## THE DEEPINGS LIONS CLUB CIO (CHARITY NO. 1190372)
TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 1st JULY 2024 to 30[th] JUNE 2025
Trustees: David Robert Turner President Anthony John Plunkett Secretary Michael John Drinkall BScHons MSc Nicola Karen Waldie Data protection and safeguarding officer Peter Southwood Treasurer
## Structure, governance and objects
As part of Lions Clubs International, we are governed by a standard Lions Club constitution and we have published a policy on grant making. The constitutional objects include advancement of citizenship, encouragement of volunteering and service to the community, and support for youth development. Trustees attend all business meetings of the club; they have regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance when carrying out their duties and all have DBS clearance.
## Actvites and achievements
In July we held an open afternoon in The Deepings Community Centre garden. The main purpose was to show improvements made to the sensory features we have established there, including a brightly coloured mural painted by volunteers who gave their time for free. We also maintain the rest of the garden. Nearby is the wildflower site we are developing on previously waste ground.
Our Duck Race and Street Fair in September was used to raise funds for Facial Palsy UK and Pancreatic Cancer UK , who shared a total of £4,000. We are grateful for the support of local businesses: Hegarty solicitors who were the main sponsor, The Thirsty Giraffe micro pub who strongly supported sales of duck tickets, Ringway who supplied road signs, The Bell public house who allowed portable toilets to be placed in their car park and all the pubs and estate agents who sponsored ducks. Voluntary organisations who helped included Community Support Lincolnshire who accepted responsibility for traffic management, The Deepings Masonic Centre who helped with road closures and allowed use of their toilets, and Men in Sheds who designed and built a safer means of releasing the ducks from the lock where they are held to start the race.
Our main fundraising effort was the programme of Santa sleigh collections run in partnership with The Deepings Rotary Club. The first collection was on 29[th] November, in order to fit in 17 street collections in different areas on weekday evenings before Christmas. There were also daytime collections outside Tesco Market Deeping, with their permission, on December Saturdays. The evening tours are a popular opportunity for children to meet Santa, even though, for safety reasons, they are not allowed on the sleigh. We introduced an online “Santa tracker” to make it easier for families to find him.
In what has become an established part of our annual programme, we held our third fundraising curry dinner in January. Maharanis Indian restaurant kindly donated to our charity fund all £1,200 paid for food. A raffle held for the charity Market Deeping Relief in Need raised £400.
Our charity fund also benefited from raffles of giant Easter eggs we organised in a number of pubs and clubs.
Some 20kg of used spectacles, donated via our collection box at The Deepings Practice and by Philip Edwards Optician, were sent to Lions UK HQ for onward shipping to third world countries.
Throughout the year our members supported fundraising and other events organised by other charities, including Marie Curie, The Deepings Raft Race, Market Deeping Town Council, Deeping St James Priory Church, The Deepings Sunday Funday.
Financial review
All costs of running the club are met from membership fees and other donations from members paid into our admin account; 100% of public donations are paid into our charity account.
Grants made to local good causes included: Deep in Kindness, Deeping Scouts, Deeping Rangers and Deeping United Football Clubs youth teams, Deeping Youth Group.
We also donated to national charities including Marie Curie, Prostate Cancer UK and Royal British Legion, and 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.
Approved by trustees and signed on their behalf
11[th] March 2025
**Charity Name No (if any) The Deepings Lions Club CIO 1190372 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**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**2,397**
**10,840**
**1,314**
**-**
**-**
**1,613**
**-**
**347**
**16,511**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,511**
**4,924**
**6,087**
**18**
**-**
**-**
**630**
**-**
**886**
**-**
**12,545**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,545**
**3,966**
**-**
**10,147**
**14,113**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,872**
**530**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,402**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,402**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,816**
**429**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,245**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,245**
**- 843**
**-**
**- 2,908**
**- 3,751**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,397**
**10,840**
**1,314**
**5,872**
**530**
**1,613**
**-**
**347**
**22,913**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,913**
**4,924**
**6,087**
**18**
**6,816**
**429**
**630**
**-**
**886**
**-**
**19,790**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,790**
**3,123**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,397**
**10,840**
**1,314**
**5,872**
**530**
**1,613**
**-**
**347**
**22,913**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,913**
**4,924**
**6,087**
**18**
**6,816**
**429**
**630**
**-**
**886**
**-**
**19,790**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,790**
**3,123**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations|**2,397**|||||**2,857**|
|Sleigh|**10,840**|||||**10,495**|
|CharityDinner|**1,314**|||||**1,885**|
|Duck Race|**-**|||||**4,432**|
|SensoryGarden|**-**|||||**537**|
|Easter EggRaffle|**1,613**|||||**2,556**|
|Carnival|**-**|||||**560**|
|Xmas Market|**347**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**16,511**|||||**23,322**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**23,322**|
||||||||
|Donations|**4,924**|||||**7,977**|
|Sleigh|**6,087**|||||**5,758**|
|CharityDinner|**18**|||||**1,943**|
|Duck Race|**-**|||||**5,298**|
|SensoryGarden|**-**|||||**506**|
|Easter EggRaffle|**630**|||||**2,568**|
|Carnival|**-**|||||**1,642**|
|Community|**886**|||||**3,115**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**12,545**|||||**28,807**|
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|**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_**|||||||
|||||||**28,807**|
||||||||
||**3,966**|**- 843**|**-**|**3,123**||**- 5,485**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**10,147**|**- 2,908**|**-**|**7,239**||**-**|
||**14,113**|**- 3,751**|**-**|**10,362**||**- 5,485**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
19/03/2026
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## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,147**
**- 2,908**
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Agreement Error
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**to nearest £**
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**-**
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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