## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From April 2024 Period start date To April 2025 Period end date** **Charity name: Positive Aids for Kids (PAKS)** ## **Charity registration number: 1198821** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document||**THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: FOR THE PUBLIC**
**BENEFIT THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN THROUGHOUT**
**ENGLAND DIAGNOSED WITH CONGENITAL**
**MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY, THEIR FAMILIES AND**
**CARERS BY OPERATING A SUPPORT GROUP,**
**SIGNPOSTING SERVICES AND BY THE AWARD OF**
**GRANTS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO FUND THE**
**PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL SPECIALIST EQUIPMENT,**
**OTHER ITEMS AND FUN DAY TRIPS AND**
**EXPERIENCES TO RELIEVE ISOLATION.**| |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|**Family Support Group – The charity has**
**organised families to meet up in the last year**
**at various locatons to enable the children**
**with the conditon to interact in a safe and**
**enjoyable environment. The parents have**
**shared their experiences with each other and**
**been able to share their contact details to**
**relieve the isolaton they feel.**
**Specialist orthotcs have been funded for 2**
**families as walking aids.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|At the trustee AGM the guidance was reviewed
by all trustees.| ## **Achievements and Performance** |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 main objectve of the charity this year**
**was to fund Specialist equipment funded to**
**families requestng assistance.**|| |---|---|---|---| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Cash at bank at 01/04/2025 was £4413 in**
**unrestricted funds.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The funds are held to continue**
**supporting families affected by**
**Congenital Myotonic Muscular**
**Dystrophy.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£4413.00**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Nil**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No concerns, the fund raising will**
**continue and supporting families.**| ## **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 - Foundation**| |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|Para 1.25|**Trustees are appointed at the Trustee**
**AGM.**| trustees ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Positive Aids for Kids| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|PAKS| |Registered charity number|1198821| |Charity’s principal address|Haywold House
North Dalton
Driffield
East Yorkshire
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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 (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Sarah Sherman|||| ||Alan Ruane|||| ||Linda Atkinson|||| ||Joanne Butterfield|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 N/A 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 ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **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)** Alan Ruane **Full name(s)** Alan Ruane **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc)** **Date** 14.01.2025 **----- Start of picture text -----**
Positive Aids for Kids (PAKS) 1198821
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Apr-24 Apr-25
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Balance 3,024 - - 3,024 3,024
Donations & Fundraising 2,219 - - 2,219 2,219
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 5,243 ] - - 5,243 5,243
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 5,243 - - 5,243 5,243
A3 Payments
Specialist Orthotics 830 - - 830 830
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- - -
- - -
- - -
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Sub total [ 830 ] - - 830 830
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 830 - - 830 830
Net of receipts/(payments) 4,413 - - 4,413 4,413
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end 4,413 - - 4,413 4,413
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 28/01/2026 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**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))
Account Balance
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Alan Ruane
Signature
Sarah Sherman|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,413**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,413**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Sarah Sherman
Alan Ruane|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
17.01.2025
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