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

## **From 1 November 2023   To 31 October 2024** 

**Charity name: The Pointer Family Trust Charity registration number: 1131857** 

## **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 Trust are to further such<br>objects or purposes which are exclusively<br>charitable according to the laws of England<br>and Wales in any part of the world and in<br>such a manner as the Trustees may in their<br>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 for<br>the public benefit the trustees provide<br>grants.|
|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||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38||
|Other|||





## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|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 made<br>a grants to the following charities:<br><br>Solent University £25,000<br><br>The Magdalen Environmental Trust<br>£25,000<br><br>Wooden Spoon Charity £25,000<br><br>MYTIME Young Carers £103,500<br><br>Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra<br>£26,317<br><br>Dorset Wildlife Trust £20,000<br><br>Ocean Youth Trust South £60,000<br><br>The Bright Kites Foundation £10,000|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||





## **Financial Review** 

|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|At the end of the reporting period the charity<br>had free reserves of £62,300 (2023:<br>£30,870).<br>In addition to the free reserves the charity<br>has bank balances of £144,144 (2023:<br>£400,800) and investments valued at<br>£2,576,063<br>within<br>the<br>expendable<br>endowment fund which can be released to<br>support the activities of the charity.|
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|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||
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23||



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) Para 1.47 Investment policy and objectives including any 



|social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
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|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:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust deed dated 17 August 2009|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Trust|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed by the settlors<br>during their lifetime and then by the survivor<br>of them or subject to this appointment is by<br>the trustees.|





any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees 

|**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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|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>£17,268<br>(2023:<br>£18,430)<br>for<br>trust<br>administration services during the year<br>under review.  These fees are authorised<br>under clause 6 of the trust deed.|
|Other|||





## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|The Pointer Family Trust|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1131857|
|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** 

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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

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|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|||
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and<br>segregation of such assets<br>from the charity’s own assets|||





## **Additional information (optional)** 

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

|**Type of adviser**||**Name**|**Address**|**Address**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Investment Managers**||Coutts & Co|440 The Strand, London, WC2R 0QS|440 The Strand, London, WC2R 0QS|||
|||W1M Wealth|16 Babmaes Street, London, SW1Y 6AH||||
|||Management Limited|||||
|**Bankers**||Coutts & Co|440 The Strand, London, WC2R 0QS|440 The Strand, London, WC2R 0QS|||
|**Accountants**||Charter Tax Consulting|8thFloor, 1 Southampton Street, London,||||
|||Ltd|WC2R 0LR||||
|**Independent examiner**|**Independent examiner**|Geoffrey Frost|Blue Spire Limited, Cawley Priory, South||||
||||Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1SY||||
|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||||||
|**Exemptions from disclosure**<br>~~Pe~~|||||||
|Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details|||||||
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|**Declarations**|||||||
|**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**|||||||
|**Signed** **on behalf of the charity’s trustees**||**on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|||||
|**Signature(s)**|<br>~~ee~~||||||
|**Full name(s)**|Katherine Forder||||||
||On behalf of Ludlow Trust||||||
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|**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>Trust Manager<br>~~a~~|||||||
|**Date** <br>28 August 2025<br>~~OO~~|||||||



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

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



**The Pointer Familty Trust 1131857 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01.11.2023 31.10.2024 ~~ee ee ee~~ **Section A Receipts and payments** 

Period end date 

## **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 £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Income from investments|**75,267**||**-**||**-**||**75,267**|**10,902**||
|Interest received|**20,894**||**-**||**-**||**20,894**|**16,818**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_<br>**96,161**||**-**||**-**||**96,161**|**27,720**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**<br>Sale of investments<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,226,394**<br>**1,226,394**<br>**92,339**<br>Gain on foreign Exchange<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**32,081**<br>**_Sub total_                              -**<br>**-**<br>**1,226,394**<br>**1,226,394**<br>**124,420**<br>**_Total receipts_**<br>**96,161**<br>**-**<br>**1,226,394**<br>**1,322,555**<br>**152,140**<br>~~—————~~||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Grants awarded|**294,817**||**-**||||**294,817**|**74,846**||
|Investment manager fees (including VAT)||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**10,143**||**10,143**|**967**||
|Trust administration fees (including VAT)||||||||||
||**16,830**||**-**||**-**||**16,830**|**17,666**||
|Independent Examiners fees|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**|**780**||
|Cash management fee|**439**||**-**||**-**||**439**|**764**||
|Bank charges|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**12**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**312,265**||**-**||**10,143**||**322,408**|**95,035**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**<br>Investmentpurchases<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,225,374**<br>**1,225,374**<br>**2,284,163**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**_Sub total_                               -**<br>**-**<br>**1,225,374**<br>**1,225,374**<br>**2,284,163**<br>**_Total payments_**<br>**312,265**<br>**-**<br>**1,235,516**<br>**1,547,782**<br>**2,379,198**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**-              216,104**<br>**-   -                  9,122**<br>**-              225,226**<br>**-         2,227,058**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**247,535**<br>**-              247,535**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**30,870**<br>**400,800**<br>**431,670**<br>**2,690,808**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**<br>**62,300**<br>**-**<br>**144,144**<br>**206,444**<br>**463,750**<br>~~S555~~<br>~~SS]~~<br>~~=~~||||||||||



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

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

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|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**<br>**funds**||**funds**||
||||**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**144,144**<br>**62,300**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**62,300**<br>**-**<br>**144,144**<br>Capital account<br>Income account<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>~~=—===~~||||||
||(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>~~—_—~~||||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Endowment**<br>**-**<br>**733,175**<br>**Endowment**<br>**-**<br>**1,842,888**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Investment portfolio<br>Investment portfolio<br>~~——=—~~||||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>~~=—===~~||||||
||||**Fund to which**<br>**Amount due**||**When due**||
||**Details**||**liability relates**<br>**(optional)**||**(optional)**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Date of<br>approval<br>Print Name<br>Katherine Forder on behalf of Ludlow<br>Trust CompanyLimited<br>Signature<br>2<br>28/08/2025<br>28 August 2025<br>~~mo~~||||||





## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The Pointer Family Trust** 

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 October 2024. 

## **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. 

Geoffrey Frost BSc(Hons) FCA Date 29 August 2025 Blue Spire Limited Cawley Priory South Pallant Chichester West Sussex PO19 1SY 

