## **Trustee Annual Report Form** 

## **All Girlguiding Ulster Charities are governed by the Royal Charter and Bye-laws.** 

**The Purpose of each of these Charities is to educate girls and young women to help them develop emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually so that they can make a positive contribution to their Community and the wider world.** 

## **Name of Charity as it appears on the Register and any other names it may be known by** 

Slemish Ranger Unit / Slemish Look Wider Group 

## **NI Charity Commission Number** 

104051 

## **The principal address of the Charity- this should be the address that was used at the time of registration with the Charity Commission** 

Mrs Geraldine Price Linford MBE 4 Ashfield Broughshane Ballymena County Antrim BT42 4DJ 

**The names of all Charity Trustees on the date the report was approved and all individuals who served as Charity Trustees during the year** 

Dr Catherine McCaig Mrs Geraldine Price Linford MBE Miss Laura Barr 




## **The financial year the report relates to** 

1[st] January 2023 to 31[st] December 2023 

## **A summary of the Charity’s main activities to further its purposes for the public benefit and the main achievements in the year** 

In January we planned our programme for the coming year. It included activities requiring acting skills, a blind tea tasting, mimicking animals and building an ideal community.  We celebrated World Thinking Day, exploring the meaning of our Trefoil, and remembering girl guides in Ukraine, who are unable to meet. As a reminder of their struggles, we made Motanky dolls. 

We gave a Duke of Edinburgh Gold presentation to parents about our flora & fauna project in the Sperrin Mountains using photography. For Mothers’ Day we made cards and watersculpted candles. One girl achieved her Ranger Bronze Award for completing two parts of our programme. 

As Easter crafts we made thumb-print chick cards, and string eggs using a balloon. We planned a winter festival with hot chocolate and s’mores and took part in the Lorne Walk, a sponsored a Treasure Hunt around Broughshane.  We joined all the Guiding units in Broughshane for a Coronation Party. We had food, music and laughter and renewed our Promise to the new sovereign. Later we dined out with pizzas. 

Three girls achieved selection for International Camps in Norway & Switzerland in Summer 2024, and several girls completed residentials for the DofE Gold Award.  We also completed interest badges to go with the Skills Builders and Unit Meeting Activities parts of the programme and did Halloween crafts. A few Ranger Silver Awards were presented. 

We undertook Acts of Remembrance in the unit and the church, and we explored Girlguiding’s contribution to the war effort. Just before Christmas we had a weekend residential to the Ranger Cottage at Lorne – Girlguiding Ulster’s Training & Activity Centre. Activities included Secret Santa, upcycling Christmas crafts, a Christmas dinner, board games and a walk around the grounds. We also made Christmas cards and gifts to be sold at the village Christmas Fair, raising funds for those going on international trips in 2024 

Seven girls participated during the year. 

_**There was no harm flowing from the Charities purposes and there was no private benefit** ._ 




## **A statement that the Trustees have had regard to the Commission’s Public Benefit requirement statutory guidance** 

The Trustees are fully aware of this guidance and have adhered to it 

## **A review of the Charity’s financial position at the end of the year** 

The Unit is in a healthy position financially. 

**Details of any fund held by the Charity that was materially in deficit at the end of the year and steps taken by the Charity Trustees to eliminate the deficit** 

None 

**One or more of the Charity Trustees must sign and date the box below.** 


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