## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 2 September 2020 To 1 September 2021**
## **Charity name: The Bright Kites Foundation**
**Charity registration number:** 1183162
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the purposes Para 1.17 To advance the education of Colombian
of the charity as set out students from socially and
in its governing economically disadvantaged
document backgrounds ("lower strata
neighbourhoods") in the subject of
English.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and We provide students with a travel grant
1.19
activities in relation to to enable them to take part in an
those purposes for the English language programme in the UK
public benefit, in which they could not otherwise afford
particular, the activities, and providing mentoring support and
projects or services organising activities which develop
identified in the their cultural awareness and people
accounts. skills to enable them to participate in
society as mature and responsible
individual.
Statement confirming Para 1.18 NA
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment
Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
Despite the COVID 19 pandemic, we
successfully managed to engage
Summary of the main our 4 ambassadors with a series
Para 1.20
achievements of the of interactive English sessions
charity, identifying the throughout the year including
difference the charity’s intercultural exchange
work has made to the workshops with other schools
circumstances of its and quizzes native speakers in
beneficiaries and any the UK. We were expecting to be
wider benefits to society able to welcome them to London
as a whole. in July 2021 but due to
government guidance were
advised to postpone again. To
make sure that the students had
access to an opportunity that
they wouldn´t else be able to
afford, in place of the trip to
London, we funded an intensive
3 month English language
programme for them all (3
virtual and 1 in person) at their
local Colombo Americano
starting in September 2021.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
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other
## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 716
financial position at the
end of the period
Statement explaining the Para 1.22 NA
policy for holding
reserves stating why they
are held
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 NA
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 NA
reserves
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 NA
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 NA
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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The charity’s principal sources of funds Para 1.47 (including any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the Para 1.46 principal risks facing the charity Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution of
document The Bright Kites Foundation
(trust deed, royal a Charitable Incorporated
charter)
Organisation
(Foundation Structure)
Whose Only Voting Members Are Its
Charity Trustees
How is the charity Para 1.25 Charitable Incorporated
constituted? Organisation
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25
methods including details There must be at least three charity
of any constitutional trustees. If the number falls below this
minimum, the remaining trustee or
provisions e.g. election to
trustees may act only to call a meeting of
post or name of any
the charity trustees, or appoint a new
person or body entitled
charity trustee.
to appoint one or more
trustees There is no maximum number of charity
trustees that may be appointed to the CIO.
First charity trustees
The first charity trustees are as follows:
Jessica Dunks
Jordan Hyland
James Duncan
Sonia Simón
Hayley Shapiro
Amélie Doyle
Apart from the first charity trustees, every
trustee must be appointed for a term of
two years by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the charity
trustees.
In selecting individuals for appointment as
charity trustees, the charity trustees must
have regard to the skills, knowledge and
experience needed for the effective
administration of the CIO.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s
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organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name The Bright Kites Foundation
Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity 1183162
number
Charity’s principal 2 Crouchlands Farm
address Whitemans Green
Cuckfield
RH17 5DD
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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 Jessica Dunks
2 James Duncan
3 Jordan Hyland
4 Amelie Doyle
5 Sonia Simon
6 Hayley Shapiro
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
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Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole
year
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets NA held in this capacity
Name and objects of the NA charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements NA for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** JD **Full name(s)** Jessica Dunks
**Position (eg** Founding Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 21/06/2022
|**Incoming**|**Date**|**Outgoing**|**Date**|**Notes**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|15|11/04/2020|||Virgin Money|
|3.75|12/09/2020|||Virgin Money|
|137.75|06/23/2021|||Virgin Money|
|77.75|06/30/2021|||Virgin Money|
|25|07/07/2021|||Virgin Money|
|10|07/21/2021|||Virgin Money|
|85|07/28/2021|||Virgin Money|
|56.25|08/04/2021|||Virgin Money|
|295.5|08/11/2021|||Virgin Money|
|10|08/25/2021|||Virgin Money|
**Total**
**Total**
716
0