## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 Sept 2022 to 31 August 2023** ## **Charity name: The Emperor Foundation** ## **Charity registration number: 1178088** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance such charitable purposes as**
**the trustees see fit from time to time**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The Foundation has made a number of**
**donations to charitable causes, most**
**notably to Maggie’s Cancer Centres and**
**Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission 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|**The Emperor Foundation makes grants**
**to those registered charities which the**
**trustees choose to support**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The Emperor Foundation is not engaged**
**in social investment programs**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The Emperor Foundation is managed by**
**and supported by volunteers. There are**
**no paid staff**| |Other||**N/a**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The Emperor Foundation has made**
**significant donations (£15k) to Maggie’s**
**Cancer Centres to facilitate the ongoing**
**work within Maggie’s to support**
**individuals and family and friends**
**suffering from cancer.**
**Secondly The Emperor Foundation has**
**made a donation of £5k to Papyrus**
**Prevention of Young Suicide to support**
**them in their work.**
**The Foundation has also made smaller**
**but important donations to The Brain**
**Tumour Charity, Make-A-Wish**
**Foundation and Parkinsons UK.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**The achievements are in line with**
**objectives set.**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Fundraising is in line with objectives.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/a**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Foundation’s financial position is**
**stable with £8k of cash reserves at 31**
**August 2023.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The reserves policy of The Emperor**
**Foundation is to retain sufficient cash**
**reserves to cover at a minimum**
**operating expenses for the following six**
**months or £1,000, whichever is greater,**
**in addition to any provision required in**
**relation to donations given for restricted**
**purposes not paid out.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Reserves of £8k are held at 31 August**
**23**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/a**| ## **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|**The Emperor Foundation receives**
**monies from Emperor Design**
**Consultants Limited and from its**
**employees and from other companies**
**and individuals via fundraising activities**
**undertaken.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**We retain cash reserves in bank**
**accounts**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The charity is dependent on the**
**continued support of Emperor Design**
**and its employees and therefore the**
**sustainability of that company. We are**
**pleased to report that Emperor Design is**
**in a strong financial position.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**The Charity is registered as a 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|**New trustees are selected by the**
**existing trustee board with full interview**
**process in place.**| **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|
**All new trustees are required to carry**
**out trustee training.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**We operate through a Board of Trustees.**
**We have no employees.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**The Emperor Foundation was set up**
**by individuals who part-own and**
**manage Emperor Design Consultants**
**Limited, a Corporate Communications**
**business**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Emperor Foundation| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/a| |Registered charity number|1178088| |Charity’s principal address|The WhiteChapel Building
10 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 8QS| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||David Burland|Chair||| ||KingsleyJames|||| ||Simon Newton|||| ||Victoria Capstick|||| ||David Hunt||Since 31 January2023|| ||Sarah Edwards||Since 9 November 2023|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/a** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**N/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |N/a||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/a** ## **Other optional information** **N/a** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||S J Newton|| ||
Trustee|| |||| |||| **Charity Name No (if any) The Emperor Foundation 1178088 Receipts and payments accounts** Period start date Period end date **To** 9/1/2022 8/31/2023 **For the period from** ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**16,682**
Grant income
**-**
Auction
**-**
Sponsorship
**5,000**
Refund of subscription fees
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,682**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 21,682**
**A3 Payments**
Insurance
**138**
Fundraiser costs
**-**
Charitable donations
**24,722**
Bank charges
**-**
Other operatingcosts
**1,800**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 26,660**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 26,660**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 4,978**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**12,821**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 7,843**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**16,682**
**-**
**-**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,682**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,682**
**138**
**-**
**24,722**
**-**
**1,800**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,660**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,660**
**- 4,978**
**-**
**12,821**
**7,843**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**16,682**|**82,032**| ||||**-**|**500**| ||||**-**|**25,337**| ||||**5,000**|**2,000**| ||||**-**|**18**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**21,682**|**109,887**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**21,682**|**109,887**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**138**|**134**| ||||**-**|**39,646**| ||||**24,722**|**64,662**| ||||**-**|**1,025**| ||||**1,800**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**26,660**|**105,467**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**26,660**|**105,467**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 4,978**|**4,420**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**12,821**|**8,401**| ||**-**||**7,843**|**12,821**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Cash at bank
**Details**
Trade debtors
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Trade Creditors
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,843**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,843**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||||| |||||