## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From Period start date 01/04/2024 To 31/03/2025 Period end date**
**Charity name:** The Woody And Winter Foundation
## **Charity registration number:** 1185243
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|FOR THE ADVANCING OF HEALTH
AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND
SUFFERING OF THOSE IN, OR USERS
OF, A HEALTHCARE
ESTABLISHMENT, WHO ARE
CRITICALLY ILL BABIES AND
CHILDREN, THEIR GUARDIANS AND
SIBLINGS BY: (I) AT THE
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
DISCRETION, PROVISION OF FREE
SOFT TOY COMPANIONS TO
ACCOMPANY VERY SICK BABIES
AND CHILDREN. (II) AT THE
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
DISCRETION, THE PROVISION OF
FREE RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS,
COMFORTS AND OTHER
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES FOR USE
BY VERY SICK BABIES AND
CHILDREN, THEIR GUARDIANS AND
SIBLINGS. (III) WORKING IN
CONJUNCTION WITH HEALTHCARE
PROVIDERS AND THE PUBLIC TO
IMPROVE CRITICAL, TERMINAL AND
BEREAVEMENT CARE SERVICES
THROUGH RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public|Para 1.17 and
1.19|AT THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
DISCRETION, PROVISION OF FREE|
|benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.||SOFT TOY COMPANIONS TO
ACCOMPANY VERY SICK BABIES
AND CHILDREN.
Through our successful ‘Send a
Friend’ campaign we continue to
sell a range of soft toys which have
funded further soft toys which have
been distributed to sick babies,
children and their siblings free of
charge.
AT THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
DISCRETION, THE PROVISION OF
FREE RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS,
COMFORTS AND OTHER
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES FOR USE
BY VERY SICK BABIES AND
CHILDREN, THEIR GUARDIANS AND
SIBLINGS.
Fundraising has provided funds to
support trips and other
entertainments for sick children
and their families. We have been
able to fund private CBT therapy for
a young person with severely
disabling anxiety, autism and
agoraphobia with a noted positive
outcome, the young person is now
able to go out on a regular basis
and has enrolled in education at
college.
WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH
HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND THE
PUBLIC TO IMPROVE CRITICAL,
TERMINAL AND BEREAVEMENT
CARE SERVICES THROUGH
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION.
We continue to provide two free
bereavementpeer supportgroups|
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which continues a link between members of these groups and our ‘Send a Friend campaign’. The ‘Send a Friend’ campaign provides and innovative way to support parents and families in remembering and honouring their child. We have attended institutions to present our work and raise awareness. We have been involved in training hospital staff on child bereavement contributing towards lived experience and evidence based practice. Statement confirming Para 1.18 whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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**
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|The ‘Send a Friend’ campaign continues to
fund small soft toys which are provided
partner hospitals and services in the UK to
distribute at their discretion to very sick
children and their families. Families can
also approach or be selected by the charity
directly to receive free gifts from the
scheme.
Fundraising has provided:
Funds to support trips and other
entertainments for very sick children and
their families.
Funds towards guardians caring for very
sick children affected by the cost of living
crisis.
Funds to set up local peer support
bereavement groups.
Funds to hold an annual Babyloss
Remembrance service and Xmas
community lunch both with gifts for
attendees.|
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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity is in a stable position financially|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|No reserve policy currently but this is in
development as the charity grows|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO - FOUNDATION|
|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|Elected by trustees|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name Other name the charity uses Registered charity number Charity’s principal address
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Carla Newby||||
||Matthew Meredith-
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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
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements 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**|
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|**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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
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||Carla Newby||
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Chair||
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**Charity Name THE WOODY AND WINTER FOUNDATION**
**CC16a**
**No (if any) 1185243**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period** Period start date **from** 01/04/24
**To**
Period end date 31/03/25
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**1802**
**3516**
**5318**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
)|**to the nearest £**
**488**
**488**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2290**
**3516**
**5806**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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|Sales|**1802**|**488**||**2290**|**7103**|
|Donations/Fundraising|**3516**|||**3516**|**6203**|
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|**_Sub total_**(Gross income for AR|**5318**
)|**488**||**5806**|**13306**|
|**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_ 5318**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||**488**||**5806**||
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|**_Total receipts_**||||||
||**5318**|**488**||**5806**|**13306**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||
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|**_Total receipts_**|**5318**||**488**||||**5806**||**13306**|
## **A3 Payments**
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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|Toys to Sell|**2345**||||||**2345**||**4165**|
|Toys to Donate|||**558**||||**558**|||
|Postage|**131**||||||**131**||**189**|
|Fees & Subs|**541**||||||**541**||**510**|
|Items Purchased/Cash to Donate|**1384**||||||**1384**||**3403**|
|Insurance|**101**||||||**101**||**101**|
|Admin/FundraisingExpenses|**140**||||||**140**||**1609**|
|Bereavement GroupExpenses|**496**||||||**496**||**366**|
|Hall Hire|||||||||**36**|
|**_Sub tota_**|**_l_ 5139**||**558**||||**5697**||**10379**|
|Hall Hire
**_Sub total_**|**5139**||**558**||||**5697**||**36**
**10379**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Total payments_**|**5139**||**558**||||**5697**||**10379**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**180**||**- 70**||||**110**||**2927**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||||||||||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**5765**||**8995**||||**14760**||**11833**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**5945**||**8925**||||**14870**||**14760**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**|**to nearest £**
**5945**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**8925**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
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|||**5945**|**8925**||
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**5945**|
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