## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 Jan 2023 31 Dec 2023 **From To**
## Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Aid for Romanian Children (ARC)
**Other names charity is known by** ARC
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1098344 **Charity's principal address** 4 Olivia’s Court Nelson’s Lane York **Postcode** YO24 1HD ~~——~~ **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Dr Fraser Brown Chairperson 2 Anne Brown Secretary 3 Louisa Parkinson ~~—————~~ **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 advisor Name Address Treasurer** Louisa Parkinson 6 Drome Road, Copmanthorpe. York YO23 3T ~~==———~~ **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
**December 2008**
**TAR**
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**Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Deed of Trust
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Trust
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointment by a resolution of Trustees at a Special Meeting Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
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.
## **Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To relieve poverty and hardship among children in Romania To alleviate sickness and distress among children in Romania To advance education among persons, and in particular children resident in Romania
This will be achieved
- by giving money to beneficiaries
- by providing food, clothing and housing repairs
- by giving advisory and other services to those in need; and
- by providing support for other organisations which give help to people suffering hardship
**Summary of the main activities in relation to these objects**
Due to the poor health of the officials the charity has done very little in the way of direct work. In 2023 ARC funds were focused solely on grant making. We were fortunate to receive £82,859 in donations, which has enabled us to distribute £15,500 in the form of grant aid to the Open Hands charity
**December 2008**
**TAR**
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
For the coming year we intend to focus on our grant-making activity
- Policy on grant-making
- Policy programme related investment
- Contribution made by Volunteers
## Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** In 2017 we decided to focus on our grant-making role in subsequent **achievements of the charity** years. This has been a difficult year, due to the ill health of the **during the year** charity’s officials. Nevertheless, we have managed to make grants this year totalling £15,500.
## **Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** At the end of 2023 we held £78,026 of unrestricted funds in the bank. **charity’s policy on reserves** Our policy was originally to hold not less than £1,000 and not more than £15,000 during any thirty-day period in order to cover any emergencies as they arise. However, this year we received an unexpected legacy from a single donor of £82,785, meaning we have had to change that policy until such time as we have worked through that sum of money in the form of grant making.
Although an overdraft facility is available at the bank we will not use this.
**Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where 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.
**December 2008**
**TAR**
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**Other optional information**
## **Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Dr Fraser Charles Brown **Position (eg secretary, chair, etc)** ~~a~~ Chairperson **Date** 23rd October 2024 **TAR** 4 **December 2008**
**December 2008**
|**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Aid For Romanian Children**|||1098344|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/01/2023|**To**|Period end date
31/12/2023|||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**82,785**|||||||||
|Groups|**-**|||||||||
|Gift Aid Claimed||||||||||
|Book Royalty|**74**|||||||||
|Repayment of finepaid in error||||||||||
|Bank interest||||||||||
|Other||||||||||
|||||||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**82,859**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||
|**etc.**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**|**82,859**|**82,859**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Sighisoara Paediatric Hospital
Open Hands Charity
**15,500**
Valea Rece Playgroup & Schools
Grant for School
Fine for late submission of tax return
Tax on bank interest
Other expenditure
Bank Charges
**_Sub total_ 15,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, etc.**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**15,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~=~~||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**67,359**|**67,359**|**-**|**-**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**-**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||||||||||
||**-**|**-**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**10,667**|**10,667**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|||||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**78,026**|**78,026**|**-**|**-**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
27/10/2025
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|**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**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Bank Account
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Dr Fraser Brown|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Dr Fraser Brown|01/10/2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
27/10/2025
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of the Aid for Romanian Children Charitable Trust**
I report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 31 December 2023. which are set out on form CC16a.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act)) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts (under section 43(3)(a) of the 1993 Act);
- to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity
Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the 1993 Act); and
* to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner's report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the 1993 Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act: have not been met; or
(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Name: Philip Parkinson
Signature:
Professional qualification: FCCA
Address: 73 Baldwins Lane, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth WD3 3LT
Date: 25/10/2025