## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **T** 01 April 2023 31 March 2024 **From o** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Communities Against Crimes of Hate **Other names charity is known by** CACH **Registered charity number (if any)** 1188856 **Charity's principal address** Civic Centre Riverside Stafford **Postcode ST16 3AQ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) Trustee name Office (if any) whole year entitled to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Paul Giannasi Chair 2 Peter Barker Secretary - 3[Christopher ] Caspell Treasurer - 4 Alison Connell - 1 April 2024 – 1 July - 5[Beverley ] Richardson 2024 - 6 - 7 March **2012** **TAR** 1 8 - 9 - 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Anna McLauchlan – Chief Officer March **2012** **TAR** 2 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** ||**ts**| |---|---| ||| |Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)|
Constitution adopted 1
st
April 2020| ||
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)| ||
Apart from the Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, every trustee must be
appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly
convened meeting of the charity trustees. A trustee whose term of office
has expired can be re-appointed for a further term of office.
The charity aims to recruit a board of trustees that is represented of a
wide range of individuals from various aspects of the community. In
selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, existing trustees
must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience required for the
effective administration and governance of the CIO.| ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or additional information, where before his or her first appointment the following documents; relevant, about: (a) a copy of the current version of this constitution; and • policies and procedures (b) a copy of the CIO's latest Trustees' Annual Report and statement of adopted for the induction and accounts training of trustees; (c) a copy of The Essential Trustee: what you need to know, what you • the charity’s organisational need to do (CC3) 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** March **2012** **TAR** 3 The promotion for the public benefit of the prevention of hate crime and harassment including those motivated by disability, faith, race, gender identity or sexual orientation, and the relief of people affected by such hate crimes, in particular but not exclusively in Staffordshire, by: **Summary of the objects of the** A) raising public awareness of such crime and harassment including by **charity set out in its governing** the provision of interactive educational sessions/workshops in **document** school/college settings to enable a greater understanding of the effects of hate crime on victims and the repercussions for perpetrators. B) the provision of information and support to people affected by hate crime. The aim of CACH is to challenge hate crime and hate incidents. We do this by delivering in 3 key areas of work: support, education, and training. The main activities undertaken to achieve this are to provide: • Bespoke support to people who experienced hate crime and hate incidents. • Education sessions to young people, across primary and secondary school ages. • Training professionals to increase their awareness of, and improve their responses to, incidents of hate crime. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public** Worked in partnership with agencies to ensure hate crime was included **benefit in relation to these** in their policies and in the minds of their staff. **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)** March **2012** **TAR** 4 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 March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** March **2012** **TAR** 6 ## **Section E Financial review** ||| |---|---| |**Brief statement of the charity’s**
**policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit**
**Further financial review details**|The charity started the year with cash reserves of £14,820, this
decreased to £12,891 by the end of the financial period.
The income received was £3,205 (£7,971 22/23).
Expenditure stood at £5,134 (£30,721 22/23). In March 2023 the charity’s
chief officertransitioned to sessional/zero-hours employmentat, on
average, one day per week. To date the income has almost matched the
expenditure, however the trustees are aware of their obligations both
under the Charities Act and employment legislation and have made
significant inroads into addressing the financial hole left by the lack of
local government funding.
CACH has shifted its operation to responsibly manage available funding
and ensure that it can continue to meet its charitable objects for a longer
period. This has allowed delivery to continue over the past year despite
significantly reduced staff hours. This delivery has included working in
schools with students and staff, to deliver workshops and activities as part
of PHSE. These have been consistently well received and comments
received about the difference it has made in students’ mindset.| ||| ||**(Optional information)**| ||**(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.|The trustees continue to review the charity's requirements for reserves in
light of the main risk to the organisation, that being a reduction of income.
The trustees have established a policy whereby the free reserves of the
charity should be the equivalent to 6 months overhead costs of
the charity including statutory redundancy payments.
At the end of March 2023, the total of the charity's reserves stood at
£12,891, at the date of signing of this report they stood at just less than
£11,670. With reserves now equivalent to over 27 months running costs,
the trustees feel that charity is better placed than it was 12 months ago,
however with no long-term funding secured as yet, it is recognised that
they must work hard to ensure the financial stability of the charity.
The financial strategy of the trustees continues to be to build the charity
reserves by exploring additional means of income and fundraising as well
as reviewing overheads.| ## **Section F Other optional information** March **2012** **TAR** 7 ## **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)** Paul Dominic Giannasi **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair of Trustees **Chair, etc)** **Date** 22nd November 202 March **2012** **TAR** 8 **Communities Against Crimes of Hate (CACH)** **CC16a** **1188856** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** 01/04/2023 31/03/2024 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Education Sessions|**2,875**||**-**||**-**||**2,875**||**7,605**| |Local LotteryFunding|**262**||**-**||**-**||**262**||**301**| |Donations|**40**||**-**||**-**||**40**||**35**| |Interest Received|**28**||**-**||**-**||**28**||**30**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**3,205**||**-**||**-**||**3,205**||**7,971**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**7,971**| ||||||||||| |
Wages|**4,117**||**-**||**-**||**4,117**||**29,572**| |Travel|**124**||**-**||**-**||**124**||**160**| |Office & General Admin Expenses|**144**||**-**||**-**||**144**||**249**| |Internet Costs|**317**||**-**||**-**||**317**||**180**| |Insurance|**372**||**-**||**-**||**372**||**493**| |Bank Fees|**60**||**-**||**-**||**60**||**67**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**5,134**||**-**||**-**||**5,134**||**30,721**| ||||||||||| |**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_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**30,721**| ||||||||||| ||**- 1,929**||||||||**- 22,750**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**14,820**||||||||**37,570**| ||**12,891**||||||||**14,820**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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**B1 Cash funds**|1
CAF Bank Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**12,891**
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**-**
**12,891**
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**Endowment**
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**to nearest £**
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**-**
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behalf of all the trustees
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
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**Details**
**Details**
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C.M.V. Caspell (Treasurer)|**Endowment**
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**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| |||C.M.V. Caspell (Treasurer)|22 Nov 24| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 06/11/2024 2