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|O||CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|CHARITY COMMISSION<br>FQP fN(jtANQ<br>ANQ WALE5|' """"'-"""'"'" '=<br> THE CARRIAGE FOUNDATION<br>Receipts and payments|' """"'-"""'"'" '=<br> THE CARRIAGE FOUNDATION<br>Receipts and payments|' """"'-"""'"'" '=<br> THE CARRIAGE FOUNDATION<br>Receipts and payments|' """"'-"""'"'" '=<br> THE CARRIAGE FOUNDATION<br>Receipts and payments|' """"'-"""'"'" '=<br> THE CARRIAGE FOUNDATION<br>Receipts and payments|' """"'-"""'"'" '=<br> THE CARRIAGE FOUNDATION<br>Receipts and payments|1162356<br>accounts|1162356<br>accounts||CC16a|
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|||||||||||||For the period||Pe "&r|-':-:-'. d''-'-||||||
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|||||||||||||Unrestricted<br>funds||Restricted<br>funds||Endowment<br>funds||Total|funds|Last year|
||||||||||||to the nearest<br>6|||to the|nearest F|to the nearest 6||to the nearest 6||to the nearest 6|
|A1 Recei||ts|||||||||||||||||||
|Study Tours|||||||||||||3,780||||||3,780|2,704|
|Study Days|||||||||||||2,319||||||2,319|3,582|
|Subscriptions|||||||||||||1,476||||||1,476|1,548|
|Grants and|donations||||||||||||1,535|||||||685|
|HMRC Gift Aid|||||||||||||||||||||
|Publications|||||||||||||254||||||254|196|
|Promotions|||||||||||||||||||||
|Other|||||||||||||75||||||75|607|
|u|tota|||ross||income||||or|||||||||||
|||||||||||AR)|||9,439||||||9,439|9,323|
|A2 Asset||and||investment||||sales,|||||||||||||
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|||||||||u|tota||||||||||||
||||||Total|||receipts|||||9,439||||||9,439|9,323|
|A3 Pa ments|||||||||||||||||||||
|Study Tours|||||||||||||3,547||||||3,547|2,762|
|Study Days|||||||||||||2,887||||||2,887|2,817|
|Fees|||||||||||||474|||||||1,202|
|Publications|||||||||||||1,780||||||1,780|2,109|
|Carriages ofBritain|||||||||||||||||||||
|Project Curator|||||||||||||641||||||641|1,084|
|Other|||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||Sub||total||||9,330||||||9,330|9,975|
|A4 Asset||and||investment|||||||||||||||||
||||||||Sub||total||||||||||||
|||||Total||payments|||||||9,330||||||9,330|9,975|
|Net ofreceiptsl(payments)|||||||||||||110||||||1'IO||
|A5 Transfers||||between|||funds||||||||||||||
|A6 Cash|funds last year|||||||end|||||5,242||||||5,242|5,894|
|Cash funds|||||this||year|||end|||5,352||||||5,352|5,242|





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|||||||||funds||funds||funds||
|||||||||to nearest<br>K|to|nearest|R|to nearest|K|
|81 Cash funds||||||||5,352||||||
||||||Total||cash funds|5,352||||||
||||{agree|balances|with|receipts and payments||||||||
||||||||account(s))|||||||
|||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||Endowment||
|||||||||funds||funds||funds||
||||Details|||||to nearest E|to|nearest|K|to nearest|6|
|82 Other monetary assets||||||||||||||
|||||||||Fund to which<br>asset belon s|Cost (optional)|||Current value<br>o tional||
|83 Investment|assets|||||||||||||
||||Details|||||Fund to which<br>asset belon s|Cost (optional)|||Current value<br>o tional||
|84Assets retained for||the||||||||||||
|charity's<br>own|use|||||||||||||
|||||||||Fund to which|Amount<br>due|||When due||
||||Details|||||liabili<br>relates||o tional||o tional||
|85 Liabilities||||||||||||||
|Signed by one or two trustees<br>behalf of all the trustees||on||Signature||||Print Name||||Date of<br>a<br>roval||
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|||||||||SORP||||
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|||||||||reference||||
|Summary|of|the purposes||||of|the|Para 1.17|The objects ofthe charity are:-|||
|charity as <br>governing|set out in its<br>document||||||||To advance the education ofthe public<br>in horse drawn carriages, their<br>history and carriage driving<br>in particular<br>but not exclusively<br>by:|||
||||||||||a)<br>Compiling,<br>maintaining<br>and publishing<br>an online database|||
||||||||||containing<br>a detailed<br>list ofhistoric horse drawn carriages that||are in|
||||||||||accessible public and private collections throughout<br>the UK;|||
||||||||||b)<br>Organising<br>study days and tours and offering collections|and||
||||||||||conservation<br>advice; and|||
||||||||||c<br>Publishin<br>articles, books and booklets on horse drawn|carria es.||
|Summary<br>ofthe main activities<br>in relation to those purposes<br>for<br>the public benefit,<br>in particular,<br>the activities, projects or||||||||Para 1.17<br>and 1.19|- the events programme<br>is publicly available to al!<br>— educational<br>outreach<br>work is carried out through<br>Study Days <br>tours||and|
|services identified|||in|the|||||- volunteers<br>are encouraged<br>to be actively involved<br>in projects|||
|accounts.||||||||||||
|Statement|confirming||||whether|||Para 1.18|The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the Charity|||
|the trustees<br>have had regard to<br>the guidance<br>issued<br>by the<br>Charity Commission<br>on public|||||||||Commission's<br>general guidance<br>on public benefit<br>in reviewing<br>Charity's<br>aims and objectives and have taken due regard of its<br>contents.||the|
|benefit||||||||||||
|dditional|information|||||(optional)||||||
|ou may choose|||to|include|||further statements||where relevant<br>about|||
|||||||||SORP reference||||
|Policy on|grant making|||||||Para 1.38||||
|Policy on|social investment|||||||||||
|including|program<br>'||related|||||Para 1.38||||
|investment||||||||||||
||||||||||Volunteers<br>continue to assist with the cataloguing<br>ofcarriages for|||
|Contribution||made|by||volunteers||||the database<br>www. carria<br>efoundation. or .uk. This has resulted<br>in a<br>substantial<br>amount of information<br>being made available<br>in the public|||
||||||||||domain.|||
||||||||||One volunteer<br>has brought together a small team ofpeople|to||
||||||||||further develop the list ofcoach builders<br>and associated trades.|||
||||||||||Another volunteer<br>is co-ordinating<br>a new initiative to contact|||
||||||||||nationwide<br>auction houses, offering an advisory service on|carriage||
||||||||||related matters.|||
||||||||||Volunteers<br>have also attended<br>events during the year and|assisted||
||||||||||with the Charity's<br>promotional<br>stand increasing<br>awareness|end||
||||||||||romotin<br>membershi<br>.|||
|Oh||||||||SORP reference||||



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|Achievements<br>and Perf|Achievements<br>and Perf|Achievements<br>and Perf|Achievements<br>and Perf|Achievements<br>and Perf|ormance|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Summary<br>ofthe main<br>achievements<br>ofthe charity,<br>identifying<br>the difference the<br>charity's<br>work has made to the<br>circumstances<br>of its<br>beneficiaries<br>and any wider<br>benefits to society as a whole.|||||Para 1.20|Over the past 12months The Carriage Foundation<br>has organised a<br>Study Tour to France to view traditional<br>vehicles as well as several<br>Study Days including<br>visits to the Maidstone<br>Carriage Museum<br>and<br>Leicestershire<br>County Museum<br>stores .The monthly<br>talks and<br>discussions<br>via Zoom have continued<br>throughout<br>the year and have<br>helped<br>build up contacts as well as raising the profile ofThe<br>Carriage Foundation.||
|||||||The charity's Trustees have continued<br>to work closely with||
|||||||museums<br>and other organisations<br>to assist with documentation<br>and||
|||||||public enquiries.<br>Museums<br>now send enquiries<br>directly to us to||
|||||||respond to and we have been working<br>closely with museum<br>staff not||
|||||||just in the UK but worldwide.<br>Museum<br>staff continue to expand their||
|||||||knowledge<br>ofhorse-drawn<br>carriages<br>within the collections under||
|||||||their care.||
|||||||Subscriptions<br>to The Carriage Foundation<br>remain steady. This has||
|||||||been achieved<br>through<br>the website and the dedicated<br>Facebook||
|||||||page htt<br>s:Iiwww. facebook. com/thecarria<br>efoundationi<br>as well as||
|||||||networking<br>with people from other countries who are taking an||
|||||||active interest<br>in the work ofthe Charity and helping to achieve its||
|||||||educational<br>outreach aims.||
|||||||Demand<br>for The Carriage Foundation's<br>first major publication<br>'The|A|
|||||||to Z ofCarriages'<br>continues<br>and has been well received. Plans are||
|||||||now set in place to publish a series ofbooklets<br>in addition to the<br>charit 's biannual<br>ublication The Whiffle Tree.||
|Additional||information||(optional)||||
|You may|choose to include further statements|||||where relevant<br>about:||
|Achievements|||against objectives||Para 1.41|The four key objectives identified<br>for progression<br>in 2022I23 have<br>been developed as follows:-||
|set||||||||
|||||||1<br>Collections and archives: toset up a resource room/safe<br>storage||
|||||||facility||
|||||||The Carriage Foundation<br>continues<br>to explore setting<br>up a room||
|||||||and establishing<br>a National'Archive.||
|||||||2. Fundraising:<br>to establish a Fundraising<br>and Development<br>Sub-||
|||||||Committee||
|||||||It is anticipated<br>that this will become active during 2023/24.||
|||||||3. Communications:<br>to optimise the website potential andincrease||
|||||||on-line networking<br>opportuni ties||
|||||||The monthly<br>Zoom sessions<br>will continue throughout<br>the year||
|||||||rather than just be during the Winter months. Social media sites||
|||||||are being updated<br>more regularly.||
|||||||4. ~pro'e<br>t<br>to icdeentify primary<br>archive matenat||
|||||||The Carriage<br>Foundation<br>is working towards establishing<br>a||
|||||||National<br>Archive ofmaterial.||
|||||||There has been an increase<br>in the number of international<br>members||
|Performance<br>of fundraising<br>activities against objectives set|||||Para 1.41|over the reporting<br>period as well as the number ofFacebook regular<br>'followers'.||
|||||||Some donations<br>have been received during the year but a targeted||
|||||||grant application<br>process for specific projects is being developed|by|
|||||||the Project Curator and will be implemented<br>once the Fundraising||
|||||||and Development<br>Sub-Committee<br>is in place.||
|Investment<br>a ainst ob||performance<br> ectives|||Para 1.41|||
|Other||||||||





|jnarlcial Review<br>~<br>~|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Review ofthe charity's<br>financial||||Para 1.21|The Charity has continued<br>to operate on a breakeven||basis.||
|osition at the end ofthe||eriod|||||||
|Statement<br>explaining<br>the|policy|||Para 1.22|The Charity considers<br>it prudent<br>to retain sufficient|reserves|||
|for holding reserves stating|||why||to cover its annual<br>operational<br>costs. A Reserve Fund of||||
|the<br>are held|||||E2,500 is therefore<br>held<br>in a CCLA COIF De osit Fund.||||
|Amount ofreserves<br>held||||Para 1.22|F2,500||||
|Reasons for holding zero||||Para 1.22|N/A||||
|reserves|||||||||
|Details offund materially|in|||Para 1.24|N/A||||
|deficit|||||||||
|Explanation<br>ofany uncertainties||||Para 1.23|Trustees are aware that there is a reliance on income from||||
|about the charity continuing|||as a||the subscription<br>base and is therefore seeking to raise||||
|going concern|||||specific funding<br>from charitable<br>trusts to enable new||projects||
||||||to be develo<br>ed.||||
|Additional<br>information|(optional)||||||||
|You ma<br>choose to include|||further statements||where relevant<br>about||||
|The charity's<br>principal sources<br>offunds (including<br>any||||Para 1.47|Principal sources offunding are subscriptions,<br>Gift <br>Day fees, donations<br>and grants.|Aid,||Study|
|fundraisin|||||||||
|Investment<br>policy and objectives<br>including<br>any social investment||||Para 1 46|||||
|olic<br>ado<br>ted|||||||||
|A description<br>ofthe principal<br>risks facing the charity||||Para 1.46|A risk analysis<br>matrix is reviewed<br>at each Trustees'<br>and assesses the following<br>risks:|Meeting|||
||||||Financial (cash flow and working<br>capital);||||
||||||Operational<br>(business<br>continuity,<br>loss or prolonged||absence||
||||||ofkey personnel);||||
||||||Strategic/governance<br>(succession<br>planning;<br>ongoing||||
||||||compliance<br>with Charity Commission<br>regulations/charity|||law);|
||||||Reputational<br>(risk of being associated<br>with unsuitable|||or|
||||||failed projects)||||
||||||The Trustees continue to hold their meetings<br>on a|hybrid|||
||||||basis to enable participation<br>both in person and via electronic||||
||||||means<br>(in accordance<br>with the Charity's<br>governing||||
||||||document).||||
||||||The Trustees<br>remain ofthe opinion that the charity|will|||
||||||continue as a going concern for the next 12 months|on||a|
||||||break-even<br>basis.||||
|Other|||||||||
|Structure, Governance||||and Mana|ement||||
|Descri<br>tion of charit 's|trusts||||||||
|Type of governing<br>document||||Para 1.25|Constitution||||
|(trust deed, ro al charter|||||||||
|How is the charity||||Para 1.25|CIO||||
|constituted?|||||||||
|(e.g unincorporated|||||||||
|association.<br>CiO)|||||||||
|Trustee selection methods||||Para 1.25|Apart from the first charity trustees,<br>every trustee must be||appointed||
|including<br>details ofany<br>constitutional<br>provisions e.g.|||||for a term (to be fixed by the trustees)<br>by a resolution<br>passed <br>properly convened<br>meeting ofthe charity trustees.|||at a|
|election to post or name of any<br>person or body entitled to<br>appoint one or more trustees|||||In the appointment<br>ofnew trustees, a potential<br>nominee<br>is invited to<br>attend at least two meetings<br>oftrustees as an 'Observer'.<br>This<br>initiates a two-wa<br>rocess enablin<br>both the Observer and existin||||





|Additional<br>information<br>(optional)|Additional<br>information<br>(optional)|||
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|You ma<br>choose to include further statements||where relevant|about:|
|Policies and procedures<br>adopted<br>for the induction<br>and|Para 1.51|||
|training<br>oftrustees||||
|The charity's<br>organisaiional||||
|structure<br>and any wider network<br>with which the charity works|Para 1.51|||
|Relationship<br>with any related||||
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