## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From January 1[st] 2024 Period start date To 31[st] December 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Brighton Exiled/Refugee Trauma Service** ## **Charity registration number:** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Brighton Exiled/Refugee Trauma Services
(BERTS) is a dedicated trauma service, for
refugees, asylum seekers and desttute
migrants in Sussex. It is a purely voluntary
service run for the beneft of the community.
We ofer free specialist Cognitve Behavioural
Therapy, EMDR, trauma counselling and
psychotherapy to local people to help them
come to terms with their relocaton in the UK.| |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|Mental health treatment and support

General Charitable Purposes

The Advancement Of Health Or
Saving Of Lives

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Human Rights/religious Or Racial
Harmony/equality Or Diversity| |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|Clinical Director is responsible for this
activity with advice and support from
Trustees| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|N/A| |||| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|| |Other||| ## **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|See annual report| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| Other ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Completed by Treasurer (chartered
accountant) and audited by
external/independent chartered accountant| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Reserves are held because funding is
precarious from year to year| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Reserves at year end 31/12/24=£31,921.| |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|
Grants from local authority, partnerships
with other third sector organisations, NHS
grants.| |---|---|---| |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|Lack of funds for operational costs| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Charity Commission CIO| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|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|Election, discussion and agreement with
existing Trustees| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Brighton Exiled/Refugee Trauma Service| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|BERTS| |Registered charitynumber|**1188586**| |Charity’s principal address|Brighton Exiled/Refugee Trauma Service BERTS
C/O COMMUNITY BASE
113 QUEENS ROAD
BRIGHTON
BN1 3XG| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Sally Munt|Clinical Director and
Trustee|2020-onwards|| ||Colin Blowers|Chair|2020-onwards|| ||Reem
Abushawareb|Trustee|2020-onwards|| ||Tessa Axelrod|Trustee|2020-onwards|| ||Mehran Toroghi|Trustee|appointed August 2025|| ||Lizzy West|Former Trustee:
Withdrawn June
2025 due to
personal reasons|2023-onwards|| |||||| |||||| – 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**|| |---|---|---| |**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**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**GP**
**Advisor**|**DR Hannah Gould-**
**Brown**|NHS St Peters Medical Practice, Brighton| |**Treasure**
**r**|David Lewis|151 Huddersfield Road Holmfirth W Yorkshire HD9 3TP| |**Clinical**
**Supervis**
**or**|Vicki Lidbetter|NHS West Sussex, Time to Talk Mental Health Service| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **Working with asylum seekers incurs personal risk from Far Right organisations who are well organised. We do not divulge personal details of Trustees or volunteers for this reason.** ## **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)** Colin Michael Blowers **Position (eg Secretary,** Acting Chair of Trustees **Chair, etc)** **Date** 10 Sept 2025 ## **BRIGHTON EXILED/REFUGEE TRAUMA SERVICE (BERTS) INCOME & EXPENDITURE STATEMENT YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024** |**Income**
Grants
Donations received
Total income
**Expenditure**
Insurance
DBS checks
Therapist fees
CEO Fees
Administration staff cost
Office expenses
Sim card for vulnerable client
Client support costs
Resources
Training
Fixed asset depreciation
Total expenditure
**Surplus/(Deficit)**
**BALANCE SHEET at 31 DECEMBER 2024**
Assets
Cash at bank
Fixed assets
Liabilities
General fund
**Fixed assets**
(write off over 3 years)
Printer
2024
External HD
2024|**2024**
£
31,090
550
31,640
247
50
5,305
6,000
3,670
1,177
-
829
180
-
154
17,612
14,028
**2024**
£
31,611
310
31,921
31,921
Cost
379
85
464|Cash at bank
General fund
Dep'n
126
28
154|**2023**
£
-
50
50
247
50
12,900
6,000
3,830
577
252
998
179
(395)
-
24,638
-24,588
**2023**
£
17,893
17,893
NBV
253
57
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