Trustees' Annual Report for the period Period start date Period end date 05 03 2020 31 03 2021
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name See Me Be CIO Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1188359 Charity's principal address 3, Malmesbury Road Lower Stanton St Quintin Wiltshire Postcode SN14 6BS
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
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1 Lucy Moules March 2020 - present
Stella March 2020 - present
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Wolstenholme
3 Zoe Neale March 2020 - present
4 Laura Richards March 2020 - present
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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
We have a governing Constitution document. Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee’s were identified at the time the CIO was founded. Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
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The objects of the CIO are to relieve the needs of adults with a learning disability in the County of Wiltshire, including by the following means: Promoting inclusion for the public benefit and preventing people with a disability from being excluded;
Providing information and support to those disabled persons, their Summary of the objects families and carers; and of the charity set out in its governing document Relieving unemployment in such disabled persons. For the purposes of this clause, ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a group who are likely to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of disability.
See Me Be CIO was founded in March 2020 and progress was hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic as adults with a Learning Disability were in the clinically extremely vulnerable group and therefore engagement was limited.
Summary of the main See Me Be CIO started fundraising in April 2021 and has since activities undertaken for provided a ‘See Me Be Creative’ workshop and sought to reach the public benefit in clients virtually through a gingerbread decorating event in relation to these objects December 2021. (include within this section the statutory We have been successful in applying for National Lottery declaration that trustees funding to recruit our first Employment Buddy, who will enable have had regard to the adults with a Learning Disability to attain and maintain paid guidance issued by the employment. This piece of work is currently underway. 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:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
See Me Be CIO was founded in March 2020, therefore we sadly have little to report from our first year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most of our achievements have come to fruition since April 2021, including fundraising events in the name of Captain Tom, holding our first face to face event ‘See Me Be Creative’ in September 2021 and successful application for National Lottery funding.
We are currently in the process of recruiting our first Employment Buddy.
We are also excited about working with adults with a Learning Disability to plan and action our ‘See Me Be Wild’ planting project to raise awareness of the skills and abilities of individuals with a Learning Disability and celebrate opportunities for positive mental health.
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Section E Financial review
We set up our bank account in September 2020 and an opening Brief statement of the balance of £1000 was required; this was paid for by Stella charity’s policy on Wolstenholme. We pay an account fee of £8 a month. reserves Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we didn’t start fundraising until April 2021.
We do not currently have a policy on reserves. We ended the financial year in March 2021 in credit with £870 in Details of any funds our current account. materially in deficit Our funds are not in deficit.
Further financial review details (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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Our principal sources of funds are through fundraising and grants.
Money from our Captain Tom fundraising event was used to fund the venue and materials required for the ‘See Me Be Creative’ event and our gingerbread decorating activity.
Grant money from the National Lottery is solely allocated to the recruitment of See Me Be’s Employment Buddy.
- 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 Chair, etc)
Full name(s) Lucy Jane Moules
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