## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **Period start date 1[st] January 2024 to Period end date 31[st] December 2024 Charity name: Pod Charitable Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 279743** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Such charitable purpose or charitable**
**purposes as the trustees may in their**
**absolute discretion from time to time**
**think fit (March 1980). **| |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|**Pod aims to bring magic, fun and**
**laughter into the lives of children and**
**young people in hospital. For the last 47**
**years Pod entertainers have made the**
**hospital journey a more pleasant one for**
**around a million children and one**
**remembered (at least partly) with a**
**smile.**
**Pod has 3 objectives: to make smiles**
**and laughter, to distract children and**
**young people from pain and worry and**
**to improve children’s and young**
**people’s attitudes to hospitalization,**
**helping them cope better with the**
**possibility of re- admittance and further**
**treatment.**
**Pod is governed by a board of voluntary**
**trustees. All administrative costs are**
**financed by an entirely separate charity**
**The Pod League of Friends (Reg;**
**296119). Entertainers’ fees are Pod’s**
**only cost which means every penny**
**donated is spent on cheering up**
**children in hospital.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**We confirm that trustees have had**
**regard to the Charity Commission’s**
**Guidance on Public Benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**Pod visits provide an opportunity for**
**children, young people and their**
**families to forget their worries, relax and**
**share in a positive activity in which they**
**have fun together.**
**Pod entertainers provide regular**
**monthly visits at hospitals and hospices**
**throughout the U.K., providing shows**
**on wards, in playrooms and clinics.**
**They visit children individually at the**
**bedside and children who are in**
**isolation so that everyone is included**
**and has something to smile about.**
**There were 1790 sessions in 65**
**hospitals and hospices in 2024.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Cash at Bank: £290,684**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Policy has been to maintain reserves**
**sufficient to cover expenditure for 18**
**months. Reserves remain higher than**
**this because income greatly exceeded**
**expenditure between 2020 and 2023**
**when Pod was unable to provide visits**
**due to Covid restrictions. The required**
**reserve position is under constant**
**review as Pod continues to build up the**
**number of sessions provided pre-Covid.**
**Expectation is to gradually erode**
**reserves until they are back to the**
**standard target level.**
**Reserve target for 2025 is based upon**
**providing 1850 sessions. **| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£138,750**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |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|**No concerns**| ## **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|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated Association**| |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|**The power of appointing a new trustee**
**or trustees is vested in the original**
**settler (David Jamilly) during his life.**| ## **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** |Charityname|The Pod Charitable Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|Pod Children’s Charity| |Registered charitynumber|279743| |Charity’s principal address|Turpins Yard
Oaklands Road
London
NW2 6LL| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||David Jamilly|Chair||| ||GaryDavison|||| ||Kim Einhorn|||| ||Michel Einhorn|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** ## Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Margaret Munford ( Administrator) ## **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)** / **-** - ----!::....L.��= **-** - --- **-** +- ---___:_.l[__��+ **-** --..' **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** L_ _ __L_ ___ ,4. -�-:::: _� -�:_::....... _____ ___, **_1..,,��u_��:::::::.. ___ Date . · O___O_ _ _ S . I.__ 'J 'il o- '--_ __,** f **D** BETA Having problems on this page? Your will help us to improve it. O You will be logged out aftèr 30 minut•s of inactivity- Messages Ilgrouplguesvnotificationsl Account IlgrouplguesVmy-detai151 Sign out Ilclportalllogouti Cancel Print Charity Commission Annual Return 2024 THE POD CHARITABLE TRUST Charity registration number.. 279743 Most of the information you give in this form will bocome publicly available on the Registèr of Charities. Any field that the Charity Commission will not display will be clearly marked. This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2024. PART A - Charity information Financial pèriod Financial eriod start date 0110112024 Financial period end date 3111212024 Income and spending Income £ £82,152 endln £ 89.581 Number of contracts from govèmmènt How many contracts (other than grant agreements) did your charity receive from central govornment or a local authority during tho financial period for this return. Number of grants from government How many gran18 dld your charlty recelve from central government or a local authorlty durlng the Ilnanclal rlod for thls retuvn? Incom• braakdown Donations and le a¢ie$ £ 71.669 ex¢luflin Endowrnents Re¢eived Charitable activities Othor tradin a¢tiviti85 Investments £8.615 Other £ 1,868 Grantmaking 15 9rant Thaking the main way your charity carries Out its purposes7 No Recipients of grants Please round 811 flgures to the nearest pound (do not enter declmal polnts or commas). Indlvlduals other ¢haritie$ other o ani$ation$ that are not ¢haritie$ Trustee payments Excluding out of pocket expenses, for what were any of the trustees pald durlng the flnanclal perlod for thls return? 8. None of the trust888 have be8n paid Dld any ol the trustees reslgn and take up employment wlth your charlty In the flnanclal perlod ol this return? In¢ome from outside the UK Did your charity receive incomo from outside of Ihe Unitod Kinydom in the financial period of this return. No Delivering activities outside the United Kingdom Dld your charlty dellver charltable actlvltles outslde of the Unlted Klngdom In the flnanclal perlod of thls return? Sp•ndlng out$ld¢ of th& Unltad Klngdom Did your Gharity spend fund5 0Ut5ide of the United Kingdom in the financial period of thi5 return. No Total Spendin outside of the United Kin dom Trading subsidiaries Does the charl have an tradon subsldlarles? Charity contact details corre¢t Is the contact address displa Ye5 from th8 Re ister of CharitieSi corroct7 Charity headquarters details correct Is thls the Same address that Yes uuseas our charfl .8 admlnlstratlve head uarter87 Charlty eontaet addrèss Addre55 Line 1 TURPINSYARD Addr855 Line 2 OAKLANDS ROAD Address Line 3 LONDON Addro88 Lin6 4 Address Llne 5 Ptsstcode NW2 6LL ountry Charity Headquarters address Address Llne 1 Mount Hall Address Llne 2 Address Llne 3 Llanfair Caereinion Addre55 Line 4 WELSHPOOL Addre55 Line 5 Powys P05tcodo Count SY21 OBH Property Were any of your charltys propertles held by holdlng or custadlan trustees ott behall ol your ¢harit ex¢ludin the Offi¢ial Cu$todian durin the fJthan¢ial period for thi$ return? Membership typtt ur chari part of a wider roup structure with a parent bod no. the charity is not part of a wider group strudure and subsidia bodies7 Employment contract types Peo le were emianentl em edb our chari People were on fixed.terms contracts with your charity Self*m eo le were workin for our ¢hari Governance policies Internal chari Yes financial controls olic and rocodure8 Safeguardlng pollcy and procedures Yes Flnanclal resetves pollc Y8S and procedures Complaints poli Yes and proGedure5 Serious incident reporting policy and procedure5 Yes Internal risk mana Yes omont olic and rocodures Trustse expenses pollcy and procedures Yes Trustee conffllcts of Interest oll Yes and rocedures Investln Yes charl funds pollc and procedures Campaign5 and political activity ptslicy and prts¢e