The Fontmell Trust CIO
Registered charity number: 1179189 Principal address: 24 High Grove, St Albans, Herts AL3 5SU
REPORT for the year ended 5[th] April 2024
Charity trustees
John Nicholas Veryan Truscott (Chair) Eleanor Mary Truscott Ruth Mary Tuckwell
All acting for the complete period of this report. The Trust employs no staff.
The Fontmell Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with a constitution dated 13[th] July 2018.
Future charity trustees are appointed by resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the existing charity trustees.
Objects of the charity
The objects of the charity are as follows:
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(a) To advance the Christian faith for the benefit of the public in accordance with the Statement of Beliefs appearing in the schedule attached to the constitution in such ways as the charity trustees may from time to time think fit.
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(b) To relieve persons who are in conditions of need, financial hardship or sickness and to relieve the distress caused thereby in such parts of the world and in such ways as the charity trustees may from time to time think fit.
The trustees only give grants to charitable projects in which the family already have a personal interest. They are unable to consider general grant-making requests.
Activities undertaken for the public benefit
The distribution of funds by way of gifts and grants to other charities and individuals which advance the objects of the charity.
During the period of this report the charity trustees have authorised and made payments to
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a Church of England parish church for its general funds,
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six international Christian mission agencies and their field workers,
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one UK Christian mission agency,
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a Christian charitable agency resourcing young people’s work in the UK,
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one Christian mission agency enabling Bible translation/distribution throughout the world.
All payments have been to UK bank accounts and the trustees have taken care to ensure they have appropriate internal financial controls in place with proper receipts requested and filed for each gift or grant made.
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In addition, the charity trustees are confident that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when making gifts and grants and have read the relevant Charity Commission publications on this.
Main achievements during the period
The trustees receive regular reports from each charity or individual that receives gifts or grants and so are able to monitor the impact that their gifts or grants are having.
Examples include the ongoing provision of accommodation and education for street children from Kampala, the growth and development of a school for children living in poverty in Lusaka, distribution of the Scriptures to pastors in East Asia, further steady progress made to complete the translation of the Bible for the first time into the Toba language in Argentina, new activities and support for young people in the St Albans area, and the continuing activities of a UK parish church as it serves its local community through free meals, practical support for children and families on its estate and a wide range of other church activities.
Financial reserves
The charity trustees seek to pass on funds given to the Fontmell Trust without undue delay and so aim not to hold significant balances or to build up any material reserves.
The charity trustees have today approved the report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity trustees
John Nicholas Veryan Truscott (Chair) Ruth Mary Tuckwell (Trustee) 26[th] July 2024
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The Fontmell Trust CIO
Registered charity number: 1179189 Principal address: 24 High Grove, St Albans, Herts AL3 5SU
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT for the year ended 5[th] April 2024
| Total funds (unrestricted) | 2022/23 | |
|---|---|---|
| Receipts | ||
| Gift Aid gifts received | 22,000 | 7,000 |
| Other gifts received | --- | --- |
| Tax refunded on 2022/23 gifts | 1,750 | 3,375 |
| ______ | ______ | |
| Total receipts | £ 23,750 | £ 10,375 |
| _____ | _____ | |
| Payments | ||
| Charitable gifts and grants | 23,800 | 10,300 |
| ______ | ______ | |
| Total payments | £ 23,800 | £ 10,300 |
| _____ | _____ | |
| Net of receipts over payments | (50) | 75 |
| Cash funds at 6thApril 2023 | 198 | 123 |
| ______ | ______ | |
| Cash funds this year end | £ 148 | £ 198 |
| _____ | _____ |
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AT THE END OF THE PERIOD
Cash funds
Cash at bank at 5[th] April 2024 £ 148
Other monetary assets
Gift Aid tax reclaim outstanding at 5[th] April 2024 £ 5,500
Note
There are no other assets or liabilities. No guarantee has been given by the CIO where any potential liability under the guarantee is outstanding at 5[th ] April 2024. No debt is outstanding at this date which is owed by the CIO and which is secured by an express charge on any assets of the CIO.
Signed:
Ruth Mary Tuckwell (Trustee)
John Nicholas Veryan Truscott (Chair) 26[th] July 2023
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