## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] January 2021 Period start date To 31[st] December 2021 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Camp Jojo**
## **Charity registration number:1189163**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 To provide or assist in the provision of
purposes of the charity facilities. in the interests of social
as set out in its welfare, for recreation or other leisure
governing document time occupation of children with
complex needs and their
families, with the object of improving
their conditions of life, in particular
through the provision of a bespoke,
accessible campsite with all
necessary equipment, all necessary
support (including specialist family
volunteer support), and associated
activities
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and To achieve this through the provision
1.19
activities in relation to for groups of families of a fully
those purposes for the bespoke, accessible farm campsite,
public benefit, in including tents with track hoists inside
particular, the activities, them, and Changing Place provision.
projects or services Also, specialist family volunteers, and
identified in the appropriately accessible animal, bush
accounts. craft, and other activities in nature.
Camp Jojo exists to allow children
with complex needs, their siblings,
and parents/carers the opportunity to
experience a 3-day camping holiday –
something usually barred to them
because of the need of full
accessibility and specialised
equipment. We believe that all
children should have the chance to
spend time outdoors, in nature, not
sent away on respite holidays but
with their own families. We also know
that many siblings of children with
complex needs miss out on camping
holidays with their families because of
these same restraints. Our own
experience tells us how isolating it
can be to have a child with complex
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needs – even mingling at the school gate is not possible if your child needs specialist transport – yet how much as parents we need the understanding, friendship, and support of our peers. Parents facing the same difficulties and battles. Parents who also often struggle with physical exhaustion, mental health issues, and the ongoing anxiety for their child and their needs. We believe that a camping holiday provides for all of these things – for the child with complex needs, for their siblings, and for their parents. Camp Jojo offers: • A 3-day camping holiday for 6- 8 families at a time, not just for the child with complex needs but for their siblings and parents too – because siblings also miss out on camping experiences and quality holiday time with parents, where one child needs intensive daily care • A time that allows parents to build supportive relationships. During the camp supportive community is built amongst the families, and where families come from the same geographical area this is also taken home with them • A holiday where all activities are accessible to all the family members, adapted to the level of involvement that a particular child can manage • A holiday where really fun activities – fire lighting, foraging, beach time, feeding of the sheep, donkeys and hens, making digeridoos, collecting hens’ eggs, making hammocks in the trees, campfires, music, and more – are available. • A holiday where tired parents can be relieved of some of the heavy burden of care which they carry day in, day out, year in and year out, for their disabled child; by having skilled volunteers attached to help each family. Where the parents' emotional and mental health, and their resilience, can be supported and strengthened through understanding and shared experience • A holiday where siblings can have fun all together, • A holiday where lasting and happy memories can be made and recorded, since many of these
children are life-limited • A holiday where the common understanding of other families in the same position can support and encourage and give hope and courage for whatever lies ahead. We believe that parents of children with complex needs are better able to offer those children, and their siblings, quality family and early life experience if they themselves are supported and understood in the heavy burden of care-giving that they carry. All families with a child with complex needs, and those that work with them, know that it’s not easy to go on holiday if you have a child with complex needs. And especially it’s not easy to go camping! Needed equipment can be extensive – larger tents, wheelchairs, hoists, feeding pump and supplies, medications, oxygen supplies, suitable changing place and shower, sometimes medical beds etc. So, at Camp Jojo we ensure that everything needed is in place and set up prior to the families’ arrival. Appropriate tents with hoists where required, matting for the wheelchairs to move across on the field, comfortable camp beds for the children with disabilities - or occasionally medical beds - and thick sleeping mats for others, a fully accessible and hoisted bathroom, mobile hoists in the barn and marquee, beach wheelchairs, and other equipment. Individual contact with each family, as well as a common social event some weeks before the event, allows families to have met with Camp Jojo personnel and other families before the camp, and allows for a detailed assessment of equipment, dietary, and accessibility needs for each family by the organisation. Each family needs a bespoke provision.
The camps are held at Ivy Farm in a beautiful spot at the tip of Mersea Island in Essex. Ivy Farm has a large barn next to the camping field that is used for indoor space for games and relaxation. One area of the barn has floor mattresses and a hoist to give
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disabled children a quiet space to
relax. The weather of course has a big
impact on a camping trip! But we
have the large barn for shelter from
rain or heat, and a large marquee for
indoor activities too. Also, a small
separate tent for quiet ‘down time’ if
a child needs that.
The camp has activities for outdoors
and indoors to allow for weather
issues. There are a wide range of
activities available – most focusing on
the natural world. Each activity is
made accessible at some level for
each child. The camp site is beside
the seawall and has a beach nearby.
Specialist beach wheelchairs give
accessibility to the beach – and the
water – to those who want that. And
of course, there is plenty of time to sit
around the campfire.
Statement confirming Para 1.18 The Trustees have had regard to the
whether the trustees guidance issued by the Charity
have had regard to the Commission on public benefit.
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit
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SORP reference
Para 1.38
Policy on grant making N/A
Para 1.38
Policy on social N/A
investment including
program related
investment
Each family is assigned a skilled
Para 1.38 volunteer, if they would like that;
Contribution made by someone who has cared for other
volunteers children with complex needs. This
volunteer is there to support the child
and parents and siblings, to enable,
to do whatever the parents need and
want - to allow the parents also to
have a holiday. Other volunteers put
up and take down tents, lead
activities, provide film and photos for
the families to take home for
memories. Some families may like to
bring their own carer(s) and that’s
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great too – obviously giving continuity for that child. Food is bought and prepared by a catering team of volunteers, and the coordinator has approved Food Safety training. Camp Jojo has policies in safeguarding; and in moving and handling as well as in other areas. Although the skilled family volunteers are already experienced and trained from their previous roles, Camp Jojo also buys in a recognised trainer to give training to the volunteers before the camp starts, in these two areas particularly. All volunteers have the relevant DBS checks. Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
1. Despite the Covid epidemic,
Camp Jojo was able to hold 3 camps
this year. The children with complex
Summary of the main disabilities and their families that
Para 1.20
achievements of the the charity caters for are often
charity, identifying the those who have needed to ‘shield’
difference the charity’s during the pandemic, so it was
work has made to the particularly important to them. Prior
circumstances of its to the camps we developed, with
beneficiaries and any medical input, a comprehensive
wider benefits to society Covid Policy, which was reviewed
as a whole. regularly and frequently as the
Covid situation and guidance
changed.
We maintained comprehensive and
thorough hygiene practices across
the site, with all attendees having
Lateral Flow Tests before and during
the camps, with activities being
carried out outside or in open
doored barns or marquees. Meals
were taken in family ‘bubbles’ and
family volunteers remained in a
‘bubble’ with their family
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throughout a camp. 2. The camps were very successful with exceptionally good feedback received from parents, children, and volunteers after the camps 3. Building on our previous experience we were able to take some children with profound disabilities and needs this year e.g. one little boy on a ventilator. It was evident that families applying this year represented a group whose children were more severely disabled than previously. We were also swamped with applications, with three times as many families applying than we could cater for. The other noticeable issue with applications this year was how many of the families had either been deeply affected by covid (shielding, home schooling with a severely disabled child and other siblings etc); or had had other traumatic events within their families this year (parental illness, bereavement, prolonged hospitalisations, job losses etc).
6. Equipment. We have reassessed our present equipment and future needs in light of this year’s camps, and the level of disability equipment needed. As a result we have purchased or been gifted several more large and smaller items that were deemed necessary, including: 2 more P pod bean chairs (important to allow wheelchair users to have a time relaxing out of their confining chairs),
a further beach buggy to be sure we can cater for enough children at one time who need wheelchairs on the beach.
an all-terrain wheelchair to allow more comfort for some children who struggled in their own wheelchairs in the field and farm land
We have also procured more sensory stimulation equipment for our sensory space in the barn where children can have quiet or ‘downtime’ when needed
7. Communications. We have continued to upgrade our website, and to develop our social media presence, particularly on Facebook 8. In light of the pressure of applications we have undertaken a
longer-term planning exercise to allow us to plan increasing numbers of camps each year in the future.
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
The Charity’s budget for 2021
established the need for £5100 to be
Performance of raised in sponsorship costs (to cover
fundraising activities Para 1.41 the cost of disability provision for 3
against objectives set camps, which the Trustees would not
expect families to cover in their
camping fees.) We also identified
equipment needs, amounting to a
minimum of £2200.
Much of these needs were covered by
grants awarded in 2020, which were
carried forward, as no camps took
place. We also continued our fund-
raising efforts, particularly identifying
the need to diversify, and held several
fund-raising events and campaigns,
which contributed significantly to our
funds, as well as beginning to recruit
more regular donors.
Several grants enabled us to cover
extra expenses due to Covid, and to
cover the costs of part-time staff
employed for the first time.
(Please refer to Accounts for details of
all this fund-raising income)
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Investment performance Para 1.41 N/A
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 We ended the year with £38,000 in
financial position at the our current account to carry forward,
end of the period and £7000 in our reserves account.
This is a much stronger position than
in 2020 and means that we can fund
our planned activities. We now need
to look at future funding, particularly
to make staffing sustainable.
Statement explaining Para 1.22 The Trustee Board regularly, every
the policy for holding quarter at the Board meeting, reviews
reserves stating why the reserves that are required to
they are held ensure that they are adequate to fulfil
our continuing obligations.
The Trustees propose to maintain the
charity’s reserves at a level which is
at least equivalent to three months
operational expenditure and have
done so having regards to its manner
of operation and likely funding
streams.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £7000
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22
reserves N/A
Details of fund materially Para 1.24
in deficit N/A
Explanation of any Para 1.23
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a N/A
going concern
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||The charity’s principal
sources of funds
(including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|A combination of grant funding,
corporate and individual donations,
family contributions to camping fees,
fund-raising events, and individual
sponsored events.
A very generous grant of £20,000
from The Let yourself Trust means
that we enter 2022 with enough funds
to cover stafng and some other
costs.||
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|Investment policy and|||||
Investment policy and
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objectives including any Para 1.46 N/A
social investment policy
adopted
The principal risk faced by the Charity
in 2021, as last year, was the COVID
A description of the Para 1.46 pandemic. The Trustees took the
principal risks facing the decision in April that the camps would
charity go ahead, with a continually updated
Covid policy, and the flexibility built in
to cancel or modify activities should
this have proved necessary. We
ensured that we had adequate funds
to cover necessary extra costs.
Another significant risk is that families
will be less able to pay for the camps,
owing to the general economic
downturn, and there will be a higher
demand for bursaries: the Trustees
will have to manage this risk, by
matching available funds with
applications, and raising more money
to fund bursaries.
Other
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Registered Charity Commission,
document Foundation Constitution for a C.I.O
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25
constituted? Charitable Incorporated Organisation
(e.g. unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Apart from the first charity trustees,
methods including every trustee must be appointed for a
details of any term of three years by a resolution
constitutional provisions passed at a properly convened
e.g. election to post or meeting of the charity trustees.
name of any person or In selecting individuals for
body entitled to appoint appointment as charity trustees, the
one or more trustees charity trustees must
have regard to the skills, knowledge
and experience needed for the
effective administration of the CIO.
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction Para 1.51
and training of trustees
Any decision may be taken either:
• at a meeting of the charity trustees;
The charity’s or
organisational structure Para 1.51 • by resolution in writing or electronic
and any wider network form agreed by a majority of all of the
with which the charity charity
works Trustees.
The charity trustees may delegate
any of their powers or functions to a
committee or committees, and, if
they do, they shall determine the
terms and conditions on which the
delegation is made. The charity
trustees may at any time alter those
terms and conditions or revoke the
delegation.
A committee may consist of two or
more persons, but at least one
member of each committee must be
a charity trustee; the acts and
proceedings of any committee must
be brought to the attention of the
charity trustees as soon as is
reasonably practicable,
and the charity trustees shall from
time to time review the arrangements
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which they have made for the
delegation of their powers.
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Camp Jojo
Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity 1189163
number
Charity’s principal 7, Lanyard Place,
address Woodbridge,
Suffolk,
IP12 9AA
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Dr. Christine Chair
1
Wright
Mrs. Jennifer Treasurer
2
Spence
Mr. David
3
Playfoot
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee**|**name**
**Dates**|**acted**|**if**|**not**|**for**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**whole**|**year**||||
**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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Type of Name Address
adviser
Health Dr Timothy Wright 157 Lifstan Way
and Southend
Disabili
Essex
ty
Equipme Mr Ralph Spence Ivy Farm
nt and
Ivy Lane
Bushcr
East Mersea
aft
Colchester CO5 8US
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Becky Myers, Finance officer
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
Declarations
The trustees dKlare that they have approved the trustoes. report above.
Signed on behaff ofthe charity's trnstees
Signaturfs)
Position 19.9. Secretary.,
Chair. etc.) I CItF*£ o
20. io
CAMP JOJO
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021
CAMP JOJO
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021
Page
Receipts & payments account
Assets & liabilities statement
Notes to the financial statements
Independent Examinerfs Report
CAMP JOJO
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021
2021
2021
Unr8strictod Restricted
2021
Total
2020
Total
Recelpts
Donalion5
Fundraising
Merchandise
Bank interest
Grants
Camps
Tolal recelpts
10,135
5.420
1.876
1.585
11.720
5.420
1,876
6,875
20,000
6,445
14,696
34,696
6,445
26.700
Payments
Admin
Publicity
Equipment
Volunteer expenses
Staff costs
Miscellaneou$
Fundraising
Storage
Campsite hire
Legal
Catering
Merchandise
Repairs and maintenance
Insurance
Total payments
1,804
1,804
295
5,258
978
5,543
2.328
474
1,200
3,619
300
1,949
3,661
780
1,212
774
23,705
295
5.258
978
5.543
830
1,498
474
1,200
2,376
300
1.949
3,661
1,243
1.290
780
1,797
Nel of Receiptsl(Payments)
32.123
11551
31,968
4.739
Tran$f•r bgtwogn funds
1,937
(1,937)
Not of Rece1ptsl(Panents>
after transfe
Cash funds brought forward
at l January 2021
9,818
13.818
9,079
Cash funds carrled fojward
at 31 December 2021
The notes on page 3 fonn part of these financial statements
CAMP JOJO
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021
2021
2020
Moneta
Assets
Cash at Bank and in hand..
TOTAL MONETARY ASSETS
45.786
45,786
13.818
13,818
Re
resented b Funds
Unrestricted General Fund
Restricted Fund
TOTAL FUNDS
38,(6Q
7.726
45,786
4,000
9.818
13,818
Creditors due within one year".
Insurance
Professional fees
1.816
310
2.126
224
224
Assets retalned for the Charlt
s own use
Equipment
44,950
44,950
44.950
44,950
These accounts were approved by th8 Trustees on and signed on their behalf by..
Dr Christine Wright
Dale
CAMP JOJO
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021
1. Thes& accounts are prepared on a receipts and payments basis. followlng best practi as laid down in
the Ststement of Recommended Pradice 'Accountir>g and Reporting by Charities. {SORP 20191 issued
in 2019, with all revenue and expenses shown on a cash basis.
Non-monelary Assets and Liabilities are shown as actual values al the end of the year.
l No remuneration was paid lo any Trustee. R Spence wa$ paid for strjrage and a deposit
totslling 3,94512020.. £1,290).
The Independent Examination fee is £310.00
4. Rostrl¢tod Funds
In¢omin9
resources
Outgoing
resources
Transfer
of funds
01101121
3111W21
Awards for Al
bert Hurtl Trust
Alex Ostler Fundraiser
Counlry Landowners Association
D & S Cock Donation
Fisher Jones Greenwood
Fowler Smith Jones Trust
Gra5srools
London Southend Airport
Mersea Island Cornmunity Suppoi
Nation Lottery Celbrate #25
Rachel & Lucy's fundraiser
Strood Charity Donation
Tesco Bags of Help
1,267
10,000
1.000
7,252
500
1,000
588
110)
4,005
2,951
600
(1.951)
12
1.716
2,000
500
1,500
1,144
1,000
356
1,(X)O
1,000
360
1,C4)0
978
830
22
755
1,585
336
24
1.CNJO
9,818
1.000
16,281
1,937
7.726
## **CAMP JOJO**
# **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
## **CAMP JOJO**
## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
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|Receipts & payments account|1|
|Assets & liabilities statement|2|
|Notes to the financial statements|3|
|Independent Examiner's Report|4|
## **CAMP JOJO**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
||**2021**|**2021**|**2021**|**2020**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Total**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Receipts**|||||
|Donations|10,135|1,585|11,720|6,875|
|Fundraising|5,420||5,420||
|Merchandise|1,876||1,876||
|Bank interest||||2|
|Grants|20,000|14,696|34,696|26,700|
|Camps|6,445||6,445||
|**Total receipts**|**43,876**|**16,281**|**60,157**|**33,577**|
|**Payments**|||||
|Admin||1,804|1,804|1,212|
|Publicity|295||295|774|
|Equipment||5,258|5,258|23,705|
|Volunteer expenses
Staf costs||978
5,543|978
5,543||
|Miscellaneous|1,498|830|2,328||
|Fundraising|474||474||
|Storage|1,200||1,200||
|Campsite hire|2,376|1,243|3,619|1,290|
|Legal|300||300||
|Catering|1,949||1,949||
|Merchandise|3,661||3,661||
|Repairs and maintenance||780|780|60|
|Insurance||||1,797|
|**Total payments**|**11,753**|**16,436**|**28,189**|**28,838**|
|**Net of Receipts/(Payments)**|32,123|(155)|31,968|4,739|
|**Transfer between funds**|1,937|(1,937)|||
|**Net of Receipts/(Payments)**
**afer transfers**|**34,060**|**(2,092)**|**31,968**|**4,739**|
|**Cash funds brought forard**
**at 1 January 2021**|4,000|9,818|13,818|9,079|
|**Cash funds carried forard**|**38,060**|**7,726**|**45,786**|**13,818**|
|**at 31 December 2021**|||||
The notes on page 3 form part of these financial statements
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## **CAMPJOJO**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
|||**2021**|**2020**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|**£**|
|**Monetar Assets**||||
|Cash at Bank and in hand:||45,786|13,818|
|**TOTAL MONETARY ASSETS**||**45,786**|**13,818**|
|**Represented by Funds**||||
|Unrestricted General Fund||38,060|4,000|
|Restricted Fund|**4**|7,726|9,818|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**||**45,786**|**13,818**|
|Creditors due within one year:|**3**|||
|Insurance||1,816||
|Professional fees||310|224|
|||**2,126**|**224**|
|**Assets retained for the Charity's own use**||||
|Equipment||44,950|44,950|
|||**44,950**|**44,950**|
These accounts were approved by the Trustees on and signed on their behalf by:
_· t i.22-_ Dr Christine Wright ' Date ��
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## **CAMP JOJO**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
1. These accounts are prepared on a receipts and payments basis, following best practice as laid down in the Statement of Recommended Practice "Accounting and Reporting by Charities" (SORP 2019) issued in 2019, with all revenue and expenses shown on a cash basis.
- Non-monetary Assets and Liabilities are shown as actual values at the end of the year.
2. No remuneration was paid to any Trustee. R Spence was paid for storage and a deposit totalling 3,945 (2020: £1,290).
3. The Independent Examination fee is £310.00
## **4. Restricted Funds**
||**As at**|**Incoming**|**Incoming**|**Outgoing**|**Transfer**|**As at**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**01/01/21**|**resources**||**resources**|**of funds**|**31/12/21**|
||**£**|**£**||**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Awards for All|1,267|10,000||7,252|(10)|4,005|
|Albert Hunt Trust||1,000||500||500|
|Alex Ostler Fundraiser|2,951|||1,000|(1,951)||
|Country Landowners Association|600|||588||12|
|D**&**S Cock Donation|||2,000|284||1,716|
|Fisher Jones Greenwood|500|||500|||
|Fowler Smith Jones Trust|1,500|||1,144||356|
|Grassroots|||1,000|1,000|||
|London Southend Airport|1,000|||1,000|||
|Mersea Island Community Suppo1|||360|||360|
|Nation Lottery Celbrate #25|1,000|||978||22|
|Rachel**&**Lucy's fundraiser|||1,585|830||755|
|Strood Charity Donation|||336|360|24||
|Tesco Bags of Help|1,000|||1,000|||
||9,818|16,281||16,436|{1,937}|7,726|
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## **CAMP JO JO**
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021**
I report on the accounts of Camp Jo Jo for the year ended 31 December 2021 December 2021 which are set out on pages one to three.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The Charity’s Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Charity’s Trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 144 (2) of the Charities Act 2011 (The Act) but that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- Examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- To state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s Statement**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes considerations of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In the course of my examination, no material matters have come to my attention 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 the 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 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.
Shelley-Marie Rudling FMAAT AATQB for and on behalf of:
Community360 8th April 2022 Winsley’s House, High Street, Colchester, Essex Date
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