## Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 6 April 2024 to 5 April 2025
## Section A: Reference and administration details
**Charity name** : Kingston LGBT Forum **Other names charity is known by** : Kingston LGBTQ+ Forum **Registered charity number** : 1184645 **Charity’s principal address** : 273 Walton Road, West Molesey **Postcode** : KT8 2JN
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** :
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|---|---|---|---|
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
||Lewis Friend|||
||Kate Harrad||Resigned: 24thApril 2024|
||Aaron Marlowe|||
||Samuel Quinlan|||
||Liam Rogers|||
||Karl Rutlidge|Treasurer||
||Oliver Lloyd Stredwick|Chair||
||Christopher Wray|Vice Chair|Vice Chair Appointed: 26thJune
2024|
||Kirstie Buck||Appointed: 31stMay 2024|
||Richard Grainger|Secretary|Appointed: 25thSeptember 2024|
||Charlie Parker||Resigned: 18thDecember 2024|
There have been no trustees for the charity (for example, custodian trustees) during the period to which this Annual Report relates.
## Section B: Structure, governance and management
## Description of charity’s trusts
**Type of governing document** : Constitution **How the charity is constituted** : Charitable Incorporated Organisation **Trustee selection methods** : Appointed by existing trustees
## Section C: Objects and activities
## Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
The objects of the charity are:
1. The promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames by:
- a. The elimination of discrimination on the grounds of gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation;
- b. Advancing education and raising awareness in equality and diversity and the needs of LGBT+ people and the issues affecting their lives and their communities;
- c. Promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds; and
- d. Cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity.
2. The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames who are socially excluded on the grounds of their gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation (in particular lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (“LGBT+”) people) to meet the needs of such people and assist them to fully participate in society, in particular by:
- a. Providing a local network group that encourages and enables LGBT+ people to participate more effectively with the wider community; and
- b. Increasing, or co-ordinating, opportunities for LGBT+ people to engage with service providers, to enable those providers to adapt services to better meet the needs of those people.
3. The advancement of the health and wellbeing of LGBT+ people in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames by promoting activities that have a proven beneficial effect on health and wellbeing.
## Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects
To further its objects, the charity has undertaken a programme of activities and events this year for the public benefit. Specifically, the charity has:
1. Promoted equality and diversity for the public benefit in Kingston upon Thames by providing activities for LGBTQ+ people, which took place in the local community, in venues accessible to all members of the local community, and online. The visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the community and their interaction with the wider local community cultivates a sentiment in favour of equality in diversity while also increasing LGBTQ+ people’s confidence in accessing local venues and facilities.
2. Promoted social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people in Kingston upon Thames who are socially excluded on the grounds of their gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation (in particular lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (“LGBTQ+”) people) to meet the needs of such people and assist them to fully participate in society, in particular by:
- a. Providing local peer support activities to build a network group that encourages and enables LGBTQ+ people to participate more effectively with the wider community; and
- b. Increasing and co-ordinating opportunities for LGBTQ+ people to engage with service providers, to enable those providers to adapt services to better meet the needs of those people. The charity has done this by signposting LGBTQ+ people to service providers where relevant.
3. Advanced the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames by promoting activities that have a proven beneficial effect on health and wellbeing. These activities included group peer support sessions as well as walking and yoga sessions. In further advancing the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people in Kingston, the charity organised virtual events to tackle loneliness and isolation.
In planning these activities, the charity trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit, which each trustee received upon registration of the charity or prior to being elected as a trustee.
## Section D: Achievements and performance
## Summary of the achievements of the charity during the year
During the period of this annual report, the charity:
- Delivered 163 separate events for local LGBTQ+ people in Kingston upon Thames, made up of:
- 35 online peer support sessions
- 38 physical activities, including yoga sessions, running, croquet, bowling and walking;
- 18 community development sessions for volunteers;
- 12 coffee mornings;
- 12 peer support sessions for LGBTQ+ women;
- 6 book club meetings;
- 42 other open ended peer support sessions or physical, including attending pub quizzes, Sunday lunch at a local pub, cinema trips, social events and other events devised by the volunteers in the community development sessions.
## Section E: Financial review
## Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
The charity does not have a reserves policy.
## Section F: Other optional information
None
## Section G: Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** :
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|---|---|
|**Signature**||
|**Full name**|Christopher Wray|
|**Position**|Vice Chair|
|**Date**|28/01/2026|
**Charity Name No (if any) Kingston LGBT Forum Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 6th April 2024 5th April 2025
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**472**
**13,235**
**386**
**-**
**-**
**14,092**
**-**
**-**
**14,092**
**96**
**1,825**
**629**
**3,758**
**120**
**2,572**
**25**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**254**
**2,812**
**179**
**12,270**
**-**
**-**
**12,270**
**1,822**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**472**
**13,235**
**386**
**-**
**-**
**14,092**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**472**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**472**||**487**|
|Grants|**13,235**|||||**13,235**||**6,520**|
|Events Income|**386**|||||**386**||**247**|
|Gift Aid|**-**|||||**-**||**271**|
|Miscellaneous Income|**-**|||||**-**||**2**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**14,092**|||||**14,092**||**7,526**|
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**
||||**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
||||||**-**|**14,092**||**7,526**|
|||||||||**-**|
||||||||||
|Phone and Broadband|**96**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**96**||**-**|
|Hardware Purchases|**1,825**|||||**1,825**||**607**|
|Subscriptions|**629**|||||**629**||**590**|
|Events and Meetings|**3,758**|||||**3,758**||**2,138**|
|Equipment for Events and Activities|**120**|||||**120**||**1,449**|
|Food and Drink|**2,572**|||||**2,572**||**1,515**|
|Travel and Parking|**25**|||||**25**||**61**|
|Postage and Office Costs|**-**|||||**-**||**18**|
|Marketingand Publicity|**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|Training|**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|Bankingand Insurance|**254**|||||**254**||**256**|
|StaffingCosts|**2,812**|||||**2,812**||**625**|
|Miscellaneous Expenditure|**179**|||||**179**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**12,270**|||||**12,270**||**7,260**|
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
||**-**||||**-**
**-**|**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||
||||||**-**|**12,270**||**7,260**|
||||||||||
||**1,822**||**-**||**-**|**1,822**||**266**|
||**-**||**-**|
|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
||4,712||**-**|||**4,712**||**4,446**|
||**6,534**||**-**||**-**|**6,534**||**4,712**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
21/05/2025
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|Signature
Cash in Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**6,534**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,534**
**-**
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
Christopher Wray|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
|||Christopher Wray|28/01/2026|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
21/05/2025
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