## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1-10-2024 Period start date To 30-9-2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: THE THREE BEARS FOUNDATION**
## **Charity registration number: 1186954**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference|||
|---|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17
||The object of the Three Bears Foundation is:
The advancement of health and the saving of
lives of people with cancer in particular but not
limited to people with pancreatic cancer.
The above object will be achieved by such
means as the Charity Trustees see fit from
time to time and may include, but shall not be
limited to:
(i)
making grants to groups or service
providers working with individual
families & groups living with a
diagnosis of cancer. and
(ii)
provide grants to charities involved
in cancer research.
(iii)
Raising awareness of the
symptoms and impact of cancer.|
|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 key fundraising activities undertaken
during the year were:
•
Donations
•
The sale of merchanse
•
Winter Ball
•
Wine Tasting Event
•
Golf Day
•
Bowling
•
Greek Night
•
Dragon Boat Race
•
Raffle tickets
•
Greek Night
Income from these activities totalled
£83,677.14.
**Donations**
The Three Bears Foundation contributed to
the3-year pancreatic cancer Research Fellow
at York St John in the sum of £40,408.|
|||The Three Bears Foundation also funded a
£20k wireless nurse-call system for the
hospice’s inpatient unit and Wellbeing Hub.
**Other Expenditure**
Costs were incurred during the period in the
sum of £51,710.60, which included fees
associated with the golf day, winter ball,
Dragon Boat Race, and Greek Night.
Merchandise was purchased for resale and
marketing; networking and administrative costs
were also incurred|
|---|---|---|
|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 regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on public
benefit and the notes to the accounts address
the areas of disclosure required under the
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
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38||
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
|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.|SORP reference
Para 1.20|In the period ended September 2025 the
charity’s fundraising activities included fund
raising through the sale of merchandise and
golf day event, Greek evening, bowling, wine
tasting, Dragon racing and a winter ball.
The Three Bears Foundation contributed to
the3-year pancreatic cancer Research Fellow
at York St John.
The Three Bears Foundation also funded a
£20k wireless nurse-call system for the
hospice’s inpatient unit and Wellbeing Hub.
Distribution of flyers to households in York
helped to increase awareness.
Trustees attended regular business networking
sessions to increase awareness of the|
|---|---|---|
symptoms and impact of cancer.
The Three Bears Foundation continued to be the resident Charity of four networking groups and during the period met with approximately 100-150 businesses and individuals during networking sessions.
## **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|The Three Bears Foundation's financial
position at 30-09-2025 was cash in the bank
in the sum of £13,654.36. This was
the Charity’s free reserves.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity currently holds free reserves for:
•
Co-funding a 3-year pancreatic
cancer Research Fellow at York St
John at an annual cost of £20k
commencing from October 2024.
•
Cessation reserve - to ensure that all
liabilities can be discharged in the
event of the charity’s closure.
•
Working capital reserve - in the event
that expenditure is needed ahead of
income being received.
•
Opportunity reserve - to provide
funding for new initiatives or
opportunities.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£13,654.36|
|---|---|---|
|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|N/A|
## **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 Para 1.46 adopted 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,royalcharter)|Para 1.25|‘Foundation’ Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|The Three Bears Foundation 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|Apart from the first Charity Trustees, every
trustee must be appointed for a term of
three years by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the Charity
Trustee.|
|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
trustee must be appointed for a term of
three years by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the Charity
Trustee.|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
trustee must be appointed for a term of
three years by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the Charity
Trustee.|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
trustee must be appointed for a term of
three years by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the Charity
Trustee.|
|---|---|---|
|**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 1.5|The Charity currently has the following
framework in place:
•
Trustee induction checklist
•
Trustee handbook.
•
Training matrix.
•
Training record/register.
•
Annual skills audit
•
Board evaluation questionnaire.|
|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**
|Charityname|Three Bears Foundation|
|---|---|
|Other name the charityuses||
|Registered charitynumber|1186954|
|Charity’s principal address|21 SIM BALK LANE
BISHOPTHORPE
YORK
YO23 2QH|
|||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Christopher James Burn|Chair||Charity Trustees to
reappoint|
||Joseph Peter Swales|Trustee||Charity Trustees to
reappoint|
||Stephen Mark Burn|Trustee||Charity Trustees to
reappoint|
||Emma May Eleanor
Hargreaves|Trustee||Charity Trustees to
reappoint|
||Roxanne Tuohy|Trustee||Charity Trustees to
reappoint|
||Peter James Boxall|Trustee||Charity Trustees to
reappoint|
||Andrew Peter Knowles|Trustee||Charity Trustees to
reappoint|
– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name** Stephen Mark Burn Roxanne Tuohy Peter James Boxall Samantha Helen Smith David Charles Tierney Richard Alan Bray John Mark Lane
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**||
|---|---|---|
|Stephen Mark Burn||Merchandise stock:
Clothing, pens, t-shirts,
sweatshirts, caps, beanies,
mugs, badges, cufflinks, golf
balls andgolf brollies|
|Roxanne Tuohy||Gazebo and Merchandise
stock|
||||
||||
||||
||||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|N/A|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
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)**
|**Names and**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**||
|**N/A**|N/A|N/A|
||||
**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** 30-07-26
|**THE THREE BEARS FOUNDATION**||**1186954**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|01-Oct-24
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|30-Sep-25|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**£83,677.14**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**83,677**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**83,677**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**83,677**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**83,677**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**83,677**
**51,711**
**62,408**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**114,119**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**114,119**
**- 30,442**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
£45,573.62|
|Total receipts|**£83,677.14**||||||||
|||||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~~~_(Gross income for_~~
_AR)_|**83,677**|||||||**45,574**|
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|||||||||**45,574**|
|||||||||16228.28|
|
Costs|**£51,710.60**|**-**||**-**||**51,711**|||
|Donations|62408.2
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**114,119**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**114,119**
**- 30,442**
**-**
**44,096**
**13,654**|**-**||**-**||**62,408**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**114,119**|**-**||**-**||**114,119**||**16,228**|
||||||||||
|**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_**|||||||||
|||||||||**16,228**|
||||||||||
||**- 30,442**|**-**||||**- 30,442**||**29,345**|
||**-**|**-**||||**-**||**-**|
||**44,096**|**-**||||**44,096**||**14,751**|
||**13,654**|**-**||||**13,654**||**44,096**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds** 30/07/2026 **funds**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS) **Categories**
**Details**
1
|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**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Cash at Bank
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
~~2~~|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**13,654**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,654**
**-**
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
Stephen Mark Burn|**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||||30/07/2026|
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||||~~30/07/2026~~|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
~~30/07/2026~~
## **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: 756ab63c0f - 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: 21/06/2026