Trustee’s Annual Report 2024
Registered address
Edgar’s Gift 1141337 31A Salisbury Avenue Croft Leicestershire LE9 3EJ
What we do
Edgar’s Gift is a charity set up in honour of Benjamin Edkins following his death in 2010.
We supply gifts and special days out to young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 in the East Midlands and up to 40 years of age for Sarcoma patients being treated at Leicester Royal Infirmary. We offer holidays at our caravan in Mablethorpe to adults with families living or having treatment for cancer in the East Midlands (there is no age limit on this currently).
Our structure
Trustee’s
David Clarke - Chairperson Julie Bradman - Treasurer and Gift and Holiday Home Coordinator Neil Bradman - Fundraising and social media Lydia Edkins - Fundraising and social media Amelia Knight - Secretary Jordan Handford - Fundraising Howard Parkin - Fundraising Sharon Parkin - Fundraising and grant applications Molly Cullen - Fundraising and social media
The trustees have regular meetings to discuss fundraising activities and the general running of the charity. Where committee members report and what is currently happening and short-term future events and activities.
Julie has connections with local hospital representatives who send gift and caravan applications for their patients.
– Where we get our money and how we spend it Treasurers report
Treasurers annual report – 2023- 2024
Total income: £42,565,44
PayPal: £1037.73 Bank Current account: £40,441.05. Savings A/c interest: 1086.66
Money raised from donations and from other charities. £10267.39
Money raised from Edgar’s Gift activities. £13060.18
Money raised from other activities i.e., sponsored events (Virgin money/just giving) £17801.21
Also, we had a returned unused gift voucher from a spa hotel that the recipient was unable to use. £350.00
The money raised from donations includes.
The Malcolm Whales Foundation £5000.00 Purple Care £1200 (100 per month) Enderby Freemasons £1500 Georges Gift trust £1000
Others came from a few people donating that visited the caravan. Amazon Smile Charities Trust (normally Salary giving) Christmas card donation Sharon’s Gin Jar Collection boxes
We’ve had several donations coming in through the website into the PayPal account including a payment of £542.10 (with PayPal fees) from Centrica.
The money raised via Edgar’s Gift events includes.
Comedy nights in conjunction with Menphys. Rochdale football match,
Howards Gold Cup event Golf day at Glen Gorse Golf club. Jonathan Agnew’s Mastermind appearance.
Sponsorship
Glen Gorse skydive Stewart’s Big Ben to Leicester clock tower run Garden Glasto including donation from St James Place of £5000.00 Glen Gorse Golf club charity of the year raised £3684.00
Total expenditure : 21,242.73 PayPal £197.16 Bank £21,045.57
Caravan expenses £8603.90 Bank Charges £73.64 Gifts £5148.98 Website and Microsoft payments £272.22 Event and Promotional costs £7143.99
Caravan and Gifts
We had 20 families visiting the caravan last year. The ground fees, insurance, gas and electric charges all rose during the season which increased costs. We also had a major repair required following one family’s holiday which cost over £500.00.
We have just taken on a partnership with The Willow Trust (Bob Wilsons charity) with the hope that they will send further people to our holiday home and have agreed for them to pay a cost towards those holidays, so if that takes off it will help towards the costs (of course we do have £5000 grant from Malcolm Whales Foundation each year so that helps).
We completed a total of 13 Gifts for the year, most of these requested from Leicester hospitals.
So, between Gifts and the holiday home we have supported a total of 33 families during one of the most challenging times in their lives.
The events and promotional costs
Rochdale pies and footballs shirts Food for the Golf Day
We bought new banners to replace the previous damaged banners. As everyone raised far more than the costs of the parachutes jumps, we paid the cost of each persons jump (folks from Glen Gorse Golf Club)
Paying half of the takings from 1 of the quiz nights to Nuneaton Griff Football Club who helped arrange the event.
We have also paid the deposit of £2000.00 for next year’s Edgar’s Gift 15year anniversary dinner at Grace Road.
Net of Receipts
The good news that following some great fundraising events and productive partnerships we have made a net gain of just under £21,300.
Annual accounts – Independent Examiner
The last few years Peter Cleaver has kindly volunteered to independently examine the accounts and is happy to do this again this year.
CHARITY COMAIISSTO . FOR tNGL4ND W Recei ts accounts CC16a T• Section A Receipts and payments A1 17J f7*)1 IrJQP I¥ 7.144 7.144 74 74 X243 15.4S7
Section B Statement ol assets and liabililies at the end of the period £4L)V4
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Edgarfs Gift On accounts for tho year endad 29 April 2024 Charlty no (If any) 1141337 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {Ihe Trusf) for the year ended Ra8pon$lbilities and As the charity trust88s of the Trust. you are reSpsIble for the preparatlon basls of report of the accounts in accordance th the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Act"). I report in of my examination of the Trust's accounts carrled out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and In carying out my examlnallon, I have followed the applicable Directions grven by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have com*ted my examlnatlon. I corfinn that no material matters have come to my attention in rx)nnection hth the examinatlon vh)Ich glves me Cause to believe that in, any material respect: a¢¢ounting records vlere nol kept in aCance wlth sectlon 130 of the Act or the accounts do rK)t accord vAth accountlng records Independont examIne3 statement I have no concems arKI have come across no other matters in connectlon with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Slgnfjd: Dato: 22 May 2024 Name: Peter Cleaver Relevant professlonal qualificatlon(s} or body (rf any): Address." 6 Willowdale Hinckley Lei(xstershire, LE10 ONZ Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to high4ht matters of conrn (see CC32. Independent examination of charity acrxwnts: directions and guidance for examiners).