## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 Sep 2019 31 Aug 2020
**To**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Contented the Charity
**Other names charity is known by** CtC **Registered charity number (if any)** 1173136
59 Main Street
Ticknall
Derby **Postcode** DE73 7JF
## **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 appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Gethin Davies Chair - -
2 Robin Whelan Treasurer - -
3 Keith Horsfall - - -
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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**
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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)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution, 18 September 2016. Type of governing document Amended objectives, May 2017 and May 2020
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation), 'foundation' model How the charity is constitution, whose only voting members are its charity trustees. constituted
- (eg. trust, association,
company)
Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
The constitution states: “Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee 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 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;
- 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.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
|**Summary of the objects**
**of the charity set out in**
**its governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for**
**the public beneft 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 beneft)**|The relief of unemployment for the beneft of the public,
including in such ways as the trustees see ft, assisting them to
fnd employment.
The advancement of education for the beneft of the public, in
such ways as the charity trustees think ft, including by
developing their mental, physical and moral capabilities.|
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||In the third year of the charity, our frst project was completed
and reported to the satisfaction of funders and a new proposal
developed. Unfortunately, the Covid pandemic caused all
funding to stop: our university funding was withdrawn and other
funders, including the National Lottery, rejected a number of
subsequent applications, apparently due to high demand.
Volunteers struggled on, moving operations online using
Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint, zoom.us and creative
platforms. Partnerships with more established charities were
explored. Staf engaged in training including coaching and
supervision accreditation, completed enhanced police checking,
and supported successful partner ISO9001 and ILM audits. We
had one serious mental health incident among our staf which
was managed with the support of an external national charity
with an excellent outcome.
Thanks to the EU Erasmus+ programme we were able to recruit
a volunteer to support us and half a dozen graduates were
supported throughout the spring and summer in spite of the
withdrawal of fnance.
In planning, monitoring and steering these activities, the
trustees believe they have complied with their duty to pay due
regard to the commission's public beneft guidance when
exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is
relevant.
The team has taken time to understand the guidance on public
beneft issued by the charity commission.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-beneft-rules-for-charities
The additional objective covering education (see above)
included in a revised constitution and approved by the Charity
Commission.
Simple policies remain in place for:
Risk management
Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
Conficting interests
Volunteer management
Complaints handling
Paying staf|
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
As above (Section C).
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
It is the policy of this charity to hold in unrestricted reserves the equivalent of six months general overheads including salary costs.
This policy will be reviewed annually or before an officer is appointed.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
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## **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**
## **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)** Gethin Davies **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)**
**Date** 30 May 2021
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