Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
From 22 July 2020 To 31 March 2021
Charity name: International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease | DOHaD
Charity registration number: 11190519
Objectives and Activities
| SORP reference | ||
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| Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document |
Para 1.17 | To preserve and protect health and relieve sickness in particular but not exclusively |
| 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 |
1. Promoting the coordination of a research strategy in different countries for the scientific exploration of early development in relation to chronic disease in later life 2. Promoting the development and application of public health strategies to prevent chronic disease 3. Supporting activities and professional development to achieve these objectives. |
| Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit |
Para 1.18 | Trustees have all had regard to the guidance issued by the Commission on public benefit |
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 Para 1.38 including program related investment Contribution made by Para 1.38 volunteers Other
Achievements and Performance
| SORP reference | ||
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| 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 | This year has presented an unheralded challenge for the DOHaD Society. Our membership has been deeply affected by the COVID pandemic. The Global pandemic has made a significant impact on the frequency of workshops, and most in-person meetings have been either cancelled or have gone virtual. Despite these hurdles the Society has engaged in a number of activities to meet its objectives: 1. Worldwide webinars –the Society launched online fully accessible webinars.Beginning in April 2021, on the first Wednesday of each month the Society partnered with a different regional DOHaD society for each seminar to showcase the work of a rising star in that geography. The webinar features a 30-minute presentation, followed by a Q&A and panel discussion. The webinars are free to attend and support our educational objectives. 2. The Society’s Brain Mobility Awards (BMA) were established to facilitate training opportunities, and the interchange of ideas and expertise for emerging and early career Members. This year 2 additional BMA were awarded to early researchers in Chile and in Canada. Supporting our junior researchers supports our objective to facilitate research in DOHAD around the world. 3. The Society’s largest activity, the 2022 World Congress will be held in Vancouver, Canada, August 2022 and has actively been planned in 2021. The World Congress science program began in October 2021 with a Satellite Meeting on Domestic Animal DOHaD & Epigenetics held virtually and organized by Dr Marc-Andre Sirard (Laval University, Quebec, Canada). It featured innovative research from all over the world; this meeting had registrants from more than ten countries 4. The Society continues to support research through its Journal (JDOHaD) that saw continued activity with increased impact factor rating and an increase in manuscripts submitted. 5. Our regional Societies have spent the year advocating and promoting life course-based health strategies around the world through public engagement, research, and education. |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising Para 1.41 activities against objectives set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives
Other
Financial Review
| Financial Review | ||
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| Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period |
Para 1.21 | The Society’s financial position is documented using receipts and payments accounts, which are independently audited and have been approved by the Society’s governing Council. Cash funds for the 2020-2021 year end was £73,406. |
| Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held |
Para 1.22 | The Society’s has a reserves policy that has been approved by the Society’s governing Council. This policy is based on the Society’s known and potential liabilities. |
| Amount of reserves held | Para 1.22 | Currently set at £45,000 |
| Reasons for holding zero reserves |
Para 1.22 | Not applicable |
| Details of fund materially in deficit |
Para 1.24 | Not applicable |
| Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern |
Para 1.23 | There are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern. |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
The charity’s principal Para 1.47 sources of funds (including any fundraising) Investment policy and Para 1.46 objectives including any social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other
Structure, Governance and Management
| Description of charity’s trusts: |
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| Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter) |
Para 1.25 |
Constitution |
| How is the charity constituted? (e.g., unincorporated association, CIO) |
Para 1.25 | Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Association’ Model) |
| 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 | 1. Elections are held bi-annually, to elect one-third of the charity trustees, thus replacing each charity trustee every six years. If the number of charity trustees is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest to one-third shall |
retire from office but if there is only one charity trustee, he or she shall retire. 2. The charity trustees to retire by rotation shall be those who have been longest in office since their last appointment or reappointment. If any trustees were last appointed or reappointed on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot. 3. Elections are held by an electronic mail process completed not later than the end of June in the relevant year. Charity trustees shall hold office from the conclusion of the next scientific meeting after the election. Serving charity trustees may be re-elected. If any charity trustee should retire mid-term, interim elections may be held. 4. The date of any election shall be notified by the Secretary in a call for nominations. The call for nominations shall precede the ballot by at least 28 days and ballot papers shall be circulated 14 days in advance if posts are contested. The names of those elected shall be circulated to members or announced at the AGM. 5. The charity trustees may in addition appoint not more than 2 co-opted charity trustees but so that no-one may be appointed as a co-opted member if, as a result, more than one third of the charity trustees would be co-opted. Each appointment of a co-opted member shall be made at a special meeting of the charity trustees called under clause 19(c) and shall take effect from the end of that meeting unless the appointment is to fill a place which has not been vacated in which case the appointment shall run from the date when the post becomes vacant. 6. The members of the CIO or the charity trustees may at any time decide to appoint a new charity trustee, whether in place of a charity trustee who has retired or been removed in accordance with clause 15 (Retirement and removal of charity trustees), or as an additional charity trustee, provided that the limit specified in clause 12(3) on the number of charity trustees would not as a result be exceeded. 7. A person so appointed by the members of the CIO shall retire in accordance with the provisions of sub-clauses (2) and (3) of this clause. A person so appointed by the charity trustees shall retire at the conclusion of the next
annual general meeting after the date of his or her appointment, and shall not be counted for the purpose of determining which of the charity trustees is to retire by rotation at that meeting.
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees The charity’s organisational Para 1.51 structure and any wider network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other
Reference and Administrative details
| Charity name | As Above |
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| Other name the charity uses | N/A |
| Registered charity number | As Above |
| Charity’s principal address | MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre University of Southampton Southampton General Hospital Southampton SO16 6YD |
| Charity’s postal address | DOHaD Society KCL Dept Women and Children’s Health 10th Floor North Wing St Thomas’ Hospital Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7EH |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Professor Lucilla Poston | President | |||
| Professor Deborah Sloboda | Secretary | |||
| Professor Keith Godfrey | Treasurer | |||
| Professor Caroline Fall | Trustee | |||
| Professor Mark Hanson | Trustee | |||
| Professor Shane Norris | Trustee | |||
| Charlotte Fitzgerald | Trustee |
Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved N/A Director name
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity N/A
Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year
Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the assets No assets are held by the Society in this capacity 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 adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) Professor Lucilla Poston (President) | Professor Deborah Sloboda (Secretary)
Exemptions from disclosure
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
N/A
Other optional information
Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
| Signed on behalf of the | charity’s trustees | |
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| Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (e.g., Secretary, Chair, etc) Date |
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| Professor Deborah Sloboda | Professor Keith Godfrey | |
Secretary |
Treasurer | |
| THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR | THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR | ||
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| DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND | 1116722 | ||
| **DISEASE | DOHAD Receipts and payments accounts** |
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| 01/04/2020 For the period from |
To | 31/03/2021 |
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Membershipsubscriptions(full,student & affiliate) | 13,992 | - | - | 13,992 | 18,414 | ||||
| Returned OHSU workshop payment | - | - | 717 | ||||||
| DOHaD Journal income | - | - | 15,554 | ||||||
| Account bankingadjustment | 53 | ||||||||
| Sponsorships for DOHaD 2019 travel awards | 1,500 | ||||||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 13,992 | - | - | 13,992 | 36,238 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). | |||||||||
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| Sub total | - | - | |||||||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 36,238 | |||||||||
Administration including teleconference charges, promotional materials & secretariat support |
6,305 | - | - | 6,305 | 15,433 | ||||
| Web &journalpromotion of Societyobjectives | 8,543 | - | - | 8,543 | 669 | ||||
| DOHaD Canada Membership processing | 4,057 | 4,057 | |||||||
| Legal advice for transition from charityto CIO | 3,040 | - | - | 3,040 | |||||
| Brain mobility award | 3,129 | - | - | 3,129 | |||||
| World Congress early career researcher awards | - | - | - | 15,832 | |||||
| Workshop support (Japan) | - | - | - | 845 | |||||
| Workshop support (EuropeanSummerSchool) | - | - | - | 765 | |||||
| Workshop support (Canada) | - | - | - | 773 | |||||
| Workshop support (Trainees atDOHaD 2019) | - | - | - | 1,483 | |||||
| Sub total | 25,074 | - | - | 25,074 | 35,800 |
| Sub total | 25,074 | - | - | 25,074 | 35,800 | |||||||
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| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see | ||||||||||||
| table) | ||||||||||||
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| **Sub total ** | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Total payments | 25,074 | - | - | 25,074 | 35,800 | |||||||
| Net of receipts/(payments) | - | 11,081 | - | - | - | 11,081 | 438 | |||||
| A5 Transfers between funds | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| A6 Cash funds last year end | 84,487 | - | - | 84,487 | 84,049 | |||||||
| Cash funds this year end | 73,406 | - | - | 73,406 | 84,487 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end | of the period | |
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| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds |
Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) DOHaD Society general funds Details Details Details Signature |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 73,406 - - - - - 73,406 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Professor Keith Godfrey Professor Deborah Sloboda |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Date of approval |
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| Professor Keith Godfrey | 22/01/2022 | ||
| Professor Deborah Sloboda | 22/01/2022 |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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