## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/07/2020 Period start date To 30/06/2021 Period end date**
**Charity name: Refugee Aid Network – UK**
## **Charity registration number: 1170613**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the purposes Para 1.17 For the public benefit to relieve
of the charity as set out and assist refugees, victims of
in its governing war, conflict or natural disaster, in
document particular by the provision of
volunteers, funds, food, medical
aid, shelter, access to water and
sanitation and other humanitarian
assistance.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and
1.19
activities in relation to Gathering donated aid from an
those purposes for the approved list of what is needed by
public benefit, in refugees, and taking them to a
particular, the activities, central point in Leeds where they
projects or services were sorted and distributed by
identified in the Care For Calais (UK Registered
accounts. Charity #1169048).
Statement confirming Para 1.18 Yes – Trustee have all received a
whether the trustees copy of the guidance Public
have had regard to the benefit: the public benefit
guidance issued by the requirement (PB1) and had a
Charity Commission on discussion on how it affects our
public benefit Charity.
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SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment
Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
We have continued our monthly
Trustee meetings, but we
restricted activities this financial
Summary of the main Para 1.20 year as we could not offer covid
achievements of the safety to volunteers.
charity, identifying the
difference the charity’s We have £11000 in the bank from
work has made to the “drip feed” fundraising (£30
circumstances of its standing orders a month, ongoing
beneficiaries and any appeals/donours),
wider benefits to society
as a whole. Through an online only Just Giving
appeal we raised money to pay for
two containers of medical
equipment aid to Yemen. The aid
is gifted to our partner charity,
Heartship Foundation in Belfast,
from the Northern Irish NHS. Ewe
paid for the cost of getting them
overland into Yemen. Trustees
went to Belfast, as part of our due
diligence, to pack and seal each
container before it embarked on
its journey.
We also conducted two successful
trips to France to support French
Refugees. A Trustee oversaw the
trip.
Trustees spent £500 of their own
money facilitating gathering,
sorting and collating second hand
clothes/children’s toys and goods
for Afghan refugees, which were
taken to a central warehouse in
Leeds, where a large volume of
smaller Charities were supporting
a Care For Calais donated goods
for Afghans appeal.
The Trustees discuss how to build
safe collaborations with active
charities, which fit our “donor
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**value” “due diligence” and “volunteer safety” requirements. We considered engaging with the Ukraine crisis but we do not operate in active war zones and the FCDO advised against all travel to Ukraine, so we decided our support should come as individuals, not as Trustees of Refugee Aid Network, volunteering for larger, established Charities here in the UK, thus Refugee Aid Network did not engage with the Ukraine refugee crisis.**
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Our model is to offer support
Other where there is a defined need and
a safe activity. Part of the due
diligence we conduct is around
how assured we are that any
individual action we take offers
value to donors and is safe. We
could not identify any actions that
fit our criteria due to covid this
year, but we have explored many,
and remained active.
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 We have not been very active as
financial position at the activity was severely curtailed due
end of the period to Covid 19 associated lock downs,
thus we have maintained our bank
balance at the same level for a
year, now (April 2022) embarking
on a new campaign now
restrictions and major covid
infection levels have subsided.
Statement explaining the Para 1.22 We do not hold reserves.
policy for holding
reserves stating why they
are held
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 0
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 We have no operating costs, we
reserves run entirely through Trustee
volunteer time and resource and
have no overheads/salaries, so we
do not need reserves to sustain
our operation.
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 0
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 We are confident we continue to
uncertainties about the remain financially robust through
charity continuing as a 100% donation policy, based upon
going concern single, ring-fenced specific
activities.
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds Para 1.47
(including any
fundraising)
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
Donor fatigue remains our main
risk.
A description of the Para 1.46
principal risks facing the
charity
Other
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Charity Commission Proforma
document Constitution of a Charitable
(trust deed, royal Incorporated Organisation
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 CIO
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Volunteer Trustees are elected on
methods including details a two year rotation basis, we are
of any constitutional not a member organisation, but
provisions e.g. election to mobilise around specific actions
post or name of any that fit our constitution, so
person or body entitled Trustees with Governance skills
to appoint one or more are asked to volunteer from our
trustees active volunteer pool.
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction Para 1.51
and training of trustees
The charity’s
organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Refugee Aid Network – UK
Other name the charity RAN
uses
Registered charity 1170613
number
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Charity’s principal 17 Ratcliffe Road, Haydon Bridge, Hexham NE47
address 6ER.
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person
(or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to
whole year
appoint trustee
(if any)
1 Michael Nixon Chair Elected April 2022
2 Dan Dowling Unanimous
Trustee vote
3 Muslima Miah Treasurer Elected April 2022
at 26/4/2022
Thasab meeting.
4
Maqsood
5 Caitlin Cowan Secretary Elected April 2022
6 Lana Faidulla
Sarah Fenby-
7
Dixon
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Report Approved at Michael Nixon Trustee meeting Dan Dowling 26/4/2022 Muslima Miah Thasab Maqsood Caitlin Cowan Lana Faidulla Sarah Fenby-Dixon**
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 **None** held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **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**
## **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)** Michael Nixon
**Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 28/4/22
**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date **To from**
Period end date **To**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds funds funds funds**
**to the nearest £**
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to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
donations 10,240 - - 10,240
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
10,240 - - 10,240
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 10,240 - - 10,240
A3 Payments
Aid to French Refugees in Paris Dec 2020
320 - - 320
Aid to French Refugees Nov 2020 1,960 - - 1,960
Container to Aden Nov 2020 3,800 - - 3,800
Container to Aden Oct 2020 3,000 - - 3,000
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 9,080 ] - - 9,080
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 9,080 - - 9,080
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,160 - - 1,160
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - -
Cash funds this year end 1,160 - - 1,160
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Carry over from standing orders/gift
aid/ongoing appeals
**_Total cash funds_**||**to nearest £**
**1,160**
**-**
**-**
**1,160**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree|balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK|OK||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**
none||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
none||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**
none||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||
|**charity’s own use**||||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
none||**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature|Print|Name||
||**Dan Dowling**||**Dan Dowling**|||
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CC16a
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## **Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional)**
**-**
**Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)**
Date of approval
**4/28/2022**