## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From Period start date 1.1.2025 To Period end date 31.12.2025**
**Charity name: Slovenian & Yugoslavian Roman Catholic Chaplaincy, Slovenian Catholic Mission**
## **Charity registration number: 276480**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|**Charitable purposes which advance the Ro-**
**man Catholic religion as the trustees shall**
**from time to time include other activities**
**they think fit and in particular in connection**
**with persons of Yugoslavian decent.**|
|Summary of the main ac-
tivities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or ser-
vices identified in the ac-
counts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|-
**Provides pastoral care for Yugosla-**
**vian decent in the UK.**
-
**Provides an opportunity to worship in**
**Slovenian language.**
-
**Provides an opportunity to culturally**
**educate themselves in Slovenian lan-**
**guage.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guid-
ance issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have been carrying out monthly re-**
**ligious services and other activities where**
**participants could educate themselves reli-**
**giously and culturally and being given pas-**
**toral or social support in Slovenian lan-**
**guage. Other Yugoslavian decent people or**
**even wider communities are always wel-**
**come in search of a pastoral/ religious care**
**and support.**|
## **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 ben-
eficiaries and any wider ben-
efits to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|-
**Religious services – Sunday mass**
-
**Pastoral care in terms of offering social**
**support for the people that needed spir-**
**itual guidance or social environment**
**that feels closer to their homeland.**
-
**Pastoral care in terms of offering ac-**
**commodation for the people that**
**couldn’t afford it elsewhere.**
-
**Educational support for people that**
**would like their children or for them-**
**selves to learn Slovenian language but**
**cannot attend school or courses else-**
**where that are chargeable.**||
|---|---|---|---|
## **Financial Review**
|**inancial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s finan-
cial position at the end of the
period|Para 1.21|**All funds raised by the charity are de-**
**tailed in the accounts at the end of this**
**report. The accounts provide a summary**
**of financial activity over the last year.**
**Funds are used to achieve the objectives**
**summarised above and to develop the**
**charity for the benefit of the community**
**it serves.**
**Funds raised do not profit the Trustees**
**who form the organisation’s manage-**
**ment committee.**
**No portion is paid or transferred directly**
**or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus**
**or otherwise by way of profit to the char-**
**ity’s Trustees.**|
|Statement explaining the pol-
icy for holding reserves stat-
ing why they are held|Para 1.22|**Any surplus funds at the end of the year**
**are held for the benefit of the charity**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**|
|How is the charity consti-
tuted?
(e.g unincorporated associa-
tion, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any con-|Para 1.25|**Appointed by the Committee**|
stitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Slovenian & Yugoslavian Roman Catholic Chaplaincy|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|Slovenian Catholic Mission|
|Registered charity number|276480|
|Charity’s principal address|62 Offley Road
SW9 0LS
London|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if**
**any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to ap-**
**point trustee (if**
**any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Valentina Osolnik||Whole year|Other three
trustees|
||Dr. Marko Istenic||Whole year|Other three
trustees|
||Revd. David Taljat||Whole year|Other three
trustees|
||Peter Susnik||27.2.2026 - to present
date|Other three
trustees|
||||||
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
|---|---|---|
|**Revd. David Taljat**|||
|**Dr. Marko Istenic**|||
|**Valentina Osolnik**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Peter Susnik**|**27.2.2027 to present date**||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|**Property at the 62 Offley Road, SW9 0LS, London**|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|**House at the 62 Offley Road, SW9 0LS which has to be**
**maintained by the appointed trustees.**|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the char-
ity’s own assets|**Declaration from 13.12.1988 which states that in case**
**the house at 62 Offley Road, SW9 0LS ceases to serve**
**the purpose defined by the Trust Deed, the ownership**
**of the property passes to the Archdiocese of Ljubljana,**
**Slovenia.**|
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Dr. Marko Istenic **Full name(s)** Valentina Osolnik **Position (eg Sec-** Trustee Trustee **retary, Chair, etc) Date** 15th April 2026
|**Slovenian Catholic Chaplaincy**||**276480**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|**1/1/2025**
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|**12/31/2025**||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**
Donations - Legacy
**-**
Donations - Refurbishments
**-**
Charitable Activities
**40,268**
Other Income
**50**
**40,317**
**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_ 40,317**
**A3 Payments**
Accommodation Costs
**9,197**
Refurbishment/BuildingRepairs
**2,873**
AccountancyCosts
**150**
Admin Costs
**240**
Management Costs
**12,800**
Phone/Broadband
**815**
Utitlities
**5,298**
Travel Costs
**-**
Leisure & Events
**4,077**
**_Sub total_ 35,450**
**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_ 35,450**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 4,867**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**71**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 4,938**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**40,268**
**50**
**40,317**
**40,317**
**9,197**
**2,873**
**150**
**240**
**12,800**
**815**
**5,298**
**-**
**4,077**
**35,450**
**35,450**
**4,867**
**71**
**4,938**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**40,268**|**61,055**|
||||**50**|**466**|
||||||
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||**40,317**|**61,521**|
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||||**40,317**|**61,521**|
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||||**9,197**|**13,784**|
||||**2,873**|**16,794**|
||||**150**|**425**|
||||**240**|**375**|
||||**12,800**|**27,259**|
||||**815**|**792**|
||||**5,298**|**-**|
||||**-**|**130**|
||||**4,077**|**6,535**|
||||**35,450**|**66,094**|
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||||**35,450**|**66,094**|
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||||**4,867**|**- 4,573**|
|||||**-**|
||||**71**|**4,644**|
||||**4,938**|**71**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Transferwise Account
**Details**
Transferwise (Euro Account)
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,938**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
-
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
VALENTINA OSOLNIK
DR MARKO ISTENIC
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
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**Endowment**
**funds**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||VALENTINA OSOLNIK||
|||DR MARKO ISTENIC||
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of Slovenian & Yugoslavian Roman Catholic Chaplaincy On accounts for the year** 31[st] December 2025 **Charity no** 276480 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-4
**Charity no** 276480 **(if any)** (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 **31/12/2025**
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 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 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.
**Date:** 11/03/2026 **Signed: Name:** BEVERLEY CAMPBELL **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 15 Fairthorn Road Charlton London, SE7 7RL
1
**October 2018**
**IER**