## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 07 24 30 06 25
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## Section A Reference and administration details
|**Charity name**
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**
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Clothe Me–Thank You|
Clothe Me–Thank You|
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Clothing Collective||
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||5th Floor,||
||167-169 Great Portland Street||
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||**Postcode**|W1W 5PF|
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||Tim Sadler|Trustee|||
||JennySmyth|Treasurer|From 1stJuly2025||
||Alan Duncan|Trustee|||
||Karen Penney|Trustee|||
||Joyce Lam|Trustee|From 14thApril 2025||
||Annabel Bennett|Trustee|Retired 28thNovember
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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**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Antony Wroe
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Constitution
CIO Foundation
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by the existing trustees.
(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;
- t rustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
The charity has introduced the following policies to its website:
- Financial Responsibilities
- Financial Responsibilities - Investment & Borrowing
- Financial Responsibilities - Controls on Expenditure
- • Investment Policy
- Reimbursement of Expenses
- Risk Management
- Codes of Conduct
- Conflict of Interest
- Data Protection Policy
- Complaints Policy
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Health & Safety Policy
- Privacy Policy
- • Anti Harassment and Bullying Policy and Procedure • Campaigning Policy
- Safeguarding Adults Policy
- • Safeguarding Policy • Remote working • Social Media Policy • Volunteer Fundraising Policy
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Section C**
## **Objectives and activities**
The relief of poverty or financial hardship in particular but not exclusively by providing grants via redeemable vouchers for everyday clothing to individuals and families in financial need. The redeemable vouchers are able to be redeemed exclusively at participating charity shops throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
Designed to bridge the gap between charity shops and people that cannot afford to clothe themselves and their families by providing access to clothing stock held at charity shops. Clothing Collective provides a monetary value voucher redeemable in partner charity stores, enabling people in need to choose their own clothes with dignity without having to rely on hand-outs.
The vouchers are offered to people in crisis redeemable at partner charity shops. When they are spent, a secondary benefit occurs by raising funding for the shops own charitable cause, with Clothing Collective returning the cash value of the voucher back to them.
## **How does it work?**
**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)**
- Money raised through donations and online retail partnerships
- Donations converted into vouchers
- Vouchers distributed to people identified through our partner network of support agencies and charities
- Vouchers can be spent in any of our partner Charity Retail Association charity shops
- Charity shops exchange the voucher for money for their own good causes
## **Why is it needed?**
There are daily studies on the increase of rough sleeping, homelessness and households in poverty, with recent examples showing an increase of nearly a third in rough sleepers over the past year, and pockets in large cities with two-thirds of children living in poverty-hit families. Reports show that more than one in five of the UK population (22%) is in poverty, and whilst food banks have appeared across the UK to provide support, there are less options for finding clothing.
The charity trustees declare that any debts and other liabilities of the CIO have been settled or otherwise provided for in full in accordance with its constitution.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
Clothing Collective partners with third party charities such as Food banks, shelters and many other support agencies who work with venerable people and people in need where they are able to identify the needs of those people in way of assessing their individual needs in having access to clothing. By partnering with these third-party charities, these charities are able to distribute the Clothing Collective vouchers on behalf of our charity in a structured and professional environment. Clothing Collective does not distribute their vouchers themselves to individuals.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D
## Achievements and performance
March **2012**
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## Section D
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## Achievements and performance
During this most recent financial year, we have several achievements that continue to propel the charity.
Our revenue has significantly increased this year which is attributed to the partnerships we have developed with card distribution support agency networks where those partners are seeing the increased value they have in partnering with Clothing Collective. They are sharing some of their own funding with Clothing Collective enabling the financing of the provision of gift cards to those specific partners.
Organisationally we have increased the number of volunteers and, and we now have a volunteer manager position alongside several team members driving our grant applications and comms.
We have a solid Marketing and Communications strategy and plan that addresses how we build our charity brand, visibility & reach. It also defines the channels that we leverage to communicate with our broader community of charity followers digitally.
We continue to diversify our revenue from partnerships such as ReDonate, now generating a steady monthly income across to more recent momentum in successful grant applications.
Looking forward our focus will be to continue to grow our partnership base to drive income and increase our volunteer base.
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## **Section E**
## **Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** Clothing Collective will keep at least 6 months of average administrative **charity’s policy on reserves** expenses as reserves, at any given point.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include Funding is provided by Trust and grants or from other charities requiring additional information, where our gift cards and they are either finance the cards in total value or partly. relevant about:
- the chari ty’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**
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**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Mark Curran **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 19/01/2026
March **2012**
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Charity Name No (if any)
Clothe Me - Thank You - "Clothing Collective" 1178825
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/07/2024 30/06/2025
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 & Grants 30,602 76,000 - 106,602 28,177
Interest & Other Income 12,260 - - 12,260 460
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Sub total (Gross income for
42,862 76,000 - 118,862 28,637
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 42,862 76,000 - 118,862 28,637
A3 Payments
Purchase of charity gift cards / vouchers
16,932 24,486 - 41,418 9,090
Social Media / Marketing 13,055 - - 13,055 8,497
Administrative Expenses 8,399 - - 8,399 6,347
Repayment of Loan 1,000 - - 1,000 -
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Sub total 39,387 24,486 - 63,873 23,934
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 39,387 24,486 - 63,873 23,934
Net of receipts/(payments) 3,475 51,514 - 54,989 4,703
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 24,779 - - 24,779 20,076
Cash funds this year end 28,254 51,514 - 79,768 24,779
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09/02/2026
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
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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
**Details**
Current Account
Savings Account
Paypal
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
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**28,254**
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Clothe Me – Thank You|Clothe Me – Thank You|Clothe Me – Thank You|
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||30thJune 2025|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1178825|
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||1 – 2 of CC16a|||
- I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30 June 2025.
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Date:** 12/02/2026
**Signed: Name:** Llinos Williams **Relevant professional** ACCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Bevan Buckland LLP Cardigan House, Castle Court, Swansea Enterprise Park, Swansea, SA7 9LA
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
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**October 2018**
**IER**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**October 2018**
**IER**