## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 07 05 2024 31 01 2025
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
## VOICES ADFOCAD
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1208150
**Charity's principal address** C/O C3SC, Butetown Community Centre Loudoun Square Cardiff **Postcode CF10 5JA**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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**
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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**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorparated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)
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**
_**To preserve and protect the health of carers in Wales by providing peer and emotional support, information, and advocacy to carers and by raising awareness to the public about the role of unpaid carers, their rights, and the impact on their health.**_
_**The relief of the needs of unpaid carers in Wales, by providing peer support, advocacy, information, and education aimed at improving their wellbeing and welfare.**_
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- Provided unpaid carers with microgrants
- Hosted the 2024 Cardiff and Vale Carers Assembly
- Ran group activities for unpaid carers
- Provided grants to allow unpaid carers to take a short break
- Engaged with Members of the Senedd and local authority officials to advocate for unpaid carers and promote their rights.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** • Represennted unpaid carers at a strategic level **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
• Ran and hosted the Cardiff and Vale Unpaid Carers Assembly **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** • Recognised by Cardiff and Vale Parents Federation for **during the year** understanding disability • Secured funding to offer short breaks and micro grants
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## **Section E Financial review**
As a newly formed charity we do not currently have a reserve
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **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**
R Haarhoff **Signature(s)** M P O’Brien Roberta Haarhoff **Full name(s)** Michael O’Brien **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer Secretary **etc) Date** 22/10/2025
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|DERBYNIADAU / INCOME||
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|Balance Brought Forward|**£8,625**|
|Grantiau / Grants received|£5,000|
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|TALIADAU / EXPENSES||
|Equipment & Resources|£1,500|
|Capital Costs|£500|
|Grants and events|£10,000|
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|Surplus for theperiod:|£1,625|
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