## REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 02810326 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1024925
**Trustees' Annual Report and unaudited Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 for Friends of the Beacon.**
**Friends of the Beacon (Registered Company # 02810326) Regitered Charity #1024925**
## **Trustees Annual Report**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 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 Statndard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland(FRS 102) (effective January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
The main objective of the charity is to fund the activities of the Beacon Centre which provides palliative care to the community from its site in Guildford.
The Trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to public benefit guidace published by the charity commission.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
In the financial year 2024/25 the charity was able to raise £30,482 (2024:£62,787) for the Beacon Specialist Paliative Care Service. The charity had 6 "Golden Bond" London Marathon runners in the 2024 event.
These are managed for the Friends by Phyllis Tuckwell Memorial Hospice, which runs the Beacon Centre.
The sum raised in 2024/25 included £27,468 (2023: £22,128) in respect of a share of Marathon sponsership monies.
The charity's expenditure totalled £30,168 (2024:£ 264,368). £27,468 (2024:£262,388 ) was used to directly support the Beacon. This helped fund some day activities for patients at the Beacon Centre.
£2,700 (2024: £1,980) was spent to raise funds through the London Marthon.
The results for the year are as set out in the annexed Statement of Financial Activities.
## **FUTURE PLANS**
In the future the charity plans to continue to carry out its current objectives and activities.
## **STRUCTURE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing Document**
The charity is controlled by its Memorandum & Articles of Association and constitutes a company limited by guarantee, as defined by the Compaies Act 1985.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
All trustees are appointed when necessary and are given sufficient training on appointment.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Registered Company number**
02810326 (England and Wales)
## **Registered Charity number**
1024925
cont'd/
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## **Friends of the Beacon (Registered Company # 02810326) Regitered Charity #1024925**
**Report of the Trustes for the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **Registered office**
c/o Phyllis Tuckwell Memorial Hospice Waverley Lane FARNHAM Surrey GU9 8BL
## **Trustees/Directors**
Mark E Beale (from 13th December 2024) Anthony J Bennewith Sarah P S Church Andrew M Jackson Anne V Whelan
## **Company Secretary**
Mark E Beale
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 19th December 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
__________________________________________________
Anne Whelan
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## Friends of the Beacon (Registered Company # 02810326)
## Regitered Charity #1024925
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|Notes
**INCOME FROM:**
Voluntary Income
2a
Investment Income
2b
Total
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
Charitable Activities
Support for Beacon
Total
**NET EXPENDITURE**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brught forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|31.3.25
£
30,482
-
30,482
2,700
27,468
30,168
314
245
**559**|31.3.24
£
61,721
1,066|
|---|---|---|
|||62,787|
|||1,980
262,388|
|||264,368|
|||(201,581)
201,826|
|||**245**|
Note:
- 1 The notes form part of these accounts.
- 2 All income and expenditure in both years was unrestricted.
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## **Friends of the Beacon (Registered Company # 02810326) Regitered Charity #1024925**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **as at 31 March 2025**
|||31.3.25|31.3.24|
|---|---|---|---|
||Notes|£|£|
|**CURRENT ASSETS**||||
|Cash at bank||559|245|
|Debtors and Accruals||27,468|22,128|
|**Current Liabilities**||||
|Creditors : amounts falling due within one year||(27,468)|(22,128)|
|**NET CURRENT ASSETS**||559|245|
|||||
|**NET ASSETS**||**559**|**245**|
|**FUNDS**|6|||
|Unrestricted funds||559|245|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**||**559**|**245**|
## **Notes:**
- 1 The notes for part of these accounts
- 2 All amounts were within unrestricted funds during these two years.
The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2023.
The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit of its financial statementsfor the year ended 31 March 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for
- (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps acconting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
- (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair vew of the affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requitements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements wereapproved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf
on 19th December 2025
by
Anne Whelan
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**Friends of the Beacon (Registered Company # 02810326) Regitered Charity #1024925**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025**
## 1 **ACOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charitble company, which is a public benefit under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS102) '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 (FRS102) (effective 1 January 2019), Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reprting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and The Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once th Charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **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 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 the use of resources.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Resticted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particularrestricted purposes.
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## **Friends of the Beacon (Registered Company # 02810326) Regitered Charity #1024925**
|2 **INCOME**
2a Donations
Legacy
**Voluntary Income**
2b Deposit account interest
3 **NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME**
Net expenditure is shown after charging:
Depreciation|**Notes to the Financial Statements**
**for the year ended 31 March 2025**|31.3.25
£
30,482
-
30,482
£
-
£
-|31.3.24
£
23,808
38,979|
|---|---|---|---|
||||62,787|
||||£
1,066|
||||£
760|
## 4 **TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or benefits for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024. **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ended 31 March 2024.
## 5 **STAFF COSTS**
The average number of employees during the year was NIL (2024 - NIL)
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**Friends of the Beacon (Registered Company # 02810326) Regitered Charity #1024925**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|6 **MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**
Net movement of funds included in the above are as follows:
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**Comparatives for movement in funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**
Net movement of funds included in the above are as follows:
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**|At
31.3.24
£
245
245
Incoming
resources
£
30,482
30,482
At
31.3.23
£
201,826
201,826
Incoming
resources
£
62,787
62,787|Net
movement
in funds
£
314
314
Resources
expended
£
30,168
30,168
Net
movement
in funds
£
(201,581)
(201,581)
Resources
expended
£
264,368
264,368|At
31.3.25
£
559|
|---|---|---|---|
||||559|
||||Movement
in funds
£
314|
||||314|
||||At
31.3.24
£
245|
||||245|
||||Movement
in funds
£
(201,581)|
||||(201,581)|
## 7 **RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There were no reated party transactions for the year ended 31 March 2025 nor for the year ending 31 March 2024.
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