**Charity no: 280455**
## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021**
## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## CONTENTS
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Legal and administrative information|**1**|
|Trustees' report|**2-3**|
|Independent auditors' report|**4-5**|
|Statement of financial activities|**6**|
|Balance sheet|**7**|
|Notes to the financial statements|**8-12**|
## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
|**Charity number**|280455|
|---|---|
|**Date of trust**|10 June 1980|
|**Trustees**|Mrs Jane Wells|
||Mrs Cathy Ingram|
||Ms Francesca Unsworth|
|**Registered Office**|9 Bonhill Street|
||London|
||EC2A 4DJ|
|**Solicitors**|Heydons|
||23 Bentink Street|
||London|
||W1U 2EZ|
|**Auditors**|Begbies Chartered Accountants|
||9 Bonhill Street|
||London|
||EC2A 4DJ|
|**Investment managers**|Nedbank Private Wealth|
||Millenium Bridge House|
||2 Lambeth Hill|
||London|
||EC4V 4GG|
||UBS Financial Services|
||1285 Ave of Americas|
||15th, 16th, 17th, 18th & 20th Floors|
||New York|
||NY 10019|
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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021
## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
The trustees present their annual report for the year ended 5th April 2021
## **Structure, governance and management**
The trust was created by a deed dated 10 June 1980 as a trust exclusively for charitable purposes, 'charitable' meaning charitable according to UK law. The trust was registered with the Charity Commission on 22 September 1980, charity registration no. 280455. Trustees are appointed in accordance with the deed.
The trustees believe that the major risk to which the charity is exposed is volatility in the performance of its listed investments. The trustees manage this risk by holding diversified portfolios, denominated in both sterling and US dollars, and managed by experienced brokers
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit
## **Objectives and activities**
The trust makes grants to charitable organisations that respond to areas of concern of which the trustees have particular knowledge. In the UK the main concerns are in the areas of health, education and social justice. In the USA the main areas are in education, community arts projects and raising awareness of crimes against humanity
The trustees personally make contact with beneficiary projects. They monitor and evaluate these projects not only by requiring sight of audited accounts and cash flows but also through their presence, and their discussions with project staff and clients. All available grants are made by the trustees through their personal involvement. They do not seek unsolicited applications for grants and, without paid staff, are unable to respond to such applications
## **Acheivements and performance**
17 donations were paid during the financial year, 10 in the USA and 7 in UK. These grants are itemised in note 10
## **Financial review and reserves policy**
The income of the trust for the year decreased from £67k to £50k. Income has historically varied year on year, largely depending on the make up of the investment portfolio. Reduced income is consistent with reduced yields in the market more generally since the onset of the coronavirus crisis.
The market value of the investments held by the trust increased during the year decreased from £2.019m to £2.699m, which was principally a result of investment performance and the trust holding lower cash reserves at the year end. Unrealised gains arising as a result of investment revaluation were £668,252 (2020 losses £203,744) while realised gains on disposal were £49,192 (2020 losses £23,244). The trustees believe these gains reflect a striking recovery in the markets more generally, following the losses associated with the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020. In contrast to investment gains, there was a foreign exchange loss of £114,980 (2020 gain £79,630) on translation of the trustees' US investments. The trustees are satisfied with the investment strategy and believe that the charity has sufficient reserves to continue to fund the current grant making policy for the forseeable future
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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021
## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
## **Statement of trustees' responsibilities**
Law applicable to charities in England and Wales require the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the trust's financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
-select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
-make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
-have due regard to any guidance published by the Charity Commission , in particular relatin to guidance on public benefit
-state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
The trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the trust and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the trust and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities
## **`12/12/2021`**
This report was approved by the trustees on ………………………………………………….. and signed on it's behalf by
**Jane Wells Trustee**
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## **INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES**
## **OF THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## **Opinion**
We have audited the financial statements of The Amberstone Trust for the year ended 5th April 2021 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102: The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion the financial statements
- give a true and fair view of the state of the Charity’s affairs as at 5th April 2021 and of its income and expenditure
- for the year then ended;
- have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice;
- have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
## **Basis for opinion**
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the Charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and the provisions available for small entities, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
## **Conclusions relating to going concern**
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the ISAs (UK) require us to report to you where:
- the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is not
- appropriate; or
• the trustees have not disclosed in the financial statements any identified material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt about the Charity’s ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting for a period of at least twelve months from the date when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
## **Other information**
The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the
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## **INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES**
## **OF THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard
## **Matters on which we are required to report by exception**
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the Charity and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Trustees’ Annual Report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities Act 2011 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
- sufficient accounting records have not been kept;
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- we have not obtained all the information and explanations necessary for the purposes of our audit.
## **Responsibilities of the trustees**
As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement (set out on page 4), the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as they determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the Charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
## **Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statement**
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion.
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## **INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES**
## **OF THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material mistatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. A summary of these procedures, together with a review of the extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below:
- Agreement of the financial statement disclosure to the underlying supporting documentation;
- Enquiries and confirmation of the trustees as to their identification of any non-compliance with laws or regulations,
- or any actual or potential claims;
- Review of minutes of any board meetings throughout the period;
- Incorporating unpredictability into the nature, timing and extent of testing;
- Evaluation of the selection and application of the accounting policies chosen by the charity
- In relation to the risk of management override of controls, by undertaking procedures to review journal entries and
- evaluating whether there was any evidence of bias that represented a risk of material mistatement due to fraud; and
● Assessing the susceptibility of the charity's financial statements to material mistatement, including how fraud might occur, by considering the key risks impacting the financial statements, and designing our audit procedures to respond to these risks
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: [www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities]. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
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## **INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES**
## **OF THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## **Use of our report**
This report is made solely to the Charityʼs trustees, as a body, in accordance with section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and the regulations made under section 154 of that Act. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Charityʼs trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditorʼs report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Charityʼs trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
**Robert Maples ACA (Senior statutory auditor)** For and on behalf of Begbies Chartered Accountants Statutory Auditors and Chartered Accountants
9 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4DJ
**`05/02/2022`** Date **…………………………………………………………**
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## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
## FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021
|**Income from:**
Investments
Interest
**Total income**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
Investment management fees
Charitable activites
Grants payable
Other expenditure
Professional fees
Other costs
**Total expenditure**
**Currency exchange gains / (losses)**
**Exchange gain/(loss) on translation of investments**
**Gain / (loss) on investment revaluation**
**Net income / (expenditure)**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**fund**
**2021**
**£**
49,755
97
49,852
26,509
188,459
10,200
120
198,779
(24,797)
(114,980)
717,444
402,231
2,398,696
**2,800,927**|_Unrestricted_
_fund_
_2020_
_£_
66,680
884|
|---|---|---|
|||67,564|
|||27,803
212,313
8,400
56|
|||220,769|
|||15,282
79,630
(226,988)|
|||(313,084)
2,711,780|
|||**2,398,696**|
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## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 5TH APRIL 2021
|**Fixed assets**
Investments
**Current assets**
Cash at bank
**Creditors: falling due within one year**
**Net current assets**
Net assets
**Funds**
Unrestricted funds
The financial statements were approved by the trustees
**Jane Wells**
**Trustee**|**£**
**£**
_£_
_£_
2,699,027
2,019,829
123,600
398,778
123,600
398,778
(21,700)
(19,911)
101,900
378,867
2,800,927
2,398,696
2,800,927
2,398,696
on …………………………………………………
**2021**
_2020_
**`12/12/2021`**|**£**
**£**
_£_
_£_
2,699,027
2,019,829
123,600
398,778
123,600
398,778
(21,700)
(19,911)
101,900
378,867
2,800,927
2,398,696
2,800,927
2,398,696
on …………………………………………………
**2021**
_2020_
**`12/12/2021`**|
|---|---|---|
||on ……………||
|||2,398,696|
|||2,398,696|
||||
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## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **1.1 Accounting convention**
The financial statements are prepared under the historic cost convention, except that investments held as fixed assets are carried at market value. In preparing these accounts the charity has followed best practice as set out in the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Pracitce applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014, the Charities Act 2011 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice
The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis as the trustees believe the charity's substantial reserves means that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern
The financial statements are prepared in sterling and rounded to the nearest £
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102
## **Cash flow**
The fund qualifies as a small charity under the terms of the Charities Act 2011. As a consequence it is exempt from the requirement to publish a cash flow statement
## **1.2 Income**
Income from listed investments is accounted for by reference to the date on which distributions are receivable. Interest is accounted for on an accruals basis
## **1.3**
## **Expenditure**
Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis. Grants are accounted for when an undertaking to pay the grant has been entered into during the financial year. General policy is that grants are paid as soon as possible after they are unconditionally committed to, and there are no accruals for grant commitments at the year end
## **1.4 Investments**
Investments are included in the accounts at market value at the end of the financial year. Realised and unrealised gains and losses are credited or debited to the statement of financial activities in the year in which they arise.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021
## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## **1.5 Foreign currencies**
Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange prevailing at the accounting date. Transactions in foreign currencies are recorded at the average exchange rate for the year. All differences are taken to the SOFA.
## **1.6**
## **Financial instruments**
Aside from the accounting policy in respect of listed investments (see 1.4 above), the only financial instruments typically held by the charity are cash at bank or other basic financial instruments such as debtors and creditors receivable or payable in less than one year, which are carried at transaction price subject to provision for impairment
## **2 Taxation**
The charity is a registered charity under the Charities Act 2011 and is not subject to taxation
## **3**
## **Grants payable**
|**Grants payable**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**2021**|||**_2020_**||
||**No**||**£**|**_No_**||_£_|
|UK||7|68,500||_3_|_50,000_|
|USA||10|119,959||_14_|_162,313_|
||||188,459|||_212,313_|
Details of grants paid during the year are listed in note 10
## **4**
## **Other charitable expenditure**
|Accountancy fees
Audit fees|**2021**
**_2020_**
**£**
**_£_**
4,500
4,200
4,500
4,200
9,000
8,400|
|---|---|
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**THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
## FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021
|**5**
**Gains / (losses) on investments**
**2021**
**£**
Disposal proceeds
426,974
Original purchase cost
(328,758)
Unrealised gains to date
(49,024)
Realised gains/(losses) for year
49,192
Net gains/(losses) on revaluation at 5th April 2021
668,252
Gains / (losses) on investments
717,444
Unrealised currency exchange gains / (losses)
(114,980)
602,464
**6**
**Investments**
**2021**
**£**
Market value at 6th April 2020
2,019,829
Additions at cost
503,709
Disposals at carrying value
(377,782)
Unrealised currency exchange gains/losses
(114,980)
Net gains/(losses) on revaluation at 5th April 2021
668,252
Market value at 5th April 2021
2,699,028
Historic cost at 5th April 2021
1,921,673
UK investments
1,213,082
US investments
1,485,945
2,699,027
All of the above investments are held on a recognised stock exchange.
The following investments represent more than 5% of the portfolio at market value:|**_2020_**
**_£_**
833,482
(719,051)
(137,675)|
|---|---|
||(23,244)
(203,744)|
||(226,988)
79,630|
||(147,358)|
||_2020_
_£_
2,624,347
376,322
(856,726)
79,630
(203,744)|
||2,019,829|
||1,856,794|
||1,140,305
879,524|
||2,019,829|
|||
|The Growth Fund of America
Wisdomtree US Growth Fund
Invesco QQQ Trust
Ishare Trust Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
Ishare Trust Core S&P500|**2021**
_2020_
247,665
_156,176_
144,226
104,011
179,383
149,351
150423
77579
151,162
10,411
**872,859**
**497,528**|
|---|---|
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## **THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
## FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021
## **7 Reconciliation in movements in unrealised gains**
**8**
|**Reconciliation in movements in unrealised gains**|||
|---|---|---|
|Unrealised gains/(losses) at 6th April 2020
Unrealised gains/(losses) in respect of disposals
Unrealised gains/(losses) on foreign exchange
Net gains on revaluation at 5th April 2021
**Unrealised gains/(losses) at 5th April 2021**
**Creditors: amount falling due within one year**
Accrued professional fees|**2021**
**£**
163,034
(49,024)
(4,908)
668,252
777,354
**2021**
**£**
21,700
21,700|_2020_
_£_
488,867
(137,675)
15,586
(203,744)|
|||163,034|
|||_2020_
_£_
19,911|
|||_19,911_|
**9 Grant commitments**
All grants which the charity has unconditionally committed to were paid during the year. As a result no provision is carried in the accounts as at 5th April 2021 (2020 £nil)
## **10 Grants payable**
Grants made to institutions were as follows:
|**Recipient**
**Purpose of grant**
Three Generations
Raising awareness of crimes against humanity
The Tibet Fund
Preserve cultural identity of Tibetan people
United B Association
S A M
The Merwin Conservancy
Inspiring innovation in the arts
Living Archives
Four Way Books
Non-profit literary organisation
Mozart to Maputo
Children's Programme in Mozambique
Caris Islington
Bereavement counselling
Highbury Vale Blackstock
Community centre
Museum of Homelessness
Social justice museum
Park Theatre
London theatre
BAATN
Black, African and Asian Therapy Network
Matsena Performance TheatreContemporary Dance Project|**2021**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
107,587
115,815
768
10,245
-
788
-
3,941
3,842
3,941
-
19,703
7,761
7,881
5,000
5,000
20,000
20,000
25,000
25,000
1,000
-
5,000
-
10,000
-
2,500
-|
|---|---|
||188,458
212,314|
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**THE ST JAMES'S TRUST**
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5TH APRIL 2021
## **11 Related party transactions**
During the year donations totalling £107,587 (2020: £115,815) were made to 3 Generations. Jane Wells is the founder and Executive Director of this organisation
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