## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/08/23 Period start date To 31/07/24 Period end date** ## **Charity name:CHELWOOD COMMUNITY FUND CIO** ## **Charity registration number:1170268** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The provision of such grants and**
**donations for individuals,charitable**
**bodies,organisations and associations**
**for exclusively charitable purposes**
**according to law in Chelwood and the**
**surrounding parishes**| |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|**Advertising the existence of the charity**
**and how to apply for grants.**
**Considering applications and making**
**decisions whether to award grants in**
**accordance with the grant making policy**
**and with regard to Charity Commission**
**guidance on public benefit**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Application forms and guidance on**
**submitting applications can be**
**downloaded from the charity’s page on**
**the Chelwood village website:**
**www.chelwood-village.co.uk**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The charity maintains it’s funds in an**
**interest bearing account with an ethical**
**bank.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Apart from the five trustees, there are no**
**volunteers.**| **There are no employees** Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**During the year 9 grants were awarded.**
**These included one to a school to**
**provide funding towards a low carbon**
**air to air heating system.**
**One to obtain a kiln for local potters in**
**the catchment area.**
**A top up award to a Paediatric Nurse**
**working in a local Children’s Hospice,**
**for training.**
**An award to a rural church towards**
**£100,000 required for restoration.**
**Awards to 3 more rural churches for**
**restoration or access purposes.**
**An award to a hall to help fund battery**
**storage for solar energy.**
**Award to a young individual to help**
**fund an ongoing career in cricket.**
**A few applications were as out of scope**
**either on geographical criteria and/or**
**seeking general fundraising for other**
**charities.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**As the charity has no assets, no**
**employees and minimal overheads there**
**is a commitment from trustees to focus**
**on distributing grants to valid**
**applications and to keep a small reserve**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£30000 uncommitted funds**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**There are no funds in deficit**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Up to this year end the fund has**
**received £150,000 in funding from**
**Chelwood Community Energy Ltd and**
**apart from bank interest this is the sole**
**source of funds. To date it has awarded**
**grants totalling just over £124,000,**
**which demonstrates the charity’s policy**
**on reserves.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**All funding comes from one source,**
**Chelwood Community Energy.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**Appointed by resolution of the current**
**trustees**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |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|Chelwood Community Fund CIO| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Chelwood Community Fund| |Registered charity number|1170268| |Charity’s principal address|Burnts Farm
Chelwood,Bristol
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Carolyn Marianne
Beecroft|Chair since 02/25
Trustee|n/a|The Trustees| ||Bryan Harry
Godfrey|Trustee|n/a|The Trustees| ||Stephen Robert
Meale|Trustee
Deceased 12/24|n/a|The Trustees| ||Peter Huw
Rothwell Jones|Trustee|n/a|The Trustees| ||Julie Anne Glynn|Trustee|n/a|The Trustees| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name n/a** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None 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 ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **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)** Carolyn Marianne Beecroft **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair of trustees **Chair, etc)** **Date** 10 April 2025 **Chelwood Community Fund CIO 1170268 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 8/1/2023 7/31/2024 **To from** ## **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**||||||||||| |Interest on bank account
**132**
**-**
**-**
**132**
**15**
Chelwood CommunityEnergyAward
**25,000**
**-**
**-**
**25,000**
**10,000**
Interest on bank account
**216**
**-**
**-**
**216**
**32**
Interest on bank account
**248**
**-**
**-**
**248**
**63**
Chelwood CommunityEnergyAward
-
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,000**
Interest on bank account
**203**
**-**
**-**
**203**
**89**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,798**
**-**
**-**
**25,798**
**25,199**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 25,798**
**-**
**-**
**25,798**
**25,199**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~——————~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Advert Parish News||**140**||**-**||**-**||**140**||**140**| |Grants lastyear||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**15,621**| |Grant CCF21/07||**3,520**||**-**||**-**||**3,520**||**-**| |Grant CCF23/05a||**150**||**-**||**-**||**150**||**-**| |Grant CCF24/04||**1,324**||**-**||**-**||**1,324**||**-**| |Grant CCF23/08||**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**| |Grant CCF24/03||**500**||**-**||**-**||**500**||**-**| |Grant CCF23/11||**2,500**||**-**||**-**||**2,500**||**-**| |Grant CCF23/10||**800**||||||**800**||| |Grant CCF23/12||**4,200**||||||**4,200**||| |Grant CCF23/05b||**360**||||||**360**||| |Grant CCF24/08||**4,443**||||||**4,443**||| |||||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **||**18,937**||**-**||**-**||**18,937**||**15,761**| |**None**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 18,937**
**-**
**-**
**18,937**
**15,761**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
~~——————~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**6,861**
**-**
**-**
**6,861**
**9,438**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,270**
**-**
**-**
**29,270**
**19,832**
**36,131**
**-**
**-**
**36,131**
**29,270**
~~SSS456=~~||||||||| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Cash at Bank
**Details**
None
**Details**
None
**Details**
None
**Details**
No liabilities
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**36,131**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**36,131**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Carolyn Beecroft
J Glynn
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**funds**
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**funds**
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Carolyn Beecroft|10-Apr-25| |||J Glynn|**10-Apr-25**| Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). . Give here brief detalls of any ltsms that the examiner wlshes to disclose.