## **The St Mary the Virgin Mendlesham Charitable Trust First Annual Report of the Trustees for the year ending 30 September 2024**
## Objectives and Public Benefit
The objects of the CIO are:
To promote and maintain catholic teaching and practice of the Church of England within the church and parish of St Mary the Virgin Mendlesham in accordance with the principles of the Society under the patronage of Saint Wilfrid and Saint Hilda or any other body which becomes the successor of that Society.
## Achievement and Performance
The St Mary the Virgin Mendlesham Charitable Trust was first registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 26 September 2023.
The constitution of the CIO limits voting rights solely to the trustees. There are currently four trustees after the resignation of Mr Richard Giffin on 14 May 2024. Trustees have held four face-to-face meeting and have otherwise relied on electronic communications, as provided for by the constitution, as being cost-effective and time-efficient.
The year 2023-24 has not been particularly eventful. All the initial funding for the trust was originally held by the patrons of St Mary the Virgin Mendlesham church, the Society for the Maintenance of the Faith (SMF) on its behalf. It consisted of various different sums accumulated over approximately 25 years and either donated by individuals or transferred by the PCC specifically for the maintenance of catholic teaching and practice in the church and parish of St Mary the Virgin, Mendlesham. It was because SMF wished to cease holding funds on behalf of parishes that this CIO was set up and registered with the Charity Commission.
Until that CIO registration had taken place, it was not possible for trustees to open a bank account. Unfortunately that took several to achieve, despite an application being made to the Charities Aid Foundation immediately after successful registration.
After a bank account had duly been set up, SMF funds had to be transferred from one of their deposit accounts to a current account with a different bank – which also took an inordinate amount of time, due to internal banking issues. Consequently the funds were not transferred until April 2024.
Trustees have decided that, unless and until there is a pressing need for allocation of any funding by way of grant-making, it would be prudent for the funds to build up by generation of interest to ensure the viability of the Trust. For that reason no grants have been made this year.
In carrying out the business of the trust, trustees pay due regard to the advice of The Charity Commission relevant to the administration of the Charity.
## Financial Review
Income for 2023-24 was £29,652.27 and expenditure was £35.00
## Structure, Governance and Management
The charity is controlled by its governing document and is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
## Reference and Administrative Details
Registered Charity number: 1204935
## Principal Address
THE OAKS, HALL ROAD, THORNDON, EYE, IP23 7LU
## Trustees
The first ex-officio charity trustee is The Reverend Philip Thomas Gray
The first appointed charity trustees are as follows, and are appointed for the following terms –
Mr Andrew Richard Fleming ………………………… [for 4 years] Mr Christopher Robert Elstone ……………………... [for 3 years]
[Mr Richard Alan Giffin ………………………...[Resigned 14 May 2024] Mrs Andrea Patricia Elstone…………………………. [for 1 year]
## **Bankers**
CAF BANK (CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION) 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4JQ. Registered in England and Wales under number 1837656.
Approved by the Trustees …………………………………………… Signed ........................................................................................................ (Trustee)
The St Mary the Virgin Mendlesham Charitable Trust Annual Accounts 26[th] September 2023 – 30[th] September 2024
|**St Mary the**
**Virgin**
**Mendlesham**
**Charitable**
**Trust**|**2023-2024**|**Income (£)**
**29,652.27**|**Expenditure**
**(£)**
**35.00**|**Running**
**Balance (£)**
**29,617.27**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Examiner’s Report
**The St Mary the Virgin Mendlesham Charitable Trust No (if any) 1204935 CC16a Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 01/03/2024 30/09/2024 **To from**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|April - SMF Transfer in|**-**|**29,626.00**|
|**-**||**29,626.00**||**-**|
|June Bank Interest|**-**|**11.35**||**-**||**11.35**||**-**|
|September Bank Interest|**-**|**14.92**||**-**||**14.92**||**-**|
||**-**|**0.00**||**-**||**0.00**|||
||**-**|**0.00**||**-**||**0.00**||**-**|
||**-**|**0.00**||**-**||**0.00**||**-**|
||**-**|**0.00**||**-**||**0.00**||**-**|
||**-**|**0.00**||**-**||**0.00**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**-**|**29,652.27**||**-**||**29,652.27**||**-**|
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|||||||||**-**|
||||||||||
|March Bank Charges|**-**|||||||**-**|
|April Bank Charges|**-**|||||||**-**|
|MayBank Charges|**-**|||||||**-**|
|June Bank Charges|**-**|||||||**-**|
|JulyBank Charges|**-**|||||||**-**|
|August Bank Charges|**-**|||||||**-**|
|September Bank Charges|**-**|||||||**-**|
||||||||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
||||||||||
|**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_**|||||||||
|||||||||**-**|
||||||||||
||**-**|**29,617.27**||||**29,617.27**||**-**|
||**-**|**0.00**||||**0.00**||**-**|
||**-**|**0.00**||||**0.00**||**-**|
||**-**|**29,617.27**||||**29,617.27**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
29/07/2025
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Andrea Patricia Elstone|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Andrea Patricia Elstone|29/07/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
29/07/2025
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trustees
The St Mary the virgin Mendlesham Charttable Trust
On accounts for the year
ended
30th September 2024
Charity no
lif any)
1204935
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of Ihe accounts of the above
charily (llh8 Trust.) for the year ended
Respon$ibilitie• and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in a¢Gordan¢e with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
l-the Act'i
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's a¢¢ounts Carried out
under $e¢tion 145 of the 2011 Act and in Garying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 14515)(b) of the Act.
Independent tThe chanty's gross income exceeded £250.OCNJ and l am qualified to
examiner's Statement undertake the examinalion by being a qualified member of linsert name of
applicable listed bodylj. Delete l J if not applKable.
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection wrth the examination lother than that
disclosed below ') which gives me cause lo believe that in, any material
respect.
the accounting re¢ords were not kept in accordance wrth section 130
of the Charities Act., or
the accounts did not accord with the accounling cordS.. or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
Concerning the fom and contenl of accounts sel out in the Charilies
{Accounls and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view whi¢h is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no con¢2rns and have come across no other matters in connection
with Ihe examination to which attention should t* drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the a¢counts to be rea¢hed.
pi
e delete the words in th8 bTrckets rf they do not apply.
Signed:
Date: 3o-l_IS-
Name:
Afv*vAQ)
Relevant profossional
qualification{s} or body
IER
Oct 2018
(rf any):
Address:
Section 8
Disclosure
Only cornplete If the examiner needs lo highlight mateiial matters of concein
(see CC32, Independent èxamination of charty accounts.. directions and
guidance for examiners).
Glve here brief details of
any items that the
oxaminer wishes to
dlsclo80.
/144 o.Dz/.
rre
IER
Oct 2018