**THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY (LIMITED BY GUARANTEE) Company Number: 3441399 (England and Wales) Charity Number: 1069816**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2025**
## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
**Contents of the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Company Information|1|
|Trustees' Report|3 to 5|
|Independent Examiner’s Report|6|
|Statement of Financial Activities|7|
|Balance Sheet|8|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|9 to 16|
## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Company Information For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
|**Directors and Trustees:**|Donna Graveling|(Chairman)|
|---|---|---|
||Stuart Hellon|(Resigned 24 February 2025)|
||Jayne Morris||
||Susan Applegarth||
||Mark Baker||
||Michael Gilbert||
||Samantha Castle|(Appointed 22 May 2025)|
||Carolanne Payne|(Appointed 22 May 2025)|
|**Secretary:**|Jayne Morris||
|**Registered Office:**|St Georges Road||
||Boston||
||Lincolnshire||
||PE21 8YB||
|**Registered Number:**|3441399 (England and|Wales)|
|**Charity Registered Number:**|1069816||
|**Independent Examiner:**|Mrs Nicola Lenton FCCA||
||Dexter & Sharpe||
||Chartered Certified Accountants||
||The Old Vicarage||
||Church Close||
||Boston Lincolnshire||
||PE21 6NA||
|**Bankers:**|Unity Trust Bank||
||Customer Services Centre||
||Nine Bradley Place||
||4 Oozells Square||
||Birmingham||
||B1 2HB||
||Nationwide Building Society||
||Kings Park Road||
||Moulton Park||
||Northampton||
||NN3 6NW||
||The Charity Bank Ltd||
||Fosse House||
||182 High St||
||Toonbridge||
||TN9 1BE||
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Company Information Continued For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
**Investment Advisors:**
Lynas Vokes Investments Ltd Trinity House Welbourne Lane East Holbeach Spalding PE12 8AB
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Report of the Trustees**
## **For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
The trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act, present their report with the financial statements of the charitable company for the year ended 30 September 2025.
## **Legal and Administrative Information**
The Boston Volunteer Centre Charity is a charitable company limited by guarantee and does not have any share capital. It was incorporated on 29 September 1997 and was registered as a charity on 30 May 1998. It is governed by a Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 29 September 1997. The Articles have since been amended by special resolution dated 29 January 2015 and again on 19 February 2021. New trustees are approved by the present members of the trustees board.
(Further administrative details of the charity can be found on page 1)
## **Trustees induction and training**
New trustees are briefed on their legal obligations under charity and company law, the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit, content of the Articles of Association, the committee and decision-making processes and recent financial performance of the charity.
## **Objectives of the Charity**
The objects of the charity are that of promoting the efficiency of charitable institutions and purposes in Boston for the benefit of the public, in particular by the provision, management and maintenance of low cost accommodation and related services for such organisations and by holding reversionary interests in property which is occupied for charitable purposes.
We have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aim and objectives and in planning our future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set.
Our charitable activities are mainly provided for promoting the efficiency of charitable institutions in Boston. We aim to provide low cost accommodation and related services for these institutions and to further our charitable purposes for the benefit of the public.
## **Policies Adopted to Achieve Objectives**
In order to further these objectives, the charity has obtained funding, acquired a site and constructed a purpose built centre creating more than 7,000 square feet of office accommodation.
## **Organisation**
The charity has elected an independent board of professional people from the area to manage the centre on a strategic level. The Chairman is Donna Graveling. A full list of trustees is shown on page 1. The trustees meet every three months.
## **Review of the Charity**
Since the departure of the long standing tenants the charity does not achieve full occupancy of the Len Medlock Voluntary Centre and there are rooms available for licence or day use.
The Board recognised the changing needs of the social, volunteer organisations in the town and adapted The Len Medlock Voluntary Centre to meet these changing needs.
## **Financial Review**
The results for the year and the financial position of the charity are as shown in the financial statements. The results shown are in line with budgets. Ongoing room hire at a steady level has provided the principal source of funding. The introduction of a part time assistant to help with the profile of the centre has added a slight increase to costs, but within budget. We have increased our online presence to obtain higher room hire income.
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**THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Report of the Trustees Continued For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
## **Future Aims**
The charity aims to increase the room hire and also upgrade the building by decorating and modernising the centre.
## **Reserves Policy**
The trustees' charitable purpose is to provide facilities for charitable organisations. As such, their aim is not to make a profit from those organisations. The build up of funds for the renewal of the premises has been costed and put aside for this future purpose. Apart from this fund, the trustees consider that free reserves to cover expenditure over a three month period in the case of all income ceasing would be sufficient. At the balance sheet date free reserves amounted to £44,127 (2024 £131,450). The requirement was £23,686 (2024 £20,558).
## **Investment Policy**
Under the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the charity has the power to make any investment which the trustees see fit.
Currently an investment with Fidelity is in place through Lynas Vokes. The Trustees decided that investments should be of low/medium risk
The charity has a policy of keeping liquid funds in accounts that can be accessed readily. In addition to the current account and deposit account with Unity Trust Bank it has deposit accounts with the Nationwide Building Society and The Charity Bank.
## **Risk Policy**
The trustees have considered the major risks to which the charity is exposed and have identified that there is a risk to the charity in that future repairs may be needed to maintain the freehold property in its present condition.
## **Directors and Trustees**
The directors, who are also the trustees of the charity, during the year under review were:
Donna Graveling (Chairman) Stuart Hellon (Resigned 24 February 2025) Jayne Morris Susan Applegarth Mark Baker Michael Gilbert Samantha Castle (Appointed 22 May 2025) Carolanne Payne (Appointed 22 May 2025)
## **Volunteers**
The trustees are all volunteers. The charity also benefits from volunteer receptionists, of which there are currently 8.
## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities**
The trustees are required under the Charities Act 2011 to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the charity's financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year.
In preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view, the trustees should follow best practice and:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Report of the Trustees Continued**
**For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
## **Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities cont….**
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ascertain the financial position of the charity and ensure that the financial statements comply with applicable law and regulations. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities
When amounts are presented within items in the profit and loss account and balance sheet, the trustees have had regard to the substance of the reported transaction or arrangement, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or practice.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
## **On behalf of the trustees**
Donna Graveling **Chairperson**
## **14[th] May 2026**
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report To The Trustees Of The Boston Volunteer Centre Charity**
I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 30 September 2025 set out on pages 7 to 15.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity’s trustees of the Company (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). In carrying out my examination, I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; or
- the accounts do not accord with such records; or
- the accounts do not comply with relevant accounting requirements under section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 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; or
- the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS102).
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.
NICOLA LENTON FCCA
**Independent Examiner Dexter & Sharpe Chartered Certified Accountants The Old Vicarage Church Close Boston Lincolnshire PE21 6NA**
**14[th] May 2026**
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Statement of Financial Activities Including Income and Expenditure Account For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND EXPENDITURE**
**Incoming Resources:**
3
Other incoming resources
5
Investment income
**TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES**
**Resources Expended:**
7
Charitable activities
8
Other costs
**TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**
4
**NET (OUTGOING)/INCOMING**
**RESOURCES**
12 Realised Gains/(Losses) on Investment
12 Unrealised Gains/(Losses) on Investment
**Transfers between funds**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**FUND BALANCES BROUGHT**
**FORWARD**
**FUND BALANCES CARRIED**
**FORWARD**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total Funds**
Total Funds
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2025**
2024
**£**
**£**
**£**
£
**82,123**
**43,027**
**125,150**
79,580
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**82,123**
**43,027**
**125,150**
79,580
**5,566**
**-**
**5,566**
6,559
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**87,689**
**43,027**
**130,716**
86,139
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**
**88,216**
**451**
**88,667**
83,989
**6,529**
**-**
**6,529**
6,169
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**94,745**
**451**
**95,196**
90,158
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**
**(7,056)**
**42,576**
**35,520**
(4,019)
**13**
-
**13**
**-**
**3,183**
-
**3,183**
**42,576**
**(42,576)**
**-**
**-**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**38,716**
**-**
**38,716**
(4,019)
**528,138**
**-**
**528,138**
532,157
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**566,854**
**-**
**566,854**
528,138
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**|
|---|---|
All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.
The notes on pages 9 to 16 form part of these financial statements
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Balance Sheet as at 30 September 2025**
||||**2025**||2024|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Notes**|||**£**||£|
||**Fixed Assets:**|||||
|10|Tangible assets||**43,909**||3,544|
|11|Fixed asset investments||**275,500**||275,500|
|12|Listed investments||**85,674**||-|
||||**`_______`**||**`_______`**|
||||**405,083**||279,044|
||**Current Assets:**|||||
|13|Debtors|**9,301**||3,144||
||Cash at bank and in hand|**160,192**||257,170||
|||**`_______`**||**`_______`**||
|||**169,493**||260,314||
|14|**Creditors:**amounts falling due within one year|**7,722**||11,220||
|||**`_______`**||**`_______`**||
|**Net Current Assets**|||**161,771**||249,094|
||||**`_______`**||**`_______`**|
|**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**|||**566,854**||528,138|
||||**`═══════`**||**`═══════`**|
|**Funds:**||||||
|16/17|Restricted funds||**-**||**-**|
|17|Unrestricted funds (including designated funds)||**566,854**||528,138|
||||**`_______`**||**`_______`**|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|||**566,854**||528,138|
||||**`═══════`**||**`═══════`**|
The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 30 September 2025. The trustees have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for:
- (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006; and
- (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small charitable companies.
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 14[th] May 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:
## DONNA GRAVELING **Chairman**
MARK BAKER **Director and Trustee**
The notes on pages 9 to 16 form part of these financial statements
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**THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
## **1. STATUTORY INFORMATION**
The Boston Volunteer Centre Charity is a private limited company, limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales. The company’s registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.
## **2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) effective January 2016 – (Charities SORP (FRS102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) and the Companies Act 2006.
The financial statements are presented in sterling which is the functional currency of the charity and rounded to the nearest £.
## **Incoming Resources**
All incoming resources are included in the SOFA (Statement of Financial Activities) when the charity is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.
1. All voluntary income is accounted for when received.
2. Grants are accounted for when received.
3. Investment income is accounted for when receivable.
4. Rental income and service charges is accounted for in the period in which the charity is entitled to receipt. 5. The financial statements do not include any amounts received in the year for in kind contributions. The in kind contributions received during the year were in connection with the provision of time and services to assist the project. The monetary value of these contributions has not been determined.
## **Investment receipts**
Dividends and interest are included in the statement of financial activities when they are received. Bank interest is included in the statement of financial activities on receipt.
## **Resources Expended**
Resources expended are included in the Statement of Financial Activities on an accruals basis, inclusive of any VAT which cannot be recovered.
Expenditure is allocated between those specific to the operation of the charity's objectives (charitable expenditure) and the costs for the running of the charity itself as an organisation (management and administration).
## **Tangible Fixed Assets**
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Fixtures and fittings 20% on cost Plant and machinery 20% on cost Property Improvement 20% on cost
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**THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements Continued**
**For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
## **2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES Cont…**
## **Fixed Asset Investment**
The investment property is held to provide low cost accommodation to other charitable organisations, in accordance with its own charitable objectives. At the time of the valuation the valuer felt that even if the property were vacant when it was sold it would still not be worth the original cost. Therefore the trustees have included this valuation in the accounts deeming it to be the fair value of the property as it is being held to meet the charity’s objectives and would always have a low market value due to the reduced rents being charged. The Trustees will consider this valuation each year.
All unrealised gains and losses are shown on the statement of financial activities.
## **Listed investments and investment gains and losses**
Stocks and shares quoted on the London Stock Exchange are included in the statement of assets and liabilities at fair value at the year end. The difference between this fair value and the previous year’s fair value are disclosed on the statement of financial activities as unrealised gains/(losses).
Realised gains and losses arising on the disposal of investments are included in the statement of financial activities and the net proceeds of sales and purchases of new investments are dealt with through unrestricted funds.
The day to day management of the investment portfolio is dealt with by Lynas Vokes Investments Ltd.
## **Taxation**
These financial statements are prepared on the basis that the charity is exempt under s.505 ICTA 1988 and that no charge to taxation applies.
## **Fund Accounting**
Funds held by the charity are either:
- _**Unrestricted general funds –**_ these are funds which can be used in accordance with the charitable objects at the discretion of the trustees.
- _**Designated funds -**_ these are funds set aside by the trustees out of unrestricted funds for specific future purposes or projects.
- _**Restricted funds –**_ these are funds that can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
||particular restricted purposes.|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||**2025**|2024|
|||**£**|£|
|**3.**|**OTHER INCOMING RESOURCES**|||
||**UNRESTRICTED**|||
||Donation|**-**|70|
||Room hire|**80,609**|76,827|
||Refreshments|**322**|413|
||Other income|**1,192**|770|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||**82,123**|78,080|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
||**RESTRICTED**|||
||Boston Big Local|**-**|1,500|
||Boston borough council levelling up|**43,027**|**-**|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||**43,027**|1,500|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements Continued**
|||**2025**|2024|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|£|
|**4.**|**NET INCOMING RESOURCES**|||
||Net incoming resources are stated after charging:|||
||Depreciation - owned assets|**4,198**|1,741|
||Independent Examination|**1,290**|1,180|
||Accountancy services|**1,700**|1,700|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
|**5.**|**INVESTMENT INCOME**|||
||Bank interest|**5,530**|6,559|
||Investment interest|**36**|-|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||**5,566**|6,559|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
|**6.**|**TAXATION**|||
||**Analysis of the tax charge**|||
||No liability to UK corporation tax arose on ordinary activities for the year ended 30 September 2025 nor for|||
||the year ended 30 September 2024.|||
|**7.**|**CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**|||
|---|---|---|---|
||**UNRESTRICTED**|||
||Telephone|**966**|796|
||Internet Connection|**5,941**|2,195|
||Other Computer Costs|**595**|448|
||Repairs and renewals|**10,259**|12,060|
||Cleaning and caretaking|**13,501**|12,865|
||Centre Manager’s salary|**27,170**|26,100|
||Volunteers' expenses|**581**|580|
||Refreshment costs|**169**|111|
||Insurance|**2,347**|2,120|
||Light and heat|**9,670**|6,144|
||BBC non domestic rates|**282**|174|
||Water|**1,686**|969|
||Depreciation|**4,198**|1,741|
||Centre equipment|**198**|300|
||Centre management costs|**374**|354|
||Centre management support costs|**10,279**|9,107|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||**88,216**|76,064|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
||**RESTRICTED**|||
||Light and heat|**-**|7,925|
||Repairs and renewals|**244**|-|
||Cleaning|**207**|**-**|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||**451**|7,925|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements Continued**
**For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
|||**2025**|2024|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|£|
|**8.**|**OTHER COSTS**|||
||**UNRESTRICTED**|||
||BBC management fee|**-**|-|
||Accountancy and professional fees|**3,045**|2,880|
||Legal fees and professional fees|**2,126**|2,892|
||Bank charges|**165**|108|
||Investment charges|**888**|**-**|
||Sundry expenses|**235**|179|
||Advertising|**70**|110|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||**6,529**|6,169|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
||**RESTRICTED**|||
||Other professional fees|**-**|-|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
## **9. TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**
||**Staff Costs**|**Depreciation**|**Other Costs**|**Total**|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|£|
|Charitable activities|**37,449**|**4,198**|**47,020**|**88,667**|83,989|
|Other costs|**-**|**-**|**6,529**|**6,529**|6,169|
||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|**`_______`**|**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
||**37,449**|**4,198**|**53,549**|**95,196**|90,158|
||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
|Staff costs consist of:||||||
|Wages and salaries||||**36,722**|34,590|
|Employer’s NI||||-|-|
|Pension costs||||**727**|617|
|||||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||||**37,449**|35,207|
|||||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
|No employee earned £60,000 per annum or more.||||||
|||||**No**|No|
|The average weekly number|of employees was|||**2**|2|
No trustee received remuneration or had expenses reimbursed.
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements Continued**
**For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
## **10. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS**
|**Cost**
At 1 October 2024
Additions
At 30 September 2025
**Depreciation:**
At 1 October 2024
Charge for year
At 30 September 2025
**Net Book Value:**
At 30 September 2025
At 30 September 2024|**Fixtures and**
**Fittings**
**Plant &**
**Machinery**
**Property**
**Improvements**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
124,669
**-**
**-**
124,669
1,985
8,333
34,242
44,560|
|---|---|
||**126,654**
**8,333**
**34,242**
**169,229**|
||121,125
**-**
**-**
121,125
2,067
416
1,712
4,195|
||**123,192**
**416**
**1,712**
**125,320**|
|||
||**3,462**
**7,917**
**32,530**
**43,909**|
||3,544
-
**-**
3,544|
## **11. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS**
|**Valuation:**
At 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025|**Freehold**|
|---|---|
||**Property**|
||
**£**
**275,500**
**`═══════`**|
If freehold land and buildings had not been revalued they would have been included at the following historical cost:
|cost:|||
|---|---|---|
||**2025**|2024|
||**£**|£|
|Cost|**759,833**|759,833|
||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
|Value of land in freehold land and buildings|**40,000**|40,000|
||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
Taking into account its usage, the property was revalued to its carrying value in 2002. The decrease in value was considered a permanent diminution in value and written off against funds.
The trustees were informed that the value of the freehold property would be approximately £500,000 if the premises were available for purchase with full vacant possession or if full market rentals were obtained. However, the intention is for the premises to continue to be rented to charitable organisations as a provision of low cost accommodation in accordance with the company's objectives.
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## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements Continued**
**For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
## **12. LISTED INVESTMENTS**
|At 1 October 2024
Additions
Rebalancing
Realised gain/(Loss)
Unrealised gain/(Loss)
**Market Value:**
At 30 September 2025
At 30 September 2024||**Fidelity**
**Investment**
**£**
-
82,870
(392)|
|---|---|---|
|||82,478
13
3,183|
||||
|||**85,674**|
|||-|
The cost price of the Fidelity investments held at 30 September 2025 is £82,491.
## **13. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
|||**2025**|2024|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**£**|£|
||Trade debtors|**1,560**|246|
||Other debtors|**-**|-|
||Prepayments and accrued income|**2,317**|2,898|
||VAT|**5,424**|**-**|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||**9,301**|3,144|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
|**14.**|**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**|||
||Trade creditors|**3,581**|2,612|
||Taxation and social security|**335**|4,059|
||Accruals and deferred income|**3,806**|4,549|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|||**7,722**|11,220|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
|**15.**|**DEFERRED INCOME**|||
||Balance at 1 October 2024|**1,483**|1,314|
||Deferred income in year|**853**|4,449|
||Released to SOFA during year|(**2,037)**|(4,280)|
|||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
||**Balance at 30 September 2025**|**299**|1,483|
|||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
**- 14 -**
## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements Continued**
**For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
## **16. RESTRICTED FUNDS**
|**RESTRICTED FUNDS**|||
|---|---|---|
||**2025**|2024|
||**£**|£|
|Balance at 1 October 2024|**-**|6,425|
|Boston Big Local|**43,027**|1,500|
|Transfer to general funds|**(42,576)**|-|
|Expenditure|**(451)**|(7,925)|
|Depreciation|-|
-|
||**`_______`**|**`_______`**|
|**Balance at 30 September 2025**|**-**|-|
||**`═══════`**|**`═══════`**|
The grants received from The Lottery and Boston Big Local were to help with the rising costs of utilities.
## **17. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS**
|Fund balances at 30 September 2025 are represented by:
Tangible assets
Fixed asset Investment
Listed investments
Debtors
Cash at bank
-
Current account
-
Deposit account
-
Nationwide 95 Day Saver
-
Charity bank 3 year fixed
-
Cash in hand
-
Fidelity investment account
Creditors
**Total Net Assets**|**Unrestricted**
**£**
**43,909**
**275,500**
**85,674**
**9,301**
**21,118**
**3,049**
**89,282**
**45,000**
**73**
**1,670**
**(7,722)**
**`_______`**
**566,854**
**`═══════`**|**Restricted**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
**-**
**43,909**
**-**
**275,500**
-
**85,674**
**-**
**9,301**
**-**
**21,118**
**-**
**3,049**
**-**
**89,282**
**-**
**45,000**
**-**
**73**
-
**1,670**
**-**
**(7,722)**
**`_______`**
**`_______`**
**-**
**566,854**
**`═══════`**
**`═══════`**|
|---|---|---|
Unrestricted funds noted above include unrestricted general funds, which represent the free funds of the charity and designated funds which have been set aside by the charity for a particular use.
**- 15 -**
## **THE BOSTON VOLUNTEER CENTRE CHARITY**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements Continued**
**For the Year Ended 30 September 2025**
## **17. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS continued**
The balance of designated funds at 30 September 2025 was £117,644 after transfer to the unrestricted general funds for 2025 of £ NIL (2024 £ NIL). This is represented as shown below.
|Tangible assets
Fixed asset investment
Listed investment
Debtors
Cash at bank
Creditors
**Total Net Assets**|**Designated**
**Funds**
**£**
-
-
-
**-**
**117,644**
-
**`_______`**
**117,644**
**`═══════`**|**Unrestricted**
**General**
**Funds**
**£**
**43,909**
**275,500**
**85,674**
**9,301**
**42,548**
**(7,722)**
**`_______`**
**449,210**
**`═══════`**|**Total**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**43,909**
**275,500**
**85,674**
**9,301**
**160,192**
**(7,722)**
**`_______`**
**566,854**
**`═══════`**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**`_`**
**`═`**||
Designated funds of the charity represent the building renewal fund. This is a fund that has been designated by the trustees to cover building renewal.
## **18. CONTROLLING PARTY**
The controlling party is the Board of Directors, the members of which are also the Charity's Trustees.
## **18. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There are no related party transactions requiring disclosure.
## **20. GOING CONCERN**
There are no material uncertainties to doubt the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern. There are sufficient unrestricted reserves to meet the charity’s requirements and, if necessary, the designated funds could be transferred to the unrestricted funds at the Trustees’ discretion.
**- 16 -**