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## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 9 July 2020 Period start date To 30 Sept 2021 Period end date**
**Charity name: International Center for Research on Women UK**
**Charity registration number: 1190328**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the
purposes of the charity
as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17
The report provides information
intended to help the user understand
how the charity’s aims fulfil its legal
purposes, the activities it undertakes
and what it has achieved. All charities
must provide a summary of:
• the purposes of the charity as set
out in its governing document; and
• the main activities undertaken in
relation to those purposes.|Anchored in the principle of human dignity,
ICRW advances gender equity, inclusion
and shared prosperity. ICRW works with
non-profit, government and private sector
partners to conduct research, develop and
guide strategy and build capacity to
promote evidence-based policies,
programs and practices. We are thought
leaders driven by a passion to alleviate
poverty and rectify injustice in the world.|
|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
The report should explain the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accompanying
accounts. As far as practicable,
numerical information provided in the
report about the resources spent on
particular activities should be
consistent with the analysis provided
in the accounts.|General: Provides
Advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
**No activities have taken place during**
**the reporting period**.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para 1.18
Charities in England and Wales must
also:
• explain the main activities
undertaken to further the charity’s
purposes for the public
benefit; and
• include in their report a statement
confirming whether the trustees have
had regard to the Charity
Commission’s guidance on public
benefit.|**Trustees reviewed PB1 – PB3 prior to**
**the first Trustee meeting on 29 Sept**
**2020 and again prior to the meeting on**
**24 Mar 2022**
**No activities have taken place during**
**the reporting period**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||
||SORP reference||
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38
The report must include an
explanation of the use the charity
makes of the following:|**N/A**|
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||• Social investment, when this forms a
material part of its charitable and
investment activities. In particular, the
report must provide an explanation of
its social investment policies and
explain how any programme related
investments contributed to the
achievement of its aims and
objectives.
• Grant-making, when this forms a
material part of its charitable activities.
In particular, the report must explain
the charity’s grant-making policy and
explain how its grant making
activities contribute to the
achievement of its aims and
objectives.
• Volunteers, when their contribution
is significant to a charity’s ability to
undertake a particular activity. The
explanation should help the user to
understand the scale and nature of
the activities undertaken. However,
measurement issues, including
attributing an economic value to the
contribution of general volunteers,
prevent the inclusion of their
contribution in the statement of
financial activities (see the SORP
module ‘Donated goods, facilities and
services, including volunteers’).||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A **|
## **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
The report must contain a summary of
the main achievements of the charity.
The report should identify the
difference the charity’s work has
made to the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and, if practicable,
explain any wider benefits to society
as a whole.|**N/A – No activities have taken place in**
**the reporting period.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41
In particular, the report must review:
• the significant charitable activities
undertaken;|**N/A**|
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||• the achievements against objectives
set;
• the performance of material
fundraising activities against the
fundraising objectives
set;
• investment performance against the
investment objectives set where
material financial investments are
held; and
• if material expenditure was incurred
to raise income in the future, the
report must explain the effect this
expenditure has had, and is intended
to have, on the net return from
fundraising activities for both the
reporting period andfuture periods.||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of
fundraising activities
against objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A **|
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21
The report must contain a review of the
charity’s financial position at the end of the
reporting period.|**N/A – No financial activity has**
**taken place during the reporting**
**period**|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining
the policy for holding
reserves stating why
they are held|Para 1.22
The charity must explain any policy it has for
holding reserves and state the amounts of
those reserves and why they are held. If the
trustees have decided that holding reserves is
unnecessary, the report must disclose this fact
and provide the reasons behind this decision.|**N/A – No reserves for the**
**reporting period**|
|Amount of reservesheld|Para1.22|**$0**|
|Reasons for holding
zero reserves|Para 1.22|**No activity during the reporting**
**period**|
|Details of fund
materially in deficit|Para 1.24
The report must also identify any fund or
subsidiary undertaking that is materially in
deficit, explaining the circumstances giving
rise to the deficit and the steps being taken to
eliminate the deficit.|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23
If, at the date of approving the report and
accounts, there are uncertainties about the
charity’s ability to continue as a going concern,
the nature of these uncertainties should be
explained.|**N/A**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds|Para 1.47
The financial review should also explain:|**N/A**|
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|(including any
fundraising)|• the principal funding sources of the charity in
the reporting period and how these resources
support the key objectives of the charity;
• the impact, if any, of a material pension
liability arising from obligations to a defined
benefit pension scheme or pension asset on
the financial position of the charity; and
• where the charity holds material financial
investments, the extent (if any) to which it takes
social, environmental or ethical considerations
into account in its
investment policy.||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46
The report must also comment on the
significant events that have affected the
financial
performance and financial position of the
charity during the reporting period. In particular
the report must explain:
• the financial effect of significant events;
• where the charity holds material financial
investments, the investment policy and
objectives set;
• a description of the principal risks and
uncertainties facing the charity and its
subsidiary undertakings, as identified by the
charity trustees, together with a summary of
their plans and strategies for managing those
risks; and
• any factors that are likely to affect the
financial performance or position going forward.|**N/A**|
|A description of the
principal risks facing the
charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A **|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing
document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25
The report must provide details of:
• the nature of the governing document (e.g.
trust deed, memorandum and articles of
association, Charity Commission scheme,
Royal Charter, etc.);
• how the charity is (or its trustees are)
constituted (e.g. limited company,
unincorporated association, trustees
incorporated as a body, charitable
incorporated
organisation, community benefit society,
industrial and provident or friendly society
etc.); and
• the methods used to recruit and appoint new
charity trustees, including details of any
constitutional provisions for appointment, for
example election to post. Where any|Constitution
Of International Center for
Research on Women UK|
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||other person or external body is entitled to
appoint one or more of the charity trustees,
the report should explain this and give the
name of that person or body.||
|---|---|---|
|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|**Eligibility for trusteeship**
No one may be appointed as a
Trustee if he or she is under the
age of 18 years.
**Number of Trustees**
There must be at least three
Trustees. If the number falls below
this minimum, the remaining
Trustee or Trustees may act only
to call a meeting of the Trustees,
or appoint a new Trustee. The
maximum number of Trustees is
up to nine. The Trustees may not
appoint any Trustee if as a result
the number of Trustees would
exceed the maximum.
**Appointment and retirement of**
**Trustees**
Any person who is willing to act as
a Trustee, and who would not be
disqualified from acting under the
provisions of clause 11, may be
appointed to be a Trustee by a
decision of the Member(s).
**Information for new Trustees**
The Trustees will make available
to each new Trustee, on or before
his or her first appointment:
a copy of this constitution (as
subsequently amended); and
a copy of the Charity’s latest
Trustees’ Annual Report and
statement of accounts|
|**Additional information (optional)**
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51
The report must provide the user with an
understanding of how the charity is
constituted, its
governance and management structures, and
how its trustees are trained. In particular, the
report must explain:
• the charity’s organisational structure and,
where relevant, those of its subsidiary
undertakings;
• how the charity makes decisions, for
example which types of decisions are taken by
the
charity’s trustees and which are delegated to
staff;|**N/A**|
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||• the policies and procedures for the induction
and training of trustees;
• the arrangements for setting the pay and
remuneration of the charity’s key
management personnel and any benchmarks,
parameters or criteria used in setting
their pay;
• if the charity is part of a wider network (for
example if it is affiliated with an umbrella
group), how, if at all, this impacts on the
operating policies adopted by the charity; and
• relationships between the charity and related
parties, including its subsidiary
undertakings, and with any other charities and
organisations with which it co-operates
in the pursuit of its charitable objectives||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s
organisational structure
and any wider network
with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|**N/A**|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A **|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|International Center for Research on Women UK|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|ICRW UK|
|Registered charitynumber|1190328|
|Charity’s principal address|BATES WELLS
RIVERSCAPE
10 QUEEN STREET PLACE
LONDON
EC4R 1BE|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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2
3
4
5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Vimi Grewal-Carr|Chair|||
||Naila Kabeer||||
||GuyOliver||29 Sept 2020||
||Baroness MaryGoudie||29 Sept 2020||
||Marijke Jurgens-
Dupree||29 Sept 2020||
– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name N/A**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **||
|---|---|---|
|**N/A **|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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) Full name(s)** Vimi Grewal-Carr **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 6/4/2022
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