## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**From**|1st|April|2024|**To**|31st
March|2025| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Movement for Justice and Reconciliation **Other names charity is known by** MJR **Registered charity number (if any)** 1161441 **Charity's principal address** 115 Preston Hill Kenton, Harrow Middlesex **Postcode HA3 9SQ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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10|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates active if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Revd Alton Bell|Chair||| ||Keith Cottrell|||| ||Clive Ireson|||| ||Sarah-Jane Adejei|||| ||Khareem Jamal|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution and Governance Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by resolution in properly constituted trustee meeting Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) **TAR** 1 January 2026 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. During the year, the Trustees have reviewed and ratified current policy and strategy documents. These include: - Trustee responsibilities and Financial Procedures Policy - Data Protection Policy - Structure and Working Groups Policy - Safeguarding Policy - Reviewed our aims and objectives - The Trustees have also agreed a process for trustee re-election in accordance with the MJR Constitution. - 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**
**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)**|1.To advance the education of the public in general on the subject of colonial
slavery and industrial exploitation in the 18thand 19thcenturies and the effect it
has had on today’s society, in particular but not exclusively by raising
awareness and providing information about how this era of our nation’s history
is impacting on British society today, and by promoting research in all aspects of
this subject and publishing the results.
2. To develop the capacity and skills of members of socially and economically
disadvantaged communities in such a way that they are better able to meet
their needs, identify problems and to be able to participate more fully in
society.
3.Such other purposes as are exclusively charitable in accordance with the laws
of England and Wales as the trustees may from time to time deem fit.| |---|---| ||The Movement for Justice and Reconciliation operates in accordance with the
Constitution and Governance document submitted to the Charity Commission
in April 2015.
The trustees are satisfied that the charity is complying with the terms of this
governance document and have complied with their duty to have due regard to
the guidance on public benefit published by the commission in exercising their
powers and duties.
In particular, MJR are continuing to conduct research relating to legacy issues
with the view of organising wider projects focussing on the findings. These
projects will be undertaken in collaboration with academic institutions, various
local community groups and faith-based organisations in Britain & Ireland.| **TAR** 2 January 2026 Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** ## **1. Research** In 2022, MJR have produced and are actively promoting our documentary film, ‘After The Flood’ throughout the UK and beyond. Copies for Individual hire or purchase are available on our website, www.mjr-uk.com. We are now developing a virtual reality project in conjunction with partners, to depict life of a slave from capture on the shores of West Africa to the horrors of transportation during the ‘middle passage’, and finally to the seasoning period before life on plantations in the Caribbean. ## **2. The Film ‘After the Flood’** The film is both educational and redemptive. And achieves the following: - Raise awareness of Britain’s leading role in the transatlantic slave trade, and how the churches were complicit in the trade. With the aim to bring about racial reconciliation. - Providing encouragement to existing community cohesion projects and to act as a catalyst for new local community-led projects seeking to address legacy issues identified. - Create greater national collective understanding and sharing of information and ideas to address legacy issues relating to our core values. - Produce concrete practical models of reconciliation. - It is available personal hire or purchase from our website, www.mjruk.com ## **3. MJR Manchester** In addition to the legacy of enslavement, MJR is also investigating the legacy of industrial exploitation. Our ‘Proving Legacy’ research on educational achievement across the board, showed that poverty affects achievement levels among the white working classes more than any other group. Our lead on this issue stepped back in 2023/2024, therefore the programmes of Manchester MJR will be incorporated into the overall programme of MJR UK. The Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, are advisors to MJR, and continue to host a social justice course there. **TAR** 3 January 2026 **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** These is no formal policy on reserves. Current fixed costs are minimal and Trustees are confident of the charity’s financial security. The policy on Minimal Reserves is to always keep the equivalent of at least six months expenditure available. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** n/a ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** APBell **Full name(s)** Alton P Bell **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 28/01/2026 **TAR** January 2026 4 |||**Movement for Justice and Reconciliation**|**Movement for Justice and Reconciliation**|**Movement for Justice and Reconciliation**|**Movement for Justice and Reconciliation**|**Movement for Justice and Reconciliation**||**1161441**|**1161441**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts and payments accounts**
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
**1st April 2024**
**31st March 2025**
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~~ee~~|||||||||||**CC16a**|| ||**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**|||**Last year**|| |||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|| ||**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||| ||Donations|**31,778**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**31**|**31,778**||**65,075**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_|||||||||||| ||_AR)_|_AR)_**31,778**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**31,778**|**31,778**||**65,075**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**31,778**
**-**
**-**
**31,778**
**65,075**
~~—————~~|||||||||||||| ||**A3 Payments**||||||||||||| ||Trustee Expenses|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**635**|| ||Office costs|**2,400**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**2**|**2,400**||**123**|| ||Research work|||||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| ||Zong project|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|||||**-**|| ||Manchesterproject|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_ **|**2,400**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**2,400**|**2,400**||**758**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
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**_Sub total_ -**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**2,400**
**-**
**-**
**2,400**
**758**
~~——————~~|||||||||||||| ||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**29,378**
**-**
**-**
**29,378**
**64,317**
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**- -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**12,659**
**29,378**
**-**
**- 29,378**
**76,976**
~~—_—=S=S=>~~|||||||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 29/01/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|Manchester
**Details**
None
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
None
Unrestricted
Zong
Research
**Details**
**Details**
None
**Details**
None
Signature
APBell|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**31,778**||**-**| |||||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**2,000**| |||**31,778**||**2,000**| ||APBell|Alton P Bell||| |||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 29/01/2026 2