**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 01 2022 31 12 2022
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## Section A Reference and administration details
The Cross And Stable Church and Community Centre for **Charity name** Downs Barn and Downhead Park **Other names charity is known by** Cross and Stable Church and Community Centre **Registered charity number (if any)** 1017685
**Charity's principal address**
1 Stable Yard Downs Barn Milton Keynes **Postcode MK14 7RZ**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Rev Paul Smith|Chair||By virtue of office as Minister
of the Church|
||Ric Brackenbury|Secretary||Milton Keynes CityCouncil|
||Terry Baines||To 2ndOctober 2022|Milton Keynes City Council|
||Chris Pooley|||Cross and Stable Church|
||Mike Morris|||Office of Stantonbury
Ecumenical Moderator|
||Trevor Heale||From 25thOctober 2021|Great Linford Parish Council|
||Paul Trendall||From 21stOctober 2022|Milton Keynes City Council|
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Charity Trust Deed dated 18th January 1993
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Nominated as per section 7 of the Charity Trust Deed. Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Day to day running of the church and community centre is delegated to the management committee, with the trustees providing oversight and direction only where required.
2022 saw a recovery from COVID-19 in the use of the church and community centre and several groups returned as regular users. Together with several casual bookers, the centre generated a higher volume of use than seen for several years.
- A number of long-needed renovations were carried out in-year, including external painting and windows work which required scaffolding. This led to a significant loss for the year. These renovations have been planned investments and made with the long-term in mind. Despite concerns over increased energy costs, the charity has more than adequate reserves to remain a going concern.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
Overall control of the Cross and Stable Church and Community Centre for Downs Barn and Downhead Park, Milton Keynes; via a Management Committee, for the benefit of the local and wider community.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
Upkeep and managing regular and ad-hoc bookings for the church and community centre.
## Section D Achievements and performance
March **2012**
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## Section D Achievements and performance
Provision of community facilities for church and community user groups **Summary of the main** throughout the year. **achievements of the charity during the year** With long-term renovations made, and a part time bookings officer now in place, significant work has been done ensuring the sustainability of the centre and reducing pressures on key volunteers.
## **Section E Financial review**
Management Committee has agreed that we should never hold less than **Brief statement of the** £10,000 in current funds; this would be to cover a replacement boiler **charity’s policy on reserves** should the need arise.
None. Although the Centre posted a loss during the year, this was due to **Details of any funds materially** planned renovations as a one-off, affordable through reserves and a **in deficit** grant from the Cross and Stable Charities.
## **Section F 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)** Ric Brackenbury **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc) Date** 24/10/2023
March **2012**
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## **Cross and Stable Management Committee**
## **Income and Expenditure from 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022**
22-Oct-23
|**2021**
**£**
**Income**
Rent
4,025
Sun
Church
990
Sun
World of Grace
1,398
Sun
Winning Souls
2,872
M-Fri
Mini Professors
1,802
closed
Centre Stage UK
Mon
Forward in Faith
330
Tues
U3A Tuesday Choir
132
Tues
Cairo Cats
W/Fr
988
Wed
Weight Watchers
Thurs
Gamblers Anon
352
Thurs
U3A Monday Dance
900
Fri
Yogawas Yapsley Trainig
1,218
Great Linford Parish
2,556
Casual Bookings
17,563
Fund Raising - Grant
Current Account Interest
4 CCLA Deposit Acc Interest
Insurance Claim
cf £860 in Bld Fd
Telephone from Pre-school
2,669.96 FIT Receipts (Solar Panels)
Unclaimed deposits
Confiscated deposits
**20,237**
General Fund
Building Fund Restr.
Building Fund GRANT
Bell Fund VisitingBell Ringers|**2022**
**£**
owe to end
Octobr
4,200.00
1,530.00
2,182.00
1,760.00
2,690.00
1,012.00
60.00
1,300.00
72.00
1,306.25
1,734.00
1,029.00
3,586.78|**2021**
**£**
4,152
790
2,557
828
1,365
219
667
2,031
550
96
-
-
-
**13,256**|**Expenditure**
Cleaning
Window cleaning - 4 weekly
Ground Maintenance
50 Blades
Floor
General Building Cost See Notes
Insurance
Ecclesiastical
Water
Anglia
Electric
Total Power
Gas
Total Power
Phones
BT
Bank charges
Late Deposit refund
alarms
Boiler
Bookings Officer
Renovation
Deposits see cell AB48
General Fund|**Expenditure**
Cleaning
Window cleaning - 4 weekly
Ground Maintenance
50 Blades
Floor
General Building Cost See Notes
Insurance
Ecclesiastical
Water
Anglia
Electric
Total Power
Gas
Total Power
Phones
BT
Bank charges
Late Deposit refund
alarms
Boiler
Bookings Officer
Renovation
Deposits see cell AB48
General Fund|**2022**
**£**
4,777.87
780.00
1,888.00
4,392.70
1,437.58
591.87
1,055.55
3,053.03
590.96
31.75
3,156.50
28,361.76|
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||||||**50,117.57**|
||||Net General fund|24,221.41
-||
||||Building Fund
Bell Fund|Restricted
Designated
Transfer to Ch||
|**20,237**|||||**50,117.57**|
|**Fund Balances**
31/12/2021
Surplus/Deficit||6,981
31/12/2021||||
|||||GAIN(- Loss)
24,221.41
-||
|||||||
||||**Bank Balances**||**22/10/2023**|
||||Change||15/06/2021|
|||17,372
31,779
1,080
-
42
27|CafCash Account
4,320.04
CCLA Account
310.06
Deposits
280.00
D & Cred/to be pstd
29,125.51
-
Cash/unpresented
6.00
-||21,691.65
32,088.76
800.00
-
29,083.51
-
21.00|
|||**48,139**|Total
24,221.41
-||**23,917.90**|
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## **Report of the Independent Examiner to Cross and Stable Church and**
## **Community Centre Management Committee**
I report on the financial statements of the Management Committee for the year ended 31[st] December 2022 which are set out in the attached accounts
## **Respective responsibilities of the Management Committee and the Independent Examiner**
As members of the Management Committee you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements; you consider that the audit requirements of the Regulations and s.144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act), do not apply and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility:
- To Examine the accounts under s. 145 of the Act
- To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under s. 145(5)(b) of the Act; and
- To state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of the Independent Examiner’s Report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under s.43 (7)(b) of the Act and to be found in the Church Guidance 2006 edition. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Management Committee and a comparison of these accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosure in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you, as Trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an Audit, and consequently I do not express an Audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
In my opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the charity’s state of affairs as at the 31[st] December 2022 and its incoming resources and application of resources in the year then ended.
In connection with my examination , no matter has come to my attention:
1. Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect, the requirements:
- To keep accounting records in accordance with s. 130 of the Act; and
- To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Act and the Regulations, have not been met; or
2. To which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Nicholas Johnson
44 Belsize Avenue Milton Keynes, MK6 3LW
18 March 2023