## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 04 2020 **To** 31 03 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** The Transparency Project **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1161471 **Charity's principal address** 5 West Croft Clevedon North Somerset **Postcode BS21 7TZ**
The Transparency Project
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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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**
**TAR**
March **2012**
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## **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)
Charitable incorporated organization How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution Trustee selection methods passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. (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;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- 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**
1. To advance the education of the public in the subject of family law and its administration, including the family justice system in England and Wales and the work of the family courts, in particular but not exclusively through the provision of balanced, accurate and accessible information about the work of family courts and the facilitating of public discussions and debates which encompass a range of viewpoints.
2. To promote the sound administration and development of the law in England and Wales, in particular, family law, by encouraging and contributing to the transparency of processes in the family
**TAR**
March **2012**
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justice system, contributing to public legal education concerning family law and matters of family justice, enhancing access to justice in matters of family law and by such other means as the trustees may determine.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 4 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
**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)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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March **2012**
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## Section D Achievements and erformance p
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The Transparency Project was primarily funded by a grant from the Legal Education Foundation, sponsorship and individual donations. The project has continued with its core work throughout the year, including the Family Court Reporting Watch project.
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March **2012**
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity is a small charity with a single grant and limited other income from individual donations and sponsorship. We do not hold any significant reserves.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Lucy Emma Reed **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 2 Sept 2021
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March **2012**
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**Charity Name No (if any) The Transparency Project 1161471**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**CC16a**
Period start Period end date **For the period from To** 01/04/2020 31/03/2021
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,261**
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,261**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,261**
**1,073**
**216**
**455**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,744**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,744**
**2,517**
**-**
**11,773**
**14,290**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**5,550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,550**
**- 550**
**-**
**1,461**
**911**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,261**
**1,000**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,261**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,261**
**1,073**
**216**
**5,550**
**455**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,294**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,294**
**1,967**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,261**
**1,000**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,261**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,261**
**1,073**
**216**
**5,550**
**455**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,294**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,294**
**1,967**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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|Donations|**3,261**|||||**5,575**|
|Grant funding|**1,000**|||||**20,000**|
|LEF Coordinator Grant||||||**-**|
|SponsorshipIncome|**-**|||||**4,000**|
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||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**4,261**|||||**29,575**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**29,575**|
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|Accountancy|**1,073**|||||**1,022**|
|FundraisingCosts|**216**|||||**332**|
|LEF Coordinator Grant||||||**21,668**|
|Other Charges|**455**|||||**35**|
|Printing& Postage|**-**|||||**126**|
|WorkshopCosts|**-**|||||**3,587**|
|Travel Costs|**-**|||||**184**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**1,744**|||||**26,954**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**26,954**|
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||**2,517**|**- 550**|**-**|**1,967**||**2,621**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**11,773**|**1,461**|**-**|**13,234**||**10,614**|
||**14,290**|**911**|**-**|**15,201**||**13,235**|
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,290**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**911**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print Name
Date of approval