## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From Period start date 1[st] April 2020 To 31[st] March 2021 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Community Buddies**
**Charity registration number:** 1182280
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 The promotion of community
purposes of the charity capacity building for the public
as set out in its benefit in socially disadvantaged
governing document communities in the north east of
England by:
• Providing practical support to
groups in those communities
seeking to organise for
themselves events and activities
that address their recreational,
leisure and educational needs;
• Engaging residents in those
communities in opportunities to
learn new skills and develop their
own projects, events and
activities.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and As a newly formed CIO with
1.19
activities in relation to purely voluntary trustees we
those purposes for the have been focusing our efforts on
public benefit, in setting up our infrastructure and
particular, the activities, obtaining funds for projects.
projects or services
identified in the
accounts.
Statement confirming Para 1.18
whether the trustees The decision to register was
have had regard to the based on our assessment of the
guidance issued by the information supplied during the
Charity Commission on application process and the
public benefit declarations given in the trustee
declaration form and we are
satisfied that COMMUNITY
BUDDIES is established for
charitable purposes only for the
public benefit. (charity
commission statement).
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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SORP reference
Para 1.38 Not provided
Policy on grant making
Para 1.38 Not provided
Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment
Para 1.38 Not provided
Contribution made by
volunteers
Not provided
Other
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
As a newly formed CIO with
purely voluntary trustees we
have been focusing our efforts on
Summary of the main setting up our infrastructure and
Para 1.20
achievements of the obtaining funds for projects.
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.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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**Not provided** Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set
**Not provided** Performance of fundraising activities Para 1.41 against objectives set **Not provided** Investment performance against objectives Para 1.41 **Not provided** Other
## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 £6859.55 balance held
financial position at the
end of the period
Statement explaining Para 1.22 Currently no reserves are held as
the policy for holding this is not required for the
reserves stating why charities current activities and a
they are held policy has not been developed.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £0.00
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 Currently no reserves are held as
reserves this is not required for the
charities current activities and a
policy has not been developed.
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 Not applicable.
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 None.
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Donation from Broadacres
Housing Association.
The charity’s principal
sources of funds Para 1.47
(including any
fundraising)
Not provided
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
Not provided
A description of the Para 1.46
principal risks facing the
charity
Not provided
Other
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25
document Association' Model Constitution
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 C.I.O
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 (1) At the first annual general
methods including meeting of the CIO all the charity
details of any trustees shall retire from office;
constitutional provisions (2) At every subsequent annual
e.g. election to post or general meeting of the members
name of any person or of the CIC, one-third of the
body entitled to appoint charity trustees shall retire from
one or more trustees office. If the number of charity
trustees is not three or a multiple
of three, then the number
nearest to one-third shall retire
from office, but if there is only
one charity trustee, he or she
shall retire;
(3) The charity trustees to retire
by rotation shall be those who
have been longest in office since
their last appointment or
reappointment. If any trustees
were last appointed or
reappointed on the same day
those to retire shall (unless they:
otherwise agree among
themselves) be determined by
lot;
(4) The vacancies so arising may
be filled by the decision of the
members at the annual general
meeting; any vacancies not filled
at the annual general meeting
may be filled as provided in sub
-clause (5) of this clause;
(5) The members or the charity
trustees may at any time decide
to appoint a new charity trustee,
whether in place of a charity
trustee who has retired or been
removed in accordance with
clause [15] (Retirement and
removal of charity trustees), or
as an additional charity trustee,
provided that the limit specified
in clause 12(3) on the number of
charity trustees would not as a
result be exceeded;
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**(6) A person so appointed by the members of the CIO shall retire in accordance with the provisions of sub-clauses (2} and (3) of this clause. A person so appointed by the charity trustees shall retire at the 'conclusion of the next annual general meeting after the date of his or her appointment, and shall not be counted for the purpose of determining which of the charity trustees is to retire by rotation at that meeting.**
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Not provided
Policies and procedures
adopted for the Para 1.51
induction and training of
trustees
Not provided
The charity’s
organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
Not provided
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Not provided
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Community Buddies
Other name the charity none
uses
Registered charity 1182280
number
Charity’s principal C/O – Broadacres House, Mount View, Standard
address Way, Northallerton, DL6 2YD
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Emily Thomas Chair
Olwyn Treasurer
2
Richardson
3 Helen Piercy Secretary
4 Sarah Beniams Vice Chair
Stephen
5
O’Brien
6 Andy Powell
7 Anne Ash
8 David Smith
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
Director name
Not applicable
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Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
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Trustee name Dates acted if not for
whole year
Not applicable
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**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **Not applicable** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **Not applicable** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements **Not applicable** for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional) – not applicable**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
## **Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Not applicable
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Not applicable**
## **Other optional information**
## **Not applicable**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) E. Thomas Full name(s) Emily Claire Louise Thomas Position (eg TBC Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date TBC**
**CC16a**
## **Community Buddies**
**Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 3/1/2020 3/31/2021
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
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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
Contribution towards Gym project 7,000 - - 7,000 -
- - - - -
7,000 - - 7,000 -
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 7,000 - - 7,000 -
A3 Payments
Insurance 140 - - 140 -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 140 ] - - 140 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 140 - - 140 -
Net of receipts/(payments) [ 6,860 ] - - 6,860 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end [ 6,860 ] - - 6,860 -
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
Bank Account
**6,860**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,860**
**-**
**-**
OK
OK
OK
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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B4 Assets retained for the - -
charity’s own use - -
- -
Fund to which Amount due When due
Details liability relates (optional) (optional)
B5 Liabilities -
-
Signed by one or two trustees on Date of
behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval
Emily Thomas
Olwyn Richardson
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