## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: 1 January 2024 To: 31 December 2024** **Charity name: Viscountess Barrington Homes for Disadvantaged Ex-Service Personnel** ## **Charity registration number: 1207850** ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Objectives and Activities**||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To provide housing for beneficiaries,**
**defined as former members of the armed**
**forces or dependents thereof, who are in**
**need by virtue of disability, financial**
**hardship, sickness or old age,****_and are_**
**_capable of independent living_. ****_Applicants_**
**_should ordinarily be resident within 100_**
**_miles of Shrivenham, Oxon or have family_**
**_ties to the Shrivenham area._**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**To maintain, and upgrade where**
**appropriate, the properties owned by the**
**Trust, to ensure that active and**
**independent residents can enjoy**
**accommodation in line with 21st century**
**living, at contribution rates that are**
**affordable to those in need.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of 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.|Para 1.20|**This Charity (CIO) was approved in April**
**2024 by the Charity Commission, but did**
**not start operating as such until 2025.**
**It then took over the operations of the**
**existing Charity #205219, from which all**
**assets and liabilities will be transferred.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**N/A**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|N/A|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**N/A**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charity Commission Scheme**
**(Constitution)**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees will be transferred from the**
**existing charity (#205219)**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||**This Charity (CIO) was approved in April**
**2024 by the Charity Commission, but did**
**not start operating as such until 2025.**
**It will then take over the operations of the**
**existing Charity #205219, from which all**
**assets and liabilities will be transferred.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**Viscountess Barrington Homes for Disadvantaged**
**ex-Service Personnel (CIO)**| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|**VB Homes**| |Registered charitynumber|**1207850**| |Charity’s principal address|**19 Stainswick Lane Shrivenham**
**Swindon SN6 8DU**| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if**
**any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to appoint**
**trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---| |Andrew Sudlow|Chair||N/A| |David Ahern|||N/A| |Martin Chaston|||N/A| |Peter Harrison|||N/A| |Paul Armitage|||N/A| |Christopher
Mackarness|||N/A| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|N/A| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** ||**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| ||||| ||||| ## **Other optional information** ## **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)** Andrew Sudlow **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 24 October 2025 |VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON'S HOMES FOR DISADVANTAGED EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL CIO (CHARITY #1207850)|VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON'S HOMES FOR DISADVANTAGED EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL CIO (CHARITY #1207850)|VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON'S HOMES FOR DISADVANTAGED EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL CIO (CHARITY #1207850)|VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON'S HOMES FOR DISADVANTAGED EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL CIO (CHARITY #1207850)|VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON'S HOMES FOR DISADVANTAGED EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL CIO (CHARITY #1207850)|VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON'S HOMES FOR DISADVANTAGED EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL CIO (CHARITY #1207850)|VISCOUNTESS BARRINGTON'S HOMES FOR DISADVANTAGED EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL CIO (CHARITY #1207850)| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**12-Dec-24**||||||| |ASSETS||||||| ||Fixed Assets(Properties)|||||| |||None (awaiting transfer from old Trust)||£0.00||| |||||||| ||Cash|None - new Trust not operating until|2025|£0.00||| |||||||| |||||||| ||TOTAL ASSETS||||**£0.00**|| |||||||| |LIABILITIES||||||| |||None||||| |||||||| ||TOTAL LIABILITIES||||£0.00|| |||||||| |TOTAL FUNDS||||||£0.00| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| ||**CLERK: GRAHAM VIZOR**
**CHAIR: ANDREW SUDLOW**||||||