## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date
**From** 6 April 2022
**To** 5 April 2023
## 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**
Type of governing document
Constitution (CIO – Foundation)
(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)
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## **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 charity set out in its governing document**
a) raising public awareness of Visual Snow Syndrome ( **"VS"** ) through the provision of an informative publicly accessible website including support 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 sufferers 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 is PayPal’s platform for raising new funds for good causes without charging donors or charities for its services;
- 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, but please note that Amazon discontinued this programme as of 20 February 2023; and
- granting 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.
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## 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 230,034 hits;
- the Charity raised total funds of £642; and
- the Charity granted a sum of £1,549 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 material 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 Paramjit Singh Basi **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Trustee Trustee **etc)**
**Date** 9 September 2023
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**The Visual Snow Foundation**
**1177443**
**CC16a**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period** 06-Apr-22 05-Apr-23 **To from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**27**
**100**
**514**
**642**
**-**
**-**
**642**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**27**
**100**
**514**
**642**
**-**
**-**
**642**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**27**
**100**
**514**
**642**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**27**
**100**
**514**
**642**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations from the AmazonSmile
program|**-**||||||||**-**|
|Donation from Kindlink|**-**|||||||||
|Donations from the PayPal Giving Fund
(inclusive of donations, and any Gift Aid,
received via GoFundMe)|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**-**||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
|-
|**-**
||||||**-**|||
|~~**_Sub total_**~~
**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
|
Grant to the Visual Snow Initiative (an
Americanpublic charity)|**-**||**1,549**||**-**||**1,549**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**1,549**||**-**||**1,549**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**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_**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**-**||||||**- 908**||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||||||**929**||**-**|
||**-**||||||**21**||**-**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
**-**
Cash in bank (current account)
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**Details**
**-**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**21**
**21**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||**-**|
**-**|**-**|**-**|
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|09/09/2023|
||Paramjit Singh Basi|09/09/2023|