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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 08 2021 31 07 2022
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1157477
MRKH Connect
**Charity's principal address** White Friars Chapel Monks Lane Wadhurst, East Sussex **Postcode TN5 6EN**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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**
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**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by board Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- 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**
To relieve and promote the relief of those diagnosed and living with Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome and to provide support and resources for such persons and their families
To advance public education (including scientific education) and awareness in matters relating to MRKH syndrome
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Provision of support network and events to bring those with MRKH together and to provide public resources to those with MRKH, their families and friends.
**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)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
1. Encouraging the discussion of the condition through peer support and public outreach
2. Defined training and Safeguarding procedures for charity 3. Supporting those with MRKH through social media, webinars and MRKH Connect website
4. Connecting with other MRKH charities to build community awareness as well as to related charities and groups to improve the understanding of infertility issues
5. Running of annual fund raising event involving anyone who wished to participate
6. Investing in other peer initiatives such as MRKH podcast 7. Organised first Youth Program to support young MRKHers 8. Organised and hosted in person peer support event in London in July 2022.
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the**
MRKH Connect’s policy is to maintain a reserve sufficient to allow for reasonable unbudgeted expenditure
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**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)** Charlotte Bishop **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Director **etc) Date** 22/10/2022
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|**MRKH CONNECT**|||**No (if any)**|||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|1.8.21
Period start date|**To**|31.7.22
Period end date|||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**2,533**
**1,728**
**4,261**
**4,261**
**2,983**
**939**
**3,922**
**339**
**7,896**
**8,235**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,533**
**1,728**
**4,261**
**4,261**
**2,983**
**939**
**3,922**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,533**
**1,728**
**4,261**
**4,261**
**2,983**
**939**
**3,922**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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|Bank account|**2,533**|||||**4,253**|
|Paypal|**1,728**|||||**960**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**4,261**|||||**5,213**|
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|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
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|Bank account|**2,983**||||||
|Paypal|**939**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**3,922**||||||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
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|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
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||**7,896**|||||**6,187**|
||**8,235**|||||**7,895**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
22/10/2022
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories 8,235**
## **B1 Cash funds**
## **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
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|Signature||Print|Name||||Date of
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|||Charlotte Bishop|||||22/10/2022|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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