2025-04-05-accounts - Denman Charitable Trust

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 06/04/24 Period start date To 05/04/25 Period end date

Charity name: DENMAN CHARITABLE TRUST

Charity registration number: 326532

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	To apply funds for charitable purposes at the absolute discretion of the Trustees
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	Grants are made to individual charities
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit

Additional information (optional)

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

	SORP reference
	Para 1.38
Policy on grant making
	Para 1.38
Policy on social investment
including program related
investment
	Para 1.38
Contribution made by
volunteers
Other

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 beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	*This year we supported 48 charities,* *of which nearly all were small local* *charities. Our total donations* *amounted to £97,840. The majority of* *grants were between £1,000 and* *£5,000. The only larger grant was a* *donation of £10,000 to Life Cycle for* *their work at HMP Bristol.* *This year we moved the remaining* *investment funds held with an* *investment manager into our existing* *charitable investment trusts.* *The charity incurs no expenses* *because the Trustees charge no* *expenses and donate all costs relating* *to the operation of the charity.* *It has always been an important aim* *for us to pump prime new charitable* *initiatives and we are proud to have* *been early funders of a number of* *charities which have become well* *established. Presently there appears* *to be a reluctance for new charities to* *be formed and we received no* *applications meeting our pump* *priming criteria during the year.* *Arnold Denman, Chairman*

Additional information (optional)

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41

Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41
Other

Financial Review

Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	Stable as strong capital base providing investment income with no running costs.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	Since we have no running costs there is no requirement to hold reserves. However it is our current aim to maintain the capital in the Trust in line with inflation.
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	N/A
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	N/A
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	N/A
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23	N/A

Additional information (optional)

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1.46
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46
Other

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 constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)	Para 1.25	Trust
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	Appointment by existing Trustees

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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees	Para 1.51
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51
Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Denman Charitable Trust
Other name the charity uses	N/A
Registered charity number	326532
Charity’s principal address	PO Box 1881 Bristol BS37 6WS

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Mr A.G. Denman	Chairman
	Mrs D.M. Denman
	Mrs S.E. Blatchford
	Mrs J.L. Denman
	Mr M.D. Lee

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name

N/A

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name	Dates acted if not for whole year

N/A

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets held in this capacity N/A

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the N/A assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects

Details of arrangements for safe custody and N/A segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

Additional information (optional)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of	Name	Address
adviser

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

Other optional information

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date

Receipt and Payment Accounts

				Receipt and Payment Accounts	Receipt and Payment Accounts	Receipt and Payment Accounts	Receipt and Payment Accounts	Receipt and Payment Accounts
	Charity name Charity number (if any) For the period from (start date)			DENMAN CHARITABLE TRUST 326532 4/6/2024 to (end date) 4/5/2025 ~~Po~~ ~~[	a~~ ~~i~~
	Section A	Receipts and payments	Receipts and payments
			Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds	Endowment funds	Total funds	Last year
			to the nearest		to the nearest	to the nearest	to the nearest	to the nearest
			£		£	£	£	£
	A1 Receipts

	INVESTMENT INCOME		82,580		0	0	82,580	85,335
	DONATIONS		0		0	0	0	0
			0		0	0	0	0
			0		0	0	0	0
			0		0	0	0	0
	Sub total		82,580		0	0	82,580	85,335
A2 Asset and investment sales etc 2,080,804 0 0 2,080,804 0 Total receipts 2,163,384 0 ### 0 2,163,384 85,335 ~~iaESE~~
	A3 Payments
			0		0	0	0	0
	DONATIONS TO CHARITIES		97,840		0	0	97,840	84,382
	SUPPORT COSTS		50		0	0	50	0
			0		0	0	0	0
			0		0	0	0	0
			0		0	0	0	0
			0		0	0	0	0
			0		0	0	0	0
			0		0	0	0	0
	Sub total		97,890		0	0	97,890	84,382
	A4 Asset and investment purchases etc		2,070,000		0	0	2,070,000	1,000,000
	Total payments		2,167,890		0	0	2,167,890	1,084,382
	Net of receipts/(payments)		-4,506		0	0	-4,506	-999,047
	A5 Transfers between funds		0		0	0	0	0
	A6 Cash funds last year end		13,237		0	0	13,237	1,012,283
	Cash funds this year end		8,731		0	0	8,731	13,237

Section B	Statement of assets and liabilities a	t the end of the period	t the end of the period
B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Details Cater Allen Private Bank Details Details Investment Portfolio with Details Details Signature Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Hargreaves Lansdown, Quilter Cheviot, Schroders and CCLA	Unrestricted funds to nearest £	Restricted funds to nearest £	Endowment funds to nearest £
		8,731	0	0
		0	0	0
		8,731	0	0
		OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £	OK Restricted funds to nearest £	OK Endowment funds to nearest £
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		Print	Name	Date of approval
		Mrs J L Denman
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name Denman Charitable Trust members of On accounts for the year 5 April 2025 Charity no 326532 ended (if any) Set out on pages Attached (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 05/04/2025 .

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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement 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: 20/01/2026 Signed: Name: Matthew Haskell ACA ~~Ps~~ Relevant professional ICAEW member number 4060842 qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 10 Temple Back Bristol BS1 6FL

October 2018

IER

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of None. any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

IER