## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 01 2022 31 12 2022
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Bookcase For All **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1188007 **Charity's principal address** 4 Orchard Way York **Postcode YO24 2NU**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed at charity inception 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
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works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
THE OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY ENCOURAGING READING AND PROMOTING LITERACY TO THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED **Summary of the objects of the** AND MAY STRUGGLE TO ACCESS READING **charity set out in its governing document** MATERIAL BY PROVIDING FREE ACCESS TO BOOKS THROUGH POP UP AND STATIC BOOKSHELVES IN VENUES SUCH AS HOSTELS, CAFÉS, SCHOOLS AND ACCOMMODATION BLOCKS.
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Bookcase For All has provided books for the homeless and vulnerable across the city, as well as for schools and community groups. **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)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
During 2022, Bookcase for All’s activities included: A community bookcase was operated for local residents to take and donate books for others. Books were donated to community groups for them to sell to raise funds. No monetary donations were made to Bookcase for All for these. We have runs stalls at local fairs to raise awareness of the charity. Books have been provided to community foodbanks. A little library has been built to provide permanent access to books for a local community, which is planned to go live in 2023.
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## **Section E Financial review**
We currently have no cash reserves and have had no income during **Brief statement of the** 2022 **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**
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**Signature(s)** C Colbourn **Full name(s)** Candida Jemima Colbourn **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 25/10/2023
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