## Section A ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 04 2021 **To** 31 03 2022 ## Reference and administration details **Charity name** **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1183998 Ava Marie Foundation "The" Ava Marie Foundation **Charity's principal address** 13-15 Market Street NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, MERSEYSIDE Postcode WA12 9BQ ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Daniel THOMPSON|Chair||| ||Shannon HILL|Secretary||| ||Georgina WILL|Trustee||| ||Leslie Thompson|Trustee|From 27th March 2022|| ||Juliet Cain|Trustee|From 26th March 2022|| ||Matthew Lockett|Trustee|From 21st March 2022|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** N/A **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address** ## **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 - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Governing Committee Trustee selection methods - (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** TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING MEMORY BOX TO PARENTS AND FAMILIES **Summary of the objects of the** WHO HAVE WHO HAVE LOST A CHILD WHETHER THROUGH **charity set out in its** NEONATAL DEATH, STILLBIRTH, MISCARRIAGE OR MEDICAL **governing document** TERMINATION OR WHO ARE PREGNANT WITH A CHILD WITH A LIFE LIMITING CONDITION AND BY RAISING AWARENESS OF THE NEURO TUBE DEFECT, ANENCEPHALY. **TAR** March **2012** 2 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE TRUSTEES MAY: - A) RAISE FUNDS ON AN ONGOING BASIS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE MEMORY BOXES FREE OF CHARGE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM INCLUDING ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND FOR THE UPKEEP OF THE CHILD BEREAVEMENT HUB LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS. **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** 3 Achievements and erformance p ## Section D ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** - 1) We provided 941 Memory boxes throughout the UK to Bereaved Parents and families - 2) Phase 2 of the Child Bereavement Hub has commenced, we were successful in obtaining grants for LED lighting throughout the hub and for external works which are to yet take place - 3) We provided over 78 funeral gowns to funeral directors and individuals in the local area. - 4) We continued to raise funds from the public to allow us to continue our charitable activities, we attended the Town show where we raised funds - 5) We were successful in obtaining grants from a number of organizations through Neighbourly including B&Q, Marks & Spencers, Screwfix and Aviva **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E** ## **Financial review** Our strategy is that we retain sufficient reserves to be able to continue **Brief statement of the** to provide a provision within our Bereavement Hub and provide our **charity’s policy on reserves** memory boxes for a further 6months even if we generated no additional income. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** N/A ## **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)** Daniel John Thompson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairman **etc)** **Date** 5th March 2023 **TAR** March **2012** 5 Phone 01925 939871 Email: info@avamariefoundation.org.uk Website: www.avamariefoundation.org.uk Facebook: @AvaMarieFoundation 5th March 2023 ## **STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE 01st APRIL 2021 TO 31ST MARCH 2022** ## **Income** Grants and other income: £21,694.91 ## **Expenditure** Activities, donations and grants: £19,300.91 ## **Excess of income over expenditure** : £2,394.00 **Opening Bank Balance** as of 01.04.2021 £1.43 **Excess of income over expenditure:** £ + 2,394.00 **Closing Bank Balance** as of 31/03/2022: £2,395.43 = Daniel Thompson Chairman 05/03/2023 Ava Marie Foundation Bereavement Hub 13-15 Market Street, Newton le Willows, Merseyside, WA11 7LX Registered Charity, Registered in England & Wales. Registration Number: 1183998