## Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From 01 April 2023 Period start date To 31 March 2024 Period end date Charity name: The Sickle Cell Research Trust Charity registration number: 1195010 ## Objectives and Activities ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out
in its governing document|Para 1.17|Supporting and promoting research into
the treatment and care of individuals
suffering from sickle cell and related
disorders.| |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|The Advancement of Health or Saving Of
Lives| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para 1.18|confirmed| ## Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## Achievements and Performance SORP reference None Summary of the main Para 1.20 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. Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of
fundraising activities
against objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## Financial Review |Financial Review||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|We did not raise any money during the
report period and currently do not
hold any funds/reserves.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding
reserves stating why they
are held|Para 1.22|N/A| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Nil| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|No funds raised| |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|None we currently operate on a
strictly voluntary basis.| 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|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the
principal risks facing
the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## Structure, Governance and Management |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)|Para 1.25|CIO Foundation| |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|Charity Trustees are appointed by
existing Trustees
Must be
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A natural person
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No individual can be appointed
if (a) under the age of 16 or
automatically ceases to hold
office as a result of
disqualification by virtue of
sections 178-180 of the
Charities Act 2011| 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|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s
organisational structure
and any wider network
with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## Reference and Administrative details |Charity name|The Sickle Cell Research Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity
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20|Trustee name|Office (if any)|Dates acted if not for
whole year|Name of person (or body)
entitled to appoint trustee (if
any)| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Jesutofunmi Idowu|Chair||| ||Norris Igbineweka|Trustee||| ||Jesuloluwa Abiola|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 |Trustee name|Dates acted if not for whole
year|| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## 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 N/A 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) ## 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) J Idowu Full name(s) Jesutofunmi Idowu Position (eg Chair of Trustees Secretary, Chair, etc) Date 3 March 2026