# RE-ALLIANCE ANNUAL REPORT: OCTOBER 2022 - SEPTEMBER 2023
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## **Re-Alliance: Key Information**
Charity Number 1188936
List of Trustees Ruth Andrade (Chair), Gisele Henriques, Georgina McAllister, Peter Mellett (Treasurer) Geoff O’Donoghue
Registered Address Shawfield; Laughton; Lewes BN8 6BY; United Kingdom Report approved This report was approved on 15.05.2024 at an AGM by Members and Directors and signed on their behalf by Ruth Andrade: Ruth Andrade
## **Structure, governance and management**
This is the third annual report for the Charitable Incorporated Organisation Re-Alliance, which registered with the Charity Commission on 6th April 2020.
Our governing document was adopted on 30.09.19 and is a Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Re-Alliance has a small but stable governance of five directors (listed previously) supported by four staff members who work on a part-time basis. Re-Alliance initially formed as an informal network of humanitarian and development practitioners united by a focus on regenerative practices. Invitations were made within the network for directors and four individuals with a broad range of experience stepped up to fill the roles and were formally appointed on 30th September 2019 in accordance with section 13 of our constitution. In December 2022, Geoff O’Donoghue joined the team as our 5th Director.
Our directors come from employment backgrounds of academia, education, regenerative business and large INGOs and some have voluntary experience in charity governance and development. Our directors invested and demonstrated their skills during the establishment and growth of the organisation including initial meetings, fundraising and pursuit of charity status and recruitment of freelance staff.
While the directors oversee the strategic direction of Re-Alliance, day-to-day responsibilities are delegated to our Coordinator and three Managers, who we refer to as the ‘core team’. Financial administration is managed by the core team with all revenue and expenditure inspected and approved quarterly at directors’ meetings. Our treasurer has banking access and inspects bank statements as they are made available. With the exception of one member of staff, the core team and directors have been involved with the organisation since its inception, are deeply motivated to pursue its aims and have overseen the establishment and approval of its constitution, policies and practices, ensuring that there is a thorough shared understanding of its governance and purposes.
_Image of Urban Agriculture from our partners MOCGSE in Cameroon. Part of Regenerative Camps & Settlements_
## **Financial review**
At the end of the period the charity held total funds of £158,737 These break down as:
Unrestricted: £35,464 Restricted: £123,273
At the close of the financial year, Re-Alliance maintained free unrestricted reserves of £11,500, equivalent to 6 months’ running costs. Re-Alliance holds these reserves:
to provide a level of working capital that protects the continuity of our core work
to provide a level of funding for unexpected opportunities to provide cover for risks such as unforeseen expenditure or unanticipated loss of income.
The board of directors will review the above criteria with reference to Re-Alliance’s strategy and Annual Plan and determine the target level of free reserves to meet these.
The board of directors may at times designate funds from free reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets.
_Construction of Ecosan Toilets in Nakivale Uganda by partners YICE as part of our Regenerative Camps settlements project_
## **Public Benefit, Objectives And Activities**
Our directors consider that they have complied with the duty (set out in Section 17(3) of the Charities Act 2011) to have due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Commission. In exercising their powers and duties as directors, the Board considers that the organisation’s strategies, aims and activities they have put in place are for the public benefit and this is fundamental to all areas of our operation in undertaking current activities, planning future activities and measuring outcomes.
Our organisational purpose is to advance the education of the public in general (and particularly amongst humanitarian and development professionals) on the subject of regenerative development and to promote research for the public benefit in all aspects of that subject and to publish the useful results.
We do this by providing educational services, acting as an umbrella or resource body, making grants to other organisaionts, providing training, conducting research and through supplementary education.
_Illustration from recent booklet on composting toilets_
## **Achievements and Performance**
The major organisational activities, achievements and performance for 2022-23 follow.
All activities were undertaken to further the organisation's charitable purposes for public benefit. We have divided our activities between the following headings: Core Activities, Grant Funded Projects Contracts and Services
In general, core activities are financed from our unrestricted funds and grant funded projects and contracts and services are financed through restricted funding.
## **Core Organisational Activities**
**MEMBERSHIP** helps us to increase education, gather evidence, disseminate research, support network development and engage members in the work of the charity. Our global membership grew from 179 to 254 individuals and organisations from the development and humanitarian sectors, education and policy, We hosted a regular programme of bimonthly members’ meetings or themed communities of practice, interspersed with webinars providing examples of members work
**PUBLISHING** learning materials, all freely available on our website, have built a body of evidence and stories to communicate the effectiveness, authenticity and value of regenerative work. We launced our Guidelines series with bookets on Grey Water Recycling, and are piloting a range of technologes as small research projects that will eventually be turned into bookets on other innovations that can be reproduced in different settings.
**ONLINE LEARNING** was facilitated through monthly meetings and webinars open to all via free registration on our website. We ran our second podcast series and hosted a new webinar series on ‘Designing Regenerative Change’.
## **Grant Funded Projects**
Our Guidelines Project is our largest current piece of work, spanning three to four years. Funding the piloting of innovations in regenerative response, and producing guidelines from them it will fund up to 15 pilot projects over this period resulting in small publications for community groups in multiple languages. which will be made available free of charge.
We successfully funded 9 separate innovation research projects, implemented by our grantee organisations during this period: 3 WASH related projects (Uganda, Lebanon and Kenya) 3 in urban agriculture (Cameroon, Gaza and Athens) 1 in natural building (Cox’s bazaar) 1 in camp composting (Uganda) 1 in hydroponics (Iraq) [postponed to the spring due to camp closure.
We decided to foucs on energy, connectivity and social cohesion in our second call for projects and looked to select 7 new projects in 2023. We also began to carry out research into the costs and benefits of community gardens in Cox’s Bazaar in a joint action research project with the Asian Women’s University and the Food Security Cluster
## **Contracts and Services**
We are now producing regular articles for the Permaculture Magazine on our work. During this period we published one on Compost Toilets, taken largely from our work in East Africa and Lebanon. New articles have been promised from our guidelines work.
We were contracted by the Catholic Agency fo Overseas Development to produce a scoping report of agro ecology organisations and activity as part of their South East Asia and Middle East work to connect partners in this area. We also ran peer learning circles as part of a partner exchange initiaitive
We finished our contract with aligned organisation Regenerosity during this period which culminated with a visit to partners in Uganda in February 2023.
This visit enabled us to make stronger contacts with members and flim some valuable video footage which has since been edited into short films for our website.
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||||||||||||||
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**funds**||||**Total funds**|||||**Last year**||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||||||
|Peer Support & Learning Spaces||-|15,190-|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**15,190-**|||**-**|**28,280-**||||
|General Donations (including speaker fees)||-|5,919-|||||||||||**-**|**5,919-**|||-|6,378-||||
|Farming With a Heart Film||||||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**5,000-**||||
|ReJUNEration Project||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,171-**||||
|Non Digital Communications Project||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||
|Regenerative design: grey water and home,|||||||||||||||||||||||
|school and community gardens. Regenerative||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**16,072-**||||
|practices Webinar Series|||||||||||||||||||||||
|Regenerative Film Competition||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||
|Regenerative Camps and Settlements Project||||||**-**|**74,283-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**74,283-**|||**-**|**80,652-**||||
|Covering more with Lush Charity Pot||9427.67|||||**109,189.63**|||||||**-**|**118,617-**|||**-**|||**--**||
|Agroecology Research Project|||73.93|||**-**|**8,926-**|||||||**-**|**9,000-**|||**-**|||**--**||
|Fiscal Sponsorship||**-**|**2,391-**|||**-**|**31,760-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**34,151-**|||**-**|**5,043-**||||
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|**_Total receipts_ **||**-**|**33,001-**|||**-**|**224,159-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**257,160-**|||**-**|**142,597-**||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||||
|Core Organisational fuding (including staff|||||||||||||||||||||
|costs, office costs, travel expenses, postage|||||||||||||||||||||
|and IT subscriptions)||**-**|**16,945-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**16,945-**|||**-**|**21,899-**||
|ReJUNEration||**-**|**--**|||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,171-**||
|Farming with a Heart Film||**-**|**--**|||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**5,000-**||
|Regenerative design: grey water and home,|||||||||||||||||||||
|school and community gardens. Regenerative|||||||||||||||||||||
|practices Webinar Series||**-**|**--**|||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**17,678-**||
|Non Digital Communication Project||**-**|**--**|||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,284-**||
|Fiscal Sponsorship||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**5,043-**||
|Regenerative Camps and Settlements Project||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**51,132-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**51,132-**|||**-**|**19,372-**||
|Regenerative film competition||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|Agroecology Research Project||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**8,926-**|||||||**-**|**8,926-**|||**-**|**--**||
|Covering more with Lush Charity Pot||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**109,190-**|||||||**-**|**109,190-**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**16,945-**|||**-**|**169,248-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**186,193-**|||**-**|**72,447-**||
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|**_Total payments_ **||**-**|**16,945-**|||**-**|**169,248-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**186,193-**|||**-**|**72,447-**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**-**|**16,056-**|||**-**|**54,911-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**70,967-**|||**-**|**70,150-**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|**19,408-**|||**-**|**68,362-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**87,770-**|||**-**|**--**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**-**|**35,464-**|||**-**|**123,273-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**158,737-**|||**-**|**--**||
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