## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 10 2023 30 09 2024 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name VESSELS OF COMPASSION UK**
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1205444
**Charity's principal address** UNIT 43 EVANS BUSINESS CENTRE BURLEY HILL TRADING ESTATE LEEDS **Postcode LS4 2PU**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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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**
CIO CONSTITUTION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO TRUST How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company) APPOINTMENT
- 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**
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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**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)**|FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND AS AN EXPRESSION OF
CHRISTIAN FAITH, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO ARE
SUFFERING BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS BY PROVIDING
INFORMATION THROUGH PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS AND
WORKSHOPS ON THE GRIEF AND HEALING JOURNEY AND BY
PROVIDING PASTORAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TO EASE THE
PAIN OF BEREAVEMENT OR LOSS.|
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||Summary of activities
We visit churches, schools, community centres to: Provide Presentations,
Seminars, Workshops around issues of Bereavement Provide One to one
pastoral care/listening, by Bereavement Support team Organise retreats
for spiritual and emotional wellbeing
Sign posting and referral to related organisations Network with Churches,
Schools and related organisations to provide some/all of the above
activities.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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## RISK MANAGEMENT
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
Trustees have assessed all the major risks to which the charity maybe exposed to, in particular those related to operations and finances of the charity, and are satisfied that policies and procedures are in place to mitigate exposure to such risks.
The following policies are in place to balance benefits against any detriment or harm:
- Quality Policy,
- Conflict of Interest Policy
- Equality & Diversity Policy,
- Complaint procedure
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
‘VESSELS OF COMPASSION UK’ was approved by The Charity Commission as Charitable Incorporated Organization (CIO) - FOUNDATION registered 26 October 2023.
Our achievements in the last 12 months include a conference held on 07/09/24 of about 80 to 100 people where we gathered to talk, discuss and celebrate activities of Bereavement Awareness Presentation to groups and home visits. In the last 12 months, we carried out 5 Group presentations with an estimate of 183 people as direct recipients with feedback of very satisfied of over 65% on information of how to navigate grief in the grief/loss journey. We find the feedback quite satisfactory and helpful as this provides room for improvement on the content of our material going forward. We also carried out 2 home visits to provide emotional and social support. This is how we create safe space for the bereaved to talk about their feelings and memories, especially those who are not yet ready for group support. Furthermore, at the conference held on 07/09/24. We launched a Care Package Campaign of Food/hygiene essentials for university students who have experienced bereavement in the last 12 months. This initiative came about by the experience of 2 young persons who have witnessed firsthand that the provision of a Care Package will provide some form of Comfort and relief especially in between Maintenance loans when going through grief/loss.
Other activities in the last 12 months include:
A new website - 03/24 New bank account - 04/24 A Young Person joined our Strategic Team – 05/24 An Away day for the Strategic Team – 07/24
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** In the last year our main sources of funds are donations from supporters **charity’s policy on reserves** and fund-raising events. Trustees have decided to explore various means of fund-raising such as making grant applications to Funding bodies.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include Our main sources of funds are donations from supporters and fund-raising additional information, where events. Trustees have decided as follow: relevant about: • the charity’s principal . to explore various means of fund-raising such as making grant applications to sources of funds (including Funding bodies. any fundraising); eloping good record-keeping and reporting practice. • how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; . Trustees must accept ultimate responsibility for directing the affairs of the charity, and ensuring:
- investment policy and objectives including any .that it is solvent, well-run, and delivering the charitable outcomes for the benefit ethical investment policy of the public for which it has been set up. adopted.
. Ensure that the charity complies with charity law, and with the requirements of the Charity Commission as regulator; in particular ensure that the charity prepares Trustees Annual Reports on what it has achieved and Annual Returns and Accounts - as required by law.
.Use charitable funds and assets reasonably, and only in furtherance of the charity’s objects. . Avoid undertaking activities that might place the charity’s endowment, funds, assets or reputation at undue risk.
## **Section F Other optional information**
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## **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)** OTIONAMURIA EFIH MAGNUS GWATIDZO **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)** Treasurer **Date** 02/10/2024
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|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|**VESSELS OF COMPASSION UK**|**1205444**|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
1/10/2023|Period end date
**To**
30/09/2024|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,945**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,945**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,945**
**603**
**380**
**1,794**
**264**
**174**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,215**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,215**
**2,730**
**-**
**-**
**2,730**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,945**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,945**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,945**
**603**
**380**
**1,794**
**264**
**174**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,215**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,215**
**2,730**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|DONATIONS|**5,945**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**5,945**||||**-**|
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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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|COST OF ACTIVITIES|**603**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**|
|CONSULTANCY FEES|**380**||||**-**|
|OFFICE RENT|**1,794**||||**-**|
|WEBSITE|**264**||||**-**|
|SUBSCRIPTION|**174**||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**3,215**||||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
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**-**
**-**|||
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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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||**2,730**||
**-**||**-**|
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**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**|
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||**2,730**||
**-**|**2,730**|**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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