
**Hilton Food Group Charitable Foundation 1176224 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2024 31/12/2024 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**82,436**<br>**31,828**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**114,264**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**114,264**<br>**410**<br>**100,000**<br>**3,666**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**104,076**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**104,076**<br>**10,188**<br>**-**<br>**9,179**<br>**19,367**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**82,436**<br>**31,828**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**114,264**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**114,264**<br>**410**<br>**100,000**<br>**3,666**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**104,076**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**104,076**<br>**10,188**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**82,436**<br>**31,828**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**114,264**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**114,264**<br>**410**<br>**100,000**<br>**3,666**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**104,076**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**104,076**<br>**10,188**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Fundraisingevents|**82,436**|||||**98,032**|
|Other donations received|**31,828**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**114,264**|||||**98,032**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**98,032**|
||||||||
|Event costs|**410**|||||**4,600**|
|Charitable donations|**100,000**|||||**100,000**|
|Independent examination|**3,666**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**104,076**|||||**104,600**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**104,600**|
||||||||
||**10,188**|**-**|**-**|**10,188**||**-**<br>**6,568**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**9,179**|**-**|**-**|**9,179**||**15,747**|
||**19,367**|**-**|**-**|**19,367**||**9,179**|



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

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|Signature<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Bank account<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**19,367**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**19,367**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**19,367**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**19,367**||**-**|**-**|
|||OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Matt Osborne||OK|OK|
||||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|
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||||||Date of<br>approval|
|||Matt Osborne|||28/10/2025|
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Period start date Period end date 1 January 2024 **To** 31 December 2024 


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

**From** 

## Section A 

## Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** Hilton Food Group Charitable Foundation 

**Registered charity number (if any)**[Charity number:     1176224 ] Company number: CE012628 

**Charity's principal address** Hilton Food Group plc 2-8 The Interchange, Latham Road Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE29 6YE 

**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4|**Trustee name**|**Office (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|
||PhilipHeffer|Chair|
||Matt  Osborne|Trustee|
||<br>Lizzie Downes|Trustee|
||||



## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Type of governing Constitution document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) constituted (eg. trust, association, company) 

Trustee selection methods 

> [Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a] (eg. appointed by, elected by)[(1)] term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. (2) 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. 

March **2012** 

**TAR** 

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## **Section C** 

## **Objectives and activities** 

The objects of the charity are: 

**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** 

To advance such charitable purposes according to the law of England and Wales as the trustees see fit from time to time. 

Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. 

**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** The charity carries out its objects by raising money for nominated **public benefit in relation to** charitable causes through corporate events. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** The trustees have had regard to the public benefit guidance issued by **declaration that trustees have** the Charity Commission. **had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

## Policy on grant making 

When planning a corporate event the trustees will consider which charity or charities will benefit from the funds raised from that event. 

The trustees will only approve charities that are: 

 registered charities having a charity number, or 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

   - exempt or excepted charities from registering 

   - The trustees may give preference to charities whose purposes include:  The prevention or relief of poverty 

   - The advancement of education, health including the saving of lives, animal welfare and environmental protection or improvement 

   - The relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

## Contribution made by volunteers 

The charity is grateful for the contribution made by volunteers from the Hilton Food Group in organising and running the corporate event held during the year. 

Section D **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

## Achievements and performance 

The Charity’s fundraising activities generated £114,264 of income for the year ended 31 December 2024 (2023: £98,032). This in turn allowed the Trustees to make £100,000 (£100,000) of donations split equally between two registered Charities. 

March **2012** 

**TAR** 

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## **Section E** 

## **Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the** There is no current need or desire for the charity to build up reserves. **charity’s policy on reserves** Therefore, funds raised through corporate events are distributed to its nominated charities. 

**Details of any funds materially** There are no funds in deficit. **in deficit** 

## **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. 

## **Section F Other optional information** 

None. 

## **Section G** 

## **Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Matthew Osborne **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 28/10/2025 

March **2012** 

**TAR** 

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

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

|**Report to the trustees/**<br>**members of**<br>**On accounts for the year**<br>**ended**<br>**Set out on pages**|Charity Name<br>Hilton Food Group Charitable Foundation|Charity Name<br>Hilton Food Group Charitable Foundation|Charity Name<br>Hilton Food Group Charitable Foundation|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||31 December 2024|**Charity no**<br>**(if any)**|1176224|
|||||
||1 to 2 of the Receipts and Payments Accounts|||



I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Charity”) for the year ended 31/12/2024. 

- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Charity, 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 Charity’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 examiner's statement** 

I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention 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. 

|**Signed:**<br>**Name:**<br>**Relevant professional**<br>**qualification(s) or body**<br>**(if any):**<br>**Address:**||29/10/2025|
|---|---|---|
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||Joanna Boatfield||
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||FCA CTA DChA||
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||Ensors||
||Victory House, Vision Park, Chivers Way||
||Histon, Cambridgeshire, CB24 9ZR||



**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). 

1 

**October 2018** 

**IER** 



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

2 

**October 2018** 

**IER** 

