
**Name No (if any) The Charitable Travel Foundation 1189531 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01-Jan-25 31-Dec-25 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**-**<br>**38**<br>**180**<br>**5**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**223**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**223**<br>**20,408**<br>**60**<br>**1,585**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **22,053**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**22,053**<br>**-               21,830**<br>**-**<br>**21,835**<br>**5**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**38**<br>**180**<br>**5**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**223**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**38**<br>**180**<br>**5**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**223**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations|**-**|||||**-**|
|Bank interest|**38**|||||**-**|
|Reimbursement from|**180**|||||**-**|
|D Haw(to cover bank fee)|**5**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**223**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||**223**||**-**|
|||||**20,408**<br>**60**<br>**1,585**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**22,053**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**22,053**<br>**-               21,830**|||
|Grant donations|**20,408**|||||**-**|
|Monthlyaccount fee(bank)|**60**|||||**-**|
|Expenses|**1,585**|||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**22,053**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
||**-               21,830**|**-**|**-**|**-               21,830**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**21,835**|**-**|**-**|**21,835**||**-**|
||**5**|**-**|**-**|**5**||**-**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

10/06/2026 

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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>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>Bank balance as of 31 Dec 25<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Signature<br>_Sarah Loftus_|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**5**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**5**<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>**-**<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>**-**<br>Print Name<br>SARAH LOFTUS|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
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||||Date of<br>approval|
||_Sarah Loftus_|SARAH LOFTUS|31/12/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

10/06/2026 

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

## **1[st] January 2025 to 31[st] December 2025 Charity name: The Charitable Travel Foundation Charity registration number: 1189531** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP<br>reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of the<br>charity as set out in its governing<br>document|<br>Para 1.17|The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship for<br>the public benefit in disadvantaged communities worldwide<br>where tourism is significant to the local economy, in<br>particular but not exclusively through the provision of grants.<br>The relief of sickness, injury, disease and other suffering for<br>the public benefit in disadvantaged communities worldwide<br>where tourism is significant to the local economy, in<br>particular but not exclusively through the provision of grants.<br>The advancement of vocational education and training for the<br>public benefit in disadvantaged communities worldwide<br>where tourism is significant to the local economy, in<br>particular but not exclusively through the provision of grants.|
|Summary of the main activities in<br>relation to those purposes for the<br>public benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|<br> <br>Para 1.17<br>and<br>1.19|The primary activity of the charity was to build infrastructure,<br>to ensure robust compliance, to develop marketing and<br>communication, and to build fundraising to ensure funds<br>were available to deliver the public benefit and outreach to<br>beneficiary parties.<br>Please note that during this reporting period, activities have<br>been focused on dissolving the charity and on identifying<br>relevant projects to receive our final funds.|
|Statement confirming whether<br>the trustees have had regard to<br>the guidance issued by the<br>Charity Commission on public<br>Benefit.|Para 1.18|The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the<br>Charity Commission in respect of the public benefit.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|The trustees developed a policy of grant making that<br>complies with the approved objects of the charity and was<br>submitted to the Charity Commission in the approved<br>application for registration.|
|---|---|---|
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by volunteers|Para 1.38|The charity was run and maintained by trustees in a<br>volunteering capacity in this reporting period.|
|Other|||



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## **Achievements and Performance** 

|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to the<br>circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|As a volunteer run charity, the charity has operated on<br>limited resources. In July 2024 our founder, trustee and<br>lead fund raiser Melissa Tilling died suddenly, and from that<br>point, fund raising activities were halted.<br>The decision was ultimately made to dissolve the charity<br>and therefore the focus during this reporting period has<br>been on identifying relevant projects to receive our final<br>funds and on the dissolution process.|
|---|---|---|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against objectives Para 1.41 set Performance of fundraising Para 1.41 activities against objectives set Investment performance against Para 1.41 objectives Other 

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## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end of<br>the period|Para 1.21|Due to the final disbursement of our cash funds in the lead<br>up to the charity’s dissolution, as of 31stDecember 2025<br>£5.06 is held in the bank account. We are now awaiting<br>confirmation of the closure of the bank account before<br>proceeding with final dissolution via the Charity Commission.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22<br>|The CIO was created as a fund to be deployed in the<br>instance of communities that depend on tourism whose<br>tourism income has been removed for reasons outside of<br>their control and who do not have access to welfare state<br>provision.<br>|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|As of 31~~st~~December 2025, funds held in the bank account<br>totalled £5.06.|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable to the period.|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|Not applicable to the period.|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the charity<br>continuing as a going concern|Para 1.23|As stated above, the charity will be dissolved early 2026.|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal sources Para 1.47 of funds (including any fundraising) Investment policy and Para 1.46 objectives including any social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other 

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## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s trusts:||Not applicable in this period.|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed,royalcharter)|Para 1.25|Governing Document.|
|How is the charity constituted?<br>(e.g. unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of any<br>person or body entitled to<br>appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|As per the Governing document the appointment of charity<br>trustees -<br>(1) Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must<br>be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution<br>passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity<br>trustees.<br>(2) In selecting individuals for appointment as charity<br>trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the<br>skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective<br>administration of the CIO.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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

|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction and<br>training of trustees|Para 1.51|(a)|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the charity<br>works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51|There are no relationships with any other parties.|
|Other|||
|**Reference and Administrative details**|||
|Charity name|The Charitable Travel Foundation||
|Other name the charity uses|The Charitable Travel Fund||
|Registered charity number|1189531||
|Charity’s principal address|Contingent Works<br>Broadway Buildings<br>Elmfield Road Bromley<br>Kent BR1 1LW||



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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**<br>**for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**<br>**entitled to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|1|Christopher Lee|Chair&Treasurer|||
|2|Melissa Tilling<br>(deceased1st July2024)||||
|3|Susan Smith||||
|4|Steven Thompson||||
|5|Sarah Loftus||||
|6|Deborah Haw||||



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

**Director name** NOT APPLICABLE 

## **Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity** 

|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**||
|---|---|---|
|NOT APPLICABLE|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

Description of the assets held in NOT APPLICABLE this capacity Name and objects of the charity on NOT APPLICABLE whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe NOT APPLICABLE custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of adviser Name Address** 

## **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** 

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## **Declarations** 

## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature**||
|---|---|
|**Full name(s)**|CHRISTOPHER LEE|
|**Position (e.g. Secretary,**<br>**Chairetc)**|CHAIR|
|**Date**|22ndJanuary 2025|



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