**Charity registration number: 203159**
## **The Gloucestershire Society**
**Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024**
**The Gloucestershire Society**
## **Contents**
|Administrative information|1|
|---|---|
|Trustee's Report|2|
|Receipts and Payments Accounts|3|
|Independent Examiner's Report|4|
**The Gloucestershire Society**
**Administrative information**
## **Registered charity number: 203159**
## **President**
Jonathan Seymour-Williams
**Hon Secretary and treasurer** Michael Strong FCA CTA
## **Administrator**
Jenny Speight Melissa Lewis-Forster
## **Principal office**
St Catherine's Court Berkeley Place Clifton Bristol, BS8 1BQ
## **Trustees**
Jonathan Seymour-Williams (appointed 1 January 2024) Michael Dobson Michael Strong Jane Jenner-Fust DL (resigned 22 November 2024) Tim Ross David Skinner Sir George White Bt FSA JP Julia Thomas Barbara Tregear Christopher White Richard Boggis-Rolfe, OBE Moira Garner Julia Rausing (resigned 18 April 2024) Daisy Berkeley Lt Col Andrew Tabor JP Alick Campbell of Lochnell Dorothy Oakes Nicholas Hornby (appointed 24 March 2024) Brian D'Arcy Clark (appointed 1 September 2024)
## **Accountants**
Saffery LLP St Catherine's Court Berkeley Place Bristol BS8 1BQ
## **Independent examiner**
JWB Corporate Ltd 22 Mulberry Avenue Portishead North Somerset BS20 7LG
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**The Gloucestershire Society**
**Trustees' report For the year ended 31 December 2024**
## **Structure, governance and management**
The Gloucestershire Society is an unincorporated Registered Charity, which is governed by its Trust Deed.
The charity is administered by its committee of trustee members, who are appointed in accordance with the Trust Deed. The committee holds at least two ordinary meetings each year to discuss key matters and ensure the smooth running of the charity.
## **Objectives and activities**
The objectives of the charity is to provide relief from povety for people resident in the Gloucestershire area who are in need, in hardship or distress. The Trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit.
## **Summary of main achievements of the charity during the year**
The Society this year continued to provide vital support to beneficiaries throughout Bristol and Gloucestershire, during a time when the cost of living crisis accentuated the economic impact upon people living on the lowest incomes.
The Society had a successful appeal, with thanks, led by our president for 2024 Jonathan SeymourWilliams. Funds of £188,340 were raised during the year and £119,819 of grants were paid out to those in need, ranging from between £10 and £400 each.
The trustees were also very grateful for further restricted donations of £25,000 during the year to be used for the continuing efforts of the charity to provide grants to those in need. These funds were paid out during the year for the purpose intended.
The trustees are very grateful to all donors for their generosity during the year.
## **Reserves policy**
The trustees aim to maintain unrestricted reserves at a level to meet approximately 9 months' normal expenditure levels. This is considered to provide sufficient funds to continue to provide grants to beneficaries in the event of a drop in income.
## **Financial review**
The detailed receipts and payments accounts are included on page 3. As shown in the accounts, the principle sources of funds were donations received during the year. The key areas of expenditure included individual grants and administration costs. **SIGNED SECURELY**
**27/10/2025 at 1:31:24 PM UTC**
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Michael Strong Trustee **SIGNED SECURELY** Dated: **27/10/2025 at 1:31:24 PM UTC**
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**The Gloucestershire Society**
**Receipts and payments account and statements of assets and liabilities For the year ended 31 December 2024**
|**Receipts**
**Donations, legacies and other similar**
**receipts**
Donations
Gift aid
**Investment Income Receipts**
Deposit Interest
**Total receipts**
**Payments**
**Grants Paid**
Individual grants
**Management and administration**
Independent examination
Administrator costs
Other administration costs
**Total payments**
**Net movement of fund**
**Cash funds**
Cash balances at 1 January 2024
Cash balances at 31 December 2024|**£**
**£**
**£**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
163,340
25,000
188,340
-
-
-
3,912
-
3,912
167,252
25,000
192,252
94,819
25,000
119,819
750
-
750
5,400
-
5,400
2,897
-
2,897
103,866
25,000
128,866
63,386
-
63,386
203,032
-
203,032
266,418
-
266,418
**2024**|**£**
**£**
**£**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
140,798
29,000
169,798
-
-
-
547
-
547
**2023**|
|---|---|---|
|||141,345
29,000
170,345|
|||65,838
49,500
115,338
750
-
750
5,400
-
5,400
10,758
-
10,758|
|||82,746
49,500
132,246|
|||58,599
(20,500)
38,099
144,433
20,500
164,933|
|||203,032
-
203,032|
## **Related party transactions**
The administrator costs of £5,400 (2023: £5,400) were paid to Saffery LLP during the year, whom a partner is a trustee of the charity.
## **Signed on behalf of the Committee SIGNED SECURELY**
**27/10/2025 at 1:31:24 PM UTC**
………………………………………….
Michael Strong Trustee
**SIGNED SECURELY** Dated: **27/10/2025 at 1:31:24 PM UTC**
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**The Gloucestershire Society**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The Gloucestershire Society For the year ended 31 December 2024**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2024 which are set out on page 3.
## **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 order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**SIGNED SECURELY**
**27/10/2025 at 1:46:06 PM UTC**
……………………………………………….
Jacob Bray, FCA
JWB Corporate Ltd 22 Mulberry Avenue Portishead North Somerset BS20 7LG
**SIGNED SECURELY**
Dated: **27/10/2025 at 1:46:06 PM UTC**
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