Trustees’ Annual Report For The Period
Period start Date: From 31[st] December 2020 Period end date: TO 31[st] December 2021
Charity Name “ The Family & Community Group ”
Charity Registration Number 1192942
Objectives and Activities
The family & Community Group support children, young people, and their families, creating, facilitating activities, opportunities and developing support networks, for groups to access. We are currently aiming to manage community facilities in Torfaen, these facilities will help support the communities, providing a wide range of recreational activities as well as needs-based projects to support vulnerable groups in Torfaen
Achievements and Performance
The Charity have supported a local community facility, working in partnership with community members, and facilitating the development of the premises that focuses on children and young people with disabilities and more complex needs. The facility also hosts a parenting group that makes use of services and organisations supporting the early years and promotes the growth of friendship groups and supporting parenting. We accessed a grant for the purpose of making safe and upgrading the facilities kitchen, so that food and snacks could be prepared to encourage health eating within the groups. We worked in partnership providing guidance on growing the group and supporting families. In doing so we have been working to the charities outcomes and benefitting the public, that promotes appropriate play, education, and care facilities.
The Charity have also piloted a parent and toddler group in anther community venue, this time supporting community volunteers to set up their own group, and following this pilot, the group are now running sustainably, creating enough funds to pay for the hire of the venue, equipment to run the sessions and have access to information and advice from the charity. In doing so, we have been working towards our charitable outcomes of providing good quality information advice, as well as promoting activities for the public benefit.
Furthermore, the charity has set up and launched a website that will be used in the future to promote projects, services, and help develop support networks, that families can access, and use to find information and support.
All trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
Over the last year the trustees for the Family & Community Group have been working hard to ensure all policies are up to date, as well as focusing on the development of our groups website. Volunteers have worked hard to help the charity develop an identity, supporting each other and working as part of a team to support our communities. The charity relies on volunteers, and it would not be possible to operate without them.
Financial Review
The Family & Community Group 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2021
Expenditure:
Dr Waste Removal £ 641.00 Kitchen Refurbishment £ 8,537.00 Parent and Toddler Pilot Project £ 336.00 Total £ 9,514.00 Income : Cr Grants £ 8,000.00 Balance Transfer £ 9,964.91 Total £17,964.91 Bank opening £ 00.00 Income £17,964.91 Less Expenditure £ 9,514.00 Bank Closing £ 8,450.91 Restricted Funds £ 5,000.00 Available funds £ 3,450.91 Petty Cash £ 00.00 Total £ 8,450.91
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period
The Trustees consider the financial performance by the charity during the year to have been satisfactory.
The charity has total funds of £8450.91, of which £5000 is reserved to ensure running of the charity can be maintained for 6 months. These reserves are used to help the charity operate effectively. The reserved funds are held to meet future spend for a future project; trustees of the charity will monitor the level of reserves through the year.
Structure, Governance and Management
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a constitution, and the charity is a Charity Incorporated Organisation (foundation model).
The trustees, who are the only members and served up to the date of the date for the signatures of the financial statements were:
Mr D Cornish Miss R Bromley Mrs R Driscoll Mrs C Ward
Organisational Structure
An organisational structure exists whereby a committee of all trustees oversee all activities through the charity. The founding Trustees all have a set term they can serve, any new trustees will serve a term of 3 years. New trustees can be elected in each year if agreed by the committee within a general meeting. Trustees are responsible for the policies the charity adopts.
Reference and Administrative details
The Family & Community Group
R egistered charity number: 1192942
Charity’s principal address: c/o 55 Poplar Road Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP442EQ
Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
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Mr D Cornish
Chairman
Dated:
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Mrs R Driscoll
Treasurer
Dated:
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
| 1 2 3 4 |
Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Cornish | Chair | 01.01.2022 – 30.12.2022 | ||
| Rebecca Driscoll | Treasurer | 01.01.2022 – 30.12.2022 | ||
| Carolyn Ward | Secretary | 01.01.2022 – 30.12.2022 | ||
| Rachel-Jade Bromley |
Vice-chair | 30.08.2022 – 30.12.2022 |