2025-03-31-accounts - Communities Against Crimes Of Hate

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date T 01 April 2024 31 March 2025 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

Trustee name Office (if any)
1[Paul Giannasi] Chair 2[Peter Barker] Secretary 3[Christopher ] Treasurer Caspell
4[Alison Connell]

Dates acted if not for whole year

Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)

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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

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

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

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Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)

Constitution adopted 1 April 2020

How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

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 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 works;

The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment the following documents;

(a) a copy of the current version of this constitution; and
(b) a copy of the CIO's latest Trustees' Annual Report and statement of accounts
(c) a copy of The Essential Trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do (CC3)
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

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Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

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: A) raising public awareness of such crime and harassment including by the provision of interactive educational sessions/workshops in 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 2 key areas of work: support, education, and training. The main activities undertaken to achieve this are to provide:

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.

We work in partnership with agencies to ensure hate crime was Summary of the main activities included in their policies and in the minds of their staff. 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	Delivered education sessions to over 500 young people across Staffordshire.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s The charity started the year with cash reserves of £12,891, this policy on reserves decreased to £9,993 by the end of the financial period. The income received was £568 (£3,205 23/24). Expenditure stood at £3,466 (£5,134 23/24).

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include The trustees continue to review the charity's requirements for reserves in additional information, where light of the main risk to the organisation, that being a reduction of income. relevant about: 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’s principal the charity including statutory redundancy payments. sources of funds (including any fundraising);

how expenditure has At the end of March 2025, the total of the charity's reserves stood at £9,993, at the date of signing of this report they stood at just less than
supported the key objectives £9,260. With reserves now equivalent to over 32 months running costs
of the charity; (2024 it was 27 months), the trustees feel that charity is better placed
• investment policy and than it was 12 months ago, however with no long-term funding secured objectives including any as yet, it is recognised that they must work hard to ensure the financial ethical investment policy stability of the charity. adopted.

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

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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 26.11.2025

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Communities Against Crimes of Hate (CACH)

1188856

CC16a

Receipts and payments accounts

For the period 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 To from

Section A Receipts and payments

	Unrestricted funds	Unrestricted funds	Restricted funds	Endowment funds	Total funds	Last year
	to the nearest	£	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Education Sessions		325	-	-	325	2,875
Local LotteryFunding		226	-	-	226	262
Donations		-	-	-	-	40
Interest Received		17	-	-	17	28
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)		568	-	-	568	3,205

A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £	Restricted funds to the nearest £	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £	Last year to the nearest £
Education Sessions	325	-	-	325	2,875
Local LotteryFunding	226	-	-	226	262
Donations	-	-	-	-	40
Interest Received	17	-	-	17	28
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	568	-	-	568	3,205
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).	- - - 568	- - - -	- - - -	- - - 568
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*Sub total*	-				-
*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					3,205

Wages	2,375	-	-	2,375	4,117
Travel	126	-	-	126	124
Office & General Admin Expenses	-	-	-	-	144
Internet Costs	360	-	-	360	317
Insurance	201	-	-	201	372
Bank Fees	54	-	-	54	60
Computer Costs	350	-	-	350	-
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**Sub total **	3,466	-	-	3,466	5,134

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					5,134

	- 2,898				- 1,929
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	12,891				14,820
	9,993				12,891

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

CCXX R1 accounts (SS) Categories B1 Cash funds	1 CAF Bank Account Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 9,993 - - 9,993 OK	04/11/2025 Restricted funds Endowment funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - OK OK	Endowment funds to nearest £

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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets	Signature Details Details Details Details SIGN	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name C.M.V. Caspell (Treasurer) Paul Giannasi (Chair)	Endowment funds to nearest £
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			Date of approval
		C.M.V. Caspell (Treasurer)
		Paul Giannasi (Chair)	27.11.2025

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

04/11/2025