DJ Kruitbosch

Exploring better annual reporting for small UK charities

I spent fourteen years in telecoms with Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia, in Switzerland and Qatar. I ran managed network operations, at one point an organisation of more than a thousand people, and later led commercial management and pricing for Nokia's maintenance services. Since then I have worked in technology leadership and consulting, and I build with AI tools every day. I am Dutch.

What I am working on

Charities in England and Wales have to produce a trustees' annual report every year. Most are written in Word, checked by an independent examiner or auditor and filed as a PDF. A new reporting standard, SORP 2026, changes what the report must contain for financial years starting in 2026.

I am exploring whether a simple tool could make that report easier to write, easier to check and better to read. My brother's company in the Netherlands runs a publishing tool that Dutch organisations use for their annual reports, and I have rebuilt one real UK report in it, anonymised, as a test.

This is research. There is no product to buy. I am talking to independent examiners, accountants and charity treasurers to understand how the work is done today.