## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1/1/2022 Period start date To 31/12/2022 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Cottenham Charities** ## **Charity registration number: 200586** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The charity owns and manages seven
Almshouses and Land for Allotment use in
the Parish of Cottenham.
To provide Almshouse accommodation to
those on low income in the Parish of
Cottenham.
Relief in need to individual persons and
apprentices residing in the Parish of
Cottenham| |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|Maintenance and provision of the
Almshouses for accommodation.
Grants to inhabitants of the Parish on low
income by means of Christmas Vouchers
and other grants as needed for Apprentices
and Relief in Need.
Benefit from the charity is available to
anyone in the Parish, or connected with the
Parish, who can demonstrate they are
necessitous according to the Charity
Scheme approved by the Charity
Commission.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have full regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit.
The application of income is restricted as
stated in the Governing Document sealed
11thFebruary 1970.| **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
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|All trustees are volunteers| |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||The charity provides seven self-contained
dwellings for local people and these have
been fully occupied throughout 2022. The
dwellings are regularly maintained and
every effort is made to provide good quality
accommodation.
A total of £6,809 was gifted by the charity
to those in need who live in the Parish.
_John Moreton Almshouse Charity_
Small charitable gifts were given to
residents of the Parish as needed.
£10,000 was added to the Emergency
Repair Fund invested in a COIF Charities
Accumulation Fund
The debt to the John Moreton Endowment
fund was reduced to £90,000.
_Cottenham United Charities_
Cash grants were made to 96 parishioners
on low income at Christmas. This was in
conjunction with the Fitzwilliam Charity who
contributed to the awards.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|The charity does not need to raise funds by
donation due to endowments and other
income.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The financial position of the charity is
stable. The charity achieved a surplus of| |---|---|---| |||£830 for the year and this has been added
to retained reserves brought forward| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Reserves are held for ongoing
maintenance and unforeseen costs relating
to the properties.
The cash reserves will be held at a level to
cover debt repayments and necessary
repairs and expenses for one year should
there be no income from Weekly
Maintenance Contributions. A sum of
money is transferred annually into an
Emergency Repair Fund invested with a
COIF Charities Investment Fund.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Cash balance at year end was £48,397| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|The debt in the John Moreton Endowment
Fund is as agreed with the Charity
Commission, presently £90,000| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|None| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|The charity’s income is derived from the
investments in the endowment funds,
Weekly Maintenance Contributions
received from Almshouse residents and
rental income from the Allotments.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|The charity’s investment funds are placed
in COIF Charity Investment and Deposit
accounts.| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Severe damage to the Almshouses
preventing occupation| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust Deed| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated Charity| |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|Nine Trustees composed of the Rector of
Cottenham All Saints’ Church, three
nominated by the Parish Council and five
co-optative by resolution of the Trustees.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The charity is a member of the Almshouse
Association.
The charity is a member of the Cambridge
& South Cambs Charities Network chaired
by the Cambridge Housing Association
which meets monthly.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Cottenham Charities| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|John Moreton Almshouse Charity
Cottenham United Charities| |Registered charity number|200586| |Charity’s principal address|21A Corbett Street
Cottenham
CAMBRIDGE
CB24 8QX| ## **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 (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1|Malcom Dee|Chairman||Trustee Resolution| |2|Robert Turner|Secretary||Trustee Resolution| |3|Sue Hooks|Treasurer||Trustee Resolution| |4|Jennifer Macbeth|Trustee|Resigned 9 December
2022|Trustee Resolution| |5|David Munns|Trustee||Trustee Resolution| |6|Christine Ward|Trustee||Parish Council| |7|Beth Price|Trustee|Appointed 5 July2022|Parish Council| |8|Cecilia Tredget|Trustee|Appointed 5 July2022|Parish Council| |9|Martin Graves|Trustee|Appointed 9 December
2022|Trustee Resolution| |10|Reverend Lynda
Davies|Ex- Officio||Charity Scheme appointee| |11||||| |12||||| |13||||| |14||||| |15||||| |16||||| |17||||| |18||||| |19||||| |20||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** 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 None held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**|Malcolm Dee|Robert Turner| |---|---|---| ||Malcolm Dee|Robert Turner| ||

Chairman|Secretary| |||| |**Date**|27/10/2023|27/10/2023| ## **Cottenham Charities** ## **200586** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** > **For the period** 01/01/2022 31/12/2022 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|||**Total funds**||**Last year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**to the nearest**|**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||| |Allotment Rents|**1,418**|||**300**|||**-**||**1,718**||**1,431**| |WeeklyMaintenance Contributions|**38,842**||||||**-**||**38,842**||**39,358**| |Investment Income|**3,755**||||||**-**||**3,755**||**3,352**| |Bank Interest|||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Donations||**211**|||||**-**||**211**||**1,380**| |Loan repayments||||||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**44,226**|||**300**|||**-**||**44,526**||**45,521**| ||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||| |**(see table).**|||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|**44,226**|||**300**|||**-**||**44,526**||**45,521**| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,418**
**38,842**
**3,755**
**211**
**-**
**44,226**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**300**
**-**
**300**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,718**
**38,842**
**3,755**
**-**
**211**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,526**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,718**
**38,842**
**3,755**
**-**
**211**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**44,526**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Allotment Rents|**1,418**|||||**1,431**| |WeeklyMaintenance Contributions|**38,842**|||||**39,358**| |Investment Income|**3,755**|||||**3,352**| |Bank Interest||||||**-**| |Donations|**211**|||||**1,380**| |Loan repayments||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**44,226**|||||**45,521**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**300**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **||||||| ||**44,226**|**300**|**-**|**44,526**||**45,521**| |**A3 Payments**|**3,504**
**16,963**
**419**
**6,809**
**27,696**
**6,000**
**10,000**
**16,000**
**43,696**
**530**
**-**
**46,966**
**47,497**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**300**
**-**
**600**
**900**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**3,504**
**-**
**16,963**
**-**
**419**
**6,809**
**-**
**-**
**27,696**
**6,000**
**10,000**
**16,000**
**43,696**
**830**
**-**
**47,566**
**48,397**||| |
Expenses and Fees|**3,504**|||||**1,912**| |Renovations||||||**-**| |Repairs and Maintenance|**16,963**|||||**10,898**| |Bank Charges and Interest||||||**-**| |Utilities|**419**|||||**533**| |Charitable Gifts|**6,809**|||||**10,478**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**27,696**|||||**23,820**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |
Capital Loan Repayments|**6,000**|||||**6,000**| |Investment into ER Fund|**10,000**|||||**14,000**| |**_Sub total_ **|**16,000**|||||**20,000**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**43,820**| |||||||| ||**530**|**300**|**-**|**830**||**1,701**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**46,966**|**600**|**-**|**47,566**||**45,866**| ||**47,497**|**900**|**-**|**48,397**||**47,566**| 27/10/2023 CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
JM Endowment
Robert Turner
Signature
Malcolm Dee
**Details**
JM Almshouses & Land attached
UC 4 acres allotment land
**Details**
CCLA COIF Income Fund
CCLA COIF Income Fund
CCLA COIF Accumulation Fund
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
John Moreton Current
John Moreton CCLA Deposit
United Charity Current|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**27,311**
**-**
**16,160**
**-**
**4,025**
**900**
**47,497**
**900**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
JM Endowment
**-**
UC Endowment
**-**
ER Fund
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
John Moreton
**-**
United Charity
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
JM Endowment
90,000
Robert Turner
Print Name
Malcolm Dee|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||69,355| ||||52,798| ||||163,463| ||||-| ||||-| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**01 January 2038**| ||||Date of
approval| ||Malcolm Dee|Malcolm Dee|27/10/2023| ||Robert Turner|Robert Turner|27/10/2023| 27/10/2023 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Cottenham Charities On accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022 Charity no lif any) 200586 Set out on pages attached I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charÉty (Ihe Trust.) for the year ended 3111212022. Responsibillties and basis of report As the chanlvs trustees, you are reSponsi￿e for the preparation of the accounts in accK)rdance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Art. Independent I have corn￿eted my examination. l Gonfimi that no material matters have examinerfs statement 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 acwrdanGe with section 130 of the Chanties Acl, or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records" or the accounts dKI not comply with the applicable requirements onceming the fomi and content of account5 set out in the Charities {Accounts and Reports} Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Inje and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no COn￿mS and have come awss 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: Date: 26.10. Name: Emma Bodsworth Relevant professional qualiFication(s) or body (if any): BA FCA Address: 5 Hart Close Longstanton CAMBRIDGE CB24 3EX IER Oct 2018