Treasurer�s Report
     This year has seen a significant increase in the income received by the project. Much of this is due to the start of Social Inclusion Partnership (SIP) funding for the drop�in cafe facility. This has enabled us to do much more in the drop-in. Two of our part-time staff were employed with the salary costs that we were awarded from the SIP, and there have been funds available for extra activities. It has also been very useful to have the Drop-In to share some of the running costs of the premises. The main part of our overall funding still comes from the City Council through its Grants to Voluntary Organisations scheme, though the amount we receive from them has remained constant for a number of years meaning that as our basic costs rise due to inflation, we need to find other sources of funding. The additional deployment of 10 hours of sessional youth work time from Glasgow City Council Youth Services has however been very helpful in supporting the on-going youth work provided by the DYP.

Providing services to other organisations generates some of our income. These include the Urban Fox football coaching programme and the City Council by running a summer school programme on their behalf. We have also received grants from the Pastoral Care Trust and from the Commonweal Fund. These have been used to provide additional activities for young people. There continues to be a significant amount of income coming from individual donations and fundraising events including from our young people here in Dalmarnock, which is a healthy sign of the high level of local support.

We also appreciate the support in kind received from Thenew Housing Association as they provide us with our present accommodation. Thanks are also due to the Urban Fox and to our insurer, Kelvin Smith, for their generous donations.

The recent involvement (April 2003) of Scottish Gas and the East End Partnership has enabled the DYP to access �7000 of sponsorship (for the Financial year 2003/04) to implement a groupwork programme which is concerned with improving young people�s employability and encourage them to take up opportunities in further education and training. This input from Scottish Gas has been very much appreciated and has provided the DYP with valuable resources to implement groupwork activity with local young people since April 2003.

It can be seen from the accounts that our expenditure was less than our income. The main reason for this is to enable us to have sufficient funds just after the start of the financial year to meet our ongoing costs during the period before we receive our main grant. In previous years we have run with a deficit instead of a surplus and as a result we previously needed to borrow money for part of the year.

Raemond Bradford
Treasurer
30 June 2003

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