Survivors Against Terror CIO (Registered charity, number 1203327) Financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
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| 2 - 4 | Trustees’ annual report |
| 5 | Independent examiner’s report |
| 6 | Receipts & payments account |
| 7 | Statement of assets & liabilities |
| 8 - 9 | Notes to the accounts |
Survivors Against Terror CIO Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2025
Full name Survivors Against Terror CIO
Organisation type Charitable incorporated organisation
Registered charity number 1203327
Principal address
61 Bridge Street, Kington, HR5 3DJ
Trustees
Claudia Vince Michael Haines Figen Murray Jo Berry, till 24/02/2025
Michelle Jones, from 24/02/2025 Paul Price, from 24/02/2025 Cath Hill, from 24/02/2025
Independent examiner
Eva Stevens, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL
Governance and management
The charity is operated under the rules of its constitution adopted 31/05/2023.
Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
Objectives and activities
The objectives of the charity are the relief of suffering, hardship and distress of persons who are victims of terrorism including facilitating the provision of support, advocacy and information and raising awareness of the issues faced by victims of terrorism and its effects including ways to support such victims. Specifically, we: ●Promote services, activities and policies that reduce the risk of terrorism and support victims and survivors.
●Conduct and sponsor research into the needs and experiences of survivors with recommendations for improved services and support for survivors.
●Promotion of learning from past attacks and how future terror attacks may be prevented/have their impact mitigated.
●Organise events and activities which; enable victims and survivors to share their experiences, their points of view and offer mutual support; educate and update survivors on the work done by agencies tasked with supporting survivors as well as those involved in security and policing; and to enable victims and survivors to collaborate in developing a shared programme of work.
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●Share information and understanding by participating in and contributing to relevant national initiatives led by government or civil society institutions and by proactively approaching stakeholders identified in our research and our survivor engagement. ●Facilitate public participation in the prevention and solution of terrorism by enabling victims and survivors to share values and lessons that promote personal responses to terrorism that enable rather than diminish cohesion, peace and understanding in our national community and in local communities.
●Monitor public discourse around events and developments that heighten concerns about the risk of terrorism and aim to ensure that victim and survivors perspectives on society’s best response to terrorism are shared at these key moments.
●Aim to multiply our impact by developing links with media organisations to guide how information about terrorism, its impacts and society’s response are framed in public debate.
Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit
Our activities provide relief of suffering, hardship and distress of persons who are victims of terrorism including facilitating the provision of support, advocacy and information and raising awareness of the issues faced by victims of terrorism and its effects including ways to support such victims.
Public benefit statement
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'.
Summary of the main achievements during the period
● Continued to run our series of community zooms, engaging our members in peerto-peer support, alongside information sharing from speakers, including the Home Office, people working on the Reflection Day in Northern Ireland and psychologists working in the NHS. The zooms also highlighted members of the survivor community who are running successful projects based on their lived experience.
● Advanced and continued to advocate for the Survivors Charter; a guaranteed set of rights for survivors of terrorism which broadly cover:
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Assistance and Support
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Recognition and Remembrance
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Financial Compensation
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Access to Justice
● Ongoing support to our members’ campaigns and projects, including Figen Murray’s Martyn’s Law’ also known as the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act, which received Royal Assent on April 3, 2025.
● The memorialisation working group which was established at the end of last financial year conducted a survey of SAT members, and wrote a report based on responses to that survey. It was launched on 27 January 2025, and coincided with the roundtable that people affected by terrorism had with the Minister of Security.
● The Home Office in response to the Memorialisation Report, has committed to supporting a day of recognition for people affected by terrorism and shared a public consultation which closed in June. It is currently reviewing the results, but remains committed to enabling a day of recognition for all people affected by terror.
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● SAT members have worked closely with the Victims of Terrorism Unit in the Home Office to secure a ‘support hub’ which will offer 24/7 support to all people affected by terrorism. How this will look is not yet fully clear, but it has been based on all the work that Survivors Against Terror has done to date. The Victims of Terrorism Unit has worked closely with people affected by terrorism, specifically facilitated by SAT, to ensure that it will be able to offer the psychological and practical support that people need, not only in the immediate aftermath of an attack, but also in the long term.
● Employed a consultant who has worked with partners to finalise and draw up our media guidelines, and to publish them.
● Interviewed members of our network who were affected by the 7/7 attack, and produced a report which looked at their experiences of terrorism after 20 years.
● Worked alongside the psychosocial London network as ‘Experts by Experience’, looking at how best to respond to major incidents London-wide, with the hope of extending this learning and practice nationwide.
● Alongside Cardiff University, continued researching the impact of social media on those affected by terrorism, through wide-reaching surveys and more in-depth interviews with a smaller group of respondents.
● We have worked closely with Victim Support and the VTU to ensure that people affected by terrorism have access to support if they need it.
● We have worked closely with, and advocated for people affected by terror when documentaries were triggering, specifically, but not only, around a big anniversary.
Financial review
During the year, we received the final instalment of our three-year funding from the Oak Foundation, which was a significant support for the charity.
In addition, we received donations from individual supporters and funding from Mitie and Pool Re. Some of these funds were earmarked specifically to support Martyn’s Law. Overall, our finances remained in good order throughout the year.
We were able to maintain our reserves at £20,000, which provides a stable financial base for the charity.
As we reach the end of the financial year and the Oak Foundation funding has been fully utilised, our focus moving forward will be on increasing fundraising efforts. This will help prevent any shortfall in the next financial year and ensure we continue the impactful work we have achieved.
The charity’s policy on reserves
We need reserves to meet any potential funding shortfall. Our target level is to cover basic operations for a 28 week period while we secure funding. We review annually.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
Signed ______ Date _ Claudia Vince, Chair
22/01/2026
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Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Survivors Against Terror CIO for the year ended 31 March 2025
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Survivors Against Terror CIO (the charity) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner’s statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed ____ Date _______ 22/01/2026 Eva Stevens BSc, CPFA Employee of Community Accounting Plus
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Survivors Against Terror CIO Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 March 2025
| 2024 Total Unrestricted Funds Funds £ Note £ Receipts 96372 Grants & donations 2 84516 50 Sundry expense - - Interest received 72 96422 Total receipts 84588 Payments 2630 Advertising/Promotional 542 104 Banking Charge 177 900 Communications/social media 1600 230 Computer Costs 334 3632 Events and social 306 527 Insurances 146 840 Legal and Professional 1467 507 Office costs 413 7777 Other Professional Services 14270 35330 Consultancy 49693 22709 Wages, NI & pension 14690 270 Subsistence - 1445 Travel and Accommodation 48 76901 Total payments 83686 19521 Net receipts/(payments) 902 24991 Cash funds at start of this period 44512 44512 Cash funds at end of this period 45414 |
Restricted Funds £ 9484 - - 9484 - - 3250 - 173 - - - - - - - 3684 7107 2377 - 2377 |
2025 Total Funds £ 94000 - 72 |
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| 94072 | ||
| 542 177 4850 334 479 146 1467 413 14270 49693 14690 - 3732 |
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| 90793 | ||
| 3279 44512 |
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| 47791 |
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Survivors Against Terror CIO Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 March 2025
| 2024 £ Cash assets Note 44512 Bank accounts 44512 Other monetary assets - Prepayments 4 6525 Debtors 6525 Assets retained for the charity’s own use General equipment. Liabilities (1909) Creditors 5 (1909) |
2025 £ 47791 |
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| 47791 | |
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| 177 | |
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These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:
Signed _____ Date _____ 22/01/2026 Claudia Vince, Chair
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Survivors Against Terror CIO Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025
1. Receipts & payments accounts
Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.
2. Grants & donations
| Pool Reinsurance Leading Management Crowdguard limited Oak Foundation Gift aid General donations |
Unrestricted £ 40000 - - 42500 2016 84516 |
Restricted Total £ £ - 40000 800 800 1000 1000 - 42500 909 909 6775 8791 9484 94000 |
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3. Funds analysis
| Restricted funds Martyn's Law Unrestricted funds General Fund |
Opening balance £ - - 44512 44512 |
Receipts (Payments) £ £ 9484 (7107) 9484 (7107) 84588 (83686) 84588 (83686) |
Closing balance £ 2377 2377 45414 45414 |
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Martyn’s Law- this is exclusively to support activities related to the development, promotion, and implementation of Martyn’s Law. The fund was established to provide targeted financial support for initiatives in collaboration with key stakeholders, specifically to assist Figen Murray in her advocacy and awareness efforts to advance the legislation.
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4. Prepayment
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£
Zoom Subscription 104
Insurance 73
177
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HMRC 390
Independent examination fee 726
1116
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5. Creditors
6. Trustees’ remuneration
- Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period.
7. Related party transactions
- There were no related party transactions in this period.
8. Glossary of terms
Creditors: These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.
Debtors: These are amounts owed to the charity, but not received in the accounting period.
Prepayments: These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.
Restricted funds: These are funds given to the charity, subject to specific restrictions set by the donor, but still within the general objects of the charity.
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