## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From** 06/04/2023 **Period start date To** 05/04/2024 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** E J Spice Charitable Trust
**Charity registration number:** 1151013
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Relief for those in need, in particular by**
**relieving the suffering of those affected**
**by AIDS in the Third World and / or poor**
**and / or underdeveloped countries**|
|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|**Making grants to organisations and**
**individuals; grants made in 2023-24**
**totalled**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**They have had regard to issues of**
**public benefit and are satisfied that they**
**have followed that guidance**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference|
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||Para 1.38|
|Policy on grant making||
||Para 1.38|
|Policy on social investment||
|including program related||
|investment||
||Para 1.38|
|Contribution made by||
|volunteers||
|Other||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
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|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|**Extensive feedback from recipients, and**
**in particular detailed evidence of work**
**with both West and East African**
**agencies to support mothers and**
**children affected by AIDS, and in**
**hospitals in Zambia and Sierra Leone to**
**install / extend solar panel systems**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**£643,907**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The trustees do not consider it**
**necessary, as a grant-making charity, to**
**hold reserves as there are no contingent**
**liabilities**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**It is the trustees’ intention to distribute**
**the whole of the remaining funds during**
**the current year, and then to close the**
**trust**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not applicable – see above**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**||
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|You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Investment income and bank / building**
**society interest**|
|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|**None so far as the trustees are aware**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Benefit of the public through providing**
**relief for those in need and in particular**
**by relieving the suffering of those**
**affected by AIDS in the Third World**
**and/or poor and/or underdeveloped**
**countries**|
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed (16 July 2012)**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Three Trustees (details below)**|
|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|**Appointed on incorporation;**
**subsequent appointment by resolution**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|EJ Spice Charitable Trust|
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|Other name the charity uses|N/a|
|Registered charity number|1151013|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o Winckworth Sherwood
2 Chawley Park
Cumnor Hill
Oxford OX2 9GG|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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||Canon Dr Vivian
John Howard Rees|Trustee|2012-present||
||Mr John Philip
Tonkin|Trustee|2012-present||
||Mr David William
Edward Tonkin|Trustee|2012-present||
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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
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**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)** Vivian John Howard Rees ~~a~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 22 January 2024 ~~Pp~~