## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From  17/10/2023           Period start date   To 16/10/2024                    Period end date** 

## **Charity name: The Rosemary and David Coveney Charitable Trust** 

## **Charity registration number: 1173068** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of<br>the<br>purposes of<br>the charity<br>as set out in<br>its<br>governing<br>document|Para 1.17|The Objects are:<br>(a)<br>the advancement of health and the saving of lives and the relief of those in need by<br>reason of<br>ill health by promoting study and research<br>into the nature, causes,<br>diagnosis, prevention, treatment and care of all forms of cancer, provided that the<br>useful results ofsuch studyand research are disseminated to the public at large;<br>(b)<br>the relief of those in need by reason of ill health by providing financial support and<br>assistance to charities and other organisations<br>(in<br>particular,<br>but not limited<br>to<br>hospices) providing care, facilities, support services and equipment to those affected<br>by cancer, togetherwith their families and carers; and<br>(c)<br>to promote such purposes which are exclusively charitable under the laws of England<br>and Wales as the Trustees shall at their absolute discretion determine.|
|Summary of<br>the main<br>activities in<br>relation to<br>those<br>purposes<br>for the<br>public<br>benefit, in<br>particular,<br>the<br>activities,<br>projects or<br>services<br>identified in<br>the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and 1.19|Grant-making to pursue the Objects|
|Statement<br>confirming<br>whether the<br>trustees<br>have had<br>regard to<br>the<br>guidance<br>issued by<br>the Charity<br>Commission<br>on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|Yes|





## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|Made donations from income to the East<br>Cheshire Hospice, specialising in palliative<br>cancer care, in line with the objects of the<br>charity and benefiting local cancer patients.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set 



|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
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|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|Financial position is stable, with assets of<br>£300k (cost basis) and cash of £46k<br>comparable to the prior year.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Cash is held for investment opportunity and<br>to enable grant-making. Investments are<br>held to generated income for grant-making.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Cash at year end of £46k|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/a|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|N/a|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|N/a|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of||Charitable Trust|Charitable Trust|
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|charity’s trusts:||||
|Type of governing|Para 1.25|Trust Deed||
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|charter)||||
|How is the charity|Para 1.25|Charitable Trust||
|constituted?||||
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|association, CIO)||||
|Trustee selection|Para 1.25|44|Future Trustees must be|
|methods including<br>details of any||4.5|Every future Trustee must<br>before he orshemay act|
|constitutional||||
|provisions e.g.||||
|election to post or||||
|name of any person||||
|or body entitled to||||
|appoint one or more||||
|trustees||||



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Policies and procedures||
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|adopted for the induction|Para 1.51|
|and training of trustees||
|The charity’s organisational||
|structure and any wider|Para 1.51|
|network with which the||
|charity works||
|Relationship with any related|Para 1.51|
|parties||
|Other||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|The Rosemary and David Coveney Charitable Trust|
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|Other name the charity uses|N/a|
|Registered charity number|1173068|





|Charity’s principal address|The White Cottage<br>Parkfield Road<br>Knutsford<br>Cheshire<br>WA16 8NP|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Paul Coveney||||
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## – 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 

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**|
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|**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)** ~~(i~~ **Full name(s)** Paul Coveney **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc)** ~~——~~ **Date** 01/08/2025 ~~fF~~ 



**The Rosemary and David Coveney Charitable Trust 1173068 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 17/10/2023 16/10/2024 **To from** ~~<<<~~ **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest      £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts** Investment income (dividends) **13,977 - - 13,977 10,526** Interest (HL) **489 - - 489 234** Donation from D Coveney (22/12/2023) **10,000 - - 10,000 15,000** Donation from D Coveney (07/03/2024) **5,000 - - 5,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -** ~~_**Sub total** (Gross income for_~~ _AR)_ **[                    29,466 ] - - 29,466 25,761** ~~=—===>=~~ **A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **-** _**Total receipts**_ **29,466 - - 29,466 25,761** ~~S55~~ **A3 Payments** Donation to East Cheshire Hospice (01/02/24) **2,000 - - 2,000 6,000** Payment - accounts 8/11/24 **480 - - 480** Payment - accounts 16/01/24 **552 - - 552 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **[                      3,032 ] - - 3,032 6,000** ~~=—=====~~ **A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)** Vanguard Funds Plc FTSE Japan Equity UCITS ETF 350 @ 2914.038 **10,211 - - 10,211** F&C Investment Trust plc Ordinary 25p 1000 @  988.7001 **9,899 9,899** Great Portland Estates Rights Issue - Interim Line Subscription Payment **3,174 3,174** National Grid Plc Rights issue interim line Subscription Payment **1,877 1,877 - - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **[                    25,161 ] - - 25,161 -** _**Total payments**_ **28,193 - - 28,193 6,000** _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **1,273 - - 1,273 19,761 A5 Transfers between funds - -                           - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 45,578 -                           - 45,578 25,817** _**Cash funds this year end**_ ~~Ht~~ **46,851 - -                   46,851 45,578** 



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>RBS Bank<br>HL Trading account cash<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Compass Group plc Ordinary 11.05p<br>Diageo plc Ordinary 28 101/108p<br>F&C Investment Trust Ord 25p<br>GCP Infrastructure Investments Ltd 1p Shs<br>Great Portland Estates Ord 15 5/19p<br>~~Shares~~<br>Vanguard Funds FTSE Emerging Markets<br>~~ETF~~<br>HICL Infrastructure plc ORD GBP0.0001<br>HSBC Holdings plc Ordinary USD0.50<br>Legal & General Group plc Ord 2.5p<br>~~Shares~~<br>M&G plc ORD GBP0.05<br>Mondi Plc Ordinary Eur0.20<br>National Grid Ord 12, 204/473p<br>Prudential plc Ordinary 5p<br>Rio Tinto plc Ordinary 10p<br>Unilever plc Ordinary 3.11p<br>United Utilities Group Plc Ordinary 5p<br>Vanguard Funds plc FTSE Dev Asia<br>~~Pacific~~<br>Vanguard Funds plc S&P 500 ETF<br>~~USD(GBP~~<br>Vanguard Funds plc FTSE Japan Equity<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**27,968**<br>**18,883**<br>**-**<br>**46,851**<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**9,921**<br>**18,201**<br>**17,439**<br>**7,542**<br>**19,403**<br>**21,478**<br>**18,310**<br>**17,774**<br>**3,525**<br>**24,356**<br>**10,163**<br>**32,040**<br>**19,139**<br>**15,431**<br>**15,914**<br>**10,163**<br>**14,992**<br>**14,648**<br>**10,211**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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**Details** 

|**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**|**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
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**B5 Liabilities** 



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> Signed by one or two trustees on Date of behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval ~~Vfiter|~~ Paul Coveney 10-Aug-25 



**Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

## **Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

|**Report to the trustees/**|The Rosemary and David Coveney Charitable Trust|The Rosemary and David Coveney Charitable Trust|||
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|**members of**|||||
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|**On accounts for the year**|16/10/2024|**Charity no**|1173068||
|**ended**||**(if any)**|||
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|**Set out on pages**|2-13||||
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 16 / 09 / 2024. 

- **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 (“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 have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 

- 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. 

* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ 

**Date:** 08 / 08 / 2025 ~~|~~ 

|**Signed:**||**Date:**<br>~~|~~|08 / 08 / 2025<br>~~|~~|
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|**Name:**Tom Wilcox<br>~~Ps~~||||
|**Relevant professional**|FMAAT FCIE|||
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||Counterculture Partnership LLP|||
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|**Address:**|Bexhill|||
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1 

**October 2018** 

**IER** 



**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 details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

2 

**October 2018** 

**IER** 

