## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 15 th August 2023 31[st] December 2024 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Breathe Easy Darlington **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1204360 **Charity's principal address** 9 Carmel Court Nunnery Lane Darlington **Postcode DL3 9RB**
Breathe Easy Darlington
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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**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)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **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
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by Charity Trustees Trustee selection methods
- (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;
- 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**
The objects of the CIO are for the public benefit to preserve and protect good health and relieve the needs of people who are suffering from respiratory diseases, and their families and carers, in Darlington and surrounding areas, in particular providing support groups which provide information, advice and organised activities which promote a healthier lifestyle.
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The main activities undertaken for the public benefit of those suffering from respiratory conditions take the form of exercise classes which aid pulmonary re-habilitation, with a particular focus on breathing control, improving muscle strength and balance co-ordination which help to reduce symptoms of breathlessness and fatigue.
Social activities are also provided to promote positive mental health in a supportive environment to prevent isolation and loneliness which can often affect those who are chronically ill.
**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)**
The charity’s aim is to encourage and enable the opportunity to live well with respiratory ill health so that the public involved can join in a membership community dedicated to achieving a healthier lifestyle and better quality of life.
Trustees have regarded the guidance on public benefit and ensure through written communication in the form of leaflets and on the Breathe Easy Darlington website:
htpps://www.breatheeasydarlington.org
that the public are aware of:
- The charity’s purpose and what it is set up to achieve
- How the charity’s purpose is beneficial to them as a section of the public as defined in the objects of the charity
- How the trustees will carry out the charity’s purpose for their public benefit.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
Breathe Easy Darlington is run by volunteers, who in the main, have lived experience of respiratory disease, so that they understand and can connect well with their members’ needs.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
Volunteers help to organise and promote social events for members, fundraise for classes, write newsletters and keep their social media channels up to date, and organise relevant speakers for monthly meetings. They also attend regular committee meetings to feedback on any issues and discuss new developments.
As such, they make a vital contribution to the charity.
- 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**
In 2024 Breathe Easy Darlington marked their 15[th] year anniversary of operation and registered with the Charity Commission to help to promote a greater awareness of their charitable aims and activities.
The charity moved away from a self- funding model as it developed new activities like seated yoga, singing, and walking sports to provide more varied and frequent exercise classes to aid pulmonary rehabilitation for their members.
Charitable grants enabled them to achieve this shift in operations, as a result of which they have grown their membership and doubled the attendance at weekly classes, benefitting more of the public suffering from respiratory ill health in their area.
In recognition of their work, Breathe Easy Darlington was a finalist at the Darlington Borough Council Community Awards in November 2024, out of a total of 400 nominations.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The charity’s policy is to keep six months of reserves at any one time on **Brief statement of the** deposit
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
Being able to access charitable grants throughout the year has allowed You **may choose** to include Breathe Easy Darlington to expand their offering and geographical reach, additional information, where enabling more people to join in membership , supporting the charity’s key relevant about: objective of promoting a healthier lifestyle to members of the local public the charity’s principal who suffer from respiratory disease.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- 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**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** A Boyd **Full name(s)** Ann Mckenzie Boyd **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc) Date** 8th August 2025
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|**Breathe Easy Darlington**||**1204360**|
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||
|15th August 2023
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|31st Dec 2024|
## **CC16a**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**6,000**
**80**
**4,348**
**867**
**17**
**11,312**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,312**
**8,090**
**5,219**
**305**
**976**
**1,015**
**420**
**869**
**210**
**16**
**17,120**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,120**
**- 5,808**
**- 5,808**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**6,750**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,750**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,750**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,750**
**-**
**-**
**6,750**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**6,000**
**6,750**
**80**
**4,348**
**867**
**17**
**-**
**-**
**18,062**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,062**
**8,090**
**5,219**
**305**
**976**
**1,015**
**420**
**869**
**210**
**16**
**17,120**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,120**
**942**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Grant Income|**6,000**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**9,998**
**1,183**
**1,514**
**9**
**2,040**|
|Grant Income Walking Sports,and
premises hire all classes,and Xmas lunch||||||
|Gift Aid|**80**|||||
|Donations|**4,348**|||||
|Ticket sales and Raffles|**867**|||||
|Bank interest|**17**|||||
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**11,312**||||**14,744**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
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|Instructor Fees|**8,090**||**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**3,275**
**1,880**
**115**
**705**
**871**
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**-**|
|Premises Hire|**5,219**|||||
|Charitable donations speakers|**305**|||||
|Administration inc website|**976**|||||
|Transport|**1,015**|||||
|Consultancyfees|**420**|||||
|Miscellaneous|**869**|||||
|Training|**210**|||||
|Office costs|**16**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**17,120**||||**6,846**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
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||**- 5,808**|**6,750**|**-**||**7,898**|
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**-**|**9,262**|
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||**- 5,808**|**6,750**|**-**|**942**|**17,160**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Internet and postage
Grants awarded
**Details**
**Details**
Current account
Deposit account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**11,085**
**-**
**7,017**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18,102**
**-**
Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
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**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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Print Name
Ann Boyd|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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|||Ann Boyd|7th August 2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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