## **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)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
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|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
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|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)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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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**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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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**|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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**||||
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## – 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**||
|---|---|---|
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|**N/A**|||
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## **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
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Accounts|Receipt and Payment
Accounts|Receipt and Payment
Accounts|Receipt and Payment
Accounts|Receipt and Payment
Accounts|Receipt and Payment
Accounts|
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||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
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||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|||||||||
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||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
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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
1
**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** .
2
**October 2018**
**IER**