## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **To**
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** ReQUEST FOUNDATION **Other names charity is known by** ReQUEST **Registered charity number (if any)** 1205765 **Charity's principal address** 3 Sandown Road Deal Kent **Postcode** CT14 6PH
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**for whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Alan Stephen Noake MBE||||
||David William Wraight||||
||Dr AnthonyJohn Stefan Chojecki||||
||Catherine Mummery||||
||AntonyDavid George Harvey||||
||LucyCharlotte Morgan||||
||Samuel FinlayPayne||||
||DarceyAnn Cameron Holmes||||
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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**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
March **2012**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Every trustee must be appointed for a term of not exceeding 6 years by a Trustee selection methods resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees (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**
For the public benefit, the advancement in life of young people in the United Kingdom aged between their 16th and 25th birthdays to grow and develop as individuals by providing grants to enable members of the Scout and Guide Movements (and, where funds allow, members of other youth organisations) to undertake developmental activities (including expeditions) in relation to the polar regions which focus on learning, research and the dissemination of their findings.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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This first full year of operation the trustees have focused on getting a brand, systems and policies in place in order to begin delivering on its charitable purpose. This work has now been completed and the grant application process is live and running.
**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)**
Overview of Grant Making Policy
The REQUEST FOUNDATION will not fund the entire cost of projects but will partially fund those elements of a project which further our charitable purpose as follows: -
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- Personal development activities (including pre-project training).
- • Disseminating the outcomes of the project.
• Where the participant’s project would not be achievable without such help the REQUEST FOUNDATION will also consider
- Personal travel, accommodation and equipment costs.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
All successful applicants will be required to produce a post-project report, which specifically details how the project satisfied their growth and personal development needs.
Trustees will review project reports to assess how funds have impacted the life of beneficiaries, to review and improve this policy and to evaluate the work of the foundation.
March **2012**
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Section D Achievements and performance
Five founding trustees registered. **Summary of the main** An additional three trustees registered. **achievements of the charity** New brand created. **during the year** Initial funding input from Kent County Scout Council. (ReQuest Project). Website created www.requestfoundation.org.uk Application process created. Systems and policies in place. Established a number of key charity partners - RMetS (Royal Meteorological Society), The Polar Collective, UKAHT (UK Antarctic Heritage Trust), RSGS (Royal Scottish Geographical Society), Dundee Heritage Trust.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
Maintain sufficient reserves to be able to sustain £1000 a year of grant **Brief statement of the** giving for 5 years but levels to be reviewed annually to see if after **charity’s policy on reserves** fundraising and donations we can increase them. **Details of any funds materially** n/a **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
The principal source of funds to set up the charity came from a surplus You **may choose** to include from the Kent Scout County Council ReQuest2021 Antarctica Project. additional information, where relevant about:
- 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**
The charity’s Coop bank account was only in use from March 2024.
## **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)** A.S. NOAKE **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** CHAIR **etc) Date** 09/06/2025
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**TAR**
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**Charity Name No (if any) ReQuest Foundation 1205765 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period To from** 01/02/2024 31/02/2025
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**6,915**
**1,580**
**76**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,572**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,572**
**643**
**400**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,043**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,043**
**7,528**
**-**
**-**
**7,528**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**6,915**
**1,580**
**76**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,572**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,572**
**643**
**400**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,043**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,043**
**7,528**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|DONATIONS|**6,915**|||||**-**|
|FUNDRAISING EVENTS|**1,580**|||||**-**|
|BANK INTEREST|**76**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**8,572**|||||**-**|
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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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EVENT COSTS|**643**|||||**-**|
|BRANDING & MARKETING|**400**|||||**-**|
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||**-**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**1,043**|||||**-**|
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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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||**7,528**|**-**|**-**|**7,528**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
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||**7,528**|**-**|**-**|**7,528**||**-**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Unrestricted Restricted funds funds**
**Endowment** 08/11/2025 **funds**
> CCXX R1 accounts (SS) **Categories**
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**Categories**
**Details**
|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
**Details**
CURRENT ACCOUNT
INSTANT SAVINGS ACCOUNT
95 DAY ACCESS ACCOUNT
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,452**
**-**
**1,013**
**-**
**5,063**
**-**
**7,528**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**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**
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|||A S NOAKE|09/06/2025|
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
08/11/2025
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