**Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** The Sophie Clarke Foundation **On accounts for the** 31[st] December 2023 **Charity no** 1195972 **period ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the period ended **31[st] December 2023** . - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Date:** 25/09/2024 **Name:** Amy Sole FCA **Relevant professional** Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Phillips Frith LLP 9 Tregarne Terrace, St Austell, Cornwall. PL25 4DD ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 1 **April 2022** **IER** **Give here brief details of** N/A **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **April 2022** **IER** ||**The Sophie Clarke Foundation**
|**The Sophie Clarke Foundation**
|**The Sophie Clarke Foundation**
|**The Sophie Clarke Foundation**
|**The Sophie Clarke Foundation**
|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01/01/2023|
**To**|Period end date
31/12/2023|| |||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||| |**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations & fundraising
**100,158**
Other income
**-**
Bank Interest
**-**
Compensation
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations & fundraising|**100,158**||**-**|**-**|**100,158**|**175,398**| |Other income|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**2,198**| |Bank Interest|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**8**| |Compensation|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**200**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**100,158**||**-**|**-**|**100,158**|**177,804**| |||||||| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||**177,804**| ||**100,158**||**-**|**-**|**100,158**|| |||||||| |Payment to charities|**33,815**||**-**|**-**|**33,815**|**70,916**
**313**
**-**
**14,826**
**3,895**
**748**
**704**
**79**| |Just Givingfees|**562**||**-**|**-**|**562**|| |Accountancyfees|**2,220**||**-**|**-**|**2,220**|| |Exhibition costs|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |Art commission|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |Auctioneer fees|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |Printing& stationery|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |Equipment hire|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_**|
**36,597**||**-**|**-**|**36,597**|**91,481**| ||**-**
**-**|||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**|
**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||**91,481**| ||**36,597**||**-**|**-**|**36,597**|| ||**63,561**
**-**|||||| ||**63,561**||**-**|**-**|**63,561**|**86,323**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**86,323**||**-**|**-**|**86,323**|**-**| ||
**149,884**||**-**|**-**|**149,884**|**86,323**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 23/09/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Bank balance||**149,884**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**||**149,884**|**-**|**-**| ||||OK|OK|OK| ||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**Details**
**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**| ||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| ||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**-**| ||||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||Signature
Rupert(Sep24,2024 17:08 GMT+1)||||| ||Signature||||Date of
approval
24/09/24| ||Rupert(Sep24,2024 17:08 GMT+1)||||| ||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 23/09/2024 2 ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.01.23 Period start date To 31.12.23 Period end date** ## **Charity name: The Sophie Clarke Foundation** ## **Charity registration number: 1195972** ## **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 charity are the promotion
of good mental health and relief of need of
those who are at risk of suicide principally
through providing funding support for
charities promoting a positive mental health
environment and working to prevent suicide,
in particular for young people, children and
their immediate families.| |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 Charity did not undertake any major
events this year. We received funds from
various activities run in memory of Sophie
Clarke, with individual and collective
donations being made to the Charity. Savills
hosted a golf day which resulted in a
£15,000 donation, and the charity also
received much smaller donations generated
from;
-
a friend’s “wedding list”
-
a friend’s record sales
-
Christmas fairs
-
a friend’s surf map sales.| |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 regards to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on public
benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|On receipt of an application it is circulated to
all trustees to confirm if they believe it would
be a good fit for the charities objectives.| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|n/a| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Friends and family have volunteered their
time and efforts all in return for zero
compensation. For the avoidance of doubt
the trust has NOT paid out any compensation
to any volunteers.| |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|**Beder**Received £2500 from the Foundation
to match fund on The Big Give,
**Wilfrid’s House**supporting this charity with
£10,000. They offer essential counseling in
mental health and grief counselling to those
that cannot afford much and are unable to
access NHS counselling.
£15,000 Emergency Fund to**Wilfrid’s**
**House,**directly supporting families who have
suffered very traumatic incidents and require
immediate grief management and mental
health counselling.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|The charities listed above all match our
objectives of providing funds to charities that
promote good mental health, suicide
prevention particularly in young people,
children and their immediate families.| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|The fundraising money that The Sophie
Clarke Foundation have provided to these
charities have created opportunities to talk
about mental health and suicide prevention.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|The money received by the chosen charities
have all had a positive and impactful return
and have been used in a way that match The
Foundation’s criteria.| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**inancial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|Surplus of £63,561| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We continually identify and assign funds for
specific projects with individual charities;
current and upcoming.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£149,884| |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|Fundraising and 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|Lack of resources. The charity does not
employ anyone to maintain the function and
development - the charity is run solely
through the trustees and volunteers.| |Other||| **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust deed| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association| |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|Rupert Clarke - Lead trustee| ## **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|n/a - no new trustees| |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||| **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Sophie Clarke Foundation| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1195972| |Charity’s principal address|23 Killieser Avenue,
London,
SW2 4NX| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1|Rupert Clarke|-|-|-| |2|Sara Clarke|-|-|-| |3|Georgia Clarke|-|-|-| |4|Tara Clarke|-|-|-| |5|Jonathan Feroze|-|-|-| |6||||| |7||||| |8||||| |9||||| |10||||| |11||||| |12||||| |13||||| |14||||| |15||||| |16||||| |17||||| |18||||| |19||||| |20||||| – 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 held
in this capacity|n/a| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|n/a| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|n/a| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** ||**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||n/a|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **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** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Signature(s)
Rupert (Sep 24, 2024 17:08 GMT+1)
Full name(s) Rupert Clarke
Position (eg
Trustee
Secretary, Chair, etc)
Date 24/09/24
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