## **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**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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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
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by resolution passed at a meeting of charity trustees
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
The charity remains small and based on voluntary work. We have established policies for:
- Induction and briefing of volunteers, including safeguarding and child protection procedures
- Risk assessment
We continue to work with the principle of engaging with local charities, schools and NGOs.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **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:
- Leadership Development and Life Skills Programmes.
## **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.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## 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:
- 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**
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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
- - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
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
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total 670 - - 670 1,000
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
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**
**-**
**-**
**1,483**
OK|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK|
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
||||**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|||**Details**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
**Details**
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|None|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
None|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**
None|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**||
|**charity’s own use**|||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**||**When due**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
None|**liability relates**|
**(optional)**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**(optional)**||
|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||