## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From** 01 04 2023 **To** 31 03 2024 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** SHROPSHIRE CHILDRENS SCRAPSTORE **Other names charity is known by** SCRAPPIES **Registered charity number (if any)** 1053752 |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---| |1 LesleyMcknight|Chair||| |2 RoyWesterman|Treasurer||| |3 Joan Arnfield|Secretary||| |4|||| |5|||| |6|||| |7|||| |8|||| |9|||| |10|||| |11|||| |12|||| |13|||| |14|||| |15|||| |16|||| |17|||| |18|||| |19|||| |20
~~—S~~|~~—S~~|~~—S~~|~~—S~~| **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **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**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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 TRUST (eg. trust, association, company) Nomination and selection at AGM or by co-option at Special Meeting Trustee selection methods - (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** To advance the education of children and young people by providing materials for group play, to provide educational, recreational and leisure time activities, materials and equipment to improve the condition of life of the inhabitants of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and surrounding areas. **TAR** March **2012** 2 . The provision of a walk-in store for 4 days per week for members of the charity and members of the public which enables children and adults to access a wide range of low-cost and recycled materials for all their creative arts and educational activities. Provision of workshops and outreach services for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and surrounding areas in what are often remote rural locations. **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)** We continue to serve a wide variety of clients including schools, colleges, voluntary organisations, youth clubs, families, the elderly and those with special needs and small arts groups. A registered centre for the Arts Council Art Award working with home educated children. Active representation in community arts organisations. The Trustees and members of the Management Committee have regard to the guidance of the Charity Commission in relation to the provision of public benefit in all our activities. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Our large band of volunteers, many of whom are professionals in creative arts and education, continue to play a major part in all our activities both in running our store, assisting in workshops and on the Management Committee. 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** Our store continues to be successful in providing us with the opportunity to be sustainable and giving us a firm financial basis to extend the services for our members. The significant number of donations gives us the ability to provide low-cost materials for our educational arts and craft activities. In the other important part of our service, we continue to build up our customer base for our workshop programme some of which was suspended during Covid. Our regular events include after school clubs for Telford and Wrekin, our own in store workshops, Shropshire festivals and workshops for local authorities. We support the local Rural Community Council by providing workshops for their sight loss and friendship groups. Our Art Award continues to be of huge importance to local homeschooled children and we have a further two students going through the programme. Our financial position has remained stable during the year, thanks to the hard work of our staff and volunteers and provides a base for an expansion of our activities, to enable us to concentrate on the use of recyclable and affordable materials in the promotion of educational creative arts and crafts. Scrappies is a much-loved store in the local community and beyond and we continue to support all local activities when asked. We contribute to the local Arts Forum and the Chamber of Trade, We continue to have great support from 18 volunteers who not only help us to maintain our service to our members but benefit personally from the work that they do. Our website and Facebook pages continue to generate increasing interest. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the** Maximisation of interest but always with the proviso of easy access to our **charity’s policy on reserves** funds **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially** None **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)** ROY WESTERMAN **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** TREASURER **Date** **TAR** March **2012** 5 **Charity Name No (if any) Scrappies 1053752 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To** — ~~SS~~ **from** 01 04 2023 31 03 2024 **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £ A1 Receipts** Affiliation fees **2,086 - - 2,086 2,185** Sale of goods **30,981 - - 30,981 28,160 - -** Donations **527 - - 527 562** Other **190 - - 190 17** Workshops **1,798 - - 1,798 1,310** Interest and other **652 - - 652 135** Tools **1,890 - - 1,890 1,372** _**Sub total** (Gross income for_ **38,124 - - 38,124 33,741** _AR)_ ~~===~~ **A2 Asset and investment sales,** ~~===~~ **(see table). - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **- -** ~~——————~~ _**Total receipts**_ **38,124 - - 38,124 33,741 A3 Payments** Wages **18,817 - - 18,817 16,945** Purchase of goods **3,742 - - 3,742 1,045** Transport **-** Volunteer expenses **-** Utilities Rent and Rates **7,626 - - 7,626 8,489** Telephone printing and stationery **492 - - 492 737** Workshops **1,561 - - 1,561 670** Insurance **960 - - 960 869** Maintenance and Sundry **1,310 - - 1,310 2,297** _**Sub total**_ **[ 34,508 ] - - 34,508 31,052** ~~==== ===~~ **A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) Computer and printer - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **-** ~~==~~ _**Total payments**_ **34,508 - - 34,508 31,052** _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **3,616 - - 3,616 2,689 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 33,420 - - 33,420 30,731** _**Cash funds this year end**_ ~~——~~ **37,036 - - 37,036 33,420** CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 31/12/2024 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
**Details**
EQUIPMENT
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**Details**
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ACCRUALS|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**6,486**
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**30,551**
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**37,037**
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**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,300**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
UNRESTRICTED
**396**
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approval| |||ROY WESTERMAN|| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 31/12/2024 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl Shr(Wiire Chiklrerts Scrapsto 31 Marth 2￿24 1053752 Irf any) 1aThJ2 I r8FXXt to trustees on my 8xAmination of thè of the ab thanty {Ihe TnJ5f}tr Ihe year endwl 31103r202 ResponsibFlttl•s and As the d￿rity tru%t88s of Ihe Trus( ycxj 8re resp￿￿￿ for the preparat 2011 fth8 Prfl. I re[￿rt in res￿* of my examirHtion ofthe TnJ5fs acC￿ttts carwj out under section 145 of the 2011 ALI and in (xrry?ng out my examination, I have fomo￿1 the applifable Dj.rÈdK￿s gwen by th& Ch8nty c￿mIsS￿)n sjnder sedion 145(5Mb) of the ￿. Independent I have 1Xry￿1ed my examinab"on. I confim that r￿ material mattèrs have examinerfs ststeffle￿ Ixxrp lo my atterttion (￿than that disdowl tEkyw-} in o￿nectiOn wlh the examinalion vthi(th gN9S mg cause to b￿1&￿ Ihat in. any maten.al th8Ad th the ￿mEll81￿)n to ￿lch atténtK)n should be drawn in oftler to enablg a . d*te the in Ihe br&*ets rftheydo not ap&*. Slgned: Janw F 8￿.11[& qualifi¢ation(sl or bcKty Irf any): SY6 6DJ. IER October 2018