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## **CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1182332**
**FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022**
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## **GOLD GEESE**
## **PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022**
## **Contents**
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|Details of the Charity, its Trustees and Advisers|1|
|Trustees’ Report|2-10|
|Independent Examiner’s Report|11|
|Statement of Financial Activities|12|
|Statement of Financial Position|13|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|14-16|
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## **GOLD GEESE**
## **PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022 Details of the Charity, its Trustees and Advisers**
## **Trustees**
Katie Southgate Anna Whyte Louisette Mullin Sarah Barlow
## **Independent Examiner**
KCA Accountants Ltd Kingsley House 22-24 Elm Road Leigh-on-Sea Essex SS9 1SN
## **Bankers**
Metro Bank One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA
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## **Trustees Annual Report**
Written by Katie Southgate
## **Our Trustees**
Louisette Mullin, Katie Southgate, Anna Whyte and Sarah Barlow whose time and voluntary contributions make Gold Geese possible.
Additional thanks to volunteers Matt Neale, Hollie Redding, Linda and Debbie of OtherLetters, Ralph Tait at the Hatch.
## **Objectives and Activities**
The objectives of the charity are:
- 1: To support paediatric oncology patients and their families on treatment.
- 2: To support bereaved families due to childhood cancer.
- 3: To promote childhood cancer awareness with an annual campaign in September, “Go Gold”.
- 4: To promote blood donation and stem cell registrations.
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## **Activities for Achieving Objectives**
Gold Geese have undertaken many many activities and provided support of all kinds to our Gold Families. Below is a list of examples of support we provided throughout 2021-22.
- Porte Lympne Family stay Plus basketball merch for brothers
- London Zoo and hotel Family stay
- Only Fools and Horses & Hotel/dinner (For Parents)
- London Zoo and hotel Family stay
- Tutoring
- Food shopping vouchers
- New front Door for family, for safety reasons.
- New iPhone as end of treatment gift.
- Emergency hotel stay for out of town hospital admission.
- Hotel stay in London for newly diagnosed.
- Waitrose voucher for family on ward, BMT patient.
_**Hotel and Zoo Trip, C2C rail ticket (3months), Elite Gamer Party**_
- Train tickets for brother and fathers travel to hospital.
- Early christmas delivered, including tree, food, decorations and wreaths
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## **Activities for Achieving Objectives Continued**
- Help with EHCP
- Hotels near GOSH.
- Grotto party
- Christmas gifting in the form of £500 John Lewis vouchers
- Bereaved parent dinners
- Cab trip around London for birthday shopping and xmas lights.
- Laptop for Gold sister for being brave through medical testing.
- Birthday balloon delivery.
- Party at local gaming place.
- Delivery of COOK food for family.
- Alar Carr - front row seats
- Food shop vouchers
- Huge delivery to Basildon Comm nurses (fidget toys)
- Birthday parties with Hall/Food/Balloons/Party bags
- 7x End of Treatment celebrations, video, photos, award, afternoon tea.
- London Zoo with hotel for 5
- Mercedes DRIVING experiences for older children.
- magician sent to little boys house
- Dinner in London and video from cast of Harry Potter
- Nintendo switch.
- Delivery of dressing gowns and movie night treats for 2x families
- 5 star Hotel stay for family, in need of a respite night and a treat.
- Burger night for Teenagers
- Mums night out.
- Legoland trips.
- Merlin passes for a family of 3.
## **End of Treatment**
Parties at the end of a long treatment often provide gold families with some closure. Most of these consist of celebrations with food, videos or photos, awards and bespoke balloons. Gold Geese love a party, so we try and spoil our gold child as they arrive at the end of their treatment. Whilst offering parents 6 sessions of counselling as they head into the new “normal”.
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## **Bereavement Activities**
- Funding of funeral horses and funeral support and contact with newly bereaved mother.
- Food shop vouchers
- Gifts for bereaved siblings
- Memorial bench
- Supplied counselling for bereaved siblings and parents (ongoing)
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- Bereaved mums dinner and shopping trip
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- Coffee and late lunch with bereaved parents, for one on one support.
- Lorraine remembers Finn the Phoenix, with an event on Leigh steps. Rise like a Phoenix. Fundraising for Gold Geese whilst honouring her lovely sons legacy.
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## **Supporting Children on Treatment**
When we refer to “Gold Families” we are including local children on treatment for cancer and their siblings, parents and sometimes extended families depending on the level of care needed. Transport to and from hospitals. Sometimes monthly train. tickets, sometimes cabs to and from appointments. During these hard times food vouchers are also often supplied.
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## **Aims & Ongoing Activities**
- Host a conference with medical professionals, school head teachers and parents alike. To highlight the importance of early diagnosis and listening to concerned parents. School support is offered for newly diagnosed or bereavement.
- Therapy in the form of talking therapist, psychotherapists, play specialists and massage/facials. Therapists are often picked and matched to each family, depending on their needs. This is ongoing in our aims.
- Physiotherapy for children and hydrotherapy when needed.
- Private tutoring for children, as Gold children often miss out of lots of time at school.
- Toys or help buying bigger gifts for birthdays. Requests often come in to us for support with special presents - such as x-boxes or bikes.
- “Pick me up” gifting or distractions for horrible hospital stays, injections or just to help with anxious children.
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## **Santa’s Grotto**
_Please note_ : the pandemic halted grotto plans 2020 but this happens every year, with help from donations.
Our grotto is a fundraising activity run throughout December. Before opening to the public, we hosted a private showing of our grotto with Santa and live reindeers attending. A magician comes to perform a show, substantial gift cards for the families Xmas shopping, family board games and cuddly toys. Finished with a Christmas arts and crafts table to entertain the little ones.
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We thought about what is helpful at Christmas to gift our families. The joy of giving gifts or presenting your family with a lovely Christmas meal is such a wonderful feeling that we decided that buying gifts might take away the joy of buying. So with this in mind Gold Geese gifted generous vouchers from John Lewis, that way options of presents, meals, household items, uniforms or shoes can be bought by the parents and gifted accordingly. We try to understand that each family are in different places both with treatment and financially. So trying to do “one gift’ fits all is impossible. But a sizable voucher, we think, is very suitable for everyone and feedback has shown us that this lasts for longer than just for Christmas in some families.
Gold Geese have gifted a number of gaming devices, including nintendo switches and laptops for children travelling to and from hospitals - and for long waits between treatments. Hospital drop offs have included thousands of pounds worth of toys and distractions. Including more beautiful journals for children, to help with anxiety, feelings and communication. The oncology ward staff have given us feedback that these journals have has a positive impact on them. Requesting more, which we will keep providing, as their turnaround of patients is high.
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## **Thank You to Blood Donors!**
Amazing people giving up their time to donate blood. Our gold children often receive lots of blood transfusions and platelet transfusions, so saying a big “thank you” where we can.
Not forgetting those on the bone marrow donor. Including Liz – _pictured here_ - when she matched with a patient and donated her Stem Cells. Absolute hero!
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## **Awareness Raising**
Go Gold in September is our awareness campaign. Local shops and schools “Go Gold” with Gold Geese to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of childhood cancer.
“Go Gold” in Leigh on Sea, Rayleigh, Southend and Thorpe Bay has grown from year to year. Shops now get involved in turning their windows gold or yellow to raise awareness of not only our charities work but of childhood cancer signs and symptoms. Our website includes these on a separate page for google searches. This information is referenced to the “be child cancer aware” charity. Gold Geese have had various runners and campaigners do events in gold, supporting our charity and raising awareness in their immediate communities.
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## **NUCLEAR RACES!**
A private Gold Geese mud run that our lovely friend Lorraine organised. So much fun for everyone involved. This will become a yearly event for us, both for fundraising and awareness raising.
## **Getting Involved!**
Ami Anders of **“Quackers”** Leigh on Sea hosted sing along carols for Christmas and collected donations for Gold Geese for another year. Thank you again Ami!
**“Create 98”** for their generosity in providing their beautiful space and hosting a Bereaved parents evening.
## _**If you would like to get involved with Gold Geese please email hello@goldgeese.org**_
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## **Moving Forward / Aims**
- Making sure schools know there are resources available to them, should they need it.
- Continue the work and support of gold families, new and old. Parental support and networking. Parent events for respite and support locally.
**Main Activities undertaken to further the charity’s purposes for public benefit:**
The trustees are mindful of their duty under section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit. The Objectives and activities of Gold Geese focus on delivering services to aid Southend on Sea’s children fighting childhood cancers and are undertaken to further our charitable purposes for the public benefit.
## **Volunteers**
Trustees meetings and communications are voluntary. In September as our Awareness Campaign is underway the voluntary hours would top 100+ and in December time with Grotto volunteers would be average of 30 per week. Gold Geese would like to thank our Volunteers and Fundraisers sincerely and with extreme gratitude.
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## **Thank You!**
Every shop and person who contributed, every school for their support and the many, many fundraisers including John Fryatt, Jon Andrews, Andy Sterry, Paul Jefford and Richy McEvoy of Thorpe Hall Golf Club, Andy Yates at Cult Coffee, Claire Jeavons of Store 33, Tangerine kids, Argosy Toys, Billy Bond and entire Bond family at Bunched Flowers. The Tait family for their relentless generosity. Stew Boggis and team at Turner Estate agents. Affinity Mortgages. All our runners and cyclists that have donned the Gold Geese vests and raised money for us over the year. There are many, many, more and our biggest love goes to those who chose to fundraise for us in memory of their loved ones. We always keep those people close to our hearts when using the donations towards our Gold Families. The Trustees families have been amazing throughout and we thank them for their immeasurable support throughout.
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## **Financial Review**
These accounts are showing a total surplus for the period under review of £35,370 which will assist with all the charitable activities and future developments mentioned above. The pie chart below shows how donated money was spent during the period.
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Outgoing Resources
Memories & Patient Support End of Life/Bereavement Support
Counselling & Treatments Fundraising Events
Raising Awareness Governance costs
Other costs
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After the COVID 19 pandemic and government restrictions which were in place in 2020 and 2021, we were able to increase our activities, resulting in an increase in both incoming resources and also the charity spending, specifically on family memories and patient support. We were also able to invest in fundraising activities which help boost the charity’s incoming resources, so we can continue to provide the support for our families.
It is the intentions of the Trustees to try and keep the running costs of the charity as low as possible, so that as much money can be spent on the children and families that require our support. Our aim is to limit the amount of expenditure on administrative costs as much as possible, and as you can see from the pie chart over 70% of the expenditure related to the support of our Gold Families. We aim to continue this year on year to maximise the level of support we can provide.
## **Reserves Policy**
Sufficient reserves are maintained to enable the charity to continue the existing services it is providing and to develop and expand these activities in the future. As at 31[st] May 2022, the charity had unrestricted reserves of £77,458, and restricted reserves of £81,356.
## **Trustees’ Approval**
3/31/2023
This report was approved by the Trustees on _________________ and signed on their behalf by:
___________________________ **Katie Southgate Trustee**
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## **GOLD GEESE**
## **PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Gold Geese**
I report to Trustees on my examination of the accounts of Gold Geese for the year ended 31 May 2022.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity Trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘The Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of The Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
3/31/2023 Signed: ____________________ Date: ___________________
Mr K Ashton MAAT Kingsley House 22-24 Elm Road Leigh-on-Sea Essex SS9 1SN
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## **GOLD GEESE**
## **PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022**
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
|**INCOMING RESOURCES**
**Note**
Donations and Legacies
**2**
Charitable Activities
Other Trading Activities
Investments
Total Income
**RESOURCES EXPENDED**
Charitable Activities
**3**
Fundraising
**4**
Governance Costs
**5**
Other Costs
Total Expenses
**Net Income/(Expenditure)**
**Before Investments**
Net Gains/(Losses)
on Investments
**Net Income/(Expenditure)**
Extraordinary Items
Transfer between Funds
Other Recognised
Gains/(Losses)
**Net Movement on Funds**
**Total Funds Brought Forward**
**Total Funds Carried Forward**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2022**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**2022**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2022**
**Total**
**Funds**
**2021**
£
£
£
£
125,558
-
125,558
95,796
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|
||125,558
-
125,558
95,796|
||79,797
-
79,797
41,626
13,418
-
13,418
2,461
13,930
-
13,930
13,940
5,663
-
5,663
2,399|
||112,808
-
112,808
60,426|
|||
||12,750
-
12,750
35,370|
||-
-
-
-|
||12,750
-
12,750
35,370|
||-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
||12,750
-
12,750
35,370
64,708
81,356
146,064
110,694|
||77,458
81,356
158,814
146,064|
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## **GOLD GEESE**
## **PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022**
## **Statement of Financial Position**
|**Note**
**Fixed Assets**
Tangible Fixed Assets
Investments
**Current Assets**
Debtors
Investments
Cash at Bank and In Hand
**Creditors: amounts falling due within**
**one year**
**6**
**Net Current Assets**
**Total Assets less Current Liabilities**
**Creditors: amounts due after more**
**than one year**
**Net Assets**
**Charity Funds**
Unrestricted Funds
Restricted Funds
**Total Funds**|2022
£
-
-
163,458|2022
£
-
-|2021
£
-
-
149,967|2021
£
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||-
158,814||-
146,064|
||163,458
(4,644)||149,967
(3,903)||
||77,458
81,356||64,708
81,356||
|||158,814
-||146,064
-|
|||158,814||146,064|
||||||
||||||
|||158,814||146,064|
3/31/2023
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Trustees on _____________
and signed on their behalf by:
_____________________
**Katie Southgate Trustee**
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**Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **GOLD GEESE**
## **PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022**
## **1. Accounting Policies**
## **1.1 Basis of preparation of the financial statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the applicable Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), on an accruals basis. The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the charity.
## **1.2 Fund Accounting**
General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity and which have not been designated for any other purpose.
Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by the donors or which have been raised by the charity for particular purposes. The costs of raising and administering each restricted fund (if applicable) is set out in the notes to the financial statements.
Gold Geese has a restricted fund. Collecting donations for one child specifically, for treatments unavailable on the NHS. Sadly, this child did not get to use the funds allocated for his treatment. Gold Geese are now working closely with legal teams and the Charity Commission to change the purpose of the fund.
## **1.3 Incoming Resources**
All income is recognised once the charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received, and the amount of the income can be reliably measured.
Income tax recoverable in relation to donations received under Gift Aid is recognised when it is received.
## **1.4 Expenditure**
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to transfer economic benefit to a third party, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be reliably measured. Expenditure is classified by activity. The costs of each activity are made up of the total direct costs and if applicable any shared costs, including support costs involved in undertaking each activity.
Fundraising costs are those incurred in seeking voluntary contributions and do not include the cost of disseminating information in support of the charitable activities. Support costs are those incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity. Governance costs are those incurred in connection with administration of the charity and compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements.
All expenditure is inclusive of VAT where the suppliers have charged VAT.
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## **GOLD GEESE**
## **PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **1.5 Going Concern**
There are no material uncertainties regarding the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
## **2. Income from Donations and Legacies**
Income received from donations and legacies has been analysed between restricted and unrestricted funds, in accordance with the fund accounting policies.
## **3. Analysis of Expenditure on Charitable Activities**
|Memories and Patient Support
End of Life/Bereavement Support
Counselling and Treatments for
Families
**4. Analysis of Expenditure on Fundraising Activities**
Fundraising Events
Raising Awareness
**5. Analysis of Expenditure on Governance Costs**
Staff costs
Independent Examiners Remuneration
Accountancy|2022
£
65,661
10,681
3,455
79,797
2022
£
12,416
1,002
13,418
2022
£
12,490
930
510
13,930
|2021
£
25,427
12,239
3,960|
|---|---|---|
|||41,626|
|||2021
£
2,414
47|
|||2,461|
|||2021
£
12,500
930
510|
|||13,940|
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## **GOLD GEESE**
## **PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MAY 2022**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **6. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Accruals||||1,440||1,440|
|Other creditors||||2,847||2,077|
|Taxation and social security||||358||386|
|||||4,645||3,903|
|**tatement of funds**|||||||
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||Balance|||||at 31st|
||at 1stJune||Expendi|Transfers|Gains/|May|
||2021|Income|ture|In/(Out)|(Losses)|2022|
||£|£|£|£|£|£|
|Unrestricted funds|64,708|125,558|112,808|-|-|77,458|
|Restricted funds|||||||
|One Pound Warriors|81,356|-|-|-|-|81,356|
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|Total|146,064|125,558|112,808|-|-|158,814|
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## **7. Statement of funds**
## **8. Related party transactions**
During the year £12,490 (2021: £12,500) was paid to key management personnel who are also Trustee’s of the charity.
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