## **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)** 5 6 7 8 9 March **2012** **TAR** 1 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 ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** **Description of the charity’s trusts** March **2012** **TAR** 2 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. March **2012** **TAR** 3 **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)** 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**|Delivered education sessions to over 500 young people across
Staffordshire.| |---|---| March **2012** **TAR** 6 ## **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** 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** 26.11.2025 March **2012** **TAR** 8 **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**
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**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**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**568**||**-**||**-**||**568**||**3,205**| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
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Education Sessions|**325**||**-**||**-**||**325**||**2,875**| |Local LotteryFunding|**226**||**-**||**-**||**226**||**262**| |Donations|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**40**| |Interest Received|**17**||**-**||**-**||**17**||**28**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**568**||**-**||**-**||**568**||**3,205**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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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**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**3,466**||**-**||**-**||**3,466**||**5,134**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**5,134**| ||||||||||| ||**- 2,898**||||||||**- 1,929**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**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)
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**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| |||C.M.V. Caspell (Treasurer)|| |||Paul Giannasi (Chair)|27.11.2025| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 04/11/2025 2