## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 6 April 2023 Period start date To 5 April 2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Trident Association**
## **Charity registration number:** 1197302
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1.**
Embrace
those
who
have
served/are serving in Defence
HUMINT.
**2.**
Educate
on
past
HUMINT
operational activity.
**3.**
Educational support to the Military
Intelligence.
**4.**
Provide a single and authoritative
poc for serving/Veteran HUMINT
operator
(incl
wife,
husband,
widow, widower) who may need
support.
**5.**
To
commemorate
HUMINT
operators who have lost their lives
or suffered injury.
**6.**
To engage in any other activity
which the Trustees deem to be
appropriate
to
support
its
members.|
|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 Charity has engaged throughout the
reporting period with associated Military
Units and a number of external bodies
(including other Military Charities to benefit
both the Trident members and the wider
public. Much of this has been to advance
the development and social/educational
interaction and wellbeing of the HUMINT
Community (veteran and serving) including:
establishing a Trident website; raising
awareness and actual delivery of Mental
Health; how the Charity can aid its
members; setting and notifying wellbeing
procedures; arranging respite opportunities|
|||for members through association with
another Charity; advising members in
respect of operational legacy matters;
facilitating social gatherings; and delivering
historical HUMINT educational
presentations. We have been especially
active in raising awareness of NI Legacy
issues and the impact upon our Veteran
community.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All of our Trustees continue to be
conversant and familiar with the Charities
Commission guidance on public benefit.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Our ‘grant making’ has developed in the
past year through association with others
and greater awareness of our community
and the issues they face. Decisions have
all been taken at Committee/Trustee
Meetings, and minuted.|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|We have no such policy, nor the need to
engage in social investment (at this point).|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|A number of our members have provided
their services at no cost to the charity –
arranging social events, the AGM, welfare
awareness, establishing our charity’s
website. We have noticed an increase in
the generosity of our members - raising
funds and committing personal donations.|
|Other||Nil.|
## **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|Maintaining the charity can be a challenge
at times; we are small and our needs
minimal though we benefit from a diverse
range of members and a membership that
has grown over the past year. The nature
of HUMINT, deems its existence and
workings to be sensitive. Managing Trident
is not straightforward given these
circumstances. Our achievements
continue: growing the membership,
embracing members from a wide range of
serving and retired all ranks. We continue
to meaningfully engage with other
associated charities to mutual benefit –
Taigh Mor Foundation continues to be one
of them; alignment with other charities
regarding NI Legacy and the impact upon
Veterans, is another.|
|---|---|---|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|We have insufficient funds to warrant
investment, at this point.|
|Other||N/A|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|We retain sufficient funds to meet all of our
commitments and provide the benefits to
our members.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We have no financial ‘reserves’.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Zero.|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Insufficient funds|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|We are not in deficit.|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|We have no such concerns.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Membership Fees; donations from the
private Sector; charitable donations.|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|None at present.|
|Other||N/A|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||We are not a Trust.|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trident Association Rules; Trident (CIO)
Association 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|Volunteers from membership.|
|**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|Charities Commission Guidance note.|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|A single Committee comprising both
Trustees and Committee Members.|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|None that are formal.|
|Other||N/A|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Trident Association|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|Trident|
|Registered charity number|1197302|
|Charity’s principal address|Trident Association
PO Box 427
HEREFORD
HR1 9SP|
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Ewan Duncan|Chairman|Throughout theperiod|Trident Committee|
||John Harring|Secretary|“|Trident Committee|
||AndyMackay|Committee Member|“|Trident Committee|
||Douglas Glasgow|Treasurer|“|Trident Committee|
||Gene Knought|Vice-Chairman|“|Trident Committee|
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## – 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
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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|N/A|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the None charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for None safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
|**N/A**|||
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
|N/A|||
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
None
## **Other optional information**
None
## **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)** Ewan R Duncan **Position (eg Secretary,** Chairman **Chair, etc) Date** 4 May 2025
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## **Charity Commission Annual Return 2024**
## TRIDENT ASSOCIATION
Charity registration number: 1197302
**Most of the information you give in this form will become publicly available on the Register of Charities. Any field that the Charity Commission will not display will be clearly marked.**
**This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2024.**
## **PART A - Charity information**
## **Financial period**
**Financial period start date**
06/04/2023
**Financial period end date**
05/04/2024
## **Income and spending**
**Income £** £18,895
**Spending £** £19050.5
## **Number of contracts from government**
**How many contracts (other than grant agreements) did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?**
0
## **Number of grants from government**
**How many grants did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?**
0
## **Income breakdown**
**Donations and legacies (excluding Endowments Received)**
£1200
**Charitable activities**
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£ 14500
**Other trading activities**
£ 275
## **Investments**
£ 0
## **Other**
£ 2920
## **Grantmaking**
**Is grant making the main way your charity carries out its purposes?**
No
## **Recipients of grants**
**Please round all figures to the nearest pound (do not enter decimal points or commas). Individuals**
£ 0
## **Other charities**
£ 0
**Other organisations that are not charities**
£ 1000
## **Grant recipients related parties**
**Are any of the grant recipients related parties to the charity?**
Yes
## **Trustee payments**
**Excluding out of pocket expenses, for what were any of the trustees paid during the financial period for this return?**
⊠ c. Paid for providing goods and/or services to the charity or any of its trading subsidiaries or connected organisations
**Did any of the trustees resign and take up employment with your charity in the financial period of this return?** No
## **Income from outside the UK**
**Did your charity receive income from outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** No
## **Delivering activities outside the United Kingdom**
**Did your charity deliver charitable activities outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** No
## **Spending outside England & Wales**
**Did your charity spend funds outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** No
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**Total Spending outside England & Wales** £0
## **Trading subsidiaries**
**Does the charity have any trading subsidiaries?** No
## **Charity contact details correct**
**Is the contact address displayed from the Register of Charities, correct?**
yes
## **Charity headquarters details correct**
**Is this the same address that you use as your charity's administrative headquarters?**
yes
## **Charity contact address**
**Address Line 1** Trident Association
**Address Line 2**
PO Box 427
**Address Line 3** HEREFORD
**Address Line 4**
**Address Line 5**
**Postcode**
HR1 9SP
**Country**
## **Charity Headquarters address**
**Address Line 1** Trident Association
**Address Line 2** PO Box 427
**Address Line 3** HEREFORD
**Address Line 4**
**Address Line 5**
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**Postcode** HR1 9SP
**Country**
## **Membership type**
## **Is the charity part of a wider group structure with a parent body and subsidiary bodies?**
no, the charity is not part of a wider group structure
## **Employment contract types**
## **People were permanently employed by your charity**
0
## **People were on fixed-terms contracts with your charity**
0
**Self-employed people were working for your charity** 0
## **Governance policies**
## **Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures**
No
## **Safeguarding policy and procedures**
No
## **Financial reserves policy and procedures**
No
## **Complaints policy and procedures**
No
## **Serious incident reporting policy and procedures**
No
## **Internal risk management policy and procedures**
No
## **Trustee expenses policy and procedures**
No
## **Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures**
No
## **Investing charity funds policy and procedures**
No
## **Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures**
No
## **Bullying and harassment policy and procedures**
No
## **Social media policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures**
No
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**Safeguarding**
## **Has your charity provided services to children and/or adults at risk in the financial period of the return?**
No
## **External risk and impact**
## **Donations**
Unknown
**Other income - grants**
Unknown
## **Other income - contracts**
Unknown
## **Other income - investment**
Unknown
## **Expenditure on charitable activities**
Unknown
## **Expenditure on overheads**
Unknown
## **Number of volunteers**
Negative
**Number of employees**
Unknown
## **Number of trustees**
Negative
**Fundraising activities**
Unknown
## **Capacity to deliver services**
Unknown
## **Total service demand**
Unknown
## **Volunteers**
**Excluding trustees, provide an estimate of the number of volunteers who carried out charitable activities on behalf of your charity in the United Kingdom during the financial period of this return?**
4
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