## THE JIM COUSINS TRUST
Accounts for the Year Ended 5 April 2025
## THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS TRUST
## INDEX
## Trustees Report
Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees
Statement of Financial Activities
Balance Sheet
Notes to the Accounts
## THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS TRUST REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
For the year ended 5 April 2025
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 5 April 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).
## Establishment of Trust
The Jim Cousins Trust (“The Trust”) was established by Beryl Cousins, late of Narrow Hill, Witney, Oxfordshire, by a Declaration of Trust dated 1% February 1991 (the Trust Deed”)
## Registration of the Trust
The Trust is registered with the Charity Commission under reference number 1002711 with the name incorporated as “The Trustees of The Jim Cousins Charitable Trust”. The principal address of the Trust is 24 Church Green, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 4AT. The Trust’s correspondent is Mr Mark Drasdo.
## Trustees
The names of the trustees throughout the year were as follows:-
Mr John Stanley Mr lan Lever Mrs Gillian Fettes Dr Melody Helm Mrs Judith Holloway Mr Mark Drasdo Mr Gareth Alty
The power of appointing new trustees is vested in the trustees.
## Powers, policies and objectives of the Trustees
The general powers of the Trustees and policies adopted by them are set out in the Statement of Policies annexed to this report. The policies have in all instances been successfully achieved during the current year. No changes in policies are anticipated in the current year.
## Advisors and Bankers to the Trust
Solicitors Bankers John Welch & Stammers Barclays Bank plc 24 Church Green Abingdon Business Centre Witney Marcham Road Oxfordshire OX28 4AT Leicester LE7 2BB
Stockbrokers Independent Examiners Charles Stanley & Co Limited Bronsens Chartered Certified Accountants 55 Bishops Gate Eden House, Two Rivers Business Park London EC2N 3AS Station Lane, Witney Oxfordshire OX28 4BL
## THE TRUSTEES OF JIM COUSINS TRUST REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (cont.....)
For the year ended 5 April 2025
## STATEMENT OF POLICIES OF THE TRUSTEES
## Reserves
It is the policy of the Trustees to maintain Reserves to provide adequate funding of assets to enable the Grants to be maintained on the basis that approved grants should as far as possible be matched to the realised income. Expenses are normally met from the reserves.
There are no provisions in the Deed restricting the Trustees in the distribution of either Income or Capital.
## Investments
It is the policy of the Trustees to appoint a Stockbroker to recommend the purchases and sales of marketable securities to produce both growth and income and to invest on a medium to low risk basis. The recommendations of the Stockbroker are then considered by the Trustees for implementation.
## Grants
It is the policy of the Trustees to consider all applications for Grants from local charities, individuals for educational and social assistance and other organisations of a charitable or social nature, with a preference to providing Grants towards educational and development assistance for young people.
## Loans
It has not been the policy of the Trustees to consider applications for Loans.
## Administration
It is the policy of the Trustees to meet every two months to consider applications for Grants and to deal with any other matter arising.
## THE TRUSTEES OF JIM COUSINS TRUST REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (cont.....)
For the year ended 5 April 2025
## Financial activities
## 1. Reserves
|Reserves|||
|---|---|---|
||£|£|
|The balance of Reserves at 5" April 2024was||1,973,536|
|Less Grants||73,293|
|Add Income|59,966||
|Administration and other expenses||-28770|
|Realised and Unrealised losses|-211,206||
|BalanceofReservesat5'*April2025||1,720,233|
The reserves have decreased by £253,303 (12.83%). It is the policy of the Trustees to provide income for the distribution of grants and to pay expenses from the reserves and this has been achieved. In the opinion of the Trustees the reserve of £1,720,233 is adequate for the future purposes of the Trust.
## 2. Investments
The Investments of the Trust and the return on such investments has been satisfactory for the financial year (see stockbrokers reports attached). In the current year no refund of tax deducted at source was available.
There was a decrease in valuation of the investments of £218,096 (11.36%) over the previous year. Losses, being the costs of investments bought less sales amounted to £52,520.
The gain on valuation was £31,820, being the gain between the valuation of investments sold at 5 April 2025 and the net proceeds of sale, and this has been transferred to the revaluation account.
During the year the Trustees approved purchases of £102,984 and disposals of £50,464 as recommended by the Stockbroker to the Trust.
## THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS TRUST REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (cont.....)
## For the year ended 5 April 2025
## Financial activities
## 3. Costs
Costs for the year were £28,770 and are deemed to be reasonable compared to last year’s costs at £20,389.
## 4. Income
Income for the financial year was £59,966 made up of wholly of dividend income, this represented an increase of £3,485 (6.17%) over the previous year.
## 5. Grants
Expenditure on Grants during the year amounted to £73,293 in comparison to £54,052 the previous year. A schedule is attached to this report.
## 6. Contingent liabilities
The Trustees are unaware of any contingent liabilities or any matters that may impair the value of the assets of the Trust.
Mark Drasdo — Trustee
Dated
## INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS TRUST
Independent examiner's report to the trustees of The Jim Cousins Trust | report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of The Jim Cousins Trust (the Trust) for the year ended 5 April 2025.
## Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
| report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination | have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## Independent examiner's statement
| have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Philip J Burton FCA Bronsens Chartered Certified Accountants Eden House Two Rivers Business Park Witney Oxfordshire OX28 4BL
## 22 January 2026
THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS TRUST
## STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES For the year ended 5 April 2025
||||April 05|April 05|April 05|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2025|2025|2024|
||||£|£|£|
|Incoming resources||||||
|Investment income||||||
||||||||
|Dividend Income|||59,885.39||56413.33|
|Interest Income|||80.65|59,966.04|67.84|
|Total Incoming Resources||||59,966.04|56,481.17|
|Resources Expended||||||
|Investment Management Costs||||||
|Stockbrokers Costs|||16,933.70||9,727.50|
|Website|||214.40||192.00|
|Bank charges|||0|17,148.10|0.25|
|Charitable Activities||||||
|Grants|||73,293.00||54,051.73|
|Administration Costs|||1,200.00|74,493.00|1,200.00|
|Governance Costs||||||
|Accountancy fees|||2,640.00||2,400.00|
|Administration fees|||6,462.00||5,430.00|
|Adjustment to administration fees 23/24|||-300.00|||
|Adjustment Examination fees|23/24||120.00||120.00|
|Examination fees - provision|||1,500.00|10,422.00|1,320.00|
|Total Resources Expended||||102,063.10|74,441.48|
|Net Incoming Resources||||-42,097.06|-17,960.31|
|Other Recognised Gains and Losses||||||
|Gains/Losses on investments|assets||91,229.04||-108,097.65|
|Revaluation of investment assets||Note 2|-302,435.33|-211,206.29|209,160.13|
|Net movement in funds||||-253,303.35|83,102.17|
|Total funds brought forward||||1,973,536.67|1,890,434.50|
|||||1,720,233.32|1,973,536.67|
## THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS TRUST
## BALANCE SHEET
For the Year ended 5 April 2025
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Note April 05 April 05
2025 2024
Fixed Assets
Investments 2 1,701,201.37 1,923,161.82
1,701,201.37| 1,923,161.82
Current Assets
Debtors 3 0.00 2,395.98
Cash at Bankers 32,678.95 59,879.87
32,678.95 62,275.85
Liabilities
Creditors 4 13,647.00 11,901.00
Net Current Assets 19,031.95 50,374.85
Total assets less current liabilities 1,720,233.32] 1,973,536.67
The Funds of the Charity
Unrestricted Funds 1,720,233.32 1,973,536.67
1,720,233.32| 1,973,536.67
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The Financial Statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 22~* day of January 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:
Woe VA Mark Drasdo- Trustee
## THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS TRUST
Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 5 April 2025
## 1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES- see attached sheet.
|2|INVESTMENTS|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||(Schedule 2)||Cost|Valuation||
|||£|£|£||
||At 5 April 2024||1,570,992.89|1,920,187.87||
||Less disposals||50,464.04|78,053.90||
||||1,520,528.85|1,842,133.97||
||Add purchases||102,984.03|102,984.03||
||||1,623,512.88|1,945,118.00||
||Decrease in valuation||0.00|-243,025.88||
||At 5 April 2025||1,623,512.88|1,702,092.12||
||Profit on sale of investments|||||
||Proceeds||109,873.49|109,873.49||
||Cost of investments sold or transferred||50,464.04|78,053.90||
||||59,409.45|31,819.59|91,229.04|
||Quoted investments at valuation|||1,702,092.12||
||Brokers dealing account|||-890.75||
||Total Investments at 5 April 2025|||1,701,201.37||
||||2024/2025|2023/2024||
|3|DEBTORS||£|£||
||Dividends due||0.00|2,395.98||
||||0.00|2,395.98||
|4|CREDITORS||2024/2025|2023/2024||
||||£|£||
||John Welch & Stammers - fees||7,662.00|6,630.00||
||Examination fees||1,500.00|2,640.00||
||Preparation ofAccounts||2,640.00|2,400.00||
||Grants||1,845.00|231.00||
||||13,647.00|11,901.00||
## 5 TRUSTEE EXPENSES
An amount of £10,302.00, inclusive of VAT, is payable to John Welch & Stammers in respect of professional fees for the year to 5 April 2025. Mr Mark Drasdo is a trustee of the Charity and partners of the firm of John Welch & Stammers. No other Trustee nor any person connected with them has received, or is due to receive, any remuneration directly or indirectly from the Charity's funds.
## THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS TRUST ACCOUNTING POLICIES
## Basis of preparing the financial statements
The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015)’, Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’ and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention with the exception of investments which are included at market value, as modified by the revaluation of certain assets.
## Income
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## Assets
a. Investments are valued by the appointed stockbrokers to the Charity at mid-market value. b. Realised gains are recognised in the date of sale of the asset.
c. Unrealised gains are recognised on the revaluation of the asset.
## Expenditure
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year-end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure.
Allocation and apportionment of costs
All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with use of the resources.
## Taxation
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.
THE TRUSTEES OF THE JIM COUSINS CHARITABLE TRUST Summary of Grants made during the year to 5 April 2025
||Category|Number|of}/Range of|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||grants|grants||
|National|Medical|4|2000-2000|2,000.00|
||Educational|0|||
|Local|Educational|11|845-6096|29,833.00|
||Community|18|1000-3000|39,500.00|
||Medical|0|||
|Individual|Educational|2|300-460|760.00|
||Relief|2|500-700|1,200.00|
73,293.00
73,293.00