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CEDAR HOUSE PRESTON Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation 1186644
Trustees Annual Report and Accounts
Year Ended 31 December 2025
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CEDAR HOUSE PRESTON
Legal and Administrative Details
Year ended 31 December 2025
Address 6 Chapel Street, Preston, PR1 8BU Governing Document Constitution dated 28 November 2019 Charity Registration No 1186644 Trustees Mrs Valerie A Barker Ms Charlotte R Hubback Dr Philip Johns Mrs Tamara J McNamara - Resigned February 2025 Mrs Hazel N M Sewell MBE (Chair) Mr Edward P Simmons Dr Dawn A Webster MD Bankers HSBC Bank, 49a Fishergate, Preston PR1 8BH Independent Examiner Mr Ian Higginbotham FCIB 7 Whittle Green, Woodplumpton Preston PR4 0WG
Structure and Objectives.
The charity is governed by its constitution as a charitable incorporated organisation. Its principal objects are: - a) The promotion and protection of health for the public benefit by providing or assisting in the provision, primarily but not exclusively, for people suffering from psychological or emotional distress and resident in NW of England b) Also the promotion of such other charitable purposes carried out in connection with the above objects
Governance and Management
Responsibility for setting policy and making operational decisions rests with the Trustees who meet regularly to monitor progress and the activities of the charity. Responsibiliy for the day-to-day operation of the charity has been delegated to a senior management team led by Fiona Blacklidge and Juhwan Kim. New Trustees are recruited and appointed on a majority vote by the existing trustees.
Accounting Policies
The accounts will be prepared on a receipts and payments basis. There are no restricted funds.
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CEDAR HOUSE PRESTON
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2025
Reserves Policy
The trustees have reviewed the Reserves Policy. Hitherto, when we had been operating from owned premises it was deemed that three months expenditure of no less than £15,000 was appropriate to enable the charity to manage within the usual variations of income and expenditure. Now, since the sale of the previous Mount Street property, the move to rental property at Chapel Street and the upscaling of activities it has been felt appropriate to increase this to the equivalent of six months expenditure - ie approximately £35,000.
Summary of the main activities and achievements
To further the above objects and vision, the charity's main activities and achievements were to offer counselling sessions with trained, approved and supervised counsellors in a format which provides public benefit in accordance with guidance given via the Charity Commissioners.
In the first half of the year we averaged some 510 counselling sessions per month, which is broadly in line with previous levels, prior to our selling our previous Mount Street premises, and moving to much larger rental premises at Chapel Street. This has substantially increased our counselling capacity, and in the latter part of the year we were able to offer over 575 sessions per month - and as we have more fully settled into the property we are pleased to report the increasing trend is continuing..
Financial Review
With the move of premises, and the necessitated expenditure and preparation costs, which increased by £13k compared with last year, we were particularly grateful that gifts increased by a similar amount. Our accounts were boosted by a surplus of £59k on the sale of Mount Street, resulting in an overall surplus for the year of £72.6k compared with last year's surplus of £6.9k.
The property sale has left us with a substantial balance of cash at the bank, and the trustees are now actively considering how this should be used.
Risk Management
The trustees are guided by Best Practice policies to cover financial, reputational and safeguarding risks
Approved by the Board of Trustees on 5th August 2026 and signed on their behalf. (Original signed and held by Trustees in accordance with Charity Commission guidelines)
Hazel Sewell (Chair of Trustees)
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CEDAR HOUSE PRESTON
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2025
| Income/Receipts | unrestricted | unrestricted | No Restricted giving or expenditure | 2024 | |
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| Donations | 62,185 | 47,741 | |||
| Gift Aid | 5,532 | 12,435 | |||
| Grants | 12,200 | ||||
| Interest | 2,314 | 2,188 | |||
| Net surplus on sale of property | 59,041 | ||||
| Other Income | 793 | 693 | |||
| Payments | 142,065 | 63,057 | |||
| Employment Costs | 37,511 | 37,372 | |||
| Counselling Supervision | 8,760 | 6,930 | |||
| Rent | 6,667 | ||||
| Telephone and IT | 1,593 | 2,214 | |||
| Utilities | 2,576 | 2,864 | |||
| Independent Examination | 1,200 | 1,250 | |||
| Legal and Professional | 5,488 | 1,422 | |||
| Office Expenses | 1,574 | 1,707 | |||
| Insurance | 857 | 1,014 | |||
| Repairs and Maintenance | 3,209 | 69,435 | 1,372 56,145 |
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| Surplus Receipts/Payments | 72,630 | 6,912 | |||
| BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2025 | |||||
| Fixed Assets | |||||
| 23 Mount Street Preston | 110,000 | ||||
| Current Assets | |||||
| Bank Accounts | 259,102 | 76,855 | |||
| Petty Cash | 211 | 259,313 | 62 76,917 |
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| Debtors (Stripe) | 234 | 2,203 2,203 |
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| Less Current Liabilities | |||||
| Creditors | 1,200 | ||||
| Accruals | 0 | 598 1,798 |
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| NET RESOURCES | 259,547 | 187,322 | |||
| RECONCILIATION | |||||
| Opening Bank CASH & Fixed Assets | 186,917 | ||||
| Plus Surplus for year | 72,630 | ||||
| Closing Resources | 259,547 |
DECLARATION
I declare that at a meeting of the Board of Trustees held 5th August 2026 the above financial report was duly approved; and I have been so authorised to sign on their behalf.
(Original signed and held by Trustees in accordance with Charity Commission guidelines)
Hazel Sewell - Chair of Trustees
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Cedar House Preston
Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation 1186644
Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees Cedar House, Preston
I report on the accounts for the period to 31 December 2025 which are set out on page 4
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The Charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts and consider an audit is not required this year under requirement of S144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (The 2011 Act) and that an Independent Examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to a) examine the Accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act
b)to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by Charity
Commissioners under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act:
c) to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of Independent Examiner's Report
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records.It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required for an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view', and the report is limited to 'those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent Examiner's Report
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention
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(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respects the requirements
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To keep proper accounting records in accordance with Section 130 of the 2011 Act; and
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To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act
have not been met or
(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
(Original signed and held by the Trustees in accordance with Charity Commission guidelines)
Ian Higginbotham FCIB 6th August 2026