2024-03-31-accounts - The Rose And Daisy Foundation

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(A Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

TRUSTEES ANNAUL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR PERIOD 1[ST] April 2023 to 31[st] MARCH 2024

Registered charity number: 1184999

The Rose and Daisy Foundation

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Trustees

Mr Jamie Peters (Chair) Mrs Hannah Peters Mr Thomas Nevett

Principal Office

2 Astley Road The Oakalls Bromsgrove B60 2RS

Charity Number

1184999

Website

roseanddaisyfoundation.org

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TRUSTEES REPORT For period ending 31[st] March 2024

The trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024.

Structure, Governance and Management

The charity is governed by its Constitution as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation dated 20th April 2019 and managed by a Board of Trustees.

Trustees meet in person or digitally where required to consider the charities performance; fund raising initiatives; governance reviews; establishment of appropriate policies and all new fundraising drives/campaigns.

New trustees are appointed for a term of three years and are inducted through meetings with the Trustees to explain the charity’s strategy, policies and procedures.

All trustees are provided with a copy of the constitution, latest Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statements.

All trustees give their time freely and none receive any form of remuneration.

Objectives and Activities

The objects of the CIO as stated in the constitution are:

To relieve the emotional and physical distress of parents and their families that have experienced the death of a baby through neonatal loss, infant loss, stillbirth or miscarriage or have a baby in intensive care throughout Worcestershire and the West Midlands by:

a) Supporting parents whilst currently in hospital with their children and providing helping when required.
b) Supporting and promoting information to parents who have experienced the loss of a child.
c) To promote cross trust communication to prevent parents who have experienced a loss or who are in hospital receiving letters, phone calls etc. about subject such as post-natal checks.
d) To make donations to other charitable causes that have similar objectives to ours, if deemed acceptable by our trustees.
e) To make grants to any medical research that is deemed acceptable by our trustees.

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f) Working with trusts to ensure care given to bereaved parents is universal and to the same standard across trusts.

Public Benefit

The trustees have taken due regard of the Charity Commissioners guidance on public benefit when reviewing its aims and objectives and planning future activities.

The trustees are satisfied that the charity and it’s aims meet the Charity Commission’s guidelines for public benefit.

Achievements and Performance

The trustees are happy to report that the support groups which began in 2021 have continued throughout the 2023/2024 year and are still being well received by all who attend. Numbers are starting to dip in attendance for these groups.

The charity has continued to supply it’s parent well-being boxes to hospitals and this year has seen over 120 boxes and 40 parent well-being journals (individually sent as requested from a hospital) distributed. We have been receiving feedback directly from end users of the boxes and they are being very well received.

The Charity football team Rose and Daisy FC has continued to grow from strength to strength. More bereaved men are joining the team as well as others who haven’t experienced baby loss but would like to support the charity. The charity has continued with its decision to subsidise bereaved fathers kits.

Due to personal reasons of Hannah and Jamie, who carry out the day to day running of the charity and it’s activities, the charity has had a year of reduced fundraising activity. The decision was also made to pause the Memory bears provided by the charity due to the time it takes for their production. It has been decided to start looking for a supplier for the bears to be manufactured at a larger scale. This search has begun and will continue into 2024/2025 with a few different suppliers already being identified as a potential partner.

Next year the charity wishes to continue its search for a Memory bear supplier to be able to offer this service once again. The support groups will continue and we will be looking to expand our support services further.

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Financial Review

The trustees feel the fundraising the charity has undertaken during this year has been as expected with the reduced activity previously stated. We have utilised the remainder of the Parent well-being project funds of £1,846.

The charity this year has seen a reduction in in donations from the general public and also commercial partner. This was to be expected from the reduced activity. Total raised funds from donations has totalled £4,445.

The charity only ran a single fundraising event early in 2024 due to reduced activity. This has bought in £300.

Unrestricted Funds and Reserves Policies

Unrestricted Funds are spent or applied at the discretion of the trustees to fund any of the charity’s aims and activities.

The trustees may choose to designate a part of the Unrestricted Funds to be used for a particular future project or commitment. Such a Designated Fund remains part of the Unrestricted Funds of the charity.

The trustees will regularly review the charity’s need for adequate reserves in the light of the changing risks of the organisation.

The unrestricted funds of the charity this year stood at £25,308 at the end of the period (31[st] March 2024)

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Restricted Funds

The trustees will continue to monitor the usage of the funds and have agreed that where funds will not be used in full during the accounting year, it is possible to defer income into the next accounting period for use.

This year the charity has utilised the remaining £1,846 on the parent well-being project.

The restricted funds of the charity stood at £0 at the end of the period (31[st] March 2024)

Independent Examination of Financial Statements

Gross Income during the reporting period was less than an annual rate of £25,000 and therefore, the trustees have elected to take advantage of sections 144 & 145 of the Charities Act 2011 in not submitting these Financial Statements to audit or independent examination. No such examination is required by the charity’s Constitution.

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The Trustees’ Report was adopted by the Board of Trustees on 6th January 2025.

Jamie C Peters Chair of Trustees

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEE’S RESPONSIBILITIES For period ending 31[st] March 2024

The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the trustees’ annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards.

The trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity as at the balance sheet date and of its income and expenditure for the period ended on that date. In preparing financial statements the trustees are required to –

Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently.
Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP.
Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements, and,
Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to assume that the charity will continue in operation.

The trustees are responsible for maintaining such proper accounting records as are necessary to disclose with reasonable accuracy and at any time the financial position of the charity. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees confirm that they have complied with these requirements.

Signed on their behalf on 6th January 2025.

Jamie C Peters Chair of Trustees

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES For period ending 31[st] March 2024

Receipts Donations, legacies and grants Fundraising events Restricted Fund Grants Total Receipts Payments Cost of fundraising events Governance costs Cost of charitable activities Purchase Equipment & Supplies Restricted Fund Activity Total Payments Surplus for the year carried to unrestricted funds Funds brought forward on 1st April Funds carried forward as of 31st March	2024 £ 2023 £ 4,445 13,376 300 6,336
	1,846 3,533
	6,592 23,245
	623 5,255 705 2,184 127 3,102 0 2,626
	1,846 3,533
	3,301 16,700
	3,290 6,545 22,017 12,082
	25,308 22,017

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses during the period.

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BALANCE SHEET as of 31[st] March 2024

Fixed Assets Computers and technical equipment Furniture, fixtures and fittings Other equipment and assets Current Assets Cash in hand and at bank Net Assets Funds and Reserves Unreserved fund Total funds and reserves	2024 £ 2023 £ 0 0 0 0 0 0 25,308 22,017
	25,308 22,017
	25,308 22,017
	25,308 22,017

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 6th January 2025.

Jamie C Peters Chair of Trustees