Annual reports · 2018–2025
Eight annual reports, all written on a single side of A4.
We are a small charity. Our annual reports are short by design. Each year the Honorary Clerk sets the numbers out plainly, the chair writes a short narrative, and the document is read aloud at the open meeting in June before being filed with the Charity Commission. Below are the last eight years.
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Year ending 31 March 2025 · filed on time
A quiet year — reserves rebuilt; one chair's-action grant.
Income £0 · Expenditure £0 · Reserves carried forward £14,318. A deliberate quieter year following an active 2023–24.
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Year ending 31 March 2024 · filed on time
An active year — £8,600 distributed across the four funds.
Income £4,920 · Expenditure £8,610 · Reserves drawn down. Notable: hard winter, three larger Apprentice grants.
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Year ending 31 March 2023 · filed on time
A typical year — £4,210 distributed.
Income £4,640 · Expenditure £4,210. Notable: revival of the Apprentice Bequest after a quiet pandemic period.
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Year ending 31 March 2022 · filed on time
£4,780 distributed; new Quiet Hearth appeal.
Income £4,710 · Expenditure £4,780. Notable: launch of the Quiet Hearth Appeal as an annual Advent push.
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Year ending 31 March 2021 · filed on time
A pandemic year — £3,420 distributed.
Income £4,210 · Expenditure £3,420. Notable: a pause in apprentice activity; expanded Sick & Aged grants for shielding households.
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Year ending 31 March 2020 · filed on time
£4,820 distributed; standard year.
Income £4,560 · Expenditure £4,820. Notable: revision of the safeguarding policy.
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Year ending 31 March 2019 · filed on time
£4,480 distributed; end of the ‘welcome to the parish’ grant.
Income £4,470 · Expenditure £4,480. Notable: the trustees retired the ‘welcome to the parish’ grant after a thoughtful letter from a recipient.
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Year ending 31 March 2018 · filed on time
£3,920 distributed; the first Quiet Hearth winter.
Income £4,320 · Expenditure £3,920. Notable: an unusually hard February prompted the trustees to begin the informal Quiet Hearth Appeal.
Earlier reports, going back to 1962, are held in paper at the vestry of St Chad's and at Cheshire Archives, Chester. The Honorary Clerk will be glad to retrieve and copy any specific year on request.