## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 June 2021 To 31 May 2022**
**Charity name: Emmett’s Genies CIO**
## **Charity registration number: 1192340**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To relieve the needs of children and families
affected by potentially life-limiting or terminal
conditions through the provision of bespoke
and innovative services, activities,
accommodation and unique experiences|
|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|This year we have raised funding to provide
services and experiences to our
beneficiaries and their families/carers and
involved our charity supporters drawn from
the general public in our activities, including
providing items for boredom-busting packs.
These packs are age appropriate and
include books, stationery, doodle pads, and
crocheted worry worms.
For Emmett’s Genies official launch (delayed
due to Covid restrictions) we hired the
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. This event
was open to the general public and provided
plenty of inside and outside space for
children’s entertainment, craft stalls and
refreshments. Beneficiaries were given free
admission to the launch party and offered
complimentary footplate rides on the centre’s
steamtrain. This eventwas ahuge success.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Yes|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|We do not make financial grants to qualifying
beneficiaries.
Boredom Busting Packs are provided to
achieve an element of escapism and allow
our beneficiaries to participate in the design
and creation of our long-term goal of the
wish village.|
|||We provided unique experiences via free
entry to our events such as our launch party
and offering the beneficiaries the extra
exclusive experience of having a steam train
footplate ride. These allowed beneficiaries
and their families some quality time together
and to provide them with some relief and
time away from the medical environment.
These are some of the examples of how our
activities have helped us achieve our aims
and objective.
We use a specific criteria to ensure these
Boredom Busting Packs and experience
tickets are only given to eligible
beneficiaries. This includes children aged 3-
18 years of age and who have a diagnosis
that is life-limiting, life-threatening or
terminal. The Boredom Busting Packs are
delivered via our partnered NHS and other
specialist professionals to eligible children.|
|---|---|---|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|We did not make any specific social
investment. However, our services provide
immeasurable social value to beneficiaries,
volunteers and other stakeholders.|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|During the period, the Charity had no paid
staff and was managed by a Board of
independent founder trustees who
volunteered extensive time to fulfil our
charitable responsibilities and tasks.
We also created a sub-committee headed by
two trustees with a group of volunteers who
agreed to act as the event management
team for the launch party. Each took an area
of the event to organise, oversee and
partake in. This included entertainment,
refreshments, stalls, a raffle, etc. Trustees
were responsible for health and safety, as
well as event oversight.
A volunteer managed the children’s drawing
competition, which was judged at the launch
party.
During this period, sadly 1 of our 5 founder
trustees felt she had to resign due to her
work commitments and moving to the West
country. Since then we have actively
advertised for new trustees and volunteers.
Volunteer, ambassador and trustees guides
were written and circulated.
We also added 3 Ambassadors to our team
who also helped us with social media
including local radio and other awareness
activities.
We teamed up with Hertfordshire Children’s
community nursing team and
Buckinghamshire Community Paediatrics
oncology service.|
||Other||Technology is critical to the aims of the
Charity.
Alongside the benefits of leveraging digital
technologies – website and social media – to
increase the reach and profile of the Charity,
we see technology as a bridge from where
we are now, towards the Charity’s end goal
of a physical venue.
We envisage using technology to facilitate
the structure of a virtual village fulfilling our
stated aims of providing respite to children
with life-limiting or terminal conditions and
their families. This virtual village would be a
digital platform that would replicate being in
a physical space, providing respite through
experiences, activities and connectivity with
others.
We made some real progress in the
2021/2022 period. Some of our
achievements included:
Fully launched the Emmett’s Genies
website (www.emmettsgenie.co.uk)
Established our Facebook and
Instagram presence
`o`
Used effectively for events
publicity and fundraising
activities
A scoping study kicked off to
understand the challenges and
requirements for our mid-term goal of
a virtual wish village
`o`
A technical specification
document was created and
used to explore vendors or
collaborators that would be
willing to work on this.
Actively looking to recruit IT and
games developers into the Charity,
either into committee or trustee roles.|
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## **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|The purpose and activities of the Emmett’s
Genies charity were promoted via local
radio, social media and our website.
Our launch party allowed us to meet our
beneficiaries whom we had given tickets to,
and receive valuable feedback about our
future plans and services.
Some feedback from the families of sick
children was:
‘_Thank you a lovely afternoon, we all had a_
_wonderful time!’_
_‘So thank you so much for the tickets to the_
_launch party, such a shame xxxx became_
_unwell and could not take up the opportunity_
_of a footplate ride’_
N.B. We were able to organise a footplate
ride on another day when xxxx was feeling
well enough.
Feedback from families who received
boredom busting packs.
‘_The community nurses arrived at my_
_house this morning to take my 7 year old_
_son’s weekly bloods, before the nurse left_
_she handed my son a package with lots of_
_goodies to help keep him busy - he was_
_delighted and absolutely loves it THANK_
_YOU!!!’_
_‘xxxx my eldest son was diagnosed with_
_Leukaemia (ALL) on New Year’s Eve 2020,_
_he has under gone months of chemotherapy_
_treatment at Great Ormond Street hospital._
_xxxx is now in remission and on long term_
_maintenance treatment. After reading_
_Emmett's story it really resonated with me_
_and I’m so sorry you all had to go through_
_this. I feel inspired by your charity and_
_would love to help in any way possible. I_
_have just received the tickets for your launch_
_day this weekend and we are very much_
looking forward to it.’
Calibre Audio – relationship commenced
May 2022. Calibre Audio provide us with
flyers to put into our Boredom Busting Packs
that give those children, unable to read the
fictional novels we provide, with a way of
receiving free audiobooks instead.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Awareness raising and reach – We have
used local radio stations and online local
newspapers to raise awareness of Emmett’s
Genies, through interviews and media
releases. To promote the launch party we
put up posters in shops and on community
billboards. Wherever possible we direct
people to our website where more detailed
information can be found.
We established contact and worked with
local Community Paediatric teams to give
out our boredom-busting packs. Now that
they know about our aims and remit, they
contact us directly when they know of
children and their families, who we might be
about to help.
Benefits to wider society - We have regular
meetings with our volunteers and
ambassadors to ensure that they know
about our events and can support these with
their time and talent. They in turn spread this
news to other members of the local
community. Volunteers are offered the
opportunity to gain or extend skills e.g., in
event management or promotion. Volunteers
have made new friends and given their time
to support a worthy local cause.|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|When the Charity received its registered CIO
status, we set an initial challenging aim of
raising £25,000 over the first three years to
meet our envisaged outlays in providing
services, activities, experiences (including
through the use of technology) and related
accommodation. Despite Covid delays to our
fundraising, we feel that by the end of the
period of this Report that we are still on
track.|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not applicable. We place most of our
financial donations into an interest-bearing
bank account.|
|Other||The following provides an overview of the
variety of efforts undertaken to increase
public and beneficiary awareness and gather
donations to support our charitable activities:
-
Balloon race (to celebrate the first
year of charity)
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Nominations for the “Movement for
Good award
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Boxing event
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Facebook fundraising platform
-
Emmett raised money by litter picking
around his local area
-
Sunflowercompetition|
|-|Our Chair ran the Oxford half|
|---|---|
||marathon|
|-|Virtual Christmas tree|
|-|Author Julia Donaldson and illustrator|
||Axel Scheffler provided items for|
||prizes|
|-|Teamed up with Lynn Palmer|
||Architects Limited who agreed to|
||create 3D plans from winning ‘wish|
||village buildings’ drawing competition|
||entries|
|-|Easter egg hunt & raffle|
|-|Payroll giving week|
|-|Our Chair did a sponsored hair cut|
|-|Video of putting boredom busting|
||packs together shared on social|
||media|
|-|Launch Party at the Buckinghamshire|
||Steam Train Museum|
|-|Launched Buckinghamshire lottery|
||page|
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The Charity’s financial position continued to
improve during the period due primarily to an
almost equal contribution from individual
donations and event fundraising. Our
outgoings mainly related to cost of events in
which beneficiaries and their families
participated free of charge and commencing
our free of charge boredom busting packs.
Our reserves and liquidity are considered
healthy given that we have no staff or
premises costs.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Our accumulated cash funds which equate
to our reserves reached
£ 11,258 at 31/5/22 in readiness for more
significant outlays towards beneficiaries
including related technology based services.
We are also building up reserves to cover
the future planning and investment costs into
provision of both the virtual and physical
wish villages in the medium to longer term.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£9,111 of our total cash fund (reserves) were
held in an interest bearing bank account as
they are not expected to be used within 90
days.|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable|
|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|The Charity has moved out of its initial
(higher risk) start-up phase and is receiving
increased interest from potential
beneficiaries and supporters. Accordingly,
apart from the possible impact on
fundraising and costs from the uncertainties
of the UK economy, the Trustees do not
have material concerns in the short term
about the Charity continuing as a going
concern.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|During the period, event fundraising and
individual donations contributed almost
equally. The Charity has started to apply for
grants and is not considering any
borrowings.|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Given its size and the start-up nature of the
Charity, the Investment Policy is to place
funds in banks authorised by the PRA and
protected by the FSCS.|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|In the short term, the Charity is not facing
any significant financial risks. However, the
principal financial risk is the potential
magnitude of future costs in providing the
virtual and physical wish villages and other|
|||experiences for beneficiaries versus our
fundraising capabilities. There is also the
human risk that we will not have adequate
trustees, volunteers and other supporters to
enable us to deliver the envisaged services
and maintain the Charity.|
|---|---|---|
|Other||We have moved onto using XERO
bookkeeping and accounting software during
the period.|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
_(e.g. trust deed, royal_
_charter)_|Para 1.25|The Charity is primarily governed according
to its founding constitution and the Trustees
refer to Governance guidance issued by the
Charity Commission|
|How is the charity
constituted?
_(e.g unincorporated_
_association, CIO)_|Para 1.25|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|During the period no new trustees were
selected or appointed but we are seeking
further trustees. It is intended that the
Trustee selection method and process will
follow our Constitution and general guidance
issued by the Charity Commission.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|These are under preparation|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The Charity is organised and overseen by a
Board of Trustees. There are no paid
managers or staff. Volunteers are involved
via a sub-committee headed by two
Trustees, primarily focussed on events and
fundraising. Two Trustees are designated
and authorised concerning management of
the Charity’s bank accounts and payments.
The Charity is actively building a network of
‘partner’ organisations and individuals in
order to provide reach to its ultimate
beneficiaries and the wider public
community.|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|The Charity does not have any relationships
with any related parties. At the moment there
are no contracts with any other organisations
or suppliers, as all of these relationships are
being developed and agreed on a case by
case basis.|
|Other||Trustees all have DBS certificates and
signed up to the training programme for
NSPCC Charity trustees entitled ‘your duties
to Safeguard and protect’.
IOSH working safely at events training was
undertaken and a Health and Safety policy
and Inclement weather policy were
developed and agreed for the launch event.|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|Emmett’s Genies CIO|
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|Other name the charity uses|(None)|
|Registered charitynumber|1192340|
|Charity’s principal address|56 Isis Close, Aylesbury HP21 9LY|
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**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets Not applicable 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
## **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)**
None
## **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**|||
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||Amy Scullard|Graham Pettit|
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Chair|Trustee|
||25 March 2023||
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||**Emmett's Genies CIO**
**Charity Name**|**Emmett's Genies CIO**
**Charity Name**|**Emmett's Genies CIO**
**Charity Name**|**1192340**
**No (if any)**|**1192340**
**No (if any)**|**1192340**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|1/6/2021
Period start date|**To**||31/05/2022
Period end date|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,168**
**99**
**5,929**
**1**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,197**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,197**
**545**
**67**
**26**
**12**
**2,017**
**108**
**353**
**-**
**-**
**3,128**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,128**
**8,069**
**-**
**-**
**8,069**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,168**
**99**
**5,929**
**1**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,197**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,197**
**545**
**67**
**26**
**12**
**2,017**
**108**
**353**
**-**
**-**
**3,128**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,128**
**8,069**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Individual Donations|**5,168**||||||**2,727**|
|Organisation Donations|**99**||||||**45**|
|Event fundraising|**5,929**||||||**597**|
|Interest|**1**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**11,197**||||||**3,369**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
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||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**3,369**|
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|IT charges|**545**||||||**180**|
|Insurance|**67**||||||**-**|
|Bank Charges|**26**||||||**-**|
|General Expenses|**12**||||||**-**|
|Event Costs|**2,017**||||||**-**|
|Fundraisingcosts|**108**||||||**-**|
|Purchases for Beneficiaries|**353**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**3,128**||||||**180**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**180**|
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||**8,069**|**-**|**-**||**8,069**||**3,189**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**8,069**|**-**|**-**||**8,069**||**3,189**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Bank Current Account
Bank Deposit Account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,147**
**-**
**9,111**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,258**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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**-**
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Print Name
Graham Martin Pettit|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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|||Graham Martin Pettit|25/2/2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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