2021-04-05-accounts - Communitech London

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Commentary on the Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts:

Period covering: 6th April 2020 to 5th April 2021

The Charity’s income is under £500,000 (and it does not have assets worth more than £3.26 million), so a simple report has been prepared and is presented below.

The Trustees have used the ‘Trustees’ Annual Report Template for smaller, non-company chari�es’. This form includes all the informa�on trustees must provide according to CHARITIES SORP (FRS 102). The Trustee’s Annual Report is appended.

regard to our guidance on public benefit when planning the charity’s ac�vi�es. Further informa�on is provided in a ‘Summary of the main achievements’.

The accounts have been produced using the Receipts and Payments accoun�ng method and are provided together with the Charity’s Annual Trustee Report. The Charity’s accounts are appended.

Signed:

Andrew King Co-founder & Chief Financial Officer CommuniTech London

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 06 04 2020 To 05 04 2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1177236 Charity's principal address 29 Beaver Close

CommuniTech London

CommuniTech

Horsham West Sussex Postcode RH12 5GB

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
Andrew King Chief Financial
1
Officer
Sofie Shackcloth Director of
2
Communications
Matthew Rea Director of
3
Operations
Sebastien Le Director of Services
4
Fouest
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CommuniTech London

April 2021

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

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution adopted 20th February 2018

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Appointment of charity trustees: Trustee selection methods (1) Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be (eg. appointed by, elected by) appointed for a term of two years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. (2) In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO

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.

CommuniTech London

April 2021

Section C Objectives and activities

The objectives of the CIO are: To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming social excluded, relieving the needs of those people who Summary of the objects of the are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society through charity set out in its the provision of technology support. governing document For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of being digitally-illiterate or the ‘digitally excluded’ i.e. those who cannot use modern technology. The main activities undertaken by the charity are to host Tech & Tea events. Tech & Tea workshops are relaxed and informal, with the emphasis being to provide a friendly environment and take away the usual stress associated with learning how to use new devices or getting to grips with new ideas. We start our sessions with a Tech Talk, where we introduce technology topics as a chance to learn about something Summary of the main new and boost awareness to the dangers or benefits of different activities undertaken for the technologies. We then run an open workshop, where anyone can ask any public benefit in relation to questions you have about technology. these objects (include within this section the statutory Tech & Tea events are held at Battersea Library, Putney Library and declaration that trustees have Earlsfield Library. had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity In planning our activities for the year we keep in mind the Charity Commission on public Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings. benefit)

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.

CommuniTech London

April 2021

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic face-to-face sessions were cancelled. Operations were briefly suspended before we trialled online sessions hosted via Zoom. Unfortunately due to the audience our activities cater to these sessions failed to gain sufficient traction to make them sustainable. In addition, local grant funding was diverted to more urgent activities meaning that we lost potential funding opportunities, reducing our income and limiting our ability to sustain the increased costs of hosting virtual sessions. As it stands all activities are suspended and we will continue to review the situation as the pandemic progresses to determine if face-to-face activities can be restarted at a later date.

CommuniTech London

April 2021

Section E Financial review

Reserves equivalent to 3 months operating costs are required as part of Brief statement of the our Reserves Policy to allow the charity to continue operating while charity’s policy on reserves additional funds are raised.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

No 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);

The charities primary source of income this year has been donations as we were unsuccessful with a number of grant applications.

Due to the suspension of our activities our expenditure has reduced significantly, however our administrative costs continue and without hosting any sessions we have been seen reduced donations over this period.

how expenditure has For activities to restart following the pandemic, additional funding would
supported the key objectives need to be secured, through grants or other fundraising activities.
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) Andrew King Position (eg Secretary, Chief Financial Officer Chair, etc)

Date 03/04/2022

CommuniTech London

April 2021

Charity Name No (if any) COMMUNITECH LONDON 1177236 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 06/04/2020 05/04/2021

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations (See Note 3) 189 - - 189 3,272
Grants - - - - 1,000
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
189 - - 189 4,272
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 189 - - 189 4,272
A3 Payments
Operating Expenses 990 23 - 1,013 8,843
Administrative Expenses 234 - - 234 643
Exceptional Expenses (See Note 2) - 200 - 200 572
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 1,223 ] 223 - 1,446 10,058
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 1,223 223 - 1,446 10,058
Net of receipts/(payments) - 1,034 - 223 - - 1,257 - 5,786
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 1,566 223 - 1,789 7,575
Cash funds this year end 532 - 0 - 532 1,789
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

03/04/2022

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use (See Note 1)	Details Details Bank Account Cash in hand Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Signature Details	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 437 95 - - - 532 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - Print Name Andrew King	Endowment funds to nearest £ - - -
			-
			OK
			Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional) Date of approval 02/04/2022

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

03/04/2022

Section C Notes to the accounts

Categories	Details
C1 Note No.
	All equipment purchased is assumed to have a retained value of zero and as
1.	such is not counted as an asset owned by the charity
	Return of unspent cash as per the conditions of acceptance of the Wandsworth
	Grant Fund. This was included in the liabilities shown to be due at 31st March
2	2020 in the accounts at 5th April 2020
	Including £3.23 donation unaccounted for in FY 19/20
3

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

03/04/2022