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Period start date Period end date
Day Month Year Day Month Year
From 01 05 2024 ~=To 30 4 2025
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Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator **----- Start of picture text -----**
Charity name John O’Groats Development Trust
Other names charity is known
Registered charity number $C048716
Charity’s principal address Thorvald, John O’Groats, Caithness, Scotland
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## Postcode KW1 4YR ## Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report **----- Start of picture text -----**
Trustee name Office (if: any) Dates acted if Name(or body) of personentitled to
not for whole year appoint trustee (if any)
1 Chairman
2 Secretary
3 Treasurer
4 Trustee
5 Trustee
6 Trustee
7 Trustee
8 Trustee
9 Trustee
10 Trustee
11 Trustee
12
13
14
15
16
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**1 APPENDIX 1** **17 18 19** ## **Reference and administration details** **Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)** |**Name**|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Structure, governance and management**||| |||| |**Type of governing document**|Constitution|| |**Trustee recruitment and appointment**|They are appointed by management committee|| |||| |**Objectives and activities**||| |||| |**Charitable purposes**|To do our upmost to secure community amenities and find investment in
our area for the benefit of locals and visitors.|| **2** **Summary of the main activities in relation to these objects** To Raise funds by grant funding and any other fundraising etc to achieve the above purpose. ## **APPENDIX 1** ## **Achievements and performance** **Summary of the main achievements of** Community projects Ongoing that will help enhance and improve our **the charity during the financial period** community. Work to Public Realm area in JOG. ## **Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy** We are slowly building funds to hopefully make us self sustainable in the **on reserves** future. |**Details of any deficit**|None| |---|---| |**Donated facilities and services (if any)**|None| |**APPENDIX 1**|**3**| |**Other optional information**|| ## **Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (e.g. Chair) Chairman Date 29/09/25 ## Treasurer 29/09/25 4 |JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST|JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST|JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST|JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST|JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST|JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST|JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST|JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST|JOHN O' GROATS DEVELOPMENT TRUST| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||CharityNumber SC048716|||||||| |**Financial Statement as at 30th April 2025**||||||||| |**Opening Cash & Bank 01 May 24**||||||||**£52,787.45**| |||||||||| |**INCOME**||||||£||£| |Doantion / Fundraising||||||£
948.00||| |Interest||||||£
-||| |Misc||||||£
1,912.45||| |Grants||||||£
1,170.00||| |||||||||4,030.45| |||||||||| |**EXPENDITURE**||||||||| |Professional Fees & IT||||||£
7,300.80||| |Insurance||||||£
628.92||| |Maintenance / Building / Construction||||||£
1,000.00||| |Miscellaneous||||||£
2,340.81||11,270.53| |||||||||| |**PROFIT / LOSS FOR YEAR**||||||||**-£7,240.08**| |||||||||| |||||||||| |**Closing Cash & Bank 30 April 25**||||||45,547.37||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |_Balance per Bank Account 30th April_||||||||45,547.37| |_Cash in hand 30th April_||||||||0.00| |||||||||| |||||||||| |**_Total funds held at 30 April 2025_**||||||||**£45,547.37**| |||||||||| |I approve the above financial statement on behalf of the trustees and confirm that||||||||| |I have made available all boks and records for its preparation.
Treasurer||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| 1 2 ## APPENDIX 3 ## Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator Independent examiner’s report on the accounts’ w Report to the trustees/ Charity name members of John O’Groats Development Trust Registered charity SC048716 number On the accounts of the Period start date Period end date charity for the period Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 05 2024 to 30 4 2025 Set out on pages Numbersof addtional sheets) The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance Respective with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the res onsibilities of Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. The charity trustees consider that the trusteee and examiner audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review of the Basis of ind dent accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with Sass a7 cram those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and, consequently, | do not express an audit opinion on the accounts. ## In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the Independent examiner’s requirements: statement to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 the 2005 2005 Act and to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 the 2005 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations have been met satisfactorily. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Signed: Date: 28/09/25
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Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): ## -_PO *Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. If the words do apply, set out those matters which have come to your attention on the following page. ## **APPENDIX 3** ## **Disclosure section** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems. **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose**