## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01.07.2022 Period start date To 30.06.2023 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Glantawe (Swansea Valley) Lions Club**
## **Charity registration number:1196210**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Primary Purpose – to help and serve**
**individuals and groups within the**
**Swansea Valley.**
**Secondary purpose – to aid projects**
**abroad designated by Lions Clubs**
**International**|
|S and groups within the
Swansea Summary of the
main activities in relation to
those purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**During the 12 months we made up food**
**parcels, for the needy; helped with the**
**Morriston Hospital Burns Unit Christmas**
**Party; held monthly coffee mornings for**
**the needy. Supervised Leader in Service**
**meetings with the local Girl Guides. Our 4**
**Tree of Light services allow family and**
**friends to remember loved ones. Donated**
**monies to LCIF for use abroad.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**As a club we have been in existence for**
**nearly 50 years,and have used our own**
**judgement when allocating funds**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Club members review each request and**
**then take a vote on whether to support it**
**or not. Generally, we do not support**
**national charities.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**All of the club members are volunteers**
**and pay a subscription to be a member.**
**Generally, members spend at least 5**
**hours each on Lions work**|
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Nearly 200 families benefitted from our**
**food parcels at Christmas.**
**50 children were given £10 vouchers at**
**the Burns unit Christmas Party.**
**Over 200 families were able to remember**
**loved ones who had passed.**
**Several guides were given YLS awards.**
**About 15 lonely people meet every month**
**and play games and have talks.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Generally, we do not set objectives, we**
**look at every request and react**
**accordingly. We have projects that have**
**been long in existence like the food**
**parcels and the trees of light.**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Again we do not set objectives. We put**
**on fund raising events so that we have**
**monies available to meet any successful**
**requests.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**We do not invest.**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of June 2023 we had a cash**
**balance of £7741**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We do not specifically hold reserves. We**
**know our likely spend during the**
**forthcoming year and try and raise funds**
**so that we can meet that liability**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**0**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**See above**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**No fund is in deficit**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The club has been in existence for nearly**
**50 years, and hopefully will continue for**
**the next 50 years**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Local business donations. Fund raising**
**events. Supermarket collections**|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**We do not have an investment policy**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Currently, rising inflation means that the**
**cost of our food parcel project is rising**
**considerably.**
**Since Covid it is more difficult to receive**
**Supermarket collection spots.**|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Lions Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Volunteers from within club members**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**Nil**|
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Glantawe (Swansea Valley) Lions Club is**
**a branch club of the worldwide**
**organisation Lions Clubs International.**|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**Nil**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Glantawe (Swansea Valley) Lions Club|
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|Other name the charity uses|Original name was Glantawe Lions Club|
|Registered charity number|1196210|
|Charity’s principal address|512 Heol Las,
Birchgrove,
SWANSEA
SA7 9DX|
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Rhian Williams|President|Whole Year||
||Malcolm Curtis|Secretary|Whole Year||
||Malcolm Jones|Treasurer|Whole Year||
||WendyDemaid||Whole Year||
||Gaynor Thomas||Whole Year||
||Michael Sheldon||Whole Year||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signed on behalf of the**
**harity’s trustees**|||
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|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|**Malcolm Curtis**||
||Malcolm Curtis||
||Secretary||
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## **GLANTAWE ( SWANSEA VALLEY ) LIONS CLUB ( CIO ) Receipts and Payments Account**
## **Reg No 1196210 for the year 1 july 2022 to 30 june 2023**
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|||Admin
|Actvity
|**30/6/23**|**30/6/22**|
|**Receipts**||||||
|Membership subscriptons||1055.00||_1055.00_|_620.00_|
|Donatons||2131.27|2792.36|_4923.63_|_2024.53_|
|Legacies||||||
|Gif Aid||||||
|Other|rafes and fnes|47.27||_47.27_|_40.50_|
||club charter|0.00||_0.00_|_1011.80_|
||miscellaneous|50.00||_50.00_|_0.00_|
|Grants||||||
|Fundraising ( gross )|||7707.24|7707.24|_2649.57_|
|Investment income||||||
|Prior year adjustment|||230.01|230.01||
||**Total Gross Income**|**3283.54 **|**10729.61**|**14013.15**|**6346.40**|
|Asset sales||||||
|Investment sales||||||
||**Total Receipts**|**3283.54**|**10729.61**|**14013.15**|**6346.40**|
|**Payments**||||||
|Charitable|payments||9225.33|9225.33|7747.38|
|Other|club dues|907.88||907.88|603.71|
||club charter|212.00||212.00|1024.37|
||miscellaneous|1.95|61.48|63.43|158.45|
|Fundraising expenses|||3190.16|3190.16|176.98|
||**Total Gross Expendit**|**1121.83 **|**12476.97**|**13598.80**|**9710.89**|
|Asset purchases||133.00|266.00|399.00|418.99|
|Investment purchases||||||
||**Total Payments**|**1254.83**|**12742.97**|**13997.80**|**10129.88**|
||**Net of receipts (paym 2028.71 **||**-2013.36**|**15.35**|**-3783.48**|
|Transfer|closed club assets|||0.00|11509.21|
||**Cash funds last year**|450.90|7274.83|7725.73|0.00|
||**Cash funds this year**|**2479.61**|**5261.47**|**£7,741.08**|**£7,725.73**|
|**GLANTAWE ( SWANSEA VALLEY )**||**LIONS CLUB ( CIO**||**)**
|**Reg No 1196210**|
|**Statement of Assets and Liabilities**||**at the year end 30 june 2023**||||
|||Admin
|Actvity
|**30/6/23**|**30/6/22**|
|**Cash funds**||||||
|Bank current account||2479.61|4691.46|7171.07|7725.73|
|Cash in hand
Paypal account
**Total cash funds**
**Other monetary assets**
**Investment assets**
**Non monetary assets**
**Liabilitiea**|390.00
180.01
**2,479.61**
**5,261.47**
0.00
0.00
**0.00**
**0.00**
0.00
0.00
**0.00**
**0.00**
0.00
0.00
**0.00**
**0.00**
0.00
0.00
**0.00**
**0.00**|390.00
180.01
**£7,741.08**
0.00
**£0.00**
0.00
**£0.00**
0.00
**£0.00**
0.00
**£0.00**|**£7,725.73**|**£7,725.73**|
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**£0.00**|
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**£0.00**|
_The receipts and payments account and statement of assets and liabilities ( these financial statements ) were approved by the trustees on_
_Signed on behalf of the trustees_