**The Harrogate & District Round Table Charitable Trust Fund**
**Trustees’ report and financial statements**
**Registered charity number 1051527 Year ending 31 March 2025**
**Harrogate & District Round Table** Trustees’ report and financial statements Year ending 31 March 2025
## **Contents**
|Trustees’ report|3 - 4|
|---|---|
|Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Harrogate & District Round Table|5|
|Community Service Fund financial statements|6 – 8|
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**Harrogate & District Round Table** Trustees’ report and financial statements Year ending 31 March 2025
## **Trustees’ report**
The trustees present their report and financial statements of Harrogate & District Round Table for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Legal status**
The charity is a non-corporate registered charity (number 1051527).
## **Objectives**
Harrogate & District Round Table is a member of the National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland (“RTBI”).
Harrogate & District Round Table raises money locally and donates to local worthy causes, as determined by the members.
## **Organisation**
Trustees are appointed by the Membership and serve for an indefinite period. The Trust Deed provides for no minimum and no maximum number of trustees.
While the trustees oversee the activities, the management is delegated to Officers, who are appointed at the Annual General Meeting to serve for a one-year term of office.
## **Trustees**
The trustees who served during the year and after the year end were:
Mr G Thompson (appointed 1 April 2024) Mr A Rickard (appointed 1 April 2024) Mr A Fisher (resigned 1 April 2024) Mr M Jordan (resigned 1 April 2024)
## **Achievements and performance**
The trustees are happy to report a fantastic year to 31 March 2025.
Both the beer festival and the bonfire, which is a community service event for the Harrogate community were able to be held again.
From events and donations received, over £55,000 (2024: £28,000) was raised. This, combined with brought forward cash reserves facilitated £45,509 (2024: £31,996) of donations to local charities and worthy causes in the year ending 31 March 2025, with further significant donations made after the year-end from funds raised in March at the beer festival.
## **Running costs and assets**
The Community Service Fund consists of income and expenditure relating to its fund-raising activities.
There are no ongoing costs associated with the fund-raising activities. Costs are incurred in relation to specific events and are kept to a minimum to maximise the funds raised. The success of the events is reliant on the Membership giving their time and services on a voluntary basis.
Donations are made from the net proceeds of each event and there are no other financial obligations on the charity. As a result, the balance sheet is always intended to remain positive.
## **Reserves**
The Community Service Fund amounted to £50,500 (2024: £40,613). All funds are unrestricted.
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**Harrogate & District Round Table** Trustees’ report and financial statements Year ending 31 March 2025
## **Compliance with statutory requirements**
The accounts comply with the current statutory requirements, the requirements of the governing document and of the Charities Act 2011.
## **Risk**
The major risks to which the charity is exposed are identified by the trustees and have been reviewed and mitigating controls have been put in place.
Appropriate insurance cover is arranged for all significant events through the membership of RTBI.
The trustees, who were in office on the date of approval of these financial statements have confirmed, as far as they are aware, that the financial statements are true and fair.
A Rickard Trustee 22 January 2026
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**Harrogate & District Round Table** Trustees’ report and financial statements Year ending 31 March 2025
## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Harrogate & District Round Table**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Harrogate and District Round Table for the year ending 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 8.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 200 (“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 examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do 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.
S Wright FCA
Workwell Copthall Bridge Station Road Harrogate HG1 1SP
22 January 2026
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**Harrogate & District Round Table** Trustees’ report and financial statements Year ending 31 March 2025
## **Community Service Fund Income and expenditure account for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**Income**
Beer Festival
Bonfire
Donations
**Expenditure**
Beer Festival
Bonfire
**Net Surplus for the Year**|**2025**
**£**
109,919
16,872
3,653
**130,444**
60,416
14,632
**75,048**
**55,396**|**2024**
**£**
88,516
12,803
99|
|---|---|---|
|||**101,418**|
|||62,329
10,696|
|||**73,025**|
|||**28,393**|
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**Harrogate & District Round Table** Trustees’ report and financial statements Year ending 31 March 2025
## **Community Service Fund Donations and charity activities account for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**Net Surplus for the Year**
**Donations and Charity Activities**
St Michael’s Hospice
Christmas Hampers/Food parcels
Martin House
Samaritans
Harrogate International Festivals
Harrogate and District Community Action Group
Time together
Craven College
Knaresborough Revolution
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
Knaresborough Lions
Pancreatic Cancer UK
Forest School
Disability Action Yorkshire
British Heart Foundation
Wateraid
Supporting Older People Christmas Lunch
Open Country
Carer’s Resource
Harrogate Homeless
Sporting Influence
Bone Cancer Research
Ripon Community Walled Garden
New beginnings
Henshaws
**Total Donations**
**Net Movement of Funds**|**2025**
**£**
55,396
6,380
6,319
6,000
6,000
6,000
5,000
2,500
2,500
1,809
1,000
345
300
300
250
200
200
406
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
**45,509**
**9,887**|**2024**
**£**
28,393|
|---|---|---|
|||-
1,519
6,000
5,000
-
5,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
346
4,460
2,949
1,752
1,620
1,250
1,000
1,000
100|
|||**31,996**|
|||**(3,603)**|
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**Harrogate & District Round Table** Trustees’ report and financial statements Year ending 31 March 2025
**Community Service Fund Balance Sheet at 31 March 2025**
|**Community Service Fund**
Balance at 1 April
Net Movement of Funds
**Balance at 31 March**
Represented by:
Lloyds bank
Due in re Beer Festival
Beer Festival creditors|**2025**
**£**
40,613
9,887
**50,500**
48,727
17,369
(15,596)
**50,500**|**2024**
**£**
44,216
(3,603)|
|---|---|---|
|||**40,613**|
|||33,806
7,415
(608)|
|||**44,216**|
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