Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 06 04 2023 To 05 04 2024
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name
THE GIRLS HOME
Other names charity is known by
Registered charity number (if any) 1131063
Charity's principal address Old School
14 Church Lane
Nayland
Postcode CO6 4JH
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Trevor Lake | Rachel Collingwood | |||
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
| Name | Dates acted if not for whole year | |
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| Ms Rachel Collingwood | ||
| Mr Andrew Sutton | ||
| Mr Ian Benson |
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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
CONSTITUTION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) ASSOCIATION How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) APPOINTED BY PRINCIPAL TRUSTEE OF THE CHARITY Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
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Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
To raise funds for a Catholic orphanage in Nicaragua, which provides care to young girls who are social orphaned. The charity’s main objective is to raise funds by means of fundraising events, receiving donations and sponsorships either as one off payments or by regular donations.
• Receives donations from members of the public from the UK and overseas Summary of the main • Receives sponsorship for individual girls resident at the activities undertaken for the orphanage public benefit in relation to • Fund raising events these objects (include within • Uses funding received to help with maintenance and running of this section the statutory the orphanage, including providing school equipment, groceries declaration that trustees have etc. had regard to the guidance • Works with the nuns to assign the funds where needed most or issued by the Charity where the donor has specified. Commission on public benefit)
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and erformance p All activities, fundraising and donations/events are in line with the Summary of the main previous reporting period. achievements of the charity during the year
Section E Financial review
Reserves are maintained for the use of further grants and donations in Brief statement of the the following year. charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially No funds materially in deficit. in deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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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) Full name(s) TREVOR LAKE Position (eg Secretary, Chair, TRUSTEE etc) Date 22 JANUARY 2025
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| THE GIRLS HOME | 1131063 | |||
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | CC16a | |||
| For the period from |
06/04/2023 | To | 05/04/2024 |
Section A Receipts and payments
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 32,230 - - - - - - - 32,230 - - - 32,230 3,684 32,299 - - - - - - - 35,983 - - - 35,983 - 3,753 - 10,599 6,846 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ 32,230 - - - - - - - 32,230 - - - 32,230 3,684 32,299 - - - - - - - 35,983 - - - 35,983 - 3,753 |
Total funds to the nearest £ 32,230 - - - - - - - 32,230 - - - 32,230 3,684 32,299 - - - - - - - 35,983 - - - 35,983 - 3,753 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donations | 32,230 | - - - - - - - - - |
32,230 | 35,013 | ||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
32,230 | 32,230 | 35,013 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Sub total | - | - | - | |||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| - | 32,230 | 35,013 | ||||
| Costs of charitable activities | 3,684 | - - - - - - - - - - |
3,684 | 3,786 | ||
| Grants and donationspaid | 32,299 | 32,299 | 29,338 | |||
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| **Sub total ** | 35,983 | 35,983 | 33,124 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| **Sub total ** | - | - | - | |||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| - | 35,983 | 33,124 | ||||
| - 3,753 | - | - | - 3,753 |
1,889 | ||
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| 10,599 | - | 10,599 | 8,710 | |||
| 6,846 | - | - | 6,846 | 10,599 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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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 | |
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| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets |
Signature Details Details Sterling Account Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 6,846 - - - - - 6,846 - OK 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 TREVOR LAKE |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| OK | |||
| Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Date of approval |
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| TREVOR LAKE | 22/01/2025 |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ THE GIRLS HOME members of
On accounts for the year 05 APRIL 2024 Charity no 1131063 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/04/2024 .
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Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act
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of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
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accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
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the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I 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.
- Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Date: 29/01/2025
Signed: Name: RICHARD LANE Relevant professional FCA qualification(s) or body ICAEW (if any): Address: LB GROUP 19[TH] FLOOR, 1 WESTFIELD AVENUE STRATFORD, E20 1HZ
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Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
October 2018
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