## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** **From** Period start date Period end date 01 April 2022 31 March 2023 **To** ## Section A ## Reference and administration details **Charity name** Easington Colliery Band **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1028724 **Charity's principal address** c/o 3 Greenwood Close Fatfield Washington **Postcode NE38 8LR** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Peter Lawson|HonorarySecretary||| ||Jonathan Collins|HonoraryChairman||| ||Alan Cummings|HonoraryPresident||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**TAR** March **2012** 5 **Section A** ## **CHARITY COMMISSION** ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **FOR ENGLAND AND WALES** **Independent Examiner's Report** **Report to the trustees** ~~**/** I~~ Easington Colliery Band **members of.** ' **On accounts for the year** 31[st ] March 2023 **ended** ' **Charity no** 1028724 **(if any)** **Set out on pages** 7 and 8 of this document I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above " charity ( the Trust") for the year ended 31/03/2023. **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. - _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed:** I **Date:** 1 30/01/2024 **Name:** I Leanne Ash FCCA **Relevant professional** Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) **qualification(s) or body (if any):** ~~' �~~ **Address:** 10 Montfalcon Close, Peterlee, County Durham, SR8 1DD **October 2018** 1 **IER** (HARIIY (OAIAIISSION EIKjLAI￿lpKl WAiES E￿￿￿10￿ CcAWgry B•nd Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For th• porlod from To 31K)Y￿3 Section A Receipts and payments Unr••trl¢ted R••trl¢t•d lund• Endowm•nt lun 10 M•r••tt toth• M•rn•t£ Totsl fund• Lasl year lo th• f￿r••I t tOlh• rwr••i£ Al R•c•l 10.6J1 4.390 Grants 4.019 25,039 4.mg 25,03• 35 10,197 C¥rè Cafè AR) set an n¥ ent rot•1 rocelpts A3Pa ments 13.383 1275 14.658 1333 11mS 1202 In¥ur¥r 1.418 738 1,J05 1.754 1254 1417 2.slz 4.551 22.356 51.731 1542 7.051 26￿15 60.166 1508 11J8 Cafè eywws Sub total 16, A4 Asset and investment Sub total 51.731 16.435 6&1 31690 Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfern lthieen funds A6 Ca•h funds last ye¥rend Cash fund5 this year end 107 16.43 14.361 15. 17.09 16.4 17,093 31 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrnstricted fund• to nMr•¥t £ Rgstrl¢t•d fundg to M•r••t£ Endowm•nt fund$ ategories Oetails B1 Ca8h funds 10.164 Bank. Café 171 Totsl ush fvnds 17,092.74 Unrn•trl¢t•d RMtrlct•d nd• lund• to nMr••l t i• r4••rn•¢ ¢ fvr D•t•ll• B2 Olhr mon•tary a•g•ts pL￿d tOTAl*h Details Fund to*l*h O•tsils B4 Assets rotaln•d for tho charity's own use FurKI tOf**dth Amount du• Detsils BS Llabllltle• SI9￿ by{*)• orts¥o Irust885 on •haifc¢*l InMtèBS Date of nalure l- AIAJ Cowlu)