2025-04-05-accounts - Here North East

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Trustees' Annual Report					for theperiod
From	Period start date			To	Period end date
	06	04	2024		05	04	2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name HERE NORTH EAST

Other names charity is known by HERE NE

Registered charity number (if any) 1204319

Charity's principal address Trinity Community Association

High Street, Gateshead Tyne and Wear Postcode NE8 1EP

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Dr Jordan Mullard	Co-Chair
	Kona Padmaja Rao	Co-Chair
	Maya Iza Duncanson	Treasurer
	Bernard Musesengwe

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Bank	Lloyds Bank plc	25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution adopted 10[th] August 2023 Type of governing document

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustees are appointed or reappointed annually at the Annual General Trustee selection methods Meeting held in Appointed by the Board Members in July 2023 (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

Membership is open to any individual who is interested in furthering the purpose of HERE North East.

The trustees oversee the day to day running of the charity. The trustees seek the views of members in deciding the activities to be run.

All trustees give their time voluntarily and received no remuneration or other benefits.

the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

To promote equality and diversity for the public benefit by raising awareness of the contributions and history of Global Majority people in the North East of England.
To promote racial harmony and wellbeing for the public benefit by working towards the elimination of racial discrimination.
To provide a hub for a living archive and historical records of the work of Global Majority cultural organisers in the North East

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HERE North East CIO was established as a cultural hub and resource centre to promote equality and diversity for the public benefit. The existing archival materials are a fundamental core of this cultural hub and their continued care and accessibility are essential to our vision and strategy. Our collection is the first of its kind in the region and currently includes hard and digital archival materials and oral histories of several key local Global Majority organisations.

We appreciate the board members who have come together to try to move the charity along, but we have not been able to make much progress due to their limited ability to allocate the workload.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

We have a draft reserve policy in place. This is to protect enough funds in the charity for three months.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

The charity’s principle sources of funding came for the seed funding from the four Universities – Durham, Newcastle, Sunderland and Northumbria, each contributing £2,500, except Northumbria £2,550

The funding has allowed us:

to keep the annual fee payments for HERE NE website domain and HERE NE annual insurance fee
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Future Plans

The coming year will see continued efforts to recruit more members in our next AGM.

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Full name(s) Maya Iza Duncanson Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Treasurer etc) Date 07.02.2025

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