’ - Chairman s Report 2021 2022
2021 continued in the same vein as 2020 with massive disruption due to COVID19. So it was a challenging year for all. For a lot of the year either we were unable to open the hall for normal use or our regular users were unwilling to make use of the hall. Things did improve in the second half of the year as the Parish Council, W.I. and Arts Society were able to hold some meetings. The Charity was again helped by the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant that the government made available.
Despite the restrictions we were able to organise a few events and fund raisers. In August Ian Sharlot organised an Open Gardens weekend which generated a lot of interest, so, many thanks to Ian for that. Ian also tried a new venture in producing and selling Christmas cards in aid of the hall which went very well, thanks again Ian, I think this is something we will look to do annually now. In December we ran our annual Christmas Fete which went very successfully and was largely organised by Tania Sketchley, thank you Tania. And we were very pleased to run another successful Christmas puzzle sheet for which we give Jen Sample enormous thanks for writing and marking it.
The Lotto 100 Club was also run in 2021, with a different timetable to previous years, running from April 2021 to March 2022 in an attempt to spread activities more across the year. The Committee would like to thank all those in the community who help to support the Hall through this venture.
Despite the lower than normal level of activity at the hall, the committee has still been busy working on the project to provide a new village hall. Construction was disrupted by COVID-19 but I am happy to say that we are very close to having the hall handed over to us.
With events being restricted by COVID-19 our treasurer, Matt Bates, has been hard at work over the year applying to various fund-givers for grants to help us provide additional facilities in the new hall. I’m pleased to say that he’s had a really good success rate and this will help massively in the provisions of new tables, chairs, blackout blinds and the like. So a big thank you to Matt for his work on that. We also ran a sponsored–brick campaign and again this was probably more successful than we thought, getting support from local residents as well as local businesses. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all those who participated.
That summarises our year, I sincerely hope that COVID-19 continues its downward impact on our lives and that we will see life in our new hall ramping up throughout the year. I would like to give my thanks to all the members of the Hall Management Committee, who have given much time and effort to raise funds to supplement the income from lets, to oversee the maintenance, to scrutinise the development of the new hall and to provide enjoyable events to bring the community together. I would like to thank them all for their hard work and dedication.
Mike Thackery
Chair, Marston Montgomery Coronation Hall Committee Registered Charity Number 1085703
– MMCH Treasurers Report 2021
Highlights / overview
Once again not a normal year for us, started with lockdown and then uncertainty continued, only opening the hall again in July.
We still have to pay insurance, utilities etc, so our costs are similar to a normal year. Our hire revenue was again down due to covid, 16% of what 2019 was!
It has been our fundraising events that have had a major contribution in 2021, two events not done before for the benefit of the hall raised £755, which were the Open gardens and Christmas cards, both the brainchild of Ian, so many thanks for this!
You will see our profit, however is exceptional at £43,405. But lets break this down to put it in some context.
We were very grateful to be eligible for COVID business grants from DDDC / government, in 2021 receiving £19,369.
Also we should highlight the grants and brick sponsorship received for projects related to the new hall, this being £23,664.
As you can see the vast majority of our 2021 profit is funding grants and covid grants, in fact if you remove these numbers from the accounts our ‘normal operating profit’ would be £327. Again without those additional events this would have resulted in a loss.
Looking forward…
2022 is looking brighter, we are learning to live with COVID although we never know when this is going to spike or recede, we have our new hall which we believe, in time will generate additional income as well as providing a fantastic facility. We are not however easily able to forecast the running costs of this new hall so we will need to keep a close watch on this in order to spend / invest wisely. We are putting a forecast together, which is included in the accounts, this is a first pass and will be adjusted as we go through the year.
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Matthew Bates – Treasurer February 2022
Proft and Loss for the year to 31/12/2021
Income
Hire of Hall Donations Grants Fund Raising / Events Hall Lotto Misc Actual Income Actual Expenditure Profit for the Year
Balance Sheet at 31/12/2021 ASSETS Leek United BS Santander Bank Debtors Total Assets Liabilities Accruals Bad Debt Expenses Net Assets at 31 December 2021 Net Assets at 31 December 2020 Profit for the year
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Matt Bates - 06/02/2022 MMCH Treasurer
483.00 9,264.01 33,769.00 1,368.80 1,440.00 21.82 46,346.63 2,941.55 43,405.08
7,043.06 52,644.96 24.00 59,712.02
20.00 -42.00 59,734.02 16,328.94
43,405.08
Financial Audit Report 2021
We have never had to do one of these before due to low income levels.
2021 saw higher income due to grants and we hadn’t realised we now needed such a review.
This we are looking to sort and will upload once complete.
Matt Bates
Treasurer