2022-04-05-accounts

ELISABETH’S FOUNDATION

Trustees’ Report

and Financial Statement

for the year ended 5 April 2022

Registered Charity Number 1177440

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Charity Information

Trustees

Roderic Bowen Orarin Falzon Saint Manduca Taksada Sangkatchantra

Registered Address

1 Mill Road Cottages Mill Road Nettlebed Oxon RG9 5AU

Registered Charity Number

1177440

Bankers

Nat West PLC Rickmansworth (A) Branch 159 High Street RICKMANSWORTH Herts WD3 1AR

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES

The Trustees have pleasure in presenting their fourth annual report for the purposes of the Charities Act 2011, together with the accounts for the year ended 5 April 2022. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ issued in March 2005 in preparing this annual report and financial statement of the Charity.

HISTORY

The Charity was founded in early 2018 in honour of Elisabeth Manduca, both to commemorate this eight-year-old girl’s long, brave but ultimately unsuccessful battle against the disease Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), the second most common

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type of high grade (malignant) brain tumours in children; and to raise funding and to increase support for ground-breaking research and treatment.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Elisabeth’s Foundation is constituted under a Charity Commission Scheme of 6 March 2018. It has a Trustee Board of 3, without a chairman, and operates without staff, chargeable overheads or expenses.

PUBLIC BENEFIT

The identifiable benefit provided by the Charity is research into, and education about, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), by making grants for the purchase of services and equipment required to advance both the background science and, in due course, the relief of children with the disease.

OBJECTIVES

Our declared objectives are twofold: to relieve sickness and to promote and protect good health by supporting research into the treatment of DIPG; and to advance the education of the public in all areas relating to DIPG.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

The Covid 19 Pandemic has made this another difficult year and for large periods the charity was locked down and dormant.

In our fourth year we raised £200.44.

FUTURE ACTIVITIES

The Charity will aim to widen the net for donations at the same time as publicizing the disease to a broader public. We will be seeking more support from other charities and funding organizations, although we recognize we are in a competitive market, not least as we are so small and DIPG is largely unknown to the public.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the Financial Statement in accordance with applicable law and UK Accounting Standards. The law applicable to charities in England and Wales required the Trustees to prepare financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of those resources for that period. In preparing this financial statement, the Trustees are required to:

• Select a suitable accounting policy and apply it consistently.

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• Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP.

• Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.

• Keep proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity.

• Safeguard the assets of the Charity and hence take reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf.

[signed on original ]

RHM Bowen Date: 11th January 2023.

Annexes A: Financial Statement

ELISABETH’S FOUNDATION

INCOME &EXPENDITURE – YEAR TO 5 APRIL 2022
	£
INCOME
Voluntary Income–Donations and Events
Donations	200.44
SUB-TOTAL	200.44
TOTAL INCOME	200.44
EXPENDITURE
Administration	0.00
Just Giving Costs	216.00

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SUB-TOTAL	216.00
Funding to Neuro CED, Zurich	0.00
TOTAL EXPENDITURE	216.00
SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) FOR 2019/2020	(15.56)

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