## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 01/01/2023 **Period start date To** 31/12/2023 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** The Recovery Course
**Charity registration number: 1170792**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|_For the public benefit, the advancement of_
_education by raising awareness of the_
_issue of addiction and the provision of_
_recovery and support services to those_
_affected by addiction_|
|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|
The Recovery Course is a Christian charity
established to reach those suffering from
the effects of addictions of all kinds,
including alcohol, drugs, gambling
pornography, food, social media and other
compulsive habits. The charity does this
through enabling, equipping and
encouraging churches and other christian
assocations to run The Recovery Course.
The course is suitable for people of faith or
no faith; the key requirement for a
successful outcome is that course
attendees have a desire to overcome their
addiction.
_Ethos, vision and outcomes_
**Ethos:**We are passionate and committed
to see people suffering from the pain and
grip of addiction restored to wholeness and
a new sense of purpose in life.
**Vision:**Our vision for The Recovery
Course is to see as many people as
possible set free from their addiction.
**Mission:**Our mission is to facilitate
recovery from addiction through Christ and
to share the good news of hope, freedom
and reconciliation with as many people as
possible.
Our**outcomes,**being how we know that
we are achieving our vision is:
-
For individuals – ongoing release for
many from addictions of all kinds and
protection of that freedom gained
through support networks and faith
community groups.|
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For churches, help with organising,
structuring and supporting recovery
from addiction of all kinds.
-
For society, that individuals and
agencies have hope that people can be
set free from their addictions
_What we do – strategy and activities_
We will achieve our vision of seeing The
Recovery Course run in every major town
and city by:
-
Maintaining high quality resources
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Promoting the course nationally
-
Giving easy access to the resources to
those who want to run courses
-
Helping to establish new courses
through training and explaining tried
and tested methods
-
Establishing a recovery community
where those who need it can locate the
nearest course easily
The development and distribution of TRC
resources is key to the achievement of our
goal and forms the tangible product we
offer for no cost to all those wanting to run
courses, so they in turn won’t charge the
guests for participating. The resources
include the following:
-
A 258 page course manual including a
section on how to set up and run The
Recovery Course
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Written and filmed transcripts of all the
weekly talks
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A workbook with weekly ‘Pause for
Thought’ coursework for the guests
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A leaders’ manual
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A resource section with links to other
recovery groups
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Filmed testimonies of individuals who
have found freedom through the course
-
Leaders’ notes for group leaders for
each session of the course
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Access to free training and support
online
-
An annual Recovery Course
Conference
We offer free training and support to
churches and Christian-based
organisations running or wishing to run The
Recovery Course throughout the UK and
beyond.|
|---|---|---|
|||The Recovery Course team also works
alongside a number of other
addiction-focussed charities and often
speak to the media on issues surrounding
addiction and our CEO speaks regularly to
mainstream media specifically on issues of
gambling and had supported national
campaigns aiming to include safety
mechanisms withing the gambling industry.
_Trustees’ responsibility statement_
The Trustees have due regard to the
Charity Commission’s public benefit
guidance when exercising any powers or
duties to which the guidance is relevant.|
|---|---|---|
|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 all received and
considered the Charity Commission
Guidance, “The essential trustee: what you
need to know, what you need to do”, dated
May 2018|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|The charity is not grant making|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Social investment made by the charity is
practical not financial – achieved through
the course it runs to free guests of their
addiction, and through this to relieve the
burden of addiction of those related to the
guest and the community in which they live|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The Trustees, group leaders and those
involved in running The Recovery Course
are volunteers for which the Trustees are
grateful. While reasonable expenses of
travel to speaking engagements are met,
no payment is made for time spent|
|Other||Nothing further to add|
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## **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|It was decided in 2023 that The Recovery
Course would no longer be personally
involved in running their own courses,
instead devoting their time to training up
teams from churches around the country
who would then run their own. In this way
far more people would be reached. The
Charity developed and ran two free national
online training sessions, which 93
delegates from 67 churches attended in the
second half of the year.
TRC was also approached by The
Salvation Army to help train anyone
interested in running a course through their
650 churches and centres and the Diocese
of Rochester requested the same service
for their 268 parishes throughout Kent.
It was also decided to run a national
Conference in Holborn, Central London,
which was filled to capacity with 167
delegates
The charity has also developed links with
another nationwide organisation,_Alpha in_
_Prisons,_with a view to training up teams to
take the course into prisons where around
70% of those in prison have addiction
issues._Alpha in Prisons_currently has
access to around 40 prisons in England
and Wales so there is a huge potential in
this area, HMP Pentonville have asked as
to produce a new 6 session course devoted
to ‘Relapse Prevention’ and is scheduled to
start in the first quarter of 2024.
The Recovery Course has also been
expanding in other countries. In South
Africa it runs in churches, rehabs and
townships and TRC has been asked to
modify a course to run in secondary
schools for pupils aged 12-18. Work on this
new manual and programme began
towards the end of 2023 with a trial
programme expected to take place in the
4th quarter of 2024 in Cape Town.|
2023 was challenging financially and to this end the Trustees employed a Christian Fundraiser for a limited period, with a small degree of success. To date, The Recovery Course remains a volunteer organisation so as to keep its operating costs to a minimum.
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|See above|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|See above|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|See above|
|Other||Nothing further to add|
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the end of 2023 the charity had £11,844
on account. This equates to 50% of the
operating costs for the year.|
|
Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|
The trustees aim to keep three months of
operating expenses but not in reserve –
see below.|
|
Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Zero|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|The Trustees believe that all funds should
be put to use in support of the aims of the
charity. The three months of operating
costs are thus not put in reserve.|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|Not applicable|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Where funds are used in support of the
aims of the charity that reduce the reserves
to three months operating expenses the
Trustees would meet to discuss how to
proceed. To date that has not happened.|
|**Additional information (optional)**
Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatementswhererelevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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|---|---|---|
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The charity receives monthly donations,
either through the Charities Aid Foundation,
or via Direct Debit.
The rest of the donations come from grant
and trust applications.|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Not applicable|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The charity maintains a risk register. The
only high risk is identified as an income
shortfall in which case operations would be
scaled down, and the charity would
become a voluntary repository of
information for churches and prisons
running the course.|
|Other||Nothing further to add|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Effective 17th June 2019, the charity was
re-registered as a Charitable Incorporated
Organisation, having a foundation
constitution based on the Charity
Commission model.
Prior to this, the charity was originally
constituted as a company limited by
guarantee, incorporated on 29th July 2015
and registered as a charity on 16th
December 2016, and having a
memorandum and articles of association.|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|As a 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|Trustees are selected by the existing
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|Recruitment, induction and training of
Trustees
During the period, the trustees were also
charity trustees for the purposes of charity
law. Under the requirements of the
Constitution, the Trustees are elected to
serve for a period of three years after which
they must be re-elected for a second or
third term.
All Trustees give their time voluntarily and
receive no benefits from the charity. Any
expenses reclaimed from the charity are
set out in the financial statements.
Trustees are selected by the existing
Trustees firstly to provide the charity with
oversight of its addiction recovery activities
through relevant knowledge, experience,
and involvement, and secondly to provide
the charity with oversight and governance
of administrative matters through relevant
legal and financial knowledge and
experience. New Trustee induction
includes consideration of Charity
Commission guidance (CC3) and
completion of a Charity Commission
Trustee Declaration, discussion of current
issues including the financial position of the
charity, and completion of DBS checks.
Ongoing training includes access to the|
|---|---|---|
|||network and courses run by the Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and
Wales Charity and Voluntary Sector Group.|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|_Organisational structure_
Trustees have appointed Justyn Larcombe,
under a written agreement, to act as chief
executive and team leader of the charity’s
operations including setting vision and
policy, representing and promoting the
charity externally, building teams to run and
supervise The Recovery Course locally,
fund raising, and building a network of
contacts and agencies that are seeking to
run The Recovery Course. The Trustee
Policy Manual includes a written job
description, and written policies detailing
the Chief Executive’s relationship with the
Trustees.
Group Leaders on The Recovery Course
run by the charity are selected by a
nominating group comprising Justyn and
those Trustees actively engaged in running
the course.
The CEO has appointed an Operational
Team led by Kevin Campbell
(Communications, Marketing and Publicity)
-Kevin is paid for four days a month.|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|Not applicable|
|Other||_Risk management_
Trustees maintain a risk register which
identifies 11 major risks under 4 headings:
strategic, governance and management;
external; operational; and financial. Using
the register, Trustees assess the
significance and probability of each risk,
mitigation, and specific Trustee action to
monitor each net risk
_Safeguarding_
In recognition that those attending The
Recovery Course are vulnerable adults, the
Trustees appointed one Trustee to
act as Safeguarding Officer providing a
formal point of contact for queries and
reporting of concerns and established a
written policy on safeguarding.
As the charity no longer runs courses, but
enables others to do this, all those running
the course are asked to confirm that they
have safeguarding arrangements in place.|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Recovery Course|
|---|---|
|
Other name the charity uses||
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Registered charity number|1170792|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o Tonbridge Baptist Church
Darenth Avenue
Tonbridge
Kent
TN10 3HZ|
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||Rev Bob Street|Chair|Reappointed to third
term 9th June 2022.
Term ends June 2025.
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1st October 2021|
||Nigel Skelsey|Trustee|Appointed to first term
1st October 2021|
||Paul Martin|Trustee|Appointed to first term
1st October 2021|
||Susan Flashman
Jarvis|Trustee|Appointed to first term
28th October 2021|
||Gavin Marcus
Wells|Trustee, Treasurer
and Secretary|Appointed to first term
16th November 2021|
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– 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
held in this capacity|n/a|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|n/a|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|n/a|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **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)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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**Address**||||
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members(Optional information)**||||
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**n/a**
## **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)** Gavin Wells **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)**
**Date** 5th September 2024
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|||**The Recovery Course**||||||||||**1170792**|||||||||
||||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||||||||||**CC16a**||
||||**For the period**
**from**||||Period start date
1-Jan-23||||**To**||Period end date
31-Dec-23||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and**|||**payments**
**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted**||||**Endowment**||||**Total funds**||||**Last year**||
||||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||||
|Grants, gits and donations||-|6,310-|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**6,310-**|||**-**|**1,424-**||
|The Recovery Conference||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|Bank interest||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**100-**||
|Recovery Course Tyne Valley||**-**|**--**|||||||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**288-**||
|TW Crisis Recovery||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**5,000-**||
|Albert Hunt Trust||**-**|**2,000-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,000-**|||**-**|**--**||
|Soutar Charitable Trust||**-**|**4,000-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**4,000-**|||**-**|**--**||
|SMB Charitable Trust||**-**|**1,500-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,500-**|||**-**|**--**||
|GEM donation||**-**|**4,000-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**4,000-**|||**-**|**--**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**-**|**17,810-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**17,810-**|||**-**|**6,812-**||
||**Charity Name**
**The Recovery Course**|**Charity Name**
**The Recovery Course**|**Charity Name**
**The Recovery Course**|**Charity Name**
**The Recovery Course**|**Charity Name**
**The Recovery Course**|**No (if any)**
**1170792**|**No (if any)**
**1170792**|**No (if any)**
**1170792**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
1-Jan-23||**To**||Period end date
31-Dec-23|||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|
**A1 Receipts**|
**Unrestricted**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|
Grants, gits and donations|-
6,310-
**-**
**--**
**-**
**--**
**-**
**--**
**-**
**--**
**-**
**2,000-**
**-**
**4,000-**
**-**
**1,500-**
**-**
**4,000-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**6,310-**||**-**
**1,424-**|
|The Recovery Conference|**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**|
|Bank interest|**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**100-**|
|Recovery Course Tyne Valley|**-**
**--**||||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**288-**|
|TW Crisis Recovery|**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**5,000-**|
|Albert Hunt Trust|**-**
**2,000-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**2,000-**||**-**
**--**|
|Soutar Charitable Trust|**-**
**4,000-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**4,000-**||**-**
**--**|
|SMB Charitable Trust|**-**
**1,500-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**1,500-**||**-**
**--**|
|GEM donation|**-**
**4,000-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**4,000-**||**-**
**--**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**-**
**17,810-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**17,810-**||**-**
**6,812-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||
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**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**|||
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**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
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|**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**|
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||**-**
**17,810-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**17,810-**||**-**
**6,812-**|
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|Faithworks Wessex - seconded staff|**-**
**--**||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
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|The Recovery Conference|**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**|
|Conference|**-**
**994-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**994-**||**-**
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|Course costs|**-**
**292-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**292-**||**-**
**542-**|
|Operations and Publicity|**-**
**14,600-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**14,600-**||**-**
**10,800-**|
|Publicity and Marketing materials|**-**
**593-**||||||**-**
**593-**||**-**
**493-**|
|Fundraising|**-**
**5,130-**||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**5,130-**||**-**
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|DBS checks|**-**
**145-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**145-**||**-**
**129-**|
|Insurance|**-**
**220-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**220-**||**-**
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|Bank charges|**-**
**--**||||||**-**
**--**||**-**
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|Just Giving Fees|**-**
**--**||||||**-**
**--**||**-**
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|Postage|**-**
**--**||||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**|
|Donation|**-**
**50-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**50-**||**-**
**--**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**
**22,024-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**22,024-**||**-**
**11,964-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||
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**--**||**-**
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**--**||**-**
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|**_Sub total_ **
**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**|||
|||||||||||
||**-**
**22,024-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**22,024-**||**-**
**11,964-**|
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**4,214-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**4,214-**||**-**
**5,152-**|
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**16,058-**||||**-**
**--**||**-**
**16,058-**||**-**
**21,210-**|
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**11,844-**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**--**||**-**
**11,844-**||**-**
**16,058-**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Natwest Current a/c
Natwest Investment a/c||||**Unrestricted**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**11,844-**
**-**
**--**||**Restricted**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**--**
**-**
**--**||**Endowment**
**to nearest £**|
||Natwest Current a/c||||**-**
**11,844-**||**-**
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on|**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|||**-**
**11,844-**||**-**
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|||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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