## **Ros Harding Charitable Trust** **Trustees’ Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024** **Registered Charity Number 1087005** ## **CONTENTS** ||**Page**| |---|---| |**Legal and administrative information**|**1**| |**Report of the Trustees**|**2**| |**Report of the independent examiner**|**4**| |**Receipts and payments account**|**5**| |**Statement of assets and liabilities**|**6**| |**Note to the accounts**|**6**| ## **Ros Harding Charitable Trust Legal and administrative information** **Trustees** Date of Appointment Date of Resignation Mrs C Winterburn 26/01/2009 27/10/2023 Mr J Cooper 12/03/2000 Mrs E Poore 08/07/2014 Mr D Colpus 08/07/2014 Mrs A Cross 27/10/2023 **Office** 14 Kendall Avenue South Croydon Surrey CR2 0NH **Independent Examiner** Mr T.P. Goodchild FAIA 15 Oaklands Gardens Kenley Surrey CR8 5DS **Bankers** Barclays plc P O Box 95 North End Croydon Surrey CR9 1RN **Solicitors** Streeter Marshall 12 Purley Parade High Street Purley Surrey CR8 2AB ## **Investment Managers** Rathbone Investment Management Limited 8 Finsbury Circus London EC2M 7AZ 1 ## **Ros Harding Charitable Trust** ## **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 March 2024** The Trustees present their report and the accounts for the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024. ## **Constitution, objects and public benefit** The Ros Harding Charitable Trust is constituted under the terms of the Will of the late Ros Harding dated 6 October 1992 and is a registered charity number 1087005. The purpose of the charity is primarily to assist with the care of the elderly and the relief of distress or hardship caused by poverty amongst the elderly. It is also to propagate the Christian Gospel amongst young people. The Trust’s activities are focused on the districts of Purley, Coulsdon and Godstone. The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. ## **Organisation** The names of the trustees are set out on page 1. Trustees were appointed originally under the terms of the Will of Ros Harding. Further appointments are made, when a vacancy arises, by the trustees in office at that time. The trustees usually meet twice a year to assess grant applications and administer the Trust. During the year the Trust continued to receive income from the Investment fund and has made grants to 27 different charities. ## **Grant making policy** The charity invites applications for funding from those who meet the grant criteria. Applications are considered against these criteria and major grants made are monitored by the Trustees. Grants made during the year were as follows: ||**£**| |---|---| |Abbeyfield Sanderstead|2000| |Boston Road BC|3000| |Brighton Rd BC|3000| |Contact Selsdon|2244| |Croham Hurst Good Neighbours|2000| |Croydon Hearing Resource Centre|2100| |Croydon Neighbourhood Care|1000| |Croydon Vision|2000| |Friends of the Elderly|1400| |Kevoirdo’s Big Love Foundation|1500| |New Addington Baptist Church|2000| |Old Coulsdon Centre for the Retired|1308| |Old Lodge Lane Baptist Church|2500| |Purley and Coulsdon Clubs for the Elderly (PACE)|2000| |Purley Cross Centre|3000| |Sanderstead Neighbourhood Care/Young at Heart Club|3000| |Selsdon Centre for the Retired|2500| |Shirley Neighbourhood Care|2000| |South Croydon Day Centre|3000| |South Norwood and Woodside Community Association Friday Group|2000| |South Norwood and Woodside Community Association Thursday Group|2000| 2 ## Ros Harding Charitable Trust ## Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 March 2024 - Continued |St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham|1600|| |---|---|---| |St Mark’s Church, South Norwood|1000|| |The Change Foundation|700|| |The Ryan MS Therapy Centre|2500|| |Upper Norwood Association forCommunity Care|1750|:| |Westbury Community Project|2000|| ||55,102|| | ## Financial review and investment policy The charity received endowed funds of approximately £1.3m in June 2001 from the estate of Miss Ros Harding, following her death in November 1999. There are no restrictions on the charity’s powers to invest. The investment strategy is set by the Trustees in consultation with the investment manager, taking account of the recent demand for funds and the quality of funding applications. The Trustees consider the income requirements, the risk profile and the investment manager's view of market prospects in the medium term. This strategy is set within an overall policy which states that the fund should be invested in low and medium risk investments with a view to ensuring that exposure of the capital value of the fund is restricted. The income received from the Investment fund is 3% more than last year. Slightly less grants have been made to those in 2022/3 with the total being £55,102 and the average grant being £2,040. The trust pays grants directly out of the investment funds received and so it does not have to hold ~ large reserves. At the year end it held £14,952 for carry forward to 2024/25 David Colpus for and on behalf of the Trustées ## Date: __ la fro [2024 3 - ## Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Ros Harding Charitable Trust | report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 5 and 6. ## Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Charities Act') but that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: - examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act: - follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act; and - state whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## Basis of independent examiner's report 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 no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair view’ and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. ## Independent examiner's statement In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: - " to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act: and - " to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act. - have not been met; or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. TP. Fellow of the Association of International Accountants 15 Oaklands Gardens Kenley Surrey CR8 5DS ## Date: 27™ November 2024 | . 4 ## **Ros Harding Charitable Trust Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31 March 2024** |**Year ended**
**31 March 2024**
**£**
**£**
**Receipts**
Interest income
4,988
Dividend income
55,074
Total Receipts
60,062
**Payments**
Grants paid
55,102
Legal and professional costs
3,814
Total Payments
58,916
Net receipts / (payments) for the year
1,146
Balance brought forward
13,806
Balance carried forward
14,952|**Year ended**
**31 March 2023**
**£**
**£**
641
57,449
58,090
55,040
3,975
59,015
-925
14,731
13,806| |---|---| All the receipts and payments during the period under review are unrestricted in nature. 5 ## Ros Harding Charitable Trust Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31 March 2024 ## Monetary assets **----- Start of picture text -----**
31 March 2024 31 March 2023
£ £
Bank deposit account 0 1,633
Bank current account 14,952 12,173
14,952 13,806
Fund
Other Monetary Assets
Permanent
Loan (Secured) Endowment 184,091 184,091
Investment Assets
Portfolio with Rathbone Permanent
Investment Management Endowment 1,635,410 1,615,641
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## Investment Assets ## Note to the accounts ## 1. Basis of preparation The accounts have been prepared on the receipts and payments basis as permitted by section 133 of the Charities Act 2011. David Colpus for and on behalf of the Trustees ## Date:[_][14] 14,[|eo] \o | 2024202. 6 .