## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 20/09/2023 To 05/04/2024**
## **Charity name: RedDuck**
## **Charity registration number: 1204815**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The purposes of the charity are:**
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,
THE ADVANCEMENT OF
HEALTH IN PARTICULAR FOR
THOSE AFFLICTED BY HUMAN
HERPES VIRUS 6 (HHV6) BY
PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL
MATERIALS, SUPPORT FOR
THOSE AFFECTED BY THE
CONDITION, AND
CAMPAIGNING, AND; THE
RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY
REASON OF ILL-HEALTH BY
PROVIDING GRANT FUNDING
FOR REFERRALS FOR
HOLISTIC COMPLEMENTARY
THERAPIES AND PALLIATIVE
CARE.|
|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|**During this accounting period, as a new**
**Charity our main activities conducted**
**related to forging relationships with a**
**local children’s hospice and providing**
**grants to facilitate art therapy for children**
**in palliative care.**
**A combination of online and in-person**
**petitioning to raise awareness of HHV6**
**and ultimately look to amend existing**
**protocols in HHV6 management in**
**immunocompromised individuals.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public|Para 1.18|**In shaping our objectives and how these**
**will be delivered, the trustees have**
**regarded the Charity Commission’s**
**guidance on public benefit.**|
|benefit||**Our focus has remained on providing**
**benefit to the public as per our charitable**
**purpose and ensured the correct due**
**diligence has been undertaken when**
**making decisions.**
**Our focus for this accounting period has**
**been setting up processes to ensure that**
**all decisions made around distribution of**
**funds are done in a fair and consistent**
**manner. We have introduced thresholds**
**and approval meetings to ensure that the**
**same approach is taken when providing**
**grants and that the appropriate criteria is**
**met.**
**We have also focused on forging**
**relationships with other charities to help**
**raise awareness of the services that**
**RedDuck provide in order to allow more**
**people awareness of ourselves and**
**purpose and an opportunity to access**
**our services.**
**Our services are free of charge. We rely**
**on public donations and income from**
**fundraising activities. Whilst we have**
**thresholds in place for grants to the**
**public, we also have processes stood up**
**to review requests on a case by case**
**basis as we recognise that there may be**
**situations where further support is**
**required outside of these limits.**|
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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We have three policies in place for grant**
**making**
**1.**
**Proactive policy for grants to**
**individuals or charities**
**2.**
**Self referral for grants for**
**individuals**
**3.**
**Self referral for grants for charities**
**1.**
**If a trustee identifies an**
**opportunity to proactively support**
**a child in receipt of palliative care**
**or an opportunity to provide**
**funding to a charity then this will**
**be discussed a trustee meeting.**
**The trustee will need to bring the**
**case to this session and provide**
**detail of the candidate, support**
**required, costing and timelines**
**(one off vs over a period of time).**
**A decision will be made via a**
**majority vote. Further review may**
**be required should this be outside**|
|||**of agreed thresholds.**
**2.**
**Individuals can self refer or be**
**referred via email. There is a set**
**limit of £150 per referral. This**
**again is reviewed via trustee**
**meeting. The individual can make**
**a request for funding towards**
**holistic treatments that may not be**
**available on their current**
**treatment pathway e.g massage,**
**Reiki as well as request funding**
**for or items that may bring**
**comfort e.g sensory**
**equipment/weighted blankets.**
**3.**
**As above, charities can also self**
**refer and thresholds vary**
**depending on the request.**
**Charities may request an**
**individual item or may request a**
**grant for to cover specific**
**therapies that are not funded e.g**
**art therapy. An initial sizing of the**
**ask will need to be undertaken by**
**the charity and presented to**
**RedDuck for review. This will then**
**be discussed in a trustee meeting**
**via majority votes.**
**From a contingency perspective, there**
**are limits on grant value per quarter. This**
**varies dependent on funds raised vs**
**spent.**|
|---|---|---|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not applicable**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Not applicable for this period**|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,|Para 1.20|**In this short period, we were able to forge**
**a great relationship with a local**
**Children’s Hospice “Demelza” and were**
**able to support with a grant for £1100**
**towards delivering art therapy across**|
|identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.||**Kent in the local community.**
**This included working in local schools in**
**Ashford, Broadstairs, Folkestone and**
**Sevenoaks. These therapy sessions were**
**provided to both children in palliative**
**care and bereaved siblings.**
**“****_I feel very privileged that thanks to_**
**_supporters like you I am able to reach_**
**_these children that might not otherwise_**
**_receive the tailored support they need.”_**
**Extract from a Letter received from**
**Demelza** **and their art therapist.**|
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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Our main fundraising event during this**
**period was an art auction in the local**
**community of Deal. This was a real**
**community event with over 60 pieces of**
**artwork donated for the auction as well**
**as services donated such as catering and**
**music entertainment to this.**
**The event was a huge success with just**
**over £10,000 raised and featured in local**
**media.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Not applicable**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**For this short accounting period, the**
**donations and fundraising has greatly**
**exceeded spend and has left us in a**
**positive financial position.**
**As a charity in infancy, we do not have a**
**large number of outgoings and during**
**this time, had only forged one**
**relationship/request for grant. We**
**envisage that as more awareness is**
**raised about RedDuck and our offering,**
**we will start to see an increase in grants**
**made to the public as well as investment**
**in the charity to further support us with**
**raising our profile and achieving our**
**other purposes.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**RedDuck has a policy in place to ensure**
**that a minimum of £10,000 is held to**
**ensure that the charity can function for at**
**least 18 months should there be no**
**further donations made.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£10,000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not applicable**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|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||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25||
|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||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|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**
|Charity name|RedDuck|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1204815|
|Charity’s principal address|17 Guildford Road
Deal
Kent
CT14 7DJ|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Imogen Holliday||||
||James Holliday||||
||Megan McInerney||||
||Lizzie Douglas||||
||Liam Hansell||||
||Alfred McConnell||||
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– 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 Not applicable held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**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**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Megan McInerney
**Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)**
**Date** 26/01/2025
## **RedDuck 1204815 Receipts and Payments Account**
|||Year start date
Year end date
**9/20/2023**
**To**
**4/5/2024**|Year start date
Year end date
**9/20/2023**
**To**
**4/5/2024**|Year start date
Year end date
**9/20/2023**
**To**
**4/5/2024**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the year**
**from**|**9/20/2023**|**To**|**4/5/2024**||
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|**Receipts and payments**||||||
|**Receipts**||**2023/24**
**2023/24**
**2023/24**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Total funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**- - -**
**4,712 - 4,712**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**4,712 - 4,712**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**10,305 - 10,305**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**10,305 - 10,305**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**15,017 - 15,017**
**- - -**
**15,017 - 15,017**|||**Last Year**
**Total funds**
**£**|
|**Donations, legacies and similar income**||||||
|Membership subscriptions||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Donations||**4,712**|**-**|**4,712**|**-**|
|Legacies||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Gift Aid||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Other similar income||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Sub total**||**4,712**|**-**|**4,712**|**-**|
|**Grants**||||||
|Grant||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Other grants||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Sub total**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Fundraising (gross)**||||||
|Art auction||**10,305**|**-**|**10,305**|**-**|
|Detail 2||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Other fundraising activities||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Sub total**||**10,305**|**-**|**10,305**|**-**|
|**Investment income**||||||
|Bank interest||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Building Society interest||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Other investment income||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Sub total**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total Gross Income_**
**Asset and investment sales, etc.**
**_Total receipts_**||||||
||||||**-**|
|||||||
||||||**-**|
|||||||
|||**15,017**|**-**|**15,017**|**-**|
## **RedDuck 1204815 Receipts and Payments Account**
|||Year start date
Year start date|Year start date
Year start date|Year start date
Year end date|Year start date
Year end date|Year start date
Year end date|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the year**
**from**|**2023**|||**To**|**2024**|
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|**Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**Payments**||**2023/24**
**2023/24**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted funds**
**£**
**£**||**2023/24**
**Total funds**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**18**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**251**
**1,100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,369**
**250**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**250**
**1,619**
**-**
**1,619**
**13,398**
**-**
**13,398**||**Last Year**
**Total funds**
**£**|
|**Charitable Payments**|||||||
|Wages||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Rent||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Water||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Electricity and Gas||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Insurance||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Repairs and Renewals||**18**|**-**|**18**||**-**|
|Materials and equipment||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Printing and photocopying||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|AGM and trustee expenses||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Branded merchandise||**251**||**251**||**-**|
|Grants||**1,100**|**-**|**1,100**||**-**|
|Other costs detail 3||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**Sub total**||**1,369**|**-**|**1,369**||**-**|
|**Fundraising expenses**|||||||
|Venue hire||**250**|**-**|**250**||**-**|
|Detail 2||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Detail 3||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|Other fundraising costs||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**Sub total**||**250**|**-**|**250**||**-**|
|**_Total Gross Expenditure_**
**Asset and investment purchases, etc.**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||**1,619**|**-**|**1,619**||**-**|
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|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||||||||
|||**1,619**|**-**|**1,619**||**-**|
||||||||
|||**13,398**|**-**|**13,398**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
|||**13,398**|**-**|**13,398**||**-**|
## **Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the year**
||**Xst X 200Z**
**Xst X 200Z**
**Xst X 200Z**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Total funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**13,398 - 13,398**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**13,398 - 13,398**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**|**Xst X 200Z**
**Xst X 200Z**
**Xst X 200Z**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Total funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**13,398 - 13,398**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**13,398 - 13,398**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**|**Xst X 200Z**
**Xst X 200Z**
**Xst X 200Z**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Total funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**13,398 - 13,398**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**13,398 - 13,398**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**
**- - -**|**Last Year**
**Total funds**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Cash funds**|||||
|Bank current account|**13,398**|**-**|**13,398**|**-**|
|Bank deposit account|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Cash/Floats|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Total cash funds** **(Agree balances with receipts and**
**payments account(s))**|**13,398**|**-**|**13,398**|**-**|
|**Other monetary assets**|||||
|Tax claim|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Sub total**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Investment assets**|||||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Sub total**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Non monetary assets for charity's own use**|||||
|Stock|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Land and buildings|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Motor vehicles|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Other|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Sub total**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Liabilities**|||||
|Accounts not yet paid|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Expenses incurred but not invoiced|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Subscriptions not yet paid|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Loan - detail|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Other liabilities|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**Sub total**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
## **Contingent liabilities and future obligations**
**Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees**
|**Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees**|||
|---|---|---|
|Signature|Print Name
MEGAN MCINERNEY|Date ofapproval|
||MEGAN MCINERNEY|1/26/2025|
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