## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 7th April 2023 **To** 6th April 2024
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Global Action for Autism
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1185425
**Charity's principal address** 20 Dawes Road Fulham London **Postcode** SW6 7EN
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **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 (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted
Constitution
CIO
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by Trustees
(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.
The charity’s organisational structure comprises of 3 trustees, chairman, secretary, and treasurer, who meet quarterly and are responsible for the strategic direction and policy of the charity. All three trustees have a variety of professional backgrounds relevant to the work of the charity from the planning of all activities to the hiring of volunteers & service providers, supervision and maintaining good practice towards our longterm objective which is for the delivery of all our services. Our induction policy requires for all new trustees to have knowledge on autism and to ensure that each are DBS checked. All new trustees receive copies of our charity’s policy on Safeguarding, Equal Opportunity, Equality & Diversity procedure which they are required to read. All trustees are committed and have regard to our charitable purposes for the public benefit and the guidance issued by the Charity Commission.
The charity is in receipt of further guidance and support through Sobus and the Young Hammersmith & Fulham Foundation (YHFF). Both organisations have helped in ensuring the charity’s connection to related organisations within West London.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
“The promotion of social inclusion among young people with autism living in West London, who are socially excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of their disability by:-
- providing a range of skill based workshops and activities for them and their families;
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- offering advice and group counselling for parents; and
- • by offering day, residential and overseas trips for families and children on the spectrum in order to help take away the social isolation of living with autism.
Over this period, the charity held several workshops and holiday activities for young people on the spectrum.
The other activities included seaside trips including Great Yarmouth and a short break to Skegness for the young people and their families. The **Summary of the main** activities, day trips and short breaks have been so beneficial to the **activities undertaken for the** mental wellbeing of the young people and their families. They have **public benefit in relation to** created opportunities for the young people to explore new places and **these objects (include within** helping to reduce the anxiety levels in the young people, who often **this section the statutory** struggle with change, as well as aiding in the development of new **declaration that trustees** friendships within this group. **have had regard to the guidance issued by the** For parents and carers, we continue to provide coffee mornings, group **Charity Commission on** counselling sessions and workshops. We are grateful for their input and **public benefit)** positive feedback.
Over this period the charity supported young people on the spectrum and their families. The charity’s aim is to continue to bring adventure into the lives of those who feel isolated and excluded in society.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
The trustees and volunteers continue to contribute to the charity their free time to achieving its set objectives.
• policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** The charity provided relief to young people on the spectrum through a **achievements of the charity** variety of workshops and holidays activities. For the families we **during the year** provided day outings, support and advice where needed. We are satisfied with the overall results the charity has made throughout this year and gaining access to more families of young autistic people in need.
For this end of year review, the trustees discussed the charity’s progress in delivering its services and feedback along with changes required. The trustees discussed the charity’s impact on the young people and their families (our beneficiaries) and were satisfied in achieving its objective in reaching and supporting young autistic people. The charity’s aim is to gain access to more resources in order to achieving its set target in delivering more services whilst continuing to expand its support.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit**
Global action for autism is a relatively small organisation and currently holds no reserve policy.
£0
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
For this period all charitable funds were raised through fundraising, donations and Grants.
- 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)**
## _C.Pappoe_
**Full name(s)** Caroline Pappoe **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 22 January 2025
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|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**|||
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|**Global Action for Autism**||**1185425**|||
|**Receipts and payments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|Apr-23
Period start date|Apr-24
Period end date
**To**|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,405**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,405**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,405**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,405**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,405**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,405**
**3,971**
**900**
**190**
**250**
**58**
**-**
**-**
**5,369**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,369**
**-**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations,legacies andgrants|**5,405**||||||||**4,520**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**5,405**||||||||**4,520**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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Charitable activities - training/outings|**3,971**||**-**||**-**||**3,971**||**3,405**|
|Rent|**900**||**-**||**-**||**900**||**1,810**|
|Rates|**-**||**-**||**-**||||**189**|
|Phone,internet &postage|**-**||**-**||**-**||||**171**|
|Public liabilityinsurance|**190**||**-**||**-**||**190**||**188**|
|Fundraising|**250**||**-**||**-**||**250**||**96**|
|Equipments|**58**||**-**||**-**||**58**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**5,369**||**-**||**-**||**5,369**||**5,859**|
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**purchases (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
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||**538**||||||**1,038**||**1,002**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
_C.Pappoe_
None
**Details**
**Details**
None
Cash at bank and in hand
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
None
**Details**
None|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**538**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**538**
**500**
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)**
**-**
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Print Name
Caroline Pappoe|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||_C.Pappoe_|Caroline Pappoe|22/01/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
22/01/2025
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