## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 07/06/2022 to 07/06/2023**
**Charity name: Mindful Communities Foundation C.I.O**
**Charity registration number: 1190769**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the
purposes of the
charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The objects of the charity are f**or the public
benefit, to advance the education of the
general public and in particular but not
exclusively young people by promoting and
encouraging the teaching, study, practice
and research of mindfulness, primarily but
not exclusively in criminal justice settings.|
|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|Main activities undertaken in relation to
these purposes, and to further the charity’s
purposes this year:
We reached out to potential funders and made
applications for grants to continue our prisons focus
on mental well-being and mental health support. All
our funding applications were unsuccessful.
We have redeveloped our fundraising plan for 2024
-25 and began networking with new prison sites we
plan to support next year.
Towards the end of this period from may 2023 we
placed a volunteer from the charity with a UK social
Enterprise, Working With The Mind C.I.C, and they
have paid the charity £2,000.00 to support them to
record and create mindful videos for a community
project they ran this year supporting local
community groups.
We have begun creating an initial network with
prisons in Wales with the plan of Supporting them
next year, subject to funding. The difference
mindfulness in prisons can make is well
documented, and continuing from the results of our
previous project in this area we aim to reduce
indicators of stress, anxiety and depression in
vulnerable populations.
This year our activities have supported Working
With The Mind C.I.C with a small part of their
mindful community project, and the difference this|
made was that mindful well-being support was available to various groups who couldn't access this usually. The project targeted vulnerable groups across the Peterborough area, and our support ensured that video and online support was available to groups who couldn’t participate in person. This project is ongoing – but WWTM C.I.C has committed to providing us a copy of the project report in April 2024 to highlight the results and how our support helped achieve these results. Statement confirming Para 1.18 The trustees have had regard to the Charity whether the trustees Commission’s guidance on public benefit. have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit
## **Additional information (optional)**
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||SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|
**Funding application support**
**Working with a UK Social**
**Enterprise we supported to deliver**
**part of their community project**
**this year**|
|Other|||
## **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|We will report on more detail on the results
of the community project we supported this
year, once the social enterprise running this
project at the time of this report have
completed and reported on this work. This is
likely to be in our annual report for next
year, once the results of the project are
collated.||
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the
charity’s financial
position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|At the beginning of this period we had £51.87 in
the charity’s reserves, were paid £2000 towards
the end of this period to cover the costs of
video/recording equipment to support a mindful
community project to create some mindful
videos.
We spent £1968.47 on recording
camera/equipment leaving £83.40 in reserves at
the end of this period|
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|Statement
explaining the
policy for holding
reserves stating
why they are held|Para 1.22||
|Amount of
reserves held|Para 1.22|**£83.40**|
|Reasons for
holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund
materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of
any uncertainties
about the charity
continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23|**Unsuccessful in all our grant applications and fundraising**
**activities this year**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**This year was from £51.87 remaining from**
**last period, and a payment of £2000 from**
**a UK social enterprise for supporting**
**their community project**|
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|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:|||
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|Type of governing
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)|Para 1.25|Our governing document is a ‘Foundation’
model constitution, or Constitution of a
Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose
only voting members are its charity trustees.|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|We are constituted as a 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|Founding 4 Trustees are our only Trustees
to date.
No other person or external body is entitled
to appoint charity trustees, and the power to
appoint additional Trustees resides with the
majority vote of the current board of
Trustees.|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Mindful Communities Foundation C.I.O|
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|Registered charity number|1190769|
> Charity’s principal address 73 The Whaddons, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 1NN
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|MW|MW|
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||Matthew Ward|Mark Wylie|
||Michael Newton|Rachel Taylor|
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