**The Gold from the Stone Foundation** Charity No. 1175167 


## **Trustees' Annual Report &** 

## **Unaudited Receipts and Payments Accounts** 

**for the period 1[st] January 2021 to 31[st] December 2021** 



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|Reference and Administration Details|1|
|Structure, Governance and Management|2|
|Objectives and Activities|2|
|Achievements and Performance|2|
|Financial Review|3|
|Independent Examiners Report|4|
|Receipts and Payments Accounts|5|





THE GOLD FROM THE STONE FOUNDATION RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 2021 

## **Reference and Administration Details** 

Charity Name: The Gold from the Stone Foundation Registered Charity Number: 1175167 Trustees: Simon Ruding (Secretary) Angela Samata (Chair) Lemn Sissay Parvinder Sohal Charity's Principal Address: Room SL10 The Martin Harris Centre The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Independent Examiner: Peter Smith BA FCA DChA & Accountants: HGA Accountants & Financial Consultants Ltd t/a Chittenden Horley - Chartered Accountants The Wesley Centre Royce Road, Hulme Manchester M15 5BP Bankers: CAF Bank 25 Kings Hill Ave Kings Hill West Malling ME19 4JQ 

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THE GOLD FROM THE STONE FOUNDATION RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 2021 

## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

Type of Governing Document: Constitution How the Charity is Constituted: Charitable Incorporated Organisation Trustee Selection Methods: Trustees can only be appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

The Foundation’s principle focus is the support of projects that help address the needs of young people who are, or have been, in care. 

The Trustees have complied with section 2(1)(b) of the Charities Act 2011, having due regard for the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit when reviewing the Foundation’s aims and objectives, when setting the grant-making policy and in making awards. 

The Foundation’s main focus is offering support to individuals and agencies working to address the disadvantages faced by those in care and care experienced young adults. The Foundation’s main focus is The Christmas Dinners. Founded in 2013, the Dinners are a nationwide initiative organised by teams of volunteers who cpme together to provide a magical, fun-filled day, complete with special presents and a scrumptious dinner on Christmas Day to care experienced young adults aged between 18 and 25.  Each of the Dinners is independent of the Foundation, overseen a steering group of volunteers who come together to make a Dinner in their local community.  The Foundation supports these teams to make their dreams a reality offering guidance, advice and support, networking opportunities and funding. 

The founder of the Dinners, Lemn Sissay OBE says: ‘Many care leavers are sat in flats, B&Bs and hostels, away from family, or sofa-surfing, and some are indeed living on the streets on their own at Christmas. Christmas is a reminder of everything they never had… I know because I’ve shared their experiences… But since 2013, thanks to passionate groups of volunteers supported by generous donations, we’ve been able to put on scrumptious Christmas meals and create a magical day to remember… The Christmas Dinners will be a life-changing and life-saving experience.’ 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

In 2021, the Foundation continued to offer the advice, guidance and financial support totalling £41,000 enabling local teams to coordinate and deliver Christmas Dinners in Barnsley, Birmingham, Bradford, Cheshire East, Ealing, Ellesmere Port, Exeter, Folkestone, Hackney, Huddersfield, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesbrough & Teesside, Nottingham, Peterborough, Richmond, Salford, South London, Stockport, Sutton, Trafford and Wirral. 

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THE GOLD FROM THE STONE FOUNDATION RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 2021 

The Dinners were delivered in the face of the ongoing challenges presented by the Covid-19 Omicron variant restrictions and their success is an extraordinary testament to the tenacity, resilience and creative thinking of the local teams that donated their time through the autumn and winter of 2021.  We continue to owe them our thanks. Unsurprisingly, The Foundation’s role and activity shifted in response to the emergency, and we continued to offer a programme of support and guidance which took full advantage of digital technologies to link teams; the result of this was a national community of volunteers offering much needed mutual support, sharing ideas and exchanging strategies. 

## **Financial Review** 

## **Reserves Policy** 

The reserves that we have set aside provide the means for the funding of our principal activity, The Christmas Dinners project, for one year.  We intend to maintain our unrestricted reserves at a level which is at least equivalent to £35,000. 

## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature:** 


**Full Name: Simon Philip Ruding Position: Secretary Date: 16[th] June 2022** 

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THE GOLD FROM THE STONE FOUNDATION RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 2021 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the period January 1[st] 2021 to 31[st] December 2021, set out on the next page. 

As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 

## **Independent examiner's statement** 

I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 

- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 

I 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. 

## **Peter Smith BA FCA DChA** 

HGA Accountants & Financial Consultants Ltd t/a **Chittenden Horley** - Chartered Accountants The Wesley Centre Royce Road, Hulme Manchester M15 5BP                          Date:  16[th] June 2022 


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## THE GOLD FROM THE STONE FOUNDATION RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 2021 

||**The Gold from the Stone Foundation**|**The Gold from the Stone Foundation**|**The Gold from the Stone Foundation**|**The Gold from the Stone Foundation**|**The Gold from the Stone Foundation**|**No. 1175167**|**No. 1175167**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||01/01/2021||**To**||31/12/2021|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Individual Donations|**16,225**||**100**||**-**||**16,325**||**20,264**|
|CompanyDonations|**4,000**||**-**||**-**||**4,000**||**-**|
|Refunded Grants|||**1,500**||**-**||**1,500**||**2,500**|
|Other|**15,000**||**-**||**-**||**15,000**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**35,225**||**1,600**||**-**||**36,825**||**22,764**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_**|**35,225**||**1,600**||**-**||**36,825**||**22,764**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Charitable Expenditure|||**41,000**||**-**||**41,000**||**17,500**|
|General Expenses|||**353**||**-**||**353**||**231**|
|Bank Charges|**312**||**-**||**-**||**312**||**60**|
|Fees|||**4,148**||**-**||**4,148**||**2,400**|
|Other Cosst|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**312**||**45,501**||**-**||**45,813**||**20,191**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Totalpayments_**|**312**||**45,501**||**-**||**45,813**||**20,191**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**34,913**||**-                43,901**||**-**||**-                  8,988**||**2,573**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**22,011**||**70,139**||**-**||**92,150**||**89,577**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**56,924**||**26,238**||**-**||**83,162**||**92,150**|



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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|
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|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank Balance||||**56,924**||**26,238**|**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**56,924**||**26,238**|**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts andpayments account(s))||||OK||OK|OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
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|||||||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**|**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**|**-**|
||||||||**-**|**-**|
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|||||||||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name|||Date of approval|
||||||Simon Ruding|||16/06/2022|



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