|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Trustees' annual report for the period**|||||||| ||**From**|Period start date|||**To**|Period end date||| |||Day
01|Month
01|Year
2024||Day
31|Month
12|Year
2024| Reference and administration details **Charity name** Clare Combined Charities **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 206513 **Charity's principal address** The Old School, Callis Street, Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk **Postcode** CO10 8PX 1 **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 Nigel Partridge|Chair||| |2 Andy Gill|Vice-Chair||| |3 Caroline Vander
Meersch|Treasurer||| |4 Fiona Cowie|||| |5 Sarah Walters|||| |6 Jonathan Birket|||| |7 Christne Litle|||| |8 Alan Mayle|||| |9 Charles Swan|||| |10 Rev M Woodrow|||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| |**Name**||**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**|| |N/A|||| ||||| ||||| |**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**| |---|---| |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**| |N/A|| ||| ||| ## **Names and addresses of advisors (Optional information)** **Type of advisor Name Address** N/A ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Structure, governance and management** **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Trust/Charity - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Trustees are appointed or reappointed every four years (eg. appointed by, elected by) at the Trustee Meetin held in A ril. g p 2 **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include The trustees oversee the day to day running of the additional information, where relevant, about: charity. - All policies have been recently formulated or reviewed. - Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and They will be reviewed on a yearly basis. training of trustees All trustees give their time voluntarily and received no remuneration or other benefits. - The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works - [Relationship with any related] parties - [Trustees’][ consideration][ of] - major risks and the system and procedures to manage them ## **Objectives and activities** Clare Combined Charities is a small Charity which owns **Summary of the objects of the** and manages land and property in and around the town **charity set out in its governing document** of Clare, namely the Almshouses situated next to Clare Parish Church, the Upper and Lower common (including the allotments) and two other small areas of agricultural land on the outskirts of Clare. All income contributes to the running of the **Summary of the main activities** responsibilities of the Charity and also provides support **undertaken for the public** for people of Clare in need and educational grants to **benefit in relation to these** young people. **objects** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 3 |You**may choose**to include further||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |statements, where relevant, about:||||| |Policy on grantmaking||||| |Policy programme related||||| |investment||||| |Contribution made by||The Countryside Stewardship Scheme for the Upper||| |Volunteers||~~Common continues to be monitored by the Trustees to~~||| |||ensure that it remains of benefit to the wildlife and||| |||environment. The new trees and hedge row have been||| |||inspected and where necessary certain areas have been||| |||replanted. Ideas are being discussed for the future use of||| |||the nearby derelict barns and whether they could be of||| |||benefit to the local community.||| |||The Lower Common continues to be let for the grazing||| |Achievements and
performance||of cattle. Demand for allotments continues to be steady
and the allocation of small plots seems to greatly assist
new tenants to reap rewards for their labours. Trustees||| |**Summary of the main**
**achievements**
**of the**
**charity during the year.**||are pleased to see the efforts of the allotment holders and
hope that this growing season will be beneficial to them||| |||even after the very damp start.||| |||The scheme for the renovation of the Almshouses||| |||continues and the Trustees are currently looking to||| |||secure funding to enable the scheme to go ahead.||| |||4||| **Financial review** Cash balances at 31 March 2024 were £31,278, all of **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on** which were in unrestricted funds. Funds are held to cover **reserves** 6 months’ worth of expenditure, approximately £10k, in the case of loss of income. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## None ## **Further financial review details: (Optional information)** You **may choose** to includeThe charity’s principal source of funds is rental income additional information, wherefrom its land holdings and buildings. Funding is at risk if relevant about: rental values decrease or vacancies arise that cannot be The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any filled among its land holdings and buildings. The charity fundraising). has received grants from The Rural Payments agency for How expenditure has supportedspecific works carried out on its land holdings and the the key objectives of thecharity cannot rely on receiving such further grants in the charity. future. Investment policy and Costs are incurred in maintaining the land holdings and in objectives including any ongoing investment in the Almshouses that are provided ethical investment policy adopted. at low rent to people in need of affordable housing. **Other optional information** ## **Declaration** > **The trustees declare that they** . **have approved the trustees’ report above.** ## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** _Nigel Partridge_ **Full name(s)** Chair **Position (eg secretary, chair** ~~**,**~~ **etc)** 5 **Date** 30[th] January 2025 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Report to the trustees/ Set out on the attached** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Charity Name Clare
Combined Charities
**----- End of picture text -----**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 6 Clare Comblned Charltles Charlty registered number 206513 Income and expendlture: year ended 31 March 2024 2023124 2022123 Recelpts Gfants Rentsl Income Investment income 26.825 5.407 8,100 ,177 2,776 Total Income 37.236 21,684 Payments Investment actiwties Charltable actlvltles 115,4101 16,2151 138,4941 15,1461 Toial expenses 121.6251 143,6401 Galnlloss on Investment 8.418 111.3001 Net Incomellexpendltur•l 24.029 133,2551 Funds broughi foThvard 108.938 142.193 Funds carrled forward 132.966 108,938 Investments: COIF Cash and bank 101.689 31,278 102.270 6.667 Closlng Funds 132.966 108,938 I confirm that I have examlned the accounfjng records of Clare Comblned Charitles tor the year enled 31 March 2024. I further conflrm thatthose r￿ordS are adequate and correctly malntalned. The above Recelpts & Payments Account correclly summarleses and rellectsthat yearfs transa¢tlons and yearend balances. Signed-. Date: Colln 8aTrable Independent Examlner Clare Comblned Charltles Charlty registered number 206513 Income and expendlture: year ended 31 March 2024 2023124 2022123 Recelpts Gfants Rentsl Income Investment income 26.825 5.407 8,100 ,177 2,776 Total Income 37.236 21,684 Payments Investment actiwties Charltable actlvltles 115,4101 16,2151 138,4941 15,1461 Toial expenses 121.6251 143,6401 Galnlloss on Investment 8.418 111.3001 Net Incomellexpendltur•l 24.029 133,2551 Funds broughi foThvard 108.938 142.193 Funds carrled forward 132.966 108,938 Investments: COIF Cash and bank 101.689 31,278 102.270 6.667 Closlng Funds 132.966 108,938 I confirm that I have examlned the accounfjng records of Clare Comblned Charitles tor the year enled 31 March 2024. I further conflrm thatthose r￿ordS are adequate and correctly malntalned. The above Recelpts & Payments Account correclly summarleses and rellectsthat yearfs transa¢tlons and yearend balances. Signed-. Date: Colln 8aTrable Independent Examlner