**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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Period start date Period end date 01 04 2022 31 03 2023
## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** CHILDREN’S LITERATURE FESTIVALS
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1182143 **Charity's principal address** 17 Leeds Road Selby North Yorkshire **Postcode YO8 4HU**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution adopted 20/02/2019
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Standard Registration How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Members vote at general meeting
- (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.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
To give children, young people and families from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities, an equal opportunity with access to free literature festivals, and supply free books where available **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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We held two festivals this year in Blackburn with Darwen Libraries and Keighley Library, engaging with over 6000 children in total. We gifted 3000 books over the two festivals.
Save Our Planet initiatives were held for each festival, encouraging children to write about our environment.
The literature festival community days were free to the public and we gifted free books on the day for all children who attended.
**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)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
The trustees are pleased with the maintained level of financial **Summary of the main** performance recorded for the year. **achievements of the charity during the year**
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## **Section E Financial review**
Reserves are maintained at such a level as to ensure the day to day **Brief statement of the** activities of the charity can be continued without financial pressure. **charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
We received donations from Sovereign Health , Lloyds Trust, Darwen You **may choose** to include Rotary, Darwen Library and Poems & Pictures Ltd 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) Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee Chair **Chair, etc) Date**
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Charity Name No (if any)
Children's Literature Festivals 1182143
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/04/2022 31/03/2023
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
Grants and donations 21,725 - - 21,725 12,700
Fundraising - - - - 42
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Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 21,725 ] - - 21,725 12,742
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 21,725 - - 21,725 12,742
A3 Payments
Authors and illustrators 9,737 - - 9,737 4,025
books 4,600 - - 4,600 3,864
work done 200 - - 200 2,535
Postage and stationery 150 - - 150 -
venue hire 64 - - 64 -
subscriptions 72 - - 72 -
travel and accomodation 1,840 - - 1,840 707
media marketing 3,022 - - 3,022 2,459
telephone - - - - -
Sub total [ 19,685 ] - - 19,685 13,590
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 19,685 - - 19,685 13,590
Net of receipts/(payments) 2,040 - - 2,040 - 848
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 748 - - 748 1,596
Cash funds this year end 2,788 - - 2,788 748
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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
**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))
Lloyds bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
J Howie|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,788**
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**2,788**
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Print Name
Joyce Howie|**Endowment**
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Date of
approval
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