2022-12-31-accounts - Wigs For Heroes

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	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
	From	Period start date			To	Period end date
		01	01	2022		31	12	2022

Section A

Reference and administration details

Charity name Wigs For Heroes Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1177051 Charity's principal address Wigs For Heroes 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden London Postcode WC2H 9JQ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
Meryem Foncette	Founder	Wigs For Heroes Board of Trustees
Matthew Foncette		Wigs For Heroes Board of Trustees
Dale Williams		Wigs For Heroes Board of Trustees
Joseph Atiase		Wigs For Heroes Board of Trustees

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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

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	Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
	Type of governing document	Constitution
	(eg. trust deed, constitution)
	How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)	By agreement of existing members of the board of trustees subject to confirmatory vote.
	Trustee selection methods	By invitation and agreement of existing members of the board of trustees
	(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
Youmay chooseto include additional information, where		We have focused on auditing our policies and have now also put in place the below polices or updated previous versions
relevant, about:		Social media
•	policies and procedures adopted for the induction and	Media Consent Volunteer forms
•	training of trustees; the charity’s organisational	Enhanced DBS and background vetting for volunteers
	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

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Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

For the public benefit, to relieve the needs of women in North London who are receiving treatment for cancer and have faced hair loss, in particular women who are treated at North Middlesex University Hospital.

	For the public benefit, to relieve the needs of women in North London who are receiving treatment for cancer and have faced hair loss, in particular women who are treated at North Middlesex University Hospital.
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)	1. Coffee Mornings We have continued our on-line support groups and increased the number of facilitators to ensure that we have a defined structure in place to support not just attendees but also the facilitators. This has also meant that we have had to structure the sessions to ensure that we can follow an agenda that fosters conversation and allows us to signpost to relevant organisations that can provide support outside of our remit. 2. Information stalls at events run by other third party charity organisations – we have begun showcasing our offering at other events within our community to ensure that we can spread awareness and share details of how we provide free pamper boxes, wig grants and other on-line support to widen our reach and ensure that we can grow the service delivery into other areas of the UK. 3. We have continued to develop a community on-line that has a large following on both Instagram and Facebook with a combined reach of over 5000 followers on both platforms, we have been able to use these platforms to build positive relationships with other charities such as Breast Cancer Care UK, McMillan and Future Dreams, working with these groups has allowed us to create events with mainstream brands such as MAC Cosmetics that are free to attend and help those who follow us on line to build friendships that spill out of social media and into daily life. 4. Wigs for Heroes has been very active in building our relationship with Hair to Ware and are now also engaged in offering grants to those who are not being treated in NMUH.

For the public benefit, to relieve the needs of women in North London
who are receiving treatment for cancer and have faced hair loss, in
particular women who are treated at North Middlesex University Hospital.

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)

1.
Coffee Mornings
We have continued our on-line support groups and
increased the number of facilitators to ensure that we have
a defined structure in place to support not just attendees
but also the facilitators.
This has also meant that we have had to structure the sessions to
ensure that we can follow an agenda that fosters conversation
and allows us to signpost to relevant organisations that can
provide support outside of our remit.
2.
Information stalls at events run by other third party charity
organisations – we have begun showcasing our offering at other
events within our community to ensure that we can spread
awareness and share details of how we provide free pamper
boxes, wig grants and other on-line support to widen our reach
and ensure that we can grow the service delivery into other areas
of the UK.
3.
We have continued to develop a community on-line that has a
large following on both Instagram and Facebook with a combined
reach of over 5000 followers on both platforms, we have been
able to use these platforms to build positive relationships with
other charities such as Breast Cancer Care UK, McMillan and
Future Dreams, working with these groups has allowed us to
create events with mainstream brands such as MAC Cosmetics
that are free to attend and help those who follow us on line to
build friendships that spill out of social media and into daily life.
4.
Wigs for Heroes has been very active in building our
relationship with Hair to Ware and are now also engaged in
offering grants to those who are not being treated in NMUH.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D

Achievements and performance

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Section D

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Achievements and performance

Key achievements of the year were the successful progress towards the below stated aims have been and are not limited to the below;

We now operate across multiple fundraising platforms and are also maintained our fundraising regulator approved status
Pamper boxes have continued and we have increased weekly deliveries to our specified local hospital and also onboarded volunteers to co-ordinate the collection of donations from a much wider area.
The total number of bags given out in 2022 exceeded over 450 with each one being provided to a new patient starting chemotherapy at NMUH this represents a increase in the previous year.
Connecting and implementing social media campaigns with other larger notable charities has continued and we are now participating in larger campaigns and seeing a significant increase in community awareness and uptake of our services. Being able to be signposted to and also signpost back has significantly increased our user base and also the number of volunteers that are willing to spend time aiding our service delivery.
We have a fully fledged and detailed website with information resources and built in donation platform that has allowed us to embed content including tutorials and beneficiary feedback for people to access, we have also implemented a members areas which is now live.
We have retained staff from the kickstart program and are now fully paying one staff member.

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Section E

Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit	Wigs For Heroes utilises a model of growth that has little to no impact on cash reserves and seeks to find partners and organisations that can fund through service provision and donations the required liquidity to fund future projects. We see having a strong cash reserve as being intrinsically linked to our future ability to provide financial grants. Ensuring that our outgoings can be regulated strictly enough to allow this to happen is our key priority in enabling our continued growth and future existencewithinourcommunity.
	The charity has no deficits and no outstanding debts of any kind.

Brief statement of the
charity’s policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially
in deficit

Wigs For Heroes utilises a model of growth that has little to no impact on
cash reserves and seeks to find partners and organisations that can fund
through service provision and donations the required liquidity to fund
future projects.
We see having a strong cash reserve as being intrinsically linked to our
future ability to provide financial grants.
Ensuring that our outgoings can be regulated strictly enough to allow this
to happen is our key priority in enabling our continued growth and future
existencewithinourcommunity.

The charity has no deficits and no outstanding debts of any kind.

Further financial review details (Optional information)

Youmay chooseto 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.

Wigs for Heroes key source of funds is fundraising, this is via Amazon
Smile, CAF online, Just giving, Paypal funds and direct donations on
other online platforms now including the like of Donr and community
group action which will result in a greater sum of gift aid to be collected
against donations.
Grant applications are also a new area of focus with successful bid
writing course being utilised to allow our core group of volunteers with
copy writing experience to work alongside the trustees in the grant writing
process.

Section F

Other optional information

We have now moved to a fully documented ERP platform that also links with our employer record with HMRC, This has allowed us to document all income and expenditure in significant detail including placing funds in reserve that can be tracked back to specific nominal ledgers in our system.

It is also linked directly to our banking system so records all donations against source whilst also allowing us to record all purchases with a valid purchase requisition.

Profit and loss

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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) Full name(s) Matthew Foncette Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Finance Director etc) Date 15/10/2022

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