## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 06 04 2024 **To** 05 04 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Dresden Trust **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1025905 ~~a~~ **Charity's principal address** 7 Capel Close, Oxford **Postcode OX2 7LA** ~~——~~ **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Marcus Ferrar Chairman Treasurer 2[Daniel ] Schieferdecker 3 Paul Stocker ~~a~~ 4 Sinclair Mckay 5 Angela Findlay From 6 April 2024 to 14 6[Monica Petzal ] February 2025 7 Nicholas Turnbull From March 2025 ~~a~~ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ~~—————~~ **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution dated 16 August 1993 (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Trust (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Trustees are selected and interviewed by the board of trustees and (eg. appointed by, elected by) appointed during the quarterly board meetings. ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: Not applicable. - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. **TAR** 2 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The Dresden Trust was founded in 1993 in response to a call from Dresden for help rebuild the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), one of Europe’s most magnificent churches. It had collapsed as a result of the British and American bombing of February 1945, in which up to 25,000 people died. After Germany was reunited, citizens of Dresden resolved to rebuild the church, and the late Alan Russell created The Dresden Trust in the UK to respond to their appeal. Over £1 million (€1.5 million) was donated by thousands of people, including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The Trust had a new golden Orb and Cross crafted in England for the top of the cupola. One craftsman (Alan Smith) was the son of a pilot who **Summary of the objects of the** took part in the bombing. 100,000 people attended the raising of the Orb **charity set out in its** and Cross to the top of the Frauenkirche in 2004, and a year later the **governing document** church was re-consecrated. The Trust today seeks to fulfil its mission of reconciliation through educational and cultural initiatives, memorials and visits. Under the Trust’s Dresden Scholars’ Scheme, boys and girls from Dresden/Saxony receive scholarships to attend independent schools in Britain: about 300 have done so since 2000. And British pupils can spend several weeks at a Dresden school, staying with local families. In 2025, The Dresden Trust launched The Learning Path. With this idea, we intend to make the history of Dresden in the 20th Century accessible for school pupils in a brand-new way, and empower students to take the lead and teach each other. **TAR** 3 In planning our activities for the year we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings. The main activities of the Dresden Trust over the reporting period (06 April 2024 to 05 April 2025) were the following: **Dresden Scholar Scheme:** The Dresden Trust is committed to educational exchange between Germany and the UK. As part of our scholar scheme, we have supported 8 British pupils to spend two weeks each at a partner school in Dresden Germany. **Dresden Learning Path:** The Dresden Trust has developed a free interactive learning programme for international and local schools in the city of Dresden, Germany together with our partner organization Fördergesellschaft Frauenkirche. This new initiative was inaugurated by HRH the Duke of Kent in Dresden on February 13[th] , 2025. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** **Visit to Dresden for British ambassador and Duke of Kent:** Over the course of 2024 up until February 13, 2025, the Dresden Trust has worked with the royal household and the British embassy in Berlin to prepare commemoration events around the 80[th] anniversary of the Dresden bombing. We achieved extensive media coverage that was beneficial to the both the embassy and the royal household, worked with local partner organizations on the schedule of events for the day, and took part in an additional on site preparation day in December 2024. Strategy day **:** During our annual strategy day in November 2024 we defined strategic objectives for 2025 and beyond. The board of trustees decided to increase fundraising activities, widen the board of trustees with a commitment to diversity, extending our efforts in the field of educational exchange between the UK and Germany towards institutions of higher education, keep building our social media presence to reach more people in both countries, and scale our efforts in our existing scholarship scheme and learning path projects. The activities of the Dresden Trust foster the friendship and intercultural exchange between the United Kingdom and Germany. We particularly support British pupils and university students to gain valuable international study experience, improve their foreign language skills, and build their social skills. Additionally, the Dresden Trust offers volunteering experiences for young British professionals within the trust and build a passion for charitable work. **TAR** 4 **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Not applicable. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** 5 ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** The main achievements of the Dresden Trust over the reporting period (06 April 2024 to 05 April 2025) were the following: **Digitization:** The Dresden Trust enhanced our online presence with continuous improvements to our websites (Dresden Trust and Learning Path) over the course of the reporting period. In an effort to reach more British pupils and university students, we also built out our social media presence on LinkedIn. **Educational exchange:** The Dresden Scholar Scheme keeps increasing in popularity year over year and we enabled 7 secondary school students and a young musician to participate in intercultural exchange programmes in the UK and Germany. **Learning Path:** After the successful inauguration in February 2025 the learning path project successfully found new partner schools in Germany. The Dresden Trust also secured partnerships with local German charities such as the Bürgerstiftung Dresden which support the project with voluntary workers that are essential for fulfilling our goal to provide a free interactive learning experience focused on the importance of friendship and intercultural exchange between the UK and Germany. **Commemoration:** Over the course of the reporting period, the Dresden Trust participated in multiple intercultural exchange focused events in Coventry, Dresden, London, and Oxford. The most important milestone was our organisation of a very successful visit of our royal patron The Duke of Kent and of the British ambassador to Dresden on the 80[th] commemoration of the Dresden Bombing on February 13[th] , 2025. Both the Royal Household and the British Embassy in Berlin marked this event as a success due to the very positive media coverage that was received in both the UK and Germany. **TAR** 6 ## Section E ## Financial review Cash at bank on 5 April 2025 was GBP 56,119 in unrestricted funds. This Brief statement of the amount would allow the trust to operate for approximately 4 year if charity’s policy on reserves spending on charitable activities remains at the same level as during this reporting period. This runway is important as in the previous and generally in a normal year we receive below GBP 3,000 in income. In 2024 and 2025 we received a single large donation of GBP 85,000 from an estate of a supporter, paid out in 3 instalments, the first of which attributable to this year’s reporting. We do not expect such large donations to happen regularly and will use it to guarantee the execution of our charitable activities for approximately 4 years. Details of any funds materially : in deficit Not applicable. Further financial review details (Optional information) a enti You may choose to include . additional information, where Not applicable. . ‘relevant about: e the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); e how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; e investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. Section F Other optional information Not applicable. Section G Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Full name(s) Daniel Schieferdecker Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair Theseurer etc) 3 Date | +4 March 2026 TAR 7 0B **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name Dresden Trust **members of On accounts for the year** 05 April 2025 **Charity no** 1025905 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 - 4 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **05 / 04 / 2025** . - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 1B **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Date:** 11/03/2026 **Signed: Name:** Andre Andrijanovs ~~Po~~ **Relevant professional** Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in New York State **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 251 Malden Road New Malden KT3 6AG 1 **October 2018** **IER** 3B **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . None 2 **October 2018** **IER** ||**Charity Name**
**Dresden Trust**|||||||||**No (if any)**
**1025905**|**No (if any)**
**1025905**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
06/04/2024
05/04/2025
ee ee ee||||||||||||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**CC16a**|**to the nearest £**|||| |Receipts from Donations|**53,620**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**53,620**|**53,620**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_AR)_
**53,620**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**53,620**|**53,620**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**53,620**
**-**
**-**
**53,620**
**-**
**A3 Payments**
————~~——~~||||||||||||||||||| |Costs of charitable activities|**12,483**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**12,483**|**12,483**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**12,483**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**12,483**|**12,483**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**12,483**
**-**
**-**
**12,483**
**-**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**41,137**
**-**
**- 41,137**
**-**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**14,982**
**- -**
**14,982**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**56,119**
**-**
**- 56,119**
**-**
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