## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date
Period end date
**From** 1 January 2024 **To** 31 December 2024 Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Cottenham Dissenters' Cemetery CIO Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1160345 Charity's principal address** 56 Rampton Road **(chairman)** Cottenham Cambridge **Postcode CB24 8TH Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Name of person (or Dates acted if not Trustee name Office (if any) body) entitled to for whole year appoint trustee (if any)** 1 James Nathan Blunt Chair (from 26 Feb.) 2 Ralph Jonathan Carpenter To 4 Feb. 3 Sarah Crisall Treasurer (from 22 Jan) 4 Kate Lees To 4 Feb 5 Philip Charles Saunders Secretary 6 Ann Scott Treasurer (to 22 Jan) To 4 Feb 7 David Charles Barrett From 22 Jan 8 Victoria Jane Mills From 22 Jan 9 Robert William Cox From 22 Jan 10 Marcia Jain Scott From 22 Jan ~~ee~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees): none Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information): none Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information): none Section B Structure, governance and management Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)[Constitution ] How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)[Charitable Incorporated Organisation ] Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)[Co-option ] ~~Oo~~ **TAR** 1 2025
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information): none**
2025
## **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 are informally connected to other community organisations within the village and to the parish council. The Baptist Church, which historically provided trustees under the predecessor trust, continues to facilitate meetings of the CIO committee.
- 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 objects of the CIO are to provide a burial place for the people of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in** During 2024 we continued to fulfil our core function of providing **relation to these objects (include** a burial place and ensuring it is appropriately maintained, safely **within this section the statutory** and with dignity. We have done so with due regard for guidance **declaration that trustees have had** issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. **regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further The CIO is not a grant-making body. statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
It has no formal policy on investment.
- It recognises the value of volunteers in helping with maintenance, in being a connection with the wider community and providing a pool of potential trustees.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the** • The trustees met formally eight times. The main concern was with the extension, for which planning consent was received at the start of the year. **charity during the year**
- The cemetery was used for its primary purpose. Three burials (all in existing graves) and three interments of ashes (one within the extension) took place, and one scattering of ashes was authorised.
- We successfully recruited new trustees by publicity in the village newsletter and from our volunteer helper base.
- A successful application was made to the Parish Council for s.106 funding for costs associated with laying out the extension and constructing a new
**TAR**
2
2025
Section D Achievements and performance
vehicular access/reception area, contractors were sought and one was selected at the end of the year, with works expected to be completed in 2025.
- Regular clear-up sessions of trustees and other volunteers were held.
- A _Whatsapp_ group was created to help with organising work parties at short notice at other times.
- Several local firms were successfully approached for donation of tools.
- A full tree survey was commissioned and received.
- The detailed lay-out of the extension was agreed in time for the first interment of ashes and for an expected first burial (which in the event did not take place).
- • Wooden edging in the ashes area which had proved inadequate was replaced with steel edging.
- The trust had had a display at the Annual Parish Meeting and had again participated in the national Heritage Open Days, with a good attendance.
- A process and associated fee and application form was agreed for monument cleaning.
## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The CIO's balance increased owing chiefly to uncertainty of costs that might be involved in bringing the extension area into use and expected tree work.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
There are no funds in deficit.
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
The chief recurrent source of funds is the grant made equally to the Parish Church (for the churchyard) and to the CIO by Cottenham Parish Council of funds received by the Council from the civil purposes part of the Cottenham Church and Causeway Charity. Additional funding is occasionally available from the Ebenezer Trusts, which include maintenance of the Cemetery among its explicit objects, and when available applications are made for s.106 funding via the Parish Council. Regular funding comes from fees for interments and monuments - it is anticipated these will be revised in 2025 once the configuration and costs of the extension become clearer. Funding from the Ebenezer Trusts is for maintenance matters.
Fees were reviewed in January 2023 and left unchanged.
## **Section F Other optional information**
_Nothing that we feel necessary to draw the Commissioners' attention to._
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**TAR**
3
2025
|**Signature(s)**|**Signature(s)**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Sarah Catherine Crisall|
|**Full name(s)**
**Position**|**Full name(s)**
James Nathan Blunt
Chair
~~rr~~|||Sarah Catherine Crisall
Treasurer|
||**Date**
_06/10/2025_
_06/10/2025_
~~oo~~||||
**TAR**
2025
4
|Period end date
01-Jan-24
31-Dec-24
**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Cottenham Dissenters' Cemetery CIO**
**1160345**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
**For the period**
**from**
Period start date
**To**
| aad ~~——————~~|Period end date
01-Jan-24
31-Dec-24
**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Cottenham Dissenters' Cemetery CIO**
**1160345**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
**For the period**
**from**
Period start date
**To**
| aad ~~——————~~|Period end date
01-Jan-24
31-Dec-24
**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Cottenham Dissenters' Cemetery CIO**
**1160345**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
**For the period**
**from**
Period start date
**To**
| aad ~~——————~~||**CC16a**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**||**Last year**||
||**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||
|Grants
**29,000**
**-**
**-**
**29,000**
Donations
**141**
**-**
**-**
**141**
Fees
**2,180**
**-**
**-**
**2,180**
Interest on buildingsocietyaccount
**997**
**-**
**-**
**997**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**32,318**
**-**
**-**
**32,318**
~~= SS~~||||**4,440**
**640**
**389**
**-**
**5,469**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~**_Sub total_**~~**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**32,318**
**-**
**-**
~~S55 ~~||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**32,318**
**5,469**
~~5—~~||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||
|Water rates|**41**|**41**|**41**|**79**|**79**|
|Insurance|**224**|**224**|**224**|**272**|**272**|
|Cemeterymaintenance|**1,706**
**-**
**-**|**1,706**|**1,706**|**2,781**||
|Tax on interest|**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|Administrative costs|**11**
**-**
**-**|**11**|**11**|**-**||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 1,981**
**-**
**-**
**1,981**
**3,132**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total payments_**
**1,981**
**-**
**-**
**1,981**
**3,132**
~~—=====~~||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**30,336**
**-**
**- 30,336**
**2,337**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**23,353**
**- -**
**23,353**
**21,016**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**53,689**
**-**
**- 53,689**
**23,353**
~~=~~||||||
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
_Sarah Crisall_
_James Blunt_
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Building Society Account
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**53,689**
**-**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**Amount due**
**-**
Print Name
Sarah Crisall
James Blunt|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**|
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
||_Sarah Crisall_|Sarah Crisall|_06/10/2025_|
||_James Blunt_|James Blunt|_06/10/2025_|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
13/10/2025
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Cottenham Dissenters’ Cemetery CIO **On accounts for the year** 31 December 2024 **ended Set out on pages** 1
**Charity no** 1160345 **(if any)** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/12/2024** .
- **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 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:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
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.
**Signed: Date:** 21/10/2025 ~~[|~~ **Name:** John Alfred Ely ~~Ps~~ **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** 47 Rampton Road Cottenham CAMBRIDGE CB24 8TH
1
**October 2018**
**IER**