2024-03-31-accounts

Gratitude Initiative Trustees’ Annual Report

Charity name : Gratitude Initiative Charity Number : 1180743 Governing document: Constitution Charity constituted as : CIO Charity’s principal Address Phone : [phone] Verdant Lane London SE6 1JD

Email: [e-mail] Website: gratitudeinitiative.org.uk

Gratitude Initiative's mission is to share knowledge, create harmony and mutual understanding

using gratitude as a framework and tool, resulting in good relations among different communities

and enhance social cohesions. On this financial year:

• We engaged in discussions and reflections on gratitude across various platforms, including churches, conferences, and seminars.

• We encouraged and supported churches in establishing an annual Gratitude Sunday to foster a culture of gratitude and promote community cohesion.

• We created and shared online resources—such as reading materials, videos, and information— on all our social media platforms to educate, inform, and inspire people to adopt and practise gratitude in their personal and social lives.

• We kept our user-friendly website up to date, providing followers, supporters, and interested individuals with more information about our charity and practical guidelines for cultivating a culture of gratitude.

• We maintained our connections with leaders and organisations with whom we had plans to organise events.

• We are in the process of developing resources on eight topics, including gratitude and

• community cohesion, gratitude and mental health, and gratitude and mission, to equip churches to better serve their communities.

Board of trustees

Rt Revd Richard Charles Thorpe Chair of Trustees Dr Harvey Collins Kwiyani Trustee Dr Tracy Cotterell Trustee Dr Al Barth Trustee Rev Celia Apegyei-Collins Trustee

Ric Thorpe Bishop of Islington

GRATITUDE INITIATIVE 2023 / 2024 ACCOUNTS 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024

		2023/24	2022/23
		£	£
	Category
Income
	Church Donations	-	5,000
	Other Institutions	100	-
	Individual Donations	529	941
	Total Income	629	5,941
Expenditure
Operations	Social Media, Website and Branding	129	120
	Office Management	-	864
	Media Communication	-	576
	Consultation Service Fees and Expenses	400	6,160
	Sub-Total: Fixed Operating Costs	529	7,720
Thought Leadership	Gratitude Summit	-	-
	Church Gratitude Project	-	62
	Sub-Total: Thought Leadership Project Costs	-	62
Governance	Independent Examination	-	-
	Total Expenditure	529	7,782
Result		100	-1,841
Balances	Balance b/f	541	2,382
	Surplus	100	-1,841
	Balance c/f	641	541
Current Assets	Bank	613	356
	Debtors	28	185
	Current Assets	641	541
Current Liabilities	Creditors	-	-
	Current Liabilities	-	-
Net Current Assets		641	541

GRATITUDE INITIATIVE 2023 / 2024 ACCOUNTS

Notes

1. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (Charities SORP FRSSE) (effective 1 January 2015) and applicable accounting standards. They are prepared on a receipts and payments basis, and include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which Gratitude Initiative is responsible.

2. The charity had no employees during the year, and did not pay any trustee to provide services. Donations made to the charity by trustees during the year totalled £300 (2022/2023: £300).

These accounts were approved by the trustees on 3 June 2024 and signed by the chair on behalf of the board.

Ric Thorpe Bishop of Islington