## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1/10/19 Period start date To 30/9/20 Period end date** **Charity name: Croeso Abergwaun** ## **Charity registration number: 1178404** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Support provision of aid to refugees /
asylum seekers from Syria in the UK who
have been granted humanitarian protection
by theHome Office.| |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 charitiy has provided ongoing support
to two families, who arrived in Fishguard in
June 2017 and November 2018. It has
continued to help the families with settling
in, by assisiting with communications with
school etc. and funding childcare, driving
lessons, hairdressing equipment, etc.
It has helped with the move of the second
family to Swansea in Feuary 2020.
The charity has claimed gift aid for
donations previously made.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees confirm that they 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|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The charity is run by volunteers and does
not employ anyone. Volunteers have
provided support with the settling in of the
families, by assisting with the| communications with school, childcare providers, landlords, driving school, utilities companies, between the families etc. Other ## **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 charity has helped the first family settle
in succesfully and it has subsequently
helped the second family with a.o.
administrative tasks, schooling and
financial support. When the second family
expressed a desire to move to Swansea,
the charity has facilitated this move with
funding and organisational support.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|The main objective was to support two
families of refugees in Fishguard, which
has been achieved. Assisting the second
family with their move to Swansea was not
an objective as this move had not been
anticipated.| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|The charity is no longer raising funds.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||The Croeso Abergwaun team identified the
following ‘positives’ in being a volunteer:
•
Warmth & welcome
•
Rapid responses
•
Aid integration| |•|Promote wellbeing| |---|---| |•|Help with language| |•|Show how to play| |•|Help them to joing the community| |•|Allow them to have their culture| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|See Excel file ‘Annual Return Sep 20
Charity Commission’| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|No reserves are held, see below.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£0| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|The trustees have decided that holding
reserves is unnecessary, because the
charity will not endeavor to welcome a third
family, and support for the first two families
has been reduced according to their
diminishing needs.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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 charity is no longer raising funds
through donations. Two transfers have
been made by related charities to
contribute to fees for the joint membership
of Citizens UK, and Gift Aid has been
claimed.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|No investments| |A description of the principal
risks facingthe charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, 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 are selected by agreement of the
team members.| ## **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 new trustee gets trained in their role by
the previous trustee.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charityworks|Para 1.51|The organisational structure consists of
three trustees, one of them the
Chairperson, and a supporting team.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|The charity has worked in close
collaboration with Hiraeth Hope. This
charity has now closed its accounts.| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Croeso Abergwaun| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|1178404| |Charity’s principal addess|59 High Street
Abergwaun
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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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Olwen Thomas
(Chairperson)|||| ||Margaret Stringer|||| ||Florence van de
Wiel|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** na Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |na||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets na held in this capacity Name and objects of the na charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for na safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |na||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |na||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details na ## **Other optional information** Declarations The trusto08 d•clare that they h•vo approvod the trust￿, raport abov•. Slgnod on b•h•lfof tho charlty'$ trust••s SIgna￿re(sI Full namolsl Posllion {ag Secretary, Chalr. etc) Elizalxth o￿ven Thomas Chair 1410812021 SIgna￿￿{SI Full namels) Posltlonlgg S•cretary, Chalr, otr) 1410812021 Slgnaturo{$ Full namel$) Posltlon l•g Secrotary. Chalr. •tc) r4É r4AsMrir 1410812021 ## **Croeso Abergwaun Year ending 30th Sep 2020** |Croeso Abergwaun Account
Lloyds
**Opening balance 1/10/19**
**Income**
transfers from Croeso Hwlffordd and Hiraeth Hope
Gift aid contribution HMRC
Total income
**Expenditure**
childcare
community/fundraiser
startup costs
phone & internet
subscribtion Citizens UK
travel
gas check
Total expenditure
**Closing balance 30/09/20**|sort code
Account nr
**£9,372.21**
£372.06
£1,038.22
£2,820.00
£147.00
£3,058.34
£195.89
£500.00
£220.00
£70.00|30-98-97
42625468| |---|---|---| |||£1,410.28| |||| |||£7,011.23| |||| ||**£3,771.26**||