Section A
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Month September |
Year 2023 |
Day 31 |
Month August |
Year 2024 |
Reference and administration details
Charity name
Friends of Horton Cemetery
Other names charity is known by
Registered charity number (if any) 1190518
Charity's principal address 7 Waterloo Road Epsom Surrey Postcode KT19 8AY
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any) |
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| Sheila Berry | Chair | |||
| Alan Carlson | ||||
| Kevin McDonnell | ||||
| Allen Price | ||||
| Steve Johnson | ||||
| Theresa Keneflick | ||||
| Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) | ||||
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
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Name Address |
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| Solicitor | Lionel Blackman | 7 Waterloo Road Epsom KT19 8AY |
| Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) | ||
Section B
Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) The Board selects Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
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Objectives and activities |
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| Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document |
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| The aim of the Charity is to restore a forgotten cemetery in Epsom Surrey in which up to 9000 people were buried between 1899 and 1955. The charity also undertakes research into and education about the lives of those buried there - seeking to trace relatives and descendants and promote a Book of Remembrance containing all the names. The Charity will also continue the research relating in particular to the lives of women buried in the Cemetry informing of the climate for women in the period of Emily Davison’s struggle for womens’ rights upon the Emily Davison Memorial Project charity winding up. |
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The Charity has established a website www.hortoncemetery.org The website is populated with over 500 life stories of the persons buried in the cemetery. The Charity has established a team of about 50 volunteer researchers who prepare the stories of these lives. The trustees have full regard to the Charity Commission’s Guidance on public benefit and are confident that all the activities undertaken by the Summary of the main Charity are exclusively for the benefit of the public. activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to The Charity with the support of Historic England and in collaboration with these objects (include within Kings College London organised a series of educational events raising this section the statutory awareness of the Cemetery and the lives of those buried there. The declaration that trustees have project culminated in a well attended community event in a field next to had regard to the guidance the hospital and celebration at the Horton Arts Centre (the former Horton issued by the Charity Chapel that served the 5 psychiatric hospitals whose dead populate the Commission on public Horton Cemetery). benefit)
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Section D
Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
Continuing population of the the website www.hortoncemetery.org with histories of the persons buried in the Cemetery. Maintenance of a team of about 50 volunteer researchers. Publication of over 500 histories of the lives of persons buried in the Cemetery. Securing a grant from Historic England to educate the public about the lives of those buried in the Cemetery with a series of educational events, the painting of 1500 ceramic flowers by the community across Epsom placed on display in the grounds of Horton Cemetery to remember the buried.
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Section E
Financial review
Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
The Charity has not reached a stage where a policy on reserves is necessary.
Details of any funds materially in deficit
None
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Section F
Other optional information
Section G
Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Kevin McDonnell Full name(s) Sheila Berry Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair and trustee etc) Date 3rd June 2025
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FRIENDS OF HORTON CEMETERY Accounts 2023.2024 01109/2023- 31/0812024 Income Expenses Balance b/fwd HisfoRIC ENGLAND £3,600.06 £2.988.10 Workshop event insurances Flyers Prints £4.66 £32.96 £50.00 Hook Rd arena CP £ioo.00 Workshop insurnace Banne £4.66 £297.00 Printing Garden overnight security Scots Piper Dancer £350.00 £254.59 £50.00 £62.30 Printing Dancer £502.00 £61.70 Musician £62.59 Musician £26.30 Dancer £47.09 Subscription Catering Refund of Grant £20.00 £500.00 £1,182.52 Ba]ance Totsl £6.588.16 £3,608.37 £2,979.79 Lionel Blackman LLB MA &)licitor Hon. Sec. Friends of Horton Cemetery 3rd lune 2025