**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** **From** Period start date Period end date 1 April 2023 31 March 2024 **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** New Romney Old School Trust **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1049893 **Charity's principal address** New Romney Old School Church Lane New Romney Kent TN28 8ER ~~——~~ ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---| |Paul Thomas|Chair||| |Patricia Goodsell|Vice-Chair||| |Adrian Goodsell|Treasurer||| |Ann Stark|||| |Ann Bidwell|||| |Claire Martin|||| |Rae Bark|||| |Elizabeth Lindsey|||| |SallyJones|||| |Keith Beechey|||| |Clive Wire|||| |Alison Jeffery||26/09/2023 onwards|| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |~~oo~~|~~oo~~|~~oo~~|~~oo~~| **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address** ## **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 Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by existing Trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** The object of the CIO is to refurbish, maintain and utilise the Old School, New Romney and such other property as the CIO may acquire in Trust for the communal use by the residents of and visitors to New Romney for a meeting place, provision of facilities for study and exhibition, a library, museum and any other use having a purpose beneficial to the whole or part of the community of New Romney and its surrounding areas. **TAR** March **2012** 2 The Old School provides the local community with a venue to meet for educational, social and entertainment purposes. A variety of local groups hire rooms in the School. This income allows the Trust to maintain the building to a good standard. It also funds maintenance of the School’s garden, which is an attractive asset to the New Romney townscape. The School is also open to the public on a regular basis throughout the year, when the Trust’s local history collection of documents, photographs, artifacts and other media may be viewed and studied. The three priorities in the collection, in priority order are: - the building’s previous use as a junior school, **Summary of the main** - the local history of the town of New Romney and, **activities undertaken for the** - the local history of Romny Marsh. **public benefit in relation to these objects (include within** The Trust owns the Old School building and has a long-term lease on the **this section the statutory** adjoining garden. **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 grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 1. The charity converted from a charitable company to a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). 2. The Trust continued to provide a venue for use by the local community for educational, social and entertainment purposes. The groups hiring rooms in the Old School included Art Appreciation and Spanish classes, Leisure Painters, the Sunflower Dementia Café, New Romney History Society, Romney Marsh Poetry Society, Sunday Sewing, Country Mice Needlecraft Club, the Romney Marsh Archaeology Society, Carers Support Group, and Kent & Medway Health and Social Care Partnership. 3. The Old School also hosted a number of one off bookings and various fund-raising events, including several lantern making sessions for the annual “Light Up New Romey” event. 4. The Trust’s collection of local history documents, photographs and artifacts was open to the public on two Saturday mornings each month. **TAR** March **2012** 4 **Section E Financial review** The Trust does not have Allocated Reserves. **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** Our Unallocated Reserves are used for running costs. These include insurance, cleaning, and utilities. In addition, there are maintenance costs for the Fire and Intruder Alarm systems, the Gas Boiler, grass-cutting, a part-time gardener, and for rubbish collection. Building repairs and redecoration, both internal and external, are required every few years. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ~~—~~ **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:  the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);  how expenditure has supported the key objectives 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) Full name(s)** Adrian Goodsell **Position** Treasurer **Date** 26 September 2024 **TAR** 5 March **2012** March **2012** 5 |||**Charity Name**||||||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**New Romne**|**New Romne**|**New Romney Old School Trust**|||||||**1049893**|||| ||01-Apr-23
31-Mar-24
**Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
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~~ee~~|||||||||||||**CC16a**| |**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**||||||||||||||| |Room Hire||**8,945**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**8,945**|||**13,169**| |Donations||**1,320**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**1,320**|||**2,604**| |Fundraising||**3,102**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**3,102**|||**3,025**| |Gift Aid||**527**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**527**|||**25**| |Interest||**883**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**883**|||**150**| |Sales||**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|||**115**| |||**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_||**14,777**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**14,777**|||**19,088**| |||||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
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**-**
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**_Sub total_ -**
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**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**14,777**
**-**
**-**
**14,777**
**19,088**
~~——=———~~||||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||| |Insurance||**2,389**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**2,389**|||**2,199**| |Cleaning||**2,229**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**2,229**|||**3,277**| |Utilities||**1,599**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**1,599**|||**2,093**| |Administration||**162**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**162**|||**72**| |Heritage Collection||**119**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**119**|||**-**| |Repairs/Maintenance||**5,783**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**5,783**|||**5,169**| |Legal Fees||**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|||**1,800**| |||**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|||**-**| ||**_Sub total_ **|**12,281**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**12,281**|||**14,609**| |**_Sub total_ **|**12,281**
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**-**
**12,281**
**14,609**|| |---|---|---| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**12,281**
**-**
**-**
**12,281**
**14,609**
~~=—=————~~||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**2,496**
**-**
**- 2,496**
**4,479**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**64,332**
**- -**
**64,332**
**59,853**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**66,828**
**-**
**- 66,828**
**64,332**
~~—=S====>~~||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 12/09/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**| ||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|**11,648**
**-**
**-**
**34,692**
**-**
**-**
Petty Cash
**65**
**20,423**
**-**
**-**
**66,828**
**-**
**-**
NatWest Current Account
NatWest Deposit Account
Charity Bank Investment Account
**_Total cash funds_**
~~===~~|||||| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments||||| ||account(s))||OK|OK||OK| ||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**| ||||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**| ||**4**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
po
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**-**
**-**
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**Details**
~~=~~|||||| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**269,822**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**Details**
Old School Building
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behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
11/09/2024
Print Name
AdrianGoodsell
Signature
**Details**
2
12/09/2024
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