## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From 07 June 2024  To  06 June 2025** 

## **Charity name: The Kathleen Smith Foundation Charity registration number: 1060505** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the charity are to apply the<br>income, and all or such parts of the capital, to<br>or for the benefit of such exclusively<br>charitable purposes in any part of the world<br>and in such manner as the Trustees may in<br>their absolute discretion think fit.<br>The Trustees will take into account the Letter<br>of Wishes, which requests that consideration<br>be given to benefit the following charities:<br>Benenden Hospital<br>Field Land Foundation<br>Barnardos<br>The Horder Centre<br>RNIB<br>RNLI<br>Musicians Benevolent Fund<br>National Trust<br>Save the Children<br>Moorfields Eye Hospital<br>MacMillan Cancer Support<br>Cancer Research UK<br>St Christopher’s Hospice<br>Eltham College<br>British Red Cross<br>CLIC Sargent (formerly Malcolm Sargent<br>Cancer Fund)|



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|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|In furtherance of the charity’s objects for the<br>public benefit the trustees provide grants in<br>accordance with the Letter of Wishes.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|In determining the charity’s activities, the<br>trustees have had regard to the Charity<br>Commission’s guidance on public benefit.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment Para 1.38 including program related investment Contribution made by Para 1.38 volunteers Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|During the year under review the charity<br>made grant awards of £35,119 each to:<br>Cancer Research UK<br>RNIB<br>RNLI<br>Barnardos|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising Para 1.41 activities against objectives set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other 

## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|In addition to the free reserves the charity<br>has bank balances of £29,489 (2024:<br>£25,542)<br>and<br>investments<br>valued<br>at<br>£2,745,158<br>within<br>the<br>expendable<br>endowment fund.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Trustees pursue a policy of maintaining<br>a free reserve available to be spent in the<br>furtherance of the charity’s objectives as<br>well as covering future needs, opportunities,<br>contingencies and risks.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|At the end of the reporting period the charity<br>had free reserves of £59,830 (2024:<br>£113,777).|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|No funds in deficit|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|N/A|



|**Additional information (optional)**<br>Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatementswhererelevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**<br>Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatementswhererelevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**<br>Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatementswhererelevant about:|
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|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other||Expendable endowment funds are those<br>which are required to be invested to produce<br>income but which may be transferred to<br>unrestricted funds at the discretion of the<br>trustees in order that they may be expended<br>in furtherance of the charity’s objectives.<br>Unrestricted income funds are available for<br>use at the discretion of the trustees in<br>furtherance of the general objectives of the<br>charity and which have not been designated<br>for other purposes.|



## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Trust deed dated 6 January 1997|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?|Para 1.25|Trust|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed by the existing<br>trustees.|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees The charity’s organisational Para 1.51 structure and any wider network with which the charity works 

|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51|No trustee received any remuneration or<br>was reimbursed any expenses in the year<br>under review.<br>Ludlow Trust Company Limited was paid<br>£15,287 (2024: £18,937) for trust<br>administration services and cash<br>management fees during the year under<br>review.  These fees are authorised under<br>clause 14 of the trust deed.|
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|The Kathleen Smith Foundation|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|None|
|Registered charity number|1060505|
|Charity’s principal address|Trustees Department<br>1stFloor, Tower Wharf<br>Cheese Lane, Bristol<br>BS2 0JJ|



**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5|**Trustee name**<br> Ludlow Trust<br>CompanyLimited<br> <br> <br> <br>|**Office (if any)**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||**Corporate trustees– names of the directors at the date the**||||**report was approved**||
||**Director name**||||||
||Gary St John Collins||||||
||Walter Duncan Coxon||||||
||Ali Reza Sarikhani||||||
||Ziba Christina Sakine<br>Sarikhani||||||
||Christopher Ian Thurlow||||||
||Matthew John Wickers||||||
||John Stephen Dennis||Resigned on 25/10/2024||||



## **Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity** 

|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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|**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of**||**others**|
|Description of the assets<br>held in this capacity|N/A||
|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian<br>charity’s objects|N/A||
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and<br>segregation of such assets<br>from the charity’s own assets|N/A||



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**Investment Managers**|NatWest Bank Plc|2ndFloor, Trinity Quay II, Avon Street,<br>Bristol, BS2 2DH|
|**Bankers**|NatWest Bank Plc|2ndFloor, Trinity Quay II, Avon Street,<br>Bristol, BS2 2DH|
|**Accountants**|Charter Tax Consulting<br>Limited|8th Floor, 1 Southampton St, London<br>WC2R 0LR|
|**Independent**<br>**examinator**|Katie Wilson|Blue Spire Limited, Cawley Priory, South<br>Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1SY|



## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## ~~BC~~ **Other optional information** ~~BC~~ 

## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature(s)**|**Signature(s)**|
|---|---|
|**Full name(s)**|**Full name(s)**Chris Thurlow|
|**Position (eg Secretary,**|On behalf of Ludlow Trust|
|**Chair, etc)**|Company Limited (Trustee)|
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|**Date**|<br>06 March 2026|



**The Kathleen Smith Foundation 1060505 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 07.06.2024 06.06.2025 ~~ee ee ee~~ **Section A Receipts and payments** 

## **CC16a** 

||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**to the nearest      £**|**to the nearest      £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
|Income from investments|**55,213**||**-**||**-**||**55,213**||**109,720**||
|Interest received|**5,801**||**-**||**-**||**5,801**||**3,757**||
||**-**||**-**||||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_||||||||||
|_AR)_|_AR)_**61,014**||**-**||**-**||**61,014**||**113,477**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**<br>Sale of investments<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,478,952**<br>**1,478,952**<br>**2,009,739**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>~~**_Sub total_**~~**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,478,952**<br>**1,478,952**<br>**2,009,739**<br>**_Total receipts_                  61,014**<br>**-**<br>**1,478,952**<br>**1,539,966**<br>**2,123,216**<br>~~———_———~~|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
|Grants awarded|**140,476**||**-**||**-**||**140,476**||**128,000**||
|Investment manager fees(VAT inclusive)|**-**||**-**||**13,038**||**13,038**||**18,075**||
|Trust administration fees(VAT inclusive)|**15,109**||**-**||**-**||**15,109**||**18,812**||
|Independent examiners fee|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**||**780**||
|AccountancyFees|**600**||**-**||**-**||**600**||**-**||
|Cash management fees|**178**||**-**||**-**||**178**||**125**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**156,543**||**-**||**13,038**||**169,581**||**165,792**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**<br>Investmentpurchases<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,420,385**<br>**1,420,385**<br>**1,929,893**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**_Sub total_                               -**<br>**-**<br>**1,420,385**<br>**1,420,385**<br>**1,929,893**<br>**_Total payments_**<br>**156,543**<br>**-**<br>**1,433,423**<br>**1,589,966**<br>**2,095,685**<br>~~—————~~|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**-               95,529**<br>**-                    45,529**<br>**-               50,000**<br>**27,531**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**41,582**<br>**-               41,582**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**113,777**<br>**25,542**<br>**139,319**<br>**111,788**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**<br>**59,830**<br>**-                    29,489**<br>**89,319**<br>**139,319**<br>~~SS]5554~~|||||||||||



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

06/03/2026 

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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

||||**Unrestricted**<br>**Restricted**||**Endowment**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**<br>**funds**||**funds**||
||||**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**29,489**<br>**59,830**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**59,830**<br>**-**<br>**29,489**<br>Capital account<br>Income account<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>~~See=~~||||||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||
||account(s))||OK<br>OK||OK||
||||**Unrestricted**<br>**Restricted**||**Endowment**||
||||**funds**<br>**funds**||**funds**||
||**Details**||**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>~~—__~~||||||
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**<br>**Endowment**<br>**-**<br>**2,745,158**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Details**<br>Investment portoflio<br>~~===>~~||||||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Details**<br>~~a~~||||||
||||**Fund to which**<br>**Amount due**||**When due**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**liability relates**<br>**(optional)**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Date of<br>approval<br>Print Name<br>Chris Thurlow on behalf of Ludlow<br>Trust CompanyLimited(Trustee)<br>Signature<br>**Details**<br>2<br>06/03/2026<br>06 March 2026<br>~~—~~||||||



## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The Kathleen Smith Foundation** 

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 6 June 2025 

## **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 charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 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 charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or 

2. the accounts do not accord with those records. 

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. 

Katie Wilson FCA Blue Spire Limited Cawley Priory South Pallant Chichester West Sussex PO19 1SY 

Date 06 March 2026 

