Trustees’ Annual Report for 2021-2022
Name - Adur East Lions Club CIO. Charity Number - 1177392.
Area of Operation - Shoreham-by-Sea, Southwick and Fishersgate. Principal Address - Flat 2, 29A High St, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 5DD.
Charity trustee names [for year 21-22] - Trevor Burchell [president], Colin Burt[secretary], Pearl Boyce [imm. past-president and membership], Frances Burt [1st vice-president], and Richard Behling [treasurer].
Charity trustee names [for year 22-23] - Frances Burt [president], Colin Burt[secretary and 2nd vice president], Trevor Burchell [imm. past-president], Claudine Rogers [membership], David Sluys [1st vice-president], and Richard Behling [treasurer].
Type of Governing Document- Constitution dated 1st Jan 2018. How the charity is constituted- As a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
Charity trustee selection methods for 2019/20 onwards — Seven ex-officio, i.e. president, secretary, treasurer, vice-president, 2nd vice-president, immediate past president, and membership officer.
Summary of objects of the charity are set out in its governing document- To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions Clubs.
Financial review -
There are 3 accounts - admin, activities, and charity.
At the end of the Lions year 2021-22 the bank balances were admin £627, activities £3431, and charity £8354.
These figures compare with 2020-21 figures of admin £970, activities £3241, and charity £5339. Fund-raising is down because of Covid-19 causing the cancellation of big fund-raising events.
Policy on reserves- keep enough by for contingencies, in each of the bank accounts, according to the possible needs of each account.The club’s activities require no fixed levels of funds.
Public benefit statement -
The trustees have read through the Charity Commission trustee guidance document called “The Essential Trustee what you need to know’. The trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Commission in exercising their powers or duties.
Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects-
Christmas Santa and sleigh collections from streets, helped by local groups such as Sea Cadets; donations to many [mostly] local charitable organisations. Project Wenceslas began, whereby donations received from people wishing to donate for example their winter heating allowance is used to help the energy accounts of particular people in need according to three trusted referrers. Local food banks, Shoreham and Adur Community Food Bank, and Gateway Hub at Fishersgate, are given about £150 worth of groceries each month bought from Club funds.
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year-
Many local organisations have benefited from our generous donations.
The largest donations were to - Project Wenceslas clients £3938, Local food-banks £3012, Ukraine Crisis Appeal £2423, Golf Day for Brain Tumour Research £1381, Lions Wildfire and Flood Appeal £500, two nebulisers for Worthing Hospital £380.
Signatures
| **Adur East Lions Club CIO ** | **Accounts ** | 1 July 2021 | to | 30 June 2022 | charity no. | 1177392 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | Expenditure | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | |
| Admin a/c | Admin a/c | |||||
| Members’contributions to the | Dues to LCI | 857 | 859 | |||
| adminstration of the charity | 1350 | 1299 | Christmas dinner | 814 | 0 | |
| Christmas dinner | 1091 | 0 | Charter | 988 | 0 | |
| Charter | 936 | 0 | Misc. | 693 | 217 | |
| misc. + dons. | 362 | 0 | Dues to multi-district | 692 | 745 | |
| Rafe,tail twister | 142 | 0 | Dues to district | 205 | 216 | |
| Compensations Lloyds errors | 25 | 380 | pps. | 0 | 19 | |
| Quizzes | 0 | 740 | ||||
| subtotals | 3906 | 2419 | subtotals | 4249 | 2056 | |
| Activity a/c | Activity a/c[1] | |||||
| Fun Daytake | 5552 | 0 | Fun Dayexpenses | 3973 | 0 | |
| Golf Day Brain Tumour Research | 2758 | 0 | other[inc. deposits] | 2511 | 760 | |
| Car boot sale | 2708 | 0 | Golf Day proceeds to Brian Tumour Research | 1381 | ||
| Sleigh collections | 1876 | 1480 | Car boot sale | 1085 | 0 | |
| Grotto | 1846 | 640 | Golf Dayexpenses togolf club | 989 | ||
| other[inc deposit returns] | 1823 | 765 | Grotto | 800 | ||
| StandingChristmas collects. | 1534 | 1576 | Easter eggs | 330 | 0 | |
| Easter Eggs | 1162 | 0 | MayberryBooks - shares to Brighton | 0 | 1248 | |
| Mayberrybooks | 0 | 2496 | ||||
| subtotals | 19259 | 6957 | subtotals | 11069 | 2008 | |
| Charity a/c[1] | Charity a/c | |||||
| Wenceslas donations | 2665 | 0 | Wenceslas | 3938 | ||
| 200 Clubproceeds | 2500 | 0 | Ukraine crisis appeal | 2423 | ||
| Ukraine crisis appeal | 2082 | 0 | Shoreham and Adur Community food bank | 2155 | 1359 | |
| Arnold Clark draw | 1000 | 0 | Regular donations | 1200 | 1200 | |
| other dons. etc | 579 | 252 | Fun Daydonations | 1050 | ||
| Lions Givingfor food banks | 490 | 0 | GatewayHub[Fishersgate]food bank | 857 | ||
| other donations | 268 | not local donations | 1482 | |||
| Market book sales | 38 | 0 | Wildfre and Flood appeal | 500 | ||
| Station books | 22 | 4 | Nebulisers for WorthingHospital,2 | 380 | 320 | |
| YoungAmbassador bursaries | 0 | 1000 | local donations | 344 | 525 | |
| Return of Eastbrook donation | 0 | 320 | David Sluys 10k run for Libra | 300 | ||
| David Sluys collection | YoungAmbassador bursaries | 1000 | ||||
| for Brain Tumour Research | 0 | 147 | Sussex MS Centre handwash station | 750 | ||
| Bingo donations | 0 | 46 | Lions Air Ambulance Appeal | 500 | ||
| St John new roof contribution | 500 | |||||
| Brain Tumour Research | 450 | |||||
| DonkeyDerbydonations | 400 | |||||
| Beirut disaster | 300 | |||||
| Aprongarden contribution | 300 | |||||
| Seniors' teas expenses | 160 | |||||
| subtotals | 9644 | 1769 | subtotals | 14629 | 7764 | |
| totals | 32809 | 11145 | 29947 | 11828 | ||
| [1]£8000 was transferred to charitya/c from activitya/c in 2021/22. | ||||||
| **Adur East Lions Club CIO ** | **Accounts ** | 1 July 2021 | to | 30 June 2022 | charity no. | 1177392 | ||
| Income | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | Expenditure | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | |||
| Total Funds b/fwd | 9550 | 10233 | Total bank balances | 13115 | 10753 | |||
| Surplus/[Defcit] | 2862 | -683 | less outstandingcheques | 703 | 1203 | |||
| Funds c/fwd | 12412 | 9550 | 12412 | 9550 | ||||
| Admin funds b/fwd | 970 | 648 | Admin bank balance | 627 | 970 | |||
| Surplus/[Defcit] | -343 | 322 | less outstandingcheques | 0 | 0 | |||
| Admin funds c/fwd | 627 | 970 | 627 | 970 | ||||
| Activitya/c funds b/f | 3241 | 3531 | Activitybank balance | 3431 | 3241 | |||
| Surplus/[Defcit] | 190 | -290 | less outstandingcheques | 0 | 0 | |||
| Activitya/c funds c/f | 3431 | 3241 | 3431 | 3241 | ||||
| Charitya/c funds b/f | 5339 | 6054 | Charitybank balance | 9057 | 6542 | |||
| Surplus/[Defcit] | 3015 | -715 | less outstandingcheques | 703 | 1203 | |||
| Charitya/c funds c/f | 8354 | 5339 | 8354 | 5339 | ||||
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