## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 April 2024 (Period start date). To 31 March 2025 (Period end date)**
## **Charity name: BSignificant**
## **Charity registration number: 1191809**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To promote the efficiency and**
**effectiveness of charities, in**
**particular but not exclusively by**
**supporting the efficiency and**
**effectiveness of the administration**
**or infrastructure of charities.**
**The promotion of the voluntary**
**sector, in particular but not**
**exclusively by improving the**
**services of voluntary organisations**
**in terms of efficiency, effectiveness**
**and quality.**|
|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 include providing**
**leadership support and strategic**
**consultancy to charities and community**
**organisations in the UK.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**In preparing these accounts the**
**trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission regarding public benefit.**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
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|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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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|**Unfortunately the Charity has not been**
**able to gain the traction that the**
**Trustee’s initially envisaged to**
**effectively discharge the objects set out**
**in the constitution and a decision was**
**taken in June 2023 to wind up the**
**activities of the Charity**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**N/A**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|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|**No activity was carried out during the**
**period**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**To be determined by Trustees**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1,500**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The charity has struggled to obtain**
**program participants prepared to pay**
**for the training and is considering it’s**
**future**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47||
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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|**BSignificant was set up under a**
**constitution dated 13th August 2020**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**BSignificant is a Charitable**
**Incorporated Organisation (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|**1. There must be a minimum of three**
**trustees and a maximum of 9 trustees.**
**2. Apart from the first charity trustees,**
**every appointed trustee must be**
**appointed for a term of three years by**
**a resolution passed at a properly**
**convened meeting of the charity**
**trustees.**
**3. In selecting individuals for**
**appointment as appointed charity**
**trustees, the charity trustees must**
**have regard to the skills, knowledge**
**and experience needed for the**
**effective administration of the CIO**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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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||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|BSignificant|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1191809|
|Charity’s principal address|9 BADGER CLOSE
SUNDERLAND
SR3 2XF|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Graham Sleep|Chair|||
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||Steve Charlton||Resigned 22 September
2025||
||Stephen Jackson||Resigned 22 September
2025||
||Andrew Briggs|Treasurer|||
||Louise Wilson||Resigned 22 September
2025||
||Jeff Breen||Resigned 22 September
2025||
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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 None
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the N/A assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and N/A 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
**No staff employed by the charity.**
## **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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
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||Andrew Briggs||
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||Treasurer||
||26 Jan 2026||
||26 Jan 2026||