## **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. 1 ## **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 2 8888 Rotary Club of Pangbourne Charity Account Donatk>ns Made - 2023r24 Date 11.0723 27.0723 30.0823 20.0923 20.0923 28.09.23 02.1023 21.1123 22.11.23 23.1123 05.1223 05.1223 09.0124 09.0124 09.0124 09.0124 09.0124 09.01.24 09.01.24 09.0124 09.0124 09.01.24 12.0124 12.0124 17.0124 03.0224 05.0224 08.0224 08.0224 08.0224 08.02.24 08.0224 15.0224 20.0224 19.0324 16.0424 22.0424 28.05.24 04.0624 04.0624 04.06.24 04.0624 04.0624 04.0624 10.0624 10.0624 10.0624 12.0624 12.0624 25.0624 B•n•lklary RYLA Readil)od Purtèy Suslainability Group Tllehursl tundraigng for Ukraine KIdS(￿rt Disaster Aid UK Bribsh Red Cross Berks MS Therapy ReLx)vèry in Mind The Aub'sm Group Dgft*ntla UK ReadifDc*J IslTheale & C810)t Sctwls 95th Reading Beaver Scouts 1st Goring Sccwjts ikn.ng Hub Q1 FLwndalon My Cancer Kfy Choi Curtis Palmer Progr8m Vthitojrch Primary Sthool T￿na9& Canc8r Twst Theale COE Sthc*Jl PTA 1st Pudey & Pangboumt S(>)uts 1st &Ning sC￿ts 191 CA)ring Guid9$ MND Reading & Wesl Bgrk8 Partinsons Disease Soo"ety of tho UK Pa￿￿sonS UK LaunthPad Readlng Churthes In Reading Drop In Cgntre Wesl Bertshire Homg1088 Literacy in a Box S￿rt in Mind Swenjè ￿phanS Home Nicholas ￿Tr￿)n Foundatson Nut1urg MND Reading &W8st Borks Nabjre Nurture Young People and Young Child￿n First £ Thames V8ley Aml)ul•nc¢ Bloc*J Bikes Shèlt•rBox Rolary Foundation l&nernl Fund) Rolary Foiundation (Polio Fund) Tilehurst fundraisng lor Ukraine BffK)kfields Sthool Shelter8ox Serenje (hphan5 Horne Adventurn Ddphin Centre Pan9￿ume Foto Commiltoe Bet*shirn Aub"sllc Swiety 861.(H) 1.250.(KI 500.00 250. 250.￿) 2,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 250.00 500.00 483.10 150.00 1.110.00 200.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 600.00 250.00 320.00 180.00 150.00 150.00 250.00 250.00 2,150.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1.000.00 395.00 1,000.00 1,015.00 250.00 500.00 250.00 200.00 1.716 70 500.00 500.00 600.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 250.00 625.00 600.00 990.00 200.00 651.36 2.500.00 T¢)tsl Donatkx .36 0110712024 8888 Rotary Club of Pangbourne Charity Account Donatk>ns Made - 2023r24 Date 11.0723 27.0723 30.0823 20.0923 20.0923 28.09.23 02.1023 21.1123 22.11.23 23.1123 05.1223 05.1223 09.0124 09.0124 09.0124 09.0124 09.0124 09.01.24 09.01.24 09.0124 09.0124 09.01.24 12.0124 12.0124 17.0124 03.0224 05.0224 08.0224 08.0224 08.0224 08.02.24 08.0224 15.0224 20.0224 19.0324 16.0424 22.0424 28.05.24 04.0624 04.0624 04.06.24 04.0624 04.0624 04.0624 10.0624 10.0624 10.0624 12.0624 12.0624 25.0624 B•n•lklary RYLA Readil)od Purtèy Suslainability Group Tllehursl tundraigng for Ukraine KIdS(￿rt Disaster Aid UK Bribsh Red Cross Berks MS Therapy ReLx)vèry in Mind The Aub'sm Group Dgft*ntla UK ReadifDc*J IslTheale & C810)t Sctwls 95th Reading Beaver Scouts 1st Goring Sccwjts ikn.ng Hub Q1 FLwndalon My Cancer Kfy Choi Curtis Palmer Progr8m Vthitojrch Primary Sthool T￿na9& Canc8r Twst Theale COE Sthc*Jl PTA 1st Pudey & Pangboumt S(>)uts 1st &Ning sC￿ts 191 CA)ring Guid9$ MND Reading & Wesl Bgrk8 Partinsons Disease Soo"ety of tho UK Pa￿￿sonS UK LaunthPad Readlng Churthes In Reading Drop In Cgntre Wesl Bertshire Homg1088 Literacy in a Box S￿rt in Mind Swenjè ￿phanS Home Nicholas ￿Tr￿)n Foundatson Nut1urg MND Reading &W8st Borks Nabjre Nurture Young People and Young Child￿n First £ Thames V8ley Aml)ul•nc¢ Bloc*J Bikes Shèlt•rBox Rolary Foundation l&nernl Fund) Rolary Foiundation (Polio Fund) Tilehurst fundraisng lor Ukraine BffK)kfields Sthool Shelter8ox Serenje (hphan5 Horne Adventurn Ddphin Centre Pan9￿ume Foto Commiltoe Bet*shirn Aub"sllc Swiety 861.(H) 1.250.(KI 500.00 250. 250.￿) 2,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 250.00 500.00 483.10 150.00 1.110.00 200.00 250.00 250.00 250.00 600.00 250.00 320.00 180.00 150.00 150.00 250.00 250.00 2,150.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1.000.00 395.00 1,000.00 1,015.00 250.00 500.00 250.00 200.00 1.716 70 500.00 500.00 600.00 1,000.00 4,000.00 250.00 625.00 600.00 990.00 200.00 651.36 2.500.00 T¢)tsl Donatkx .36 0110712024