Chairpersons report - April 2023
by Councillor Neil Gwynne, The Town Mayor of Romsey
This is the annual report as submitted by the outgoing Chair following his year of
office as both Town Mayor of Romsey and Chairperson of Bartlett's Almshouses,
one of Romsey's Municipal Charities.
Since I took over the role of Chair in May of last year, much has happened.
We have all enjoyed the wonderful spectacle of the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee,
and the local celebrations that took place. Romsey was a special place to be on this
occasion, and as I have said a number of times since, I was particularly pleased and
honoured to be Mayor of this Town during the amazing street paty and other celebrations
that took place.
Regrettably, a few weeks later we lost Her Majesty, and after a reign of 70 years it was
difficult to consider how the future would be.
However, we now have a King to crown, and it is pleasing to know that I shall still be The
Town Mayor when his Coronation is held on Saturday 6th May 2023.
Turning to matters closer to home, our lady residents mainly seem to be in reasonably
good health, and it is very pleasing to be able to report that we have all the same residents
as when I took over the Chair some 12 months ago.
On the financial side, we are continuing to experience huge problems caused by the
current energy crisis, which resulted as a direct consequence of the war in Ukraine. How
long these problems will continue is unknown, although they are having a significant effect
on our outgoings for energy supply to keep our residents warm and comfy in their homes.
And there is also no doubt that with some of our buildings being of an age, maintenance
costs will always periodically be significant.
A few difficult decisions will, I fear, still need to be made concerning future funding.
Despite these extremely heavy ongoing expenses, the Charity remains in good hands and
continues to have a strong financial base, and for this l am grateful to the elected officers
and in particular to the enthusiasm of The Board of Trustees.
Having looked for funding at some of the grant schemes operated by local councils, we do
fall foul of some of the qualifying criteria, but I would urge that the Trustees do periodically
look to council grants for help - specifically from Romsey Town Council as a whole;
individual Borough councillors from the Romsey Wards of Abbey, Tadburn and
Cupernham; and the two County Councillors of Romsey Town and Romsey Rural
divisions.
At the next meeting of Romsey Town Council I shall be handing over the Chair of this
important local charity to the Town Mayor elect (which, provided he is successful at the
Town Council elections on May 4th, will be Councillor John Ray) and I would like to wish
him every success in this role, which I have enjoyed so much over the past twelve months.
Neil Gwynne.
Town Mayor and Chair
202212023.
**Barletts Almshouses 1046074 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 01/04/2022 31/03/2023 **To from**
**CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**59,847**
**-**
**481**
**550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,878**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,878**
**17,253**
**22,088**
**1,576**
**196**
**-**
**5,555**
**-**
**-**
**2,451**
**49,119**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,119**
**11,759**
**-**
**92,295**
**104,054**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**59,847**
**-**
**481**
**550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,878**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,878**
**17,253**
**22,088**
**1,576**
**196**
**-**
**5,555**
**-**
**-**
**2,451**
**49,119**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,119**
**11,759**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**59,847**
**-**
**481**
**550**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,878**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**60,878**
**17,253**
**22,088**
**1,576**
**196**
**-**
**5,555**
**-**
**-**
**2,451**
**49,119**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,119**
**11,759**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Weeklymaintenance charge|**59,847**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**59,847**||**49,807**|
|Housingbenefit|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Interest|**481**|||**481**||**32**|
|Donations|**550**|||**550**||**-**|
|Council Tax refunds|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**60,878**|||**60,878**||**49,839**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**60,878**||**49,839**|
||||||||
|Utilities|**17,253**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**17,253**||**13,025**|
|Repairs and maintenance|**22,088**|||**22,088**||**24,400**|
|Insurance|**1,576**|||**1,576**||**1,473**|
|Almshouses Association|**196**|||**196**||**187**|
|Propertyrefurbishment|**-**|||**-**||**2,224**|
|Secretaryand Treasurer|**5,555**|||**5,555**||**4,419**|
|Residents' lunch|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Roof repairs|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Miscellaneous|**2,451**|||**2,451**||**1,848**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**49,119**|||**49,119**||**47,576**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||**-**|**49,119**||**47,576**|
||||||||
||**11,759**|**-**|**-**|
**11,759**||**2,263**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**92,295**|**-**||**92,295**||**90,032**|
||**104,054**|**-**|**-**|**104,054**||**92,295**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
29/08/2023
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Supplier payments
**Details**
TSB accounts
CAF Bank accounts
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Buildings|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**38,948**
**-**
**65,106**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**104,054**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
John Ray|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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|||||
|||||
|||||
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|||||
||||Date of
approval|
|||John Ray|20/09/2023|
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
29/08/2023
2
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name Bartletts Almshouses **members of On accounts for the year** 31[st] March 2023 **Charity no** 1046074 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 & 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
- I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31[st] March 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** 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:
- 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.
**Date:** 21[St] September **Signed:**[Timothy M Rogerson ] 2023 **Name:** Timothy M Rogerson **Relevant professional** FCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 18 Saxon Way Romsey SO51 5PT
**October 2018**
1
**IER**
**Section B Disclosure**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**October 2018**
2
**IER**