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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 Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled to Trustee name Office (if any) whole year appoint trustee (if any)** Chair By virtue of office as Minister of 1[Rev Paul Smith] the Church 2 Ric Brackenbury Secretary Milton Keynes City Council 3 Chris Pooley Cross and Stable Church Stantonbury Ecumenical 4[Mike Morris] Partnership 5 Trevor Heale Great Linford Parish Council 6 Paul Trendall 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)
**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.
2023 saw sustained use of the church and community centre, with bookings returning to pre-pandemic levels. The centre is now being run on a more sustainable basis with a part time bookings clerk in post to manage day to day administration instead of relying on a small core volunteer group, many of whom still serve faithfully on the management committee.
Following the loss in 2022, 2023 saw a significant surplus, due to a grant received from the Cross and Stable charities. This was to fund significant renovations, principally external renovation, replacement patio doors, and electrical work on the Centre.
## **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
**TAR**
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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** ~~a~~ 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. This is currently exceeded by some margin. **Details of any funds materially** None. **in deficit**
## **Section F Declaration** ~~ee~~ **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 ~~ee ee~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 27/10/2024 ~~|~~
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**Cross and Stable Management Committee**
Ac to 31/12/23 printed 12-Oct-24
## **Income and Expenditure from 1st January 2023 to 31/12/2023**
|**2021**
**£**
4,025
990
1,398
2,872
1,802
132
352
330
988
900
1,218
2,556|**2,022**
**£**
**Income**
Rent
4,200.00
Sun
Church
1,530.00
Sun
World of Grace
2,182.00
Sun
Winning Souls
1,760.00
M-Fri
Mini Professors
2,690.00
closed
Centre Stage UK
Mon
Forward in Faith
60.00
Tues
Cairo Cats
1,306.25
Thurs
U3A Monday Dance
1,012.00
Tues
U3A Tuesday Choir
W/Fr
1,300.00
Wed
Weight Watchers
Jumma Prayers
72.00
Thurs
Gamblers Anon
1,734.00
Fri
Yogawas Yapsley Trainig
Yoga - (Karen Noon)
1,029.00
Great Linford Parish
3,674.78
Casual Bookings
**22,550.03**
Current Account Interest
330.87
CCLA Deposit Acc Interest
Insurance Claim
cf £860 in Bld Fd
Telephone from Pre-school
2,678.26
FIT Receipts (Solar Panels)
425.00
Fund Raising - Grant
Unclaimed deposits
Confiscated deposits
**25,984.16**
General Fund
Building Fund Restr.
Building Fund GRANT
Bell Fund VisitingBell Ringers|**2023**
**£**
owe to end
Octobr
4,130.00
1,659.00
2,192.40
2,859.60
66.00
1,336.50
1,020.80
1,445.00
370.50
1,271.70
1,093.40
1,092.00
4,942.60|**2021**
**2,022**
**£**
**£**
4,152
4,544.00
790
780.00
2,557
1,888.00
-
3,478.37
828
4,392.70
1,365
1,437.58
219
591.87
667
1,055.55
2,031
3,053.03
550
590.96
96
31.75
-
-
28,361.76|**Expenditure**
Cleaning
Anita
Window cleaning - 4 weekly
Ground Maintenance
50 Blades
Floor
Bookings Officer
Brad
General Building Cost See Notes
Insurance
Ecclesiastical
Water
Anglia
Electric
Total Power
Late Deposit refund
Gas
Total Power
Phones
BT
Bank charges
alarms
Boiler
Renovation
Write offs|**Expenditure**
Cleaning
Anita
Window cleaning - 4 weekly
Ground Maintenance
50 Blades
Floor
Bookings Officer
Brad
General Building Cost See Notes
Insurance
Ecclesiastical
Water
Anglia
Electric
Total Power
Late Deposit refund
Gas
Total Power
Phones
BT
Bank charges
alarms
Boiler
Renovation
Write offs|**2023**
**£**
4,620.00
660.00
2,207.00
3,646.43
9,257.02
1,515.73
385.05
1,824.83
7,800.20
605.39
60.00|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||
|17,563
4
2,669.96||**23,479.50**
-
1,032.49
-
4,011.53
16,000.00
**44,523.52**
**44,523.52**
0
31/12/2023
35,334.77
525.00
to general fund
returned to ch
.
**35,859.77**|||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||||||
||||**13,256**
**50,205.57**|General Fund|||
|**20,237**||||||**32,581.65**|
|||||Net General fund|4,058.13
-||
|||||Building Fund
Bell Fund|Restricted
Designated
Transfer to Ch||
|**20,237**|**25,984.16**||**13,256**
**50,205.57**|||**32,581.65**|
|31/12/2021|||6,981
24,221
-
31/12/2021
31/12/2022||||
||||||GAIN(- Loss)
11,941.87||
||||||||
||**Fund Balances**|||**Bank Balances**|||
||31/12/2022
Surplus/Deficit|||Change||31/12/2023|
|48,039
100
to general fund
returned to ch|23,393
General Fund
11,941.87
525
Building F Restr.
to general fund
Building F Desig
to general fund
returned to ch
Bell Fund Desig||17,372
21,691.65
31,779
32,088.76
1,080
-
800.00
-
42
29,083.51
-
27
21.00|CafCash Account
8,600.32
-
CCLA Account
8,990.54
-
Deposits
160.00
D & Cred/to be pstd
29,372.73
Cash/unpresented
-||13,091.33
23,098.22
640.00
-
289.22
21.00|
|**48,139.31**|**23,918**
Total
11,941.87||**48,139**
**23,917.90**|Total
11,941.87||**35,859.77**|
Report of the Independent Examiner to Cross and Stable Church and
Communlty Centre Management Committee
I report on the financial statements of the Management Committee for the yearended 31.
December 2023 which a set out in the attached accounts
Respectlve responslbllltles of the Management Commlttee and the Independent Examlner
As members of the management committee you a responsible for the preparation of the financial
statements; you consider that the audit requirernents of the Re8ulation5 and s.14412) 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 state ary matters have come to my
attention.
Basls of the Independent Examlner's Report
My examlnatlon Includes a revlew of the accountSng 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 disclosu in the accounts, and seekin8 explanations from you, as Trustees,
concerning any such matter5. 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 Examlner'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. December 2023 and its incoming resources and application of resources in the year then
ended.
In connectlon with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
l. Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect, the requirements
to keep accountin8 records in accordance with s. 130 of the Act; and to prepare accounts
whlch 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 to enable a proper understanding of the
accounts to be reached
Nicho
Johnson
5° July 2024