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2024-03-31-annual-report

NameofCharity TheJohnWilsonMemorialTrust
CharityReg.Number NIC105836
FinancialYearStartDate 01April2023
FinancialYearEndDate 31March2024
ThePurposeofyour Thepromotionofcharitabledeedsandgoodworksinthe
Charity Portadownvicinity,NorthernIrelandandtheUK
&ROIthroughsupportingcharitiesandtrustsintheirefforts.
Thissupportmaycomeintheformofpromotingand
encouraging,raisingmoneyforandawardinggrants
tothosecharitiesandTrusts,providingtheirpurposesare
charitableinnature.
TocarryoutanyothercharitablegoodworksthattheTrust
decides.
Theprincipaladdressof TheJohnWilsonMemorialTrust,c/oUlsterCarpets,
theCharity CastleislandFactory,GarvaghyRoad,Craigavon,County
Armagh,BT621EE
ThenamesofallCharity JohnAWilson
Trustees NicholasDGCoburn
SimonAWilson
DavidRAcheson
CarolineJSomerville
JeremyEBWilson
CarolineMAuchmuty
Asummaryofthe Duringtheyear,thecharitymade12grantdonationstotalling
Charity'smainactivities £17,300.
andachievementsinthe
year Themajorityofthegrantsweremadethroughanewinitiative
establishedbytheTrustcalledtheSchoolsCharityChallenge.
Theaimofthisinitiativeisforteamsofchildreninlocalschools
aged11-14toidentify,researchandsuggestcharitiesfor
support,thenpresenttheircasestoasubsetoftheTrust's
trustees.Thebenefitofthisistwofold—abenefittothecharities
inreceiptofadditionalfunding,andanenhancedknowledge
kidneydialysis,andthosewhohavehadkidneytransplants.This
wasnominatedbyMarkMcClory.
MeetingthePublic ItistheopinionoftheTrusteesthat,havingconsideredthe
BenefitRequirement natureofthe grantsmadeduringtheyear,thatthepublicbenefit
requirementhasbeenmet.
AreviewoftheCharity's TheCharityclosedtheyearwith£92,653,andisinasatisfactory
financialpositionatthe position.UlsterCarpetshasindicatedcontinuedfundingforthe
endoftheyear nextfinancialyear.
TherearenofundsheldbytheCharitythataremateriallyin
deficitattheendoftheyear.
Signedby:
DavidAcheson
NickCoburn