## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From** Period start date **To** Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 September 2024 31 August 2025
**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**
**Trustee name Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled to year appoint trustee (if any)**
- 1 Sheila Berry Chair
- 2 Alan Carlson
- 3 Kevin McDonnell
- 4 Allen Price
- 5 Steve Johnson
- 6 Theresa Keneflick
**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
1 March **2012**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
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**Solicitor**|Lionel Blackman|7 Waterloo Road Epsom KT19 8AY|
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## **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)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; relationship with any related parties; trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The aim of the Charity is to restore a forgotten cemetery in Epsom Surrey in which up to 9000 people were buried **Summary of the objects of the** between 1899 and 1955. The charity also undertakes **charity set out in its governing** research into and education about the lives of those buried **document** there - seeking to trace relatives and descendants and promote a Book of Remembrance containing all the names.
2 March **2012**
**TAR**
The Charity 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 Charity are exclusively for the benefit of the public. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public** The charity continues to undertake the publication of researched histories **benefit in relation to these** of the former patients buried in the Cemetery, to answer queries from other **objects (include within this** researchers and relatives of the buried and to research avenues for the **section the statutory** restoration of the cemetery to community ownership. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: policy on grantmaking; policy programme related investment; contribution made by volunteers.
March **2012**
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3
Section D Achievements and performance
Continuing population of the the website www.hortoncemetery.org with **Summary of the main** histories of the persons buried in the Cemetery. **achievements of the charity during the year** Maintenance of a team of about 50 volunteer researchers. Publication of over 500 histories of the lives of persons buried in the Cemetery.
March **2012**
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4
**Section E Financial review**
The Charity has not reached a stage where a policy on reserves is **Brief statement of the** necessary. **charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; 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)**
**Full name(s)** Sheila Berry
Kevin McDonnell
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair and trustee
**Date** 2nd April 2026
5 March **2012**
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FRIENDS OF HORTON CEMETERY
Accounts 2024.2025
01109/2024- 3110812025
Income
Expenses
Balance b/fwd
£2,979.79
£544.72
Donations
Nat Fed of CemeteriL
£25.00
Net income foryear
£519.72
Balance
Total
£3,524.51
£25.00
£3,499.51
Lionel Blackman LLB MA Solicitor
Hon. Sec. Friends of Horton Cemetery
2nd April 2026