
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From 1-10-2023 Period start date To 30-9-2024 Period end date** 

## **Charity name: THE THREE BEARS FOUNDATION** 

## **Charity registration number: 1186954** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|The object of the Three Bears Foundation is:<br>The advancement of health and the saving of<br>lives of people with cancer in particular but not<br>limited to people with pancreatic cancer.<br>The above object will be achieved by such<br>means as the Charity Trustees see fit from<br>time to time and may include, but shall not be<br>limited to:<br>(i)<br>making grants to groups or service<br>providers working with individual<br>families & groups living with a<br>diagnosis of cancer. and<br>(ii)<br>provide grants to charities involved<br>in cancer research.<br>(iii)<br>Raising awareness of the<br>symptoms and impact of cancer.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|The key fundraising activities undertaken<br>during the year were:<br>•<br>Donations<br>•<br>The sale of merchandise<br>•<br>Winter Ball<br>•<br>Wine Tasting Event<br>•<br>Golf Day<br>•<br>Bowling<br>•<br>Greek Night<br>Income from these activities totalled<br>£45,573.62.<br>Costs were incurred during the period in the<br>sum of £16,228.28 which included fees to host<br>a golf day and a winter ball. Merchandise was<br>purchased for resale and marketing; networking<br>and administrative costs were also incurred|





|||The Three Bears Foundation continued to<br>maintain its profile, raise awareness about<br>pancreatic cancer and planned fundraising<br>events for future years.|
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|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees have had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity Commission on public<br>benefit and the notes to the accounts address<br>the areas of disclosure required under the<br>Charities SORP (FRS 102).|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38||
|Other|||



## **Achievements and Performance** 

|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|SORP reference<br>Para 1.20|In the period ended September 2024 the<br>charity’s fundraising activities included fund<br>raising through the sale of merchandise and<br>golf day event, Greek evening, bowling, wine<br>tasting and a winter ball. The charity provided<br>grants to charities involved in cancer research.<br>Distribution of flyers to households in York<br>helped to increase awareness.<br>Trustees attended regular business networking<br>sessions to increase awareness of the<br>symptoms and impact of cancer.<br>The Three Bears Foundation continued to be<br>the resident Charity of four networking groups<br>and during the period met with approximately<br>100-150 businesses and individuals during<br>networking sessions.|
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## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
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|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||



## **Financial Review** 

|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|The Three Bears Foundation's financial<br>position at 30-09-2024 was cash in the bank<br>in the sum of £44,096.02. This was<br>the Charity’s free reserves.|
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|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity currently holds free reserves for:<br>•<br>Co-funding a 3-year pancreatic<br>cancer Research Fellow at York St<br>John at an annual cost of £20k<br>commencing from October 2024.<br>•<br>Cessation reserve - to ensure that all<br>liabilities can be discharged in the<br>event of the charity’s closure.<br>•<br>Working capital reserve - in the event<br>that expenditure is needed ahead of<br>income being received.<br>•<br>Opportunity reserve - to provide<br>funding for new initiatives or<br>opportunities.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£44,096.20|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|N/A|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed,royalcharter)|Para 1.25|‘Foundation’ Constitution|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|The Three Bears Foundation is a<br>Charitable Incorporated Organisation.|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Apart from the first Charity Trustees, every<br>trustee must be appointed for a term of<br>three years by a resolution passed at a<br>properly convened meeting of the Charity<br>Trustee.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charityname|Three Bears Foundation|
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|Other name the charityuses||
|Registered charitynumber|1186954|
|Charity’s principal address|21 SIM BALK LANE<br>BISHOPTHORPE<br>YORK<br>YO23 2QH|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**<br>**entitled to appoint trustee**<br>**(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Christopher James Burn|Chair||Charity Trustees to<br>reappoint|
||Joseph Peter Swales|Trustee||Charity Trustees to<br>reappoint|
||Stephen Mark Burn|Trustee||Charity Trustees to<br>reappoint|
||Emma May Eleanor<br>Hargreaves|Trustee||Charity Trustees to<br>reappoint|
||Roxanne Tuohy|Trustee||Charity Trustees to<br>reappoint|
||Peter James Boxall|Trustee||Charity Trustees to<br>reappoint|
||Andrew Peter Knowles|Trustee||Charity Trustees to<br>reappoint|



– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

**Director name** Christopher James Burn Joseph Peter Swales Stephen Mark Burn Emma May Eleanor Hargreaves Roxanne Tuohy Peter James Boxall Andrew Peter Knowles 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**||
|---|---|---|
|Stephen Mark Burn||Merchandise stock:<br>Clothing, pens, t-shirts,<br>sweatshirts, caps, beanies,<br>mugs, badges, cufflinks, golf<br>balls andgolf brollies|
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

|Description of the assets<br>held in this capacity|N/A|
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|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian<br>charity’s objects|N/A|





Details of arrangements for N/A 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**<br>**adviser**|**Name**<br>**Address**|**Name**<br>**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**N/A**|N/A|N/A|
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## **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) Full name(s)** Roxanne Tuohy **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc)** 

**Date** 4[th] July 2025 



**CC16a** 


|**THE THREE BEARS FOUNDATION**|**THE THREE BEARS FOUNDATION**|**THE THREE BEARS FOUNDATION**|**1186954**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period**<br>**from**|01-Oct-23|**To**|30-Sep-24|



## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total**<br>**funds**||**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**to the nearest**||**to the**||**to the nearest**||**to the**||**to the**|
||**£**||**nearest £**||**£**||**nearest £**||**nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Total receipts|£45,573.62||**-**||**-**||**45,574**||£27,141.92|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**45,574**||**-**||**-**||**45,574**||**27,142**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||
|**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|



|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>£45,573.62<br>**-**<br>**45,574**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>£45,573.62<br>**-**<br>**45,574**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the**<br>**nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the**<br>**nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total**<br>**funds**<br>**to the**<br>**nearest £**<br>**45,574**<br>**-**<br>**45,574**|**Total**<br>**funds**<br>**to the**<br>**nearest £**<br>**45,574**<br>**-**<br>**45,574**|**Last year**<br>**to the**<br>**nearest £**<br>£27,141.92|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Total receipts|£45,573.62<br>**-**|||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**45,574**||||||||**27,142**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|**45,574**<br>16228.28<br>**16,228**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**16,228**<br>**29,345**<br>**-**<br>**14,751**<br>**44,096**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**45,574**<br>**16,228**<br>**16,228**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**16,228**<br>**29,345**<br>**-**<br>**14,751**<br>**44,096**|||
||||||||||**27,142**|
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|Total payments|16228.28||||||||**37,507**|
|**_Sub total_**|**16,228**||||||||**37,507**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**37,507**|
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||**29,345**||**-**||**-**||**29,345**||**-**<br>**10,365**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**14,751**||**-**||**-**||**14,751**||**25,116**|
||**44,096**||**-**||**-**||**44,096**||**14,751**|





## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Categories Details funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B1 Cash funds** Cash at Bank **44,096 - - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **44,096 -** (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK OK **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B2 Other monetary - assets - - - - - Fund to which Cost Current value Details asset belongs (optional) (optional) B3 Investment assets - - - - Fund to which Cost Current value Details asset belongs (optional) (optional) B4 Assets retained - for the charity’s own - - use - Fund to which Amount due When due Details liability relates (optional) (optional) B5 Liabilities - - -** 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the Signature trustees 


Date of Print Name approval Roxanne Tuohy 4[th] July 2025 



## **Notes to the Accounts** 

- 1 Disclosure of trustees’ remuneration and benefits 

- None of the trustees have been paid any remuneration or received any other benefits from an employment with their charity or a related entity. 

- 2 Disclosure of trustees’ expenses 

No trustee expenses have been incurred during the period. 

## 3 Disclosure of related party transactions 

There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period that require disclosure. 

4 Disclosure of audit, independent examination and other financial service fees 

There have been no fees incurred during the period for audit, independent examination or other financial service fees. 

- 5 Disclosure of ex-gratia payments 

No ex-gratia payments were made by the Charity during the reporting period. 

- 6 Disclosure of staff costs and employee benefits/management remuneration No staff costs or employee benefits were incurred during the reporting period. 



Sign.com Document ID: 0bafe01081 - Page 1/1 

## **Independent examiner’s statement** 

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 

(1) Accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or 

(2) The accounts do not accord with those records. 

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 

Signed 


Name: Hoi Yuen Chan 

Relevant professional qualification or body: FCCA 

Address: York Eco Business Centre, Amy Johnson Way, York YO30 4AG 

Date: 10/06/2024 

