## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Day14 Month05 Year2023
Period end date Day15 Month05 Year2024
**From**
**To**
## 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** 108 Evelina Rd LONDON **Postcode SE15 3HL**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Paula Donohoe Chair 2 Suneil Saraf Trustee 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
## **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 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)
CIO How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by board and leadership Trustee selection methods
(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;
Safeguarding Policy and procdeures were reviewed and updated in line with national and best practice changes
- 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**
- 1) To relieve the need of persons who have health problems, disabilities or sensory impairments in particular but not exclusively by:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** Ask Erwin will achieve this though providing information and support **public benefit in relation to** services. This will be a combination of helpline, workshops, closed **these objects (include within** support groups and 1:1 support. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity** Ask Erwin provided in this period a telephone and email helpline to **Commission on public** support people to understand and access their health and social care **benefit)** rights.
We have provided sessions on Lasting Power of attorneys to the public and have a waiting list for further support.
Ask Erwin provides no harm or detriment to the public
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 did not claim any 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 achievements of the charity during the year**
Ask Erwin’s information and help service provided support to people in relation to their health and social care needs and in particular information around Lasting Power of Attorneys.
Ask Erwin runs a support help service via telephone and email helpline.
We are currently looking to expand our Brain Tumour support services and are looking for further funding. This period the focus has been providing support to the public through our helpline and email service to understand Lasting Power of Attorneys in terms of what they are, how they work and how to complete them.
We also provides further tailored 1:1 support with the option of visiting our office for a face to face session to support the completing of the LPA documents, Advanced statement to refuse treatment and other wider care planning approaches.
We also provide workshops to raise awareness and understanding of LPAs and how to complete them.
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## **Section E Financial review**
Ask Erwin has a reserves policy. The trustees regularly review this..
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
We do not currently fundraise from the public. You **may choose** to include We do not make any investments. additional information, where We do not currently pay any salaries we are all volunteers giving our time relevant about: to support the objectives of the charity.
- 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** 13/3/25
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||**Ask Erwin**|**Ask Erwin**|**Ask Erwin**|**1161686**|**1161686**|**1161686**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|15.5.2023|**To**||14.5.24|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**0**
**713**
**555**
**125**
**275**
**527**
**878**
**0**
**100**
**3,173**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,173**
**3173**
**-**
**8817**
**5644**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**713**
**555**
**125**
**275**
**527**
**878**
**0**
**100**
**3.173**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,173**
**3173**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Grants|||||||**-**|
|Donations|||||||**-**|
|TradingActivity|**-**||||||**-**|
|Gift Aid|**-**||||||**-**|
|Refunds|**-**||||||**-**|
|Charitable Activity|**-**||||||**-**|
|Memberships|**-**||||||**-**|
|Other|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|||||||**8817-**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**8817**|
|||||||||
|
Utilities|**713**||||||**-**|
|Telephone,internet,website,email|**555**||||||**-**|
|Stationary, printing and postage|**125**||||||**-**|
|Refreshments|**275**||||||**-**|
|Insurance & Fees|**527**||||||**-**|
|Maintenance & repairs|**878**||||||**-**|
|Volunteer Expenses|**0**||||||**-**|
|Other|**100**||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**3,173**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**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_**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
|||||||||
||**3173**|**-**|**-**||
**3173**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**8817**|**-**|**-**||**8817-**||
**-**|
||**5644**|**-**|**-**||
**5644**||**-**|
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**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**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Receipts
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
P.Donahoe|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**31,869**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,644**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
P.Donohoe|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||P.Donahoe|P.Donohoe|13/3/25|
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