2021-03-31-accounts - Brief Lives - Remembered

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Charity Registration Number:1189733

(A Charitable Incorporated Organization) TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Year Ending 31[st] March 2021

BRIEF LIVES – REMEMBERED

CIO MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS

Registered Charity Name Brief Lives - Remembered Charity Number 1189733 Registered Office 7 Friary House The Friary Guildford Surrey GU1 4YR Trustees Paula Jackson Clive Gentle David Elvy Erica Stewart Linda Philips - Resigned March 2022 Bankers Lloyds Bank 147 High Street Guildford Surrey GU1 3AG

12 Months ended 31/03/2021

Income Donations General 3,420.60 Memorial 455.00 Amazon Donations Expenses Website 94.80 Telephone 1,142.73 Subscriptions 699.99 Insurance 127.68 PPS 76.92 Office Equip 113.95 Computer running 353.98 Travel Bookkeeping 1,259.00 Refunds Sundry 578.50 Total 4,447.55 3,875.60 Profit/(Losses) (571.95	Income Donations General 3,420.60 Memorial 455.00 Amazon Donations Expenses Website 94.80 Telephone 1,142.73 Subscriptions 699.99 Insurance 127.68 PPS 76.92 Office Equip 113.95 Computer running 353.98 Travel Bookkeeping 1,259.00 Refunds Sundry 578.50 Total 4,447.55 3,875.60 Profit/(Losses) (571.95	Income Donations General 3,420.60 Memorial 455.00 Amazon Donations Expenses Website 94.80 Telephone 1,142.73 Subscriptions 699.99 Insurance 127.68 PPS 76.92 Office Equip 113.95 Computer running 353.98 Travel Bookkeeping 1,259.00 Refunds Sundry 578.50 Total 4,447.55 3,875.60 Profit/(Losses) (571.95

		(571.95

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

	Period start date	Period start date			Period end date	Period end date
	Day	Month	Year		Day	Month	Year
From	1st	June	2020	To	31st	March	2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Brief Lives - Remembered

Other names charity is known by N / A

Registered charity number (if any) 1189733

Charity's principal address 7 Friary House, The Friary Guildford, Surrey

Postcode GU1 4YR

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Trustee name	office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Paula Jackson
	Erica Stewart
	Clive Gentle
	Linda Philips			Resigned 2022
	David Elvy

	Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)	Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
	Name	Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of Adviser Name Address




Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Paula Jackson

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document (e.g. trust deed, constitution) Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organization - Foundation How the charity is constituted

(e.g., trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods

(e.g. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organizational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

To relieve the mental, emotional and physical distress of those suffering from bereavement or loss of a baby or young child To support families when a baby was stillborn or died many decades ago, and for as long as is needed. To research the resting place of babies who have died many decades ago. To fund and erect memorials dedicated to babies who

Relieve the mental, emotional, and physical distress of those suffering from bereavement or loss of a baby.
To support families when a baby was stillborn or died many decades ago, and for as long as is needed.
Help bereaved families find the answers that will relieve their emotional and mental distress

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking.
policy programme related investment.
contribution made by volunteers.

Fund raising ~ Increased awareness of bereavement issues

Section D Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The Covid pandemic has imposed various serious practical challenges to our research service, however bereavement support and care was maintained by phone and email communications.

Traced the resting place of 126 babies who were either stillborn or died soon after birth in the decades of the 1940’s 1950’s 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s
Supported the families of over 400 babies who were either stillborn or died soon after birth in the decades of the 1940’s 1950’s 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s
Support for families when the baby was born before twenty-eight weeks gestation and that were would not be in the position to find the bay’s resting place as there would not be one.

Section F Other optional information

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity.
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (e.g. Secretary, Chair, etc.) Date
	Paula Jackson	Erica Stewart
	Founder / Trustee / Chair	Trustee
	20thMay 2022 20thMay 2022
	20thMay 2022