## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/04/2021 Period start date To 31/03/2022 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance** ## **Charity registration number: 1161678** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|The object of the CIO is the
advancement of health, for the public
benefit, through the provision free at
point of use of information, skilled help
and support concerning breastfeeding
to families in and around Cambridge
who breastfeed their babies or wish to
breastfeed their babies.| |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|Throughout this reporting period,
Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance
provided online breastfeeding
information and support for mothers
and families.
From April to June, this service ran
online 6 mornings a week, to
comply with Covid restrictions.
From 11 June to the end of the
reporting period, we ran weekly in-
person sessions at Ross Street
Community Centre, Cambridge,
alongside our online service, which
reduced to 3 mornings a week.
Mothers experiencing
breastfeeding difficulties accessed
this service via Facebook, Zoom,
email and phone. We set up a
booking system for the in-person
sessions.
Babies may be any age but were
mostly under 6 weeks of age.
During this period, we noticed an
increase in numbers of babies a
few days old. Other family
members joined in with the mother| |||and also received information and
support.
Skilled Breastfeeding Counsellors
and Lactation Consultants (IBCLC)
provided specialist help.
This service is provided free of
charge to any family who wishes to
use it.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para 1.18|In deciding to provide this service, the
trustees have had regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit: the
service advances health, for the public
benefit, by enabling mothers to continue
to breastfeed their babies.
Breastfeeding is a key public health
objective. In planning activities for the
year, trustees took into account Charity
Commission guidance on public benefit.
We identified well-evidenced health
benefits for babies and for mothers; for
mothers for example in a lower risk of
postnatal depression if mothers are
enabled to meet their own
breastfeeding goals; and for the public
in reducing costs to acute and primary
care NHS services when breastfeeding
is effective, in avoiding babies suffering
from infections needing hospital or GP
treatments.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|In June 2021, one long-standing
Trustee retired; we thanked her for
her many years of service.|  The (12, then 11) Trustees provided their governance service as volunteers, meeting monthly to review ways of working and finetune changes to the service in response to feedback.  Several Trustees undertook administrative tasks for the charity on a voluntary basis. This included Safeguarding support, DBS checks, setting up our online booking system, liaising with our venue, recruiting and orienting new team members.  One of our Trustees ran the Cambridge Half-Marathon in fancy dress to raise funds for Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance.  We began recruiting new volunteers to help us welcome families at the drop-in to begin in the 2022-23 financial year. 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|During the year, Cambridge
Breastfeeding Alliance supported over
300 families in-person, 380 families
with one-to-one Zoom conversations,
480 mothers via messenger
consultations, more via email and
phone: totalling around 1000
breastfeeding support
interactions/helping situations.
Our CBA Facebook page followers
grew to (1772 at 1 April). Our Facebook
Group, CBA Online Drop-In has 720
members at 1 April 2022. All of these
members are breastfeeding their
babies, live in our catchment area, and
actively need support.
Mothers and families give us feedback
via an (optional) online form. Their
comments tell us that CBA support
enabled them to continue breastfeeding
when they were close to giving up| **----- Start of picture text -----**
because of difficulties, and they are so
glad they could continue to meet their
goals. Being enabled to breastfeed
mitigates poverty and deprivation, helps
mental health and benefits the
environment.
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## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|We were pleased we could continue to
provide free, skilled breastfeeding support
when families need it. We were delighted to
return to in-person service in addition to
online working, and that our fundraising
and budgeting expanded to cover both
ways to support the public.
The numbers of mothers and parents we
support have increased. We have grown
our team to cope with this additional
demand by recruiting and orienting 2 new
members during this period.
We have noticed a diverse population
accessing our services. (We do not collect
or process data on ethnicity or disability.)| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Income continued to meet the needs of the
charity, through fundraising, successful
grant applications, and donations from the
public.| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|£ 41,328 in bank at the end of the
reporting period. This is unusually high
because it includes grant funding
received close to the year end, to
provide breastfeeding support sessions
in the year 2022-23.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The CIO’s target level of reserves is:
£4,500. This covers 3 months of
forecasted expenditure and assumes
that new income sources are developed
on an annual basis. Should forecasted
income fall below expectations, this
reserve allows continuation of
operations whilst taking remedial action
to address the income deficit and
consider where else to direct
beneficiaries for essential services, and
publicity for the changes. (extract from
CBA Reserves Policy)| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£16,718. This is higher than our policy
amount because we plan to use
unrestricted funds when our restricted
funding ends – while keeping £4.500 in
reserve as our reserves policy requires.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|n/a| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|n/a| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|n/a| ## **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|During this reporting period, CBA received
funding from: National Lottery Community
Fund, the Evelyn Trust, and donations from
our supporters and the general public.| |---|---|---| |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|CBA relies on grant funding and public
donations.| Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |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|Trustee members elect new Trustees| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**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|New trustees must read CBA Constitution,
Policies and Procedures, and agree to
them, before being elected. Interviews are
held early in our recruitment process.| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The charity chooses Breastfeeding
Counsellors (BFCs) who are accredited by
national and international breastfeeding
charities, and Lactation Consultants who
are qualified as International Board
Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs).
CBA has no formal relationship with any of
these charities or certifying agencies, but
maintains links for exchange of information.
The BFCs and IBCLCs are self-employed
and work on a sessional basis, with
contracts. The charity maintains good
working relationships with NHS midwives,
the Health Visiting team and the Rosie
Hospital, but is independent of any NHS
body.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|We rent our venue – Ross Street
Community Centre, Ross Street,
Cambridge CB1 3UZ – from the Romsey
Mill Trust, but we are not in any form of
relationship with this Trust.| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|CambridgeBreastfeedingAlliance| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|CBA| |Registered charity number|1161678| |Charity’s principal address|100 Windsor Road
Cambridge CB4 3JN| |---|---| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Eleanor Crowe|Treasurer||| ||Justine Fieth|Secretary||| ||Maddie McMahon|||| ||Catherine Muge|||| ||Rachel O’Leary|Chair||| ||Anna Richardson|||| ||Joanne Rogers|||| ||Anna Simpson|||| ||Judy Sotudeh-
Tehrani|||| ||BeckyTalbot|||| ||Lorna Thompson|||| ||S. MaryWright||01/04/2021– 22/06/2021|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **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 Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** n/a ## **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)** Rachel Marion O’Leary **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 14 November 2022 ||**Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance**
**Charity Name**|**Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance**
**Charity Name**|**Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance**
**Charity Name**|**1161678**
**No (if any)**|**1161678**
**No (if any)**|**1161678**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|01-Apr-21
Period start date|**To**||31-Mar-22
Period end date||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**4,640**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,640**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,640**
**-**
**-**
**6,807**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,807**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,807**
**- 2,166**
**-**
**18,884**
**16,718**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**29,610**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,610**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,610**
**-**
**-**
**13,430**
**30**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,460**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,460**
**16,150**
**-**
**8,460**
**24,610**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**34,250**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,250**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,250**
**-**
**-**
**20,237**
**30**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,267**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,267**
**13,984**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Voluntaryreceipts|**4,640**||||||**23,380**| |Activities forgeneratingfunds(trading)|**-**||||||**-**| |Charitable activities|**-**||||||**-**| |Other receipts|**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**4,640**||||||**23,380**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**23,380**| ||||||||| |Costs ofgeneratingvoluntaryreceipts|**-**||||||**-**| |Fundraisingcosts(tradingactivities)|**-**||||||**-**| |Costs of charitable activities|**6,807**||||||**18,211**| |Governance costs|**-**||||||**30**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**6,807**||||||**18,241**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**18,241**| ||||||||| ||**- 2,166**|**16,150**|**-**||**13,984**||**5,139**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**18,884**|**8,460**|**-**||**27,344**||**22,205**| ||**16,718**|**24,610**|**-**||**41,328**||**27,344**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 05/01/2023 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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Barclays Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
~~2~~|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**16,718**
**24,610**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,718**
**24,610**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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Print Name
Rachel O'Leary|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Rachel O'Leary|7.6.22| ||~~2~~||~~05/01/2023~~| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) ## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance** I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Cambridge Breastfeeding Alliance (the charity) for the year ended 31 March 2022. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: ## Jenna Robertson Jenna Robertson 1 Shrublands Saffron Walden Essex CB10 2EH Date: 12 January 2023