## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 18 March 2022 **To** 30 September 2023 **Charity name:** GLOBAL RECONCILIATION, ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITYBUILDING ENGAGEMENT (GRACE) IN WAR-AFFECTED REGIONS ## **Charity registration number:** 1199786 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects are for the benefit of the public,
the advancement of the wellbeing of children
born of war, their families and communities in
any part of the world, by providing grants to
projects, charities, organisations working to
reduce hardship and stigmatization, to
promote and protect their physical/mental
wellbeing, education, social inclusion,
economic empowerment and human rights.| |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|Following the creation of the GRACE in
War Affected Regions (GRACE hereafter)
and its registration with the Charity
Commission for England and Wales,
GRACE was formally launched in an
awareness-raising and advocacy event at
the Barbican on 11 October 2022 in the
presence of all trustees, important
stakeholders and, significantly, children
born of war.
During subsequent months, activities
focussed on the operationalisation of the
charity’s activities, including opening of a
bank account, the development of policies
relating among others to financial
management, grant making, information
security, data protection, safeguarding,
mandatory training as well as the
clarification of the governance structure.
A further focus was the expansion of the
charity, its advisors, friends and volunteers
as well as partnership development.
An additional focus was the development of
a communications strategy to enable the
charity successfully to fulfil its public benefit
commitments.| |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 Charity
Commission’s guidance on public benefit.| |---|---|---| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|GRACE grant-making policy, filed with the
Charity Commission, is reviewed annually
and due to be confirmed by the AGM on 30
September 2023| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|n/a| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|GRACE has been supported by a range of
volunteers with contributions ranging from
ad hoc support e.g. of the launch event, to
more extensive and sustainable
engagement, e.g. as communications
manager, finance advisor, or events
panner. As the charity’s activities grow in
number and size, it is expected that more
volunteers will make more significant
contributions.
Apart from the Trustees, eight volunteers
were active on a longer-term footing
covering the following areas:
Toni Smith (comms and events
management, partnership development)
Andy Canty (internet security, website, data
management)
Amir Smailbegovic (meetings management,
donations management)
Antonia Parker Smith (comms/social
media)
Amy Wilkins (comms lead)
Christian Juri (website development)
Christoph Biehl (finance)
Katharina Lee (events development and
management)| |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|As this year was largely taken up with
developing the structures and policies that
allow successful operations in support of
beneficiaries, the focus of activities was on
awareness-raising, advocacy and modest
fundraising as well as planning for income-
generating activities in the coming year.
Events included:
Barbican launch event with film screening
and panel discussion (11/10/2022)
Film screening and panel discussion at the
University of West London (15/03/2023)
Trustee contributions to FCDO work on
promoting the rights and wellbeing of
Children Born of Conflict-related Sexual
Violence (ongoing)
Co-development of one-year project to
develop effective programming in support
of CBOW in Northern Uganda (to be
implemented 2023/4)
Contribution to Policy Workshop on
nationality rights for children born of war
led by the Global Survivors Fund
(27/06/2023)| |---|---|---| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Not yet applicable, as charity is still in the
process of policy and governance structure
development.| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Not yet applicable, as charity is still in the
process of policy and governance structure
development.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not yet applicable, as charity is still in the
process of policy and governance structure
development.| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|£7901 credit.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|As we are in our first year of operation and
have not committed any funding to
activities, we currently do not have a
reserves policy. This is something we will
look to develop as our activity grows.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£0-see above.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|See above.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|n/a| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|n/a| |**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|Start-up donation of AHRC prize money
Donations
Gift Aid| |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|The charity is in the process of setting up
appropriate risk management processes.
When these are in place we will be able to
identify risks and put mitigations in place for
the charity.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution of a CIO| |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|Under development| ## **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|Under development| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The charity has a Board of Trustees which
meets twice a year. We have a
Management Group, which includes
trustees and associates/friends. This group
meets monthly. We’re in the process of
setting up an Advisory Board which will
enable the charity to be supported by a
greater range of specialists.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|n/a| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|GLOBAL RECONCILIATION, ADVOCACY AND
COMMUNITY-BUILDING ENGAGEMENT (GRACE) IN
WAR-AFFECTED REGIONS| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|GRACE International| |Registered charitynumber|1199786| |Charity’s principal address|Holly Ridge
Crossin Lane
Claydon
Oxon OX17 1EX| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Sabine Lee|||| ||Rachel M Canty|||| ||DheerajAkolkar|||| ||Karen E Houghton|||| |||||| ## – 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 **|| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **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 ## **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** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Sabine Lee **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 16.12.23 ||**Global Reconciliation, Advocacy and Community Buildin**|**Global Reconciliation, Advocacy and Community Buildin**|**Global Reconciliation, Advocacy and Community Buildin**|**Global Reconciliation, Advocacy and Community Buildin**|**Global Reconciliation, Advocacy and Community Buildin**|**No (if any)**
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**from**||19.7.22||**To**||30.6.23||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |**Unrestricted**
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**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,999**
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**2,130**
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**2,130**
**7,901**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations,inlcudingGift Aid|**9,999**||**-**||**-**||**9,999**||**-**| |Interest on current and deposit account|**32**||**-**||**-**||**32**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
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**10,031**||**-**||**-**||**10,031**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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Monthlybank account charges|**30**||||||||**-**| |Production of brandingmaterials|**2,100**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**2,130**||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |**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_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**7,901**||||||**7,901**||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| ||**7,901**||||||**7,901**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 16/12/2023 1 **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
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