Trustee Annual Report and Financial Statement For Year Ending 4 April 2025
Charity number 1200072
Registered address
58 Campion Place, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 3EH
Objectives and Activities
Kardec Group’s objectives are to advance the practice and application of Spiritism (also known as the Spiritist teachings, a Spiritualist Philosophy, as codified by Allan Kardec in the 1850s), by providing public study groups, meetings, and events about Spiritism and Spiritist ideals, and by such other charitable activities as the Trustees shall from time to time approve.
As a charitable organisation, Kardec Group runs the Spiritist Society of Windsor and Maidenhead, and the Spiritist Society of Bicester, as well as organising the SPIRITISMx seminars and other events and programmes, including fundraising activities.
Kardec Group works with and supports other Spiritist organisations in the UK and around the world.
Achievements and performance
The Spiritist Society of Windsor and Maidenhead continued with having hybrid meetings every Saturday morning, with face-to-face participation in Maidenhead. The Spiritist Society of Bicester continued online on Wednesday evenings.
Both groups saw an increase in attendees during the year.
Kardec Group continued to maintain a library and bookshop of Spiritist literature and films.
The High Five and Joanna de Angelis Translation Project fundraising campaigns were maintained.
The first book of the Joanna de Angelis translation project, The Currentness of Jesus , was submitted to the publishers at the end of 2024, and is now available in Kindle format.
Kardec Group committed to helping promote the European events of Florencio Anton, and agreed to setup and maintain a dedicated website: www.forencioanton.com, as well as helping with the organisation of future events in the UK, and to use the existing grants agreement in place between Kardec Group and Grupo Espirita Scheila to facilitate the transfer of all funds resulting from the painting auctions at the relevant events.
Kardec Group hosted Florencio Anton for an event in Bicester on 15 Feb 2025.
Kardec Group continued with the creation and publication of the Insightfully Speaking podcast.
SPIRITISMx 2024 was held as an in-person event on 28[th] and 29[th] June, in Oxford, and was held as a joint event with the Allan Kardec Film Festival. Brazilian writer and director, Wagner de Assis, attended the event in person, and three of his films were exhibited as part of the film festival.
Kardec Group has continued to maintain social media presence on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Future plans
Kardec Group plans to continue its core activities of weekly public meetings, to continue with the High Five and Joanna de Angelis Translation Project fundraiser campaigns, and to continue with the SPIRITISMx seminars.
Structure and governance
Kardec Group is a CIO registered in England and Wales. The CIO’s constitution forms Kardec Groups’ governing document and sets out the objects and governance arrangements.
Kardec Group’s trustees receive no renumeration for working on the CIO’s activities.
People who served as trustees of the charity in the year ended 4 April 2025 are:
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Adam Osborne (Chairperson, Treasurer), appointed 2019
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Valeria Osborne (Secretary) appointed 2019
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Ana Paula Villela, appointed 2019
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Anne Sinclair, appointed 2024
To achieve its mission, Kardec Group is organised as a board of trustees and other suitable volunteers and third parties contracted by the CIO for the relevant work to be completed as per the objects of the constitution.
Financial Statement
INCOME
Donations £ 8,253.88 General £ 3,780.70 Joanna £ 2,279.10 High Five £ 2,194.08 Florencio Painting Auctions £ 14,625.27
| Gift Aid | £ 1,174.41 |
|---|---|
| Grants In | £ 1,500.00 |
| Other Fundraising | £ 9.65 |
| Bookshop | £ 1,819.20 |
| Events | £ 4,554.24 |
| Other Activities | £ 60.95 |
| Bank Interest | £ 128.89 |
| Total Income | £ 32,126.49 |
| EXPENSES | |
|---|---|
| Events and activities | £ 11,009.27 |
| Sx 2024 Refund | £ 69.87 |
| Sx 2024 | £ 7,858.87 |
| Sx 2025 | £ 1,334.62 |
| Florencio Events | £ 1,641.76 |
| Other Activities | £ 104.15 |
| Grants Out (inc painting) | £ 15,417.62 |
| Bank and Merchant Fees | £ 204.99 |
| Equipment, Software | £ 370.20 |
| Fundraising, Publicity | £ 212.94 |
| Merchandise (books) | £ 800.00 |
| Insurance | £ 99.31 |
| Joanna Translation Project | £ 3,595.60 |
| Printing, Stationary | £ 152.64 |
| Room hire | £ 1,594.00 |
| Internet | £ 361.94 |
| Postage | £ 17.60 |
| Total Expenses | £ 33,836.11 |
| 2024-2025 balance | -£1,838.51 |
| Main bank balance at YE | £ 2,460.29 |
| Joanna Project bank balance at YE | £ 7,992.08 |
Notes: Spend relating to the Joanna de Angelis Translation Project included money previously received during previous financial years. Spend relating to SPIRITISMx includes grants from BUSS, and support from the Spiritist Institute, as well as tickets sold at the start of 2025, previously declared.
This report has been approved by the trustees of Kardec Group and is signed on their
behalf by
Adam Osborne – Chairperson
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Kardec Group
58 Campion Place, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 3EH
office@kardec.org.uk / www.kardec.org.uk