2022-04-05-accounts

Names	ofthe chari	ty trustees who m	anage the charity	anage the charity
Trustee	name	Office (ifany}	Dates acted ifnot for whole ear		Name to a	ofperson (or body) entitled oint trustee ifan
Daniela	Utane	Chairman	Throughout	the period	AGM
Martins	Nikolajevs	Treasurer	Throughout	the period	AGM
Klaudija	Gauja	Secretary	Throughout	the period	AGM

You may additional relevant,	You may additional relevant,	choose to include information, where about:	choose to include information, where about:	choose to include information, where about:	choose to include information, where about:	choose to include information, where about:		The charity is run by Trustees and volunteers (no paid employees). the last years we have grown close ties with around 100children' s charities in Latvia and also cooperate with a handful ofcharities in including those run by the Latvian diaspora.	Over UK,	Over UK,
~	policies	and	procedures	adopted			for
	the induction		and training		oftrustees;
~	the charity's		organisational			structure
	and any	wider network		with		which the
	charity works;
~	relationship		with any related			parties;
~	trustees'	consideration		ofmajor			risks
	and the	system and procedures					to
	manage	them.
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								The purpose ofthe charity is to provide aid to children and parents		in
Summary		ofthe objects of					the	Latvia, who have suffered from emotional and physical abuse, and	to
charity set			out in its					those disadvantaged by age, disability, financial problems or other
governing document								hardships.
								When planning the activities forthe year, the trustees have considered
								the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit, and in particular,
								the specific guidance on charities in relief ofthose in need, by reason of
								youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial or other disadvantage.
								The objective ofour charity is achieved through supporting charities
								throughout Latvia that work with children and parents:
								purchasing equipment / furniture / educational materials /
								household goods
								--to the crisis centres, that are the key institutions in Latvia,		that
								provide temporary shelter to children and parents who have
								suffered from emotional and physical abuse,
								—to small charities in Latvia that work with parents and children,
Summary		ofthe main						--to charities in Latvia that work with special needs children,
activities		undertaken			for the			supporting projects that educate / inform / create dialogue in
public benefit in relation						to		Latvia in particular around the themes of modern parenting,
these objects (include within this section the statutory								inclusion ofspecial needs people and other marginalised groups of people, recognition ofLGBTrights
declaration			that trustees			have		distributing donations in kind, such as winter coats, toys among
had regard			to the guidance					crisis centres and children's charities,
issued by the Charity								assisting children's charities with translations from Latvian	into
Commission			on public					English,
benefit)								assisting / cooperating with other Latvia based children's and
								parent's charities that have aligned objectives, including
								contributing to their libraries, sharing information that may be of
								use to them.
								To enable the above, the trustees have retained focus on 3key groups of
								activities throughout the year:
								raising funds and coordinating grants,
								collecting donations in kind, arranging transportation to Latvia and
								distribution,
								coordinating other skilled volunteer support.
								Calendar ofactivities remained limited due to Covid restrictions:
								Oct 2021 Chari networkin, hosted b one of the volunteers

Additional	Additional	Additional	details ofobjectives	details ofobjectives	details ofobjectives	and activities (Optional information)	and activities (Optional information)
						Giving	for Latvia does not employ any staff or rent any premises or
						equipment. All work is done by trustees and volunteers to minimise any
						administrative costs.
You may		choose			to include	Where	possible, our events are hosted by our volunteers reducing overall
further statements,					where	costs.
relevant,		about:
~	policy on grantmaking;					Giving directly	for Latvia does not have resources to give financial support to the individuals in need. .Instead, trustees work with crisis
~	policy programme investment;				related	centres and children's charities with aligned aims, to purchase goods that have been nominated by such charities and reviewed and approved by
~	contribution			made	by volunteers.	our grant committee.
						Similarly, we initiate collection ofdonations in kind only once we have
						confirmed that the transportation costs for shipping ofthe donated goods
						to Latvia will be zero.
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Summary		of		the main		Grants	to 17children's charities in Latvia were issued during the period.
achievements of during the year					the charity	Giving for Latvia has expanded its activities towards informing / facilitating dialogue in the Latvian society and therefore prevention, to the
						extent possible, ofany type ofabuse. In parallel we are also contributing
						towards	strengthening the role ofcharitable sector in Latvia:
							Free copies ofa book by Norwegian psychologist Hedvig
							Montgomery (third and fourth book in the series of5)and How to
							talk so kids will listen and how to listen so kids will talk by Adele
							Faber (first in the series) were distributed for free in 2021/22 to 75
							charities that work with parents and children. These charities have
							committed to lend the books to their members and subsequently
							arrange discussions to engage parents on the topic ofmodern
							parenting approaches. Work on the next books in the series
							continues.
							We supported Latvian Autism Association with publishing ofa 350
							page book on autism as written by a team of40 Finnish
							specialists. Thanks to us and other supporters the LAA could
							supply a free copy to every single one of around 800 libraries in
							Latvia.
							We continue to support pre/post-natal depression charity
							Debesmanna. corn that organizes Children's Mental Health Week
							in Latvia though series offree ofcharge webinars for parents with
							the leading specialists in Latvia. The videos from their 2022 event
							had around 50thousand individual views.
							We also bought English language educational books to assist
							training ofspecialists at Children's Clinical University Hospital,
							Teenage Resource Centre, and other leading charities in Latvia.

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								Receipts and payments				accounts				CC~sa
							Forthe period from			06-Apr-21	To		05-Apr-22
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							Unrestricted funds			Restricted funds	Endowment funds		Total	funds		Last year
							to	the nearest		to the nearest 8	to the nesrest 6		to the nearest		F	to the nearest 8
A1 Receipts
Donations and grants									3,484	30,923				34,407		21,431
Sub total		(Gross		income for AR)					3,484	30,923				34,407		21,431
A2 Asset and		investment			sales,
(see table).
				Sub total
			Total receipts						3,484	30,923				34,407		21,431
A3 Pa ments
Costs offundraising		events														929
Grants and donations			paid						865	32,594				33,459		20,686
Bank charges									68						68
				Sub total					933	32,594				33,527		21,615
A4 Asset and	investment
purchases, (see			table)
				Sub total
		Total payments							933	32„594				33,527		21,615
Net ofreceiptsl(payments)									2,551	1,671					880	184
A5 Transfers	between			funds					158	158
A6 Cash funds		last year			end				3.217	5,834				9,051		9,235
Cash funds			this	year end					5,610	4,321				9,931		9,051

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											Unrestricted	Restricted					Endowment
											funds		funds				funds
											to nearest f		to nearest			K	to nearest R
B1Cash		funds				Cash account					5,610					4,321
								Total		cash funds	5,610				4,321
							(agree balances	with receipts and payments
										account(s))
											Unrestricted	Restricted					Endowment
											funds		funds				funds
						Details					to nearest F.		to nearest			f	to nearest 6
B2Other		monetary assets
						Details					Fund to which asset belon s	C	t (	r		i)	Current value o tional
B3Investment			assets
											Fund to which						Current value
						Details					asset belon s						o tional
B4Assets retained for				the
charity's		own	use
											Fund to which	Amount			due		When due
						Details					liabili relates		o tional				o tional
B5Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees behalf of all the trustees				on			Signature				Print	Name					Date of a rovai