**From**
**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date 1[st] January 2024
Period end date 31[st] December 2024
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Campton United Charities
**Other names charity is known by**
||**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|**Registered charity number (if any)**1174972
**Charity's principal address**
39 Rectory Road
Campton, Shefford
Bedfordshire
**Postcode**
**SG17 5PF**
~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1174972
**Charity's principal address**
39 Rectory Road
Campton, Shefford
Bedfordshire
**Postcode**
**SG17 5PF**
~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1174972
**Charity's principal address**
39 Rectory Road
Campton, Shefford
Bedfordshire
**Postcode**
**SG17 5PF**
~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1174972
**Charity's principal address**
39 Rectory Road
Campton, Shefford
Bedfordshire
**Postcode**
**SG17 5PF**
~~ee~~|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**||||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**||
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|||**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|1 Charles Ash|1 Charles Ash|Chair||||Parish Council|
|2 David Baker|2 David Baker|Secretary||||Parish Council|
|3 Jose|3 Joseph Longson|||||Parish Council|
|4 Christo|4 Christopher Strong|||||Parish Council|
|5 Deborah Ma|5 Deborah Maggs|||||Parish Council|
|6 William Simon Lamb|6 William Simon Lamb|||||Parish Council|
|7|_Role not exercised_|Ex officio|||||
|8|8||||||
|9|9||||||
|10|10||||||
|11|11||||||
- 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~se~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Charitable Incorporated Organisation Foundation Model Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by Campton and Chicksands Parish Council. Trustee selection methods Ex officio appointment of the incumbent to All Saints’ Church, Campton. (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To provide a financial benefit for residents of Campton village who are in need of support due to adverse personal circumstances, to be paid once yearly as a lump sum. This may either be directly to the persons concerned or to another charity that provides support to the community.
Funds are raised through rent paid on the charity’s property, referred to as ‘Poor’s Field’ located in Clifton Fields, Shefford, and from interest on the investment of capital from a bequest (Poor’s Stock) held in a COIF Charities Deposit Fund managed by CCLA.
**TAR**
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The charity has awarded a grant to The Need Project Central Bedfordshire (Registered Charity Number 1157691) to enable purchase of provisions for this important local Food Bank. The Need Project was then able to distribute food provisions for those in need due to adverse personal circumstances who live in Campton.
The trustees have, in accordance with Section 17(5) of the Charities Act and the Charities Accounts and Reports Regulations 2008, paid due regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission when exercising powers or duties to which the guidance was relevant.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
The charity became registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation **Summary of the main** with the Charity Commission in October 2017 following its de-registration **achievements of the charity** in May 2010. **during the year** The charity formed an association with The Need Project in Central Bedfordshire to enable a disbursement to fund purchases for the Food Bank so that items were distributed to those in need in Campton.
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March **2012**
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
‘Poor’s Stock’ is invested through a CCLA investment fund which acts as a reserve. All grants are made from the current account.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
No deficits
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
The principal source of funding continues to be the leasing of ‘Poor’s Field’ for grazing. The rental income provides the major contribution to the annual grant award. In 2024 the rental due was £100.00 and the grant award agreed was £100.00.
The expenditure was specifically for the benefit of those persons in need living in Campton.
Trustees are very aware that public benefit is currently limited by the charity’s income and are looking to the main asset of the charity ‘Poor’s Field’, and its potential to increase income and therefore opportunities for public benefit. A change of use for the land might allow for an increased rent, or sale of all or part of the land might offer the potential to increase the charity’s holding in the ‘Poor’s Stock’ CCLA investment fund. The trustees have actively been researching a number of options and their viability, and have obtained a loan from the Parish Council to pay for the legal fees involved in first registration of ‘Poor’s Field’ with the Land Registry.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
David John Baker **Full name(s)** Charles Ash **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Secretary **etc) Date** 02/06/2025
**TAR**
March **2012**
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|||**Campton United Charities**|**Campton United Charities**|**Campton United Charities**|**Campton United Charities**||||**1174972**|**1174972**|||
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|||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**
~~ee~~|||||01/01/2024
Period start date
~~ee ~~||**To**
~~ee~~|||31/12/2024
Period end date
~~ee~~|||
|**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 £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||
|Annual Rent - Poor's Field||**100**|**100**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**100**||**200**|
|Dividends - Poor's Stock CCLA||**29**|**29**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**29**||**28**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_||||||||||||
|_AR)_|_AR)_|**129**|**129**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**129**||**228**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 129**
**-**
**-**
**129**
**228**
~~——————~~|||||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||
|Grant to Need Project(Food Bank)||**100**|**100**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**100**||**200**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **||**100**|**100**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**100**||**200**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**100**
**200**
~~———=———~~|||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**29**
**-**
**- 29**
**-**
**- -**
**297**
**- -**
**326**
**-**
**- 326**
~~SSS~~|||||||**- 29**
**- -**
**- -**
**- 326**
|**- 29**
**- 326**
|**- 29**
**-**
**297**
**- 326**
~~5~~|**- 29**
|**28**
**-**
**269**
**297**
~~=~~|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
30/05/2025
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**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Bank Account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Poor's Stock CCLA Fund
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**326**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**326**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**COIF CCLA**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Charles Ash
David John Baker|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**1,055**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Charles Ash|02/06/2025|
||2|David John Baker|02/06/2025
30/05/2025|