## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1/01/23 Period start date To 31/12/23 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Berry Housing Trust Charity registration number: 242728** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governingdocument|Para 1.17|**Provision of housing for the elderly or infirm**| |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 of two semi-detached cottages**
**comprising four dwellings. The buildings are**
**over 100 years old and require regular**
**attention to keep them performing**
**satisfactorily in accordance with modern**
**Building Regulations.**| |Statement confirming whether
the trustees have had regard
to the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have reviewed the Charity**
**Commission’s guidance on the requirement to**
**report on public benefit and are satisfied that**
**the work of the charity, as described above**
**and below, accords with its stated objects and**
**provides tangible public benefit to both**
**beneficiaries and their friends and relatives;**
**the criteria used to assess those who may**
**benefit are very broad.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Trustees give their time voluntarily and**
**constitute the management committee.**
**There are no employees. The committee met**
**on a quarterly basis and the roofing sub-**
**committee on 7 occasions**| Other ## **Achievements and Performance** |**Achievements and Performance**||| |---|---|---| ||SORP
reference|| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identfying the diference the
charity’s work has made to the
circumstances of its
benefciaries and any wider
benefts to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|**Following on from the establishment of a**
**roofng sub commitee in 2022, the commitee**
**undertook the following work:**

**Fundraising (see below)**

**Commissioning and management of**
**the re-roofng project**

**Research into the benefts of PV**
**panels/exterior insulaton cladding**

**Successful applicaton for an interest**
**free loan for subsequent PV/Cladding**
**work.**
**The net beneft to the benefciaries following**
**the installaton of a new roof is a safer, leak**
**free, beter insulated living environment**
**achieved without the disrupton of relocaton**
**and which has also established a secure**
**platorm for subsequent installaton of PV**
**panels which are expected to yield reductons**
**in benefciaries energy bills.**
**The Trust also introduced the following 2**
**measures to respectvely reduce it’s risk in**
**respect of vulnerable benefciaries and**
**improve governance:**

**Register to record all contacts with**
**benefciaries**

**Trustees Manual**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectves set|Para 1.41|**Roofng Project completed on tme and under**
**budget (see below)**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
actvites against objectves set||**A provisional budget for roofng/PV was set at**
**£90k overall: equal sums of £45k for each of**
**the roof and for PV panels. A fundraising**
**target of £45k was set(50%). We achieved**| ||Para 1.41|**£43k pledges. However both projects came in**
**below forecast budget, with the PV element**
**totalling £43.3k and roofng cost £42.2k**
**despite incurring £3.5k of unforeseen costs.**
**Thus, the total project was £85.5k, about 5%**
**below budget, and inside our fundraising**
**target of 50%.**| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectves|Para 1.41|**ERF + CF investments achieved a net increase**
**in value of £6,041**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
fnancial positon at the end of
theperiod|Para 1.21|**Monetary assets increased in value by £38,974**
**of which £9,000 is conditonal upon on 2024**
**PV installaton totalling £43,300.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statng why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held in the following accounts:**
**Chairmans Fund (Restricted) CF**
**Cyclical Maintenance Fund CMF**
**Extraordinary Repair Fund ERF**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**CF: £1,165**
**CMF: £27,008**
**ERF: £86,142**
**Total £114,315**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
defcit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanaton of any
uncertaintes about the charity
contnuingas agoingconcern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **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|**Apart from one-of fundraising for capital**
**projects, the Trust is entrely dependent on**
**weekly maintenance contributons from**
**benefciaries**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectves including any social
investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|**Apart from the CF, income generated by ERF**
**investments is reinvested to promote capital**
**growth.**
**Trustees believe that a signifcant risk to the**
**Trust is reputatonal. Hence, should it be seen**
**to have lost money by being invested in poorly**
**run companies, it therefore seeks to ensure**| |||**that the Funds in which it invests have strong**
**corporate governance policies. Funds that also**
**exclude tobacco, alcohol and gambling are also**
**deemed acceptable.**| |---|---|---| |A descripton of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|
**Financial risk**

**Reputatonal risk**

**Risks pertaining to**
**vulnerable benefciaries**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Descripton of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed and Conveyance**| |How is the charity consttuted?
(e.g unincorporated
associaton,CIO)|Para 1.25|**Deed of Trust**| |Trustee selecton methods
including details of any
consttutonal provisions e.g.
electon to post or name of any
person or body enttled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are mainly sought from individuals**
**with a connecton to the village and who can**
**ofer tangible benefts to the Board. Board**
**nominatons are ratfed by either Tonbridge**
**and Malling Borough Council or Stansted**
**Parish Council as determined by the Trust**
**Deed.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the inducton and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**A Trustees Manual is issued with an**
**accompanying two hour introducton to**
**history, policies and strategy.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisatonal
structure and any wider
network with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|**A close relatonship is maintained with The**
**Almshouse Associaton of which the Trust is a**
**member**| |Relatonship with any related
partes|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** Charity name Other name the charity uses Registered charity number Charity’s principal address ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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3
4
5
6
7
8
9|**Trustee name**|**Ofce (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**enttled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Michael Goddings**|**Chair**||**See above**| ||**Richard Chapman**|**Secretary**||**See above**| ||**Nina Sparkes**||**Resigned-March**|**See above**| ||**Melita Gandolfo**|||**See above**| ||**Yvonne Tisson**|**Treasurer**||**See above**| ||**Richard Hogbin**|||**See above**| ||**Alan Bullock**|||**See above**| ||**John Matck**|||**See above**| |||||| 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**|**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**| |---|---| |Descripton of the assets held
in this capacity|**All property and land assets**| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|**Ofcial Custodian for Charites**| |Details of arrangements for
safe custodyand segregaton|**Vestng Order dated 1918**| of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**Auditor**|**Elizabeth Rimell**|**Stansted Lodge Farm, Tumblefeld Road, Stansted.**| |||| |||| |||| **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)** Alan W Bullock **Full name(s)** Alan W Bullock Y Tisson Yvonne Tisson **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc)** Trustee Date 11 July 2024 |BERRY HOUSING TRUST
**INCOME**
WMC
Donations
Grants
Rebate
Dividends Received
Interest Received
**Total Income**
Investment Revaluation
**Income incl investment Revaluation**
**EXPENDITURE**
Rates
NAA Subscription
Valuation/Quinquennial Inspection
Insurance
Invicta Care
Water
Electricity
General Maintenance
Refurbishment/Building Work
Gardening
Pest Control
Other
**Total Expenditure**
Net Income/Expenditure excl revaluation
**STATEMENT OF FUNDS**
Cash Brought Forward at 1Jan
plus/(minus) surplus/(deficit) for yr
Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec
made up of :
Cash - Natwest Curr
Cash - Co-op Curr
Cash - CCLA CMF
Cash - CCLA Chrmn
Investment - Newton BNY
Investment - M&G Acculm NAACIF
Investment - M&G Income MAF
**Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec**
**Net Income/**
**(Expenditure)**|BERRY HOUSING TRUST
**INCOME**
WMC
Donations
Grants
Rebate
Dividends Received
Interest Received
**Total Income**
Investment Revaluation
**Income incl investment Revaluation**
**EXPENDITURE**
Rates
NAA Subscription
Valuation/Quinquennial Inspection
Insurance
Invicta Care
Water
Electricity
General Maintenance
Refurbishment/Building Work
Gardening
Pest Control
Other
**Total Expenditure**
Net Income/Expenditure excl revaluation
**STATEMENT OF FUNDS**
Cash Brought Forward at 1Jan
plus/(minus) surplus/(deficit) for yr
Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec
made up of :
Cash - Natwest Curr
Cash - Co-op Curr
Cash - CCLA CMF
Cash - CCLA Chrmn
Investment - Newton BNY
Investment - M&G Acculm NAACIF
Investment - M&G Income MAF
**Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec**
**Net Income/**
**(Expenditure)**|BERRY HOUSING TRUST
**INCOME**
WMC
Donations
Grants
Rebate
Dividends Received
Interest Received
**Total Income**
Investment Revaluation
**Income incl investment Revaluation**
**EXPENDITURE**
Rates
NAA Subscription
Valuation/Quinquennial Inspection
Insurance
Invicta Care
Water
Electricity
General Maintenance
Refurbishment/Building Work
Gardening
Pest Control
Other
**Total Expenditure**
Net Income/Expenditure excl revaluation
**STATEMENT OF FUNDS**
Cash Brought Forward at 1Jan
plus/(minus) surplus/(deficit) for yr
Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec
made up of :
Cash - Natwest Curr
Cash - Co-op Curr
Cash - CCLA CMF
Cash - CCLA Chrmn
Investment - Newton BNY
Investment - M&G Acculm NAACIF
Investment - M&G Income MAF
**Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec**
**Net Income/**
**(Expenditure)**|BERRY HOUSING TRUST
**INCOME**
WMC
Donations
Grants
Rebate
Dividends Received
Interest Received
**Total Income**
Investment Revaluation
**Income incl investment Revaluation**
**EXPENDITURE**
Rates
NAA Subscription
Valuation/Quinquennial Inspection
Insurance
Invicta Care
Water
Electricity
General Maintenance
Refurbishment/Building Work
Gardening
Pest Control
Other
**Total Expenditure**
Net Income/Expenditure excl revaluation
**STATEMENT OF FUNDS**
Cash Brought Forward at 1Jan
plus/(minus) surplus/(deficit) for yr
Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec
made up of :
Cash - Natwest Curr
Cash - Co-op Curr
Cash - CCLA CMF
Cash - CCLA Chrmn
Investment - Newton BNY
Investment - M&G Acculm NAACIF
Investment - M&G Income MAF
**Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec**
**Net Income/**
**(Expenditure)**|**Yr to Dec23**|**Yr to Dec23**|**Yr to Dec22**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**INCOME**
WMC
Donations
Grants
Rebate
Dividends Received
Interest Received|||£15,947
£50
£38,000
£0
£43
£1,898||£13,936
£0
£0
£0
£40
£424| ||**Total Income**|||**£55,938**||**£14,400**| ||Investment Revaluation|||£6,041||-£1,960| ||**Income incl investment Revaluation**|||**£61,979**||**£12,439**| ||**EXPENDITURE**
Rates
NAA Subscription
Valuation/Quinquennial Inspection
Insurance
Invicta Care
Water
Electricity
General Maintenance
Refurbishment/Building Work
Gardening
Pest Control
Other|||£0
£153
£1,740
£1,282
£1,621
£633
£0
£42
£46,551
£530
£0
£224||£0
£146
£1,094
£485
£570
£0
£2,790
£0
£595
£55
£693| ||**Total Expenditure**|||**£52,776**||**£6,428**| |||||||| ||**Net Income/**
**(Expenditure)**|||**£9,203**||**£6,011**| |||||||| ||Net Income/Expenditure excl revaluation|||£3,162||£7,971| |||||||| ||**STATEMENT OF FUNDS**
Cash Brought Forward at 1Jan
plus/(minus) surplus/(deficit) for yr
Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec|||£150,074
£9,203||£144,063
£6,011| |||||**£159,277**||**£150,074**| ||made up of :
Cash - Natwest Curr
Cash - Co-op Curr
Cash - CCLA CMF
Cash - CCLA Chrmn
Investment - Newton BNY
Investment - M&G Acculm NAACIF
Investment - M&G Income MAF|||£0
£44,962
£27,008
£141
£44,593
£41,549
£1,024||£0
£20,411
£44,114
£256
£43,126
£41,161
£1,007| ||**Balance Carried Forward at 31Dec**|||**£159,277**||**£150,074**| |||||||| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Report to the trustees/ Charity Name
BERRY HOUSING TRUST
members of
On accounts for the year 31 DECEMBER 2023 Charity no 242728
ended (if any)
Set out on pages 1&2
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 December 2022
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- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 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 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 (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting 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. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Date:** 14 July 2024 **Signed: Name:** Elizabeth Rimell ~~Ps~~ **Relevant professional** ACMA CGMA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Stansted Lodge, Tumblefield Road, Stansted, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 7PR **October 2018** 1 **IER** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . Nothing to disclose **October 2018** 2 **IER**