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## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**Period start date: 19/02/24                              Period end date: 18/02/25** 

**Charity name: Flower Power Book** 

**Charity registration number: 1196754** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|1. For the public benefit, to advance the<br>education of primary school pupils in<br>the UK by providing educational<br>materials which promote mental<br>health.<br>2. To advance the education of the<br>public in the subject of mental health.<br>3. To advance such charitable purposes<br>(according to the law of England &<br>Wales) as the trustees see fit from<br>time to time but not limited to<br>advancing the education of children<br>and young people for the public<br>benefit by making donations to<br>charities which support these aims.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and 1.19|1. Retail of books and resources to<br>primary schools, libraries and the<br>general public.<br>2. Workshops & talks in primary schools<br>to children, and in libraries for the<br>general public.<br>3. Participation in community events<br>which promote mental health and<br>wellbeing for the benefit of the<br>public.<br>4. Provision of free resources from our<br>website for the benefit of the public.<br>5. Provision of books for the benefit of<br>cared for children.|





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|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public benefit|Para 1.18|Flower Power Book confirms that its trustees<br>have had regard to the guidance issued by the<br>Charity Commission on public benefit.|
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|We have had one volunteer created a sensory<br>knitted garden experience which was used for<br>a school workshop.|





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## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to the<br>circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|- Work experience project with a local college<br>of Further Education to create a rap song &<br>other resources for Flower Power Book.<br>Students performed Flower Power! to primary<br>school children at a local library and at a local<br>school as part of the school’s wellness week.<br>Students completed their rap song and<br>published it on the website.<br>- Workshops were held at a local library, and<br>talks were given as part of school assemblies<br>at 6 primary schools as part of Flower Power!<br>themed whole school community project<br>weeks.  A talk was given at a local WI about<br>the book and mental health awareness.<br>- Books were given to Staffordshire “cared for<br>children”, also to “cared for children” in<br>Derbyshire, parts of Stoke-on-Trent and parts<br>of Peterborough.<br>- An additional resources package for “cared for<br>children” was added to the website Resources<br>Hub.<br>- Our volunteer ran a storytelling workshop<br>using the sensory knitted garden that she had<br>created.<br>We can confirm the following achievements<br>where our resources have been taken up by<br>schools and libraries:<br>1. The mental, and, particularly, the<br>emotional health of children in primary<br>schools who have engaged with our<br>resources has been positively<br>enhanced.<br>2. The mental health and wellbeing of<br>teachers in school has likewise been<br>supported by working with our<br>resources.<br>3. Feedback from our workshops confirms<br>that the mental health of children and<br>the public who took part has<br>overwhelmingly been nurtured and<br>improved.<br>**4. **Children and adults who have engaged<br>with our book and resources are<br>empowered to report and share what<br>they have learnt within their families<br>and communities; in this way, our work<br>benefits wider society as a whole.|





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## **Financial Review** 

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|Review of the charity’s financial<br>position at the end of the<br>period|Para 1.21|At the end of the period, the charity’s financial<br>status showed a cash balance of £1065.87.|
|Statement explaining the policy<br>for holding reserves stating<br>why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity policy is to set a minimum reserve<br>bank balance of £500.  This is assessed by<br>routinely reviewing the balance (this is the only<br>account for the charity).  The reserve is set at<br>this level to allow for the charity to operate for<br>a minimum of one year without any income if<br>the level is reached.  This covers all operation<br>costs such as insurance, web-site domain<br>registration etc.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£500|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|None|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the charity<br>continuing as a going concern|Para 1.23|N/A|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|The charity’s principal sources<br>of funds (including any<br>fundraising)|Para 1.47|The key sources of funds during the year were<br>donations, and sales of a book (“Flower Power!”)<br>and associated teaching/learning resources.<br>Expenditure during the year covered the printing<br>costs of books, and basic expenses to provide<br>insurance and web-site related costs.|
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any social<br>investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|The charity has no investment policy.|





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## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

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|Description of charity’s trusts:||N/A|
|Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Charity Commission ‘Foundation’ model<br>Constitution|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled to<br>appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|At present there are three first charity<br>trustees who are appointed for life. Since we<br>are a small charity, we have no plans to<br>appoint additional trustees.  Any subsequent<br>trustees would be appointed for a term of<br>three years by a resolution passed at a<br>properly convened meeting of the current<br>charity trustees. The selection of individuals<br>for appointment as charity trustees would<br>have regard to the skills, knowledge and<br>experience needed for the effective<br>administration of our CIO; applicants would<br>need to provide a detailed CV, and attend an<br>interview, after which a unanimous decision<br>from the first three charity trustees would be<br>required before any appointment can be<br>made.|



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|**erence and Administrative**|**details**|
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|Charity name|Flower Power Book|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1196754|
|Charity’s principal address|12 Narrow Lane,<br>Denstone,<br>Uttoxeter,<br>Staffordshire,<br>ST14 5DR|



**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 



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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|Caroline Ann<br>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 title to property belonging to the charity 

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|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

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|Description of the assets held in<br>this capacity|N/A|
|Name and objects of the charity<br>on whose behalf the assets are<br>held and how this falls within<br>the custodian charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for safe<br>custody and segregation of such<br>assets from the charity’s own<br>assets|N/A|





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## **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)** 

**N/A** 



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## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

N/A, all information disclosed 

## **Other optional information** 

## **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)** Caroline Ann Hodges Timothy Hodges **Position** Chair Secretary **Date** 27/10/2025 



||**Flower Power Book**|**Flower Power Book**|**Flower Power Book**|**Flower Power Book**|**Flower Power Book**|**1196754**|**1196754**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||19/02/2024||**To**||18/02/2025|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**20**||**-**||**-**||**20**||**1,354**|
|Book & resource sales|**758**||**-**||**-**||**758**||**747**|
|FundraisingActivities|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Workshop payments|**50**||**-**||**-**||**50**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|_AR) _|**828**||**-**||**-**||**828**||**2,101**|
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|~~**A2 Asset and investment sales,**~~<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_**|**828**||**-**||**-**||**828**||**2,101**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|<br>Bookproduction costs|**1,430**||**-**||**-**||**1,430**||**150**|
|Insurance|**99**||**-**||**-**||**99**||**96**|
|Website costs|**288**||**-**||**-**||**288**||**240**|
|Other operational costs|**269**||**-**||**-**||**269**||**134**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**2,086**||**-**||**-**||**2,086**||**620**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>~~**purchases (see table)**~~||||||||||
|~~**,**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Totalpayments_ **|**2,086**||**-**||**-**||**2,086**||**620**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**-                     1,258**||**-**||**-**||**-                     1,258**||**1,481**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**2,324**||**-**||**-**||**2,324**|||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|**1,066**||**-**||**-**||**1,066**||**1,481**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and**|||**liabilities at**||**the end of the period**|||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>~~**funds**~~||**Restricted**<br>~~**funds**~~||**Endowment**<br>~~**funds**~~|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank Account||||**1,066**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|**_Total cash funds_**||||**1,066**||**-**||**-**|



|||**_Sub total_ **||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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||**_Totalpayments_ **||**2,086**|||**-**||**-**||**2,086**||**620**||
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||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**-**|**1,258**||**-**||**-**||**-                     1,258**||**1,481**||
||**A5 Transfers between**|**funds**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**2,324**||**-**||**-**||**2,324**||||
||**_Cash funds this_**|**_year end_ **|**1,066**|||**-**||**-**||**1,066**||**1,481**||
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||**Section B Statement of assets**|||**and**||**liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||
|||||||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**||
||**Categories**||**Details**|||||~~**funds**~~||~~**funds**~~||~~**funds**~~||
|||||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
||**B1 Cash funds**||Bank Account|||||**1,066**||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)||||**_Total cash funds_**<br>||||**1,066**||**-**||**-**||



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|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||||||Caroline Ann Hodges||||27/10/2025|
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