**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1st May 2021 30 April 2022 **T From o** Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** The Friends of St Mildred’s Tenterden Kent **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1159264 **Charity's principal address** 14 Eastwell Meadows, Tenterden, Kent **Postcode TN30 6QR** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) whole year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Roy Isworth 2 Jeremy Cooper Chairman Elected 28-10-2020 3[Stephanie ] Secretary Elected 13-10-17 Marshall 4 Malcolm Kneller Treasurer Elected 20-10-2019 5[Tim Monckton ] Chairman Retired chair 28-102020 6 7 March **2012** **TAR** 1 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** **Section B Structure, governance and management** March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution and By-Laws - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Constitution and By-Laws How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: The Trustees have been assisted in the general running of the charity by a Committee of members. The members on the Committee and not trustees for this financial year were Kate Rawlinson, Linda Fennell and Gill Topley. - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and The Trustees would like to thank the members of the Committee for their training of trustees; support during the year. - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** The Friends are established to advance the restoration, preservation, repair, maintenance, improvement and beautification of the Grade 1 Listed Building, the Parish Church of St Mildred, Tenterden in the Diocese of Canterbury and of the monuments, fittings, fixtures, stained glass, furniture, ornaments and chattels in the church and churchyard belonging to the Church. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Arrange and provide for or join in arranging and providing for the holding of exhibitions, meetings, lectures and classes and concerts and recitals and events Raise funds by any lawful means and through any lawful activity and invite and receive contributions from any person or persons whatsoever by way of subscriptions. Collect and disseminate information on all matters affecting the **Summary of the main activities** objects. Cause to be written and printed or otherwise circulated, **undertaken for the public** gratuitously or otherwise, such papers, books, periodicals, **benefit in relation to these** pamphlets or other documentation or films, websites or recorded **objects (include within this** tapes (whether audio or visual or both) as shall further the objects. **section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Make grants or gifts of other property to the clergy, Churchwardens and Parochial Church Council of the Parish of St Mildred Tenterden exclusively for the purpose of the said objects, and generally assist those responsible for the care and maintenance of the church. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. Invest the monies of the charity not immediately required for the said objects in or upon such investments, securities or property as may be thought fit, subject nevertheless of such conditions (if any) as may for the time being be imposed or required by law. Do all such other lawful things as are necessary for the attainment of the said objects. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 5 Despite the challenges of the Covid Pandemic, the FOSM Committee put **Summary of the main** together a wide ranging programme of events over the course of the **achievements of the charity** 2021-22 accounting year. **during the year** As the town cautiously re-opened its doors for business, our first activity was to take a FOSM stall at the St Mildred’s Flower Festival in July 2021 promoting our activities to the wider community. This was followed by our first public concert in over a year, when in August a lively evening of cabaret style jazz standards from the Great American Songbook was delivered to a packed audience by the popular Kate Daniels Sextet. In early November, in a completely contrasting mood, the FOSM Artists in Residence, the Polish Bukolika Piano Trio, delivered a superb concert of classical music. The other event of significance that took place in 2021 was the Late Summer Drinks Party for FOSM Members and guests, held in the beautifully located Vicarage Gardens. In January 2022, we held a very different type of event, during which Diocesan Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin was in conversation with the Chairman, ranging over a wide range of topics of contemporary interest. Bishop Rose has been Bishop of Dover since 2019, and within her pastoral responsibilities lies the Church of St Mildred’s. As the audience of around 70 people were leaving the church at the end of a fascinating talk, Bishop Rose shimmied elegantly off the rostrum to bid a dancing farewell to the sounds of the calypso **Hot, Hot, Hot.** A great occasion. In February, FOSM collaborated with Homewood School young musicians who delivered a loud and vibrant performance of rock and pop music entitled _Borders and Barriers_ , which filled St Mildred’s with great sounds and a lively audience, The final event in the last financial year took place in early April 2022, when the Bukolika Piano Trio returned to St Mildred’s to give the second in their series of three concerts as the Friends’ Artists in Residence. Whilst in Tenterden they also delivered workshops in local schools as part of the Residency Programme. It was another beautiful concert with music by an eclectic range of composers, including some pieces requiring true virtuosity. They will be returning to St Mildred’s in February 2023 to deliver the final concert of their Residency. Our future plans also include introducing a young artist from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Scheme to help promote their early professional career. Before that we will have welcomed two highly popular jazz ensembles, the Benoit Viellefon Hot Club Jazz Band and once again the Kate Daniels Jazz Sextet. I want to express my thanks to all Committee Members for their hard work, loyalty and good humour during a difficult period for the charity and to acknowledge the contributions from Esther Mansel and Caroline Salmon who resigned during the year. We will soon be losing, through retirement, our Honorary Secretary Stephanie Marshall, Honorary Treasurer Malcolm Kneller and Committee Member Kate Rawlinson. March **2012** **TAR** 6 Kate has served on the Committee for three and a half years and we have valued particularly her knowledge of Church procedures and contributions to the planning and running of events. As Honorary Officers, Stephanie and Malcolm’s service and commitment to the work of FOSM has been outstanding and I wish to place on record as Chairman my sincere and abiding gratitude to them both for all their dedication to our cause - Stephanie for almost six years and Malcolm for more than three years. We hope that we will remain in contact. I am delighted to report that our search for new Committee members is bearing fruit and I hope to have positive announcements to make about this at the AGM. As can be seen from the Treasurer’s Report, our finances are in a healthy state and we hope to be contributing significant sums towards the ongoing repairs and other planned building work in St Mildred’s over the course of this financial year. Jeremy Cooper September 2022 March **2012** **TAR** 7 - **Section E Financial review** None - **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** None - **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** This charity’s main income is through Subscriptions, Donations, Planned - You **may choose** to include music events, Grants, and social gatherings. - additional information, where Since the creation of this charity, it has made grants totalling £79k to St - relevant about: Mildred’s church for: - - the charity’s principal 1. Roof repairs. sources of funds (including 2. Repairs to stained glass windows and stonework. any fundraising); 3 Improvements to lightning protection. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** March **2012** **TAR** 8 ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)**[Malcolm Harry Kneller ] **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee / Treasurer **Chair, etc)** **Date** 23[rd] November 2022 March **2012** **TAR** 9 CHARITY COMMSSSION FOR ENGIAND AND WAIES Th• Frionds of St Mildr*l4 Tertgrdgn 1159264 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a Forthe perlod 01105rk021 To 30104r2022 Section A Receipts and payments Unrèstr5Cted funds Re$tri¢tsd funds Endowrn8nt funds Total fund$ tothe r•¥•*i£ t+lhEneveJt£ ts lh• n•*rHt£ A1 R8cèlpts Subscnptyon5 4365 INII 15.1( 1.250 1,304 6211 4J65 Legacies Sponot5hip Gift Aid Events Grants Smil*Am¥￿ l B￿ge l ML8C Bank Interest 15.1 1.210 J,113 697 6,211 13 13 Sub total(Gross income for AR) 31.1 31.1S4 14,9)9 A2 A¥set and Inv•stment saFes, (see tsblel. Sub total 31,154 31.164 14.908 A3Pa ments Events Admin 5311 5.311 Pu￿1¢￿ and Web Insuranc% Misc Pa￿ts ttsSI Mldreds P 505 96 31 Sub total 37,338 A4 Asset and invèstment purchases, (see table) Sub total 37.338 Ngt olre¢wpts/(paymontsJ AS Tran8fers bets¥•en fundj A6 Cash funds la¥t year end Cash funds this year end 25,198 25,198 2?,430 40A85 65,883 65,6B3 22,430 Sectton B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted fund8 to n•ar•st£ Restricted fund8 to I￿￿est£ Endowment fund$ to 81 Cash funds B8nk 65.365 Petty Cash 318 Total cash fun(ts Unre8trlcted funds to nparest£ Restricled funds to wr05t É Endowment lunds noamst£ 82 Oth•r monetary assets FuJxltO7*thKh ¢uffent¥alufr onal B3 InV￿lMont assots r* FuThltoY*th*h Cuttwrt￿1Uo D•tsils Nore Costl+Jpkn• B4 Assets retaingd forthè charity'$ ovm UBe ArnDtsrtt du• bYh•n du• loptiowll Il•bHtty r*l** 85 Liabiliti9$ None &"gned by otE or tFUStees behalf of all the trustees Prnt Name Date of 8pprgval Independent Examiner CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteosl members of The Friends of St. Mildred's Tenterden On accounts for the year ended 30° April 2022 Charrty no (if any) 1159264 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (llhe Trust.) for the year ended Responsibilltles and As the charity trustees of the Tnjst, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in accordance wrth 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 carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5){b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below") in connection with the examination which gives me Gause to believe that in, any matenal respect." accounting records were not kept in a¢¢ordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should te drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not 8ppIy. Signed: Date: . f/L. Namè: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): FFA FifA Address: Te 5LÉ*J IER Octob•r 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of chartty accounts" directions and guidan￿ for examiners}. Give here brlef details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018