## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**From**|01|August|2024|**To**|**31**
July|2025| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** The Reginald Ames Charitable Foundation **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** **Charity's principal address** Unit 12 Tannery Road Industrial Estate Tannery Road Tonbridge, Kent **Postcode TN9 1RF** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Nick Gandon 2 Laura Gandon 3 Sarah Cundle 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 **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** Constitution Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by fellow trustees - (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 objects of the Charity are to advance such purposes which may be charitable (according to the law of England and Wales) as the trustees see fit. In particular the funding priorities for the Charity are as follows:- **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** 1. the prevention or relief of poverty in tea growing communities such as Sri Lanka, India, China, Africa, Taiwan, South America, Indonesia and Malaysia 2. the relief of sickness and the preservation of health among people residing permanently or temporarily in these Tea Growing March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## Communities; 3. the provision of resources to provide or improve education for children and adults in these Tea Growing Communities; 4. the provision of infrastructure to provide access to water, sanitation and sustainable food resources; and 5. supporting tea related causes which are charitable in these Tea Growing Communities, Europe and North America. During the year the charity made its first distribution with a donation to The Hope Foundation UK who support children in Kolkata, India. The trustees continued to raise funds and awareness and will be looking to make further donations in 2026. **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)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance The charity made its first donation during the year and continues to raise **Summary of the main** funds for further donations in 2026. **achievements of the charity during the year** March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** The Charity has an unrestricted reserve in place for any funds received in **Brief statement of the** the year. The amount held in reserves is monitored during the year as **charity’s policy on reserves** part of our financial monitoring process. Reserves are kept at a minimal level and are freely available to spend on any of our purposes. **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|Nick Gandon|Sarah Cundle| |---|---|---| ||Nick Gandon|Sarah Cundle| ||
Chair|Treasurer| ||20thMay 2026|| ||20thMay 2026|| March **2012** **TAR** 6 **Reginald Ames Charitable Foundation** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **For the period To from 01/08/2024 31/07/2025** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Donation received|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**1,000**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**1,000**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**1,000**| ||||||||||| |
Donations made|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**1,000**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**1,000**||||||||**-**| ||**1,000**||||||||**1,000**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Categories B1 Cash funds** |1
Cash at bank
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,000**
**-**
**1,000**
OK|21/05/2026
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
OK|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|SarahCundle
Signature
Nick Gandon
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name
Nick Gandon
Sarah Cundle|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| ||Nick Gandon|Nick Gandon|20th May 2026| ||SarahCundle|Sarah Cundle|20th May2026| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 21/05/2026 2