**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Rowan Romania
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1166547
**Charity's principal address**
7 Hayward Drive Baltonsborough Glastonbury, Somerset **Postcode** BA6 8PJ
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Constitution dated 14 April 2016
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a (eg. appointed by, elected by) resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- 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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
(1) The relief of persons in Romania with physical and/or mental and/or learning disabilities by the provision of, inter alia, food, drink, clothing, bedding, medical and dental care and equipment, occupational and other therapy, training courses and programmes, and such other goods, services and forms of relief as the trustees may deem appropriate, in each case with the aim of improving such persons' conditions of life.
(2) To advance the education of the Romanian public and in particular those in the health and social care professions in such topics as (but not
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limited to) environmental awareness, therapy, employment opportunities, human rights, disability awareness and social inclusion.
Rowan Romania is a UK charity that is committed to supporting adults with special needs in a long-stay psychiatric hospital in Zarnesti, Romania. This hospital has around 150 patients, and is severely overcrowded and under-funded.
**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 charity has raised funds in the UK through such activities as the sale of donated goods, pub quizzes, and encouraging donations, and then used such funds (working alongside a local representative in Romania, and in collaboration with local officials) to help employ care-workers at the hospital, and source and supply basic essentials for the patients.
The trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance would be relevant.
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|Working alongside a local representative in Romania, and in
collaboration with local officials, the charity has helped employ care-
workers at the hospital, and source and supply basic essentials for the
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## **Section E Financial review**
The charity does not have a specific reserves policy. **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially 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);
- 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) Full name(s)** Martin Franklin **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 16 July 2022
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