## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1st November 2020 31st October 2021 **To**
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
DISASTER ACTION
**Charity name** DISASTER ACTION **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1180287 **Charity's principal address** No 4 71 Upper Street London **Postcode** W1H 7DB
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
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**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**
CIO Foundation Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are elected by 3 Trustees 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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**TAR**
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## The Objects of the CIO are:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
(i) To promote the safety of the public generally or of any section of the public and or members of the public, against disasters involving multiple deaths or injury or extensive destruction of buildings or property, where such disasters occur in public places and whether by land, water or air, and in particular for the above purpose to devise, research, carry out, make known, disseminate, advocate, explain and advance principles and methods for securing or furthering the prevention of and protection against accidents of all kinds likely to give rise to such disasters; (ii)to enlist and provide support, succour, guidance and assistance generally to those including dependants and families, who have been or may be affected by such disasters or may be so affected in the future.
The Trustees confirm that they have had regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance where relevant. Disaster Action members have continued to provide guidance, assistance and advice to various professionals as well as supporting those directly affected by disasters.
**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)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**TAR**
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## Section D Achievements and erformance p
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
- Provided advice and guidance to various organisations delivering post-incident support following 2017 incidents, including the Grenfell Fire and Manchester Arena attack.
- Continued to advise the Manchester Memorials Advisory Group regarding permanent memorialisation following the 2017 attack
- Delivered peer mentoring and support functions within the Manchester Attack Support Group Programme
- Shared DA principles and learning through participation and presentations at national at international meetings and conferences
- Prepared and contributed to various publications including research papers on peer support and international best practice guidelines on responding to collective trauma events
- Presented at various training and education sessions with emergency planners, strategic responders and crisis support teams.
**TAR**
March **2012**
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
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## **Section E Financial review**
n/a
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
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## **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)**
> [S.Tarassenko ]
**Full name(s)** Sophie Tarassenko **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 30.6.22
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**Charity Name 1180287 DISASTER ACT6ION Receipts and payments accounts For the period To from 1.11.20**
**payments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a To 1.11.20 31.10.21**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**350**
**350**
**178**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**878**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**878**
**- 878**
**-**
**17,034**
**16,156**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**350**
**350**
**178**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**878**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**878**
**- 878**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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**-**
**-**|**-**|||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
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Anne Eyre - Peer Support|**350**||**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**350**||**-**|
|Jelena Watkins - Peer Support|**350**|||**350**||**-**|
|Steven Bradley- Website|**178**|||**178**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**878**|||**878**||**-**|
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|**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_**|||||||
||||**-**|**878**||**-**|
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||**- 878**|**-**|**-**|
**- 878**||**-**|
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**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**17,034**|**-**||**17,034**||**-**|
||**16,156**|**-**|**-**|**16,156**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
05/07/2022
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## **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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
S.Tarassenko|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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|||**16,156**||**-**||**-**|
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|||**16,156**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||OK|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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approval|
||S.Tarassenko|Sophie Tarassenko||||30/06/2022|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
05/07/2022
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