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

## **From 05 June 2024   To  04 June 2025** 

## **Charity name: The Denis James Bartlett and Brigid Catherine Clare Bartlett Charitable Trust Charity registration number: 1120167** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
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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 part or parts of the<br>capital at such time or times and in such<br>manner to or for the benefit of such<br>exclusively charitable objects and purposes<br>in any part of the world as the trustees may<br>in their absolute discretion think fit.|
|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 the<br>trustees shall give consideration to the<br>settlors letter of wishes to supporting<br>charitable organisations with aims of<br>medical research healthcare and wellbeing,<br>animal welfare, and the arts.|
|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 3 grants to the following charities<br>totalling £66,933.00<br>•<br>Hope Rescue<br>•<br>Debt Advice Foundation<br>•<br>Immediate Theatre|



## **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 £44,923 (2024:<br>£43,583)<br>and<br>investments<br>valued<br>at<br>£1,275,200<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 £29,750 (2024:<br>£70,554).|
|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)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal Para 1.47 sources of funds (including any fundraising) Investment policy and Para 1.46 objectives including any social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Expendable endowment funds are those which are required to be invested to produce Other income but which may be transferred to unrestricted funds at the discretion of the trustees in order that they may be expended in furtherance of the charity’s objectives. Unrestricted income funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity and which have not been designated for other purposes. 

## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Trust deed dated 04 June 2007|
|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)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||
|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 nor<br>reimbursed any expenses in the year under<br>review.<br>During the year Ludlow Trust Company<br>were paid fees for trust administration<br>services and cash management fees of<br>£9,886 (2024: £8,425). These fees are<br>authorised under clause 13 of the trust<br>deed.|
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|The Denis James Bartlett and Brigid Catherine Clare Bartlett<br>Charitable Trust|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|None|
|Registered charity number|1120167|
|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** 

## **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)** 

|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**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|



## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **Other optional information** 

## **Declarations** 

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

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

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Chris Thurlow **Position (eg Secretary,** On behalf of Ludlow Trust **Chair, etc)** Company Limited (Trustee) **Date** ~~[a]~~ 06 March 2026 

||**The Denis James Bartlett and Brigid Catherine Clare**|**The Denis James Bartlett and Brigid Catherine Clare**|**The Denis James Bartlett and Brigid Catherine Clare**|**The Denis James Bartlett and Brigid Catherine Clare**|**The Denis James Bartlett and Brigid Catherine Clare**|**1120167**|**1120167**||||
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||**Bartlett Charitable Trust**||||||||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||**CC16a**||
||05.06.2024<br>04.06.2025<br>Period start date<br>Period end date<br>**To**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>~~ee~~||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||
||**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|**25,485**||**-**||**-**||**25,485**||**36,248**||
|Interest received|**4,876**||**-**||**-**||**4,876**||**2,987**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_||||||||||
|_AR)_|_AR)_**30,361**||**-**||**-**||**30,361**||**39,235**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**<br>Sale of investments<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**745,049**<br>**745,049**<br>**942,549**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>~~**_Sub total_**~~**-**<br>**-**<br>**745,049**<br>**745,049**<br>**942,549**<br>**_Total receipts_**<br>**30,361**<br>**-**<br>**745,049**<br>**775,410**<br>**981,784**<br>~~S555~~|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
|Grants awarded|**66,933**||**-**||**-**||**66,933**||**-**||
|Investment management fees (VAT|||||||||||
|inclusive)|**-**||**-**||**6,005**||**6,005**||**5,530**||
|Trust administration fees(VAT inclusive)|**9,717**||**-**||**-**||**9,717**||**8,286**||
|Independent Examiners fees|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**||**780**||
|Cash management fee|**169**||**-**||**-**||**169**||**139**||
|Bank charges|**-**||**-**||||**-**||**3**||
|AccountancyFees|**600**||**-**||**-**||**600**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**77,599**||**-**||**6,005**||**83,604**||**14,738**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**<br>Investmentpurchases<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**731,270**<br>**731,270**<br>**938,455**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**_Sub total_                                -**<br>**-**<br>**731,270**<br>**731,270**<br>**938,455**<br>**_Total payments_**<br>**77,599**<br>**-**<br>**737,275**<br>**814,874**<br>**953,193**<br>~~===~~|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**-                47,238**<br>**-**<br>**7,774**<br>**-                39,464**<br>**28,591**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**6,434**<br>**-   -                  6,434**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**70,554**<br>**43,583**<br>**114,137**<br>**85,546**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**<br>**29,750**<br>**-**<br>**44,923**<br>**74,673**<br>**114,137**<br>~~—=—_====>~~|||||||||||



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**<br>**Endowment**||
|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**funds**<br>**funds**<br>**funds**<br>**Details**||
||**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**44,923**<br>**29,750**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**29,750**<br>**-**<br>**44,923**<br>OK<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**Restricted**<br>**Endowment**<br>Capital account<br>Income account<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>~~See=~~||
||**funds**<br>**funds**<br>**funds**||
||**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**Details**||
|**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>**1,275,200**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Details**<br>Investment portfolio<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**<br>**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>~~_~~||



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The Denis James Bartlett and Brigid Catherine Clare Bartlett Charitable Trust** 

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 4 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 

10 March 2026 

