## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day 01 Month 04 Year 2022 Day 31 Month 03 Year 2023
**From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Wishing Foundation
**Other names charity is known by**
None
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1171966
**Charity's principal address** The Grange
Somersby
Spilsby, Lincolnshire
**Postcode PE23 4NR**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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PerryWarnes|None|||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
- Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Constitution
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed
- (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;
There have been no new policies during the course of this year and existing policies have been followed.
Trustees have considered their robust Financial processes and are happy that these are fit for purpose
- 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.
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
**Section C Objectives and activities**
1) The relief of poverty, financial hardship and sickness and the preservation and protection of good health, wellbeing and personal development of children, in particularly but not exclusively, orphans, **Summary of the objects of the** street children and underprivileged children and their families worldwide; **charity set out in its** 2) The prevention or relief of childhood poverty worldwide by providing **governing document** grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities or other **Summary of the main activities** organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty; **undertaken for the public** 3) To provide care in such ways as the charity trustees see fit to children **benefit in relation to these** worldwide who have been displaced, are deprived, poor or homeless; **objects (include within this section the statutory** Trustees have started working with an adviser to plan out what **declaration that trustees have** developments they felt would be appropriate and achievable however, **had regard to the guidance** due to family reasons, this work is just beginning **issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** The objects of the charity have always been paramount to the trustees and it has been very difficult and disappointing for the Chair especially to have had to put the charity on hold for these last few years.
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
March **2012**
**TAR**
3
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The charity had to hold back their developments due to family reasons and are now reviewing and reflecting upon their work for the future
## **Section E Financial review**
March **2012**
**TAR**
5
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Wishing Foundation needs reserves in order to ensure there are sufficient cash reserves in the current account to cover day to day running costs
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
- Funds are low but not in deficit – funds are only used if fundraising has been successful
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal 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**
The charity trustees had to hold the developments due to family reasons and are now reviewing how they are going to pick up on their exciting work.
## **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)** Penelope Calvert **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair **Date** 30 May 2024
March **2012**
**TAR**
6
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day 01 Month 04 Year 2022 Day 31 Month 03 Year 2023
**From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Wishing Foundation
**Other names charity is known by**
None
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1171966
**Charity's principal address** The Grange
Somersby
Spilsby, Lincolnshire
**Postcode PE23 4NR**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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0|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any) **|
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||Penelope Calvert|Chair|||
||Georgina
PerryWarnes|None|||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
March **2012**
**TAR**
1
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
- Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Constitution
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed
- (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;
There have been no new policies during the course of this year and existing policies have been followed.
Trustees have considered their robust Financial processes and are happy that these are fit for purpose
- 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.
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
**Section C Objectives and activities**
1) The relief of poverty, financial hardship and sickness and the preservation and protection of good health, wellbeing and personal development of children, in particularly but not exclusively, orphans, **Summary of the objects of the** street children and underprivileged children and their families worldwide; **charity set out in its** 2) The prevention or relief of childhood poverty worldwide by providing **governing document** grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities or other **Summary of the main activities** organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty; **undertaken for the public** 3) To provide care in such ways as the charity trustees see fit to children **benefit in relation to these** worldwide who have been displaced, are deprived, poor or homeless; **objects (include within this section the statutory** Trustees have started working with an adviser to plan out what **declaration that trustees have** developments they felt would be appropriate and achievable however, **had regard to the guidance** due to family reasons, this work is just beginning **issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** The objects of the charity have always been paramount to the trustees and it has been very difficult and disappointing for the Chair especially to have had to put the charity on hold for these last few years.
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
March **2012**
**TAR**
3
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The charity had to hold back their developments due to family reasons and are now reviewing and reflecting upon their work for the future
## **Section E Financial review**
March **2012**
**TAR**
5
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Wishing Foundation needs reserves in order to ensure there are sufficient cash reserves in the current account to cover day to day running costs
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
- Funds are low but not in deficit – funds are only used if fundraising has been successful
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal 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**
The charity trustees had to hold the developments due to family reasons and are now reviewing how they are going to pick up on their exciting work.
## **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)** Penelope Calvert **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair **Date** 30 May 2024
March **2012**
**TAR**
6