## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date||
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||01|12|2022||30|11|2023|
|**From **||||**To**||||
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** The Climate Justice Fund
**Other names charity is known by** CJF
**Registered charity number (if any) 1176223**
|**1176223**|**1176223**|
|---|---|
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20 Westdean Avenue||
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|London||
|**Postcode**|**SE12 9NL**|
**Charity's principal address**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Ezio Costa
Cordella||||
||Robert Chimambo||||
||Richard Lord||||
||Gita Parihar|Co-chair|12/22 – 03/23||
||Christoph
Schwarte||||
||Margaretha
Wewerinke-Singh||||
||Alaya de Leon|Co-chair|||
||Anne Pakoa||||
||Andrea Rodriguez
Osuna||||
||Stephen Leonhard||||
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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**|
|---|---|
|N/a||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**TAR**
1
|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
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|N/a|||
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
N/a
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Association Model Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustees are appointed in line with Arts.12 to 14 of the CJF’s constitution. Trustee selection methods This includes a geographical and gender balance. New members are (eg. appointed by, elected by) invited to join the board based on their expertise and skill set following recommendations by existing board members.
## **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;
- relationship with any related parties;
- 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**
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.
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
During the reporting period the trustees continued to assess the organisation’s work and role. Since the CJF’s inception in 2017, the wider climate justice environment has undergone significant changes and the institutional gap the CJF initially sought to address has, at least partially, been filled.
As a result, some of the trustees had informal discussions on how to reposition the organisation and to best pursue its objectives. For this purpose they reached out to young climate activists but also artists and musicians.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
Linking talent with the climate justice movement gradually emerged as one possible focus for future work of the organisation. A “sound clash for climate justice” to be held in Bonn during the climate conference in June 2023 had to be cancelled after the German partner and DJ had a serious bike accident.
In addition, the trustees discussed that such music events should not generate significant further GHG emissions and ideally use, for example, solar or bike powered sound systems. A crowed-funding platform ”climatebeats.net” was set up to showcase a number of climate justice grassroots projects in the Global South. The CJF also submitted an application for observer status to the UNFCCC secretariate (current waiting time is around 2 years).
The trustees had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit as available at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-benefit-rulesfor-charities.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|•
Informal discussions in London
•
Outreach to musicians and DJs
•
Climatebeats.net website
•
Application for UNFCCC observer status|
|---|---|
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
## **Section E Financial review**
At present the CJF’s running costs are extremely low (£6 per month to **Brief statement of the** maintain a bank account) which can easily be covered by the current **charity’s policy on reserves** reserves for many years. In the longer term, however, the charity aims to fundraise and establish a reserve to manage fluctuations in income in the future, employ staff and allow the CJF to support organisations in the Global South.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/a
## **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**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Christoph Schwarte **Full name(s)** Alaya de Leon **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Co-chair Trustee **etc) Date** 09/07/2024 09/07/2024
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**TAR**
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**The Climate Justice Fund 1176223 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 12/1/2022 11/30/2023 **To from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ -**
**A3 Payments**
**72**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 72**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 72**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 72**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ - 72**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
12,551
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
loan by C Schwarte to open bank account
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**6,551**
**6,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,551**
**6,000**
Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Alaya de Leon
Christoph Schwarte
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
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**Endowment**
**funds**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Alaya de Leon|7/9/2024|
|||Christoph Schwarte|7/9/2024|