## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 Nov 2024 **To** 31 Oct 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1180396
Village Voices
**Charity's principal address** 1 Rectory Road Hollesley Woodbridge **Postcode IP12 3JS**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Cheryl Gray|Secretary|||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**TAR**
March **2012**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B**
## **Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted
Constitution
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C**
## **Objectives and activities**
To make grants primarily in the areas of Hollesley, Boyton, Capel St Andrew, Alderton and Shingle Street, and any other such locality as the Trustees may from time to time think fit.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
**TAR**
March **2012**
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**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
Such grants shall be made in furtherance of such exclusively charitable purposes including, without limitation, the following:
- a) the support of voluntary endeavour in the local community. b) the advancement of education in the local community
- c) the relief and assistance of people in need, and the prevention of hardship;
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
The charity made one major donation this year to Hollesley **Summary of the main** Village Hall who provided a Family Fun Day in August 2025 for **achievements of the charity** low income families in the Peninsula area. **during the year**
## **Section E Financial review**
The charity has no reserves since no income has **Brief statement of the** been received due to cost cutting by the principal sponsor. **charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
**TAR**
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You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
## **Signature(s)**
Cheryl Gray **Full name(s)** Gerry Bathe **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer Secretary **etc) Date** 20/11/2025
**TAR**
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||**Charity Name**
Village Voices|**Charity Name**
Village Voices|**Charity Name**
Village Voices|**No (if any)**
1180396|**No (if any)**
1180396|**No (if any)**
1180396|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/11/2024|**To**||Period end date
31/10/2025|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-500**
**-**
**2863**
**2363**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**-500**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|||||||**590**|
|Grants|**-**||||||**635**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
||||||**1,225**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|
**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**1,225**|
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|Grants|**500**||||||**500**|
|Refund ofgrant|**-**||||||**635**|
|Bank charges|||||||**1**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**500**||||||**1136**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**601**|
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||**-500**|**-**|**-**||
**-500**||**780**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**2863**|**-**|**-**||**2863**||**1,994**|
||**2363**|**-**|**-**||
**2,363**||**2,863**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,863**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,363**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Diane Ray
Cheryl Gray|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Diane Ray|20/11/25|
|||Cheryl Gray|20/11/25|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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