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|Section A||Reference and||||||administration details|||||||||
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||**Charity name**||||Porta Trust||||||||||||
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|**Other names charity is known by**|||||||||||||||||
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|**Registered charity number (if any)**|||||1067590||||||||||||
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|**Charity's principal address**|||||25 Warwick Street||||||||||||
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|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**
1 Robert Stredder
Chair
2 Paul Challoner
3 Oliver Allmand-
Smith
4 Maurice Blezard
Treasurer
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Governed By Constition
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable Unicorporated Organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods Appointed by serving Trustees
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
Porta Trusts sole aim is to provide funds for a Christian orphanage and child support centre in Mozambique named The House of Ants. Many children benefit from this valuable work. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document Summary of the main activities** The House of Ants orphanage has been instrumental in changing the **undertaken for the public** lives of many children who are cared for in a safe and loving **benefit in relation to these** environment. Porta Trust have partnered with them for many years. **objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** Porta Trust were able to send £38,874.00 financial support this year. **achievements of the charity during the year**
## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** We do not hold excessive reserves as we believe that the monies we **charity’s policy on reserves** receive need to be constantly used for the achieving of our objectives.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include The Charities principal source of funds is from Free will gifts from additional information, where supporters of this work. relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
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**Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** M. Blezard
**Full name(s)** Maurice Blezard
**Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)**
**Date** 28/01/2022
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## **PORTA TRUST Statement of Accounts End of Year 6th April 2020 – 5th April 2021 Registered Charity No. 1067590**
||**Amounts**
**Totals**|
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|**We began the year with the following funds:**||
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|Nat West Bank:
Current Account
Reserve Account
**TOTAL OPENING FUNDS**||
||£2,658.35
£151.12|
||**£2,809.47**|
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|**To these opening funds we received:**
Delci Santos Fund
Travel Costs
Admin Costs
General Fund
Inland Revenue Tax Reclaimed
Interest on Reserve Account
Other
**TOTAL RECEIPTS**||
||£40,108.50
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£1,971.00
£0.12
£0.00|
||**£42,079.62**|
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|**From which we paid the following:**
Delci Santos Fund
Evangelistic Expenses
Travel Costs
Admin Costs
Other
**TOTAL PAYMENTS**||
||£38,874.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00|
||**£38,874.00**|
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|**Leaving us with the following surplus**
Nat West Bank:
Current Account
Reserve Account
**TOTAL CLOSING FUNDS**||
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||£5,863.85
£151.24|
||**£6,015.09**|
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I have prepared the above statement of accounts from the books, bank statements and the invoices provided to me and I consider it to be a true and accurate record of the Trusts for the year from 6[th ] April 2020 to 5[th ] April 2021.
Signed by: M J Blezard 26-01-2022
Examined by: R C Stredder 26-01-2022
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