## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period from 1st September 2023 to 31st August 2024** ## **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 academic,**
**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|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |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.**| Other **N/A** ## **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|**There were 915 members at the end of**
**August 2024, a slight increase**
**compared to 889 members the previous**
**year.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**See the Annual Accounts & Treasurer's**
**Report associated with this Annual**
**Return.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held to cover at least 50%**
**of budgeted expenditure.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£49,017.15**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No uncertainties.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Membership subscriptions and class**
**fees.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**1. A decline in membership numbers.**
**2. Large increases in the costs of hiring**
**activity venues.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **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|**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|**N/A**| |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 about 8 times per year 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||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Poole University of the Third Age.| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Poole u3a| |Registered charity number|1019559| |Charity’s principal address|The Spire, High Street, Poole BH15 1DF| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Alan Jowsey|Chair||| ||Ruaraidh MacKay|Treasurer||| ||Jacqueline Bettess|||| ||Sarah Faux|||| ||Margaret Riggs|||| ||Julia Palmer|||| ||Sue Thomas|||| ||Denise Brown|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **N/A** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Ruaraidh Donald James MacKay **Full name(s)** Alan Stuart Jowsey ~~a~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair Treasurer **Chair, etc)** ~~Oo~~ **Date** 19th May 2025 ~~oe~~ 2023-24 POOLE u3a- INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT- Year endlrKJ 31 2024 Registered Charity No. 1019559 2023124 Incomo 2022123 Expenditure 2022123 2023124 Members, Subscriptions Gift Aid Donations Savings Bank Interest £53,073.00 £8,561.70 £552.12 £517.17 £62,782.65 £5,499.76 £335.29 £1,141.04 membersh￿ refunds Venue Hire Softsvare licences Offt¢e Rent & s￿VI￿ Charge Third Age Trust Affiliath)n Fee U3A Twst & CLA Li￿n Printing stationery Postage Telephone EqulFxrEnVCou￿e Ak SFeaker5' Fees Le&Jers' meeb.ngs Paypal Con￿￿$$1 Sundrtes Dep￿latIOn on Tang￿￿ Assets Travel Group expendilu￿ for year £359.00 £53,735.12 £1,151.28 £5,701.80 £3,675.25 £2.478.00 £1,037.66 £62.64 £436.00 £147.48 £353.02 £534.00 £2,223.00 £39,458.93 £1.058.32 £5,270.60 £3,424.00 £1.381.47 £658.98 £91.19 £917.50 £82.66 £222.72 £149.37 £22.15 £380.07 £6.79 £438.26 £137.76 £437.26 £1,018.70 Travel GTOUP Income for year £861.00 Total Income £63,564.99 £69,758.74 Tolal Currènt Exporxliture £71,264.97 £55,784.01 Totsl Ca￿1 EXp￿ditUre £.00 Excess l{Defiat) of IncoffE over ExF*iture- Travd ar￿￿ -£157.70 £0.00 Excess /(Der￿lt> of In¢i>me over ExFendiiu -£7.542.28 £13,974.73 £63,564.99 £69,758.74 £63,564.99 £69,758.74 Pa8¢ 1 2023-24 Poole u3a BALANCE SHEET as at 31 ALWitst 2024 Llabllltles 2022123 2023124 2022123 2023124 Accumulated Reserve Fund Correction of overslaled a¢¢wed hire Charges Travel Group Reserve Fund £39,309.18 £49,017.15 Cash at Samngs Bank Cash at Nafyvest Bank £36,541.25 £37,682.29 £3,096.29 £57,827.02 £o.i)o £0.00 £1,195.51 £1,195.51 Cash wrth Paypal Cash at HSBC Cash at HSBC (Travel Group) Tan9ible Fix￿1 Assets SUSPENSE ACCOUNTS £9,623.93 £.00 £.00 £.00 SUSPENSE ACCOUNTS Members. Subscriptions Received in Advance Accrued expenses (Third Age Twst) Gift Aid ￿paYment £1,067.15 £830.89 £0.00 £50,746.00 £4.805.47 £.00 £200.00 £.00 Venue Hire charges PaKI in Advan Venue hire refund due £.00 £.00 £.00 £.00 £40,704.69 £105.764.13 £40,704.69 £105,764.13 Prepared By Rory MacKay Honorary Treasurer, Pwle U&4 03. ri. I Examin&J By Colin Merrett Independ&nl Examiner Agreed By Alan Jowsey Chair, Poole V38 9-1,, IUF Page 2 CHARITY COMMISSION I FOR ENGLAND AND WALES •++ Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Poole U3A On accounts for the year ended 31 August 2024 Charity no (if any) 1019559 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 3110812023 Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ( the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5){b) of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: &-11_2* Name: Colin Merrett Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 23 Wynne Close Broadstone Dorset IER Oct 2018