## **Friends of Great Bedwyn Church Trust**
_Dedicated to the preservation of Great Bedwyn parish church_ Regd. Charity 246197
**`**
## **Treasurer’s Report to Trustees : AGM 2025**
During 2024-2025 our funds increased from **£59,884 to £82,569** . The 2 largest elements of the increase were Donations (£15,400) and Gift Aid recovery (£,560) In the year £6,300 was transferred to the PCC.
## 1) **Income from Principle events**
||**FY25**||
|---|---|---|
|**Donations**|£15,400|Legacies of£10,000 (Keneth Aust) and £2,000 (TimSummers). Various smallerdonations|
|**Concert**|£470|King’s concert. Actual figure for FY25 is £1668 but reduced by late payment of FY24 concert
costs(£1167)|
|**Open Gardens**|£812||
|**Annual Draw**|£1782|211 tickets sold (down from previous year). Prize money at £750. This is not the same as the number in
the accounts due to the timing of ticket sales.|
||||
## **2) Cash**
- At year end the treasurer holds £20 in cash - Unchanged from April 2024
## 3) **Bank Accounts** – All money is held in a HSBC.
- In May 2025 £50,000 was transferred into an instant access Savings account within HSBC
- At time of AGM total = £70,272. (Current £20,204, Savings £50,068)
- The bank instigated bank charges in FY22 at £5/month. These were stopped in May 2025.
- They also charge £17/transfer
- Total charges in FY25 were £84.20
## **4) Gift Aid**
- Gift Aid claimed for 22-23 and 23-24. This included the gift Aid on the £40,000 donation.
- Gift aid pending for 24-25
## **5) Fundraising**
- King’s men concert raised £470 – Reduced from £1668 due to late payment of previous choir fees. FY24 figure was exaggerated as a result.
- Last Annual draw
## **6) GRDP**
- The friends have a policy in place to cover data protection. This policy covers the handling of any personal information shared with the committee. This data is not shared outside of the committee.
## **7) Money given to the Church**
- £6300 to PCC for the roof
## **8) Accounts Scrutiny.**
- These accounts have been scrutinised by Katherine Challen who has kindly audited our accounts as in previous years. We have a letter from her confirming the status of the accounts.
9) **The Draw.**
- 2024 was the last annual draw.211 tickets sold.
## **10) Standing Orders**
Not fully calculated as still standing orders coming in but change from Draw has shown positive progress on standing orders
- YE March 2024 56 people paid £1908
- YE March 2025 63 people paid £2038
- This does not include some new annual donations that are more substantial.
## 11) Since the YE
- Paid £13,922 to PCC
- Donation of £500
- 3 Concerts – Small profits
- Legacy pending for £10,000 from Philp James Gray
|**Income and Expenditure Account, 1 April 2023- 31 March 2024**|**Income and Expenditure Account, 1 April 2023- 31 March 2024**||
|---|---|---|
||2024-2025||
||£|£|
|Income|||
|Donations||15,400.00|
|Grants & PCC donations|||
|CAF Loan|||
|Gift Aid Recovery||11,560.23|
|
Open gardens teas (net of costs)||812.00|
|
King's Concert Revenue|2,852.54||
|Less costs|-2,382.50||
||--------------|470.04|
||||
||||
|50:50 prize draw revenue|894.00||
|
less costs|0.00||
||--------------|894.00|
|Loan of sum up to Music Society|164.32||
|
less payments|-232.00||
||--------------|-67.68|
|||--------------|
|Total income||29,068.59|
||||
|Expenditure|||
|Bank charges|-84.20||
|
Great Bedwyn P.C.C.-Roof|-6,300.00||
||||
||--------------|-6,384.20|
|||--------------|
|Net income / (expenditure)||22,684.39|
|||--------------|
||||
||Balance sheet March 2025||
|||£|
|Assets|||
|Cash at bank-HSBC Bank plc||82,569.01|
|
Cash in hand with IW Bond||19.49|
|||--------------|
|||82,588.50|
|||--------------|
|General Fund|||
|Brought Forward||59,904.11|
|
Add net income / deduct net expenditure||22,684.39|
|||--------------|
|||82,588.50|
|||--------------|
## **Friends of Great Bedwyn Church Trust**
_Dedicated to the preservation of Great Bedwyn parish church_
Regd. Charity 246197
## **Friends of Great Bedwyn Church Trust**
_Dedicated to the preservation of Great Bedwyn parish church_ Regd. Charity 246197
**`**
## **Treasurer’s Report to Trustees : AGM 2025**
During 2024-2025 our funds increased from **£59,884 to £82,569** . The 2 largest elements of the increase were Donations (£15,400) and Gift Aid recovery (£,560) In the year £6,300 was transferred to the PCC.
## 1) **Income from Principle events**
||**FY25**||
|---|---|---|
|**Donations**|£15,400|Legacies of£10,000 (Keneth Aust) and £2,000 (TimSummers). Various smallerdonations|
|**Concert**|£470|King’s concert. Actual figure for FY25 is £1668 but reduced by late payment of FY24 concert
costs(£1167)|
|**Open Gardens**|£812||
|**Annual Draw**|£1782|211 tickets sold (down from previous year). Prize money at £750. This is not the same as the number in
the accounts due to the timing of ticket sales.|
||||
## **2) Cash**
- At year end the treasurer holds £20 in cash - Unchanged from April 2024
## 3) **Bank Accounts** – All money is held in a HSBC.
- In May 2025 £50,000 was transferred into an instant access Savings account within HSBC
- At time of AGM total = £70,272. (Current £20,204, Savings £50,068)
- The bank instigated bank charges in FY22 at £5/month. These were stopped in May 2025.
- They also charge £17/transfer
- Total charges in FY25 were £84.20
## **4) Gift Aid**
- Gift Aid claimed for 22-23 and 23-24. This included the gift Aid on the £40,000 donation.
- Gift aid pending for 24-25
## **5) Fundraising**
- King’s men concert raised £470 – Reduced from £1668 due to late payment of previous choir fees. FY24 figure was exaggerated as a result.
- Last Annual draw
## **6) GRDP**
- The friends have a policy in place to cover data protection. This policy covers the handling of any personal information shared with the committee. This data is not shared outside of the committee.
## **7) Money given to the Church**
- £6300 to PCC for the roof
## **8) Accounts Scrutiny.**
- These accounts have been scrutinised by Katherine Challen who has kindly audited our accounts as in previous years. We have a letter from her confirming the status of the accounts.
9) **The Draw.**
- 2024 was the last annual draw.211 tickets sold.
## **10) Standing Orders**
Not fully calculated as still standing orders coming in but change from Draw has shown positive progress on standing orders
- YE March 2024 56 people paid £1908
- YE March 2025 63 people paid £2038
- This does not include some new annual donations that are more substantial.
## 11) Since the YE
- Paid £13,922 to PCC
- Donation of £500
- 3 Concerts – Small profits
- Legacy pending for £10,000 from Philp James Gray
|**Income and Expenditure Account, 1 April 2023- 31 March 2024**|**Income and Expenditure Account, 1 April 2023- 31 March 2024**||
|---|---|---|
||2024-2025||
||£|£|
|Income|||
|Donations||15,400.00|
|Grants & PCC donations|||
|CAF Loan|||
|Gift Aid Recovery||11,560.23|
|
Open gardens teas (net of costs)||812.00|
|
King's Concert Revenue|2,852.54||
|Less costs|-2,382.50||
||--------------|470.04|
||||
||||
|50:50 prize draw revenue|894.00||
|
less costs|0.00||
||--------------|894.00|
|Loan of sum up to Music Society|164.32||
|
less payments|-232.00||
||--------------|-67.68|
|||--------------|
|Total income||29,068.59|
||||
|Expenditure|||
|Bank charges|-84.20||
|
Great Bedwyn P.C.C.-Roof|-6,300.00||
||||
||--------------|-6,384.20|
|||--------------|
|Net income / (expenditure)||22,684.39|
|||--------------|
||||
||Balance sheet March 2025||
|||£|
|Assets|||
|Cash at bank-HSBC Bank plc||82,569.01|
|
Cash in hand with IW Bond||19.49|
|||--------------|
|||82,588.50|
|||--------------|
|General Fund|||
|Brought Forward||59,904.11|
|
Add net income / deduct net expenditure||22,684.39|
|||--------------|
|||82,588.50|
|||--------------|
## **Friends of Great Bedwyn Church Trust**
_Dedicated to the preservation of Great Bedwyn parish church_
Regd. Charity 246197
06 July 2025
## **Mr Ian Bond**
## **Friends of Great Bedwyn Church Trust**
Dear Ian,
Friends of Great Bedwyn Church Trust Accounts 2024 - 2025
have compared them to the cashbook and the other records provided to me. Furthermore, I have confirmed that the ‘receipts and payments’ method of accounting that has been used for this reporting period is still appropriate as the organisation has not met the £250,000 income threshold whereby ‘accruals based’ accounting would become applicable.
months.
presented would give a reader a true and reasonable view of the Trust’s financial results and position.
I have not conducted an audit.
Yours sincerely
## KatharineAChallen
Katharine Challen
ACCA Membership Number: 3488150