## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 01.04.2022 **Period start date To** 31.03.2023 **Period end date** **Charity name:** Confident Conversations **Charity registration number:** 1195742 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve the suffering of children in**
**hospital due to their ill health by**
**providing free-to-access 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
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|**Maintain and develop up-to-date, free-to-**
**access website with comprehensive**
**information for (i) parents and carers with**
**a child in hospital, (ii) family and friends**
**of parents/carers with a child in hospital,**
**(iii) medical professionals who work with**
**children.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees are aware of the Charity**
**Commission’s guidance on public**
**benefit. The charitable purpose of**
**Confident Conversations is at the heart of**
**our work and all our activities are for the**
**public benefit.**| ## **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|**Volunteers are vital to the work of**
**Confident Conversations, particularly our**
**Parent/Carer 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 ## **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|**Maintained and developed up-to-date,**
**free-to-access website with**
**comprehensive information for (i) parents**
**and carers with a child in hospital, (ii)**
**family and friends of parents/carers with**
**a child in hospital, (iii) medical**
**professionals who work with children.**
**Supported over 230 beneficiaries in the**
**period.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Six overarching objectives (drawn**
**directly from our trustee-agreed strategy,**
**flowed into 19 workstreams. 12 (63%)**
**were fully achieved; one (5%) was**
**partially achieved; one (5%) was**
**postponed to 2023/24; and three (16%)**
**were not achieved. Of those, one was**
**impossible to achieve because of activity**
**out with the control of Confident**
**Conversations.**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Of the four workstreams under the one**
**overarching finance objective, one was**
**fully met and three were partially met.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Confident Conversations raised enough**
**funds during this period to fund initial**
**and ongoing costs.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Trustees agreed to hold six months of**
**running costs as a standing reserve.**
**These 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|**£400.00**
**_Enough for six months operating costs._**| |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|**None**| ## **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|
**Individual public fundraising**| |---|---|---| |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|**Confident Conversations maintains a risk**
**register which is reviewed twice yearly by**
**trustees. The primary risks faced by the**
**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.**
**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** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Registered 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 must be at least 16 years old.**
**They must be properly appointed**
**following the procedures and any**
**restrictions in the Confident**
**Conversations constitution (see below).**
**An individual must not act as a 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.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**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|**As per para. 11 of the Confident**
**Conversations Constitution:**
**“The charity trustees will make available**
**to each new charity trustee, on or before**
**his or her first 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.”**
**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).**| |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|**Confident Conversations**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**N/A**| |Registered charity number|**1195742**| |Charity’s principal address|**Gemma House, 39 Lilestone Street, London, NW8 8SS**| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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 (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Lydia Strachan|Director
Chair of the Board of
Trustees||Board of Trustees| ||Sarah Major|Treasurer||Board of Trustees| ||Satnam Dhaliwal|SafeguardingLead||Board of Trustees| ||Alice Riley|BHD Lead||Board of Trustees| ||Carol Sullivan-
Wallace|||Board of Trustees| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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||| |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **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 ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|| |**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 Secretary,** Director **Chair, etc)** Chair of the Board of Trustees **Date** **Confident Conversations** **1195742** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** 01.04.2022 31.03.2023 **For the period from** **To** **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**1,942**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,942**
**N/A**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 1,942**
**A3 Payments**
Website
**137**
Office management
**119**
Telephony
**35**
Logo design
**100**
Charityinsurance
**133**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 524**
**N/A**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 524**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 1,418**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 1,418**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,942**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,942**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,942**
**137**
**119**
**35**
**100**
**133**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**524**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**524**
**1,418**
**-**
**-**
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**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,942**|**1,459**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**1,942**|**1,459**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**1,942**|**1,459**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**137**|**-**| ||||**119**|**-**| ||||**35**|**-**| ||||**100**|**-**| ||||**133**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**524**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**1,418**|**1,459**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**1,418**|**1,459**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Bank deposits
**Details**
N/A
**Details**
N/A
**Details**
**Details**
N/A
Signature
_Lydia Strachan_
_Sarah Major_
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,418**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,418**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
Lydia Strachan
Sarah Major
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||_Lydia Strachan_|Lydia Strachan|26.1.2024| ||_Sarah Major_|Sarah Major|26.1.2024|