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The Polmax Charitable Trust 1187487<br>Receipts and payments accounts CC16a<br>For the period  Period start date Period end date<br>To<br>from 22/08/2024 21/08/2025<br>Section A Receipts and payments<br>Unrestricted  Restricted  Endowment<br>Total funds Last year<br>funds funds funds<br>to the nearest      £  to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £<br>A1 Receipts<br>Income from investments                        8,268                               -                                 -                           8,268                       6,993<br>Interest received                        1,553                               -                                 -                           1,553                       2,911<br>                               -                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total  (Gross income for<br>                       9,821                               -                                 -                           9,821                       9,904<br>AR)<br>A2 Asset and investment sales,<br>(see table).<br>Sale of investments                                -                                 -                              57                              57                       1,333<br>Sale of Money Market Contract                                -                                 -                       25,000                       25,000                               -<br>                               -                                 -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>Sub total                                 -                                 -                       25,057                       25,057                       1,333<br>Total receipts                    9,821                             -                   25,057                       34,878                  11,237<br>A3 Payments<br>Grants awarded                      40,500                               -                                 -                         40,500                     10,000<br>Investment Manager Fees                                -                               -                              232                            232                          210<br>Trust administration fees                        4,417                               -                                 -                           4,417                       4,074<br>Cash Management Charge                             66                               -                                 -                                66                            61<br>                               -                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total [                     44,983 ]                              -                              232                       45,215                     14,345<br>A4 Asset and investment<br>purchases, (see table)<br>Investment purchases                                -                                 -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total [                               - ]                                -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>Total payments                  44,983                             -                        232                       45,215                  14,345<br>Net of receipts/(payments) -                35,162                           -                     24,825  -                10,337  -                3,108<br>A5 Transfers between funds                 27,251  -                27,251                          -                          -<br>A6 Cash funds last year end                    8,316                  29,728                       38,044                 41,152<br>Cash funds this year end                       405                           -                     27,302                   27,707                 38,044<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

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

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|Signature<br>Capital account<br>Income account<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Investment portfolio<br>Money Market Account<br>**Details**<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**405**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**405**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**Endowment**<br>**-**<br>**Cash Deposit**<br>**Account**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Monica Brown on behalf of Ludlow<br>Trust Company Ltd|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**27,302**<br>**-**<br>**-**|
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||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**<br>**491,884**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**When due**<br>**(optional)**<br>Date of<br>approval|



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

14/04/2026 

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

## **From 22 August 2024 To 21 August 2025** 

**Charity name: The Polmax Charitable Trust Charity registration number: 1187487** 

## **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|To hold the capital and income upon trust to<br>apply the income and all or such parts of the<br>capital at such time or times and in such a<br>manner to or for the benefit of such<br>exclusively charitable objects and purposes<br>in any part of the world as the Trustees may<br>in their absolute discretion think fit.|
|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|In furtherance of the charity’s objects for the<br>public benefit the trustees provide grants. In<br>determining the charity’s activities, the<br>trustees have had regard to the Charity<br>Commission’s guidance on public benefit.|
|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||





## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference 

||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** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|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.|Para 1.20|During the year under review the charity<br>made grants to the following charities<br>totalling £40,500.<br>•<br>Girls Day School Trust<br>•<br>Grand Prix Trust<br>•<br>Education For All Morocco|
|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||
|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|At the end of the reporting period the charity<br>had free reserves of £405 (2024: £8,316).<br>In addition to the free reserves the charity<br>has bank balances of £27,301 (2024:<br>£29,727)<br>and<br>investments<br>valued<br>at<br>£491,884 within the expendable endowment<br>fund which can be released to support the<br>activities of the charity.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Trustees pursue a policy of maintaining<br>a free reserve available to be spent in the<br>furtherance of the charity’s objectives as<br>well as covering future needs, opportunities,<br>contingencies and risks.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23||





## **Additional information (optional)** 

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

|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||Expendable endowment funds are those<br>which are required to be invested to produce<br>income, but which may be transferred to<br>unrestricted funds at the discretion of the<br>trustees in order that they may be expended<br>in furtherance of the charity’s objectives.<br>Unrestricted income funds are available for<br>use at the discretion of the trustees in<br>furtherance of the general objectives of the<br>charity and which have not been designated<br>for other purposes.|



## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Trust deed dated 21 August 2019|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?|Para 1.25|Trust|
|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|Trustees are appointed by the trustees from<br>time to time.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 



|You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|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||
|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|No trustee received any remuneration or<br>was reimbursed any expenses in the year<br>under review.<br>Ludlow Trust Company Ltd was paid £4,484<br>for<br>trust<br>administration<br>and<br>cash<br>management fees during the year under<br>review.  These fees are authorised under<br>clause 6 of the trust deed.<br>In accordance with clause 6.4 (a) of the<br>Trust Deed Duncan Llowarch and Natalia<br>Grinkova have declared that as their<br>daughter attends Putney High School, part<br>of The Girls Day School Trust, and the<br>school for which funding was intended,<br>there was a perceived conflict of interest<br>and as such they would not therefore take<br>part in consideration of the proposed grant.<br>It was confirmed that as the funds were to<br>be used as bursaries for pupils whose<br>families could not afford fees, there would<br>be no benefit to Duncan, Natalia, or their<br>daughter.|
|Other|||





## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|The Polmax Charitable Trust|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1187487|
|Charity’s principal address|Ludlow Trust Co Ltd, Tower Wharf, Cheese Lane, BRISTOL,<br>BS2 0JJ|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3|**Trustee name**<br> Ludlow Trust<br>CompanyLimited<br>Natalia Grinkova<br> Duncan Francis<br>Llowarch|**Office (if any)**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved<br>**Director name**<br>**Gary St John Collins**<br>**Walter Duncan Coxon**<br>**Ali Reza Sarikhani**<br>**Ziba Christina Sakine**<br>**Sarikhani**<br>**Christopher Ian Thurlow**<br>**Matthew John Wickers**<br>**John Stephen Dennis**<br>**(Resigned 25/10/2024)**||||||
||**Director name**||||||
||**Gary St John Collins**||||||
||**Walter Duncan Coxon**||||||
||**Ali Reza Sarikhani**||||||
||**Ziba Christina Sakine**<br>**Sarikhani**||||||
||**Christopher Ian Thurlow**||||||
||**Matthew John Wickers**||||||
||**John Stephen Dennis**||**(Resigned 25/10/2024)**||||



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)** 

|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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|**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|||
|**Investment Managers**|Coutts & Co|Coutts & Co, 440 Strand, London, WC2R<br>0QS|
|**Bankers**|Coutts & Co|Coutts & Co, 440 Strand, London, WC2R<br>0QS|
|**Accountants**|Charter Tax Consulting<br>Limited|8th Floor, 1 Southampton St, London<br>WC2R 0LR|
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## **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)** Monica Brown on behalf of Ludlow Trust Company Ltd **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 



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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 


**Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name Polmax Charitable Trust **members of On accounts for the** 21[st] August 2025 **Charity no** 1187487 **period ended (if any) Set out on pages** Financial statements page 1 - 2 Trustee report page 3 - 11 (remember  to include the page numbers of additional sheets) 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the period ended 21/08/2025. 

- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 

## **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 which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 

- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 

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

**Date:** 15/04/2026 **Signed: Name:** Ian Rodd **Relevant professional** BSc FCA FCCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** TC Group 115 – 119 Holdenhurst Road Bournemouth BH8 8DY 

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**IER** 



**Section B                           Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 

**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

n/a 

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