## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.01.2025 Period start date To 31.12.2025 Period end date Charity name: Kitchings General Charity** ## **Charity registration number: 219957** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The purpose of the charity is:**
**1. Provision of a pension to the**
**‘poor widows of Southrey’**
**2. Advancement of education, and**
**3. Relief in need (of the poor and**
**needy).**
**For those within Southrey, Bardney and**
**Bucknall.**| |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|**The main activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit & as identified in the**
**accounts are:**
**1. The continuing provision to the**
**eligible widows of Southrey; with the**
**Trustees taking into account the**
**public benefit requirement & the**
**guidance as stated in the governing**
**Scheme**
**2. The provision of grants to local**
**schools, groups & local students.**
**All grant making decisions are made**
**by the trustees after discussing the**
**information given by applicants &**
**giving consideration to the public**
**benefit aspect & the guidance as**
**stated in the governing Scheme.**
**3. The provision of grants to**
**individuals’ who meet the relevant**
**criteria as stated in the governing**
**Scheme, & using the guidance**
**relating to public benefit. This is to**
**make sure that the support awarded**
**to the individual is of benefit &**
**relative to their need.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All trustees are aware of the Charity**
**Commission guidance on public benefit,**
**& how to access this on-line.**
**Discussions/decisions made by the**
**trustees are made taking the public**
**benefit guidance into account; be this a**
**grant making decision or a KGC**| **management decision which in turn could affect the running of the Charity.** **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Grant making policies are as shown in**
**the governing Scheme, which states**
**that:**
•
**All grant applications to be made**
**either in writing or by email, and can**
**only be considered if all relevant**
**criteria are met.**
**The Trustees are also in agreement that:**
•
**All grant applications be treated in**
**the strictest confidence & within the**
**GDPR. A Privacy Statement is**
**available to all applicants.**
**All grants awarded must meet the**
**guidance criteria stated in the**
**governing Scheme & have taken into**
**account the public benefit requirement.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The charity does not have a policy on**
**social investment including program**
**related investment as the trustees feel**
**that the governing Scheme covers these**
**aspects.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**All KGC trustees are volunteers &**
**receive no remuneration for their**
**services to this charity.**
**There is no other area relating to this**
**charity where volunteers would be**
**involved**| |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 main achievements & performance**
**vary year to year; depending on the**
**charity’s’ financial situation & the type**
**or number of grant applications received**
**in that particular year.**
**A summary of the main**
**achievements/performance for 2025:**
•
**Payment of a ‘pension’ was made to**
**eligible widows living in Southrey,**
•
**Provision of grants to local schools**
**towards the cost of swimming lesson**
**transport for pupils – giving all**
**pupils (without discrimination) the**
**opportunity to benefit from learning**
**this vital skill.**
•
**Financial support, as stated in the**
**governing Scheme, to Kitchings**
**Educational Charity. KEC provide**
**eligible local college & university**
**students with an annual grant.**
•
**Provision of a grant to a local school**
**towards equipment costs benefitting**
**all pupils.**
•
**Provision of a grant towards the**
**refurbishment of a local children’s**
**playpark, benefitting the children of**
**Bardney.**
•
**Provision of grants to help young**
**people take part in educational**
**ventures**| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Achievements against objectives set**
**always relate to the aims & objectives as**
**stated in the governing Scheme.**
**For 2025 this is shown with the:**
•
**Provision of a widows’ pension**
**throughout the year; this achieves**
**the widows pension objective,**
•
**Provision of grants to KEC & local**
**schools, this achieves the**
**educational objective.**
•
**Provision of a grant made to a local**
**community group; this benefits the**
**wider community.**
•
**Provision of grants to help young**
**people take part in educational**
**ventures.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**This charity does not carry out any kind**
**of fundraising.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Investments, to date, have provided**
**adequate funds to enable the trustees to**
**provide funding/grants to cover all**
**objectives as stated in the Scheme.**| |---|---|---| |Other||**Grants are awarded taking into**
**consideration finances available at that**
**time.**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Reviewing the charitys’ financial**
**position at the end of 2025 shows a**
**stable financial situation.**
**Through 2025 the trustees have been**
**taking financial advice about investing**
**the proceeds from the sale of Charity**
**property in December 2024. Some of**
**these proceeds are being used to**
**purchase land which will improve the**
**farm at Moorby, owned by KGC.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Trustees have not felt the need to have**
**a policy for holding reserves as the**
**financial situation remains stable.**
**This would be considered should the**
**trustees feel that it would benefit this**
**charity.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**No reserves held.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**The reason for holding zero reserves is**
**that there is access to charity funds**
**as/when needed/required; be this from a**
**bank account or from investments.**
**This is not a charity that would deal with**
**daily emergency situations.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**There are no funds that are materially**
**deficit.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Currently there are no uncertainties**
**about the charity continuing as a going**
**concern.**| |**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 principal sources of funding are:**
•
**Rental income**
•
**Interest from investments & bank**
**interest**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Trustees have recently made changes to**
**the governing Scheme which gives**
**investment guidance, this outlines**
**trustees’ responsibility to ensure that**
**any financial return will serve the**
**interests & objectives of this charity**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principal risks facing the charity**
**remains the same as 2024, with trustees**
**being updated regularly about**
**investment risks by Black Rock and**
**other independent Financial Advisors.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Charity Commission Scheme. The**
**Scheme was sealed 11th November 1975**
**& regulated by the 1902 Charity**
**Commission Scheme.**
**Trustees have made several**
**updates/amendments to the Scheme**
**over the last few years.**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**The charity is made up of 9 trustees. Of**
**the 9, 1 shall be from Bucknall & 1 from**
**Southrey (areas of benefit), with elected**
**trustees expected to have a good**
**knowledge base relevant to their**
**respective area of benefit.**
**Due to the nature of the charity (as a**
**land/farm owner) 3 of the 9 to have an**
**agricultural background or some**
**agricultural knowledge.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**All trustees are Co-optative Trustees;**
**with the election of trustees being**
**carried out by existing trustees.**
**No other person or organisation is**
**involved in electing charity trustees.**
**Chair & Vice-chair being elected at the**
**first meeting of the year,**| |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|**Charity Commission Scheme. The**
**Scheme was sealed 11th November 1975**
**& regulated by the 1902 Charity**
**Commission Scheme.**
**Trustees have made several**
**updates/amendments to the Scheme**
**over the last few years.**| ## **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|**There is an ‘introduction list’, which is**
**emailed to the newly elected trustee.**
**This includes:**
•
**Copy of the KGC Scheme,**
•
**Copy of the latest accounts,**
•
**Copy of Minutes from the last**
**meeting,**
•
**GDPR information,**
•
**Copy of current Privacy Statement,**
•
**CC4 leaflet &**
•
**The Essential Trustee information**
**They are also invited to meet with the**
**Chair & clerk prior to their first meeting.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The administrative & organisational**
**structure is determined by the guidance**
**shown in the governing Scheme.**
**The clerk carries out administrative**
**duties as instructed by the trustees.**
**All management decisions relating to**
**the charity are made by the trustees,**
**through discussion, at one of their**
**meetings.**| |||**There is no other wider network with**
**which this charity works.**| |---|---|---| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**This charity is committed to supporting**
**Kitchings Educational Charity, as is**
**directed in the governing Scheme.**
**KGC supports KEC by providing an**
**annual income which is calculated from**
**the disposable income of KGC.**| |Other||**KEC also make additional grant**
**requests due to the large number of**
**student grant applications they receive.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Kitchings General Charity| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Thomas Kitching Charity Trust| |Registered charity number|219957| |Charity’s principal address|Tir na nOg
45 Silver Street
Bardney
Lincolnshire
LN3 5SS| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mr G Pacey|Chair||Co-opted| ||Mr J Armstrong|Vice-Chair||Co-opted| ||Mr B Percival|||Co-opted| ||Mr K Hutchinson|||Co-opted| ||Mr C Pacey|||Co-opted| ||Mr D Wilkinson|||Co-opted| ||Mrs C Lee|||Co-opted| ||Mrs J Hayes|||Co-opted| ||Mrs K East|||Co-opted| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 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**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**Farms**|**Willsons**|16 Algitha Road, Skegness, Lincs, PE25 2AG| |**Investmen**
**t**|**Black Rock**|PO Box 545 Darlington, DL1 9TQ| |**Insurance**|**NFU Mutual**|The Old Mill, Roughton Moor, Woodhall Spa, Lincs LN10
6YQ| |**Indemnity**
**Insurance**|**Access Insurance**
**Services**|Selsdon House, 212 – 220 Addington Road, South
Croydon, London, CR2 8LD| |**Banking**|**HSBC**|High Street, Lincoln| ## **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 havo approved the trustee8' report above. Signed on behall of the chari nature 's trustees Mr Gooff Pacey Full name(s) SE0￿t4 0 l3 Deborah O'sullivan Position ( Secretary, Chair, etc) Chair 0210612026 Date ## Kitchings General Charity Trust Charity No. 219957 Statement of Afairs as at 31st December 2025 |HSBC
Charitable Bank Account Balance B/F
Business Money Manager Account Balance B/F
Income
Bank Interest
Interest on Investments
Farm Rents
Cottage Rent
Wayleave
Property Sale
Other
Expenditure
Widows Pension
Grants
Willsons Agency Fees
Room Hire
Liability Insurance
Farm & Bldg Insurance
Trustee Indemnity Insurance
Clerks Wages & Expenses
Educational Charity - 1/7th Net Income & Additional
Cottage Maintenance
Farm Maintenance
Miscellaneous Expenses
Bank Charges
Professional Fees re Land Registry
Xero Accounting Software Subscription
Expenses on Farm Visit
BlackRock Reinvestment
Audit
Council Tax & Utilities re Brookside Cottage
Professional Fees re Sale of Brookside Cottage
HSBC
Charitable Bank Account Balance C/F
Business Money Manager Account Balance C/F|2025
333.45
254,929.29 255,262.74
3,897.46
8,829.33
20,737.57
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11,817.10 45,281.46| |---|---| ||1,120.00
35,660.00
570.40
52.50
815.68
-
308.80
3,168.80
11,916.00
400.00
-
244.50
61.60
-
786.80
-
140.00
-
1,250.00
56,495.08| ||3,142.37
240,906.75 244,049.12| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees KITCHINGS GENERAL CHARITY On accounts for the year ended 31" DECEMBER 2025 Charity no (rf any) 219957 Set out on pages I re[￿ to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charityllhe Trusf) ts the year ended 31112 12025. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charivs trustees, are responsibk for the preparation of the a¢count$ in accordan￿ with the requ1￿Ments of the Charities Act 2011 (￿ Ad"). I report in respecl of ry examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under sectKsn 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity ComMiss￿n under sectDn 14515Mb) of the Ack. Independent I have completed my examinalx)n. I confirm that Tr) material matters have examinerfs statement come to my attention in connectM)n with Ihe examination (other than that disch)s8J bekhv ') which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect.. the accounting records Y￿re not kept in ac￿rdanCe wilh seclion 130 of the Charrties Aci; or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records. or the accounts did not Comp￿ with the appluble r4uirements conceming the forn and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 olher than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue and fairf view which is not a matter consKlered as part of an independenl examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connectK)n with the exaMina￿n to which attention should te drawn in this report in order to enab￿ a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: 5 April 2026 Name: Jonathan Kerry Relevant wole￿iOnal qualification{s) or body (rf any): ICAEW Address: The Meadthvs, Chestnut Avenue. Bucknall, W(y)dhall Spa. LN10 5DU IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete If the examiner needs lo hi9hlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examinatKsn of charity accounts.. directh)ns and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018