2022-09-07-accounts - The British Irish Association

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2021

To 7 Sept 2022

Sept

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date

Period end date

From

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name The British Irish Association

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1194733

Charity's principal address Prama House

267 Banbury Road, Oxford

OX2 7HT

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Dominic Grieve Chair June 22 to date
2 Bob Collins Hon Treasurer
3 Ciaran Devane
George
4
Fergusson
5 Katy Hayward June 22 to date
6 Deirdre Heenan
7 Mark Hennessy
Roisin
8
McDonough
9 John McGrane
10 Duncan Morrow
11 David Porter
12 Hugo McNeill Chair Sept 21 to June 22
13 Patrick Handley Sept 21 to June 22
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution Type of governing document

(eg. trust deed, constitution)
- Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)

Appointed for a term of four years by a resolution passed at a Trustee selection methods properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

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Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The objects of the CIO are to promote the advancement of education in international political affairs, the arts and social sciences.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The main activity of the CIO is its annual conference. This brings together over 150 participants drawn from a deliberately wide range of politicians, officials, academics, journalists, leaders in community and cultural organisations and influential business people who will disseminate within their contact groups insights and lessons gained from the conference. Although proceedings are held under the Chatham House Rule, all speakers are welcome to publish their own talk and nothing precludes participants from sharing what is said at conferences, provided they do not give attribution. Opinion pieces by attending journalists clearly reflect understandings gained, and a full report on the conference is posted on the website of the CIO.

In addition to the conference, the CIO holds an annual

colloquium where leading academics and government officials can discuss detailed constitutional matters and questions of governance, for example the Northern Ireland Protocol. Better informed advice on public policy is the result.

The Trustees review each Conference afterwards with a view to seeing how well it fulfilled their objectives, including external feedback. They are cognisant of the guidance issued by the Charity Commission of the requirement for public benefit.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

The 2021 Conference was held in Oxford on 3-5 September Summary of the main achievements of the and attended by around 160 people from a wide range of charity during the year backgrounds. politicians and government officials, academics, commentators, former. Speakers included the Taoiseach, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, the Irish Finance Minister, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the First Minister of Wales, the Scottish Minister for External Affairs and the First and deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland. Among the topics discussed were postBrexit arrangements, the Northern Ireland Protocol, the devolution of fiscal powers in Northern Ireland, the Shared Island Initiative, co-operation after the Covid-19 pandemic and conflict resolution at a time of change. The first BIA colloquium took place in Cambridge in April 2022. At a particularly complex time in UK/EU relations, it facilitated clearer understanding of issues that included trading arrangements, political stability and senses of identity in Northern Ireland.

Among the topics discussed at the 2022 Conference, on 2- 4 September, were the vision of the Good Friday agreement 25 years on, equality in Northern Ireland and responding to shared challenges across these islands. Speakers included the Taoiseach, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations, the poet Gail McConnell, and a panel of young MLAs. Acknowledgement was made in public of the role the Conference played in paving the way towards the Windsor Framework, agreed between the EU and the UK in February 2023. This highlighted a tangible aspect of the public benefit delivered by the CIO.

Section E Financial review

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The CIO aims to hold one year’s operating costs in reserve.

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

The CIO is the successor charity to unincorporated charity number 26509. Pending the full transfer of assets to the new CIO, which was not accomplished until 17 January 2023, the British Irish Association continued also to operate as the unincorporated charity with regard to income and expenditure. Therefore, there were no financial transactions during the period under review. Since 17 January 2023, the CIO has been fully operational. The accounts for 2022 pertaining to the unincorporated charity number 26509 will be submitted with its Annual Return, at which point that charity will be wound up.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Dominic Charles Robert Grieve Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 23 June 2023

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The British Irish Association 1194733

Receipts and payments accounts

For the period Period start date Period end date To from

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
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Sub total (Gross income for AR) - - - -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - -
Total receipts - - - -
A3 Payments
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Sub total [ - ] - - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments - - - -
Net of receipts/(payments) - - - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - -
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Section B Statement	of assets and liabilities	at the end of the period	at the end of the period	at the end of the period
		Unrestricted		Restricted
Categories	Details	funds		funds
B1 Cash funds	*Total cash funds*	to nearest £ - - - -		to nearest £ - - - -
	(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	OK	OK
		Unrestricted		Restricted
		funds		funds
B2 Other monetary assets	Details	to nearest £ - - - - - -		to nearest £ - - - - - -
B3 Investment assets	Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) - - - - -
B4 Assets retained for the	Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) -
charity’s own use				- - - - - - - -
		Fund to which		Amount due
B5 Liabilities	Details	liability relates		- - - - - (optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature	Print	Name

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CC16a
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Last year
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to the nearest £

Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -

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OK
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Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -

Current value (optional)

When due (optional)

Date of approval