## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1st May 2023 30 April 2024 **T From o**
Section A Reference and administration details ~~ee~~ **Charity name** The Friends of St Mildred’s Tenterden Kent ~~a~~ **Other names charity is known by** ~~po~~ **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[Jill Clark ] Secretary Elected 03-01-23 4 Malcolm Kneller Treasurer Elected 20-10-2019 Chairman Retired chair 28-105[Tim Monckton ] 2020 6
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## **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**
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## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution and By-Laws
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Constitution and By-Laws
- (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:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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 Linda Fennell, Barbara Frikstad, Tim Lee, Roger Graham, Eddie O’Donnell and Chris Northen
The Trustees would like to thank the members of the Committee for their 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.
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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.
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Section D Achievements and performance
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|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|It has been another successful year for the Friends of St
Mildred’s Church. In addition to running the ever popular
Summer Garden Party on a beautiful August afternoon as a
thanks to all our loyal supporters in the Vicarage Gardens, our
Committee organized six musical events, all of which were well
supported and of outstanding quality, achieving a total surplus
in excess of £5000. Most important of all, we passed the
milestone £200,000 mark of monies raised by the Friends for the
upkeep, restoration and beautification of the Church, since we
were first established 10 years ago.
The first of the year’s six concerts took place on a damp
November evening, delivered by the London Adventist Chorale.
The London Adventist Chorale was formed in 1981, bringing
together and developing the latent talents of singers from
various Seventh-day Adventist Churches. Throughout its years,
the choir has made a strong impact on the choral world
internationally through its moving performances, combining, as
one music critic put it, 'discipline with fervour'. Its repertoire has
included music in Hebrew, African-American Spirituals, close
harmony, and Western choral music from the Renaissance
through to new commissions.
The Chorale's performances have been witnessed by tens of
millions world-wide on stage, screen, recordings and radio
appearances. The choir has performed in most of the UK's major
performance venues and now it was the turn of St Mildred’s!
The
beauty
and
intense
spiritualty
of
the
Choir’s
unaccompanied singing in St Mildred’s with its characteristic
sound modulation and close harmonies was mesmerising,
climaxing with The Lord’s Prayer, rendered a capella –
unaccompanied - almost as a whisper. Nobody in the audience
whether of faith or no faith, could have failed to be moved by
this performance.
The second concert took place in December and was delivered
by the Benenden Chapel Choir, from Benenden School. This
disciplined and highly musical group of girl choristers gave an
excellent rendition of Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols
which has become one of the best loved Christmas choral
works. The girls parading silently onto the stage as the singing
began and leaving the stage in similar fashion as the singing
ended added a dramatic subtlety to the performance, and the
audience loved it! The pleasure was two-sided, Benenden
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_We really enjoyed ourselves, as I hope you and the audience could tell. It was lovely to sing for such a good crowd, and the girls were on a real high coming back to school._
An additional pleasure for the audience that evening was a rendition of Claude Debussy’s Arabesque by the highly talented young harpist Rosanna Rolton. Losing no time we rapidly booked her for a full solo concert in May 2024 which was well attended, and a delight to the eyes and ears of all those fortunate enough to be present. The concert even included a whistle stop exposition of the history of the harp! This concert was followed in June by the return of Bukolika pianist Anna Szalucka, accompanying yet another Polish musical virtuoso, the violinist Jaga Klimaszewska in a concert of classical and romantic music, appealing to all tastes.
Our season also included two full evenings of Jazz cabaret style by the Benoit Viellefon Hot Club and the Kate Daniels Sextet. Both bands were old favourites of FOSM stalwarts and their evening performances were full of eclectic sound and high audience appreciation. Benoit Viellefon’s band included the rare appearance of the Romanian superstar jazz violinist Rares Morescu, a one time protégé of Stéphane Grappelli
We will enter 2025 with a new Chairman, as my term of office comes to an end after this year’s AGM. It has been highly enjoyable and a privilege to serve FOSM in this role. I wish my successor, whom you will elect today, the very best fortune. Our Treasurer, the inestimable Malcolm Kneller, will also be retiring this year. I wish to thank him sincerely for the tremendous amount of work he has put into this post and the careful, steady and wise control he has exercised over our financial progress. He will bequeath to his successor books in excellent order.
Jeremy Cooper December 2024
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## **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 to St Mildred’s
- relevant about: 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**
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## **Section G Declaration** ~~ee~~
**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 ] ~~ee~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee / Treasurer **Chair, etc)** ~~a~~ **Date** 1[st] December 2024 ~~Pp~~
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THE FRIENDS OF ST MILDRED’S CHARITY. Helping to maintain a thousand years of history.
## **THE FRIENDS OF ST MILDRED’S CHARITY**
## **Treasurers Report for financial period 1[st] May 2023 until 30[th] April 2024**
1. The FOSM annual accounts to 30[th] April 2024 have been independently examined and approved by Mr. Frank Port.
2. We must submit a form CC16a to the charity commission each year end. I have completed this form ready for submission and it is shown on pages two and three of this report. I have a few comments to make on this form: -
- 2.1 Subscriptions were slightly down this year.
- 2.2 Donations and events are generally closely associated. (The more events we put on, the more donations we normally receive).
- 2.3 We have been fortunate to receive another substantial legacy this year.
- 2.4 Unfortunately, we have not received any sponsorship or grants this year. 2.5 Gift Aid was very slightly up. 2.6 Most of our funds are held in a 100-day notice account with The Charity Bank. 2.7 FOSM has passed £24,578 to St Mildred’s PCC for roof repairs during this year.
3. We made £14,364 profit for the year. (Note – This after passing £24,578 to St Mildred’s)
4. On 30[th] April 2024, our FOSM bank accounts stood at £13,466 in Nat West, £81,179 in the Charity Bank and £1,336 in cash.
5. As always, my sincere thanks go to: -
- 5.1 Brian Guest for the time that he has spent maintaining records and giving me help and advice when asked. Brian also keeps our website up to date and is involved with our annual submission to the Charity Commission.
- 5.2 The team at Webbs Ironmonger’s in Tenterden for running our ticket office for events. They do a brilliant job.
- 5.3 Mr Frank Port, for carrying out the independent examination of our accounts. (Frank has retired from MMP accountants but has agreed to carry on doing our independent examination for a small fee).
- 5.4 All the other FOSM committee members, for the work and the time they donate to ensure that we are a successful organisation.
6. I have now completed five and a half years as the treasurer for The Friends of St Mildred’s and I will be resigning at the end of this financial year (30[th] April 2025). I will gladly give advice after my retirement if asked.
Malcolm Kneller Honorary Treasurer
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examinerfs
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examinefs Report S.
Report to the trusteesl
members of
The Friends of St. Mildred's Tenterden
On accounts for the year
ended
30th April 2024
Charity no
(if any)
1159264
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (Yhe Trust.) for the year ended
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 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 ex3min2iion. I conf',rm that no maierial matters have
come to my attention I
n connection with
the examination which giijes 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
Independent
examiner's statement
I have no COnrnS 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.
Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
Name:
14ii ', LLJ
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
Address:
IER
October 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of conrn (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts.. d1CtionS and guidance for
examiners).
Give here brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018