## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **Period start date: 19/02/23 Period end date: 18/02/24** ## **Charity name: Flower Power Book** ## **Charity registraFon number: 1196754** ## **ObjecFves and AcFviFes** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|1.
For the public beneft, to advance the
educa@on of primary school pupils in
the UK by providing educa@onal
materials which promote mental
health.
2.
To advance the educa@on of the public
in the subject of mental health.
3.
To advance such charitable purposes
(according to the law of England &
Wales) as the trustees see ft from @me
to @me but not limited to advancing the
educa@on of children and young people
for the public beneft by making
dona@ons to chari@es which support
these aims.| |Summary of the main ac@vi@es
in rela@on to those purposes
for the public beneft, in
par@cular, the ac@vi@es,
projects or services iden@fed
in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and 1.19|1.
Retail of books and resources to
primary schools, libraries and the
general public.
2.
Workshops & talks in primary schools to
children, and in libraries for the general
public.
3.
Par@cipa@on in community events
which promote mental health and
wellbeing for the beneft of the public.
4.
Provision of free resources from our
website for the beneft of the public.
5.
Provision of books for the beneft of
cared for children| |Statement confrming whether
the trustees have had regard to
the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public
beneft|Para 1.18|Flower Power Book confrms that its trustees
have had regard to the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public beneft.| ||Contribu@on made by
volunteers
Para 1.38
We have had one volunteer who created a
sensory kniTed garden experience which was
used for a school workshop.| |---|---| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
iden@fying the diference the
charity’s work has made to the
circumstances of its
benefciaries and any wider
benefts to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|- Work experience project with a local college
to create a rap song & other resources for
Flower Power Book. Students performed
Flower Power! to primary school children at a
local library and at a local school as part of
the school’s wellness week. Students
completed their rap song and published it on
the website.
- Workshops were held at a local library, and
talks were given as part of as school
assemblies at 6 primary schools as part of
Flower Power! themed whole school
community project weeks. A talk was given at
a local WI about the book and mental health
awareness.
- Books were given to Stafordshire “cared for
children”, also to “cared for children” in
Derbyshire and parts of Stoke-on-Trent.
- An addi@onal resources package for “cared for
children” was added to the website Resources
Hub.
- Our volunteer ran a storytelling workshop
using the sensory kniTed garden that she had
created.
We can confrm the following achievements
where our resources have been taken up by
schools and libraries:
1.
The mental, and, par@cularly, the
emo@onal health of children in primary
schools who have engaged with our
resources has been posi@vely
enhanced.
2.
The mental health and wellbeing of
teachers in school has likewise been
supported by working with our
resources.
3.
Feedback from our workshops confrms
that the mental health of children and
the public who took part has
overwhelmingly been nurtured and
improved.
**4.**
Children and adults who have engaged
with our book and resources are
empowered to report and share what
they have learnt within their families
and communi@es; in this way, our work
benefts wider society as a whole.| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
fnancial posi@on at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|At the end of the period, the charity’s fnancial
status showed a cash balance of £ £2335.86.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
sta@ng why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity policy is to set a minimum reserve
bank balance of £500. This is assessed by
rou@nely reviewing the balance (this is the only
account for the charity). The reserve is set at
this level to allow for the charity to operate for
a minimum of one year without any income if
the level is reached. This covers all opera@on
costs such as insurance, web-site domain
registra@on etc.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£500| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
defcit|Para 1.24|None| |Explana@on of any
uncertain@es about the charity
con@nuing as a going concern|Para 1.23|N/A| ## **AddiFonal informaFon (opFonal)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal sources
of funds (including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|The key sources of funds during the year were
dona@ons, and sales of a book (“Flower
Power!”) and associated teaching/learning
resources.
Expenditure during the year covered the
prin@ng costs of books, and basic expenses to
provide insurance and web-site related costs.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objec@ves including any social
investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|The charity has no investment policy.| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Descrip@on of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document
How is the charity cons@tuted?
Trustee selec@on methods
including details of any
cons@tu@onal provisions e.g.
elec@on to post or name of any
person or body en@tled to
appoint one or more trustees||N/A| |---|---|---| ||Para 1.25|Charity Commission ‘Founda@on’ model
Cons@tu@on| ||Para 1.25|CIO| ||Para 1.25|At present there are three frst charity trustees
who are appointed for life. Since we are a small
charity, we have no plans to appoint addi@onal
trustees. Any subsequent trustees would be
appointed for a term of three years by a
resolu@on passed at a properly convened
mee@ng of the current charity trustees. The
selec@on of individuals for appointment as
charity trustees would have regard to the skills,
knowledge and experience needed for the
efec@ve administra@on of our CIO; applicants
would need to provide a detailed CV, and
aTend an interview, aner which a unanimous
decision from the frst three charity trustees
would be required before any appointment can
be made.| ## **Reference and AdministraFve details** |Charity name
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number
Charity’s principal address|Flower Power Book| |---|---| ||N/A| ||1196754| ||12 Narrow Lane,
Denstone,
UToxeter,
Stafordshire,
ST14 5DR| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Ofce (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) enFtled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---| |Caroline Ann
Hodges|Founder/Chair||| |Timothy Hodges|Secretary||| |Wendy Jane Leiter|||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding @tle 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** |Descrip@on 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 segrega@on of
such assets from the charity’s
own assets|N/A| ## **AddiFonal informaFon (opFonal)** **Names and addresses of advisers (OpFonal informaFon)** **Type of Name Address adviser N/A Name of chief execuFve or names of senior staff members (OpFonal informaFon)** **N/A** ## **ExempFons from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details N/A, all informa@on disclosed ## **Other opFonal informaFon** ## **DeclaraFons** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Caroline Ann Hodges **PosiFon** Chair Timothy Hodges Secretary **Date** 14/09/2024 ||**Flower Power Book**|**Flower Power Book**|**Flower Power Book**|**Flower Power Book**|**Flower Power Book**|**1196754**|**1196754**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||19/2/23||**To**||18/2/24||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Donations|**1,354**||**-**||**-**||**1,354**||**2,108**| |Book & resource sales|**747**||**-**||**-**||**747**||**255**| |Fundraising Activities|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Workshop payments|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**20**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**2,101**||**-**||**-**||**2,101**||**2,383**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|
**2,101**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**2,101**||**2,383**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Book production costs|**150**||**-**||**-**||**150**||**1,429**| |Insurance|**96**||**-**||**-**||**96**||**96**| |Website costs|**240**||**-**||**-**||**240**||**5**| |Other operational costs|**134**||**-**||**-**||**134**||**10**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|
**620**||**-**||**-**||**620**||**1,540**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|
**620**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**620**||**1,540**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**1,481**||**-**||**-**||**1,481**||**843**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**843**||**-**||**-**||**843**||**-**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**2,324**||**-**||**-**||**2,324**||**843**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Bank Account||||**2,324**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 08/09/2024 1 ||**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**||**2,324**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||OK||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| ||||||Caroline Ann Hodges||||15/09/2024| ||||||Timothy Hodges||||15/09/2024| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 08/09/2024 2