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2021-12-31-accounts

The Barbara Ward Children’s Foundation

Annual Report and Financial Statements

31 December 2021

Company Limited by Guarantee Registration Number 04213963 (England and Wales)

Charity Registration Number 1089783

Contents

Reports
Legal and administrative information 1
Trustees’ report 2
Independent auditor’s report 10
Financial statements
Statement of financial activities 15
Balance sheet 16
Statement of cash flows 17
Principal accounting policies 18
Notes to the financial statements 22

The Barbara Ward Children's Foundation

Legal and administrative information

Trustees/Directors Mrs B I Ward (Chairman)
Mr D C Bailey
Mr J C Banks
Mr C G Brown
Mr K R Parker
Mr M M Waight
Mr B M Walters
Company secretary Dracliffe Company Services Limited
Registered office 85 Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 1AE
Company registration number 04213963 (England and Wales)
Charity registration number 1089783
Auditor Buzzacott LLP
130 Wood Street
London
EC2V 6DL
Bankers Lloyds Bank
1 West Street
Horsham
West Sussex RH12 1PA
Investment managers Sarasin & Partners LLP
Juxon House
100 St Paul’s Churchyard
London
EC4M 8BU
Solicitors Radcliffes LeBrasseur
85 Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 1AE

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Trustees’ report 31 December 2021

The trustees (who are the directors of the company for the purpose of the Companies Act), present their statutory report together with the financial statements of The Barbara Ward Children’s Foundation for the year ended 31 December 2021.

The report has been prepared in accordance with Part 8 of the Charities Act 2011.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out on pages 18 to 21 of the attached financial statements and comply with the charitable company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Companies Act 2006, the Charities Act 2011 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

Objectives and activities

The objects of the charity, as contained in its memorandum of association, are to carry out exclusively charitable purposes anywhere in the world primarily in relation to children and mentally handicapped adults and any person who has been assisted by the charity as a child, whether for the relief of poverty, the promotion of health, the provision of recreational facilities, or any such other charitable purposes for the benefit of the community.

When setting the objectives and planning the work of the charity for the year the trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit.

The trustees consider that all of the aims and objectives detailed in this report are there in order to benefit the public. The trustees believe that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission.

The charity is a grant making charity, utilising income from its investments, income from donations and other income to fund grants. These grants are made in accordance with the grant making policy detailed below. The grants made can range from one-off grants to project-related grants that run for two or more years. A full list of grants payable during the year is given in note 4 to the financial statements. More detail on the number and nature of grants made is included later in this report.

For 2022 the trustees anticipate following a similar approach to achieving the charity’s aims.

Grant making policy

The charity welcomes applications for grants and the funding of projects from registered charities.

Applications should be made in writing to the charity’s registered office and should include sufficient detail for the charity to assess whether the application meets the charity’s objects outlined above. Applications should include a copy of the applicant’s last set of audited financial statements.

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Grant making policy (continued)

The charity has established a set of procedures to determine the level of trustee approval required, as well as the extent of visits to beneficiaries prior to grants being approved, monitoring grants after approval, follow up visits and staging of payments.

Achievements and performance

Total income for the year was £522,375 (2020 – £539,061).

In January 2021 the charity received a donation of £150,000 (2020 – £150,000 ) from The Barbara Ward Family Trust. During the year other donations and fundraising activities generated income of £12,569 (2020 – £13,130). Investment income was £359,806 (2020 – £375,931).

The investment portfolio, which is managed by Sarasin & Partners, comprises Income Units in the Sarasin Endowments Fund Class A Inc. managed by Sarasin & Partners and was valued at £13,548,572 at the end of 2021, a 7% increase on the value of £12,616,080 a year earlier. The Sarasin Endowments Fund Class A Inc. will avoid investment in companies with more than 10% of their turnover in alcohol manufacture, armaments, gambling or pornography. They will not invest in companies manufacturing tobacco related products.

Grants payable in 2021 totalled £508,912 (2020 – £458,465).

The Coronavirus pandemic continued to have a noticeable impact on the charity’s operations during 2021. The number of grant applications received compared to the previous year declined by 22% in 2020 and has declined by a further 10% in 2021. The charity’s normal approval procedures will often involve making a visit to the beneficiary, but such visits have been severely restricted by the pandemic. As a result most multi-year grants have been made and paid on the assumption that such visits can be made in 2022.

During the year the trustees have reviewed 338 new grant making opportunities (2020 – 401), of which 40 have been approved (2020 – 52). The charity paid or accrued grants to 95 organisations (2020 – 79), as detailed in note 4 to the financial statements. These 95 are made up of 39 multi-year grants fully approved in earlier years, 17 multi-year grants fully approved in 2021, 26 multi-year grants approved in 2020 or 2021 and still subject to visits to the beneficiaries as described above, plus 13 one-off grants.

The total value of grants approved during the year, including amounts not accrued as they are subject to conditions, totalled £477,562 (2020 – £478,215). The equivalent total from the charity’s incorporation in 2001 to the end of 2021 is £9.4 million (2020 – £8.9 million).

Since the charity’s foundation in 2001 a total of 5,872 grant making opportunities have arisen. 5,152 of these have been declined, 633 have been approved and fully completed, 22 are under consideration and 65 have been approved and are in progress. These 65 include 26 where visits to fully approve the grant are outstanding and it is conceivable that such visits could result in discontinuation of the grant.

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Achievements and performance (continued)

The charity has made grants in respect of charitable activities throughout the United Kingdom, but also around the world, helping children in Barbados, Belarus, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Malawi, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine and Zambia.

There have been no changes to the charity’s aims, objectives or strategy during the year.

Reserves policy and financial position

Reserves policy

The trustees’ policy is to manage the reserves of the charity and to provide for the long-term needs of the charity. The trustees have ring fenced the initial donation from Mrs. Ward as a designated fund, to be known as The Barbara Ward Fund. This donation has been passed to investment managers, and the trustees’ aim, over the longer term, to grow this fund at least in line with inflation.

The trustees consider that, given the nature of the charity’s work, the normal level of free reserves, i.e. those unrestricted funds not designated for specific purposes or otherwise committed, should be up to approximately £150,000, estimated to be equivalent to approximately four months’ expenditure on unrestricted funds at any one time. The trustees are of the opinion that this provides sufficient flexibility to cover temporary shortfalls in incoming resources due to timing differences in income flows, as well as adequate working capital to cover core costs. At the end of 2021 free reserves stood at £280,263 (2020 - £273,693).

Financial position

The balance sheet shows total funds of £13,828,835 (2020 – £12,889,773).

The original donation by Mrs Ward has been designated, or set aside, by the trustees for specific purposes. These purposes and an analysis of the movement on the fund are set out in note 12 to the financial statements. The current value of the fund is £13,548,572 (2020 – £12,616,080).

General funds of the charity at 31 December 2021 total £280,263 (2020 – £273,693). These funds represent the ‘free reserves’ of the charity.

The trustees recognise that current free reserves are higher than the £150,000 set out above. The current level is higher than the trustees would wish, mainly as a result of the decline in grant applications noted above. The trustees hope that, in 2022, grants approved will reduce the level of free reserves to a more normal level. The trustees therefore consider free reserves in the current circumstances to be adequate but not excessive.

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Investment policy

The charity has a portfolio of investments with a market value as at 31 December 2021 of £13,548,572 (2020 – £12,616,080).

There are no restrictions on the charity’s power to invest. The investment strategy is set by the trustees and takes into account income requirements, the risk profile and the investment managers’ view of the market prospects in the medium term. The overall investment policy is to maximise total return through a diversified portfolio, aiming to provide the level of income advised by the trustees and, at the same time, with a view to ensuring that capital appreciation of the fund exceeds inflation over any five-year period.

Investment performance in 2021 has been positive, showing a gain of 7% (2020 – gain of 6%).

Over the last eight years the portfolio values at the end of the year have been:

2021
£’000		 2020
£’000		 2019
£’000		 2018
£’000		 2017
£’000		 2016
£’000		 2015
£’000		 2014
£’000
13,549 12,616 11,871 10,245 11,034 10,276 9,578 9,563

Over the five years from the end of 2016 the portfolio has shown a gain of some 32% compared to a gain of some 15% in the FTSE All-Share Index, while there has been a rise of ca 13% in the Consumer Prices Index and ca. 19% in the Retail Prices Index.

The trustees are satisfied that the five-year investment objective above has been achieved in recent years. The trustees are hopeful that the performance objective of their investment policy will continue to be achieved in the coming years, but recognise that achieving the objective may be challenging in any one year.

Governance, structure and management

The charity was incorporated as a private limited company (Company Number 04213963) on 10 May 2001 and registered at the Charity Commission (Charity Number 1089783) on 13 December 2001. It began effective activities in January 2002.

The trustees constitute directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006. The charity is governed by its Articles of Association. The trustees have power to appoint a new trustee.

The trustees who served during the year were:

Mrs B I Ward (Chairman) Mr D C Bailey Mr J C Banks Mr C G Brown Mr K R Parker Mr M M Waight Mr B M Walters

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Key management personnel

The key management personnel of the Charity in charge of directing and controlling, running and operating the Foundation on a day to day basis comprise the Trustees. No Trustee received remuneration for their work as a Trustee in either the year ended 31 December 2021 or the year ended 31 December 2020.

Organisation

The charity does not have any employees and, for day to day activities, the trustees work from home. The trustees normally meet formally on a quarterly basis, but may appoint subgroups, which can meet more frequently to assess grant applications or grant making opportunities and to visit current or potential beneficiaries. During the year visits were made or meetings held by trustees with 3 (2020 – 11) actual or potential beneficiaries. There were 18 such visits in 2019 and, with the loosening of Coronavirus restrictions, the trustees hope that there will be more visits in 2022. The subgroups will report to the full Board of Trustees, which then approve or refuse grants.

Governance, structure and management

At each quarterly meeting the trustees review the performance of the investment portfolio and the investment manager attends meetings and presents to the trustees twice a year. The quarterly meetings review management accounts for the preceding quarter and cash flow projections for the next 12 to 18 months. New grant proposals are considered at these meetings and updated reports in respect of project-related grants are circulated and considered. The meetings will also consider any matters relevant to strategy, objectives and policies, although given the relatively stable nature of the charity, little change has taken place or is anticipated in these areas.

All seven current trustees are now retired, but all have extensive business and commercial experience gained over many years and Mr Banks qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1973. The trustees therefore consider themselves as a body to be appropriately qualified to run and administer the charity. Trustees are encouraged to undertake training in any areas where they feel enhanced expertise is required.

Risk management

The charity’s principal asset and therefore, given the grant-making nature of the charity, its principal risk, comprises listed investments, the value of which is dependent on movements in UK and international stock markets.

The trustees have considered this and other major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular those related to the operational areas of the charity, its investments and its finances. The trustees believe that these risks will be mitigated by:

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Governance, structure and management (continued)

Risk management (continued)

Fundraising

The charity’s fundraising activities are limited to holding an annual quiz night and accepting unsolicited donations. It communicates with its supporters by providing information on its activities on its website. The charity aims to achieve best practice in the way in which it communicates with supporters. It takes care with both the tone of its communications and the accuracy of its data to minimise the pressures on supporters. The charity adheres to the Code of Fundraising Practice. It applies best practice to protect supporters’ data and never sells data, it never swaps data with other organisations, and ensures that its communication preferences can be changed at any time. The charity manages its own fundraising activities and does not employ the services of Professional Fundraisers. The charity undertakes to react to and investigate any complaints regarding its fundraising activities and to learn from them and improve its service. During 2021, the Charity received no complaints about its fundraising activities.

Statement of trustees’ responsibilities

The trustees (who are also directors of The Barbara Ward Children’s Foundation for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the income and expenditure of the charity for that period.

In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

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Statement of trustees’ responsibilities (continued)

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Each of the trustees confirms that:

This confirmation is given and should be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of s418 of the Companies Act 2006.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Plans for the future

In January 2022 the charity received a further donation, of £150,000, from The Barbara Ward Family Trust. During 2022 the trustees anticipate continuing the funding to the 38 beneficiaries where grants have been accrued at the year-end or commitments made and will continue to review new grant making opportunities. It is anticipated that grants fully approved in 2021 or earlier years will result in cash payments of over £226,450 during 2022.

In the light of restrictions arising from t he Coronavirus pandemic on visiting actual or potential beneficiaries the trustees have also now decided that six grants, where the final payment is due in the coming four months, will no longer be conditional on a visit, meaning that a further £29,500 of grant commitments have been made. In addition, seven grants that run into 2023 or beyond and have payments due in the coming four months will have these payments made regardless of a visit, leading to commitments of a further £36,000.

Since the end of 2021 the trustees have approved a one-off grant of £3,000 that will be paid in 2022 and approved four further grants totalling £57,000 that they expect will be paid during the course of 2022, 2023 and 2024.

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C. Banks

Independent Auditor’s Report Year to 31 December 2021

Independent auditor’s report to the members of The Barbara Ward Children’s Foundation

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of The Barbara Ward Children’s Foundation (the ‘charitable company’) for the year ended 31 December 2021 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows, the principal accounting policies and the notes to the financial statements. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’ (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion, the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the accounts, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the accounts is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the accounts are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Independent Auditor’s Report Year to 31 December 2021

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the accounts and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the accounts does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the accounts, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the accounts or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the accounts or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement, the trustees, who are also the directors for the purposes of company law, are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial

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statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the accounts

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the accounts as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these accounts.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud was as follows:

In identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, our procedures included the following:

We assessed the susceptibility of the Company’s Financial statements to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur by:

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To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:

As a result of our procedures, we did not identify any key audit matters relating to irregularities .

There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed those laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the trustees and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the accounts is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

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Independent Auditor’s Report Year to 31 December 2021

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Catherine Biscoe (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of Buzzacott LLP, Statutory Auditor 130 Wood Street London EC2V 6DL Date: 10 May 2022

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Statement of financial activities (including an income and expenditure account) Year to 31 December 2021

Notes Unrestricted funds Unrestricted funds
2021
£		 2020
£
Income and expenditure
Income from:
Donations
1
Other trading activities
2
Investments
3
Total income
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
. Grants payable
4
. Support costs
5
Total expenditure
Net income before investment gains
Net gains on investments
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 162,569
—
359,806		 161,085
2,045
375,931
522,375 539,061
—
508,912
6,893		 1,228
458,465
1,958
515,805 461,651
6,570 77,410
932,492 745,065
939,062
12,889,773		 822,475
12,067,298
13,828,835 12,889,773

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.

All the charity’s activities derived from continuing operations during the above two financial periods.

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Statement of cash flows Year ended 31 December 2021

Notes 2021
£		 2020
£
Cash flows from operating activities
Net cash used in operating activities
A
Cash flows from investing activities:
Investment income and interest receivable
Investment management fee rebates
Purchase of investments
Net cash provided by investing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January 2021
Cash and cash equivalents at 31 December 2021
B		 (353,061)
359,806
29,920
(29,920)		 (308,770)
375,931
25,688
(25,688)
359,806 375,931
6,745
278,350		 67,161
211,189
285,095 278,350

A Reconciliation of net income expenditure to net cash used in operating activities

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2021 2020
£ £
Net income for the year (as per the Statement of Financial Activities) 6,570 77,410
Adjustments for:
Investment income receivable (359,753) (375,684)
Interest receivable (53) (247)
(Increase) in debtors (225) (1,049)
Increase/(decrease) in creditors 400 (9,200)
Net cash used in operating activities (353,061) (308,770)
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No separate reconciliation of net debt has been prepared as there is no difference between the net cash (debt) of the Charity and the cash and cash equivalents.

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Principal accounting policies Year ended 31 December 2021

The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are laid out below.

Basis of accounting

These financial statements have been prepared for the year to 31 December 2021.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items initially recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (Charities FRS 102 SORP), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), Companies Act 2006 and the Charities Act 2011.

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102.

The accounts are presented in sterling and are rounded to the nearest pound.

Critical accounting estimates and areas of judgement

There are no significant areas of judgement or key assumptions that affect items in the financial statements. With respect to the next reporting period, the most significant areas of uncertainty are the carrying value of investment assets held by the charity, which will depend on the performance of investment markets and the investment income from these assets.

Going concern

The trustees have assessed whether the use of the going concern assumption is appropriate in preparing these financial statements. The trustees have made this assessment in respect to a period of one year from the date of approval of these financial statements.

The trustees have concluded that there are no material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the ability of the charity to continue as a going concern. This is because the value of assets held by the charity is very materially in excess of the liabilities of the charity and the level of commitments in respect of grants approved for projects payable in future years.

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Principal accounting policies Year ended 31 December 2021

Income

Income is recognised in the period in which the charity is entitled to receipt, the amount can be measured reliably and it is probable that the funds will be received.

Income is deferred only when the charity has to fulfil performance related conditions before becoming entitled to it or where the donor or funder has specified that the income is to be expended in a future accounting period.

Income comprises donations, income from fundraising events, interest receivable and dividends from listed investments.

Donations are recognised when the charity has confirmation of both the amount and settlement date. In the event of donations pledged but not received, the amount is accrued for where the receipt is considered probable. In the event that a donation is subject to conditions that require a level of performance before the charity is entitled to the funds, the income is deferred as noted above.

Other trading income, consisting of income from fundraising events, is recognised in the period during which the event takes place.

Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank.

Dividends are recognised once the dividend has been declared and notification has been received of the dividend due.

Expenditure and the basis of apportioning costs

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis. Expenditure is comprised of direct costs and support costs. All expenses, including support costs, are allocated or apportioned to their applicable expenditure headings. The classification between activities is as follows:

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Principal accounting policies Year ended 31 December 2021

Expenditure and the basis of apportioning costs (continued)

Support costs, other than those incurred directly in raising funds, have been allocated to expenditure on charitable activities as any apportionment between the two activities of the charity would be immaterial.

All expenditure is inclusive of irrecoverable VAT.

Investment management costs and rebates are included as part of gains (losses) on investments.

The provision of a multi-year grant is recognised at its present value where settlement is due over more than one year from the date of the award, there are no unfulfilled performance conditions under the control of the charity that would permit the charity to avoid making the future payments, settlement is probable and the effect of the discounting is material. No discounting has been applied to multi-year grants in these financial statements.

Investments

Listed investments are a form of basic financial instrument and are initially recognised at their transaction value and subsequently measured at their fair value as at the balance sheet date using the closing quoted market price.

The charity does not acquire put options, derivatives or other complex financial instruments.

Realised gains (or losses) on investment assets are calculated as the difference between disposal proceeds and their opening carrying value or their purchase value if acquired subsequent to the first day of the financial year. Unrealised gains and losses are calculated as the difference between the fair value at the year end and their carrying value at that date. Realised and unrealised investment gains (or losses) are combined in the statement of financial activities and are credited (or debited) in the year in which they arise.

The main form of financial risk faced by the charity is that of volatility in equity markets and investment markets due to wider economic conditions, the attitude of investors to investment risk, and changes in sentiment concerning equities and within particular sectors or sub sectors.

Debtors

Debtors are recognised at the settlement amount, less any provision for non-recoverability. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid. They have been discounted to the present value of the future cash receipt where such discounting is material.

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Principal accounting policies Year ended 31 December 2021

Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and in hand represents such accounts and instruments that are available on demand or have a maturity of less than three months from the date of acquisition. Deposits for more than three months but less than one year have been disclosed as short term deposits. Cash placed on deposit for more than one year is disclosed as a fixed asset investment.

Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised when there is an obligation at the balance sheet date as a result of a past event, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefit will be required in settlement, and the amount of the settlement can be estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are recognised at the amount the charity anticipates it will pay to settle the debt. They have been discounted to the present value of the future cash payment where such discounting is material.

Fund accounting

General funds represent those monies which are freely available for application towards achieving any charitable purpose that falls within the charity’s charitable objects.

Designated funds comprise monies set aside out of unrestricted general funds for specific future purposes or projects. The trustees have ring fenced the original donation from Mrs. Ward as a designated fund, known as The Barbara Ward Fund. The trustees aim, over the longer term, to grow this fund at least in line with inflation and to generate income to fund the grant making activities of the charity.

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Notes to the financial statements 31 December 2021

1 Income from: Donations

Income from: Donations
Unrestricted funds
Total
2021
£		 Total
2020
£
Donations
. The Barbara Ward Family Trust
. Other donations		 150,000
12,569
162,569		 150,000
11,085
161,085

2 Income from: Other trading activities

Income from: Other trading activities
Unrestricted funds
Total
2021
£		 Total
2020
£
Fundraising events — 2,045

3 Income from: Investments

Income from: Investments
Unrestricted funds
Total
2021
£		 Total
2020
£
Income from listed investments
. Unit trusts and common investment funds
Interest receivable
. Bank interest
. Cash held by investment manager
Total		 359,753 375,684
47
6		 209
38
53 247
359,806 375,931

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Notes to the financial statements 31 December 2021

4 Grants payable

The charity makes grants in accordance with its grant making policy as set out in the Trustees’ report.

Grants payable to institutions during the year comprised the following:

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Unrestricted funds
Total Total
2021 2020
£ £
Amy and Friends 15,000 15,000
Friends of Paternoster School 14,000 —
Daisy Garland Trust 13,800 13,800
Hopscotch 10,450 10,450
PACSO 10,000 —
The Wave Project 10,000 10,000
Tracks Autism 10,000 5,000
Bristol Children’s Help Society 8,462 —
Capital Kids Cricket 8,000 8,000
Downright Special 8,000 8,000
Thomley 8,000 8,000
Autism Bedfordshire 7,500 —
Let Us Play 7,500 7,500
Sebastian’s Action Trust 7,500 15,000
Skipton Extended Learning for All 7,500 7,500
Stick n’ Step 7,500 —
Transitions UK 7,500 7,500
Whoopsadaisy 7,500 7,500
Autism Early Support 7,000 7,000
Arts for All 7,000 —
Asian Students Christian Trust 7,000 7,000
Extratime 7,000 7,000
Families First St. Andrews 7,000 7,000
James Hopkins Trust 7,000 —
Little Hearts Matter 7,000 7,000
Special Needs Advisory and Activities Project 6,500 —
3H Fund 6,000 —
Action Through Enterprise 6,000 5,000
Cheshire Autism Practical Support 6,000 6,000
Derby Toc H 6,000 6,000
Our Sansar 6,000 6,000
Peter Pan Centre 6,000 6,000
Rainbow Hub 6,000 6,000
SASBAH 6,000 —
Tiny Tickers 6,000 6,000
Mondo Foundation 5,800 —
40 Degreez 5,000 —
Action Cerebral Palsy 5,000 5,000
Allsorts 5,000 5,000
Anaphylaxis Campaign 5,000 5,000
Communigrow 5,000 —
Dandelion Time 5,000 10,000
Carried forward 313,512 224,250
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4 Grants payable (continued)
Unrestricted funds
Total Total
2021 2020
£ £
Brought forward 313,512 224,250
Dingley’s Promise 5,000 5,000
Family Counselling Trust 5,000 —
Hayle Youth Project 5,000 5,000
Jigsaw (SouthEast) 5,000 5,000
Kids in Action 5,000 —
Living Paintings Trust 5,000 5,000
Northwich Multisports 5,000 5,000
Norton Hall Children & Family Centre 5,000 5,000
Ruby’s Fund 5,000 —
SPACE 5,000 5,000
Space4Autism 5,000 5,000
Springboard Opportunity Group 5,000 —
Step & Learn 5,000 5,000
Steps Conductive Education Centre 5,000 —
Street-Teams 5,000 5,000
Team Up 5,000 —
The Parasol Project 5,000 —
The Pepper Foundation 5,000 —
The Principle Trust 5,000 5,000
Walsall Bereavement Support Services 5,000 5,000
Yellow Submarine Holidays 5,000 5,000
Young Carers Development Trust 5,000 5,000
Young Lewisham Project 5,000 —
Henry Dancer Days 4,500 4,500
MYTIME 4,500 —
Brighton Pebbles 4,000 4,000
Life Cycle UK 4,000 —
tastelife 4,000 4,000
Toby Henderson Trust 4,000 4,000
Sal’s Shoes 3,500 —
CHUMS Charity 3,000 3,000
Holly Lodge Centre 3,000 3,000
Mahadevi Yoga Centre 3,000 —
Real Action 3,000 —
Sunny Days Children’s Fund 3,000 3,000
Support Line 3,000 —
The Therapy Garden 3,000 —
Worcestershire Parents & Carers’ Community 3,000 —
Unite - Carers in Mid Devon 3,000 3,000
Intercare 2,500 2,500
Kingswood Trust 2,500 2,500
The Family Haven 2,500 —
Building for the Future 2,400 2,400
Carried forward 493,912 330,150
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4 Grants payable (continued)

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Unrestricted funds
Total Total
2021 2020
£ £
Brought forward 493,912 330,150
Latin American Fund for the Future 2,000 2,000
Summers Trust 2,000 2,000
Sunrise Partnership 2,000 2,000
Tyler Trust 2,000 —
Made a Mark 1,500 —
Pontllanfraith Children’s Contact Centre 1,500 —
Special Educational Needs Families Support Group 1,500 —
Children of Songea 1,000 —
Park Villa Football Development 1,000 —
Leeds Community Trust 500 500
REACT — 12,800
Mudlarks Community — 10,000
The Elizabeth Foundation — 10,000
St. Cyril’s Children & Youth Project — 9,000
Kidasha — 8,000
Kangaroos — 7,000
—
Wingate Special Children’s Trust 7,000
Pippa’s Group Nursery — 6,000
—
Chris Westwood Charity 5,000
—
Helford River Children’s Sailing Trust 5,000
—
Insight 5,000
iPOP — 5,000
Ruddi’s Retreat — 5,000
—
Save The Family 5,000
The Breck Foundation — 5,000
Tom’s Trust — 4,515
Barnstondale Centre — 4,000
The Ear Foundation — 3,500
—
Haworth Riding for the Disabled 2,000
The Ethel Trust — 2,000
—
Little Hiccups 1,000
508,912 456,465
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4 Grants payable (continued)

The grants were all for the benefit of children who were seriously or terminally ill, disadvantaged, underprivileged or had special needs.

A reconciliation of the grants payable and grant commitment figures shown in these financial statements is as follows:

Unrestricted funds Unrestricted funds
Total
2021
£		 Total
2020
£
Commitments accrued at 31 December 2020
Commitments made in the year
Grants paid during the year
Commitments accrued at 31 December 2021 (note 11)		 —
508,912
(508,912)
—		 5,000
458,465
(463,465)
—

In addition to the amounts committed and accrued noted above, the trustees have also authorised certain grants which are subject to the recipient fulfilling certain conditions. The total amount authorised but not accrued for in these financial statements at 31 December 2021 was £317,950 (2020 – £354,300) (note 14).

5 Support costs

Support costs
Unrestricted funds
Total
2021
£		 Total
2020
£
Governance costs
. Audit fees
Other support costs		 6,640
253
6,893		 6,060
(4,102)
1,958

6 Net incoming resources

This is stated after charging:

Unrestricted funds Unrestricted funds
Total
2021
£		 Total
2020
£
Auditor’s remuneration (including VAT)
. Statutory audit services		 6,640 6,060

The charity has no employees.

7 Trustees’ remuneration

None of the trustees received any remuneration in respect of their services, nor reimbursement of expenses during the period. The aggregate remuneration to key management personnel for the year ended 31 December 2021 was therefore £nil (2020 – £nil).

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8 Taxation

The Barbara Ward Children’s Foundation is a registered charity and therefore is not liable to income tax or corporation tax on income derived from its charitable activities, as it falls within the various exemptions available to registered charities.

9 Fixed asset investments

Fixed asset investments
Listed investments and cash held for re-investment 2021
£		 2020
£
Listed investments
Market value at 1 January 2021
Additions at cost
Unrealised gains
Market value at 31 December 2021
Cost of listed investments at 31 December 2021		 12,616,080
29,920
902,572		 11,871,015
25,688
719,377
13,548,572 12,616,080
8,138,412 8,108,492

Listed investments, which were all in the United Kingdom, held at 31 December 2021 comprised the following:

2021
£		 2020
£
Unit trusts and investment trusts 13,548,572 12,616,080

At 31 December 2021 the following investment holding had a market value in excess of 5% of the market value of the entire listed portfolio as at that date:

Holding Market
value of
holding
£		 % of total
portfolio
%
Sarasin Endowments (A) Fund (Income Units) 13,548,572 100

At 31 December 2020 the following investment holding had a market value in excess of 5% of the market value of the entire listed portfolio as at that date:

Holding Market
value of
holding
£		 % of total
portfolio
%
Sarasin Endowments (A) Fund (Income Units) 12,616,080 100

10 Debtors: due within one year

Debtors: due within one year
2021
£		 2020
£
Taxation recoverable 1,568
1,568		 1,343
1,343

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11 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

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2021 2020
£ £
Accruals 6,400 6,000
6,400 6,000
12 Designated fund
At 1 Utilised Designated At 31
January during the during the December
2021 year year 2021
£ £ £ £
The Barbara Ward Fund 12,616,080 — 932,492 13,548,572
At 1 Utilised Designated At 31
January during the during the December
2020 year year 2020
£ £ £ £
The Barbara Ward Fund 11,871,015 — 745,065 12,616,080
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The trustees have ring fenced the original donation from Mrs. Ward as a designated fund, known as The Barbara Ward Fund. The trustees aim, over the longer term, to grow this fund at least in line with inflation and to generate income to fund the grant making activities of the charity.

13 Analysis of net assets between funds

Analysis of net assets between funds
General
fund
£		 Designated
funds
£		 Total
2021
£
Fund balances at 31 December 2021
are represented by:
Investments
Current assets
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Total net assets		 —
286,663
(6,400)
280,263		 13,548,572
—
—
13,548,572		 13,548,572
286,663
(6,400)
13,828,835

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Notes to the financial statements 31 December 2021

13 Analysis of net assets between funds (continued)

Analysis of net assets between funds(continued)
General
fund
£		 Designated
funds
£		 Total
2020
£
Fund balances at 31 December 2020
are represented by:
Investments
Current assets
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Total net assets		 —
279,693
(6,000)
273,693		 12,616,080
—
—
12,616,080		 12,616,080
279,693
(6,000)
12,889,773

The total unrealised gains as at 31 December 2021 constituted movements on the revaluation of listed investments

Total
2021
£		 Total
2020
£
Unrealised gains included above:
Total unrealised gains at 31 December 2021
Reconciliation of movements in unrealised gains
Total unrealised gains at 1 January 2021
Net gains arising on revaluations in the year
Total unrealised gains at 31 December 2021		 5,410,160
4,507,588
902,572
5,410,160		 4,507,588
3,788,211
719,377
4,507,588

14 Grant commitments

At 31 December 2021, the charity had the following commitments in respect of grants approved for projects, which have not been accrued for in these financial statements because they were subject to the recipient fulfilling certain conditions:

2021
£		 2020
£
Payable within one year
Payable between two and five years		 226,450
96,500
322,950		 227,650
126,650
354,300

15 Related party transactions

In 2021 the charity received a donation of £150,000 (2020 – £150,000) from The Barbara Ward Family Trust. In 2021 the charity received aggregate donations of £388 from the trustees (2020 – £283).

16 Liability of members

The charity is constituted as a company limited by guarantee. In the event of the charity being wound up members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £10.

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