Charity registration number: 1014066
## The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 5 April 2025
## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Contents (continued)**
|Reference and Administrative Details|1|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|2 to 6|
|Independent Examiner's Report|7|
|Statement of Financial Activities|8|
|Balance Sheet|9|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|10 to 23|
## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
**Trustees** Mr J Bastable Mr J Dickins Mr W D Forde **Charity Registration Number** 1014066 **Principal Office** 5700 Oxford Business Park South Oxford Oxon OX4 2RW **Independent Examiner** Buzzard's Accountancy Limited 95 Sinclair Avenue Banbury Oxon OX16 1BQ **Solicitors** Freeths LLP 5700 Oxford Business Park South Oxford Oxon OX4 2RW **Bankers** Cater Allen PO Box 12665 Harlow CM20 9QP **Agents** Carter Jonas 51 Northbrook Street Newbury Berkshire RG14 1DT **Investment Advisors** Evelyn Partners 45 Gresham Street London EX2V 7BG
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Trustees' Report**
The trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 5 April 2025.
The Trustees confirm that the Annual report and financial statements of the charity comply with the current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charity's governing document and the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ issued in October 2019.
## **Objectives and activities**
## _**Policies and objectives**_
The charity is organised generally to provide assistance for predominantly local charities operating in Kintbury where the late Miss Lawrence, the settlor, lived, and in the nearby area. The objects of the charity are wide and owing to the inability to expend capital from its principal capital fund, it continues to be the trustees’ policy to utilise their income in support mainly of local charities, but also certain national charities some of which the late Miss Lawrence supported in her lifetime. The trustees have a local presence in Kintbury and the wider district and monitor local charitable needs.
## _**Activities undertaken to achieve objectives**_
The trustees’ strategy to invest in companies that provide a steady history of growing profits has assisted with the relatively stable income.
The total income for the current year was £150,213 (2024: £154,454). The Trustees made grants totalling £153,856 (2024: £162,462).
The Trustees have also allocated a fund to provide grants to assist young people from the Kintbury area with the costs of tertiary education and training and applications have been sought from and grants paid to young people.
The Trustees continue to keep under review the application of income in accordance with the objects of the charity.
## _**Public benefit**_
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
The Trust fulfils its obligation by:-
- Providing funds to finance educational grants to individuals of limited means resident in the Kintbury area
- Providing grants to organisations providing recreational activities and social support for the residents of Kintbury
- Providing grants to national registered charities supporting medical research, counselling and support services for children and others incapacitated through age, accident, injury, physical or mental illness
- • Providing grants to the above mentioned causes having an income from all sources of less that £2 million per annum
## _**Grant making policies**_
The Trustees meet half yearly to consider the grants they will make and to review any feedback they have received. Most of the grants are made in April of each year.
Nominations for grants are made by formal and informal means via the Good Exchange platform or by a standard application form.
The Trustees encourage feedback on actual use of the funds. The Trustees whenever possible attend functions to which they are invited by the charitable organisations they support and report on what they learn from attending the functions.
The Trust has a legal clerk who handles the day to day correspondence relating to grants. The clerk is an executive at the firm of Freeths LLP and the firm also offers legal advice to the charity.
## **Achievements and performance**
## _**Review of activities**_
During the year the Trust has been able to continue its support of local charities in Kintbury.
The Trustees have supported the local community by making donations to Kintbury Bowling Club, Inkpen History Society, Education Business Partnership West Berkshire and Newbury Soup Kitchen. They have also provided financial assistance with the cost of tertiary education for young individuals who may otherwise not have been able to undertake further education.
The Trust has also made significant grants to charitable organisations supporting individuals disadvantaged by illness and medical disability.
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## _**Investment policy and performance**_
The trustees restated their investment strategy as being to protect the capital value of the trust fund against inflation and maintain a balance between capital protection and income performance. The trustees have accepted a moderate amount of risk through their investment in the property collectives which they have purchased to increase the income yield.
The Trustees continue to review their investment strategy.
The Trust employs Evelyn Partners as its investment advisor and manager.
## **Financial review**
## _**Reserves policy**_
The Trustees are not permitted to spend the capital from the Trust for a period of eighty years. Following the sale of the land in Kintbury the investment of the sale proceeds has generated a significant increase in the income which has enabled the Trustees to make increased grants and donations.
The adequacy of the reserves policy is reviewed annually and when appropriate income reserves are used to support the trustees grant making policy.
## **Plans for future periods**
The Trustees intend to continue to provide grants in a similar way to the current year. They will consider other proposals for applying the income for the benefit of the objects of the charity. They will give preference to the charitable organisations which Miss Lawrence supported during her lifetime.
## **Trustees and officers**
The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
Trustees: Mr J Bastable Mr J Dickins Mr W D Forde
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
## **Structure, governance and management**
## _**Constitution**_
The charity's governing document is a Settlement dated 13 September 1973. The charity was set up by Miss Lawrence to benefit national charities and organisations.
The settlement gives the Trustees power for a period of eighty years to apply the income from the Trust Fund to such charitable objects, associations and organisations and in such shares and proportions and in such manner in all respects as the Trustees in their absolute discretion think fit.
## _**Recruitment and appointment of trustees**_
The Trustees are jointly responsible for the induction of any new trustee. The induction includes awareness of trustee's responsibilities, consideration of the governing documents, administrative procedures, the history and philosophy of the charity.
## _**Organisational structure**_
The Trust continues to have three Trustees. All Trustees give of their time freely and no Trustees remuneration was paid in the year.
## _**Risk management**_
The Trustees regularly review the risks that the charity faces. To date, these have been restricted to the risks associated with owning land, the need to maintain an adequate level of income from which to make distributions and also the risk of fraud by professional advisors. The third risk is something which the Trustees experienced directly many years ago and there are provisions in place to give added protection.
## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with the United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) and applicable law and regulations.
The law applicable to charities requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Trustees' Report (continued)**
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, and the provisions of the constitution. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charity's website. Legislation governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on 17 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
Mr J Dickins Trustee
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement for the year ended 5 April 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I 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 Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement 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 accounting 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.
I 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.
Valerie Buzzard, FCCA Buzzard's Accountancy Limited
95 Sinclair Avenue Banbury Oxon OX16 1BQ
6 December 2025
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 5 April 2025**
|**Note**
**Income and Endowments from:**
Investment income
2
Total income
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
3
Charitable activities
4
Total expenditure
Gains/losses on investment assets
Net expenditure
Net movement in funds
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
14|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
150,213
150,213
(559)
(174,408)
(174,967)
230
(24,524)
(24,524)
80,963
56,439|**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
(24,157)
-
(24,157)
(78,523)
(102,680)
(102,680)
4,206,409
4,103,729|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
150,213
150,213
(24,716)
(174,408)
(199,124)
(78,293)
(127,204)
(127,204)
4,287,372
4,160,168|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
154,454
154,454
(544)
(182,951)
(183,495)
3,944
(25,097)
(25,097)
106,060
80,963|**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
(23,046)
-
(23,046)
14,915
(8,131)
(8,131)
4,214,540
4,206,409|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
154,454|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||154,454|
|||||||(23,590)
(182,951)|
|||||||(206,541)
18,859|
|||||||(33,228)|
|||||||(33,228)
4,320,600|
|||||||4,287,372|
The notes on pages 10 to 23 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 8
## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **(Registration number: 1014066) Balance Sheet as at 5 April 2025**
|**Note**
**Fixed assets**
Investments
11
**Current assets**
Debtors
12
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**
13
**Net current assets**
**Net assets**
**Funds of the charity:**
**Endowment funds**
**Unrestricted income funds**
Unrestricted funds
**Total funds**
14|**2025**
**£**
3,961,473
3,425
208,573
211,998
(13,303)
198,695
4,160,168
4,103,729
56,439
4,160,168|**2024**
**£**
4,062,254
-
238,287|
|---|---|---|
|||238,287
(13,169)|
|||225,118|
|||4,287,372|
|||4,206,409
80,963|
|||4,287,372|
The financial statements on pages 8 to 23 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 17 November 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
Mr J Dickins Trustee
The notes on pages 10 to 23 form an integral part of these financial statements. Page 9
## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Statement of compliance**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with 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) and the Charities Act 2011.
The financial statements have been prepared to give a "true and fair" view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a "true and fair" view. This departure has involved following Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued in October 2019 rather than Accounting and Reporting by Charities:Statements of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.
## **Basis of preparation**
The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.
## **Exemption from preparing a cash flow statement**
The charity has taken advantage of the provisions of the SORP for charities applying FRS 102 Update Bulletin 1 not to prepare a statement of Cash Flows in these financial statements.
## **Income and endowments**
All income is recognised once the Charity has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of income receivable can be measured reliably.
Income tax recoverable in relation to investment income is recognised at the time the investment income is receivable.
## _**Investment income**_
Dividends are recognised once the dividend has been declared and notification has been received of the dividend due.
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the Bank.
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## _**Other income**_
Other income is recognised in the period in which it is receivable and to the extent the goods have been provided or on completion of the service.
## **Expenditure**
All expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to that expenditure, it is probable settlement is required and the amount can be measured reliably.
All expenditure is inclusive of irrecoverable VAT.
## _**Raising funds**_
Expenditure on raising funds includes all expenditure incurred by the Charity to raise funds for its charitable purposes and includes costs of all fundraising activities events and non-charitable trading.
## _**Charitable activities**_
Expenditure on charitable activities is incurred on directly undertaking the activities which further the Charity's objectives, as well as any associated support costs
## _**Grant provisions**_
Grants payable are charged in the year when the offer is made except in those cases where the offer is conditional, such grants being recognised as expenditure when the conditions attaching are fulfilled. Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year end are noted as a commitment, but not accrued as expenditure.
## **Support costs**
Support costs are those costs incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity. Governance costs are those incurred in connection with administration of the charity and compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements.
## **Governance costs**
These include the costs attributable to the charity’s compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements, including audit, strategic management and trustees meetings and reimbursed expenses.
## **Investment properties**
Investment property is carried at fair value, derived from the current market prices for comparable real estate determined annually by the trustees. The trustees use observable market prices, adjusted if necessary for any difference in the nature, location or condition of the specific asset. Changes in fair value are recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities.
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## **Fixed asset investments**
Fixed asset investments, other than programme related investments, are included at market value at the balance sheet date. Realised gains and losses on investments are calculated as the difference between sales proceeds and their market value at the start of the year, or their subsequent cost, and are charged or credited to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period of disposal.
Unrealised gains and losses represent the movement in market values during the year and are credited or charged to the Statement of Financial Activities based on the market value at the year end.
## **Trade debtors**
Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the charity will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.
## **Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.
## **Trade creditors**
Liabilities are recognised when there is an obligation at the balance sheet date as a result of a past event, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefit will be required in settlement, and the amountof the settlement can be estimated reliably.
Liabilities are recognised at the amount that the Charity anticipates it will pay to settle the debt or the amount it has received as advanced payments for the goods or services it must provide.
## **Fund structure**
Unrestricted income funds are general funds that are available for use at the trustees discretion in furtherance of the objectives of the charity and which have not been designated for other purposes.
Investment income, gains and losses are allocated to the appropriate fund.
Endowment funds represent the capital of the Trust which the Trustees are not permitted to spend for a period of eighty years. Income received from the endowment fund is classed as unrestricted. Investment management fees are paid out of the endowment fund.
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## **Financial instruments**
The Charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value.
## **2 Investment income**
|Interest receivable
Dividends receivable
Rent receivable
Interest receivable
Dividends receivable
Rent receivable|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
24,474
123,071
2,668
150,213
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
16,833
136,333
1,288
154,454|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
24,474
123,071
2,668|
|---|---|---|
|||150,213|
|||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
16,833
136,333
1,288|
|||154,454|
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## **3 Expenditure on raising funds**
## **a) Investment management costs**
|Portfolio management costs
Portfolio management costs|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
559
559
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
544
544|**Endowment**
**funds**
**Permanent**
**£**
24,157
24,157
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Permanent**
**£**
23,046
23,046|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
24,716|
|---|---|---|---|
||||24,716|
||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
23,590|
||||23,590|
## **4 Expenditure on charitable activities**
|**Note**
Grant funding of activities
6
Allocated support costs
5
Governance costs
5
**Note**
Grant funding of activities
6
Allocated support costs
5
Governance costs
5|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
153,856
1,257
19,295
174,408
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
162,462
1,277
19,212
182,951|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
153,856
1,257
19,295|
|---|---|---|
|||174,408|
|||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
162,462
1,277
19,212|
|||182,951|
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## **5 Analysis of governance and support costs**
## **Support costs allocated to charitable activities**
|**Support costs allocated to charitable activities**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Insurance
Computer software and maintenance costs
Sundry expenses
Bank charges
**Governance costs**
Independent examiner remuneration
Legal fees||**Total**
**2025**
**£**
1,157
-
100
-
1,257
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
3,372
15,923
19,295|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
1,116
158
-
3
1,277
**Total**
**2024**
**£**
3,372
15,840|
||||19,212|
## **6 Grant-making**
## **Analysis of grants**
|**Analysis of grants**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Grants to**|**institutions**|**Grants to**|**individuals**|
||**2025**|**2024**|**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Analysis**|||||
|Charitable donations|152,256|160,993|1,600|1,469|
Below are details of material grants made to institutions.
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
||**2025**|**2024**|
|---|---|---|
|**Name of institution**|**£**|**£**|
|1st Newbury Scout Group|-|1,582|
|1st Whitchurch Scouts|-|1,000|
|Age Concern Hampshire|-|1,500|
|The Almshouses of John Isbury & Jacob Hardrett|-|1,000|
|Arts for Hungerford|1,500|-|
|Barlow's Park Management Association|-|1,500|
|Berkshire Cricket Community Foundation|-|1,000|
|Berkshire Maestros|-|2,000|
|Berkshire Vision|-|1,500|
|Bishops Green Community Association|2,000|2,500|
|Bradfield Village Hall ClO|-|1,000|
|British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA)|-|1,000|
|British Polio Fellowship|-|2,000|
|Centre for Movement Disorders|-|1,500|
|Child Autism UK|-|1,246|
|Citizens Advice West Berkshire|-|2,000|
|City Arts Newbury|-|1,000|
|Combe Community Cinema|-|1,250|
|Community Safety Education CIC|-|1,100|
|Community Youth Project|-|2,500|
|The Corn Exchange (Newbury) Trust|10,000|-|
|The Cowshed|-|2,000|
|Daisy's Dream|1,135|-|
|Dingley's Promise (Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years|||
|Centres)|2,000|1,000|
|Disabled Sailors Association|-|1,000|
|Downland Volunteer Group|-|1,500|
|The Downs School Trust|-|1,500|
|Douglas Bader Foundation|-|1,500|
|Eastwood Village Hall|4,075|-|
|Education Business Partnership West Berkshire|2,500|2,000|
|Eight Bells for Mental Health|-|3,000|
|Family Holiday Charity|-|1,200|
|Friends of Kingsclere School (FKS)|-|1,000|
|Friends of Young Carers (West Berks)|-|2,000|
|Gladstone Memorial Recreation Ground Trust|10,000|2,500|
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
|Go Beyond Charity|-|1,500|
|---|---|---|
|Good Hope Farm|6,051|2,000|
|Green Machine Tech Hub CIC|-|1,000|
|Fair Close Centre (Age Concern, Newbury & District)|-|2,875|
|Friends of Wash Common Library|-|1,500|
|Heads2gether|3,000|3,000|
|Helping Disabilities Trust|-|1,500|
|Home-Start Oxford|-|1,500|
|Home-Start North West Hampshire|-|1,500|
|Home-Start West Berkshire|2,000|1,500|
|Housing Matters|-|1,200|
|Hungerford & Camburn Education Foundation|2,000|2,000|
|Hungerford Cricket Club|2,000|-|
|Hungerford Food Community|6,486|-|
|Hungerford Library & Community Trust|11,614|2,000|
|Hungerford Memory Singers|-|700|
|Hungerford Rugby Football Club|-|1,500|
|Hungerford Town Band|2,000|-|
|Hungerford Town Juniors Football Club|3,000|-|
|Hungerford Youth and Community|2,000|2,500|
|Inkpen County Primary School PSA Association|5,000|-|
|Inkpen History Society|2,400|2,800|
|Interakt Community|-|1,000|
|John O'Gaunt School Parent Staff Association|-|2,347|
|Kewi Club|300|-|
|Kids Space|-|1,500|
|Kingsclere Community Association|-|1,500|
|Kintbury Autumn Club|2,000|-|
|Kintbury Bowling Club|1,994|-|
|Kintbury PCC|-|1,500|
|Kintbury Preschool|-|9,929|
|Kintbury Rangers FC|-|1,500|
|Kintbury St Mary's CE Primary School|8,780|4,372|
|Kintbury Tennis Club|5,000|-|
|Lambourn Sports Club|-|1,500|
|Life Education Wessex & Thames Valley|-|2,000|
|Living Paintings Trust|3,000|1,500|
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
|London Wheelchair Rugby Club|-|1,500|
|---|---|---|
|Mobility Trust|-|2,000|
|Newbury and District Agricultural Society|-|1,500|
|The Newbury Community Resource Centre Limited|6,600|-|
|Newbury Spring Festival|2,000|2,000|
|Newbury Soup Kitchen|2,000|3,354|
|Opus 2 choir|-|1,000|
|Over The Wall|-|1,500|
|Oxford Against Cutting (Sundial Centre for Education on Harmful|||
|Practices)|-|1,500|
|Oxfordshire Discovery College|-|1,500|
|Pamber Heath Memorial Hall|-|1,000|
|Parenting Special Children|-|1,500|
|Parents And Children Together|-|1,500|
|Pavers Charitable Foundation|-|3,000|
|Penny Post Publishing CIC|1,500|-|
|Plant Your Future|1,500|3,000|
|The Porch|-|1,500|
|The Ramsbury School Development Trust|5,000|-|
|Recovery In Mind|-|1,500|
|Resolve Now|-|1,500|
|Sebastian's Action Trust|-|1,500|
|Second Chance - A Charity For Children Who Need Special Help|-|1,000|
|Step by Step London|-|1,500|
|Swings & Smiles|3,000|-|
|Tadley & District Community Association|-|1,500|
|Thatcham Medical Practice Patient Participation Group|-|538|
|Thatcham Memorial Foundation|-|1,500|
|Theale C of E Primary School PTA|-|1,500|
|Time to Talk West Berkshire|5,000|2,000|
|The Tuesday Burchett Club|-|2,000|
|Thatcham Town Football Club|-|1,500|
|Thatcham Youth|1,821|-|
|Volunteer Centre West Berkshire|-|1,500|
|Watermill Theatre|10,000|3,000|
|West Berkshire Council|2,000|-|
|West Berkshire Therapy Centre|10,000|1,500|
|Woodstock Scouts and Guides|-|1,000|
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
|Yellow Submarine|-
152,256|1,500|
|---|---|---|
|||160,993|
## **7 Net incoming/outgoing resources**
Net outgoing resources for the year include:
|(Loss)/profit on disposal of investments - unrestricted
(Loss)/profit on disposal of investments - endowment
Unrealised gains/(losses) on investments - unrestricted
Unrealised gains/(losses) on investments - endowment|**2025**
**£**
6,306
174,757
(6,076)
(253,280)|**2024**
**£**
536
70,857
3,408
(55,942)|
|---|---|---|
## **8 Trustees remuneration and expenses**
No trustees, nor any persons connected with them, have received any remuneration from the charity during the year.
No trustees have received any reimbursed expenses or any other benefits from the charity during the year.
## **9 Independent examiner's remuneration**
|Independent examination of the Charity's annual accounts
All other services|**2025**
**£**
1,686
1,686
3,372|**2024**
**£**
1,686
1,686|
|---|---|---|
|||3,372|
## **10 Taxation**
The charity is a registered charity and is therefore exempt from taxation.
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## **11 Fixed asset investments**
## **Investment properties**
|**Investment properties**||
|---|---|
|**Cost or Valuation**
At 6 April 2024
**Provision**
At 5 April 2025
**Net book value**
At 5 April 2025
At 5 April 2024|**Investment**
**properties**
**£**
200,000|
||-|
||200,000|
||200,000|
There has been no valuation of investment property by an independent valuer.
After due consideration of the trustees intentions with the land it was reclassified from tangible fixed assets to investment properties in the year to 5 April 2023. One piece of land was being held at deemed cost of £75,000 using a valuation by Dreweatt Neate Chartered Surveyors on 11 June 2008.
The fair value of the land has been arrived at on the basis of a valuation carried out on 5 April 2024 by the trustees. The valuation was made on an open market value basis by reference to market evidence of transaction prices for similar land. The trustees do not consider the valuation at 5 April 2025 to have altered significantly.
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## **Other investments**
|**Cost or Valuation**
At 6 April 2024
Revaluation
Additions
Disposals
At 5 April 2025
**Net book value**
At 5 April 2025
At 5 April 2024
**12 Debtors**
Trade debtors
Other debtors
**13 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
Accruals|**Listed**
**investments**
**£**
3,317,586
(269,353)
400,108
(241,533)
3,206,808
3,206,808
3,317,586|**Listed**
**investments**
**£**
3,317,586
(269,353)
400,108
(241,533)
3,206,808
3,206,808
3,317,586|**Unlisted**
**investments**
**£**
544,668
9,997
-
-
554,665
554,665
544,668
**2025**
**£**
2,240
1,185
3,425
**2025**
**£**
13,303|**Unlisted**
**investments**
**£**
544,668
9,997
-
-
554,665
554,665
544,668
**2025**
**£**
2,240
1,185
3,425
**2025**
**£**
13,303|**Total**
**£**
3,862,254
(259,356)
400,108
(241,533)
3,761,473
3,761,473
3,862,254
**2024**
**£**
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||3,206,808||554,665|||
||3,206,808||554,665|||
||3,317,586||544,668|||
||||**2025**
**£**
2,240
1,185
3,425
**2025**
**£**
13,303|||
||||||-|
||||||**2024**
**£**
13,169|
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## **14 Funds**
|**Unrestricted funds**
General
**Endowment funds**
Permanent
**Total funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General
**Endowment funds**
Permanent
**Total funds**|**Balance at 6**
**April 2024**
**£**
80,963
4,206,409
4,287,372
**Balance at 6**
**April 2023**
**£**
106,060
4,214,540
4,320,600|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
150,213
-
150,213
**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
154,454
1,800
156,254|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
**Other**
**recognised**
**gains/(losses)**
**£**
(174,967)
230
(24,157)
(78,523)
(199,124)
(78,293)
**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
**Other**
**recognised**
**gains/(losses)**
**£**
(183,495)
3,944
(23,046)
13,115
(206,541)
17,059|**Balance at 5**
**April 2025**
**£**
56,439
4,103,729|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||4,160,168|
|||||**Balance at 5**
**April 2024**
**£**
80,963
4,206,409|
|||||4,287,372|
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## **The Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025 (continued)**
## **15 Analysis of net assets between funds**
|Fixed asset investments
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets
Fixed asset investments
Current assets
Current liabilities
Total net assets|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
41,412
22,356
(7,329)
56,439
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**General**
**£**
58,859
29,461
(7,357)
80,963|**Endowment**
**funds**
**Permanent**
**£**
3,920,061
189,642
(5,974)
4,103,729
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Permanent**
**£**
4,003,395
208,826
(5,812)
4,206,409|**Total funds**
**at 5 April**
**2025**
**£**
3,961,473
211,998
(13,303)|
|---|---|---|---|
||||4,160,168|
||||**Total funds**
**at 5 April**
**2024**
**£**
4,062,254
238,287
(13,169)|
||||4,287,372|
## **16 Related party transactions**
There were no related party transactions in the year.
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