## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1/7/2024 Period start date To: 30/6/2025 Period end date** **Charity name: Thanet Lions Club CIO** ## **Charity registration number:1172641** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The Club is a member of the**
**International Association of Lions**
**Clubs, and was established as a**
**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO) on 17th April 2017.**
**Thanet Lions Club was formed in 1967;**
**its purpose is through service and**
**financial support to provide help for**
**those in need.**| |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|**Fundraising, primarily in the Thanet**
**area, provides the financial support and**
**as a consequence most of the funds**
**raised are spent locally. However, the**
**Club does support Lions Charities in the**
**UK and overseas. Our principle**
**Fundraising activities include running a**
**Boot Fair at a local school where the**
**funds raised are split with the school to**
**support disadvantaged Children and**
**provided the main funds for our**
**Christmas Vouchers for needy families.**
**Quiz Night and Easter and Christmas**
**Basket Raffles where the funds raised**
**as spent on a variety of both local**
**projects and International Disaster relief**
**via Lions International Foundation.**
**In this year we have again supported the**
**Air Ambulance and many local**
**organisations and charities. Thanet**
**Lions have also provided development**
**opportunities for a number of junior**
**schools though our ROAR scheme.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Throughout the year, the Trustees have**
**paid regard to the Charity Commission's**
**guidance on public benefit in dealing**
**with the objectives and activities of the**
**Club.**| **The Club relies on the surpluses made on fundraising events, grants from various bodies, and on occasional donations from its members and the public, to provide the funds with which to carry out its objectives. All administrative expenses of the Club are met from subscriptions paid by its members. There has been no change in these policies during the year. From time to time as appropriate, the Club works closely with other local and national agencies, with other Lions Clubs, and with Lions Clubs International to achieve its objectives.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**All requests for support are assessed**
**by our Welfare committee and then**
**brought to the club for a decision. The**
**Trustees then check and issue**
**agreement to all funds granted, which**
**are noted in the minutes of the monthly**
**business meeting.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**We do not undertake this activity**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**All Activities of TLC CIO are undertaken**
**by Club members as Volunteers who**
**organise and run events and assess and**
**recommend Grant support.**
**We also welcome the support of non-**
**members ‘Lions Friends’ to help at**
**some events.**
**The Charity has provided over 1000**
**volunteer hours of service in support of**
**the Thanet Community this year serving**
**in the region of 20,000 people.**| |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|**We have worked with Local Agencies to**
**provide grants to families in need who**
**whilst often being housed are not given**
**any support for furniture or white**
**goods. We have also given over 700**
**Emergency bottles (MIAB) in the year to**
**provide safety backup for vulnerable**
**people in their own homes. The Bottles**
**contain medical and contact information**
**of the vulnerable person.**
**We continue our eye Glasses recycling**
**project and have expanded this year to**
**further sites in SpecSavers and Vision**
**Express. This service means that**
**glasses are recycled where possible**
**and no eye glasses collected by Lions**
**are sent to Landfill.**| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Charities position is sound at the**
**year end at £15060 of which £2530 is**
**Admin funds used to run the club. All**
**admin funds are from subscriptions**
**paid by members. Grants by the club**
**were down on 2024 (£11.7) due to**
**changes in the policy of Government**
**agencies and children’s services not**
**requiring so much support this year.**
**Charity fund raising Income has been**
**stable at £12.6k mainly from Boot fairs**
**and Quiz nights. In addition we obtained**
**a grant towards Christmas vouchers for**
**needed families in 2025 of £2k.**
**The Club has no Financial liabilities**
**except for Insurance on a Freehold**
**owned Garage**
**We always seek to spend the funds we**
**raise in helping people. The Charity has**
**not had to call on its reserves in the**
**year**| |---|---|---| |||**Total income was £19305 and Total**
**expenditure £11425**
**.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The main purpose of our Reserve Fund**
**is to ensure our annual costs of**
**Insurance on our Storage Garage and**
**any repairs that may be required are**
**covered.**
**In addition, should a major disaster**
**happen in the world we have a backup**
**to enable us to react quickly whilst**
**raising funds to replace the reserve.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1600**| |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|**None**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**The Charity does not make any**
**investments.**| |---|---|---| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principle risk is the number and**
**availability of volunteers to run the**
**charity and conduct Fundraising**
**events/Projects.**
**Volunteer promotion is carried out via**
**Social Media and via various marketing**
**avenues. Most new members join the**
**club as a result of a personal interaction**
**with a club member.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**CIO**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Standard Lions Document**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**Standard Lions CIO Constitution and**
**ByLaws**| |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|**Three Trustees are appointed through**
**Officer Positions President, Secretary**
**and Treasurer. Another 3 are appointed**
**by invitation of the Trustees . Heads of**
**Welfare and Fundraising and First Vice**
**President. And a further 2 or 3 are**
**offered to Club Members to apply, and**
**are selected by agreement of the whole**
**club.**
**All Club positions are appointed**
**annually by the Club each March for the**
**following year.**| |**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|**Trustee meetings are held at least**
**annually and Trustees discuss all**
**Grants made at each monthly Club**
**Meeting. New Trustees are supported to**
**attend Lions District training each May,**
**and are given So you want to be a**
**Trustee Booklet and asked to undertake**
**the Charity Commission Trustee Quiz**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**The Club is a member of the**
**International Association of Lions**
**Clubs, and was established as a**
**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO) on 17th April 2017.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Thanet Lions Club CIO| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1172641| |Charity’s principal address|1 Kingsgate Court
99 Kingsgate Avenue
Broadstairs CT10 3LH| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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 (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Phil Robinson|President 24-25||Club Constitution or by Club
Member vote.| ||Steve Griggs|Secretary24-25||| ||Jackie Robinson|Treasurer 24-25||| ||CathyGriggs|Club Appointed||| ||Robert Prebble|Club Appointed||| ||Jacquie Prebble|Club Appointed||| ||Rosie Francklin|Club Appointed||| ||Steve Carley|Club Appointed||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 **|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |N/A||| ## **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)** Stephen Griggs Phil Robinson **Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary 24-25 President 24-25 **Chair, etc) Date** |**Thanet Lions Club CIO**||**1172641**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |01/07/2024
Period start date
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|30/06/2025
Period end date||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**6 380**||**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**|||||||||||| |Quiz Income||**3 333**|||||**-**||**3 333**||**2 449**| |Boot Fair Income||**3 586**||**139**|**139**||**-**||**3 725**||**3 623**| |Other FundraisingIncome||**5 572**|||||**-**||**5 572**||**4 298**| |Libra||**-**|||||**-**||**-**||**2 468**| |Donations||**850**|||||**-**||**850**||**906**| |250 Club Receipts||**808**|||||**-**||**808**||**860**| |Gift Aid Claimed||**733**|||||**-**||**733**||**634**| |Grants Received||||**2 000**|**2 000**||**-**||**2 000**||**500**| |Interest||**36**|||||**-**||**36**||**44**| |Members Subscriptions||**1 555**|||||||**1 555**||**1 926**| |Members Charter Dinner Income||**693**|||||**-**||**693**||**1 063**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**17 166**||**2 139**|**2 139**||**-**||**19 305**||**18 771**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**None**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
None
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**17 166**
**2 139**
**-**
**19 305**
**18 771**
~~—_————~~|||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |Costs of Fundraising||**1 009**||**58**|**58**||**-**||**1 067**||**1 622**| |Grants Made UK||**3 838**||**2 543**|**2 543**||**-**||**6 381**||**11 736**| |Grants made International||**300**|||||||**300**||**500**| |Lions Clubs MembershipSubscriptions||**1 525**||**133**|**133**||**-**||**1 658**||**1 695**| |Lions Club Administration Cost from|||||||||||| |Subscriptions||**691**|||||**-**||**691**||**830**| |Lions Club Charter Dinner||**666**|||||**-**||**666**||**1 063**| |250 Club Payments||**662**|||||**-**||**662**||**617**| |Libra Donation||**-**|||||**-**||**-**||**2 468**| ||||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **||**8 691**||**2 734**|**2 734**||**-**||**11 425**||**20 531**| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**8 691**
**2 734**
**-**
**11 425**
**20 531**
~~—_————~~|||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**8 475**
**- 595**
**-**
**7 880**
**- 1 760**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**- 1 989**
**1 989**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Charity Cash funds last year end 4 214**
**1 380**
**-**
**5 594**
**A6 Admin Cash funds last year end**
**2 530**
**-**
**2 530**
**250 Club Last Year end**
**2 270**
**- -**
**2 270**
**Reserves Last Year End**
**1 586**
**- -**
**1 586**
**-**
**17 086**
**2 774**
**19 860**
~~=>=>=—~~|||||||||||| |**_Cash funds this year end_**||**12 286**||**2 774**|**2 774**||**-**|**-**|**15 060**||| |0||0
-|||-||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
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**|Caf Bank Admin
Signature
None
**Details**
**Details**
Double Garage
Equipment Gazebo Branded, PC ,
~~Projectors~~
Caf Bank Charity
250 Club Nat West
CAF Club Reserves
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
None
**Details**
None|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7 258**
**2 774**
**1 499**
**1 915**
**-**
**1 614**
**-**
**12 286**
**2 774**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Charity
**25 000**
Charity
**8 000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
~~**liability relates**~~
**Amount due**
~~**(optional)**~~
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Print Name|**Total**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**10 032**| ||||**1 499**| ||||**1 915**| ||||**1 614**| ||||**15 060**| ||||| ||||**Endowment**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**1 000**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
~~**(otional)**~~| ||||~~**p**~~| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2