## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/10/2021 To 30/09/2022**
**Charity name: International Center for Research on Women UK Charity registration number: 1190328**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 Anchored in the principle of human
purposes of the The report provides information dignity, ICRW advances gender
charity as set out in intended to help the user equity, inclusion and shared
its governing understand how the charity’s prosperity. ICRW works with non-
document aims fulfil its legal purposes, the profit, government and private sector
activities it undertakes and what partners to conduct research,
it has achieved. All charities develop and guide strategy and build
must provide a summary of: capacity to promote evidence-based
• the purposes of the charity as policies, programs and practices. We
set out in its governing are thought leaders driven by a
document; and passion to alleviate poverty and
• the main activities undertaken rectify injustice in the world.
in relation to those purposes.
Summary of the Para 1.17 and 1.19 General: Provides
main activities in The report should explain the Advocacy/advice/information
relation to those activities, projects or services Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
purposes for the identified in the accompanying Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource
public benefit, in accounts. As far as practicable, Body
particular, the numerical information provided
activities, projects or in the report about the resources No activities have taken place
services identified in spent on particular activities during the reporting period .
the accounts. should be consistent with the
analysis provided in the
accounts.
Statement Para 1.18
confirming whether Charities in England and Wales No activities have taken place
the trustees have must also: during the reporting period
had regard to the • explain the main activities
guidance issued by undertaken to further the
the Charity charity’s purposes for the public
Commission on benefit; and
public benefit • include in their report a
statement confirming whether
the trustees have had regard to
the Charity Commission’s
guidance on public benefit.
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**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference
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Policy on grant Para 1.38 N/A
making The report must include an
explanation of the use the charity
makes of the following:
• 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 Para 1.38 N/A
investment including
program related
investment
Contribution made Para 1.38 N/A
by volunteers
Other N/A
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## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference
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Summary of the Para 1.20 N/A – No activities have taken
main achievements The report must contain a place in the reporting period.
of the charity, summary of the main
identifying the achievements of the charity. The
difference the report should identify the
charity’s work has difference the charity’s work has
made to the made to the circumstances of its
circumstances of its beneficiaries and, if practicable,
beneficiaries and any explain any wider benefits to
wider benefits to society as a whole.
society as a whole.
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Achievements Para 1.41 N/A
against objectives In particular, the report must
set review:
• the significant charitable
activities undertaken;
• 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 and future periods.
Performance of Para 1.41 N/A
fundraising activities
against objectives
set
Investment Para 1.41 N/A
performance against
objectives
Other N/A
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the Para 1.21 N/A – No financial activity
charity’s financial The report must contain a review of the has taken place during the
position at the end of charity’s financial position at the end of reporting period
the period the
reporting period.
Statement explaining Para 1.22 N/A – No reserves for the
the policy for holding The charity must explain any policy it reporting period
reserves stating why has for holding reserves and state the
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they are held 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.
Amount of reserves Para 1.22 $0
held
Reasons for holding Para 1.22 No activity during the
zero reserves reporting period
Details of fund Para 1.24 N/A
materially in deficit 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.
Explanation of any Para 1.23 N/A
uncertainties about If, at the date of approving the report
the charity and accounts, there are uncertainties
continuing as a going about the
concern charity’s ability to continue as a going
concern, the nature of these
uncertainties should be explained.
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
The charity’s principal Para 1.47 N/A
sources of funds The financial review should also explain:
(including any • the principal funding sources of the
fundraising) 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 Para 1.46 N/A
objectives including The report must also comment on the
any social investment significant events that have affected the
policy adopted 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
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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.
A description of the Para 1.46 N/A
principal risks facing
the charity
Other N/A
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of
charity’s trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution
document The report must provide details of: Of International Center for
(trust deed, royal • the nature of the governing document Research on Women UK
charter) (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
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 Para 1.25 CIO
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Eligibility for trusteeship
methods including No one may be appointed as a
details of any Trustee if he or she is under
constitutional the age of 18 years.
provisions e.g. Number of Trustees
election to post or There must be at least three
name of any person Trustees. If the number falls
or body entitled to below this minimum, the
appoint one or more remaining Trustee or Trustees
trustees may act only to call a meeting
of the Trustees, or appoint a
new Trustee. The maximum
number of Trustees is up to
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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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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and Para 1.51 N/A
procedures adopted The report must provide the user with an
for the induction and understanding of how the charity is
training of trustees 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;
• 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
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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 Para 1.51 N/A
organisational
structure and any
wider network with
which the charity
works
Relationship with any Para 1.51 N/A
related parties
Other N/A
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name International Center for Research on Women UK
Other name the charity uses ICRW UK
Registered charity number 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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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Vimi Grewal-Carr Chair
2 Naila Kabeer
3 Guy Oliver
Baroness Mary
4
Goudie
Marijke Jurgens-
5
Dupree
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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**
## **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 N/A 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)**
**Full name(s)** Vimi Grewal-Carr
**Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 6[th] June 2023
## **Charity Commission**
## Charity Commission Annual Return 2022
## **INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN UK**
Charity registration number: 1190328
**Most of the information you give in this form will become publicly available on the Register of Charities. Any field that the Charity Commission will not display will be clearly marked. This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2022.**
## **Financial period**
## **Financial period start date**
01/10/2021
## **Financial period end date**
30/09/2022
## **Income and spending**
## **Income £**
£0
## **Spending £**
£0
## **Fundraising - professional fundraiser**
**Did your charity raise funds from the public?**
No
## **Government contracts**
**During the financial period for this annual return, d, id the charity receive income from contracts (other than grant agreements) with central government or local authorities?** No
## **Government grants**
**During the financial period for this annual return, did the charity receive income from grants from central government or local authorities?**
No
## **Income from outside the UK**
**Did your charity receive income from outside the UK ?**
No
## **Spending outside England & Wales**
**Did your charity operate outside England and Wales?**
No
## **Trading subsidiaries**
**Did the charity have any subsidiaries?**
No
## **Trustee payments**
**Did any of the trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity other than refunds of legitimate trustee expenses?**
No
## **Did any of the trustees resign and then take up employment with the charity?**
No
## **Employees' salaries**
**Did any of your charity's staff receive total employee benefits of £60,000 or more? Select No if your charity does not have any staff , or does not pay any staff.**
No
**For your highest paid member of staff only, what was the total value of their employee benefits?**
**(For example if your highest paid member of staff received £35,000 enter 35000). If you do not have any staff or did not pay any staff, enter 0 (zero)**
£0
## **Volunteers**
## **How many UK volunteers, excluding trustees, did the charity have during the financial period?**
0
## **Financial controls**
## **Did your charity review its internal financial controls?**
No
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**Declaration**
|**Your role at the charity (select one):**|**Your role at the charity (select one):**|
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|⊠Other||
|**Given names**|Louise|
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|**Family name**|Erskine|
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|**Telephone**|2022907975|
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|**Email**|lerskine@icrw.org|
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|**Date submitted**|20/04/2023|
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