## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 01 2023 31 12 2023 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Adventure Aid **Other names charity is known by** Adventure Aid UK **Registered charity number (if any)** 1143306 **Charity's principal address** 15 Silchester Close Bournemouth Dorset **Postcode BH2 6PY** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||AshleyPlaten-Mills|Chairman|Since 2011-|A Platen-Mills| ||Austin Arnold|Trustee|October 2015-|| ||Helen Jordan|Trustee|October 2015 -|| ||Paul Miller|Trustee / TripLeader|February2019 -|| ||Carole
Winterbourne|Treasurer|December 2022 -|| ||Clodagh Mackie|Trustee / TripLeader|August 2023 -|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |None|| ||| ||| **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **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 (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Constitution association - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Founding Trustee Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: We work with disadvantaged women & small children related charities across Asia and Africa. We have a safeguarding policy in place and vet all our partners. - 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** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** Adventure Aid raises funds through people joining organised trips to visit our projects. This is our primarily revenue stream to support our projects however since 2023 we are now raising funds also through grant applications. **TAR** March **2012** 2 The charity solely works overseas and supports disadvantaged women and children through education and welfare projects. **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)** We only provide grants to partner charities once we have visited the project and agreed the project. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** During 2023 the charity a trip to India in November which raised funds for our India partners and 3 x tailoring projects in Andhra Pradesh. We have started to make grant applications to fund our tailoring projects for young woman / single mothers in India working with UK donators. We hope to develop further trips to Nepal and Tanzania for 2024 however take up is still very slow. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** All money is used to support the primary aim of the charity. we do not **Brief statement of the** carry reserves. ## **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially** none **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** The charity’s principal funds come from people joining our organised You **may choose** to include trips. Any grants money received goes direct to the project supported. 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)** Ashley Platen-Mills **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairman **etc) Date** 09/08/2024 **TAR** March **2012** 5 **Adventure Aid 1143306 Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts** **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period** 1st January 31st December **To from** 2023 2023 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**46,047**
**46,047**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**46,047**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**46,047**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations|**46,047**|**-**|**-**|**46,047**|**10,358**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**46,047**
|**-**|**-**|**46,047**|**10,358**| |**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 46,047**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||**-**
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**46,047**|| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||| |||**-**|**-**|**46,047**|**10,358**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**(see table).**|||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **||**46,047**||**-**||**-**||**46,047**||**10,358**|| |**A3 Payments**
Tripcosts
**14,615**
Donations to agreed charities
**19,250**
Accommodation
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Insurance
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Website
**228**
Bank Charges / Accountants
**417**
Equipment
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Other
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Covid Refunds
**_Sub total_ 34,510**|**A3 Payments**
Tripcosts
**14,615**
Donations to agreed charities
**19,250**
Accommodation
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Insurance
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Website
**228**
Bank Charges / Accountants
**417**
Equipment
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Other
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Covid Refunds
**_Sub total_ 34,510**|**-**
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**228**
**417**
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Tripcosts|**14,615**|**-**|**-**|**14,615**|**1,213**| |Donations to agreed charities|**19,250**|**-**|**-**|**19,250**|**10,142**| |Accommodation|**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Insurance|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| |Website|**228**|**-**|**-**|**228**|**216**| |Bank Charges / Accountants|**417**|**-**|**-**|**417**|**151**| |Equipment|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| |Other|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| |Covid Refunds||**-**|**-**|**-**|**800**| |**_Sub total_ **|**34,510**|**-**|**-**|**34,510**|**12,522**| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **|**34,510**||**-**||**-**||**34,510**||**12,522**|| |||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**11,537**||**-**||**-**||**11,537**||**2,072**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**13,247**||**-**||**-**||**13,247**||**17,483**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**24,784**||**-**||**-**||**24,784**||**15,411**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Bank balance|**to nearest £**
**24,784**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Bank balance|**24,784**|**-**|**-**| **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees ||||||**-**||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**24,784**||**-**||**-**|| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||OK||OK||OK|| ||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|| ||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
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**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
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approval|| ||||AshleyPlaten-Mills||||8/5/2024|| |||||||||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A: Independent examiner's report Repoil to the trustees/, diTeclor5/membe15 of On accounts for the yeai ended: 2tsL3 Charity no: 1142306 Company no . | Set out on pège5 Respective The Iruglees (who are èlso the directors ol the compèny lor the purposes ol ie5ponsibilities of company lawl ale responsible loi Ihe piepaiaiion ol the ac(oufit5. The charity's trustees and examinev trustees ion5idef that an audit is not iequiied loi Ihis year under se(Iion 144 01 the Chaiilies Acl 2011 (the (haiities Acll and thal an Independent examination Is needed. IThe Ihaiily s g1055 inioffle exceeded 1250.000 and l am qvalilied lo unde,'lake the examina150n by being a qualihed membei ol In8med bod5'11- Oelele I I Il not applicable. 11 is my re5ponsibilily l(Tr_ exatnine the aicounis under section 145 ol the (haiilie5 Act, to follow the pioceduie5 laid down in the geneial Diie(tions given by Ihe Charily Commission lundei section 14ilS1(bl ol the ChaiitEs Act, and 10 State whethef pariicular matle(s have come to my attention. Basis 01 independent My examinarion wès Cafried out In accoidance with general Diieclions examiner's statement given by the Chaiily CorTbmission. An examination Includes a ieview ol the accouniing ie(oids kept by ihe Iharily ènd a (omparison ol the accounts piesenled wilh Ih05e iecoids. 11 also iniludes (onsideiolion ol any unusual Items 01 disclosures in the ai(wnls. and geeking explanations Iiom the Iiuslees concerning any such fflalleis. Ihe proceduies undeilaken do fiol provide all the evidence that would be requiied In an audit, and consequently no opinion Is given as lo wheiher the ac(ounls present a 'lrue and laif. view and the repoii is limiied lo those maiieis sel out In ihe sialemenl below_ ChariiabSe cornpany a(CWn￿ le[n￿￿es-￿￿*pwth1 examitV'S tepyt ￿ Il* t)e(embv 2016 2013 Section A: Independent exafflinei's report (cont) Independent examiner's Statement Iri (Qiine(Iion with ffly exafflinalion, nu tnallei has (ome 10 my aiieniion lolher Ihan thal disclosed below "I lo indi(ale that-. ccounling records have not been kept Iri aCCOfdan(e with section 386 ol Ihe Companies Act 2006.. the accounts do not ac(oid wilh SLKh ie(Ofds.. h￿e accounls are prepafed on an accruals bèsis. whether they fail lo comply with ielevani a(counling reouiiemenls under seciion 396 ol Ihe Companies Aci 2006. 01 ale nol (ongsieni with Ihe (harilie5 SORP (FR5102} any mailer which Ihe examiner believes should be diawn lo the allenlion ol the readei lo gain a proper understanding Oi the ac(ounls. ° Pleose delete ihe Va￿d5 in the brocket5 If Ihey do noi opply. Signed.. Name: f QLCI-(rtKDSO.J Relevant prole55ional qualilication{s) oi body Cirt A (if any)- Address: (t￿lI1able i(xnpany ￿(￿jniS ietry)kies- hxkpetMknI teF¥Nt orb t)eiembei 2016 Section B: Oisclosuie Only complete il the examiner needs lo highlight maleiial problems {E.g. Accounting fecoids hove not been kept in a(coidance with se(Iion 386 01 the (ompanies Act 2006.. Ihe èccounls do not accord w11h the (couniing recoids,. any material expendiluie 01 aclion which appears not io be in a(corthnce with the rrus15 ol the chaiily,. any failure 10 be provided with Inloimalion ènd explanation by any pas101 piesent Iluslee. ollicei 01 employee,. 6nd In the (ase ol aicruals accounts any material Incon515tency between the 8ccounls and Ihe Iiuslees annLk31 ieporl, and In the iase ol a ckwritable company Kiith ihe dire(toi s iepoit } Give here brief details of any item5 that the examinei wishes to disclose. ChafilaiAe rompany ￿lou￿15 lempkile5- Wvjeperthl eyamw's ie¥KKi a￿0￿1$ Decetnbei 2016