## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 12 March 2024 To 11 June 2025** ## **Charity name: Pauline Meredith Charitable Trust Charity registration number: 1139585** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The Trustees shall apply the income of the
charity and all or such part or parts of the
capital, they think fit for or towards such
charitable purposes as the trustees in their
absolute discretion think fit..| |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|In furthering the objects it is requested in
the Will that the trustees consider
donations to the following charities:
Barnardo’s
Swan Lifeline
Windsor Hospice
The Woodland Trust
Hydestile Animal Hospital
The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals
Greenpeace Environmental Trust| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|In determining the charity’s activities, the
trustees have had regard to the Charity
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
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|During the year under review the charity
made a grant of £30,407 to each of the
following charities:
-
Barnardo’s
-
The Woodland Trust
-
Thames Hospice
-
Swan Lifeline| **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
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|In addition to the free reserves the charity
has bank balances of £7,593 (2024:
£96,421)
and
investments
valued
at
£2,332,013
within
the
expendable
endowment fund which can be released to
support the activities of the charity.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Trustees pursue a policy of maintaining
a free reserve available to be spent in the
furtherance of the charity’s objectives as
well as covering future needs, opportunities,
contingencies and risks.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|At the end of the reporting period the charity
had free reserves of £123,095 (2024:
£74,945).| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|No funds in deficit| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
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
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |---|---|---| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||Expendable endowment funds are those
which are required to be invested to produce
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
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust deed dated 13 December 2010
arising from a Will dated 23 January 2003.| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Trust| |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|Trustees are appointed by the existing
trustees.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|No trustee received any remuneration or
was reimbursed any expenses in the year
under review.
Ludlow Trust Company Limited was paid
£13,981
(2024:
£17,136)
for
trust
administration
services
and
cash
management fees during the year under
review. These fees are authorised under
clause 6 of the trust deed.| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Pauline Meredith Charitable Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1139585| |Charity’s principal address|Trustees Department
1stFloor, Tower Wharf
Cheese Lane, Bristol
BS2 0JJ| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Ludlow Trust
CompanyLimited|||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| ||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
Sarikhani
Christopher Ian Thurlow
Matthew John Wickers
John Stephen Dennis
(resigned 25/10/24)|||||| ||**Director name**|||||| ||Gary St John Collins|||||| ||Walter Duncan Coxon|||||| ||Ali Reza Sarikhani|||||| ||Ziba Christina Sakine
Sarikhani|||||| ||Christopher Ian Thurlow|||||| ||Matthew John Wickers|||||| ||John Stephen Dennis||(resigned 25/10/24)|||| 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
held in this capacity|N/A| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
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**|Coutts & Co|440 The Strand, London, WC2R 0QS| |**Bankers**|Coutts & Co|440 The Strand, London, WC2R 0QS| |**Accountants**|Charter Tax Consulting
Ltd|8th Floor, 1 Southampton St, London
WC2R 0LR| |**Independent Examiner**|Katie Wilson|Blue Spire Limited, Cawley Priory, South
Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1SY| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ~~PC~~ ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ~~PT~~ **Other optional information** ~~OO~~ ## **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)** ~~—a~~ Company Limited (Trustee) ~~—~~ **Date** 06 March 2026 ~~pO~~ **Pauline Meredith Charitable Trust 1139585 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 12.06.2024 11.06.2025 ~~ee ee ee~~ **Section A Receipts and payments** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**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|**95,414**||**-**||**-**||**95,414**||**58,418**|| |Interest received|**5,932**||**-**||**-**||**5,932**||**30,983**|| |Rental income(net)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**6,031**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_|||||||||| |_AR)_|_AR)_**101,346**||**-**||**-**||**101,346**||**95,432**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
Sale of investments
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,733,174**
Sale ofproperty
**-**
**-**
**-**
**389,531**
~~**_Sub total_**~~**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,122,705**
**_Total receipts_ 101,346**
**-**
**-**
**101,346**
**3,218,137**
~~——_—_———~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Grants awarded|**121,628**||**-**||**-**||**121,628**||**98,534**|| |Investment manager fees(IncludingVAT)|**-**||**-**||**5,635**||**5,635**||**8,292**|| |Trust Administration fees(includingVAT)|**13,751**||**-**||**-**||**13,751**||**16,738**|| |Independent Examiners fees|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**||**780**|| |Propertylegal fees|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**5,428**|| |Accountant fees|**600**||**-**||**-**||**600**||**-**|| |Virtual custodyfees|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**3,600**|| |Cash management fee|**230**||**-**||**-**||**230**||**398**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**136,389**||**-**||**5,635**||**142,024**||**133,770**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
Investmentpurchases
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,042,549**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,042,549**
**_Total payments_**
**136,389**
**-**
**5,635**
**142,024**
**3,176,319**
~~—————~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 35,043**
**-**
**- 5,635**
**- 40,678**
**41,818**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**83,193**
**- 83,193**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**74,945**
**96,421**
**171,366**
**129,548**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**123,095**
**- 7,593**
**130,688**
**171,366**
~~SS]5554~~||||||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 06/03/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|| ||||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B1 Cash funds**|**-**
**-**
**7,593**
**123,095**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**123,095**
**-**
**7,593**
Capital account
Income account
**_Total cash funds_**
~~See=~~|||||| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments||||| ||account(s))||OK
OK||OK|| ||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|| ||||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~—__~~|||||| |**B3 Investment assets**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**Endowment**
**-**
**2,332,013**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
Investment portfolio
~~===>~~|||||| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
~~a~~|||||| ||||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**||**When due**|| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
Print Name
Chris Thurlow on behalf of Ludlow
Trust CompanyLimited(Trustee)
Signature
**Details**
2
06/03/2026
06 March 2026
~~—~~|||||| ## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Pauline Meredith Charitable Trust** I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 11 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