Friends of the Golden Lion Annual Report 2024
Registered Charity Number 1174816
Friends of the Golden Lion - Annual Report 2024
## Introduction
Friends of the Golden Lion are a group of volunteers and professionals working towards restoring and reopening the Golden Lion, a 16th Century timber-frame building located in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham.
Friends of the Golden Lion is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 25[th] September 2017 with charity registration number 1174816. The governing document is our constitution based closely on the Charity Commission ‘Foundation’ Model Constitution.
The registered address is: 15 Cornerstone, Woodbridge Road, Moseley, Birmingham. B13 8EN.
This report covers the 12-month period from 1 Jan to 31 December 2024.
## Charity Objects
The objectives of the charity are:
- To advance heritage for the public by preserving and protecting the history, architecture and construction of the 16th century building known as The Golden Lion, situated in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham.
- To advance the education of the public by preserving and promoting the history of The Golden Lion and encouraging historical research and interest in matters connected to the preservation of the building.
- To work together with the local authority, charitable and not-for-profit organisations to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the public, without distinction of age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, nationality, race, religion, sexual identity and orientation or political or other opinions.
## Trustees
The charity has three trustees: Jonathan Smith (chair), Mark Tolley and Louisa Horth. There were no additions or resignations during the year. Trustees are recruited and appointed in line with the guidance in our constitution.
## Public Benefit
In planning our activities, the Trustees have given due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
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## No activity
Due to a combination of Brexit followed by the Covid-19 pandemic, and now the Birmingham City Council financial crisis Friends of the Golden Lion undertook no activity in 2024. There was no fundraising, no spending, no committee meetings and no volunteer events.
## Financial Statement
||**Receipts and Payments Account**|**Total Funds**|
|---|---|---|
|||**£**|
||**Gross Income**||
||Fundraising events|0|
||Donations|1|
||**Total Gross Income**|**0**|
||**Payments**||
||Website fees|0|
||Venue hire|0|
||Bank charges|0|
||**Total Payments**|**0**|
||**Cash funds at 1 January 2024**|**266**|
||Net change from above|0|
|**Cash funds at 31 December 2024**
**266**
Declaration
The Trustees declare that they have approved the report above.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees of Friends of the Golden Lion:
Jonathan Smith, Chair
17 June 2025
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**Friends of the Golden Lion 11774816 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 1 January 2024 **To** 31 December 2024 ~~ee~~ **from**
||**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Unrestricted**||**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**|||||||||||
||Fundraisingevents|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||Donations|**1**|**1**||**-**||**-**||**1**||**-**|
||Other income|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**1**|**1**||**-**||**-**||**1**||**-**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**1**
**-**
**-**
**1**
**-**
~~——————~~||||||||||||
||**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
||Website fees|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||Venue hire|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||Bank charges|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Sub total_ **|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **-** ~~S~~ _**Total payments**_ ~~SS~~ **-** ~~55~~ **-** ~~=~~ **-** _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **1 - - 1 - A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 265 - - 265 -** _**Cash funds this year end**_ ~~===>~~ **266 - - 266 -**
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**B1 Cash funds**
Treasurer's Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
~~—_—===~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**B1 Cash funds**
Treasurer's Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
~~—_—===~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**B1 Cash funds**
Treasurer's Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
~~—_—===~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**B1 Cash funds**
Treasurer's Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
~~—_—===~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**266**
**-**
**-**
**B1 Cash funds**
Treasurer's Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
~~—_—===~~|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|OK
OK||OK|
|||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**|
|||**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~===>~~||||
||**Details**|**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~————~~||||
||**Details**|**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~a~~||||
|||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**||**When due**|
||**Details**|**liability relates**
**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~===~~||||
|Signed by two trustees on behalf of all
the trustees|Signed by two trustees on behalf of all
Signature|Print Name||Date of approval|
|||LOUISA HORTH||17/06/2025|
|||JONATHAN SMITH||17/06/2025|
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