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The Dickinson Charitable Trust  1144794<br>Receipts and payments accounts CC16a<br>For the period  25/10/2024 24/10/2025<br>To<br>from<br>Section A Receipts and payments<br>Unrestricted  Restricted  Endowment<br>Total funds Last year<br>funds funds funds<br>to the nearest      £  to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £<br>A1 Receipts<br>Income from investments                      25,435                               -                                 -                         25,435                     33,960<br>Interest received                        2,258                               -                                 -                           2,258                       2,425<br>                               -                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>                               -                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total  (Gross income for<br>                     27,693                               -                                 -                         27,693                     36,385<br>AR)<br>A2 Asset and investment sales,<br>(see table).<br>Sale of investments                                -                                 -                     493,372                     493,372                1,132,071<br>                               -                                 -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>Sub total                                 -                                 -                     493,372                     493,372                1,132,071<br>Total receipts                  27,693                             -                 493,372                     521,065             1,168,456<br>A3 Payments<br>Grants awarded                    124,285                               -                                 -                       124,285                             -<br>Investment Manager Fees                                -                               -                           5,943                         5,943                       7,010<br>Trust administration fees                        9,486                               -                                 -                           9,486                       9,341<br>Independent Examiners fees                           180                               -                                 -                              180                          780<br>Cash Management Charges                              78                               -                                 -                                78                            86<br>Accountancy                           600                            600<br>                               -                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>                               -                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total [                   134,629 ]                              -                           5,943                     140,572                     17,217<br>A4 Asset and investment<br>purchases, (see table)<br>Investment purchases                                -                                 -                     452,128                     452,128                1,096,960<br>                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total [                               - ]                                -                     452,128                     452,128                1,096,960<br>Total payments                134,629                             -                 458,071                     592,700             1,114,177<br>Net of receipts/(payments) -              106,936                           -                     35,301  -                71,635                 54,279<br>A5 Transfers between funds                 48,549  -                48,549                          -                          -<br>A6 Cash funds last year end                  64,902                  24,438                       89,340                 35,061<br>Cash funds this year end                    6,515                           -                     11,190                   17,705                 89,340<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

07/05/2026 

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

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>Investment portfolio<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>Capital account<br>Income account<br>Signature<br>Per electronic approval|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**6,515**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**6,515**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**Endowment**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Chris Thurlow on behalf of Ludlow<br>Trust Company LTD|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**11,190**<br>**-**<br>**-**|
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||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**<br>**1,319,448**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**When due**<br>**(optional)**<br>Date of<br>approval<br>Per electronic<br>approval|



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

07/05/2026 

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

## **From 25 October 2024 To 24 October 2025** 

**Charity name: The Dickinson Charitable Trust Charity registration number: 1144794** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

|**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**|
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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document<br>Para 1.17<br>To hold the capital and income upon trust to<br>apply the income and all or such parts of the<br>capital at such time or times and in such a<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.<br>Para 1.17 and<br>1.19<br>In furtherance of the charity’s objects for the<br>public benefit the trustees provide grants. In<br>determining the charity’s activities, the<br>trustees have had regard to the Charity<br>Commission’s guidance on public benefit.|||
|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||





## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|SORP reference|||
|Policy on grant making<br>Para 1.38|||
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment<br>Para 1.38|||
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers<br>Para 1.38|||
|Other|||



## **Achievements and Performance** 


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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**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<br>made grants to the following charities<br>totalling £124,285.<br><br>Bernado’s<br><br>Cancer Research UK<br><br>The National Trust for Places of<br>Historic Interest or Natural Beauty<br><br>Hospice UK<br><br>The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and<br>Families Association – Forces Help<br><br>The Royal National Institute for Deaf<br>People<br><br>The Royal National Institute of Blind<br>People<br><br>The<br>Royal<br>National<br>Lifeboat<br>Institution<br><br>The National Society for Prevention<br>of Cruelty to Children<br><br>The People’s Dispensary for Sick<br>Animals|





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|Achievements against<br>objectives set<br>Para 1.41|||
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set<br>Para 1.41|||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives<br>Para 1.41|||
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## **Financial Review** 


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Review of the charity’s  Para 1.21  At the end of the reporting period the charity<br>financial position at the end  had  free  reserves  of  £6,515  (2024:<br>£64,902).<br>of the period<br>In addition to the free reserves the charity<br>has bank balances of £11,190 (2024:<br>£24,438)  and  investments  valued  at<br>£1,319,448  within  the  expendable<br>endowment fund which can be released to<br>support the activities of the charity.<br>Statement explaining the  Para 1.22  The Trustees pursue a policy of maintaining<br>policy for holding reserves  a free reserve available to be spent in the<br>furtherance of the charity’s objectives as<br>stating why they are held<br>well as covering future needs, opportunities,<br>contingencies and risks.<br>Amount of reserves held  Para 1.22<br>Reasons for holding zero  Para 1.22<br>reserves<br>Details of fund materially in  Para 1.24<br>deficit<br>Explanation of any  Para 1.23<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>




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|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)<br>Para 1.47|||
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted<br>Para 1.46|||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity<br>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** 

|**Structure, Governance and Management**|**Structure, Governance and Management**|**Structure, Governance and Management**|
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|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|Type of governing document<br>Para 1.25<br>Trust deed dated 24thOctober 2011|||
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>Para 1.25<br>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 trustees from<br>time to time.|





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|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees<br>Para 1.51|||
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works<br>Para 1.51|||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties<br>Para 1.51<br>No trustee received any remuneration or<br>was reimbursed any expenses in the year<br>under review.<br>Ludlow was paid £9,564 (2024: £9,427) for<br>trust administration and cash management<br>services during the year under review.<br>These fees are authorised under clause 6 of<br>the trust deed.|||
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## **Reference and Administrative details** 


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Charity name  The Dickinson Charitable Trust<br>Other name the charity uses<br>Registered charity number  1144794<br>Charity’s principal address  Ludlow Trust Co Ltd<br>Tower Wharf<br>Cheese Lane<br>Bristol<br>BS2 0JJ<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>




**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 


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Name of person<br>Dates acted if not for  (or body) entitled<br>Trustee name  Office (if any)<br>whole year  to appoint trustee<br>(if any)<br>Ludlow Trust<br>1<br>Company Limited<br>2<br>3<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


– 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 

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 Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 



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


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Type of adviser Name Address<br>Investment Managers  NatWest  2nd Floor Trinity Quay II Avon Street PO<br>Box 3138 Bristol BS2 2DH<br>Bankers  NatWest  2nd Floor Trinity Quay II Avon Street PO<br>Box 3138 Bristol BS2 2DH<br>Accountants  Charter Tax Consulting  8th Floor, 1 Southampton St, London<br>Limited WC2R 0LR<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


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

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

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** 

**Signature(s)** Per electronic approval **Full name(s)** Chris Thurlow on behalf of Ludlow Trust Company LTD **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** Per electronic approval 



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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 


## **Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name The Dickinson Charitable Trust **members of On accounts for the** 24 October 2025 **Charity no** 1144794 **period ended (if any) Set out on pages** Financial statements page 1 - 2 Trustee report page 3 - 10 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the period ended 24/10/2025. 

- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed 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 which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 

- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 

**Date:** 11/05/26 **Signed: Name:** Ian Rodd **Relevant professional** BSc FCA FCCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** TC Group Waverley House115-119 Holdenhurst Rd, Bournemouth BH8 8DY 

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## **Section B                           Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 

**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

n/a 

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