**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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|**From **|**01**|**Jan**|**2022**|**To**|**31**
**Dec**|**22**|
## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** Stephen’s Children
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1142392
**Charity's principal address** PO Box 1022, HORSHAM
**Postcode** RH12 9TU
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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10|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Magda Gobran||From 24-03-2022||
||GeoffreyHopper|Treasurer|||
||Heather Shakespeare||||
||Simon Smith||||
||Graham White|Chairperson|||
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## **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 Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Trust Deed dated 29[th] September 2010
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trust
Trustee selection methods Appointed by the trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
Trustees are selected on the basis of their experience and skills. They are people who are prepared to take an active interest in running the charity, and are in agreement with its vision and values.
- 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**
The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship anywhere in the world by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable **Summary of the objects of the** individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient. **charity set out in its governing document** To advance the Christian faith for the benefit of the public in accordance with the statements of belief. **Summary of the main** The charity supports the work of charities in Egypt which operate for the **activities undertaken for the** benefit of disadvantaged children and their families. This work has been **public benefit in relation to** in existence since 1989 and cares for children, many of whom live in **these objects (include within** extreme poverty. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity **had regard to the guidance** Commission on public benefit. **issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The trust made grants for the work of Stephen’s Children in Egypt which works with poor and needy children.
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
The trust’s policy is to hold a reserve of £2,500, which is enough to cover several months of operating costs in case of fluctuations in incoming donations. As donations accumulate beyond the £2,500 they are sent periodically as grants to Egypt. The size and frequency of the grants takes into account the desire to get the grants to the beneficiaries as soon as possible, balanced against the cost of each overseas funds transfer.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **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.
## **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)** Graham White **Position (eg Secretary,** Chairperson Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 16 October 2023
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Independent examinerfs report on
the accounts
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
STEPHEN'S CHILDREN
On accounts for the year
ended
3111212022
Charfty no
(If any)
1142392
Sot out on pages
Ro8POCtlve
responslbllltles of
tru8tees and •xamln•r
The charity's trustees are re8pon8ible for the preparation of the accounts.
The charity's trustees consider that an audrt is not required for this year
under section 144 of the Charitie5 Act 2011 {Ihe Charities Acr) and that an
independent examination is needed.
It 18 my responsibilty to-
examine the a¢Unts under sedion 145 of the Charities Act.,
follow the procedures laKI down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (under 8ection 145{5)Ib) of the Charities Ad., and
8tate whether pa'CUlar matter8 have come to my attention.
Ba•1• of Ind6p•ndent My examination was carried out In accordance with general Direction8 given
oxamlnorf• •tatom•nt by the Charty Commission. An examination in¢lude$ a review of the
accounting records kept by the chaftty and a comparison of the accounts
presented with those records. It also in¢lude8 consideration of any unusual
items or disclosures in the accounts. and seeking explanations from the
trustees conceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not
provhle all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and
consequently no oplnion is given as to whether the accounts present a Irue
and fairf view and the report is limited to those mattern Set out in the
stalement below.
Independent In connectK)n with my examination, no material matters have come to my
Oxamlnerfs statsment attention which give me cause to believe that in, any material respect..
the accounting records were not kept in accordanc8 With section 130
of the Charib'es Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting cords., or
the accounts did not comply yth the applicable requirements
conceming the fomi and content of a¢¢ount$ set out in the Charftl88
{Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the a¢Unts give a Ime and fair, view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have come auoss no other matters in connection wth the examination
to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be read)ed.
IER
December 2017
Slgned:
Dats:
10 October 2023
Name:
TANYA BRYDON
Rolevant professlonal
quallfi¢atlon(s) or body
(If any):
Retired Finance Manager
Addrnss:
9 Great Lime Kilns
Southwater, Horsham
RH13 9JL
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight malenal matters ol concem (see CC32,
Independent examinat of charity actounts.. directh)ns and guKlanc* for examiners).
Glvo horn brlef d•talls of
any Itom8 that the
xamlnerwl*he• to
dlsclose.
IER
December 2017
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