## **Community Chaplains Report of Trustees 2024/2025**
Registered Charity: **1175773**
The Trustees submit their report and the financial statements of Community Chaplains (“ _the Charity_ ”) for the year ended 30 July 2025.
The financial statements have been prepared in the format prescribed by the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP2015 (FRS102)) and the Financial Reporting Standard 102. The legal and administrative information set out earlier in this document forms part of this report.
## **Organisation**
The Board of three Trustees administer the Charity. They formally meet annually, with informal operational contact approximately quarterly.
For the financial period to July 2025 the charity has been operational with 2 active chaplains (5 inactive) within the Borough of Richmond.
Administrative changes have occurred during this year, as follows:
- Christopher Whittome (CW) has been replaced as trustee by Barry Colyer (BC)
The major risks to which the Charity is exposed, as identified by the Trustees, have had policies established to mitigate those risks prior to any operational deployment.
Due to the low level of activity, the charity expenditure was zero. This was a result of cancelling nonessential costs associated with institutional affiliation and insurance. No fundraising was carried out. The charity has a balance of £34.80.
The small expenditure on website hosting, domain name registration, and updated business cards in 2024/25 was provided from personal funds by the active chaplains.
## **Related Parties and cooperation with other organisations.**
The Trustees are unpaid and receive no benefit from their work with the Charity. There is no relationship between any trustee and suppliers. No employees have been engaged. The Charity has continued good relationships with organisations indicating support including some local churches, Aston Lodge Nursing Home (Sunbury), and other agencies.
## **Activity and Public Benefit**
No new recruitment or training has occurred.
Activities include:
- Weekly visits to the Ashton Lodge Nursing home in Sunbury, UK. Providing a befriending service for the residents as well as (where requested) prayer and spiritual conversations for the distressing situations found (dementia, cancer, depression, frustration, loneliness, etc.).
This service has been very well received and is, increasingly, being used by the caring staff as well.
Interest about becoming a Chaplain has been received from several
## **Our Mission**
Our mission is to establish a voluntary Community Chaplaincy supporting and strengthening local community, principally and initially in the borough of Richmond and adjacent boroughs.
## **Our Support**
Local churches ecumenically have supported the inception of Community Chaplains, together with
www.communitychaplains.uk Registered charity in England and Wales 117 5773
expressions of support from the Metropolitan Police, and local agencies which include the NHS and third sector organisations.
## **Staff and Volunteers**
The trustees continue with the same three volunteers. There are two active chaplains.
No staff have been employed.
## **Donors**
New donors were not sought during the year.
Dr Andy Bell PhD MIMechE CEng Trustee (Chair) 31[st] July, 2025
www.communitychaplains.uk Registered charity in England and Wales 117 5773
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Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 31/07/2024 30/07/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
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A6 Cash funds last year end 34.80 - - 34.80 -
Cash funds this year end 34.80 - - 34.80 -
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## **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**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**34.80**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34.80**
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OK
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**asset belongs**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
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Print Name
Andrew Bell|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
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Date of
approval
31st July 2025|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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