## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 06 04 2025 05 04 2026
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1185649 **Charity's principal address** 3 Clay Lane
Heart Response 1185649 3 Clay Lane Puncknowle Dorchester **Postcode DT2 9BJ**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Loetitia Roberts Chair
2 Daniel Romp Trustee
3 Helen Jowett Trustee 06.04.2025 – 14.10.2025
4 Sarah Dale Trustee
5 Maria Baker Trustee
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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**|
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|**Accountant**|Grant Taylor|23 Whitehill, Puddletown, Dorchester DT2 8SB|
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|**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
CIO
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Board of Trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. trust, association, company)
(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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
Heart Response exists to relieve poverty in Romania by providing grants, items and services to partner organisations.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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Heart Response exists to relieve poverty in Romania by providing grants, items and services to partner organisations. Certain grants are for recreational and leisure activities provided in the interest of social welfare and designed to improve conditions of life. Heart Response also exists to advance the Christian faith in the UK and Romania through outreach work in schools, hospitals and prisons.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
The charity has been able to make donations to the church in Romania of **Summary of the main** £14,390. This has been achieved through the fund raising and regular **achievements of the charity** giving by the supporters of the charity **during the year**
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity has a policy of retaining at least £5,000 in reserves to meet emergency or unexpected expenditure.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
The unrestricted fund is in surplus.
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- 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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date**
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Charity Name No (if any)
Heart Response
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 06/04/2025 05/04/2026
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations 14,481 - - 14,481 11,560
Fundraising 2,963 - - 2,963 5,965
Gift aid tax refunds 2,919 - - 2,919 1,859
Interest 17 - - 17 13
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
20,380 - - 20,380 19,397
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 20,380 - - 20,380 19,397
A3 Payments
Donations to Romanian Churches 14,390 - - 14,390 16,605
Administrator expenses 2,179 - - 2,179 3,046
Delivery charges 968 - - 968 933
Insurance 765 - - 765 731
Accountancy fees 150 - - 150 300
Bank charges 110 - - 110 211
Subscriptions 125 125 125
Other legal and professional fees 159 - - 159 150
Prison ministry 424 - - 424 -
Fundraising costs 166 - - 166 64
Sub total [ 19,436 ] - - 19,436 22,165
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 19,436 - - 19,436 22,165
Net of receipts/(payments) 944 - - 944 - 2,768
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 7,892 - - 7,892 10,660
Cash funds this year end 8,836 - - 8,836 7,892
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**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
**Details**
**Details**
Cash at bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**8,836**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,836**
**-**
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|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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