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2022-12-31-accounts

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Uniformed

Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022

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Uniformed

Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2022

Charity number: 1199098 Legal Status: Charitable Incorporated Organization Registered office: 116A Acre Lane, London SW2 5RA, United Kingdom Contact number: 07946357413. Website: https: //www.uniformedcharity.org/

Trustees:

Farrah Barber- Chair 01 April 2022 Crystabel Mbagwu- Member 28 October 2022 Gabor Marton- Member 26 May 2022 Puay Ling Lee - Member 26 May 2022 Alexander Brunner- Member 26 May 2022

Bankers:

Unity Trust Bank PO Box 7193 Planetary Road Willenhall WV19DG

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Uniformed

Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2022

Trustee Report for the year ended 31 December 2022

The trustees present their report and the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022. The account has been prepared in accordance with section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Charities Act”).

Objectives & activities

The trustees review the aims, objectives, and activities of the charity each year.

The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in pl anning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.

The principal objects of Uniformed is to alleviate the impact of poverty on children by providing school uniformed support to disadvantaged families. We aim to do this through the provision of school uniform vouchers to children from disadvantaged families.

Achievements and performance

2022 was an exciting year for Uniformed as it was our first year in operation, and we were able to hit the ground running and achieve a range of milestones.

Charity Set Up

Setting up and successfully registering as a Charity was a complicated process, but meant that we could now operate as an organisation. We finalised and adopted our constitution, and successfully applied for registration as a Charity, with registration effective from 26 May 2022. We also successfully set up our banking facilities and our online donation channel via PayPal.

Website

Our website went ‘live’ for the first time in April 2022, and has been consistently upgraded to a high standard ever since. The website is our principal means of engagement with the public, communicating our vision and raising funds.

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Partnerships during the year:

The Kemnal Academy Trust

The Kemnal Academy Trust (TKAT) is one of the UK’s largest and most socio -economically challenged multi-academy trusts (MATs). We initially reached out to TKAT in November 2022, and had a working partnership by December 2022. We work closely with David Churchill, their Head of Opportunity, who has been a consistent support for us as an organisation.

We now work with the below schools as a result of our partnership with TKAT:

Price and Buckland

Our uniform vouchers provider during the year was Price & Buckland. Our service model operates as follows:

Funding from Grants

During the period, we applied for numerous grants and successfully raised unrestricted grants of £5,250 pounds.

Voucher provision

Our school uniform vouchers are provided to children from disadvantaged families through our partner schools. During the year, we successfully issued 101 vouchers to Co-op Academy (Glebe Academy) and Alpha Academy (Discovery Academy).

Challenges during the year

Voucher utilisation

Our major challenge during the year was voucher utilisation. We envisage that this will improve in the future as we have invested more time in providing communications and guides on how to redeem vouchers. We would also be allocating a significant amount of time to follow up with partner schools on a regular basis to receive feedback on any potential difficulty families encounter around voucher redemption.

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Financial Review

Uniformed is reporting a closing cash balance of £4,878 for the year ended 31 December 2022, with operating period commencing on 26th May 2022.

The sources of funding this year have been:

Uniformed receives a significant portion of our funding from grants.

The income funds the costs of school uniform vouchers and other operating expenses related to running the charity. These costs include (but not limited to) Google Cloud payments, website hosting fees and bank charges.

Grant receipts during the year was £5,250 and individual donations £730.

Uniformed spend on redeemed voucher provision was £660. This was due to the low level of voucher utilisation by recipient schools and a need to establish more connections with partner schools.

Other operating expenses amounted to £443.

Reserves policy

Our policy is to maintain an operating reserve account and sufficient cash balances to ensure the stability of the charity and day-to-day operations. The operating reserve is intended to provide an internal source of funds for situations such as an unanticipated decline in fundraising. There are no staff costs or contractual commitments to suppliers.

Reserves

At the year- end Uniformed had £1200 set aside as reserves, to cover the Charity’s financial commitments for 6 months in the event of any shortfall in funding. The reserve forms part of the cash balance as at year end.

Going concern

The trustees are not aware of any uncertainties regarding the charity continuing as a going concern.

Future

As part of our ambitious plan, we intend to work towards the achievement of the following goals:

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Structure, governance, and management

Uniformed is a Charitable Incorporated Organization (CIO), which was registered as a charity on 26 May 2022. The objects and powers of the charity are set out in its Constitution (the Governing Document).

The charity’s only voting members are its trustees. Four were the founding members of the CIO, and all welcome approaches from anyone with skills that are useful to the charity.

The trustees have no beneficial interest in the charity.

All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity. Any expenses reclaimed from the charity are set out in note 3 to the accounts.

The trustees communicate frequently by email, and formal meetings are held via Google meet.

Related parties and relationships with other organisations

There are no related parties, or relationships with other organisations.

Remuneration policy for key management personnel

As all personnel act voluntarily, there is no remuneration policy.

Funds held by Trustees on behalf of others.

No such funds are held.

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on their behalf by

Signature:

Full name(s): Farrah Barber

Position: Founder, Chair of Trustees

Date: 28th August 2023 24th August 2023

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Uniformed Charity Uniformed Charity Uniformed Charity Uniformed Charity Uniformed Charity 1199098 1199098 1199098 CC16a
For the period from 26/05/2022
Period start date
To		 31-Dec-22
Period end date
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £		 Total funds
to the nearest £		 Last year
to the nearest £
Grant 5,250 - - 5,250 -
Individual donations 731 - - 731 -
- - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)
5,981		 - - 5,981 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
None - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts
5,981 - - 5,981 -
A3 Payments

Uniform Vouchers		 660 - - 660 -
Google cloudpayments 389 - - 389 -
Google monthlycharges 54 - - 54 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
**Sub total ** 1,103 - - 1,103 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
**Sub total ** - - - - -
Total payments 1,103 - - 1,103 -
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end		 4,878
-
- 4,878 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
4,878 - - 4,878 -

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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
Farrah Barber
Puay Ling Lee
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B1 Cash funds

Details
None
Details
None
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
None
Details
Cash in Bank
Cash in Hand
Paypal
Details
Signature
December Google cloud payment		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
4,541
-
80
-
257
-
4,878
-
OK
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due (optional)
Unrestricted
61
-
-
-
-
Print Name
PuayLingLee
Farrah Barber		 Endowment funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Current value (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Current value (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
When due (optional)
January
Date of approval
Farrah Barber 24th August 2023
PuayLingLee 20 Aug2023

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