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2023-04-05-accounts

Contents Page
Trustees'
report
1-3
Independent
Auditor's
report 4-6
Statement
offinancial
activities
Balance sheet
Notes to the financial statements 9-17

The names o fthe persons who were Trustees at any ti me during the yea r were as follow s:
Mr E R Bickersteth
Mr R D Bickersteth
Dr C R Warren
The principal professional
advisers to the Trust are:
Solicitors Adams
& Remers
Auditors Jacob Cavenagh &Skeet
Trinity House 5 Robin Hood Lane
School Hill Sutton
Lewes Surrey
East Sussex BN7 2NN SM1 2SW
Bankers Barclays Bank Pic Investment M a no rbridge Investment
63-67Terminus
Road
Advisers Management
Eastbourne 25 Ropemaker Street
East Sussex BN21 3NE London EC2Y 9LY
Investment Strutt &Parker Principal Agmerhurst House
Property 201 High Street Office Kitchenham Road
Advisers Lewes Ashburnham
Sussex BN7 2NR Battle TN33 9NB

Unrestricted Unrestricted Funds
2023 2022
Note E
Income from: 2
Donations 4, 107 1,100
Rentals 210,885 199,787
Investments 73,288 68,878
Other sources 523 493
Total income 288 803 270 258
Expenditure on:
Raising funds 143,319 158,744
Charitable
activities:
Grants 10 161,872 133,687
Support costs 30 002 28 049
Total expenditure 335 193 320 480
Net (expenditure) before investment gains ( 46,390) ( 50,222)
Net gains on investments 234 753 877 869
Net income 188,363 827,647
Total funds brought forward 8 D68 288 8 24D 641
Total funds carried forward ~92 6 51

FO R THE YEAR ENDED 5 APRIL 2023 (continued)
2023 2022
Total Total
8 8
2 INCOME FROM:
Donations 4 107 1 100
Rentals
Farm rents 5,150 5,156
Cottage rents 205,485 194,381
Garden rents 250 250
210885 199787
Investments
Dividends
and interest
on listed investments 70,640 67,370
Interest on cash deposits 2648 1 508
73288 68878
Other sources
Penhurst
Churchyard
523 472
Book Income 21
523 493
Total income 285803
3 EXPENDITURE ON: 2023 2022
Total Total
8 F
Raising funds
Investment
management
16,321 16,661
Property
management
47,836 48,794
Property
repairs and
maintenance 73,341 88,257
Property
insurance
5821
143319
5032
158744
Charitable
activities
Grants —Individuals and institutions 161872 133687
Support costs
Secretarial assistance
24,852 23,397
Governance
costs
Audit fee 4,800 4,320
Trustees' expenses 350 332
30002 28049
Total expenditure 33
3
480

INVESTMENTS INVESTMENTS Investment Investment Listed
properties
6
investments
6
Total
6
Market value at 6 April 2022 7,085,980 1,856,520 8,942,500
Additions 185,355 185,355
Disposais
Unrealised
surplus
in the year
41 0270 (203,035)
~184517
(203,035)
234753
Market value at 5April 2023 ~70 5Q ~5442
Historical cost at 5April 2023
MV Cost
Listed investments
at market value comprised:
E 6
UK equities 1,438,704 1,157,950
Fixed interest investments 198,137 215,342
Cash awaiting investment 17481 17481
DEBTORS 2023 2022
E 6
Rents 6,160 4,010
Prepayments 3,697
Other debtors 83 91
CREDITORS 2023 2022
E E
Trade creditors 5,457 4,410
Deferred
rental income
7,472 7,032
Other creditors 359 350
Accruals 13067 11700

2023 Balance Invest- Balance
at ment at
6.4.22 Income Expenditure gains Transfers 5.4.23
6 6 E 6 E 6
General reserves
Fixed asset reserves
125,788
8942 50D
288,803 (335,193) 234753 17,680
~17680
97,078
9159573
2022 Balance Invest- Balance
at ment at
6.4.21
6
Income
f
Expenditure
E
gains
6
Transfers
E
5.4.22
F
General reserves 154,719 270,258 (320,480) 21,291 125,788
Fixed asset reserves 8085922 877869 ~27 291 8942 5DD
L240 641 2~7 ~320650 ~77
6
~68
8
8 STAFF COSTS STAFF COSTS 2023 2022
Wages and salaries 6~7
The number ofemployees during the year was:

10 SCHEDULE OF GRANTS
Advantage
Africa
850
Aitken Christian
Services
600
All Nations
Christian
College
500
Altitude
Mission
500
Arts Centre Group 500
Ashburnham
Chapel
1,000
Ashburnham
Christian
Trust
250
Ashburnham
Church PCC
1,750
Barcombe PCC 1,000
Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team 750
Burning
Heart
400
Care ForThe Family 650
Care Trust 1,300
Chichester
Diocesan Association
for Family Support Work (FSW) 1,140
Chasah
Trust
1,300
Chichester
Diocesan Evangelical
Fellowship 500
Christian
International
Peacekeeping
Service 600
Christian
Praise Children's
Home 650
East Sussex Prayer Breakfast 900
Edge Christian
Ministries
400
Evangelical
Alliance
1,846
Evangelical
Sisterhood
of
Mary 700
Freedom
in Christ Ministries
1,000
Friends ofAshburnham
&
Penhurst Churches 900
Hastings
Christian
Trust
600
Hastings Street Pastors 600
Helping
Point (India)
750
International
Fellowship
of
Evangelical Students 600
international
Justice Mission UK
(IJM) 800
Interserve 500
LAMA (Life And More Abundant) Ministries 1,250
Lambeth
Partnership
2,750
Latin Link 1,400
LICC Ltd 500
Links International 3,000
London School ofTheology 1,000
Micah Trust 2,500
The Minster Fellowship 1,700
New Destiny Trust 5,000
Oak Hill College 1,200
Deca House Ltd 300
Balance carried forward 44,436
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10 SCHEDULE OF GRANTS SCHEDULE OF GRANTS (continued) (continued) (continued)
Balance brought
forward
44,436
OMF International 2,200
Open Doors 1,500
Oxford inter-Collegiate
Christian
Union 500
Oxford Kilburn Youth Trust 600
Oxford Pastorate 750
Penhurst
Church PCC
600
Penhurst
Retreat Centre
1,500
Prison Fellowship 1,500
Release International 600
Royal Agricultural
Benevolent
Institution (RABI) 500
Royal British Legion 100
Scripture
Union
300
Sharing
Christ Internationally
1,500
Sidley Baptist Church 250
Spinnaker
Trust
800
St Barnabas Hospice (Chestnut Tree House) 500
St Lukes Healthcare
for
the Clergy 1,100
StStephen's
Society
1,900
Sussex Historic Churches Trust 650
Tear Fund 800
The Lee Abbey Fellowship 300
The Stewards'
Trust
2,100
The Pelham 500
The Vincent Society (CMJ) 650
Titus Trust 1,000
Trinity Fellowship 1,200
Universities
&Colleges
Christian Fellowship 1,200
Wonersh
& Blackheath
PCC 1,600
Wycliffe Bible Translators 4,550
Youth with a Mission 1,000
76,686

10 SCHEDULE OF GRANTS (continued)
Charitable
grants to organisations
(as above) 76,686
Charitable
grant to the Chichester
Diocesan Fund (re Rural Officer) 48,115
Charitable
grants to individuals
(9
gifts made to individuals) 14,150
Miscellaneous:
Books and publications 268
Holidays and assistance for missionaries, clergy
and other Christian
workers
22 653
Total of unrestricted
grants
~161 72