Charity number 1083425
Company number 3971481
Rye Community Centre Association
(A company limited by guarantee)
Trustees report and unaudited financial statements
for the year ended 31 August 2025
Rye Community Centre Association
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| Legal and administratve informaton | 1 |
| Trustees annual report | 2 |
| Statement of fnancial actvites - general funds | 3 |
| Balance sheet | 4 |
| Notes to the fnancial accounts | 5 - 7 |
Rye Community Centre Association
Legal and administrative information
Constitution
Rye Community Centre is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 13 April 2000, and was already a registered charity, and is now governed by its memorandum and articles of association.
Charity number 1083425. Company number 3971481
At each annual general meeting one third of the trustees are subject to retirement by rotation, by virtue of longevity of service and are subject to re election at the annual general meeting.
Directors and trustees
The directors of the charitable company are its trustees for the purpose of charity law.
The trustees serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
G Boudreau Chairman S Blattman Vice chairman R Fletcher Treasurer J Holbrook D Avery
Secretary
N East
Registered office
Rye Community Centre, Conduit Hill, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7LE
Bankers
HSBC Bank plc
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Rye Community Centre Association
Trustees annual report
for the year ended 31 August 2025
The trustees present the report and financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2025.
Objects of the charity
The objects of the charity shall be:
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a) To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Rye and the neighbourhood by associating the local authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.
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b) To secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain and manage, or co-operate with any local statutory authority in the maintenance and management of, such a centre for activities promoted by the association and its constituent bodies in furtherance of the above object. The charity is managed by an executive committee of trustees who are elected annually.
Review of progress and achievements
The charity made a deficit for the year of £9,965 compared with a surpus of £6,362 last year. The income from hall lettings have increased by £1,895 compared with the previous year. No grants were received in the year compared with £3,636 last year.
The Film club contributed a surplus of income for the year of £529 compared with £486 last year. Fundraising events raised £215 compared with £2,386 last year.
Secretary and cleaner wages have increased by £3,161 over last year.
The repairs and maintenance costs during the year have increased by £9,488.
Rates and water costs during the year have increased by £317.
Light and heat costs have increased by £654 during the year.
Cleaning materials costs have decreased by £450 compared with last year.
The general funds reflect provisions for depreciation in line with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008) (see page 5)
Approved by the trustees on 10 November 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
G Boudreau Chairman R Fletcher Treasurer
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Rye Community Centre Association
Statement fo financial activities for the year ended 31 August 2025
General funds
| Notes Incoming resources Donations and grants 2 Trading activities 3 Bank interest received Total incoming resources Resources expended Direct charitable expenditure Hall overheads 4 Advertising Management and administraton of the charity Secretary wages Payroll services Bank charges Internet charges Postage and statonery Total resources expended Net deficit / income for the year 5 Fund balance brought forward Fund balance carried forward |
2025 £ 120 31,430 410 31,960 35,728 51 35,779 5,481 26 78 530 31 6,146 41,925 -9,965 17,801 7,836 |
2024 £ 3,636 31,861 223 |
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| 35,720 | ||
| 24,786 51 |
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| 24,837 | ||
| 4,043 80 108 252 38 |
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| 4,521 | ||
| 29,358 | ||
| 6,362 11,439 |
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| 17,801 |
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Rye Community Centre Association
Balance sheet
as at 31 August 2025
| Notes Fixed assets Tangible assets 7 Current assets Debtors 8 Cash at bank and in hand Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 9 Net current assets Net assets Funds General funds - unrestricted Transferred to freehold premises Total funds |
2025 2024 £ £ £ £ 18,482 19,332 3,945 3,820 21,219 30,261 25,164 34,081 458 260 24,706 33,821 43,188 53,153 7,836 17,801 35,352 35,352 43,188 53,153 |
2025 2024 £ £ £ £ 18,482 19,332 3,945 3,820 21,219 30,261 25,164 34,081 458 260 24,706 33,821 43,188 53,153 7,836 17,801 35,352 35,352 43,188 53,153 |
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| 53,153 | ||
| 17,801 35,352 |
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| 53,153 |
continued ……………..
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Rye Community Centre Association
Balance sheet (continued)
Trustees statements required by Sections 475(2) and (3) for the year ended 31 August 2025
In approving these financial statements as trustees of the company we hereby confirm:
a) that for the year stated above the company was entitled to the exemption conferred by Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006;
b) that no notice has been deposited at the registered office of the company pursuant to Section 476 requesting an audit be conducted for the year ended 31 August 2025 ; and
c) that we acknowledge our responsibilities for:
(1) ensuring the company keeps accounting records which comply with Section 386 ; and
(2) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its surplus or deficit for the year then ended in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the provisions of the Companies Act relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.
These financial statemem]nts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements on pages 3 to 7 were approved by the trustees on 10 November 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
G Boudreau Chairman R Fletcher Treasurer
Registration number 3971481
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Rye Community Centre Association
Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 August 2025
1. Accounting policies
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008), the Companies Act 2006 and follow the recommendations in Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice issued in March 2005.
All voluntary income is received by way of donations and is included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable.
Grants, including grants for the purchase of fixed assets, are recognised in full in the statement of financial activities in the year in which they are receivable.
Incoming resources from all trading activities and investments are included when receivable.
Resources expended are recognised in the period in which they are incurred.
Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of each asset over its expected useful life as follows:
| Freehold premises | Equally over 50 years |
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| Film club equipment | 15% per annum of net cost value |
Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources receivable or generated for the objects of the charity without further specified purpose and are available as general funds.
The assets and fund balances from Rye Community Centre, the unincorporated charity, were introduced into the company at their value reflected in the final unincorporated accounts of the charity.
2. Donations and grants
| Grants received General donatons |
2025 2024 £ £ 0 3,636 120 0 |
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| 120 3,636 |
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Rye Community Centre Association
Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 August 2025
3. Income from trading activities
| Hall letngs Film club Badminton Fundraising Equipment hire |
2025 2024 £ £ 30,222 28,327 705 815 288 299 215 2,386 0 34 |
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| 31,430 31,861 |
4. Hall overheads
| Cleaner Light and heat Repairs and maintenance Insurance Rates and water Cleaning materials Bar services Licences Film club expenses Wif for hall Sundries Depreciaton of flm club equipment Depreciaton of freehold premises 5. Net income for the year This is stated afer charging: |
2025 2024 £ £ 7,811 6,088 4,441 3,787 18,840 9,352 1,423 1,410 1,552 1,235 550 1,000 0 250 85 342 176 329 0 112 0 5 143 169 707 707 |
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| 35,728 24,786 |
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| 2025 2024 £ £ |
Depreciation
851 876
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Rye Community Centre Association
Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 August 2025
6. Staff costs
Officers and trustees of the charity, excepting the secretary, receive no remuneration. Officers reasonable expenses are reimbursed.
| 7. Tangible fixed assets Cost At I September 2024 Additons At 31 August 2025 Depreciation At I September 2024 Charge for the year At 31 August 2025 Net book values At 31 August 2025 At 31 August 2024 8. Debtors |
Freehold Film club premises equipment Total £ £ £ 35,352 16,408 51,760 - - - |
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| 35,352 16,408 51,760 |
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| 16,973 15,455 32,428 707 143 850 |
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| 17,680 15,598 33,278 |
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| 17,672 810 18,482 |
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| 18,379 953 19,332 |
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| Prepayment Other debtors Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Other creditors and accruals |
2025 2024 £ £ 570 570 3,375 3,250 |
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| 3,945 3,820 |
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| 2025 2024 £ £ 458 260 |
9. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
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