## **Christ the Redeemer Guide Unit**
## **ANNUAL REPORT CHARITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND**
|**1.Charity Name as listed on the Charity Register**||Christ the Redeemer Guide Unit||
|---|---|---|---|
|**2. Any other names the charity is known by**||N/a||
|**3. Financial year the report is for**||Year ended 31 August 2023||
|**4. CCNI Charity Registration Number**||107415||
|**5. The address from which the Charity Operates**
**(usually your Meeting Place)**
_This should be the address that the charity used_
_when registering unless it has changed._||Christ The Redeemer Parish Hall
Lagmore Drive
Dunmurray
Belfast
BT17 0TH||
|**6. The names of all our Trustees at the date this**
**report was approved plus any who stepped down**
**as a trustee during the year**||**Current Trustees**
Mrs Rosaleen Corscadden
Mrs Aine Magee
Mrs Martina Gallagher
Miss Amy Best
Ms Aine McCann||
|||**Trustees who stepped down**
N/a||
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## **7. A summary description of the purposes of the charity**
The purpose of the Unit is to provide the Guiding Programme of the Catholic Guides of Ireland, which promotes and fosters the spiritual, moral, cultural, intellectual, social and physical development of its members, to girls and young women at a local level.
|**7. A summary description of the purposes of the charity**
The purpose of the Unit is to provide the Guiding Programme of the Catholic Guides of Ireland,
which promotes and fosters the spiritual, moral, cultural, intellectual, social and physical
development of its members, to girls and young women at a local level.|**7. A summary description of the purposes of the charity**
The purpose of the Unit is to provide the Guiding Programme of the Catholic Guides of Ireland,
which promotes and fosters the spiritual, moral, cultural, intellectual, social and physical
development of its members, to girls and young women at a local level.|
|---|---|
|**8. The name of any person, or body of persons,**
**permitted by the trusts of the charity to appoint**
**one or more new charity trustees and a**
**description of the method used to make such**
**appointments**
_If there is any individual or organisation with the_
_power to appoint charity trustees, such as another_
_charity or a government department, provide their_
_details, the relevant powers, and methods of_
_appointment._|**N/A**|
|**9. Include details of any funds held by the**
**charity as a custodian trustee**
_This is mandatory for charities preparing accruals_
_accounts_**_._**|**N/A**|
## **10. Charity’s Main Activities and Achievements during the year.**
The following is a copy of the report made to the Unit’s AGM by the Unit Leader Mrs Martina Gallagher
**Membership:** We currently have 43 youth members and 9 Leaders as at 31 August 2023. This will increase with the new guiding year in September and we hope to increase these numbers.
**Leadership:** We currently have 9 Leaders and hope to increase this number during the new guiding year.
**Programme and Unit Activities:** We held a Unit residential camp in May 23 and this was well attended. We also held our awards ceremony for the girls for all their hard work during the year. We continued to provide a full programme during the guiding year following our Choices programme and badge work.
**Equipment:** There was no major expenditure on equipment during the year
**Trustees:** There were no changes in our Trustees.
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**Conclusion:** The Trustees are fully aware of their responsibilities towards the young people in our care, to our leadership team and to the Catholic Guides of Ireland. We ensure that payments are made in a timely manner, the unit it represented at meetings and all our members benefit from a wide range of activities. In the coming year to hope to strengthen our membership.
Martina Gallagher Unit Leader
## **11. How is the Unit doing financially?**
A review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the year:
In the financial year ended 31 August 2023 the Charity had total income of £6,835.60 and an expenditure of £6,244.24.
## **12. How has the Unit ensured members have not come to harm?**
All leaders and parent helpers receive training in Safeguarding, which is renewed every 3 years and are Access NI every 3 years. Leaders are required to attend Step One Guiders Course. Other training is available to leaders such as Step 2 and Advanced Leaders training. A valid Camp Warrant must be held by at least one leader who wishes to take the young people away either indoors or outdoors, this includes doing First Aid which needs to be updated every 3 years. Parents are regularly updated with planned activities. All activities are carefully planned and the appropriate equipment used.
## **13. How has your Unit ensured that any private benefit to your volunteers has been incidental to the public benefit of your work?**
Volunteers gain additional transferrable skills but this is incidental to the work that they do and are the skills that they require to undertake that work.
## **14. A statement that the Trustees have had regard to the CCNIs guidance on Public Benefit.**
We the Trustees of Christ the Redeemer Guide Unit can confirm that in setting our objectives and planning for the year that we have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland’s guidance on public benefit to ensure that the activities have helped to achieve the charity’s purposes and provide a benefit to the beneficiaries.
**15.** This report was approved by the Trustees at Unit Council on Date: 13 November 2023
**16. Signature of Trustees Trustee 1** : Mrs Martina Gallagher (Unit Leader) **Date: 13 November 2023 Trustee 2:** Mrs Rosaleen Corscadden (Treasurer) **Date: 13 November 2023**
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