## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date 01 January 2024
Period end date 31 December 2024
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1187918 **Charity's principal address** 1 Chapel Cottage Upper Street Witnesham **Postcode IP6 9ER**
BEAM
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by existing trustees Trustee selection methods
- (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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
**BEAM’s charitable purpose** is to relieve the need of birth mothers whose children do not live permanently in their care through the provision of confidential peer to peer support group meetings, one to one meetings, telephone and online support and raising awareness of the problems facing birth mothers.
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**Our Vision** is to provide a safe, confidential place for BEAM birth mothers to be valued, strengthened and to fulfil their potential through peer to peer support.
**Our Mission** is to build a network of women, groups and organisations raising awareness and support for birth mothers apart from their children.
**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)**
**Our Values** include giving birth mothers opportunities to support one another with a determination not to judge any birth mother who comes to BEAM; the commitment to really listen to each mother and to value their ‘voice’, particularly as these are women who are often not heard; we seek to shine a light on each mother’s resilience and resourcefulness, recognising they have overcome overwhelming obstacles and trauma.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
BEAM has a number of volunteers who help support the mothers with the various activities taking place each year, together with the running of the Wellbeing Course and Carry on BEAMing online.
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
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
BEAM was very active throughout the year. We continued to provide Art Wellbeing groups on alternate Mondays in Ipswich. These are well supported and led by our BEAM mums and an art therapist. We were delighted to welcome Essex Social Services Mothers’ Group to join this group. We also held four online Wellbeing courses (12 weeks) for mums all over the country which serves as an introduction to BEAM and other mothers. These courses are always well received. Another online service provided by BEAM is Carry On BEAMing. This year we were delighted to have author Helen Jacey lead a creative writing course for BEAM mums. This proved to be so successful that BEAM was able to produce its own fictional book comprising of many chapters, each one being written by a BEAM mum and which drew on their experiences of child loss. We even had our own book launch in London, hosted by Team Lewis at their brand new offices at Battersea Power Station. Many of the mums involved in writing the book were able to travel to London from all over the country to celebrate their wonderful achievement. There were many invited guests which included Dame Penny Mordaunt, Mike Blows, Forensic Child and Family Psychologist and Judith Kesteven, former social worker who is part of the Cambridge Centre for Attachment. It is intended that this book, One Drop Holds the Sun will be available for purchase online. Other social events for our mums included a local firework display in November and our annual Christmas party. We were invited once again to decorate a Christmas tree at the Annual Christmas Tree Festival at St Mary le Tower Church in Ipswich and collected gift parcels from the River Church in Ipswich for each of the local BEAM mums. We were also invited to the Team Lewis annual summer party in London. We met with mums to provide additional support where needed, which included attending Turning Point with a BEAM mum and supporting her to go to rehab; supporting a BEAM mum who was pregnant and needed assistance at social services meetings; supporting a BEAM mum who was undergoing a Parenting Assessment by Social Services; and writing numerous letters of reference and support for mothers seeking work or attending court. This year was also a busy year for providing training to other organisations. We provided assistance, advice and support to The Haven Project in Liverpool in setting up a BEAM style group; we delivered a training event for Adopt NorthEast to assist practitioners working with birth mothers; we liaised with practitioners around the country and built good relationships and connections for the birth mothers; we spoke at Framlingham Baptist Church, where one of our BEAM mums worships, about the work of BEAM; and we attended online professionals meetings with PACT. We also ran a Safeguarding Training Session for new volunteers and ambassadors at BEAM and arranged for Bal Howard to deliver training to our mums on Dealing with Trauma. We were also delighted that our CEO and one of our BEAM mums was interviewed by the BBC, both on the regional television station and an online BBC national news story to talk about the book and about BEAM. It was great publicity and a wonderful end to the year.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **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)** _Julia Farmer_
**Full name(s)** Julia Farmer **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 10.10.25
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||**Charity Name**
**BEAM**|**Charity Name**
**BEAM**|**Charity Name**
**BEAM**|**No (if any)**
**1187918**|**No (if any)**
**1187918**|**No (if any)**
**1187918**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/01/2024|**To**||Period end date
31/12/2024|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,398**
**620**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,018**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,018**
**4,308**
**165**
**157**
**1,590**
**2,354**
**117**
**25**
**92**
**182**
**242**
**-**
**9,232**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,232**
**- 4,214**
**-**
**-**
**- 4,214**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**980**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**980**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**980**
**175**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**697**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**108**
**980**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**980**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,398**
**620**
**980**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,998**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,998**
**4,483**
**165**
**157**
**1,590**
**3,051**
**117**
**25**
**92**
**182**
**350**
**-**
**10,212**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,212**
**- 4,214**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**4,398**||||||**16,325**|
|Fundraising|**620**||||||**280**|
|Grant - SheDunnit(book)|**-**||||||**500**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**5,018**||||||**17,105**|
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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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Therapeutic activities|**4,308**||||||**4,998**|
|Supervision|**165**||||||**495**|
|Insurance|**157**||||||**224**|
|Subscriptions|**1,590**||||||**494**|
|Hotel & Travel|**2,354**||||||**2,264**|
|Telephone|**117**||||||**356**|
|IT|**25**||||||**492**|
|Postage|**92**||||||**161**|
|Admin costs|**182**||||||**3,132**|
|Sundries|**242**||||||**497**|
|Fundraisingexpenses|**-**||||||**39**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**9,232**||||||**13,152**|
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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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||**- 4,214**|**-**|**-**||**- 4,214**||**3,953**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
18/10/2025
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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
**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))
Bank account
Brought forward fund
Surplus for the year
**Details**
**Details**
Admin laptop
**Details**
Signature
_Julia Farmer_|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**6,650**
**-**
**- 4,214**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,436**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,436**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Julia Farmer|**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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approval|
||_Julia Farmer_|Julia Farmer|10.10.25|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
18/10/2025
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