## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Period start date March 2025 To Period end date April 2026** ## **Charity name: Buddy_Cups North East** ## **Charity registration number: 1208178** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|**FRS 102**| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To provide support to all those affected**
**by Breast Cancer and their Carers in the**
**North East of England.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Provision of a safe environment,**
**support and friendship to group by way**
**of monthly meetings, talks, crafts and**
**other activities.**
**Specific other events for Carers, Fund**
**Raising etc.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have all read Charity**
**Commission documents prior to**
**becoming a registered charity.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|
**FRS102**| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Not applicable.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not applicable.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The Charity is totally run by volunteers,**
**no paid members. They help welcome**
**members to group and interact with**
**them ensuring they are comfortable.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|**FRS102**| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**We are still the only specifically Breast**
**Cancer support Group in the North East.**
**Our ladies (currently no male members)**
**come from across the region and have**
**found new friendships and it has helped**
**many to re-enter mainstream society**
**again after facing the challenges of**
**breast cancer and how it affects them**
**mentally and physically.**
**In return our ladies support one another**
**and inspire others they come into**
**contact with outside of group.**
**Many of our ladies have returned to**
**work after their recovery period, which**
**is different for each case.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Group is still growing and in past year**
**we have welcomed 11 new ladies to the**
**group and have had 17 enquiries. Our**
**main meeting normally has approx. 25**
**attending. Since startup in 2019 we**
**have been in touch with 78 ladies and 52**
**are currently part of group in one way or**
**another. Not all can attend due to work,**
**treatment etc.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We have again held fundraisers such as**
**Crafts, Tombola, Raffles and an**
**Afternoon Tea.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Not applicable.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**£2,966**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**We do not have reserves as we are a**
**small charity, and any funds are to**
**cover daily activities and expenses.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Donations, craft items sold, Summer**
**Garden Party with various stalls.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution document.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g. unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**We are an Unincorporated Association**
**with our own Constitution document.**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Any new appointment is decided by the**
**current serving Trustees together.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Buddy_Cups North East| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Buddy Cups (Previous name before registering as Charity)| |Registered charity number|1208178| |Charity’s principal address|8 St Oswald’s Drive
Durham
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Sue Goulding|Founder||Trustees discuss any
changes to appointments.| ||Michelle Luke|Treasurer||| ||Margaret Harrop|Administrator||| ||Donna Feaney|||| ||Gill Curgenven|||| ||Liz Beaumont|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Not Applicable** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |||| |**Not Applicable**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity **Not Applicable** Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this **Not Applicable** falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets **Not Applicable** from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|| |||| ||**Not Applicable**|| |||| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** **Not Applicable** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date**