## **IMPACT REPORT 2020-2021**
Registered Charity Number: 1137170 Address: 10 Countryman’s Way, Shepshed, Leicestershire, LE12 9RB
www.farawaychildrenscharity.com
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## **Patron**
Rachel Mallows MBE DL
## **Board of Trustees**
**Chairperson** Jane Deamer
## **Treasurer**
Sarah Sherlock
## **Trustees**
Ann Bodsworth (until Feb 2021) Kerrie Edwards (until Feb 2021)
Claudia Slabon Jeanette Walsh Sue Cordwell Jessie Doherty (from July 2021)
## **Volunteers**
Claire Deamer (IT)
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## **Charity History**
The Faraway Children’s Charity has been a registered charity (Number 1137170) since July 2010 and is established to: meet the diverse needs of disadvantaged, vulnerable or at risk children and young people within Northamptonshire and the surrounding areas.
The charity is named after one of Enid Blyton’s children’s books: ‘The Faraway Tree’ which tells the story of a group of children who discover a magical tree and its residents where they play safely and happily.
The need for the charity was initially identified in 2009 by a group of Northamptonshire professionals. It became evident within their working practice that a large number of local children and young people did not have access to basic necessities including food, clothing, hygiene and health resources as well as fundamental nurturing and guidance from their parent/s or carers. Funding was sought to support the development of the concept and a start-up grant was provided by Northamptonshire County Council.
Since then the Charity has gone from strength to strength, helping more vulnerable children each year.
## **Key Impacts Include;**
- **Improved health, hygiene, wellbeing, opportunities and positive activities**
- **Increased smiles**
- **Local children benefit**
- **All resources distributed are free**
- **All running costs for the charity kept to a minimum or achieved for free**
- **Volunteer led charity**
- **Maximum percentage of financial donations received are spent on charitable activities**
- **Any resource purchasing necessary is ‘low cost’**
- **Maximise ‘no cost’ resources received**
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## **2020-21 Achievements**
## **1250 Christmas Presents**
1250 Christmas presents, gifts and resources valued at over £11,000 were distributed predominantly to children in care and care leavers. The decision to collect funds alongside Mother Christmas, The Evening Telegraph and The Chronicle & Echo, was due to the restrictions of the Covid-19 lockdown. The appeal was a great success and we will repeat in 2021.
## **1000 Easter Eggs**
We worked alongside the Northamptonshire Easter Egg Challenge to collect Easter Eggs which were distributed to disadvantaged children across Northamptonshire.
## **64,845 FREE Resources Distributed since 2010!**
We have supported a large number of disadvantaged individuals and families with resources within the year including providing: 1000 food items; 1436 clothing items; 4500 toiletry items; grants, parties and trips.
## **Thank You for your Support, Time & Donations**
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Our Patron, Rachel Mallows MBE DL Trustees and Volunteers All our Fundraisers All our partners who help us to get resources to local children
## **HUGE THANK YOU to all our funders and supporters**
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## Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The Faraway Childrens Charity 1137170
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2021 which are set out on pages 2 to 6.
## Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records;
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Caroline Armstrong ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)
Infinitas House
58 Warkton Lane
Kettering NN15 5AA
Date:16/11/21
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**Charity Name No (if any) The Faraway Childrens Charity 1137170**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**For the period from** 01/04/2020
**To**
31/03/2021
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**14,970**
**1,500**
**2,700**
**2,348**
**2,398**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**25,564**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**14,970**
**1,500**
**2,700**
**2,348**
**2,398**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**25,564**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Last year**
**to the nearest**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Just Giving|**14,970**||||**-**|
|FarringtonOils|**1,500**||||**-**|
|PPG Industries|**2,700**||||**-**|
|West Haddon School PTA|**2,348**||||**-**|
|HMRC Charities|**2,398**||||**-**|
|Donations under £500|**1,648**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**25,564**||||**-**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
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_**Total receipts**_ **25,564 - - 25,564 -**
**A3 Payments** Insurance **143 Distribution of Donations -** - Uniform **484** - Christmas Festivities **7,600** - Northamptonshire Carers **650** - Easter Festivities **3,000** - NCC **568** - Daylight Centre Fellowship **1,000** - The Crysalys Foundation **2,000** Sundry Expenses **216** Accountancy Fees
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Insurance||||||||||
||**143**||**-**||**-**||**143**||**-**|
|**Distribution of Donations**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|- Uniform||||||||||
||**484**||**-**||**-**||**484**||**-**|
|- Christmas Festivities||||||||||
||**7,600**||**-**||**-**||**7,600**||**-**|
|- Northamptonshire Carers||||||||||
||**650**||**-**||**-**||**650**||**-**|
|- Easter Festivities||||||||||
||**3,000**||**-**||**-**||**3,000**||**-**|
|- NCC||||||||||
||**568**||**-**||**-**||**568**||**-**|
|- Daylight Centre Fellowship||||||||||
||**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**|
|- The Crysalys Foundation||||||||||
||**2,000**||**-**||**-**||**2,000**||**-**|
|Sundry Expenses||||||||||
||**216**||**-**||**-**||**216**||**-**|
|Accountancy Fees||||||||||
||**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**||||||||||
||**15,661**||**-**||**-**||**15,661**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**15,661**||**-**||**-**||**15,661**||**-**|
_**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **9,904 - - 9,904 -**
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|**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**|
|**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**9,904**||**-**||**-**||**9,904**||**-**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories Details B1 Cash funds** Bank
## _**Total cash funds**_
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) **Details** Bank balance b/f Cash balance b/f
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ 9,904 - - - - - - 9,904 - -** OK OK OK **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ - 5,352 3,000 135 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -**
**B3 Investment assets**
## **Details**
**Fund to which Current value Cost (optional) asset belongs (optional) - - - - - - - - - -**
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**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
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Sarah Sherlock
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## Examiners unqualified report (unincorporated charity or CIO in England and Wales for both accruals and receipts and payments accounts)
Final Audit Report 2021-11-25
Created: 2021-11-16 By: Caroline Armstrong (caroline@infinitasaccountants.com) Status: Signed Transaction ID: CBJCHBCAABAA8NGhHpGatJ-r_ifTUsxLGo3SwRJG5jDZ
## "Examiners unqualified report (unincorporated charity or CIO in England and Wales for both accruals and receipts and payments accounts)" History
Document created by Caroline Armstrong (caroline@infinitasaccountants.com) 2021-11-16 - 4:02:26 PM GMT
Document emailed to Sarah Sherlock (ssherlock@pitsfordschool.com) for signature 2021-11-16 - 4:03:24 PM GMT
Email viewed by Sarah Sherlock (ssherlock@pitsfordschool.com)
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Agreement completed.
2021-11-25 - 2:30:11 PM GMT
## Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The Faraway Childrens Charity 1137170
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2021 which are set out on pages 2 to 6.
## Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records;
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Caroline Armstrong ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)
Infinitas House
58 Warkton Lane
Kettering NN15 5AA
Date:16/11/21
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**Charity Name No (if any) The Faraway Childrens Charity 1137170**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**For the period from** 01/04/2020
**To**
31/03/2021
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**14,970**
**1,500**
**2,700**
**2,348**
**2,398**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**25,564**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**14,970**
**1,500**
**2,700**
**2,348**
**2,398**
**1,648**
**-**
**-**
**25,564**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Last year**
**to the nearest**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Just Giving|**14,970**||||**-**|
|FarringtonOils|**1,500**||||**-**|
|PPG Industries|**2,700**||||**-**|
|West Haddon School PTA|**2,348**||||**-**|
|HMRC Charities|**2,398**||||**-**|
|Donations under £500|**1,648**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**25,564**||||**-**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
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_**Total receipts**_ **25,564 - - 25,564 -**
**A3 Payments** Insurance **143 Distribution of Donations -** - Uniform **484** - Christmas Festivities **7,600** - Northamptonshire Carers **650** - Easter Festivities **3,000** - NCC **568** - Daylight Centre Fellowship **1,000** - The Crysalys Foundation **2,000** Sundry Expenses **216** Accountancy Fees
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Insurance||||||||||
||**143**||**-**||**-**||**143**||**-**|
|**Distribution of Donations**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|- Uniform||||||||||
||**484**||**-**||**-**||**484**||**-**|
|- Christmas Festivities||||||||||
||**7,600**||**-**||**-**||**7,600**||**-**|
|- Northamptonshire Carers||||||||||
||**650**||**-**||**-**||**650**||**-**|
|- Easter Festivities||||||||||
||**3,000**||**-**||**-**||**3,000**||**-**|
|- NCC||||||||||
||**568**||**-**||**-**||**568**||**-**|
|- Daylight Centre Fellowship||||||||||
||**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**|
|- The Crysalys Foundation||||||||||
||**2,000**||**-**||**-**||**2,000**||**-**|
|Sundry Expenses||||||||||
||**216**||**-**||**-**||**216**||**-**|
|Accountancy Fees||||||||||
||**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**||||||||||
||**15,661**||**-**||**-**||**15,661**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**15,661**||**-**||**-**||**15,661**||**-**|
_**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **9,904 - - 9,904 -**
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|**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**|
|**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**9,904**||**-**||**-**||**9,904**||**-**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories Details B1 Cash funds** Bank
## _**Total cash funds**_
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) **Details** Bank balance b/f Cash balance b/f
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ 9,904 - - - - - - 9,904 - -** OK OK OK **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ - 5,352 3,000 135 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -**
**B3 Investment assets**
## **Details**
**Fund to which Current value Cost (optional) asset belongs (optional) - - - - - - - - - -**
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**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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Details asset belongs (optional)
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Details liability relates (optional) (optional)
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Sarah Sherlock
Sarah Sherlock (Nov 25, 2021 14:30 GMT) SARAH SHERLOCK 16/11/21
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## Examiners unqualified report (unincorporated charity or CIO in England and Wales for both accruals and receipts and payments accounts)
Final Audit Report 2021-11-25
Created: 2021-11-16 By: Caroline Armstrong (caroline@infinitasaccountants.com) Status: Signed Transaction ID: CBJCHBCAABAA8NGhHpGatJ-r_ifTUsxLGo3SwRJG5jDZ
## "Examiners unqualified report (unincorporated charity or CIO in England and Wales for both accruals and receipts and payments accounts)" History
Document created by Caroline Armstrong (caroline@infinitasaccountants.com) 2021-11-16 - 4:02:26 PM GMT
Document emailed to Sarah Sherlock (ssherlock@pitsfordschool.com) for signature 2021-11-16 - 4:03:24 PM GMT
Email viewed by Sarah Sherlock (ssherlock@pitsfordschool.com)
2021-11-16 - 4:26:13 PM GMT
Email viewed by Sarah Sherlock (ssherlock@pitsfordschool.com) 2021-11-22 - 3:54:16 PM GMT
Document e-signed by Sarah Sherlock (ssherlock@pitsfordschool.com)
Signature Date: 2021-11-25 - 2:30:11 PM GMT - Time Source: server
Agreement completed.
2021-11-25 - 2:30:11 PM GMT