## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] October 2024 To 30[th] September 2025** ## **Charity name: St Albans Half Marathon** ## **Charity registration number: 1176191** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The promotion of community**
**participation in healthy recreation for**
**the benefit of the inhabitants of St**
**Albans and the surrounding area by the**
**provision of a half marathon, fun run**
**and such other sports as the trustees**
**may in their absolute discretion deem**
**appropriate.**
**To support such general charitable**
**purposes as the trustees in their**
**absolute discretion may**
**determine by**
**the provision of grants in St Albans and**
**the surrounding area.**| |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|**St Albans Half Marathon provide a one**
**day, annual event on the second Sunday**
**of June. Entrants to the numerous races**
**help to fund the hosting of the event and**
**all profit is then donated to local**
**organisations and charities who help us**
**marshal the event. The races available**
**are:**
**St Albans Half Marathon**
**Walking Half Marathon**
**Wheelchair Half Marathon**
**10k**
**5k**
**Fun Run**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Public benefit is at the forefront of St**
**Albans Half Marathons goals.**
**As a charity the public benefit is 2 fold.**
**1) We provide a large event to**
**promote the importance of**
**community as well as the**
**promotion of health and an active**
**lifestyle.**
**2) To raise and distribute funds to**| **help support local organisations and charities from St Albans and the surrounding areas. (eg. PTA groups, small charities, sports and leisure clubs etc) Trustees focus on the above two points to help lead how the charity is governed as a whole.** **The Trustees confirm that they have had due regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**St Albans Half Marathon benefits greatly**
**from the help of volunteers on race day.**
**We have the help of hundreds of**
**volunteers each and every year who**
**help to make the St Albans Half**
**Marathon a success. The Trustees are**
**very grateful to those who give up their**
**time to help.**| ## **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|**This year was the 43rd Year of the St**
**Albans Half Marathon.**
**This year Active Training World**
**organised the event for the charity. ATW**
**then made a donation to our charity.**
**This was the only way we saw it**
**possible for the event to continue to**
**exist.**
**ATW**| |||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of the period we had £5180 in**
**our bank account. This was the amount**
**carried forward to future years races**
**and to make donations to local**
**organisations and charities.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The run industry appears to be picking**
**up as of January 2025, the charity aims**
**to build its reserves as the industry**
**grows.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£5180**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**| Explanation of any Para 1.23 **n/a** uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **Entry fees from race entrants paid via ATW** The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO - Foundation model constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**Apart from the first charity trustees,**
**every trustee must be appointed for a**
**term of 3 years by a resolution passed**
**at a properly convened meeting of the**
**charity trustees.**
**In selecting individuals for appointment**
**as charity trustees, the charity trustees**
**must have regard to the skills,**
**knowledge and experience needed for**
**the effective administration of the CIO.**
**There must be a minimum of three**
**trustees and a maximum of 12.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|**St Albans Half Marathon**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|**1176191**| |Charity’s principal address|**South Silo,**
**Thrales End Farm**
**Harpenden**
**Herts**
**AL5 3NS**| ||| ## **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
2
3
4|AndrzejJuraszek|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Katie Foweraker|||||| ||Phil Gibson|||||| |||||||| ||Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
**none**|||||| ||**Director name**|||||| ||**none**|||||| |||||||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/a**||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets No funds are held as custodian trustees held in this capacity ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**Bank**|Lloyds Bank|36 Chequer Street, St Albans, AL1 3YQ| |||| |**Accountant**
**s**||| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Martin Day – Project and Race Director ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Katie Foweraker **Full name(s)** Andrzej Juraszek **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 18/03/26 **St Albans Half Marathon** **1176191 payments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a** 10/1/2024 9/30/2025 ## **Receipts and payments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts** **For the period from** **To** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
**Donations**
**-**
From SAHM nor forprofit organisation
**-**
**Charitable Activities**
**-**
Race Donation
**11,000**
Race Sponsorship
**-**
Other income
Council Grant
**-**
**11,000**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 11,000**
**A3 Payments**
Manpower
Marketing
**469**
Pre Race Setup
**-**
Equipment
**-**
Services
Prizes
**-**
Sundry
**-**
Donations to Marshals
**7,175**
other
**_Sub total_ 7,644**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 7,644**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 3,356**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**4,181**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 7,537**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,000**
**-**
**-**
**11,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,000**
**-**
**469**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,175**
**-**
**-**
**7,644**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,644**
**3,356**
**-**
**4,181**
**7,537**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**11,000**|**9,000**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||**74**| |||||| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**11,000**|**9,074**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**11,000**|**9,074**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**469**|**368**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**70**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**7,175**|**8,525**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**7,644**|**8,963**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**7,644**|**8,963**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**3,356**|**111**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**4,181**|**4,069**| ||**-**||**7,537**|**4,181**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Bank Balance
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
A.Jurazek
K. Foweraker
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,537**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,537**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
A.Juraszek
K.Foweraker
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||A.Jurazek|A.Juraszek|3/15/2026| ||K. Foweraker|K.Foweraker|3/15/2026|