Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club
Charitable Incorporated Organisation 1181586
Trustee Report and Financial Statements For the twelve month period to 30 June 2023.
Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- Reference and administrative details of the charity and trustees.
During the period ending 30 June 2023 the following were appointed by members to be trustees of the Club.
President
P Sandeman
Secretary
J Fellows
Treasurer
R J Carter
Member
J H Butterfield
Charity Registered Number 1181586
Bank
National Westminster Bank PLC
Web Site: https://leedsandskyrack.lionsclub.co/
President’s Correspondence and e-mail address
Address: 5 Parklands Avenue
Leeds LS17 6TB
Phone: 0113 266 3324
Email: petersandeman.ents@gmail.com
2. Trustees’ Report
The Trustees present their Trustee Report together with the financial statements of the Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club Charitable Incorporated Organisation (the Charity) for the period 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.
The trustees confirm that this Trustee Report and supporting financial statements of the Charity comply with the current statutory requirements of the Charity’s governing document and the recommended best practice.
3. Structure, Governance and Management
The Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) on 16 January 2019. The Leeds Lions Club was originally Chartered on 4 December 1953. The Leeds Skyrack Lions Club was originally Chartered on 5 May 1959.
The Leeds and Leeds Skyrack Lions Clubs formally combined on 1 July 2020 and we operate as the Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club CIO. New Trustees and Club Officers were appointed from that date and appropriate facilitating CIO changes were actioned.
The Constitution sets out that a minimum number of Trustees should be three and that the President, Secretary and Treasurer are all mandatory trustees. Members have agreed the appointment process in accordance with the Constitution.
The Trustees ensure that the Club is managed in accordance with the members agreed Constitution and Legislation.
The Charity has insurance cover for its activities and Lions Clubs International MD 105 provides this.
4. Grants and Charitable Objectives
The club operates across the core area of the city of Leeds. The club supports worthy local causes and charities and Lions charities nationally and internationally.
All club members work without reward and are independent of all politics or religion.
The charitable objectives of the Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club are the relief of poverty and the support of those in need and by providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief, including in particular:
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the advancement of citizenship by: promoting the principles of good citizenship
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encouraging members to take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community;
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providing a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by members;
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encouraging service-minded people to serve their community without personal reward and encouraging the promotion of high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavours;
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supporting youth to develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals;
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promoting the Voluntary Sector for the public benefit by associating with local authorities in a common effort to advance education and provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation to improve the conditions of life of people in local, national and international communities;
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promoting volunteering;
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the relief of poverty and the relief of those in need in particular by providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief;
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the advancement of health or the saving of lives by preventing avoidable blindness, assisting disabled people to lead independent lives or helping to prevent or manage health issues;
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promoting for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment; and/or
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promoting community participation in healthy recreation.
The Trustees consider all applications for support received by the CIO in accordance with our grant making policy. Recommendations are made to all members who together make the final decisions regarding supporting or not supporting requests for a grant. Under the terms of the Clubs’ Constitution, Trustees and members can apply funds at their discretion, making grants where they believe that their contribution will make a real difference. We only make grants in furtherance of our priorities for the support and our charitable objectives.
The number of applications that can be supported is, of necessity, limited to the amount of funds available for distribution in any one year. As there are numerous Lions Clubs in the UK, applications from the local Leeds area are generally given priority.
Trustees also consider international funding requests referred to them by the Lions International organisation; applications for support and/or grants are all considered on their own merits, following investigation by the Trustees and club membership.
However, given that most of the available funds are raised within the local community, those applications that are local are given special consideration. The following are examples of areas adopted for support:
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Local charities - youth groups, groups working with the elderly, residential and nursing homes, disabled and individual appeals;
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Youth and children’s organisations - sport related groups or individuals, scouting and guiding, youth club activities; young people undertaking overseas assignments;
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Community facilities - aid for disadvantaged, elderly, homeless individuals and families, village hall projects.
The above priorities in this policy are reviewed every year (or more often if deemed appropriate by the Trustees), and they may be changed in accordance with the Trustees’ view of the most effective application of available funds at any point in time.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit, and we explain how this is achieved in this report.
All the administration expenses of the CIO are funded 100% by the member’s own direct donations to the Club. These funds are held in a separate Business Administration and Reserve Bank Account.
All money raised by the Club from members of the public is used exclusively for charitable purposes and is held in a separate Charity Bank Account.
The trustees confirm that the CIO does not have any outstanding liabilities or debts.
Charitable Funds raised
The severe impact of Covid 19 health emergency during 2020/2022 resulted in limited fundraising from the local community due to on-going restrictions. This has continued to have an on-going impact on our ability to raise and distribute funds during 2022/2023.
During 2022/2023 the Club could again meet regularly and restart fundraising. We have not yet undertaken the previous level of supermarket and house-to-house collections due to the cost of living pressures and other economic and geopolitical uncertainties.
In October 2022 the Club hosted an international Carousel meeting of Lions Clubs from Helsinki, Bourge en Bresse, Parma Farnese, Haarlem, Stuttgart and Mechelen in Leeds. The delegate Clubs generously made financial donations to the Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club for Charitable Activities here in Leeds. These Charitable funds were awarded to local organisations in September 2023 and details will be included in our next report.
We have continued to deliver a wide range of service activities and provided community support but this is also not yet at full pre pandemic levels. Examples include on-going defibrillator Maintenance and work with Sightsavers
1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023
£5620.11
1 July 2021 – 30 June 2022
£1683.70
1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
£1555.42
1 July 2019 – 30 June 2020 £3468.71
1 April 2018 – 30 June 2019 £4536.55
Charitable Donations
Members have provided over 750 hours of Volunteer Service to the local community in addition to the following financial donations in the period. Brief details of the recipients or organisation are detailed below to indicate the range of activities supported.
Provided a one-week Holiday in the Filey Lions Holiday Caravan for a Leeds Disadvantaged Family.
Martin House Children’s Hospice
LCIF Donation for International Disaster Relief
Charity Balloon Race Donation
Environmental Teaching Resources for 2 Primary Schools
Lions MD Youth Projects
St Johns Hospice
Recycling Used Spectacles for Third World Countries
Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club collects over twenty thousand pairs of used spectacles, which we help to process each year. A team of Lions and other volunteers in recycling workshops sort and examine all the spectacles donated. Sorted pairs of glasses are then graded prior to distribution for reuse worldwide.
More information about this and all the Clubs wider ranging activities are available at
https://leedsandskyrack.lionsclub.co/
Membership
Membership of the Leeds & Skyrack Lions Club Charitable Incorporated Organisation at the end of June 2023 was 13. All members are volunteers and we aim to meet once per month to take part in fundraising and social activities. New volunteers and members are always most welcome.
Signed
Treasurer and Trustee
Date: 24 April 2024
Leeds Skyrack Lions Club
Registered Charity Number 1181586
| CHARITY ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 30 JUNE 2023 | ||
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| INCOME | TOTAL £ | |
| Fund Raising & Donations Received | 5620.11 | |
| (From Christmas Appeal, Amazon Smile, HMRC Gift Aid, Carousal Lions Clubs, | ||
| Enterprise Foundation plus Other Donations) | ||
| DONATIONS MADE IN YEAR TO 30 JUNE 2023 | ||
| Lions Youth Charity | 82 | |
| Filey Caravan Disadvantaged Family Holiday Support | 150 | |
| St Johns Hospice IMO Lion S Brown | 100 | |
| Martin House Children's Hospice | 1100 | |
| LCIF Donation for International Disaster Relief | 250 | |
| Charity Balloon Race Donation | 50 | |
| Environmental Teaching Resources for 2 Leeds Primary Schools | 120 | |
| Total | 1852 | |
| Direct Costs | ||
| (Includes Print, Equipment, Equipment Storage, | 631 | |
| Information Commission Registration, Gala Prizes etc.) | ||
| Brought Forward 01.07.2022 | 2449.90 | |
| Change over year | 3137.11 | |
| Carry Forward Charity Account Bank Balance 01.07.2023 | 5587.01 |
MEMBERS BUSINESS ADMIN ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 30 JUNE 2023
| INCOME TOTAL £ Members Donations 1103.44 Carousel Charity Donations 1671.04 HMRC Gift Aid 1183.96 TOTALS 3958.44 EXPENDITURE Members Donations to Lions International / UK 959.94 Web Site Fees 99.00 HMRC Gift Aid allocated to Charity Accounts 87.84 Carousel Charity Donations allocated to Charity Accounts 1671.04 TOTALS 2,817.82 Brought Fwd 01.07.2022 2,360.53 Change over year 1140.62 Carry Forward Business Members Non Charity Account Bank Balance 01.07.2023 3,501.15 Carry Forward Business Members Reserve Non Charity Bank Account (£11.66) |
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These accounts have been prepared from the books, papers and confirmation of expenditure supplied by our members on a receipts and payments basis. The balance of the funds is cash at bank are shown. They show a true and fair view for the period ending 30 June 2023. Members of the club have agreed these accounts and statements.
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