## **THE PUBLIC PURPOSE SHARE OF THE DARTMOUTH TRUST**
## **THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
One sixth of the yearly income of the Dartmouth Trust is administered and managed, as a separate charity under the above title, and Dartmouth Town Council is Trustee of that charity.
The monies applied by the Town Council are for the general benefit of the inhabitants of Dartmouth as the Town Council thinks fit, and is therefore administered in accordance with the terms set out in clause 28(3) of the scheme and with the requirements of charity law.
The Council has incurred expenditure this year to the value of £150,552.58 (2024 – £153,016.67)
To this end therefore, the sum of £139,388.40
(2024 - £196,704.31) has not been spent and is held in abeyance.
**Mrs C Pritchard -Williams Clerk to the Public Purpose Share of Dartmouth Trust And for and on behalf of Dartmouth Town Council**
10[th] September 2025
## **Dartmouth Trust- Public Purposes Appropriation**
## **Financial Statement of Accounts from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025**
|Balance of funds b/f
Income
Expenditure
Balance of funds c/f
Total Income
From Dartmouth Trust 28/10/2024
From Dartmouth Trust 28/03/2024|**Income**
**£**
33,666.00
Transfer of Funds 2023-2024 to DTC 31/05/2024
59,570.67
Bank Charges 30/04/2024
Bank Charges 29/11/2024
93,236.67
Total Expenditure
196,704.31
93,236.67
Current Account as at 31.03.2025
-150,552.58
139,388.40
correct as 28.3.25. this is last bank statement of the year.
Opening Balance from last year|**Ch No**
DD
DD|**Expenditure**
**£**
150,551.88
0.35
0.35|
|---|---|---|---|
||||150,552.58|
||||139,388.40|
||||139,388.40|
||||196,704.31|
AJ McGrigor -03/04/2025
## **The Public Purposes Share of the Dartmouth Trust**
**Charity number 800243**
**Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2025**
**Trustee:** Dartmouth Town Council **Address:** c/o Dartmouth Town Council The Guildhall Victoria Road Dartmouth TQ6 9RY
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## **Governing Document**
Charitable Scheme of the 28th March 1988.
## **Objectives of the Trust**
For such charitable purposes for the general benefit of the inhabitants of Dartmouth as the Trustee thinks fit.
## **Summary of the main activities of the charity during the year**
The income of the Trust for the year amounted to £93,237 (2024: £99,316).
The expenditure of the Trust for the year amounted to £137,326 (2024: £150,552).
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## **The Public Purposes Share of the Dartmouth Trust Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2025**
## **Income and Expenditure account: General Fund**
|**Income**
Appropriation - Dartmouth Trust
Total income
**Expenditure**
Property maintenance
Parks and Open Spaces
Grants
Total expenditure
Net income/(expenditure) for the year|**2025**
**£**
93,237
93,237
97,826
0
39,500
137,326
**(44,089)**|**2024**
**£**
99,316
99,316
74,459
36,093
40,000
150,552|
|---|---|---|
|||**(51,236)**|
_**Note:** Expenditure represents spending by Dartmouth Town Council which is funded by grants from the Public Purposes Share of the Dartmouth Trust._
|**Balance Sheet**
**Liabilities**
Grant payable to Dartmouth Town Council
-
Total Liabilities
-
**Assets**
Bank-Current Account
-
Total Assets
-
Net Assets / Liabilities
**-**
Reserves
**-**|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
137,326-
-150,552-
137,326
-
-
150,552
-
139,388-
-250,405-
139,388
-
-
250,405
-
**2,062**
**-**
**-**
**99,853**
**-**
**2,062**
**-**
**-**
**99,853**
**-**|
|---|---|
|||
**Approved by the Trustees at a meeting held on :**
**Signed by Chair of the meeting :**
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## **Report to the trustees of The Public Purposes Share of the Dartmouth Trust on the accounts for the year ended 31st March 2024**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31st March 2024
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation 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
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have 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.
**Signed:**
Kevin Rose ACMA
**Date:** 1st September 2025
IAC Audit and Consultancy Ltd 23 Westbury Road Yarnbrook Wiltshire BA14 6AG
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