|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Trustees' annual report for the period**|||||||| ||**From**|Period start date|||**To**|Period end date||| |||Day
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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 Annie Jones|||| |7 Christne Litle|||| |8 Alan Mayle|||| |9 Charles Swan|||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**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. One property has recently been refurbished||| |||and quotes are being sought to refurbish a second||| |||dwelling.||| |||A quinquennial survey was carried out June 2025 and||| |||the Trustees will look and act upon recommendations.||| |||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** Charity Name Clare Combined Charities 6 **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . None to report 7 Cl¥veComtslnedChailtles CharStyreO$tered numb•r206513 Income and eXpendhu￿.Yeavended 31Ma￿kn2O2S 2024r25 Grants Rentsl income 15.477 8271 26,825 Investment incorne 1776 Total Sncome 26.613 37236 EaymeAts Invesunent athltles Ch8ritable aetrrities (S.￿7) 18.rnl 115.41UI 16.2151 Totslexpen5es I14.&￿) 121.6251 (Lossiigain on invesrment 147381 8.418 Netlncomellexpendltsrel Fund$ brou2htforwatd 132.966 I￿938 Funds ca1rledfo￿ar￿ 140211 IU966 InvÈstments: COIF Cash and bank 96.951 43.261 101,689 31278 eioslngFunds I40￿1 iU966 I CDnfi'nnthat I have examinedthe accounting recordsof Clare Combined Charthsforthewi end*J 31 March 2025. I furtherconffrm thatth05e recordsare adequateandCorr￿yfflalTrla1D￿l. Theabo¥e Receipts & Pa￿[￿ntsAccLyjntc￿Sumrna￿eSeSar￿1 rdiectsthat>**stransactlons and yeav end baLqnces. &'gned.. Date.. 10/ 2oZ(. Colln Bariabie Independeffl ExamlTrer Cl¥veComtslnedChailtles CharStyreO$tered numb•r206513 Income and eXpendhu￿.Yeavended 31Ma￿kn2O2S 2024r25 Grants Rentsl income 15.477 8271 26,825 Investment incorne 1776 Total Sncome 26.613 37236 EaymeAts Invesunent athltles Ch8ritable aetrrities (S.￿7) 18.rnl 115.41UI 16.2151 Totslexpen5es I14.&￿) 121.6251 (Lossiigain on invesrment 147381 8.418 Netlncomellexpendltsrel Fund$ brou2htforwatd 132.966 I￿938 Funds ca1rledfo￿ar￿ 140211 IU966 InvÈstments: COIF Cash and bank 96.951 43.261 101,689 31278 eioslngFunds I40￿1 iU966 I CDnfi'nnthat I have examinedthe accounting recordsof Clare Combined Charthsforthewi end*J 31 March 2025. I furtherconffrm thatth05e recordsare adequateandCorr￿yfflalTrla1D￿l. Theabo¥e Receipts & Pa￿[￿ntsAccLyjntc￿Sumrna￿eSeSar￿1 rdiectsthat>**stransactlons and yeav end baLqnces. &'gned.. Date.. 10/ 2oZ(. Colln Bariabie Independeffl ExamlTrer