
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period from November 2022 to October 2023** 

Charity name: Hollesley Village Hall Charity registration number: 1002348 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

|Summary of the<br>purposes of the<br>charity as set out<br>in its governing<br>document|To manage Hollesley Village Hall for use of the inhabitants of Hollesley and<br>the neighbourhood without distinction of sex or of political, religious or<br>other opinions and in particular for use for meetings, lectures and classes and<br>for other forms of recreation and leisure-time occupation with the object of<br>improving the conditions of lifeforthe said inhabitants|
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|Summary of the<br>main activities in<br>relation to those<br>purposes for the<br>public benefit,|The following regular groups and classes have taken place:<br>Tai Chi, Art Class, Cricket Tots, Community Café, Karate, Welcome club,<br>Yoga, Youth club, Hollesley Players, Short Mat Bowls, WI, Carers’ group. Qi<br>Gong has also commenced.  Additionally, the hall has been used for regular<br>meetings suchas those oftheParishCouncilandGardening Club|
|Statement<br>confirming the<br>public benefit|All the regular activities are deemed to be of public benefit since they<br>improve the conditions of life for local inhabitants. This includes, but is not<br>limited to, the  enhancement of the health and well-being of the local<br>community, andthe provisionofeducationalopportunitiesfor local residents.|



## **Achievements and Performance** 

|Summary of the<br>main achievements<br>of the charity.|The Trust continued to enable a range of activities to take place during the<br>year. The jubilee was celebrated in June 2022 and trustees provided a<br>memorable afternoon tea for local residents<br>At 31 March 2023, the financial assets of the charity were transferred to a<br>new incorporated charity - Hollesley Village Hall CIO (registered charity No:<br>1197877). As of 1 April 2023, the CIO has taken over the operational<br>running ofthe villagehall.|
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## **Financial Review** 

|Review of the<br>charity’s financial<br>position at the<br>end of the<br>financial period<br>31 March 2023|At the end of the financial year (31 March 2023), the Trust had accumulated<br>balance of £42,632.<br>Grants and donations: £22,300 included donations, fund-raising, benefactors<br>and the fete. Restricted grants included a grant from the People’s Postcode<br>Lottery (£12,443), a grant from East Suffolk (£1050) and £500 from Village<br>Voices was also received to support the Jubilee Tea Dance.<br>£10,000 was refunded to the Lottery, the Jubilee Tea Dance cost £1,854 and<br>the phase 1 of the installation of an Air Source Heat Pump and associated<br>insulation was completed (£12584).<br>The legal fees related to the surgery lease were £ 1,500. The fees associated<br>with the change of governance were £16,458 which were met by a benefactor.<br>Accountancy fees were £600.|
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||All financial assets have been transferred to Hollesley Village Hall CIO as of 1<br>April 2023|
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|Statement<br>explaining the<br>policy for holding<br>reserves stating<br>why they are held|Unrestricted reserves are accumulated and designated for expenditure on<br>major maintenance and refurbishment requirements such as windows and<br>doors, stage curtains, chairs and tables, internal decoration and the fabric of<br>the building. These reserves also provide for the delivery of services for an<br>unexpected enforced extended closure.<br>Restricted reserves are for specific projects where grants have been made and<br>are stillto be spent.|
|Amount of<br>reserves held as<br>of 31 March 2023|The charity had an unrestricted reserve of £42,632|



## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Type of governing<br>document|Hollesley Village Hall is governed by a Trust Deed.|
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|How the charity is<br>constituted?|The charity  is constituted as an unincorporated charitable trust, which was<br>the primary optionavailable to VillageHallsinthe1960s.|
|Trustee selection<br>methods|Trustees were appointed by two methods:<br>a) user group representatives (who represent user groups who use the<br>village hall); and<br>b) annual Electionofthree personslivingin Hollesley and its surrounds.|



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charityname|Hollesley VillageHall|
|---|---|
|Registered charity number|1002348|
|Charity’s principal address|Woodbridge Road,<br>Hollesley<br>IP12 3QR|



|Trustees|Position|**Dates acted if not**<br>**for whole year**|
|---|---|---|
|G Bathe|Treasurer||
|C Gray|Secretary||
|A Yates|||
|R Bentley|Asst Treasurer||
|A Mills|||
|J Johnson|||
|JBrookes|||
|T Foy (elected)|Chair||
|M Montague(elected)|||
|Alan Martin(elected)|||
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|Section A|lndependent Examiner's Report|||
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|Report to the trustees/<br>membersof|HollesleyVillageHall|||
|Onaccountsfortheyear<br>ended|March 2023|Charityno<br>(ifany)|,oor3+8|
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||Ireporttothetrustees onmy examinationoftheaccountsoftheabove|||
||charity("the Trust") for the year|ended3110312023.||
|Responsibilitiesand|Asthecharity's trustees,you areresponsible forthepreparationofthe|||
|basisofreport|accounts in accordance withtherequirementsoftheCharitiesAct2011|||
||("theAct").|||



|Signed|,.,,.\:<br>'<br>F- \ i!-rr-'|Date:|30t06t202|
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|Name:|Kelly-Anne Byres|||
|Relevant professional|ICPA|||
|qualification(s) orbody||||
|(ifany):||||
|Address:|Unit 3-5,AltonBusiness Centre,ValleyLane,Wherstead, lPg2AX|||






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||**Hollesley Village Hall - Management Committee**|**Hollesley Village Hall - Management Committee**|**Hollesley Village Hall - Management Committee**|**1002348**|**1002348**|**1002348**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**<br>**from**|01/04/2022<br>Period start date|**To**||31/03/2023<br>Period end date|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**16,583**<br>**3,600**<br>**22,300**<br>**79**<br>**1,160**<br>**-**<br> **43,722**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**43,722**<br>**1,085**<br>**4,995**<br>**2,358**<br>**305**<br>**4,249**<br>**18,558**<br>**1,861**<br>**840**<br>**605**<br> **34,854**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**34,854**<br>**8,867**<br>**33,765**<br>**42,632**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**13,993**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**13,993**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**13,993**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**24,134**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**24,134**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**24,134**<br>**-               10,141**<br>**10,141**<br>**0**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**16,583**<br>**3,600**<br>**36,293**<br>**79**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,160**<br>**-**<br>**57,715**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**57,715**<br>**1,085**<br>**-**<br>**4,995**<br>**2,358**<br>**24,439**<br>**4,249**<br>**18,558**<br>**1,861**<br>**840**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**605**<br>**-**<br>**58,988**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**58,988**<br>**-                 1,274**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Hire of Hall|**16,583**||||||**8,264**|
|Rent from Doctors|**3,600**||||||**3,600**|
|Grants and Donations|**22,300**||||||**64,842**|
|Bank Interest|**79**||||||**10**|
|Refunds|||||||**107**|
|Transfer In|||||||**-**|
|200 Club|**1,160**||||||**3,017**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**43,722**||||||**79,840**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**79,840**|
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|<br>Insurance 22/23|**1,085**||||||**834**|
|Charged againstgrant "Just 42" re rents|||||||**-**|
|Water and Electricity|**4,995**||||||**3,822**|
|Cleaning|**2,358**||||||**2,179**|
|Projects|**305**||||||**71,171**|
|Other Repairs and Maintenance|**4,249**||||||**7,514**|
|Accountancy/Legal|**18,558**||||||**7,444**|
|SundryExpenses|**1,861**||||||**727**|
|Subscriptions/Licences|**840**||||||**499**|
|Training|||||||**-**|
|Loan Repayments|||||||**-**|
|Prizes|**605**||||||**562**|
||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**34,854**||||||**94,752**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases (see table)**||||||||
|**,**|**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**94,752**|
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||**8,867**|**-               10,141**|**-**||**-                 1,274**||**-              14,912**|
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||**33,765**|**10,141**|**-**||**43,906**||**58,818**|
||**42,632**|**0**|**-**||**42,633**||**43,906**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|Signature<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Village Hall and Equipment at Valuation<br>Unrestricted Funds<br>Restricted Funds<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**42,632**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**42,632**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>305170<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Ruth Bentley<br>Geraldine Bathe|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

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