## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 04/04/20 Period start date To 03/04/21 Period end date** **Charity name: Cornwall Hugs** **Charity registration number: 1177796** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|**The objects of the charity are for the**
**public benefit, the relief and assist-**
**ance of people in need who are suffer-**
**ing from distress, trauma, bereave-**
**ment and/or displacement following**
**disasters, accidents, conflict, terror-**
**ism and/or crime (including the victims**
**of such events and members of the**
**emergency services and other support**
**workers involved at the scene or in the**
**aftermath of such events, which shall**
**include (without limitation) the Grenfell**
**Tower Fire) in such ways as the charity**
**trustees think fit, in particular (but**
**without limitation) by the provision of,**
**or assistance in the provision of holi-**
**days, respite breaks, and other thera-**
**peutic activities to such people and**
**their immediate families in order to**
**provide respite and to promote their**
**recovery, and the conducting, com-**
**missioning and publication of re-**
**search into the effectiveness of such**
**activities in the recovery of such per-**
**sons.**| |Summary of the main activ-
ities in relation to those
purposes for the public be-
nefit, in particular, the activ-
ities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**In the third year of its existence as a**
**CIO, Cornwall Hugs found its scope**
**for serving families affected by the**
**Grenfell Tower Fire limited by the out-**
**break of Covid. Having looked at its**
**objects carefully and consulted with**
**the Charity Commission, the trustees**
**felt it appropriate to extend the work of**
**the charity to use its contacts with the**
**holiday let business in Cornwall to find**
**accommodation for care workers who**
**needed temporary isolation to protect**
**their workplace or their family at**
**home.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public be-
nefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity Com-**
**mission on public benefit.**| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by vo-
lunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteer Cornwall provided a dozen**
**skilled volunteers to help with our**
**Cornwall Hugs Care workers project**
**during Covid 19.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference By adapting our systems to provide emergency isolation accommodation for care Summary of the main Para workers we were able to fill a gap in proviachievements of the char1.20 sion, as there was, during the first Covid ity, identifying the differwave, no statutory isolation allowance for ence the charity’s work has made to the circumstances care workers, as there was for their NHS colof its beneficiaries and any leagues. This was resulting in in care workwider benefits to society as ers camping, living in their cars or giving up a whole. their work rather than put family at risk. Our project, ‘Cornwall Hugs Care Workers’, helped prevent spread of infection into, out of and between care homes, thus protecting residents, care staff, family members of care staff and the wider community. To facilitate this we created an additional portal website for registration, elicited offers of over 100 vacant holiday let properties county-wide and liaised with 200+ social care settings and industry bodies. 35 weeks of accommodation were provided and we also did extensive contingency isolation planning for care homes in crisis. In many cases, the isolation accommodation we provided enabled care homes to maintain staffing levels - a significant factor when overall staffing was stretched to a limit, with many settings 15% understaffed. Our work has also enabled 18 vulnerable children to be fostered by an experienced Foster carer couple, who we were able to facilitate moving into Cornwall at the request of Cornwall Council. For each care worker whose isolation need we were able to meet, dozens and sometimes hundreds of others (care home residents, staff, staff’s family) directly benefited from protection, given the nature of virus spread within the community when isolation is not immediately provided. This quote from a nurse we accommodated in Par is typical of feedback we received, ‘Thanks again Cornwall Hugs and the accommodation owners. I couldn!t have done it without you and as a consequence of your actions in excess of 100 people, including the elderly and vulnerable, are a lot safer.’ Suzanne, Nurse at Nursing Home in Par. We maintained our connection and solidarity with the Grenfell community although the pandemic made it impossible to plan for group holidays. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against ob-
jectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**ancial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s fin-
ancial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|**In its third year of operation, the char-**
**ity received £23,219 in donations and**
**miscellaneous income, and incurred**
**expenditure of £10,631. Having begun**
**the year with reserves of £27,144, it**
**meant that the charity ended the finan-**
**cial year with a balance of at the end of**
**the financial year of £39,732. The char-**
**ity’s expenditure was split between**
**costs in direct relation to care worker**
**accommodation (£5,517), and adminis-**
**tration and IT costs (£5,114) to facilit-**
**ate co-ordination of pro bono isolation**
**accommodation.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity began its third year with**
**reserves of £27,144. In the expectation**
**that the flow of donations would**
**lessen as time elapsed since the**
**tragedy, and that also the offering of**
**suitable holiday accommodation by**
**local providers would similarly lessen,**
**the intention of the trustees was to use**
**its reserves to continue to provide hol-**
**idays into the third year of its exist-**
**ence. This proved impossible because**
**of the Covid pandemic, but the suc-**
**cess of the charity’s appeal in relation**
**to care worker support, has led to an**
**increase in the charity’s reserves.**
**Despite ongoing uncertainty about**
**Covid and a depletion of available hol-**
**iday let accommodation in Cornwall,**
**the trustees will be looking at ways to**
**use the charity’s reserves in its fourth**
**and fifth years in the furtherance of its**
**charitable objects.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£39,732**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**| |Explanation of any uncer-
tainties about the charity
continuing as a going con-
cern|Para 1.23|**There are no uncertainties about the**
**charity continuing as a going concern.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)
Para 1.47
Investment policy and ob-
jectives including any social
investment policy adopted
Para 1.46
A description of the princip-
al risks facing the charity
Para 1.46
Other| |---|---| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing docu-
ment
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Foundation Constitution**| |How is the charity consti-
tuted?
(e.g unincorporated asso-
ciation, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions
e.g. election to post or
name of any person or
body entitled to appoint one
or more trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees must be natural persons**
**aged over 16, and at least one trustee**
**must be over 18. The existing trust-**
**ees are able to select and appoint new**
**trustees by a resolution in a meeting**
**of the trustees. In selecting new trust-**
**ees regard must be had to the skills,**
**knowledge and experience needed for**
**the effective administration of the CIO.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any re-
lated parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Cornwall Hugs| |---|---| |Other name the charity
uses|| |Registered charity number|1177796| |Charity’s principal address|c/o Clive Pearce Ltd
31 Lemon Street
Truro
TR1 2LS| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
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20|Esme Page|Chair||Not applicable| ||Andrew Holt|Treasurer||Not applicable| ||Rev Jeremy
Putnam|||Not applicable| ||Jacqueline
Smith|||Not applicable| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |**nds held as custodian**|**trustees on behalf of others**| |---|---| |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|None| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how
this falls within the custodi-
an charity’s objects|Not applicable| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segrega-
tion of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|Not applicable| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Type of Name Address
adviser
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional
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## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Signature(s)
Full name(s) Esmé Marina Page
Position (eg Sec- Chair
retary, Chair, etc)
Date
1.2.22
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CHARITY COMMISSIO FOR ENGLAND AND WALE Connnl Hugs Recei tsandpa ments accounts CC16a For penod T• Section A Receipts and payments UnTrstri¢ttd fund¥ Restricted nds Endowment nds Total funds Last year ID tht n*rtBt£ A1 Recei Don8biOnS Boo￿n￿ rrfund 1$31 21,#79 19.237 297 tota tDSS Incon AR) 23319 19,534 Assét and inwistm•nt ules. Total rnethpts 1•.619 23,21# 19,534 A3Pa Guest Attommodakn COBII Adminotrthn Cc*%ts IT Cosi8 *517 19.903 15.336 1.153 1416 Sub totsi 4031 10.031 35.239 A4 Asset and invostmert Sub 10.631 352J9 Net o1rKeiW￿{￿￿Tn8ntsj AS Transfers bot¥¥••n fvnds A6 Cash funds last y•ar •nd Cash funds this ond 12, 15.70 J9.73 39.732 CCXX R18ccounts (SSI 31101r2tr22 Section B Ststement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period UnrEstrict•d funds Restn"ct•d funds Endowment lunds trj rwrnst£ B1 Cash funds 31.732 Total c•sh lunds 3•.732 •)) fvndj funds neare5t£ funds Oetsll$ lo bj Cumt vabje Details tOT*th*h Cufwent¥alue Details B4 Assets retained for th charlty's own use Fufvy k) Wh When due t)etailS B5 U•bilttles Syned by one ortrKJ tnJste8s behalf of 811 thg tr￿te$S &gnature Print Narr Date of roval 2fl.Oi.L 31.01.22 Esme Page CCXX R2 accounts ISSI 31101r2022