## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] April 2022 to 31[st] March 2023** ## **Charity name: RPD Foundation** ## **Charity registration number: 1188650** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|
**The promotion of the voluntary**
**sector for the public benefit,**
**particularly but not exclusively in the**
**Sussex area, by making grants and**
**providing services.**

**The promotion of the efficiency and**
**effectiveness of charities and the**
**effective use of resources for**
**charitable purposes for the benefit of**
**the public, particularly but not**
**exclusively in the Sussex area, by**
**making grants and providing**
**services.’**
**The voluntary sector’ means charities**
**and voluntary organisations.**| |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|
**Delivery of Skills Based Volunteering**
**project in line with CSR Initiative**
**development.**

**Final delivery period of the ‘Back on**
**Track’ project helping individuals in**
**the area impacted by Covid-19 by**
**using the links in the sector.**

**Support provided to Foodbank**
**Partnership and associated**
**organisations, including fundraising**
**activities and operational advice.**

**Developing more partnerships**
**across many sectors to continue**
**identifying how and where to**
**promote the voluntary sector.**

**Support provided to key voluntary**
**sector organisation at varied stages**
**of their development.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **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|
**CEO & Trustees continually spend**
**time to build more relationships and**
**informal partnerships across many**
**sectors to help shape RPDF’s**
**strategies, delivery plans and**
**positioning.**

**The Back On Track project, (funded**
**by two local family trusts, Sussex**
**Community Foundation and National**
**Lottery) phased down support for**
**individuals whose employment had**
**been impacted by C-19, signposting**
**beneficiaries to partners who**
**provide specific support with Re-**
**employment, Training, Enterprise,**
**Volunteering, Mentoring and Social**
**support.**

**Funding was received to develop a**
**skills-based volunteering project,**
**brokering skills based volunteer**
**opportunities as part of the CSR**
**Initiative to follow on from the**
**ground work of the Back On Track**
**project**

**Support was provided to Foodbank**
**organisations in terms of fundraising**
**activities, operational advice and**
**brokering relationships with other**
**organisations.**

**Support was provided to key**
**voluntary sector organisation at**
**various stages of development.**
**RPDF created new strategies,**
**sustainable operational models and**
**grant funding strategies, enabling**
**the organisation to support many**
**beneficiaries in the local community**
**across many agendas of need.**

**Development of a CSR initiative to**
**create meaningful brokerage**
**between the Charity and Corporate**
**sectors, for collective social impact.**| ## **Financial Review** ||Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Total income for the year was £30,276**
**(2022 - £27,925) and total expenditure**
**for the year was £26,886 (2022 - £33,487)**
**creating a surplus for the year of £3,390**
**(2022 deficit of £5,562).**| |---|---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**It is the policy of the charity to hold**
**reserves equivalent to approximately 6**
**months core costs so in the event of a**
**lack of funding, operations can continue**| |---|---|---| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Approximately 6 months core costs**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The Trustees consider there are no**
**uncertainties around the charity**
**continuing as a going concern.**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|Para 1.25|**Constitution dated 19 March 2020**| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|**The charity is set up as a Charitable**
**Incorporated Organisation**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**RPD Foundation**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**None**| |Registered charity number|**1188650**| |Charity’s principal address|**Richard Place Dobson**
**1-7 station Road**
**Crawley**
**RH10 1HT**| ||| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Date appointed/resigned**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Darren Harding**|**Chair**|**19 March 2020**|**N/A**| ||**Philip Hayden**|**Treasurer**|**01 January 2021**|**N/A**| ||**Matthew Tyson**||**01 January 2021**|**N/A**| ||**Karen Corduff**||**19 March 2020/02 January**
**2024**|**N/A**| ||**Christine**
**Cheshire**||**19 March 2020**|**N/A**| ||**Richard Polins**||**21 September 2021**|**N/A**| ||**Steve Sawyer**||**21 September 2021**|**N/A**| ## **Funds 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)** Darren Harding **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 26th January 2024 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name The RPD Foundation **members of** **On accounts for the year** 31[st] March 2023 **Charity no** 1188650 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2023. - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed: Date:** 31/01/2024 **Name:** Roger P. Hentsch **Relevant professional** The Institute of Financial Accountants **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Brackenhurst, Little London, Selsfield Road Ardingly, West Sussex RH17 6TJ 1 **October 2018** **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **October 2018** **IER** |**RPD Foundation**|||**1188650**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|01-Apr-22
Period start date|**To**|31-Mar-23
Period end date||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,403**
**7068**
**17**
**1079**
**17,567**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,567**
**5210**
**0**
**2576**
**1638**
**8941**
**72**
**103**
**18,540**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,540**
**- 973**
**-**
**3,395**
**2,422**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,929**
**9,780**
**-**
**12,709**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,709**
**713**
**337**
**-**
**7,296**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,346**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,346**
**4,363**
**-**
**8,009**
**12,372**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**9,403**
**2,929**
**-**
**-**
**7,068**
**9,780**
**17**
**1,079**
**30,276**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**30,276**
**5,923**
**337**
**2,576**
**7,296**
**1,638**
**8,941**
**72**
**103**
**26,886**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,886**
**3,390**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations from RPD||||||**5,025**| |Donations for RPD Charityof the Year|**9,403**|||||**850**| |Donations for GDB Awards||||||| |Back on Track Grant - Awards 4 All||||||**9,700**| |Back on Track Grant - SCF||||||**7,350**| |Sector support income|**7068**|||||**5,000**| |CSR Initiative - Awards 4 All||||||**-**| |Bank interest|**17**|||||**-**| |Other|**1079**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**17,567**|||||**27,925**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**27,925**| |||||||| |D Bennet Consultancy|**5210**|||||**1,500**| |CSR Initiative|**0**|||||**-**| |Fundraisingcosts|**2576**|||||**-**| |Back on Trackproject||||||**25,041**| |RPD CharityPartner of theyear|**1638**|||||**850**| |Sector support|**8941**|||||**6,000**| |Bank charges|**72**|||||**96**| |Other costs|**103**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**18,540**|||||**33,487**| |||||||| |**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_**||||||| |||||||**33,487**| |||||||| ||**- 973**|**4,363**|**-**|**3,390**||**- 5,562**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**3,395**|**8,009**|**-**|**11,404**||**16,966**| ||**2,422**|**12,372**|**-**|**14,794**||**11,404**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 31/01/2024 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
ON BEHALF OF TRUSTEES
**B6 Movements on Funds**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Back on Track Grant - Awards 4 All
Back on Track Grant - SCF
GDB Awards funds
Awards 4 All - CSR Initiative
Signature
**Details**
Bank account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,422**
**-**
**-**
**2,422**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Balance B/fwd**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,422**
**-**
**-**
**2,422**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Balance B/fwd**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**12,372**
**-**
**-**
**12,372**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Movements**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**12,372**
**-**
**-**
**12,372**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Movements**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||OK| |||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||**Balance C/fwd**| |||**4,556**||**-**
**4,556**||**-**| |||**3,453**||**-**
**3,453**||**-**| |||||**2,929**||**2,929**| |||||**9,443**||**9,443**| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |||**8,009**||**4,363**||**12,372**| |||Print Name
D Harding||||| |||||||Date of
approval| |||D Harding||||26/01/2024| |||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 31/01/2024 2