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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **6 April 2020 5 April 2021**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** RAF Pathfinders Archive
**Other names charity is known by** RPA **Registered charity number (if any)** 1176507
|**red charity number (if any)**|1176507|1176507|
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|**Charity's principal address**|
Pathfinder Office, The Pennys||
||Winforton, Hereford||
||Herefordshire||
||**Postcode HR3 6EA**||
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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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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered 3 January 2018 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Appointment by existing Trustees Trustee selection methods
(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;
- 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**
To advance the education of the public by the establishment and maintenance of an archive of material comprising photographs, documents, artefacts and memoires relating to the RAF Pathfinders of WWII; to digitise the material and provide public access via the internet and to arrange displays with, and loan or donate material to, suitable museums for the purpose of public education.
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Having had regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission, the trustees have exercised their powers and carried out their duties by:
- a. the continuation of the very active and successful website at https://raf-pathfinders.com/ and new website: https://rafpathfinders.com/
- b. the utilisation of social media such as Facebook to publicise the website and the charity’s work
**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)**
- c. the collection from members of the public of a large number of digital photographs, documents and memoires, to add to the existing digitised collection, to save for posterity and for future research
- d. the receipt of additional Pathfinder artefacts as donated gifts, to save for posterity and for future research
- e. the formation of links with other bodies connected with the Pathfinders
**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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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
- a. the development of a new, thematically structured website, which will initially run in tandem with the old website, and the use of social media to publicise the charity
- b. the collection from members of the public of a large number of digital photographs, documents and memoires to add to the existing digitised collection, to save for posterity and for future research
- c. the receipt of additional Pathfinder physical artefacts as donated gifts
- d. the carrying out of extensive research into the setting up of a museum-standard database of all the Archive’s assets, both digital and physical
- e. the formation of links with other archives with a focus on the Pathfinders, especially Queensland Air Museum in Australia and the Pathfinder Collection at RAF Wyton. At the end of December 2020, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed with Queensland Air Museum to facilitate the interchange of information between the two archives.
- f. the continuation of the Archive’s work despite the difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and associated problems, which led (as with many other charities) to a major fall in fund-raising.
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## **Section E Financial review**
There is no policy on reserves. Reserves will not accumulate until **Brief statement of the** outstanding interest-free loans are repaid. **charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **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) Full name(s)** Dr Jennie Gray **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 27/01/2022
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