Eight slim, plain booklets — one for each of the past eight years.
Every JOHN WILLIAM FOSTER annual report runs to four to eight pages. Figures are in pounds, not in thousands. The honest paragraph is on page two.
The charity has filed an annual return with the Charity Commission for England and Wales for each of the past eight years. We list those returns here, with a one-line summary and the headline figure. Each row also offers a downloadable PDF of the fuller booklet we hand-print for the parish. Filings are independently examined, not audited; we sit well below the small-charities audit threshold.
The Charity Commission's record
Our official annual returns — accounts and trustees' annual report — are also held in their original filed form on the Charity Commission's public register, searchable by our charity number, 219863. The version we publish here is a slightly more readable summary, run off at the parish-hall printer on cream stock, for the parish.
Where the figures come from
We do not have a finance team. The Chair, the treasurer (currently Jeanette Davidson, on a rotating basis), and the independent examiner together prepare the accounts. The figures are kept in a single ledger book; bank statements are reconciled against it once a quarter; the year-end summary is a single A4 page.