## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From: 06/04/2023 Period start date To: 05/04/2024 Period end date**
**Charity name: Lifeguarding & Aquatic Rescue Agency**
## **Charity registration number:**
1166565
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP
reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the
purposes of the
charity as set out in its
governing document|Para
1.17|The object[s] of the CIO[are]
_To preserve or assist in the preservation of life in, on and near water,_
_primarily but not exclusively in the United Kingdom, by the provision_
_of aid and assistance to those in need of rescue and by any other_
_means that the trustees see fit._
_For the purpose of this clause the term ‘water’ is not limited to water_
_in its simple form and may include other mediums such as mud,_
_quicksand, slurry pits, ice, snow or solids which may react and flow as_
_a liquid such as sand. The trustees have the power to interpret the_
_term water as they deem fit._
Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the
property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in
accordance with [section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment
(Scotland) Act 2005] and [section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern
Ireland) 2008]|
|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|Providing human resources Providing services Other charitable
activities Through:
Training
Education
Surveillance
Rescue|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by
the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para
1.18|The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public benefit.|
## **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||
|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|Increasing awareness of the charity and its aims.
Looking for partner organisations to work with.
Developing policies and procedures|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||||
|---|---|---|
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s financial
position at the end of the
period|Para 1.21|Stable and positive balance slightly increased|
|Statement explaining the policy
for holding reserves stating
why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity will always maintain a positive bank
balance.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Non above positive bank balance in accounts|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Limited amount of funds available at present.|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|No financial deficit allowed|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the charity
continuing as a going concern|Para 1.23|Non-none at present|
**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||
|---|---|---|
|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||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|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|**Appointed by current 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**
|Charity name|Lifeguard & Aquatic Rescue Agency|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|LARA|
|Registered charity number|1166565|
|Charity’s principal address|Mill Cottage
Nantwich Rd, Audley, Stoke on Trent
ST7 8DY|
|||
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Richard Hood|Chair||Founder Member|
||John Hood|||Trustee Vote|
||Margaret MaryHood|||Trustee Vote|
||||||
– 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 NON held in this capacity Name and objects of the NON charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for NON 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)** Richard John Louis Hood **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 06/05/2024
|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Lifeguading & Aquatic Rescue Agency**|||||
|**Receipts and payments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**
Period start date
05/04/2023|**To**|Period end date
06/04/2024|||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|No Receipts|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**661**
**-**
**661**
**661**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**661**
**-**
**661**
**661**|||
|**Bank Account Barclays carried**
**forwards**|**661**||||||||**661**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**661**||||||||**661**|
|**_Total receipts_**||||||||||
||**661**||**-**||**-**||**661**||**661**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**(see table).**|||||||||||
|**Bank Account Barclays carried**
**forwards**|**661**||**-**||**-**||**661**||**661**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|**661**||**-**||**-**||**661**||**661**||
||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**661**||**-**||**-**||**661**||**661**||
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## **A3 Payments**
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Zero Payment made|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**661**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**661**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Zero investments or Purchases**|**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**661**||**-**||**-**||**661**||**661**|
||**-**|
|**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**661**||**-**||**-**||**661**||**661**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Categories Details funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B1 Cash funds** Bank Account Barclays, carried forwards **661 - 661 - - - - - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **661 - 661** (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK Agreement Error **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £**
**Details**
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## **B2 Other monetary assets**
## **B3 Investment assets**
## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
|Non||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**Details**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Non||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|**Details**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Non||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|Non||||**-**|||
|||||**-**|||
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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Date of
Signature Print Name
approval
Richard John Louis Hood 06/04/2024
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