## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 21.03.2024 To 20.03.2025** ## **Charity name: The Family Support Group** ## **Charity registration number: 1198308** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance in life and relieve the needs of
young people, whatever their background,
throughout the UK by:
(a) providing support, advice and activities
which develop their skills, capacities and
capabilities to enable them to participate in
society as mature and responsible
individuals.
(b) by providing mentoring and support
services to parents and carers of young
people.| |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|Provision of support services and advice to
kinship carers.| |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 had regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit| **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 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|Provision of support services and advice to
kinship carers.
We hold monthly support meetings
attended mostly by kinship carers, creating
an environment where attendees can meet
others in similar circumstances, share
experiences and get peer support and
advice.
We also have campaigning points that we
lobby policy makers and influencers on.
In the period we lobbied the Lord
Chancellor on the reporting restriction
regulations rules.
As members of the Kinship Care Alliance
(KCA), we attend regular meetings with
policy makers and influencers, including
DfE; in March 2025 we were asked to
address Janet Daby, the Children’s
Minister.| ## **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|At 20/3/25 the charity had £486.08 on
deposit.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We don’t hold reserves unless they are
allocated to specific purposes.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|400| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|None| **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|| |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|Para 1.25|CIO Foundation| |How is the charity
constituted?|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 term of four
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.| **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|The Family Support Group| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|None| |Registered charitynumber|1198308| |Charity’s principal address|41 Bramble Bank
Frimley Green
Camberley
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Stuart Black|N/A|N/A|N/A| ||Inta Romane|N/A|N/A|N/A| ||Cheryl Kimber|N/A|N/A|N/A| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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** |**Signed** **on behalf of the**|**charity’s trustees**|| |---|---|---| |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
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**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| ||Stuart Robert Black|Inta Romane| ||
Trustee|Trustee| |||| ||7 January 2026|7 January 2026| **The Family Support Group** **CC16a** **1198308** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** 21/03/2024 20/03/2025 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
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**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Corporate donations|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Interest|**1**||**-**||**-**||**1**||**1**| |Grants|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**500**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**1**||**-**||**-**||**1**||**501**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**501**| ||||||||||| |
Insurance|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**140**| |Bank fees|**60**||**-**||**-**||**60**||**60**| |Refreshments|**11**||**-**||**-**||**11**||**50**| |Miscellaneous|**6**||**-**||**-**||**6**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**77**||**-**||**-**||**77**||**249**| ||||||||||| |**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_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**249**| ||||||||||| ||**- 76**||||||||**252**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**62**||||||||**310**| ||**- 14**||||||||**562**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Categories B1 Cash funds** |1
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**86**
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**86**
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**Endowment**
**funds**
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**to nearest £**
**400**
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**400**
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STUART BLACK|**Endowment**
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