Rotary Club of Settle Charitable Trust - Reg Charity No. 1031410
Annual Meeting of Trustees - 7.30pm Thursday 22" May 2025,
Trustees Present: David Blackburne, John Diggles, Bob Hargreaves, Richard Vesey
Observers:
Colin Renwick, Nicholas Burton
l. John Diggles apologised for the delay in holding this meeting, as he had been slow in
getting last year's annual accounts to the independent examiner, due to pressure of
work. The accounts had now been examined and approved by the examiner, Mr Paul
Cochrane, and were presented to the meeting.
2. There followed some discussion of the various charitable activities in which the Rotary
Club had been involved and organised during the year, in support of the Trust, and the
grants and support that the Trust had been able to award, as a result.
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3. The trustees accepted and approved the accounts for the year ending 30 June 2024.
4. Messrs Hargrave and Vesey stated their wish to step down as trustees and were
thanked by those present for their service.
5. In accordance with the Settle Rotary Club tradition, the present, immediate future and
immediate past Club Presidents, Dr Colin Renwick, Mr lan Johnson and Mr Nicholas
Burton had been nominated as trustees, and accepted. John Diggles will update the
Charity Commission records and file the annual accounts.
6. There being no further business the meeting closed at 8.00pm.
**ROTARY CLUB OF SETTLE CHARITABLE TRUST**
## **Reg. Charity No: 1031410**
## **FINANCIAL STATEMENT 2023-24**
## **Notes to the Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024**
- **1)** The financial statements of the Trust have been prepared using the Receipts and Payments basis.
- **2)** The Main Charity Fund holds all the unrestricted income from Settle Rotary Club’s charitable fund-raising operations and is the source for all grants awarded by the Trust not covered by other restricted funds.
- **3)** In addition to the main Charity Fund, in the year 2023-24, the Settle Rotary Club Charitable Trust operated nine restricted or designated funds, which were used for specific purposes related to the Trust’s activities:
## Designated Funds
## Lend with Care Fund
A fund established to enable the club trust to provide “Micro Loans” to small entrepreneurs in developing countries, through the “Lend with Care” scheme.
## Settle Saunter holding fund
A fund established to hold the income and expenditure associated with the Settle Saunter. Following each year’s Saunter, grants are distributed, to designated recipient charities, and once all expenses have been cleared, the balance is transferred to the Main Charity Fund.
## Santa Sleigh replacement and repair fund
Funds were set aside in 2021 for building and equipping a new ‘sleigh’ trailer for the annual Santa Claus collection. Once this work was completed, the balance remaining was retained as a repair fund.
## Restricted Funds
## Mary’s Meals
Holds donations given specifically for the Mary’s Meals charity. The balance of the fund is sent to “Mary’s Meals” usually around January and again towards the end of the Rotary Year in June.
## Rotary Foundation (Polio plus)
Holds funds raised or donated specifically for the Rotary Foundation’s Eradicating Polio Fund. The total balance of the fund is sent to the Rotary Foundation UK towards the end of the Rotary Year in J Rotary Foundation (general)
Funds raised or donated specifically for the Rotary Foundation’s Annual Fund. The total balance of the fund is sent to the Rotary Foundation UK towards the end of the Rotary Year in June.
## The Santa Claus Local Fund
A fund established to hold the receipts and donations from the annual ‘Santa’s Grotto’ and ‘Santa’s Sleigh’ activities of the club. These funds are raised specifically for good causes operating within the general area covered by the Santa Claus collections.
## The Dales Group YTT Fund
A fund held by the Rotary Club of Settle Charitable Trust on behalf of the Rotary Clubs of the Dales Group, to cover the expenses of the annual Youth Technology Tournament organised by the Group. All the clubs in the group contribute into the fund annually.
**30[th] June 2024 John Diggles, Hon. Treasurer**
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**ROTARY CLUB OF SETTLE CHARITABLE TRUST**
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Main Charity Fund**
|**RECEIPTS**
Regular Fundraising Events and Activities
Merry-go Round
7,227.70
Settle Saunter (residual balance transfer)
2,914.81
Other Fundraising Event receipts
Street Collection for Marie Curie Cancer Campaign
601.18
Other miscellaneous receipts
Club subscription received into wrong account
100.00
Easy Fundraising cheque received
23.12
Donations received at Flowerpot event
26.00
Skipton Building Society interest received
153.43
**Total Receipts**
**PAYMENTS**
Expenses associated with Fundraising Activities
Merry go Round
5,315.87
Website domain registration
8.26
SumUp card reader fees
0.39
Grants awarded by Club Council (Trustees)
Shelterbox (Morroco Earthquake appeal)
600.00
Shelterbox (Libya Floods appeal)
600.00
Alison Marshall (Ukraine camouflage)
300.00
UK-MED (Gaza appeal)
250.00
Marie Curie Cancer Care
48.82
Settle Area Swimming Pool (from Merry go Round receipts)
1,911.83
Other miscellaneous payments
To Club account (subscription received to wrong account)
100.00
Street collection receipts sent to Marie Curie Cancer Care
601.18
HSBC Bank Charges
113.65
**Total Payments**
Surplus [deficit] for the year
Fund balances at 1st July 2023 (brought forward)
**Fund balances at 30**
**th June 2024 (carried forward)**|7,227.70
2,914.81|10,142.51|10,142.51|
|---|---|---|---|
||601.18|601.18||
||100.00
23.12
26.00
153.43|302.55||
|||**11,046.24**||
||||5,324.52|
||600.00
600.00
300.00
250.00
48.82
1,911.83||3,710.65|
||100.00
601.18
113.65||814.83|
|||||
||||**9,850.00**|
||||**1,196.24**
**1,138.99**
**2,335.23**|
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**ROTARY CLUB OF SETTLE CHARITABLE TRUST**
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Lend with Care Fund (designated)**
## **RECEIPTS**
|Repayments of Micro Loans
2,417.86
**Total Receipts**
**PAYMENTS**
New Micro Loans made during the year
3,200.00
Donations to CARE International
480.00
**Total Payments**
Surplus [deficit] for the year
Fund balances at 1st July 2023 (brought forward)
**Fund balances at 30**
**th June 2024 (carried forward)**|2,417.86|2,417.86|
|---|---|---|
||||
|||**2,417.86**|
|||3,680.00|
||||
||||
|||**3,680.00**|
|||**-1,262.14**
**1,401.27**
**139.13**|
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Sleigh replacement fund (designated)**
## **RECEIPTS**
No receipts to the fund during the year
|**Total Receipts**
**PAYMENTS**
No payments from the fund during the year
**Total Payments**
Surplus [deficit] for the year
Fund balances at 1st July 2023 (brought forward)
**Fund balances at 30**
**th June 2024 (carried forward)**|||-|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||||**-**|
||||-|
|||||
|||||
||||**-**|
||||**-**
**414.95**
**414.95**|
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**ROTARY CLUB OF SETTLE CHARITABLE TRUST**
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Settle Saunter holding fund**
## **RECEIPTS**
|Settle Saunter entry fees received (Saunter 2024)
6,985.34
**Total Receipts**
**PAYMENTS**
Saunter expenses
Pat Wherity (Saunter 2024 expenses)
37.96
Sport Ident services (Saunter 2023)
1,534.43
Grants awarded by Club Council (Trustees)
Cave Rescue Organisation (from Saunter 2023)
1,000.00
Settle Victoria Hall (from Saunter 2023)
500.00
Kids at School in Nepal (from Saunter 2023)
1,500.00
Miscellaneous Payments
transfer of residual Saunter 2023 balance to Main Fund (Sept 2023)
2,914.81
SumUp card reader charges
0.68
**Total Payments**
Surplus [deficit] for the year
Fund balances at 1st July 2023 (brought forward)
**Fund balances at 30**
**th June 2024 (carried forward)**|6,985.34|6,985.34|
|---|---|---|
|||**6,985.34**|
|||1,572.39|
||1,000.00
500.00
1,500.00|3,000.00|
||2,914.81
0.68|2,915.49|
||||
|||**7,487.88**|
|||**-502.54**
**7,449.24**|
|||**6,946.70**|
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**ROTARY CLUB OF SETTLE CHARITABLE TRUST**
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Mary’s Meals (restricted)**
## **RECEIPTS**
|**RECEIPTS**|||
|---|---|---|
|Donations received
187.63
**Total Receipts**
**PAYMENTS**
Forward of funds to Mary’s Meals
100.00
**Total Payments**
**Excess of Receipts over Payments**
Fund balance @ 1st July 2023 (brought forward)
**Fund balance @ 30th June 2024 (carried forward)**|187.63|187.63|
||||
|||**187.63**|
|||100.00|
||||
|||**100.00**|
|||**87.63**|
|||0.00|
|||**87.63**|
**Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Rotary Foundation (Polio plus) Fund (restricted)**
## **RECEIPTS**
|**RECEIPTS**|||
|---|---|---|
|donations received at event for World Polio Day
130.50
Donation from Edith Diggles (Purple for Polio Jam Jar)
15.00
income from raffle at club meetings
127.00
**Total Receipts**
**PAYMENTS**
**Total Payments**
**Excess of Receipts over Payments**
Fund balance @ 1st July 2023 (brought forward)
**Fund balance @ 30th June 2024 (carried forward)**|130.50
15.00
127.00|272.50|
|||**272.50**|
|||-|
||||
|||**-**|
|||**272.50**|
|||0.00|
|||**272.50**|
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Rotary Foundation (general) Fund (restricted)**
## **RECEIPTS**
|**RECEIPTS**|||
|---|---|---|
|Donations received from members
Donations received from members
**PAYMENTS**
**Excess of Receipts over Payments**
Fund balance @ 1st July 2023 (brought forward)
**Fund balance @ 30th June 2024 (carried forward)**|25.00
25.00|**50.00**|
|||**0.00**|
|||**50.00**|
|||100.00|
|||**150.00**|
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**ROTARY CLUB OF SETTLE CHARITABLE TRUST**
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Santa Claus Fund (restricted)**
## **RECEIPTS**
|Santa’s Grotto at Settle Switch-on|1,113.50|||
|---|---|---|---|
|Santa’s Sleigh collections|6,543.04|7,656.54||
|**Total receipts**|||**7,656.54**|
|**PAYMENTS**||||
|Expenses||||
|SumUp card charges|8.22|||
|Purchase of Grotto gifts|1,212.11|||
|Settle Town Council (Grotto Stall Fee)|10.00|1,230.33||
|Community Projects||||
|Planting costs for Shambles hanging baskets|364.45|||
|Sign for “Rotary Corner” garden|542.81|||
|Builders’ Station (Soil & Gravel for garden)|102.07|||
|Rotary Youth Technology Tournament contribution|120.00|||
|Rotary Youth Leadership Awards entry fee|525.00|1,654.33||
|Grants and Awards||||
|Churches Together in Settle & District (Eco Explorers)|200.00|||
|Settle Flowerpot Festival|200.00|||
|Settle Sessions Poetry Group|200.00|||
|Settle Community & Business Hub|400.00|||
|Settle Primary School|300.00|||
|Settle Cricket Club (Ladies Kit)|500.00|||
|Long Preston May Day (sports equipment)|500.00|||
|Dementia Forward|250.00|||
|Clapham PCC|400.00|||
|Long Preston Playing Fields|200.00|||
|Hellifield Primary School|300.00|||
|Castleberg Scouts|500.00|||
|Settle College|300.00|||
|SELFA|160.00|||
|Freda’s Community Playgroup|400.00|||
|Craven District of Sanctuary|85.00|||
|Settle District Young Farmers|150.00|||
|Kirkby Malham Parish Hall|250.00|||
|Joanne Marie Wulf (training grant)|430.00|||
|Settle Area Swimming Pool|88.17|||
|Settle Amateur Operatic Society (Courthouse Kids)|500.00|||
|Andy’s Man Club (Gift Card for Millennium Garden projec|100.00|||
|Settle Community Library|300.00|6,713.17||
|**Total payments**|||**9,597.83**|
|**Excess of Receipts over Payments**|||**-1,941.29**|
|Fund balance @ 1st July 2023 (brought forward)|||8,315.71|
|**Fund balance @ 30th June 2024 (carried forward)**|||**6,374.42**|
## **Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 2024 – Dales Group YTT Fund (restricted)**
## **RECEIPTS**
|**EIPTS**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Local Financial Sponsorship (Chris Wood )|300.00|||
|District Sponsorship (West Yorkshire Architects)|500.00|||
|Rotary Club contributions (5 District clubs)|600.00|1,400.00||
|**Total Receipts**|||**1,400.00**|
|**MENTS**||||
|Hire of Gargrave Village Hall|240.00|||
|Buffet Lunch catering|247.50|||
|Refreshments|23.92|||
|Components for Technology challenge|107.20|||
|Trophies|490.80|||
|Certificate frames|23.88|1,133.30||
|**Total Payments**|||**1,133.30**|
|**Excess of Receipts over Payments**|||**266.70**|
|Fund balance @ 1st|July 2023||17.40|
|**Fund balance @ 30th June 2024 (carried forward)**|||**284.10**|
## **PAYMENTS**
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**ROTARY CLUB OF SETTLE CHARITABLE TRUST**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AT 30 JUNE 2024**
|**a. Monetary Assets**
cash
Current Account HSBC
Deposit Account SBS
Care Account
sub-totals (monetary assets)
**b. Other Tangible Assets**
**c. Liabilities**|**Main**
**Charity**
**Fund**|||||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||
|**All Funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Lend**
**with**
**Care**
**Fund**|**Settle**
**Saunter**
**holding**
**fund**|**Santa**
**Sleigh**
**rplcmnt**
**fund**|**Mary’s**
**Meals**|**Rotary**
**Foundation**
**(Polio +)**|**Rotary**
**Foundation**
**(general)**|**Santa**
**Claus**
**Fund**|**Dales**
**Group**
**YTT**
**Fund**||**Total**|
||39.39
402.63
1,893.21|-
-
-
139.13|6,946.70|414.95|6.51
81.12|4.00
268.50
-
-|-
150.00|-
2,374.42
4,000.00|-
284.10||**49.90**
**10,922.42**
**5,893.21**
**139.13**|
||2,335.23|139.13|6,946.70|414.95|87.63|272.50|150.00|6,374.42|284.10||**17,004.66**|
||**(Charity Fund)**
Santa Claus Sleigh Trailer (estimated value)||||||||||**600.00**|
||**Main**
**Charity**
**Fund**|**Lend**
**with**
**Care**
**fund**|**Settle**
**saunter**
**holding**
**fund**|**Santa**
**Sleigh**
**rplcmnt**
**fund**|**Mary’s**
**Meals**|**Rotary**
**Foundation**
**(Polio +)**|**Rotary**
**Foundation**
**(general)**|**Santa**
**Claus**
**Fund**|**Dales**
**Group**
**YTT**
**Fund**|
|**TOTAL**|
||-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-||**-**|
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…………………………… …………………………………………..
Colin Renwick John Diggles
President 2023/24 Hon Treasurer
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Certified as correct: ……………… ………………………………………… Paul Cochrane Independent Examiner
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trustees
Rotary Club of Settle Charitable Trust
On accounts for the year
ended
2023124
Charity no
(if any)
1031410
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 3010612024
Responsibilities and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees, 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 Trust'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.
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I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that
disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Charities Act. or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
the accounts did 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.
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.
Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
£l_ o s-_2025-
Name:
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
IER
Oct 2018