## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/04/2023 Period start date To 31/03/2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Comunidad de la Divina Misericordia** ## **Charity registration number: 1153405** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|TO ADVANCE THE CATHOLIC RELIGION
TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE
TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILS
THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY
PROVIDING: SMALL GRANTS, CLOTHING, FOOD,
GROCERY, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS
IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER
ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR
RELIEVE POVERTY.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|ORGANISES PRAYERS GROUPS, RELIGIOUS
SEMINARS AND PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS TO PROMOTE RELIGION.
PREPARES EXTRA CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES
SUCH AS THEATRE, MUSIC AND DANCE FOR
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO SUPPORT
THEM TO BUILD UP THEIR SKILLS AND
ABILITIES.
PROVIDES USED CLOTHING, BASIC GROCERY
SHOPPING, TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION,
SMALL GRANTS AND PURCHASE OF BUS
PASSES TO THOSE IN NEED TO RELIEVE
POVERTY| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|TRUSTEES HAVE REGARD TO THE
COMMISSION’S PUBLIC BENEFIT GUIDANCE
WHEN EXERCISING ANY DUTIES| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|IN DESPITE OF THE REDUCTION OF DONATIONS
AND VOLUNTEERS, THE CHARITY CONTINUES
WITH THE REGULAR PRAYER GROUPS TO
ADVANCE RELIGION
THERE IS STILL A NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS TO
HELP US WITH LANGUAGE AND MUSIC
ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
SMALL MONETARY SUPPORT HAVE STILL BEING
PROVIDED TO THE NEEDY TO PREVENT
POVERTY| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|IN THIS YEAR, A POSITIVE BALANCE HAS BEEN
ACHIEVED| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|THE UNRESTRICTED FUNDS ARE HELD TO
REDUCE FINANCIAL RISK AND ARE FREELY
AVAILABLE TO COVER THE CHARITY’S
OBJECTIVES| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|GBP 6,000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
DONATIONS FROM PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS AND
INCOME GENERATED FROM FUND RAISING
EVENTS| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CONSTITUTION| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CHARITABLE INCORPORATED
ORGANISATION (CIO)| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|TRUSTEES ARE ELECTED BY CHARITY
MEMBERS| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|COMUNIDAD DE LA DIVINA MISERICORDIA| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charity number|1153405| |Charity’s principal address|22 HACKINGTON CRESCENT, BECKENHAM, BR3 1RZ| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Flor Gaona Elizalde|N/A||N/A| ||Gabriela Macancela
Carangui|N/A||N/A| ||Diana Carrion
Briceno|N/A||N/A| ||Jose Carrion Bricero|N/A||N/A| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**Financial**
**advisor**|Sara Santiago|3 Marshall Court, Studley Road, London, SW4 6RT| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Gabriela Macancela Signature(s)** Flor Gaona Gabriela Macancela **Full name(s)** Flor Gaona **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair Secretary **Chair, etc) Date** 27[th] December 2024 ## **COMUNIDAD DE LA DIVINA MISERICORDIA INCOME STATEMENT - DETAILED FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** |**INCOME RESOURCES**
Activities for generating income
Donation
**Total Incoming Resources**
**OUTGOING RESOURCES**
Cost of Charitable activities
Food provision
Cost of fundraising Events
Donations
Donations - Buss Passes
Material cost for children group
Rent & Rates
Administration Office
Fuel
Travel
Printing/Stationary/IT costs
**Net income/loss**|**2024**
**2023**
£
£
7,134.85
7,293.00
870.28
4,200.75| |---|---| ||**8,005.13**
**11,493.75**| ||228.75
4,363.70
-
-
-
-
3,498.80
3,711.87
-
521.95
-
-
-
-
-
474.90
-
-
-
-
2,036.00
-| ||**5,763.55**
**9,072.42**| ||| ||**2,241.58**
**2,421.33**| ## **COMUNIDAD DE LA DIVINA MISERICORDIA INCOME STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** |**INCOME RESOURCES**
Donations, fund raising events
**Total Incoming Resources**
**OUTGOING RESOURCES**
Direct costs
Governance costs
**Total Incoming Resources**
**Net Incoming Resources**
**Balance brought forward**
**Balance Carried Forward**|**2024**
**2023**
£
£
8,005.13
11,493.75| |---|---| ||**8,005.13**
**11,493.75**| ||5,763.55
9,072.42
-
-| ||**5,763.55**
**9,072.42**| ||**2,241.58**
**2,421.33**
9,675.47
7,254.14| ||**11,917.05**
**9,675.47**| ## **COMUNIDAD DE LA DIVINA MISERICORDIA BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2024** |**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash in Bank
Cash in Hand
**CURRENT LIABILTIES**
Creditors and accruals
Net Balance
**REPRESENTED BY FUND**
Unrestricted Fund|**2024**
**2023**
£
£
11,594.02
9121.24
323.03
554.23| |---|---| ||**11,917.05**
**9,675.47**
0.00
0.00| ||**0.00**
**0.00**| ||| ||**11,917.05**
**9,675.47**| ||11,917.05
9,675.47| ||**11,917.05**
**9,675.47**|