1 ## **Cosy Coats** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 3[rd] March 2023 to 31[st] March 2024.** Charity’s name – Cosy Coats Registered Charity Number – 1202178 Charity’s principal address - 31 Sampson Avenue, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. ST14 5FG ## **Structure, governance and management** The Charity is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with a Constitution which was adopted on 28[th] February 2023. The Charity was registered with the Charity Commission on 3[rd] March 2023. The following trustees manage the Charity and were appointed on 28[th] February 2023. Mark Goodall – Chairman - appointed for four years. Josephine Goodall – appointed for three years. Graham Goodall – Treasurer – appointed for four years. The Charity does not have any paid employees or own or lease any land or property. Its only assets are a card machine for taking donations by Debit Card and two publicity banners used for the Pop Up shop. ## **Summary of the objectives of the charity set out in its governing document** The object of Cosy Coats is the prevention and relief of poverty in England and Wales by providing free new warm and fashionable coats to impoverished children or to other organisations who are also working to relieve poverty. ## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these** ## **objectives** In planning our activities for the year, we kept in mind the charity commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings. The main activities were as follows: - Setting up a ‘pop up shop’ at Birmingham New Street train station to promote the activities of the charity and to fund raise from generous train passengers who buy a coat for a child from a ‘wish-list’ catalogue. - Marketing and communicating on social media to raise the profile of the charity to gain donations. - Partnering with two organisations who have sponsored the charity which covers the majority of our administration fees. - Purchasing 5 charity runners places at the London Landmarks Half Marathon and asking each runner to raise sponsorship for the charity. 2 - Encouraging other fund raising events such as cake sales (CrossCountry Trains) and challenges (Metis Blu Scotland Hike). - Engaging with schools to identify children who need support and making donations accordingly so that children are bought a new, warm and fashionable coat. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities** We are grateful to Network Rail for the space they provide us at Train Stations free of charge. We are grateful for our volunteers Tara Walsh and Debs Hubner and also to our sponsors Intuitive Talent Solutions Limited and Quill Power Communications Limited. ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year.** This year we have achieved the following: - Purchased 5 places at the London Landmarks half marathon 2024 which has already led to significant donations. - On-boarded a new sponsor Quill Power Communications and retained our 2022 sponsor Intuitive Recruitment Solutions Limited. - Partnered with ‘Our Place’ in Sutton Coldfield who support vulnerable charities. Through match funding we have supported 20 children in Birmingham who needed warm coats for winter. - Organised and ran a ‘pop up shop’ at Birmingham New Street train station that promoted the charity and through the charitable donations of kind rail passengers helped us raise £1,200 for coats. - Partnered with Oasis Academies to secure a community grant alongside a Cosy Coats grant of £3,500 to purchase £10,500 worth of coats. This ensured that approximately 400 children at around 80 schools in the UK were given brand new, warm, fashionable winter coats. These children were identified by each individual school support worker who allowed the child to pick their own coat so they felt pride in their coat. ## **Financial Review** Cash at Bank at 31[st] March 2024 was £5,443.90 in unrestricted funds. The main financial risk to the Charity is a loss of funding from donations and sponsorship. However this risk is minimal because the Charity would not commit to any expenditure or grant unless there were adequate unrestricted funds available to cover the costs. There are no funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others. ## **Signed on behalf of the Charity’s Trustees - G. Goodall** **Full name Graham Goodall Position – Trustee and Treasurer. Date – 31[st] March 2024.** ## **Cosy Coats** **Registered Charity Number 1202178** **Receipts and payments account from 3/3/2023 to 31/3/2024** ||**Receipts**|| |---|---|---| |Donations||£6,075.77| |Sponsorship||£1,000.00| |**Total**||**£7,075.77**| ||**Payments**|| |Grants||£4,234.50| |Fees||£ 712.50| |Marketing||£ 180.00| |Administration||£ 217.00| |**Total**||**£5,344.00**| |**Income over Expenditure- £1,731.77**||| ||**Cash at Bank**|| |3/3/2023 - Opening Balance||£3,712.13| |31/3/2024 - Closing Balance||£5,443.90| |**Income over Expenditure- £1,731.77**||| **Signed on behalf of the Trustees - G. Goodall (Graham Goodall) Date – 12[th] April 2024**