Trustees' Annual Report for the period
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Period start date Period end date
1 9 2024 31 8 2025
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Section A Reference and administration details
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Charity name
Kent County Raynet
Other names charity is known by
Registered charity number (if any) 1177899
Charity's principal address 26 Albany Hill
Tunbridge Wells
TN2 3RX
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled whole year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Colin Bowman
3 Taylor Galloway
South Kent Raynet
4 Rob WIles
5 Rob Argent
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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
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable incorporated organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
New trustees are elected by existing trustees, unless they are ex-officio (eg. appointed by, elected by) trustees through being elected local Raynet group controllers in Kent and Medway. (Ex-officio appointees may express unwillingness to serve in Additional governance issues that capacity.)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
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Section C Objectives and activities
To help with the protection of life and property in Kent from disasters and emergencies by (a) providing communication support to relevant key public authorities, vital infrastructure providers, and voluntary groups and (b) encouraging licensed radio amateurs and others to join voluntary emergency groups and community organisations, and to improve their relevant skills.
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document 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)
We continue to offer technical advice to emergency planners and support local Raynet Groups. We are building relationships with neighbouring groups and assist some other groups outside of our county. Relevant input is made to Kent and Medway Local Resilience Forum (KMRF) emergency plans, particularly those covering Power outages and Telecommunications failures and there is a good engagement level with county emergency planning teams. This is all aimed at supporting the public in an emergency.
All this has been done with regard by the Trustees to the guidance provided by the Charity Commission regarding public benefit.
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
Exercising and Training alongside statutory responders and support and assistance at multiple community events. Members are encouraged to join the statutory responders’ training courses and exercises. The group displayed capabilities at the main KMRF (Kent and Medway Resilience Forum) seminar and other, smaller, meetings of emergency planners at a community level. Technical equipment was demonstrated to contingency planners within Fire and Rescue at the invitation of Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS). There have been smaller exercises where we have provided communications back up for rest centres, where an emergency in a community would likely accumulate members of the public that have had to be evacuated from their homes. There is a large exercise planned for an outdoor CNI (Critical National Infrastructure) and we are involved at the planning level for this.
Members have been First Aid trained through a subsidised course to further their skills when assisting at community events, which are used for self training purposes.
The emergency vehicle is better equipped with reserve power and more communications equipment and this has proved to be a high profile, highly useful asset.
One of the local councils is offering small grants towards promoting health and well being within their borough and we have made an application. This will break away from our main income source being just donations received from events.
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Section F Other optional information
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Charity Name No (if any) Kent County Raynet 1177899 Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y Period start date Period end date For the period To from 01/09/2024 31/08/2025
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Section A Receipts and payments
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 1,000 - - 1,000 - Interest on deposit account 3 - - 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sub total (Gross income for AR) 1,003 - - 1,003 - A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - -
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| Total receipts | 1,003 | - | - | 1,003 | - | |||||
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| Telephone & internet | ||||||||||
| 287 | - | - | 287 | - | ||||||
| Vehicle expense | ||||||||||
| 742 | - | - | 742 | - | ||||||
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| 1,029 | - | - | 1,029 | - |
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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2,896 400 3,296 |
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| Radio equipment | 2,896 | - | - | 2,896 | ||
| Generator | 400 | - | - | 400 | ||
| Sub total | 3,296 | - | - | 3,296 | - |
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Total payments 4,326 - - 4,326 -
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Net of receipts/(payments)
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A5 Transfers between funds
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A6 Cash funds last year end 9,999 - - 9,999 -
Cash funds this year end 6,677 - - 6,677 -
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