## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024** ## **Charity name: Diverse UK** ## **Charity registration number: 1170255** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The object of the CIO:**
**The promotion of social inclusion**
**among autistic adults in the Bristol and**
**South West**
**of England.**| |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|**Provision of activities aimed at**
**improving confidence, employment and**
**making friendships, for example**
**- Writing group**
**- cinema group**
**- club night**
**- arts and crafts activities**
**- festivals and public events**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The promotion of social inclusion for**
**the public benefit of autistic adults is**
**achieved with the activities we provide.**
**Activities are available to all autistic and**
**neurodivergent adults in the Bristol and**
**South West area regardless of**
**background or religion**| ## **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|**We had over 30 volunteers this year**
**involved with activities such as social**
**groups, admin functions and public**
**events/festivals**| 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|**The main activities of the charity were to**
**generate funds and to provide activities/**
**social groups.**
**The activities/social groups are for**
**and run by autistic/ neurodivergent**
**people to develop friendships, social**
**confidence, employment and positive**
**mental health using their interests. The**
**aim is to reduce social isolation, so**
**autistic and neurodivergent people feel**
**a better sense of connection and**
**relationship with others.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**This year the charity aimed to deliver its**
**objectives within its National Lottery,**
**Tackling Inequalities Funding and other**
**sources. This was to increase the**
**number, type and reach of its social**
**activities.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**The Charity has achieved the objectives**
**set for the year.**| |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|**Income for the period was £90,447**
**Expenditure for the period was £119,886**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held to ensure that the**
**charity can discharge its responsibilities**
**in respect of grant funded projects.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£42,494**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**NA**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**No funds were materially in deficit**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**NA. The charity successfully secured a**
**further three years’ funding from The**
**National Lottery during FY25**| ## **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|**National Lottery**
**Large public events**
**Other grant funding**| |---|---|---| |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|**Fundraising shortfall**| |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|**Apart from the first trustees, every**
**trustee appointed must be appointed for**
**a term of three years, by a resolution**
**passed at a properly convened meeting**
**of the charity trustees.**
**In selecting individuals for appointment**
**as charity trustees, the charity trustees**
**must have regard to the skills,**
**knowledge and experience needed for**
**the effective administration of the CIO.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|Diverse UK| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Diverse| |Registered charity number|1170255| |Charity’s principal address|8 Teewell Hill, Bristol, BS16 5PA| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Andrew Gordon
Powell|||| ||Eleanore May
Parkinson|||| ||Kay Alison
Robertson|||| ||Joanne Clough|||| ||Iain Richard
Sanderson|Finance Trustee|1 March 2025|Appointed by Board of
Trustees| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 NA held in this capacity Name and objects of the NA charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for NA 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** ## **Related Party Transaction** During the year the charity had a contract with a Trustee, Andrew Powell. The contract is for support in staff and project management. This also included building capability and delivering the services to beneficiaries. The amount paid in the year was £3000. The terms of the contract are beneficial to the charity as they are below market rate. ## **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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** Diverse UK 1170255 **Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 01-Jan-24 31-Dec-24 **To from** ~~ee~~ **CC16a** ||**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|||**Restricted**
**funds**|||**Endowment**
**funds**|||**Total funds**||**Last year**| |||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest**|**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| ||**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||| ||Donation|**9 657**|**9 657**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**9 657**||**4 013**| ||Grant|**-**|**-**||**33 230**|**33 230**||**-**|**-**||**33 230**||**47 500**| ||Fundraising|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||Festivals Income|**47 560**|**47 560**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**47 560**||**71 370**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**57 217**|**57 217**||**33 230**|**33 230**||**-**|**-**||**90 447**||**122 883**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
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**_Sub total_ -**
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**_Total receipts_ 57 217**
**33 230**
**-**
**90 447**
**122 883**
~~——————~~|||||||||||||| ||**A3 Payments**||||||||||||| ||FundraisingCosts|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||Salary|**-**|**-**||**19 530**|**19 530**||**-**|**-**||**19 530**||**14 948**| ||ER NI|**-**|**-**||**331**|**331**||**-**|**-**||**331**||**774**| ||Pension|**-**|**-**||**431**|**431**||**-**|**-**||**431**||**731**| ||Payroll & HR service & recruit costs|**-**|**-**||**521**|**521**||**-**|**-**||**521**||**534**| ||Sessional wages|**-**|**-**||**15 238**|**15 238**||**-**|**-**||**15 238**||**12 641**| ||DBS checks|**-**|**-**||**166**|**166**||**-**|**-**||**166**||**240**| ||Travel expenses|**-**|**-**||**126**|**126**||**-**|**-**||**126**||**868**| ||Trainingcosts|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**93**| ||Mobile Phone|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||Blank|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||Subsistence|**8**|**8**||**2 203**|**2 203**||**-**|**-**||**2 211**||**1 466**| ||Refreshments|**-**|**-**||**101**|**101**||**-**|**-**||**101**||**635**| ||Stationery|**-**|**-**||**518**|**518**||**-**|**-**||**518**||**366**| ||Website costs|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**95**| ||IT costs|**18**|**18**||**630**|**630**||**-**|**-**||**648**||**-**| ||Office Costs|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||Venue & Equipment Hire|**-**|**-**||**4 481**|**4 481**||**-**|**-**||**4 481**||**5 287**| ||Awareness/Marketing|**137**|**137**||**1 904**|**1 904**||**-**|**-**||**2 041**||**1 009**| ||Evaluation|**-**|**-**||**8 000**|**8 000**||**-**|**-**||**8 000**||**-**| ||ConsultancyFees|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**3 023**| ||Festivals Costs|**34 785**|**34 785**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**34 785**||**34 699**| ||Festival wages|**19 468**|**19 468**||**4 239**|**4 239**||**-**|**-**||**23 707**||**17 071**| ||Festivals|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**3 313**| ||Sessional Expenses|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||Insurance|**-**|**-**||**2 795**|**2 795**||**-**|**-**||**2 795**||**- 393**| ||Diverse Co-ordination|**-**|**-**||**4 000**|**4 000**||**-**|**-**||**4 000**||**-**| ||Christmas meal|**238**|**238**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**238**||**-**| ||Sundry|**18**|**18**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**18**||**180**| |||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|||||||**-**| ||||||||||||||**-**| ||**_Sub total_ **|**54 672**|**54 672**||**65 214**|**65 214**||**-**|**-**||**119 886**||**97 580**| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
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**_Total payments_**
**54 672**
**65 214**
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**119 886**
**97 580**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**2 545**||**- 31 984**||**-**|
|**- 29 439**||**25 303**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**- 1 235**||**1 235**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**21 300**||**50 634**||**-**||**71 934**||**46 631**| ||**22 610**||**19 885**||**-**||**42 495**||**71 934**| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 ## **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**|**22 610**
**19 885**
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**19 885**
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~~SS~~|||||||| |||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||| |||account(s))||OK||OK||OK| |||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**| |||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**| |||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**| |||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|Restricted Lottery
Fund
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Restricted Lottery
Fund
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Restricted Lottery
Fund
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IT Equipment
Sensory Equipment
Fetsival Equipment
~~——~~|||||||| |||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**| |||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature||Print Name|Print Name|||Date of
approval| |||||Andrew Gordon Powell||||30-Oct-25| |||||Iain Richard Sanderson||Iain Richard Sanderson||30-Oct-25| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 3  AP ©)   Independent_Examiner Report 2024 Accessibility Mode Edit Document Print Share Page 1 of 2 100% Give Feedback to Microsoft