## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period** **From: 1 January 2022** **To: 31 December 2022** **Charity name: GROW EDO SUPPORT GROUP CIO** **Charity registration number:1190758** ## **Company number: N/A** ## **Objectives and activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Grow Edo Support Group is a small grant
making charity helping, with modest sums,
to fund charities in Nigeria to establish their
own projects to combat human trafficking in
endemic trafficking areas by way of
awareness raising, training, jobs and small
business start-ups.
The Charity originally operated as part of
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Southwark but then it was established as a
separate charity and the funds held by the
Archdiocese were transferred to the charity| |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|Trustees have had discussions with the
Congregation of The Sisters of the Sacred
Heart of Jesus concerning work to raise
awareness of human trafficking across Edo
State and certain projects and the
Archdiocese of Benin City and the Diocese
of Auchi concerning training/ jobs projects| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees have had regard to public benefit
guidance**.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|The policy is to make modest donations to
Catholic dioceses and religious
congregations in Nigeria typically by way of
one-off grants towards them establishing
their own locally owned and managed
projects for training and employment to
combat human trafficking.| |Policy on social investment
including program related|Para 1.38|| investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and performance** The charity made a donation of £14,300 to facilitate the construction of a chicken factory. Summary of the main Para 1.20 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. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Para 1.41 Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41 Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 Investment performance against objectives Other ## **Financial review** |**Financial review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|In the opinion of the Trustees the financial
position of the Charity at the end of the
period is satisfactory| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity holds reserves in order to
support projects in Nigeria| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£21,308| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Having considered future budgets and cash
flows, the Trustees confirm that they have no
material uncertainties about the entity’s
ability to continue as a going concern for the
foreseeable future| ## **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|
Principal sources of funds are small donors
known to Trustees and, when possible,
collections in Catholic parishes in the
Southwark Diocese following presentations
to interested parishioners.| |---|---|---| |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:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25|Constitution dated 6 August 2020| |How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
unincorporated association,
CIO|Para 1.25|The charity is constituted as Charitable
Incorporated Organisation| |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|The Board of Trustees select new trustees.
New trustees are recruited based on the
requirements of the charity for particular
expertise| |||| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Para 1.51 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 Other ## **Reference and administrative details** |Charity name|GROW EDO SUPPORT GROUP| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1190758| |Charity’s principal address|BOWEN HOUSE
59 WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD
LONDON
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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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Rt Rev Patrick
Lynch|Chairman||| ||Rev Canon Edward
Perera|||| ||Rev Fr Mark
Odion, MSP|||| ||Dr David Ryall|||| ||Dr Richard Byrne|||| ||Eamonn Doran|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** ## **None** ## Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |**None**|| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|N/a| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/a| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|N/a| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)** |**Names and**|**addresses of advisers (optional information)**|**addresses of advisers (optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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 company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors** **Signature(s)** Rt Rev Patrick Lynch **Full name(s)** Rt Rev Patrick Lynch **Position (for example** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** 13 September 2023 |**GROW EDO SUPPORT GROUP**|**1190758**| |---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|| **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1 JANUARY 2022 31 DECEMBER 2022 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
DONATIONS
**3,200**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,300**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 3,300**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
TRANSFER FROM ROMAN CATHOLIC
ARCHDIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,300**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,300**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,300**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**3,300**|**4,235**| ||||**-**|**28,093**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**3,300**|**32,328**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**||| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**|**3,300**|**32,328**| |**A3 Payments**
**14,300**
BANK CHARGES
**16**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 14,316**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 14,316**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 11,016**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**32,324**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 21,308**
DONATION TOWARDS CONSTRUCTION
OF CHICKEN FACTORY
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**14,300**
**16**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,316**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,316**
**- 11,016**
**-**
**32,324**
**21,308**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**14,300**|**-**| ||||**16**|**4**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**14,316**|**4**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**14,316**|**4**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 11,016**|**32,324**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**32,324**|**-**| ||**-**||**21,308**|**32,324**| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**
BANK ACCOUNT
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**21,308**
**-**
**-**
**21,308**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||RT REV PATRICK LYNCH|13 SEPT 2023| |||||