**01-01-2024** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** **To 31-12-2024** **Charity name: BEDSIDE BOOKS** ## **Charity registration number: 1195094** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Advancing health or the saving of lives| |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|Assist in the treatment and care of persons
suffering from mental or physical illness of
any description or in need of rehabilitation
as a result of such illness, by the provision
of facilities for recreation, in particular, but
not limited to, free audiobooks.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees have acknowledged and
acted in accordance with their duties.| ## **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|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|The year has been quiet, as contracts are
renegotiated for audio content and
distribution license. Trustees are
confident a way forward can be found.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|No hospitals serviced in the year, but with
hopes for operations to pick up again
shortly. This has been due to the temporary
unavailability of industry support.| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Strong reserves and financial plan| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Reserves in place for future distributions| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£11k| |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|Donations| |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|N/A| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO Foundation Constitution| |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|Rotation, per Articles| ## **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|Included in Articles| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Included in Articles| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|Included in Articles| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|BEDSIDE BOOKS| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|BOOKS FOR DAD| |Registered charity number|1195094| |Charity’s principal address|2 HARGRAVE PLACE
LONDON
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Alexander Samuel
Woolf|Chair||| ||James Robert Ball|||| ||Damian Francis
Clements|Treasurer||| ||Nicholas Julian
Woolf|||| ||David Llewellyn
Probert|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 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)** ## **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)**
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**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Damian Clements|| ||
Treasurer|| ||21-09-2025|| ||21-09-2025|| **Charity Name No (if any) BEDSIDE BOOKS 1195094 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from 01/01/2024 31/12/2024** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations via Go Fund Me - - - - -
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purchases, (see table)
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A6 Cash funds last year end 11,341 - - 11,341 -
Cash funds this year end 11,341 - - 11,341 -
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 21/09/2025 1 ## **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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash at bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**11,341**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,341**
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OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name
DAMIAN CLEMENTS|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
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