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(Operating As “Switchboard”) Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements Switchboard LGBT+ (operating as “Switchboard”) Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements 31 March 2019 Company Limited by Guarantee Registration Number 2098685 (England and Wales) Charity Registration Number 296193 Contents Reports Reference and administrative details of the charity, its Directors and advisers 1 Co-chairs’ report 3 Directors’ report 5 Independent examiner’s report 12 Financial Statements Statement of financial activities 13 Balance sheet 14 Statement of cash flows 15 Principal accounting policies 16 Notes to the financial statements 20 Switchboard LGBT+ Reference and administrative details of the charity, its directors and advisers Directors Adam Beral Vishal Desai Ella Goschalk David Maher (resigned 29 September 2018) Nuala O’Sullivan Mohamad Naeem Rahman David John Simpson (resigned 29 September 2018) Kenneth Smailes Nicholas Smith Natasha Walker Peter Zacaroli Keng Hng (appointed 29 September 2018 and resigned 6 March 2019) Neal Mccullough (appointed 29 September 2018) Emily Hatcher (appointed 13 April 2019) Staff Jake Lee (resigned 31 October 2018) Jake Ryan (resigned 28 August 2019) Xan Predisch Registered office 130 Wood Street London EC2V 6DL Helpline 0300 330 0630 Office Telephone 020 7837 6768 e-mail [email protected] websites www.switchboard.lgbt Company registration number 2098685 (England and Wales) Charity registration number 296193 Independent examiner Amanda Francis Buzzacott LLP 130 Wood Street London EC2V 6DL Switchboard LGBT+ 1 Reference and administrative details of the charity, its directors and advisers Bankers CAF Bank Limited Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4TA The Royal Bank of Scotland plc London Islington Branch 40 Islington High Street London N1 8XJ Metro Bank plc 160-166 Kensington High Street London W8 7RG Switchboard’s mission statement We are Switchboard, the LGBT+ Helpline. We are a safe space for anyone to discuss anything, including sexuality, gender identity, sexual health and emotional wellbeing. We support people to explore the right options for themselves. We aspire to a society where all LGBT+ people are informed and empowered. Switchboard’s values We are: non-judgemental inclusive committed empowering supportive informed Switchboard LGBT+ 2 Co-Chairs’ report 31 March 2019 This year has been a full one for Switchboard. Some highlights include changes made to the co-chair eligibility roles; new partnerships fostered; and our continuing work as a Board and as an organisation to make Switchboard ready for the future. We began the year considering the options for volunteers interested in leading the organisation. Our memberships voted to expand the co-chair roles from being only male and female so that trans and non-binary volunteers now are able to lead the organisation as co-chairs. This helps Switchboard live our values of being inclusive, empowering and supportive. We rebranded our website making it more up-to-date for both our own volunteers and for people outside Switchboard. Our website is now more modern and user-friendly for our volunteers, as well as more welcoming and easier to navigate for people outside Switchboard visiting us as service users, donors or potential volunteers. We built new relationships and continued fostering existing ones both inside and outside the LGBT+ communities. Our corporate partnerships included ones with Accenture, Mars, Skittles and Costa Coffee. We began an exciting relationship with design agency RANKIN with plans for a future large- scale publicity campaign to get our name and number known all around the country. Within the helpline sector, we established a relationship with the mental health charity SHOUT enabling us to signpost mental health crisis support to callers outside our usual operating hours. Within the LGBT+ communities we continue to build relationships with other LGBT+ sector organisations, including Consortium and others. We continue to look to make new connections with groups and organisations. Switchboard was again represented at Trans Pride, UK Black Pride, and this year also attended Prides in Glasgow, Belfast and the Isle of Wight. We were delighted to receive a Pride in London Parade Team Award 2018 in recognition for the way in which Switchboard fully embraced the spirit of Pride in London. As a volunteer-led organisation, we know that we need an engaged volunteer community and a Board that is focused on the future strategic direction if we are to effectively meet the needs of our service users. Part of this strategic direction has been introducing and updating a risk register. This helps us mitigate against potential risk in areas such as financial oversight, building maintenance, staffing, and data confidentiality. Last year we defined a Switchboard Mission Statement and Values, and this year continued to refine our Values by agreeing as an organisation concrete ways we can live these Values within Switchboard. From a financial perspective this year we have benefitted again from legacy donations, regular donations and one-off fund-raising events and regular bucket rattles. Our Finance & Audit Committee ensures that there is oversight on how these funds are invested and spent. Switchboard LGBT+ 3 Co-Chairs’ report 31 March 2019 We continued to investigate options to allow these funds to generate income. Work we’ve done previously on re-purposing part of our building continues to enable us to rent out part of our building which generates a sustainable source of income for Switchboard. In our Board Away Days and in work we did with volunteers at General Meetings we continued to investigate what Switchboard’s role might be within the LGBT+ charity sector of the future. We offer calm words when they’re needed most on the phone, by email and instant messaging, while looking with optimism to what Switchboard’s future might be in 2024 and beyond. This year one of our co-chairs is stepping down and we continued the work we started last year on succession planning within our Board of Directors by encouraging Directors to consider standing as co-chair to lead Switchboard into a new phase of its development. Signed by the Co-Chairs N Walker P Zacaroli Date of approval: 21.11.2019 Switchboard LGBT+ 4 Directors’ report 31 March 2019 The Directors present their report together with the financial statements of Switchboard LGBT+ (Switchboard) (the charitable company) for the year ended 31 March 2019. Switchboard LGBT+ operates under the name Switchboard. This report has been prepared in accordance with Part 8 of the Charities Act 2011 and constitutes a directors’ report for the purpose of company legislation. The reference and administrative information set out on pages 1 and 2 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the charitable company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association, applicable laws and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102). Overall objective The charitable company's principal objective is: to provide a safe space for anyone to discuss anything, including sexuality, gender identity, sexual health and emotional wellbeing. We support people to explore the right options for themselves. However, the overall social context for delivering this objective has changed hugely since Switchboard started operating in March 1974, as has the language we use to express the organisation’s aims. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT+) people have many more rights than in 1974, and are often living more open lives. Switchboard itself is a more inclusive organisation than it was then, embracing the diversity of LGBT+ communities. What remains the same is the charitable company's original aim: to provide a confidential source of support and information to people who are or may be discriminated against, isolated or ignored. Recognising that LGBT+ people often struggle to come to terms with their sexuality, the charitable company supports anybody questioning their sexual or gender orientation. Given the personal situations of many LGBT+ people, Switchboard receives calls from the families and friends of LGBT+ people regardless of their own sexual or gender orientation; and from professionals working in agencies with LGBT+ clients, who may be unclear of how sexual or gender orientation may affect their clients’ needs. Switchboard is achieving public benefit through our work in providing a helpline service by telephone, instant messaging and email and acting as a source of web-based information, services which may be accessed by any member of the public. Indeed, Switchboard remains the UK’s primary source of telephone support to LGBT+ people, and all those with issues or questions about sexual and gender orientation. We are a leading source of information on, and signposting to, LGBT+ organisations, services, venues and activities across the UK and beyond; we offer emotional support to callers who may have a whole range of issues; and we raise awareness of, and provide information about, safer sex and sexual health to all our callers where appropriate. Switchboard LGBT+ 5 Directors’ report 31 March 2019 Overall objective (continued) All the Directors are conversant with the Charity Commission’s guidelines concerning charities and public benefit and have given consideration to them when assessing the charity’s aims and planning the work of the members of the charity. The Directors believe that they have given due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Commission and have complied fully with the duty in Section 4 of Part 1 of the Charities Act 2011. Review of the year The charitable company has had another successful year, with service users increasing on the prior year as we have seen an uplift in instant messaging and email usage. A number of partnerships have been secured in the year which continue to provide the charitable company with the additional funding required to take on larger projects outside of our core services.
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