2022/23
Sometimes little people deserve a really BIG day out. At Anastasia Days we deliver fabulous, tailor-made
experiences for children who need them the most.
Our mission is to promote the emotional recovery of young people across the North of England who have
encountered illness, abuse, bereavement or other significant trauma. Anastasia Days, arranges memorable, no-
compromise, fun days-out for children aged 6-16 and their families.
Coby and Caleb are Harry Potter super fans.
sent the boys and their family
for a magical day in London at the
Paige from Wigan has had a tough time lately
so we sent her and her favourite cousins for a
fabulous day of Princess Parties, Disney
Shows and Fine Dining. Thank you Paige, we
hope you enjoyed your
Day
. Thankyou
Coby & Caleb, and remember what Ron
Weasley said."Don't let the Mu8gles 8et you
down"
'IiiiiiiiWIIi/i!'
Harley and his family f rom Westhou8hton
have endured some very difficult times in the
past year. We sent Harley. his Mum and his
pals for a day of luxury travel, anChester
themed actities, a bespoke tour of the
Dinosaur exhibits at
and then a slap up meal at
iy<. Thank
you Harley for being such a good sport
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Chloe from Stoke-on-Trent has bravely fought
throu8h unspeakable trauma and is probably
the most resilient girl we know £•.
sent Chloe. her favourite cousin and
Nana for a luxuryday of pampering and
shopping at
and the
. Thank you
Tom is a Karting enthusiast who was
diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukemia at age 14.After nearly two years of
treatment his recovery is 80in8 well.
Anastasia-Days sent Tom and his family for a
high octaneday at the UK'S leading Karting
facility and a pre-christmas shopping spree
at the Trafford Centre.
"I, KASHFCRD
Ella, Gillian and especially Chloe
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To publicise the services of Anastasia
Days re8ionally across the North of
England and to review and respond to
each nomination with the intention of
To deliver each 'Anastasia Day, as a
unique. tailor-made experience
designed by our Trustees and
Volunteers to meet the needs and
To spend 100% of any funds raised for
Anastasia Days on the delivery of our
services. We're able to commit to this
Maintain the'Friends of Anastasia,
network providin8 regular social
events and promoting f riendship
amon8St recipients of each'Anastasia
Day, and their family members.
as a result of our stron8 Corporate
partnerships and the generosity of
our Patrons.
delivering an 'Anastasia Day, for as
many nominees as possible.
interests of each Recipient. Our goal
is to exceed expectations.
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 20 September 2022 To 19 September 2023**
## **Charity name: Anastasia Days**
## **Charity registration number: 1200403**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To provide tailored, memorable, high
quality ‘day out’ based experiences to help
advance the emotional recovery of young
people between the age of 6 to 16 who
have recently encountered illness, abuse,
disability, bereavement or other significant
trauma in the North of England especially
Greater Manchester, Lancashire and
Merseyside.|
|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|There is a growing amount of evidence
within clinical psychology that early and
well timed interventions following a
‘adverse childhood event (ACE)’ e.g.
bereavement or accident, or
during ‘ongoing, relentless stress’ caused
by battling a life threatening illness for
example, can help in promoting and
advancing the emotional recovery of
sufferers. Spending time doing something
different from the routine associated with
their situation, undertaking physical activity
(where appropriate), spending time with
trusted family and friends rebuilding a
sense of safety and security (Childhood
trauma almost always severely disrupts a
child’s sense of safety which can cause
them to withdraw) and providing an
opportunity to create positive, happy
memories that are more recent than the
memories associated with their traumatic
event/circumstance can help the process of
repairing emotional ill-health. Aiding and
advancing the emotional recovery of
children must be beneficial to society and
we believe the public benefit aspect of our
charitable activities is strong. Each tailor-
made Anastasia Days experience delivered
in our 2022-23 year has delivered the
benefits above and advanced the emotional|
|||recovery of the young people who have
been nominated.|
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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|The trustees have had regard to the Charity
Commissions guidance on public benefit
when planning all events and determining
how best to utilise funds raised.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|N/A|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|N/A|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|We are extremely grateful to our volunteers
who work behind the scenes to encourage
nominations, communicate about our
charity, design and plan the tailor-made
Anastasia Days experiences, oversee
arrangements on the day, govern,
scrutinise and develop the work of our
charity as trustees on Trustee Board and to
volunteers at Outlines Design who gift time
and to us to help run the charity and
communicate it externally. These people
are truly wonderful to be investing time and
expertise in our charity and we are very
grateful indeed to our volunteers.|
|Other||**N/A**|
## **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|2022-23 was an extremely successful year
for Anastasia Days, its fledgling year as the
charity got off the ground. We created the
policy and procedural framework for the
charities activities to ensure that very high
regard was made to governance,
safeguarding and other operations such as
regulatory compliance. Once this stable of
policies was set up it enabled the real work
of the charity to begin to deliver tailored,
memorable high quality ‘day out’ based
experiences to help advance the emotional
recovery of young people who have
encountered significant trauma. Key
communication tools were set up like our
website that we are very proud of, and our
social media platforms. We knew these
would be vital in raising awareness about
our work and helping invite nominations for
Anastasia Days. We are also very proud of|
our supplier relationships we built in 202223, knowing that we can trust them to provide high quality experiences for our Anastasia Days young people. They understand our charitable mission and work hard to go above and beyond on each experience. We are particularly grateful to XXX princess parties who have worked with us from the beginning. We know from page 1 (see above) about the clinical evidence that exists that identifies the short and long term benefits of the type of experiences Anastasia Days provides, and we of course see the sheer glee, smiles and giggles of families on their special day itself. In addition, the brave families also take time out to send us feedback and this is so meaningful for us as it shows our impact and benefit first hand. In June 2023, Gary carer of Ivy & Ruby wrote to us and told **us** _**“I had to thankyou for the day you put on for the girls at the weekend. The thought and planning that went into it was brilliant and we are really grateful.”**_ Gill also wrote to us about Chloe’s experience _**“Well what can I say! What an absolutely amazing day the girls had. They had their hair done, went in the limousine, went skating, had lunch and went shopping. Once again, a massive thankyou to you and your charity. You all do amazing work”**_
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Whilst no formal objectives are set for any
given period, the Trustees strive hard to
increase awareness of our charity and
strive to receive as many nominations for
Anastasia Days as our funds will support at
any given time.|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|No formal fundraising objectives are set for
any given period. In relation to fundraising
objectives, we are extremely fortunate to
have a main patron in Keylime Consultants
Ltd who provide a very reliable and secure
funding stream every month which ensures
we always have baseline funding to
provide a minimum of 6 Anastasia Days
experiences per year. Our ambition is more
than that every 12 months but having
security around that baseline income
means we can ensure we are active as a
charity.|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
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|Other||N/A|
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the year-end, the charity had £12,125.07
in the bank.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|The holding of reserves is deemed to be
unnecessary as the charity has no regular
financial commitments. Our income is
regular and reliable from Keylime
Consultants, and flows to us frequently
enough to allow for regular experiences to
be approved, funded and organised.|
|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|Given the strong cash position of the
charity, there is no uncertainty surrounding
the charity continuing as a going concern.|
## **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|
The principal source of funding for the
charity in our 2022_23 year**, £6.529** was
from Keylime Consultants who very
generously donate 1% of their business
invoicing totals.
Our second biggest source of funds in
2022_23,**£4,139**, was from a partnership
with Bolton School whose pupils have
adopted Anastasia Days as its annual
‘Christmas Post’ Charity where they do lots
of fundraising activities. They also
organised a range of activities right through
the year including a Summer Fayre and
later in the year a bring and buy sale. We
are very grateful for both these funding
streams. The funding from Bolton School is
particularly meaningful as this was the
school that Anastasia Costello, a wonderful
and much loved 11 year old, after whom
this a charity is dedicated, attended.
Wayne Costello, our charity Chairperson
was invited along to Bolton School to
participate in an assembly, talk about
Anastasia Days and receive the cheque.|
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||||We are also very fortunate to have
extremely kind people like J. Scott who
completed a half marathon in 2023 in aid of
Anastasia Days and raised in excess of
**£700** for the charity.|
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|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 3 main risks that Trustee Board
identify, and mitigate are;
1. We loose a sizeable proportion of
our regular income from Keylime
Consultants.
2. We have an influx of nominations
that is greater than the funds
available, and people capacity to
deliver meaning we have to
disappoint eligible children.
3. An incident occurs on one of our
Anastasia Days experience days
where a child is hurt (physically or
emotionally)
In 2023_24 Trustee Board will be
developing a risk register where we can
regularly review these risks and formally
mitigate then to as low a likelihood as
possible.|
|Other|||N/A|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution adopted 26/02/2022|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation (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 appointed or reappointed
annually at the Annual General Meeting
held in February or March each year.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
|**Additional information (optional)**|**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|N/A|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|One of our Trustee is connected into
NCVO so we have access to good practise
and regular updates.|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Anastasia Days|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1200403|
|Charity’s principal address|Anastasia Days
60 Victoria Road
Newton-le-Willows
WA12 9RX|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Wayne
Costello|Chair|Whole year|Trustee Board|
||Edina
Muchinya|Trustee|Whole year|Trustee Board|
||
Julie-Ann
Heath|Trustee|November 2022
to year end (and
present day|Trustee Board|
||Tracy Costello-
Davies|Trustee|Whole year|Trustee Board|
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name** None
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **||
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|None|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|N/A|
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|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets|N/A|
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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||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **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**|||
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|||Wayne Costello||
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|||Chair||
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||**Anastasia Days**|**Anastasia Days**|**Anastasia Days**|**Anastasia Days**|**Anastasia Days**|**1200403**|**1200403**|**1200403**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**||2022
20-Sep||**To**||2023
19-Sep|||
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|**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 £**|
|CharityIncome(Keylime)|**6,529**||**-**||**-**||**6,529**||**n/a**|
|CharityIncome (BoltonSchool)|**4,139**||**-**||**-**||**4,139**||**n/a**|
|CharityIncome (other fundraising)|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**||**n/a**|
|CharityIncome (justgiving)|**1,293**||**-**||**-**||**1,293**||**n/a**|
|CharityIncome (misc)|**122**||**-**||**-**||**122**||**n/a**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**12,183**||**-**||**-**||**12,183**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
|Charitycosts(experience transport)|**1,840**||**-**||**-**||**1,840**||**-**|
|Charitycosts(experience dining)|**261**||**-**||**-**||**261**||**-**|
|Charity costs ( experience parties, visits
etc)|**1,241**||**-**||**-**||**1,241**||**-**|
|Charity costs ( experience misc incl
spendingmoney)|**788**||**-**||**-**||**788**||**-**|
|Charity costs ( experience gifts and
merchandise)|**527**||**-**||**-**||**527**||**-**|
|Charitycosts(experience tickets)|**185**||**-**||**-**||**185**||**-**|
|Charitycosts(other)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**4,842**||**-**||**-**||**4,842**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**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_**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**7,341**||**-**||**-**||**7,341**||**-**|
||**-**||**- **|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**4,784**||**-**||**-**||**4,784**||**-**|
||**12,125**||**-**||**-**||**12,125**||**-**|
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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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Cash funds this year end
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|Cash funds this year end
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**12,125**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**12,125**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
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||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
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||Signature||Print Name
Tracy Costello|||||
||||||||Date of
approval|
||||Tracy Costello|||||
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