THE HEDGEHOGS
Registered Charity Number 109286
Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024
PROFIT & LOSS STATEMENT
| INCOME Marquee Hire - Gross _less_discounts given to local charities Net Income from marquee hire Calendar sales Other fund raising events & activities Donations Membership subs Gift Aid Other / sundries Income from activities Bank Interest TOTAL INCOME EXPENDITURE Calendar costs Cost of other fund raising activities Marquee repairs & renewals Charitable donations Insurance costs Sundries - web site costs etc TOTAL EXPENDITURE TOTAL INCOME lessTOTAL EXPENDITURE SURPLUS / (DEFICIT) FOR YEAR |
2024 £ 16,241 2,621 13,620 16,774 8,251 8,631 1,225 1,679 598 50,778 614 51,392 2024 £ 2403 4252 1403 53536 3776 556 65926 51392 -65926 -14534 |
2023 (restated) £ 18,376 2,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 16,736 14,446 30,186 10,736 1410 |
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| 73,514 240 |
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| 73,754 | ||
| 2023 £ 3505 11082 1416 51011 2451 1157 |
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| 70622 | ||
| 73754 -70622 |
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| 3132 |
THE HEDGEHOGS
Registered Charity Number 109286
Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024
| Current | Savings | Paypal | Petty | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Account | Account | Account | Cash | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |||
| Opening balances | 3256 | 52664 | 439 | 197 | 56556 | |
| as at 1 April 2023 | ||||||
| Closing balances | ||||||
| as at 31 March 2024 | 4507 | 37323 | 0 | 192 | 42022 | |
| Change in balances | 1251 | -15341 | -439 | -5 | -14534 |
THE HEDGEHOGS
Registered Charity Number 109286
Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024
| 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Balances as at 31 March | 42022 | 56556 |
| _Less_Outstanding Pledges | -5600 | 0 |
| Net charitable funds available for dispersal | 36422 | 56556 |
| P Robertson | ||
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| Treasurer | Secretary |
THE HEDGEHOGS
Registered Charity Number 109286
Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024
Charitable payments made during year
| £ | |
|---|---|
| Sailability - boat trailer servicing | 618 |
| Potters Gate School - school trips | 1693 |
| T.S. Swiftsure - building upgrades | 2500 |
| Homestart Waverley - projector purchase | 347 |
| The Hygiene Bank - purchase hygiene products | 300 |
| St Peters Junior School - school trips | 437 |
| Highfield School - YR 5 & 6 school trips | 2120 |
| Space2Grow - family training courses | 1000 |
| Headway Surrey | 621 |
| Abbeyfield Wey Valley - sensory garden | 2500 |
| Spire café / Farnham United Reform Church-tables etc169 | 1690 |
| T Cooper - support family day out | 200 |
| T Cooper - family day out tickets | 200 |
| Parkside - kichen refurb | 1500 |
| St Polycarps school - school trip | 71.5 |
| Creative Response - summer family safety net |
1868 |
| U3A - membership fees for struggling individual | 45 |
| Pathfinder camp | 160 |
| S Grimes - family school bus fares | 336 |
| Mane Chance - course fees for child | 210 |
| Space2Grow - summer family courses | 1500 |
| Foundation Physio - T Varney physion sessions | 700 |
| 40 Degreez - course fees | 680 |
| Guildford CAB - washing machine for elderley reident | 290 |
| Farnham Council - Farnham In Bloom contribution | 300 |
| Hartland Nameplace | 74.25 |
| Help struggling family | 350 |
| U3A - membership fees for struggling individual | 44.21 |
| Farnham Assist | 1000 |
| St Thomas - Bourne | 244.99 |
| Farnham Town FC - refurbish disabled toilets | 1500 |
| Mr Naseer - desk purchase | 230 |
| Bourne PCC - pensioner Christmas meals | 400 |
| Brightwell Gostrey - pensioner attendance fees | 600 |
| Potters Gate School - sensort garden planting | 750 |
| Homestart - family Xmas meals | 800 |
| Farnham&District Stroke & Asphasia Group | 1000 |
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| Space2Grow - donation | 750 |
| 3rd Farnham Scouts - donation for help Fireworks | 300 |
| U3A - membership fees donation | 252.6 |
| Sheperds Court - Xma meals donation | 200 |
| Kingsley Organisation - EPOS/Till purchase | 900 |
| Lake Therapy - therapy sessions | 325 |
| M Stevens - Xmas food vouchers | 150 |
| M Stevens - Xmas food vouchers | 150 |
| M Stevens - car repairs | 180 |
| Christmas food donations - local families in need | 600 |
| Atomic Boxing - assist cost struggling families | 1000 |
| S Petts - assist with funeral costs | 1300 |
| Highfields School - school trips | 2000 |
| Woodlarks - improve facilities | 731 |
| Change of Scene - therapy sessions | 870 |
| Mane Chance - riding therapy sessions | 125 |
| Brightwell Gostrey - donation | 3000 |
| Potters gate School - subsidise school trip | 870 |
| Daffodil purchase - to meals on wheels recipients | 134.4 |
| Weydon School - purchase DofE trackers | 624 |
| Ridgeway school - school trips | 934 |
| F Brain - home equipment purchase | 389.99 |
| F Brain - food vouchers | 50 |
| St Peters School - beds for Ukrainian family | 867.99 |
| Hale Community Centre - assist refurb | 2808 |
| Mattress for elderley resident | 285.95 |
| Nursery school fee for divirced mother | 171.16 |
| 1st Bourne Guides - donation | 1818 |
| U3A use of card machine | 2869.73 |
| Total Charitable payments for year | 53535.77 |
AGM 2024
Chairman’s Report 2023/24
Our 65[th] year as Farnham’s only charity committed wholly to ‘helping local people in need’ had an inauspicious start. Four members who had actively participated in our affairs resigned and, very sadly, Howard Warner passed away. An Honorary Vice-President, Howard will be remembered for his wise counsel in our deliberations and particularly for his wizardry, as the co-ordinator of our cash collection activities, in turning old coins and foreign currency into a valuable source of revenue.
The year, however, turned out better than first presaged:
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in its 10[th] Anniversary Year, our Love Farnham Calendar, carrying our name for display into some 1100 local homes and beyond, exceeded performances in previous years, particularly in terms of sales and sponsorship, achieving a profit of some £14.6k
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the hire of our marquees, sunbrellas and associated equipment, augmented by the hire and loan of our PA system/s, was brisk netting an income of over £14k
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the sale of mulled wine at the Farnham Fireworks again proved popular with the crowd and netted £2.6k for our funds
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a well-supported Spring Quiz saw us raise £1.4k for a Farnham Scout group – in part to reciprocate their support for us at our mulled wine stall
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as joint organisers (with the Lions) of the Farnham Carnival once again we ran the Carnival Parade which had slightly fewer entries than in previous years but, with a high standard of floats and participants, still had spectators cramming the town’s streets
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we brought the ‘big top’ (Happys Circus ) to town at small prices for local families. Thanks to eventual sponsorship the event was self-sufficient and enabled us to provide a summer outing and entertainment for some six hundred people
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we ran stalls at the Bourne Show and Rowledge Village Fayre and helped marshal the multitude at the Hale Carnival
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throughout the year we supported Farnham Town Council, marshalling at its various public events and providing public address facilities at some of these. Members helped with the delivery of meals for Brightwells Gostrey, an organisation which provides a community hub for Farnham’s senior citizens and, in return for its goodwill to us and use of its clubhouse, members regularly helped to marshal the spectators turning up for Farnham Town Football
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Club’s matches. We also kept a watching presence on the Farnham Support Fund, participating as appropriate
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all the while, members wives and partners supported us, pitching in with some of the above activities. In particular, a core of our ladies ran toy tombolas and tea tents at various times and venues during the year
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socially, members and guests strolled through the countryside meeting afterwards at hostelries, visited a local winery and other places of interest
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last but most importantly we received and considered no less than 65 requests for help from individuals, families, local schools and youth groups and other organisations serving the Farnham community. Of these requests some 55 were supported with our charitable donations to them eventually totalling just over £53.5k.
My sincere thanks to all members, wives, partners and guests who stepped up to the plate to participate in our various activities and mark out tracks in Farnham.
Membership is growing – some might say recovering after the year’s start – albeit slowly but encouragingly and The Hedgehogs have much to look forward to this coming year. The need to recruit ladies and younger members remains a priority and succession planning for the officers has started - even if only on my ‘soft-drive’ at this time!
Thank you and best wishes to you all.
Peter Martindale
30 May, 2024
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