# **RE-ALLIANCE ANNUAL REPORT OCTOBER 2023 - SEPTEMBER 2024**
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## **Re-Alliance: Key Information**
Charity Number 1188936
List of Trustees Gideon Adeyeni 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 19/06/25 at an AGM by Members and Directors and signed on their behalf by Ruth Andrade: Ruth Andrade
## **Structure, governance and management**
This is the fourth 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 and in August 2024 Gideon Adeyeni joined as our 6th trustee.
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. We have grown our original group of four directors to six, to increase the capacity of the team and ensure a diverse skill-set is represented.
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 from community composting guide book_
## **Financial review**
At the end of the period the charity held total funds of £127,123 These break down as:
Unrestricted: £35,753 Restricted: £91,370
At the close of the financial year, Re-Alliance maintained free unrestricted reserves of £30,000, 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.
_Lime Stqbilised Soil Plastering of a shelter in Cox’s Bazar_
## **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.
_front cover of a recent publication on ecosan toilets_
## **Achievements and Performance**
The major organisational activities, achievements and performance for 2023-24 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 this year from 254 to 286 individuals and organisations from the development and humanitarian sectors. We hosted regular bimonthly community of practice meetings interspersed with storytelling workshops to examine how best to communicate and share learnings from members’ work.
**ONLINE MEMBERS SPACES** like our members’ Whatsapp group, newsletter and Facebook and Instagram sites help build communication amongst the membership.
**OUTREACH AND INFLUENCING** helps us reach out beyond our membership. Our core team have hosted learning events such as facilitating a workshop on integrated settlement design at the Oxford Real Farming Conference and presenting on Lime Stabilised Soil building at the UK Shelter forum.
## **Grant Funded Project: Regenerative Settlements**
The Regenerative Camps and Settlements Project is our largest current piece of work, spanning at least four years. It includes regranting to local groups in the global South for the piloting of regenerative innovations in displacement settings. Using the results of these pilots, Re-alliance produces educational materials for grassroots community groups and NGOs in multiple languages. The guidebooks have been made freely available online via Practical Action Publishing. The work will culminate in the production of an online course, which in currently under development.
We successfully funded a further 7 innovation and research projects this year, implemented by grantee locally-led organisations during this period: Biointensive Agriculture in Zimbabwe Water retention agriculture in Kenya Mushroom growing in Uganda Integrated settlement deisgn for displacement
settings
Research into food growingi in Cox’s Bazar Micro Wind turbine designs for refugee camps Regenerating people: Trauma healing in Cameroon
We decided to foucs on energy, connectivity and social cohesion in this second funding round as well as continuing our support for regenerative agriculture. We carried out research into the costs and benefits of community gardens in Cox’s Bazaar in a joint ’ s action research project with the Asian Women University and the Food Security Cluster. Our integrated settlement design work brought together academics, local partners and representatives from UNHCR to look at the future of settlement design in displacement settings.
## **Contracts and Services**
## PUBLICATIONS
We have continued to produce articles for the Permaculture Magazine on our work. During this period we published an article about rooftop gardening in Gaza.
## FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
We have welcomed the opportunity to incubate groups who align with our charitable purposes through fiscal sponsorship. This year we completed our fiscal sponsorship with RAIN CLC.
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RE-ALLIANCE
ANNUAL REPORT
OCTOBER 2023 - SEPTEMBER 2024
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TACT@RE-ALLIANCE.ORG
Re-Alliance: Key Information
Charity Number
Registered Address
1188936
Shawfield; Laughton; Lewes
BN8 6BY; United Kingdom
List of Trustees
Report approved
Gideon Adeyeni
Ruth Andrade (Chair).
Gisele Henriques,
Georgina McAllister,
Peter Mellett (Treasurer)
GeoffO'Donoghue
This report was approved on
TBC at an AGM by Members and
Directors and signed on their
behalf by Ruth Andrade:
Structure, governance and management
This is the fourth 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 and in August 2024 Gideon Adeyeni joined as our 6th trustee.
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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 growrth of the organisation
including initial meetings, fundraising and pursuit of charity status and recruitment of freelance staff. We
have grown our original group of four directors to six. to increase the capacity of the team and ensure a
diverse skil l-set is represented.
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.
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CHARITY COMM15510N
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
ian
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For tho perlod
from
1 sl October 2023
30th September 2024
Financial review
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
R•strfct•d funds
Endowment
fund8
Total funds
La•t y•ar
At the end of the period the charity held total funds of £127,123 These
break down as:
to th• n••r••t
t• th• nMf••t £
to th• nMr••t £
to th• nMM•t £
A1 Rec•1 t•
Peer Su
rt & Leami
aces
15.190
Unre8lricted Income linduding publlc
donations, sp•ak•r •nd o)r• ¢o$t
s lo contracts
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s and S8lUemenl8 Pro.
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rnore wilh Lush Chari
Pot
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ReS8h Pro
Fl$¢g1 S
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2.205
Unrestricted: £35.753 Restricted: £91,370
70200
19 975.00
70.200
19.975
74.283
118.617
9.000
34.151
At the close of the financial year. Re-Alliance maintained free
unrestricted reserves of £30,000, equivalent to 6 months. running
costs. Re-Alliance holds these reserves:
2.205
90.175
92,380
257.180
Sub total(Gross income for AR)
A2 A8••t and Inv•8tm•nt 8alo•,
•00 tablo .
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.
Sub tota
Total rnc•lpts
2,205
90,175
92,380
257,160
A3Pa
ment•
Cor• Organlsatlon•l fudlng Ilncluding 8taff
o¥ts, olllce c08t$, IrBvel expen8e8, P08ts90
and IT subicri
tion$
Fiscal Sponaorshsp
R•g•n•rativ8 C8mp8 and S8tt18m•n18 Proj8cI
roecol
Re8h Pro
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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.
Sub tota
1.916
122,078
123,9M
166.194
A4 Assel and Inv•8tmont
urchases
see table
Sub tota
The board of directors may at times designate funds from free
reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets.
Total payments
1.916
122.078
123,994
186,194
Net of recelpts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year ond
Cash funds thls year en
35,464
35.753
123.273
91.370
158,737
127.123
158.737
Ill
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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.
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Achievements and
Performance
The major organisational activities, achievements
and performance for 2023-24 follow.
All activities were undertaken to further the
organisation's charitable purposes for public
benefit. We have divided our activities between the
following headings:
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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.
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Core
Organisational
Activities
MEMBERSHIP helps us to increase education, gather
evidence, disseminate research, support network
development and engage members in the work ofthe
charity. Our global membership grew this year from 254 to
286 individuals and organisations from the development and
humanitarian sectors. We hosted regular bimonthly
community of practice meetings interspersed with
storytelling workshops to examine how best to communicate
and share learnings from members. work.
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ONLINE MEMBERS SPACES like our members, Whatsapp
group, newsletter and Facebook and Instagram sites help
build communication amongst the membership.
OUTREACH AND INFLUENCING helps us reach out beyond
our membership. Our core team have hosted learning events
such as facilitating a workshop on integrated settlement
design at the Oxford Real Farming Conference and
presenting on Lime Stabilised Soil building at the UK Shelter
forum.
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Grant Funded Project:
Regenerative Settlements
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The Regenerative Camps and Settlements Project is
our largest current piece of work, spanning at least
four years. It includes regranting to local groups in the
global South for the piloting of regenerative
innovations in displacement settings. Using the results
of these pilots, Re-alliance produces educational
materials for grassroots community groups and
NGOS in multiple languages. The guidebooks have
been made freely available online via Practical Action
Publishing. The work will culminate in the production
of an online course, which in currently under
development.
We successfully funded a further 7 innovation and
research projects this year, implemented by
grantee locally-led organisations during this period:
Biointensive Agriculture in Zimbabwe
Water retention agriculture in Kenya
Mushroom growing in Uganda
Integrated settlement deisgn for displacement
settings
Research into food growingi in Cox's Bazar
Micro Wind turbine designs for refugee camps
Regenerating people: Trauma healing in
Cameroon
We decided to foucs on energy, connectivity
and social cohesion in this second funding round
as well as continuing our supportfor
regenerative agriculture. We carried out
research into the costs and benefits of
community gardens in Cox's Bazaar in ajoint
action research project with the Asian Women's
University and the Food Security Cluster. Our
integrated settlement design work brought
together academics, local partners and
representatives from UNHCR to look at the
future of settlement design in displacement
settings.
Contracts and Services
IRAIN
PUBLICATIONS
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
We have continued to produce articles for the
Permaculture Magazine on our work. During this
period we published an article about rooftop
gardening in Gaza.
We have welcomed the opportunity to
incubate groups who align with our charitable
purposes through fiscal sponsorship. This year
we completed our fiscal sponsorship with
RAIN CLC.
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facebook.com/reallianceorg
twitter.com/Re Alliance org
instagram.com/re alliance
contact@re-alliance.org
|**Re-Alliance**|||**1188936**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period**
**from**|1st October 2023|**To**|30th September|
**CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
2,205
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,205**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,205**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
70200
19,975.00
**-**
**-**
**90,175**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**90,175**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,205**
**70,200**
**19,975**
**-**
**-**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Peer Support & LearningSpaces|**-**||||**15,190**
5,919
**74,283**
**118,617**
**9,000**
**34,151**|
|Unrestricted Income (including public
donations, speaker fees and core cost
charges to contracts)|2,205|||||
|Project|**-**|||||
|Coveringmore with Lush CharityPot|**-**|||||
|AgroecologyResearch Project|**-**|||||
|Fiscal Sponsorship|**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_||||||
||||**-**|**92,380**|**257,160**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total _**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**||||**92,380**||
||**2,205**||**-**||**257,160**|
|**A3 Payments**|**1,916**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,916**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Core Organisational fuding (including staff
costs, office costs, travel expenses,
postage and IT subscriptions)|**1,916**|**-**
**31,760**
**80,308**
**10,010**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,916**
**31,760**
**80,308**
**-**
**10,010**
**-**|**16,945**|
|Fiscal Sponsorship|**-**||||**51,132**
**8,926**
**109,190**|
|Regenerative Camps and Settlements|**-**|||||
|AgroecologyResearch Project|**-**|||||
|Coveringmore with Lush CharityPot|**-**|||||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,916**|**122,078**|**-**|**123,994**|**186,194**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**1,916**||**122,078**|||**-**||**123,994**||**186,194**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**289**||**- 31,903**|||**-**||**- 31,614**||**70,966**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**35,464**||**123,273**||**-**|||**158,737**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**35,753**||**91,370**|||**-**||**127,123**||**158,737**|
**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
1
|**B1 Cash funds**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**_Total cash funds_**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||||||
|||account(s))||Agreement Error||Agreement Error||OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**-**||**-**|
|**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**|
||**Details**|||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature||Print|Name|||Date of
approval|
||_Ruth Andrade_|||Ruth Andrade, Chair of Trustees||||23.12.24|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
2
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report Report to the trustees** Charity Name Re-Alliance **On accounts for the year Charity no ended** 30th September 2024 **(if any)** 1188936 **Set out on pages** 1 - 4 (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 **DD / MM / YYYY** 30/09/2024 .
**Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report 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:** Jahanzab Arshad **Date:** 07/04/2025 ~~Jahanzab Arshad (Apr 7, 2025 12:49 GMT+1)~~ **Name:** Jahanzab Arshad **Relevant professional** ACCA **qualification(s) or body**
**Oct 2018**
1
**IER**
## **(if any):**
**Address:**
C/O Easy Tax - Argentum 510 Bristol Business Park
Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1EJ
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material 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** .
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**
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RE-ALLIANCE
ANNUAL REPORT
OCTOBER 2023 - SEPTEMBER 2024
WW.RE-ALLI
RG
TACT@RE-ALLIANCE.ORG
Re-Alliance: Key Information
Charity Number
Registered Address
1188936
Shawfield; Laughton; Lewes
BN8 6BY; United Kingdom
List of Trustees
Report approved
Gideon Adeyeni
Ruth Andrade (Chair).
Gisele Henriques,
Georgina McAllister,
Peter Mellett (Treasurer)
GeoffO'Donoghue
This report was approved on
TBC at an AGM by Members and
Directors and signed on their
behalf by Ruth Andrade:
Structure, governance and management
This is the fourth 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 and in August 2024 Gideon Adeyeni joined as our 6th trustee.
re,
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 growrth of the organisation
including initial meetings, fundraising and pursuit of charity status and recruitment of freelance staff. We
have grown our original group of four directors to six. to increase the capacity of the team and ensure a
diverse skil l-set is represented.
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.
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CHARITY COMM15510N
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
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Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For tho perlod
from
1 sl October 2023
30th September 2024
Financial review
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
R•strfct•d funds
Endowment
fund8
Total funds
La•t y•ar
At the end of the period the charity held total funds of £127,123 These
break down as:
to th• n••r••t
t• th• nMf••t £
to th• nMr••t £
to th• nMM•t £
A1 Rec•1 t•
Peer Su
rt & Leami
aces
15.190
Unre8lricted Income linduding publlc
donations, sp•ak•r •nd o)r• ¢o$t
s lo contracts
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s and S8lUemenl8 Pro.
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rnore wilh Lush Chari
Pot
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ReS8h Pro
Fl$¢g1 S
n8ornhl
2.205
Unrestricted: £35.753 Restricted: £91,370
70200
19 975.00
70.200
19.975
74.283
118.617
9.000
34.151
At the close of the financial year. Re-Alliance maintained free
unrestricted reserves of £30,000, equivalent to 6 months. running
costs. Re-Alliance holds these reserves:
2.205
90.175
92,380
257.180
Sub total(Gross income for AR)
A2 A8••t and Inv•8tm•nt 8alo•,
•00 tablo .
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.
Sub tota
Total rnc•lpts
2,205
90,175
92,380
257,160
A3Pa
ment•
Cor• Organlsatlon•l fudlng Ilncluding 8taff
o¥ts, olllce c08t$, IrBvel expen8e8, P08ts90
and IT subicri
tion$
Fiscal Sponaorshsp
R•g•n•rativ8 C8mp8 and S8tt18m•n18 Proj8cI
roecol
Re8h Pro
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Pot
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.
Sub tota
1.916
122,078
123,9M
166.194
A4 Assel and Inv•8tmont
urchases
see table
Sub tota
The board of directors may at times designate funds from free
reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets.
Total payments
1.916
122.078
123,994
186,194
Net of recelpts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year ond
Cash funds thls year en
35,464
35.753
123.273
91.370
158,737
127.123
158.737
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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.
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Achievements and
Performance
The major organisational activities, achievements
and performance for 2023-24 follow.
All activities were undertaken to further the
organisation's charitable purposes for public
benefit. We have divided our activities between the
following headings:
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HOVSEHQLf>s IN CAWS AND SErrLEMETrThS
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.
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Core
Organisational
Activities
MEMBERSHIP helps us to increase education, gather
evidence, disseminate research, support network
development and engage members in the work ofthe
charity. Our global membership grew this year from 254 to
286 individuals and organisations from the development and
humanitarian sectors. We hosted regular bimonthly
community of practice meetings interspersed with
storytelling workshops to examine how best to communicate
and share learnings from members. work.
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ONLINE MEMBERS SPACES like our members, Whatsapp
group, newsletter and Facebook and Instagram sites help
build communication amongst the membership.
OUTREACH AND INFLUENCING helps us reach out beyond
our membership. Our core team have hosted learning events
such as facilitating a workshop on integrated settlement
design at the Oxford Real Farming Conference and
presenting on Lime Stabilised Soil building at the UK Shelter
forum.
4-SJANUARY 2024
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Grant Funded Project:
Regenerative Settlements
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The Regenerative Camps and Settlements Project is
our largest current piece of work, spanning at least
four years. It includes regranting to local groups in the
global South for the piloting of regenerative
innovations in displacement settings. Using the results
of these pilots, Re-alliance produces educational
materials for grassroots community groups and
NGOS in multiple languages. The guidebooks have
been made freely available online via Practical Action
Publishing. The work will culminate in the production
of an online course, which in currently under
development.
We successfully funded a further 7 innovation and
research projects this year, implemented by
grantee locally-led organisations during this period:
Biointensive Agriculture in Zimbabwe
Water retention agriculture in Kenya
Mushroom growing in Uganda
Integrated settlement deisgn for displacement
settings
Research into food growingi in Cox's Bazar
Micro Wind turbine designs for refugee camps
Regenerating people: Trauma healing in
Cameroon
We decided to foucs on energy, connectivity
and social cohesion in this second funding round
as well as continuing our supportfor
regenerative agriculture. We carried out
research into the costs and benefits of
community gardens in Cox's Bazaar in ajoint
action research project with the Asian Women's
University and the Food Security Cluster. Our
integrated settlement design work brought
together academics, local partners and
representatives from UNHCR to look at the
future of settlement design in displacement
settings.
Contracts and Services
IRAIN
PUBLICATIONS
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
We have continued to produce articles for the
Permaculture Magazine on our work. During this
period we published an article about rooftop
gardening in Gaza.
We have welcomed the opportunity to
incubate groups who align with our charitable
purposes through fiscal sponsorship. This year
we completed our fiscal sponsorship with
RAIN CLC.
re-alliance.org
facebook.com/reallianceorg
twitter.com/Re Alliance org
instagram.com/re alliance
contact@re-alliance.org
|**Re-Alliance**|||**1188936**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period**
**from**|1st October 2023|**To**|30th September|
**CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
2,205
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,205**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,205**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
70200
19,975.00
**-**
**-**
**90,175**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**90,175**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,205**
**70,200**
**19,975**
**-**
**-**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Peer Support & LearningSpaces|**-**||||**15,190**
5,919
**74,283**
**118,617**
**9,000**
**34,151**|
|Unrestricted Income (including public
donations, speaker fees and core cost
charges to contracts)|2,205|||||
|Project|**-**|||||
|Coveringmore with Lush CharityPot|**-**|||||
|AgroecologyResearch Project|**-**|||||
|Fiscal Sponsorship|**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_||||||
||||**-**|**92,380**|**257,160**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total _**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**||||**92,380**||
||**2,205**||**-**||**257,160**|
|**A3 Payments**|**1,916**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,916**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Core Organisational fuding (including staff
costs, office costs, travel expenses,
postage and IT subscriptions)|**1,916**|**-**
**31,760**
**80,308**
**10,010**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,916**
**31,760**
**80,308**
**-**
**10,010**
**-**|**16,945**|
|Fiscal Sponsorship|**-**||||**51,132**
**8,926**
**109,190**|
|Regenerative Camps and Settlements|**-**|||||
|AgroecologyResearch Project|**-**|||||
|Coveringmore with Lush CharityPot|**-**|||||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,916**|**122,078**|**-**|**123,994**|**186,194**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**1,916**||**122,078**|||**-**||**123,994**||**186,194**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**289**||**- 31,903**|||**-**||**- 31,614**||**70,966**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**35,464**||**123,273**||**-**|||**158,737**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**35,753**||**91,370**|||**-**||**127,123**||**158,737**|
**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
1
|**B1 Cash funds**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**_Total cash funds_**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||||||
|||account(s))||Agreement Error||Agreement Error||OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**-**||**-**|
|**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
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|||||||**-**||**-**|
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|||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**|
||**Details**|||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature||Print|Name|||Date of
approval|
||_Ruth Andrade_|||Ruth Andrade, Chair of Trustees||||23.12.24|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report Report to the trustees** Charity Name Re-Alliance **On accounts for the year Charity no ended** 30th September 2024 **(if any)** 1188936 **Set out on pages** 1 - 4 (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 **DD / MM / YYYY** 30/09/2024 .
**Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report 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:** Jahanzab Arshad **Date:** 07/04/2025 ~~Jahanzab Arshad (Apr 7, 2025 12:49 GMT+1)~~ **Name:** Jahanzab Arshad **Relevant professional** ACCA **qualification(s) or body**
**Oct 2018**
1
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## **(if any):**
**Address:**
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## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material 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** .
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**