## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: 1/12/2019 To: 30/11/2020** **Charity name: Climate Justice Fund (CJF)** **Charity registration number: 1176223** ## **Objectives and Activities** |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Conservation, protection and improvement of the physical
and natural environment at a community, regional, national
and international level. The education of the public at a
community, regional, national and international level in
subjects relating to climate change, the protection,
enhancement and rehabilitation of the environment
(including the causes, impact, mitigation of and adaptation to
climate change and related issues) and their legal rights in
respect of environmental matters.| |---|---| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|The board focused on the development of policies, strategies
and structures of the CJF. With external support stakeholder
consultations were organised and several governance
related documents drafted. The website was updated and
some initial fundraising activities carried out.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|The trustees had regard to the Charity Commission’s
guidance on public benefit as available at
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-benefit-rules-for-charities| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|•
Internal meeting and discussion to develop the
charity
•
Promotion of climate justice projects in the Global
South
•
Initial fundraising to support those projects
•
Liaising with other funds and organisations to
develop synergies and joint plans of action
•
Side event during COP25 in Madrid on climate
justice and litigation| |---|---|---| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the end of the financial period the charity
held cash funds in the total amount of
£14,518. £7,410 of this amount is restricted
to work undertaken under the FILE contract,
£7,106 destined to support general project
work.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity aims to establish a reserve to
manage fluctuations in income in the future,
employ staff and gradually become a grant
maker.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|None| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|To date, the CJF has not been able to
successfully fundraise on a larger scale. But
its running costs are also extremely low -
currently £6 per month to maintain a bank
account.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Association Model Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed in line with Arts.12 to
14 of the CJF’s constitution. This includes a
geographical and gender balance. New
members are invited to join the board based
on their expertise and skill set following
recommendations by existing board
members.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Climate Justice Fund(CJF)| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|| |Registered charity number|1176223| |Charity’s principal address|60 Torridon Road
London SE6 1RA
UK| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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15|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Kristin Casper|||| ||Ezio Costa
Cordella|||| ||Robert Chimambo|||| ||Lili Fuhr|||| ||Richard Lord|||| ||Gita Parihar|Co-chair||| ||Christoph
Schwarte|||| ||Margaretha
Wewerinke-Singh|||| ||Alaya de Leon|Co-chair||| ||Mina Suana Setra|||| ||Andrea Rodriguez
Osuna|||| ||Ruth Nyambura|||| ||Anne Pakoa|||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets|N/A| |---|---| |held in this capacity|| |Name and objects of the|| |charity on whose behalf the|| |assets are held and how this|| |falls within the custodian|| |charity’s objects|| |Details of arrangements for|| |safe custody and|| |segregation of such assets|| |from the charity’s own assets|| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser Name**
**Address**||| |**Policy and**
**networks**|Stephen
Leonhard|POB 0113, BOCBD, Bogor Bogor 16000, Indonesia| |**Admin and**
**governance**|Sonam
Gordhan|Flat 38, Marathon House, 33 Olympic Way, London HA9
0GE, UK| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Alaya de Leon **Position (eg** Co chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 29/09/21 **Climate Justice Fund (CJF) No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/12/2019 30/11/2020 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||||||**Restricted funds**|||||**Endowment**
**funds**|||||||**Total funds**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**to the nearest**|**£**|||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**|||||||**to the nearest £**||| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |27/02 Individual donations to support CJF|||||**178**||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||||**178**||| |27/04 Individual donation to support CJF|||||**5,000**||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||||**5,000**||| |28/04 Individual donation to support CJF|||||**2,000**||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||||**2,000**||| |29/07 Foundation for International Law for the||||||**-**|||||**24,780**|||||**-**|||||||**24,780**||| |Enviornment(FILE)StitchingNetherlands|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||**_Sub total_**_(Gross_|_income for AR)_|||**7,178**||||||**24,780**|||||**-**|||||||**31,958**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**(see table).**|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||**_Sub total_**||||**-**|||||**-**||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||**_Total receipts_ **|||**7,178**||||||**24,780**||||||**-**||||||**31,958**||| |**A3 Payments**
25/08 Consultant Ben Metz for work under
FILE contract
**-**
27/08 Consultant Social Innovation under
FILE contract
**-**
16/09 Consultant Wanja Muguongo under
FILE contract(via account Sonam Gordhan)
**-**
27/10 Consultant Social Innovation FILE
**-**
27/11 Consultant Sonam Gordhan FILE
contract
**-**
30/11 Consultant Rationale advisers under
FILE contract
**-**
30/11 Foreign exchange charge
**-**
Monthlyfee £6 for bank account
**72**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 72**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 72**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 7,106**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 7,106**|**A3 Payments**
25/08 Consultant Ben Metz for work under
FILE contract
**-**
27/08 Consultant Social Innovation under
FILE contract
**-**
16/09 Consultant Wanja Muguongo under
FILE contract(via account Sonam Gordhan)
**-**
27/10 Consultant Social Innovation FILE
**-**
27/11 Consultant Sonam Gordhan FILE
contract
**-**
30/11 Consultant Rationale advisers under
FILE contract
**-**
30/11 Foreign exchange charge
**-**
Monthlyfee £6 for bank account
**72**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 72**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 72**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 7,106**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 7,106**|**2,290**
**2,290**
**1,575**
**2,290**
**3,500**
**5,400**
**25**
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**17,370**
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**-**
**-**
**17,370**
**7,410**
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**purchases, (see table)**||||| ||**-**|||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **||||| |||||**17,442**| |||||| ||**7,106**|**7,410**|**-**|**14,516**| ||**-**|**- **|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**7,106**|**7,410**|**-**|**14,516**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 30/09/2021 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ||||||||||**Unrestricted**||||||**Restricted funds**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**||**Details**|||||||**funds**||||||||| ||||||||||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**||| |**B1 Cash funds**|Carried over from 2018-19 period
Frank/Schwarte||||- donation||||**64**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**||||||**-**||| |||||**_Total cash funds_**|||||**64**||||||**-**||| ||||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||||||||||||| ||||||account(s))|||Agreement Error||||||Agreement Error|||| ||||||||||**Unrestricted**||||||**Restricted funds**||| ||||||||||**funds**||||||||| ||**Details**||||||||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**||| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||**Details**||||||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||||||**Cost (optional)**||| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||**Details**||||||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||||||**Cost (optional)**||| |**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||||||||||||**-**||| |**charity’s own use**|||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**Fund to which**||||||**Amount due**||| ||**Details**||||||||**liability relates**||||||**(optional)**||| |**B5 Liabilities**||£500 loan by Christoph Schwarte|||to open bank||||||||||**500**||| ||account||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
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## **Current value (optional)** **When due (optional)** ## Date of approval 29/09/2021 CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 30/09/2021 4 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of The Climate Justice Fund On accounts for the year** 30 November 2020 **Charity no** 1176223 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30 November 2020. - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) 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. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed: Name:** Steve Brown **Relevant professional** ACMA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 22 Bramshill Gardens London NW5 1JH **----- Start of picture text -----**
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**October 2018** 1 **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**