## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025** **Charity name: United Community Activity Network** **Charity registration number: 1181525** ## **Objectives and Activities** |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP
reference|| |Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|1. The promotion of community
participation in healthy recreation for
the benefit of the public in the West
Midland region (the area of benefit) by
the provision of facilities or services
for participating in sports and physical
activities that are capable of
promoting health.
2.To promote the voluntary sector by
the provision of training, advice,
information and support.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to
those purposes for the
public benefit, in particular,
the activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17
and
1.19|The two main activities during the period
were;
1. Updating the charities policies and
creating policies where none existed
before.
2. Ensuring filings were brought up to
date.
3. Tidying up corporate governance the
regime.
4. Reconsidering the charity website
and future strategic direction.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees believe its activities are for
the public benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|NA| |Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment|Para 1.38|NA| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|None beyond Trustees volunteering their
time| |Other||NA| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity, identifying the
difference the charity’s
work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|
Para 1.20|•Charities policies updated.
•Policies created, where none existed
before.
•Filings were brought up to date.
•Corporate governance regime tidied
up.
•Future strategy reconsidered.
These achievements were
considered necessary in order to
improve the credibility and
professionalism of the charity and its
abilities to raise funds and provide a
more focused background to support
society in line with the charities main
objectives.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|NA| |---|---|---| |Performance of
fundraising activities
against objectives set|Para 1.41|NA| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|The Charity ended the period in surplus
having had a less active year.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity does not currently have a
policy for holding reserves.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|None at present.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not required.| |Details of fund materially
in deficit|Para 1.24|None.| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23|None.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds
(including any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Project delivery, specifically, the
Playzones Project.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the
principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||N/A| |---|---|---| |Type of governing
document(trust deed,
royal charter)|Para
1.25|Constitution as per Charity Commission
template.| |How is the charity
constituted?(e.g|Para 1.25|A board of trustees.
Registered Charity.| |unincorporated
association, CIO)||| |---|---|---| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions
e.g. election to post or
name of any person or
body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees|Para 1.25|Trustee selection is based upon the
required skills, knowledge and
experience but also having regard to
diversity.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s
organisational structure
and any wider network with
which the charityworks|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|United Community Activity Network| |---|---| |Other name the charity
uses|UCAN| |Registered charity number|1181525| |Charity’s principal address|Hestia House
22 Old Walsall Rd,
Birmingham B42 1DT| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of**
**person (or**
**body) entitled**
**to appoint**
**trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mark Jeffreys|Vice Chair||The charity-
UCAN| ||Lincoln Moses|||| ||Neil De-Costa|Chairman||| ||Keith Stokes-Smith|Secretary||| ||Avtar Singh Dhillon|Treasurer||| ||James Hinton||From 16 Oct 2024|| ||Juanita Bradshaw||From 16 Oct 2024|| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** NONE Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|None| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf
the assets are held and
how this falls within the
custodian charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements
for safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|
N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details NA ## **Other optional information** NA **Declarations** **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 Date** |_Keith Stokes-Smith_|Keith Stokes-Smith| |---|---| |Keith Stokes-Smith|Keith Reginald Stokes-Smith| |Trustee|| 31 January 2026 cc Incom• Restri(led Fund8 25,lJ)O Total I￿orn• 25,000 In•urance 153 WatrAite 3.110 528 $28 12.C 15.791 Surplusl{Drfrit) <15,791) 23.811 t)uring thr¥ acc¢xMting p*￿.. project on our behall. oi*t on our bo1*ff. agr••J to Con￿ cf £10.5(Ki to urne8trlC￿ fixth. Bank 14.838 29.901 14.638 29,￿)1 Credrtorn and Accruals 528 528 Il•t Cuff•nt A•••ts l (U•blllll••) 13,582 29.373 13.582 29,373 Represenled by.. Surplu8 Brought F¢)wrd SU￿u•l {Dofiry1) In Y￿r 29.373 (15,791) 23.611 13.582 29,373 13