**==> picture [202 x 50] intentionally omitted <==** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.09.2022 Period start date Period end 31.08.2023 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|**This financial year as seen us continue**
**to provide our memory box and**
**keepsake service. These are**
**consistently on offer to all our babyloss**
**families within East Lancashire. Our**
**primary focus this year has been**
**planning a fundraising project to create**
**a 4metre high tree sculpture. This**
**project look 6 months to plan, seeing**
**the fundraising officially launch in July**
**2022. With our charity hitting 10 years**
**since we were first established, we**
**applied for more places than usual**
**within running events which saw a**
**greater income for the charity. We also**
**had a huge donation from a local truck**
**run who supported us celebrate our 10th**
**year.**| |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 |||| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Our volunteers have continued to**
**support us within memory box and**
**keepsake making events. We also had a**
**cheer station as part of the LLHM where**
**volunteers helped cheer on participants.**
**We had a number of volunteers support**
**with bucket collections as part of the**
**Ribble Valley truck run.**
**We also had a local PR company**
**choose us as their charity of the year,**
**donating their time to publicise our tree**
**project and gather the local press and**
**radio stations to raise the profile of the**
**project.**| |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 made it to ten years this year and**
**celebrated by successfully participating**
**in high profile races such as the**
**Manchester 10k and LLHM. These saw**
**up to 30 Participants raising money for**
**us which has seen a large increase in**
**our income. We haven’t had a huge**
**spending year due to planning and**
**launching out tree project. This meant**
**we had to local an artist and the right**
**trades to support the project and also**
**mean following policy and procedures**
**in like with the East Lancs hospitals**
**trust. The tree project has been planned**
**and we work hard to raise the funds. We**
**also had a few families donate larger**
**quantities to support the project in**
**memory of their baby. The truck run was**
**run by volunteers and was a hige**
**success seeing over 100 trucks**
**participate and donate**
**We continue our work with our memory**
**boxes which is our most valued work.**
**This means we can support our families**| **remember their babies at the most heart breaking time. All our fundraising efforts will maintain our day today expenditure of memory boxes, still birth certificates, literature for our families but the most part will be saved to help us reach the total for the tree.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Donations from the public have helped**
**us support and hit targets to ensure we**
**have been able to support the hospital**
**improve their services and maintain our**
**offer of memory boxes, rainbow boxes**
**and keepsakes.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We had 10 participants within the**
**London Landmark half marathon which**
**provided over 6000pounds in donations**
**The Ribble Valley Truck run saw in**
**acces of 9000pounds**
**We have 15 runners within the**
**Manchester 10k and all participants**
**reaches and exceeded fundraising**
**targets of 250.**| |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|**Due to working hard at our fundraising**
**with support from the local PR company**
**we have been able to raise our charity**
**profile to help increase fundraising.**
**This sees the charity is a secure Finacial**
**position.**| |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 and help**
**build the total for out tree project which**
**will lcome to fruition in 2024.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£20,000**| |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: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Our principal sources of fundraising**
**have come from fundraising platform**
**Just Giving.**
**We did also receive some large**
**donations from families wanting to**
**donate towards the tree and the Ribble**
**Valley truck run was also a huge**
**financial boost this year.**| |---|---|---| |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|**Time can be difficult for the trustees to**
**complete any work such as memory**
**boxes, paper work for participants in**
**races etc as all trustees work full time**
**elsewhere and off their time for free in**
**their spare time.**| |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 as well as the local**
**hospital charity ELHT and Me in**
**accordance with the hospitals quality**
**and infection control and hospital**
**policies.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**We have an MOU with the hospital**
**charity to support with hospital projects**
**and meet with them when necessary.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Friends Of Serenity| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|FOS| |Registered charity number|1157866| |Charity’s principal address|Friends of Serenity
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Joanne Edwards|CEO||| ||Mark Edwards|||| ||Elizabeth Norbury|||| ||Rosanna Strachan|||| ||Lisa Brown||15thApril 2023|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 wholeyear**|| |---|---|---| |**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)** |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|Joanne Edwards|| |---|---|---| ||Joanne Marie Edwards|| ||
CEO|| ||23/06/2023|| ||23/06/2023|| **YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023** |**DONATIONS**
**EXPENSES**
PURCHASES
JUST GIVING FEES
CHARITY ENTRY FEES
PAYPAL FEES
PO BOX FEE
WEBSITE FEES
BANK FEES
RENT
INTEREST
**SURPLUS**|**£**
11,809.49
244.80
2,997.00
21.89
219.00
266.06
94.40
1,518.40|**£**
53,590.03
17,171.04
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33.60| |---|---|---| |||| |||**36,452.59**| **==> picture [251 x 56] intentionally omitted <==** ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report Report to the trustees/ members** Charity Name **of** Friends of Serenity **Charity no** 1157866 **(if any)** **Set out on pages** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 August 2023** . **Responsibilities and basis of** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the **report** 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. 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:** 24.06.2024 **Name:** Laura Burns **Relevant professional** ACCA **Address:** Flat 4, 171b Gipsy Road, London, SE27 9QT > [Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent ] examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 1 **October 2018** **IER** 2 **October 2018** **IER**