
**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 01 23 31 12 23 

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## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** GROUNDBREAKER (UK) 

**Other names charity is known by** 

**Registered charity number (if any)** 1196788 

**Charity's principal address** 1 North Side Shadforth Durham **Postcode: DH6 1LJ** 

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

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|||LEONI ROSSBERG||15/08/2024- PRESENT||
|||SERG BELL||26/11/21 – PRESENT||
|||JOCHEN BERGER||26/11/21 – PRESENT||
|||LYNDSEY CHARLTON||18/7/22 – PRESENT||
|||PAUL WORTHINGTON||18/7/22 – PRESENT||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

CONSTITUTION 

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) APPOINTED BY MEMBERS Trustee selection methods 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; 

- relationship with any related parties; 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** 

For the public benefit, the advancement of education of young people in the Global South by the provision of education infrastructure for children and young adults. In addition the charity is working in 

Uganda providing scholarships for young women from deprived backgrounds, training in IT and software engineering, alongside mentorship programs. In furtherance to this objective, but not further or otherwise, the trustees should have the following powers: to raise funds. 

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The trustees has sought to put in structures to enable the charity to progress, but have struggled as the requirements for a bank account have evolved, we understand that this is common with other CIOs. The charity has essentially (other than administration) not ‘traded’. The Trustees are actively looking for solutions to this so that the purpose the charity was formed to deliver can still be realised. 

**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** 

The trustees are aware of the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance and have regard to it when exercising any of their powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant, this includes the activities of the charity. 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

The charity has had limited success due mostly to struggling to setup a bank account as a CIO. The trustees want to ensure that funds are handled properly before raising funds.   This bank is now in place as of January 2024. 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** 

Any and all funds will be held in a bank account whose funds will be treated transparently. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

N/A 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: 

The charities source of funds is corporates, often in the IT/Telecoms space. 

- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); 

- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; 

- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

As the charity is new and has struggled to get a bank account as a CIO, we have limited details to report. 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Lyndsey Charlton **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 

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||**GroundBreaker (UK)**<br>|**GroundBreaker (UK)**<br>|**GroundBreaker (UK)**<br>|**1196788**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**<br>**from**|Period start date<br>1/1/2023|**To**<br>|Period end date<br>12/31/2023||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Signature<br>**Total cash funds**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>LydseyCharlton<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**to nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
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||||Date of<br>approval|
|||LydseyCharlton|10/24/2023|
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