## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 18/05/2022 Period start date To 31/03/2023 Period end date Charity name: Action Collective** ## **Charity registration number: 1189524** ## **Objectives and Activities** SORP reference Summary of the purposes of Para 1.17 the charity as set out in its governing document **Action Collective Charity Policy Reg. Number:** 1189524 1. Mission Statement: **Recognition Development & Justice.** Action Collective is committed to empowering and supporting individuals within the African Diaspora community residing in the UK. We aim to provide resources, opportunities, and advocacy to foster community development, cultural preservation, and socio-economic advancement. **2. Objectives:** - To address the unique challenges faced by members of the African Diaspora in the UK, including but not limited to issues related to education, employment, healthcare, and social integration. To promote cultural awareness and celebrate the rich heritage of the African Diaspora through events, workshops, and educational programs. To facilitate access to essential services, and mental health support, for individuals within the African Diaspora community. To advocate for policies and initiatives that promote equality, diversity, and inclusion within the UK society, with a specific focus on addressing systemic barriers faced by the African Diaspora. To collaborate with other organizations, both within the African Diaspora community and beyond, to maximize our impact and reach. **3. Governance and Management:** The charity operates under a transparent governance structure, with a Board of Trustees responsible for overseeing its activities and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. The Board of Trustees is composed of individuals with diverse backgrounds and expertise, including members of the African Diaspora community, legal professionals, and business leaders. The charity adheres to best practices in financial management and accountability, with regular audits conducted to ensure the responsible stewardship of funds and resources. ## **4. Fundraising and Resource Mobilization** : - The charity relies on a combination of fundraising activities, grant funding, and donations from individuals, corporations, and other organizations to support its programs and initiatives. Fundraising efforts are conducted in an ethical and transparent manner, with a focus on engaging with donors and supporters who share our commitment to advancing the interests of the African Diaspora in the UK. ## **5. Monitoring and Evaluation:** The charity regularly monitors the impact of its programs and activities to assess their effectiveness in achieving our stated objectives. Feedback from beneficiaries, stakeholders, and partners is actively solicited and used to inform continuous improvement and strategic decision-making. Key performance indicators and benchmarks are established to measure progress towards our goals and objectives, with regular reports provided to the Board of Trustees and stakeholders. ## **6. Compliance and Accountability:** - The charity is committed to upholding the highest standards of integrity, accountability, and transparency in all its dealings. We comply with all relevant laws, regulations, and codes of practice governing the operation of charitable organizations in the UK. The charity maintains open and honest communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on its activities, finances, and impact. ## **7. Equal Opportunities and Diversity:** - The charity is committed to promoting equal opportunities and celebrating diversity within its own organization and the wider community. We strive to create an inclusive |||and welcoming environment that
respects and values the
contributions of individuals from
all backgrounds, regardless of
race, ethnicity, gender, sexual
orientation, religion, or disability.
**8. Conclusion**:
This policy serves as a guiding
framework for the operation and
management of our charity, reflecting our
commitment to serving and empowering
the African Diaspora community in the
UK. We remain dedicated to our mission
and values, and we welcome feedback
and input from all stakeholders as we
work towards our shared goals.| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Educaton, training, mentoring, health and
wellbeing.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All Acton Collectve trustees are aware of the
‘guidance issued by the Charity Commission’.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| ||SORP reference|| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Basket Ball coaching facilitated by Acton
Collectve.| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Acton Collectve has actvely promoted
organised initatves such conductng health
surveys on behalf of the NHS such as GP surgery
visits and the gathering essental informaton for
the COVID-19 vaccinaton program. The data
collected provided the NHS with an insight to
how well the vaccines roll out was progressing.
Acton Collectve have conducted a series of
‘Safe Space’ workshops to enable people from
the African Diaspora voice their concerns on a
number of subjects…such as ‘Windrush’ issues.
This has proved very helpful to people who have
found themselves in a very vulnerable situaton.
Acton Collectve promotes and organises a
‘Basket Ball Boot Camp’ for young people from
deprived areas with the services of two Basket
Ball coaches the initatve has been very popular
and has provided young people with the
opportunity to improve levels of ftness and join
a Basket Ball Team. Acton Collectve runs a
weekly cycling training were older people learn
to cycle for the frst tme in deprived areas.
Partcipants who have never cycled before have
gone onto purchasing their own bikes for leisure
purposes.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity’s fnancial positon at the end of the
period is good.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**£1,000**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||General Charitable Purposes| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Election to post.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Action Collective| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|| |Charity’s principal address|| ||**1189524**| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Yvonne Wray|Chairperson
(Trustee)||| ||Gerald Edwards|Deputy Chairperson
(Trustee)||| ||Keith Wray|Treasurer(Trustee)||| ||Alicia Wray|Secretary (Trustee)||| ||Jonathan
McKenzie|Trustee||| ||Tinarsha
Chesenga|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** K D Wray **Full name(s)** Keith Donald Wray **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)** **Date** 16/05/2024 ||**Action Collective**
|**Action Collective**
|**Action Collective**
|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|4/1/2023|**To**|3/31/2024|| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**
**1,187**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,187**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 1,187**
**A3 Payments**
**536**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total 536**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total payments 536**
**Net of receipts/(payments) 652**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**Cash funds this year end 652**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**Sub total**(Gross income for AR)
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,187**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,187**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,187**
**536**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**536**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**536**
**652**
**-**
**-**
**652**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||||**-**|**1,187**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**1,187**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**1,187**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**536**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**536**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**536**|**-**| ||||||| |||**-**|**-**|**652**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**652**|**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
652
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
K D Wray
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**652**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**652**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
Print Name
Keith Donald Wray
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||K D Wray|Keith Donald Wray|3/28/2025| |||||