## **Making Miracles** (Company number 9073484 Charity number 1158233) ## **Trustee’s Report and Financial statements** **For the year ended 30[th] June 2021** 1 ## **Making Miracles** ## **Legal and Administrative Information** **Registered Charity number:** 1158233 **Registered Company number:** 9073484 ## **Principal address** 7 The Street Detling Kent ME14 3JU ## **Directors (Trustees)** Sally Howells Chairman Patricia Bax Deputy Chairman Sharon Smith Company Secretary Linda Goss Finance Trustee Lynda Mitchell Siobhan Harfield Louise Mengual ## **Bankers** Barclays Bank Charities Aid Foundation Shawbrook Trust ## **Independent examiner** Genny Jones, 71 St Marks Avenue, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 9LN. 2 ## **Making Miracles** ## **Contents** ||**Page**| |---|---| |Directors’ (Trustees’) annual report|4-5| |Independent examiner’s report|6| |Statement of financial activities
|7| |Balance sheet|8| |Notes to the accounts|9| 3 ## **Making Miracles** ## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2021** The Trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 2021 ## **Governance And Management** The charity is a company limited by guarantee and registered charity. It is operated under the rules of its memorandum and articles of association dated 05/06/2014 and most recently amended 25 June 2020. It has no share capital and the liability of each member in the event of winding-up is limited to £1. ## **The methods adopted for the recruitment and appointment of new Trustees** In the event of needing new Trustees the charity publishes invitations on social media and through existing links with volunteers and supporters of the Charity. People firstly have a telephone interview with the Chairman, they then provide information including a pen picture about themselves which is circulated to all existing Trustees. Trustees have 7 days to object advising why any objection is forthcoming. Arrangements are then made for the Chairman to meet them to go through the role and responsibility of being a Trustee and if they still wish to do so and they are suitable they are then put forward at a Board meeting. Induction and then ongoing support and training is provided as and when needed. ## **Charitable Objective** ## **To provide members of the public professional bereavement and trauma counselling and other informal and formal support services and resources in order to reduce mental health issues and improve emotional well being for themselves and their families as needed in the UK.** ## **Charitable Aims** 1. Providing appropriate personal, professional, emotional and practical support to our service users and their wider family network including partners, siblings and grand-parents in relation to baby loss and miscarriage and adapting our services to meet the needs of other client groups as needed. 2. To raise the profile of issues surrounding miscarriage, baby loss and other issues affecting those other groups we support who have lost in order to make the public more aware of the need for services and the need for such issues to be discussed more openly. 3. Developing new support services as identified by our service users 4. Finding new ways of raising funds to ensure the sustainability of our organisation for the benefit of the public 5. To promote volunteering in the wider community engaging them in fulfilling opportunities to raise funds for our charity and, at the same time, promote their own personal wellbeing; 6. Taking care of our staff and volunteers and recognising the value they add to the organisation ## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit** 1. To provide to members of the public professional counselling services and other informal support services for bereavement, trauma or loss in order to reduce mental health issues and improve emotional well being for themselves and their families. 2. To promote volunteering in the wider community engaging them in a range of fulfilling opportunities to raise funds for the provision of services which the charity provides and, at the same time, promote their own personal well being. 3. To respond to local and national issues and use the experience we have to support other client groups as needed. ## **Summary of the main achievements during the year 2020/2021** - Continuing to respond to the Coronavirus pandemic, successfully securing finances and expanding our services to support families who have lost someone to the disease. - Provision of dedicated emotional support services to children via schools - Continue to secure funding for a range of support services and resources for individual projects - Increase in recruitment of number of qualified professional bereavement and trauma counsellors - Increase in the number of volunteers - Raising public awareness of charity through range of media and social networking - Continued maintenance of our Baby Memorial Garden, in Rochester, Kent. ## **The charity’s policy on reserves** The charity has a policy which has enabled one years running cost to be secured in a separate General Account in order to ensure that should the organisation cease to exist all families receiving professional bereavement and counselling services at that time would be able to complete their sessions still free of charge from an alternative provider. All monies remaining after necessary payments made would be transferred to another not for profit provider of bereavement services within our area. 5 ## **Independent examiner’s report to the Trustees of Making Miracles** I report on the accounts of the charity, which are set out on pages **7** & **8** . The Trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and that an independent examination is needed. Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to: - Examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Charities Act; - Follow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act 2011 - State whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## **Basis of independent examiner’s report** My examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair view’ and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: 1. Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; and - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Charities SORP (FRS102) have not been met; or - to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed Date: 1[st] October 2021 Genny Jones 6 ## **Making Miracles (Company number 9073484 Charity number 1158233) Statement of financial activities** (Incorporating income and expenditure account) For the year ended 30 June 2021 |**Income:**
Stalls

Grants/Projects
Donations & Events
Bank Interest
Other Income
**Total income**
**Expenditure:**
Grants/Projects
Donations / Event costs
Memorial Garden
Salaries & Sessional workers
Operational running costs
Legal & Professional costs
Volunteer & Trustee expenses
Training
Total expenditure
**Net Incoming Resources**
**Transfer Between Funds**
**Total Funds C/Forward**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2021**
**£**
5575

7875
4
47,632
**61086**
1759
10423
685
598
______________
**13465**
______________
47621

**47621**
|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**2021**
**£**
180877
19112
**199989**
140628





_________
**140628**

_________
59361

**59361 **
|**Total**
**Funds**
**2021**
**£**
5575
180877
26988
4

**261075**
140628

1759


10423

685
598
________

**154093**

________
106982

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