## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/09/2022 Period start date To 31/08/2023 Period end date Charity name: Children Of The Vanni** ## **Charity registration number: 1185407** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The object of the Children of Vanni is to
enable children from Northern and Eastern
Provinces of Sri Lanka to pursue further
education in any field after passing A'Level
or its equivalent. The course followed by
the beneficiary of a grant from the Trust
may follow a course in any technical or
academic subject, but the
course must be located in India or Sri
Lanka.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Enable children from Northern & Eastern
Provinces of Sri Lanka to pursue further
education in any field after passing A'Level
or its equivalent.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees confirm that they have
referred to the guidance contained in the
Charity Commission’s general guidance on
Public Benefit, when reviewing the trust
aims and objectives and in planning future
activities.| ## **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 Charity became fully functional after
Covid-19 and was able to fund dozen
students during the year and help them
pursue their university degrees in Sri
Lanka.
We hope to continue supporting these
students for the next three years as well as
finding additional students to support going
forward.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |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**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The Charity was able to raise the required
funds to meet its charitable obligations.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|All reserves held will be carried forward to
the next year and will go into meet the
charities obligation in funding students.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£850| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|n/a| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|n/a| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|n/a| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |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:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust Deed| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |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|Apart from the first charity trustees, every
trustee must be appointed [for a term of
[three] 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.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |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|Children Of The Vanni| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1185407| |Charity’s principal address|492 Harrow Road
London
W9 3QA| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mr Nadarajah
Bhavan||whole year|Mr Nadarajah Bhavan| ||Mrs Maeve Bhavan||wholeyear|| ||Ms Sasha Bhavan||wholeyear|| ||Ms Cressida
Bhavan||whole year|| ||Mr Fergus Knox||wholeyear|| ||Miss Molly
McMorrow||whole year|| ||Mr Sinnadurai
Vamathevan||part year|| ||Mr Krishan
Stephen||whole year|| ||Mr Seevarajah
Sharmielan||whole year|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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**| |---|---|---| |**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**||| |---|---|---| ||Krishan Stephen|| ||
Trustee|| ||30/09/2024|| ||30/09/2024|| **Charity Name No (if any) Children of the Vanni 1185407** ## **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts** **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/09/2022 31/08/2023 ## **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ A1 Receipts** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £** **Total funds Last year** |**A1 Receipts**|
**£**
**39**
**5,143**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,182**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,182**
**29**
**4,303**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,332**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,332**
**850**
**-**
**-**
**850**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to the nearest £**
**39**
**5,143**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,182**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,182**
**29**
**4,303**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,332**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,332**
**850**|**to the nearest £**
**39**
**5,143**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,182**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,182**
**29**
**4,303**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,332**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,332**
**850**|**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Bank Interest Received|**39**|||||**-**| |Grants|**5,143**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**5,182**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |Bank Charges|**29**|||||**-**| |Grantspaid to Students|**4,303**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**4,332**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**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_**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| ||**850**|**-**|**-**|**850**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**850**|**-**|**-**|**850**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 02/10/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash at Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**850**
**-**
**-**
**850**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||2||**-**|02/10/2024| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |Signature|Print Name
Mr Krishan Stephen|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| |||| ||Mr Krishan Stephen|30/09/2024| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 02/10/2024 3