## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 6 April 2024 Period start date To 31 March 2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: The Lexi Doll Charity**
## **Charity registration number: 1194495**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objetve of the Charity is to support the
needs of children in the uk who have
experienced losing a sibling by providing that
child with a Lexi Doll.
|
|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|Donatng dolls to hospitals and hospices arounf
the UK and Ireland to support children afected
by sibling loss. Fundraising is our focus to pay
for dolls and support in any expenses which we
recieve through donatons and events.|
|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|N/A|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|N/A
|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|All volunteers contribute their tme in supportng
the charity in raising donatons at events
including special events|
|||N/A|
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 currently provide dolls to 44 hospitals and
hospices in England, Scotland, The Isle of Man
and Ireland.
We have chosen dolls because throughout
history, they have been fundamental in getng
children to talk about distressing topics through
the magic of doll therapy. We want to help more
children try to understand and talk about their
bereavement.
The dolls are sourced from a fair trade provider,
we provide boy and girl dolls in muliple
ethnicites so all children can choose a doll they
identfy with.
We have received positve feedback from
bereavement midwife teams and from families
who have received dolls.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
Our objectve is to help as many children
through the lost of a sibling. To reach out to
hospitals and hospices and to provide them with
Lexi Dolls so they can be given to a child in need.
We have contnued to provide new hospitals
throughout the year and will strive to help more
children.|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
|||N/A|
Other
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|We were fortunate to be selected as a chosen
charity by Tesco Trusts, A local schools chosen
charity and also received substanton
sponsorship by a runner running multple
marathons throughout the year. This helped our
income signifcantly as we contnue to supply
dolls to our existne hospitals and hopices but
also supplying new.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|A minimum order for dolls costs £1000.00, so we
aim to ensure we have sufcient reserves in
order to be able to order and supply/resupply
hospitals at short notce. Since we have started
the prices have risen this has afected our
orders.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|3000|
|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|n/a|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
Fundrasing at events is one of our sources of
income aswell and applying for grants where we
can from independant organisatons|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A
|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Being able to contnue communicaton with
existng hospitals and hospices.|
N/A Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust Deed|
|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|trustees appointed at yearly AGM - any trustee
can nominate a trustee, approval by two other
trustees is required to appoint them.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
N/A|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|N/A|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Lexi Doll Charity|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1194495|
|Charity’s principal address|GISELLE
MAYPOLE ROAD
TIPTREE
COLCHESTER
CO5 0EN|
|||
||||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if**
**any)**||**Dates acted**
**if not for**
**wholeyear**|**Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|1|Jessica Anne
Elizabeth
Frost|chair||||
|2|Jan Brading|||||
|3|Lesley Ware|||||
|4|Rita Rice|||||
|5|Melissa Rice|||||
|6|Rowena
Jordan|||||
|7|Andrina
Harris|||||
|8||||||
|9||||||
|10||||||
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19 20
– 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
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Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year
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Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the assets n/a
held in this capacity
Name and objects of the n/a
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for n/a
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets
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**Additional information (optional)**
**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details n/a
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. half of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** Jessica Frost **Full name(s)** Miss Jessica Anne Elizabeth Frost **osition (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair **Date** 31/03/25
**The Lexi Doll Charity**
**11**
## **Recei ts and a ments acco p p y**
**For the period** 4/1/2024 **To from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
## **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
## **to the nearest £**
## **A1 Receipts**
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|donations||**8,148**||||**-**||||**-**||
|fundraising||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**8,148**
||||**-**||||**-**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**(see table).**||||||||||||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **||**8,148**||||**-**||||**-**||
## **A3 Payments**
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|purchases||**2,946**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|sundries||**572**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|event costs||**3,387**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|website||**1,329**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|bank charges||**75**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|insurance||**172**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|postage||**149**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|storage||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|legal||**250**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **||**8,880**||||**-**|||||**-**|||
|||||||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||
|**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||||||
|||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||
|||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||
|||||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_ 8,880**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 732**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**9,128**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 8,396**|**-**|
|---|---|
||**-**|
||**-**|
||**-**|
||**-**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the**
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**Unrestricted funds to nearest £**
**Details**
Cash at bank **8,398 - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **8,398**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Agreement Error **Unrestricted funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
## **Details**
**to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Fund to which Details asset belongs**
## **B3 Investment assets**
||**Fund to which**|
|---|---|
|**Details**|**asset belongs**|
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **Details**
**Fund to which liability relates**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature Print N
## **194495**
## **ounts**
**CC16a**
3/31/2025
## **Total funds**
## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
## **to the nearest £**
|**8,148**||**4,090**|
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**1,924**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**8,148**||**6,014**|
|**-**|||
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
> **8,148 6,014**
|**2,946**||**2,318**|
|---|---|---|
|**572**||**121**|
|**3,387**||**1,345**|
|**1,329**||**-**|
|**75**||**130**|
|**172**||**-**|
|**149**||**72**|
|**-**||**2,693**|
|**250**||**250**|
|**8,880**||**6,928**|
|**-**|||
|---|---|---|
|**-**|||
|**-**||**-**|
|||**8,880**|||||**6,928**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||
||**-**|**732**||||**-**|**914**||
|||**-**|||||**-**||
|||**9,128**|||||**10,042**||
|||**8,396**|||||**9,128**||
||**e period**||
|---|---|---|
||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||**9,130**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**9,130**|
|||Agreement Error|
|||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|
**Current value (optional)**
## **Cost (optional)**
- 2
|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
## **Cost (optional)**
**Current value (optional)**
|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
**Amount due When due (optional) (optional) - - - - -**
## Name
Date of approval
bfwd 9,129.58 ob adj receipts 8,159.08 payments 8,890.83 cfwd 8,397.83 17,288.66 17,288.66 -
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|1|3/27/2024|Paypal|-|553.10|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|2|4/16/2024|chg|5.00||
|3|4/22/2024|post ofce|15.27||
|4|4/22/2024|vistaprint|132.00||
|5|4/29/2024|sumup||1.96|
|6|5/17/2024|chg|5.00||
|7|4/24/2024|cash||653.90|
|8|4/24/2024|just eat|74.45||
|9|6/12/2024|screwfx|8.99||
|10|6/13/2024|ebay|26.98||
|11|6/16/2024|chg|9.22||
|12|6/28/2024|insurance|172.36||
|13|7/1/2024|Wendy McNulty|30.00||
|14|7/2/2024|Heybridge Parish|5.00||
|15|7/6/2024|Paige Kerridge|20.00||
|16|7/8/2024|SJ Obrien donaton||500.00|
|17|7/10/2024|post ofce|26.79||
|18|7/17/2024|chg|5.00||
|19|7/20/2024|C Mcinally||15.00|
|20|8/5/2024|post ofce|8.79||
|21|8/15/2024|amazon|151.94||
|22|8/16/2024|chg|5.00||
|23|8/16/2024|adele|10.00||
|24|8/19/2024|post ofce|5.99||
|25|8/27/2024|sumup||0.98|
|26|8/28/2024|jemma dockrill|320.00||
|27|8/29/2024|amazon|8.19||
|28|8/30/2024|asda|17.50||
|29|9/2/2024|amazon|19.57||
|30|9/2/2024|sumup||9.84|
|31|9/4/2024|adyen||23.77|
|32|9/5/2024|jessica frost|613.78||
|33|9/5/2024|sandsshop|132.46||
|34|9/5/2024|winstons wish|177.84||
|35|9/5/2024|UK bookshop.org|108.16||
|36|9/5/2024|amazon|136.51||
|37|9/10/2024|jan brading||118.00|
|38|9/11/2024|Chemer village ha CVH1274|331.25||
|39|9/11/2024|Teremity media|1,253.98||
|40|9/12/2024|emma morgan||20.00|
|41|9/12/2024|Claire bignell||20.00|
|42|9/16/2024|chg|5.00||
|43|9/16/2024|Gerogia Buckingham blossoms|110.50||
|44|9/17/2024|asda|504.75||
|45|9/18/2024|clary md & lgs||20.00|
|46|9/18/2024|post ofce|10.19||
|47|9/20/2024|Mrs D C Ramsden||40.00|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|48|9/20/2024|vistaprint|70.92||
|49|9/22/2024|Julie Deeks||20.00|
|50|9/23/2024|ebay|5.58||
|51|9/23/2024|fying tger|22.50||
|52|9/24/2024|St John cofe||2,064.38|
|53|9/25/2024|shein|10.90||
|54|9/25/2024|riverside leiduire|22.00||
|55|9/27/2024|post ofce|22.57||
|56|9/28/2024|donatons||450.00|
|57|10/1/2024|morrisons|13.00||
|58|10/7/2024|sp ovely fora|32.57||
|59|10/8/2024|godaddy|28.78||
|60|10/9/2024|vistaprint|142.15||
|61|10/11/2024|danbury village hall|90.75||
|62|10/13/2024|donatons||40.00|
|63|10/17/2024|chg|5.00||
|64|10/28/2024|post ofce|5.35||
|65|10/28/2024|nisa|12.67||
|66|10/28/2024|royal tger|200.00||
|67|10/28/2024|costco|63.16||
|68|10/28/2024|sumup||1.97|
|69|10/30/2024|post ofce|6.19||
|70|11/1/2024|cash||325.50|
|71|11/4/2024|the range|6.79||
|72|11/4/2024|rishi|5.98||
|73|11/4/2024|the range|25.91||
|74|11/6/2024|sumup||226.12|
|75|11/6/2024|born gifed|1,948.50||
|76|11/6/2024|post ofce|8.75||
|77|11/6/2024|tesco|11.00||
|78|11/7/2024|post ofce|9.35||
|79|11/14/2024|moncia||100.00|
|80|11/16/2024|chg|5.00||
|81|11/18/2024|swain||20.00|
|82|11/22/2024|tesco|34.00||
|83|11/22/2024|sumup||11.80|
|84|11/25/2024|groundwork uk||375.00|
|85|11/27/2024|donatons||5.00|
|86|11/27/2024|Paypal||39.04|
|87|11/27/2024|home bargains|72.10||
|88|10/2/2024|aldi|13.27||
|89|12/2/2024|sumup||110.32|
|90|12/10/2024|tesco|20.40||
|91|12/11/2024|tesco|26.40||
|92|12/17/2024|charge|7.90||
|93|12/18/2024|cash||1,322.40|
|94|12/20/2024|intl hover|45.79||
|95|12/20/2024|non sterling fee|1.25||
|96|12/26/2024|jessica frost||10.00|
|97|11/30/2024|Iceland|6.30||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|98|12/30/2024|home bargains|15.39||
|99|1/2/2025|Tesco|92.53||
|100|1/2/2025|Asda|11.40||
|101|1/6/2025|the works|107.00||
|102|1/7/2025|B&M|20.29||
|103|1/13/2025|the works||11.00|
|104|1/16/2025|charge|11.65||
|105|1/20/2025|Nisa|3.19||
|106|1/20/2025|post ofce|15.90||
|107|1/20/2025|post ofce|3.95||
|108|1/29/2025|Katy Bets|250.00||
|109|2/5/2025|The entertainer|24.25||
|110|2/10/2025|Shein|25.50||
|111|2/10/2025|post ofce|13.98||
|112|2/13/2025|born gifed|779.40||
|113|2/16/2025|charge|5.00||
|114|2/19/2025|charites trust||1,000.00|
|115|2/26/2025|nisa|6.18||
|116|2/27/2025|post ofce|4.99||
|117|3/5/2025|post ofce|4.99||
|118|3/12/2025|eb celebex pro|20.00||
|119|3/19/2025|chg|5.00||
|120|3/24/2025|p cummings||50.00|
|121|||||
|122|||8,890.83|8,159.08|
|118|||||
|119|||731.75||
|120|||||
|121|||||
|122|||||
|9,129.58
9,682.68
9,677.68
9,662.41
9,530.41
9,532.37
9,527.37
10,181.27
10,106.82
10,097.83
10,070.85
10,061.63
9,889.27
9,859.27
9,854.27
9,834.27
10,334.27
10,307.48
10,302.48
10,317.48
10,308.69
10,156.75
10,151.75
10,141.75
10,135.76
10,136.74
9,816.74
9,808.55
9,791.05
9,771.48
9,781.32
9,805.09
9,191.31
9,058.85
8,881.01
8,772.85
8,636.34
8,754.34
8,423.09
7,169.11
7,189.11
7,209.11
7,204.11
7,093.61
6,588.86
6,608.86
6,598.67|donatons
fundraising
out
purchases
sundries|
|---|---|
||- 8,148.08 - - - 2,945.72 571.71|
||- 553.10
- 1.96
- 653.90
8.99
26.98
30.00
5.00
20.00
- 500.00
- 15.00
10.00
- 0.98
- 9.84
- 23.77
108.16
- 118.00
- 20.00
- 20.00
- 20.00|
|6,638.67|-|40.00|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|6,567.75|||||
|6,587.75|-|20.00|||
|6,582.17|||5.58||
|6,559.67||||22.50|
|8,624.05|-|2,064.38|||
|8,613.15||||10.90|
|8,591.15||||22.00|
|8,568.58|||||
|9,018.58|-|450.00|||
|9,005.58||||13.00|
|8,973.01|||||
|8,944.23|||||
|8,802.08|||||
|8,711.33|||||
|8,751.33|-|40.00|||
|8,746.33|||||
|8,740.98|||||
|8,728.31||||12.67|
|8,528.31|||||
|8,465.15||||63.16|
|8,467.12|-|1.97|||
|8,460.93|||||
|8,786.43|-|325.50|||
|8,779.64||||6.79|
|8,773.66||||5.98|
|8,747.75||||25.91|
|8,973.87|-|226.12|||
|7,025.37|||1,948.50||
|7,016.62|||||
|7,005.62||||11.00|
|6,996.27|||||
|7,096.27|-|100.00|||
|7,091.27|||||
|7,111.27|-|20.00|||
|7,077.27||||34.00|
|7,089.07|-|11.80|||
|7,464.07|-|375.00|||
|7,469.07|-|5.00|||
|7,508.11|-|39.04|||
|7,436.01|||72.10||
|7,422.74|||||
|7,533.06|-|110.32|||
|7,512.66||||20.40|
|7,486.26||||26.40|
|7,478.36|||||
|8,800.76|-|1,322.40|||
|8,754.97|||||
|8,753.72|||||
|8,763.72|-|10.00|||
|8,757.42|||||||||6.30|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|8,742.03|||||||||15.39|
|8,649.50|||||||||92.53|
|8,638.10|||||||||11.40|
|8,531.10||||||||||
|8,510.81|||||||||20.29|
|8,521.81||||||||-|11.00|
|8,510.16||||||||||
|8,506.97|||||||||3.19|
|8,491.07||||||||||
|8,487.12||||||||||
|8,237.12||||||||||
|8,212.87|||||||||24.25|
|8,187.37|||||||||25.50|
|8,173.39|||||||||13.98|
|7,393.99|||||||779.40|||
|7,388.99||||||||||
|8,388.99||-|1,000.00|||||||
|8,382.81|||||||||6.18|
|8,377.82||||||||||
|8,372.83||||||||||
|8,352.83|||||||||20.00|
|8,347.83||||||||||
|8,397.83||-|50.00|||||||
|8,397.83|-|||||||||
||731.75|-|8,148.08|-|-|-|2,945.72||571.71|
||-|||||||||
||731.75|||||||||
||-|-|8,148.08|-|-|-|2,945.72||571.71|
||-|||||||||
||-||||||252.00|||
|web|event costs materials bank charg|insurance|postage|repairs
transfer|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|1,328.55|3,387.40 - 75.02|172.36|149.07|- -|
||5.00||||
||||15.27||
||132.00||||
||5.00||||
||74.45||||
||9.22||||
|||172.36|||
||||26.79||
||5.00||||
||||8.79||
||151.94||||
||5.00||||
||||5.99||
||320.00||||
||8.19||||
||17.50||||
||19.57||||
||613.78||||
||132.46||||
||177.84||||
||136.51||||
||331.25||||
|1,253.98|||||
||5.00||||
||110.50||||
||504.75||||
10.19
70.92
22.57 32.57 28.78 142.15 90.75 5.00 5.35 200.00 6.19 8.75 9.35 5.00 13.27 7.90 45.79 1.25
107.00
11.65 15.90 3.95 5.00 4.99 4.99 5.00 1,328.55 3,387.40 - 75.02 172.36 149.07 - - 3,387.40 - 75.02 172.36 149.07 - -
accountancy
250.00
250.00
-
- - - - - - -
250.00