## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 20 September 2024 To 19 September 2025** ## **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 is most certainly 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 2024-25 year
has delivered the benefits above and| |||advanced the emotional recovery of the
young people who have been nominated.
In our third full year as a charity, we have
further been able to develop and focus the
components within Anastasia Days
experience days, based on feedback from
previous experience beneficiaries as we
understand better which parts have the
most impact on emotional recovery, short
and long term, on our children.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees continue to have regular
regard to the Charity Commissions
guidance on public benefit when planning
all events, devising processes and
determining how best to utilise funds
raised, and as each year passes we
develop our experience about how to
further ensure public benefit across our
activities.| ## **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 humbled and
appreciative of our volunteers who work
hard behind the scenes to encourage
nominations, fundraise, communicate and
raise awareness about our charity. In
addition, volunteers 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.
Likewise, we are very fortunate to receive
volunteer time from Outlines Design who
gift time and to us to help run the charity
and communicate it externally.
As the awareness of our charity grows
(mainly from our existing network of
families, contacts and from the testimony of
our beneficiaries) we receive other offers of
volunteer time and resources. In 2024/25
this included a wonderful team of people at
East Leigh AFC, who worked very hard to
promote and raise awareness of Anastasia
Days by nominating it as their official
Charity Partner for their 24/25 season. Our
charity logo was promoted on all the club
squad kits (including grassroots football
teams) and they dedicated their weekly
‘Players of the Match’Award to Anastasia| |||Days. The awareness of Anastasia Days
has received a real boost through this
partnership with East Leigh AFC, and it is
particularly meaningful as the initial
connections were made through a family
who had recently been a beneficiary of an
Anastasia Days experience day and
advocated for our nomination.
We would also like to recognise the
continued volunteer contribution into
2024/25 by the staff and pupils at Bolton
School. £1741.60 was raised by these
wonderful volunteers for Anastasia Days.
These people from a wide range of places
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|2024/25 was another successful year for
Anastasia Days, its third year since the
charity was formed.**7 separate Anastasia**
**Days experiences were planned and**
**carried out for 9 wonderful and brave**
**children,**who have recently encountered
illness, abuse, disability, bereavement or
other significant trauma in their lives. We
are exceptionally proud to have brought
these children and their families some
happiness during their time of significant
challenge and adversity and of course their
Anastasia Days experience will have
promoted and advanced their emotional
recovery with both short term and long
term benefit.
We continue to develop good quality,
meaningful relationships in 2024-25 with
our contractors and experience providers,
knowing that we can trust them to provide
high quality experiences for our Anastasia
Days young people. Many of our suppliers
have been with us since the beginning and
understand our charitable mission and
work hard to go above and beyond on
each experience.
In 2024/25 we continued to renew and
update 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. 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 delight, happiness, fulfilment, emotional respite and smiles of families on their special day itself. In addition, the brave families kindly take time out to send us feedback, and this is so meaningful for us as it shows our impact and benefit first hand. Our partnership with East Leigh AFC evolved from our network of families. |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||| ||Achievements against||Whilst no formal objectives are set for any| ||objectives set||given period, the Trustees work hard to| |||Para 1.41|increase awareness of our charity and| ||||strive to receive as many nominations for| ||||Anastasia Days as our funds will support at| ||||any given time.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**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 work 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.| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|No formal fundraising objectives are set for
any given period. In relation to fundraising
channels, 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| |Other||N/A| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the 2024/25 year-end, the charity had
£7,546.11 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.
Keylime Consultants is an established
company that is stable and commercially
resilient, so is considered a reliable funding
source in the medium to long term.| |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 stable 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 2025/26 year,**£1,763.66** was
from Keylime Consultants who very
generously donate 1% of their business
invoicing totals.
Our second biggest source of funds in
2024/25,**£1,741.60**, was from a
partnership with Bolton School whose
pupils have adopted Anastasia Days as
one of its annual Charities where they do
lots of fundraising activities.
We are very grateful for both these
significant 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.
We are also very fortunate to have
received**£364.12**from monthly giving
donations from generous individuals.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A| |A description of the principal
risks facingthe charity||The 4 main risks that Trustee Board
identify, and continue to mitigate are;| ||Para 1.46|1. In light of our growing profile as a
charity that 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.
2. We lose a sizeable proportion of our
regular income from Keylime
Consultants.
3. An incident occurs on one of our
Anastasia Days experience days
where a child is hurt (physically or
emotionally)
4. Loss of knowledge and charitable
experience through a sudden loss
of a Trustee Board member from
the Board.
Last yearTrustee Board developed 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)** 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|Para 1.51|One of our Trustee is connected into
NCVO so we have access to good practise
and regular updates.| |network with which the
charity works||| |---|---|---| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para1.51|We were formally appointed a charity
partner of East Leigh A.F.C for th3 24/25
football season.| |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
1 Mere Oaks
Standish
Wigan
WN1 2SL| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4|**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|Whole year|Trustee Board| ||Tracy Costello-
Davies|Trustee|Whole year|Trustee Board| – 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**|| |---|---|---| |None||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|N/A| |---|---| |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 N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |N/A|N/A|N/A| |||| **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** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg**
**Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| |||| ||Wayne Costello|| |||| ||Chair|| ||09/07/2026|| ||09/07/2026|| ||**Anastasia Days**|**Anastasia Days**|**Anastasia Days**|**Anastasia Days**|**Anastasia Days**|**1200403**|**1200403**|**1200403**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||20-Sep
2024||**To**||19-Sep
2025||| ||||||||||| |**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)|**1,764**||**-**||**-**||**1,764**||**n/a**| |CharityIncome(Bolton School)|**1,742**||**-**||**-**||**1,742**||**n/a**| |CharityIncome(other fundraising)|**120**||**-**||**-**||**120**||**n/a**| |CharityIncome(justgiving)|**244**||**-**||**-**||**244**||**n/a**| |CharityIncome(misc)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**n/a**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**3,870**||**-**||**-**||**3,870**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |Charitycosts(experience transport)|**945**||**-**||**-**||**945**||**-**| |Charitycosts(experience dining)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Charity costs ( experience parties, visits
etc)|**1,434**||**-**||**-**||**1,434**||**-**| |Charity costs ( experience misc incl
spendingmoney)|**744**||**-**||**-**||**744**||**-**| |Charity costs ( experience gifts and
merchandise)|**568**||**-**||**-**||**568**||**-**| |Charitycosts(experience tickets)|**1,821**||**-**||**-**||**1,821**||**-**| |Charitycosts(other)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**5,512**||**-**||**-**||**5,512**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**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_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**- 1,642**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**9,189**||||||||**-**| ||**7,547**||||||||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 09/07/2026 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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash funds this year end
**Details**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash funds this year end
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**7,547**
**-**
**-**
**7,547**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**7,547**
**-**
**-**
**7,547**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||OK| ||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||Signature||Print Name
Tracy Costello||||| ||||||||Date of
approval| ||||Tracy Costello||||18/03/2026| ||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 09/07/2026 2