## **EMS VALLEY UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE** ## Registered Charity 1117497 ## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT and FINANCIALS for 2024/2025** 1. This report relates to the period: 24th May 2024 to 22nd May 2025. 2. Our Monthly meetings with a Speaker continue to be held at The Emsworth Baptist Church on the 4th Thursday of the Month at 2pm. 3. Membership numbers have increased this year to 534 at the end of March, and our Welcome coffee mornings continued to be a success. 4. There are currently 54 groups run by our members, two more than last year. Sadly 2 groups have closed (Roman History and Music Appreciation), however there are 6 new groups including: 2 new Watercolour groups, 2 new Beginners Bridge groups, a Real Ale group and the most recent, The Bus Explorers Group, open to all but certainly utilising anyone with a Bus Pass. For details of these new groups and all our groups please visit our website on the Group page. Plenty of support is available to anyone wishing to start a new interest group, just contact our Group Co-ordinator. 5. Our Newsletter is digitally published and emailed on a monthly basis keeping members informed, entertained and up-to-date. It is also available on our website including back copies. Subject matter is always welcomed and anyone wishing to submit a paragraph or two should contact our Newsletter editor who would welcome your input. 6. Our website: emsvalleyu3a.org continues to be updated with contact details, current information, group details and our calendar of events. There is also an on-line suggestion box on our welcome page should you have anything you wish to send in. 7. Our communication tool is Beacon, and our Administrator offers training to anyone who requires it. 8. Our 2024 Christmas Lunch was held at Chichester College and was deemed very successful with fabulous food and attentive helpful staff. This year the Christmas Lunch is already booked at the Chichester College again on Thursday 4th of December. 9. The Charity correspondent is: Dbee Robinson, 16 Chartwell Drive, Havant, Hants, PO9 2QB 10. The Governing Document of Ems Valley u3a is The Constitution. Adopted originally on 16th March 2006. At our last AGM on 23.05.24 we voted in a model constitution from the Third Age Trust, available to view on our website. There have been no changes since. Page of 1 5 11. The objectives of Ems Valley u3a are: - ‘The advancement of education and, in particular, the education of older people and those who are retired from full time work by all means, including associated activities conducive to learning and personal development.’ 12. On the advice of the Third Age Trust, all Committee Members and Co-opted Members become Trustees of Ems Valley u3a. Ems Valley u3a elect Honorary Officers and Committee members at the Annual General Meeting and these people are required to become Trustees of Ems Valley u3a so, essentially, the members elect the Trustees. 13. The following individuals were appointed as Trustees of Ems Valley u3a at the AGM on the specified date: 23th May 2024 and held their positions at the time of the signing of this report. - Trustees as follows: - Tim Mathews - Rod Lipscombe - Liz Rosoman - Ann Sims - Dbee Robinson - Hilary Street - Sue Kent - Karen Rodger - Margaret Melhuish - Co-opted members as follows: - Andrea Brokenshire - Les Brokenshire 14. No other person other than those named above has been a Trustee during the period: 24th May 2024 to 22nd May 2025 15. The Trustees consider that the Ems Valley u3a continues to carry out, to the best of its ability, the requirements laid out in the original Constitution mentioned above. Signed for and on behalf of the Trustees for the time being of Ems Valley u3a. Tim Mathews - Tim Mathews - Date - 10.05.25 - Chairman, Ems Valley u3a Dbee Robinson - Dbee Robinson - Date - 10.05.25 - Business Secretary, Ems Valley u3a Page of 2 5 Financial Accounts - P 1 of 2 202&25 2023-24 MAIt4 ACCOUNT Income Membership fees GiftAid 13.205 13.355 2,638 322 2.531 Interest 25 Donations I6￿13 15,916 Expenditure Speakers 894 785 Refreshments 107 215 Room Rents 10.399 9.130 u3a Sub5CriPti( Magazine 1.075 936 Beacon 535 534 Sundries 42 IS,136 13,722 Surplu5 1,677 2,194 GROUPSACCOUNT Income 20.330 18.959 Expenditure Net incorne added to 20,677 17.315 447 Totsl Increase In Ems Val￿y u3a funds for year 1330 3038 Page3of5 Financial Accounts - P 2 of 2 2024-25 20￿24 Current Assels Petty cash Main bank account 2.275 4.673 8201 ISPIS 3210 Groups bank account Business Reswve account 35 Day Notre account Payments in ZAfvance 5.768 23 34149 Current Uabilille5 AdYdrK• rnembership fees Creditors -lo￿78 -129 -10,707 21.7n 20M2 Accunwlated Fund Balance brought forward Tranthrto Revenue Reserve 5,241 6,047 rplus / deficit l-) for year Balance caffied forward 1.677 2.194 6Jl8 5241 Group Funds Balance brought forwxd rplus / deficit {-) for year Balance rarried forward 8,201 -347 6557 8201 21.772 20M2 Page4of5 **Financial accounts - Examiners Report** Page of 5 5