
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From  01.07.2024  Period start date   To 30.06.2025  Period end date** 

## **Charity name:  English Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary** 

## **Charity registration number: 259421** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|**The advancement of the Christian**<br>**religion**|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identifiedinthe accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|**Distribution of Christian books, DVDs,**<br>**CDs and other material.**<br>**Bereavement and other counselling**<br>**Opportunity for personal retreats**|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18||



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other 



## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**Leading 3 day Retreat for friends.**<br>**Fellowship afternoons with guests:**<br>**Israel Afternoon with speaker –**<br>**September 2024, Christmas 2024,**<br>**Good Friday and Easter 2025**<br>**Garden Walkabout in our garden – about**<br>**200 people**<br>**One mailing to 570 friends**<br>**Sending out of parcels of Christian books**<br>**pamphlets DVDs and CDs**<br>**Christian bookmarks for tourists in 20-32**<br>**different languages in two major**<br>**Churches**<br>**Taking part in Holocaust Memorial**<br>**Services in Bushey and Radlett**<br>**Receiving and sharing testimonies with**<br>**visitors inour home and prayer garden **|
|**Additional information (optional)**<br>Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatements||whererelevant about:|
|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21||
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The Sisters live entirely by faith. They do**<br>**not solicit funds and their books etc are**<br>**delivered for donations. They therefore**<br>**have no reserve policy**|
|Amount of reservesheld|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23||



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution dated 25th August 1969**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Written constitution**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**Elected by the members**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|---|---|---|
|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction and<br>training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|English Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|259421|
|Charity’s principal address|17 Gills Hill Lane<br>Radlett<br>Herts.<br>WD7 8DE|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Thekla Hildner|1st presidingmember|||
||Glory Johnston|2ndpresiding<br>member|||
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– 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 Name Address adviser** 

**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)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>**Date**|Sister Thekla Hildner|Sister Glory Johnston|
|---|---|---|
||SISTER THEKLA HILDNER|SISTER GLORY JOHNSTON|
||<br> <br>1STPresiding member|2ndPresiding member|
||13.03.26||
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|**English Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary**<br>**No (if any)**|**English Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary**<br>**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|
||**259241**|||
|**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|1.07.24<br>**For the period**<br>**from**|30.06.25<br>**To**|||



|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**86,491**<br>**5,331**<br>**1,789**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> <br> <br>**93,611**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> <br>**-**<br>**93,611**<br>**73,316**<br>**42,342**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**115,658**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**115,658**<br>**-22,047**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-00**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**86,491**<br>**5,331**<br>**1,789**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**93,611**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**93,611**<br>**73,316**<br>**42,342**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**115,658**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**115,658**<br>**-22,047**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**86,491**||||**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**|**86,491**||**148,558**|
|Other|**5,331**|||||**5,331**||**5,791**|
|Interest|**1,789**|||||**1,789**||**1,988**|
||**-**|||||**-00**|||
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|<br> <br>**93,611**|||||**93,611**||**156,337**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**||||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-00**|||
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**-**|||||**-00**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||||
||||||**-**|**93,611**||**156,337**|
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|<br>Charitable Activities|**73,316**||||**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**<br>**-00**|**73,316**||**114,235**|
|Support  Costs|**42,342**|||||**42,342**||**51,991**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**-**|||||**-00**||**-00**|
|**_Sub total_**|**115,658**|||||**115,658**||**166,226**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases (see table)**|||||||||
|**,**|**-**||||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-00**|||
||**-**|||||**-00**|||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-00**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||
||||||**-**|**115,658**||**166,226**|
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||**-22,047**||**-00**||**-00**|**-22,047**||**-9,889**|
||**-**||**-00**|<br>|**-00**<br>**-00**|**-00**|<br>|**-00**|
||||**-00**|||**136,728**||**146,617**|
||**-22,047**||**-00**||**-00**|**114,681**||**136,728**|



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|At Bank & In Hand<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**112,781**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-00**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||At Bank & In Hand||**-00**|**-00**|



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||Motherhouse||**1,900**|||**-00**||**-00**|
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||||**-00**|||**-00**||**-00**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||**114,681**|||**-00**||**-00**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||||||
||account(s))||Agreement Error||OK|||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**|||**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to**|**nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||**-00**|||**-00**||**-00**|
||||**-00**|||**-00**||**-00**|
||||**-00**|||**-00**||**-00**|
||||**-00**|||**-00**||**-00**|
||||**-00**|||**-00**||**-00**|
||||**-00**|||**-00**||**-00**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|**charity’s own use**||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
|||||||**-00**||**-00**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|||**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**|||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-00**|||
|||||||**-00**|||
|||||||**-00**|||
|||||||**-00**|||
|||||||**-00**|||
|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||Sister Thekla Hildner||SISTER THEKLA HILDNER|||||13.03.26|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

**Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** English Evangelical Sisters of Mary 

**On accounts for the year** 30.06.25 **Charity no** 259421 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 1-2(remember  to include the page numbers of additional sheets) 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended. 30.06.24 As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **Responsibilities and** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act **basis of report** 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** I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** 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:** 13.03.2026 **Name:** Peter Breward **Relevant professional** Previously ACMA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 8 Homefield Road Radlett, Herts WD7 8PY 

**October 2018** 

**IER** 

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**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** . 

**October 2018** 

**IER** 

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