Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 01 01 2023 31 12 2023
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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
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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 (if any) |
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| Meryem Foncette | Founder | Wigs For Heroes Board of Trustees |
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| Matthew Foncette | Wigs For Heroes Board of Trustees |
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| Dale Williams | Wigs For Heroes Board of Trustees |
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| 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)
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Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) By agreement of existing members of the board of trustees subject to How the charity is constituted confirmatory vote. (eg. trust, association, company) By invitation and agreement of existing members of the board of trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
We have focused on auditing our policies and have now also put in place You may choose to include the below polices or updated previous versions additional information, where relevant, about: Social media • policies and procedures Media Consent Volunteer forms adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational 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
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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.
- Coffee Mornings We saw a continued need for online coffee mornings that we run and we continued these throughpout 2023 with an emphasis on ensuring that we have facilitators in place who are able to comfortably handle the difficult subjevct matter either through professional experience or lived experiences.
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.
- Information stalls at events run by other third party charity organisations – we have begun showcasing our offering at
Summary of the main other events within our community to ensure that we can activities undertaken for the spread awareness and share details of how we provide free public benefit in relation to pamper boxes, wig grants and other online support to widen these objects (include within our reach and ensure that we can grow the service delivery into this section the statutory other areas of the UK. declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance 3. We have continued to develop a community online that has a
issued by the Charity large following on both Instagram and Facebook with a
Commission on public benefit) 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 and more importantly with large organisatiosn such as the Dilly group where we have been hosting quarterly events for the cancer community located in the heart of central london in a stunning location.
- 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:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance Summary of the main achievements of the charity Key achievements of the year were the successful progress towards the during the year below stated aims have been and are not limited to the below; • We now operate across multiple fundraising platforms and are also a member of the fundraising regulator. • 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. The total number of bags given out in 2023 exceeded over 450 with each one being provided to a new patient starting chemotherapy at NMUH. • 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 were the victim of burglary at our previous premises and have since been able to leverage enough support to recover from the loss and have seen a positive result through the courts of two indivduals being charged and convicted for burglary with reparation orders issued to hopefully close the matter fully.
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Section E Financial review
Brief statement of the Wigs For Heroes utilises a model of growth that has little to no impact on charity’s policy on reserves 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 existence within our community. Details of any funds materially The charity has no deficits and no outstanding debts of any kind. in deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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You may choose to include Wigs for Heroes key source of funds is fundraising, this is via online
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additional information, where platofrms, CAF online, Just giving, Paypal funds and direct donations on
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relevant about: other online platforms now including the like of Donr and community
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• the charity’s principal group action which will result in a greater sum of gift aid to be collected
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sources of funds (including against donations.
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any fundraising);
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• how expenditure has Grant applications are also a new area of focus with successful bid writing course being utilised to allow our core group of volunteers with
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supported the key objectives copy writing experience to work alongside the trustees in the grant writing
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of the charity; process.
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• investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
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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Profit and Loss Wigs For Heroes Forthe year ended 31 December 2023 Turnovt 112.99 5) L97757 T01aiTM0¥ 1,1g0.r Cost of Sales Diiett E5¢5 195 DiiEttW3 22LIQ TotsiCtsst¢lSalÈs Gross Pnrfrt 17J94391 Admlnlstratlve CyJts 1.750.9T 471.36 ErnpWtrlaDTrnal1n5ufice Entertainmenf-i(Vhbuyne55 $0050 SQts7 IfisuraTh 393aO ION05 ENAIL&WEBTE ITWDYareirdCvn5umabk5 518.40 LÈVIEWSÈS L4S8.13 750 Postage.fret&CouriLY Retti 251.14 710.00 es 6.7$ Sub5(riOiDTrS TelEph(& Inte Trnwel-lnteMat 942.10 L13A8 17Y23 2É7E7 TotaiMmln*4tl4•Cotts 27,15423 Operating Profit 13K14&621 otherlncome (AfDOPthTE Dirertdonat5 lQ654ts3 RE5trittedGntfUnds-N94Cn 617B4 TOtsi0tlntts 74WGSO Profiton OrdinaryA¢tivities BEforeTaxation 39.107. ProfitafterTaxaiion 39.107. Balance Sheet TAR March 2012
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 15/10/2024
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