## **Trustee Annual Report Form – Template** 

This template is to provide guidance to units who are completing a Trustee Annual Report for the NI Charity Commission.  If you do not wish to use this form please ensure that the headings in this guidance are followed when completing a Trustee Annual Report. 

## **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** 

89[th] Belfast Rainbow Unit 

## **NI Charity Commission Number** 

104574 

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

Girlguiding Ulster 30 Station Road Craigavad BT18 0BP 

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

Patricia Stothers Stephanie Hinds Ruth McAdam (Muriel Thompson – passed away in May 2022) 

**The financial year the report relates to – for example, 1[st] April 2016 to 31[st] March 2017** 

1[st] January 2022 to 31[st] December 2022 




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

24 girls were registered as members from January 2022. 6 girls moved up to Brownies in September 2022, leaving 18 remaining girls. However, new girls joined the Rainbow Unit, taking numbers to 25 by December 2022. 

Activities throughout the year included: 

Arts & Crafts, for example, painting and decorating wooden chick boxes, stitching Christmas puppets and making clay pumpkin pinch pots. 

Completing badge activities including decorating biscuits, team-building games and scavenger hunts. 

Playing games like ‘Hide the Rainbow’, ‘Queenio’, and ‘Mr Bear Likes Honey’. 

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

Charity Trustees are legally obliged to havAll Trustees of the Charity are aware of th **e** Commission’s Public Benefit requirement statutory regard to this guidance.  Please confirm in this box that all Trustees are aware of this. Please see section 4 of the Trustees’ Annual Report and Public guidance. 

Benefit reporting document this can be downloaded from the Girlguiding Ulster website. 

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

Opening Balance: £2033 Closing Balance: £2837 Surplus (deficit) for year: £804 




**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** 

There are no additional funds held by the unit. 

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

Stephanie Hinds – 17/04/23