## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 Sept 2024 **To** 31 Aug 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO
**Other names charity is known by**
||**Registered charity number (if any)**
1167480
**Charity's principal address** 92 Catford Hill
London
**Postcode**
**SE6 4PU**
~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**
1167480
**Charity's principal address** 92 Catford Hill
London
**Postcode**
**SE6 4PU**
~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**
1167480
**Charity's principal address** 92 Catford Hill
London
**Postcode**
**SE6 4PU**
~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**
1167480
**Charity's principal address** 92 Catford Hill
London
**Postcode**
**SE6 4PU**
~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**
1167480
**Charity's principal address** 92 Catford Hill
London
**Postcode**
**SE6 4PU**
~~ee~~|
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||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|||||
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**||**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|1|Simon Pellew|Chair||||
|2|David Muir|Secretary||||
|3|Gordon Cowie|Treasurer||||
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address**
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## **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
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Constitution
How the charity is constituted
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
- (eg. trust, association, company)
appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly Trustee selection methods convened meeting of the charity trustees
- (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 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**
To advance the education of the citizens of the Balkans region, and other **Summary of the objects of the** people with a historical connection to the Balkans, through supporting **charity set out in its** research and teaching in the field of the historical and current impact of **governing document** the protestant Christian faith in the Balkans.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Raising funds & making grants to support education & research work in Albania & providing general support to such work.
It is the view of the Trustees that the Aims, as implemented through the activities detailed above, fall within the descriptions of charitable purposes that are for the public benefit, as set out in the Charities Act 2011.
**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)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
Grants made by the charity contributed to research work carried out **Summary of the main** primarily in Albania and to the publication of relevant material in English **achievements of the charity** & Albanian. **during the year**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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**Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** The charity has no fixed or regular commitments, so has a simple policy **charity’s policy on reserves** of having a positive bank balance and keeping all its funds in surplus
**Details of any funds materially** None **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. ~~_~~ **Section F Other optional information Section G Declaration** ~~a~~ **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Full name(s)** Gordon Stuart Cowie **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 12/03/2026 **TAR** 5 March **2012**
**Section G Declaration** ~~a~~ **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
March **2012**
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**
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**Endowment**
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**Total funds**
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**A1 Receipts**
**CC16a**
**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**A1 Receipts**
**CC16a**
**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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01/09/2024
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**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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**1167480**
**Balkan Protestant Research Trust CIO**
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
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|Donations & Grants
**-**||**9,140**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**9,140**|**9,140**||**3,990**|
|Gift aid
**-**||**147**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**147**|**147**||**210**|
|Interest
**-**||**2**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**2**|**2**||**4**|
|Other income
**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**334**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_**-**||**9,289**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**9,289**|**9,289**||**4,538**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**-**
**9,289**
**-**
**9,289**
**4,538**
**A3 Payments**
Grants
**-**
**8,800**
**-**
**8,800**
**3,600**
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|Other payments
**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ -**||**8,800**||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**8,800**|**8,800**||**3,600**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**-**
**8,800**
**-**
**8,800**
**3,600**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**-**
**489**
**-**
**489**
**938**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**1,010**
**458**
**-**
**1,468**
**530**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**1,010**
**947**
**- 1,957**
**1,468**
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
13/05/2026
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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|B1 Cash funds|Bank account|1,010|947|-|
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|Total cash funds|1,010|947|-|
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|(agree balances with receipts and payments|
|account(s))|OK|OK|OK|=|
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|funds|funds|funds|
|Details|to nearest £|to nearest £|to nearest £|
|B2 Other monetary assets|Gift aid receivable|-|60|-|
|Other debtors|-|37|-|
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|Signed by one or two trustees on|Date of|
|Signature|Print Name|
|behalf of all the trustees|approval|
|Gordon Stuart Cowie|12/03/2026|
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|CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|2|13/05/2026|
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