## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/01/2025 to 31/12/2025** ## **Charity name: St. Simon’s Mission Hall and Coffee Tavern Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 274974** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Premises to be used for the purposes of**
**worship of Almighty God. Otherwise**
**income may be applied in furthering the**
**religious and other charitable work of the**
**Church of England in the ecclesiastical**
**parish of St. Simon, Southsea.**| |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|**Grants have been made as detailed in**
**Achievements and Performance below.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The main activities undertaken during the**
**year have been to make grants to the**
**PCC of St. Simon's Church, Southsea in**
**order to assist in its mission within that**
**parish.**
**The trustees have had regard to the**
**Charity Commission’s guidance on**
**public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The Trust has no documented grant-**
**making policy. Grants are made solely in**
**line the charity’s purposes and with due**
**regard to the Trust's aims and objectives.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Apart from property, the only investment**
**that the Trust holds is cash in bank**
**accounts. The trust has no documented**
**social investment policy.**
**The Trust has no volunteers other than**
**the trustees themselves.**| |Contribution made by||**All Trustees are volunteers.**| 1 |volunteers|Para 1.38|**No other use of volunteers is made.**| |---|---|---| |Other||**Not applicable.**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**During the year, the Trust made the**
**following grants to St. Simon’s Church**
**PCC:**
**Church insurance (2026) £8,308.10**
**Priest in Charge £7,250**
**Priest in Charge £7,250**
**Priest in Charge £7,250**
**Priest in Charge £7,250**
**Priest in Charge £7,250**
**Children and Families' Pastor £2,500**
**Children and Families' Pastor £2,500**
**Children and Families' Pastor £2,500**
**Children and Families' Pastor £2,500**
**Christmas Sunday Suppers £350**
**Christmas Flowers £360**
**Christmas children and youth £600**
**Vicarage £10,000**
**Acoustic panels £10,000**
**Youth Club £3,000**
**Glass door £2,000**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**No specific objectives are set beyond**
**remaining solvent and able to meet**
**known commitments.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Not Applicable**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Not applicable**| 2 |||| |---|---|---| |Other||**Not applicable**| |**Financial Review**||| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The Trust is solvent and in a good**
**position to continue its work in 2026.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**A prudent working balance of cash is**
**held in order to maintain and repair the**
**properties owned by the charity.**
**Trustees are aware that many unforeseen**
**costs can occur given the age of the**
**properties.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**The Trust has no specific reserves policy.**
**The total cash at bank on 31st December**
**2025 was £158,138. This is considered a**
**sensible amount given known future**
**demands.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**There are no concerns about the Trust**
**continuing as a going concern.**| ## **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|**Net income from rented properties.**
**Some financial investments.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Not applicable**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Loss of tenants.**
**Cost of maintaining properties.**| |Other||**Not applicable**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** Description of charity’s trusts: 3 |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust deed.**| |---|---|---| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Incorporated charitable trust.**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**As described in the Conveyance of 2nd**
**October 1879, the Trust Deed of 16th**
**February 1880 and the Scheme of 7th**
**April 1976.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Not applicable**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Not applicable**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**Not applicable**| |Other||**Not applicable**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** > Charity name **St. Simon’s Mission Hall and Coffee Tavern Trust** Other name the charity uses **Not applicable.** > Registered charity number **274974** Charity’s principal address **Flat 19 Charminster 46 Craneswater Park SOUTHSEA Hampshire PO4 0NU** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
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20|Mr. J. Bazley||07/07/2025-31/12/2025|| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Miss. M. Burke|Treasurer||| ||Mr. P. Gower|||| ||Mrs. P Griffiths|Chair||| ||Mr. P. Jolly|||| ||Mr. M. Taylor|||| ||Mr. M. Walters|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Not applicable.** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**Not applicable.**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| 5 ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **Not applicable.** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **Not applicable.** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for **Not applicable.** 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**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |||**Not applicable.**| |||| |||| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **Not applicable** ## **Other optional information** ## **Not applicable** 6 ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above (trustee meeting held 13[th] July 2026).** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|_P Griffiths_|| |---|---|---| ||Patricia Griffiths|| ||
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