## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 3[rd] Dec 2021 Period start date To 31[st] March 2023 Period end date** **Charity name: The Cariad Blanket Project** ## **Charity registration number: 1196923** ## **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 CIO are:
For the advancement of education for
the public, primarily women within the
United Kingdom by providing free to
attend virtual and in person
workshops teaching art, craft and
creative skills that can be used to
further a women’s skillset and provide
a creative therapeutic outlet that can
be used in daily life.
Relief of need of babies in the United
Kingdom who; are ill, have a mother
who has a physical or mental illness.
And for the advancement of health for
by providing notes of encouragement
to mothers in the United Kingdom
who are sufering from mental or
physical illness, disability,
bereavement, poverty or isolation or
any other hardship.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to
those purposes for the
public beneft, in particular,
the activities, projects or
services identifed in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The Cariad Blanket Project ran several
workshops this year that were open to
members of the public, so that people of
any age or gender could learn creative
skills that could be used to further their
skillset and provide a creative therapeutic
outlet.
The Cariad Blanket Project sent out care
packages, Cariad Blanket Boxes, to
mothers in need of extra support,
including mothers who are sufering from
physical or mental illness, fnancial
hardship, isolation or whose child is facing
physical illness.| |Statement confrming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
beneft|Para 1.18|The trustees have regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on
public beneft, and believe the work of
The Cariad Blanket Project to be within
public beneft.| ## **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 Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity, identifying 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|The Cariad Blanket Project ran 19
workshops during this period. 13 of these
were online, 12 of these open to any
adult in the UK, 1 for a university’s staf
as part of a wellbeing event. Of the 6 in
person event, 5 were in Cardif – 2 of
these were available to any adult to
attend, 2 for staf from a university as
part of their wellbeing events, and 2 in
West Sussex. The 19 workshops provided
a variety of craft and creative skills for
attendees to then be able to use for their
own purposes in their daily lives. The in
person workshops provided free materials
for attendees to use.
The project also sent out 27 Cariad
Blanket Boxes (care packages) in this
period, providing signposting to support
for mothers, blankets and hats for babies
and notes of encouragement for
wellbeingof mothers.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
fnancial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity ended the year with £703 in
its account. This money will be spent to
provide workshops in the next fnancial
period, and continue to sent Cariad
Blanket Boxes to mums across the UK –
including but not limited to postage fees,
cost ofpurchasingboxes.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity does not have a policy for
holding reserves, however the trustees
will be creating one in the next fnancial
year. As the charity fnished the year with
£703 and it is not anticipated next
fnancial year it will spend more than this
money as we don’t have regular
outgoings as we have no rent, utilities or
wages to pay currently, so the trustees
have not set any of it as a reserve but will
look to do sofor nextyear.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|N/A| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|As the charity fnished the year with £703
and it is not anticipated next fnancial
year it will spend more than this money,
so the trustees have not set any of it as a
reserve but willdo sofor nextyear.| |Details of fund materially in
defcit|Para 1.24|None| |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 Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the Para 1.46 principal risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** Description of charity’s The Cariad Blanket Project is a CIO. |trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing
document
(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution Document| |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|Apart from the frst charity trustees,
every trustee must be appointed [for a
minimum term of two years] by a
resolution passed at a properly convened
meeting of the charity trustees.
In selecting individuals for appointment
as charity trustees, the charity trustees
must have regard to the skills, knowledge
and experience needed for the efective
administration of the CIO.
Any new charity trustees must not be
related by blood or by law to any current
charity trustees.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any Para 1.51 related parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|The Cariad Blanket Project| |---|---| |Other name the charity
uses|N/A| |Registered charitynumber|1196923| |Charity’s principal address|97 Gwernrhuddi Road
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**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Hannah Lowe|||| ||Anna Deane|||| ||Helen Rowland|||| ||Rebecca Alder||19/10/22|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved - NONE **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity - NONE **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| ||None|| |||| |||| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** None ## **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)** Rebecca Alder, Helen Rowland, **Full name(s)** Hannah Lowe Anna Deane **Position (eg** Chair of Trustees Trustees **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 26/01/2024 **Charity Name No (if any) The Cariad Blanket Project 1196923 Receipts and payments accounts** Period start date Period end date **To** 12/3/2021 3/31/2023 **For the period from** ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds** **Total funds Last year** **to the nearest £** **to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations||**695**||**-**||**-**||**695**||**-**||| |FundraisingSales||**8**||**-**||**-**||**8**||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**703**
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