## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **Day15 Month Year2 Day14 Month0 Year20 From 05 021 To 5 22**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
ASK ERWIN
**Other names charity is known by**
Empowering Rights When In Need
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1161686
**Charity's principal address** GROUND FLOOR 108 EVELINA RD
LONDON **Postcode SE15 3HL**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
CONSTITUTION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by board and senior staff Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
Ask Erwin reviewed its current policies and updated its Safeguarding You **may choose** to include Policy and COVID procedures 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 relieve the need of persons who have health problems, disabilities or sensory impairments in particular but not exclusively by:
- a) Providing advocacy, advice, assistance, projects, representation and other services
- b) Helping the people listed above identify and meet their own needs
- c) Providing support for those who care for the people listed above
- 2) To advance the education of the general public, including specific
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professional and other groups and the needs of the people listed above
Ask Erwin aims to support people to understand their health & care rights and have a voice.
Ask Erwin wants to support people to be more informed and involved in decision making around their health and support needs. This can be particularly important to people with a disability, long term health needs or older people.
Ask Erwin will support people to understand and use for their benefit; in particular the Mental Capacity Act and the Care Act. Ask Erwin will achieve this though providing information and support services. This will be a combination of public workshops, closed support groups and 1:1 support. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Summary of the main** Ask Erwin continued its work as a partner in the Lambeth Advanced Care **activities undertaken for the** Panning Consortium. As a lead partner we continued in year 3 of the **public benefit in relation to** project providing **these objects (include within** - **this section the statutory** 1:1 support to clients to make Health & Welfare Lasting Power of **declaration that trustees have** Attorney - **had regard to the guidance** Training sessions to the public and partner organisations on **issued by the Charity** Health & Welfare Lasting Power of Attorney - **Commission on public** Providing safeguarding support to consortium partner **benefit)** organisations Now that COVID restrictions are lifted Ask Erwin was able to do more outreach in person workshops and referrals for the 1:1 service increased as home visits and office visits were now possible in the new accessible office space. Ask Erwin also provided in this period a telephone and email helpline to support people to understand and access their health and social care rights.
Ask Erwin provides no harm or detriment to the public. The trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit. Ask Erwin offers some of its services to the public in general and some of its services specifically to people with protected characteristics.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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Trustees claimed any £32.40 travel expenses in this reporting period.
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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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** Ask Erwin’s information and help service provided support to people in **achievements of the charity** relation to their health and social care needs and in particular information **during the year** around Lasting Power of Attorneys. Worked with Consortium to provide information to the National Lottery Community Fund to extend the project due to being unable to provide full services during COVID Ask Erwin was invited to be part of the Ministry of Justices consultation and review and trailing of the Lasting Power of Attorney online process and documentation. Ask Erwin has attended the consultation meetings throughout the year as well as being interviewed and trialling the beta service and providing feedback
## **Section E Financial review**
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Ask Erwin has completed its reserves policy.
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on 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)** P Donohoe **Full name(s)** Paula Donohoe **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 15/03/2023
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**Charity Name No (if any) Ask Erwin 1161686 Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 15.5.21 14.5.22
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Grant|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Loan|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|donation|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|fund rasingevent|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|fees for charitable services|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|hire of office|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**16,515**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**16,515**|
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|rent & hire of rooms|||||||||**-**|
|supportgroupmeetingexpenses|**-**||||||||**-**|
|utilities|**896**||||||||**-**|
|printing,posting,stationarysupplies|||||||||**-**|
|insurance & fees|**300**||||||||**-**|
|volunteer expenses|**35**||||||||**-**|
|repairs & maintenance|**3,909**||||||||**-**|
|phone,internet,website|**603**||||||||**-**|
|other(ppe)|**130**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**5,873**||||||||**-**|
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|**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_**||||||||||
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||**- 5,873**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**16,515**||||||||**-**|
||**10,642**||||||||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**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**|**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**
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**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,642**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
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||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||Signature
P Donohoe||Print Name
Paula Donohoe|||||
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approval|
||P Donohoe||Paula Donohoe||||3/15/2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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