CZECH NATIONAL TRUST ABROAD
Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts for the year from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Registered Charity Number: 1162843
CZECH NATIONAL TRUST ABROAD
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Trustees’ Annual Report for the year 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Charity name Czech National Trust Abroad Registered charity number 1162843 Charity’s principal address 26, Clarendon Court, Sidmouth Road, London NW2 5HB
Trustees
The Trustees who held office in the year 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 were as follows:
Dr Irena Edwards Catherine Leonard Zuzana Princova
G overnance
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation with a constitution dated 25 July 2015 that was approved by all three trustees. The charity was entered onto the Register of Charities on 27 July 2015 by the Charity Commission of England and Wales.
Objectives
To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and maintenance of heritage buildings and their contents, gardens and historic landscapes in the Czech Republic in particular, but without limitation, by supporting the Czech National Trust.
Activities
2021 continued to prove a rather difficult year for our organisation due to the post Covid pandemic situation. Staging public events, getting speakers and attendees to travel to them (especially older ones, or internationally) to support our fundraising efforts were not back to normal. However, many of our friends and supporters continued to show us unprecedented support and friendship. It enabled us to carry on with our work in support of the Czech National Trust (CNT) and Czech heritage. Some of our work and meetings continued to be carried out virtually and through social media and our website.
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CNTA supported CNT in preparation to present its successful project “Ticket to the New World” at the Bohemian National Hall in New York. Programme to include an exhibition, lectures and a book launch. The ongoing pandemic situation caused the event to be postponed, yet again to June 2022.
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Together with INTO (International National Trusts Organisation) we continued to support a successful CNT application for an Erasmus grant to coordinate an educational exchange programme between 5 European National Trusts (NT). These are: INTO, NT of Scotland, FAI (NT of Italy), Herita (NT of Belgium) and Slovak NT. The grant of 73 000 Euros will be administered by the CNT with CNTA/INTO’s support from London. The commencement of the project had to be postponed until 2022, however CNTA supported a series of strategic meetings online to revise the project plan and timelines in order to be ready for a “kick off“ in early 2022.
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CNTA helped CNT to launch a new campaign and continues to play a key role in CNT’s efforts to return the monumental statue of the nationally revered Skoda Arrow by the famous Czech sculptor Otto Gutfreund, to its original location on the roof of the Skoda Palace in the centre of Prague. The statue was destroyed during the communist times and the CNT is endeavouring with CNTA’s support to raise enough money to produce its replica and return it to its rightful place. The original drawings of the statute were gifted to the CNT thanks to CNTA efforts and were auctioned at the end of 2021 in a prominent auction room in Prague, and although unsold, it increased support from the media and the public for the cause, as well as increased donations to the project, to the CNT and CNTA. All will be used to further the project.
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CNTA helps to liaise and build relationship with the Austrian owner of the château neighbouring the CNT pilot project in Moravia and has secured for CNT several generous financial and in kind gifts in support of the project as well as a further substantial donation from a generous private industrialist donor.
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CNTA continues to represent CNT on the board of INTO.
Trustees’ Responsibility
The trustees are responsible for this annual report and the receipts and payments accounts.
Authorised on 18 October 2022 to sign on behalf of the Board Trustees
18 October 2022
Czech National Trust Abroad Charity Number 1162843 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01-Jan-21 31-Dec-21
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
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| A1 Receipts Grants - Events - Donations 127 Gift Aid Tax Repayment 48 - - - - 175 - - Sub total - Total receipts 175 A3 Payments Charitable activities - Grant to Czech National Trust 22 Travel costs Bank charges - - - - - Sub total 22 - - Sub total - Total payments 22 Net of receipts/(payments) 153 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 3,288 Cash funds this year end 3,441 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ - - 127 48 - - - - 175 - - - 175 - 22 - - - - - - - 22 - - - 22 153 - 3,288 3,441 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| - | 175 | 353 | |||
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| - | - | 153 | (76) | ||
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| - | - | 3,288 | 3,364 | ||
| - | - | 3,441 | 3,288 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Details Details Details Details Details Signature Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ to nearest £ 3,441 - - - - - 3,441 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Irena Edwards Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) |
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| Date of approval |
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| Irena Edwards | 18.10.2022 | ||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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