## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date 01 04 2024 Period end date 31 03 2025 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** The 1887 Alfred Sharp Bingley Educational Trust **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1199830 **Charity's principal address** City of Bradford MDC Finance, 5[th] Floor, Britannia House, Hall Ings, Bradford, West Yorkshire **Postcode BD1 1HX** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **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[Constitution ] - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)[Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) ] Trustee selection methods Corporate Trustee - current members of City of Bradford MDC’s (eg. appointed by, elected by) Regulatory and Appeals Committee ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: N/A - 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** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To advance the education of children and adults in the former Bingley Improvement District in such ways as the charity trustees think fit, including by awarding financial grants to individuals and/or schools and other educational organisations in the area. March **2012** **TAR** 2 Education/training. Helps other charities or voluntary bodies. Makes grants to individuals and organisations. The trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the Trust’s aims and objectives and in planning future activities and setting the grant-making policy for the year. **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)** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** N/A You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** At a meeting as Trustees, of the City of Bradford MDC’s Regulatory and Appeals Committee, on 07.08.2025, the trustees considered The 1887 Alfred Sharp Bingley Educational Trust and the allocation of funding for educational purposes. The Assistant Director of Neighbourhoods and Community submitted a report to the meeting which provided an update on the process and allocation of funding from the Alfred Sharp 1887 grants to schools and groups within the designated area in Bingley. The 1887 Alfred Sharp Bingley Educational Trust subcommittee had allocated £174,334.02 of the £220,000 available funds to local schools and community organisations. The report provided updated information on projects that have received grant funding through this process. In response to a question regarding how the Trust Fund was managed and funding allocated, it was explained that the money in the fund was not invested, but was being allocated in accordance with the charity’s aims and objectives. Trustees noted and acknowledged the updates provided in the report. Financial grants of £89,233 were awarded by The 1887 Alfred Sharp Bingley Educational Trust in 2024-25. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** N/A **Details of any funds materially in deficit** N/A ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: N/A - 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** N/A ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** City of Bradford MDC City of Bradford MDC **Full name(s)** City of Bradford MDC City of Bradford MDC **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Corporate Trustee ] **Date** 31.01.2026 Corporate Trustee March **2012** **TAR** 5 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR EN6LANO AND WALES ?• 1887 AIFr•A FAiJv3Jtrjnn•l Trijq 11998?n Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from Section A Receipts and payments Unrestritted funds ¢0 th• A•ai•si Re81ri¢ted lund8 Endowmeni funi1s Totsi fund8 Last yeai 10 th• Th•ai•si £ QO th• n•ar•si £ to th• fi•ar•st I Al Recei r&trtsf*st 7.009 7.109 Sub iotal(Grthss income for ARI 7.•09 A2 Asset and investment •ole*. l$ee tsbkl. Sub iotal TotslKecery>ts 7.809 7.109 A3 Poym¢nt• 89.233 89.233 Sub Total 89.233 89233 A4 A$$ei ond inve$tsnent urcha•e8. Isee tablel Sub iotal Toralpaymenzs B9.233 89.233 Netofreceipiw(paymenisJ A5 Transfer$ bety•een funds A6 Cash funda last year end Cash lunds thAS yearend 81.424 81.424 156.578 75.154 156.578 75.154 TAR March 2012 Section B Statement of assets and liabilits'es at the end of the period uiire*ir￿led fui)d• Re*li￿led funds to M4resi £ Eii(kiwriitiii funds 10 r•*4rest £ Categorie• Det•il* to Ae4resi £ 81 Cash lunds cashF￿0￿ 75.154 Toraicash funds 7S.1S4 Iwee Unrestricted funds RestrKted fund* to Ae4rest £ Endowment fund# Qo rlearesl £ to A*4r•st £ B2 Other moneiary assets Fund io ¥hi¢h •ss•i bel( Cwr*r•i value Det•ils Cost lopl¢oMII Fund to ¥hich 455el b*lo Deiails Cosi lop¢¢0￿1] Cuwvenl ¥￿￿ B4 Assets retalned lor the chanty'sown use Fund to ¥hi¢h liabi rel4tes Vh*r• du• Details behaldal**iwsiees Ftrt Naff Dale of aFwoval CK &Br4dl￿dMt1l i 01&￿10[d￿trTO I￿tIStI￿r CourKd 3IOI.2026 TAR March 2012