## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 1st June 2023 - 31st May 2024**
## **Charity name: Quiet Down There**
## **Charity registration number: 1199375**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND**
**ADVANCE EDUCATION AND**
**APPRECIATION OF THE VISUAL ARTS,**
**WITH A FOCUS ON SOCIALLY AND**
**ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED**
**COMMUNITIES WHERE ACCESS TO**
**SUCH ACTIVITIES WOULD ORDINARILY**
**BE LIMITED, BY THE PROVISION OF**
**PROVIDING FREE CREATIVE**
**WORKSHOPS/PROJECTS, EVENTS AND**
**EXPERIENCES.**|
|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|**During this period Quiet Down There**
**delivered:**
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**550 sessions to wash and create**
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**Urban fabric textiles project and**
**Layers of London Road textiles**
**project**
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**2 new washing machines and new**
**iron, ironing board and clothes**
**dryer**
**●**
**Cash for Kids - 14 care packages**
**for families struggling with**
**hygiene poverty**
**●**
**Duty - 16 online sessions of**
**women’s discussion group**
**●**
**10x 1-2-1s for RISE (women**
**experiencing domestic abuse)**
**●**
**women of the market film**|
|||**screening at brighton film festival**
**●**
**8 audio tours of laundry history of**
**London Rd**
**●**
**HAF development - filmmaking**
**sessions for 14-16 year olds in**
**receipt of free school dinners**|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**QDT takes into accounts the Charity**
**Commissions guidelines on public**
**benefit when planning its activities.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**None**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**None**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**QDT has 3 regular volunteers who work**
**on creative projects and help out in the**
**laundry. They are very generous with**
**their time and contribute in-depth**
**knowledge of the local area**|
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## Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|**Between June 23 and May 24 QDT**
**achieved:**
**-1000 free washes for local people with**
**saving of over £12,000**
**-2X commissions from Sussex University**
**to input into creative placemaking for**
**London Rd - supporting local people to**
**have a voice in the planning process**
**-Screening of our community-made film**
**documenting the role of women in the**
**market screened at Cinecity - Brighton’s**
**international film festival. Platforming**
**local women’s stories which often get**
**overlooked.**
**-Delivering 8 community-made audio**
**tours on the history and heritage of**
**laundry on London Rd. Showing another**
**side of our local area through important**
**stories such as laundresses contribution**
**during the small pox outbreak.**|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**QDT are in a good financial position at**
**the end of May 24with unrestricted funds**
**of £9,000 and restricted funds of £34.049.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We hold £9000 reserves as they are the**
**equivalent of 3 months overheads which**
**would be needed to wind down the**
**charity.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£9000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
|**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|**University of Sussex**
**Leathersellers Foundation**
**Ashley Family Foundation**
**Awards for All**
**Brighton & Hove Council**
**Local Giving**
**Homity Trust**
**Woodward Trust**
**Hendy Trust**
**Cash for Kids**
**Sussex Community Foundation**
**Garfied Weston**
**Enjoolata**
**Arts Council**
**Boots**
**Albert Hunt Trust**|
|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|**Reliance on project funding to cover core**
**costs.**|
|Other|||
## **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**|
|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|**Trustees are recommended by either the**
**Director or another Trustee and then**
**discussed and agreed at the Trustees**
**meeting.**|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Quiet Down There|
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|Other name the charity uses|QDT|
|Registered charity number|1199375|
|Charity’s principal address|Studio 6, Brighton Open Market Balcony, Marshalls Row
Brighton BN1 4JU|
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**for whole year**|**Name of**
**person (or**
**body) entitled**
**to appoint**
**trustee (if**
**any)**|
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||Victoria Patrick||||
||Charlotte Levine||||
||Beth Allan||||
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||Aileen Welch||resigned Sep23||
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## – 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 adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
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||**Digital Advisor**|David Flindall|Flat 4, 14 Waldram Park
Road, London SE23 2PN|
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||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional**
**information)**|||
||Lucy Jefferies|||
## **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**
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||Victoria Patrick||
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||Chair of Trustees||
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|24th June 2024|||
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**Quiet Down There**
## **Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y**
**For the period** 01/06/23 **To from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**3 ##**
Grants
**4,500**
Fees for charitable services
**1,731**
Other
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,234**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 6,234**
**A3 Payments**
Wages and NI
**6,269**
Pension
**1,090**
Rent & Services
**2,965**
Insurance
**331**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Sub total**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**3 ##**
Grants
**4,500**
Fees for charitable services
**1,731**
Other
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,234**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 6,234**
**A3 Payments**
Wages and NI
**6,269**
Pension
**1,090**
Rent & Services
**2,965**
Insurance
**331**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Sub total**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**10,097**
**56,622**
**9,550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**76,269**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**76,269**
**18,808**
**-**
**8,892**
**-**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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Wages and NI|**6,269**|**18,808**|**-**|
|Pension|**1,090**|**-**|**-**|
|Rent & Services|**2,965**|**8,892**|**-**|
|Insurance|**331**|**-**|**-**|
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|Internet/email/website|||**-**||||**1,167**||||**-**|||
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|Office costs|||**155**||||||||**-**|||
|Prof fees/training/one-off costs|||**2,446**||||**-**||||**-**|||
|Project costs|||**-**||||**4,499**||||**-**|||
|Freelance staff|||**-**||||**12,253**||||**-**|||
|**Sub total **|||**13,256**||||**45,619**||||**-**|||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||
|Fixed assets (washer & dryer)|||**-**||||**4,351**|||||**-**||
|Loan repayment|||**1,122**||||**-**|||||**-**||
|**Sub total **|||**1,122**||||**4,351**|||||**-**||
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|**Total payments **|||**14,378**||||**49,970**|||||**-**||
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|**Net of receipts/(payments) -**|||**8,144**||||**26,299**||||**-**|||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**7,944**||||**- 7,944**||||**-**|||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**9,200**||||**15,694**||||**-**|||
|**Cash funds this year end **|||**9,000**||||**34,049**||||**-**|||
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**unds**|**Details**
Cash in bank 31st May 2024
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Total cash funds**|**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|
|||**9,000**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**9,000**|
|||OK|
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|
**B1 Cash funds**
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## **B2 Other monetary assets**
## **Details**
## **Details**
## **to nearest £**
**-**
**Fund to which asset belongs**
## **B3 Investment assets**
## **Details**
**Fund to which asset belongs**
**B4 Assets retained for the** Miele Dryer PDR307 HP S/N: 41/178108395 **charity’s own use** Miele WED665 Wcs Twindos 8kg Honeycomb drum#1 Miele WED665 Wcs Twindos 8kg Honeycomb drum#2 Miele Dryer PDR307 HP S/N: 41/17818205
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## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
**Details** Bounce Back Loan
Signature
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Fund to which
liability relates
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199375
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## **Total funds**
## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £ to the nearest £**
|**10,100**||**7,468**|
|---|---|---|
|**61,122**||**39,739**|
|**11,281**||**32,102**|
|**-**||**526**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**82,503**||**79,835**|
||**-**||||||
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||**-**||||**-**||
||**-**||||**-**||
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||**82,503**||||**79,835**||
|**25,077**||**40,370**|
|---|---|---|
|**1,090**||**3,135**|
|**11,857**||**6,315**|
|**331**||**209**|
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|**1,167**||**1,443**|
|---|---|---|
|**155**||**186**|
|**2,446**||**823**|
|**4,499**||**9,251**|
|**12,253**||**16,825**|
|**58,875**||**78,557**|
||**4,351**|||||**3,551**||
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||**1,122**|||||**1,920**||
||**5,473**|||||**5,471**||
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||**64,348**|||||**84,028**||
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||**18,155**||||**-**|**4,193**||
||**-**|||||||
||**24,894**|||||**29,087**||
||**43,049**|||||**24,894**||
|**to nearest £**
**34,049**
**-**
**-**
**34,049**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|
||**-**|
||**-**|
||**-**|
||**-**|
||OK|
||**Endowment**
**funds**|
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## **to nearest £**
## **to nearest £**
|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**|
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|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
**Current value (optional)**
|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
**(optional)**|
|---|---|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
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## **Current value**
**Cost (optional) (optional)**
|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|---|---|
|2,188
858
1,000
2,681
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|1,970|
|858|688|
|1,000|1,000|
|2,681|2,145|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
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|**11,934**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Name
Levine
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**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||**01 March 2032**|
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||Date of
approval|
||7th June 24|
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**Brenda Peers-Ross 29 Drift Road Selsey Chichester West Sussex PO20 0PW**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of: QUIET DOWN THERE**
## **Registered Charity Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Number: 1133975**
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31[st] May 2024, which are set out on Charity Commission form CC16a.
This report is made solely to the Trustees in accordance with Section 43(3) of the Charities Act 2011. My work has been undertaken so that I might state to the Trustees those matters which I am required to state to them in an independent examiner’s report and for no other purpose. To fullest extent permitted by law; I do not accept responsibility to anyone other than the Trustees for my work, for this report, or for the opinions I have formed.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
As described on page 5 the Charity’s Trustees are responsible for the preparation of accounts; you consider that the audit requirements of Section 144 (2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 156 of the Act, whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s statement**
My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts, presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures of the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair view,” and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent Examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention:
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 130 of the Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting records of the Act have not been met.
2. or in my opinion, attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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## Brenda Peers-Ross
Brenda Peers-Ross FMAAT, ACIE 25[th] September 2024