## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/01/2024 Period start date. To 31/12/2024 Period end date.**
**Charity name: St Helens General Charitable Trust**
## **Charity registration number: 1076122**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**(A) For the furtherance of any charitable**
**purpose for the benefit of the inhabitants**
**of the ecclesiastical parish of St Helens,**
**St Helen including all or any of the**
**following purposes:-**
**(a) the provision and support of**
**facilities for recreation and other**
**leisure time occupation, with the**
**object of improving the conditions**
**of life for the said inhabitants;**
**(b) the provision and support of**
**educational facilities;**
**(c) the relief of sickness, the aged,**
**impotent, and poor;**
**(d) the advancement of religions;**
**(B) To establish or secure the**
**establishment of a community centre**
**(hereinafter called “The Centre”) and to**
**maintain and manage or to cooperate**
**with any local authority in the**
**maintenance and management of such a**
**Centre for the activities promoted by the**
**association and its constituent bodies in**
**furtherance of the above objects.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Distribution of annual income from**
**endowment monies invested upon the**
**sale of the Parish Church Field and**
**annual maintenance as required of the**
**community centre currently used as a**
**scout hut.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had due regard for the**
**public benefit.**|
**Achievements and Performance**
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||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Grants have been given to local churches**
**scout groups, foodbanks, woodland,**
**homeless centres, defibrillator, Parish**
**School, youth groups, asylum seeker**
**groups, residents within the old St**
**Helens Parish Church boundaries.**
-
**Education/training**
-
**The advancement of health or**
**saving of lives**
-
**The prevention or relief of poverty**
-
**Religious activities**
-
**Amateur sport**|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Small reserves as the majority of income**
**is distributed each year.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Small reserves held in case of any repairs**
**to the community building.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£5,436.60**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Conveyance dated 25 March 1935 as**
**varied by a scheme dated 17 January**
**1997**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated.**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Appointed from local churches.**|
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**Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|St Helens General Charitable Trust|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|None|
|Registered charity number|1076122|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o Secretary,
Windle Grange, Rainford Road, St Helens, Merseyside|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Nigel Lea-Wilson|Chair|||
||Anne Morris|Treasurer|||
||Richard Denno|Secretary|||
||Sharon Davies|Secretary (grants)|||
||Christine Spencer|Trustee|To 3 Dec 2024||
||Sue Kirkham|Trustee|||
||PhillipWatkins|Trustee|||
||Paul Prescott|Trustee|||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|Fixed asset - Community Centre|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|See governing document|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|Building and other assets are endowment funds.|
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **None**
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## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** /Richard Denno/ /Nigel Lea-Wilson/ **Full name(s)** Richard Denno Nigel Lea-Wilson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary Chair **etc) Date** 22 Mar 2025
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## **ST HELENS GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST CHARITY REG. NO. 1076122**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024**
|**RECEIPTS**
CBF Deposit Fund Interest
Nat West Bank Interest
CBF Investment Fund Dividends
**PAYMENTS**
Insurance Premiums
Water Rates and Electricity
Business Rates
Signage and trees
Grants paid
Sundries
**SURPLUS (PAYMENTS)/ RECEIPTS FOR YEAR**
**GRANTS PAID**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024**
St Helens Carers Centre - Young Carers
Aglow St Helens
Bethany Claire Artist
Scouts
St Andrews Church PCC
St Andrews Brownies
Holy Cross Pensioners
Hygeine Bank
Lunch at the Pantry
Queens Park Primary School
Tiddlers Toddlers Group
St Helens Parish Church PCC
St Helens Parish Church Bowling Club
St Helens Parish Primary School
St Thomas of Canterbury School
Fearless YTH
St Mark's PCC
Haydock Male Voice Choir
Sylvia Bhatti
Watch This Space
Our Warm Welcome|**2024**
**£**
274.02
443.73
60,921.05
**61,638.80**
862.65
1,416.76
115.27
97.62
61,875.62
30.00
**64,397.92**
**(£2,759.12)**
8,785.00
750.00
3,185.39
0.00
0.00
1,993.99
800.00
1,812.00
1,500.00
5,255.00
739.00
2,745.00
0.00
23,570.00
1,396.75
778.49
500.00
3,500.00
0.00
0.00
4,565.00
**61,875.62**
**£**|**2023**
**£**
160.32
237.87
59,989.03|
|---|---|---|
|||**60,387.22**|
|||842.31
1,164.85
108.75
4,911.45
52,495.31
25.00|
|||**59,547.67**|
|||**839.55**
**£**|
|||5,000.00
0.00
0.00
4,182.20
4,694.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
23,269.00
1,715.18
0.00
0.00
920.00
0.00
0.00
2,725.00
589.93
9,400.00|
|||**52,495.31**
**£**|
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## **ST HELENS GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST CHARITY REG. NO. 1076122**
## **BALANCE SHEET AT 31 DECEMBER 2024**
## **INCOME ACCOUNT**
|Reserves||5,436.60||2,320.00|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Income not attributed||14,550.89||20,426.61|
||**£**|**19,987.49**
**£**|**£**|**22,746.61**
**£**|
|**Represented by**|||||
|NatWest Current account||13,534.63||3,432.55|
|NatWest Business Reserve account||1,016.26||14,151.48|
|CBF Deposit account||5,436.60||5,162.58|
||**£**|**19,987.49**
**£**|**£**|**22,746.61**
**£**|
|**CAPITAL ACCOUNT**|||||
|At 1 January 2024||2,194,643.46||2,004,414.43|
|Surplus/(Deficit) on Revaluation||50,231.96||190,229.03|
|At 31 December 2024|**2,244,875.42**
**£**||**2,194,643.46**
**£**||
|**Represented by:**|||||
|97,085.35 CBF Investment Fund Income Shares|**2,244,875.42**
**£**||**2,194,643.46**
**£**||
## **Signed on behalf of the Trustees**
## **Nigel Lea-Wilson** phew NiaWs- **Richard Denno**
## **23 March 2025**
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees** St Helens General Charitable Trust **On accounts for the year** 31[st] December 2024 **Charity no** 1076122 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 5 and 6 (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 **31 / 12 / 2024** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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.
**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:
- 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._
**Date:** 24/03/25 **Signed: Name:** Liverpool Business School Accounting Clinic ~~Ce~~ **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, L3 5UG ~~Ce~~
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**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material 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** .
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