VIBRATED CORN TRUST
REPORT AND ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
Registered number: 276340
VIBRATED CORN TRUST
AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
| Contents | Page |
|---|---|
| Legal and Administrative information | 3 |
| Trustees’ Annual report | 4-6 |
| Statement of Financial Activities | 7 |
| Balance sheet | 8 |
| Notes to the Financial Statements | 9 |
| Independent Examiner’s Report | 10 |
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VIBRATED CORN TRUST
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
Legal and Administrative Information
Charity Registration Number 276340 Trustees: Mrs M.Roberts Mr J.V.F.Roberts Principal Address: Long Barton, Longdown Road, Guildford, Surrey. GU4 8PP Bankers: HSBC 141 High Street, Beckenham, Kent. BR3 1BX Independent examiner: Mr C Whiffin 2 Yellowcress Drive Bisley GU24 9HD
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VIBRATED CORN TRUST
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
Trustees Annual report
The Trustees submit their report and the financial statements of the Vibrated Corn Trust for the year ended 31 March 2025.
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
The Trust was established by deed on 21 April 1978. The deed details that the main purpose of the Trust is to support charitable objects including Christian activities, education and the relief of the poor.
The Trustees who served during the year are set out in the Legal & Administrative information section. All trustees give their time voluntarily and received no remuneration or other benefits.
The principal activity of the Trust during the year was to give financial support to organisations and individuals involved in Christian and educational related activities, who are generally known to the Trustees and support of the homeless.
The Trust will procure appropriate induction and training of Trustees where a Trustee requests such provision.
There are no restricted funds or activities of the Trust. The Trust is dependent on the support given by a limited number of individuals who take zero remuneration. No funds are raised from the public.
PURPOSE AND ACTIVITIES
The purpose of the trust is to make donations to individuals and organisations to help support education, teaching or the provision of subsistence needs. The trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit when planning the charities activities during the year.
The Trust made three large donations during the year. Firstly, to Guildford Cathedral to enable it to continue to broaden educational and other activities. Secondly, to the Anglican Communion fund which help Bishops across the Anglican Communion finance various projects and thirdly to Centrepoint, a charity to help homeless young people.
FINANCIAL REVIEW FOR THE YEAR
The results for the year produced a loss £7,880.61 (2024 – loss £20,083.99). During the year the trustees successfully applied and received a tax payment of £8,587.38 relating to prior year gift aid claims.
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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
RISK MANAGEMENT
The trustees actively seek to identify and review the major risks that the charity faces and confirm that they have established systems to manage those risks.
RESERVES
It is a policy of the trustees to maintain sufficient unrestricted reserves to provide the charity with a working balance and to meet any unforeseen requests for support. There are no restricted funds.
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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITY
The Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts for the Charity in accordance with the Charities Act 2011.
In the preparation of those accounts the Trustees are required to ensure that appropriate accounting policies are selected and then applied consistently, making judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
The trustees are responsible for ensuring that the charity keeps proper accounting records, which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity at any time and to enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Charities Act 2011. They also have responsibility for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf
M Roberts 26 Jan 2026
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2025
| 2025 | Note | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | ||
| Income | |||
| Covenants - Net | 24,000.00 | 1 |
24,000.00 |
| Bank Interest | 3,730.63 | 3,411.04 | |
| Donation-Gift Aid | 35,000.00 | 10,000.00 | |
| HMRC | 8,587.38 | 2 |
7,521.97 |
| __ | __ | ||
| 71,318.01 | 44,933.01 | ||
| __ | __ | ||
| Expenditure | |||
| Anglican Communion Fund | 10,000.00 | 10,000.00 | |
| Guildford Cathedral | 29,118.62 | 15,000.00 | |
| Smithton Church | 5,000.00 | 5,000.00 | |
| St Martin’s Church | 4,000.00 | 4,000.00 | |
| Centrepoint | 30,000.00 | 30,000.00 | |
| North Guildford Food bank | 1,000.00 | 1,000.00 | |
| Bank Charges | - | 17.00 | |
| ___ | __ | ||
| 79,118.62 | 65,017.00 | ||
| ___ | __ | ||
| Excess Expenditure over Income | (7,800.61) |
(20,083.99) | |
| ======== | ======== |
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BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2025
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Current Assets | ||
| Cash | ||
| - Current Account | 2,004.70 | 1,123.32 |
| - Deposit Account |
164,731.18 | 173,500.12 |
| - Investment Account | 8,757.79 | 8,670.84 |
| ___ | ___ | |
| 175,493.67 | 183,294.28 | |
| Current Liabilities | ||
| - Unpresented cheques | - | - |
| ___ | ___ | |
| NET ASSETS |
175,493.67 | 183,294.28 |
| ======== | ======== | |
| Accumulated Fund | ||
| Balance as at 1 April 2024 |
183,294.28 | 203,378.27 |
| Excess Expenditure over Income |
(7,800.61) |
(20,083.99) |
| ___ | ___ | |
| Balance as at 31 March 2025 | 175,493.67 | 183,294.28 |
| ======== | ======== | |
| Signed on behalf of the Trustees | ||
| _______Trustee | ||
| J.V.F.Roberts | ||
| 26 Jan 2026 | ||
| _______Trustee | ||
| M.Roberts | ||
| 26 Jan 2026 |
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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
1. Accounting Policies
- a) Income Recognition
The financial statements are prepared on a receipts and payments basis, in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice – Accounting and Reporting by Charities.
Covenants are stated at the actual amount received.
Donations are accounted for when received.
Refund of Taxation is brought to income in the year of receipt from the Inland Revenue.
Administration costs of the Trust are provided free to the Trust by the Trustees.
2. Taxation
During the year a refund of taxation of £8,587.38 was received.
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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF VIBRATED CORN TRUST
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Vibrated Corn Trust (the Trust) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner’s statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
______Independent Examiner
Mr C Whiffin
26 Jan 2026
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