Help Impact
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Trustees’ Annual report
For the period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025
Charity no 1173140
Reference and administration details
Charity number 1173140
Principal address
24 Brewery Lane
Twickenham TW1 1AW United Kingdom
Bankers
HSBC Bank plc Registered in England and Wales with registration number 14259 Registered office: 8 Canada Square London E14 5HQ
Trustees
Svetlana Savelyeva, Chair of Trustees
Veronika Sokolova Yulia Kozlova
Structure, governance and management
Help Impact (the “Charity”) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose only voting members are its trustees. The Charity’s governing document is its constitution dated 23 May 2017 and amended on 8 March 2024.
Help Impact currently has three trustees. During the financial year ending 31 March 2025 no other trustees were appointed. As per the Charity’s constitution every new trustee must be appointed by a resolution passed at a meeting of the Charity trustees.
When the Charity trustees appoint new trustees, they consider knowledge, skills and experience required for the management of the Charity. Trustees may be found through existing trustees’ recommendation or advertising. When new trustees are appointed, Help Impact provides a current version of its constitution, a copy of its latest annual report and statement of accounts, its policies and recent minutes of trustee meetings. The Charity also refers new trustees to the Charity Commission’s website for its “Essential Trustee” publication and further information, and to Help Impact’s website. In addition, all new trustees are given a detailed overview of the Charity’s current state of affairs and strategy.
During the financial year ending 31 March 2025 the trustees conducted two trustee meetings. At these meetings the trustees discussed Help Impact’s strategy, projects and other current activities, fundraising initiatives and plans for the future.
Help Impact does not employ any staff. The team of Help Impact consists of three trustees. The trustees did not receive any remuneration for the performance of the Charity related activities.
At Help Impact we always welcome volunteers to support our work. We would be happy to collaborate with people with different knowledge, skills and experience. Help Impact provides continuous support to its volunteers where required. The Charity provides an induction explaining what it does and how volunteers fit within the organisation. If applicable, the Charity also provides training to assist a volunteer to meet the expected standards. The Charity allocates a main point of contact for every volunteer. A volunteer has catch-ups with the main point of contact and, if required, with other team members to agree targets for the volunteering role and discuss any questions.
As per the Charity’s Conflicts of Interest policy, the trustees must disclose any potential interest which may conflict with the interest of the Charity or their duties to the Charity. Any potential conflict must be identified, managed and minuted. The trustees confirmed that they did not have any conflicts of interest.
Objectives and activities
As per Help Impact’s constitution the objectives of the Charity are the relief of sickness, preservation of health, relief of financial hardship, and the advancement of education either generally or individually of children, young people and their families worldwide including but not limited to the UK by raising funds and making grants of money for providing or paying for items, services or facilities.
- The trustees confirm that they are aware and had due regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission. Our main priorities for this year’s strategy continued to be: e Providing grants to charities in line with Help Impact’s objectives and policies, and e Continuing with fundraising activities.
Help Impact undertook the following activities to further its purposes for the public benefit:
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e The Charity’s projects were in advancement of the Charity’s objectives and policies. The trustees carried out appropriate due diligence on NGOs which received the grants. This process included checking that funds reached their destination and are used for the purposes intended.
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e Trustees continued raising awareness of the public in relation to Help Impact’s activities and projects.
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e Trustees reviewed and followed the Charity’s policies.
Achievements and performance
Help Impact works with organisations around the world that have necessary skills and expertise to efficiently deliver a project maximising its value to beneficiaries while minimising its costs. Help Impact’s trustees invest a lot of time in due diligence to ensure the funds reach those in true need of it.
During this financial year Help Impact had the following projects detailed below.
Our Projects
Music Therapy for Sick Children
Help Impact supported the work of Rosie’s Rainbow Fund that organises music therapy sessions for sick children at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK. Rosie’s Rainbow Fund’s music therapy sessions involve live, interactive, and developmentally appropriate music-making with children. The aim of the project is to facilitate expression of feelings, reduce distress and promote well-being. Music therapy helps children to sleep or is comforting for children who are not feeling well enough to participate more actively. Playing and singing together helps to distract the young children during certain medical procedures.
For older children and teenagers, the sessions keep pace with the rapidly evolving way that music is developed and listened to across a range of devices. As part of this work, older children are encouraged and supported in writing and recording of music. Seriously ill teenagers use iPads and tablet devices to encourage creativity.
Help Impact’s grant funds are used to pay for music therapy sessions at John Radcliffe Hospital.
Therapy for Disabled Children in Moldova
Help impact was happy to award a grant to the UK-based charity St Gregory’s Foundation on a project to support disabled children in Calarashi, an hour from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. St Gregory’s Foundation works with Dorintsa, the centre for disabled and autistic children and young people in Calarashi. The centre was founded in 2001 by parents of a child with cerebral palsy.
In Calarashi children with special needs often face:
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e Insufficient psychological and physical support to cover the needs of children with disabilities
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e Lack of accessibility in general educational institutions
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e Lack of social services and rehabilitation centres at district and local levels
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e Delayed diagnosis and referrals.
The awarded funds help disabled children to access physical, cognitive and speech therapy at the only centre in the region of Calarash. They are able to socialise and communicate with their peers and reach their best potential. They benefit from social integration and greater independence. The beneficiaries of this project are children with DOWN syndrome, infantile cerebral palsy, undeveloped speech level, autistic spectrum disorder, motor deficiency and learning disabilities.
The aim of the project is to improve the children’s:
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e Self-care and personal hygiene skills e Oral communication skills — children usually improve their active and passive vocabulary e Management of emotions and behaviour e Muscle strength, development of upper and lower fine and gross motor skills, relaxing of hypertonic muscles of the upper and lower limbs
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e Metabolism, energy level and other core capacities.
Medications and medical supplies for children in Guatemala
Health&Help runs a non-profit clinic in the rural area where access to medical aid is very limited. It is the only free of charge medical centre within a 3-4 hour walking distance. Help Impact provided funds to purchase medications and medical supplies for children and young people under 25 years old suffering from the following.
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e Parasitic deceases — Quite often children cannot sleep because of itchiness all over their bodies, have persistent stomach pain and lice in their hair. These are the symptoms of very common parasitic deceases. The good news is that in most cases such parasitic deceases can be treated by only several pills within three days. After such a simple treatment children sleep better, digest food better and quite obviously but very importantly of course — stop experiencing persistent pain.
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e Skin, eyes, lungs and intestinal infections — Children suffer from these infections all the time. This is primarily due to poor life conditions and very poor hygiene standards. Most of homes do not have a shower and a lot of homes do not have a floor or a toilet. The treatment for such infections is relatively straightforward. One course of antibiotics can treat a lot of these infections.
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e Growth delay, anemia and lack of concentration — As children do not eat enough and do not receive enough vitamins, they experience growth delays, cannot concentrate and often fall asleep at school. They do not have enough haemoglobin which helps to carry oxygen throughout the body. From Health & Help children receive a course of vitamins and iron, and get their haemoglobin level checked. As a result, children’s physical and mental development significantly improves.
There are no overhead costs. Health&Help’s doctors are volunteers and also there are no other costs of running this project thanks to economies of scale. So all funds received from Help Impact are used to buy medications and medical supplies.
Risk management
The Charity trustees confirm that they:
Considered to the major risks to which the charity is exposed, and Discussed and satisfied themselves that systems or procedures are established in order to manage those risks.
The Charity trustees confirm that they acted in line with Help Impact’s risk management policy.
Financial review
Help Impact’s income for the financial year ending 31 March 2025 was £10,680 as compared to the income of £21,017 in the previous year. £13,000 was awarded and paid as grants.
The Charity is planning to use the raised funds for its projects in the new financial year. Also Help Impact aims to keep its operational costs to the very minimum. The cash funds at the end of this financial year were £34,002.
Reserves policy
Trustees agree to keep the reserves equal to three to six months of planned operational costs. Operational costs are defined as expenses related to the Charity’s operation, i.e. costs of resources to maintain the Charity.
Operation costs for the financial year ended 31 March 2025 were £191.2.
The trustees confirm that the above reserves policy requirement was met.
Plans for the future
In the next financial year the trustees plan to perform the following activities:
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e Provide grants in line with Help Impact’s objects and policies
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e Continue with fundraising activities
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® Continue raising awareness about the Charity.
Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
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CHARITY COMMISSION| Independent examiner's FOR ENGLAND AND WALES report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ members of | Help Impact On accounts for the year | 31° March 2025 ended
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| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (‘the ClO”) for the year ended 31/03/2025.
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Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the CIO, you are responsible for the preparation of basis of report the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). | report in respect of my examination of the ClO’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
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Independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: e accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
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e the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Name: | Stephen Hand
Relevant professional | Association of Certified Chartered Accountants qualification(s) or body (if any):
Address: | 60 Bitterne Drive
- Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
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October 2018
Help Impact 1173140 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period 01-Apr-24 T ° 31-Mar-25 from Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the _alia to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts [Otherincome Ci | es es ub total (Gross incomeAR)for 10,680 10,680 21,017 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A3 Payments GostoffudraisingeventsC—SCCSC‘—~‘CSCidYCSS TT GrantspadFundraisingiBank—SSSC~CSstC‘iSSSCtS]chargesplatforms processngteesCid| CS EC[C~—‘idTofSCdd YTS T E C TP818,000[oT] | OtherSSSexpenditure Pd a_i | Sub total ae) (| (| ee) ae A4 Asset and investment |purchases, (see table | Eel El ee! Net of receipts(payments) [= 727 Gms |Se |e | AS Transfers betweenfunds [|| ST CCTE AGGash funds last yearend [| Sebe2] [PP 80| | Cash funds this year end mee| | (| ee) ee
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Note 1: There was no guarantee given by Help Impact, where any potential liability under the guarantee is outstanding at the date of the statement of assets and liabilities.
Note 2: There was no debt outstanding at the date of the statement of assets and liabilities which is owed by Help Impact and which is securi by an express charge on any of the assets of Help Impact.
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