Annual reports
Filed on time, every year, since 1964.
The trust's annual return is filed with the Charity Commission each November for the financial year ending the previous June. The summary below covers the last seven years; the official filed returns may be downloaded free from the Charity Commission register. The honest-limitation paragraph from each year, when there was one, is reproduced verbatim.
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2025
Download (PDF · 1.4 MB)Year to 30 June 2025
A held year on the parent fund (£37 income, £0 expenditure) with working capital in the linked constituent accounts. 312 cumulative grants in the five-year window. Honest line: 'we did not deliver the third Wassail Fund hamper round on time — it was a week late, due to a packing delay.'
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2024
Download (PDF · 1.3 MB)Year to 30 June 2024
£6,820 in hardship grants across 79 households. First full year of Quiet Repair, with 22 boiler call-outs. Honest line: 'we over-spent the Wassail Fund by £140; the trustees accept the small overrun.'
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2023
Download (PDF · 1.2 MB)Year to 30 June 2023
£5,440 in hardship grants. Quiet Repair launched mid-year. Marjorie Paling appointed to the board. Honest line: 'the trustees regret that two First Bell grants reached the school after the start of term.'
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2022
Download (PDF · 1.2 MB)Year to 30 June 2022
£8,030 in hardship grants — the highest single-year figure since 2008, in response to the rise in domestic fuel costs. 64 Sunday Doors partnerships. Honest line: 'reserves were tighter than the trustees would normally accept; we replenished them in 2022–23.'
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2021
Download (PDF · 1.1 MB)Year to 30 June 2021
£7,260 in hardship grants. The deferred Winter Doorstep grants from 2020 were paid out in this year. Sunday Doors continued through the pandemic on a doorstep-only basis.
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2020
Download (PDF · 1.1 MB)Year to 30 June 2020
A deliberately held year — the trustees held a portion of funds back from the early spring round and released them in the harder winter that followed. Two further constituent funds merged into the parent trust. Honest line: 'we acknowledge the difficult judgment to hold rather than spend in the spring of 2020.'
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2019
Download (PDF · 1.0 MB)Year to 30 June 2019
£5,980 in hardship grants. The Saturday Open Mornings pilot was closed in October 2018 — the lessons from that pilot informed the trustees' return to a doorstep-only model.
The official filed annual returns are publicly available on the Charity Commission register at register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/220057. Earlier reports going back to 1964 are held in the trustees' minute books at Arnot Hill House and may be inspected by appointment.