## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] July 2022 Period start date To 30[th] June 2023 Period end date Charity name: SLEAFORD & DISTRICT LIONS CLUB (CIO)**
**Charity registration number: 1183828**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the Charity include
promoting the principles of good
citizenship, serving the community in moral
and welfare matters and supporting and
encouraging young people and those in
need by providing relief and humanitarian
aid.
The advancement of health by preventing
avoidable blindness and assisting disabled
people to lead independent lives or
manage health issues.|
|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 Charity and its Members have given
both physical and financial support to local
disabled/autistic children to attend a
Summer Camp, a 5 day Butlins Holiday
event and day trips for needy children plus
weekly assistance at a local Sailability Club
and a group of Craft Club members.
Donations have been made to a local Care
Home, Adult Care Centre, a children’s
Football training club, Fitness for the
elderly club, local ATC cadets and Guide
Dogs for the Blind. Members have also
donated to Sleaford Food Bank, National
Poppy Appeal, a local Talking Newspaper
group and McMillan Cancer Care.
The Club purchased a special reclining
chair for a terminally ill new mother, a
special tandem disability scooter and
helped a local man to purchase a stairlift.
Further donations were made through the
Lions International Foundation towards
relief appeals for the Mississippi Tornado,
Turkey/Syria earthquakes and Puerto Rico|
|||and Pakistan floods. Some 3,000 pairs of
used spectacles were recycled world-wide.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission in all of
the above cases.|
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference Summary of the main achievements of the charity, The Charity has benefited a number of identifying the difference the individuals and organisations both locally, charity’s work has made to nationally and internationally with direct or the circumstances of its indirect help through the Lions beneficiaries and any wider organisation. benefits to society as a whole. Para 1.20
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The Charity’s finances were in good order
at the beginning of the Lions Year (1stJuly
2022) and, following a number of
fundraising events remained so right
through to the end of June 2023. .|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity does not have a policy of
holding reserves and uses its finances to
support appeals that the Trustees consider|
|||to be worthy causes as and when they are
needed.|
|---|---|---|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|No reserves held.|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|No funds or accounts are in deficit.|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|The Trustees intend to continue the Charity
as a going concern.|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|The Charity’s governing document is The
Club’s Constitution.|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|The Charity is a Charitable Incorporated
Organisation|
|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|Trustees are volunteers from within the
Club who are then approved by the other
Members. Three posts, President,
Secretary and Treasurer are proposed,
seconded and elected|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name Sleaford & District Lions Club (CIO) Other name the charity uses The Charity uses no other names. Registered charity number 1183828
Charity’s principal address
C/o 60B Rectory Road, Ruskington, Lincolnshire NG34 9AD
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year **|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Marcus CraigGRIFFEN|President|1/7/2022–30/6/2023||
||Adrian Robert COXHEAD|Secretary|1/7/2022–30/6/2023||
||John KIRK|Treasurer|1/7/2022–30/6/2023||
||Paul JeffreyBRYAN||1/7/2022–30/6/2023||
||RoyThomas WALE||1/7/2022–30/6/2023||
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|
_M S Lawes_||
|---|---|---|
||
Michael Stephen LAWES||
||
Administrator||
||30thNovember 2023||
||30thNovember 2023||
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