Better Giving Partnership Trustee Annual Report and Accounts 2021122 ## **Trustee Annual Report and Accounts 2021/22** ## **Charity name** Better Giving Partnership ## **Charity number** 1168976 ## **Trustees** Mr Andy Carter, Chair of Trustees (appointed 28/01/2016) Mr Neil Saunders, Treasurer (appointed 28/01/2016) Dr Phil Harris (appointed 01/06/2016) Ms Dianne Flatt (appointed 23/11/2016) Ms Barbara Dinsdale (appointed 18/04/2018) Mr Matthew Mercer (appointed 24/06/2020) Mr Scott McKinney (appointed 11/12/20) ## **Chief Executive** Mr Alexander Ellis-White ## **Principal office** 1 Great Close, Cawood, North Yorkshire, YO8 3UG ## **Who we are** The Better Giving Partnership was formed in 2015 by a group of friends and work colleagues in Leeds, West Yorkshire. We were officially founded in January 2016 when our first trustees were appointed. We were registered with the Charity Commission on 30 August 2016. We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, formed under a constitution dated 30 August 2016. Our purpose (also known as ‘charitable objects’) are ‘such purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the laws of England and Wales as the trustees may at their discretion think fit’. This means that Better Giving Partnership is authorised to do anything that is charitable, according to charity law, and that is permitted by our constitution. ## **How we are run** The constitution requires a minimum of three trustees and maximum of nine to form our trustee board. At the end of March 2022, the charity had seven trustees. The trustee board: - is ultimately responsible for the work and decisions of the charity - approves all new policies and procedures and reviews them each year to ensure they are fit for purpose - meets quarterly Trustee board meetings are minuted and trustees review and update an action log and risk log at their meetings. Trustees have had due regard to the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit in exercising their powers and duties. New trustees are appointed following a vote by the trustee board and serve for a period of three years, after which they may put themselves forward for re-election. The trustee board delegates authority to the chief executive to manage the work of the charity. The delegation of authority policy requires the chief executive to consult the chair and/or trustee board on all senior appointments. The chief executive, technical director, charity engagement director, and communications and marketing director form the leadership team which runs the charity on a day-to-day basis. Leadership team members: - are unpaid, acting purely in a voluntary capacity - have role profiles that are approved by the trustee board - were all appointed following a vote by the trustee board - meet at least monthly and attend trustee board meetings - review and update the charity risk log at their meetings All trustees and leadership team members give their time freely and no remuneration has ever been paid. ## **What we have done** We have continued the development and expansion of our first service – www.givto.org. This world-first service enables people to give to a different charity each month with one simple Direct Debit. Members make a monthly donation to the Better Giving Partnership and indicate which of three charities each month they would like their money to go to. In December 2021 we moved from pilot to launch with a new brand, a new website and a marketing campaign that attracted new charities and members to join Givto. By the end of March 2022, Givto had 55 members and had raised more than £12,500 that had been shared between 53 national, regional and local charities after fees were deducted. The charities that have benefited from funding through Givto are all listed in the Givto charity directory at www.givto.org/directory Trustees, the leadership team and our volunteers have continued to work very hard to further develop the Givto service. Work has also continued to develop the policies, procedures and systems that are required for us to operate effectively and securely. We now have in place a: - constitution - delegation of authority policy - risk management policy - risk log - expenses policy - role profiles for our chief executive, charity engagement director, and technical director - conflict of interest policy - register of interests - financial controls policy - two bank accounts (one for restricted funds and one for unrestricted funds) Our policies and procedures are based on Charity Commission and other best practice. ## **Declaration** The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees. Signature: Full name: Andy Carter Position: Chair of Trustees Date: 27 January 2023 |**Section A Receipts and**
**payments**
**A1 Receipts**|**Better Giving Partnership**|**Better Giving Partnership**|**Better Giving Partnership**|**No 1168976**|**No 1168976**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/04/2021|**To**|Period end
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31/03/2022|| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**207**
**25**
**53**
**-**
**4**
**-**
**289**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**6,508**
**190**
**-**
**1,652**
**-**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**8,450**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||| |Gifts|**-**|**6,508**|**-**||**6,508**| |Card processing fees|**-**|**190**|**-**||**190**| |Givto fees|**207**|**-**|**-**||**207**| |GiftAid|**25**|**1,652**|**-**||**1,677**| |Gift Aid fees|**53**|**-**|**-**||**53**| |Competition prize gift|**-**|**100**|**-**||**100**| |Bank cashback|**4**|**-**|**-**||**4**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**289**|**8,450**|**-**||**8,739**| ## **A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).** ||**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| ||**_Total receipts_**|**289**||**8,450**||**-**||**8,739**||**-**|| ||**A3 Payments**||||||||||| ||Card processing fees||||||||||| |||**-**||**190**||**-**||**190**||**-**|| ||Gifts to charities||||||||||| |||**-**||**8,160**||**-**||**8,160**||**-**|| ||Competition prize gift||||||||||| |||**-**||**100**||**-**||**100**||**-**|| ||IT services||||||||||| |||**144**||**-**||**-**||**144**||**-**|| ||Marketing||||||||||| |||**5**||**-**||**-**||**5**||**-**|| ||Professional subscriptions||||||||||| |||**50**||**-**||**-**||**50**||**-**|| ||Telephony||||||||||| |||**46**||**-**||**-**||**46**||**-**|| ||Bank cashback correction||||||||||| |||**2**||**-**||**-**||**2**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**||||||||||| |||**247**||**8,450**||**-**||**8,697**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| ||**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**_Sub total_**|||||||||||| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||| |||**_Total payments_**|**247**||**8,450**||**-**||**8,697**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||| |||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**42**||**-**||**-**|||**42**||**-**|| ||**A5**|**Transfers between funds**|||||||||||| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|| ||**A6**|**Cash funds last year end**|||||||||||| ||||**1,645**||**-**||**-**||**1,645**|||**-**|| |||**_Cash funds this year end_**|**1,687**||**-**||**-**||**1,687**|||**-**|| **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**the period**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
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**to nearest £**
**1,687**
**-**
**1,687**
1687
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**d funds**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees. ## **Signature** **Name:** Andy Carter **Position:** Chair of Trustees **Date:** 27 January 2023