|**Trustee’s Annual Report for the period**|**Trustee’s Annual Report for the period**|**Trustee’s Annual Report for the period**|**Trustee’s Annual Report for the period**|**Trustee’s Annual Report for the period**|**Trustee’s Annual Report for the period**|**Trustee’s Annual Report for the period**|**Trustee’s Annual Report for the period**|
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|**From**|Period start date|||**To**|Period end date|||
||06|April|2023||05|April|2024|
Section A Reference and administration details
|||**Charity name**|**Charity name**||Seaford Down’s Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group|Seaford Down’s Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group|Seaford Down’s Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group|
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|||**Other names charity is known by**||||||
||**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity’s principal address**|||1158693
47 Fullwood Avenue
Newhaven
East Sussex
**Postcode**
**BN9 9SW**
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|||**Names of the charity trustees who mana**||**trustees who manage the charity**||||
|||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|||**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|1||David Brown|Co-Chair||||Membership|
|2||Alison Woodman|Co-Chair||||Membership|
|4||Colin Morrison|Treasurer/Secretary||||Membership|
|5||Michelle Evans|Trustee||||Membership|
|6||Lisa Prior|Trustee||||Membership|
|7||Michael Buroni|Trustee||||Membership|
|8||Kevin Tant|Trustee||||Membership|
|9||Jessica Shepherd|Trustee|||From March 2024|Membership|
|10||||||||
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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**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional Information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional Information)**
## 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 Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Elected by members and co-opted by trustees as per constitution (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;|Trustees are inducted by adopting our constitution.
Disclosure and Barring Service checks are carried out prior to the
commencement of employment or trusteeship. These checks are
renewed every 3 years. (Currently in course)
|
|---|---|
|●the charity’s organisational
structure and any wider network
with which the charity works;|All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration
or other benefits.
We risk assess all activities, to minimise the risk of injury.|
|●policies and procedures adopted
for the induction and training of
trustees;|commencement of employment or trusteeship. These checks are
renewed every 3 years. (Currently in course)|
|---|---|
|●the charity’s organisational|All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration
or other benefits.|
|structure and any wider network||
|with which the charity works;|We risk assess all activities, to minimise the risk of injury.|
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- ●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**
Provide resources and services for persons affected by Down’s Syndrome and/or other additional needs to include the advancement of education and the medical professions.
**Summary of the main activities** At our planning meetings, we keep in mind the Charity **undertaken for the public benefit** Commission’s guidance on public benefit. **in relation to these objects (include within this section the** Our main activities normally include:- **statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance** Swimming Classes **issued by the Charity Commission** Children are helped to engage in specially tailored swimming **on public benefit)** sessions, some with parents and/or siblings in the pool to promote confidence and the more advanced children partake on their own. These sessions run multiple times over each weekend.
## Music Classes
Our music classes have been scaled back but take place occasionally at our monthly Drop in
## Drop-in Sessions
We host a monthly family oriented drop-in with activities for all of the family.
## Advice/Education
We offer warm, positive advice to parents, especially those who have children who are newly diagnosed with extra needs.
## Speech Therapy
We offer Speech Therapy with a local authority approved therapist monthly to supplement a local hiatus. Currently 10 children benefit from this activity.
## Youth Club
We run a bi-monthly youth club, inviting children 12 and over to partake in teen related activities to promote independence and improve confidence whilst encouraging friendships.
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
We have a number of extremely helpful volunteers who help to provide support in various ways such as admin, play work and fundraising.
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
|Section D|Achievements and performance|Achievements and performance|
|---|---|---|
||||
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**||Overall, we support approximately 110 member families. Over the year
we continued to use the remainder of the CIN Grant to fund our
swimming programme. We continue to run a Youth Club for our older
members and our Speech and Language Therapy sessions. We ceased
our Music sessions due to poor attendance but continue to have a half
hour session at our monthly Drop In which is well received .|
|Section E|Financial review|Financial review|
|---|---|---|
||||
|**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**||We do not have a policy on reserves.|
|**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit**||none|
|**Further financial review details (Optional Information)**|||
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- Sources of funds are:
- You **may choose** to include additional information, where ● Grant from BBC’s Children in Need continued to support our
- relevant about: popular swimming sessions and although this expired in 2021
- ● the charity’s principal CIN have agreed that we can continue to use the funds
- sources of funds (including received to meet the ongoing swimming costs. These have
- any fundraising); now been exhausted and unfortunately our request for
- ● how expenditure has continued support was not successful. We are actively supported the key objectives pursuing alternative avenues to fund this important of the charity; programme
- ● investment policy and ● We continued with our ongoing fundraising efforts. Various objectives including any individual and group fundraising initiatives were undertaken ethical investment policy most notably and James Prior with matched funding of £600 adopted. from the previous year’s sponsored walk and also through his efforts we received £2,000 from Centrica. The Co Op provided £3,333 to assist with our Youth Club and House Project donated £2000. Our Swimming and Speech Therapy participants donated a further £3,700
- ● Total income therefore was £13,455 (up from £10,338 the previous year) against expenditure of £28,132 compared with £30,699. Our cash position has decreased from £78530 to £63,842 and this reflects the spending of the aforementioned CIN grant. Whilst still looking reasonably comfortable this only covers c2 years expenses should we not be successful in sources other funds to replace the discontinued CIN grants
Section F Other optional Information
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## Section G Declaration ~~ee~~
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Full name(s)**||David Paul Brown
Colin Morrison
~~ee~~||
|**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc.)**||Co-Chair|Secretary & Treasurer|
|**Date**|August 2024
~~|~~|||
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||**Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs**
**Support Group**
**1158693**
**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs**
**Support Group**
**1158693**
**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs**
**Support Group**
**1158693**
**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs**
**Support Group**
**1158693**
**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs**
**Support Group**
**1158693**
**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs**
**Support Group**
**1158693**
**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs**
**Support Group**
**1158693**
**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs**
**Support Group**
**1158693**
**Receipts and payments accounts**|**CC16a**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
6 Apr 2023||**To**||Period end date
5 Apr 2024||||
||||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
to the nearest £|||**Restricted**
**funds**
to the nearest £||**Endowment**
**funds**
to the nearest £||**Total funds**
to the nearest £||**Last Year**
to the nearest £||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
|Donations|5,023||3,726||||8,750||7,104|7104
3234|
|Fundraising|4,696||||||4,696||3,234||
|Grants|||0||||0||0||
||||||||0||0||
||||||||0||0||
||||||||0||0||
||||||||0||0||
||||||||0||0||
|**_Sub Total (Gross income_**
**_for AR)_**
**-**
**9,719-**
**A2 Assets and investment**
**sales, (see table)**|**-**
**9,719-**||**-**
**3,726-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**13,446-**||**-**
**10,338-**||
||||||||0
0||||
|**A2 Assets and investment**
**sales, (see table)**|||||||||||
||||||||0||0||
||||||||0||0||
|**_Sub total_ -**
**--**
**_Total receipts_ -**
**9,719-**
**A3 Payments**
Swimming
0
Music
0
Room Hire
3,750
Equipment
0
Speech
20
General
1,726
Sensory Integration
0
Telephone
0
Stationery and Postage
0|**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||
||||||||||||
||**-**
**9,719-**||**-**
**3,726-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**13,446-**||**-**
**10,338-**||
||||15,126
731
0
0
6,781
0
0
0
0||||15,126
731
3,750
0
6,801
1,726
0
0
0||||
|Swimming|0||15,126||||15,126||18,197||
|Music|0||731||||731||216||
|Room Hire|3,750||0||||3,750||3,210||
|Equipment|0||0||||0||0||
|Speech|20||6,781||||6,801||7,788||
|General|1,726||0||||1,726||1,279||
|Sensory Integration|0||0||||0||0||
|Telephone|0||0||||0||0||
|Stationery and Postage|0||0||||0||0||
|**_Sub total_ -**
**5,496-**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
Per List
0|**-**
**5,496-**||**-**
**22,637-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**28,133-**||**-**
**30,690-**||
||||0||||0|||0|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||
|Per List|0||0||||0||0||
||||||||||0||
|**Sub total -**
**--**
**Total payments -**
**5,496-**
**Net of receipts/(payments)**
4,224
**A5 Transfers between funds**
(23,446)
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
83,065
**Cash funds this year end**
63,843|**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||
||||||||||||
||**-**
**5,496-**||**-**
**22,637-**||0||28,133||**-**
**30,690-**||
||4,224
(23,446)
83,065
63,843||(18,911)
23,446
(4,535)
0||||(14,687)
0
78,530
63,843||||
||||||||||(20,351)||
||||||||||||
||||||||||98,881||
||||||||||78,530||
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|**Section B Statement of assets**|||**and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Bank||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**63,843-**
**-**
**--**
**-**
**--**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**0-**
**-**
**--**
**-**
**--**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||
||Bank||||**-**
**63,843-**||**-**
**0-**||**-**
**--**||
||||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||
||||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||
|**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**|**_Total cash fund_**_s_
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**||||**-**
**63,843-**||**-**
**0-**||**-**
**--**||
||||||||||OK||
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**--**
**-**
**--**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**--**
**-**
**--**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||
||||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||
||||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||
|||||**Unrestricted**|**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted**||||**Endowment**|**Endowment**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**funds**||||**funds**|||||**funds**||
||||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank|||**-**|**63,843-**|||**-**||**0-**|||**-**|**--**||
|||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||**-**|**--**||
|||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||**-**|**--**||
||**_Total cash fund_**_s_|||**-**|**63,843-**|||**-**||**0-**|||**-**|**--**||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|||OK||||OK|||||OK|||
|||||**Unrestricted**|||||**Restricted**||||**Endowment**|||
||||||**funds**||||**funds**|||||**funds**||
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary**||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||**-**|**--**||
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David Brown 11th Sept. 2024
Colin Morrison
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