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Patrons International
Report of the Director for the year ended 30 June 2025
The Directors are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 30 June 2025.
Principal and registered office
Hall Gate House 39a Cranfield Road Kilkeel Co Down N Ireland BT34 4LJ
Status of Company and Governing Document
Patrons International is a private company limited by guarantee (Number NI666516). The Company is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust. It is also a charity registered in Northern Ireland with the number 108180.
Directors and Office Bearers
The Directors who served during the year were as follows:
Directors
Mr S Chestnutt Mr R T Chestnutt – appointed 7 September 2024 Mr J N Innes – appointed 3 October 2022
Company Secretary
Ms G Monteith - appointed 28 March 2022 Ms J Morris – appointed 1 February 2025
Recruitment and appointment of Directors
The maximum number and minimum number respectively of the Directors may be determined from time to time by ordinary resolution. Subject to and in default of any such determination there shall be no maximum number of Directors, and the minimum number of Directors shall be two.
No person shall be admitted as a member of the company unless they are approved by the Directors. Every person who wishes to become a member shall deliver to the company an application for membership in such form as the directors require.
Objectives and activities
The Trust is established for charitable purposes only, specifically in relation to the advancement of the Christian faith, education, and the relief of poverty. The organisation aims to highlight any given need or project that aims to give relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage.
Organisational structure
The charity is organised such that the management team and the members of the committee meet regularly to manage its affairs.
Achievements and performance
During the year the organisation has continued the process of identifying needs and gathering information. The company has made donations to various organisations totalling £346,190 (2024: £219,807). These donations were made to help further the work of supporting church ministries in Ireland and further afield.
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Patrons International
Report of the Director for the year ended 30 June 2025
Financial review
Results for the year
The financial statements for the year are set out in pages 4 to 9. The Statement of Financial Activities on page 4 reflects net outgoing resources of £8,210 (2024 incoming resources £14,891).
Reserves
It is the Company’s policy to maintain funds at a level that equates to at least three months expenditure. This target was met at the end of the year.
Statement on risk
The Directors and Management have been looking at the company exposure to risk and have taken measures to mitigate these and this practice will continue.
Principal funding sources
We are very grateful to the organisations and individuals for donations received.
Statement of Directors' responsibilities
The directors (who are also trustees of the charity for the purposes of charity law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland”.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP 2019;
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume so.
The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Director’s Report has been prepared having taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in the Companies Act 2006.
On behalf of the Directors
[(lestrudt] |[Samuel] DocuSigned by: C89D1FE82CC14EA... Samuel Chestnutt Director
Dated:31 March 2026
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