## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] April 2025 Period start date To 31[st] March 2026 Period end date** **Charity name: Tandem in Oxfordshire** ## **Charity registration number: 1078112** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The object for which the Charity was**
**established is the relief of persons with**
**mental distress by the provision of a**
**befriending service in Oxfordshire**| |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 recruitment and training of**
**volunteers who are matched in**
**befriending partnershi8ps with local**
**people who have suffered a breakdown in**
**their mental health**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have 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|**The charity has continued to develop and**
**support befriending partnerships, in**
**addition to running a weekly Social**
**Group for those awaiting partnerships.**
**Recorded outcomes of our service users**
**show an increase in social activity, a**
**decrease in isolation and loneliness, and**
**increase in confidence and involvement**
**in their local community**| ## **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** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**In 2025-26 our expenditure marginally**
**exceeded out income, which gap was met**
**from drawing on reserves.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held to cover the possibility**
**of the charity being forced to wind up.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£6000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**0**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**0**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**There is always uncertainty in whether**
**we can maintain the necessary level of**
**funding.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution dated 13.10.1999**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated association**| |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|**By election at our Annual General**
**Meeting.**| **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|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Tandem in Oxfordshire| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Tandem| |Registered charity number|1078112| |Charity’s principal address|Restore, Manzil Way, Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1YH| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Prudence Sykes|Secretary||| ||Anna Chappell|Treasurer||| ||Elizabeth Shatford|||| ||Trevor Lowe|||| ||Belinda Jack|||| ||Sophie Fenwick|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 0 held in this capacity Name and objects of the 0 charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for 0 safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **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)**
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**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|_Prudence Sykes_|_Belinda Jack_| |---|---|---| ||Prudence Mary Sykes|Belinda Jack| ||
Secretary|Trustee| ||30.07.2026|| ||30.07.2026|| |**Tandem Befriending Annual accounts**
**2025/26**
**Opening balance (current account)**
**9,584.88**
Donations
6,718.22
Grants
19,367.00
Restricted Grants
Standing Orders
720.00
Salary overpayment
**Total Receipts**
**26,805.22**
**Total Receipts incl. Opening balance**
**36,390.10**
Co-Ordinators salary + PAYE
Co-Ordinators pension
Social Group
Wellbeing workshops
Volunteer's expenses
Insurance
Admin incl. advertising
Book-keeping service
**Total Expenses**
**Closing balance**
Current Account balance
Savings Account balance (Redwood)
**Total cash and savings**
These accounts have been signed off by:
Signed: Ollie Budd Dated 26thMay 2026
Signed:
Prue Sykes Dated 9thJuly 2026|**2025/26**
**9,584.88**
6,718.22
19,367.00
720.00|18,320.57
3,273.56
2180.82
2,096.00
1,006.17
540.41
1,777.32
256.14
**29,450.99**
**6,939.11**
6,939.11
17,312.46
**24,251.57**
Independent Examiner
Secretary, Tandem| |---|---|---| ||
**26,805.22**|| ||**36,390.10**||