## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Charity Name
The Paul Cottingham Trust|Charity Name
The Paul Cottingham Trust|Charity Name
The Paul Cottingham Trust| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||24/10/2024|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1165753| ||||| ||2-3
(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 24/10/2024. **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:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|Mark Taylor|04 May 2025| |---|---|---| |||| ||Mark Taylor|| |||| ||FCA|| |||| ||HW Fisher Professional Services Limited|| ||Acre House, 11-1 William Road|| ||London, NW1 3ER|| 1 **IER** **The Paul Cottingham Trust 1165753** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **For the period** 25/10/2023 24/10/2024 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations|**77,950**||||**-**||**77,950**||**28,951**| |Gift Aid|**7,816**||**-**||**-**||**7,816**||**5,140**| |Interest|**1,148**||**-**||**-**||**1,148**||**385**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**86,914**||**-**||**-**||**86,914**||**34,476**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**34,476**| ||||||||||| |Grants|**46,600**||||||||**45,472**| |Independent examination fees|**1,236**||||||||**1,230**| |Website expense|||||||||**370**| |Event expense|**1,935**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**49,771**||||||||**47,072**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**47,072**| ||||||||||| ||**37,143**||**-**||**-**||**37,143**||**- 12,596**| ||**-**||**- **|
|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**51,787**||**-**||**-**||**51,787**||**64,383**| ||**88,930**||**-**||**-**||**88,930**||**51,787**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 29/04/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Current Acoount
Deposit Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**501**
**88,429**
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**88,930**
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**to nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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Lord Michael Cashman CBE||||**Current value**
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approval| ||||Lord Michael Cashman CBE||||02 May 2025| ||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 29/04/2025 2 ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 25 October 2023 **To** 24 October 2024 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** The Paul Cottingham Trust **Other names charity is known by** Paul’s Trust **Registered charity number (if any)** 1165753 **Charity's principal address** Flat 4 94 Narrow Street London **Postcode E14 8BP** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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Cashman CBE|||| ||Vanessa Bowcock|||| ||Jane Hogarth|||| ||Rebecca Wheatley|||| ||Thomas Corcoran|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| ||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |||||| |||||| **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
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**Address**||| |Independent Examiner|Mark Taylor|HW Fisher Professional Services Limited, Acre House,
11-15 William Road, London, NW1 3ER| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Trust Deed - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Trust - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods By existing trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: During the year charity received donation of £20,000 from the trustee Michael Cashman (2023: £10,000). - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - 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. **TAR** 2 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** (a) For the public benefit, the promotion of equality and diversity on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, through the awarding of grants to organisations (including charitable organisations) within England and wales who are: (i) Working to eliminate discrimination and inequality on the basis of an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity; (ii) advancing education and raising awareness of issues relating to sexual orientation or gender identity, and discrimination in connection thereof; (iii) Promoting activities to foster an understanding in relation to issues surrounding sexual orientation or gender identity; (iv) conducting or commissioning research on equality or diversity in **Summary of the objects of the** relation to issues surrounding sexual orientation or gender identity, and **charity set out in its** publishing the results to the public; and **governing document** (v) Cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity in relation to persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex. (b) For the public benefit, the advancement of health and the saving of person's lives, through the awarding of grants to organizations (including charitable organizations) within England and Wales who are conducting or commissioning research into the treatment and eradication of cancers, including (but not limited to) angiosarcoma. (c) For the public benefit, the relief of poverty, through the awarding of grants to persons (and organizations, including charitable organizations, working with such persons) within England and Wales who themselves (or whose families) are facing financial or other hardship during their treatment resulting from a diagnosis of cancer, including (but not limited to) angiosarcoma. **TAR** 3 As a small charity, the trustees prefers to operate below the radar and to get on with work that can make a real difference to so many, especially as charity are witnessing greater intolerance, repression, and hardship here and across the world. The charity takes great care considering where they believe their funds will have maximum impact. Projects and issues that the charity have focussed on and supported are; **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** **LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers** through **Micro Rainbow** who offer help and accommodation throughout the year in their hostels in the UK. The charity also supported **Neighbours in Poplar’s** outreach work in Calais. **LGBTQI homelessness; The Albert Kennedy Trust** are tireless in supporting LGBTQI homeless people (over 25% of youth homeless are LGBT+) and the charity were delighted to award them a grant for their Christmas appeal. The Trustees are aware of the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit and have borne this in mind when making grants during the year. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** The Trustees consider each application in accordance with the stated objectives of the Trust and mindful of the limited financial resources the Trust narrow their focus in the early years to Diversity and Inclusion and its wider social realm. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Establishing the Trust with key stakeholders in the Charitable Sector and securing a strong financial basis. **Inclusive mental health support** for LGBTQI people with the grant to **Rainbow Mind** . They have reached over 400 LGBTQI people through therapy, psychoeducational connect sessions, Radical Self-Care courses and workshops. **Samaritans** (Leicester) and their LGBTQI+ focused work. **Leicester LGBT+ Centre** is a vibrant and inclusive space dedicated to celebrating diversity, fostering community, and providing support to LGBT+ individuals in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. **Raising Health** , awareness raising campaign in the workplace with rainbow lanyards. **Outpatients** is the UK’s only LGBTQI+ cancer charity, proudly led by and for LGBTIQ+ people affected by cancer and work hard to support and advocate for the community. They advise and support national health bodies to write inclusive policy, strategy, best practice guidelines and campaigns. They work closely with LGBTIQ cancer charities to create a holistic approach to improving the LGBTQI’s community's care and represent LGBTQI voices and experiences in national government and NHS meetings, working in the UK and beyond to make sure no-one is left behind. **Cancer diagnosis and treatment** can be overwhelming, so charity is continuing their work with **Sarcoma UK** with a three-year commitment to their services, supporting and advising individuals and their families affected by these rare cancers. The charity is proud to have established the **Paul Cottingham PhD Scholarship** at the **University of Brighton** . The scholarship will provide a talented researcher with financial support and access to world-class resources to develop a project focusing on trans and non-binary inclusion within the broad remit of supporting health, wellbeing, and dignity in health and social care. It will be awarded to a candidate who is committed to making a difference to the wider trans community and will provide a unique opportunity for in-depth research that can explore the issues and opportunities for trans people. The trustees tribute to three of their great friends who sadly died; the irreplaceable and unforgettable (Baroness) Glenys Kinnock, Paul O’Grady and (Baroness) Margaret McDonagh. In their memory the charity have supported **Together in Dementia** and **University College Hospital** work on Glioblastoma. **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** The Charity is in the early stages of its development and has not yet defined its reserves policy but this is under constant review **Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: The charity’s principal source of funds is donations. - 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. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **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)** Lord Michael Cashman CBE **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc)** **Date** 02 May 2025 **TAR** 6 ## **Issuer** HW Fisher **Document generated** Fri, 2nd May 2025 15:14:47 BST **Document fingerprint** 3dac0404bf82bc8d4d7eaa731448a879 ## **Parties involved with this document** ## **Document processed** ## **Party + Fingerprint** Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:14:47 BST Sun, 4th May 2025 19:10:16 BST Michael Cashman - Signer (12786f14611367d711e1004d6ec4f9a0) Mark Taylor - Signer (c4e898df3beab484ec26213985a95db1) ## **Audit history log** ## **Date** ## **Action** Fri, 2nd May 2025 15:14:47 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 15:14:48 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 15:19:02 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 15:19:02 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 15:30:10 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:09:19 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:09:23 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:09:25 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:09:50 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:11:20 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:14:47 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:14:48 BST Fri, 2nd May 2025 18:14:48 BST Sun, 4th May 2025 19:05:39 BST Sun, 4th May 2025 19:10:16 BST Sun, 4th May 2025 19:10:16 BST Envelope generated by Shafayat Khan (89.150.28.98) Document generated with fingerprint 3dac0404bf82bc8d4d7eaa731448a879 (89.150.28.98) Sent the envelope to Michael Cashman (michael@mcashman.eu) for signing (89.150.28.98) Document emailed to michael@mcashman.eu (18.132.68.58) Michael Cashman opened the document email. 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