## Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 6 April 2021 to 5 April 2022
## Section A: Reference and administration details
**Charity name** : Kingston LGBT Forum **Other names charity is known by** : Kingston LGBTQ+ Forum **Registered charity number** : 1184645 **Charity’s principal address** : 3 Mountcombe Close, Surbiton **Postcode** : KT6 6LJ
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** :
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Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole year
1 Lewis Friend
2 Kate Harrad
3 Susan Jane Kent
4 Anne-Marie McIntyre Resigned: 26 June 2021
5 Charlie Parker Chair
6 Samuel Quinlan
7 Liam Rogers Vice Chair
8 Karl Rutlidge Treasurer Elected: 8 February 2022
9 Michail Sarafidis Treasurer Resigned: 20 December 2021
10 Mark Stenhoff
11 Oliver Lloyd Stredwick
12 Christopher Wray
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There have been no trustees for the charity (for example, custodian trustees) during the period to which this Annual Report relates.
## Section B: Structure, governance and management
## Description of charity’s trusts
**Type of governing document** : Constitution **How the charity is constituted** : Charitable Incorporated Organisation **Trustee selection methods** : Appointed by existing trustees
## Section C: Objects and activities
## Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
The objects of the charity are:
1. The promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames by:
- a. The elimination of discrimination on the grounds of gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation;
- b. Advancing education and raising awareness in equality and diversity and the needs of LGBT+ people and the issues affecting their lives and their communities;
- c. Promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds; and
- d. Cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity.
2. The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames who are socially excluded on the grounds of their gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation (in particular lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (“LGBT+”) people) to meet the needs of such people and assist them to fully participate in society, in particular by:
- a. Providing a local network group that encourages and enables LGBT+ people to participate more effectively with the wider community; and
- b. Increasing, or co-ordinating, opportunities for LGBT+ people to engage with service providers, to enable those providers to adapt services to better meet the needs of those people.
3. The advancement of the health and wellbeing of LGBT+ people in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames by promoting activities that have a proven beneficial effect on health and wellbeing.
## Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects
To further its objects, the charity has undertaken a programme of activities and events this year for the public benefit. Specifically, the charity has:
1. Promoted equality and diversity for the public benefit in Kingston upon Thames by providing activities for LGBTQ+ people, which took place in the local community, in venues accessible to all members of the local community, and online where necessary, in response to the restrictions placed on physical meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the community and their interaction with the wider local community cultivates a sentiment in favour of equality in diversity while also increasing LGBTQ+ people’s confidence in accessing local venues and facilities.
2. Promoted social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people in Kingston upon Thames who are socially excluded on the grounds of their gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation (in particular lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (“LGBTQ+”) people) to meet the needs of such people and assist them to fully participate in society, in particular by:
- a. Providing local peer support activities to build a network group that encourages and enables LGBTQ+ people to participate more effectively with the wider community; and
- b. Increasing and co-ordinating opportunities for LGBTQ+ people to engage with service providers, to enable those providers to adapt services to better meet the needs of those people. The charity has done this by signposting LGBTQ+ people to service providers where relevant.
3. Advanced the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames by promoting activities that have a proven beneficial effect on health and wellbeing. These activities included group peer support sessions as well as fitness, walking and yoga sessions. In further advancing the health and wellbeing of LGBT+ people in Kingston, the charity organised an extensive programme of virtual events to tackle loneliness and isolation during the period of quarantine and distancing implemented by the government in response to COVID-19.
In planning these activities, the charity trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit, which each trustee received upon registration of the charity or prior to being elected as a trustee.
## Section D: Achievements and performance
## Summary of the achievements of the charity during the year
During the period of this annual report, the charity:
- Delivered 121 separate events for local LGBTQ+ people in Kingston upon Thames, made up of:
- 43 online peer support sessions, including virtual pub quizzes, virtual coffee mornings, virtual discos, and a peer support session on Christmas Day;
- 26 physical activities, including yoga sessions, running, croquet and bowling;
- 12 community development sessions for volunteers;
- Nine peer support sessions for transgender and intersex people;
- Four peer support sessions for LGBTQ+ People of Colour;
- Eight coffee mornings
- Two peer support sessions for bisexual people;
- Three social events for LGBTQ+ women;
- Four arts and craft sessions including a pumpkin carving workshop for Halloween and life drawing classes; and
- 16 other open ended peer support sessions, including attending pub quizzes, Sunday lunch at a local pub, cinema trips, social events, and other events devised by the volunteers in the community development sessions.
- Other events of note:
- A tour of Hampton Court Palace;
- A ‘Pride’ tour of the Royal Opera House;
- A service at the West London Synagogue for World AIDS Day; and
- The launch of a new book club.
- Successfully maintained a series of online events and group meetings in response to quarantine and distancing measures implemented by the government in response to COVID-19.
## Section E: Financial review
## Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
The charity does not have a reserves policy.
## Section F: Other optional information
None
## Section G: Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** :
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Signature
Full name Charlie Parker
Position Chair
Date 18 December 2022
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||**Kingston LGBT Forum**
**Charity Name**|**Kingston LGBT Forum**
**Charity Name**|**Kingston LGBT Forum**
**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|6th April 2021
Period start date|**To**||5th April 2022
Period end date|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,771**
**5,000**
**12**
**8,783**
**-**
**-**
**8,783**
**162**
**1,531**
**1,353**
**4,753**
**155**
**3,306**
**159**
**19**
**45**
**256**
**415**
**307**
**12,458**
**-**
**-**
**12,458**
**- 3,675**
**-**
**15,278**
**11,603**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,771**
**5,000**
**12**
**8,783**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**3,771**||||||**865**|
|Grants|**5,000**||||||**21,500**|
|Miscellaneous Income|**12**||||||**180**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**8,783**||||||**22,545**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**
||||**-**||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**22,545**|
|||||||||
|Phone and Broadband|**162**||||||**170**|
|Hardware Purchases|**1,531**||||||**8,065**|
|Subscriptions|**1,353**||||||**1,363**|
|Events and Meetings|**4,753**||||||**3,030**|
|Equipment for Events and Activities|**155**||||||**200**|
|Food and Drink|**3,306**||||||**264**|
|Travel and Parking|**159**||||||**172**|
|Postage and Office Costs|**19**||||||**25**|
|Marketingand Publicity|**45**||||||**428**|
|Training|**256**||||||**962**|
|Bankingand Insurance|**415**||||||**240**|
|Miscellaneous Expenditure|**307**||||||**130**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**12,458**||||||**15,049**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
||**-**||||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**15,049**|
|||||||||
||**- 3,675**|**-**|**-**||
**- 3,675**||**7,496**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**15,278**|**-**|**-**||**15,278**||**8,815**|
||**11,603**|**-**|**-**||**11,603**||**16,311**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|Signature
Cash in Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**11,603**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,603**
**-**
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)**
**-**
Print Name
CHARLIE PARKER
KARL RUTLIDGE|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
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||||Date of
approval|
|||CHARLIE PARKER|18 DEC 2022|
|||KARL RUTLIDGE|21 DEC 2022|
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