## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 09 2024 **To** 31 08 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1178820 **Charity's principal address** 20 Fivefields Close Lotus Foundation Watford Herts **Postcode WD19 5BZ** ## **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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Deepak Dhrona|||Lotus Foundation| ||Arati Lena Dhrona|||Lotus Foundation| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** March **2012** **TAR** 1 **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 Trust Deeds - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Trust (eg. trust, association, company) Appointment by Chairperson Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN MALAWI, AND ELSEWHERE (WORLDWIDE) AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT: THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF MONEY (OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE) FOR **Summary of the objects of the** PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AND/OR **charity set out in its governing document** COUNTRIES AFFECTED (INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL AID) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE BY PROVIDING CHARITABLE GRANTS TO CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO FURTHER ANY OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES IN SUCH WAYS AS ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. **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)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Sectio D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** ## **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)**[Deepak Dhrona ] **Full name(s)** Deepak Dhrona **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 04/03/2026 March **2012** **TAR** 5 ||
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|01/09/2023
Period start date|**To**||| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,685**
**-**
**-**
**1,644**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,329**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,329**
**1,911**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,911**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,911**
**2,418**
**-**
**2,418**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,685**
**-**
**-**
**1,644**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,329**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,329**
**1,911**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,911**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,911**
**2,418**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |CharityIncome|**2,685**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**| |Donation|**-**||||**-**| |Grant|**-**||||**-**| |Interest|**1,644**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**4,329**||||**-**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||||| |
CharityExpenses|**1,911**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**-**| |Donation|**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**1,911**||||**-**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|||||| |**,**|**-**||**-**
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**-**||| ||**-**||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||||| ||**2,418**||
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**-**|**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**2,418**||
**-**|**2,418**|**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 18/03/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Deepak Dhrona
**Details**
Current Account
Deposit Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,418**
**-**
**2,418**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**| |---|---|---| ||Signature|Print Name| ||Deepak Dhrona|Deepak Dhrona| |||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 18/03/2026 2