## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/04/2023 Period start date To 31/03/2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name: WEST BERKSHIRE DRAUGHTBUSTERS**
## **Charity registration number: 1200506**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|For the public benefit, the relief of those in
need by reason of financial hardship, in
West Berkshire and the surrounding area,
by means of but not exclusively, providing
practical help including home insulation and
draught-proofing, support and information
in order to help people to stay warm and
reduce their energy bills.|
|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|The charity provide services to anyone with
a serious health condition; who meets
vulnerability criteria e.g. recently homeless;
or is claiming social security benefits.
Clients may be referred by organisations
including the local authority, Citizens
Advice Bureau.
By providing energy saving advice and
helping to install insulation and
draughtproofing in clients homes the charity
will help to reduce clients’ energy costs and
make their homes more comfortable.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees operate the charity with due
regard for the Charity Commission
guidance on public benefit.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|The Charity does not make grants|
||Para1.38|The Charity does not make social
investments|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|||
|---|---|---|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|All services to clients are provided by
unpaid volunteers who visit clients homes
in pairs|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|During this reporting period, the main
activity of the Charity was in making visits
to clients in Newbury and Thatcham to
address their draughtproofing needs.|
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
Other
## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 During the period the charity incurred
financial position at the end expenditure on draughtproofing materials
of the period and on awareness raising about its
services via a web site, Facebook
advertising, and flyers. The initial grants
received in 2022 remain sufficient to fund
activities until at least 2025.
Statement explaining the Para 1.22 All available funds will be held in a current
policy for holding reserves account. Trustees intend to hold reserves
stating why they are held of at least £1,000 in order to respond to any
sudden demand for its services.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £1000
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 n/a
reserves
Details of fund materially in Para 1.24 n/a
deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 Trustees are confident that the Charity has
uncertainties about the the financial resources to meet demand for
charity continuing as a going its services for the foreseeable future
concern
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## **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||
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|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**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing document Para 1.25 The Charity is governed by a Deed dated
(trust deed, royal charter) 25 [th] August 2022
How is the charity Para 1.25 The Charity is a Charitable Incorporated
constituted? Organisation (Foundation Structure)
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
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|**Structure, Governance and Management**|**Structure, Governance and Management**|**Structure, Governance and Management**|
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|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)
Para 1.25
The Charity is governed by a Deed dated
25th August 2022|||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Para 1.25
The Charity is a Charitable Incorporated
Organisation (Foundation Structure)|||
|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|Every charity trustee must be a natural
person.
No individual may be appointed as a charity
trustee of the CIO:
-
if he or she is under the age of 16
years; or
-
if he or she is disqualified from
acting as a charity trustee by virtue
of sections 178-180 of the Charities
Act 2011 (or any statutory re-
enactment or modification of that
provision).
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At least one of the charity trustees
of the CIO must be 18 years of age
or over.
If there is no charity trustee aged at least
18 year the remaining charity trustees may
only
act to call a meeting of the charity trustees,
or appoint a new charity trustee|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name West Berkshire Draughtbusters
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number 1200506
Charity’s principal address 1 GRASSMEAD
THATCHAM
Berkshire
RG19 4FP
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
Steve Ardagh- Chairman
1
Walter
2 David Marson Trustee
3 Kenneth Neal Trustee
4 Ian Young Trustee
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6
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– 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 held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for 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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||
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||David Marson|
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Trustee/Treasurer|
||22/01/252|
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Charity Name 1200506
West Berkshire Draughtbusters
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01/04/2023 31/03/2024
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations - - - 4,317
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) - - - - 4,317
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts - - - - 4,317
A3 Payments
Purchase of draughtproofing materials - 156 - 156 306
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] 156 - 156 306
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments - 156 - 156 306
Net of receipts/(payments) - - 156 - - 156 4,011
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end - - 156 - - 156 4,011
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Cash at bank
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**3,855**
**-**
**-**
**3,855**
Agreement Error
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**
**-**||
||Signature|Print Name
D. J Marson||Date of
approval
22/01/25|
**B1 Cash funds**
## **B2 Other monetary assets**
## **B3 Investment assets**
## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
18/01/2025
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