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2025-03-31-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 01/04/2024 Period start date To 31/03/2025 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 suffering 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 benefit, in
particular, the activities,
projects or services		 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
identified in the
accounts.		 skillset and provide a creative therapeutic
outlet.
The Cariad Blanket Project posted out 72
Cariad Blanket Boxes (care packages) to
mothers in need of extra support,
including mothers who are suffering from
physical or mental illness, financial
hardship, isolation or whose child is facing
physical illness. We also provided 70
boxes to a local healthboards perinatal
mental health team for the mums they
work with, and 11 boxes to a local charity
for the young mums they work with. So
altogether 153 boxes were given out
duringthis financialperiod.
Statement confirming
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit		 Para 1.18 The trustees have regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on
public benefit, and believe the work of The
Cariad Blanket Project to be within public
benefit.

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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
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 Cariad Blanket Project ran 6 in person
creative workshops during this period. All
6 of these were in South Wales. 1 was for a
university for their staff as part of their
wellbeing week, the other 5 were hosted in
collaboration and at a community café in
Cardiff. They were run as 5 separate
evenings from October 2024 – March 2025
as a creative workshop evenings,
teaching different crafts/creative outlets
at each evening, and providing a safe and
welcoming warm space for people to
bring their own crafts to or try the new one
that we were teaching. They were open to
anyone to attend and provided all the
materials free of charge.
The project ran Cwtch Classes from
January – March 2025. Cwtch Classes
were developed by Rebecca Alder, one of
our trustees who is also an Occupational
Therapist, as a supportive and
encouraging environment for mums who
needed some extra support to get out
with their baby, and provided a safe
welcoming space. The classes provided
some positive play time for mum and
baby, with a focus on tummy time for
baby, and wellbeing support for the
mums with a creative element too. They
were run at two locations in Cardiff (a
community café and a wellbeing space),
each location running for 6 weeks. The
classes are a continuation of our
charitable aims.
The project also gave out 153 Cariad
Blanket Boxes (care packages) in this
period across the UK, providing
signposting to support for mothers,
blankets and hats for babies and notes of
encouragement for wellbeing of mothers.
72 of these weregiven out through our

normal nomination process, 70 were provided to a NHS perinatal team in South Wales for the women under their care, and 11 provided to NYAS Cymru for the young mums they work with in project unity.

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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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Financial Review

Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period		 Para 1.21 The charity ended the year with £1,660 in
its bank account. This money will be spent
to provide creative workshops in the next
financialperiod,and continue to send
Cariad Blanket Boxes to mums across the
UK.
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 amount of
money in the bank account is something
that the trustees monitor closely. This next
financial year the trustees will create a
reserves policy, particularly in line with the
increasing costs for the charity in terms of
craft material inflation and postage
inflation.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 Please see above.
Reasons for holding zero
reserves		 Para 1.22 Please see above.
Details of fund materially
in deficit		 Para 1.24 None
Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
goingconcern		 Para 1.23 N/A

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) Para 1.47 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:

The Cariad Blanket Project is a CIO.

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 first 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 effective
administration of the CIO.
Any new charity trustees must not be
related by blood or by law to any current
charity trustees.

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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 Para 1.51 works Relationship with any related parties Para 1.51 Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name The Cariad Blanket Project

Other name the charity
uses		 N/A
Registered charity
number		 1196923
Charity’s principal
address		 97 Gwernrhuddi Road
Cardiff
CF23 6PS

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for
whole year		 Name of person (or body)
entitled to appoint trustee (if
any)
Hannah Lowe
Anna Deane
Helen Rowland
Rebecca Alder

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 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 N/A 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 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

N/A

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Declarations

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Anna Deane, Helen Rowland, Full name(s) Hannah Lowe Rebecca Alder Trustees Position (eg Chair of Trustees Secretar, etc) Date[27/01/2026 ]

Charity Name
The Cariad Blanket Project		 Charity Name
The Cariad Blanket Project		 Charity Name
The Cariad Blanket Project		 No (if any)
1196923		 No (if any)
1196923		 No (if any)
1196923		 CC16a
For the period
from		 Period start date
01/04/2024		 To Period end date
31/03/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
1,351
33
750
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-
-

2,134
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-
2,134
452
323
343
139
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1,257
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-
1,257
877
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783
1,660		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
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-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
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-
-
-
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-		 Total funds
to the nearest £
1,351
33
750
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2,134
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2,134
452
323
343
139
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1,257
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-
1,257
877		 Last year
to the nearest £
Donations 1,351 -
Misc Bank Income 33 -
Charitable ActivityIncome 750 -
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- -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)
2,134		 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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- -
~~Sub total~~ - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
-

Cariad Blanket Box Costs		 452 -
WorkshopCosts 323 -
Website & Email Costs 343 -
Insurance & Legal Costs 139 -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
**Sub total ** 1,257 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
-
-
**Sub total ** - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
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877 - - 877 -
- - - - -
783 - - 783 -
1,660 - - 1,660 -

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B1 Cash funds		 Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Money in bank account to be used by the
~~charity for the upcoming financial year(s).~~
Details
Details
Details
Signature		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
1,660
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-
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1,660
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OK
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
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Print Name
HANNAH LOWE		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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Current value
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Current value
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When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
HANNAH LOWE 20/01/2026

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