2023-10-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

	Period start date	Period start date			Period end date
From	01	11	2022	To	31 10	2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name ECCLES COMMUNITY HALL ORGANISATION (ECHO)

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1152625

1152625	1152625
ECHO
ECCLES TOWN HALL
CHURCH STREET, ECCLES
Postcode	M30 0LH

Charity's principal address

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole **year **	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Pamela Edith Hughes	Chair	20/5/23 to 31/10/23	Trustees and Members
	Everard Lionel Kempster	Treasurer		Trustees and Members
	Vania Elizabeth Burnell			Trustees and Members
	James Edward Rayner			Trustees and Members
	Royston Futter			Trustees and Members
	Steven Hopkins			Trustees and Members
	Barbara Payne			Trustees and Members
	Frances Boyle			Trustees and Members
	Peter Gordon Sharpe	Secretary		Trustees and Members

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

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

TAR

March 2012

1

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution dated 24[th] May 2013

Type of governing document

• (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation

How the charity is constituted

• (eg. trust, association, company)

Appointed by members and/or charity trustees as governed by our 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;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

• relationship with any related parties;

ECHO policies and procedures are easily accessible to all volunteers and trustees. We provide ongoing training on our policies and procedures which are regularly reviewed. Policies and procedures include:

Constitution Safety Audit Fire Risk assessment Premises Licence Bar Policy with challenge 21 policy Music Licence Hall Hire terms and conditions Equal opportunities Safeguarding

• 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 further or benefit the residents of city of Salford and the neighbourhood, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents.

In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power: to establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects.

TAR

March 2012

2

Eccles Town Hall provides a community venue for the people of Eccles and the wider area of Salford. In managing the venue, the trustees always have regard to the guidance issued by the Charities Commission on public benefit.

This year we hosted 20 concerts, covering bands, choirs, an orchestra and solo performers. The National Association of Brass Band Conductors held their prestigious competition at the Town Hall, and a local music school held two concerts by their students.

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)

We hosted a celebrity poetry reading, a lecture by a prominent Pakistani intellectual and two theatrical events by local amateur groups. A school PTA, a church, a ballroom dance group and a chess club have all made use of the hall, and the Greater Manchester Amateur Cricket League held their presentation night with us.

Three trade union meetings have been held, along with 12 other corporate events by civil service, NHS, local government, charities and businesses.

Our café has been open with varied accompanying music performances and an art exhibition, and also for the Eccles parade on Remembrance Sunday.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

ECHO is staffed and run entirely by volunteers. Currently we have 9 trustees and 9 active volunteers. Both volunteers and trustees contribute to the running of events, with activities such as bar and café serving, kitchen duties, meet-and-greet, lighting and sound systems administering, ushering and safety announcements. We are attempting to recruit more volunteers, to ensure that events are covered without placing too much of a burden on a few individuals.

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

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

TAR

March 2012

3

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main This year we have built on the previous year’s recovery after the achievements of the charity pandemic, hosting a wide range of public and private events. Audience during the year numbers at concerts are still down, reflecting a national trend, but the venue and the commitment of the volunteers is much appreciated by visitors and hirers alike. We have tried to increase the diversity of our hirer and audience base, in terms of different ethnic communities using the hall, and some success has been achieved over this year. We plan to build on that in 2023-24. We have rationalised our event booking system, to ensure that timely and sufficiently detailed information is available to all who require it, regarding, for example, times, furniture, catering and invoicing. Financially we have achieved a small increase in our cash funds, finishing the year £1200 up on 2021-22. We have not made any major capital expenditures this year, so this indicates that our income has at least kept pace with our outgoings.

TAR

March 2012

4

Section E Financial review Our income this year has more than balanwl our outgoings, 80 our reserves are intact, and will be available next year for planned acquisitions and improvements, possibly induding acoustic modTrfication8 to the hall. Br1￿ statement of the ¢harlty's pollcy on reseprn Datails of any funds Materi￿lY In d•fi¢bt None Further financial wevi•w dètslls {Optlonal InfonTration) You may choose lo include additional information. where r8lev8nt about". the charity's principal sources o*funds (including any fundrai8ing}-, how exp8ndrtur8 has supported the koy obje¢tNes of the charity., investment policy and obie¢tives ift¢luding 81)y ethicgl inve8trnent p¢)licy adopted. Section F Other optional information Section G Declaration The trusto8s dgclaro that havo approv•d tho tru$t•n' r•portabove. SlgTr￿ on bohall of tho ¢hartty's tyu•to Signature(sl Full namo181 Posltlon lsg Sgvgtsry, Chalr, P8mola Edith Hughes Peter Shar Chair Secretary TAR Mar¢h 2012

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinevs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report R8POrt to the truste￿1 ECCLES COMMUNtTY HALL ORGANISATION (ECHO} On accounts for th• ygar ended 31° 0￿0￿r 2023 Charlty no (If any) 1152625 S•t out on pages 1,2,3 I reFQrt to the trustaes on my examination of the gccounts of the atx)¥e charity (Yhe Trusfl for the year ended 3111012023. Respomibilitiffi and As th¢ charity truslees, you ore responsib￿ for prePara￿n of the ba$ls of r8PQrt accounts in accordance with the Chariiies Ao 2011 fthe Acr). I report in re5￿t of my examination of the Trusys accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my ex8minatlon, I have followad all the applicable DIrec￿nS gtven by the Charity CommissKJn under ￿tion 145(5llb) ofthe Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examlMV$ ststsmont 1xM￿ to ry altention in COnn￿tIon with the ex8mlnation which gwe8 me c8u8e to be[￿e in. any matsrial the acccwnting records were rth)t kept in acCOrdar￿ wrth seLtion 130 ofthe Act,. or the accounts did not accord %wth the occounllng r￿Id$,. or the accounts did not compty the appIl￿ble requirements conceming the form and content of accounts set out in the Chariti&% IAc¢ounts and ReFk)rts) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that Ihe a¢¢ounts give a Irue and fairf view which is rb)t a matter considered as part of an indeperKlent examinatwjn. I have no concerns and have come acxoss no other matters in cOnn￿tion with tho exarnination to which attenl¥)n should be drawn in this raport in orderto enable a proper understanding of the aCA)Junts to be r&ich&J. . R8ase delete the w(xds in the brackets rflheydo not appty. Slgnod." LLL VLIGLL Name: Mr Bernard Marron Relevant profe8$ional quallfi¢lon{sl or body (if any): National certthtxle in business stLtdies 1964 Addres$: 3, Bindk)ss Avenue Eccles M30 ODT IER October 2018

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

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ECHO Receipts and Payments Accounts 1111122 to 3VIO123 Al Rece•rt5 Hwe of Hall rogdar of Hall Imhit￿l boc4vy 211).( 7.724.50 297.aKI 45￿9 l746.61 $118TOTAL A2 Asset and wwestment ￿leS TOTAL RECEWTS 9.16 A3 Payments InyJraKe, I￿￿5, rw15 & prDffee5 ¥025.89 055.29 613.73 413&fy1 4313.35 516.95 01&44 13.02 3.395.10 4310.73 3LI JX98 JLIS SUB TOTAL £ W4￿06 .031 t W4UiQfj 547.10 .oJLJy 7.137.02 t 1i677.xs J932U> 25.li&JZ 14677.X Bl Cash Funds ￿(Ou￿ 14677.X* 155.oj IER October 2018