Keen Annual report for the year to 30/6/24
In the year to 30 June 2024, we continued to recover lasting effects of the pandemic, but by the end of the year had made great progress on rebuilding volunteer numbers and experience. The trustees are very grateful to Ais Passmore (programme manager) and Annabel Baldwin (virtual co-ordinator) for their work over the year. We were able to run our full programme of inclusive activities Allsorts, Great Social, Great Sports, Allotment sessions, Zig Zag and special and virtual activities. New traffic arrangements in East Oxford made it hard for participants to reach Zig Zag at St Clements Family Centre, but we have been able to transfer to Leys Pool and Leisure. Traffic is not a problem in the evenings and our Monday evening Keen Teens and Great Social activities at St Clements have very much become our mainstay.
We were able to welcome Lord Mayor Lubna Arshad to our annual birthday party at Leys Pool and Leisure and the year culminated very happily with our annual Olympics at New College Sportsground at which Brendan Casey, Registrar and CEO of Oxford Brookes University presented the medals.
All in all, the trustees take much satisfaction in supervising the provision of many happy occasions for participants with disabilities who might otherwise have limited or no access to sport and social activities
We are grateful for financial support in the year to 30 June 2024 by Berkely Homes (through Mencap), the Thomas Dawson Trust, the Dragon School, Shooting Stars and the Oxford University Community Fund in addition to the support of our many individual donors. We also continued to enjoy the support of the Keen Student Society, ably chaired by Owen Roberts under the guidance of senior member Prof Endicott of All Souls. We are once again most grateful to New College who allow us use of their marvellous sportsground.
All this support notwithstanding, the accompanying accounts to 30 June 2024 disclose that we operated at a modest deficit, indicating that fundraising efforts will need to increased in 2024/25. It also likely in 2024/25 that Leys Pool and Leisure will be undergoing partial refurbishment in 2024/25 – if this proves disruptive, we have a fallback plan to use the Swan School for our indoor sports activities.
The trustees were pleased to welcome, following the year end, one of our many excellent volunteers, Mr Hari Pillai, to join the board.
Also subsequently to the year end, the trustees learned with sadness of the decease of an enthusiastic and much-loved participant, Cameran Ghofar, who will be much missed.
J K McMahon
Chair of Trustees
KEEN
Charity Number: 1157084
Report and Accounts for the year ending 30[th] June 2024
Trustees:
Andrew K Brown (Appointed 27[th] April 2022) Rebecca E Burns (Appointed 19[th] January 2022) Colin Cook (Appointed 26[th] October 2022) (Chair) James K McMahon (Appointed 10[th] August 2017) Hari S Pillai (Appointed 26th September 2024)
Bankers:
CAF Bank Ltd, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4JQ
Independent Examiner:
The Revd Graham T G Sykes ACIB 81 West Way Botley Oxford OX2 9JY
CIO Foundation
Registered 16 May 2014 (amended 30 Apr 2020) (amended 23 May 2020)
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Charitable objects
To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded and relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded, by assisting them to be included in society, in particular by: Advancing, through provision or facilitation, community participation in socially inclusive recreational, leisure and other opportunities.
Providing education and information to support and enable people to maximise their or their dependants opportunities in the above regard. Advancing the education of the public in the subject of inclusion, equality, and diversity for socially excluded groups through the provision of workshops, forums, advocacy, and other means. For the purpose of the above clause ‘socially excluded’ as applied to an individual or group means not being able to take full part in some aspect of society - where the term society is broadly construed. This includes being disabled as understood within the social model of disability.
Activities
Operating in locations across the UK, we exist to help remove the societal barriers that to continue to disable people from taking part their communities . We create, support, and promote inclusion in communities, including through our: Community-led inclusive projects, Community Sports Partner Programme and other collaborative initiatives, Youth-led behaviour change projects.
Chair of Trustees Report
Ais Passmore (programme manager) and Annabel Baldwin (virtual co-ordinator) continued to build on work to re-establish the charity’s activities after the lockdown. It was been a lengthy process to rebuild volunteer numbers, but we are approaching the numbers we had in the past. We were able to run our full programme of inclusive activities Allsorts, Great Social, Greta Sports, Allotment sessions, Zig Zag and special and virtual activities. Zig Zag, having suffered from inaccessibility at St Clements Family Centre, owing to new traffic arrangements, successfully transferred to Leys Pool and Leisure. The year culminated very happily with our annual Olympics at New College Sportsground at which Brendan Casey, Registrar and CEO of Oxford Brookes University presented the medals and favoured us with his wisdom. All in all, the trustees take much satisfaction in supervising the provision of many happy hours for participants with disabilities who might otherwise have limited or no access to sport and social activities.
We are grateful for the financial support of Berkely Homes (through Mencap), the Thomas Dawson Trust and Shooting Stars, in addition to the support of our many individual donors. We nevertheless operated at a modest deficit, still having some funds from a generous legacy in 2021/22, but will need to make further fundraising efforts in the coming year. We also continued to enjoy the support of the Keen Student Society under its senior member Prof Endicott of All Souls. We are once again most grateful to New College who allow us use of their sportsground. Many of our activities take place at Leys Pool and Leisure, which is expected to be subject to refurbishment in the coming year, such that we are engaged in discussions with the Swan School for fall back arrangements.
The trustees were pleased to welcome, following the year end, one of our many excellent volunteers, Mr Hari Pillai, to the board. Also subsequent to the year end, the trustees were saddened to learn of the decease of an enthusiastic and much-loved participant, Cameron Ghofar who will be much missed.
J K McMahon Chair of Trustees
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KEEN
Registered charity 1157084 Statement of Financial Activities For the year ending 30 June 2024
Income and Expenditure
| Note | Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds |
Total 2024 Total 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | |||
| Donations 2 |
16,164 - |
16,164 12,591 |
|
| Grants 4 |
33,812 | 10,000 | 43,812 11,542 |
| Investment Income | 1,080 - |
1,080 131 |
|
| Legacy | - - |
- 2,214 |
|
| Total incoming resources Resources expended |
51,057 10,000 |
61,057 26,478 |
|
| Fundraising Activities 3(a) Charitable Activities 3(b) |
1,174 - 54,597 10,000 |
1,174 1,020 64,597 58,528 |
|
| Volunteer refreshements and clothing 3(c) |
1,295 - |
1,295 168 |
|
| Total resources expended Net movement in funds |
57,066 10,000 |
67,066 59,716 |
|
| 6,010 - - |
6,010 - 33,238 - |
||
| Balances brought forward 1st July accounting adjustment Balances carried forward 30 June |
60,889 2 - 54,878 |
94,127 33,238 - 60,889 |
Balance Sheet
| Balance Sheet | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024 2023 |
||
| CURRENT ASSETS | ||
| Cash at bank and in hand Creditors 5 NET ASSETS FUNDS Unrestricted Restricted |
55,856 61,866 978 978 54,878 60,888 54,878 60,888 - - 54,878 60,888 |
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KEEN
Registered charity 1157084
Statement of Financial Activities For the year ending 30 June 2024
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 30 June 2024
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1 Accounting policies
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(a) The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis in accordance with the Charities Accounting Regulations 2008 and are presented in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and with the Charities Act 2011. The statements have been prepared on the historic cost convention, with the exception of the valuation of investment assets which are shown at market value.
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(b) Restricted funds represent income, donations or grants received for a specific object. The funds may only be expended on the specific object for which they were given and any balance remaining unspent at the end of each year must be carried forward as a balance on that fund.
| 2 | 2 | Analysis of Receipts | Analysis of Receipts | Analysis of Receipts | Analysis of Receipts | Analysis of Receipts | Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donations by Individuals Donations by companies and other organisatiions Grant making trusts and foundations Interest Received Legacy |
16,164 | 16,164 12,463 - 128 43,812 11,542 1,080 131 - 2,214 |
||||||||
| - | - | |||||||||
| 33,812 | 10,000 | |||||||||
| 1,080 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Analysis of Expenditure | 51,057 10,000 61,057 26,478 |
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| Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
||||||||||
| (a) | Fund Raising Acticities | Bank Charges Post and Internet |
589 589 585 585 |
742 | ||||||
| - | ||||||||||
| 1,174 - 1,174 742 |
||||||||||
| (b) | Charitable Activitiues | Transport Venue Oxford All In Desk Licence Salaries Training Workshops and recruitment events Insurance Stationery Subscriptions Other sundries Southampton |
686 686 4,289 4,289 6,183 6,183 40,333 10,000 50,333 - - - - 948 948 - - - - 2,158 2,158 - |
363 | ||||||
| 2,273 | ||||||||||
| 1,628 | ||||||||||
| 7,460 | ||||||||||
| 38,774 | ||||||||||
| 500 | ||||||||||
| 1,020 | ||||||||||
| 903 | ||||||||||
| 142 | ||||||||||
| 384 | ||||||||||
| 5,142 | ||||||||||
| 216 | ||||||||||
| 54,597 10,000 64,597 58,805 |
||||||||||
| (c) | Volunteer Support | Refreshment and Clothing | 1,295 - 1,295 |
168 | ||||||
| 4 | Grants | Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
||||||||
| Mencap University of Oxford Community Fund Dragon School Thomas Dawson Trust Shooting Stars |
32,512 | - | 32,512 9,203 - 339 - 2,000 10,000 - 1,300 |
|||||||
| - | - | |||||||||
| - | - | |||||||||
| - | 10,000 | |||||||||
| 1,300 | ||||||||||
| 33,812 | 10,000 | 43,812 11,542 |
||||||||
| In addition to the above,New College very generously permits use of their playing field without charge. |
5 Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year
Andrew Brown continued to be owed £978 which he had expended on behalf of the charity (22/23 £978) No Trustee was reimbursed for expenses incurred on the Trust's behalf in the year 2023/24. (2022/23: Nil)
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| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES |
Independent examiner's report on the accounts | |||||||||
| Section A | Section A | |||||||||
| Report to the trustees/ members of |
Report to the trustees/ KEEN |
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| On accounts for the year ended |
On accounts for the year 30/06/2024 |
Charity Number | 1157084 | |||||||
| Set out on pages | Pages 1 - 5 above | |||||||||
| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/06/2023 |
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| As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). |
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| Responsibilities and basis of report |
Responsibilities and basis of 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. |
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| 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: |
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| · accountingrecords were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or | ||||||||||
| · the accounts do not accord with the accountingrecords | ||||||||||
| 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. |
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| be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. | ||||||||||
| ~~PF~~ | ||||||||||
| Signed: | Date: ~~PF~~ |
19/04/2024 ~~PF~~ |
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| ~~PF~~ | ||||||||||
| Name:The Rev.d Graham TG S ~~ |
~~ | The Rev.d Graham TG Sykes ~~ |
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| ~~ | ~~ | ~~ | ~~ | |||||||
| Relevantprofessional | rofessional ACIB |
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| Address:81 West Wa | 81 West Way | |||||||||
| Botley | ||||||||||
| Oxford OX2 9JY |
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KEEN
Charity Number: 1157084
Report and Accounts for the year ending 30[th] June 2024
Trustees:
Andrew K Brown (Appointed 27[th] April 2022) Rebecca E Burns (Appointed 19[th] January 2022) Colin Cook (Appointed 26[th] October 2022) (Chair) James K McMahon (Appointed 10[th] August 2017) Hari S Pillai (Appointed 26th September 2024)
Bankers:
CAF Bank Ltd, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4JQ
Independent Examiner:
The Revd Graham T G Sykes ACIB 81 West Way Botley Oxford OX2 9JY
CIO Foundation
Registered 16 May 2014 (amended 30 Apr 2020) (amended 23 May 2020)
1 | P a g e
Charitable objects
To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded and relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded, by assisting them to be included in society, in particular by: Advancing, through provision or facilitation, community participation in socially inclusive recreational, leisure and other opportunities.
Providing education and information to support and enable people to maximise their or their dependants opportunities in the above regard. Advancing the education of the public in the subject of inclusion, equality, and diversity for socially excluded groups through the provision of workshops, forums, advocacy, and other means. For the purpose of the above clause ‘socially excluded’ as applied to an individual or group means not being able to take full part in some aspect of society - where the term society is broadly construed. This includes being disabled as understood within the social model of disability.
Activities
Operating in locations across the UK, we exist to help remove the societal barriers that to continue to disable people from taking part their communities . We create, support, and promote inclusion in communities, including through our: Community-led inclusive projects, Community Sports Partner Programme and other collaborative initiatives, Youth-led behaviour change projects.
Chair of Trustees Report
Ais Passmore (programme manager) and Annabel Baldwin (virtual co-ordinator) continued to build on work to re-establish the charity’s activities after the lockdown. It was been a lengthy process to rebuild volunteer numbers, but we are approaching the numbers we had in the past. We were able to run our full programme of inclusive activities Allsorts, Great Social, Greta Sports, Allotment sessions, Zig Zag and special and virtual activities. Zig Zag, having suffered from inaccessibility at St Clements Family Centre, owing to new traffic arrangements, successfully transferred to Leys Pool and Leisure. The year culminated very happily with our annual Olympics at New College Sportsground at which Brendan Casey, Registrar and CEO of Oxford Brookes University presented the medals and favoured us with his wisdom. All in all, the trustees take much satisfaction in supervising the provision of many happy hours for participants with disabilities who might otherwise have limited or no access to sport and social activities.
We are grateful for the financial support of Berkely Homes (through Mencap), the Thomas Dawson Trust and Shooting Stars, in addition to the support of our many individual donors. We nevertheless operated at a modest deficit, still having some funds from a generous legacy in 2021/22, but will need to make further fundraising efforts in the coming year. We also continued to enjoy the support of the Keen Student Society under its senior member Prof Endicott of All Souls. We are once again most grateful to New College who allow us use of their sportsground. Many of our activities take place at Leys Pool and Leisure, which is expected to be subject to refurbishment in the coming year, such that we are engaged in discussions with the Swan School for fall back arrangements.
The trustees were pleased to welcome, following the year end, one of our many excellent volunteers, Mr Hari Pillai, to the board. Also subsequent to the year end, the trustees were saddened to learn of the decease of an enthusiastic and much-loved participant, Cameron Ghofar who will be much missed.
J K McMahon Chair of Trustees
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KEEN
Registered charity 1157084 Statement of Financial Activities For the year ending 30 June 2024
Income and Expenditure
| Note | Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds |
Total 2024 Total 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | |||
| Donations 2 |
16,164 - |
16,164 12,591 |
|
| Grants 4 |
33,812 | 10,000 | 43,812 11,542 |
| Investment Income | 1,080 - |
1,080 131 |
|
| Legacy | - - |
- 2,214 |
|
| Total incoming resources Resources expended |
51,057 10,000 |
61,057 26,478 |
|
| Fundraising Activities 3(a) Charitable Activities 3(b) |
1,174 - 54,597 10,000 |
1,174 1,020 64,597 58,528 |
|
| Volunteer refreshements and clothing 3(c) |
1,295 - |
1,295 168 |
|
| Total resources expended Net movement in funds |
57,066 10,000 |
67,066 59,716 |
|
| 6,010 - - |
6,010 - 33,238 - |
||
| Balances brought forward 1st July accounting adjustment Balances carried forward 30 June |
60,889 2 - 54,878 |
94,127 33,238 - 60,889 |
Balance Sheet
| Balance Sheet | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024 2023 |
||
| CURRENT ASSETS | ||
| Cash at bank and in hand Creditors 5 NET ASSETS FUNDS Unrestricted Restricted |
55,856 61,866 978 978 54,878 60,888 54,878 60,888 - - 54,878 60,888 |
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KEEN
Registered charity 1157084
Statement of Financial Activities For the year ending 30 June 2024
Notes to the financial statements
For the year ended 30 June 2024
-
1 Accounting policies
-
(a) The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis in accordance with the Charities Accounting Regulations 2008 and are presented in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and with the Charities Act 2011. The statements have been prepared on the historic cost convention, with the exception of the valuation of investment assets which are shown at market value.
-
(b) Restricted funds represent income, donations or grants received for a specific object. The funds may only be expended on the specific object for which they were given and any balance remaining unspent at the end of each year must be carried forward as a balance on that fund.
| 2 | 2 | Analysis of Receipts | Analysis of Receipts | Analysis of Receipts | Analysis of Receipts | Analysis of Receipts | Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donations by Individuals Donations by companies and other organisatiions Grant making trusts and foundations Interest Received Legacy |
16,164 | 16,164 12,463 - 128 43,812 11,542 1,080 131 - 2,214 |
||||||||
| - | - | |||||||||
| 33,812 | 10,000 | |||||||||
| 1,080 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Analysis of Expenditure | 51,057 10,000 61,057 26,478 |
||||||||
| Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
||||||||||
| (a) | Fund Raising Acticities | Bank Charges Post and Internet |
589 589 585 585 |
742 | ||||||
| - | ||||||||||
| 1,174 - 1,174 742 |
||||||||||
| (b) | Charitable Activitiues | Transport Venue Oxford All In Desk Licence Salaries Training Workshops and recruitment events Insurance Stationery Subscriptions Other sundries Southampton |
686 686 4,289 4,289 6,183 6,183 40,333 10,000 50,333 - - - - 948 948 - - - - 2,158 2,158 - |
363 | ||||||
| 2,273 | ||||||||||
| 1,628 | ||||||||||
| 7,460 | ||||||||||
| 38,774 | ||||||||||
| 500 | ||||||||||
| 1,020 | ||||||||||
| 903 | ||||||||||
| 142 | ||||||||||
| 384 | ||||||||||
| 5,142 | ||||||||||
| 216 | ||||||||||
| 54,597 10,000 64,597 58,805 |
||||||||||
| (c) | Volunteer Support | Refreshment and Clothing | 1,295 - 1,295 |
168 | ||||||
| 4 | Grants | Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 Total 2023 |
||||||||
| Mencap University of Oxford Community Fund Dragon School Thomas Dawson Trust Shooting Stars |
32,512 | - | 32,512 9,203 - 339 - 2,000 10,000 - 1,300 |
|||||||
| - | - | |||||||||
| - | - | |||||||||
| - | 10,000 | |||||||||
| 1,300 | ||||||||||
| 33,812 | 10,000 | 43,812 11,542 |
||||||||
| In addition to the above,New College very generously permits use of their playing field without charge. |
5 Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year
Andrew Brown continued to be owed £978 which he had expended on behalf of the charity (22/23 £978) No Trustee was reimbursed for expenses incurred on the Trust's behalf in the year 2023/24. (2022/23: Nil)
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| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES |
Independent examiner's report on the accounts | |||||||||
| Section A | Section A | |||||||||
| Report to the trustees/ members of |
Report to the trustees/ KEEN |
|||||||||
| On accounts for the year ended |
On accounts for the year 30/06/2024 |
Charity Number | 1157084 | |||||||
| Set out on pages | Pages 1 - 5 above | |||||||||
| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/06/2023 |
||||||||||
| As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). |
||||||||||
| Responsibilities and basis of report |
Responsibilities and basis of 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: |
|||||||||
| · accountingrecords were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or | ||||||||||
| · the accounts do not accord with the accountingrecords | ||||||||||
| 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. |
||||||||||
| be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. | ||||||||||
| ~~PF~~ | ||||||||||
| Signed: | Date: ~~PF~~ |
19/04/2024 ~~PF~~ |
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| ~~PF~~ | ||||||||||
| Name:The Rev.d Graham TG S ~~ |
~~ | The Rev.d Graham TG Sykes ~~ |
~~ | |||||||
| ~~ | ~~ | ~~ | ~~ | |||||||
| Relevantprofessional | rofessional ACIB |
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| Address:81 West Wa | 81 West Way | |||||||||
| Botley | ||||||||||
| Oxford OX2 9JY |
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