## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] September 2022 To 31[st] August 2023** ## **Charity name: Poole University of the Third Age** ## **Charity registration number: 1019559** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance the education of the public in the
Poole area, and in particular the education of
older people and those retired from fulltime
work by all means including associated
activities conducive to learning and personal
development.| |Summary of the main activities
in relation to those purposes
for the public benefit, in
particular, the activities,
projects or services identified
in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The provision of classes in a wide variety of
subjects covering intellectual, physical & social
activities.| |Statement confirming whether
the trustees have had regard
to the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees do have regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on public
benefit, and the contents of this Annual Report
demonstrate the value of our work to the
public.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Na| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Na.| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Poole u3a has the support of numerous
volunteers without whose help it would be
unable to function. These include volunteers
who help with running the charity, and
volunteers who lead our classes.| Na. Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|The charity makes a valuable contribution to
the mental & physical wellbeing of older
people by giving them the opportunity to
participate socially in a wide range of mental &
physical activities which help to maintain their
mental acuity & physical health.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|The membership target of 1000 was again
slightly undershot, there being a total of 889
members at the end of August 2023.| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives set|Para 1.41|Na.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Na.| |Other||Na.| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
theperiod|Para 1.21|See the Annual Accounts & Treasurer's Report
associated with this Annual Return.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|Reserves are held to cover at least 50% of
budgeted expenditure.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£39,309.18| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Na.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|Na.| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the charity
continuingas agoingconcern|Para 1.23|Plans have been drawn up to stop the decrease
in reserves which has occurred in each of the
past fouryears.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You maychoose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |The charity’s principal sources
of funds (including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|Membership subscriptions| |Investment policy and
objectives including any social
investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|Na.| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|1. A decline in membership
2. Large increases in the costs of hiring activity
venues| |Other||Na.| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|A Constitution last updated in October 2018 &
derived from Poole u3a's membership of the
Third Age Trust| |How is the charity constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of any
person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed or reappointed
annually at the Annual General Meeting in
November. Trustees may be co-opted during
the year but must then be elected at the next
AGM.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|Poole u3a is managed by the trustees meeting
monthly as a committee. Ad-hoc sub-
committees may be appointed to report on
issues of major importance.| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|None| |Other||Na.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Poole Universityof the Third Age| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|Poole u3a| |Registered charitynumber|1019559| |Charity’s principal address|The Spire,
High Street,
Poole
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Alan Jowsey|Chair||| ||Jacqueline Bettess|||| ||Ruaraidh MacKay|Treasurer||| ||Sarah Faux|||| ||Margaret Riggs|||| ||Linda Larcombe|||| ||Susan Thomas|||| ||Andrew Tyson|||| ||Siobhan Coleman|Secretary||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Na. Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|| |---|---|---| |Na.||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held Na. in this capacity Name and objects of the Na. charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Na. safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**ames and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |Na.||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
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Alan Stuart Jowsey|Ruaraidh Donald James MacKay| ||

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