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Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date Da 01 Month 07 Year2023 Day 30 Month 06 Year 3024
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Beccles and District Lions Club (CIO)
Other names charity is known by
Registered charity number (if any) 1194156
Charity's principal address 60 Merrifield Road Lowestoft Suffolk Postcode NR33 7HB
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 (ifany) |
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| Christopher Crick | President | |||
| Alaster Barr | Secretary | |||
| Christopher Eglington | Treasurer | |||
| PhilipWright | Vice President | |||
| Keith Moore | ||||
| Graham Gooda | ||||
| Colin Goodings | ||||
| Christopher Lambert | ||||
| Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) | ||||
| Name | Dates acted if not for whole year | |||
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)
- How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)
CIO Association Constitution
Charitable Trust
Volunteer – vetting and voting (election) Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
Club Policies –
The Club has written policies covering topics and these are contained in the Club manual, which is available to each Club Member. In addition the Grant making policy can be found on the Club’s Website (www.beccleslion.club)
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
The Policy Topics are –
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Finance
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Child Protection and Vulnerable Persons
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Risk Management
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Grant Making
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relationship with any related parties;
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Complains
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Volunteers
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trustees’ consideration of Conflict of Interest major risks and the system Data Protection and procedures to manage Fund Raising Standards them.
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Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
To raise funds to enable financial and other assistance to needy persons and organisations in our local community and also to Lions Club International projects.
Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)
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The Charity / Club’s Main Activities – General Charitable Purposes
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Who the Charity / Club Helps – Children and Young People Elderly and Old People People with Disabilities Other Charities or Voluntary Bodies The General Public and Mankind
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How the Charity / Club Helps – Makes Grants to Individuals Makes Grants to Organisations Provides Human resources Other Charitable Activities
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Where Charity / Club Predominately Helps – Suffolk
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
To achieve the overall main activities for the Clubs Charity commitment the Club organises local events within the community and offers a full BBQ Catering Facility to assist events the Club may have organised for itself. In turn the Club offers this BBQ Catering Facility by manning it with volunteers for other organisations, such as other Local Lions Clubs, Local Council events and Local Business Association Events, such as the Annual Christmas Lights Switch On Evening in Beccles.
Other annual fund raising events are an Easter Egg Hunt. Offering to man and assist organisations with Car Parking for their event, such as Annual You may choose to include Food Fair in Beccles. Hevingham Country Fair. Plus Carnival Stewards further statements, where too. relevant, about: Other ongoing events for local individual’s health and wellbeing is offering the Message in a Bottle. Diabetes screening. Assist local food Bank with policy on grantmaking; items, Donations and Vouchers
- policy programme related investment;
The Trustees’ have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit, however if should be noted that the community is still aware of the first lockdown, with it’s mandatory measures being brought in by Local Authorities restricting social activities. In addition, it has also caused changes to our ways of working with the introduction of new initiatives, new technology and new partnerships. The Trustees’ are planning to build on these new initiatives, and experiences to evolve the programmes of activities to meet the new challenges continuing to face the community.
- contribution made by volunteers.
As volunteers Beccles and District Lions Club members will be making a positive contribution to the community development locally, nationally and internationally. Volunteers are vital to the work of the Club.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
1) Promoting Good Citizenship
The Club has donated towards community projects and in addition added another Defibrillator to the ones the Club already manages, bringing the total within Beccles Town a total of three.
The Club has also been very active within the local community by supporting the local Care Homes, especially at Christmas when we visit three local Care Homes with a Choir to sing Christmas Carols for the residents to join in and the highlight being Santa with presents for each of the residents.
In addition at Christmas we donate to the local Food Bank as well as provide gift vouchers if individuals have specific needs at this special time.
2) Promoting the Voluntary Sector
The Club encourages volunteers because without them we could not do or achieve as much as we do within a year. One of the key areas we need volunteers is at Beccles Christmas Lights Switch On as we will use our BBQ Catering Facility and our Santa House, where Santa will stand up the chimney and wave to Parents and Children as they pass by. Also another reason we rely so much on volunteers especially for this evening is because we had to provide Stewards this year.
3) Relief of Poverty
The Club has been very active this year with the local Food Bank with providing food as well as Gift Vouchers for those individuals with special dietary requirements. Plus we have assisted the staff at the Food Bank by handing out leaflets advising people that there is a need within the community and the public have been fantastic with their response. The Club has even donated the money to help pay for a Christmas Lunch to those individuals that would be on their own at Christmas. The Club has even ensured that individuals that are house bound received a Christmas meal as the organised home deliveries for them.
4) Conservation and the Environment
The Club has donated to a local Primary School within the area for them to build an environmentally friendly play area, where the children can look are the conservation side of it as well as its environmental impact of the wildlife and its surrounding area.
5) Healthy Recreation
The Club looks help with the individuals’ health wherever it can from supporting the M.I.N.D. Charity with donations to organising or helping with local fun runs or Children Fun Days they can all participate in. Each year Lions District 105CE organisers a Fun Day for local children that need help and support and as a Club we contribute to the cost for the children and their parents to go along as well. We also provide volunteers to help with the running of the day too.
Section E Financial review
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Brief statement of the charity’s Were possible we always aim to have a reserve fund where we may gain policy on reserves a little bit of interest, however as there has been a long period where the Banks have not been paying any interest we have decided not to have the reserve fund until such time when the banks start to pay interest again. Details of any funds materially in The Club has no accounts materially in deficit at present. deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:
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The Club’s principal source of raising funds is from the General Public
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additional information, where through their generous giving such at Christmas and specific fundraising
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relevant about: events. We do use our BBQ Catering Facility wherever we can, which is
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the charity’s principal another source of fundraising income, once all the expenses have been
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sources of funds (including taken out. any fundraising); Another source of fundraising is by providing individuals to man Car
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how expenditure has Parks for other organisations events. supported the key objectives Overall wherever we feel we can ask for a donation we will providing we of the charity; have the organisers’ permission to do so. The reason is quite simple because all the members then know that
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investment policy and every penny we receive as a donation will go back into the local
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objectives including any community to help those individuals or organisations that really do need it
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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) Christopher David Eglington Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair of Trustees etc) Date0 30[th] June 2025
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TAR Maich 2012
- - Beccles Lions Club Admin Account 2023 24
| Balance B/f Members Subscriptons iZetle Card Reader Hevingham Car Parking Lowestof Lions Club Charter Southwold Lions Club Charter Great Yarmouth Lions Club Charter Bungay Lions Club Charter Beccles Lions Club Christmas Meal Beccles Lions Club Charter Members Dues iZetle Card Reader Club Storage Rental from Hamiltons Expenses Beccles Bell Tower - Printng SquareSpace - Website Sofware Provider Lowestof Lions Club Charter Southwold Lions Club Charter Great Yarmouth Lions Club Charter Bungay Lions Club Charter Local Gaming Licence ICO Fee Transfer to Actvites Account Bank Balance C/f |
£532.18 £1,110.50 £1,732.33 £200.00 £360.00 £370.00 £420.00 £360.00 £389.55 £612.00 £5,554.38 £6,086.56 |
£1,337.83 £856.67 £1,012.52 £250.84 £577.80 £244.80 £360.00 £370.00 £420.00 £360.00 £20.00 £40.00 |
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| £5,850.46 | ||
| £0.00 £236.10 |
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| £6,086.56 |
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- - Beccles Lions Club Actvites Account 2023 24
| Balance B/f Donatons Received Santa House Bucket Collectons Assistng at Beccles Bell Tower BBQ at Events Easter Egg Rafe Charitable Donatons BBQ Expenses Easter Egg Expenses Defbrillators upkeep Bank Balance C/f |
£11,191.71 £4,133.00 £2,061.39 £1,994.98 £1,937.33 £583.00 £10,709.70 £21,901.41 |
£9,445.00 £710.00 £177.20 £267.00 |
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| £10,599.20 | ||
| £11,302.21 | ||
| £21,901.41 |
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- Charitable Donatons 2023 24
| 105CE District Fun Day Beccles May Centre Beccles Public Hall New Flooring Oliver Eriksson - Freezer Young Carers Carlton Colville School Beccles St Lukes Church Christmas Meals Parish of Beccles Food Bank - Vouchers LCIF Miss Daniella Price - American Flag Football Brian Leslie Sawyer - Mobility Scooter Ravensmere School - Store Boxes Love Boxes - Barsham Church Mrs Moxley - Wheel Chair Extension Mobility Chair Balance Special Needs Dog for an Autstc Child |
£534.50 £200.00 £200.00 £150.00 £250.00 £200.00 £940.00 £200.00 £250.00 £450.00 £100.00 £200.00 £429.00 £1,000.00 £1,341.50 £3,000.00 |
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| £9,445.00 |
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