## **HARPENDEN LIONS CLUB CIO** ## **TRUSTEES REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 2025** The Trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ending 30[th] June 2025 ## **LEGAL & ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS** **STATUS:** The CIO was established on 24[th] May 2022 and is registered with The Charity Commission under registration number 1198970 ## **TRUSTEES:** PRESIDENT 2024 - 2025 MR JAMES PENN SECRETARY 2024 - 2025 MR MARK DEACON TREASURER 2024 - 2025 MR ANDREW GODDEN MEMBER TRUSTEES 2024 - 2025 MR DAVID COWAN MR ROGER FOX MR MICHAEL KELLY MR JOHN POWELL ## **CORRESPONDENT:** ANDREW GODDEN, 65 ALZEY GARDENS, HARPENDEN. AL5 5SY ## **MAIN BANKERS** HSBC BANK, 75 – 77 HIGH STREET. SUTTON. SM1 1DU ## **ACTIVITIES & REVIEW OF THE YEAR** ## **HARPENDEN LIONS CLUB CIO** The Charity’s principal aim is to help the needy, by both physical assistance and by making pecuniary grants. We raise money via The Lions Bookshop, Christmas collections and a variety of fund-raising events throughout the year. This includes the annual Highland Gathering which is the largest of the charitable events undertaken during the year. Harpenden Lions Club CIO support the Life Skills project (renamed Youth Support with widened objectives with effect from 1 July 2025) and distributes the proceeds of fund-raising activities by making grants to registered charities, Lions Clubs International, schools and individuals. ## **TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES** The Trustees are required by law to prepare accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the financial state of the Charity and the results for the year then ended. In preparing the accounts, the Trustees are required to select suitable accounting policies and apply them on a consistent basis, making judgments and estimates that are prudent and reasonable. The Trustees must also prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue its operations. The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Charities Act 1993. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. **APPROVED BY THE TRUSTEES ON:** 25 November 2025 **AND SIGNED ON THEIR BEHALF BY** : __________________________________ JENNY VESTAL – SECRETARY 2025 – 2026 ## **Harpenden Lions Club CIO Accounts 2024-2025** ## **Summary ome and Expenditure for the year ended 30 June 2** |General Unrestricted Funds
Highland Gathering 2024
Highland Gathering 2025
Life Skills
Mohan Cashyap Fundraising
Members Area
Represented by:
HSBC Current Account ****1690
HSBC Deposit Account ****1704|**Opening Balanc**
**Income**
**###**
£3,193.21
£21,956.03
£5,094.22
£17,723.84
£0.00
£13,605.89
£11,451.81
£100.00
£1,622.22
£0.00
£1,011.03
£3,425.70|**Transfers**
£4,102.83
-£6,102.83
£2,000.00|**Expenditure**
**Grants**
£3,127.89
£18,097.65
£10,215.23
£6,500.00
£7,663.43
£0.00
£0.00
£5,645.75
£0.00
£1,622.22
£3,080.96
£0.00|**Grants**|**Closing Balance**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||
**###**

£8,026.53

£0.00

£5,942.46

£7,906.06

£0.00

£1,355.77| ||**£22,372.49 £56,811.46**|**£0.00**|**£24,087.51 £31,865.62**||**£23,230.82**| ||£20,750.27
£1,622.22
**£22,372.49**||||£766.94
£22,463.88| ||||||**£23,230.82**| At the year end the only assets of the CIO were the bank balances with HSBC; there were no liabilities. As at 30 June 2025 there were no Restricted Funds held A N R Godden Treasurer 26/09/2025 Dated ## **Harpenden Lions Club CIO Accounts 2024-2025** |**General Unrestricted Funds**
**Income**
Easter Egg Appeal 2024 for Guide Dogs
Ceilidh for Waterways Experiences
£2,410.99
Easter Egg Appeal for SERV
£2,243.20
Xmas Tin Shake Appeal for Harpenden Community First Responders
£1,412.07
Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS) for Xmas Tin Shake (above
£353.02
Poppy Appeal
£3,079.83
Bookshop
£11,343.01
Surplus from Highland Gathering 2024
Gift Aid Received
£426.25
HSBC Compensation re Arua Lions Payment
£150.00
Friends of Flamstead Scarecrow Festival
£105.00
Miscellaneous Donations
£91.00
Bank Interest
£341.66
Playpark Refund
St Albans Lions for Stuart Pearson Crowdfunding
Freddie Green - World Challenge
SPOTCAM Apppeal
St Albans for Refugees
Tear Fund - The Lea School Toilet Twinning
Markyate Baptist Church for Care4Calais
LCI 105A District Youth
LCIF Polish Floods
LCIF Spanish Floods
Brain Tumour Research
MD 105A Senior Citizens' Christmas Party
The Big Give for Home Start Herts
Mercy Ships
Hertfordshire Community Meals
LCI 105A for Ukranian Stoves
Keech Hospice Care
Lions Club of Arua
Aadhar Charitable Trust
MD 105A Youth Fund
MD 105A Insurance
Bank Charges
WIX Website Hosting Subscription
Information Commissioner
Emmaus - Diesel (Xmas Tree Collection)
Small Lotteries Registration
Lions Lanyards (for card machines)
Peace Poster Kit
**Totals**
**£21,956.03**|**General Unrestricted Funds**
**Income**
Easter Egg Appeal 2024 for Guide Dogs
Ceilidh for Waterways Experiences
£2,410.99
Easter Egg Appeal for SERV
£2,243.20
Xmas Tin Shake Appeal for Harpenden Community First Responders
£1,412.07
Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS) for Xmas Tin Shake (above
£353.02
Poppy Appeal
£3,079.83
Bookshop
£11,343.01
Surplus from Highland Gathering 2024
Gift Aid Received
£426.25
HSBC Compensation re Arua Lions Payment
£150.00
Friends of Flamstead Scarecrow Festival
£105.00
Miscellaneous Donations
£91.00
Bank Interest
£341.66
Playpark Refund
St Albans Lions for Stuart Pearson Crowdfunding
Freddie Green - World Challenge
SPOTCAM Apppeal
St Albans for Refugees
Tear Fund - The Lea School Toilet Twinning
Markyate Baptist Church for Care4Calais
LCI 105A District Youth
LCIF Polish Floods
LCIF Spanish Floods
Brain Tumour Research
MD 105A Senior Citizens' Christmas Party
The Big Give for Home Start Herts
Mercy Ships
Hertfordshire Community Meals
LCI 105A for Ukranian Stoves
Keech Hospice Care
Lions Club of Arua
Aadhar Charitable Trust
MD 105A Youth Fund
MD 105A Insurance
Bank Charges
WIX Website Hosting Subscription
Information Commissioner
Emmaus - Diesel (Xmas Tree Collection)
Small Lotteries Registration
Lions Lanyards (for card machines)
Peace Poster Kit
**Totals**
**£21,956.03**|**Transfer In**| |---|---|---| ||**£21,956.03**|| ## **Harpenden Lions Club CIO Accounts 2024-2025** **Highland Gathering Opening Balance £5,094.22** ## **Highland Gathering 2024** |**Highland Gathering 2024**|**Highland Gathering 2024**||| |---|---|---|---| |**Income**
Highland Gathering Income 2024
£17,723.84
Highland Gathering Costs 2024
Young Lives vs Cancer
795 Squadron Harpenden ATC
10(F) Luton Air Training Corps
Cockernhoe PTA
Emmaus
Harpenden & Wheathampstead District Scout Council
Harpenden ACF
10th Harpenden Scouts
Life Skills
General Unrestricted Funds
Totals
£17,723.84
**Highland Gathering 2025**
Highland Gathering Income to date
£13,605.89
Highland Gathering Costs to date
Totals
£13,605.89||**Expenditure**
£10,215.23|**Transfers Out**
**Grants**
£5,000.00
£350.00
£350.00
£150.00
£175.00
£150.00
£125.00
£200.00
£2,000.00
£4,102.83
£6,102.83
£6,500.00
-£5,094.22
£0.00
£5,942.46
**Closing Balance**
**£5,942.46**| |||£10,215.23
£7,663.43
£7,663.43|| ||£13,605.89||| ## **Harpenden Club CIO Accounts 2024-2025** |**Life Skills**||**Income**
£100.00|**Transfer In**
£2,000.00|**Opening Balance**
**£11,451.81**
**Expenditure**
**Grants**
£1,000.00
£500.00
£457.50
£490.77
£600.00
£500.14
£497.47
£473.87
£1,126.00
**£0.00**
**£5,645.75**
-£3,545.75
**Closing Balance**
**£7,906.06**| |---|---|---|---|---| |Highland Gathering 2024
Donation
Roundwood Park School
Manland Primary School
Grove Infants & Nursery School
St Luke's School
Grove Junior School
Wood End Primary School
Beech Hyde Primary School
Harpenden Academy
Sauncey Wood Primary School
**Totals**||||| ||**£100.00**||**£2,000.00**|| ## **Harpenden Lions Club CIO Accounts 2024-2025** |**Mohan Cashyap Fund Raisi**
Aadhar Charitable Trust
**Totals**|**Mohan Cashyap Fund Raisi**
Aadhar Charitable Trust
**Totals**|**Opening Balance**
**£1,622.22**
**Income**
**Grants**
£0.00
£1,622.22
**£0.00**
**£1,622.22**
**£1,622.22**
**Closing Balance**
**£0.00**| |---|---|---| |Aadhar Charitable Trust
**Totals**||| |||| |**Harpenden Lions**|**Club CIO Accounts 2024-2025**|**Club CIO Accounts 2024-2025**|**Club CIO Accounts 2024-2025**| |---|---|---|---| |**Members Area**||**Opening Balance**|**£1,011.03**| ||**Income**|**Expenditure**|| |Members Subscriptions|£2,295.00||| |District, MD and International Dues||£2,181.55|| |Rafes|£502.70||| |President's Party June 2024|£48.00|£155.66|| |President's Party January 2025|£580.00|£431.40|| |Poppy Appeal Wreath||£75.00|| |Stephanie Reynard Guest Speaker Hospitality||£24.00|| |President's Expenses||£35.00|| |Paul Nield Memorial Celebration||£20.00|| |President's Tankard and Engraving||£58.90|| |President's Gold Bar and Engraving||£31.95|| |Miscellaneous Engraving||£67.50|| |**Totals**|**£3,425.70**|**£3,080.96**|**£344.74**| |||**Closing Balance**|**£1,355.77**| Harpenden Llons Club CIO Income & Expenditure Statements th In respect of the Accounting Period 1" July 2024-30 June 2025 Independent Examiner's Reportto the Trustees & Members of the Harpenden Lions Club I have examined the books and records of the Club for the financial year th ending 30 June 2025 and confirm that adequate records have been kept. The Club, in common with many others of similar size and organisation, derives much ot its income from Fundraising Activities and Donations which cannot be controlled until they are entered in the accounting records and are not. therefore, susceptible to independent audit and verification. Subject to the foregoing, in my opinion the financial statements attached give a fair view of the state of the Club's affairs and of the receipts and payments tor the year then ended. Mr D Price MrAGoddon Independent Examlner Treasurer 2024-2025 26 September 2025 26 Seplember 2025