2024-06-30-accounts - Rotary Club Of Pangbourne Charitable Trust

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Rotary Club of Pangbourne Charitable Trust CIO 1179121

Trustees Report for Year 01.07.2023 to 30.06.2024

Another successful year for the Rotary Club of Pangbourne Charitable Trust, despite some unexpected challenges, not least by a change in rules by the Environment Agency that has forced many Charitable River Rescue Services to close down due to the high cost of compliance. Such changes, made without consultation have a massive impact on small charities such as ours, putting at risk our ability to run viable fundraising events that are popular with participants and the communities we serve. Nonetheless, we are nothing but determined and were eventually able to find a cost-effective solution that enabled us to once more run our successful Dragon Boat event, continuing our ability to make much needed grants to deserving causes, locally and abroad.

Through the good work of our club members, we were able to generate a total income of £35,221.18 , an excellent outcome from all the hard work put in by our loyal event organisers, volunteers and supporters without whom our events would not be the success they are.

The summary below provides a comparison of income generated by our principal fundraising events:

	YE 2024	YE 2023	YE 2022
Santa’s Float	£8,703.40	£ 7,855.70	£ 8,534.43
Tilehurst Arson Relief Fund	£ 0.00	£ 49.10	£ 6,856.59
Woodcote 10k	£7,346.45	£ 8,489.14	£ 5,247.12
Painting Exhibitions	£4,792.95	£ 5,660.09	£ 3,723.79
Anderson Polio talks	£1,942.20	£ 3,169.45	£ 2,148.64
Dragon Boats	£7,172.87	£ 5,881.71	£ 2,076.47
HMRC Gift Aid	£2,470.73	£. 4,782.10	£ 3,715.42

Tilehurst Arson Relief Fund – Closure

Through a combination of donations by Public Subscription and local Rotary Clubs a total of £7,709.25 was raised to provide aid according to need and circumstance to the survivors of the Rowe Court arson attack.

A total of 13 disbursements were made between December 2021 and June 2023 totalling £5,494.97 that was used to provide everything from clothing and toiletries in the immediate aftermath of the fire, to providing new white goods and furnishings, not otherwise insured, when new housing had been found for them by the authorities.

Having kept the fund open for a period of two years, some 18 months longer than envisaged and in the absence of any further requests for support, in accordance with its Terms of Reference it was decided to wind up the fund.

The unused balance of £2,214.28 raised for TARF reverted to the Pangbourne Rotary Club Charitable Trust with the proviso that this money be used specifically for local charitable donations in the greater Reading area. Later in the year three donations of £1,000 each were made to LaunchPad Reading, Churches in Reading Drop-in Centre and West Berkshire Homeless, all of whom are focused on supporting homeless individuals off the streets in to secure housing.

Santa

Santa had his best year ever, helped by a vast army of “Elves” supplied by local Scout Groups and PTA’s to reach as many families as possible in the lead up to Christmas. Monies raised enabled us to make grants to many local charities and good causes.

Woodcote 10k

Our 10k fundraising event in January continues to attract a large field of runners who enjoy the challenges of our road race now in its 41[st] year. Whilst numbers were marginally down on the previous year, we are already planning for 2025 where we hope a fresh approach to marketing event will help us to attract many more participants.

Pangbourne Art Exhibition

This year we held just one Art Exhibition, changing the format to attract younger participants to showcase their work by running a competition with local primary schools that proved very successful.

Dragon Boats

As previously mentioned, this event so nearly didn’t happen because of changes made by the Environment Agency to the licensing requirements of Safety Boats used on rivers causing businesses to close and the cost of these services to increase massively making our event uneconomic. Fortunately, through the persistence of a small group of individuals obstacles were overcome and at the eleventh hour we were able to proceed with this popular event raising a significant amount of money.

Expenses incurred in organising and running these events amounted to £10,272.20 generating a surplus of £24,948.98 which was added to the £16,070 carried over from the previous year enabled us to make the donations and grants to many good causes. In total we made 50 donations totalling £36,597.16 which are listed below. These comprise a number of local community, youth and educational causes in and around West Berkshire as well as some national and international grants.

Our donations for the eradication of Polio via the Rotary Foundation are match funded by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation by a ratio of 2:1. We immensely proud of and indebted to Rotarian Richard Anderson a member of the Rotary Club of Pangbourne who has made countless talks over a period of 10 years on a variety of topics to various groups in return for a small donation. During that period, he has been personally responsible for raising in excess of £100,000 to aid the eradication of polio.

Donations made during the year

	Beneficiary	£		Beneficiary	£
1	RYLA	861.00 £	27	Parkinsons UK	2,150.00 £
2	Readifood	1,250.00 £	28	LaunchPad Reading	1,000.00 £
3	PurleySustainabilityGroup	500.00 £	29	Churches in ReadingDropin Centre	1,000.00 £
4	Tilehurst fundraisingfor Ukraine	250.00 £	30	West Berkshire Homeless	1,000.00 £
5	KidsOut	250.00 £	31	Literacyin a Box	395.00 £
6	Disaster Aid UK	2,000.00 £	32	Sport in Mind	1,000.00 £
7	British Red Cross	1,000.00 £	33	Serenje Orphans Home	1,015.00 £
8	Berks MS Therapy	1,000.00 £	34	Nicholas Winton Foundation	250.00 £
9	Recoveryin Mind	1,000.00 £	35	Nature Nurture	500.00 £
10	The Autism Group	250.00 £	36	MND Reading& West Berks	250.00 £
11	Dementia UK	500.00 £	37	Nature Nurture	200.00 £
12	Readifood	483.10 £	38	YoungPeople and YoungChildren First	1,716.70 £
13	1st Theale & Calcot Scouts	150.00 £	39	Thames ValeyAir Ambulance	500.00 £
14	95th ReadingBeaver Scouts	1,110.00 £	40	Blood Bikes	500.00 £
15	1st GoringScouts	200.00 £	41	ShelterBox	600.00 £
16	GoringHubQ1 Foundation	250.00 £	42	RotaryFoundation(General Fund)	1,000.00 £
17	MyCancer MyChoices	250.00 £	43	RotaryFoiundation(Polio Fund)	4,000.00 £
18	Curtis Palmer Program	250.00 £	44	Tilehurst fundraisingfor Ukraine	250.00 £
19	Whitcurch PrimarySchool Assoc	600.00 £	45	Brookfields School	625.00 £
20	Teenage Cancer Trust	250.00 £	46	ShelterBox	600.00 £
21	Theale CofE School PTA	320.00 £	47	Serenje Orphans Home	990.00 £
22	1st Purley& Pangbourne Scouts	180.00 £	48	Adventure Dolphin Centre	200.00 £
23	1st GoringScouts	150.00 £	49	Pangbourne Fete Committee	651.36 £
24	1st GoringGuides	150.00 £	50	Berkshire Autistic Society	2,500.00 £
25	MND Reading& West Berks	250.00 £
					36,597.16
26	Parkinsons Disease Societyof the UK	250.00 £

All requests for donations were considered by the Community Service committee before being approved by Club Council (Trustees) for payment.

All fundraising events were organised and manned by the Club, its members and friends, all of whom gave their time voluntarily.

The accounts were audited and approved by L Jones FCCA and P Sampson on 15[th] July 2024.

James Richardson President Rotary Club of Pangbourne Charitable Trust Date: 04.09. 2024

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