2023-04-05-accounts

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Summary		ofthe objects				ofthe	The purpose ofthe charity isto provide aid to children and parents in 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 for the year, the trustees have considered
							the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit, and in particular,
							the speciTic 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, supporting projects that educate / inform / create dialogue in
activities undertaken					for	the		Latvia in particular around the themes ofmodern parenting,
public benefit these objects				in relation to (include within				inclusion ofspecial needs people and other marginalised groups of people, recognition ofLGBT rights
this section			the statutory					distributing donations in kind, such as winter coats, toys among
declaration			that trustees			have		crisis centres and children's charities, refugees in Latvia
had regard			to the guidance					assisting children's charities with translations from Latvian into
issued	by	the		Charity				English,
Commission				on public				assisting / cooperating with other Latvia based children's and
benefit)								parent's charities that have aligned objectives, induding
								contributing to their libraries, sharing information that may be of
								use to them.
							Foliowing the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, around 40
							thousand Ukrainian refugees moved to I atvia, mainly women with
							children. Our Giving for Latvia activities expanded to include this group of
							people	in Latvia, that is particularly financially and emotionally vulnerable.
							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,
								coordinatin other skilled volunteer su rt.

A	dditio	na	l d	etail	s ofobjective	s and ac	tivities (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 further statements,					to inciude where	Where costs.	possible, our events are hosted by our volunteers reducing overall
relevant,			about:
~	policy	on grantmaking;				Giving	for Latvia does not have resources to give financial support
~ ~	policy programme investment; contribution made				reiated by volunteers.	directly to the individuals in need. Instead, trustees work with crisis centres and children's charities with aligned aims, to purchase goods that have been nominated by such charities and reviewed and approved by our grant committee.
						Similarly, we initiate coilection 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 12children'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 2021/22/23 to
							75charities 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 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. During early 2023 they hosted their 3"annual event and for the first time cooperated with
							schools in Latvia engaging pupils.
							We supported projects that assist Ukrainian refugees, both by
							arranging fundraising but also donations in kind (winter coats and
							sieeping bags).
							We launched a multi-year project of bringing letterboard
							alternative communication method to Latvia, that gives back voice
							to non-speaking autistic individuals that have apraxia. The first
							practitioner, director ofa special needs school, began studies with
							I-ASC International Association for Spelling as Communication
							and completed internship in the UK. We also arranged for
							letterboard stencils with Latvian alphabet, that can be handed to
							families ofnon-speaking students, for additional communication
							practice within families. The first word spelled independently by a
							non-speaking student in Latvia was "biologija" during a plants
							science lesson: htt s://www. ivin forlatvia. corn/ietterboard

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						Receipts and payments			accounts				CC16a
						For the Period
						from		-22 To			OSApr-23
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						Unrestricted	Restricted	Endowment
						funds	funds	funds			ota	n 0	Last year
							to the neereet E	to the neereet		E	tothe neereet E		to the neereet E
A1 Recel ts
Sub total(Grossincome				for
				AR)								34,407	34,407
A2 Asset and		Investment sales,
(see table).
			Sub	total
		roelrseeee~ua					~is,m	~~sc~r					~~r
A3 Pa ments
							20,332
						103
			Sub total				25,332					25,033
A4 Asset and		Investment
urchases	see table
			Sub total
		Total psy'ments				501	25,$32			«25/33			33,527
Metofrecelptsl(paymenfs)												5,47
A5 Transfers	between		funds
AS Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year				end		5,510	4,321					0,531	0,051