## The DATIC Trust
## **(Registered Charity Number 511222)**
## FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Legal information|2|
|Trustees' Annual Report|3 - 8|
|Independent examiner's report|9|
|Statement of financial activities|10|
|Balance sheet|11|
|Notes to the accounts|12 - 14|
The DATIC Trust Trustees' Annual Report
## **Trustees**
Jonathan Chamberlain Resigned 9 June 2025 Thomas Cudmore Treasurer Sally Hall Mike Thomas Resigned 9 June 2025 Mark Spence Ranee Townsend David Whitehorn Jonathan Norgate Appointed 9 June 2025 Simon Falshaw Appointed 9 June 2025
## **Registered Charity Number**
511222
## **Principal Address**
Galeed House 75 Nidd Road Sheffield S9 3BB
## **Bankers**
Royal Bank of Scotland 36 St Andrews Square Edinburgh EH2 2YB
CAF Bank Kingdom Bank 25 Kings Hill Avenue Media House Kings Hill Padge Street West Malling Nottingham ME19 4JQ NG9 2RS
## **Independent Examiner**
Craig Williamson White Rose Accounting for Charities The Ghyll Threapland Aspatria CA7 2EL
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The Datic Trust
## Trustees' report
The trustees are pleased to present their report and financial statements of the charity for year ended 31 December 2025.
## **Structure Governance & management**
The Charity is operated under the rules of its trust deed dated 15 January 1981 and most recently amended 22 April 2009.
Overall management of the charity is the responsibility of the trustees who are elected and co-opted under the terms of the trust deed. Day to day project activity is managed and carried out by volunteers and paid staff.
## **Objects of the charity**
The trust was established for the advancement of the Christian faith in the city of Sheffield and neighbourhood and in particular the promotion of the Christian faith amongst the residents in Darnall, Attercliffe and Tinsley who originate from countries outside of the United Kingdom.
## **Reserves Policy**
The DATIC Trust is a Registered Charity and has agreed that it needs to hold financial reserves in a realisable form so as to deal with possible unforeseen expenditure which is not specifically provided for in the annual budget. The charity’s policy is to hold unrestricted reserves equal to no less than six months’ unrestricted expenditure, based on the previous year’s expenditure, plus 5% to account for inflationary increases.
This includes sufficient to _(please note this list is not exhaustive)_ :
- Meet its contractual liabilities should the organisation have to close. This includes redundancy payments, amounts due to creditors and commitments under leases.
- Meet unexpected expenditure such as breakdown of essential equipment or facilities.
- Provide staff cover for illness, maternity leave and legal costs defending the charity's interests.
- Replace equipment as it wears out.
- Emergency repairs and maintenance to the building.
- Ensure that the DATIC Trust can continue to provide a stable and quality service to those who need its services.
- Provide working capital when funding is paid in arrears or paid late.
There is currently £199,487 held in unrestricted reserves.
However, the trustees feel that it is more prudent to calculate the reserves figure without the inclusion of fixed assets as they are largely represented by the value of the building that is owned by the DATIC Trust and in the event of the building being sold to raise cash, the charity would effectively no longer exist in its current form. So in effect, the true position is:
£ Unrestricted reserves balance = 199,487 Less unrestricted fixed assets = (140,000) Revised unrestricted reserves = 59,487
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## Trustees' report
## **Report of the DATIC Trust activities during 2025**
For the DATIC Trust, 2025 has been another year of significant change for the organisation. Galeed House in Darnall, Sheffield continues to be the main hub of activity for the Trust.
## **Trustees**
The trustees have met three times over the course of the year, in February, June and October.
Last year, our Chair of Trustees, Jonathan Chamberlain, gave a year’s notice of his intention to resign as a trustee in June 2025.
We have been truly blessed by Jonathan’s leadership as Chair of Trustees and his wisdom, humility and steadfast commitment have been a great encouragement to us all. We give thanks for his dedication and his heart for the extension of God’s work through Galeed House.
Additionally, another Trustee, Mike Thomas, stepped down in June 2025. Mike served as a Trustee since 2018 and continues to serve as a volunteer with the Homework Club and in maintenance of the premises. His service has made a real and lasting impact, for which we’re deeply grateful.
At the outset of the year, one of the issues we faced was the ongoing search for additional trustees due to planned retirements. We were hopeful that two new trustees would join us in 2025 and God has been kind in providing Simon Falshaw and Jonathan Norgate to serve as Trustees for Galeed House. They are very experienced in cross-cultural Christian work and we are grateful to have them on board.
Our Human Resources sub-committee functions well by organising annual appraisals for employees, recruitment and interviews for applicants, recommendations for salary increases, and ensuring compliance with employment regulations.
## **Volunteers**
Most of our activities continue to be run and/or supported by a team of dedicated volunteers. As of the end of 2025, we have 28 volunteers serving across our groups and activities, with 4 new volunteers starting during the year and 6 having stepped down over the course of the year.
An annual dinner in January provides opportunity for the trustees to express their appreciation to the volunteers and for those from various activity teams to have the chance to get to know one another. The sharing of stories from the various clubs/activity groups is always a highlight which provides a greater sense of cohesion between our teams as well as fresh motivation for continuing to serve the community in the coming year.
New volunteers who have joined us this year are a huge encouragement. They will often see what we are doing with fresh eyes and speak passionately about the work of the Trust.
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## Trustees' report
## **Employees**
The number of part-time employees has increased in recent years from an original two to five, with now a total of 52h/week. Their expertise in English teaching and finance benefits us though increases the overheads of the Trust. We are careful to ensure that those we employ share the ethos and values of the Trust. Each of them views their role as more than a job, rather as an opportunity to serve the community because of their Christian faith.
A new, long-term Administrator was appointed in the last quarter of 2024 and is fitting in well, having been a volunteer formerly. She has been getting to grips with her new role this year, including with applications for grant funding.
Our Community Worker continues to serve the local community in a number of ways, one of which is delivering unused bread from a bakery elsewhere to families who were in need and appreciated the gesture. Relationships are being built and sustained as a result. He is also a Community Hub Leader with a large school in the DATIC area. His role connects children and families to relevant forms of support available in the community. He is also part of an ‘Open The Book’ team that has openings to bring spiritual values into various schools through Bible story telling.
Our Women’s English teacher stepped down in July, following which a recruitment process was established to identify a suitable replacement. A new teacher was recruited and took on the role in September. We are grateful for the work both have done in serving in this way this year.
## **Activities**
The Homework Help Club, which replaced the children and youth clubs in 2024, is appreciated by children and those parents who attend. This club is reaching children from ethnic groups in the community that we had begun to lose touch with, so this is encouraging. The volunteer team running this club includes several trained teachers.
The English classes continue steadily with the Women’s English always receiving larger numbers than the men’s classes.
The Women’s drop-in day for sewing and lunch continues to be popular and provide opportunities to sew clothing, informal English conversation and games and a supportive social space for women to meet with one another.
In the summer we worked with other Christian organisations in Darnall to hold a Family Fun Day. This was a great success with some 500 people coming to enjoy food-stalls, games and relaxation. We want to see this develop further next year.
A major development last year was the beginning of our involvement in another area of the city with similar demographics to our present areas of Darnall, Attercliffe and Tinsley. This initiative followed consultations with other charities and potential stakeholders that were either present in the area already or interested in engaging with the community.
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## Trustees' report
We concluded that it was right for the DATIC Trust to initially launch a three-month trial project, a women’s English conversation class. The project has been successful, with strong engagement from members of the local community and, therefore, we have expanded this work to continue on an ongoing basis, along with dance lessons lead by an instructor. We have partnered with a local church to hire space for these sessions and grant funding has been secured to cover the costs of this.
## **Networking**
Useful networking with other organisations in the community continues. These include Darnall Wellbeing, a local foodbank, and other faith leaders through a monthly meeting to share and plan.
## **Training**
Our summer gathering for the Galeed Team (staff, volunteers and trustees) was postponed until September so that as many of the team could attend as possible. The team shared a meal together and training was on ways of using Christian scriptures to engage the interest of those from other faiths.
Online safeguarding training continued during the year under the guidance of our Safeguarding officer.
## **Finance**
Finances continue to be stretched for the DATIC Trust, with salary costs and other expenses continuing to increase year on year. We are actively looking for ways to broaden our donor base and increase income.
Another budget deficit was forecast for 2025, with expenditure planned to exceed income for the third year in a row. We were, however, very grateful to receive a large legacy donation in the final quarter of the year, which means we have achieved a small surplus in this financial year. We are thankful to God for his provision in this way.
The use of an improved finance system, installed last year, has made the financial reporting process much smoother. Our Finance Assistant maintains the reporting of income and expenditure to a high standard.
Funding applications are normally handled by our administrator, who was fairly new to the role at the beginning of the year. However, with guidance from those formerly serving in this role and the Trustees, we are up to date with applications and hoping to increase funding in this way in the coming year.
## **Maintenance**
Galeed House, our community centre and main base is being well maintained to ensure the safety and comfort of all users of the premises. This year, painting and decorating of the main building and the stable block was carried out, to ensure the spaces are welcoming.
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## The Datic Trust
## Trustees' report
## **Publicity**
Supporters and other partners receive regular newsletters comprising stories of encouragement from the various groups.
Our promotional video came into use last year and is being well appreciated, particularly when visiting partner churches and other sympathetic churches.
In conclusion, the charity is in good heart and looking forward to making a positive impact on the communities we serve in the coming year.
**Tom Cudmore Treasurer**
## **On behalf of the Trustees**
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## The DATIC Trust
## Trustees' report
## **Summary of the main achievements during the period continued**
## **Trustees responsibilities for the financial statements**
The trustees are responsible for preparing financial statements for each financial period which show the state of affairs of the Charity and of the surplus or deficit of the Charity for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees are required to:
- q select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently
- q observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP FRS (102)
- q make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
- q prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis
- unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enable the Trustees to prepare financial statements. The Trustees are responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention of fraud and other irregularities.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees on_____________ by 27 April 2026
Thomas Cudmore
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## The DATIC Trust
## Statement of Financial Activities
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**Notes**
**Incoming resources**
**1**
Grants
**2**
Donations
Gift aid
Investment income
Other income
**Total Incoming resources**
**Resources expended**
Building services, maintenance and equipment
Administration and management
Salaries
Clubs, activities and literature
Utilities, rates and insurance
Trainer and worker support
Professional fees
Other expenditure
**Total resources expended**
**Net (outgoing)/incoming resources**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
28,500
45,371
3,430
125
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**77,433**
1,320
1,327
38,886
3,432
5,041
1,153
1,452
206
**52,817**
24,616
174,871
**199,487**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
6,020
-
-
-
-
**6,020**
-
-
-
2,708
-
-
-
-
**2,708**
3,312
242
**3,554**|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
34,520
45,371
3,430
125
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**83,453**
1,320
1,327
38,886
6,140
5,041
1,153
1,452
206
**55,525**
27,928
175,113
**203,041**|Total
2024
£
28,664
16,097
3,094
-
1,510|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||49,365|
|||||10,418
2,372
34,802
2,264
5,698
701
554
1,583|
|||||58,392|
||||||
|||||(9,027)
184,140|
|||||175,113|
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## The DATIC Trust Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2025
|**Notes**
**Fixed Assets**
Tangible assets
**5**
Investments (Long term)
**Total Fixed assets**
**Current assets**
Debtors
**6**
Balance at bank
**Total current assets**
Creditors: amounts falling due
within one year
**7**
**Net current assets/(liabilities)**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
**Total net assets**
**Represented By**
**The Funds of the Charity**
Unrestricted income fund
Restricted income fund
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**Total Funds**|**2025**
**£**
140,000
-
140,000
-
63,696
**63,696**
(655)
63,041
**203,041**
**203,041**
199,487
3,554
**203,041**|2024
£
140,000
-|
|---|---|---|
|||140,000
-
35,418|
|||35,418
(305)|
|||35,113|
|||175,113|
|||175,113|
|||174,871
242|
|||175,113|
The Trustees declare that they have approved the accounts above.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees on_____________ by 27 April 2026
Thomas Cudmore
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## The DATIC Trust
## Notes to the Accounts
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **1 Accounting Policies**
## **(a) Basis of preparation**
The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with the the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102), and the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS102 (effective from January 2015 and updated with effect from January 2016) - (the Charities SORP (FRS102)), as modified for smaller charities.
The Charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity as defined under FRS102.
## **(b) Incoming Resources**
All material incoming resources have been included on a receivable basis- i.e. they are included if the date receivable falls within the period covered by these accounts.
## **(c) Resources expended**
These have been analysed using a natural classification.
## **(d) Depreciation**
Depreciation has been calculated to write down the cost or valuation, less estimated residual value, of all tangible fixed assets over their expected useful lives on a straight line basis.
The applicable rates are:
Equipment 20%
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## Notes to the Accounts
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **2 Grants**
|Archer Trust
Anonymous Funding Body
Church BurgessesTrust
The Cutlers Company Charitable Trust
Darnall Area Trust Fund
Deo Gloria Trust
Evangelical Trust Ltd
Freshgate Trust
Fulwood PCC
Garfield Weston Foundation
Good News Evangelical Mission
J G Graves Charitable Trust
Interserve
James Neill Trust Fund
Living Waters Christian Fellowship
Sheffield Evangelical Trust
Sheffield City Council
Sheffield Town Trust
Souter Trust
South Yorkshire Community Foundation
Wharfedale Trust|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
1,000
2,000
1,000
-
-
-
2,500
-
5,000
5,000
1,000
-
-
-
-
4,000
2,000
-
5,000|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,000
-
-
-
-
940
-
-
500
2,580
-
-
-
-|**2025**
**£**
1,000
2,000
1,000
-
-
-
2,500
2000
-
5,000
5,000
1,000
940
-
-
500
2,580
4,000
2,000
-
5,000|**2024**
**£**
-
-
-
1,000
558
1,500
1,500
-
500
-
-
1,000
-
1,000
200
500
1,408
-
2,000
17,498
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**28,500**|**6,020**|**34,520**|28,664|
## **3 Trustees remuneration, benefits and expenses**
No trustees received any remuneration during the year. Costs incurred in fulfilling the aims of the charity amounting to £1,298 (2024: £923) were reimbursed to 3 (2024: 2) trustees.
## **4 Fees for examination of the accounts**
|**Fees for examination of the accounts**|||
|---|---|---|
|Independent examiner's fees for reporting
on the accounts|**2025**
**£**
320|2024
£
305|
||**320**|305|
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## The DATIC Trust
## Notes to the Accounts
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**5 Fixed Assets**
**Buildings**
**£**
**Cost or Valuation**
as at 1 January 2025
140,000
Additions
-
Result of revaluation
-
**as at 31 December 2025**
140,000
**Depreciation**
as at 1 January 2025
-
Charge this period
-
**as at 31 December 2025**
-
**Net Book Value**
**as at 31 December 2025**
**140,000**
**as at 31 December 2024**
140,000
**6 Debtors**
Gift Aid
Other Debtor
**7 Creditors; amounts falling due within one year**
Accruals and deferred income
**8 Movement in Restricted Funds**
**Opening**
**Balance**
**£**
Freshgate Trust
Interserve
-
Sheffield Evangelical Trust
-
SCC - Thursday Ladies
242
SCC - Community meals
-
SCC - Ward Pot
-
SCC - Homework club
-
242|**Equipment**
**£**
2,196
-
-
2,196
2,196
-
2,196
**-**
-
**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
2,000
940
500
-
1,000
1,080
500
4,020|**Total**
**£**
142,196
-
-
142,196
2,196
-
2,196
**140,000**
140,000
**2025**
**£**
-
-
**-**
**2025**
**£**
655
**655**
**Outgoing**
**resources**
**£**
**-**
(940)
-
(242)
(1,026)
(500)
(2,708)|2024
£
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|
||||-|
||||2024
£
305|
||||305|
||||**Carried**
**forward**
**£**
2000
-
500
-
1,000
54
-|
||||3,554|
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