## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1 April 2024 Period start date To 31 March 2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: CHARIS TIWALA**
## **Charity registration number: 1156850**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|OBJECT 1: To relieve the charitable need of
anyone who may have been a victim of or
affected by human trafficking or exploitation
OBJECT 2: To advance the Christian faith by
way of offering a Christian chaplaincy service to
people affected by the sex industry and
offering spiritual support when requested.
OBJECT 3: To advance the education of the
public in the subject of the prevention of
human traffickingand exploitation.|
|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|OBJECT 1: Throughout the year Charis Tiwala
has relieved the charitable need of anyone
they have come in to contact with who has
been a victim of or affected by human
trafficking or sexual exploitation, this includes
(but not exclusively): practical and emotional
support, advocacy, advice & signposting, sexual
health advice.
OBJECT 2: Charis Tiwala has advanced the
Christian faith by offering a weekly Bible study
for people in or affected by the sex industry.
Charis hosts a weekly prayer meeting for
volunteers that would like to support the work
of Charis in that way.
OBJECT 3: Charis Tiwala has advanced the
education of the public in the subject of the
prevention of human trafficking and
exploitation through attending local
networking meetings with other professionals,
such as the local Community Support Forum
and communicating about the sector and
speaking about the work of Charis at a
Christian women’s event.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have|Para 1.18|The Trustees have read the guidance issued by|
had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit
the Charity Commission on public benefit and have regard to it in all discussion and decision making.
## **Additional information (optional)**
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SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The above objectves were achieved due to a
dedicated team of 10 volunteers investng their
tme in Charis Tiwala (and 4 part-tme staf);
working on the frontline with women at risk
and doing administratve tasks.|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|Between April 2024 and March 31st2025,
Charis Tiwala has directly ofered support to 47
people who have been afected by human
trafcking or sexual exploitaton within the sex
industry. This has been primarily through
regular support sessions (which includes
emotonal and practcal support), daytme and
evening outreach to women working indoors
and, on the street, and those at risk of
transactonal sex work. Charis has also
partnered with a local charity that support
people experiencing homelessness, to do some
outreach with them.
Charis distributed 71 gifs at Christmas and
informaton about their services to local
women who are considered at risk.
Links with other agencies includes local GP
surgery, Herts County Council Health
Improvement Team (where work has taken
place together and plans have been made to
ofer a more accessible health service and|
emotional support for women in the sex industry), the local council’s Health Inequalities team, YMCA and New Hope (homelessness charity). Charis is a stakeholder in the Hertfordshire Sexual Health Network. Charis is part of the local Community Support Forum, which is made up of public sector organisations and other local charities and led by the Elected Mayor; working together to respond to local need. Charis also attends the weekly Single Homeless Pathway (SHP) meeting and the monthly Community Protection Group (CPG). Outputs achieved by Charis Tiwala: - 225.5 hours given by volunteers for outreach to venues and women working on the streets, reaching on average 5 women per week and a volunteer group meeting to pray. - 36 volunteer hours over the year given by the trustees for meetings and training. - Regular key-work sessions with 9 women; focusing on long term emotional and practical support - Weekly Bible study group (2 hours per week) with 2 women regularly attending. - Evening weekly Drop-in sessions at a local hostel, since 2[nd] December 2024, with a total of 13.5 hours (1.5 hours per week) and on average 3 or 4 women attending per session. -
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
Other
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The reserve at the end of the fnancial year was
less than the appropriate level set by the
trustees.|
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|In Charis Tiwala’s fnancial policy it sets out
that the trustees have agreed that six months’
worth of expenditure is an appropriate level of
reserves for the Charity.
The trustees need to hold reserves to include
meetng fuctuatons in receipts or payments
and meetng specifc future needs such as
salaries for future staf.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|At the end of March 2025, the charity had
£34,927.83 in reserve. None of these funds are
restricted.|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|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:
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
Charis Tiwala’s principal source of funds for the
year were from individual donors, businesses,
churches and a one-of grant to provide
supermarket vouchers for women we support.|
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|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:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Foundaton model consttuton|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Charis Tiwala is a Charitable Incorporated
Organisaton. Registered 29 April 2014.|
|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|Appointed by existng trustees and Director.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
Any newly elected trustee will need to undergo
an interview by an existng trustee and the
Director, provide two references and have a
DBS check. All trustees have a current DBS
certfcate, and they undergo adult
safeguarding training (which is renewed every
three years). The Trustee responsible for
safeguarding has a Level 3 safeguarding
certfcate.|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The Trustee board is responsible for the
oversight of Charis Tiwala and they set the pay
and renumeraton for all the staf. Day to day
Charis Tiwala is run by the Director (who is a
paid member of staf). Charis Tiwala has two
Dedicated Safeguarding Leads. The staf are
accountable to the trustees about all
safeguarding concerns and there is a
designated safeguarding trustee. The Charity
has frontline volunteers that are overseen by
the Charis staf team.
Charis Tiwala is an afliate of ‘Beyond the
Streets’ Network. The network is run to help
equip and support local projects that are
aimed at tackling sexual exploitaton.
Charis Tiwala is a stakeholder in Hertordshire
Sexual Health Network. Charis is also part of
the local Single Homeless Pathway (SHP) forum
and the Community Protecton Group (CPG).
Charis also atends the Community Support
Forum meetng.|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|CHARIS TIWALA|
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|Other name the charity uses|CHARIS|
|Registered charity number|1156850|
|Charity’s principal address|PO BOX 670
WATFORD
WD18 1QD|
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for 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**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**adviser**|||
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
## Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
The charity commission has provided Charis Tiwala dispensations from publishing trustees’ names publicly, as they were satisfied there is a risk to personal danger, and they were satisfied that it is the disclosure of the trustees’ names in the TAR/Register that could lead to such a risk arising. It was on these grounds that Charis Tiwala was granted a dispensation.
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Kevin Downton ~~es ee~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 20/01/2026 ~~|~~
||**Charis Tiwala**|||||**1156850**|**1156850**||||
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||**CC16a**||
|**For the period**
**from**
~~ee~~|||01-Apr-24
~~ee ~~||**To**
~~ee~~||31-Mar-25
~~ee~~||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
|Donations|**75,179**||**-**||**-**||**75,179**||**65,441**||
|Grant income|**-**||**4,503**||**-**||**4,503**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_||||||||||
|_AR)_|_AR)_**75,179**||**4,503**||**-**||**79,682**||**65,441**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~**_Sub total_**~~**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 75,179**
**4,503**
**-**
**79,682**
**65,441**
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
|Salaries & office costs|**88,402**||**-**||**-**||**88,402**||**-**||
|Outreach|**498**||**-**||**-**||**498**||**-**||
|Frontline work|**8,412**||**-**||**-**||**8,412**||**-**||
|Tiths|**6,500**||**-**||**-**||**6,500**||**-**||
|Marketing|**220**||**-**||**-**||**220**||**-**||
|Grant|||**4,503**||**-**||**4,503**||**-**||
|training|**1,980**||**-**||**-**||**1,980**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**106,012**||**4,503**||**-**||**110,515**||**-**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**106,012**
**4,503**
**-**
**110,515**
**-**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 30,833**
**-**
**-**
**- 30,833**
**65,441**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**65,798**
**- -**
**65,798**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**34,965**
**-**
**- 34,965**
**65,441**
~~SSS~~||||||||||**65,441**
**-**
**-**
**65,441**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||
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**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
|||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**34,928**
**-**
**-**
**37**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,965**
**-**
**-**
**_Total cash funds_**
HSBC current account
Petty cash
Grant
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||account(s))|OK
OK||OK|
|||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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|**B3 Investment assets**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**Details**
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|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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~~at~~||||
|||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**||**When due**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
19/01/2026
**Details**
Print Name
Kevin Downton
Signature
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
' Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Charis Tiwala
On accounts for the year
ended
3110312025
Charity no
(if any)
1156850
Set out on pages
IdL.è tlir P3Qè IILiIMbeis ol addilioiial sheetsi
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity
('the Trust") for the year ended 3110312025.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of
basis of report the accounts in accordance wtth the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
('the Act").
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under
section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have
followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under
section 145(5)(b> of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause to believe that in, any material respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the
Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examiner's statement
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with
the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date:
1510112026
Name:
Mark Hjertzen
Relevant professional
qualification(s} or body
(if any):
ICAEW
Address:
HW Associates Limited
Portmill House. Portmill Lane, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. SG5 1 DJ
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for
examiners).
IER
October 2018
Give here brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018