
**Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period From: Period start date   01/11/2021 To: Period end date   31/10/2022 Charity name: Community Assets Standing Tall** 

**Charity registration number: 1153512** 

## **Company number:** 

## **Objectives and activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17||Promotion for the benefit of the public of<br>urban or rural regeneration in areas of<br>social and economic deprivation and in<br>particular Bacup and the surrounding<br>area.|
||||Promotion for the benefit of the public of<br>urban or rural regeneration in areas of<br>social and economic deprivation and in<br>particular Bacup and the surrounding<br>area.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19||We secured funding from Architectural<br>Heritage Fund to carry out an appraisal on a<br>local, heritage rich building with a view to<br>refurbishing the ground floor to become<br>CASTs headquarters and to house all our<br>projects under one roof.<br>We secured the services of local architects,<br>quantity surveyor and structural engineer to<br>produce drawings, plans and costs.<br>The work will be completed by December<br>2022 and our ‘next step’ dossier produced<br>early 2023.<br>The Reminiscence Café has been offered a<br>more suitable, warmer space in a local<br>community centre and have commenced a<br>12 weeks trial period free of charge to judge<br>suitability and popularity of the new space.<br>The trial period ends December 2022.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18||Yes we have|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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SORP reference 



|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||We are not in a position to act as a grant<br>maker|
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|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38||Our Social Investment Programme within the<br>five year business plan has been agreed by<br>the trustees. It now forms the basis of our<br>future plans|
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38||Four volunteers continue to contribute to the<br>work of the Reminiscence Café<br>One volunteer keeps us in the public eye<br>though digital marketing on social media|
|Other||||
|**Achievements and performance**||||
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20||The Reminiscence Café, continues to<br>provide activities and safe spaces for those<br>living with dementia and their carers and<br>those who are socially isolated but now from<br>a new venue on a trial basis.<br>Working on a plan to refurbish a local<br>building and turn it into CAST HQ and a<br>busy community hub.|



|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|
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|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41|Secured funding to cement our future and<br>allow us to provide more community services<br>from one venue.|
|||We have achieved our fundraising objectives<br>for this year. Creating our new HQ and|





|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41|community hub will be a big job.|
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|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
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## **Financial review** 

|**Financial review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|The charity is in a cash positive position with<br>no outstanding debts.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Any reserves held by CAST are for<br>emergencies, overheads, and maintenance<br>etc.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|None|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|The majority of our funding is project based<br>and is therefore restricted income.|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23||



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|<br>The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|<br>Para 1.47|<br>Grant income|
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any|Para 1.46||





|social investment policy<br>adopted|||
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|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||



## **Structure, governance and management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document:<br>for example,trust deed,<br>memorandum and articles of<br>association etc|Para 1.25|Constitution.|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>for example limited company,<br>unincorporated association,<br>CIO|Para 1.25|C.I.O.<br>Charitable Incorporated Organisation.|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Reputable people aged 16 – 100 with the<br>enthusiasm and skills needed can be<br>appointed a trustee with a majority vote.<br>Officers are elected to post.|
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|<br>Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction and<br>training of trustees|<br>Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||





|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
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|Other|||



## **Reference and administrative details** 

|Charity name|Community Assets Standing Tall|
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|Other name the charity uses|CAST|
|Registered charity number|1153512|
|Charity’s principal address|21 Market Street, Bacup, Rossendale, OL13 8EX|



||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|
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||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitle**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|1|June K Worsley|Chairperson|||
|2|Ian E Taylor|Treasurer|||
|3|Carl Bradshaw|Commercial Officer|||
|4|Suzanne J Craven|Secretary|||
|5|Stephen Anderson||||
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– 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)**|
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## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 




## **Other optional information** 


## **Declarations** 

|**Declarations**|**Declarations**|**Declarations**|**Declarations**|**Declarations**|
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|**mpany has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.**<br>**clare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.**<br>**on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors**|||||
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|**Full name(s)**|June Karen Worsley|||Carl Graham Bradshaw|
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|**or example Secretary, Chair, etc)**|Chairperson|||Trustee|
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|**Date**||30 August 2023|||






**Community Asset Standing Tall** 

**No (if any)** 

## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

**CC16a** 

|**For the period**<br>**from**|Period start date<br>1/11/2021|**To**|
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## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**||||**Total funds**|||||**Last year**||
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||||**to the nearest**|**£**||||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest**|**£**||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Grant Income||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**6,432-**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**6,432-**||||**-**|**14,760-**||
|Café Sales Income||**-**|**1,510-**||||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**1,510-**||||**-**|**--**||
|Donations||**-**|**2,588-**||||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**2,588-**||||**-**|**600-**||
|Other Income||**-**||**2-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**||**2-**|||**-**|**21-**||
|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**--**||||**-**|**--**||
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**-**|**4,100-**||||**-**|**6,432-**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**10,532-**||||**-**|**15,381-**||



|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**-**|**4,100-**|||**-**|**6,432-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**10,532-**|||**-**|**15,381-**||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**(see table).**||||||||||||||||||||||
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||**_Sub total_**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
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||**_Total receipts_ **||**-**|**4,100-**|||**-**|**6,432-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**10,532-**|||**-**|**15,381-**||



|**_Total receipts_ **|**-**|**4,100-**||**-**|**6,432-**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**10,532-**||**-**|**15,381-**|
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||
|Consultancy Fees|**-**|**6,080-**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**6,080-**||**-**|**--**|
|Project Organiser/Staff|**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**105-**|
|Room Hire|**-**|**4,290-**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**4,290-**||**-**|**5,345-**|
|Training|**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**3,139-**|
|Advertising/Promotion|**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**||**-**|**--**|



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|Project Resources|**-**<br>**--**|**-**<br>**--**|**-**<br>**--**|**-**<br>**--**|**-**<br>**--**|**-**<br>**--**|**-**<br>**--**|**-**<br>**--**|**-**<br>**--**|
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|Office Equipment/Supplies|**-**<br>**225-**||||||||**-**<br>**2,897-**|
|Vol Expenses|**-**<br>**--**||||||||**-**<br>**--**|
|IT/Website|**-**<br>**1,091-**||||||||**-**<br>**147-**|
|Postage/Stationary|**-**<br>**--**||||||||**-**<br>**332-**|
|Insurance<br>Subsitance<br>Entertainment<br>Travel Costs<br>Trustee Expenses<br>Café Materials<br>Telecommunications<br>Professional Fees<br>Misc|||||||||**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**280-**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**<br>**12,691-**||**-**<br>**2,879-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**15,570-**||**-**<br>**12,245-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **<br>**_Total payments_ **<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|||
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||**-**<br>**12,691-**||**-**<br>**2,879-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**15,570-**||**-**<br>**12,245-**|
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||**-**<br>**8,591-**||**-**<br>**3,553-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**5,038-**||**-**<br>**3,136-**|
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
||**-**<br>**2,485-**||**-**<br>**14,700-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**12,215-**||**-**<br>**14,700-**|
||**-**<br>**11,076-**||**-**<br>**18,253-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**7,177-**||**-**<br>**17,836-**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**|||



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

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|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**||**funds**|
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|**B1 Cash funds**|Co-Op Bank||**-**<br>**11,076-**||**-**<br>**18,253-**||**-**<br>**--**|
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments account<br>(s))<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Go Plus Scanner/ 20% Deprication (Yr5)<br>SKR Record Player / 20% Deprication (Yr5)<br>Amazon UK Ret A3 Brother Printer / 20%<br>Deprication (Yr5)||**-**<br>**11,076-**||**-**<br>**18,253-**||**-**<br>**--**|
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||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**<br>**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**<br>CCG<br>WO Foundation<br>WO Foundation||**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**<br>**-**<br>**--**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||Go Plus Scanner/ 20% Deprication (Yr5)||CCG||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
||SKR Record Player / 20% Deprication (Yr5)||WO Foundation||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
||Amazon UK Ret A3 Brother Printer / 20%<br>Deprication (Yr5)||WO Foundation||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|



CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 

13/11/2023 

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||Branded Marquee (Yr 4)||HLF||**-**|**850-**||**-**|**340-**|
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||Signature||Print|Name||||Date of approval||
||||**Carl Bradshaw**||||||**15/10/2023**|
||||**June Worsley**||||||**15/10/2023**|



## **B5 Liabilities** 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 

13/11/2023 

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