## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01.09.2020 Period start date Period end 31.08.2021 date** ## **Charity name: Friends Of Serenity** ## **Charity registration number: 1157866** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To support and assist the provision of**
**facilities at East Lancs Women and**
**Newborn Centre not normally provided**
**by the trust/nhs, providing support for**
**bereaved families and those in**
**subsequent pregnancies.**| |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|**Over the last financial year we have**
**continued and extended our services**
**with keepsake and memory boxes. We**
**have continued to provide and devlelop**
**our Rainbow boxes for families who go**
**onto a subsequent baby after loss. We**
**have also funded another year of Mama**
**academy passports to the trust to**
**empower all women in pregnancy with**
**information. We also provided funding**
**for decorative sky lights in the**
**bereavement suites as well as scanning**
**rooms in rainbow clinic. Work was**
**predominately focussed on memory**
**boxes and keepsakes due to the COVID**
**19 pandemic.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Whilst setting the activities undertaken**
**and planned these have been in line**
**with our objectives. We have given**
**consideration to the guidance form**
**charity commission and consulted with**
**professionals for public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **N/A** Para 1.38 |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment||| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Our volunteers contributed towards**
**memory box making pre Covid 19,**
**which is organised by the charity.**
**Volunteers have also attended events**
**put on by donators to support them**
**through cheer stations.**| |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|**We have continued to support all**
**beneficiaries through the provision of**
**keepsakes and memory boxes, allowing**
**them to make valuable memories. We**
**have continued to fund postal orders to**
**provide birth and death certificates after**
**loss and also specialist books.**
**This year our fundraising turned to**
**supporting with the transition to MAMA**
**Academy passports to empower**
**mothers with information about their**
**pregnancy. We taised money through**
**walks during lock downs and other**
**sporting activities such as the Captain**
**Tom 100 and January challenge. We**
**used monies raised to purchase**
**skylights to improve and make rooms at**
**the hospital less clinical. Due to the**
**ongoing COVID 19 we have been**
**restricted in our services and kept a low**
**profile.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Donations from the public during COVID**
**have helped us support and hit targets**
**to ensure we have been able to support**
**the hospital improve their services.**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We had support from fundraisers**
**completed at home during COVID 19,**
**such as the January Challenge as well**
**as the support from friends and family**
**challenges.**| |||| Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**As the previous year, a steady flow of**
**donations remain. We aim to always**
**maintain a balance of £10,000 for**
**security.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are help in place so that we**
**can ensure we continue to create our**
**keepsakes and memory boxes.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£2000**| |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|**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|**Like last year we had a significant**
**donation from a family who recruited**
**friends and family to a January**
**challenge which boosted our funds**
**significantly.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**As he COVID 19 pandemic continued, it**
**has meant we have not been able to**
**have any gatherings or events for**
**fundraising purposes and all items**
**made for the hospital have had been**
**produced in small socially distanced**
**groups at our charity unit.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trustees /Trust**| |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 Joanne Edwards Founder**
**and consultation of trustees.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|**Trustee’s participate in Teams meetings,**
**group meetings and webinars from**
**charity’s and fundraising platforms.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity is a board of trustees. The**
**trusts bereavement midwife supports**
**charity decisions.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Friends Of Serenity| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|FOS| |Registered charity number|1157866| |Charity’s principal address|PO BOX 194
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Joanne Edwards|CEO||| ||Mark Edwards|||| ||Elizabeth Norbury|||| ||Rosanna Strachan|||| ||Andrew Smale|||| ||StaceyMolloy|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Joanne Edwards** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**Joanne Edwards**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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** **Signature(s)** Joanne Edwards **Full name(s)** Joanne Marie Edwards **Position (eg Secretary,** CEO **Chair, etc) Date** 27/06/2022 **YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2021** **£ £ DONATIONS** 37,014.92 **EXPENSES** PURCHASES 45,101.72 JUST GIVING FEES 216.00 ADVERTISING 360.00 PAYPAL FEES 69.94 WEBSITE FEES 258.86 - 46,006.52 INTEREST 0.22 **SURPLUS - 8,991.38** ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Friends of Serenity **On accounts for the year** 31 August 2021 **Charity no** 1157866 **ended (if any)** **Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 August 2021** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with 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. ## **Independent examiner's statement** 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 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:** _L. Burns_ **Date:** 26.06.2022 **Name:** Laura Burns **Relevant professional** ACCA **qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** Flat 4, 171b Gipsy Road, London, SE27 9QT **October 2018** **IER** 1 **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** **IER** 2