## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 08/08/22 Period start date To 31/08/23 Period end date** ## **Charity name: CA Wales Area** ## **Charity registration number: 1199997** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE
PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH OF
PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO
COCAINE AND/OR OTHER MIND-
ALTERING SUBSTANCESIN WALES| |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|A fellowship of men and women that
share their experience, strength and
hope to help each other recover from
drug addiction. Members gather in
meetings to share the 12 step process
of recovery from addiction, and provide
1 to 1 support. There are no
restrictions on membership other than
a person having a desire to stop using
Cocaine and all other mind altering
substances.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|| ## **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 Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|Consistently supported the running of 12
step recovery meetings across Wales.
Running of campaigns such as cashpoint
advertisements, billboards and postering
across the country.
Hosting of Cocaine Anonymous 2023
European Convention.
Volunteering for CAUK helpline.
Reinstatement of 12 step recovery meetings
in prisons across the country following
COVID.
Supported the ongoing sobriety of hundreds
of recovering addicts, providing structure
and guidance on the principles and traditions
of the 12 step fellowship.| ## **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|**£18,468.35**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|April each year all funds from Area Main
Account above our prudent reserve are
donated to CA world. Funds kept in sub
accounts are the responsibility of the various
committees to manage as trusted servants.
£4,389.68 in FEC account is to be forwarded
to the next Area to host the European
Convention. Seed money of £4,000 held in
Area main account for the purpose of the
next Welsh Convention.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |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|| |---|---|---| |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
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Cocaine Anonymous Area Service**
**Manual**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|| |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|**Committee voted that trustees should be**
**the World Delegate (representative at**
**world conference), Treasurer and Area**
**Committee Chair**| |**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|**Sobriety requirements for putting self**
**forward for potions**
**Voted in through Area Service Committee**
**based on experience in previous**
**positions and suitability to role**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**CA Wales Area’s actions are informed by**
**the votes of committee members which**
**include a “Group Service Representative”**
**from each meeting across Wales who**
**carry the conscience of their home**
**groups.**
**CA Wales Area follow guidelines set by**
**CA World Service Committee.**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**We have no affiliation with outside**
**organisations.**
**CA’s 12 steps are reproduced with**
**permission from Alcoholics Anonymous.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|CA Wales Area| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1199997| |Charity’s principal address|6 Fitzhamon Close, Cowbridge, CF71 7GG| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Julian Hopkins|||| ||Rhian Gritten|||| ||Daniel Miles|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 £4,389.68 in FEC account is to be forwarded to the next held in this capacity Area to host the European Convention. Name and objects of the This will be another CA Area within the European region charity on whose behalf the who follow the same structure and principles as CA Wales assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Money held in separate sub account with transparency for safe custody and it’s purpose. 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)** **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** **CA Wales Area No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a** 8/8/2022 8/31/2023 **To** **For the period from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Seed Fund & Donations
**9,250**
**35,524**
Fundraisers
**9,971**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,746**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 54,746**
**A3 Payments**
Hotels
**25,644**
Decorations and Merchandise
**1,994**
Registrations
**785**
Entertainments
**955**
Programming
**75**
Audio Visual
**5,819**
Refunds
**1,319**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 36,591**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 36,591**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 18,154**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 18,154**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
Registrations/Banquets and Convention
Income
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,250**
**35,524**
**9,971**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,746**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,746**
**25,644**
**1,994**
**785**
**955**
**75**
**5,819**
**1,319**
**-**
**-**
**36,591**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**36,591**
**18,154**
**-**
**-**
**18,154**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**9,250**|**-**| ||||**35,524**|**-**| ||||**9,971**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**54,746**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**54,746**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**25,644**|**-**| ||||**1,994**|**-**| ||||**785**|**-**| ||||**955**|**-**| ||||**75**|**-**| ||||**5,819**|**-**| ||||**1,319**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**36,591**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**36,591**|**-**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
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**-**|**18,154**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**18,154**|**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Barclays Wales Area
Barclays Public Information
Barclays Unity
Barclays Hospitals & Institutions
Barclays Literature
Barclays White Tin
Barclays Delegate
Barclays FEC
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**6,614**
**2,202**
**483**
**789**
**470**
**320**
**3,149**
**4,390**
**-**
**-**
**18,417**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| **-** Signed by one or two trustees on Date of behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval CA Wales Area |31 August 2023|31 August 2023||| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |Charity no.:|1199997|Company no.:|| I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended 31 August 2023 As the charity’s trustees of the Charity, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charity Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). In carrying out my examination, I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act. - I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that: - Accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - The accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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