**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**1[st] January 2022 to 31[st] December 2022**
**Born Equal**
**1182740**
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## INTRODUCTION
Born Equal is a charity committed to supporting individuals impacted by inequality, particularly those often marginalized or overlooked, we've remained resolute in our mission to make a positive difference through grant-making, advocacy, and collaborative efforts with like-minded organisations.
ADAPTING TO ONGOING CHALLENGES
In 2020, like many charitable organisations, Born Equal, along with our partners and beneficiaries, faced the formidable challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The continued and long-lasting effects of which led to a strategic decision to reassess and refocus Born Equal's priorities.
In the year that has transpired since the initial outbreak of the pandemic, Born Equal has diligently continued its operations while thoughtfully adjusting its growth and expansion plans. We've done so in order to closely monitor and respond to the evolving needs and issues faced by the very communities we exist to serve and support.
## SUSTAINED COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
Our refocused priorities and objectives, extended into 2022, maintain a watchful eye on the persisting global inequalities exacerbated by multifaceted factors, including the alarming phenomenon of witchcraft accusations. Concurrently, we remain keenly attuned to the ever-changing geopolitical landscape, which has profound repercussions on the lives of those afflicted by such events.
Born Equal's dedication to advocacy remains unwavering, demonstrated through our continued membership in the Stop Child Witch Accusations (SCWA) steering group. Collaborating with religious institutions and communities, SCWA actively strives to prevent and mitigate the harm inflicted upon children due to witchcraft allegations.
COMMITMENT TO A CHANGING WORLD
Born Equal remains dedicated to achieving its core objectives – the eradication of discrimination and the advancement of social justice. We are acutely aware of the challenging and often unpredictable environment within which we operate, and we hold ourselves accountable for the effective management of our organisation. Our aim is to ensure we can consistently deliver activities for the public good and continue to serve as a catalyst for positive change.
As we navigate the ever-shifting landscape of inequality and social injustice, Born Equal remains dedicated to making a lasting impact and advocating for a more equitable world. We thank all our stakeholders for their unwavering support and look forward to continued collaboration in the pursuit of a fair and just society.
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**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 January 2022 To**
## **31 December 2022**
**Charity name: Born Equal**
## **Charity registration number: 1182740**
## **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 equality and
diversity for the public benefit
by:
(a) The elimination of
discrimination on the
grounds of race, gender,
disability, sexual
orientation, age or religion;
(b) Advancing education and
raising awareness in
equality and diversity;
(c) Promoting activities to
foster understanding
between people from these
diverse backgrounds;
(d) Cultivating a sentiment in
favour of equality and
diversity.
(2)The prevention or relief of
poverty for the public benefit
anywhere in the world.
(3)The promotion of human rights
for the public benefit
throughout the world by all or
any of the following means:
(a) Monitoring abuses of human
rights;
(b) Obtaining redress for the
victims of human rights abuse;
(c) Relieving need among the
victims of human rights abuse;
(d) Research into human rights
issues;|
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|||(e) Providing technical advice to
government and others on
human rights matters;
(f) Contributing to the sound
administration of human rights
law;
(g) Commenting on proposed
human rights legislation;
(h) Raising awareness of human
rights issues;
(i) Promoting public support for
human rights
(j) Promoting respect for human
rights amongst individuals and
corporations;
(k) International advocacy of
human rights;
(l) Eliminating infringements of
human rights.|
|---|---|---|
|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|Born Equal continues to be an active
member of the Stop Child Witchcraft
Accusations Now Coalition (SCWA),
and sits on the steering group.
Following the first successful pilot of
the Small Grants Scheme, the
Trustees have undertaken a period of
strategic reflection. The Trustees
consider it is of utmost importance
that Born Equal, with a global remit,
is continuously aware of in-equality
across the world and maintains a
posture to address and tackle such in-
equality.
Owing to global events, the Trustees
have shifted the focus of the charity
from growth and scale to monitoring
the changing priorities of those
already supported by Born Equal and
emerging in-equality across the
world.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para 1.18|Yes, Born Equal Trustees are aware of
the guidance issued by the Charity
Commission regarding charitable
activity being completed for public
benefit.
Trustees have all read the guidance
and are committed to keeping up-to-
datewiththis guidance onanannual|
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basis, or sooner where new guidance is issued.
## **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|Born Equal continues to be an active
member of the Stop Child Witchcraft
Accusations Now Coalition (SCWA),
and sits on the steering group.
Following the first successful pilot of
the Small Grants Scheme, the
Trustees have undertaken a period of
strategic reflection. The Trustees
consider it is of utmost importance
that Born Equal, with a global remit,
is continuously aware of in-equality
across the world and maintains a
posture to address and tackle such
in-equality.
Owing to global events, the Trustees
have shifted the focus of the charity
from growth and scale to monitoring
the changing priorities of those
already supported by Born Equal and
emerging in-equality across the
world.
The Trustees consider that Born
Equal, a small charity with limited
resources, must be able to use those
resources effectively in order to
achieve the greatest public benefit. It
is therefore appropriate that the
Trustees take the time to reflect and
develop strategy according to
greatest need and societal benefit.|
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## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|The Charity has no financial liabilities
and has little financial expenditure on
administrative costs.
Born Equal is structured with
voluntary labour at the heart of the
organisation. This means that Born
Equal can maximise the funds
donated to it for direct charitable
purposes. Although the Trustees
appreciate that Born Equal needs to
raise additional funds to support its
work there is no present concern that
the Charity’s financial position will
prevent the delivery of our charitable
aims.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding
reserves stating why
they are held|Para 1.22|For at least the next year, the
Trustees do not anticipate that Born
Equal will commit itself to regular
financial liabilities and therefore there
is no present need to establish a
reserve.
No reserves held.|
|Amount of reservesheld|Para1.22|£0|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Born Equal has no anticipated
financial liabilities for the next 12
months. Therefore, there is no
current requirement to build up
reserves. The Charity’s intention is to
build reserves over the next 3 years
to support the grant giving
programme to offset against deficit in
expected income or unexpected costs.
At present, the Trustees do not
consider there to be a financial risk in
holding zero reserves. This will be
reviewed on a regular basis.|
|Details of fund materially
indeficit|Para 1.24|The Charity does not hold any funds
materiallyindeficit.|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23|The Trustees consider that there are
no uncertainties about the Charity’s
ability to continue as a going concern.|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing
document|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|Born Equal has been established as a
CIOwithCharitable purposes|
|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|As part of our constitution the
Trustees have agreed that a Chair
and Treasurer will be elected on an
annual basis with this being agreed
and minuted by the Trustees at one
of their standard meetings, this will
typically be the AGM.
We will recruit/select new Trustees
based on the needs of the Charity and
this will be informed by the Advisory
panel when this is established.|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Born Equal|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity
uses|None|
|Registered charity
number|1182740|
|Charity’s principal
address|33 Arnold Drive
Rugby
CV23 9FU|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Lisa Atkinson|Chair|||
||Emilie Secker||||
||Aimee Smith|Treasurer|||
Born Equal has no Corporate Trustees, no Director and no paid staff. No trustees hold title to property belonging to the charity.
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements n/a for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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**Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Aimee Smith **Full name(s)** Lisa Atkinson **Position (eg** Chair Treasurer **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 29-10-2023
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**Born Equal**
**1182740**
**Receipts and payments accounts** 01-Jan-22 31-Dec-22 **For the period To from**
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**540**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**540**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**540**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**540**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Individual donations|**540**|**-**|**-**|**540**|**680**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**540**|**-**|**-**|**540**|**680**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**(see table).**|||||||||||||
|**None**|**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
||||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**540**|||**-**|||**-**||**540**||**680**||
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## **A3 Payments**
|Administrative costs (domain)|**26**||**-**||**-**||**26**||**24**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**26**||**-**||**-**||**26**||**24**|
**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**
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None - - - -
- - - -
Sub total
- - - - -
Total payments 26 - - 26 24
Net of receipts/(payments) 514 - - 514 656
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end 514 - - 514 656
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**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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## **Categories B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
|**Details**
All cash funds
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
None|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**514**
**-**
**-**
**514**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|None|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Details**
None|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|
|None||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|
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**-**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
## **Details**
None
## **Details**
|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
**Fund to which Amount due When due liability relates (optional) (optional) - - - - -**
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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Date of
Signature Print Name
approval
Aimee Smith (Treasurer) 29-10-2023
Lisa Atkinson (Chair)
29-10-2023
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