## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
Income: £100,832
CIO registration number: 1207047
## **1. Charity Details**
- **Name:** The Oliver Steeper Foundation
- **Registration Number:** 1207047
- **Address:** 51 Butterside Road, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN23 3PD
- **Trustees:** Lewis Steeper, Zoe Steeper, John Rivers, Anita Rivers, Billie Loveland, Inese Rozina, Jackie Fisher
## **2. Structure and Management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) – Foundation model, governed by its constitution. Trustees are responsible for overall management, strategy, and governance.
Trustees are recruited through a combination of skills-based selection and invitation, ensuring the board has the expertise necessary to manage the charity e:ectively. Trustees serve voluntarily and are appointed for a fixed term as defined in the constitution.
## **3. Objectives and Activities**
The charity’s purpose is to provide life-saving medical anti-choking equipment to children’s nurseries to improve emergency preparedness and safeguard the health of children when first aid fails or cannot be performed.
During the year, the charity focused on:
- Fundraising through donations and grants
- Purchasing LifeVac equipment
- Donating the equipment directly to nurseries, preschools and childminders and providing free face to face training.
## **4. Achievements and Performance**
The charity successfully raised £97,395, purchased £72,033 worth of equipment, and distributed this to childcare settings across the United Kingdom.
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The charity’s activities directly benefit children attending nurseries, improving safety and emergency response. All activities undertaken are in line with the charity’s objectives and comply with public benefit guidance.
## **5. Financial Review**
**Income:** £97,395 via fundraising and grants. £3,410 via sales of Lifevac products
£27 via interest from deposit account
- **Expenditure:** £19,155 on administrative costs.
- **Cost of donated goods:** £72,033
- **Net funds carried forward:** £9,644
**Debts:** The charity has no debt.
**Reserves policy:** The charity aims to maintain su:icient unrestricted funds to cover up to three months of operating costs to manage cash flow and ensure continuity of charitable activities.
## **6. Funds Held as Custodian Trustee**
The charity does not act as a custodian trustee for any funds held on behalf of others during the year.
## **7. Additional Information**
This report is prepared on a simplified basis for a small charity with income under £500,000 and assets below £3.26 million. A copy will be submitted to the Charity Commission with the annual return.
Signed on behalf of the trustees:
Trustee Date 18/12/2025
||**THE OLIVER STEEPER FOUNDATION**|**THE OLIVER STEEPER FOUNDATION**|**THE OLIVER STEEPER FOUNDATION**|**1207047**|**1207047**|**1207047**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
16/02/2024|**To**||Period end date
31/03/2025|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**97,395**
**3,410**
**27**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**100,832**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**100,832**
**72,033**
**14,772**
**100**
**774**
**6**
**1,641**
**114**
**587**
**1,160**
**-**
**91,188**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**91,188**
**9,644**
**-**
**-**
**9,644**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**97,395**
**3,410**
**27**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**100,832**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**100,832**
**72,033**
**14,772**
**100**
**774**
**6**
**1,641**
**114**
**587**
**1,160**
**-**
**91,188**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**91,188**
**9,644**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations,legacies andgrants|**97,395**||||||**-**|
|Sales of Lifevac|**3,410**||||||**-**|
|Interest on deposit account|**27**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**100,832**||||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
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|Goods for donating|**72,033**||||||**-**|
|Cost of fundraisingevents|**14,772**||||||**-**|
|Insurance|**100**||||||**-**|
|Printing, postage, stationery and computer
supplies|**774**||||||**-**|
|Bank interest and charges|**6**||||||**-**|
|Rent/hire of rooms|**1,641**||||||**-**|
|Grants and donationspaid|**114**||||||**-**|
|Subscriptions|**587**||||||**-**|
|Travel costs|**1,160**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|||||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**91,188**||||||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
|||||||||
||**9,644**|**-**|**-**||**9,644**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**9,644**|**-**|**-**||**9,644**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
28/01/2026
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**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))
Metro - Account 1
Metro - Account 2
Metro - Account 3
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,367**
**-**
**1,957**
**-**
**320**
**-**
**9,644**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
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**asset belongs**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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Print Name
LEWIS STEEPER|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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|||LEWIS STEEPER|28/01/2026|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
28/01/2026
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
## **Report to the trustees/** THE OLIVER STEEPER FOUNDATION **members of**
**On accounts for the year** 31 March 2025 **Charity no** 1207047 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 & 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2025.
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Date:** 28/01/2026 **Signed: Name:** Lee Phillips **Relevant professional** ACCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 89 King Street Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1BG
**October 2018**
**IER**
1
**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**October 2018**
**IER**
2