2022 was a positive year overall as we emerged from the challenges of the pandemic (which has very significantly
depleted our reserves). 2022 was something of a 'turnaround' year overall. We undertook a number of things to begin to
strengthen our finances - a new membership fee structure was introduced at the start of the year, the TCTC Children's
Network remained very active and generated a small surplus from its events, but also a bigger shared surplus from the
online conference with Glyndwr University. The TCTC R+D group also ran a successful online event generating
surplus, and (supported by some supportive underwriting from key member organisations) ran and delivered a very
successful 3 day face to face conference. This generated a healthy surplus for the final quarter of the year. Internally we
have seen new board members join, extending both lived experience and international representation, there has been
good progress on communications strategy preparations and we have been active in 2022 in maintaining visibility,
especially in the children's sector landscape which is relevant to approximately 50% of our membership. As we began to
improve the finances, we took the necessary decision to invest £5k to create a new website to give a better experience for
members but more importantly to ensure functionality for membership and event sales.
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