## **The Banana Trust Annual Report and Accounts** ## **For period** 01/07/2024- 30/06/2025 ## **Trustees** Mr Joseph Reeds - Chairman Mrs Rebecca Cheney Mrs Lesley Reeds ## **Administrative Address** 35 Beckside Scopwick Lincoln LN4 3NX ## **Charity Registration number:** 1188002 ## **Trustees report** The Trustees present their report and accounts of The Banana Trust for the year ending 30 June 2025. ## **Public benefit** When setting the objectives and planning the work of the charity for the year, the Trustees have given careful consideration to the Charities Commission’s general guidance on public benefit. The principal objective of the trust is to provide day trips with children with additional needs or disabilities who would not be able to access these services due to socio-economic, disability or family reasons. ## **Declaration** The Statement of Income & Expenditure set out in this report for the financial year ended 30 June 2025, and the Balance Sheet are approved by the trustees of the charity. ## **Day trips ran** 6 trips ran during this period compared to 7 in the previous period, on average each trip cost £900 to run totalling £5400. This includes direct costs related to individual trips such as venue hire, activities, food and transport. They do not include shared or administrative costs such as insurance and disclosure checks which totalled £860.40 in this period. ## **Expenditure/Income** The trusts expenditure was in line with expectations for the year and income exceed expenditure with several mid-size grants, online donations and a private donation this year totalling £12,931 allowing us to plan more trips in the next financial year. No trustees received remuneration in the year and there are no paid staff members. ## **Meetings** The trustees met formally on two occasions during the period, to review trip performance, trust finances, agree on the trust strategy and plan the delivery of trips. ## **Notice of financial interest** No trustees have personal financial interests in the trust activities. ## **Audit / independent examination** The charity’s trustees acknowledge that an independent examination is not required for this period as set out in Charity reporting and accounting: the essentials November 2016 (CC15d), on the basis the charities gross income is less than £25,000. **The Banana Trust 1188002 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/07/2024 30/06/2025 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,552**
**241**
**124**
**7,500**
**2,508**
**-**
**-**
**12,926**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,926**
**840**
**561**
**165**
**120**
**-**
**294**
**2,448**
**1,736**
**62**
**3,785**
**10,011**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,011**
**2,915**
**-**
**11,365**
**14,280**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,552**
**241**
**124**
**7,500**
**2,508**
**-**
**12,926**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,926**
**840**
**561**
**165**
**120**
**-**
**294**
**2,448**
**1,736**
**62**
**3,785**
**10,011**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Online Donations|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**1,225**| |Donations via shoppingsites|||||**427**| |Private donations|||||**7,222**| |Grants|||||**4,250**| |Gift aid|||||**-**| |Companydonations|||||**1,938**| ||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|||||**15,062**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**||| ||||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||**-**||**15,062**| ||||||| |
Venue Hire|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**1,071**| |Catering|||||**570**| |Insurance|||||**158**| |DBS checks|||||**-**| |Website hosting|||||**-**| |Clothing|||||**364**| |Transport|||||**2,463**| |Ticket/activities/Supplies|||||**1,511**| |Bank costs|||||**62**| |Expenses claimed frompreviousperiod|||||**3,785**| |**_Sub total_ **|||||**6,200**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||| |
Equipment|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**| ||||||| |**_Sub total_ **||||**-**
**10,011**
**2,915**|**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||| ||||**-**||**6,200**| ||||||| ||||
**-**||**8,862**| ||||**-**
**-**|**-**
**11,365**|**-**| ||||||| ||||
**-**|**14,280**|**8,862**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 08/02/2026 1 |**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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
Equipment
HSBC account
**Details**
Unclaimed expenses from period
Signature
gree~~d~~s|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**14,280**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,280**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
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Print Name
Joseph Reeds|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||gree~~d~~s|Joseph Reeds|08/02/2026| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 08/02/2026 2