CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Trustees. Annual Report for the perfod from 1 June 2022 to 31 May 2023
Charlty name: Basingstoke - Old Basing u38
Charity rnglstration number: 1086263
Objectives and Activities
Summary of the wrposes of
charity as set (yjt in tts
goveming document
The advan￿Ment of education, and in partFcular the
education of older people and those retired from full time
v￿rk. by all means induding associated aclivities
conducive to leaming and personal development in
Basingstoke and the surrounding area.
We hold a meeling once a month, which all members are
invrted to attend. involving refreshments and a talk by a
(usually extemal) speaker. Occasionally the speaker
might be repla￿d by a social gathering.
We have more than 70 special interest groups. meeting al
dtfferent times and frequencies 4uAwach ¥￿kTrRg
w8eKrnonth. These are open to all members, and non-
members may attend one meeting of up lo thrèe groups
on a tnal ba&s.
Our main actiwties are as set out above. The tnjstees
have had regard to the Commission's guidance on public
benefiL
Summary of the main
activities in relati￿ to those
purposes for the public
benefft, in parti¢ular. th8
activities, projects or servi
identified in acwunts
Statement confinning
whether the truste8s have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Chartty
Commission on public iwièfit
Achievemerts and Perfonnance
Summary of the main
achievements of the charity.
identrfying the difference the
charity's work has made to
the circumstances of ts
beneficiaries and any IMder
benefits to scKrety as a
yth0￿.
Our main focus is on the continuing educats'on and
personal development of those who have reached
retirement or are semi-retired. There is also the wKler
sooal benefft of our members coming togoth8r with like-
minded people.
Members are regularfy encf)uraged to bring a friend or
vo to our meetings, in the hope the friend{s) will be
interested in joining our u3a.

Financial Revlew
Review of the financial
position at the end of the
Income = £62,293.16
Expenditure - £60,512.96
Income over expanditure = £1,780.20
These accounts have been inde
endentl
audtted
Reserves are held to enable Ihe u3a to WFthstand
unexpected events and fluctuations in Income and
expenditure.
One sTrgnificant risk is a major venue becoming unusable
by, for example, a fire vthen future use had already been
paKI for. The reserve needed for this risk is currently
assessed by the Trustees as £8.000, to cover new venue
costs and to reptace equipment stored at the unusable
venue.
Statement explaining the
policy for holding reservas.
stating why they are held
Another risk is a Tnaterial reduclion in membership. The
Trustees assess the reserve needed for this as a further
£4,000.
A further £3.000 needs to be held as at the u3a's year end
to pay for costs incurred but not yet paid.
The totsl reserves as at ts year end should therefore be
£15,000.
While these risks are those identified as the most likety. the
reserves are available for use if other risks jeopardise the
future of the u3a.
The reserves policy is rev￿We￿ every year.
£50 441.99
Amount of reserves hekl
Reasons for holding zero
reserves
Detsils of fund materi81ty in
deficit
Explanation of any
uncertainties abolrt the
charity continuing as a going
con￿rn
Structure, Governance and Management
Type of goveming do(￿ment
Consbtution. approved by the Chartty Commission and the
Third A e Trust.
An unincorporaled members. association.
How is the charity
constituted?
Trustee seleciion meth(Kls
including details of any
consb'tutional provisions e.g.
election to tM)St or name of
any person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees
Trustees are drawn from the membership of our u3a. Every
trustee is elected or re*lected for the coming 12 months at
ourAnnual General Meetings.
Various limits on the time an indiv￿ual can serve as a
trustee or as an Offi￿r (Chainnan. Vice-chairman
Treasurer and SecTetsry) are set out in our Constitution.

Reference and Administrative Details
Charity name
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number
Charity's principal address
Basingstoke- Old Basing u3a
1086263
11 Belmont Heights, Hatth Warren. Basingstd(e, RG22 4RW
Names of the Trustees who managed the Charity durlng the year
Offico (If any)
Nam• of person (or body)
•ntlil•d to appolnt trustses
The mambers of the Basingstoke
Old Basing u3a. The existing
trustees may agree to Co-opt up to
three members lo the committee
until the nextAGM.
appolntmenl
1210812020
Rod Marsh￿1
Chair
Elaine Budd
B4Jsiness Secretary
Treasurer
13107r2022
Tony Summers
Janet Field
3010712022
10107r2019
Richard Field
1010712019
Mad&line Hussey
Janice VaLfghan
Sue Seamour
12108r2020
1410712021
1010712019301
Liz Ilett
02108r2022 12
P8Lfl Dodge
Chris Vickers
2911112022 1
0210312023 1
David Noble
' date of C(popt￿)n
2 LÈZ Ilett's C(pOpt￿ to the committe8 in Marth 2023
0410512023 1
Exemptions from disclosure
Reason fcf non-disclosLsre of key perS￿ne1 details: nla
Declaration
The trustees declare that they have appn)ved the truste8s' reKM)rt atx)ve.
Signed on behalf of the trustees
Name:
Posibon..
Date:
14lio1LS

||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Basingstoke - Old Basing u3a**|||||**1086263**||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||1st June 2022||**To**||Period end date|||
||||1st June 2022||||31st May 2023|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Membership|**34,207**||**-**||**-**||**34,207**||**29,621**|
|U3a refund|**341**||**-**||**-**||**341**||**-**|
|Gift Aid|**2,671**||**-**||**-**||**2,671**||**1,848**|
|Donations|**340**||**-**||**-**||**340**||**285**|
|Quiz|**146**||**-**||**-**||**146**||**-**|
|BCOT lunches|**- 0**||**1,912**||**-**||**1,912**||**-**|
|Social Excursions|**- 0**||**22,547**||**-**||**22,547**||**23,045**|
|Interest|**129**||**-**||**-**||**129**||**1**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**37,834**||**24,459**||**-**||**62,293**||**54,800**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**37,834**||**24,459**||**- 0**||**62,293**||**54,800**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Venue and Zoom Hire|**26,766**||**-**||**-**||**26,766**||**15,027**|
|U3a capitation|**4,860**||**-**||**-**||**4,860**||**-**|
|Speakers|**417**||**-**||**-**||**417**||**965**|
|Stationery, post, travel|**474**||**-**||**-**||**474**||**211**|
|Insurance, publicity, marketing|**380**||**-**||**-**||**380**||**446**|
|Consumables|**722**||**-**||**-**||**722**||**720**|
|Website and SumUp|**402**||**-**||**-**||**402**||**391**|
|BCOT lunches|**- 0**||**1,590**||**-**||**1,590**||**-**|
|Social excursions|**- 0**||**24,272**||**-**||**24,272**||**20,593**|
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**34,021**||**25,862**||**-**||**59,883**||**38,353**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
||**630**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**630**||**776**|
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**630**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**630**||**775**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|<br>**34,651**||**25,862**||**- 0**||**60,513**||**39,128**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|<br>**3,183**||**-**<br>**1,403**||**-**||**1,780**||**15,672**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**275**||**-**<br>**275**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**46,210**||**2,452**||**-**||**48,662**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|<br>**49,668**||**774**||**-**||**50,442**||**15,672**|
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Current and Membership||||**4,266**||**-**||**-**|
||Social and excursions||||**-**||**774**||**-**|
||Deposit accounts||||**45,402**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**49,668**||**774**||**-**|



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||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLANO AND WALES
Independent examinerfs
report on the accounts
Soctlon A
CLo..I bj, l of 6 26
Report to tr* truste￿ ,
On xcounts for tho y￿r
Charity no
(If any)
On
I repcrtt to the tr￿teeS on my exaTrynati￿ of the accounts ofthe ab)ve
charity (Ihe Trusfi forthe year ended
Rg•ponslbllltles and As the charity trustees of the Trusl you are resp￿[blo for the preparauon of
basis of report the acu>unts in acc￿d￿Ko with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(Ihe Acr).
I rewrt In rest*rt of my exaMinatic￿ of the Tnjsfs accounts carried (Krt
under section 145 of the 2011 Ac* arKI in cafrytng out my 8xamination, I have
followed the applic£bl8 Directions given by the Chaiity Commission under
sedion 145(5Xb) oftrtk
IrKlependent
I have completed my examinatK)n. I confimi that no materpl matters have
examinerfs statsmont ￿ffle to my attentv)n (other than that disdoged below") tn (X￿neCti1)n with
the examinalion which STrfes me cAuse to t￿ieYe thal in, any material
ac(xJunling records were not kepl in a￿ordanCe with sectlon 130 of
the Aca or
the accounts do rK)t accA)rd the acojurrtlng reLy)rfs
I have no concems and have across rm) other mattefs in cf)nnection
wtth the examinatK•n to which attenti(￿ should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the ar￿Urts to be reached.
. Please delets the words in the brad(ets rfthay do notawy.
Namo:
Relevant professlonal
quallficallon(s) or body
(rfany):
OF Cu All { fvJR_)
(SL_I*￿3
IER
Octobor 2018

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1066263
A(klress:
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SectiOTt 6
Disclosure
Onty complete rf the exarrmner needs to h￿hlIght matters of conGem Ise8
CC32. Independent examination of tharity aco)unts: directions and guidance
for examiners).
Give horo brlef d•trtlls
of any itsms that tho
oxaminer wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018