2024-06-30-accounts

		Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
		From	Period start date			To	Period end date
			1st	July	2023		30th	June	2024

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

Lions Club of New Milton (CIO)

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1177005

Charity's principal address 17 Kennard Road New Milton Hants Postcode BH25 5JR

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
	Alan Watson	President
	James Conacher	Treasurer
	Nicholas Mussert
	Jeanne Jackson

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

CIO Association Consultation

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Trust

How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Volunteer vetting and voting (election) Trustee selection methods

(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;

Club Policies:

The club has written policies covering nine topics. In addition, the Grant making policy can be found on the Club website.

The topics are:

Finance

• the charity’s organisational Child Protection and Vulnerable Persons structure and any wider Risk Management network with which the charity Grant Making works; Complaints

• relationship with any related Volunteers Conflict of Interest

• parties; Data Protection

• trustees’ consideration of Fund Raising Standards 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

The Objects of the Club are such purposes as are exclusively charitable in England & Wales, including in particular:

The advancement of citizenship by:

• 1) promoting the principles of good citizenship;

• 2) encouraging members to take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community;

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• 3) providing a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by members;

• 4) encouraging service-minded people to serve their community without personal reward and encouraging the promotion of high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavours;

• 5) supporting youth to develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals;

• 6) promoting the Voluntary Sector for the public benefit by associating with local authorities in a common effort to advance education and provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation to improve the conditions of life of people in local, national and international communities;

• 7) promoting volunteering;

• 8) the relief of poverty and the relief of those in need in particular by providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief;

• 9) the advancement of health or the saving of lives by preventing avoidable blindness, assisting disabled people to lead independent lives or helping to prevent or manage health issues;

• 10) promoting for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment; and/or promoting community participation in healthy recreation.

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1. Citizenship: New Milton Lions Club have sponsored the Young Citizen of the Year awards and recognises the achievements and contributions to the local community of individuals and teams.

2. Promoting the Voluntary Sector: The development of relationships with the local council, agencies and charitable organisations has continued and the community service and fund raising activities has been maintained. This is aimed at encouraging participation with service events and enabling grants to local charities to help sustain the services provided.

3. Promoting volunteering: Recruitment of new members and volunteers has continued with new members being attracted.

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)

4. Relief of Poverty: Grants were made to disadvantaged people. 5. Advancement of Health: The ‘Message in a bottle’ has continued.

6. Environment: The club participated in the local litter pick programme.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Volunteers have helped marshal local events arranged by other charitable organisations as well as collections outside local supermarkets for national charities.

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

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Main Fund raising events held during the year:

1. Christmas Fes�val and Market

2. Town Show

3. Car Boot Sales

4. Charity Golf Day

5. May Fayre

Post pandemic our ac�vi�es are resuming and next year we should have a full agenda.

The following grants were made:

Grant for Training 15yr Old Na�onal Swimmer £300.00 Honeypot £550.00 NMTC – Christmas Tree Sponsorship £138.00 LCIF – Brain Tumour Appeal £850.00 LCIF – Hurricane Idalia £200.00 LCIF – Morocco Earthquake £200.00 LCIF – Japan Earthquake £200.00 LCIF – Taiwan Earthquake £100.00 LCIF – Brazil Flooding £100.00 Kids Cancer Charity £500.00 Lymington Hospital £250.00 Olivia Inspires £1,250.00 Poppy Appeal £300.00 New Milton Children’s Party £200.00 New Forest Basics Bank £500.00 Helping Older People – New Forest £150.00 Children In Need £273.95 Brockenhurst Young Farmers £300.00 Brockenhurst Players £100.00 Southern England Karate £500.00 New Forest for Ukraine £1,250.00 Marwell Zoo Trip £1,356.00 Books for School £400.00 Girl Guiding New Milton - Defribulator £250.00 New Milton Youth Trust – Baby Changing Unit £250.00 G Heaps – Olympian £250.00 Freedom To Learn £250.00

Total £10,967.95

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Section D Achievements and performance

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The club has a savings/contingency account that can be used as a mitigation fund to cover events managed through the Welfare Account and has been established to cover unforeseen circumstances or emergencies.

Details of any funds materially 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

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) James Duncan Conacher Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Treasurer etc) Date 03rd March 2025

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LIONS CLUB OF NEW MIITON iaoi ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNT Re5tr1rted Fund ACCOUNTS FOR YEAR TO 30Th JUPIE 2024 Re￿stered Charlty No. I177(￿5 202312024 202212023 Recelpts Members Dues Handover & Charter Dlnner Quiz Gift Aid Glft Ald on Small Donatlon5 Scheme 2085.01 2182.70 158. 570.(KI 255.60 1885.00 2418.69 334.46 0.00 kl J Donation Corporate Clothing HSBC Compensation Tail Twister Weather & Minl Lottery Total Recelpts io. 186. 35. 100. 136.60 159.58 £ 5,069.33 158.69 162.23 £ 5.768.23 Expend5ture District & International Dues Handover & Charter Dinner Webslte Insurance LCI MD Llcences NFDC & ICO Corporate ClothinglBadges Sundries Pennants Bank Charges Total Expendlture 2518.13 276￿35 50.99 44.25 55.(Kl 2234.45 2498.35 198.77 44.25 55.IX) 85.95 79.90 146.95 256.50 44.01 £ 5,240.68 £ 5.836.17 SurplU￿DefiC1t for the Year 67S4 4 17135 Bank Attount Balance 8/Fwd 1442.44 1613.79 Balance C/Fwd 1374.50 1442.44 4 67J4 4 17135 Thls is a Restitted Fund Signed by: Chair of Trustees Dated Prepared by J C Geering FfA Treasurernrustee Dated

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A . Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trustees Lions Club of New Milton (CIO) On accounts for the year ended 30th June 2024 Charlty no (If any) 1177005 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examinalion of the accounts of the above Charitable Incorporated Organisation, for the year ended 3010612024 Responsibilitles and basls of report As the charity's trust88s, you arè responsible for th8 preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 he Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the CIO'S accounts carriéd out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)Ib} of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me ¢au$e to believe that in, any material respect.- the accounting records V￿re not kept in accordance with section 130 of th8 Charities A¢t- or the accounts did not accord wilh the accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charit185 {Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requiremerrt that the accounts give a Irue and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connec*ion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Slgnad: Date: S. i. Name". John Christopher eering Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Fellow of Institute of Financial Accounts Address: 11, Glen Road. Fleet, Hampshire GU513QS