## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 22 Nov 2023 Period start date To 21 November 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Edison’s Light** ## **Charity registration number: 1202761** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of the charity
as set out in its governing document|Para 1.17|**To promote and protect the health of parents, siblings**
**and families affected by neonatal death, stillbirth or**
**miscarriage in particular but not exclusively by the**
**provision of memory boxes, support packs and by**
**providing emotional support.**| |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|**In planning our activities for the year, we kept in mind the**
**Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit and**
**regularly reviewed this at trustee meetings. Our work**
**continues to focus on supporting families affected by**
**baby loss, with a particular emphasis this year on sibling**
**bereavement.**
**During the year, we provided 139 sibling bereavement**
**support packs, 128 comfort bears, and 123 storybooks**
**free of charge. These were distributed to United**
**Lincolnshire Hospitals’ maternity department,**
**Nottingham University Hospitals’ maternity and neonatal**
**intensive care units, and directly to individual families.**
**To raise awareness and strengthen our connection with**
**the wider community, we took part in public events such**
**as the Lincoln Baby Loss Week Lantern Walk and the**
**Bumps, Babies and Beyond events. These awareness**
**stands helped us share our work, reduce stigma, and**
**reach more families in need.**
**Additionally, we have invested in volunteer training to**
**further develop and expand our peer support service.**| |Statement confirming whether the
trustees have had regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity
Commission onpublic benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees for Edison’s Light have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public**
**benefit**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| ||SORP reference|| |||**N/A**| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment including
program related investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by volunteers|Para 1.38|**Over the past year, we’ve been incredibly grateful for the**
**support of a small group of dedicated volunteers. Their time,**
**energy, and commitment have been essential in helping us**
**run events and stay active within the community.**
**Although we have found it challenging to recruit additional**
**volunteers this year, the efforts of our existing team have**
**been outstanding.**
**Twelve volunteers have gone above and beyond to raise both**
**money and awareness for Edison’s Light. They’ve taken part**
**in a variety of fundraising activities including the Lincoln**
**Santa Fun Run, personal challenges like running 500 miles in**
**a year, the Lincoln 10k, the London Landmarks Half**
**Marathon, the London Marathon, the Edinburgh Half**
**Marathon, and the Edinburgh 10k. Many have also supported**
**us by volunteering at community events.**
**Their dedication has made a real difference not only in**
**raising funds, but also in helping us reach more people and**
**share our message more widely. As a fully volunteer run**
**charity our volunteers are at the core of everything we**
**achieve.**| |Other||| ## **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|**This year, Edison’s Light has continued to make a**
**meaningful difference to families affected by baby loss, with**
**a strong focus on supporting grieving siblings.**
**After listening to feedback from families who have been**
**through these incredibly difcult experiences, we made**
**important changes to the two sibling bereavement support**
**packs we offer. We created our own**
**_Thoughts and Feelings_**
**journals and an**
**_Emotions Workbook_**
**for younger children to**
**help them better express and understand their feelings.**
**These new resources are designed to offer children age-**
**appropriate ways to cope and help adults support them**
**through their grief.**
**Over the past 12 months, we provided 139 sibling**
**bereavement support packs, 128 comfort bears, and 123**
**storybooks free of charge. These were given to United**
**Lincolnshire Hospitals' maternity department, Nottingham**
**University Hospitals’ maternity and neonatal intensive care**
**units, and directly to individual families. The feedback we’ve**| **received shows these resources have offered comfort, understanding, and vital support during one of the hardest times a family can face. We’ve also worked hard to raise awareness about the impact of baby loss on families. By attending various public events and running information stalls, we’ve been able to talk with members of the public, help break the silence around baby loss, and give people the chance to share their own stories. These events also allowed us to guide people towards other sources of support when needed. Through our work this year, we’ve not only supported families directly, but also helped to increase understanding and compassion within the wider community around baby loss and its lasting impact.** |**Additional information (optional)**||| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |Achievements against objectives set||| ||Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising activities||| |against objectives set||| ||Para 1.41|| |Investment performance against||| |objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ||**Additional information (optional)**
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Achievements against objectives set|
Para 1.41||| ||Performance of fundraising activities
against objectives set|Para 1.41||| ||Investment performance against
objectives|Para 1.41||| ||Other|||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s financial position
at the end of theperiod|Para 1.21|**At the end of the charity’s financial period, we held**
**£4,026.74 in the bank in unrestricted funds.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the policy for
holding reserves stating why they are
held|Para 1.22|**None in place**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**0**| |Reasons for holding zero reserves|Para 1.22|**As we have no contractual obligations to provide a**
**minimum number of support packs each year, and no**
**ongoing financial commitments such as premises or**
**staffing costs, the trustees did not consider it necessary**
**to hold a designated reserve at this time. Should the**
**charity’s circumstances change in the future, we will**
**review thisposition accordingly.**| |Details of fund materiallyin deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any uncertainties about
the charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No current concerns**| ## **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|
**This year, the charity has benefited from a variety of**
**income sources. We have been fortunate to receive**
**generous donations from a number of companies and**
**organisations, as well as private contributions from**
**individual supporters.**
**Additional funds have been raised through volunteer-led**
**sponsorship efforts, with individuals taking part in a**
**range of challenges and events to raise money and**
**awareness on our behalf.**
**We have also organised our own fundraising events**
**throughout the year, including bingo nights, race nights,**
**and quizzes. Raffles were held at these events, which**
**contributed further to our fundraising efforts.**
**In addition, we attended several awareness events where**
**we placed donation collection boxes and held raffles to**
**engage the public and encourage further support.**| |---|---|---| |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|| |Other||| **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity constituted?
(e.gunincorporated 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|**Apart from the first 4 charity trustees, every trustee is to**
**be appointed for a term of 3 years (as laid out in the**
**governing document) by a resolution passed at a**
**properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.**
**In selecting individuals for appointment as new charity**
**trustee(s), the existing charity trustees must ensure they**
**have the relevant skills, knowledge and experience**
**needed for the effective administration of the charity.**
**All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no**
**remuneration or other benefits.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
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induction and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Each new charity trustee, on or before their first**
**appointment will receive a copy of the current version of**
**the constitution as well as a copy of the latest Trustees’**
**Annual Report and statement of accounts.**| |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** |Charityname|Edison’s Light| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|| |Registered charitynumber|1202761| |Charity’s principal address|4 Victor Way
Waddington
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0|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of**
**person**
**(or body)**
**entitled to**
**appoint**
**trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Laura Yarlett|Chair||| |||Stephen Yarlett|||| |||Audrey Hargeaves|||| |||Nicola Rogers|||| |||Rebekah Killick|||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| – 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 N/A capacity Name and objects of the charity on N/A whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe N/A custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address 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** The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees ||Signature(s)|Mrs LA Yarlett||| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||| |||Laura Anne
Yarlett (MRS)||| |||||| |||Chair||| |||||| ||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**||||**CC16a**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Edison's Light**||||||**1202761**|||| ||**Receipts and payments**
**accounts**|||||||||| ||**For the**
**period from**||**Period start**
**date**||**To**|**Period end**
**date**||||| ||||**22/11/2023**|||**21/11/2024**||||| |||||||||||| |**Section A**
**Receipts and**
**payments**||||||||||| ||**Unrestrict**
**ed funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowme**
**nt funds**||**Total**
**funds**||**Last year**|| ||**to the**
**nearest £**||**to the**
**nearest £**||**to the**
**nearest £**||**to the**
**nearest £**||**to the**
**nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |**Donations(sponsorship)**|**3,549**||**-**||**-**||**3,549**||**-**|| |**Fundraising event**|**3,554**||**-**||**-**||**3,554**||**-**|| |**Companies/individual**
**donations**|**1,808**||**-**||**-**||**1,808**||**-**|| |**Refunds**|**32**||**-**||**-**||**32**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total(Gross_**
**_income for AR)_**|**8,942**||**-**||**-**||**8,942**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and**
**investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**||**8,942**||**-**||**-**||**8,942**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |**fundraising events**||**405**||**-**||**-**||**405**||**-**|| |**Charitable activity**||**5,249**||**-**||**-**||**5,249**||**-**|| |**Opereational costs**||**967**||**-**||**-**||**967**||**-**|| |**Training**||**149**||**-**||**-**||**149**||**-**|| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**||**6,770**||**-**||**-**||**6,770**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and**
**investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||||| |**Fixed assests**||**266**||**-**||**-**||**266**|||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_**||**266**||**-**||**-**||**266**|||| ||||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_**||**7,036**||**-**||**-**||**7,036**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| |**_Net of_**
**_receipts/(payments)_**||**1,905**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|| |**A5 Transfers between**
**funds**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last**
**year end**||**2,121**||**-**||**-**||**2,121**||**-**|| |**_Cash funds this_**
**_year end_**||**4,026**||**-**||**-**||**4,026**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| ||||||||||||| |**Section B**
**Statement of**
**assets and**
**liabilities at the**|||||||||||| |**end of the**
**period**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestrict**
**ed funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowme**
**nt funds**|| ||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|| |**B1 Cash funds**|**Bank Account**||||**4,027**|**-**|**-**|| |||||||**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**4,027**|**-**|**-**|| ||**(agree balances with receipts**
**and payments account(s))**||||**Agreement**
**Error**|**OK**|**OK**|| ||||||**Unrestrict**
**ed funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowme**
**nt funds**|| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|| |**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to**
**which asset**
**belongs**|**Cost**
**(optional)**|**Current**
**value**
**(optional)**|| |**B3 Investment**
**assets**||||||**-**|**-**|| |||||||**-**|**-**|| |||||||**-**|**-**|| |||||||**-**|**-**|| |||||||**-**|**-**|| |||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to**
**which asset**
**belongs**|**Cost**
**(optional)**|**Current**
**value**
**(optional)**|| |**B4 Assets retained**
**for the charity’s own**
**use**|**Event equipment - gazebo-**
**rollerblind- cart**|**Event equipment - gazebo-**
**rollerblind- cart**|**Event equipment - gazebo-**
**rollerblind- cart**|**unristricted**||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Fundrasing decorations**
**(reusable)**|||**unrestricted**||**-**|| ||**delivery trolley**||||**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|**-**|| ||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Fund to**
**which**
**liability**
**relates**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**|| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||||| |**Signed by one or two**
**trustees on behalf of all**
**the trustees**|**Signature**|||**Print Name**||**Date of**
**approval**|| ||LauraYarlett|||**Mrs Laura A Yarlett**||**16.05.25**|| |||||||||