**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From** 01 April 2024 **To** 31 March 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** The Craven University of the Third Age **Other names charity is known by** Craven u3a |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---| |1 Mick Richings|Chair||Elected by membership| |2 Lesley Perkins|Treasurer||Elected by membership| |3 Anne MacDonald|Vice Chair||Elected by membership| |4 Linda Hoole|Secretary||Elected by membership| |5 Jacqui Eames|Trustee||Elected by membership| |6 Douglas Hirst|Trustee||Elected by membership| |7 Sandra Firm|Trustee||Elected by membership| |8 Adrianne Gilcrest|Trustee||Elected by membership| |9|||| |10|||| |11|||| |12|||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |~~oe~~|~~oe~~|~~oe~~|~~oe~~| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** TAR 1 2024-25 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |Independent Financial
Advisor|Mr Dave Smith|Low Green House, Church Lane, Gargrave, Skipton BD23 3PF| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Constitution (eg. trust, association, company) Unincorporated association Elected by membership at AGM; if co-opted by committee they must Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) stand for election at the subsequent AGM. - (eg. trust, association, company) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** Amendment to Clause 16 (6), (b), (8) of the Constitution was approved by You **may choose** to include additional information, where the Third Age Trust on 24.03.2025 and approval will be sought of the relevant, about: membership at the AGM on 14.05.2025. • policies and procedures New Trustees are directed to the Charity Commission’s “Trustee adopted for the induction and training of trustees; Handbook” and the Third Age Trust > Support for your u3a > “Trustee • the charity’s organisational Code of Conduct for u3as in England and Wales”. structure and any wider network with which the charity All trustees have been given a briefing on their responsibilities and made works; aware of all Third Age Trust advice sheets. • relationship with any related parties; All trustees give their time voluntary and receive no remuneration or other • trustees’ consideration of benefits. major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The advancement of education, and in particular the education of older people and those who are retired from full time work, including **Summary of the objects of the** associated activities conductive to learning and personal development, in **charity set out in its** Craven and its surrounding locality. To provide facilities for leisure and **governing document** recreational activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for the above persons in the interests of their welfare. TAR 2 2024-25 During the year, we organised 75 groups, which at year end has been attended by 960 Individual and Associate members. All Trustees have been directed to, and have read the guidance issued by the Charity Commission and the Third Age Trust **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)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grant making; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. TAR 3 2024-25 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** During the year we’ve organised and ran groups, which are intended to be educational, recreational and leisure in nature. Over the period April 2024 to March 2025, we ran 75 groups, with approx. 960 members attending these groups. Virtually all Groups meet in venue, outdoors, with three exceptions which are held in member homes. The target for the incoming committee post 2024 AGM was to increase the membership which had partially covered to 740 from a low of 650 post covid, as of 31[st] March 2025 it stands at 960, the target is to increase the membership to 1000+ In addition to the programme of events/activities our Summer Programme was attended by approx. 190 members over 2-days at Ermysteds Grammar School. TAR 4 2024-25 ## **Section E Financial review** Our policy is to retain the reserves at a level equal to six months of **Brief statement of the** regular expenditure. The Trustees agreed that this is sufficient to pay **charity’s policy on reserves** our obligations should the number of members paying subscriptions falls significantly, or other contingencies. Reserves on 31[st] March 2025 at the financial year-end are above the specified minimum. **Details of any funds materially** Not applicable **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** All funds held are used to pay costs associated with running Craven u3a. You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - relevant about: As the membership increased as did the reserves held, on advice from • the charity’s principal our IFA the membership fee has been reduced from £35 to £25 per sources of funds (including member. The fee will continue to kept under review. any fundraising); - how expenditure has The legacy has been ring-fenced as a hardship fund to assist any member supported the key objectives requiring help with membership and group fees. of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Lesley Perkins **Full name(s)** James Michael Richings **Position (e.g. Secretary,** Chair Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 01.04.2025 TAR 2024-25 5 ||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Craven u3a**|||||**1038617**|||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**|Period end date|||| ||||1st April 2024|||31st March 2025|||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**Last year**|||||||||| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| ||**Membership**||**23,844**||**-**||**23,844**||**29,902**| ||**Gift Aid**||**2,608**||**-**||**2,608**||**2,278**| ||**Venue charge**||**13,557**||**-**||**13,557**||**13,227**| ||**Summer**
**Programme**||**3,848**||**-**||**3,848**||**2,852**| ||**Transport**||**2,485**||**-**||**2,485**||**1,854**| ||**Donations**||||||||**5,055**| ||**Art Event**||||**-**||||**128**| ||**Saturday Meetings**||**1,460**||**-**||**1,460**||**1,296**| ||**Walking Group**||**18,318**||||**18,318**||| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|_(Gross income for AR)_
**- 0**||**66,120**||**-**||**66,120**||**56,592**| |~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|||||| |~~==~~|**- 0**
~~==~~|~~==~~|**- 0**
~~==~~|~~==~~|**- 0**||**-**||| |~~==~~|**- 0**
~~==~~|~~==~~|**- 0**
~~==~~|~~==~~|**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |**_Sub total_**
~~==~~|**_Sub total_**
**- 0**
~~==~~|~~==~~|**- 0**
~~==~~|~~==~~|**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|||**66,120**||| |**_Total receipts_ **
~~==~~|
**- 0**
~~==~~|~~==~~|**66,120**
~~==~~|~~==~~|**- 0**||||**56,592**| |~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|~~==~~|||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||**Accommodation**||**21,131**||**-**||**21,131**||**20,085**| ||**3rd Age Trust**||**4,570**||**-**||**4,570**||**3,094**| ||**Summer**
**Programme**||**1,680**||**-**||**1,680**||**1,761**| ||**Transport**||**1,810**||**-**||**1,810**||**1,890**| ||**Capital expenditure**||**1,067**||||**1,067**||| ||**Carol service**||**110**||||**110**||| ||**40th anniversary**||**12**||**-**||**12**||| ||**Saturday Mtgs**||**551**||**-**||**551**||**730**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 16/04/2025 1 ||**PayPal commission**||**361**||**-**||**361**||**446**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Sumup commission**||||||||**151**| ||**Barclaycard**||**87**||||**87**||| ||**Postage and**
**Printing**||**484**||**-**||**484**||**135**| ||**Web Site Zoom**||**502**||||**502**||**252**| ||**Speaker Expenses**||||||||**-**| ||**Film Licence,**
**Refreshments,**
**Committee**
**Expenses**||**794**||||**794**||**427**| ||**Donations**||**75**||||**75**|0|
**115**| ||**Walking group**||**17,385**||||**17,385**||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**50,619**||**-**||**50,619**||**29,086**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|
**- 0**||**50,619**||**- 0**||**50,619**||**29,086**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**- 0**||**15,501**||**-**||**15,681**||**27,506**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**- 0**||**54,540**||**-**||**54,540**||**27,034**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**- 0**||**70,041**||**-**||**70,221**||**54,540**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Barclays Bank||||**30,026**||**-**||**-**| ||PayPal||||**15**||**-**||**-**| ||Skipton BS||||**40,000**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**70,041**||**-**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||Agreement Error||||OK| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 16/04/2025 2 ||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 16/04/2025 3 ||||||||**-**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| ||_Lesley Perkins_||||LESLEY PERKINS||||17/04/2025| ||_Dave Smith_||||DAVE SMITH||||17/04/2025| CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 16/04/2025 4 J ## **CHARITY COMMISSION Independent examiner's** FOR ENGLAND AND WALES report on the accounts ## a **Section A Independent Examiner's Report** [oT - ~~-~~ **Report to the trustees/** I ~~,~~ **members of** Craven u3a . **On accounts for the year** 31[st] March 2025 **Charity no** 1038617 **ended (if any)** **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 31/03/2024. - **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 respe_ct: - -• 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:** ~~4) "HA' JvI'@ | Date:|oo~~ **Name:** | David Malcolm Smith **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** ## **Disclosure** a Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). > **Section B** a **IER** **October 2018**