## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1/4/21 Period start date To 31/03/22 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Spinal Unit Recreational Fund** ## **Charity registration number:1174099** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To assist in the rehabilitation of people**
**suffering a spinal cord issue or injury**
**into society.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**To help people who have suffered a**
**spinal cord injury to rehabilitate and**
**rejoin society- often with a reduced level**
**of independence or with mobility issues.**
**To do this we organise monthly events**
**on and off the spinal unit, with members**
**of the spinal injuries community**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have full regard to the**
**requirements of the Charity Commission**
**for operating, running and carrying out**
**our activities for our beneficiaries.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**We remain thankful to receive support**
**from a small group of volunteers who**
**help us to operate safely and correctly**
**at all times**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**We have helped many people in their**
**acceptance and dealing with / coming to**
**terms of their spinal cord issues.**
**Without the support and events that we**
**arrange those people would find**
**rehabilitation into society far harder.**
**We seek feedback after all our activities**
**and events to ensure we are effective in**
**what and how we operate.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We remain financially stable and**
**continue to benefit from people**
**donating to ourselves as an**
**organisation.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We hold sufficient financial monies in**
**our account so that we can fund our**
**events throughout the current and next**
**year.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**61528.06**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Donations from benefactors , their**
**families and friends who wish us to**
**continue the services they have**
**received for other people**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**We do not invest any of our funds**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**None**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**none**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charity incorporated Organisation,**
**foundation**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charity incorporated Organisation,**
**foundation**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Election by committee members**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Spinal Unit Recreational Fund| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|SURF| |Registered charity number|1174099| |Charity’s principal address|Pinderfields Hospital
Yorkshire Region Spinal Unit, Floor A.
Aberford Road
Wakefield
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Peter Lau|Sec||Peter Lau| ||Wayne
Cunningham|Chair||Wayne Cunningham| ||Rebecca
Hopkinson|Treasurer||Rebecca Hopkinson| ||Leslie Davidson
Page|||Leslie Davidson Page| ||EmilySmith|||EmilySmith| ||Martin Endersby|||Martin Endersby| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** 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 none charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **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)** Peter Lau **Full name(s)** Peter Lau **Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary **Chair, etc)** **Date** 7/11/23