2021-04-05-accounts - The Visual Snow Foundation

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date

From 6 April 2020 To 5 April 2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name The Visual Snow Foundation

Other names charity is known by N/A

Registered charity number (if any) 1177443

Charity's principal address

34 Ardeen Road

Intake Doncaster Postcode DN2 5EU

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity ("Charity Trustees")

1 2	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	DilrajDavin Singh Basi	Chair	-	-
	Paramjit Singh Basi	Trustee	-	-

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution (CIO – Foundation) Type of governing document

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

(eg. trust, association, company)

Appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the Trustee selection methods Charity Trustees.

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

TAR

March 2012

Section C

Objectives and activities

The object of The Visual Snow Foundation ( "Charity" ) is to promote and protect good health for the public benefit, in particular but not exclusively, by: Summary of the objects of the a) raising public awareness of Visual Snow Syndrome ( "VS" ) through the charity set out in its provision of an informative publicly accessible website including support governing document for sufferers; and b) funding research into VS, the useful results of which will be disseminated for the public benefit. In furtherance of limb (a) of the Charity’s objective, the Charity has raised awareness of VS, and supported suffers of VS, through the provision of its website, www.visualsnowsyndrome.com ( "Website" ). In furtherance of limb (b) of the Charity’s objective, the Charity has raised funds for research into VS, principally by undertaking the following activities:

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)

continuing receiving donations from the PayPal Giving Fund, which uses PayPal technology and financial support systems to raise new funds for good causes without charging donors or charities for its services;
maintaining a fundraiser on the GoFundMe crowdfunding platform to collect donations and any related Gift Aid contributions (please note that this is also paid to the Charity via the PayPal Giving Fund);
continuing the Charity's partnership with the Amazon Smile programme, pursuant to which an Amazon customer can elect (at no extra cost) that Amazon donates 0.5% of their order price to the Charity; and
granting raised funds to the Visual Snow Global Research Fund, which is administered and distributed by the Visual Snow Initiative – an American public charity under the fiscal sponsorship of the Edwards Charles Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organisation – to key VS research teams across the world as and when it is needed.

Pursuant to section 17(5) of the Charities Act and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, the Charity Trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission when exercising any powers of duties to which the guidance was relevant.

TAR

March 2012

Section D Achievements and performance

The Charity Trustees are pleased to report that, during the period Summary of the main covered by this report: achievements of the charity during the year

the Website received approximately 1,250,000 hits;
the Charity raised total funds of £989; and
the Charity granted a sum of £452 to the VSI.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The Charity does not have a policy on reserves, on the basis that the Charity has no liabilities and therefore no reserves are required.

Details of any funds materially None. in deficit

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) Dilraj Davin Singh Basi Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair Trustee Trustee etc)

Paramjit Singh Basi

Date 6 June 2021

TAR

March 2012

The Visual Snow Foundation

1177443

CC16a

Receipts and payments accounts

For the period 06-Apr-20 05-Apr-21 To from

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £	Restricted funds to the nearest £	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £	Last year to the nearest £
Donations from the AmazonSmileprogram	-	31	-	31	-
Donations from the PayPal Giving Fund (inclusive of donations, and any Gift Aid, received via GoFundMe)	-	958	-	958	-
*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	-	989	-	989	-

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
-	-	-	-	-
*Sub total* *Total receipts* A3 Payments	-	-	-	-	-

					-

Grant to the Visual Snow Initiative (an Americanpublic charity)	-	452	-	452	-
Domain renewal fee for www.visualsnowsyndrome.com	-	19	-	19	-
**Sub total **	-	471	-	471	-

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
-	-			-
**Sub total **	-			-	-
*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					-

	-	518	-	518	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	388	-	388	-
	-	906	-	906	-

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

06/06/2021

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Cash in bank (current account) Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) - Details	Unrestricted funds to nearest £	Restricted funds to nearest £	Endowment funds to nearest £
	-	905	-
	-	905	-
			OK
			Endowment funds to nearest £
			-
			Current value (optional)
-	-	-	-
Details Details -	Fund to which asset belongs - Fund to which liability relates	Cost (optional) - Amount due (optional)	Current value (optional)
			-
			When due (optional)
-	-	-	-

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

06/06/2021

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature

Print Name Dilraj Davin Singh Basi Paramjit Singh Basi	Date of approval
Dilraj Davin Singh Basi	06/06/2021
Paramjit Singh Basi	06/06/2021

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

06/06/2021