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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 April 2020 **To** 31 March 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** My Black Dog
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1182690
**Charity's principal address** 88/90 Baker Street
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|**Postcode**|W1U|6TQ|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Leon Douch||||
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||EmilyCherry||From 1 December 2020||
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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**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**TAR**
March **2012**
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|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**Bankers**|CAF Bank|25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent,
ME19 4JQ|
|**Accountants**|Dales Evans & Co Ltd|88/90 Baker Street, London, W1U 6TQ|
|**Independent Examiner**|Geoffrey Frost|Blue Spire Limited, Cawley Priory, South Pallant,
Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1SY|
## **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 dated 29 March 2019
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustees are appointed by the existing trustees by resolution at a meeting Trustee selection methods of the trustees.
(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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The object of the CIO is To promote and protect the mental health of people suffering from enduring mental illness living in England and Wales, in particular, but exclusively by the provision of a supportive, online community platform to ease the suffering of mental illness and improve the lives of people suffering from enduring mental illness.
**TAR**
March **2012**
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In determining the charity’s activities the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
**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.
**TAR**
March **2012**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
During the year under review the charity worked on establishing its plans for fulfilling its objects and developed its profile.
Funds in this year were spent on Volunteer Management: recruitment, training and wellbeing. We also allocated funds to Operations by hiring two members of staff. Additional resources were spent on technology (the chat software).
**TAR**
March **2012**
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the**
At the end of the reporting period the charity had free reserves amounting to £102,696 (2020: £28,104).
**charity’s policy on reserves**
The Trustees pursue a policy of maintaining a free reserve available to be spent in the furtherance of the charity’s objectives, as well as covering future needs, opportunities, contingencies and risks.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include 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)**
**Full name(s)**[Leon Douch ] **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 31 January 2022
**TAR**
March **2012**
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||**Charity Name**
**My Black Dog**|**Charity Name**
**My Black Dog**|**Charity Name**
**My Black Dog**|**No (if any)**
**1182690**|**No (if any)**
**1182690**|**No (if any)**
**1182690**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01 April 2020|**To**||Period end date
31 March 2021|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**134,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134,124**
**-**
**158**
**37**
**201**
**17,921**
**36**
**164**
**1,145**
**3,780**
**29,817**
**4,225**
**789**
**59**
**1,200**
**59,532**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**59,532**
**74,592**
**-**
**28,104**
**102,696**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**134,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134,124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134,124**
**-**
**158**
**37**
**201**
**17,921**
**36**
**164**
**1,145**
**3,780**
**29,817**
**4,225**
**789**
**59**
**1,200**
**59,532**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**59,532**
**74,592**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**134,124**||||||**32,123**|
|Gift aid|**-**||||||**6,750**|
|Income from bank interest|**-**||||||**4**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**134,124**||||||**38,877**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
|Sale of investments|**-**||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**38,877**|
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|Room Hire|**-**||||||**152**|
|Donation collection charges|**158**||||||**-**|
|CharityDonations|**37**||||||**-**|
|Printing, Postage & Stationery|**201**||||||**6**|
|Advertising& Promotion|**17,921**||||||**3,397**|
|Entertainment|**36**||||||**-**|
|SundryExpenses|**164**||||||**-**|
|Computer Costs|**1,145**||||||**15**|
|AccountancyFees|**3,780**||||||**945**|
|Wages & Salaries|**29,817**||||||**5,207**|
|TrainingCosts|**4,225**||||||**200**|
|Subscriptions|**789**||||||**571**|
|Fundraisingevent costs|**59**||||||**280**|
|Inxdependent examination|**1,200**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**59,532**||||||**10,773**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
|Investmentpurchases|**-**||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**10,773**|
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||**74,592**|**-**|**-**||**74,592**||**28,104**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**28,104**|**-**|**-**||**28,104**||**-**|
||**102,696**|**-**|**-**||**102,696**||**28,104**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|Signature
PAYE and NIC
Pension costs
Independent examination
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
CAF Bank
Stripe account
**_Total cash funds_**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**102,533**
**-**
**163**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**102,696**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**418**
Unrestricted
**213**
Unrestricted
**1,200**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Leon Douch
Trustee|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
31 January 2022|
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## **Section C Notes to the Accounts**
**C1 Nature and purpose of funds** _(may be_ Unrestricted income funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general _stated on analysis of funds worksheets)_ objectives of the charity and which have not been designated for other purposes. **C2 Grants to institutions Recipient - 1 grant unless annotated £** - **C3 Related party transactions** No trustee received any remuneration nor reimbiursed any expenses in the year under review.
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of My Black Dog**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2021 which are set out on pages 6 to 8.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity’s 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 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.
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.
Geoffrey Frost BSc(Hons) FCA Blue Spire Limited Cawley Priory South Pallant Chichester West Sussex PO19 1SY
31 January 2022 _Date_