## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From: 1 April 2023 to 1 April 2024**
## **Charity name: Elisabeth Henderson Foundation**
## **Charity registration number: 1201223**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance education, including by (but not
limited to) awarding scholarships, maintenance
allowances, grants or other support for
educational activity.|
|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|This was the Charity’s first full year in operation
and was very much in start-up mode focussed
on things such as setting up our IT systems and
grant policy. We made no awards of funding.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Confirmed|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference While no grants have been offered this year due to insufficient funds, the charity has Para 1.38 Policy on grant making developed a grant making policy which is attached. Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|The Elisabeth Henderson Foundation (EHF)
was created at the end of 2022. The reporting
period of 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 was
our first full operating year.
The period was focussed on setting up the
administrative foundations of the charity
including our Grant making policy, our email
accounts, and our bank accounts.
We received our first donation of £1,000 which
we have used to cover some of the
administrative costs, namely our postal box
services.|
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|The trustees, in this first foundation year, have
held consultation and met with wider
stakeholders in the Recess College, to discuss
it funding potential funding strategy and planned
other interventions to increase to secure future
funding|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity has a single bank account. Our only
committed expense is a postal service for mail.
There are sufficient funds to cover that
expenditure .|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We hold sufficient funds to cover our committed
administrative expenditure. We don’t explicitly
hold reserves.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Whilst we don’t explicitly hold reserves, we
have £670 cash on hand at the end of the
period.|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|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|**N/A**|
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||||The trustees, in this first foundation year, have|
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||The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including|Para 1.47|stakeholders in the Recess College, to discuss it
funding potential funding strategy and planned|
||any fundraising)||other interventions to increase to secure future|
||||funding|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The trustees, in this first foundation year, have
held consultation and met with wider
stakeholders in the Recess College, to discuss it
funding potential funding strategy and planned
other interventions to increase to secure future
funding|
|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:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|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|The charity was set up with four Trustees, all of
which were Trustees during this period.
Trustees are appointed by the Membership.
There is always one Founding Member and
potentially additional members. In this period
there is only the Founding Member, Elisabeth
Henderson.|
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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Elisabeth Henderson Foundation|
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|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1201223|
|Charity’s principal address|Bates Wells Braithwaite
Thames Exchange
10 Queen Street Place
London
EC4R 1BE|
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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|Magnus Von Wistinghausen|-|Whole Year|FoundingMember|
|Paula McDonald|-|Whole Year|FoundingMember|
|Sarah Richards|-|Whole Year|FoundingMember|
|Richard Bray|-|Whole Year|FoundingMember|
## – 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 None held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**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**
**Richard Bray**
**Paula MacDonald**
**Sarah Richards**
**Magnus Von Wistinghausen**
_**Date: 05 May 2025**_