Orfordness Lighthouse Trust Accounts and Trustees, Report For the year ended 5 April 2025
Report of the trustees for the year ended 5 April 2025 Orfordness Lighthouse Trust was set up as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and registered as a charity on 12 March 2014 by the Charity Commission under number 1156126. The principal registered address of the charity is Avocets, Quay Street. Orford, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 2NU The trustees at the date of this report are: Peter Benstead Michael Finney Nicholas Gold John Oakes Mark Thacker The power of appointment of new trustees is vested in the present trustees. Charitable objects- For the public benefft to preserve. maintain and protect the Orfordness Lighthouse and its artefacts for its historic, constructional and architertural merit; or the furtherance of such other charltable purpose5 as are exclusively charitable under the laws of England and Wales as the trustees in their absolute discretion declde, particularly but not exclusively by the provision of 8rants. By a lease dated 28 April 2014, the lighthouse was leased by Orfordness Lighthouse Company Limited to the charity for a term of 10 years at an annual rent of £1. The income of the charity is derived from donations. Review of actNities- When the lighthouse was dismantled during the summer of 2020 the lantern room and other key artefacts in the lighthouse were saved. They now belong to the trustees and are being kept safe at the site of Cobra Mist Limited on Orfordness. The trustees had hoped that it would be possible to incorporate the lantem room and other artefacts in a building on a suitable site on Orfordness, as a memorial to the lighthouse. However, after taking into account the substantial cost of building a new structure, strong enough to support the lantern room, the difficulties of raising sufficient funds and obtaining planning permission and the limited public access, it has become clear that this is not a project which would be either appropriate or possible for the trustees to take on. There are limited cash funds in the trust and it is likely that the trustees will decide to bring the trust to an end by
distributing the remaining funds to worthwhile local charities in line with the charitable objects of the trust. The lantern room and other artefarts will remain on the Cobra Mist Limited site on Orfordness under the care of Nicholas Gold WI intends to finance the construttion of a fitting memorial to the lighthouse, to include the artefacts. on Orfordness. Trustees, policies- Risk management- the trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed. They are satisfied that there are no risks given that the liththouse has been dismantled and the visits have ceased. Reserves - the trustees do not consider that there is a need for a reserves pollcy. The remaining cash funds held in the charity are likely to be distributed to worthwhile local charities. Peter Be ead Michae ney Joh akes Mark Thacker Dated ................. ..2025
Orfordness Lighthouse Trust Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 5 April 2025 Balance as at 6 April 2024 £46,079.03 Income Incoming resources: Donations £240.00 Balance as at 5 Aprll 2025 £46 319.03 Represented by: Capital Account Barclays Bank account £46 319.03