## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1/1/2020 To 31/12/2020** ## **Charity name: Citizens House** ## **Charity registration number: 1153267** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of
**Consett and surrounding district**without
distinction of sex or of political, religious or
other opinions by associating with the local
authorities, voluntary organisations and the
inhabitants 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.
To establish or secure the establishment of a
Community Centre and to maintain and manage
the same (whether alone or in co-operation with
any local authority or other person or body) in
furtherance of these objects.
To promote such other charitable purposes as
mayfrom time to time be determined.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Citizens House provides a building and facilities
for people from the local community to use as
well as acting as an umbrella or resource body
for small charitable groups.
We host activities for children and young people,
elderly people, those with disabilities and
mental health issues, those with alcohol
addiction and their families as well as social
groups and information events for members of
the general public. We also work with other
charities and voluntary bodies to help them
deliver their services to their clients.
We host exercise classes to promote health for
older people (gentle exercise classes and yoga)
as well as for young people, children and
toddlers.| |||We advance the arts by providing a home for
regular rehearsals by theatre groups, children’s
dance classes and photographic society.
We help those who are disadvantaged by reason
of age, ill-health or disability by providing groups
which can support them, i.e. support groups for
those with alcohol problems and their families,
support group for those with dementia and their
carers.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The charity trustees have complied with their
duty to have regard to the guidance on public
benefit published by the Commission in
exercising their powers or duties in Section 17(5)
of the Charities Act and the Charities (Accounts
and Reports) Regulations 2008. The trustees
have reviewed the guidance at their trustee
meetings when planning the activities for the
year and in considering the various groups who
wish to use our facilities.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference ||Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|2019 has seen the Charity heavily impacted by
the Covid pandemic, along with the rest of the
community.
Our fundamental purpose is the provision of a
community centre and associated activities, and
the lockdown has prevented this for much of the
year.
Health and safety considerations introduced
cleaning costs which were disproportionate and
beyond both the Charity and our users for a
further period and user numbers have been
extremely low.
However, due to careful budgeting and help
from the local authority, Citizens House has
weathered the worst of the financial impact and
post year end activity has improved
substantially, giving relief and hope for the
future.| |---|---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The Charity has remained on a secure financial
footing throughout the year, despite the impact
of Covid. The fit out has not yet been completed
and the Trustees feel it wise to halt all
unnecessary spending until the future becomes
clearer.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|The Charity maintains health reserves for its size
and scale of activities. The majority of funds are
reserved for building,fit out and maintenance.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|The Charity has a total balance of £89160 at the
year end| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |||Funding for the build, fit out and salary for| |||the Development Officer was provided by| |The charity’s principal||Citizens House, The Big Lottery Fund and| |sources of funds (including|Para 1.47|The Local Authority, who own the site.| |any fundraising)||| |Investment policy and||| |objectives including any|Para 1.46|| |social investment policy||| |adopted||| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Funding for the build, fit out and salary for
the Development Officer was provided by
Citizens House, The Big Lottery Fund and
The Local Authority, who own the site.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution adopted 9thMay 2013| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed/reappointed annually at
the Annual General Meeting held in accordance
with the constitution.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Citizens House| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|None| |Registered charitynumber|1153267| |Charity’s principal address|Citizens House,
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||George Gibbon|Chair||| ||Richard Lewins|||| ||Brian Clarke|||| ||Lisa Edwards|Vice Chair||| ||Terence Murray|||| ||Laura Walley|||| ||David Nattrass|Treasurer|Appointed 20/3/2019|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **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|Laverick Walton & Co|B3 Kingfisher House, TVTE, NE11 0JQ| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
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**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||George Henry Gibbon|| ||
Chair|| ||2/4/2022|| ||2/4/2022|| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independont Examiner't Report Report to the trusteesl mombors of CITIZENS HOUSE On accounts for tho yoar endod 31 DECEMBER 2020 Charlty no (if any) 1153267 Set out on pages ol additional I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trusf) for the year ended 3111212020. Responsibilities and basis of roport As the charity's trustees. you are responsiblè for the preparation of the accounts in accordan￿ with the raquirements 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 oul my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515Mb) of the Act. Independent examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come lo my attention in connection with the axamination (other than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause lo believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with se¢tion 130 of Ihe Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with thé accounting records. or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the fom and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 olher than any requirement that the accounts givè a Irue and fair, view which is not a matter Considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have coffle across no other matters in connedion 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. ' Please delete Ihe words in the brackets rflhey do not apply. Slgned: Date: Namg: JONATHAN MILLS Relevant professional qualifi&*ion(s) or b¢xly (if any): FCCA IER Oct 2018 Address: B3 KINGFISHER HOUSE. TEAM VALLEY, GATESHEAD, TYNE & WEAR, NE11 OJQ Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of oharity acGounts.' directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. NOTHING TO REPORT IER Oct 2018 itizens Hous Mana ement Committee- Balance Sheet as at 31st Decem 3111212020 r 2020 3111212019 Current Assets Cash at Bank Cash at Bank Cash in Hand Current Account Dèposit Account £8.219.06 £80,941.50 £0.00 £7,400.57 £96,850.77 £0.00 £89.160.56 £104,251.34 Le55: Current Uablllties Creditors and Accruals £621.70 £300.00 £88,538.86 £103,951.34 Funded by RestrSrted Reserve5 DCC grant for contingencies Foundation Grant- Forget Me Nots Neighbourhood Fund Lottery Grant Building Capabilities Fund Building and Maintenance Fund Lottery Grant Main Fund Lottery Grant Fixtures & Fittings Lottery Grant Professional Fees Lottery Grant Development Officer General ReseNes £38,046.79 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £15,313.82 £o.cx) £0. £0. £0.00 £35.178.25 £40,476.67 £o.¢xs £0.00 £12,390.52 £16,853.04 £0.00 £58.01 £0.00 £245.26 £33,927.84 £88.538.86 £0.00 £103,951.34 £0.00 Balance Bfwd Balance Empendlture Cfwd Reseryes Movement Income DCC grant for contin8encies Lottery Grant Building Capabilities Fund Building and Maintenance Fund Lottery Grant Fixtures & Fittings Lottery Grant Professional Fees Lottery Grant Building Construction Lottery Grant Development Officer Lottery Grant Main Fund General Reserves £40,476.67 £2,429.88 £38,046.79 £12,390.52 £12.390.52 £o.cxJ £16,853.04 £1,539.22 £15.313.82 £58.01 £58.01 £0.00 £o.cK) £0.00 £0. £0.00 £245.26 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £33,927.84 £32,259.18 £31,￿8.77 £35.178.25 £245.26 £103,951.34 £32,259.18 £47,671.66 £88,538.86 Page 3 ',I',L'INIIU', CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independont Examiner't Report Report to the trusteesl mombors of CITIZENS HOUSE On accounts for tho yoar endod 31 DECEMBER 2020 Charlty no (if any) 1153267 Set out on pages ol additional I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trusf) for the year ended 3111212020. Responsibilities and basis of roport As the charity's trustees. you are responsiblè for the preparation of the accounts in accordan￿ with the raquirements 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 oul my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515Mb) of the Act. Independent examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come lo my attention in connection with the axamination (other than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause lo believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with se¢tion 130 of Ihe Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with thé accounting records. or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the fom and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 olher than any requirement that the accounts givè a Irue and fair, view which is not a matter Considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have coffle across no other matters in connedion 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. ' Please delete Ihe words in the brackets rflhey do not apply. Slgned: Date: Namg: JONATHAN MILLS Relevant professional qualifi&*ion(s) or b¢xly (if any): FCCA IER Oct 2018 Address: B3 KINGFISHER HOUSE. TEAM VALLEY, GATESHEAD, TYNE & WEAR, NE11 OJQ Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of oharity acGounts.' directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. NOTHING TO REPORT IER Oct 2018 itizens Hous Mana ement Committee- Balance Sheet as at 31st Decem 3111212020 r 2020 3111212019 Current Assets Cash at Bank Cash at Bank Cash in Hand Current Account Dèposit Account £8.219.06 £80,941.50 £0.00 £7,400.57 £96,850.77 £0.00 £89.160.56 £104,251.34 Le55: Current Uablllties Creditors and Accruals £621.70 £300.00 £88,538.86 £103,951.34 Funded by RestrSrted Reserve5 DCC grant for contingencies Foundation Grant- Forget Me Nots Neighbourhood Fund Lottery Grant Building Capabilities Fund Building and Maintenance Fund Lottery Grant Main Fund Lottery Grant Fixtures & Fittings Lottery Grant Professional Fees Lottery Grant Development Officer General ReseNes £38,046.79 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £15,313.82 £o.cx) £0. £0. £0.00 £35.178.25 £40,476.67 £o.¢xs £0.00 £12,390.52 £16,853.04 £0.00 £58.01 £0.00 £245.26 £33,927.84 £88.538.86 £0.00 £103,951.34 £0.00 Balance Bfwd Balance Empendlture Cfwd Reseryes Movement Income DCC grant for contin8encies Lottery Grant Building Capabilities Fund Building and Maintenance Fund Lottery Grant Fixtures & Fittings Lottery Grant Professional Fees Lottery Grant Building Construction Lottery Grant Development Officer Lottery Grant Main Fund General Reserves £40,476.67 £2,429.88 £38,046.79 £12,390.52 £12.390.52 £o.cxJ £16,853.04 £1,539.22 £15.313.82 £58.01 £58.01 £0.00 £o.cK) £0.00 £0. £0.00 £245.26 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £33,927.84 £32,259.18 £31,￿8.77 £35.178.25 £245.26 £103,951.34 £32,259.18 £47,671.66 £88,538.86 Page 3 ',I',L'INIIU',