**Charity number: 245061**
## **The Batchworth Trust**
**Trustees' report and financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Contents**
||Page|
|---|---|
|**Reference and administrative details of the Trust, its Trustees and advisers**|1|
|**Trustees' report**|2 - 5|
|**Independent auditors' report on the financial statements**|6 - 9|
|**Statement of financial activities**|10|
|**Balance sheet**|11|
|**Statement of cash flows**|12|
|**Notes to the financial statements**|13 - 26|
## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Reference and administrative details of the Trust, its Trustees and advisers For the year ended 5 April 2025**
|**Trustees**|Lockwell Trustees Limited, Corporate Trustee|
|---|---|
||The following are directors of the Corporate Trustee:|
||Ms G E Campbell, Chair|
||Mrs J C Chalmers|
||Mr J M Campbell|
||Miss A Campbell|
||Mr M Campbell|
||Miss E G Chalmers|
||Ms J K Brown|
||Miss R E Campbell|
||Mr C G Percy|
|**Charity registered**
**number**
245061
**Principal office**
Springfield House
Springfield Road
Horsham
West Sussex
RH12 2RG
**Independent auditors**
Kreston Reeves Audit LLP
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditor
Springfield House
Springfield Road
Horsham
West Sussex
RH12 2RG
**Bankers**
Lloyds Bank Plc
1 West Street
Horsham
West Sussex
RH12 1PA
**Investment advisors**
TrinityBridge Limited
Wigmore Yard
2 Wigmore Street
London
W1U 2RY||
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Trustees' report For the year ended 5 April 2025**
The Corporate Trustee presents their annual report together with the audited financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2025. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 2 and comply with the Charity Trust Deed, the Charities Act 2011 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102).
## **Constitution**
The Trust was established as a Charitable Settlement by a Deed dated 2 April 1965.
## **Trustees**
The Corporate Trustee is Lockwell Trustees Limited, a Company registered in England and Wales No. 0843464. The Directors of Lockwell Trustees Limited during the year were:
Ms G E Campbell (Chairman) Mrs J C Chalmers Mr J A N Campbell (Resigned 17 May 2024) Mr J M Campbell Miss A Campbell Mr M Campbell Miss E G Chalmers Ms J K Brown Miss R E Campbell Mr C G Percy
## **Governance**
The Trustee of the Batchworth Trust is a corporate body. The Directors of the Trustee Company recognise that their role is akin to that of a Trustee as if they were directly appointed to the role, and for the purposes of this report are referred to as the Trustees. The appointment of new Directors is governed by the Companies Act.
The present Board of Directors of the Trustee Company contain a broad range of legal, financial and specialist skills that greatly contribute to the running of the charity and they were largely appointed because of their intimate knowledge of the Trust's objectives prior to their appointment. Trustee appointment is made via Board of Directors' approval.
Any new appointees will be encouraged to meet separately with the charity's advisors to gain insight into the legal and financial nature of the charity and to attend courses run by appropriate organisations to fully acquaint themselves with Trustee responsibilities. Periodic assessments by the Trustees of their duties has lead to further training or meetings with advisors if necessary.
## **Risk management**
The Corporate Trustee has assessed the major risks to which the Trust is exposed, in particular those related to the operations and finances of the Trust, and are satisfied that systems and procedures are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks.
The Corporate Trustee is responsible for taking reasonable steps to ensure that:
- The charity is running efficiently and effectively;
- Its assets are safeguarded against unauthorised use or disposition;
- Sufficient records are maintained and financial information is reliable;
- The charity complies with the relevant laws and regulations.
The Trust has no employees. The organisations to which record keeping and investment management have been delegated have systems in place to ensure security and continuity of service. The Corporate Trustee is able to monitor these services through regular reporting.
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Trustees' report (continued) For the year ended 5 April 2025**
The Corporate Trustee maintains a register of areas of risk that might affect the ability of the charity to meet its objectives. An estimate of the likelihood of an event arising is made, and the impact it might have on the charity. Measures are designed to mitigate the affect of the event.
The Corporate Trustee considers loss of income and investment returns to be a risk against the charitable objectives. The Corporate Trustee mitigates this risk with investment diversification, professional portfolio management and prudent investment policies.
## **Objectives, grant making policies and activities for public benefit**
The Corporate Trustee is empowered, at their sole and absolute discretion, to pay, apply or appropriate the whole or any part of the Trust Fund Capital, and the income thereof, at any time for the benefit of any institutional qualified charity, or qualified charities, and if more than one, such shares and proportions between them, generally in such manner as the Trustees in their absolute discretion shall think fit. No grant payments are made direct to individuals.
Under the terms of the Deed of Settlement, a "qualified charity" means any purpose, organisation or objective in any part of the world, which under the law of England shall be recognised as exclusively charitable.
The Corporate Trustee confirms that they have referred to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit when reviewing the Trust’s aims and objectives, in planning future activities, and setting the grant making policy for the year.
## **Review of activities**
The Trust was able to benefit 98 charities this year (2024: 98) with total distributions amounting to £1,346,500 (2024: £1,413,000). Whilst the Trust maintains a policy of considering applications from a wide variety of charities, the emphasis has been to mainly support medical research, youth charities and welfare both here and abroad.
Grants to smaller charities remained a priority of the Trust during the year and in many cases the distributions made were provided to support an innovation or a critical issue.
Support for larger or national charities was predominantly to support either the ongoing work of the organisation or a particular initiative.
The Trustees meet twice each year but receive quarterly reports from the investment managers and administrator. Apart from making decisions concerning distributions to charities, a portion of each meeting of the Directors of the Corporate trustee is given over to reviewing legislation changes, investment reviews and other important information exchanges, which, together with the quarterly reports, ensures the Trustees are fully up to date with matters that affect the charity.
## **Investment policy and performance**
The Corporate Trustee's policy is to ensure the Trust maximises its income for distribution purposes whilst having regard for capital growth. The Investment Managers are instructed to maintain a reasonable balance between income and capital growth but taking opportunities to maximise income when special situations arise.
## **Reserves policy**
The Trust's reserve policy is to maintain general unrestricted reserves which are neither allowed to become excessive as a result of the unjustifiable accumulation of income nor so low as to be inadequate to meet the grant making objectives. The Trust also has a social policy of not investing in tobacco related funds and arms.
The Trust operates its investment portfolio in two funds, one invested in higher income generating investments but with consequently lower growth potential and the other fund in equities to maintain the capital of the overall fund. The Directors of the Corporate Trustee receive quarterly reports showing a split between capital and income balances, and they meet twice a year with an aim to distribute the income balance in full and to also sometimes make payments out of capital.
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Trustees' report (continued) For the year ended 5 April 2025**
This split-fund policy has been in operation for some years and has had the effect of maximising the income for distribution without depleting the value of the endowed fund. Distributions are made from income and capital and have not historically significantly affected reserves.
In the opinion of the Corporate Trustee, the current level of reserves is considered well balanced to achieve the Trust's objectives.
## **Financial review**
The year has seen a decrease in investment income from £630,891 to £620,532, a decrease of 1.6%, partly representing a fall in the returns being offered in the markets on both Equities and Fixed Interest Securities. The Corporate Trustee has retained their policy of distributing a level of grant making in line with this income.
The fair value of the Trust's investments has decreased by 7.5% from £21,833,628 in 2024 to £20,189,909 in 2025. The investments continue to generate significant income with which the Trust is able to continue to make grants to charities and support the beneficiaries of these charities.
The Corporate Trustee continued to include in its distribution policy both investment income and liquidated gains on investment sales as representing the pool of funds from which grants can be made to charities.
## **Key management personnel**
There are no employees, but the Corporate Trustee's Board of Directors are key management personnel of the Charity in charge of directing and controlling the Charity. All Directors of the Corporate Trustee give their time freely and there was no remuneration, expenses or related party transactions in the year.
## **Future developments**
The Corporate Trustee aims to continue to distribute funds in accordance with charitable objectives, at levels parallel to the last few years, plus aiming to support long term projects.
## **Corporate Trustee's responsibilities statement**
The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England & Wales requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Trust and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:
- Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- Observe the methods and principles of the Charities SORP (FRS 102);
- Make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards (FRS 102) have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Trust will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Trust's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Trust and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the Trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
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## The Batchworth Trust
Trustees’ report (continued) For the year ended 5 April 2025
## Disclosure of information to auditors
Each of the persons who are Trustees at the time when this Trustees’ report is approved has confirmed that: so far as that Trustee is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the charity's auditors are unaware, and that Trustee has taken all the steps that ought to have been taken as a Trustee in order to be aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charity's auditors are aware of that information.
## Auditors
The audit registration of Kreston Reeves LLP was transferred to Kreston Reeves Audit LLP on 6 October 2025. Kreston Reeves Audit LLP were formally appointed as auditor to the charity on 6 October 2025.
Approved by order of the members of the board of Trustees on and signed on their behalf by:
## Lockwell Trustees Limited, Corporate Trustee
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Independent auditors' report to the Members of The Batchworth Trust**
## **Opinion**
We have audited the financial statements of The Batchworth Trust (the 'charity') for the year ended 5 April 2025 which comprise the Statement of financial activities, the Balance sheet, the Statement of cash flows and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standards applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) in preference to the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice issued on 1 April 2005 which is referred to in the extant regulations but has been withdrawn.
This has been done in order for the accounts to provide a true and fair view in accordance with the Generally Accepted Accounting Practice effective for reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2015.
In our opinion the financial statements:
- give a true and fair view of the state of the charity's affairs as at 5 April 2025 and of its incoming resources and application of resources for the year then ended;
- have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
- have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
## **Basis for opinion**
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
## **Conclusions relating to going concern**
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Independent auditors' report to the Members of The Batchworth Trust (continued)**
## **Other information**
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual report other than the financial statements and our Auditors' report thereon. The Trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the Annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
## **Matters on which we are required to report by exception**
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- the information given in the Trustees' report is inconsistent in any material respect with the financial statements; or
- sufficient accounting records have not been kept; or
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
## **Responsibilities of trustees**
As explained more fully in the Trustees' responsibilities statement, the Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements which give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees are responsible for assessing the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Independent auditors' report to the Members of The Batchworth Trust (continued)**
## **Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements**
We have been appointed as auditor under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulations made or having effect thereunder.
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an Auditors' report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
## _Capability of the audit in detecting irregularities, including fraud_
Based on our understanding of the charity and the sector as a whole, and through discussion with the Trustees and other management (as required by auditing standards), we identified that the principal risks of noncompliance with laws and regulations related to the Charity Commission regulations and GDPR. We considered the extent to which non-compliance might have a material effect on the financial statements. We also considered those laws and regulations that have a direct impact on the preparation of the financial statements such as the Charities Act 2011, Charities SORP (FRS 102) Second Edition (released October 2019) and other relevant charity legislation. We communicated identified laws and regulations throughout our team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit. We evaluated Trustees' and management’s incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls) and determined that the principal risks related to determined that the principal risks were related to the recognition of grants payable and revenue recognition. Audit procedures performed by the engagement team included:
- Discussions with management and assessment of known or suspected instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations and fraud;
- Assessment of identified fraud risk factors;
- Making enquiries with appropriate personnel to gain further insight into the control systems implemented and the risk of irregularity;
- Review of grant expenditure to confirm no evidence of personal benefit;
- Checking and reperforming the reconciliation of key control accounts;
- Performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships, including related party transactions, that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud;
- Confirmation of related parties with management, and review of transactions throughout the period to identify any previously undisclosed transactions with related parties outside the normal course of business;
- Reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance;
- Review of significant and unusual transactions and evaluation of the underlying financial rationale supporting the transactions; and
- Identifying and testing journal entries, in particular any manual entries made at the year end for financial statement preparation.
Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance.
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Independent auditors' report to the Members of The Batchworth Trust (continued)**
As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs (UK), we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:
- Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
- Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion of the effectiveness of the charity's internal control.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the Trustees.
- Conclude on the appropriateness of the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our Auditors' report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our Auditors' report. However, future events or conditions may cause the charity to cease to continue as a going concern.
- Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
## **Use of our report**
This report is made solely to the charity's trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an Auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and its trustees, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
**Kreston Reeves Audit LLP** Statutory Auditor
Horsham
Date: 16 January 2026
Kreston Reeves Audit LLP are eligible to act as auditors in terms of section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Statement of financial activities For the year ended 5 April 2025**
|**Note**
**Income from:**
Investments
4
**Total income**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
5
Charitable activities
7
**Total expenditure**
**Net expenditure before net (losses)/gains on**
**investments**
Net (losses)/gains on investments
10
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
Net movement in funds
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
**620,532**
**620,532**
**87,135**
**1,388,335**
**1,475,470**
**(854,938)**
**(801,963)**
**(1,656,901)**
**21,755,317**
**(1,656,901)**
**20,098,416**|**Total**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
**620,532**
**620,532**
**87,135**
**1,388,335**
**1,475,470**
**(854,938)**
**(801,963)**
**(1,656,901)**
**21,755,317**
**(1,656,901)**
**20,098,416**|Total
funds
2024
£
630,891
630,891
84,773
1,443,944
1,528,717
(897,826)
1,598,511
700,685
21,054,632
700,685
21,755,317|
|---|---|---|---|
The Statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.
The notes on pages 13 to 26 form part of these financial statements.
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# 07 November 2025
## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Statement of cash flows For the year ended 5 April 2025**
|**Note**
**Cash flows from operating activities**
Net cash used in operating activities
16
**Cash flows from investing activities**
Dividends, interests and rents from investments
Proceeds from sale of investments
Purchase of investments
**Net cash provided by investing activities**
**Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year**
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year**
17
The notes on pages 13 to 26 form part of these financial statements|**2025**
**£**
**(1,393,497)**
**620,532**
**1,060,742**
**(298,341)**
**1,382,933**
**(10,564)**
**33,132**
**22,568**|As restated
2024
£
(1,151,987)|
|---|---|---|
|||630,891
1,935,386
(1,426,061)
**1,140,216**|
|||**(11,771)**
44,903
33,132|
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **1. General information**
The Batchworth Trust is an unincorporated charity registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales. The address of the registered office is Springfield House, Springfield Road, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 2RG.
## **2. Accounting policies**
## **2.1 Basis of preparation of financial statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) - Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011.
The financial statements have been prepared to give a 'true and fair' view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a 'true and fair' view. This departure has involved following the Charities SORP (FRS 102) published in October 2019 rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.
The Batchworth Trust meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy.
The financial statements have been prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the charity, and rounded to the nearest £1.
## **2.2 Going concern**
The Trustees assess whether the going concern basis is appropriate and whether there are any material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may case significant doubt on the ability of the charity to continue as a going concern.
The Trustees have considered the level of reserves held and the expected income and expenditure for a period of twelve months from finalisation of these financial statements.
## **2.3 Income**
All income is recognised once the Trust has entitlement to the income, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount of income receivable can be measured reliably.
The recognition of income from legacies is dependent on establishing entitlement, the probability of receipt and the ability to estimate with sufficient accuracy the amount receivable. Evidence of entitlement to a legacy exists when the Trust has sufficient evidence that a gift has been left to them (through knowledge of the existence of a valid will and the death of the benefactor) and the executor is satisfied that the property in question will not be required to satisfy claims in the estate. Receipt of a legacy must be recognised when it is probable that it will be received and the fair value of the amount receivable, which will generally be the expected cash amount to be distributed to the Trust, can be reliably measured.
Income tax recoverable in relation to investment income is recognised at the time the investment income is receivable.
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **2. Accounting policies (continued)**
## **2.4 Expenditure**
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to transfer economic benefit to a third party, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified by activity. The costs of each activity are made up of the total of direct costs and shared costs, including support costs involved in undertaking each activity. Direct costs attributable to a single activity are allocated directly to that activity.
Expenditure on raising funds includes all expenditure incurred by the Trust to raise funds for its charitable purposes and includes costs of all fundraising activities events and non-charitable trading.
Expenditure on charitable activities is incurred on directly undertaking the activities which further the Trust's objectives, as well as any associated support costs.
Grants payable are charged in the year when the offer is made except in those cases where the offer is conditional, such grants being recognised as expenditure when the conditions attaching are fulfilled. Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year end are noted as a commitment, but not accrued as expenditure.
All expenditure is inclusive of irrecoverable VAT.
## **2.5 Interest receivable**
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the Trust; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the institution with whom the funds are deposited.
## **2.6 Investments**
Fixed asset investments are a form of financial instrument and are initially recognised at their transaction cost and subsequently measured at fair value at the Balance sheet date, unless the value cannot be measured reliably in which case it is measured at cost less impairment. Investment gains and losses, whether realised or unrealised, are combined and presented as ‘Gains/(Losses) on investments’ in the Statement of financial activities.
## **2.7 Debtors**
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
## **2.8 Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and short-term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **2. Accounting policies (continued)**
## **2.9 Liabilities and provisions**
Liabilities are recognised when there is an obligation at the Balance sheet date as a result of a past event, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefit will be required in settlement, and the amount of the settlement can be estimated reliably.
Liabilities are recognised at the amount that the Trust anticipates it will pay to settle the debt or the amount it has received as advanced payments for the goods or services it must provide.
Provisions are measured at the best estimate of the amounts required to settle the obligation. Where the effect of the time value of money is material, the provision is based on the present value of those amounts, discounted at the pre-tax discount rate that reflects the risks specific to the liability. The unwinding of the discount is recognised in the Statement of financial activities as a finance cost.
## **2.10 Financial instruments**
The Trust only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
## **2.11 Fund accounting**
General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the Trust and which have not been designated for other purposes.
Investment income, gains and losses are allocated to the appropriate fund.
## **3. Critical accounting estimates and areas of judgement**
Estimates and judgements are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. The nature of estimations is such that actual outcomes could differ significantly from those estimates.
The Trustees consider that there were no judgements or sources of estimations that would have had a significant impact on the amounts recognised in the financial statements.
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **4. Investment income**
|Income from local listed investments
Investment income - foreign listed investments
Investment income (CPA gross interest receivable)
Investment income - other local investments
Investment income - other foreign investments
Income from local listed investments
Investment income - foreign listed investments
Investment income (CPA gross interest receivable)
Investment income - other local investments
Investment income - other foreign investments|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
227,316
311,390
9,060
27,891
44,875
620,532
Unrestricted
funds
2024
£
219,031
313,655
22,102
26,419
49,684
630,891|**Total**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
**227,316**
**311,390**
**9,060**
**27,891**
**44,875**|
|---|---|---|
|||**620,532**|
|||Total
funds
2024
£
219,031
313,655
22,102
26,419
49,684|
|||630,891|
## **5. Investment management costs**
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
Investment management fees
87,135
Unrestricted
funds
2024
£
Investment management fees
84,773|**Total**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
**87,135**|
|---|---|
||Total
funds
2024
£
84,773|
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **6. Analysis of grants**
|Institutional grants paid
Institutional grants paid|**Grants to**
**Institutions**
**2025**
**£**
1,346,500
Grants to
Institutions
2024
£
1,413,000|**Total**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
**1,346,500**|
|---|---|---|
|||Total
funds
2024
£
1,413,000|
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
**6. Analysis of grants (continued)**
## **Name of Institution**
|||
|---|---|
|**Name of Institution**|**2025**|
||**£**|
|126th Birmingham Scout Group|1,000|
|Afasic|20,000|
|Allergy UK|5,000|
|Alzheimer’s Society|10,000|
|Andrew Simpson Foundation|5,000|
|Anne Robson Trust|5,000|
|Armonico Consort's Memory Singers|10,000|
|Ayrshire Hospice|10,000|
|Barthol Chapel Community Hub|10,000|
|BEAT|15,000|
|Birmingham Disability Resource Centre|2,000|
|Bridewell Gardens|10,000|
|British Disabled Angling Association|5,000|
|CALM|15,000|
|Campbeltown Picture House|30,000|
|Centrepoint|10,000|
|Chilterns Neuro Centre|10,000|
|City of London Primary Academy Islington|15,000|
|Compass Therapy (formerley MS Society Therapy Centre)|5,000|
|Connecting Carers|10,000|
|Crisis|25,000|
|DEKI|3,500|
|Dr Edwin Doubleday Fund|5,000|
|Duke of Edinburgh Award|15,000|
|Dundee Womens Aid (DWA)|5,000|
|Edinburgh Young Carers|3,000|
|Endometriosis UK|5,000|
|English Symphony Orchestra|2,000|
|F.A.C.E.T CIO|2,000|
|FetLor Youth Club|2,000|
|Fursa Trust|10,000|
|Getting Court|12,000|
|Herts Area Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre (HARCSAC)|10,000|
|Hope UK|10,000|
|Hummingbird Initiative|4,000|
|Intercare|5,000|
|International Rescue Committee (IRC)|100,000|
|Joining Communities Together|10,000|
|Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation|10,000|
|Kintyre Shopper Aide|5,000|
|Leonard Cheshire Homes|10,000|
|Made with Care|5,000|
|Marine Conservation Society|5,000|
|Mikron Theatre|10,000|
|MIND|20,000|
|Mindfood|5,000|
|Mindroom|10,000|
|MS Society|10,000|
|MSF – Doctors without Borders|80,000|
|No Going Back|5,000|
|Off The Record|15,000|
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **6. Analysis of grants (continued)**
|Orchestra of St Johns
Parkinson's UK
Prison Radio Association
Prostate Cancer UK
Pump Aid
Rainforest Concern
Red Cross Yemen Appeal
Refuge
Regional Screen Scotland
Reseed
Ripple Africa
RNLI
Rowan Alba
Royal Voluntary Service
RSABI
Rukhshana Media
Salvation Army
School-Home-Support
Scottish Mountain Rescue
Scottish Wildlife Trust
Shift MS
Shout
Side by Side Early Intervention Centre (Namibia)
St Mungo's
Star Scheme
Strathcarron Hospice
The Alice Cross Centre
The Fisherman’s Mission
The Forgiveness Project
The Listening Centre
The Mustardseed Arts and Educational Trust
The Myton Hospices
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Lawrence
The Rivers Trust
The Schools Consent Project
The Tea Leaf Trust
The Tom Bowdidge Youth Cancer Foundation
Thrive
Tools For Self Reliance
Tree Aid
Trellis
Trust for Sustainable Living
TRUST UK
Unseen
Whirlow Hall Farm Trust
Youth Talk
**Total Grants**
|10,000
20,000
10,000
20,000
3,000
10,000
150,000
10,000
10,000
3,000
20,000
5,000
5,000
10,000
5,000
3,000
20,000
10,000
5,000
100,000
5,000
10,000
25,000
10,000
10,000
26,000
3,000
5,000
15,000
10,000
10,000
5,000
30,000
10,000
10,000
4,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
15,000
10,000
3,000
20,000|
|---|---|
||**1,346,500**|
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **7. Analysis of expenditure by activities**
|Direct costs
Direct costs
**Analysis of support costs**
Support costs - bank charges
Support costs - Auditors' remuneration
Governance costs
Support costs - bank charges
Support costs - Auditors' remuneration
Governance costs|**Grant**
**funding of**
**activities**
**2025**
**£**
1,346,500
Grant
funding of
activities
2024
£
1,413,000|**Support**
**costs**
**2025**
**£**
41,835
Support
costs
2024
£
30,944
**Activities**
**2025**
**£**
107
18,522
23,206
41,835
Activities
2024
£
163
14,500
16,281
30,944|**Total**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
**1,388,335**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||Total
funds
2024
£
1,443,944|
||||**Total**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
**107**
**18,522**
**23,206**|
||||**41,835**|
||||Total
funds
2024
£
163
14,500
16,281|
||||30,944|
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **8. Auditors' remuneration**
||**2025**|2024|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|£|
|Fees payable to the Trust's auditor for the audit of the Trust's annual|||
|accounts|**18,000**|17,150|
|Fees payable to the Trust's auditor in respect of:|||
|All non-audit services not included above|**19,110**|18,190|
## **9. Trustees' remuneration and expenses**
During the year, no Trustees received any remuneration or other benefits (2024 - £NIL).
During the year ended 5 April 2025, no Trustee expenses have been incurred (2024 - £NIL).
## **10. Fixed asset investments**
|**Cost or valuation**
At 6 April 2024
Additions
Disposals
Revaluations
At 5 April 2025
**Net book value**
At 5 April 2025
At 5 April 2024|**Listed**
**investments**
**£**
**21,575,949**
**298,341**
**(1,060,742)**
**(801,964)**
**20,011,584**
**20,011,584**
21,575,949|**Cash**
**£**
**257,679**
**-**
**(79,354)**
**-**
**178,325**
**178,325**
257,679|**Total**
**£**
**21,833,628**
**298,341**
**(1,140,096)**
**(801,964)**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**20,189,909**|
||||**20,189,909**|
||||21,833,628|
At the year end, the historical cost of the listed securities held by the Trust is £14,608,283 (2024 - £15,073,037).
Within listed securities are overseas investments with a fair value of £13,058,413 (2024 - £14,378,221). All other listed investments are at fair value within the United Kingdom.
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **11. Debtors**
|**Due within one year**
Other debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
Tax recoverable|**2025**
**£**
**5,000**
**78,326**
**3,400**
**86,726**|2024
£
-
52,679
3,400|
|---|---|---|
||||
|||56,079|
## **12. Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**
|Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income|**2025**
**£**
**108,289**
**37,498**
**145,787**|2024
£
78,214
41,808|
|---|---|---|
||||
|||120,022|
## **13. Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year**
||**2025**|2024|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|£|
|Other creditors|**55,000**|47,500|
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **14. Statement of funds**
## **Statement of funds - current year**
||**Balance at 6**|||**Gains/**|**Balance at 5**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**April 2024**|**Income**|**Expenditure**|**(Losses)**|**April 2025**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Unrestricted funds**||||||
|General Funds|**21,755,317**|**620,532**|**(1,475,470)**|**(801,963)**|**20,098,416**|
## **Unrestricted fund**
The unrestricted fund represents the free reserves of the charity which can be used at the discretion of the trustees to further the general objectives of the charity.
## **Statement of funds - prior year**
||Balance at|||Gains/|Balance at|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||1 April 2023|Income|Expenditure|(Losses)|5 April 2024|
||£|£|£|£|£|
|**Unrestricted funds**||||||
|General Funds|21,054,632|630,891|(1,528,717)|1,598,511|21,755,317|
## **15. Analysis of net assets between funds**
## **Analysis of net assets between funds - current year**
|Fixed asset investments
Trade investments
Current assets
Creditors due within one year
Creditors due in more than one year
**Total**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
20,011,584
178,325
109,294
(145,787)
(55,000)
20,098,416|**Total**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
**20,011,584**
**178,325**
**109,294**
**(145,787)**
**(55,000)**|
|---|---|---|
|||**20,098,416**|
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**The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **15. Analysis of net assets between funds (continued)**
## **Analysis of net assets between funds - prior year**
|Fixed asset investments
Trade investments
Current assets
Creditors due within one year
Creditors due in more than one year
**Total**|Unrestricted
funds
2024
£
21,575,949
257,679
89,211
(120,022)
(47,500)
21,755,317|Total
funds
2024
£
21,575,949
257,679
89,211
(120,022)
(47,500)|
|---|---|---|
|||21,755,317|
## **16. Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities**
|Net income/expenditure for the year (as per Statement of Financial
Activities)
**Adjustments for:**
Unrealised loss/(gains) on investments
Dividends, interests and rents from investments
Increase in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
**Net cash used in operating activities**|**2025**
**£**
**(1,656,901)**
**881,318**
**(620,532)**
**(30,647)**
**33,265**
**(1,393,497)**|As restated
2024
£
700,685
(1,143,642)
(630,891)
(27,681)
(50,458)|
|---|---|---|
|||(1,151,987)|
## **17. Analysis of cash and cash equivalents**
|Cash in hand
**Total cash and cash equivalents**|**2025**
**£**
**22,568**
**22,568**|2024
£
33,132|
|---|---|---|
|||33,132|
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **18. Analysis of changes in net debt**
|Cash at bank and in hand|**At 6 April**
**2024**
**£**
**33,132**
**33,132**|**Cash flows**
**£**
**(10,564)**
**(10,564)**|**At 5 April**
**2025**
**£**
**22,568**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**22,568**|
## **19. Grant commitments**
The grant commitments detailed below are not recognised as accruals because as at the year end no obligations existed in respect of these grants. The Trust had not indicated its intentions to the grant recipients, therefore no valid expectation was created with the other parties.
||**2025**|2024|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|£|
|**At 5 April 2025 the Trust had commitments as follows:**|||
||||
|**Commitments in respect of grants approved for projects which have**|||
|**not been accrued in the financial statements but will form part of**|||
|**grants:**|||
||||
|Within one year|**35,000**|35,000|
|Between one and two years|**20,000**|-|
||||
||**55,000**|35,000|
|**Reconciliation of the Grant Commitments**|**2025**|2024|
||**£**|£|
|Opening grant commitment|**35,000**|52,000|
|Charged to the Statement of Financial Activity in the year|**(30,000)**|(17,000)|
|Grant commitments withdrawn|**(5,000)**|(10,000)|
|New grant commitments in the year|**55,000**|10,000|
||**55,000**|35,000|
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## **The Batchworth Trust**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 5 April 2025**
|**Total charitable grants payable and committed**|**2025**
2024|
|---|---|
||**£**
£|
|Accrued|**157,500**
130,000|
|Commitment (above)|**55,000**
35,000|
|||
||**212,500**
165,000|
## **20. Restatement of prior year cash flow figures**
During the current financial year, the Trust identified a misclassification of certain cash flows in the prior year's Statement of Cash Flows. Specifically, dividends received from investments which were classified under operating activities instead of investing activities. As a result, the comparative figures for the year ended 5 April 2004 have been restated as follows:
## As Previously Reported:
- Net cash from operating activities - (£521,096)
- Net cash from investing activities - £509,325
## As Restated:
- Net cash from operating activities - (£1,151,987)
- Net cash from investing activities - £1,140,216
## **21. Related party transactions**
In the year ended 5 April 2025, grants paid to Siglo de Oro totalled £Nil (2024: £8,000). Ms G E Campbell is a Trustee of Siglo de Oro and a Director of Lockwell Trustees Limited.
In the year ended 5 April 2025, grants paid to Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trusts totalled £Nil (2024: £10,000). Mrs C M Percy's spouse is a director of Nuffield Farming Scholarship. Mrs C M Percy is a Director of Lockwell Trustees Limited.
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