## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 6th April 2021 5th April 2022 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details Action in the Community To Support (North Wales and **Charity name** Cheshire) **Other names charity is known by** ACTS **Registered charity number (if any)** 1168611 **Charity's principal address** 30 Grange Road Chester **Postcode CH2 2AN** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Sonia
1
Holdsworth
2 Joy Wardle
3 Steven Russel
4 Martin Ankers
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian
trustees)
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**Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 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)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO Foundation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by other Trustees Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **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** March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** The relief of financial hardship, either generally or individually of people living Cheshire, Merseyside or North Wales by making grants of money for providing or paying for items, services or facilities. Acts have continued to carry our acts of kindness across Chester the WIrral and North Wales. **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 kindness boxes have grown in popularity and this has become the main acts of kindness carried out, referrals mainly coming from Countess of Chester and Arrowe park hospitals. A new volunteer has come on board, one act of kindness was to fit a key safe for a gentleman so he could go home from hospital to die. We want to explore carrying out more acts of kindness like this, and we are seeking funding to do so. Storytelling project working with people from deprived backgrounds, giving them a chance to share their story and complete some art to reflect the story. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Over 100 acts of kindness delivered throughout the year Charity social media profile raised by frequent posting Grant received to work as part of a collaboration across Wirral, working with 8 other partners. Acts have agreed to deliver 60 acts of kindness Storytelling project started, we have commissioned an artist to listen and record peoples stories, then produce a piece of art or music to reflect back what they have heard. ## **Section E Financial review** March **2012** **TAR** 5 **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** We will have a sufficient amount of money in the account to cover all bills. **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)** Sonia Holdsworth **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 22nd August 2022 March **2012** **TAR** 6 ||**Action in the Community To Support North Wales and**
**Wales and Cheshire**|**Action in the Community To Support North Wales and**
**Wales and Cheshire**|**Action in the Community To Support North Wales and**
**Wales and Cheshire**|**No (if any)**
**1168611**|**No (if any)**
**1168611**|**No (if any)**
**1168611**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
06/04/2021|**To**||Period end date
05/04/2022||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**9,457**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,457**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,457**
**-**
**12,409**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,409**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,409**
**- 2,952**
**-**
**8,349**
**5,397**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**4,619**
**-**
**15,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,619**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,619**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,688**
**578**
**1,150**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,416**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,416**
**11,203**
**-**
**1,225**
**12,428**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,457**
**4,619**
**-**
**15,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,076**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,076**
**-**
**12,409**
**-**
**6,688**
**578**
**1,150**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,825**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,825**

**8,251**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |General Income|**9,457**||||||**9,238**| |Restricted fund A001|**-**||||||**3,036**| |Restricted funds A003|**-**||||||**2,000**| |Restricted funds A004|**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**9,457**||||||**14,274**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**14,274**| ||||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |General expenses and unrestircted
kindnessgifts|**12,409**||||||**12,924**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |Ristriceted fund A001|**-**||||||**3,264**| |Restricted fund A003|**-**||||||**1,421**| |Restricted funds A004|**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**12,409**||||||**17,609**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**17,609**| ||||||||| ||**- 2,952**|**11,203**|**-**||
**8,251**||**- 3,335**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**8,349**|**1,225**|**-**||**9,574**||**-**| ||**5,397**|**12,428**|**-**||**17,825**||**- 3,335**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 16/09/2022 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
Sonia Holdsworth|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**5,397**
**12,428**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,397**
**12,428**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Sonia Holdsworth|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||Sonia Holdsworth|Sonia Holdsworth|20/08/2022| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 16/09/2022 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustee•l members of ActM)n in the C(Thmunty To Support Wa18s and Cheshire (ACTS) On accounts for tho year •ndad A￿.1 2022 Charity no (rf any) 1168611 out on pago8 I reN)rt to the tru8tee8 cffl my examlnatlon of the xcount8 of the above charity (Ihe Trusf) for the year end8d Responslbllltto8 and ba818 of roport A8 the charl￿$ trustees. you are reSp￿Sib￿ for the prep8ralion of the ac¢ounts in a(xx)rdanco with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 S report In respect of rny examinat￿ of the Trusf 8 accounts carried out under 8e(Ik)n 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examinatK*n, I have followed all applkabb Dlrectlon8 gNen ty the Charity Cc*nmi88bn under 145(5Xb} of the Ad. Indep•nd•nt I have o)mpleted my eXamina￿n. I ￿nfi￿n that no materbal mattetB have come to my attention in ￿nn￿tiOn with the examination lother than that di8¢b)8&1 bekw ') which give8 me c8U8e lo believe that in, any materlal r••p¢ct.' the accountlng ra>)Td8 not képt in acAx)rdance wth a￿￿on 130 of th8 Chanti88 P£t; or the a¢count$ did not accord with the 8c¢ounting record8; or the accounts did not c(¥nply wrth the applrable requirements conceming the fom and content of accounts set out in th8 Chariti68 (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accourrt8 give a Irue and f8irf vithv whlch Is not a matter considered as part of an Ithpen￿ examinatkn. I have no con¢em8 arKI have 0>￿8 acr088 no other matter8 in ¢onnectit)n with the examination to whth attenlK*n should be drawn in thls report in order to enable a woper undergtsnding of the ac￿unIS to be reached. ' 1708se delete wonls in the brnck8ts rfthey rt) not 8ppIy. 8lgngd: 24Z N•rn•: Rèlévant profosslonal qua16ficatsonl8) or body IER Oct 2018 (If any}: Addro3$: h/1 A Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of con￿rn (See CC32. Independent examination of charity accounts: directK*n$ and guidance for examiners}. Giv& her• brief detall8 of any Items that tho examiner Wish￿ to di￿70$•. IER Oct 2018