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

## **From 17 September 2024 To 16 September 2025** 

**Charity name: The BMS Foundation Charity registration number: 1210434** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|As per objects in deed standard objects are:<br>The objects of the charity are for the public<br>benefit to further such exclusively charitable<br>purposes according to the laws of England<br>and Wales in any part of the world (objects)<br>as the trustees may in their absolute<br>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.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|In furtherance of the charity’s objects for the<br>public benefit the trustees provide grants.|
|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|In determining the charity’s activities, the<br>trustees have had regard to the Charity<br>Commission’s guidance 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 Policy on social investment Para 1.38 including program related investment Contribution made by Para 1.38 volunteers Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|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>-<br>Coach Core Foundation - £15,000<br>-<br>East London Business Alliance -<br>£13,200|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising Para 1.41 activities against objectives set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other 



## **Financial Review** 

|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|In addition to the free reserves the charity<br>has bank balances of £45,190.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Trustees pursue a policy of maintaining<br>a free reserve available to be spent in the<br>furtherance of the charity’s objectives as<br>well as covering future needs, opportunities,<br>contingencies and risks.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|At the end of the reporting period the charity<br>had free reserves of £900.|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|No funds in deficit|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|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|Para 1.47||
||sources of funds (including|||
||any fundraising)|||
||Investment policy and|Para 1.46||
||objectives including any|||
||social investment policy|||
||adopted|||
||A description of the principal|Para 1.46||
||risks facing the charity|||
||Other||Expendable endowment funds are those|
||||which are required to be invested to produce|
||||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**|
|---|---|---|---|
||Description of charity’s|||
||trusts:|||
||Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Trust deed dated 17 September 2024|
||How is the charity|Para 1.25|Trust|
||constituted?|||
||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|||
||trustees|||





|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51|No trustee received any remuneration or<br>was reimbursed for any expenses in the<br>year under review.<br>Ludlow Trust Company Ltd was paid £1,669<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.|
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|The BMS Foundation|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|None|
|Registered charity number|1210434|
|Charity’s principal address|Ludlow Trust Company Ltd<br>Tower Wharf<br>Cheese Lane<br>BRISTOL<br>BS2 0JJ|





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

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Ludlow Trust<br>CompanyLimited||||
||Ian Gormley||Appointed 23 October<br>2024||
||Hannah Watkins||Appointed 23 October<br>2024||
||Neil Prior||||



## **– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved** 

|**Director name**|||
|---|---|---|
|Gary St John Collins|||
|Walter Duncan Coxon|||
|Ali Reza Sarikhani|||
|Ziba Christine Sakine<br>Sarikhani|||
|Christopher Ian Thurlow|||
|Matthew John Wickers|||
|John Stephen Dennis|(Resigned)-25/10/2024||



## **Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity** 

**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

|Description of the assets<br>held in this capacity|N/A|
|---|---|
|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|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and<br>segregation of such assets<br>from the charity’s own assets|N/A|





## **Additional information (optional)** 

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

|**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**Accountants**|Charter Tax Consulting<br>Limited|8th Floor, 1 Southampton St, London<br>WC2R 0LR|
|**Independent examiner**|James O’Rourke|Blue Spire Limited, Cawley Priory, South<br>Pallant, Chichester, PO19 1SY|



**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **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)** Monica Brown **Position (eg Secretary,** On behalf of Ludlow Trust **Chair, etc)** Company Limited (Trustee) **Date** 20 March 2026 



||**The BMS Foundation**|**The BMS Foundation**|**The BMS Foundation**|**1210434**|**1210434**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**|17/09/2024<br>Period start date|**To**||16/09/2025<br>Period end date||
||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**949**<br>**-**<br>**949**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**949**<br>**28,200**<br>**1,620**<br>**49**<br> **29,869**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**29,869**<br>**-                28,920**<br>**29,820**<br>**-**<br>**900**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**75,010**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**75,010**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**75,010**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**75,010**<br>**-                29,820**<br>**-**<br>**45,190**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Addition from Settlor||**-**|**75,010**||**75,010**|**-**|
|Interest Received|**949**|**-**|**-**||**949**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**949**|**-**|**75,010**||**75,959**|**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||
|Sale Of Investments|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||**-**|**75,010**||**75,959**|**-**|
||||||||
|Grants Awarded|**28,200**|**-**|**-**||**28,200**|**-**|
|Trust Administration Fees|**1,620**|**-**|**-**||**1,620**|**-**|
|Cash Management Fees|**49**|**-**|**-**||**49**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**29,869**|**-**|**-**||**29,869**|**-**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
|Investment Purchases|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||**-**|**-**||**29,869**|**-**|
||||||||
||**-                28,920**|**-**|**75,010**||**46,090**|<br>**-**|
||**29,820**||**-                29,820**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**900**|**-**|**45,190**||**46,090**|<br>**-**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

20/03/2026 

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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**900**<br>**-**<br>**900**<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Endowment**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**|**Restricted funds**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**||
||Capital Account|**-**|**-**|**45,190**|
||Income Account|**900**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**|**900**|**-**|**45,190**|
||||OK<br>OK||
||||**Restricted funds**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**Details**||**Cost (optional)**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**||
||Investment Portfolio|**Endowment**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||**Details**||**Cost (optional)**<br>**Current value**<br>**(optional)**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||**Details**||**Amount due (optional)**<br>**When due**<br>**(optional)**||
||||||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||Signature||||
|||Date of<br>approval<br>Print Name|||
|||Monica Brown on behalf of Ludlow Trust<br>CompanyLimited(Trustee)<br>||20 March 2026|
||||||



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

20/03/2026 

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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The BMS Foundation** 

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 16 September 2025 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

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 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 giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or 

2. the accounts do not accord with those records. 

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. 


James O’Rourke FCA Blue Spire Limited Cawley Priory South Pallant Chichester West Sussex PO19 1SY 

Date 

23 March 2026 

