## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 6th April 2023 **To** 5th April 2024 **Charity name:** Advance Pro Bono ## **Charity registration number:** 1164918 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To help non-profit organisations become more
effective by applying strategic thinking and
results-oriented analysis
To become the pre-eminent vehicle through
which junior consultants offer their skills to
charities
To create meaningful professional
development opportunities for our volunteers| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Provision of pro bono consulting services to
non-profit organisations
Example services provided include:
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Competitive research and
analysis
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Market sizing and growth
analysis
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Impact assessment
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Business plan support
The impact of these projects is considered to
serve the public benefit because the recipients
of Advance Pro Bono’s services are non-profit
organisations which themselves serve a public
benefit
The people who can benefit from Advance Pro
Bono’s services are not defined by reference to
any protected characteristic| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees confirm that they have had regard
to the guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit and are satisfied
that the purpose and activities of Advance Pro
Bono satisfy both the ‘benefit aspect’ and
‘public aspect’ of the guidance
The Trustees believe there is incidental benefit
to its volunteers,whogain the benefit of| developing their own skills while undertaking projects with the non-profit organisations ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The contribution of volunteers is essential to
achieving Advance Pro Bono’s purposes
All volunteers have professional management
consulting experience, equipping them with
relevant problem-solving and analytical skills.
They are therefore able to provide services to
non-profit organisations which may have
insufficient capabilities / resources to perform
such work in-house| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Advance Pro Bono provided advisory services
to a number of charities and social enterprises,
enabling them to make better informed
strategic decisions, including which areas of
their service offering to expand, and how best
to execute, and how to communicate their
strategy and the benefit of their work to
society as a whole| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Continued to deliver projects to charities,
helping them to achieve their strategic
objectives.| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Received sponsorship in line with
requirements.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The CIO had £1,097 in reserves at the end of
the period| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Surplus funding is being held in reserve to put
towards the next period’s costs| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£1,097| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Sponsorship from consulting firms
Note: One-off donation of £10 from trustee
during this year while waiting for receipt of
sponsorship funds| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Main risk is loss of sponsorship from LEK
Consulting| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Foundation| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|New trustees can be appointed by majority
vote of the existing trustees| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Advance Pro Bono| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|1164918| |Charity’s principal address|24 Glebelands Avenue
ILFORD
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Prashant Chand-
Bajpai|||| ||Dylan Jones|||| ||Sarah Spriggs|||| ||Alexander Hurst|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Sarah Spriggs|Prashant Chand-Bajpai| ||
Trustee|Trustee| ||04/02/25|| ||04/02/25|| **Advance Pro Bono 1164918 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 4/6/2023 4/5/2024 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**
Sponsorshipfunds - L.E.K. Consulting
**1,500**
**10**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,510**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 1,510**
**A3 Payments**
Insurance(Keegan and Pennykid)
**402**
**22**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 424**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 424**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 1,086**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**11**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 1,097**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
Sponsorship funds - Prashant Chand-
Bajpai
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
Website hosting - current year (Fasthosts
Internet)
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,500**
**10**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,510**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,510**
**402**
**22**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**424**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**424**
**1,086**
**-**
**11**
**1,097**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**|**1,500**|**-**| |||**-**|**10**|**25**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**1,510**|**25**| |||||| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**1,510**|**25**| |||||| |||**-**|**402**|**395**| |||**-**|**22**|**21**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**424**|**416**| |||||| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**424**|**416**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**|**1,086**|**- 391**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**11**|**402**| ||**-**|**-**|**1,097**|**11**| ## **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**|**Details**
Cash funds
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**1,097**
**-**
**-**
**1,097**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |Signature|Print Name
Sarah Spriggs|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| ||Sarah Spriggs|2/4/2025| Piashant Chand-Bajp 21412025