## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day 01 Month 08 Year2022 Day 31 Month 07 Year 2023 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details The Richard Magill Fund **Charity name** The Richard Magill Fund **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1175064 **Charity's principal address** 1 Saxon Way, Bradley Stoke, Bristol **Postcode** BS32 9AR ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |2
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Gillian Behenna|||| ||Clark Denmark|||| ||Jackie Griffiths|||| ||HilarySutherland||Resigned 12/06/23|| ||David Morton||Resigned 27/07/23|| ||Jemima Buoy||Resigned 12/06/23|| ||Sara Louise
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |**Patron**|Sarah Batterbury|168 Holcambe Lane, Bathampton, BA2 6UU| |||| |||| |||| ## **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 Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Elected by serving Trustees - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** During the reporting year, we were sorry to lose 3 trustees: Hilary You **may choose** to include Sutherland (one of our founding trustees) Jemima Buoy, and David additional information, where Morton. We are very grateful to them for their work as Trustees of the relevant, about: Richard Magill Fund. • policies and procedures adopted for the induction and We actively searched for new trustees and the search will continue. So far we have not been successful in recruiting. The present Board training of trustees; numbers 5 and this poses a risk to the charity since there are not enough • the charity’s organisational trustees to cover all the work. structure and any wider network with which the charity Jemima Buoy continued to work with the charity until July 2023 to enable works; the second cohort of volunteers to complete their training. We are grateful to her. - relationship with any related parties; The Trustees keep up to date a conflict of interests register. - • trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system We set up a Paypal account to enable people to donate easily to the and procedures to manage charity them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To relieve the needs of those who are Deaf/British Sign Language (BSL) users and their carers by providing access to medical information and care for users of BSL in end of life support in particular but not **Summary of the objects of the** exclusively by providing access to training to healthcare professionals, **charity set out in its** BSL/English interpreters and Deaf advocates **governing document** March **2012** **TAR** 2 The Trustees have given due regard to the fact that all the activities of the Charity should be for the public benefit of those within our Objects. We continued training of a second cohort of volunteers and completed it. We carried out appropriate DBS checks on all our volunteers. We took part in a well-being fair in Bristol and ran two workshops looking at end-of-life issues and how to respond. We took part in a regular training session for medical students at the University of Bristol to alert them to issues for Deaf BSL users in hospital, **Summary of the main** especially at the end of life. **activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to** We printed a stock of cards with our own design that we can use as **these objects (include within** sympathy cards or for other events. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** Our volunteers actively supported 2 Deaf people at the end of life **had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity** We exhibited information at a Deaf information Day in Bristol. This **Commission on public** enabled us to talk to members of the public and Deaf people about the **benefit)** aims of the charity ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** We have future-proofed our work by developing a training programme that can be delivered over about 18 months. This can be delivered whenever there are enough new volunteers, and also ensures there are training opportunities for current volunteers who may have missed sessions. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Completed training the second cohort of volunteers All our policies have been translated into BSL and are on our website Updated the website Attended information events: Well-being fair, medics training, Deaf information day Stayed in touch with our supporters, potential volunteers and potential beneficiaries through social events, fundraising events, and Christmas cards Successfully and positively supported one Deaf person and the family until he died. We are actively supporting another Deaf person with dementia. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** ## We do not have a reserves policy at present **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** The charity relies on fundraising from the community You **may choose** to include We have a small number of regular donors. 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)** Gillian Eve Behenna **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 04.09.2023 March **2012** **TAR** 5 The Richard Magill Fund ## Management Account for the year. ## 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023 ## Income |Income|| |---|---| |Donations|£925.00| |Fundraising Events|£0.00| |Training|£600.00| |Planned Giving|£430.00| |Pay Pal testing|£0.01| |**TOTAL**|**£1955.01**| |Expenditure|| |Interpreting|£599.00| |Events - Training|£948.98| |- Expenses|£416.09| |Venue Hire|£317.25| |Publicity|£370.86| |Governance|£392.82| |Refund|£70.00| |**TOTAL**|**£3115.00**| ||| |Income over Expenditure|-£1159.99| |Carried Forward from 2021/22|£10775.84| |**TOTAL ASSETS**|£**9615.85**| Notes 1) The Total Assets matches with the balance online at end of July 2023 March **2012** **TAR** 6 2) We were checking that the Pay Pal works on the website by the PayPal organisation paying a penny. 3) To ensure the charity is able to respond quickly to people in need, we will seek to keep a minimum of £5,000 in our account. If the account goes below £5,000, efforts will be made to fundraise to above this amount. ## **Independent Examiner’s Report:** This report examines the accounts for the Richard Magill Fund between August 2022 and July 2023. Verification of the opening balance is not included in this report. Income totalling £1,955.01 is confirmed to be correct from the management accounts provided. The backup provided details the individual transactions totalling this value, although upon inspection there are anomalies in the formula used to calculate the totals. None of the outcomes are incorrect from the information provided, but the integrity of the backup would be improved if all the formula were the same. Expenditure totalling £3,115.00 is confirmed to be correct from the management accounts provided. The backup provided details the individual transactions that total the final amount, and all sub totals are correct. This section also had inconsistent formula as well as hard coded values in the total columns. Again, integrity of this section can be improved by removing all hard coded totals and by creating a consistent formula throughout. The final calculation of “Income over expenditure” at -£1,159.99 is correct, as is the final “Total Assets” of £9,615.85. There is no explanation provided this year for the activity of the categories of income and expenditure as there has been in previous years, but this does not impact the reconciliation of the management accounts for the year. Overall, this is a reconcilable view of the financial activity of the RMF through 22/23 and these accounts have passed independent examination. Eve Newman May 2024 March **2012** **TAR** 7