| Trustees' Annual Report | Trustees' Annual Report | Trustees' Annual Report | Trustees' Annual Report | Trustees' Annual Report | for the period | for the period | for the period |
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| From | Period start date | To | Period end date | ||||
| Day 6 |
Month 4 |
Year 2024 |
Day 5 |
Month 4 |
Year 2025 |
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Croeso Llantwit
Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1178922 Charity's principal address 6 Colhugh Street Llantwit Major Vale of Glamorgan Postcode CF61 1RE
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any) |
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| Tina Angove | Treasurer | First Trustee | |||
| Graham Benfield OBE |
Chair | 6/4/24 to 19/2/25 | First Trustee | ||
| Susan Hybart | Secretary | Charity Trustees | |||
| Drusilla Phillimore | First Trustee | ||||
| Christopher Westoby |
Charity Trustees | ||||
| Ellis Williams | Charity Trustees | ||||
| Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) | |||||
| Name | Dates acted if not for wholeyear | ||||
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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)
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
CIO Foundation Constitution Type of governing document Registered 25 June 2018 (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee is appointed for a term of Trustee selection methods two years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the (eg. appointed by, elected by) charity trustees.
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
The trustees have considered safeguarding issues as a risk and have put in place a Safeguarding Policy, which is reviewed annually, and a Safeguarding Officer.
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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
The Objects of Croeso Llantwit are:
For the public benefit, the relief of need of those granted refugee status and their families and those seeking asylum in Llantwit Major or the surrounding area in the Vale of Glamorgan, in particular but not exclusively by:
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providing, or assist to provide, short or long term community financed accommodation;
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support the provision of aid to refugees or those seeking asylum;
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advancing their education and training so as to advance them in life and assist them to adapt within a new community;
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
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advance the education in general about the issues relating to refugees and to those seeking asylum;
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the relief of sickness and financial hardship;
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the relief of unemployment in particular by the provision of vocational and skills advice and support; and
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working with, and supporting, organisations sharing any or all of the above charitable purposes.
Our key aims and objectives for the 2024-25 financial year were:
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through Community Sponsorship, to support a family to establish their lives within our community;
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to continue awareness raising of issues relating to refugees and asylum seekers;
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to maintain our network of supporters largely through digital communications.
The purpose of Croeso Llantwit is the support of refugee families in the Vale of Glamorgan through the Community Sponsorship Scheme as identified by the Home Office and the UNHCR under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme.
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)
In November 2021, we welcomed a Syrian family (of mum, dad and four children) to Llantwit Major. Under the Sponsorship Scheme, we carried a responsibility to the Home Office and to the family for first two years of the family’s residence in the UK. In November 2023, we reached the end of this formal two-year commitment and the Home Office is satisfied with the progress that the family has made in building a new, safe life in the UK.
While the family is now settled within the community, the 2024-25 financial year has seen the Charity continue to support the family in those areas that help them to establish themselves further in the local community and the UK.
To achieve the specific objectives set for the year, our activities contributing to the public benefit have focused on the following Objects of the Charity within the community of Llantwit Major:
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Providing, or assist to provide, short or long term community financed accommodation:
With the support of our community of supporters, we have continued to provide a level of support for suitable accommodation for the family and their specific needs.
Support the provision of aid to refugees or those seeking asylum:
The Charity has continued to fund necessary expenditure in line with the requirements of the Government Community Sponsorship Scheme, our sources of funding, and the needs of the family. Our small Family Support Group of volunteers has also continued to give non-financial aid and assistance to the family while supporting them to become independent of us; this has involved supporting the family in activities such as dealings with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and health services, etc..
Advancing their education and training so as to advance them in life and assist them to adapt within a new community:
We have supported the family in gaining extra tuition for the older children to support their learning within the UK education system. We have continued to encourage the adults in their acquisition of English.
Advancing the education in general about the issues relating to refugees and to those seeking asylum:
We have maintained awareness of issues relating to refugees through periodic digital communications to our network of volunteers and supporters. We have continued to bring issues to the attention of people who share our commitment to providing assistance to families from the refugee camps and their environs.
The relief of sickness and financial hardship:
We have continued to support the family this year to access services and financial support to help them live with a significant long-term health issue.
The relief of unemployment in particular by the provision of vocational and skills advice and support:
When appropriate, we have continued to support the family in their communications with the DWP.
Working with, and supporting, organisations sharing any or all of the above charitable purposes:
We have continued to maintain our links with national and local government authorities involved in refugee resettlements.
Statutory declaration on regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit:
At the time of registering Croeso Llantwit as a charity with the Charity Commission, the first trustees gave explicit consideration to the benefit aspect and public aspect of the public benefit guidance. Core to the purpose of Croeso Llantwit is the relief of need, including financial need, of a refugee family being resettled in the UK. It was also agreed that Croeso Llantwit should work in such a way as to bring benefit to the wider community through advancing awareness and education on issues facing refugees thereby building a more tolerant and understanding community. Furthermore, fund-raising events would be community-based helping to increase the sense of community within the town. All current trustees have read the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
The support and participation of our network of volunteers has been essential to us remaining committed and able to welcome a family to our community. We have retained volunteers to work in a number of key areas, including:
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Health and Safeguarding;
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Communications and social media;
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Housing;
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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Education;
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Language and Interpretation;
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Family Support Team.
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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As a result of our activities during the year:
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Summary of the main A Syrian family seeking refuge has continued to build a new life in achievements of the charity a safe community.
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during the year
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We have maintained our network of supporters within the community, and have been working with local Syrian community leaders.
Section E Financial review
The charity does not have an explicit reserves policy at present as we Brief statement of the have plans for the expenditure of funds which are now being charity’s policy on reserves implemented to support the family settle in our community.
Details of any funds materially
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in deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about: the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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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) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date |
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| Susan Hybart | Drusilla Phillimore | |
Secretary |
Chair | |
| 15/10/2025 | 15/10/2025 |
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| Charity Name CROESO LLANTWIT |
Charity Name CROESO LLANTWIT |
Charity Name CROESO LLANTWIT |
1178922 | |
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| For the period from |
Period start date 01.04.2024 |
To | Period end date 31.04.2025 |
Section A Receipts and payments
| Section A Receipts and payments | ||||
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| A1 Receipts Donations - _- HMRC Gift Aid 98 Receipt from family - _- - _- - _- - _- - _- - _- 98 - _- - _- Sub total - _- Total receipts 98 A3 Payments House rental 2,400 Sundries 930 Administration -_- ESOL -_- Volunteer expenses -_- Translation/interpretation costs -_- Family relocation -_- Family leisure -_- Room hire -_- Sub total 3,330 -_- -_- Sub total -_- Total payments 3,330 Net of receipts/(payments) - 3,232 A5 Transfers between funds -_- A6 Cash funds last year end 10,676 Cash funds this year end 7,444 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 £ -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 - _- - _- - _- -_- -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 250 -00 250 -_- -_- -_- 250 - 250 -00 434 184 Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ -00 98 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 98 -00 -00 -00 98 2,400 930 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 250 -00 3,580 -00 -00 -00 3,580 - 3,482 -00 11,110 7,628 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
| -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 |
-00 | 535 | ||
| 98 | 232 | |||
| -00 | 45 | |||
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| 98 | 812 | |||
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-00 | |||
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| -_- | 812 | |||
| -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 |
2,400 | 4,715 | ||
| 930 | 176 | |||
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| -00 | 340 | |||
| -00 | 109 | |||
| -00 | 1,421 | |||
| -00 | 2,515 | |||
| 250 | 552 | |||
| -00 | 70 | |||
| 3,580 | 9,898 | |||
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| -_- | 3,580 | 9,898 | ||
| - 250 | -00 -00 -00 -00 |
- 3,482 | - 9,086 | |
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| 434 | 11,110 | -00 | ||
| 184 | 7,628 | - 9,086 |
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 Current account Details Details Details Details Signature Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ to nearest £ 7,444 184 -00 -00 -00 -00 7,444 184 OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 Cost (optional) -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 Cost (optional) -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 -00 Print Name TINA ANGOVE SUSAN HYBART 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 |
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| Date of approval |
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| TINA ANGOVE | 10/15/25 | ||
| SUSAN HYBART | 10/15/25 |