## **Voodoo Park Trust**
Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Reference and administrative details**
Charity name: Voodoo Park Trust Charity registration number: 1192168 Principal office address: 3 Hanbury Drive, London, E11 1GA Legal form: Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Governing document: Constitution (adopted 5[th] November 2020)
Trustees (on date of approval): David Glennie; John Woodnott-Miller; Laura Marston; Rene Nohari (appointed 19 September 2024).
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is governed by its Constitution. Trustees meet as required to manage the affairs of the charity. No external person or body has the right to appoint trustees. The only material change during the year was the appointment of Rene Nohari on 19 September 2024.
## **Objectives and activities**
The charity’s object is the relief of need of women who are socially or economically disadvantaged by the provision of grants and funding to increase and improve participation in education, training and business entrepreneurship. The charity operates as a grant-making organisation, making unrestricted grants to UK and overseas charities aligned to its objects.
## **Public benefit**
In planning and delivering its activities, the trustees have had due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
## **Safeguarding**
The charity does not directly deliver services to beneficiaries. Safeguarding risk is managed through due diligence on recipient charities, including consideration of their safeguarding policies and controls where relevant.
## **Achievements and performance**
During the year the charity made unrestricted grants totalling £6,500 to UK organisations and £36,996 to overseas organisations.
## **Financial review**
Total income for the year was £55,419.68 and total expenditure was £43,556.00, resulting in a surplus of £11,863.68. Unrestricted funds at the year end were £11,983.70, held as cash at bank.
## **Reserves policy**
The trustees had not adopted a formal reserves policy by 31[st] March 2025, but did do so on 20[th] November 2025.
The Trustees have agreed to maintain a minimum reserve of £20,000. This level has been set to:
- Future-proof the charity’s ability to support its charitable partners and deliver grants consistently, including in periods when donations may fall or are delayed
- Allow the Trustees to commit to future planned charitable projects with confidence, knowing funds are already secured
- Protect against volatility in income, ensuring that charitable objectives can still be delivered in a sustained and reliable way
The Trustees consider £20,000 to be a proportionate and reasonable level of reserves for a charity of this nature and purpose..
## **Plans for future periods**
The trustees intend to continue the charity’s grant-making activities in line with its objects.
## **Trustees’ responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf:
John Miller Trustee Date: 30[th] January 2026
**Charity Name No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 4/1/2024 3/31/2025
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**55,405**
Bank interest
**15**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**55,420**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 55,420**
**A3 Payments**
Bank Fees
**60**
Charitable and Politcal Donatons
**43,496**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 43,556**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 43,556**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 11,864**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 11,864**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**55,405**
**15**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**55,420**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**55,420**
**60**
**43,496**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,556**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,556**
**11,864**
**-**
**-**
**11,864**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**55,405**|**-**|
||||**15**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**55,420**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**55,420**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**60**|**-**|
||||**43,496**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**43,556**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**43,556**|**-**|
||||||
||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**11,864**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**11,864**|**-**|
## **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**
Current Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**11,984**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,984**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
John Miller
##
Trustee
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||John Miller
#|1/29/2026|
|||Trustee||
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
> **Report to the trustees/** Voodoo Park Trust **members of On accounts for the year** 31 March 2025 **Charity no** 1192168 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2025.
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Date:** 29 January 2026
**Signed: Name:** INDRANIL SINHA
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
**Relevant professional** Appointed as independent examiner based on relevant accounting and **qualification(s) or body** financial reporting experience. **(if any):**
**Address:** 4th Floor, Silverstream House, 45 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 6EB
2
**October 2018**
**IER**