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March|24|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Section A Reference and administration details|Section A Reference and administration details|Section A Reference and administration details|Section A Reference and administration details|Section A Reference and administration details|||||Section A Reference and administration details||||||| ||||**Charity name**|||**Charity name**|**Charity name**||||The Kingsmill Trust||||| ||**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**|||||**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**802802
~~———~~|||||||||| ||**Charity's principal address**|||||**Charity's principal address**
Graham House, The Avenue
Combe Down
Bath
**Postcode**
**BA2 5EH**
~~————~~|||||||||| ||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|||||||||||||| ||**Trustee name**||**Office (if any)**|||||**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|||||**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**||| |1|RJK MERYON||Treasurer|||||1987|||||||| ||||Administator||||||||||||| |2 RA MERYON|2 RA MERYON|||||||1987|||||||| |3 DE MERYON|3 DE MERYON|||||||~2015|||||||| |4|4||||||||||||||| |5|5||||||||||||||| |6|6||||||||||||||| |7|7||||||||||||||| |8|8||||||||||||||| |9|9||||||||||||||| |10|10||||||||||||||| |11|11||||||||||||||| |12|12||||||||||||||| |13|13||||||||||||||| |14|14||||||||||||||| |15|15||||||||||||||| |16|16||||||||||||||| |17|17||||||||||||||| |18|18||||||||||||||| |19|19||||||||||||||| |20|20||||||||||||||| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** ~~—=_———~~ **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| ||Nil|| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Trust Deed Trust - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees select new trustees Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; This is a family trust. David Meryon is our son, and is married to Ruthie Meryon. Matthew Thorne is married to our daughter, Iona. Mark Silver is married to our daughter, Rosanna. At some future stage, Iona Throne and Mark Silver will also probably become trustees as Richard and Rosalind approach First Death. - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To distribute the Meryon families’ annual charitable donations, principally to Christian projects, mainly in the UK but also in countries abroad. Unrestricted funds for annual distribution according to the year’s perceived needs. Restricted funds for specific projects such as Archbishop Alapayo in Rumbek (Southern Sudan), Hanni Alkazraji (Albania) and Pastor Saras in Bethlehem; work among Middle East refugees and Christian members of that country’s Armed Forces. **TAR** March **2012** 2 Almost all expenditure is for ‘public’ benefit; a small quota supports individual needs. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Richard and Rosalind Meryon choose their joint shared beneficiaries. David Meryon chooses his, as does Matthew Thorne. Restricted funds are 100% channelled. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** In this year 100 % of expenditure is directly for the charitable causes. Bank charges which are kept to an absolute minimum (£45 this year), mainly by using approved couriers to take grants when they travel; risk of fraud is avoided by requiring Receipts signed by the recipients. B/F from FY23-24: £13228.10 Income: £83795.62 Expenditure: £94776.79 In-year decrease: £10981.17 C/F into FY25-26: £2246.93 ALL expenditure was directly received by Kingsmill Trust beneficiaries. **TAR** March **2012** 4 Section D Achievements and erformance p **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** ## **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** No reserves are held as there are no monthly operating costs. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** Principal income has come from: You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: Richard and Rosalind Meryon David Meryon Matthew and Iona Thorne Support for: Pastor Saras in Bethlehem Archbishop Alapayo in Southern Sudan Hanni Alkazraji (home is in Albania). - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - All expenditure except any bank charges has been iaw the key - • investment policy and objectives of the Kingsmill Trust. objectives including any ethical investment policy Income is usually rapidly turned into expenditure; however the adopted. 2021 legacy is subject to especial investment handling. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **TAR** March **2012** 6 **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Richard John Kingsmill MERYON ~~ee~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc)** ~~es ee~~ **Date** 15 April 2025 **TAR** March **2012** 7 Recei ts and ments accounts CC16 Section4 Statèrnent of assets and liabilitie5 at the end of the period F¢rth• wriod To lu￿& Section A Receipts and pay eDts tf Bl fund• 14A21 11.JY4 lun A1 Rpcel rotsi ￿•b 14v ij. 9A13 H(>FINED(*4ATI￿lST0T R•ilrtctod run End￿￿￿•￿* DE klLRYOPIDOMA TRUST fund4 Qot 7f HTCO Tu AR) 7.1 BJ In¥￿tM•￿tI•V411 IM.NF 1,101 TO1￿￿4¢•1Pi* ¢55giSFr TH FurA r•t•irt•d f¢rth• hiilty'• own u O&H MER¥(hYDON4TI ÈFIM)E i¥J IJ BS Ll•èfjllil•• Sub tol .#F0P M7Pè21 A4A•t•liffl4 Sub tot•1 NBmg 7&.137 19.$ KMERYQN N•¢ olrq¢olpWfp•ym•rf8J $TrnnBf•r• boiwopn funth 16C•$h fundg 1011 eTru 5.809 i?,J7 1.247 CXX R1 IS51 Independent examiner's report on the accounts Indèpendent In conn8Ction with my examination, no malenal mattws have come to my x3mlner'# 8tat¢mèni attentYJn lolher Ihan that disclosed b8low'l which give5 ￿ Ca￿s￿ lo beli8Va Ihat In. any material respeci". the accounting records We￿ not kepl in aCCOTdan¢¢ wAh 130 of lh& Chariti¢$ Act,. or ¢h¢ accounts did not accord wrth Iho aC&￿￿1ftg record8. Or tho =118 did not Comply with Ihé applIca￿e requirwnents cknne*rnKI g the form and conienl ol 8ccountS Sei In the Charitie5 IAccounl$ and Reports) Regulgiion$ 2008 ¢Xher Ih•n •ny requirerneni Ihal the accounts give a 'lru8 and fairf view wh+¢h i¥ rK)t • matter cx)n$idered as part of 8n ind&pendent examinat￿. I havo come acro&& no elhe." matter8 In CInr￿Cli0n with the exarniwion to whKh attention should b8 drawn In thi¥ewrt in orderto ena14e a proper und8rstanding of the accounts to be ￿arthd . Pl88se delela the words in the br8ckei$ iltbeydo nol 8ppty. CHARITY COMMISSION | FOR ENGLANO AND WALES Section A Indeptndent ExHmlneF* Reportr Report to tho tru#t• momb•rs of KINGSMILL TRUST On acsount• forthtr y•ar •ndod 31 March 2025 C arlty no lif anyl 802802 Set out on p•9•8 R•ipoctl¥• ro•pon•lbllltl•* of tru•to•• and •xamln•r Slgned.. 29 May 2025 The ehanty's trustees arè ￿$KKIn&1￿ts for Ihg prep•rAlion ofthe 8ccount8. 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