## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1 Jan 2025 Period start date To 31 Dec 2025 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 Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **Not applicable**
||||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**An investment policy, effective from 17th**
**January 2023, covers legal**
**requirements,**
**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 Manager is the**
**only paid member of staff.**|
|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|**By the end of 2025 14 groups were open**
**throughout the UK. A new one is in the**
**process of being set up in Oxshott,**
**subject to finding leader. The demand**
**is there as those attending the groups**
**are very enthusiastic about the benefits**
**they had gained.**
**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**
**Art (“CA”).**
**During the year the Charity Manager**
**organised a number of very successful**
**Zoom meetings where group leaders**
**could discuss various issues with her**
**and with each other. Each group was**
**visited at least once in the year.**
**The Trustees continued to have regular**
**meetings bi-monthly meetings. Some**
**were on Zoom to but since September,**
**they have met in person which it was**
**agreed was a much better way of**
**discussing issues related to the running**
**of the charity.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**In a period of sharply increased costs,**
**especially in rents, the objective of**
**maintaining support of 14 Groups within**
**the charity’s limited means was**|
|---|---|---|
|||**achieved. The deficit was higher than**
**budgeted (£12.9k as compared with £8k)**
**but this was covered by reserves which**
**contain legacies specifically for this**
**purpose.**|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Fundraising was below the budgeted**
**target of £20k by £3k (15%) due to the**
**caution many Trusts and Foundations**
**are taking and as a result being more**
**restrictive in the charities being**
**supported.**
**However, £4.5k was received through**
**donations.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Investments in M&G Charifund and with**
**Hampshire Trust Bank delivered an**
**income yield of almost 9% with**
**flexibility of access to funds if**
**necessary.**|
|Other||**None**|
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**2025 has been considered a successful**
**year with a small deficit of just under**
**£13k achieved on total assets of £86.2k**|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves equivalent to nine months**
**expenditure (minimum £30k) maintained**
**to meet unexpected circumstances.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Reserves of £44k of total year end fund**
**balance of £86.2k**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|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|**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|**Annual grant from Ursula Hulme’s 1998**
**Charitable Trust. This is currently £15k**
**per year but with the stock market doing**
**well there is option for a larger grant in**
**the future.**
**Fundraising from other 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 and retirement of**
**volunteers**
**Several of the Trustees will reach the**
**end of their term at the end of February**
**26 and to date, there will only be 5**
**Trustees. Work is underway to recruit**
**more Trustees.**|
|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**
**2025, it was agreed that apart from the**
**two key roles, Chairman and Treasurer,**
**Trustees agreed new members are not**
**required to cover specific roles.**
**However, having a group leader on the**
**board has been very useful.**|
## **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 are encouraged to learn**
**from Charity Commission circulars**
**including ‘The Essential Trustee’,**
**documents on Conquest Art policies**
**and procedures, minutes of meetings**
**and accounts. Guidance from the**
**Charity Governance code (Created by**
**Cranfield University) provides a very**
**useful checklist for discussion**|
|---|---|---|
|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 Manager and**
**Secretary. 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|**Conquest Art**|
|Registered charity number|**1171582**|
|Charity’s principal address|**Room 2, SMC Centre,**
**Stoneleigh Crescent,**
**Stoneleigh, Epsom**
**KT19 0RT**|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||John Gumbel|Chairman|||
||Jennifer Farthing|Treasurer|||
||Anne Bland-
Botham|Vice-President|||
||Robert Jones||||
||Brian Tanner||||
||Charlotte Atkinson||||
||Christine Loizou||||
||Nicholas Baker||Appointed 16th
July2025||
||Susan O’Regan||Appointed 16th
September 2025||
10
> [Judy Sarssam ] Appointed 18[th] November 2025
– 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 wholeyear**||
|---|---|---|
|**N/A**|||
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## **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 N/A segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
**Additional information (optional)**
**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**Legal**|Helen Harvie|1, Oak Place,|
||(H3 Solicitors)|Rosier Business Park,|
|||Coneyhurst Road,|
|||Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 9DE|
|**Examiner**|Andy Moore||
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## ~~TT~~
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
N/A
## **Other optional information**
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## **Declarations**
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Conquest Art CIO
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
1171582
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the 01/01/25 31/12/25
To
period from
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FOR ENGLAND AND WALES|—
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES|**01/01/25**
**31/12/25**
**Conquest Art CIO**
1171582
**Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**To**
~~———~~|**01/01/25**
**31/12/25**
**Conquest Art CIO**
1171582
**Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**To**
~~———~~|**01/01/25**
**31/12/25**
**Conquest Art CIO**
1171582
**Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**To**
~~———~~|**01/01/25**
**31/12/25**
**Conquest Art CIO**
1171582
**Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**To**
~~———~~|**01/01/25**
**31/12/25**
**Conquest Art CIO**
1171582
**Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**To**
~~———~~|**CC16a**
~~ie~~|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|—|—|~~———~~|~~———~~|~~———~~|~~———~~|~~——— ~~|~~ie~~|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||**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**
**£**|**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||
|**Donations**
**Grants - U Hulme CT**
**Membership - Full**||**2,270**
**15,000**
**2,842**
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~a~~|**2,250**
~~es~~|||**4,520**
**15,000**
**2,842**|**4,531**
**9,300**
**2,309**|
|**" - Friends**||**75**
~~a~~||||**75**|**150**|
|**Picture, Calendar and Card Sales**
**Other Receipts**
**Trojan Ethical Fund Closure**||**81**
**3,030**
**0**
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~a~~|~~es~~||~~es~~|**81**
**3,030**
**0**|**2,705**
**5,394**
**3,063**|
|**Investment Dividend and Interest**
**Fundraising**
**Charitable activities – groups**||**4,619**
**17,520**
**3,373**
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~a~~|~~es~~||~~(~~|**4,619**
**2,476**
**17,520**
**23,570**
**3,373**
~~(~~||
|**A3 Payments**|**_Total receipts_**|**48,809**
~~SS~~|**2,250**
~~ee~~||**0**|**51,059**|**53,498**|
|**Staff Salary**||**26,311**
~~a~~||||**26,311**|**23,533**|
|**Staff Travel**
**Office Expenses**
**Rent paid - Head Office**||**1,025**
**1,432**
**3,328**
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~a~~|~~es~~|||**1,025**
**1,432**
**3,328**|**50**
**1,486**
**2,700**|
|**Insurance**
**Groups Support:-**
**- Art Materials**
**- Rents - Groups**||**653**
**241**
**15,519**
~~a ~~
~~es~~
~~a~~
~~a~~|**653**
**625**
**0**
**2,210**
**2,451**
**228**
**15,519**
**11,614**
~~ee~~
~~es~~|||||
|**- Publicity and Development**||**1,630**
~~a~~||||**1,630**|**3,639**|
|**Exhibitions**||**0**
~~a~~||||**0**|**1,828**|
|**Magazine/Newsletter**||**651**
~~a~~||||**651**|**1,248**|
|**Bank Charges**||**62**
~~a ~~|**62**
**79**
~~ee~~|||||
|**Other Expenses**||**240**
~~a~~||**623**||**863**|**244**|
|**Transfer to Groups**
**Fundraising**
**Charitable activities – groups**|**Charitable activities – groups**|**849**
**7,800**
**1,387**
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~es~~
~~a~~|~~es~~||~~(~~|**849**
**394**
**7,800**
**7,800**
**1,387**
**0**
~~(~~||
|**_Total payments_**||**61,129**
**2,833**
**0**
**63,962**
**55,468**
~~SSes~~
~~ee~~||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**-12,320**||**-583**|**0**|**-12,903**|**-1,970**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**0**||**0**|**0**|**0**|**0**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**54,539**||**4,573**|**0**|**59,112**|**61,082**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**||**42,220**||**3,990**|**0**|**46,210**|**59,112**|
|**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**|||
||||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||
|**Categories**||**Details**|||**funds**|**funds**|**Endowment funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**||Current|||**1,281**|**400**|**0**|
|||Savings|||**35,785**|**3,590**|**0**|
|||Group current accounts||Group current accounts|**2,776**|**0**|**0**|
|||Group cash accounts|||**2,378**|**0**|**0**|
|||**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**|**42,220**
**_Total cash funds_**|**3,990**|**0**|
||||||OK|OK|OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||
||||||**funds**|**funds**|**Endowment funds**|
|||**Details**|||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||M&G|||**40,000**|**0**|**0**|
||||||**0**|**0**|**0**|
||||||**0**|**0**|**0**|
||||||**0**|**0**|**0**|
||||||**Fund to which**||**Current value**|
|||**Details**|||**asset belongs**|**Cost(optional)**|**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||||**0**|**0**|
|||||||**0**|**0**|
|||||||**0**|**0**|
||||||**Fund to which**||**Current value**|
|||**Details**|||**asset belongs**|**Cost(optional)**|**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**0**|**0**|
|**charity’s own use**||||||||
|||||||**0**|**0**|
||||||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**||
|||**Details**|||**liability relates**|**(optional)**|**When due(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||**0**||
|||||||**0**||
|||||||**0**||
|||||||**0**||
**0**
Signature Print Name Date of approval Jenny Farthing **07/03/2026** ~~[dine | |~~
**Signature** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
## ~~ee~~ **Notes**
**CIO Guarantees and Secured Debts** The trustees confirm, in accordance with the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012, that at the year end the CIO did not have any outstanding guarantees to third parties nor any debts secured on assets of the CIO.
## **Related party transactions**
There were no transactions between the charity and its trustees or other connected persons.
## **Trustee expenses**
No remuneration was paid to the trustees, nor were any expenses reimbursed to them during the year to 31/12/25 (2024: NIL).
## **M&G Charifund**
The total value of the investment in the Charifund Account with M&G as at 31st December 2025 was £49,395; the unrealised gain of £9,395 is not reflected in these Accounts.
## **Accounts**
The accounts include receipts (A1) and payments (A3) by way of both bank and cash undertaken directly by Groups and closing balances held at the groups are shown in cash funds held (B1).
## **Restricted funds**
Proven family trust is subject to a geographical use restriction.
The pooled group funds relate to historical funds restricted to various groups help by Conquest HQ.
**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report Report to the trustees/ members of Conquest Art CIO On accounts for the 1/1/25 to 31/12/25 Charity no 1171582 period (if any) Responsibilities and** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above **basis of report** charity for the period 1/1/25 to 31/12/25
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation 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 confirm that I have the requisite skills and experience to conduct the **examiner's statement** Independent Examination for this charity to the standards required as set out in Appendix 5 of CC32. Although retired from practice as an accountant and as a member of a listed professional accountancy body, I continue to conduct a number of examinations on a voluntary basis every year. I also confirm that I am independent of the charity as set out in Direction 2 of CC32.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
1) accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
2) 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.
|**Signed:**|**Date:**
11/3/26
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|---|---|
|**Name:**
**Address:**|Andy Moore
Blaenpentre, Swyddffynnon, Ystrad Meurig, SY25 6AW
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