## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 20th September 2020 **To** 31[st] December 2022
**Charity name:** International Play Association
**Charity registration number:** 1195848
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the CIO are:
(a)
To promote human rights (as
set out in the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the
Child and subsequent United
Nations
conventions
and
declarations (“the UNCRC”)
throughout
the
world,
in
particular the child’s right to
play,
leisure
and
cultural
activities, by all or any of the
following means:
(i)
providing
technical
advice to government
and others;
(ii)
promoting
public
support
for
the
UNCRC;
(iii)
promoting respect for
human rights among
individuals
and
corporations.
(b)
To provide or assist in the
provision of facilities in the
interests of social welfare for
play, recreation or other leisure
time occupation of children
throughout the world who have
need of such facilities by
reason of their youth, disability,
financial hardship or social
circumstances with the object
of improving their conditions of
life.|
|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|It provides a forum for exchange and action
across disciplines and across sectors.
IPA’s purpose is to protect, preserve and
promote the child’s right to play as a
fundamental human right.
IPA operates a membership scheme. This
year time has been focussed on ensuring
the new is CIO is sufficiently provided with
systems and policies to enable it to be fit for
its purpose.
We have engaged with our members and
other NGOs internationally to ensure that
children’s need to play is better understood
and provided for
The Board of directors meet monthly via
zoom.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|We review our aims, objectives and
activities each year. This review looks at
what we achieved and the outcomes of our
work in the previous 12 months. The review
looks at the success of each key activity
and the benefits they have brought to our
membership and children. The review also
helps us ensure our aim, objectives and
activities remained focused on our stated
purposes. We have referred to the guidance
contained in the Charity Commission’s
general guidance on public benefit when
reviewing our aim and objectives and in
planning our future activities. In particular,
the trustees consider how planned activities
will contribute to the aims and objectives
they have set.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|One volunteer provides book keeping
services for IPA|
## **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|IPA has continued to promote children’s
right to play endeavouring to raise its
profile in the work of other agencies and
NGO’s.
During the past period IPA World Board
has advocated and promoted Article 31
and General Comment 17 across a range
of international events and conferences
maintaining a presence for IPA World both
through physical attendance and online.
We have continued to provide online
Newsletters and an On line magazine|
|---|---|---|---|
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Against the backdrop of limited resources
and limited funding, the charity, with the aid
of sound financial management and the
support of both its trustees and members
generated sufficient funds to meet our
needs for this financial year. On the basis
of previous experience the truystees
consider that the organisation remains a
going concern.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Limited reserves are held comprised a
general reserve and funds designated for a
specific purpose|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|25544|
|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:
Membership fees The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising)
## **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|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|The trustees are elected tri-ennually by the
full membership|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|International Play Association|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|n/a|
|Registered charity number|1195848|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o Play Wales
Park House
Greyfriars Road
Cardiff
CF10 3AF|
|||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Robyn Monro Miller|President|||
||Tam Baillie|MembershipOfficer|||
||Mike Greenaway|Treasurer|||
||Sudeshna
Chatterjee||||
||Cynthia Gentry|Communications
Officer|||
||KathyWong|Vice President|||
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
None
## **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)** Michael John Greenaway **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 25th October 2023
**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 6 Analysis of expenditure**
|**Analysis**
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|
Incurred seeking donations|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Incurred seeking legacies|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Incurred seeking grants|-|-|-|-||||
|Operating membership schemes and
social lotteries|3,459|-|-|3,459|3,473|||
|Staging fundraising events|-|-|-|-||||
|Fudraising agents|-|-|-|-||||
|Operating charity shops|-|-|-|-||||
|Operating a trading company undertaking
non-charitable trading activity|-|-|-|-||||
|Advertising, marketing, direct mail and
publicity|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Start up costs incurred in generating new
source of future income|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Database development costs|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Other trading activities|-|-|-|-||||
|Investment management costs:|-|-|-|-||||
|Portfolio management costs|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Cost of obtaining investment advice|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Investment administration costs|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Intellectual property licencing costs|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Rent collection, property repairs and
maintenance charges|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
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|**Total expenditure on raising funds**|3,459|-|-|3,459|3,473|-|-|
|**Expenditure on charitable activities:**||||||||
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|**Total expenditure on charitable**
**activities**|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Separate material item of expense**||||||||
|Legal advice for incorporation as a charity|1,639|-|-|1,639|2,596|-|-|
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|**Total**|1,639|-|-|1,639|2,596|-|-|
|**Other**||||||||
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|**Total other expenditure**
**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
||5,098|-|-|5,098|6,068|-|-|
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||**This year**|**This year**|**This year**|**This year**|**Last year**|**Last year**|**Last year**|
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|**Activity or programme**|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**|**Grant**
**funding of**
**activities**|**Support Costs**|**Total this**
**year**|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**|**Grant**
**funding of**
**activities**|**Support**
**Costs**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Activity 1|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Activity 2|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Other|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|**Total**|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
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