**Briar Community Association** (Registered Charity, number 1120658)
**Financial Statements For the year ended 29 February 2024**
|**Page**|**1**|Contents|
|---|---|---|
||**2&3**|Trustees’ annual report|
||**4**|Independent examiner’s report|
||**5**|Receipts and Payments Account|
||**6**|Statement of Assets and Liabilities|
||**7**|Notes to the accounts|
## **Briar Community Association Trustees’ annual report For the year ended 29[th] February 2024**
**Full Name** Briar Community Association **Registered charity number** 1120658 **Principle address** Betty Strathern Centre, 41 Myrtle Road, Romford RM3 8XS
## **Management Committee Members**
Stephen Butler, Chair Amanda Butler Sam Wybrow Treasurer Tracy Street Ade Siyandbola Lindsay Martin
## **Senior Staff Member(s)**
## **Governing document**
The charity is operated under the rules of its constitution adopted 26 February 2007. Overall management of charity
## **Bankers**
National Westminster Bank Plc, 192 Hilldene Avenue, Harold Hill, Romford, RM3 8DD.
## **Independent examiner**
Mayur Dave), 58 Highfield Road, Collier Row, Romford, RM5
## **Aims and organisation**
The principle objects of the charity are to:
- Promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the area of benefit (Harold Hill and the the neighbourhood) without distinction of sexual orientation, nationality, age, disability, race or of political religious or other opinions by associating together the said inhabitants and the statutory authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants;
- Establish, or to secure the establishment, of a Community Centre (hereinafter called ‘the centre’) and to maintain and manage the same (whether alone or in co operation with any authority or other person or body) in furtherance of the above objects;
## **Briar Community Association Trustees’ annual report (continued) For the year ended 29[th] February 2024**
The principal objects of the charity (continued)
- Promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined
## **Activities**
Job Club Pre-School Judo Line Dancing Computer Classes
Gamblers Anonymous taekwondo Gospel Church Muslim Group
## **Summary of main achievements during the period:**
Set up a new group. Organised activities during school holidays
## **The Charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity has no specific policy with regard to the level of reserves at the moment but we will look to have some policies in place the near future.
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above signed on behalf of the Charity’s trustees:
Signed ____________________________
Date:
## **Stephen Butler, Chair**
## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Briar Community Association For the year ended 29th February 2024**
I report on the accounts of the charity, which are set out on pages five to seven.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(3)(a) of the charities act 1993 (the 1993 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts (under section 43(3)(a) of the 1993 Act;
- follow the procedures laid down in the general directions given by the Charity Commissioners (under section 43(7)(b) of the 1993 Act); and
- state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the trustees have not met the requirements to ensure that:
- proper accounting records are kept (in accordance with section 41 of the Act); and
- accounts are prepared which agree with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act.
or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed _______________________________ Date _____________________________ Mayur Dave, Accountant 58 Highfield Road, Romford Essex RM5 3SA
## **Briar Community Association Receipts and Payments account for the year ended 29th February, 2024**
|**Receipts**
**Hall Hire**
**Total**
**Payments**
Rent and service charges
Water Rates
Heat & Light
Security Alarm
Insurance
Cleaning & hygiene
Euro Bin (Waste)
IT
TV Licence
Telephone, Mobile, Internet
Printing, Stationery & Postage
Equiptment, Repairs & Renewals
Travel and Subsistance
Independent examiners fees
Sundries
Window Cleaning
**Total Expenditure**
**Net Receipts/(Payments)**
Cash funds at start of this period
**Cash funds at end of this period**|**2024**
**2,024**
**2023**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**£**
**Total Funds**
**£**
**31606**
**31,606**
**28,476**|
|---|---|
||**31,606**
**31,606**
**28,476**|
||7,882
7,882
7,600
842
842
491
5,762
5,762
4,516
0
0
548
428
428
369
2,291
2,291
3,480
772
772
469
125
125
120
159
159
159
1,900
1,900
1,894
169
169
85
5,517
5,517
3,765
155
155
215
300
300
300
147
147
133
640
640
660|
||**27,089**
**27,089**
**24,804**|
||4,517
4,517
3,672
60,237
60,237
56,565|
||**64,754**
**64,754**
**60,237**|
## **Briar Community Association Statement of assets and liabilities at 29th February 2024**
|Notes|**2024**|**2023**|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|£|
|**Cash assets**|||
|Bank account|**64754**|**60237**|
|**Assets retained for the charity’s own use**|||
|The Charity also retains some general|||
|equipment for its own use|||
|These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by|||
|Signed __________________________________________ Date: __________________|||
**Briar Community Association Notes to the accounts for the year ended 29th February, 2024**
## 1 **Receipts and Payments Account**
financial year. In theis context "cash" includes cash equivalents, for example, bank accounts where cash can
|2|**Grant & Donations**||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||0|0|0||
|||Total|0|0|0||
|3|**Funds Analysis**||||||
||||**Opening balance**|**Receipts**|**(Payments)**|**Closing balan**|
||Restricted Funds||||||
||||0|0|0|0|
||||0|0|0|0|
|||Total|||||
||**Unrestricted Funds**||0|0|0|0|
|||Total|**64,754**|**31,606**|**27,089**|**60,237**|
## 4 **Creditors**
**These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.**
|Independent Examiner's Fee||**300**|
|---|---|---|
||Total|**300**|
## 5 **Trustees' Remuneration**
Trustees' are not reumerated. During the year, no trustee was reimbursed for expenses
## 6 **Glossary of terms**
- 7 **Restricted funds:** These are funds given to the charity, subject to specific restrictions set by the donor, but still
## 8 **PREMESIS & STAFF**
The premesis are provided by the local authority.