## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1/1/23 (Period start date) To 31/12/23 (Period end date)**
## **Charity name: The Gregory Mills Foundation (A Charitable Trust)**
## **Charity registration number: 1186442**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Providing grants/raising awareness of**
**need in following areas/following**
**beneficiaries:**
**- Financial need/education of children**
**- Amateur sport/physical development of**
**the young**
**- Food and clean water**
**- Animal welfare**
**- Marine environment**
**protection/improvement**|
|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|**Principally the funding of**
**Charities/NGOs/Projects having regard to**
**our Objects and the guidance of The**
**Charity Commission as to Public Benefit**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had, and continue to**
**have, regard to this guidance**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by
volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
Our primary objective and focus this year
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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|
|---|---|---|
|SORP reference|||
|||**Our primary objective and focus this year**|
|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|**(2023) has been the financial support of**
**Mother Miracle students and continued**
**support for disabled children in Sierra**
**Leone.**
**2024 will see us once again looking to**
**increase the number and variety of**
**projects that we support.**|
**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||
|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|**Please see filed accounts**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Trustees ensure that income/account**
**balance always exceeds commitments in**
**anticipation of ongoing future**
**commitments.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**At the end of this financial year reserves**
**of £33,560 were held**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**|
|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|**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||
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Trust**|
|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|**Appointed by Resolution of Trustees**|
## **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||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name The Gregory Mills Foundation (A Charitable Trust)
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number 1186442
Charity’s principal address Wyndham Cottage
Prospect Road
Sandgate
CT20 3DG
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
Christopher John Trustee & Chairman
1
Mills
2 Karine Mills Trustee
Rebecca Elizabeth Trustee
3
Houghton Mills
Carole Laugier Trustee
4
Naim
Ashleigh Paige Trustee
5
Bennett
Wendy Dawn Moss Trustee 20 May 2023 – 31
6
December 2023
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets 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 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**|||
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **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)** Rebecca Elizabeth Houghton Mills **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 11/10/2023
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The Gregory Mills Foundation (A Charitable Trust) 1186442
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01-Jan-23 31-Dec-23
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations 30,451 - - 30,451 32,299
Interest received from cash at bank 67 - - 67 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
30,518 - - 30,518 32,299
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 30,518 - - 30,518 32,299
A3 Payments
Education and sport for young people 16,996 - - 16,996 9,032
Marine environment preservation - - - - -
Animal welfare - - - - -
Admin costs 91 - - 91 136
Cost of fundraising activities 9,870 - - 9,870 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 26,957 ] - - 26,957 9,168
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 26,957 - - 26,957 9,168
Net of receipts/(payments) 3,561 - - 3,561 23,131
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 29,999 - - 29,999 6,868
Cash funds this year end 33,560 - - 33,560 29,999
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
11/10/2024
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Cash at bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**33,560**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**33,560**
**-**
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
Rebecca Mills|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
11/10/2023|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
11/10/2024
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report
on the accounts
Report to the
trusteesldlrectorsl
members of
The Gregory Mills Found81ion IA Charitable Tru51}
On accounts for the year
ended
31 December 2023
Charlty no.:
1186442
Company no.:
Set out on pages
I report to the charity Iruslees on my examinatlon of tho accounts of the
Company for the year ended 311 I'x I lol
Responsibilities and basis As the charily's trustees of the Company (who are also the directors of the
of report
company for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the
preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the
Companies Act 20061.the 2006 Act").
Having satisfied mys8lf that the accounts of the Company are not required
to be audiled for this year under Parl 16 of the 2006 Acl and are eliglble for
independenl examination, I report in respect of my examination of your
chaTily's accounts as carried out under seclion 145 of the Gharilies Act 2011
I'the 2011 Acl'l. In carrying out my examination, I have followed the
Directions given by the Charity Commission {under section 145{5llb) of lh8
2011 Act.
Independent examiner's
statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matlers have
orne lo my attention fyth9> disettfsrfrfwhich gives me
cause to beli8ve thal..
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the
Companles Act 2006., or
the accounts do not accord with such records., or
the accounts do not comply with relevant accounting requiremenls under
section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 other than any requirement that th8
accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as parl
of an independent examination- or
.the accourbls hav8 not been prepared In accordance with the Charitie$
SORP {FRS102).
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
wilh the examination lo which attention should be drawn in thi5 report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the accoLAnts to be reached.
Please d
te the words in the brackets if Èhey do nol apply.
Slgnad:
Dale:
1.11.2024
IER
October 2018
Name:
lan Stuart Milroy
Relevant professlonal
qualifleation(s) or body {if
any):
C.T.A
Address:
33 Parkland Avenue
Upminsler
Essex, RM14 2EX
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concem
(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and
guidance for examiners).
Give here brlef details
of any items that the
examiner wlshes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018