2025-03-31-accounts - Storrington Community Partnership

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 1 April 2024 31 March 2025 From To Section A Reference and administration details Charity name Storrington Community Partnership Other names charity is known by Storrington & Sullington Community Partnership (old name) Registered charity number (if any) 1123409 Charity's principal address April Cottage, Greyfriars Lane, Storrington West Sussex Postcode RH20 4HE ~~—~~ Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any) 1 Martin Breeze Members & Trustees 2 Andrew Castle Treasurer Members & Trustees 3 Suzanne Ewers Members & Trustees 4 Louise Hayton Chairperson Members & Trustees 5 Bernie Iles Members & Trustees 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~Oe~~ Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Section A Reference and administration details

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December 2025

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Accountants	Kreston Reeves LLP	A2 Yeoman Gate, Yeoman Way, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 3QZ
Bankers	The Cooperative Bank	PO Box 250, Delf House, Southway, Skelmersdale, WN8 6WT
Solicitors	Mayo Wynne Baxter	24-26 High Street, Storrington, RH20 4DU

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Association Model) Constitution Type of governing document dated 3 December 2019 (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Appointed and elected by members and trustees (see section 13 of the Trustee selection methods Constitution) (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

Storrington Community Partnership became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation at the beginning of April 2020. The Partnership has been a registered charity since December 2007 and until April 2020 was a Company Limited by Guarantee. Membership of the Partnership is open to anyone who is interested in furthering its purposes. A member may be an individual, a corporate body, or an individual or corporate body representing an organisation which is not incorporated.

the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

To develop projects and to obtain resources (human and financial) for the benefit of the inhabitants of Storrington and Sullington and surrounding communities, to advance education, relieve poverty and to provide facilities, for social welfare, recreation, and other leisure time occupation with the objects of improving their conditions of life.

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December 2025

Storrington Community Partnership is a membership organisation of people working together to help improve and sustain Storrington and surrounding neighbourhoods for the benefit of local people.

All Trustees of the Partnership have signed the Charity Commission Trustee Eligibility Declaration confirming they adhere to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit when reviewing the charity's aims and objectives and in planning future activities.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The Partnership has the general aim of bringing together all who are interested in and committed to working to ensure a lively, lasting, and enriching future for our village and neighbouring communities.

Community Partnerships have the role of bringing together local individuals and groups in an inclusive way to develop and deliver community initiatives through an action plan.

Working alongside the statutory bodies and other local groups, Community Partnerships can:

Bring together individuals and groups with a shared interest in their local area under a common action plan, planned and delivered together
Deliver improvements to their local communities which may not happen in any other way
Offer a community-based perspective in relation to local issues and concerns
Raise funds for their local area from charitable and other sources unavailable to statutory bodies

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

The Trustees manage the affairs of the Charity and direct the work of the Partnership to address identified concerns and needs of those who live and work in the community. Several Partnership volunteers provide administrative support to the Trustees. Partnership members work on the projects in furtherance of the objects of the Trust.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;

The Trustees have revised and approved relevant operational policies, including Health & Safety, First Aid, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults for Projects, and Fire & Premises.

All administrative procedures are discussed with our volunteers. All may be inspected in the files in the Registered office, and are subjected to a regular compliance review by the Trustees.

contribution made by volunteers.

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December 2025

Section D Achievements and performance

The Chairman’s Report Summary of the main achievements of the charity Storrington Community Website continues to be well used with 127,000 during the year visits over the year, a growth of over 15% from the previous year. Website development is entirely carried out by Partnership volunteers under guidance of Andy Castle which allows us to be responsive and keep costs very low. The website is a victim of its own success as it takes up by far the greatest part of our available volunteer time. We now need to find additional non-technical help to deal with the at least 35 requests received each month with news posts, directory requests, new events and enquiries. The social media aspect has focussed on local Facebook groups with our own page steadily increasing to over 1,200 followers. The page focuses on news and events from local groups, along with posts that keep the community updated on key local issues. The Parish Council and the Partnership are actively working to coordinate and integrate their individual websites. The primary goal is to reduce content duplication and establish seamless cross-linking between the two websites. This project has experienced significant delays due to recent staffing changes within the Parish Clerk's office, but it is coming back on track. A full review of the parish website and its current services is underway. This project remains a clear priority for both the Council and the Partnership and will be progressed as quickly as possible. Our bank hosting service to help small and embryo groups within the village is currently being used by four groups: Speedwatch, STG, Community Fund (Wardens), High Street economy. We actively provide advice and support to the Storrington Business Network and the Storrington Traffic Group. Attending meetings and sending out relevant information to local businesses and the community. In addition, the Storrington & Sullington Neighbourhood Wardens have initiated a number of social interactions for various groups in the village including summer fun days for children, regular meetings for older members of the community and are planning outings. To enable this we provide financial hosting, promote the events through the website and as a charity we help them apply for grants. The delayed Storrington on Show event did go ahead in September 2024. A good cross section of the local organisations was represented, 23 in all, ranging from a youth group, conservation, environment, through to First Responders. 143 people were in attendance. Overwhelmingly the both the participants and visitors indicated that it was a worthwhile event and should be repeated. We believe 14 people signed up to various groups there and then with eleven groups collecting contact details. The Help Scheme as usual had a good response while the much-maligned Speedwatch gained a new member. The one thing we have learnt is that we must ensure the organisations that wish to attend, help in the promotion by putting up posters, delivering flyers or sharing the event on social media.

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December 2025

Section E Financial review

Reserves are that part of an organisation's unrestricted funds that is Brief statement of the freely available to spend on any of the organisation's purposes. charity’s policy on reserves For its operating costs, Storrington Community Partnership relies on income from grants occurring on an annual basis. There is a high level of uncertainty about the income (e.g. whether grants will be available). A grant for operating costs was only available for two out of the last five years. For this reason, it is prudent to keep several years running costs in reserve.

In addition, there are potential costs for replacement or repair of equipment and unpredicted acquisition of new equipment. It is prudent to keep sufficient funds in reserve to be able to replace this equipment and acquire such equipment which may be necessary for its on-going activities in future. .

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

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December 2025

Section G Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees, report above. Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair. Louise ayton Andrew Paul Castle Chairperson Treasurer Date 08 December 2025 TAR December 2025

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~~ee ee~~| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Section A Receipts and payments||||||||||| ||Unrestricted
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funds||Total funds||Last year|| ||to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £|| |A1 Receipts||||||||||| |HDC EDCgrant|500||-||-||500||500|| |MembershipFees|-||-||-||-||2|| ||-||-||-||-||-|| |Storrington Speedwatch(Hosted)|-||598||-||598||-|| |Storrington Traffic Group (Hosted)|-||1,487||-||1,487||-|| |Storrington CommunityFund(Hosted)|-||3,700||-||3,700||4,483|| |High Street Business Support(Hosted)|-||-||-||-||3,000|| ||-||-||-||-||-|| |Sub total(Gross income for|(Gross income for|||||||||| |AR)|AR)500||5,785||-||6,285||7,985|| |A2 Asset and investment sales,
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Total receipts 500
5,785
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6,285
7,985
~~——————~~||||||||||| |A3 Payments||||||||||| |Administration expenses|140||-||-||140||154|| |Governance|-||-||-||-||-|| |ProjCommunications(website)|788||-||-||788||169|| |ProjStorrington On Show|373||-||-||373||-|| ||-||-||-||-||-|| |Storrington Traffic Group (hosted)|-||500||-||500||-|| |Storrington CommunityFund(Hosted)|-||3,445||-||3,445||1,095|| |High Street Business Support(Hosted)|-||-||-||-||186|| ||-||-||-||-||-|| |Sub total |1,301||3,945||-||5,246||1,604|| |A4 Asset and investment
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Total payments 1,301
3,945
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1,604
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A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end|- 801
1,840
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5,227
4,571
8,076
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11,608
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

09/12/2025

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted funds to neargst £ Restricted funds to nrtt £ Endowment funds to nè#rest£ Categorios B1 Cash funds Cuent alc 4.571 8,076 Total cash fvnds 4,571 8.076 Unrestricted funds lo ngargst£ Restrfcted funds to nere8t£ Endowment funds to farest£ Details Fund to whleh asset belon Cc4t {option•l} Currerrt value onal Details Fund to whlch assei Won Currant lu& tional Details Cost loptionall B4 Assets retained for the charfty's own use Fund to which Amount due onal When due onal Details B5 Liabilities Signed by one or fvK) trust on b8haK of all the trustees Date of roval Signature Print Name Andrew Paul Casle 0811212025 CCXX R2 accounts (SSI 08112r2025