**To** 


## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

Period start date 6th April 2020 

Period end date 5th April 2021 

**From** 

## 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** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Sonia Holdsworth||||
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||Steven Russel||||
||Martin Ankers||||
||Martha Wardle||||
||Dawn Miller||||
||Ian Miller||||
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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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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**<br>**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**<br>**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**<br>**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|
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## **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** 

**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. 

**TAR** 

March **2012** 

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The charity has continued to carry out acts of kindness in partnership with WUTH, One Wirral and other local organsiaions.  Kindness boxes have been distributed across Chester, Wirral and North Wales, with some lovely feedback from people. 

We had a user involvement session to discuss how we could encourage others to be kind, this has resulted in 4 mock podcast episodes being launched to be used to apply for some funding to start a kindness podcast next year. 

**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)** 

## **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. 

**TAR** 

March **2012** 

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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

Over 80 acts of kindness delivered through out the year **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** Continued working in partnership and developed a kindness advocacy **during the year** model to ensure our referrers are sending genuine referals Created a pilot podcast to use to seek funding next year.  Over 40 people listened without any publicity or marketing Website revamp Storytelling project completed with over 30 stories shared 

**TAR** 

March **2012** 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

We will have a sufficient amount of money in the account to cover all **Brief statement of the** bills. 

**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)** Sonia Holdsworth **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc)** 

**Date** 15/01/23 

**TAR** 

March **2012** 

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|**Action in the Community To Support North Wales and**|**Action in the Community To Support North Wales and**|**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Wales and Cheshire**||**1168611**|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|Period start date<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>06/04/2022|**To**|Period end date<br>05/04/2023|||



|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**4,656**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**4,656**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**4,656**<br>**1,171**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **1,171**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**1,171**<br>**3,485**<br>**-**<br>**5,397**<br>**8,882**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**1,689**<br>**1,500**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**25**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**3,214**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**3,214**<br>**-**<br>**560**<br>**297**<br>**-**<br>**13,850**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**14,707**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**14,707**<br>**-                11,493**<br>**-**<br>**12,428**<br>**935**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**4,656**<br>**1,689**<br>**1,500**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**25**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**7,869**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**7,869**<br>**1,171**<br>**560**<br>**297**<br>**-**<br>**13,850**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**15,878**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**15,878**<br>**-                  8,009**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|General Income|**4,656**|||||**9,457**|
|Restricted funds A001|**-**|||||**4,619**|
|Restricted funds A002|**-**|||||**-**|
|Restricted funds A003|**-**|||||**-**|
|Restricted funds A004|**-**|||||**15,000**|
|Restricted funds A005|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**4,656**|||||**29,076**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**29,076**|
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|General expenses and unrestriced<br>kindnessgifts|**1,171**|||||**12,409**|
|Restricted funds A001|**-**|||||**6,688**|
|Restricted funds A002|**-**|||||**-**|
|Restricted funds A003|**-**|||||**578**|
|Restricted funds A004|**-**|||||**1,150**|
|Restricted funds A005|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,171**|||||**20,825**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**20,825**|
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||**3,485**|**-                11,493**|**-**|**-                  8,009**||**8,251**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**5,397**|**12,428**|**-**|**17,825**||**-**|
||**8,882**|**935**|**-**|**9,816**||**8,251**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

01/02/2024 

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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Signature|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**8,882**<br>**935**<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

01/02/2024 

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