CHAIRMAN'S REPORT- AGM FEBRUARY 2025 Another year has gone by and l am standing here agatn giving my Chairman's Report for 2024 to you. We have had another successful year and our membership is now 479 and growing. We are getting new members every month and lots of enquiries. This is keeping our membership secretary John Fulford very busy and also John Faulkner our Deputy Treasurer. One of our big highlights this year is the creation of our new website by Gwen Davies our computer wizard. She has spent days and hours making sure everything is accurate and more attractive to the users. This will be a big asset to the growth of the group. We find that the new members are more technical savvy and expect to have information at their fingertips. Gwen continually updates everything and also she is adding new information when she receives it. Please send Gwen any information you think our members would benefit from. We had a very successful U3A holiday in May 2024, organised by our very own travel agent Sue, to Llandudno with Alfa Travel. What made it more enjoyable was that we had the coach totally to ourselves and could decide what we wanted to do. The scenery was spectacular and the company even better. Many happy memories were made. We also had a trÈp to Strarford in June organised by Sylvia including a very informative tour of Shakespeare's school. The rest of the day was spent exploring Strafford and some of us visited the butterfly farm. It started a bit damp but by the end of the day the sun had come out. Sylvia also organÉsed, later in the year, a skittles night at Bolehall Manor which included a fish and chip supper. Everybody said how much they enjoyed the night. Thank you Sylvia. The Gardening Appreciation group worked hard as usual and booked and organised some interesting garden trips. These included Botanical Gardens, beautiful Hidcote Gardens, Baddesley Clinton House and gardens and the atmospheric Batsford Arboretum. They finished the year with a Xmas lunch at the Castle Hotel including the Light Exercise Group, Friday Lunch group, Sunday lunch group and the Ambling Group. Sue and Sue you excelled yourselves. I would like to thank all the Group Leaders for their continued hard work. They are the backbone of this group and it wouldn't be so successful without them. The new Group Leader for the Light Exercise Group, taking the reins from Pam, is Lisbeth. Thank you Pam for doing such a splendid job, quietly and efficiently, for a number of years.
The U3A choir has had a very busy year with a number of concerts including the cheese and wine concert at Elford Church. They finished the year at, the extremely cold St Editha's Church, with the U3A Ukulele Group. How they managed to sing and play their instruments I wi11 never know. Even with the cold it was well attended and extremely enjoyable. Well done Choir. Last year we lost some very close friends of the group and I would like to send mv condolences to the family and friends of those members. One of those members was Judy Nestor a past Chairman and Speaker Secretary. She devoted a lot of her time to this group and was also involved in many other groups in the Tamworth area. She was always the first to volunteer if she could and I miss her on the stage with me, correcting my mistakes with her lovely smile! !! The committee members work extremely hard on your behalf to make this a safe and enjoyable space to be involved and we would always welcome any feedback from you to make it even better. Thank you committee members for doing a fantastic job. If you know of any member who is having a hard time health wise or personal and would appreciate a card to cheer them up please get in touch with our Welfare Officer Eileen. She will be very happy to send them an appropriate card. She is very good and seems to know the right thing to say. The Assembly Rooms staff have always made us welcome and we are very grateful to be able to use this beautiful building for our monthly meetings. Thank you to the technical team and front house staff. I would like to end my Chairman's Report for 2024 with thanking you all here today for letting me be Chairman for the past very busy year. Judy Emery Chairman
Statement of a irs as at 31st December 2024 Cash book balance bought forward from 2023 £11,153.13 Difference between receipts /payments £1,875.16 Sub-total being balance per cash book @31/12/2024 £13,028.29 Add back unpresented cheques £270.00 Balance per bank statement at 31/12/24 £13,2 .29/ Petty cash balance B/fwd from 2024 £32.69 Add cash receipts £0.00 Deduct payments £6.05 Pety cash balance 2024 £26.64 Total Funds £13, 54.93 Deduct group liabilities £8,062.10 Sub total £4,992.83 Add Deposit A/c £8,645.74 FUNDS AVAILABLE £13,63 .57
Balance Sheet 2024 EXPENDITURE Room rental Speakers Audit Capitation Fee Committee Meetings Sewing Mah Jong INCOME nnual Subs Monthly meeting 4,620.00 3,459.55 2,040.00 1,160.00 60.00 1,864.00 392.83 60.00 39.77 tratford Skittles Cards Light Exercise Riviera 1,155.80 384.00 24.75 0.62 422.82 El U3a Magazine Travel Printing/Stationery/lnk Postage Stratford Cards/Flowers Equipment/Computer Skittles Ambling Leaders Lunch 913.12 59.00 209.34 75.00 1,155.80 131.52 79.97 360.00 30.00 610.07 Christmas {2023/24) Sub Total 390.55 9,630.97 Sub Total 10,067.54 Groups Groups Art Choir Gardening History Light Exercise Tai Chi Bowls Film Club Science Church History Medieval History Holiday Debating Bridge Painting Archaeology Local History Quiz Sub Total 1,195.00 2,903.25 7,145.00 1,890.00 1,932.00 2,401.50 1,247.40 390.00 0.00 320.00 465.00 2,050.00 327.00 102.00 1,460.95 330.00 114.00 50.00 24,323.10 1,364.00 2,483.64 7,025.77 1,495.00 2,378.62 2,216.00 1,254.00 210.00 0.00 375.95 403.53 2,200.00 252.00 0.00 948.00 198.00 80.00 0.00 22,884.51 hoir Gardening History Light Exercise ai Chi Bowls Film Club Science Church Historv Medieval History Holiday Debating Bridge Painting rchaeology Local History Quiz Sub Total TOTAL 34,390.64 TOTAL 32,515.48 Petty Cash Open Bal 2020 I ncome 2020 Sub Total Expenditure 2020 Sub Total 32.69 0.00 32.69 6.05 26.64 Closing Balance 26.64
Exaniinatioii ot tlie accounts for Tanii%'OI"IlI I'liird Age for year Ljiiding 31SI Dec. 2024. Opeiiiiig balanLe for 2025 dgreed with Ilie closing bcil(Iiice aiid bank .siateineiit for 2024. All entries iii the account5 check agdlllst the baiik siateiiients and agreecl. Final eiitries fDr iiidik'idudl gi'oups cliecked again.st balaiice shLLt cind aLrLed. Llosing balanLe checked aiid agreed witli baIik stateillent. Balance sheet aiid acLounLs checked and agreed wilh Ilie siaieinent of affaiI's aiid agreed. No discEepancies were foLLnd duiing the. examinaiioii and the accouiits wlic)I"e in good order. S. Windridge