## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 21 11 2023 31 03 2025
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1205829
The Afghan Relief Trust
**Charity's principal address** Farthings, Staples Hill Kirdford West Sussex **Postcode RH14 0JL**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Charles Sommer Chair 2 Benjamin Allen Trustee 15/12/24 3 Roger Pask Trustee 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
## **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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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
A charitable incorporated organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Passed by a properly convened meeting of the 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**
For the public benefit, the relief of beneficiaries living in Afghanistan who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress; in particular by making grants of money.
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The trustees have used funds raised and received to make monthly grants to qualified beneficiaries living in Afghanistan.
The trustees have regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
**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**
The trustees have had limited success in raising funds for beneficiaries but have been able to maintain monthly payments to support the needs, hardship and distress of people in Afghanistan, who are being persecuted and prevented from accessing channels of humanitarian aid as a result of their, or a member of their family:
- a) having a previous working relationship with UK or NATO bodies or
- b) having worked with human rights organisations operating in Afghanistan or
- c) having worked in the Afghan national army or for the Afghan government prior to 15/8/21.
The grants are made by monthly payments.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The trustees look to hold minimal reserves.
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A
## **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);
- 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)**
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**Full name(s)** Charles E R Sommer **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** chair **etc) Date** 27 01 26
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