**Purposes are exclusively charitable by encouraging members to take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community**
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01.07.2024 Period start date To 30.06.2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: STAFFORD LIONS CLUB CIO**
**Charity registration number: 1181780** 11817801181780
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|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 active
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 Motto is "We Serve" and
Stafford Lions CIO do this through service
in the community and financial 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**
**information pack issued by the Charity**
**Commission.**|
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|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 donations based on a majority
decision.
Stafford Lions Club generally support the
five pillars of International Lions service:
Diabetes
Vision
Environment
Hunger
Childhood Cancer|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|N/A|
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|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.
Subscriptions are paid by members into the
administration account which covers all
administration and insurance costs.|
|Other||N/A|
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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||Our Charitable Activities In Lionistic Year
2024-2025:
During 2024/2025 our activities have
included marshalling at Conquer Cannock for
the Roy Castle Charity 10k event, participating
in running stalls at Sandon Village Fete,
marshalling at Katherine House Hospice
Memory Walk, fundraiser for CCPA, our
murder mystery evening raised £1000,
attended Gotta Sing concerts to raise money
for PSA testing, visiting Lions Club in Rimbach
Weschnitztal Germany.
We have ongoing service projects:
recycling spectacles and hearing aids,
telephones and scrap metal, monthly
stewarding at St Mary’s Church, loaning
out of wheelchairs and other equipment,
training of camera operatives for the vision
screening camera, mentoring a school
based Alpha Leos Club, hosting our annual
carers party, 21 food bags donated to
young carers via Families First, cleaning of
the Lions shelter at the National Memorial
Arboretum, Vision screening in Stafford
Primary Schools for year reception
children, PSA screening for 258 men
Stafford Lions Club has financially
supported the following:£100 monthly
donation to a Stafford Food Bank, £240
sponsorship for a kit man at Stafford Rangers
Football Club, £100 donation to Eye Cancer
Trust, £400 donated to Stafford and District
Stroke Club, £100 to Kids Cancer Charity, £500
to Lions Club International for Stoves for
Ukraine, £450 for christmas gifts for teenagers
at Staffordshire Women’s aid, £150 donation
for Operation Comfort,£400 donation to|
Childhood Cancer Parents Allliance, £20 donation to LCIF flooding in Spain, £120 for Lions MD Youth Trust, £100 donation to Wildwood Community Centre, £6,000 to purchase a vision screening camera, £136 for the District Youth fund, £100 for aid work abroad, £250 for moving on packs for care leavers, £500 for Head and Neck cancer ward, £50 for christmas tree festival, £100 donation to new Boys Brigade We donated and sponsored a medical detection dog and also a dog through dogs for the blind. We have done ‘gleaning’ for pumpkins which we gave to the ‘Fairshare’ Charity. Fundraising: The majority of our normal fundraising mainly takes place in November and the festive season when we do bucket collections accompanied by Santa’s Elves and a Lion in supermarkets and shopping areas in Stafford and Penkridge. 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 by a local foodbank.
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
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## **Fincial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of theperiod|Para 1.21|Welfare Account £10,312.10
Administration £2,324.55
Edgar Fund £88.26|
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|Any remaining capital is carried over from
one Lionistic year to the next. The Lionistic
year ends on June 30th.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|None|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|It is our intention to donate all money that
we have raised over aperiod of time.|
|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|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Stafford Lions Club relies primarily on the
benevolence of public donations. Our major
fund-raising events are prior to Christmas
with supermarket bucket collections and
charity events.|
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|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|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed,royalcharter)|Para 1.25|Stafford Lions Club (CIO) Constitution|
|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
Constitution the club President and
Treasurer are de facto Trustees. All other
Trustees are elected by the members.|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|Self-study.|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Stafford Lions (CIO) are an associate
member of Lions Clubs International. UK
Lions (Multi District 105) are organised into
8 Districts and Stafford is in District 105CN.|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|As above.|
|Other||None|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|Stafford Lions Club(CIO)|
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|Other name the charityuses|Nil|
|Registered charitynumber|1181780|
|Charity’s principal address|C/O 76 Porlock Avenue,
Stafford, ST17 0HS|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee Name**|**Office**|**Dates acted if not whole**
**year**|**Name of person entitled to**
**appoint trustee**|
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|CarlyTrusler|President|||
|Kathryn Podmore|Vice President|||
|Kenneth Adams|Treasurer|||
|Rose Cowley|Secretary|||
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– 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
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the None 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
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## **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) C Trusler**
**Full name (s) Carly Emma Trusler**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) President**
**Date 12/03/2026**