**Trustee’s Annual Report and accounts: Period 18 November 2019 to 31 March 2020** ## **Alternative Giving CIO** The Alternative Giving charity had an income of £18,725. The launch of the charity took place on 3 March 2020 where over 60 people representing local businesses, charities and public sector attended to offer support through volunteering, offering locations for donation boxes and tap to donate devices. The Trustees agreed at a February meeting of the charity to transfer the donations received into the Small Change for a Big Change Campaign into the new Alternative Giving CIO. Chair, Secretary to the charity and Trustees offered to be involved with the setting up of the charity and attended early meetings has members/proposed Trustees to discuss the constitution of the Alternative Giving CIO. Meetings commenced from April 2019 through to registration of the charity on 18 November 2019. Chair of the charity at the time chaired the City Centre Rough Sleeper Tasking Force of which a number of Trustees attended and had the relevant skills, knowledge and interest in assisting the charity to be set up and constituted. The trustees annual report CC16b pro forma is attached. The ‘Summary of the main activities undertaken’ also includes confirmation that the trustees have had regard to our guidance on public benefit when planning the charity’s activities. Further information about is provided in a ‘Summary of the main achievements’. ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 18 November 2019 Period start date To 31 March 2020 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Alternative Giving CIO** ## **Charity registration number: 1186415** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|Helping the homeless and vulnerable people by
providing the right support is fundamental to the
Alternative Giving ‘working with the right agencies
we will be able to coordinate a positive change in
our city’.| |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|**Purpose**
•
To capture and engage with the generosity of
the business community to provide a
coordinated approach to tackling street
homelessness in Wolverhampton.
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Positively change the lives of vulnerable people
and street homeless by businesses, charities
and the public working together.
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Direct funds to target where there is real need to
find lasting solutions to our vulnerable
community.
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To support people who feel excluded from
society, get them back on their feet, give them
some hope, boost their self-esteem and
confidence and eventually to become valued
members of the community once again.
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To continue to support people on their journey
as they tackle the many challenges in life that
come along.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**To be drafted and approved by Trustees**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **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|**Raising awareness of a responsible way**
**to support the most vulnerable and**
**homeless in the city of Wolverhampton.**
**To engage with partners on a wider**
**coverage across the city to raise the**
**profile of the charity.**
**Approximately 60 people attended the**
**launch of the charity. 24 pledges were**
**received to offer volunteering when**
**available, tap to donate device locations,**
**donation boxes and posters for display**
**to raise awareness of the charity.**
**Online bank account open.**
**Tap to donate device purchased to be**
**installed at an appropriate location**
**within the city centre.**
**New designed website**
**wolverhamptonchange.co.uk full of**
**information and news of work carried**
**out in support of the charity.**
**Volunteering package to be written by**
**Trustees and advertised on website.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Engaged with a wide range of partner**
**organisations to tackle the collective**
**responsibility of working with the most**
**vulnerable and supporting the homeless**
**with Wolverhampton Homes Ltd, City of**
**Wolverhampton Council, Public Health**
**Team, Wolverhampton BID Co Ltd and**
**charity organisations delivering services**
**to support the objectives of the charity.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Raising £18,725 by donation points**
**across the city centre was a strong**
**starting point for the charity.**| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**4 Grants supported by the charity to**
**charities/service providers:**
**P3**
•
The Alternative Giving Grant would enable
us to support our clients by:
Placing someone in B&B accommodation
especially during weekends or when teams
are out late at night and no other
accommodation is available.
•
Provide a starter pack to support homeless
people once they have gained
accommodation.
•
Provide rail or coach travel to enable
people to relocate back to their family.
•
Provide a mobile phone for someone living
on the streets to be able to keep in contact
with support services.
•
To support females that have not met the
criteria for local DV services to ensure they
are safe and not vulnerable on the streets.
•
Support someone that maybe more
vulnerable and there is no duty of care
under homeless act.
•
Support someone to get birth certificates/
ID documentation.
**St Georges Hub**: The purpose of the grant is to
provide essential I.D to vulnerable men, in the
form of birth certificates, for rough sleepers
and the vulnerably housed. This is an integral
part of giving vulnerable people a sense of
identity and hope. Each certificate costs £11 (+
£5, processing charge) in Wolverhampton. The
prices in other authorities vary.
The benefits of obtaining a birth certificate are
manifold.
Without basic I.D the most vulnerable of our
clients find it extremely to access mainstream
services, benefits and housing, employment &
training; this keeps people, very firmly, on the
outer margins of society. A birth certificate
may be required in conjunction with another
form of I.D when applying for employment or
opening a bank account. Without this most
basic evidence, further exclusion is reinforced.
Our experience has shown that when a
vulnerable person obtains a birth certificate it
is a massive boost to their self-esteem and
proves tangibly that they both exist (and
matter).| |||**Good Shepherd Trust -**Long term rough
sleeper recently evicted from hostel
accommodation. To prevent return to the
streets while sourcing alternative
accommodation 5 nights B&B at the Britannia
required. The client has been referred to
housing first and accepted for emergency
banding on housing.
**Wolverhampton Church Shelter**: The
replacement of sleeping bags, mattresses and
camp beds. To upgrade to better quality camp
beds which are more robust and last longer.| |---|---|---| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Accounts attached.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |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|**Public donations**| |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|**NONE**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|
Para 1.25|**Constitution CIO**| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|The prevention or relief of poverty in
Wolverhampton by providing grants,
items and services to individuals in
need and/or charities, or other
organisations working to prevent or
relieve poverty| |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 appointed 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 appointed 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|**To be prepared and discussed with**
**Trustees**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Achieved with partner organisations**
**representing as Trustees from**
**Wolverhampton Homes, City of**
**Wolverhampton Council and**
**Wolverhampton BID Co Ltd, and an**
**independent consultant from private**
**business.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**Other Charity Organisations and service**
**providers working to support the most**
**vulnerable and homeless.**| |Other||**City Centre Businesses**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Alternative Giving CIO| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charity number|1186415| |Charity’s principal address|Suite 1, 178 Stafford street
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||John Denley|Chair||| ||Jim Smith|Trustee||| ||Angela Barnes|Trustee||| ||Maria Mckellar|Trustee||| ||CherryShine|Trustee||| ||Satvinder Goraya|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name As above** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A 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)** |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||| ||||| |**Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**N/A**|||| ||**N/A**||| ## **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Lucy Armstrong|| ||
Secretary|| ||21 January 2022|| ||21 January 2022|| **ALTERNATIVE GIVING CIO 1186415 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 18/11/2019 31/03/2021 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**18,715**
**10**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,725**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,725**
**5,652**
**66**
**198**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,916**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,916**
**12,809**
**-**
**-**
**12,809**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**18,715**
**10**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,725**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,725**
**5,652**
**66**
**198**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,916**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,916**

**12,809**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**18,715**
**10**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,725**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,725**
**5,652**
**66**
**198**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,916**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,916**

**12,809**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |DONATIONS|**18,715**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**18,715**||**-**| |INTEREST RECEIVED|**10**|||**10**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**18,725**|||**18,725**||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| ||||**-**|**18,725**||**-**| |||||||| |GRANTS AND DONATIONS PAID|**5,652**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,652**||**-**| |BANK CHARGES|**66**|||**66**||**-**| |SUBSCRIPTIONS|**198**|||**198**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**5,916**|||**5,916**||**-**| |||||||| |**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_**||||||| ||||**-**|**5,916**||**-**| |||||||| ||**12,809**|**-**|**-**|
**12,809**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**12,809**|**-**|**-**|**12,809**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 18/11/2021 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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
CASH IN HAND AND AT BANK
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**12,809**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,809**
**-**
OK
OK
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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