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Year 2024 |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period
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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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Peter Danby | Chair | ||||
| Edward Barsley | Treasurer | ||||
| John Cooper | |||||
| Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) | |||||
| Name | Dates actedif notfor 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
CIO Foundation Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by resolution passed at a meeting of charity trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
The charity remains small and based on voluntary work. We have You may choose to include established policies for: additional information, where relevant, about:
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Induction and briefing of volunteers, including safe-guarding and
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policies and procedures child protection procedures adopted for the induction and Risk assessment training of trustees; We continue to work with the principle of engaging with local charities,
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the charity’s organisational schools and NGOs. structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
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. Teaching, Facilitation and Coaching Projects, Grants and Sponsorship. Micro-financing of small business projects, community and sporting
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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. In December 2023, we ran a different schedule of Inspire programmes in Sri Lanka. We ran a facilitation training programme in Batticaloa and then visited two schools in the local rural communities using the new facilitators to support them. Then we repeated the formula in Trincomalee. Here, we visited 4 different schools and received an incredibly warm and positive welcome. We had one volunteer supporting this visit. In January 2024, we ran an Inspire programme for 60 girls in Kathmandu. Once again, we linked with the Padma Kanya School and the Laxmi Pratisthan charity. 12 of the girls came from the Kavre village and we visited the village as part of the programme then travelled to Pokhara to give the girls a new experience. We had three volunteers supporting the programme. We have continued to donate funds for educational projects and small acts of kindness involving individuals (including heart surgery for one of our facilitators). We have funded a member of the Lead to Lead group in Sri Lanka to manage the group and arrange programmes in local schools. One of the trustees continued to support small projects in Rwanda with funds and consultancy to enable the work to continue but this has been on a personal basis rather than through Small Acts of Kindness.
In December 2023, we ran a different schedule of Inspire programmes in Sri Lanka. We ran a facilitation training programme in Batticaloa and then visited two schools in the local rural communities using the new facilitators to support them. Then we repeated the formula in Summary of the main activities Trincomalee. Here, we visited 4 different schools and received an undertaken for the public benefit incredibly warm and positive welcome. We had one volunteer supporting in relation to these objects this visit. (include within this section the statutory declaration that In January 2024, we ran an Inspire programme for 60 girls in Kathmandu. trustees have had regard to the Once again, we linked with the Padma Kanya School and the Laxmi guidance issued by the Charity Pratisthan charity. 12 of the girls came from the Kavre village and we Commission on public benefit) visited the village as part of the programme then travelled to Pokhara to give the girls a new experience. We had three volunteers supporting the programme. We have continued to donate funds for educational projects and small acts of kindness involving individuals (including heart surgery for one of our facilitators). We have funded a member of the Lead to Lead group in Sri Lanka to manage the group and arrange programmes in local schools. One of the trustees continued to support small projects in Rwanda with funds and consultancy to enable the work to continue but this has been on a personal basis rather than through Small Acts of Kindness.
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
Grant making. We have had no applications for grants to support You may choose to include charitable ventures this year. further statements, where relevant, about: Volunteers are central to the Small Acts of Kindness philosophy. We policy on grantmaking; have no full or part-time employed staff and rely on volunteers to run all our projects and the administration of the charity. policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main We have received positive feedback from the Laxmi Pratisthan charity achievements of the charity about the impact of our programme in Nepal. The three volunteers all during the year expressed a desire to return to Nepal and support another programme. We have received positive feedback from a number of sources in Sri Lanka about the impact of our work there. The Trinconmalee group were full of ideas for future programmes.
Section E Financial review
The current funds in the charity’s bank account will be used to continue Brief statement of the charity’s the work outlined above. policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially in Not applicable. deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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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.
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Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
| Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date |
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| Peter John Danby | Edward Barsley | |
| Chairman | Treasurer | |
| 15 Nov 2024 |
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Charity Name No (if any) SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS 1175491
Receipts and payments accounts
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| For the period from |
Period start date 1-Apr-23 |
To | Period end date 31-Mar-24 |
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Section A Receipts and payments
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | ||||
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| to the nearest £ A1 Receipts Donations 2,435 Gift Aid claims 852 Amazon core 18 - - - - - 3,305 Unrestricted funds Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - |
to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donations | 2,435 | - | - | 2,435 852 18 - - - - - 3,305 |
11,169 500 - - - - - 11,669 |
| Gift Aid claims | 852 | - | - | ||
| Amazon core | 18 | - | - | ||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 3,305 | - | - | ||
| None - - Sub total- Total receipts 3,305 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| - | - | 3,305 | 11,669 |
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| Total receipts | 3,305 | - | - | 3,305 | 11,669 |
| A3 Payments Admin 29 Project Equipment 2,964 Travel(volunteers andproject trips) 3,315 Accommodation(volunteers andprojects) 1,733 Project catering/ refreshments 658 Universitysponsorship 1,010 Donation to CACM - Sri Lanka - - Sub total 9,709 |
A3 Payments Admin 29 Project Equipment 2,964 Travel(volunteers andproject trips) 3,315 Accommodation(volunteers andprojects) 1,733 Project catering/ refreshments 658 Universitysponsorship 1,010 Donation to CACM - Sri Lanka - - Sub total 9,709 |
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29 | - | - | 29 2,964 3,315 1,733 658 1,010 - - - 9,709 |
34 172 3,020 212 486 610 510 - - 5,044 |
| Project Equipment | 2,964 | - | - | ||
| Travel(volunteers andproject trips) | 3,315 | - | - | ||
| Accommodation(volunteers andprojects) | 1,733 | - | - | ||
| Project catering/ refreshments | 658 | - | - | ||
| Universitysponsorship | 1,010 | - | - | ||
| Donation to CACM - Sri Lanka | - | - | |||
| - | - | - | |||
| - | - | - | |||
| Sub total | 9,709 | - | - |
| A4 Asset and investment | |||||||||||
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| Total payments | 9,709 | - | - | 9,709 | 5,044 | ||||||
| Net of receipts/(payments) - | 6,404 | - | - | - 6,404 | 6,625 | ||||||
| A5 Transfers between funds | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| A6 Cash funds last year end | 8,108 | - | - | 8,108 | 1,483 | ||||||
| Cash funds this year end | 1,704 | - | - | 1,704 | 8,108 |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds |
Details Cash in bank |
to nearest £ 1,704 Unrestricted funds |
to nearest £ - Restricted funds |
to nearest £ - Endowment funds |
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| Cash in bank | 1,704 |
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| Total cash funds | 1,704 | - | - | |||||
| (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
OK | OK | OK | |||||
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| Details | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | |||||
| B2 Other monetary assets | None | - | - | - | ||||
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| B3 Investment assets | None | - | - | |||||
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| B4 Assets retained for the | None | - | - | |||||
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Signature | Name | Date of approval |
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| Peter John Danby | 15-Nov-24 | |||||||
| Edward Barsley | 15-Nov-24 |