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2022-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 1 Apr 2021 To 31 Mar 2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Small Acts of Kindness

Other names charity is known by SAOK Registered charity number (if any) 1175491 Charity's principal address Wellstead Cottage

Chantlers Hill

Paddock Wood, Kent Postcode TN12 6LX

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Peter Danby Chair
2 Edward Barsley Treasurer
3 John Cooper
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

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

CIO Foundation Constitution

How the charity is constituted

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Trustee selection methods

Appointed by resolution passed at a meeting of charity trustees

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

The charity remains small and based on voluntary work. We have established policies for:

We continue to work with the principle of engaging with local charities, schools and NGOs.

Section C Objectives and activities

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To help young people anywhere in the world impacted by poverty or conflict by providing directly, or through local authorities, voluntary and other organisations, especially but not exclusively:

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

Teaching, Facilitation and Coaching Projects, Grants and Sponsorship.

Micro-financing of small business projects, community and sporting projects.

So as to develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society.

Our original application for charitable status stated:

We run leadership/life skills programmes using sport (rugby, football and cricket) as the vehicle for the learning and development process. We invite volunteers to support the projects and we base our work on local organisations - schools, church, other NGOs - to help with logistics and to ensure lasting impact. In each country we are building a cohort of coaches and facilitators to assist and, eventually, run the programmes.

The Covid19 pandemic has continued to significantly and Summary of the main adversely impacted on the charity’s work this financial year with activities undertaken for travel prohibitions and a variety of lockdowns for the majority of the public benefit in the year. relation to these objects (include within this A donation was made to Tamil Aid for sponsorship of Sri Lankan section the statutory students attending university. declaration that trustees have had regard to the Despite the pandemic the group ‘Lead to Lead’ in Sri Lanka guidance issued by the continue to initiate and run projects in the local community and Charity Commission on this is now self-funding. public benefit)

One of the trustees continued to support small projects in Rwanda to enable the work to continue but this has been on a personal basis rather than through Small Acts of Kindness.

Trip down to Folkestone in June to do sport with asylum seekers in Napier Barracks.

Provisions of sports clothing to allow an asylum seeker to join his local cricket team. Provision of English language books to support asylum seekers learning English.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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Grant making. We have had no applications for grants to You may choose to include support charitable ventures this year. further statements, where relevant, about:

Volunteers are central to the Small Acts of Kindness philosophy. We have no full or part-time employed staff and rely on volunteers to run all our projects and the administration of the charity.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the

charity during the year

The pandemic prevented our charity from undertaking its normal activities. A donation was made to the Church of America Ceylon Mission through Tamil Aid to support the work they do enabling students to attend university.

Section E Financial review

The current funds in the charity’s bank account will be used to Brief statement of the continue the work outlined above. charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Not applicable.

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

Section F Other optional information

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Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Edward Barsley Full name(s) Peter John Danby Position (eg Secretary, Chairman Treasurer Chair, etc) Date 16/12/2022

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Charity Name No (if any)
SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS 1175491
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 1-Apr-21 31-Mar-22
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations 576 - - 576 530
Gift Aid claims 250 - - 250
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Sub total (Gross income for AR) 826 - - 826 530
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
None - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total receipts 826 - - 826 530
A3 Payments
Admin 29 - - 29
Project Equipment - - -
Travel (volunteers and project trips) - - -
Accommodation (volunteers and projects) - - -
Project catering / refreshments 141 - - 141
University sponsorship 500 - - 500 1,000
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Sub total 670 - - 670 1,000
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 670 - - 670 1,000
Net of receipts/(payments) 156 - - 156 - 470
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 1,327 - - 1,327 1,797
Cash funds this year end 1,483 - - 1,483 1,327
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Categories Details funds funds funds
B1 Cash funds Cash in bank
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))		 to nearest £
1,483
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1,483
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OK		 to nearest £
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OK
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £

Details

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B3 Investment assets Details
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asset belongs		 Cost (optional)
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B4 Assets retained for the Details
None		 Fund to which
asset belongs		 Cost (optional)
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Current value
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charity’s own use






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B5 Liabilities Details
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Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees		 Signature Print Name Date of
approval
Peter John Danby 16-Dec-22
Edward Barsley 16-Dec-22