## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 April 2021 Period start date To 31 March 2022 Period end date Charity name: The Brun Bear Foundation**
## **Charity registration number: 1174159**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1. TO MAKE GRANTS AND DONATIONS**
**TO CHARITIES THAT ARE REGISTERED**
**IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND WHICH**
**CARRY OUT MEDICAL RESEARCH FOR**
**THE PURPOSES OF:**
**A. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND**
**PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF**
**GOOD HEALTH THROUGH MEDICAL**
**RESEARCH INTO INFANT AND**
**CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES; AND**
**B. THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND**
**SUFFERING, AND THE**
**CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION AND**
**PROTECTION OF ANIMALS, WITH**
**PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON BEARS.**
**2. TO MAKE SUCH GRANTS AND**
**DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITIES**
**THAT ARE REGISTERED IN ENGLAND**
**AND WALES OR TO SUPPORT THE**
**CHARITABLE WORK OF OTHER**
**ORGANISATIONS THAT ARE**
**ESTABLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF**
**THE PUBLIC IN THE LONDON**
**BOROUGHS OF BROMLEY AND**
**LEWISHAM FOR ANY OR ALL OF THE**
**FOLLOWING PURPOSES:**
**A. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY,**
**SICKNESS AND DISTRESS;**
**B. THE PRESERVATION AND**
**PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH; AND**
**C. THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL**
**FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF**
**SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT**
**OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF**
**LIFE.**|
|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|Main activities – see para 1.20 for added
detail.
1. Continued sales of children’s books
2. BAME Maternity project/Conference
3. Support delivery of monthly early
pregnancy evenings at Lewisham
Hospital
4. Responding to Covid-19
5. Expanded volunteer programme
6. Second Simon Shades Scholarship
Awarded
7. Overseas and other Epic Adventure
Fundraising Programmes developed
And the following donations:
1. Wellbeing Wallets
2. Kings College Maternity Award
3. WildBear Award Established|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Confirmed: The Trustees are familiar with
and have regard to the Charity Commission
Guidance as detailed in: “Public Benefit:
running a charity (PB2)”|
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SORP reference Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment Para 1.38 including program related investment Contribution made by Para 1.38 volunteers Other
Achievements and Performance
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|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|**Children’s Book Sales Continue**
Sales of our two children’s books provided
much needed fundraising income and also
supports our programme of book readings
which promote good citizenship, identity and
social cohesion.
**BAME Maternity Online Academy project**
**initiated. Second Annual event delivered.**
**Volunteer on a monthly basis to support**
**delivery of Lewisham Hospital Early**
**Pregnancy Evenings**
Pursuant to our charitable objective to
relieve sickness and prevention of good
health through medical research into infant
and childhood illness, the charity continued
to deliver and expand its BAME Maternity
programme. This initiative highlights
maternity issues facing diverse communities
with programming led by Helen Knower,
Director of Midwifery, Lewisham and
Greenwich NHS Trust. In its second year, a
number of well-received webinars were
delivered, work began on delivery of an
online academy and a second annual online
conference delivered. Time on a monthly
basis is also given to support delivery of
monthly online early pregnancy evenings.
This work promotes shared learning and
best practice and reaches an audience
spanning midwifery, the wider medical
profession, Maternity Voice Partnerships,
policy makers, social workers, charities and
crucially a diverse range of communities
from within the Boroughs of Lewisham and
Bromley and far beyond.
**Simon Shades Scholarship**
The second Simon Shades Scholarship
awarded. This saw a cocktail event held at
Oxford University which raised funds and
promoted awareness of the charity. It also
created a volunteering opportunity for a
Lewisham based student who continues to
volunteer.
**Book readings**
Continued book readings promoting good
citizenship, identity and social cohesion.
**Grant making activities**
Grants were made in support of wellbeing
wallets at Lewisham Hospital and the
Kings College Maternity Award funded
which recognised outstanding
undergraduate research into issues
facing marginalised and vulnerable
communities.|
The WildBear Award was established in partnership with NGO WildLabs and the first award made in support of a Canadian based project, the unanimous choice from a shortlist of 17 high-level applications.
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Achievements against objectives set
> Para 1.41 **We are proud of what we have achieved this year:** We are proud of our continued response to the Covid-19 pandemic and that we not only sustained our charitable programmes but sought to extend our reach, notably through the WildBear Award, participation in communal activities such as Lewisham Hospital’s Online Early Pregnancy Evenings and continued to innovate, prime example being the work begun on the online academy and epic adventures.
We are especially proud to have undertaken book readings promoting good citizenship, identity and social cohesion. And that we were able to offer an increased number of volunteering opportunities with the Foundation. The volunteers made outstanding contributions and have given favourable reviews of their experience, including citing it as invaluable in taking their next professional step. We have managed to maintain a generous grant programme against the backdrop of severely impacted annual revenues.
|||**Awareness campaigns**
We continue to invest considerable time in
promoting community cohesion through our
various activities.|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Our fundraising activity was more or less in
line with the previous year. Both years felt
the impact of Covid-19 which
compromised our ability to organise and
participate in live events, including
community and cultural events and epic
adventures. Live events have been a
major fundraising source. Offsetting this
has been our successful pivot online,
especially re: our BAME Maternity initiative
and sales of our books and continued
innovation when it comes to fundraising
initiatives and charitable giving in line with
our objects. As a charity we are not reliant
on any one big event and have diversified
streams of income.|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Cash at the end of the year was £17,352|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The current level of reserves (~£17k) are
being maintained to meet existing
commitments including funding an
expanded programme of annual awards;
projects delayed by reasons of Covid-19
and the costs of running future events. The
Trustees consider the amount is suitably
prudent and ensures the Foundation’s
ability to meet any unexpected call on its
funds to meet an emergency in one of the
sectors it supports.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Cash as above|
|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|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|All funds are raised through donations. In
ordinary times the charity’s principal
fundraising activities include sports and
communal events, dinners, sales of books
and associated merchandise, and epic
challenges. The pivot online has opened a
new fundraising streams which we expect
to make a positive contribution as they
come online in parallel with a return to live
events.|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A - All funds are reserved in cash for
future projects|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Key person risk – the day-to-day activities
principally fall on the Trustees as we have
no staff.|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO Foundation Registered 13.03.2017|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|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|We are small and have to intention of
taking on additional trustees and therefore
have not formulated a procedure in this
regard|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|When relevant we will formalise the
process for the appointment of new
trustees|
|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||
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Brun Bear Foundation|
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|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1174159|
|Charity’s principal address|Flat 5 Legion House
Old Bromley Road
Bromley
Kent BR1 4LB|
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## – 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
held in this capacity|N/A|
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|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|N/A|
## **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**
|**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|**charity’s trustees**||
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|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**
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15.01.2023
Edwin Lampert
Edwin Lampert
Founder|
Edwin Lampert|Dorothy Lampert|
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Edwin Lampert|Dorothy Lampert|
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Founder|Trustee|
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