2025-03-31-accounts

Tring Together Ltd Annual Report of Trustees and End of Year Financial Statements Year ending 31st March 2025 J I! a

Contents

Achievements and Performance	P3
Charitable Objects and Activities for Public Benefit	P8
Financial Review - Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet	P10
Notes to the accounts	P11
Structure, Governance and Management	P11
Administrative Details; names of trustees, registered office	P11
Independent Examiner’s Report	P12

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Achievements and Performance

As Tring Together celebrated its 19[th] anniversary, the charity continues to change and grow to suit the needs of our local community, living our vision to “Enjoy Life in Tring!”

All of this is only possible due to the community spirit that is the at the heart of Tring, and the passion and creativity of the Tring Together volunteers and Operations Team. Thank you to them all.

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Our Big Community Events

Spring Fayre 2024 saw a fortnight of activities to encourage people to move outside and enjoy Tring in Spring. Moving

into the Autumn we were a partner in Tring’s Own Apple Fayre , helping with marketing and logistics behind the scenes. Dinosaurs came to Tring in the May half

term. In partnership with Tring Town Council and the Local History Museum, we created on a free event for families in the Memorial Garden. Over 2,000 people came to visit during the two days.

The Summer Carnival in June 2024 saw a week of fund-raising events for local charities, culminating in a very successful Carnival Day. Close to 4,000 people enjoyed a sunny afternoon on Pound Meadow.

The Christmas Festival 2024 saw

reindeer (yes, real ones!) in the Memorial Garden, together with Father and Mrs Christmas. Stalls galore filled the streets, the churches all opened for visitors and four entertainment stages hosted 21 different groups during a wonderful evening.

To reinforce our vision to Enjoy Life in Tring, Tring Together facilitated the town commemoration of D Day 80

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Now in its 4[th] year , Tring Music Partnership wants everyone in our community to have the opportunity to take part in music as we know that music is a massive benefit to mental health and wellbeing.

We deliver our own events and workshops and work in partnership with schools and existing music groups to support and connect everything musical in Tring.

Here is just some of what we achieved in the past year

• Ran free youth big band/jazz instrumental workshops

• Started a ‘Big Tring Youth Sing’ group, for years 5-9, to fill a gap in musical provision

• Started the Zebra Jazz Collective under the wing of TMP and celebrated when they flew away to be an independent group

• Ran the four stages at the Tring Christmas Festival enabling school choirs, local musicians and dance groups to perform live

• Took part in the Piano & More concert series in St Peter and St Paul’s church

• Continued to work with Tring School music department

• Provided early years music sessions for Tring Tots community playgroup

• Supported the FOTCH charity with musical performances on their Family Fun Day

• Ran a fundraising quiz in the Nora Grace Hall

• Successfully applied for grants from community arts groups to fund our work

• Ran a 2[nd] successful gala night, featuring young people from our workshops. The photo below is all the participants and audience, recreating the sort of photographs that line the stairs of the Victoria Hall in Tring.

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Tring Together at the Nora Grace Hall. Our eleventh year at the Nora Grace Hall was full of delightful events together with lots & lots of fitness classes and educational activities. We are very grateful to our loyal band of hall hirers that keep this Tring asset, in the centre of town, a thriving community hub.

Tring Cinema celebrates its 10[th] birthday very soon and continues to go from strength-to-strength, with an appreciative audience and sellout performances. The team that run the cinema know their audience and they know what makes a successful film evening.

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Members and Supporters

Tring Together BusinessMart

ran its 165[th] networking event this year and we have over 550 local BusinessMart contacts. We also produce a monthly Business E-Bulletin, to showcase Tring businesses. Our monthly BusinessMart meetings are famous for being welcoming and friendly, our mantra being that we want people to get to know each other, trust each other & then to work together.

Community Group Action is our popular quarterly community update, supported by a community calendar on our website.

Volunteers. We are blessed with a large pool of volunteers, many of whom support us for the big town events. We could not put on our events without them.

Donations, Grants and Fundraising are our main source of income. The Big Quiz at Tring Carnival was our biggest fund raiser of the year and our grant applications came from a diverse range of funders. We received a grant from Tring Town Council towards running costs and major town events, from Dacorum Borough Council for major town events and from Herts County Council for the Spring Fayre and the Summer Carnival.

Marketing. Our website is www.tringtogether.org.uk. We use the social platforms Facebook (3300 followers compared to 3200 last year) and Instagram (2646 followers compared to 2356 last year).

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Charitable Objectives and Activities

The charitable objects of Tring Together are:

“ For the public benefit to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of charities, and the effective use of resources for charitable purposes by not-for-profit organisations and voluntary organisations working in Tring and the surrounding area by giving advice and assistance to enable them to meet their purposes.”

And in 2024/25 the following activities were identified as supporting our objects.

• Running the Christmas Festival to provide local charities with the opportunity to raise money and awareness.

• Membership of BusinessMart enables charities to meet local businesses, raise awareness and increase support.

• Charities are included in BusinessMart and Group Action meetings to raise awareness for their causes.

• Our Group Action monthly newsletter spreads the news about charity and not-forprofit events in the town.

• The Nora Grace Hall is a community hall, available for hire to community groups at a very reasonable price. We have some legacy supported groups that pay no or very little rent.

• We provide opportunities for people to volunteer and therefore help their local community.

• We pull together groups to work in partnership to get involved in community projects; e.g. the D Day 80 commemoration.

• We communicate wider opportunities for community groups (and local businesses) to benefit from large events, e.g. Dacorum Business Regeneration, Community Action Dacorum opportunities.

• We assist Community Groups (and businesses) to make links and contacts in the town by being a “go to” place for information.

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Future Plans

Our plan for 2025/26 is to continue to consolidate as a sustainable charity, whilst still giving Tring lots of reasons to love their community. At the time of writing, we are looking forward to the Tring Carnival, there is excitement over the future plans for the Nora Grace Hall and Tring Music Partnership are blossoming and growing. It’s great to see Tring Cinema selling out every screening. And VE and VJ 80 sees Tring Together again being the “go-to” group for town events.

Tring Together are tremendously grateful to their supporters and friends; from individual volunteers who give their time to carry out specific jobs, to businesses who provide sponsorship for events such as the Christmas Festival, and to our Trustees and others who provide advice and wisdom as we set out, yet again, to do lots of new things to help people “Enjoy Life in Tring!”

On behalf of the Trustees:

Henry Grace – Chair of Trustees Date 31/7/25

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

Year ending 31/3/25

Year ending 31/3/25	Year ending 31/3/25
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES- year ending 31/3/25
	Unrestricted funds	Restricted funds	TOTAL FUNDS		PRIOR YEAR FUNDS
IncomgResources
TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES	£88,571	£14,522	£103,093		£103,579
Resources Used
Cost ofgeneratingfunds	£1,753	£0	£1,753		£9,051
Charitable activities	£91,778	£18,988	£110,766		£99,531
TOTAL RESOURCES USED	£93,531	£18,988	£112,519		£108,582
Net incoming / outgoing resources before transfer	-£4,960	-£4,466	-£9,426		-£5,003
Transfers	£0	£0	£0		£0
Other movement of funds	£0	£0	£0		£0
TOTAL FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD	£24,515	£13,484	£37,999		£43,002
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD	£19,555	£9,018	£28,573		£37,999
Represented by:-
Unrestrictedfunds	£19,555		£19,555		£24,515
Restrictedfunds		£9,018	£9,018		£13,484
BALANCE SHEET
			THIS YEAR		LAST YEAR
Current Assets
Nat West Current Account			£10		£10
Nat West Business Reserve Account			£20,277		£47,728
Nat West Business Savings Account			£10,060
Accounts receivable			£600		£0
Current Liabilities
Accountspayable			£2,373		£9,739
TOTAL ASSETS			£28,573		£37,999

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Notes to the accounts – Accounting Policies

Reserves. The Trustees put aside 3 months expenditure in reserves as a prudent amount to allow for human resource costs and utility bills for the Nora Grace Hall in the event of the closure of the charity. There are no current concerns that the charity is not a going concern.

Basis of accounting . The financial statements have been prepared under the cash basis.

Fund accounting . Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees. Restricted funds can only be used for the particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for specific restricted purposes.

Assets . Tring Together own the set of raked seating in the Nora Grace Hall.

Structure, Governance and Management

The charity is registered as a charity with the E&W charity commission. It is also a company limited by guarantee. The charity’s constitution (memorandum and articles of association) was adopted on 3/7/13 and it joined the charity commission register on 25[th] April 2013.

The day to day running of the charity is delegated to the Operations Team, led by a parttime CEO who is a sole trader (i.e. not an employee of the charity). New members are appointed to fill vacancies by the trustees. Induction of new trustees to the charity is carried out by the Chair and the CEO

Reference and Administration Details

Tring Together’s registered office is Tring Together Ltd, Nora Grace Hall, Faversham Close, Tring, HP23 5BA

The trustees are:

Toby Murray–appointed 25/4/2013 Stephen Hearn-appointed 25/4/2013 Sidney Prescott -appointed 25/4/2013 Hazel Kay–appointed 1/6/2015 Darrell Osborne–appointed 1/9/2016, resigned 17/7/24 Henry Grace–appointed 23/4/2019 (Chair) Pippa Brush Chappell–appointed 19/7/2023 Joss White - appointed April 2025

Contact details: [e-mail] 01442 826092 www.tringtogether.org.uk

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975

Independent examiner's report on FOR ENGLAND AND WALES the accounts eno ~~BO~~ Report to the trustees Tring Together On accounts for the year 31[st] March 2025 Charity no 1152858 ended (if any)

Report to the trustees Tring Together

Set out on pages 10 of the Tring Together Annual Report

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2025 .

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

• the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or

• the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or

• the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: Date: 19[th] August 2025 ~~oe~~ Name: John Whiteman

Tring Together. Registered Charity Number 1152858. Registered Company Number 05785975