## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.07.2023 Period start date To 30.06.2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Stafford Lions Club (CIO)** ## **Charity registration number: 1181780** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Purposes are exclusively charitable by
encouraging members to take an actve interest
in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of
the community.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The Lion's Moto is "We Serve" and Staford
Lions CIO do this through service in the
community and fnancial support to those in
need.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All Trustees have received the informaton pack
issued by the Charity Commission.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|All the members consider requests for funding
that meet the overall purposes of the club. A
quorate number of members allocate donatons
based on a majority decision.
Staford Lions Club generally support the fve
pillars of Internatonal Lions service:
Diabetes
Vision
Environment
Hunger
Childhood Cancer.| |||N/A| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |---|---|---| |||| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|All club members are volunteers. On occasion
the club is helped by friends of Lions and family
of members. Subscriptons are paid by
members into the administraton account which
covers all administraton and insurance costs.| |Other||N/A| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference||| |---|---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20||**Our Charitable Actvites In Lionistc Year**
**2023-2024**
Helped at vaccinaton centres in Staford
started February 2021 and fnished January
2023, over 5,400 hours volunteered. £100 each
per month to a Staford Food Bank and the
Salvaton Army. Recycling spectacles and
hearing aids, telephones and metal. Monthly
stewarding at St. Mary’s Grade 1 listed church in
Staford. Loan of wheelchairs. Food Collecton
on the Wildwood Estate. Funded 7 partally-
sighted children to visit Lower Drayton Farm.
Helped at Sandon Village Fete. Marshalled at
the Conquer Cannock Chase Charity 10k event.
Organised an Adult Carers Party. Held a Charity
Fashion Show. Ran the Derrington Charity Race
Night. Staford cleaned the Lions Shelter at the
Natonal memorial Arboretum. Sponsored kit
man from Staford Rangers Football Club.
Bought a desk for a young student. Donatons to
‘Mum’s Walk Charity Appeal’. Some Lions atend
a fundraiser for Childhood Cancer Parents
Alliance. Wreath for Remembrance Sunday £50.
Pumpkin gleaning. Christmas Tree Festval own
tree (£50) plus marshalling at the event. 21 food
bags for young carers. Baswich Food Collecton.
Pledged £250 to ‘Happy Days’ for their show for
Special Needs children. Lions MD Youth Trust
donaton £120. £136 for the District Youth Fund.
5 Lions visited Rimbach Weschnitztal Lions (in
Germany). Very successful fundraiser for free
PSA Testng raising £1694.22 (with Gif Aid to
come later in the year). Pledged £200 to St.| John Ambulance. Our first ever PSA Prostate Awareness Testing Afternoon. 229 blood samples taken 8 Red Letters/11 Amber Letters. Loaned out 2 wheelchairs. Pledged to fund the community concert for the Weaving Dreams Festival. £100 donation to LCIF Brazilian Flood Appeal. Donation to Brain Tumour Trust. (DG’s Partner’s Appeal). Helped at a Primary Care Network to run a wellbeing event. We recycle spectacles and hearing aids. We supply ‘Message in a Bottle’ equipment, ‘Plugsters’ for arthritis sufferers, and ‘Aspods’ to carry dispersible aspirin. We went ‘gleaning’ for pumpkins which we gave to the ‘Fairshare’ Charity. **Fundraising:** Our normal fundraising mainly takes place in November to December when we do bucket collections accompanied by Santa’s Elves and a Lion in supermarkets and shopping areas in Stafford. We also raise money through delivering a local directory on a monthly basis. Food: We hold annual food collections in January and July. The food was distributed to a local Foodbank. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A| N/A Investment performance against objectives Para 1.41 Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Welfare Account £6715.19
Administraton £980.04
Edgar Fund £687.88| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Any remaining capital is carried over from one
Lionistc year to the next. The Lionistc year
ends on June 30th| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|None| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|It is our intenton to donate all money that we
have raised over aperiod of tme.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|None| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Staford Lions Club relies primarily on the
benevolence of public donatons. Our major
fund-raising events are prior to Christmas with
supermarket bucket collectons and charity
events.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Due to COVID-19 the Club found sources for
fund raising difcult, however we were given a
large contributon by a local chemist that runs a
vaccinaton centre.| N/A Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|Staford Lions Club (CIO) Consttuton| |How is the charity
constituted?(e.g
unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO - ASSOCIATION| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|According to the Lions Clubs CIO Consttuton
the club President and Treasurer are de facto
Trustees. All other Trustees are elected by the
members.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Staford Lions (CIO) are an associate member of
Lions Clubs Internatonal. UK Lions (105MD) are
organised into 8 Districts and Staford is in
District 105CN.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|As above.| |Other||None| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Staford Lions Club(CIO)| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|Nil| |Registered charitynumber|1181780| |Charity’s principal address|C/O 3 Meadow Close
Gnosall
STAFFORD
ST20 0LT| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---| |Kenneth ADAMS|Club Treasurer||| |Glenda CHARD|||| |Rose COWLEY|Club Secretary||| |Roger GAY|||| |David LEWIS|President||| |Geof MACKENZIE|Vice President||| |Ed RULE|||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** None Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |None||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for None safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** None ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** None ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details N/A ## **Other optional information** **N/A** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** _D. I. Lewis_ **Full name(s)** David Ian LEWIS **Position (eg Secretary,** Club President **Chair, etc)** **Date** March 2025 |**Staford Lions**|**Staford Lions**|**Club (CIO)**|**Club (CIO)**|**balance**|**sheet**|**June**|**30th 2024**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||**2023-24**||||**2022-23**||| ||||||||||| |**ADMIN ACCOUNT**|||||||||| ||||||||||| |Opening balance||||980.04||||1314.94|| ||||||||||| |Income||4989.27||||4206.35|||| ||||||||||| |Expenditure|||4415.79||||4541.25||| ||||||||||| |Income over expenditure||||573.48||||-334.90|| ||||||||||| |Closing balance||||1553.52||||980.04|| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**WELFARE ACCOUNT**|||||||||| ||||||||||| |Opening balance||||6715.19||||7507.51|| ||||||||||| |Income||15986.84||||7125.37|||| ||||||||||| |Expenditure|||10107.26||||7917.69||| ||||||||||| |Income over expenditure||||5879.58||||-792.32|| ||||||||||| |Closing balance||||12594.77||||6715.19|| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**EDGAR ACCOUNT**|||||||||| ||||||||||| |Opening balance||||687.88||||807.88|| ||||||||||| |Income||0.00||||100.00|||| ||||||||||| |Expenditure|||248.80||||220.00||| ||||||||||| |Income over expenditure||||-248.80||||-120.00|| ||||||||||| |Closing balance||||439.08||||687.88|| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| 1 Table 1 |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||| ||**ASSETS AS AT**|**30TH JUNE 2024**||| |||||| ||**WELFARE**|||| ||Lloyds Bank||12309.07|| ||DONR (texts)|53.20|12362.27|| ||Scrap metal|320.00|12682.27|| ||Paypal|12.50|12694.77|| ||Uncashed cheques|-100.00|**12594.77**|Q27| |||||| ||**ADMIN**|||| ||Nat West||1893.02|| ||Uncleared cheques|-339.50|**1553.52**|Q945| |||||| |||||| ||**EDGAR FUND**|||| ||Nat West||**439.08**|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| 1 ||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Staford Lions Club**|||**(CIO)**|| ||||||| |||**Welfare Account**||**Income**|| ||||||| ||**Year-ending 30th June 2024**||||| ||||||| ||**Fundraising AcPviPes**|||**Totals**|| ||Staford directories|1460.00|||| ||Christmas collecVons|1719.53|||| ||Tombola|752.10|||| ||Play your cards right|36.50|||| ||Sandon fete|50.00|||| ||Fashion show|429.11|||| ||Race night|150.00|||| ||Prostate test events/donaVons|4423.47|||| ||Queen’s summer bucket collecVon|195.51||9216.22|| ||||||| ||**DonaPons**||||| ||Cornwell’s chemists|4500.00|||| ||Carers' party|30.00|||| ||Beth’s daughter|10.00|||| ||Gene O’Neill|150.00|||| ||Anonymous at The Limes|5.00|||| ||Taxi-driver|5.00|||| ||Scrap metal (inc cash in lieu)|992.00||5692.00|| ||||||| ||**Miscellaneous**||||| ||Easyfundraising|307.50|||| ||Sale of aspods and key-ring|44.76|||| ||Sale of chocolates|10.00|||| ||Card-reader tests|3.92|||| ||Other|0.01||366.19|| ||||||| ||**GiR Aid**|712.43||712.43|| ||||||| ||||**TOTAL INCOME**|**15986.84**|| ||||||| ||||||| 1 ||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||~~**Welfare Account**~~||**Expenditure**||| ||||||| ||**Year-ending 30th June 2024**||||| ||Lodgefeld Park Residents’ Assoc|100.00|||| ||Boys’ Brigade|126.36|||| ||Xmas tree St Mary’s Church|40.00|||| ||Carers’ party|259.85|||| ||Leos’ sponsorship|77.77|||| ||Message in a Boble|150.00|||| ||Sandon Fete|4.50|||| ||Fashion show|28.49|||| ||Honor’s desk|58.99|||| ||Penkridge Scout Group (Mia)|50.00|||| ||House of Bread|200.00|||| ||Stafs Women’s Aid (2 donaVons)|440.00|||| ||Sight Savers|100.00|||| ||Care leavers|145.25|||| ||Jute bags for Cradle|75.00|||| ||Childhood Cancer Parents Alliance|240.00|||| ||OperaVon Comfort|100.00|||| ||Chris Lewis pram & sweets|115.45|||| ||June food & essenVals|194.79|||| ||Roger leavers & grobo|182.81|||| ||Happy Days Children’s Charity|252.00|||| ||Telford Lions (lion suit etc)|50.00|||| ||Youth Fund|136.00|||| ||Geof Mackenzie wreath|30.00|||| ||Staford Community Food DistribuVon|200.00|||| ||Community Transport Staford|250.00|||| ||Josh Cooper’s wheelchair|200.00|||| ||GFCT Ltd Prostate tesVng|5725.00|||| ||DG’s partner’s charity (Brain Tumour)|100.00|||| ||Brazilian Floods appeal|100.00|||| ||Parkinsons UK Staford|120.00|||| ||Weaving Dreams (St. Mary’s)|250.00|||| ||Text processing fees|5.00|EXPENDITURE|**10107.26**|| ||Excess income over expenditure|||5879.58|| ||Plus amount brought forward|||**6715.19**|| ||||BALANCE|**12594.77**|| 2 ||**Staford Lions Club **|**Staford Lions Club **|**Staford Lions Club **|**(CIO)**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||| |**Admin Account**||**Year-ending**||**30th June**|**2024**| ||||||| |||**Income**||**Balance**|| |Subs|2035.00||||| |Rafes & tailtwister|775.27||||| |Charter 2024|1459.00||||| |Christmas cards|100.00||||| |Leos|100.00||||| |Cornwell’s Chemists|500.00||||| |Chris Lewis’s son|20.00||||| |**TOTAL INCOME**|**4989.27**|||4989.27|| ||||||| |||**Expenditure**|||| |**Subs**|||||| |District|267.75||||| |MulV-district|1033.20||||| |InternaVonal|1040.81||||| |Joining fees|136.82||||| |SUB TOTAL|2478.58||2478.58||| ||||||| |**Insurance**|||||| |Equipment and cash|33.25||||| |Other inc. legal expenses|80.30||||| |SUB TOTAL|113.55||113.55||| ||||||| |**Miscellaneous**|||||| |Leos’ chain|117.00||||| |Plaque|11.25||||| |Card-reader|69.99||||| |CD player|31.99||||| |Lights|10.99||||| |Keys cut|27.00||||| |Staford Rangers-sponsoring|270.00||||| |StaVonery|28.99||||| |Birthday presents (Pauline F)|18.95||||| |Charter 2024|1182.50||||| |ICO (data protection)|35.00||||| |Gift for D.G.|20.00||||| |SUB TOTAL|1823.66||1823.66||| ||||||| |||**TOTAL**|**4415.79**|4415.79|| ||||||| |Excess income over expenditure||||573.48|| ||||||| |Balance brought forward||||980.04|| ||||||| |||**BALANCE**||**1553.52**|| 1 ||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Staford Lions Club **|||**(CIO**)|| |||**Edgar Account**|||| ||||||| |**Year-ending 30th June**|**2024**||||| ||||||**balance**| ||**Income**|||B/f|687.88| ||||||| |Nil|||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||**Expenditure**||||| ||||||| |Baswich collecVon leafets||||130.00|| |2 Food hygiene cerVfcates||||28.80|| |Wildwood collecVon leafets||||90.00|| ||||||| ||||||| ||||TOTAL|248.80|248.80| ||||||| |||||**Balance**|439.08| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| 1