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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date
O S C c From Day1 MonthJuly Year2024 To Day30 MonthJune | Year2025
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Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
Charity name Dumfries Lions Club
Other names charity is known by Registered charity number — ee
Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report
Trustee : Dates acted if Name of person name Office (if any) not for whole year (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) 1 2 3 Treasurer 4 Secretary 5 6 President 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
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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)
Structure, governance and management
Type of governing document The Charity was set up in conjunction with Lions Clubs international (LCI), the umbrella organisation, and was recognised by OSCR with effect from 19 March 2019. The Charity is administered in accordance with the governing document stipulated by LCI.
Trustee recruitment and appointment _ The trustees are those appointed on the establishment of the charity. Appointment and removal of any trustee is in accordance with the governing document and requires approval by majority agreement of the club members. It is a requirement that Club President, Secretary and Treasurer shall be trustees.
Objectives and activities
Charitable purposes The advancement of citizenship by encouraging people to serve the community, by supporting youth, by promoting the voluntary sector, by promoting volunteering, by relief of poverty, by assisting those in need and by providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief to save lives. The improvement of health by preventing avoidable blindness and assisting disabled people. Promotion of conservation protection and promotion of community participation in healthy recreation. Summary of the main activities The Club continued to take an active interest in the civic, social and moral in relation to these objects welfare of the community and encouraged people to serve the local population. It has also made a difference to many other voluntary groups by example and with financial assistance. We promoted volunteering by recruiting 4 new members. A number of fundraising events were held to enable the financing of the Club’s charitable work. We now have 40 collection points in the area for disused spectacles and 20.000 pairs were transported to the Lions HQ to be refurbished for use in 3 world countries and elsewhere.
Achievements and performance
|Summaryofthemainachievements ofthe
charityduring thefinancial period|| General
The Club promoted volunteering in Dumfries by recruiting
4 new members and|
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||membership is now 24. We also supported other volunteer groups.|
||Supporting Youth|
||The Club was active in supporting youth with various grants to individuals and|
||organisations.|
||Relief of Poverty & Hunger|
||Grants alleviating hunger, totalling over£2,300, were provided for the River of|
||Life Church and various other local groupswho succour people, especially at|
||Christmas time.|
||International Humanitarian Aid|
||A total of£1,213was used for the LCI scheme for heating stoves in Ukraine|
||and toenhance the visit of20 Ukrainian visitors during a respite trip from their|
||war-torn country.|
||Disabled & The Sick|
||£450 was donated to Blood Bikes for emergency transport of blood and|
||medical samples for the sick.|
||Community Grants & Recreation|
||£1,500was used to assist
a number of local recreational and community|
||groups.|
||Sight|
||20,000 pairs of used spectacles were collected and transported to LC] HQ for|
||recycling and subsequent use in 3% world countries and elsewhere.|
||Fundraising|
||The main fundraising eventswere the Christmas tree sale which raised over|
||£6,100, the golftournament which made over£1,800 and the curling|
||competition which realised £1,400. A new project, the Kilometre of Coins,|
||using Facebook & JustGiving was set up in aid of2 local charities (TUP and|
||NIR)and£3,000wasraised.|
Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any deficit
Donated facilities and services (if any)
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Other optional information
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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)
Reporting Trustee/ Treasurer
Date
12 January 2026
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to Dumfries Lions Club
on the accounts for the year ended 30th June 2025
Independent examiner’s report
Respective responsibilities of the Treasurer and the Examiner
The treasurer is responsible for the preparation of the accounts. It is my responsibility to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of Opinion
My examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Club and a comparison of the accounts presented with these records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as the Club concerning 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.
Independent examiner’s statement
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 requirements: @ to keep accounting records @ to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records
have not been met; or
- to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
9th January 2026
Balance Sheet 2024 to 2025
Welfare Account
30/06/2025
DUMFRIES LIONS CLUB
| INCOME EXPENDITURE BANK 01/07/2024 30/06/2025 |
WELFARE ACCOUNT 01/07/2024 to 30/06/2025 2023-2024 2024-2025 Donations £200.00 £747.90 Curling Comp'n £1,342.32 £1,661.47 Christmas Trees £7,886.23 £8,584.84 Craft Fayre £0.00 £0.00 Table Top & Car Boot Sales £150.00 £0.00 'One off' events £4,297.85 £4,408.42 Miscellaneous £0.00 £0.00 £13,876.40 £15,402.63 2023-2024 2024-2025 Miscellaneous £0.00 - £ Donations £11,038.30 8,498.00 £ Curling £427.64 264.00 £ Christmas Trees £2,568.00 2,458.34 £ Christmas parcels £0.00 - £ T Top & Car boot sales £12.90 - £ Craft Fayre £0.00 - £ One Off Events £1,674.08 1,451.97 £ £15,720.92 £12,672.31 Opening Balance 3,114.56 £ Cash in Hand 85.00 £ Total 3,199.56 £ Closing Balance 5,844.88 £ Cash in Hand 85.00 £ - £ Total 5,929.88 £ |
30/06/2025 |
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18/08/2025