## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 Jan 2023 Period start date To31 Dec 2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Conquest Art CIO** ## **Charity registration number:1171582** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The Charity aims to assist and encourage**
**people with a wide range of health**
**problems and disabilities to overcome**
**adversity through engaging in artistic**
**activities by using their imaginations**
**creatively at their own pace.**| |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|
**To provide groups in various UK**
**locations where members can**
**gather together to produce art in**
**relaxed and friendly surroundings.**
**The groups build members’ self-**
**confidence and stimulate their**
**creativity. They are also able to**
**make friends with those with**
**similar interests within the group.**

**To organise annual exhibitions**
**where members can show and, if**
**possible, sell their work**

**To produce magazines and**
**newsletters at regular intervals**
**which showcase members’ work**
**and give information about the**
**activities of the various groups.**| |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 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|**Not applicable**| |||**An investment policy, effective from 17th**
**Jan. 2023, covers legal requirements,**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Including an annual review.**| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Conquest Art is very reliant on its**
**volunteers i.e. Trustees, Group Leaders**
**and helpers. The Charity Coordinator is**
**the only paid member of staff.**| |Other||**___**| ## **Achievements and Performance** |**ormance**|| |---|---| |SORP reference|| |Para 1.20|**By the end of 2023 15 groups were open**
**throughout the UK. A new one had**
**opened in Sandbach, Cheshire but the**
**one in Worcester Park, Surrey had been**
**temporarily closed because of the need**
**to find a new Group Leader.**
**A number of newsletters and magazines**
**were produced throughout the year.**
**These were circulated, by email and, in**
**hard copy( as appropriate), to volunteers,**
**members of groups and other people**
**connected with Conquest.**
**For reasons of cost the annual exhibition**
**for 2023 was held on the Conquest**
**website.**
**During the year the Charity Coordinator**
**organised a number of very successful**
**Zoom meetings where group leaders**
**could discuss various issues with her**
**and with each other. Separate meetings**
**were arranged for the leaders of the**
**groups in the different areas.**
**Conquest Trustees took part in 3 outside**
**events. All were organised by Age**
**UK.Two were Dementia Workshops and**
**the other a Wellbeing Fair held in Epsom,**
**Surrey.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against|Para 1.41|**The target in 2023 was to lower**
**expenditure- achieved by reducing staff**
**hours, changes in first aid training and**| |objectives set||**producing fewer publications.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Increase of £8k compared with 2022.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Investments with the CAF and Hampshire**
**Trust Bank to achieve income and**
**flexibility of access if necessary.**| |Other||**Income included a £10k legacy and the**
**increase in donations from various**
**events.**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**After a difficult year in 2022 ( deficit of**
**£19k) 2023 has been a successful year**
**with a £7K surplus.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves equivalent to nine months**
**expenditure to meet unexpected**
**circumstances.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£30k**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Nil**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Nil**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Nil**| |**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Annual grant from the Ursula Hulme 1998**
**Charitable Trust Fund.**
**Fund raising from Trusts and companies.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The Trustees complete an annual risk**
**assessment. The main risks are loss of**
**income and of rented premises, together**
**with a change of staff.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution dated 10th February 2017**
**when the charity was set up as a**
**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Members agreed to accept constitution**
**and transfer assets from Conquest Art to**
**Conquest Art CIO at an SGM on 30th**
**March 2017. Transfer deed dated 30 June**
**2017.**| |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|**Nomination by a Trustee, visits to**
**groups, attendance as an invited guest at**
**Trustee meetings, checks of eligibility,**
**references and potential conflicts of**
**interest before agreement of appointment**
**by all Trustees. During the latter part of**
**2023 Trustees did discuss whether new**
**members should be appointed to cover**
**particular roles( e.g. finance or IT).**| ## **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|
**New Trustees have been encouraged to**
**learn from Charity Commission circulars**
**including ‘The Essential Trustee’ ,**
**documents on Conquest Art policies and**
**procedures, minutes of meetings and**
**accounts.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Conquest Art has one part-time**
**employee- the Charity Coordinator. This**
**person is responsible for all routine**
**administrative tasks, general support and**
**visits to groups.**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**None**| |Other||**____**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Conquest Art CIO| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|None| |Registered charity number|1171582| |Charity’s principal address|Room 2,SMC Centre,
Stoneleigh Crescent,
Stoneleigh, Epsom
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||John Gumbel|Chairman||| ||Brian Tanner|Treasurer||| ||Anne Bland-
Botham|Vice-President||| ||Robert Jones|Secretary||| ||LesleyLee|||| ||Michael Bryne||January 2023-Tuesday
December 5th2023|| ||Charlotte Atkinson|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 Nil Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the Nil 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)** |**Names and**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|| |**Legal**|**Helen Harvie**|**1, Oak Place,**| ||**(H3 Solicitors)**|**Rosier Business Park,**| |||**Coneyhurst,**| |||**Billingshurst, West Sussex,RH14 9DE**| **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)**
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**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|Original signed – held on file|Original signed – held on file| |---|---|---| |||| ||John Ernest Gumbel|Brian Derek Tanner| |||| ||Chair|| ||7 February 2024|| ||7 February 2024|| ## **CONQUEST ART CIO RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT January to December 2023** |**RECEIPTS**|**2023**| |---|---| ||£| |**Donations**|6019| |**Grants - U Hulme CT**|16575| |**Robert and Rosemary Foote Legacy**|10000| |**Membership - Full**|1920| |**" - Friends**|160| |**Picture, Calendar and Card Sales**|496| |**Other Receipts**|1788| |**Investment Dividend and Interest**|1901| |**Fundraising**|19392| |**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|**58251**| |**PAYMENTS**|**TOTAL**| ||£| |**Staff Salary**|25709| |**Staff Travel**|29| |**Office Expenses**|1494| |**Rent paid - Stoneleigh**|2025| |**Training - First Aid and Fire**|618| |**Insurance**|584| |**Groups Support:-**|| |**- Art Materials**|213| |**- Rents - Groups**|9120| |**- Publicity and Development**|1341| |**Exhibitions**|0| |**Magazine**|1430| |**Bank Charges**|83| |**Other Expenses**|587| |**Transfer to Groups**|70| |**Fundraising**|7800| |**Trustees' Expenses**|0| |**PAYMENTS**|**51103**| |**SURPLUS / (DEFICIT)**|**7148**| **-1-** ## **BALANCE SHEET** |**BALANCES AT 31ST DECEMBER 2023**
Bank Balances

**HSBC Current Account**
**CAF Account - Charifund (see Note 1)**
**Trojan Ethical Fund (see Note 2)**
**Hampshire Trust Bank**
**FUND BALANCES**

General Fund
Restricted Funds (see Note 3)
Designated (Groups Support) Fund|**2023**
£
27139
30000
20000
20000| |---|---| ||**97139**| ||£
26809
4925
65405| ||**97139**| ## **Notes to Accounts** 1. The total value of the investment in the Charifund Account with CAF as at 31st December 2023 was £30,653; the unrealised gain of £653 is not reflected in these Accounts. 2. The total value of the investment in the Trojan Ethical Fund as at 31st December 2023 was £22,313 the unrealised gain of £2,313 is not reflected in these Accounts. 3. Restricted Funds comprise the unspent balances of amounts received from donors for spending on, or following closure of HSBC accounts: Ashtead - £200 Carshalton - £675 Cobham (closed) - £363 Epsom - £511 Halesworth - £500 Godalming - £46 Kingston - £650 Malvern - £530 Reigate Park - £961 Woking - £80 Worcester Park (closed) - £409 4. In addition to the figures reflected in the accounts a total of £5,640 is held by the local groups for working purposes. I certify that the Accounts shown above and on the preceding page agree with the books as shown and explained to me. original signed and held on file C A Wandless 29th January 2024 Date Registered Charity No. 1171582 **-2-** CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Conquest Art CIO On accounts for the year ended 31° December 2023 Charity no (if any 1171582 Set out on pages 1and2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the a￿ve charity for the year ended 3111J2023. 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 nhe Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Tnjst's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5}{b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection wrth the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any matertal respect: ac¢ounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the a￿OUnting records Independent examinerfs ststement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection th 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 rf they do not appty. Signed: Date: 31 January 2024 Name: Caroline A Wandless Relevant professional qualificatiorrfs) or body lif any): Address: 25 Skipwith Road Escrick York Y019 6JA IER October 2018