## **HEAL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION UK**
## **TRUSTEES REPORT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30[TH] APRIL 2024**
Heal For Life Foundation UK
Registered Charity No. 1156694
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|Trustees’ report|2|
|Statement of financial activities|3|
|Balance sheet|4|
|Trustees report (cont’d)|5|
|Notes to the financial statements|6|
**HEAL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION UK**
## **CHARITY INFORMATION** _**AS AT 30 APRIL 2024**_
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## **Operating as a Charity registered with the Charity Commission No. 1156694**
**Trustees** Lucy Huntington (Chair) The Revd Ravi Holy Francis Huntington Robin Lefever **Secretary** Francis Huntington **Treasurer** Lucy Huntington **Principal office** Cumberland Court 24 Church Street Wye Ashford Kent TN25 5BJ **Bankers** Lloyds TSB Bank Plc 81 High Street Ashford Kent TN24 8SS
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**HEAL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION UK**
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## **TRUSTEES REPORT** _**AS AT 30 APRIL 2024**_
The trustees present their report along with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 April 2024. The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis.
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity became registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with the Charity Commission on 15[th] April 2014.
The funds of the Heal For Life Foundation UK are derived substantially from donations from the general public, and by grant giving bodies.
The Objects of the Charity are:
1. To promote and protect the physical and mental health of survivors of childhood trauma and abuse in the UK through the provision of, support, education, practical advice and financial assistance.
2. To advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to childhood trauma and abuse.
## **Trustee body**
The Trustees who served during the year were as follows:
The Revd Ravi Holy Lucy Huntington Francis Huntington Robin Lefever
The trustees aim to meet two times a year at which meetings the trustees agree the broad strategy and areas of activity for the charity. Extra meetings of the trustees are called for any extraordinary expenditure or urgent decisions.
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## **HEAL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION UK**
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## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30 APRIL 2024**
||**y/e 30/04/2024**
|y/e 30/04/2023|
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|**Income**||**£**|
|Guest Fees|**10,250.00**|6,400.00|
|Donations|**9,036.50**|8,594.60|
|‘Gift Aid’ recovery from HMRC|-|-|
|Grants
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|Recovery of Bellropes breakage deposit|**3,000.00**|-|
|Book Sales|**50.00**|-|
|Misc|**1.00**|-|
|Total Income|**22,337.50**|14,994.60|
|**Expenditure**|||
|Venue Rent|**11,664.85**|12,843.00|
|‘Healing Week’ direct costs|**1,222.23**|1,296.99|
|Fee refunds|**400.00**|500.00|
|Travel|**2,121.30**|**1**,435.39|
|Supervision|**130.00**|-|
|Printing, postage & stationery|**41.00**|59.35|
|Telephone & web|**237.60**|237.60|
|Insurance|**505.84**|500.84|
|Training & Conference costs|-|904.04|
|Equipment purchases|-|46.98|
|Total expenditure|**16,322.82**|17,824.19|
|Surplus(deficit) Income over Expenditure|**6,014.68**|(2,829.59)|
Lucy Huntington. Chair
Ravi Holy. Trustee
Independently Examined: by Karen Mitcalfe Signed:
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## **HEAL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION UK**
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## **BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30 APRIL 2024**
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|Opening balance at Lloyd Bank||7,901.87||10,731.46|
|Income for year||22,337.50||14,994.60|
|Expenditure for year||16,322.82||(17,824.19)|
|Surplus / (Deficit) for year|
|6,014.68
||(2,829.59)|
|Closing balance at Lloyds|Bank
|13,916.55||7,901.87|
|Signed:|||||
|Lucy Huntington|Chair||||
|Ravi Holy|Trustee||||
|Date:|||||
|Independently Examined:|||Date:||
|by Karen Mitcalfe|||||
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## **HEAL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION UK**
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## **TRUSTEES REPORT (continued) AS AT 30 APRIL 2024**
## **Application of income**
The trustees shall first defray out of the income of the charity all proper costs, charges and expenses of, and incidental to, the administration and management of the charity. Subject to the payments aforesaid, the trustees shall apply the excess income of the charity in furthering the objects of the charity.
## **Objects and activities of the charity for the public benefit**
In accordance with the stated charity objects, the activities are currently:
1. Dissemination of the existence of the charity and its intended work.
2. Fundraising in support of the work of the charity.
3. Setting up the resources to deliver the ‘Heal For Life’ five day residential programmes for the adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse.
4. Recruiting ‘guests’ to attend the programmes
5. Delivering the five-day residential programme
6. The training of volunteers
The trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives, and in planning future activities.
## **Investment policy and performance**
The funds of the charity are all currently held in a current account with Lloyds Bank. At such times as funds have risen to a level where they exceed the day to day running costs of the charity they will be invested in accordance with the Trustee Act 2000.
As at 30[th] April 2024 the total net assets of the charity were £13,916.55
## **Reserves policy**
The charity aims to maintain reserves sufficient to cover the costs of delivering the planned programmes during the next twelve months.
## **Achievements and performance**
During the year ending 30[th] April 2024, the charity was able to deliver three ‘five-day’ programmes. Plans to deliver two programmes during the financial year 2024/2025 have been made. There has been a substantial increase in the rental charge made by the venue used for the ‘weeks’. In order to cover these increased costs a number of private individuals were approached during 2023/2024 to increase the donor funding. At the financial year end the charity has sufficient funds to deliver the planned 2024 ‘weeks’ and to pay for the current running costs of the charity.
Approved by the Trustees and signed on behalf of the Trustees
............................. Lucy Huntington - Chair of Trustees
Date: ………………………… 2024
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## **HEAL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION UK**
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## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2024**
## **1. Accounting policies**
## **1.1 Basis of preparation**
The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis
## **1.2 Fund accounting**
The funds held by the charity are available at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objects of the charity and which have not been designated for any other purpose.
## **1.3 Income**
All incoming resources are included in the statement of account and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.
## **1.4 Expenditure**
Expenses are provided on an actual expenditure basis. Expenditure includes VAT, which cannot be recovered and is therefore reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
## **1.5 Gifted assets**
Gifted assets are included at valuation if material.
## **1.6 Investments**
In this year the charity did not hold any investments
## **2. Trustees’ emoluments**
No trustees received any remuneration. Travel expenses were reimbursed during the year.
None of the trustees or other persons related to the charity had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the charity during the year.
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