## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **Period start date 1[st] January 2025 to Period end date 31[st] December 2025** ## **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 48**
**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 1752 sessions in 65**
**hospitals and hospices in 2025.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |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: £289,883**| |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 2026 is based upon**
**providing 1850 sessions per year.**| |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 Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity 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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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**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 d•clarè Ihat they have approve(l the trustees. ieport above. Slgn•d on b•h•lf ol Ilw ¢harlty'• tru• Sl9nalure(6) Full n•md•l Po•ltlon (•g Secretaryi Chalr, elc) Aoio D•t• CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Secllon A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl [ members of The POD Charitable Trust On accounts for the year , 31$¢ December 2025 ended Charity no (if any) 279743 Sel out on pages ' 1 and 2 I report to the Irustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charily {"the Trust'} for the year ended 3111212025. Responsibilltles 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 carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charty Commission under sertion 145{5}{b} of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirn that no material matters have come to my attention ( l in connection wrth the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no cOn￿mS 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 rfthey do not apply. Signed: Dato: 22.S.202 Name: Samantha Jones Rolevant profe$$ional qualificatlonls) or body (if any): FCCA ACA Address: Morris Cook 6 Salop Road, Oswestry Shropshire SY11 2NU IER October 2018 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES The Pod Charltable Trust Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from To 1st Janua 2025 31st DeeEmb8r 2025 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestrbcted funds to the nearest R£stricted funds Endowtnenl funds Total funds Last year tothp nMrestÉ toth• n8•rgst£ to tho ¢warnsi£ to tho nearnst £ A1 Recel ts GIftAd Oonaiion8 Intere51 830 81,618 8.140 1,868 71,669 8.815 8.140 Sub total(Gross income for AR) 82.152 10.710 79.818 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). Sub total 10.770 79.818 90.588 82,152 A3Pa ments EniertaiDrnenl Bank Charges 87,665 91,329 60 89.521 60 Sub total 3.724 87.665 91.389 89,581 A4 A5sel and investment urchases, see table Sub total rotalpayments 3,724 67,665 91.389 89,581 Net olreeeipts/(paymentsJ A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds la$t year end Cash funds this year end 7.046 7,847 801 7,429 15.113 2Z.159 275.571 267,724 290,684 289,883 298,113 290,684 CCXX R1 ocwynls ISSI 22105r2026 Section B Disclosure Only complete If *he examiner needs lo highlight matte15 of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give hare brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted tund• Restricte¢J funds Endowrnent fundi CatL.4Jr)fiL￿ti D..Idils •aff•st£ tv nwr•¥¢ ¢ 81 C¥*h lund• 21159 2•7.72 Total ¢4sh funds 22.159 267.724 UnvvstrlGtEd R•¥trfctsd Iufth Endo¥¥m•nt lunds fund to r•Ar•Kt£ r*•mi£ Dttai:s Fund tomthbrn Detajls B3 InveJtm•nt amets Fw6t• wThieh C¢mnt ¥•lu• eiails 84 ABB•t* r•taIn0￿ for th• eh•rlty'• own Fun¢J ID which Afflwni dl *Jv• on¥ Cvtail¥ 85 Li•biliti ¥Jned by QnB ef trhrj vusiee5 tyl beha￿0[ illtr* tru¥we• Print Narn• D8t¢ of Toval SvJn•twe IT£• CCXX R2 •t¢¢yJnt$ 1551 2210512028 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Secllon A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl [ members of The POD Charitable Trust On accounts for the year , 31$¢ December 2025 ended Charity no (if any) 279743 Sel out on pages ' 1 and 2 I report to the Irustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charily {"the Trust'} for the year ended 3111212025. Responsibilltles 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 carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charty Commission under sertion 145{5}{b} of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirn that no material matters have come to my attention ( l in connection wrth the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no cOn￿mS 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 rfthey do not apply. Signed: Dato: 22.S.202 Name: Samantha Jones Rolevant profe$$ional qualificatlonls) or body (if any): FCCA ACA Address: Morris Cook 6 Salop Road, Oswestry Shropshire SY11 2NU IER October 2018 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES The Pod Charltable Trust Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from To 1st Janua 2025 31st DeeEmb8r 2025 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestrbcted funds to the nearest R£stricted funds Endowtnenl funds Total funds Last year tothp nMrestÉ toth• n8•rgst£ to tho ¢warnsi£ to tho nearnst £ A1 Recel ts GIftAd Oonaiion8 Intere51 830 81,618 8.140 1,868 71,669 8.815 8.140 Sub total(Gross income for AR) 82.152 10.710 79.818 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). Sub total 10.770 79.818 90.588 82,152 A3Pa ments EniertaiDrnenl Bank Charges 87,665 91,329 60 89.521 60 Sub total 3.724 87.665 91.389 89,581 A4 A5sel and investment urchases, see table Sub total rotalpayments 3,724 67,665 91.389 89,581 Net olreeeipts/(paymentsJ A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds la$t year end Cash funds this year end 7.046 7,847 801 7,429 15.113 2Z.159 275.571 267,724 290,684 289,883 298,113 290,684 CCXX R1 ocwynls ISSI 22105r2026 Section B Disclosure Only complete If *he examiner needs lo highlight matte15 of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give hare brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted tund• Restricte¢J funds Endowrnent fundi CatL.4Jr)fiL￿ti D..Idils •aff•st£ tv nwr•¥¢ ¢ 81 C¥*h lund• 21159 2•7.72 Total ¢4sh funds 22.159 267.724 UnvvstrlGtEd R•¥trfctsd Iufth Endo¥¥m•nt lunds fund to r•Ar•Kt£ r*•mi£ Dttai:s Fund tomthbrn Detajls B3 InveJtm•nt amets Fw6t• wThieh C¢mnt ¥•lu• eiails 84 ABB•t* r•taIn0￿ for th• eh•rlty'• own Fun¢J ID which Afflwni dl *Jv• on¥ Cvtail¥ 85 Li•biliti ¥Jned by QnB ef trhrj vusiee5 tyl beha￿0[ illtr* tru¥we• Print Narn• D8t¢ of Toval SvJn•twe IT£• CCXX R2 •t¢¢yJnt$ 1551 2210512028