## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Jan 2024 Period start date To Dec 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Groundbreaker (UK)** ## **Charity registration number: 1196788** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**For the public benefit, the advancement**
**of education of young people in the**
**Global South by the provision of**
**education for young adults. In**
**furtherance to this objective, but not**
**further or otherwise, the trustees should**
**have the following powers: to raise**
**funds.**| |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 trustees had raised funds in this**
**year, unfortunately due to a death of the**
**secretary at the time Sebastien Carney,**
**had been unable to transfer funds out to**
**fund the charity works. The Charity**
**Commission have been formerly notifies**
**and updates to the charity made. Thr**
**trustees will be transfering funds in 2025**
**to support the charity projects.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**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 information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Contribution made by Para 1.38 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|**The trustees have ran a number of**
**Justgiving campaigns over 2024 and held**
**an event in London, raising funds at a**
**breakfast event to support the talents**
**program, educating young females in**
**remote farming villages of Uganda with**
**an educational schollarship.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**£34,040.68**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Any and all funds will be held in a bank**
**account whose funds will be treated**
**transparently.**
**Due to a death with a trustee who**
**managed the banking this years funds**
**have remained in the bank but are**
**nomeans a regular reserve amount**
**expected in the accounts.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |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:|**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The charities source of funds is**
**corporates, often in the IT/Telecoms**
**space.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **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|**Appointed by members**| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Groundbreaker (UK)| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|GroundBreaker| |Registered charity number|1196788| |Charity’s principal address|1 North Side, Shadforth, Durham, DH6 1LJ| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||LyndseyCharlton||18/7/22 – PRESENT|| ||Loeoni Rossberg||15/08/2024 - PRESENT|| ||Jochen Berger||26/11/21 – PRESENT|| ||Paul Worthington||18/7/22 – PRESENT|| ||Serge Bell||26/11/21 – PRESENT|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **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** **Signature(s)** Paul Worthington **Full name(s)** Lyndsey Charlton **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 29/09/2025