## **DR R L A JAYAWEERA** ## **(SETTLOR)** ## **PRIVATE CHARITABLE TRUST** ## **TRUSTEE’S REVIEW** ## **YEAR ENDED 5 APRIL 2024** The Trust has continued this year to provide funds to people for basic living expenses, housing costs and educational expenses. The economic and political situation in the country remains very difficult for ordinary people. The economy has all but collapsed following the fall of the government. Inflation is extremely high and food, utilities and basic healthcare is very expensive. There is great hardship. People’s lives have also been made extremely difficult as a result of freak weather conditions and flooding. A number of the people who the Trust assists are suffering ill health because they are unable to afford nutritious food and basic medicines. Some of the people the trust supports are young people who are unable to find permanent or full-time employment and are required to ask their parents to continue to support them. The trust also supports people of retirement age whose pensions and savings are now insufficient to enable them to purchase sufficient food. The Trust continues to provide financial support to individuals who would otherwise have no income on which to survive. 1 ## **DR R L A JAYAWEERA (SETTLOR)** ## **PRIVATE CHARITABLE TRUST** ## **STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS** ## **YEAR ENDED 5 APRIL 2024** |||£|£||£|£| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Opening cash book balance at 6 April 2023||||||16,371.25| |Amount received(net)||23,630.00||||| |Tax refund||2,500.00||||| |Interest received(net)||0.00||||| ||||||26,130.00|| |||||||42,501.25| |||||||| |**Less: outgoings**||||||| |Charitable gifts||17,626.00||||| |Bank Charges|||75.00|||| ||||||17,701.00|| |||||||| |Cash book balance at 5 April 2024||||||24,800.25| |||||||| 2 ## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the Dr RLA Jayaweera Charitable Trust** I report on the financial statements of the Dr RLA Jayaweera Charitable Trust for the year ended 5 April 2024 set out on pages 1 to 2. ## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the **Charities Act 2011** and the charity’s constitution. They have opted to prepare the accounts on a receipts and payments basis, as permitted by the governing document and the applicable regulations. It is my responsibility to: - examine the accounts under section 145 of the **Charities Act 2011** ; - follow the procedures laid down in the **General Directions given by the Charity** - **Commission** under section 145(5)(b) of the Act; and - state whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## **Basis of independent examiner’s statement** My examination was carried out in accordance with the **General Directions given by the Charity Commission** . An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention which give me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with the accounting records; or 3. the accounts fail to comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of the 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. ## **Name:** M Jayaweera ## **Date:** 19 October 2024 3