## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 07.09.2021 **Period start date To** 31.03.2022 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** Confident Conversations
**Charity registration number:** 1195742
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the purposes Para 1.17 To relieve the suffering of children
of the charity as set out in hospital due to their ill health
in its governing by providing free-to-access
document support and advice for parents
and carers, to be able to seek
guidance on practical help of
navigating hospital stays, giving
them the information and skills
they need to advocate for their
child's medical care.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and Created and launched free-to-
1.19
activities in relation to access website with
those purposes for the comprehensive information for (i)
public benefit, in parents and carers with a child in
particular, the activities, hospital, (ii) family and friends of
projects or services parents/carers with a child in
identified in the hospital, (iii) medical professionals
accounts. who work with children.
Statement confirming Para 1.18 Trustees are aware of the Charity
whether the trustees Commission’s guidance on public
have had regard to the benefit. The charitable purpose of
guidance issued by the Confident Conversations is at the
Charity Commission on heart of our work and all our
public benefit activities are for the public
benefit.
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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SORP reference **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment
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Volunteers are vital to the work of
Para 1.38 Confident Conversations,
Contribution made by particularly our Parent/Carer
volunteers Advisory Board (P/CAB). The P/CAB
is made up of parents and carers
who have experienced being in
hospital with their child, and use
that lived experience to inform
Confident Conversation’s support.
N/A
Other
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
Created and launched free-to-
access website with
comprehensive information for (i)
Summary of the main parents and carers with a child in
Para 1.20
achievements of the hospital, (ii) family and friends of
charity, identifying the parents/carers with a child in
difference the charity’s hospital, (iii) medical professionals
work has made to the who work with children.
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any Supported over 250 beneficiaries
wider benefits to society in the period. Feedback from
as a whole. beneficiaries includes:
- “Such a helpful website”
- “Easy to navigate and find what I
need”
- “The tone of the content is well-
pitched and well-balanced.”
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Eight overarching objectives
(drawn directly from our trustee-
Achievements against Para 1.41 agreed strategy, flowed into 25
objectives set workstreams. 20 (80%) were fully
achieved; two (8%) were
postponed to 2022/23; and three
(12%) were not achieved. Of
those, two were impossible to
achieve because of activity out
with the control of Confident
Conversations.
Of the four workstreams under the
one overarching finance objective,
Performance of three were fully met. One was not
fundraising activities Para 1.41 for reasons outside the control of
against objectives set Confident Conversations.
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N/A
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
N/A
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 Confident Conversations raised
financial position at the enough funds during this period to
end of the period fund initial and ongoing costs.
Statement explaining the Para 1.22 Trustees agreed to hold six
policy for holding months of running costs as a
reserves stating why they standing reserve. These are held
are held to ensure the continued operation
of the charity, allow for
unexpected expenses and give
trustees time to consider any
unexpected changes to the
charities operations.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 0 (zero)
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 During the period of this report
reserves Confident Conversations was in
the initial phase of establishment
and fundraising. Reserves will be
implemented in FY 2022/23, and
will continue thereafter.
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 N/A
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 None
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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Individual public fundraising
The charity’s principal
sources of funds Para 1.47
(including any
fundraising)
N/A
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
Confident Conversations maintains
a risk register which is reviewed
A description of the Para 1.46 twice yearly by trustees. The
principal risks facing the primary risks faced by the charity
charity are:
1. Reputational: A parent/carer
uses Confident Conversations and
does not get the results they want
- and blames the charity.
Mitigation: public liability
insurance, content disclaimer,
content developed and reviewed
by Parent/Carer Advisory Board.
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**2. Financial: Lack of sufficient funding for planned activity - and/or unstable funding. Mitigation: diversifying funding strategy, ability to flex ambition in line with available funding, reserves policy. N/A** Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 Registered CIO
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Trustees must be at least 16 years
methods including details old. They must be properly
of any constitutional appointed following the
provisions e.g. election to procedures and any restrictions in
post or name of any the Confident Conversations
person or body entitled constitution (see below). An
to appoint one or more individual must not act as a
trustees trustee if they are disqualified
unless authorised to do so by a
waiver from the Commission.
“Apart from the first charity
trustees, every trustee must be
appointed for a term of three
years by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the
charity trustees. In selecting
individuals for appointment as
charity trustees, the charity
trustees must have regard to the
skills, knowledge and experience
needed for the effective
administration of the CIO.”
(Confident Conversations
Constitution)
No other person or body is entitled
to appoint trustees.
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**As per para. 11 of the Confdent**
**Conversations Constitution:**
**“The charity trustees will make**
**available to each new charity**
**trustee, on or before his or her**
**frst appointment:**
**(a) a copy of the current version of**
**this constitution; and**
**(b) a copy of the CIO’s latest**
**Trustees’ Annual Report and**
**statement of accounts.”**|
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New trustees are also furnished
with a copy of the Confident
Conversations Trustees’
Handbook, which sets out further
information about Confident
Conversations, expected
behaviour of trustees and key
policies (e.g. finance,
safeguarding, BHD).
N/A
The charity’s
organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
N/A
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
N/A
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Confident Conversations
Other name the charity N/A
uses
Registered charity 1195742
number
Charity’s principal Gemma House, 39 Lilestone Street, London,
address NW8 8SS
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## **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)
Lydia Strachan Director Board of Trustees
1
Chair of the Board
of Trustees
2 Sarah Major Treasurer Board of Trustees
Satnam Dhaliwal Safeguarding Board of Trustees
3
Lead
4 Alice Riley BHD Lead Board of Trustees
Carol Sullivan- Board of Trustees
5
Wallace
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Dates acted if not for whole**
**Trustee name**
ear
NIA
## **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 N/A**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
**Lydia Strachan, Director**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**N/A**
## **Other optional information**
**N/A**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** _Lydia M. Strachan_ **Full name(s)** Lydia Strachan
**Position (eg** Director **Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair of the Board of Trustees
**Date** 16/09/2022
**Confident Conversations**
**N**
## **Receipts and payments acco**
09/07/2021
## **For the period from**
**To**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
## **to the nearest £**
## **A1 Receipts**
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Donations 1,474 - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
1,474 - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
N/A - - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total receipts 1,474 - -
A3 Payments
PayPal Fees 14 - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Sub total 14 - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total payments 14 - -
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,459 - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - -
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_**Cash funds this year end**_ **1,459 - -**
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**
|||**Unrestricted**|
|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank deposits
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**1,459**
**-**
**-**
**1,459**
OK|
|||**Unrestricted**|
|||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**
N/A|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|||**Fund to which**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
N/A|**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**
N/A|**asset belongs**|
|**charity’s own use**||**Fund to which**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Expenses owed|Cash fund
**liability relates**|
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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|Signature|Print N|
|Lydia M. Strachan|Lydia Str|
|Sarah A Major|Sarah M|
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## **o (if any)**
## **ounts**
## **CC16a**
03/31/2022
## **Total funds**
## **Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
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1,474 -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
1,474 -
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- -
- -
1,474 -
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14 -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
14 -
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-
- -
14 -
1,459 -
- -
- -
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1.459
## **the period**
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Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
- -
- -
- -
- -
OK OK
Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Current value
Cost (optional)
(optional)
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Current value
Cost (optional)
(optional)
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Amount due When due
(optional) (optional)
192
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Date of
Name
approval
rachan 09/16/2022
Major 10/25/2022
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