## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 3 January 2024 Period start date To 2 January 2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Help the Child** ## **Charity registration number: 297790** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve sickness, suffering and**
**distress of mentally and physically**
**handicapped children resident in**
**Somerset by providing or assisting in**
**providing aids calculated to reduce the**
**sickness, suffering and distress of such**
**children.**| |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|**The Captains of Burnham & Berrow Golf**
**Club chose us as their annual charity,**
**and we worked with them throughout**
**the year to raise the sum of £30,529.**
**We partnered a local café over the**
**summer to raise £4859.**
**The December Christmas Coffee**
**morning raised £2307, a local business**
**Christmas campaign raised £1356 and**
**these amounts together with donations**
**from individuals and groups enabled us**
**to support over 50 children with**
**specialised equipment not available**
**from the NHS or statutory bodies**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit, and bear**
**this in mind when planning activities**
**and fundraising**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The trustees meet approximately every 8**
**weeks to consider requests for**
**assistance. Each request has to be**
**supported by a letter from a health**
**professional who works with the child,**
**together with a detailed and priced**
**quotation of the item requested from the**
**supplier. Requests are granted if a**
**minimum of 7 trustees are in favour.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**All the Trustees give their time on a**
**voluntary basis and receive no**
**remuneration or other benefits**| |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|**During 2024 Help the Child has assisted**
**over 50 children with specialised**
**equipment. For the most part this has**
**provided individual children with items**
**to help them in their daily lives that they**
**would otherwise have been unable to**
**access. In addition, we have helped a**
**specialist toy library and an Opportunity**
**playgroup, thus reaching even more**
**children. Helping individual children**
**means that by extension, we are also**
**helping their families.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**Our objective is to fund 100% of the**
**approved requests. This we have done**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**The increased income we have enjoyed**
**this year has enabled us to achieve our**
**objective, and moreover increase the**
**number of children helped**| |Investment performance|Para 1.41|| against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We carried forward a balance of £**
**£23,758, due to the exceptional year of**
**fundraising**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Our aim is to raise funds and distribute**
**them as soon as possible. Any surplus**
**funds are held so that we can make**
**immediate grants upon receipt of**
**suitable requests**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**At year end, £23,758**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**We are confident that the charity can**
**continue as a going concern**| ## **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|
**Profits from events that we hold**
**throughout the year, together with**
**donations from individuals, companies**
**and groups**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**We do not have an investment policy as**
**funds are held to make immediate**
**grants upon receipt of suitable and**
**approved requests**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Any drop in income would limit the work**
**of the charity**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution dated 22 September 1987**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**| |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|**Each existing trustee can put forward a**
**recommendation for a new trustee.**
**Election to post is carried out at the**
**AGM**| ## **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|**We work with a Chairperson, Treasurer,**
**and Secretary, and Coordinators for**
**Requests, Fundraising, Website and**
**Events**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Help the Child| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|None| |Registered charity number|297790| |Charity’s principal address|Crossways
Gore Road
Burnham on Sea
Somerset
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Louise Allen|Chair||| ||Karen Brenner|Secretary||| ||Carol Hicks|Treasurer||| ||SallyHoll|Request Coordinator||| ||Sue Godfrey|Website Coordinator||| ||Stephanie
Sampson|Fundraising
Coordinator||| ||Hazel Gough|Events Coordinator||| ||Angela Webber|||| ||Nickie Wood|||| ||NickySucksmith|||| ||JennyBlackshaw|||| ||Claire Thomas||From 16 April 2024|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**Bank**|Barclays|Octagon House, Northwich, CW9 7RB| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **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)** Karen Brenner **Full name(s)** Carol Hicks **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer Secretary **Chair, etc)** **Date** ## INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2024 |Balance as at 1 Jan 2024||18164.45|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||Purchases||43156.01| |Donatons|9966.01||||| |HMRC Gif Aid|465.49||Expenses:||| ||||Insurance|883.70|| |Burnham Berrow Golf Club|30529.00||Bcard Fee|32.00|| ||||Card machine||| ||||charges|1.89|917.59| |CRS Xmas campaign|1356.41||||| |Café 33|4859.00||||| |Christmas Cofee|2307.00||||| |Christmas cards net|185.00|49667.91|||| |||67832.36|||44073.60| ||||Bal as at 31 Dec 2024||23758.76| ||||(Barclaycard 103.80)||| |Number two account|||Bal as at 31 Dec 2024||3931.20| HELP THE CHILD Income and expenditure atcount for the year erbding 2 January 2025 Charity No.299247 Recelpts Donations HMRC Gift Aid Burnharn & Berrow Golf aub CRS Chrlstmas campaign Café 33 Christmas coffee Christmas cards net 9,966.01 465.49 30,529.00 1.356.41 4.859.00 2,307.CQ 185.CX) Total Recelpts 49.667.91 Payments Purchase of equipment Insurance 8arclaycard fèes Card machine char8es Total Payments 43.156.01 883.70 32.00 1.89 44.073.60 Surplus for the year 5.594.31 Current Assets Barclays current account 8arclays number 2 a¢¢ouni Barclaycard 23,862.56 3,931.20 1103.801 27,689.96 represented bv General fund Balance ai be8innin8 of the year Surplus lor the year 22,095.65 5.594.31 27,689.96 THE INDEPCNOfNT £MINERS REPORT reporl 1¢ the ITUStees on myex4min4rion olthe accounis ol the il>rNt thaiity lo¢the ended 2 nuary2025 Re5pon51bllitles •nd b•sls ¢1 ttport As the charlty Iiusree5. are respon5ibk Icrthe prtparatioo olthe accounts in accordan¢e wilh the rtquirementsolihe Ch4rrtles Art 20111'lhÈAci-i. I repori in respe¢1 ol m¥ex4mination ol the