## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
From 01/01/2025
To 31/12/2025
Charity name: Nefyn Camps
Charity registration number: 1204369
## **Objectives and Activities**
The purpose of the charity is to promote the Christian faith especially amongst children and young people particularly by camping, holidays and related activities.
We provide Christian camps for children/young people between the ages of 9 and 18, usually during the summer and based on a field in the village of Nefyn, North Wales. The main activities, for the public benefit, in the period under review were:
- Five week-long camps in July and August for young people between the ages of 9 and 18.
- We welcome campers both from a Christian family background or a non-Christian faith background.
- The camps include
- Christian teaching from the bible through teaching, discussion and example.
- Fun activities and games throughout the day and evening. These included activities put on by the camp leaders and some using external providers.
- Opportunities to build friendships and learn to relate well to each other.
- Learning to work together on various tasks to help the camps run smoothly.
- We also aim to train and develop Christian leadership skills in both current and potential future leaders.
- We provide training for leaders so that camps are well run, safe and fun.
- We do not want anyone to be unable to attend due to financial constraints. We aim to keep camper fees as low as possible and when people are struggling to pay the fees we encourage application to bursary funds and will also agree to reduced camper fees on request.
The charity does not make any grants
The charity is grateful to the volunteer leaders who enable the camps to run as well as to the trustees who lead the strategic direction of the organisation.
## **Achievements and Performance**
In 2025 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:
- We ran 5 week-long camps with a total attendance of 186 young people (2024: 172) between the ages of 9 and 18.
- Feedback from camps was consistently high. A large proportion of campers return year after year.
- In training and developing Christian leadership skills we had 112 leaders attend (2024: 110). We also welcomed 10 (2024:5) apprentice leaders (under 18’s).
- As the camps are run by volunteers (who also make a financial contribution to cover their costs) we are able to keep camper fees very low. In 2025 we were able to offer a seven-night holiday including food and travel for under £160.
- In 2025 we funded £1,180 (2024: £500) of reduced camper fees and received £156 (2024: £220) from other individuals / bursary funds to fund places at camp.
- This was all possible due to our 100+ volunteers who have contributed over 20,000 hours to the camps.
## **Financial Review**
In previous years, Nefyn Camps used to operate within Urban Saints. In December 2023 Urban Saints transferred all cash (£41,376) and equipment that was related to Nefyn Camps to the Charity on the condition that this was to be used for the ongoing running of the camps. The Funds transferred are shown as Restricted Funds that have been utilised through the ongoing expenditure related to Nefyn Camps.
Nefyn Camps aim to run an operating surplus to build up funds for large items of expenditure. Funds are designated by the Trustees towards these items of expenditure.
The costs of the camps are kept as low as possible through the generosity of our volunteers and donors plus the diligence of the camp leaders. The following financial principles are applied by Nefyn Camps:-
- All work is done by volunteers with no paid members of staff
- Volunteers at camp make a voluntary contribution towards camp fees to keep fees as low as possible for campers.
- We also receive some other donations from supporters
- No young person should be prevented from attending camp from a lack of funds. Burseries can be applied for and we will also agree reduced fees where required.
- We try to use local suppliers as much as possible to benefit the area.
Receipts and payments for the period were
|Total receipts:|£ 43,653|
|---|---|
|Total expenditure:|£ 38,253|
|Net surplus:|£ 5,399|
The financial position at the end of the period were funds of £52,239.
Cash restricted funds from the transfer of assets from Urban Saints have been fully utilised. Assets bought while operating under Urban Saints are still restricted to the continued operation of Nefyn camps as specified by Urban Saints.
Funds have been designated by the trustees as follows:-
|**Restricted /**
**Designated Fund**|**Value at**
**31**
**December**
**2025**|**Notes**|
|---|---|---|
|Shower Block|£21,000|Expected costofc£25k in 2030-35.|
|Toilet Block|£7,000|Expected costofc£40k in 2040|
|Marquee|£15,000|Expected cost of c£15k before
2030|
|Electricity supply|£4,000|Unsure of cost to be incurred in
2026|
|Risk of cancellation|£5,000|Funds are held to cover fxed costs
in the event of the camps being
cancelled|
|---|---|---|
|**Total Restricted /**
**Designated funds**|**£52,000**||
Unrestricted funds provide a cash-flow buffer and support the general operations of the charity.
The charity had reserves of £52,239 (2024: £46,839) at the end of the financial year of which £52,000 were designated by the Trustees and the remainder of £239 unrestricted.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The charity’s governing document is a foundation constitution. The charity is a CIO
New trustees are elected to post by the charity’s existing trustees.
Christian Safeguarding Services are used for training and advice on Safeguarding matters.
The charity is a member of the Evangelical Alliance,
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|**Charity name**|**Nefyn Camps**|
|---|---|
|**Registered**
**charity number**|**1204369**|
||**15 Rake Hey Close**
**WIRRAL**
**Merseyside**
**CH46 6EW**|
|**Bank**|**Virgin Bank**|
|**Trustee name**|**Ofce (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|
|---|---|---|
|**Heather Cleave**|**Chair**||
|**Lizzie Watkins**|**Safeguarding**||
|**David**
**Champness**|**Bookings**||
|**Paul**
**Higginbotham**|**Treasurer**||
|**Robert Cross**|**Site &**
**Equipment**||
|**Ben Slater**||**Resigned 16 March 2025**|
|**Rachel Read**|||
|**Andrew Stone**||**Appointed 16 March 2025**|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
All trustees are involved with various responsibilities in the operation of the charity.
## **Declarations**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
**Signature(s )**
## **Full name(s)**
## **Heather Cleave**
## **Paul Higginbotham**
**Position (e.g. Chair Trustee and Secretary, Treasurer Chair, etc)**
**Date**
**Charity Name Nefyn Camps**
## **Recei ts and p**
Period start
## **For the period from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted funds**
## **Restricted funds**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|
|**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
CampFees
**29,255**
Subletting/other income
**130**
Donations
**11,490**
Gift aid reclaim
**1,990**
Tuck Shop
**279**
Bookstall
**(0)**
Merchandise
**141**
Bank Interest
**367**
**43,653**
**Transfer of assets**
**0**
**0**
**_Sub total_**
**0**
**_Total receipts_**
**43,653**
**A3 Payments**
Site & Equipment
**2,650**
Utilities & Insurance
**4,011**
Catering
**11,786**
Travel & Trips
**7,282**
Other Admin costs
**3,729**
**_Sub total_**
**29,458**
**0**
**0**
**_Sub total_**
**0**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**
**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**
**table)**||**to the nearest £**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
||||
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
||||
|||**0**|
||||
|||**8,795**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
|||**0**|
||||
||||
||||
||||
|||**8,795**|
||||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**
**table)**|||
||**0**|**0**|
||**0**|**0**|
|**_Sub total_**|**0**|**0**|
|**_Total payments_**
**29,458**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**14,194**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**0**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**38,044**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**52,239**|**8,795**|
|---|---|
|||
||**(8,795)**|
||**0**|
||**8,795**|
||**0**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabiliti**
## **Categories**
## **Details**
## **B1 Cash funds**
Bank accounts Cash
## _**Total cash funds**_
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
## **Details**
## **B2 Other monetary assets**
Gift Aid receivable
## **Details**
## **B3 Investment assets**
## **Details**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
Toilet Block Building for storage
## **Details**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
**No (if any) 1204369**
**CC16a**
## **d payments accounts**
t date 1-Jan-25
**To**
Period end date
31-Dec-25
## **Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**
## **Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
|**0**||**29,255**||**25,434**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**0**||**130**||**0**|
|**0**||**11,490**||**11,456**|
|**0**||**1,990**||**0**|
|**0**||**279**||**346**|
|**0**||**(0)**||**(0)**|
|**0**||**141**||**484**|
|**0**||**367**||**325**|
|**0**||**43,653**||**38,044**|
|||**0**|||||**0**||||**41,376**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**0**|||||**0**||||**0**||
|||**0**|||||**0**||||**41,376**||
||||||||||||||
||**0**|||||**43,653**|||||**79,420**||
||||||||||||||
**0 0 0 0 0 0**
**11,445 4,011 11,786 7,282 3,729 38,253**
**6,755 5,329 11,604 5,475 3,417 32,581**
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||**38,253**||||**32,581**||
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||||||||
||**5,399**||||**46,839**||
||**0**||||**0**||
||**46,839**||||**0**||
||**52,239**||||**46,839**||
## **Unrestricted funds**
## **Restricted funds**
|**to nearest £**
**52,015**
**224**
**52,239**
OK|**to nearest £**|
|---|---|
||**0**|
||**0**|
||**0**|
||**0**|
||OK|
## **Unrestricted funds**
## **Restricted funds**
|**to nearest £**
**1,953**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**|
|---|---|
|**1,953**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|
**Endowment funds to nearest £ 0 0 0 0**
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## **Endowment funds to nearest £**
**-**
## **Fund to which asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Fund to which asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
|Unrestricted||**36,998**|
|---|---|---|
|Unrestricted|||
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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS OF
NEFYN CAMPS
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Charity")
for the period ended 31 December 2025. As the Charity's trustees, you are responsible for the
preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the
Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Charity's accounts carried out under section
145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable
Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my
attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any
material respect:
• the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
• the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
• the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and
content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other
than any requirement that the accounts give a'true and fair, view, which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination
to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of
the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
J.1
rnSC>
Date:
Name: Tracey Johnson FCA
Address: 4 Bannister Lane, Farington Moss, Leyland, PR26 6PT