian Cricket teams and has provided an opportunity to introduce children at local schools to the sport. “The new artificial wicket has been a godsend to the junior players and other user groups who play at Newport Cricket Club.” Tackling work barriers for ethnic minorities Race Equality First were awarded £10,000 to provide employment skills training for unemployed ethnic minority men and women living in Cardiff. The grant has enabled them to hold sessions for up to 100 men and women living in the most deprived areas of Cardiff. The training is helping to build confidence and encourage social integration and community cohesion. “The training sessions will improve opportunities by addressing the barriers that prevent ethnic minority people from starting work or sustaining employment.” Trustees’ Report and Annual Accounts - Year ended 31 March 2019 8 Our impact A bite to eat with friends St David’s Church were awarded £1,066 to help provide a monthly community lunch in the church hall for local people but especially for older people or those living alone. The church’s monthly lunch has provided a regular meeting place for the community to come together and socialise over a meal in a relaxed and informal environment. The lunch has really helped to combat isolation and loneliness by providing the opportunity for people to meet up with existing friends and giving those who live alone a reason to get out and make new friends. “We had a single lady who rarely went out and always seemed sad and down. She started coming to the lunch and got more involved by helping with laying tables and was noticeably happier.” Inspiring the scientists of the future Techniquest Glyndwr were awarded £1,000 to organise and run hands-on science workshops for two schools in Denbighshire. They used the funding to design interactive workshops to give a flavour of careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths (STEM).