THE DEEPINGS LIONS CLUB CIO (CHARITY NO. 1190372)
TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 1st JULY 2023 to 30[th] JUNE 2024
|Current Trustees:|Anthony John Plunket|President|
|---|---|---|
||David Robert Turner||
||Michael John Drinkall BScHons MSc||
||Nicola Karen Waldie|Data protecton ofcer|
||Peter Southwood|Treasurer|
## Structure, governance and objects
We are governed by the standard Lions Club constitution, in addition to which we have a written policy on grant making, published on our website. Trustees are given the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance and have regard to this when carrying out their duties. All trustees have DBS clearance and new members are DBS checked when they join. The constitutional objects include advancement of citizenship, encouragement of volunteering and service to the community and support for youth development.
## Actvites and achievements
Our Duck Race and Street Fair in September was used to raise funds for Dementia Support South Lincs and Alzheimers Research UK, who shared a total of £3,050. This is a community event centred on a number of “races” of sponsored plastic ducks along a stretch of the river Welland at Deeping St James. With a net across the river downstream of the finish line and the help of a local canoe club, we ensure that no plastic is left in the river. The event is held with the permission of Anglian Waterways, which is part of the Environment Agency. The lottery element is licensed by the district council. We purchased a giant inflatable duck, which had previously been hired annually, as it had become a symbol of the event and the owners needed to dispose of it.
Our Santa sleigh collections were held over 17 weekday nights and 3 Saturdays in December, in partnership with The Deepings Rotary Club. The Saturday collections took place outside a supermarket and the weekday collections were street collections. As well as being the only source of funds for our charity account in this period, the nightly rounds have become something of a community event, with groups of parents and children waiting at the kerbside to meet Santa.
We took part in the Market Deeping Christmas Market and the Priory Church Christmas tree festival, and we distributed Christmas cakes to local support groups for the elderly.
In January a local Indian restaurant kindly gave free food and service for our fund raising curry night. All proceeds were divided between our nominated charity, Market Deeping Relief in Need, and a charity nominated by the restaurant.
We organised raffles of giant Easter eggs in a number of pubs and clubs in the area, raising funds for Prostate Cancer UK and Market Deeping Relief in Need.
We held two health awareness seminars, one on bowel cancer and the other on dementia. These were supported by the local GP practice and relevant charities.
We are developing a wildflower site on an unused area of public open space near the Deepings Community Centre. Permission to use the land was granted by South Kesteven District Council and site preparation was carried out free of charge by a local landscape gardening company. There was a good initial crop of flowers in summer but further seeding will be needed. Other service activities included ongoing maintenance of the Community Centre garden and the sensory garden we developed there. Our members also helped in activities run by other charities, including Marie Curie and Sue Ryder Homes.
## Financial review
Funds previously held for The Deepings Carnival were transferred to the organising committee of a replacement event, called Funday Sunday, which took place just after the period covered by this report. We decided not to take part on the committee, but we gave advice and agreed to loan tents and other equipment.
Grants made to local good causes include primary schools, air ambulance services, a youth football tournament, portable toilets for a village affected by floods and repairs to a footbridge on a country footpath. We donated to the Lions Clubs International Foundation, which gives emergency aid through Lions clubs to help in disasters around the world.
Reserves are held available for immediate use. No funds are in deficit. Annual accounts are attached.
**Charity Name No (if any) The Deepings Lions Club CIO 1190372 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 7/1/2023 6/30/2024
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**2,857**
Sleigh
**10,495**
CharityDinner
**-**
Duck Race
**-**
SensoryGarden
**-**
Easter EggRaffle
**-**
Carnival
**560**
**-**
**13,912**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 13,912**
**A3 Payments**
Donations
**3,530**
Sleigh
**5,758**
CharityDinner
**-**
Duck Race
**-**
SensoryGarden
**-**
Easter EggRaffle
**-**
Carnival
**1,642**
Community
**3,115**
**-**
**Sub total 14,045**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total payments 14,045**
**Net of receipts/(payments) - 133**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**10,280**
**Cash funds this year end 10,147**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**Sub total**(Gross income for AR)
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**1,885**
**4,432**
**537**
**2,556**
**-**
**-**
**9,410**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,410**
**-**
**-**
**1,943**
**5,298**
**506**
**2,568**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,315**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,315**
**- 905**
**-**
**- 2,003**
**- 2,908**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,857**
**10,495**
**1,885**
**4,432**
**537**
**2,556**
**560**
**-**
**23,322**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,322**
**3,530**
**5,758**
**1,943**
**5,298**
**506**
**2,568**
**1,642**
**3,115**
**-**
**24,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,360**
**- 1,038**
**-**
**8,277**
**7,239**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**|**2,857**|**3,923**|
|||**-**|**10,495**|**9,693**|
|||**-**|**1,885**|**-**|
|||**-**|**4,432**|**2,822**|
|||**-**|**537**|**1,125**|
|||**-**|**2,556**|**-**|
|||**-**|**560**|**1,271**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**23,322**|**18,834**|
||||||
|||**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**23,322**|**18,834**|
||||||
|||**-**|**3,530**|**7,977**|
|||**-**|**5,758**|**5,355**|
|||**-**|**1,943**|**-**|
|||**-**|**5,298**|**2,865**|
|||**-**|**506**|**1,902**|
|||**-**|**2,568**|**-**|
|||**-**|**1,642**|**2,725**|
|||**-**|**3,115**|**2,456**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**24,360**|**23,280**|
||||||
|||**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**24,360**|**23,280**|
||||||
||**- 905**|**-**|**- 1,038**|**- 4,446**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**- 2,003**|**-**|**8,277**|**-**|
||**- 2,908**|**-**|**7,239**|**- 4,446**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,147**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- 2,908**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
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|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
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|||||**-**|
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|||||**-**|
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|||||**-**|
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|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print Name
Date of approval