2025-04-05-accounts - El Rio Foundation

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date O6 April 2024 05 April 2025 From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

El Rio Foundation

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1114526

Frank Davies Family Trust (up to 2/2/21)

Charity's principal address

Iona Cardrona Road Grange-over-Sands Postcode LA11 7EW

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Cate Davies	Chair	Permanent Trustee
Ben Davies	Secretary	Trustee
James Bloomer	Treasurer	Trustee

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

March 2012

TAR

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

Trust Deed

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

Trust

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods

Appointed by Trustees

(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.

Section C Objectives and activities

Giving grants to other charities which offer help to people in need.

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

March 2012

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All the recipient charities will fall into at least 1 of the following categories: Prevention of relief from poverty Advancement of education Health improvement or life saving The Trustees have taken account of the CC guidance on Public Benefit when allocating grants. Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these 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)

Section D Achievements and performance

March 2012

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Grant of £12000 to Community Action Nepal. Grant of £44500 to El Rio Foundation Co in Santa Marta, Colombia We received donations of £18280 from other charities; £4207 in small donations via Just Giving and £430 directly from the sale of tea towels etc. The Just Giving total includes an element where donors had Gift Aided their contribution.

March 2012

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Section E Financial review

Minimum reserve of £10000 Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review detalls (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

e the charity's principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
e how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
e investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

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 sionatur(s| CS Dames [Abeer a Full name(s) |Catherine Bridget Davies James Alan Bloomer etc) Date| 19/14/25

TAR

March 2012

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES

EI Rio Foundation Registered Charity No. 1114526

Receipts & Payments Accounts for the year ended 05th Apri) 2025

Section A Receipts and payments

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Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of

El Rio Foundation Charity No. 1114526

| report on the accounts for the year

06 April 2024 — 05 April 2025

Responsibilities and basis of report

The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act).

| report in respect of my examination of the charities accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 Act or * the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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