|Report to:|Council as sole trustee|
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|Date:|20 November<br>2023|
|Title:|Trustee's<br>Annual<br>Report:<br>Mountfield<br>Pleasure<br>Ground Trust|
|Report of:|Chief Finance Officer|
|Purpose of Report:|To present the Annual<br>Report and Accounts ofthe Mountfield<br>Pleasure<br>Ground Trust to Council as sole trustee for approval.|
|Officer<br>recommendation(s):|(1) To approve the Annual<br>Report for the period<br>1 April 2022 to<br>31 March 2023as set out in Appendix<br>1,including<br>the Receipts|
||and Payments<br>Account.|
||(2) To authorise<br>the Chair ofthe meeting,<br>on completion<br>ofthe<br>Independent<br>Examination,<br>to sign the Annual<br>Report and<br>Receipts and Payment Account on the Trustee's<br>behalf.|
|Reasons for|The trustee is required<br>to approve<br>an Annual<br>Report and|
|recommendations:|Receipts and Payments<br>Account<br>in accordance<br>with Charity|
||accounting<br>and reporting<br>regulations.|
|Contact Officer:|Name: Parmjeet Jassal|
||Post Title:<br>Interim<br>Head of Financial<br>Planning|
||E-mail:Parrnjeet. Jassal@lewes-eastbourne.<br>gov.uk|
||Tel No. 07966645063|



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Appendix 1- Trustee's Annual Report 2022123

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|There is a clear distinction<br>between<br>the Council's<br>own decision-making<br>process (for|There is a clear distinction<br>between<br>the Council's<br>own decision-making<br>process (for|There is a clear distinction<br>between<br>the Council's<br>own decision-making<br>process (for|There is a clear distinction<br>between<br>the Council's<br>own decision-making<br>process (for|
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|example<br>in respect|ofassessing<br>and providing<br>financial<br>contributions<br>to the Trust||and|
|managing<br>the Council's corporate assets) and the Council's<br>role as Sole Trustee.|||This|
|is achieved<br>by having||a formal break at the end of Council meetings<br>before moving<br>on||
|to consider business||as Sole Trustee. Such business<br>includes the annual<br>approval|of|
|the Trustee's<br>Annual||Report and accounts.||
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|Summary ofobjects||The object ofthe Charity<br>shall be the provision<br>and||
|||maintenance<br>of land at Mountfield,<br>Dripping<br>Pan and Convent||
|||Field, for the benefit ofthe public generally<br>and especially|the|
|||inhabitants<br>ofthe District of Lewes<br>in the County of East||
|||Sussex.||
|Summary ofthe main||The Trustee has complied<br>with its duty to have due regard|to|
|activities undertaken|for|the guidance<br>on public benefit published<br>by the Charity||
|the public benefitin||Commission<br>in exercising<br>its powers or duties. This area of land||
|relation<br>to these objects||was made accessible and available<br>to the public through<br>the||
|||Council's 'Parks and Open Spaces' service. The home ground||
|||of Lewes Football Club is at the Dripping<br>Pan.||








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