## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01/04/2024 Period start date To Period end date**
## **31/03/2025**
## **Charity name: Rob Stephenson Trust**
## **Charity registration number:1166500**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance young people's lives through
sport and leisure set out in the charity
commission guidelines|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Under the power and duties of trustees, we
have donated sports equipment and training
to many places in the world|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees have had regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity Commission|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference **As deemed suitable by the Trustees** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **As deemed suitable by the Trustees** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **Policy of no financial remuneration** Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Provision of sports equipment to**
**community projects in South Africa,**
**Rwanda and Ukraine to provide the**
**children with much-needed apparatus.**
**Further support of Christmas boxes with**
**tennis balls for children across Eastern**
**Europe in support of a church collection.**
**All these donations made possible by the**
**contribution from a bike ride in**
**Newcastle. Together with fund raising**
**events run by Angela Sigsworth,**
**Newcastle Agrics, and Just Giving**|
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**£134,417**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves held to meet requests for**
**assistance**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Current Account £134,417**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Nil**|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Fundraising activities**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**All money held in current account for**
**access as required**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Family three-person Board**|
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**As per Trust Deed**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO – Charitable Incorporated**
**Association**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Approval by existing trustees majority**
**vote**|
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Rob Stephenson Trust|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1166500|
|Charity’s principal address|Beech Lodge
66 Middleton Road
Pickering
YO18 8NH|
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Patrick Stephenson **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 27/11/2025