## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/04/2020 Period start date to 31/03/2021 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Christadelphian Aid for the visually impaired.** ## **Charity registration number: 1063021** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Caring aid for the visually impaired.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The relief of the visually impaired,**
**including general and spiritual**
**education.**
**Rehabilitation, braille services and**
**any other matters relating to the**
**visually impaired**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees in facilitating these**
**activities have had due regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**During the period of this report**
**the charity was affected by the two**
**month lockdown of all facilities in India**
**and the subsequent restrictions**
**imposed on all educational**
**establishments.**
**The centre continued the education in**
**Braille and other social functions for**
**students via online means where**
**possible.**
**The centre is located in Bangalore and**
**students are drawn from all over India.**
**This has been achieved by providing**
**supervised accommodation and funding**
**for education for students of over 18**
**years.**
**On reopening strict guidelines were**
**imposed on returning students who had**
**not finished the course in the previous**
**March.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
ofthe period|Para 1.21|**Cash funds at the end of the year**
**amounted to £55531**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The Trustees have decided that it would**
**be prudent to keep as a Reserve 10% of**
**the annual income arising from**
**donations and collections. This will**
**ensure that there will be some funds**
**available should there be an unexpected**
**or unforeseen expense which**
**Bartimaeus is unable to meet itself. The**
**figure of 10% has been linked to annual**
**income to reflect any movements in that**
**annual income and to ensure that as**
**much money as possible is made**
**available to support the Resource**
**Centre each year.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£55531 **| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The principle source of funding is by**
**donations, grants and legacies from**
**members of the Christadelphian**
**Community. The current year has been**
**aided by a donation received from the**
**sales of a Christadelphian meeting**
**room.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**All funds are held in UK bank accounts**
**protected by the FSCS.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The charity is dependent upon**
**donations from within the**
**Christadelphian community. The risk of**
**large falls in income is minimised by**
**encouraging a large number of donors**
**giving relatively small regular amounts**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO whose only voting members are its**
**charity trustees**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Appointed by resolution passed by a**
**meeting of trustees**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**New trustees are provided with a copy**
**of the trust deed and the “essential**
**Trustee“ guide. They are formally talked**
**through the constitution by an existing**
**trustee. **| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity operates a committee of**
**trustees and other interested parties**
**which meet at regular intervals.**
**Decisions are made by simple vote.**
**There are no paid employees.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**None**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|**Christadelphian Aid for the Visually Impaired**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|**1063021**| |Charity’s principal address|**80 Derrydown Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham.**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Michael Hubbard|Chairman||| ||Richard John
Cherry|Treasurer||| ||John Stuart Barrett|||| ||Peter Michael
Hubbard|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser **
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Michael Hubbard|| ||

Chair|| ||31stDecember 2021.|| ||31stDecember 2021.|| |**CHRISTADELPHIAN AID FOR THE VISUALLY**|**CHRISTADELPHIAN AID FOR THE VISUALLY**|**CHRISTADELPHIAN AID FOR THE VISUALLY**|**1063021**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |**IMPAIRED**||||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|**01/04/2020**|**To**|**31/03/2021**|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |DONATIONS|**43,754**||**-**||**-**||**43,754**||**28,345**| |BANK INTEREST|**12**||**-**||**-**||**12**||**26**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**43,766**||**-**||**-**||**43,766**||**28,371**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**28,371**| ||||||||||| |TRANSFERS TO INDIA|**14,551**||||||||**11,000**| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**14,551**||||||||**11,000**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**11,000**| ||||||||||| ||**29,215**||||||||**17,371**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**26,316**||||||||**8,945**| ||**55,531**||||||||**26,316**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 02/01/2022 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
BANK ACCOUNTS
**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**55,531**
**-**
**-**
**55,531**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||OK| ||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||Signature||Print Name
**RICHARD CHERRY**||||| ||||||||Date of
approval| ||||**RICHARD CHERRY**||||**15/12/2021**| ||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 02/01/2022 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examlnerfs rèport on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report R¢port to the trusteesl members of CHRisfADELPHIAN AID FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED On accounts for the yoar ended 31" March2021 Charity no (if any} 1063021 Set out on pagos I report to the trustees on my examination of the accwnts of the above charty {"the Trust") for the year ended 3110312021 R•sponslbilltles and As the charity tmstees of the Trust. you arè resFonsit4e forthe preparation basls of report of the accounts in accordancewilh the requirements of the Chaiitres Act 2011 {"the Act.). I rewrt in respect of my examination of the Trusfs accounts carried out under section 145 of th8 2011 Act and in carryiro out my exarnination, I have followed the applicabb Directions gTven by the Charity Commt&8ion under section 145{5)Ib) of the Act. I have compieted my examlnatK)n. I conflrm that no matérlal matters have ome to my attenllon ( ) in connectK)n with the examination which gfves m8 Gause to teh8ve that In, any material respect: accounting records were not kept in accordance with $￿tion 130 of the Act or the accounts (io not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention shoukl be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the words in the bTrckets rfthey do not apply. Independent examlnerfs statement Signed: Name: IL StJfcLI Relevant professlonal qualificatlon(s) or body (If any)". Addross: /0 EhÉl IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independ￿1 examination of charity accounts.. directions and guldance for examiners). GNO here brief details of any items that tho examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018