## **– The Danny C. Foundation Trustee Annual Return** 

The Danny C. Foundation is a charity incorporated organisation (CIO) registered by the Charity Commission on the 14[th] of February 2023 under charity number 1207009. We have five trustees who are responsible for the general management and organisation of the charity, ensuring it is abiding by its charitable purposes as stated in our governing document. The trustees meet bi-monthly as a body to ensure our volunteer, Chloe Castledine, is efficiently and effectively carrying out the charity’s work, as well as to put forth new and innovative ideas as to how we can expand and further grow our impact. Our trustees were recruited based on the educational nature that serves as the basis of our charity, with occupations of our trustees including a teacher, a headteacher, college admin assistant and a neurodiversity specialist in a school setting. We have found this abundance of relevant experience invaluable to the organisation and management of our charity. 

As per our governing document, our charity’s main purposes are to promote the prevention of crime and saving of lives through anti-knife crime education, 



available to young people as well as professionals in an educational capacity. We also promote the value of personal safety through various means of awareness and the offer of resources. This ensures a huge public benefit, as the prevention of knife crime is a prevention of the devastation caused to whole communities when a life is lost in this way. We have thus provided our antiknife crime education programme into just under 150 schools, as well as providing in person workshops to college aged students, and offered many of our free personal safety kits. In addition, we have campaigned our message through various means such as attending and guest speaking at events or organising billboard, poster and social media campaigns to reach young people, and worked alongside likeminded organisations to boost our message. All of our work has boasted exceptional feedback from the community of Nottingham and schools beyond and across the country who have purchased our programme. 

The day to day running of our charity is undertaken by our founder and volunteer, Chloe Castledine. Chloe advertises our work regularly through email campaigns, runs all our social medias, delivers our college age workshop and represents our charity at any events. The trustees quelled any risks or safeguarding concerns that may have arisen by ensuring Chloe had an enhanced 



DBS check before attending any educational capacities to deliver our workshops. Neither Chloe nor any of the trustees have received any financial reward for their work for the charity, all roles are undertaken entirely in a voluntary capacity. 

Our charity is still currently reliant of the sale of our resources as well as donations or charitable activities to fund our work, which we are still confident will sustain us for the near future and is in proportion to the work we wish to carry out during our next financial year. However, we do have plans to begin to sought after various types of grants that would allow us to expand our work further and maximise our impact. The trustees have consented to the uptake of their responsibilities in their role for the charity, including the smooth running, organisation and impact, as well as the submission of an annual report and financial records that have been accurately kept throughout the previous year. All trustees have upkept their responsibilities wholly. 

On behalf of the trustees, this document is approved and signed by: 

## Alison Castledine (chair of trustees). 



## **Accounts:** 

## **Receipts** 

## **Payments** 

**Charitable activities: School resources** £1917.45 **(booklets):** £1120 **Personal safety equipment Other trading:** £1350 **(alarms, drink covers, emergency contact cards, Donations:** £225 **card holders):** £1205 **Charitable activity organisation (room hire, decorations, refreshments)** £160 **Total:** £3492.45 **Total:** £2485