**From  01/07/2020** 

**To 30/06/2021** 

## **Trustees’ Annual Report 2021** 


## **Charity name: British Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care** 

## **Charity registration number: 289459** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

|**Objectives and Activities**|||
|---|---|---|
||SORP||
|Summary of the purposes of the<br>charity as set out in its governing<br>document|Para<br>1.17|The Association is established to educate and inform<br>doctors, medical students, other healthcare professionals<br>and members of the general public in the principles and<br>practice of compassionate holistic medicine and health<br>care.|
|Summary of the main activities in<br>relation to those purposes for<br>the public benefit, in particular,<br>the activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para<br>1.17 and<br>1.19|● Production of 3 journals annually<br>● Annual student essay competition<br>● Student ambassadors<br>● Workshops/webinars & retreats<br>● Real Food Campaign|
|Statement confirming whether<br>the trustees have had regard to<br>the guidance issued by the<br>Charity Commission on public<br>benefit|Para<br>1.18|The trustees have regard to the guidance on public<br>benefit when making decisions|



## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to the<br>circumstances of its beneficiaries<br>and any wider benefits to society<br>as a whole.|Para 1.20|Our journal articles are more widely read. They<br>have been taken up by EBSCO and old journals are<br>free to download on our website. We had 1 new<br>university sign up to stock our journal. Some<br>articles are being made into blog posts and these<br>are being read by a wide audience.<br>Our 2020 student essay competition had the<br>largest number of entries to date – 107 from 25<br>universities. This also led to an influx of student<br>ambassadors and in Birmingham and Cardiff<br>medical schools the setting up of ‘holistic<br>societies’.<br>We also had interest from a handful of qualified<br>practitioners wanting to become ambassadors.|





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s financial<br>position at the end of the period|Para 1.21|Our closing bank balance was nearly £29k with a<br>surplus of nearly £18k this year|
|Statement explaining the policy<br>for holding reserves stating why<br>theyare held|Para 1.22|We are keeping £5k as a reserve though this is<br>more than we would need to close our charity|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£5,000|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal sources of<br>funds (including any fundraising)|Para 1.47|This year our funds were primarily from:<br>● Membership<br>● Journal subscriptions & EBSCO<br>● Donations<br>● Education Grant|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and objectives<br>including any social investment<br>policy adopted|Para 1.46|None|
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|We currently rely on large donations to continue<br>to fund the journal. If we were unable to secure<br>further donations then we would be unable to<br>continue to publish it in its current printed format.|



## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s trusts:||N/a|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust Deed|
|How is the charity constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated association,<br>CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of any<br>person or body entitled to<br>appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|A minimum of 50% of Trustees to be practicing or<br>retired qualified healthcare professionals|





## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|British Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care<br>BHMA(formerly‘British Holistic Medical Association’)<br>289459<br>27 Ivory House<br>Clove Hitch Quay<br>London<br>SW11 3TN|
|---|---|
|Other name the charityuses||
|Registered charitynumber||
|Charity’s principal address||



## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled to**<br>**appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Peter Donebauer|Chair|||
||Dr Antonia Wrigley|Vice Chair|||
||Ian Henghes||||
||Dr Thuli Whitehouse||||
||Dr Andrew Sikorski||||
||Dr Adam Fazakerley||13/02/2021 -> current||
||Darryl Edwards||13/02/2021 -> current||
||Ciara Roberts||13/02/2021 – 07/06/2021||
||David Balen||-> 01/05/2021||
||||||



## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|||**Signature(s)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**ion (eg Secretary, Chair,**<br>**etc)**<br>**Date**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
||||Peter Donebauer||
||||||
||**Posit**||Chairman||
||||18th December 2021||
||||18th December 2021||





||**British Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care**<br>**Charity Name**|**British Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care**<br>**Charity Name**|**British Association for Holistic Medicine & Health Care**<br>**Charity Name**|**289459**<br>**No (if any)**|**289459**<br>**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**<br>**from**|01/07/2020<br>Period start date|**To**||30/06/2021<br>Period end date||
||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**9,244**<br>**15,531**<br>**-**<br>**6,449**<br>**108**<br>**7,322**<br>**1**<br> **38,655**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**38,655**<br>**12,411**<br>**3,882**<br>**6,873**<br>**913**<br>**308**<br>**455**<br>**244**<br>**500**<br> **25,586**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**25,586**<br>**13,069**<br>**-**<br>**11,554**<br>**24,623**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**5,000**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**5,000**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**5,000**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**685**<br>**-**<br>**685**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**685**<br>**4,315**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**4,315**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**9,244**<br>**15,531**<br>**5,000**<br>**6,449**<br>**108**<br>**7,322**<br>**1**<br>**43,655**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**43,655**<br>**12,411**<br>**3,882**<br>**6,873**<br>**913**<br>**308**<br>**455**<br>**929**<br>**500**<br>**26,271**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**26,271**<br> <br>**17,384**<br>**-**<br>**11,554**<br> <br>**28,938**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Membershipsubs|**9,244**|||||**8,006**|
|Donations|**15,531**|||||**2,538**|
|Educationgrant|**-**|||||**-**|
|Journal income|**6,449**|||||**2,638**|
|Other income|**108**|||||**25**|
|Gift Aid|**7,322**|||||**-**|
|Bank interest|**1**|||||**3**|
||||||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**38,655**|||||**13,210**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**13,210**|
||||||||
|<br>Journal costs|**12,411**|||||**11,661**|
|Development costs|**3,882**|||||**1,263**|
|Administration costs|**6,873**|||||**4,362**|
|Website & Marcomms|**913**|||||**709**|
|Bank Fees|**308**|||||**293**|
|Accounts|**455**|||||**-**|
|Other costs|**244**|||||**409**|
|Repayment of loan|**500**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**25,586**|||||**18,697**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases (see table)**|||||||
|**,**|**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**18,697**|
||||||||
||**13,069**|**4,315**|**-**||<br>**17,384**|**-                5,487**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**11,554**|**-**|**-**||**11,554**|**17,041**|
||**24,623**|**4,315**|**-**||<br>**28,938**|**11,554**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

13/01/2022 

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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|Signature<br>Independent Examination<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Cash at bank<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**24,623**<br>**4,315**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**24,623**<br>**4,315**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>Unrestricted<br>**455**<br>Print Name<br>ANTONIA J WRIGLEY|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|||||
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||||Date of<br>approval|
|||ANTONIA J WRIGLEY|13/01/2022|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

## **Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

|**Report to the trustees/**<br>**members of**<br>**On accounts for the year**<br>**ended**<br>**Set out on pages**|BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR HOLISTIC MEDICINE & HEALTH CARE|BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR HOLISTIC MEDICINE & HEALTH CARE|BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR HOLISTIC MEDICINE & HEALTH CARE|
|---|---|---|---|
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||30/06/2019|**Charity no**<br>**(if any)**|289459|
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||1-7|||



|**Respective**<br>**responsibilities of**<br>**trustees and examiner**<br>**Basis of independent**<br>**examiner’s statement**<br>**Independent**<br>**examiner's statement**<br>**Signed:**<br>**Name:**<br>**Relevant professional**<br>**qualification(s) or body**<br>**(if any):**<br>**Address:**<br>|The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year<br>(under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act),as amended by s.28<br>of the Charities Act 2006) and that an independent examination is needed.<br>It is my responsibility to:<br>•<br>examine the accounts (under section 43 of the Act, as amended),<br>•<br>to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the<br>Charity Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the Act, as amended),<br>and<br>•<br>to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.<br>My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given<br>by the Charity Commission.  An examination includes a review of the<br>accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts<br>presented with those records.  It also includes consideration of any unusual<br>items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the<br>trustees concerning any such matters.  The procedures undertaken do not<br>provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and<br>consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.<br>In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention which<br>gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the<br>trustees have not met the requirements to ensure that:<br>•<br>proper accounting records are kept (in accordance with section 41 of<br>the Act); and<br>•<br>accounts are prepared which agree with the accounting records and<br>comply with the accounting requirements of the Act; or<br>1. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a<br>proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.<br>**Date:**13/01/2022|The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year<br>(under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act),as amended by s.28<br>of the Charities Act 2006) and that an independent examination is needed.<br>It is my responsibility to:<br>•<br>examine the accounts (under section 43 of the Act, as amended),<br>•<br>to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the<br>Charity Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the Act, as amended),<br>and<br>•<br>to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.<br>My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given<br>by the Charity Commission.  An examination includes a review of the<br>accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts<br>presented with those records.  It also includes consideration of any unusual<br>items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the<br>trustees concerning any such matters.  The procedures undertaken do not<br>provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and<br>consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.<br>In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention which<br>gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the<br>trustees have not met the requirements to ensure that:<br>•<br>proper accounting records are kept (in accordance with section 41 of<br>the Act); and<br>•<br>accounts are prepared which agree with the accounting records and<br>comply with the accounting requirements of the Act; or<br>1. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a<br>proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.<br>**Date:**13/01/2022|
|---|---|---|
|||13/01/2022|
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||Joanne Trowbridge||
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||MAAT||
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||The Park, Daventry Road||
||Knowle, Bristol, BS4 1DQ||



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**IER** 

**April 2007** 



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April 2007