## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1[st] January 2024 **To** 31st December 2024 **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** HOCl Trust for Hygiene and Safer Water **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1165940 “HOCl Trust” |**Charity's principal address**|
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Dr Hugh Martin|Chairman||| ||Tania Wedin|Trustee||| ||Lord Wise|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |As above|| ||| ||| **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** As above **Section B Structure, governance and management Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointment by resolution of Trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: There are no additional governance issues. - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To relieve and preserve and protect good health in any part of the world for the benefit of the public by: 1. providing the means to improve water supplies particularly but not **Summary of the objects of the** exclusively by promoting the use of hypochlorous acid (HOCl) and **charity set out in its** 2. educating the public in standards of hygiene and in particular as **governing document** 2. educating the public in standards of hygiene and in particular as to the use of HOCl and any other means of controlling waterborne diseases and environmental contamination. **TAR** March **2012** 2 The Trustees have throughout have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. The HOCl Trust is dedicated to the furtherance of the very considerable benefits in the application of HOCl technology to a diverse range of health issues. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** The HOCl Trust provides balanced, independent, high quality information on the use and benefits of HOCl in health care through our expanding web site, which is open to the public, irrespective of geographical location or any other criteria of individuals. Resources on the web site include - independent authoritative information on HOCl and its properties - access to summarised academic and other relevant scientific publications - use of a “forum” to discuss and debate relevant issues associated with HOCl and its use - supply of HOCl generating tablets at low cost - a “blog” on current news and technical developments - A membership scheme that provides additional support to subscribers. - Podcasts ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** All work has been undertaken exclusively by the Trustees. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** The Trustees continued to hold weekly meetings. This close liaison, largely by electronic communication, has enabled a continuing high degree of co-ordination and effective management of the HOCl Trust and the exchange of ideas and the development of new initiatives. Our activity during 2024 centred around two main issues: Firstly, in line with the development of our website as primary means of public communication of HOCl science, we continued to develop our new format and continued the input of information for public consumption in line with our missions. The website has been structured to accommodate as wide a variety of interests as possible and great care has been taken to provide high quality scientific information in succinct and plain English. For improved readability of and easy access to published scientific papers, a simple and effective categorisation of research and other publications has been implemented. Secondly, the successful transfer of banking to a HSBC Business Charity account has resulted in significantly greater efficiency in financial management and considerable savings in bank charges. This initiative provided much needed improvements in account management and contributed to the easing of financial stress on the Trust. Our income continues to be sustained by memberships, voluntary donations and sales of HOCl generating tablets. The Trust looks to identify fund raising initiatives through new activities in the near future. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** The Trust aims to maintain sufficient reserves to run our web site and to **Brief statement of the** sustain its further development. **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially** No funds are in deficit. **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); Our principal source of funds is through sales of HOCl goods and public donations. Sufficient income has been raised to sustain activity as described in our mission statement (described as objects in our constitution). The Trust has no formal policy on investments. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** HMartin **Full name(s)** Hugh Martin **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Director/chief executive **etc)** **Date** 15th October 2025 **TAR** March **2012** 5 TAR March 2012 **HOCl Trust Bank Account Jan 2024 to Dec 2024** **£** Opening balance 3824.77 Closing balance 4009.3 Net 184.53 |||**Partculars**|**£**|**£**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Date**|**Type**|**Descripton**|**Debit**|**Credit**| |2-Jan-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11DEC2023|5.00|| |11-Jan-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|32.96|| |23-Jan-24|CR|PAYPAL PPWDL438222222EQQS||67.37| |26-Jan-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|41.64|| |29-Jan-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|38.95|| |2-Feb-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11JAN2024|5.00|| |2-Feb-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||14.25| |12-Feb-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|32.98|| |17-Feb-24|CR|PAYPAL PPWDL4382222224GBL||14.53| |20-Feb-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||48.75| |21-Feb-24|CR|PAYPAL PPWDL4382222425R7U||1.00| |22-Feb-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|4.89|| |22-Feb-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|8.95|| |22-Feb-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||21.98| |2-Mar-24|CR|PAYPAL PPWDL43822226ZBL3L||39.24| |4-Mar-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11FEB2024|5.00|| |13-Mar-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|34.66|| |27-Mar-24|CR|PAYPAL PPWDL438222232BBQA||30.06| |2-Apr-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|4.89|| |2-Apr-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|14.94|| |2-Apr-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11MAR2024|5.00|| |2-Apr-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||14.39| |3-Apr-24|DD|SHOPIFY PAYOUT|14.94|| |5-Apr-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|16.94|| |5-Apr-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|20.90|| |10-Apr-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|32.97|| |10-Apr-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||14.39| |10-Apr-24|CR|PAYPAL PPWDL43822224ZXPVL||16.94| |15-Apr-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|4.59|| |3-May-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11APR2024|5.00|| |10-May-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|33.15|| |14-May-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|5.39|| |22-May-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||66.29| |23-May-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|3.19|| |2-Jun-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11MAY2024|5.00|| |4-Jun-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||23.16| |11-Jun-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|34.45|| |3-Jul-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11JUN2024|5.00|| |10-Jul-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|33.00|| |2-Aug-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11JUL2024|5.00|| |8-Aug-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|32.80|| |---|---|---|---|---| |2-Sep-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11AUG2024|5.00|| |9-Sep-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|32.89|| |29-Sep-24|CR|PAYPAL PPWDL43822224ZZJF6||51.01| |30-Sep-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|0.20|| |30-Sep-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|6.59|| |3-Oct-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11SEP2024|5.00|| |3-Oct-24|CR|DR H MARTIN EBAY SALES||99.98| |4-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|0.20|| |4-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|0.20|| |4-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|6.59|| |4-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|6.59|| |9-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|32.72|| |10-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|6.65|| |10-Oct-24|CR|DR H MARTIN EBAY SALES||49.99| |16-Oct-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||57.52| |17-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|3.39|| |17-Oct-24|CR|ADVISED||50.00| |24-Oct-24|CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||14.39| |26-Oct-24|CR|PAYPAL PPWDL438222232AYDC||14.53| |28-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|3.39|| |31-Oct-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|6.78|| |2-Nov-24|DR|TOTAL CHARGES TO 11OCT2024|5.00|| |5-Nov-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|6.65|| |6-Nov-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|6.65|| |6-Nov-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|34.24|| |7-Nov-24|CR|DR H MARTIN EBAY SALES||99.98| |13-Dec-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT 3.25 3,898.68|3.25|| |16-Dec-24|DD|PAYPAL PAYMENT|32.30|| ||CR|SHOPIFY INTERNATIO SHOPIFY PAYOUT /PA||92.93| |23-Dec-24|CR|PAYPAL PAYMENT 3.25 3,898.68||49.99| |||**END**||| ## **£** ## **Balance** 3824.77 3791.81 3859.18 3817.54 3778.59 3787.84 3754.86 3769.39 3818.14 3819.14 3827.28 3866.52 3861.52 3826.86 3856.92 3846.48 3831.54 3793.70 3792.06 3787.47 3782.47 3749.32 3743.93 3810.22 3807.03 3802.03 3825.19 3790.74 3785.74 3752.74 3747.74 3714.94 3709.94 3677.05 3728.06 3721.27 3816.25 3802.67 3769.95 3813.29 3870.81 3917.42 3931.81 3946.34 3942.95 3936.17 3931.17 3924.52 3883.63 3983.61 3898.68 3959.31 4009.30