Chairs Report – Year ended March 2025
“It’s not the view, it’s what you see.” The Centre as a collection of buildings may not be beautiful, however the experiences that are gained through accessing it more than makes up for this.
It has been refreshing and reassuring that the locally based Pupil Referral Units continue to use the Centre school week days following their reduced absence due funding difficulties and they have recognised the value of learning in the outdoors by making investments of their staff time to enable and support their students to gain useful practical experiences in the outdoors. They continue to manage the bee hive and some of the students continue to learn bee keeping husbandry. It also pleasing to continue to report that there have been the annual returning bookings from youth organisations working alongside and with young people are back accessing the Centre.
Once again maintenance, repairs and improvements were carried out from mid-May through to late October, which specifically included updating and decorating the dormitories and toilets to give them a fresh new look feeling. Throughout the Centre buildings and on the site, the annual painting and decorating of various indoor spaces to maintain the user-friendly environments for schools and other informal learning organisations was undertaken.
“It is the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish”
In my role as Chair of HOT my gratitude goes to the all the trustees and volunteers, as without your loyalty, dedication and passion for Dinedor, the Centre would not exist today. We must look to the future, remain positive, harvest our strengths and as always there will be challenging times ahead and who knows what tomorrow will bring.
I remain committed to Dinedor, to the Trust and to our cause, please do not lose faith, keep your eyes on the prize, it is achievable.
Stu McFarlane Chair & Trustee Herefordshire Outdoor Trust 19 May 2025
Herefordshire Outdoor Trust; Charity number; 1101608.
Registered address; Dinedor Outdoor Centre, Dinedor, Hereford, HR2 6PD
Incorporating; Dinedor Outdoor Centre
DINEDOR OUTDOOR CENTRE
March 2025 End of Year Statement
Assets
Income
| Assets | Income | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | £0.00 | From Hire | £7,114.80 | |||
| Investments | £0.00 | From Schools | £33,333.12 | |||
| Inventory | £15,000.00 | Grants | £0.00 | |||
| Supplies | £450.00 | Donations | £0.00 | |||
| Machinery | £5,400.00 | Deposits | £0.00 | |||
| Insurance | Buildings | £75,000.00 | Sales | £15.49 | ||
| Equipment | £800.00 | £40,463.41 | ||||
| Improvements | £12,000.00 | Expenditure | ||||
| £198,826.90 | Refund | £313.75 | ||||
| admin | £897.00 | |||||
| Liabilities | sundries | £14.90 | ||||
| Accounts payable | cleaning | £3,930.00 | ||||
| consumables | £226.97 | |||||
| maintenance | £13,747.52 | |||||
| Maintenance payable | £12000.00 | instructors | £12,340.00 | |||
| Deposits | £0.00 | waste | £336.00 | |||
| Insurances | £5,000.00 | water | £257.37 | |||
| Rent | £ | gas | £46.00 | |||
| Corporation Tax / | ||||||
| Rates | £ | fuel | £184.44 | |||
| IT / WEB | £500.00 | Equipment | £997.27 |
| materials / supplies | £2,500.00 | materials | £2,016.17 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT / WEB | £93.59 | ||||
| services | £174.00 | ||||
| Insurances | £3,284.55 | ||||
| Total income | £40,463.41 | elec | £1,376.89 | ||
| Total | |||||
| Expentiture | £40,236.42 | £40,236.42 | |||
| Profit /Loss | £226.99 | ||||
| from bank | |||||
| statement | B/F: 31/03/24 | £18,655.55 | |||
| C/F: 01/04/25 | £18,872.54 | ||||
| Signature | C Baggot | ||||
| Date | 01/01/2026 |
DINEDOR OUTDOOR CENTRE
March 2025 End of Year Statement
Assets
Income
| Assets | Income | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | £0.00 | From Hire | £7,114.80 | |||
| Investments | £0.00 | From Schools | £33,333.12 | |||
| Inventory | £15,000.00 | Grants | £0.00 | |||
| Supplies | £450.00 | Donations | £0.00 | |||
| Machinery | £5,400.00 | Deposits | £0.00 | |||
| Insurance | Buildings | £75,000.00 | Sales | £15.49 | ||
| Equipment | £800.00 | £40,463.41 | ||||
| Improvements | £12,000.00 | Expenditure | ||||
| £198,826.90 | Refund | £313.75 | ||||
| admin | £897.00 | |||||
| Liabilities | sundries | £14.90 | ||||
| Accounts payable | cleaning | £3,930.00 | ||||
| consumables | £226.97 | |||||
| maintenance | £13,747.52 | |||||
| Maintenance payable | £12000.00 | instructors | £12,340.00 | |||
| Deposits | £0.00 | waste | £336.00 | |||
| Insurances | £5,000.00 | water | £257.37 | |||
| Rent | £ | gas | £46.00 | |||
| Corporation Tax / | ||||||
| Rates | £ | fuel | £184.44 | |||
| IT / WEB | £500.00 | Equipment | £997.27 |
| materials / supplies | £2,500.00 | materials | £2,016.17 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT / WEB | £93.59 | ||||
| services | £174.00 | ||||
| Insurances | £3,284.55 | ||||
| Total income | £40,463.41 | elec | £1,376.89 | ||
| Total | |||||
| Expentiture | £40,236.42 | £40,236.42 | |||
| Profit /Loss | £226.99 | ||||
| from bank | |||||
| statement | B/F: 31/03/24 | £18,655.55 | |||
| C/F: 01/04/25 | £18,872.54 | ||||
| Signature | C Baggot | ||||
| Date | 01/01/2026 |