## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From: 1 January 2024 Period end date 31 December 2024** **Charity name: Red Kite Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Service** ## **Charity registration number: 1185947** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To provide comprehensive services to
survivors of historic or recent rape or
sexual abuse or violence to enable them to
recover and thrive once more in their
communities.| |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|To provide a Helpline which creates a safe
space for survivors of rape and sexual
abuse to contact, in order to speak to
trained volunteers or qualified therapists
who will listen, believe, validate and
empathise with them. Red Kite provides
psychological first aid and practical support
to manage their difficulties in life which
provides them with the capacity to process
the sexual violence experiences. We triage
their needs, making onward referrals to
other agencies as appropriate. We provide
therapy through a variety of means,
whether one-to-one or in groups.
Red Kite provides therapy (free at the point
of contact) to enable survivors to learn new
coping strategies, to manage their
everyday lives and responsibilities, and to
heal enough to live full, happier lives in
their communities. Clients’ qualitative and
quantitative improvements are monitored
by standard questionnaires and feedback
forms and recorded for performance
reporting purposes.
We operate a mixed model of service
combining a virtual office and online
services with face-to-face consultations
with Therapists in their consulting rooms or| 1 |||other safe spaces according to client
preference.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Board of Trustees have read,
considered and agreed to abide by 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|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Our Fundraising Policy dictates that we will
only apply for funds from ethical companies
who operate from a strong moral basis.
This decision also conforms to our Ethics
Policy.| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Red Kite is not yet in a position to
participate in investments.| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Volunteers donate their time to operate a
Support Helpline. Therapists deliver
therapy at preferred rates to provide advice
and therapy to callers to helpline to enable
as many people as possible to benefit
within the funding available. They also offer
their consulting rooms at no cost to Red
Kite.
The Friends of Red Kite volunteer their time
to raise awareness of Red Kite and attract
potential clients to receive services. Their
wider role is to undertake an educative
function in society, whilst engaging with
local communities to promote a no
tolerance approach to misogyny and
patriarchy. These strategies aim to promote
greater societal norms regarding equality of
everyone regarding whether they engage in
sexual activity or not. They also engage in
collecting service user feedback and low-
level fundraising.| |Other||Trustees volunteer their time to manage
Red Kite, including recruitment of staff,
development, provision and delivery of
training materials, management of
finances, fundraising, PR and
communications with media, and
secretarial duties for Board meetings.| 2 ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP
reference||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||Grand Total

474
866
210
**1,550**| ||||Process||||||| ||||||||||| ||||No. of Clients helped||||||| ||||Types of help given|2024 Total|2023|2022|2021|2020|Grand Total| ||||.||||||| ||||**Counselling Session**|198|
116|128|30|
2|
474| ||||**Welfare Check Call**|307|
199|286|74||866| ||||**Group Session**|196|
14||||210| ||||Grand Total|**701**|**329**|**414**|**104**|**2**|**1,550**| ||||||||||| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Achievements in accordance with Strategic
Business Plan and
Communications Strategy| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Slightly less than anticipated, but sufficient to
meet operational needs for daily activities of
the charity. Fundraising ongoing. Challenging
environment for fundraising as cost-of-living
crisis has diverted funds from other causes.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not applicable.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Achievements in accordance with Strategic
Business Plan and
Communications Strategy| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Slightly less than anticipated, but sufficient to
meet operational needs for daily activities of
the charity. Fundraising ongoing. Challenging
environment for fundraising as cost-of-living
crisis has diverted funds from other causes.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not applicable.| 3 |Other||Friends of Red Kite have attended events in
all parts of our catchment to raise awareness
and fundraise.
Recruitment of Helpline Volunteers and
Qualified Accredited Therapists trauma
informed ongoing**.**New roles developed in
response to acuity and complexity of clinical
need. Peer Support Volunteers and
Translating Volunteers are now available to
deliver face to face interventions and ensure
that independent translation is available for
individuals who do not speak English.| |---|---|---| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Funds in hand on 31 December 2024:
£51,589.31| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|This is covered in Red Kite’s Constitution.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£30,000| |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: |Help and Support|Para 1.47|We are grateful to Baldock Music Festival
for making Red Kite a chosen charity and
giving it a proportion of the funding raised.
We are also indebted to all our other
funders including Mullocks Estate Agents
and Mill Green Nursery.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Insufficient Funding to deliver the services.
Lack of local Counsellor/Therapists
Lack of Helpline Volunteers
Attrition after training Helpline Volunteers
Inability to attract funding sources to deliver
services in line with our Business Strategy
Loss of Trustees and inability to recruit
appropriately qualified Trustees| 4 |||Lack of sustainable capacity to deliver and
manage the service.| |---|---|---| |Other||Challenging financial landscape currently
averaging 14 grant submissions to 1
successful outcome.| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||Nil| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|
Para 1.25|Red Kite Constitution (Board of Trustees)| |How is the charity
constituted?|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|Personal recommendation, followed by
written application, then by unanimous vote
by quorate Board of Trustees, then by
written acceptance of new Trustee.| **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|Disciplinary
Confidentiality
Staff Well-being
Environmental
Subject Access
Safeguarding
Diversity & Equal Opportunities
Health & Safety
Violence & Aggression
Equalities
Whistleblowing
Recruitment
Sustainability
Finance
Friends of Red Kite| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Board of Trustees reporting to Charity
Commission & Funders.
The Coordinator of the Friends reports to
the line manager Trustee (SN).
Helpline Volunteers reporting to Charity
Administrator and Trustees.
Social Media Volunteers report to the
Social Media and Marketing
Trustee.Qualified Therapists reporting to
the Lead Therapist (JP) Trusted).| ||Para 1.51|N/A| 5 Relationship with any related parties Nil Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Red Kite Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Service| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1185947| |Charity’s principal address|79 Havers Lane
Bishop’s Stortford
Herts
CM23 3PE| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**||**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Siobhan Nundram|Chair||Whole year|Board of Trustees| ||Charlotte Shyllon|DeputyChair||Wholeyear|Board of Trustees| ||Eamonn Drea|Fundraising Trustee||Whole year|Board of Trustees| ||Shannon Richards|Board Secretary||Whole year|Board of Trustees| ||Luella Dixon|Human Resources||Wholeyear|Board of Trustees| ||Joanna
Papadopoulos|Clinical Lead||Whole year|Board of Trustees| |7|||||| ||Viorel Catalin
Vasile|Treasurer||Whole year|Board of Trustees| |8|||||| ||Sinead Corr|Communications
and Marketing
Trustee||From 17/06/24|Board of Trustees| |9|||||| ||CathySpillane|Board Secretary||From 19/11/24|Board of Trustees| ||||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved. > **Director name** N/A Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |Siobhan Nundram|Whole year|Training materials; Policy
Folders; Correspondence
and Funding applications| |Charlotte Shyllon|Whole year|Banking and Finance
Materials| 6 |Viorel Catalin Vasile|Whole year|Banking and Finance
Materials| |---|---|---| |Eamonn Drea|Whole Year|Banking and Finance
Materials| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others.** Description of the assets Nil held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser Name**
**Address**||| |Psychiatric|Omar Daniels, Retired Consultant
Psychiatrist|Omar.Daniels@redkitesupport.org.uk| |||| |Lived Experience
Ambassador|Norma Symonds, Former Mayor of
Bishop’s Stortford|Norma.Symonds@redkitesupport.org.| |||uk| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |N/A||| N/A ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details N/A ## **Other optional information** N/A 7 ## **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)**
**Date**|
SIGN|| |---|---|---| ||Virol Catalin Vasile|| ||28/10/2025|28/10/2025| 8 ||
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**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2024
Period start date|**To**||| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**12 894**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12 894**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12 894**
**191**
**191**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**191**
**12 703**
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**-**
**12 703**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**28 564**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28 564**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28 564**
**1 142**
**1 220**
**1 236**
**16 806**
**960**
**525**
**449**
**439**
**768**
**23 545**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23 545**
**5 019**
**-**
**-**
**5 019**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**41 458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41 458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41 458**
**1 142**
**1 220**
**1 236**
**16 806**
**960**
**525**
**449**
**439**
**959**
**23 736**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23 736**
**17 722**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||**12 894**||**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**28 127**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**12 894**||||**28 127**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||**-**
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**-**||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||**-**||**28 127**| ||||||| |Telephone|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**1 047**| |IT|||||**395**| |WAGES|||||**2 784**| |Marketing|||||**2 321**| |Counselling|||||**7 771**| |Licenses|||||**-**| |Venue Hire|||||**-**| |Travel|||||**-**| |Insurance|||||**439**| |Safeguarding|||||**12**| |Pension Nest|||||**461**| |Sundry|**191**||||**790**| |**_Sub total_ **|**191**||||**16 020**| ||||||| |**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_**|||||| ||||**-**||**16 020**| ||||||| ||**12 703**||**-**||**12 107**| ||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**12 703**||**-**|**17 722**|**12 107**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 ## **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**
Bank account
**Details**
**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**37 710**
**13 879**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**37 710**
**13 879**
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**funds**
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Catalin Vasile|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
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approval| |||Catalin Vasile|28/10/2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 Ihl: Fw.. FY24Att*llhtr. Ihbts * Rad Klt• Delete Archive Move Flag v Mark as unread C) Syn ? Copilot Re". FW.. FY24 Accounts O John c¢.. MDndayi 8 Octckner 20254t 11'.50 Ty w¢tertwrpriyXY. 9￿*￿ter￿al iX•9esin this Downltyj tsterMI Im•ges Hi Catalin The accounts look okto me. So you're okto submit. Send me 8 copyofthe accounts as submittèd to companies house and I wll sign them. P188s8 Let m8 hav8 a copy of the Bankstatement ghowing balance at close. Cheers john john Froggett- FAIA Image On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 at 8:46AM. Catalin Vasile wrote: Hi John. Flease see attaehed the FY24 financial accountsforthe RedKiie Foundation. Could you please reviewthem and let me know if you have any questions. Kind regards. Catalin Sent from Outlookfor IOS Fryirn.. Catalin Vasile