## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 04 2020 **To** 31 03 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
Association of Independent Visitors and Consultants to Children Services
**Charity name** Children Services **Other names charity is known by** AIVCCS and The Regulation 44 Association **Registered charity number (if any)** 1171129
**Charity's principal address**
6 Ardent Close London **Postcode** SE25 6SR
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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 (ifany)**|
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||Cheryl Carter|Chair||Board of Trustees|
||Laila Morgan|Treasurer|||
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Rainford-Butler||||
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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**
**TAR**
March **2012**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Elaine Pearson-Scott
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charity Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by Board Members
(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;
All staff currently work on a volunteer basis including the CEO next year we will be pursuing funding to change this as the organisation needs this for growth to achieve targets.
Policy and practice is under continual development and review
- 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**
The Objects of the CIO are: with respect to its purpose and public benefit
**Summary of the objects of the** To relieve the needs of and promote good health, and **charity set out in its** wellbeing, to advance in life **governing document**
and help children and young people looked after in England and Wales through the promotion and the development of the knowledge
**TAR**
March **2012**
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standards and impact of independent visitors, who are responsible for the monitoring and making recommendations for improving of the service they receive, visiting and reporting on Children’s homes on a monthly basis unannounced and announced and by in particular but not exclusively: By informing and raising awareness INCLUDING 1. In gaps in practice and service for Looked After Children 2. The Role and Responsibility of The Independent Visitor By monitoring, evaluating and presenting the outcomes of these where to do so furthers the charitable purposes of the charity By increasing the impact of independent Visitors and Consultants in the realm of policy making for looked after children By promoting excellent standards of Independent visiting and Consultation for looked after services through the development and sharing of best practice guidance, code of practice and training and support all with the aim of increasing the children’s and young people’s health and wellbeing, their capabilities, competences, skills, understanding and their attainment level
**TAR**
March **2012**
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Procedure development Training development Strategy review and development
**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)**
The Organisation is currently run on a voluntary basis. The plan is to increase capacity through paid staff while maintain volunteering as a strategic objective. Infrastructure support and finance still required for this.
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
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Grant bids continue to be submitted Successful bid to NL Community Fund Website being updated Consult returned fee as a unrestricted donation.
**TAR**
March **2012**
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
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**TAR**
March **2012**
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## **Section E Financial review**
The policy is to build up reserves over the next 5 years to 50% of what **Brief statement of the** our spend is in 22/23 moved back because of COVID19 **charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** n/a **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
Funding strategy in place . +You **may choose** to include additional information, where All expenditure has been on activities , training, meetings and technology relevant about: to further our objectives, including a website and face book page. • the charity’s principal conference past present and future meetings at Liverpool university 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)** Cheryl Carter **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 22/02/2022
**TAR**
March **2012**
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**Association of Independent Visitors and Consultants to Child care No (if any)**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
Apr-20 Mar-21 **M To**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**8**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**2,008**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,008**
**48**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48**
**1,960**
**-**
**666**
**2,626**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,937**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,937**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,000**
**937**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|member fees|**8**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**8**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,008**||||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||
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**-**
**-**|**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||
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|consultancyfees|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,000**|
|expenses|**48**|||**48**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**48**||||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||
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**-**
**-**|**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||
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||**1,960**|**937**|**-**||
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**-**||
||**666**|**-**|||
||**2,626**|**-**|**-**||
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
09/04/2022
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,689**
**937**
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||**Amount due**
**(optional)**|
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|||Cheryl Carter||
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
09/04/2022
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## **CC16a**
## **Last year**
**to the nearest £ - - - - - - -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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Date of approval 28/02/2022
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