
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From 1[st] Nov 2022   To 31[st] Oct 2023 Period end date** 

## **Charity name: Towersey Playing Fields Management Committee** 

## **Charity registration number: 1054125** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|To manage all operations and maintenance<br>of the playing fields, including a children's<br>play area within the village of Towersey.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|Maintain playing fields and children's play<br>area such that they can be utilised by the<br>local community for sporting activities and<br>children's play space|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The facilities (Playing fields and Children's<br>play area) are provided for the benefit of<br>Towersey village residents and the local<br>surrounding community. They are able to<br>benefit from the green space, conducting<br>sporting events and have the benefit of a<br>free children'splayspace.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

||SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A**|





## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.||Para 1.20||Our main focus for this year has been on<br>progressing the development of our new pavilion.<br>The main events for this year have therefore been<br>as follows:<br>•<br>The old clubhouse was permanently closed<br>during the year and will remain closed until<br>such time as it is demolished as part of the<br>redevelopment project.<br>•<br>New storage unit - planning permission has<br>been granted for a new storage unit to be<br>utilised by all village committees.<br>Construction is scheduled for Mid 2024.<br>Funding for the storage unit itself is being<br>provided by Towersey Parish Council with<br>additional Grant funding being sought for<br>the cost of the concrete base.<br>•<br>New Pavilion - A Planning application has<br>submitted to South Oxfordshire District<br>Council (SODC) on 13 October 2023.<br>Following review and feedback from<br>statutory consultees, some amendments<br>have been made to the design. We expect a<br>decision by the summer of 2024.<br>•<br>Fund Raising for New Pavilion - A sub<br>committee was formed during the year to<br>deal with all the business aspects of raising<br>funds – c.£1.25m required. This includes,<br>among other things, creating a business<br>plan and contacting the many organisations<br>who provide grant funding for major<br>projects.<br>Looking to the future, once planning permission is<br>granted we will be seeking to retain a builder to<br>build the new pavilion. We also plan to change our<br>Charity structure to a CIO and of course we shall<br>continue to maintain our playing fields and<br>children’s play area for the benefit of the local<br>community.|||



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|





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|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other||**N/A**|



## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of theperiod|Para 1.21|**See Financial Summary pages**|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves:**<br>1) 1-2 years operational running costs.<br>This is held to ensure we can cover<br>expenses in case our income in any<br>one year is not enough to cover the<br>expenses for the next year and allow<br>us time to find other income sources.<br>**2)**Development Project Reserve. Funds<br>are being held to put towards our<br>newpavilion developmentproject.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**See Financial summary**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**N/A**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of theprincipal|Para 1.46|**N/A**|





risks facing the charity **N/A** Other 

## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|Management guidelines and conveyance|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association,CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated Charitable Trust|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|5 trustees required and are voted in at the<br>committee meeting immediately following the<br>AGM. Trustees must be proposed and<br>seconded to be approved.|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **N/A** Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees **N/A** The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works **N/A** Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties **N/A** Other 

## **Reference and Administrative details** 

Charity name Towersey Playing Fields Management Committee 



|Other name the charity uses||
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|Registered charity number|1054125|
|Charity’s principal address|Lower Green Farm, Towersey. OX9 3QP|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Richard Duckham|Chairman|||
||Judith Allworth|Secretary|||
||Jennifer Jones|Treasurer|||
||Jonathan Masters||||
||Brian Gibbs||||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

|Description of the assets<br>held in this capacity|N/A|
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|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian|N/A|





charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of Name Address adviser N/A Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** N/A 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

**N/A** 

## **Other optional information** 

**N/A** 

## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 


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**Towersey Playing Fields Management Committee 1054125 Receipts and payments accounts** 


## **CC16a** 

**For the period** 1st Nov 2022 31st Oct 2023 **To from** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**A1 Receipts**<br>Rentals<br>**400**<br>Donations<br>**41,316**<br>Fund-RaisingEvents<br>**1,850**<br>Grants<br>**-**<br>Interest Received<br>**1,036**<br>Other<br>**173**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_**44,775**<br>**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**_Sub total_                                 -**<br>**_Total receipts_                     44,775**<br>**A3 Payments**<br>Repairs & Maintenance<br>**2,906**<br>Fund RaisingEvent expenses<br>**1,385**<br>Utilities ,Rates & Insurance<br>**1,703**<br>Project Expenses<br>**11,461**<br>Other<br>**95**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**_Sub total_                        17,550**<br>**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**_Sub total_                                  -**<br>**_Total payments_                     17,550**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_                     27,225**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br> **-**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**118,253**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_                   145,477**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-   **<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**400**<br>**1,325**<br>**41,316**<br>**29,390**<br>**1,850**<br>**4,380**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,036**<br>**510**<br>**173**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**44,775**<br>**35,605**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**44,775**<br>**35,605**<br>**2,906**<br>**3,426**<br>**1,385**<br>**1,080**<br>**1,703**<br>**2,271**<br>**11,461**<br>**7,644**<br>**95**<br>**135**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**17,550**<br>**14,555**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**17,550**<br>**14,555**<br>**27,225**<br>**21,049**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**118,253**<br>**97,203**<br>**145,477**<br>**118,253**|**Total funds**<br>**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**400**<br>**1,325**<br>**41,316**<br>**29,390**<br>**1,850**<br>**4,380**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,036**<br>**510**<br>**173**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**44,775**<br>**35,605**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**44,775**<br>**35,605**<br>**2,906**<br>**3,426**<br>**1,385**<br>**1,080**<br>**1,703**<br>**2,271**<br>**11,461**<br>**7,644**<br>**95**<br>**135**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**17,550**<br>**14,555**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**17,550**<br>**14,555**<br>**27,225**<br>**21,049**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**118,253**<br>**97,203**<br>**145,477**<br>**118,253**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

**Categories** 

**B1 Cash funds** 

|**ssets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**ssets and liabilities at the end of the period**|
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|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted funds**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**145,477**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Cash in Bank<br>**Details**||
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|~~1~~<br>25/07/24<br>**145,477**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted funds**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|**-**|



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2 



CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent ExamineVs Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Chirily Nam
Towersey Playing Fields Management Committee
On accounts for the year
ended
3151 October 2023
Charity no
(if any)
1054125
Set out on pages
Separatè aiiielimeni
I report to the trustees on my examinalion of the accounts of the above
charily ('Ihe Trusl.) for the year ended 31110 12023.
Responsibilitles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the aGcounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charilies 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 carying out my examinalion, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5){b) of the Acl.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention lolher than that disclosed below ') 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
Independent
examiner's statement
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 ofthe accounts to be reached.
Please delete the words in Ihe brackets if they do not apply.
Slgned:
Date:
Name:
ITH
Relevant professional
qualificationls) or body
lif any):
(IMA
Address:
LÈisL&
i É£IO CIE
)IL I SFI ieE.
IER
October 2018

Section B
Dlsclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (see CC32,
Independenl examinalion of charily accounts: directions and guidan￿ for
examiners).
Give here brief detalls of
any items that the
examinerwlshes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018