## **VINTERS VALLEY PARK TRUST CIO** **(No: 1169118)** INDEPENDENT EXAMINATION AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THE CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2023** ## **VINTERS VALLEY PARK TRUST CIO** ## **CONTENTS** - Independent examiners report - Receipts & payments - Statement of assets & liabilities - Trustees’ annual report **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**|Vinters Valley Park Trust CIO|Vinters Valley Park Trust CIO|Vinters Valley Park Trust CIO| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31/12/2023|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1169118| ||||| ||1 - 2||| ||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**31/12/2023**.||| **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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) 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. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**

||26/04/2024| |---|---|---| |||| ||Peter Acott|| |||| ||FCCA|| |||| ||SHPD Accountants, 10 Littlebourne Road, Maidstone,|Kent, ME14 5QP| |||| |||| **Vinters Valley Park Trust 1169118 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1 January 2023 31 December 2023 **CC16a** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**15,543**
**7,000**
**3,143**
**1,014**
**26,895**
**1,164**
**-**
**-**
**54,759**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,759**
**143**
**43**
**1,144**
**4,072**
**216**
**2,222**
**336**
**22,937**
**360**
**-**
**31,473**
**-**
**-**
**31,473**
**23,286**
**-**
**79,643**
**102,929**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,597**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**493**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,090**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,090**
**-**
**-**
**61**
**1,212**
**-**
**-**
**2,334**
**-**
**-**
**3,607**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,607**
**(1,518)**
**-**
**9,018**
**7,501**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**17,140**
**7,000**
**3,143**
**1,014**
**27,388**
**1,164**
**-**
**-**
**56,849**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**56,849**
**143**
**43**
**1,205**
**5,284**
**216**
**2,222**
**336**
**25,271**
**360**
**-**
**35,080**
**-**
**-**
**35,080**
**21,769**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations|**15,543**|||||**15,777**| |Grants|**7,000**|||||**6,500**| |Gift Aid|**3,143**|||||**3,250**| |Legacy|**1,014**|||||**-**| |Other income|**26,895**|||||**477**| |Bank interest|**1,164**|||||**137**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**54,759**|||||**26,141**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**26,141**| |||||||| |Utlities|**143**|||||**194**| |Travelling,mileage|**43**|||||**47**| |Print,stationery,office,telecoms|**1,144**|||||**655**| |Maintenance,fuel,uniform,tools|**4,072**|||||**11,614**| |Disposables,bird food & bat expenditure|**216**|||||**128**| |Insurance|**2,222**|||||**2,097**| |General & volunteer expenditure|**336**|||||**1,810**| |Gross wages incpension contributions|**22,937**|||||**22,912**| |Bank charges|**360**|||||**360**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**31,473**|||||**39,817**| |||||||| |**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_**||||||| |||||||**39,817**| |||||||| ||**23,286**|**(1,518)**||**21,769**||**(13,676)**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||| ||**79,643**|**9,018**||**88,661**||**102,337**| ||**102,929**|**7,501**||**110,430**||**88,661**| 01/05/2024 CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 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**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
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of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
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Current account
Deposit account
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,822**
**-**
**94,701**
**7,501**
**406**
**-**
**102,929**
**7,501**
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approval| ||||| ||||| 01/05/2024 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From** 1[st] January 2023 **To** 31[st] December 2023 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Vinters Valley Park Trust |**Other names charity is known by**
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**appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||M Cox|Chairman||| ||G Cooke|||Kent CountyCouncil| ||A Brindle|||| ||P Walsh|||| ||PJ Lott|||Vinters Residents Association| ||CB Sheppard|||BoxleyParish Council| ||N Fissenden|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| ||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |||||| |||||| |||||| 1 ## **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** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees may be appointed from Boxley Parish Council, Kent County Council, Trustee selection methods Maidstone Borough Council, Vinters Park Residents Association, Grove Green (eg. appointed by, elected by) Community Hall CIO. Additional Trustees may be appointed by resolution of a properly convened meeting of the Trustees. ## **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** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** i) To manage and improve the whole of Vinters Valley Park (“Park”) as an open space for quiet, informal recreation or other leisure time occupation of the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the conditions of life of the public ii) To conserve the wildlife within the Park iii) To preserve, conserve, maintain, restore and enhance and promote understanding and appreciation for the benefit of the public such features of the Park that are of special landscape, historical or architectural interest 2 We employ a warden to undertake such maintenance as required to keep the Reserve in a safe and desirable condition for the public to enjoy and who carries out his duties as outlined in the management plan drawn up by a management committee and approved by the Trustees. We have many volunteers who help the warden to carry out this maintenance and works to improve the Reserve and make it more accessible. Relocation of reptiles into the reserve to preserve them from loss of the previous habitat due to development. **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. 3 Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** The 30[th] anniversary commemorative stone has been placed. The stone has been provided by a local company. Maintenance work continues led by the Warden and carried out by a regular team of volunteers. Various storms throughout 2023 have caused damage to mature trees. Action has been taken to protect visitors from any harm. Visitor numbers are beginning to increase and school visits have started up again after the Covid restrictions. Notices of special events (dawn chorus, bat watch, tree identification etc) continue to be notified on social media. 4 ## **Section E Financial review** ## **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** The CIO’s policy is to maintain a reserves level to ensure funds are readily available should there be major storm damage to the Park and also to enable payment of any legally required redundancy to the warden should the Charity have to be wound up. **Details of any funds materially 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** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Martin Cox **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chairman **Date** 26/04/24 5