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Bere Oak Charitable Trust 1205460<br>Receipts and payments accounts CC16a<br>For the period  Period start date Period end date<br>To<br>from 04/05/2024 03/05/2025<br>Section A Receipts and payments<br>Unrestricted  Restricted  Endowment<br>Total funds Last year<br>funds funds funds<br>to the nearest      £  to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £<br>A1 Receipts<br>Additions From Settlor                                -                               -                           5,000                         5,000                   250,000<br>Interest Received                      12,584                               -                                 -                         12,584                       1,532<br>HMRC Gift Aid                                -                               -                           1,250                         1,250                     62,500<br>                               -                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total  (Gross income for<br>                     12,584                               -                           6,250                       18,834                   314,032<br>AR)<br>A2 Asset and investment sales,<br>(see table).<br>Sale Of Investments                                -                                 -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>                               -                                 -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>Sub total                                 -                                 -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>Total receipts                  12,584                             -                     6,250                       18,834                314,032<br>A3 Payments<br>Grants Awarded                      39,208                               -                                 -                         39,208                     15,719<br>Trust Administration Fees                        2,387                               -                                 -                           2,387                          599<br>Trust Setup Fee                                -                               -                                 -                                 -                         3,000<br>Cash Management Fee                           512                               -                                 -                              512                          129<br>                               -                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total [                     42,107 ]                              -                                 -                         42,107                     19,447<br>A4 Asset and investment<br>purchases, (see table)<br>Investment Purchases                                -                                 -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>                               -                                 -                                 -                               -<br>Sub total [                               - ]                                -                                 -                               -                                 -<br>Total payments                 42,107                            -                            -                  42,107                 19,447<br>Net of receipts/(payments) -                29,523                           -                       6,250  -                23,273               294,585<br>A5 Transfers between funds                 41,595  -                41,595                          -                          -<br>A6 Cash funds last year end                    1,403                293,182                     294,585                        -<br>Cash funds this year end                  13,475                           -                   257,837                 271,312               294,585<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

23/02/2026 

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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|Signature<br>Per electronic approval<br>Capital account<br>Income account<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Investment portfolio<br>**Details**<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**13,475**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**13,475**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**Endowment**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Matthew Winterbottom on behalf of<br>Ludlow Trust Company Ltd|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**257,837**<br>**-**<br>**-**|
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||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**When due**<br>**(optional)**<br>Date of<br>approval<br>Per electronic<br>approval|



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

23/02/2026 

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## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From 04 May 2024 To 03 May 2025** 

**Charity name: Bere Oak Charitable Trust Charity registration number: 1205460** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

|**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**|
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|SORP reference|||
|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document<br>Para 1.17<br>To hold the capital and income upon trust to<br>apply the income and all or such parts of the<br>capital at such time or times and in such a<br>manner to or for the benefit of such<br>exclusively charitable objects and purposes<br>in any part of the world as the Trustees may<br>in their absolute discretion think fit.|||
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.<br>Para 1.17 and<br>1.19<br>In furtherance of the charity’s objects for the<br>public benefit the trustees provide grants. In<br>determining the charity’s activities, the<br>trustees have had regard to the Charity<br>Commission’s guidance on public benefit.|||
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18||





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|Policy on grant making<br>Para 1.38|||
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment<br>Para 1.38|||
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers<br>Para 1.38|||
|Other|||



## **Achievements and Performance** 


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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|
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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|During the year under review the charity<br>made grants to the following charities<br>totalling £39,208.00.<br><br>Association of Evangelists<br><br>Compassion UK<br><br>Faithworks Wessex<br><br>Friends International Ministries<br><br>Landsdowne<br>Baptist<br>Church<br>Bournemouth (Building Fund)<br><br>Landsdowne<br>Baptist<br>Church<br>Bournemouth (General Fund)<br><br>Programme for Applied Christian<br>Education<br><br>Tearfund<br><br>Teen Challenge UK (Dorset)|





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|Achievements against<br>objectives set<br>Para 1.41|||
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set<br>Para 1.41|||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives<br>Para 1.41|||
|Other|||



## **Financial Review** 


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Review of the charity’s  Para 1.21  At the end of the reporting period the charity<br>financial position at the end  had free reserves of £13,475 (2024:<br>£1,403).<br>of the period<br>In addition to the free reserves the charity<br>has bank balances of £257,837 (2024:<br>£293,182)  within  the  expendable<br>endowment fund which can be released to<br>support the activities of the charity.<br>Statement explaining the  Para 1.22  The Trustees pursue a policy of maintaining<br>policy for holding reserves  a free reserve available to be spent in the<br>stating why they are held  furtherance of the charity’s objectives as<br>well as covering future needs, opportunities,<br>contingencies and risks.<br>Amount of reserves held  Para 1.22<br>Reasons for holding zero  Para 1.22<br>reserves<br>Details of fund materially in  Para 1.24<br>deficit<br>Explanation of any  Para 1.23<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>




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|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|||Expendable endowment funds are those|
|Other||which are required to be invested to produce<br>income, but which may be transferred to|
|||unrestricted funds at the discretion of the|
|||trustees in order that they may be expended|
|||in furtherance of the charity’s objectives.|
|||Unrestricted income funds are available for|
|||use at the discretion of the trustees in|
|||furtherance of the general objectives of the|
|||charity and which have not been designated|
|||for other purposes.|



|**Structure, Governance**|**Structure, Governance**|**and Management**|**and Management**|
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||Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
||Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Trust deed dated 04 May 2023|
||How is the charity<br>constituted?|Para 1.25|Trust|
||Trustee selection methods|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed by the trustees from|
||including details of any||time to time.|
||constitutional provisions e.g.|||
||election to post or name of|||
||any person or body entitled|||
||to appoint one or more|||
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|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees<br>Para 1.51|||
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works<br>Para 1.51|||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties<br>Para 1.51<br>No trustee received any remuneration or<br>was reimbursed any expenses in the year<br>under review.<br>Ludlow Trust Company Ltd was paid £2,899<br>for<br>trust<br>administration<br>and<br>cash<br>management fees during the year under<br>review.  These fees are authorised under<br>clause 9 of the trust deed.|||
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## **Reference and Administrative details** 


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Charity name  Bere Oak Charitable Trust<br>Other name the charity uses<br>Registered charity number  1205460<br>Charity’s principal address  Ludlow Trust Company Limited, First Floor, Tower Wharf,<br>Cheese Lane, Bristol, BS2 0JJ<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>




**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 


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Dates acted if not for whole  Name of person (or body) entitled<br>Trustee name  Office (if any)<br>year to appoint trustee (if any)<br>Ludlow Trust<br>1<br>Company Limited<br>2 Nicola Wendy King<br>3 Stewart Andrew King<br>–<br>Corporate trustees   names of the directors at the date the report was approved<br>Director name<br>Gary St John Collins<br>Walter Duncan Coxon<br>Ali Reza Sarikhani<br>Ziba Christina Sakine<br>Sarikhani<br>Christopher Ian Thurlow<br>Matthew John Wickers<br>John Stephen Dennis  (Resigned on 25/10/2024)<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

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|**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of**||**others**|
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|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian<br>charity’s objects|||
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and<br>segregation of such assets<br>from the charity’s own assets|||





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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 


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## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** Per electronic approval 

**Full name(s)** Matthew Winterbottom on behalf of Ludlow Trust Company Ltd **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** Per electronic approval 



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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 


## **Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name Bere Oak Charitable Trust **members of On accounts for the** 3[rd] May 2025 **Charity no** 1205460 **period ended (if any) Set out on pages** Financial statements page 1 - 2 Trustee report page 3 - 10 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the period ended 03/05/2025. 

- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed 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: 

- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 

- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 

**Date:** 24-02-26 **Signed: Name:** Ian Rodd **Relevant professional** BSc FCA FCCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** TC Group 10 Bridge Street, Christchurch Dorset BH23 1EF 

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## **Section B                           Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 

**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

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