# **VWV Charitable Trust Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements** **For the period 6 April 2024 to 5 April 2025** **Charity Registration Number 298217** **Narrow Quay House, Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA** ## **VWV Charitable Trust** ||| |---|---| |**Contents for the Financial Statements**|**Page**| |Charity Information|3| |Trustee's Annual Report|4| |Statement of Financial Activities|6| |Balance Sheet|7| |Notes to the Financial Statements|8| |Independent Examiner's Report|10| 2 Veale Wasbrough Vizards ## **VWV Charitable Trust** ## **Charity information as at 5 April 2025** ## **Trustees:** Jos Moule (Chair) Katie Hickman Laura Seaman Kathryn Halliday Simon Linnitt **Address:** Narrow Quay House, Narrow Quay Bristol BS1 4QA **Charity Number:** 298217 3 Veale Wasbrough Vizards ## **VWV Charitable Trust** ## **Trustees' Annual Report** ## **For the period 6 April 2024 to 5 April 2025** The trustees present their annual report and financial statements of the charity for the period from 6 April 2024 to 5 April 2025 and confirm they comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011, the trust deed and the Charities SORP. ## 1 **Structure, Governance and Management** - 1.1 Type of Governing Document: Trust Deed dated 27 November 1987 as varied from time to time (most recently by a Deed of Variation dated 1 August 2017) - 1.2 - Type of Charity: Unincorporated Charity - 1.3 Trustee selection methods: Trustees are appointed by the LLP to be a Trustee of the Trust and it has a Trustee representing each office location. - 1.4 The Trustees meet quarterly to consider any application received from staff and external applications as well as any strategic donations they wish to make. They are supported by Sarah Outram and Charlotte Hudd. - 1.5 - The charity has policies in place which are relevant to its grant making function. - 1.6 All Trustees and administrators give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits. - 2 **Objects and Activities** - 2.1 The VWV Charitable Trust is a grant making charity which supports appeals for funding from charities in and around areas local to the VWV offices. - 2.2 The Trustees consider that the activities which are summarised below, provide a benefit both to VWV and to the wider community: - 2.2.1 Support of the VWV Charity of the Year. In the period April 2024 to April 2025, the firm had 4 Charities of the Year, one for each main office. - 2.2.2 The overarching theme was 'Helping Others to Live Well'. Each of VWV's main office's had appointed their own charity for a period of 2 years from May 2024 and this was the first year of support: - (a) Bristol - Foodcycle - (b) London - Providence Row - (c) Watford - Watford New Hope Trust - (d) Birmingham - Gilgal There was a range of initiatives carried out by each office including sporting events, bake sales, raffles and Christmas events. The Charity contributed towards each offices' efforts. 4 Veale Wasbrough Vizards - 2.2.3 Support of staff related fundraising. This has included staff who have run half marathons; swimming the equivalent distance of the English Channel; taken part in the Legal Walk (in Birmingham and London). - 2.2.4 The Charitable Trust has also made donations to charities where there are direct connections with members of staff including where staff volunteer for a charity. - 2.2.5 Grants to charities local to VWV offices who have contacted the charity as well as support to previous charities of the year. This report was approved by the Board of Trustees and signed by Jos Moule, Chair 5 Veale Wasbrough Vizards ## VWV CHARITABLE TRUST STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (Including Income and Expenditure Account) YEAR ENDED 05 APRIL 2025 |Note
INCOME
Income from generated funds
2
TOTAL INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS
EXPENDITURE
Expenditure on charitable activities
3
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
Cash at bank as at 06 April 2024
Cash at bank as at 05 April 2025
5|Unrestricted
Funds
£
60,415
60,415
66,996
66,996
6,581
-
11,657
28,451|Total Funds
2025
£
60,415
60,415
66,996
66,996
6,581
-
11,657
28,451|Total Funds
2024
£
44,625
44,625
41,710
41,710
2,915
32,972
11,657| |---|---|---|---| The charity has no recognised gains or losses other than the results for the year as set out above. All of the activities of the charity are classed as continuing. 7 6 ## VWV CHARITABLE TRUST ## BALANCE SHEET YEAR ENDED 05 APRIL 2025 **----- Start of picture text -----**
2025 2024
£ £
ASSETS
Cash at bank and in hand 28,451 11,657
Other monetary assets:
Accrued income - 23,375
28,451 35,032
LIABILITIES
Accruals - 945 - 945
Net current assets 27,506 34,087
NET ASSETS: 27,506 34,087
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These financial statements were approved by the directors and authorised for issue on ………………………………2 February 2026 and are signed on their behalf by: ………………………………………………………. Chair of Trustees Charity Registration Number: 298217 8 7 ## VWV CHARITABLE TRUST ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 05 APRIL 2025 ## 1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES ## Accounting convention The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (FRS 102 SORP) issued in July 2014, and applicable UK Accounting Standards and the Charities Act 2011. ## Funds structure Unrestricted income funds comprise those funds which the trustees are free to use for any purpose in furtherance of the charitable objects. Unrestricted funds include designated funds where the trustees, at their discretion, have set aside resources for a specific purpose. Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by the donor or the terms of a specific appeal. ## Income All income is recognised once the charity has entitlement to the resources, it is certain that the resources will be received and the monetary value of income can be measured with sufficient reliability. Income from donations is included when these are receivable, except as follows: - When the donors specify that the donations given to the charity must be used in future accounting periods. - When donors impose conditions which have to be fulfilled before the charity becomes entitled to use such income, the income is deferred until the preconditions have been met. Income from grants, where there are performance or service deliverables required by the terms of the grant, are accounted for as the charity earns the right to payment through its performance. ## Expenditure Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to the expenditure. All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that agree all costs related to the category. Support costs have been allocated 100% towards the charitable activities of the charity. ## Charitable activities Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both the direct pay and non-pay costs and support costs relating to those activities. ## Going concern After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue its operations for the foreseeable future and therefore they have continued to adopt the going concern basis when preparing the financial statements. ## Governance costs Governance cost include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the charity, and include its independent examination fees and costs linked to the strategic management of the charity including trustee expenses. ## Tangible fixed assets and depreciation Depreciation has been provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value of each asset, over its expected useful life. The rates used are 10% straight line balance on freehold property and improvements and 20% straight line on other fixed assets. 9 8 ## VWV CHARITABLE TRUST ## NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 05 APRIL 2025 ## 2 ANALYSIS OF RECEIPTS |Donations from Veale Wasbrough Vizards
Reclaimed from Gift Aid 2022/23 and 2023/24|Unrestricted
Funds
£
45,000
15,415
60,415|Total Funds
2025
£
45,000
15,415
60,415|Total Funds
2024
£
44,625
-
44,625| |---|---|---|---| ## 3 ANALYSIS OF PAYMENTS |Charitable grants and donations
Bank fees
Professional fees|Unrestricted
Funds
£
65,871
180
945
66,996|Total Funds
2025
£
65,871
180
945
66,996|Total Funds
2024
£
40,585
180
945
41,710| |---|---|---|---| ## 4 TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION, BENEFITS AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS There was no trustees' remuneration or other benefits paid for the year ended 05 April 2025. Trustees K Halliday, J Moule and L Seaman donated to charities on behalf of VWV Charitable Trust and these were them reimbursed in full; K Halliday donated £1,000 (2024: £1,200), J Moule donated £500 (2024: £Nil) and L Seaman donated £750 (2024: £500) totalling £2,250 (2024: £1,700). ## 5 FUNDS ## Unrestricted funds: The funds of the charity include unrestricted funds comprising of the above balances of income received (£45,000) in the general furtherance of the charity's objects. General fund (£28,451): General fund represents 'free reserves' available for spending on the furtherance of the charity's objects. The total actual funds introduced into the general fund during the financial year were £83,790 and the total actual funds paid out were £66,996; the funds received during the year, however, include a grant from VWV for £23,375 which was accounted for in the previous year's accounts and these have therefore not been included in note 2. 10 9 10