Child Redress International Registered Charity Number: 1170039
Child Redress International
Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2023
Child Redress International
Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 March 2022
The trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 and confirm they comply with the Charities Act 1993, as amended by the Charities Act 2006, the CIO Constitution and the Charities SORP 2005.
Reference and Administrative Information
Charity Name: Child Redress International Charity Registration Number: 1170039 Principal office: 7 Bell Yard, London WC2A 2JR,
Board of trustees: Emma Day - Chair Shireen Irani David Wotherspoon James Marsh Lisa Cox - Secretary Margaret Mable Francois Xavier-Souchet Warren Binford
Board of Advisers:
Silvia Nicolaou Garcia Zubier Yazdani Monica Bulger Jedrek Ng Mariya Ali
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Child Redress International Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 March 2023
Structure, governance and management
Governing document
Child Redress International (hereinafter “Child Redress”) is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity Commission in April 2016 under charity number 1170039. It is governed by a Constitution last updated January 9, 2019.
Organisational structure
The charity trustees are responsible for the general control and management of the charity. The trustees give their time freely and receive no renumeration or other financial benefits.
Child Redress does not have any paid staff. Due to the transnational legal nature of Child Redress International’s work, the trustees are all legal experts. The trustees are based in the UK, Portugal, Canada and the United States. For this reason board meetings are convened as and when necessary and are chaired by the chair of trustees. Minutes are taken by the secretary of trustees.
Recruitment and appointment of trustees
All of the trustees appointed at the time of Child Redress’ constitution were appointed for a term of 4 years, until April 2020. The board agreed to extend the appointment of the trustees because of Covid-19. All subsequent trustees were appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees on January 16, 2023. The only persons eligible to be members of the CIO are its charity trustees.
Plans for Future Periods
The joint research study with Leiden University who run one of the most well regarded international child rights law programs in the world, will now start in the second quarter of 2024. CRI managed to find pro bono lawyers in several jurisdictions to updated research carried out by CRI in 2016 into procedural laws in different countries related to claiming compensation for child victims of sexual exploitation and abuse. We will convene an online expert meeting on compensation for child victims to discuss the research finding and make recommendations at Leiden University in the second quarter of 2024. We hope to produce a publication including this updated research by the end of 2024.
Child Redress has been working with Blue Dragon in Vietnam and a pro bono lawyer in Paris since 2014, on behalf of seven child victims of a French paedophile who abused multiple boys in Hanoi over the course of several years. Child Redress worked with the pro bono
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lawyer to have the Vietnamese boys added as partie civiles to the French criminal case which was due to come to trial in March 2022. However, the accused managed to escape and so the trial was rescheduled for November 2022, and Child Redress were able to support the Vietnamese boys to write witness statements and seek compensation at this trial. The accused was subsequently found and arrested, and committed suicide in his prison cell. The Child Redress Chair, Emma Day, attended the trial in Paris in November and communicated with the victims in Vietnam on a daily basis throughout the 3 day trial regarding the proceedings. The financial activities in this year all relate to travel expenses to attend this trial on a pro bono basis. The seven victims were each awarded compensation in this case. Child Redress is still working with pro bono lawyers to get the compensation awarded transferred to the victims. Child Redress is also seeking advice from French lawyers regarding the potential to bring an additional civil compensation claim in France on behalf of the same victims.
Statement of Financial Activities for the year ending 31 March 2023
| Current Assets | 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Cash | £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £9,584 |
|
| Investments | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
|
| Inventories | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
|
| Accounts receivable | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
|
| Expenses | 0 0 0 0 0 £1171.02 |
|
| Other | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
|
| Total | £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £8,412.98 |
| Fixed Assets | |
|---|---|
| Property and equipment | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Leasehold improvements | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Equity and other investments | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Less accumulated depreciation (Negative Value) |
0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Total | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
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| Other Assets | |
|---|---|
| Charity | |
| Total | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Total Assets | £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £8,412.98 |
| Current Liabilities | |
| Accounts payable | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Accrued wages | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Expenses | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Income taxes payable | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Unearned revenue | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Other | |
| Total | 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
| Total | £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £1,397 £8,412.98 |
Signed by: Emma Day (Chair of Trustees) Date: 30 January 2024
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