## **CHARITY COMMISSION** FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024**
**Charity name: The Mercy Ward Church Trust Charity registration number: 1177763**
## **Objectives and Activities**
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|**SORP referenc**
**Para 1.17**|**To advance the Christian religion, by:**
**(1) supporing the mission and ministr**
**of the Church of England in the parishes**
**of**
**Long**
**and**
**Little**
**Wittenham,**
**Oxfordshire**
**('the**
**Parish')**
**and**
**the**
**Dorchester Team Ministr;**
(2) **in paricular but without prejudice to**
**the generality of the foregoing, helping**
**preserve,**
**maintaining**
**and,**
**where**
**appropriate, developing the fabric of the**
**parish**
**church**
**of**
**St**
**Mary**
**Long**
**Witenham, Oxfordshire; and**
**(3) supporing any purpose intended to**
**furher the work of the Church of**
**England and the spiritual, moral and**
**physical education and training of the**
**inhabitants of the Parish**
**in such ways as the charity trustees may**
**from time to time think.**|
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|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.
Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|**Para 1.17 and**
**1.19**
**Para 1.18**|**The charity was established under the**
**terms of the will of the late Ursula Mary**
**Ward and following grant of probate the**
**sum of £411,622 was passed to the**
**charity. In this the seventh year of**
**operation two grant applications were**
**received**
**The charity's objectives meet the Charity**
**Commission's**
**public**
**benefit**
**criteria**
**under the advancement of religion and**
**the preseration of the environment**_I_
**conseration headings and the trustees**
**have regard to this in their decision**
**making**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include furher statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
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|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|**In this the seventh year of operation two**
**grant applications were received and**
**approved totalling £9,000.**
**A grant of £1,000 was given to suppor a**
**school project with Opera Brava, a**
**Christian-run touring opera company**
**A grant of £8,000 was approved in**
**connection with a stonework repairs at**
**St Mary's Church Long Wittenham. The**
**funds have not yet been drawn down but**
**the works are in progress at the date of**
**this report**
**The**
**trustees**
**continue**
**to**
**invite**
**applications for funding in line with the**
**charity's objectives**|
## **Additional information (optional}** You mav choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against|Para 1.41|
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|objectives set||
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||Performance of fundraising||||
||activities against objectives||||
||set|Para 1.41|||
||Investment performance|Para 1.41|||
||against objectives||||
||Other||||
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**||
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|Review of the charity's
**Para 1.21**
financial position at the end
of the period
Statement explaining the
**Para 1.22**
policy for holding reserves
statino whythey areheld|**The charity has reseres of £371,062 at**
**the end of the period to meet future**
**requests for grant. Of this amount a**
**grant of £8,000 had been approved at**
**the year end but not drawn down**
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||**The charity holds reseres in line with**
**the wishes of the benefactor**|
|Amount of reserves held
**Para 1.22**|**£371,062**|
|Reasons for holding zero
**Para 1.22**
reserves|**Not applicable**|
|Details of fund materially in
**Para 1.24**
deficit|**Not applicable**|
|Explanation of any
**Para 1.23**
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|**Not applicable**|
|
deficit
Explanation of any
**Para 1.23**
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|
deficit
Explanation of any
**Para 1.23**
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|
**Not applicable**|
**Not applicable**|
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|**Additional information (optional)**
You mav choose to include further statement||where relevant about:||
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The charity's principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising}|
**Para 1.47**|||
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|**Para 1.46**|||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|**Para 1.46**|||
|Other||||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity's
trusts:
Type of governing document
**Para**1.2s
(trust deed,royal charter)
How is the charity
**Para**1.2s
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association,CIO)
Trustee selection methods
**Para**1.25
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|**Trust Deed**
**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(CIO)**
**The selection of the initial trustees was**
**specified in the will and the Trust Deed**
**reflects this.**
**Apart from the first charity trustees,**
**every appointed trustee must be**
**appointed for a term of three years by a**
**resolution passed at a properly**
**convened meeting of the charity**
**trustees.**
**(b)**
**In selecting individuals for**
**appointment as appointed charity**
**trustees, the charity trustees must have**
**regard to the skills, knowledge and**
**experience needed for the effective**
**administration of the CIO.**
**(c}**
**In selecting individuals for**
**appointment as appointed charity**
**trustees, the charity trustees must have**
**regard**to**continuing to represent the**
**views of the Long and Little Wittenham**
**PCCs and the Dorchester Team Ministry.**
**Ex-officio Trustees**
**(a)**
**In this clause, "the role" means**
**any or all of the following, as the case**
**may be:**
**(i)**
**the TeamRector ofthe**
**Dorchester-on-Thames Team**
**(ii)**
**no less than one and no more**
**than two of the Church Wardens of the**
**churches of Long Wittenham and Little**
**Wittenham**
**(iii)**
**the person with primary pastoral**
**care of Long Wittenham for the**
**Dorchester Team (which person at the**
**time of creating this CIO Is known as the**
**"team Vicar")**
**(iv)**
**the PCC treasurer of Long and**
**Little Wittenham or, if not possible,**
**another PCC member**
**(b)**
**The role for the time being ("the**
**office holder") shall automatically ("ex**
**officio") be a charity trustee, for as long**
**as he or she holds that office.**|
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## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures||
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|adopted for the induction||
|and training of trustees|Para 1.51|
|The charity's organisational||
|structure and any wider|Para 1.51|
|network with which the||
|charity works||
|Relationship with any related|Para 1.51|
|parties||
|Other||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|**Reference and Adminis**
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|Charity name
Other name the charitv uses
Reaistered charity number
Charity's principal address|Charity name
Other name the charitv uses
Reaistered charity number
Charity's principal address|T
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|he Mercv Ward Church Trust
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177763
Deacon Way
Docking
King's Lynn
PE31 8GJ|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **||**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to aoooint trustee (if anv)**|
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||**Michael John**
**Pawley**||||||
||**Dinah Perkins**||||||
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**Mandy Williams**||||||
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**Rev Joanna Allen**|||08/05/2024-31 /12/2024|||
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**Director name n/a**
## Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
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|**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**|**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**|
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|Description of the assets|n/a|
|held in this capacity||
|Name and objects of the|n/'a|
|charity on whose behalf the||
|assets are held and how this||
|falls within the custodian||
|charity's objects||
|Details of arrangements for|n/a|
|safe custody and||
|segregation of such assets||
|from the charity's own||
|assets||
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**adviser**|||
|**Legal**|RWK Goodman|5-6 Northumberland Buildings, Queen Square, Bath BA 1|
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|**Name of**|**chief executive or**|**names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|
|**n/a**|||
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of kev personnel details
## **n/a**
## **Other ootional information**
n/a
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees' report above.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees**
**Signature(s) � Full name(s) Michael John Pawley Mandy Williams Position (eg Sec�etary, Trustee Trustee C[ha] i[r] ,[etc] ) .___ ___________ __..__ ____________ __, Date I /'6 Ii.a j'2..+:>2-°$**
|**CHARITY COMMISSION�h •1:·1 c ,.,,**
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES**The Mercy Ward Church Trust**
**1177763**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
**For the period**
**from**
**Section A Receipts and payments**
**A1 Receiots**
**Leaacies**
**Interest on deposit account**
**_Sub total (Grss income fr AR)_**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**{see tablel.**
**_Sub total_**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the narest**
**£**
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~~.~~
~~.~~
**_Total receipts_**. _____ _ I I
**A3 Pavments**
**Grants and donationspaid**
.
**Bank charges**
~~.~~
**Legal fees**
.
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~~.. . ~~
~~.~~
**_Sub total_**
~~.~~
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**
~~.. ~~
**_Sub total_**
.
**_Total payments_**. _____~~_~~ ~~.~~~~**j**~~**l**
**_Net of receiptslayments)_**
**AS Transfers between funds**
**-------**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**______ .
**01.an-24**
**Restricted funds**
**to the narest £**
~~.~~
**9,011**~~.~~
~~.~~
.
~~.. ~~
~~.~~
**9,011**
**To**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to th narest £**
**9,011 1 **~~**.**~~
**1 **~~**_**~~**____**
**-11**
**1.00**
**62**
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**1,062**
**1,0621**~~**.**~~
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**7,949**
**363,113**
**371,062**
. ,,**u**
**31-Dec-24**
**Total funds**
**to the narest £**
~~.~~
**9,011**
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**9,011**
**9, 0111 **
**1 000**
**62**
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~~.. ~~
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**1,062**
**1,062**~~I~~
**7,949**
**363,113**
**371,062**||
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||**CC16a**|
||**Last year**
**to th narest £**|
||~~.~~|
||**6,686**|
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||**6,686**
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**1____ **
**6,_6_86**
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||**66**|
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||**66**
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**6__i**
**6,620**|
||**356,493**
**363,113**|
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**B1 Cash funds**
**Gsh at bank • curent account**
**Csh at bank - deposit account**
**Unrstricted**
**funds**
**to narest£**
**Restricted funds**
**to narest£**
**216**
**370,846**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**B1 Cash funds**
**Gsh at bank • curent account**
**Csh at bank - deposit account**
**Unrstricted**
**funds**
**to narest£**
**Restricted funds**
**to narest£**
**216**
**370,846**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**B1 Cash funds**
**Gsh at bank • curent account**
**Csh at bank - deposit account**
**Unrstricted**
**funds**
**to narest£**
**Restricted funds**
**to narest£**
**216**
**370,846**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**B1 Cash funds**
**Gsh at bank • curent account**
**Csh at bank - deposit account**
**Unrstricted**
**funds**
**to narest£**
**Restricted funds**
**to narest£**
**216**
**370,846**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to narest£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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||**_Total cash funds_**||**371,062**||
**CCXX R1 accounts (SS)**
**(agree balences wllh recelp(ll IW1d peyme,13 IIOCOl"l(a))**
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Unrestricted Restricted funds Endowment
funds funds
Details to nearest£ to nearest£ to nearest£
82 Other monetary assets
Fund to which asset CUrrent value
Details belongs Cost (optional) (optional)
B3 Investment assets
Fund to which asset CUrrent value
Details belongs Cost ( optl onal) (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the
charity's own use
Fund to which Amount due When due
Details llablllty relates (optional) (optional)
B5 Liabilities Grant approved, not yet drawn Restricted 8,000 2025
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name Date of approval
Michael Pawley
Mandy Williams
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
**2**
**13/10/2025**