## Nailsea Tithe Barn Trust ## Chair’s Annual Report 2021-22 We have had another very successful year delivering across all four of our purposes promoting social activities, providing education, developing the heritage of the barn and supporting needs within the local community. Our finances remain stable but still in recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic which has circumscribed many of our fundraising activities and opportunities. During the course of the year we have returned to levels of activity seen before 2020 in most of our activities. The space remains very special and the barn has retained its capacity to charm and interest all those who come. The Trust has retained its valued group of Trustees working across our charitable purposes and are continuing to look for opportunities to strengthen our role within the community in Nailsea and with our key stakeholders. There are many people who support the work at the barn and we have some wonderful volunteers. We continue to have tremendous support from our volunteers at our Education workshops and the Memories at the Barn activities this year, and we are hopeful that in 2022 we will be able to re-start our work with Nailsea and District Leg Club. We really value our relationship with Holy Trinity Church, with which we held the annual highly successful Craft Fair as a joint undertaking. Our Education sessions have had excellent take-up with local Primary Schools, and we welcome increasing numbers of the youngest in our community into sharing the heritage of our local area and the barn in particular. Most of the schools who visited us in the years before 2020 have now returned to booking sessions, and we have had excellent feedback from schools. A key concern going forward is recruitment of volunteers to sustain our programme. Our ‘Friends of the Barn’ programme has been revitalized this year with local history workshops taking place monthly which have ensured regular contact with key supporters of our projects. Nailsea Memory Café continues to be the ‘crown jewel’ the Trust’s portfolio of activities and are very grateful for the funding and support from the Quartet Foundation, Grateful Society and Nailsea Town Council. Our focus as a Trust is to sustain this essential service for our local stakeholders. Another success has been the choir group ‘The Barn Owls’ which features many of the members of the Memory Café. The project to restore and develop Nailsea Tithe Barn has far exceeded the aims we set out to achieve in 1999. We have some unique ventures and partnerships and have built a sustainable platform to ensure the future of the barn. However none of this would have been possible without the support we have received from Nailsea Town Council and the staff who work for the council. We are also indebted to our volunteers and the continuing support of the Friends of the Tithe Barn, who demonstrate their enthusiasm in so many ways. In order to ensure the sustainability of our projects, we continue to look for funding of our education and dementia projects as we attempt to expand our portfolio of activities. The Trustees would like to thank everyone who contributes to making the barn a thriving hub of the Nailsea community. Jo Edwards Chair December 2022 Nailsea rrthe Barn Accounts Summary Income Social Engagement Social Needs Heritage Schools & Education General 2020- 2021 Restricted un￿$t￿tted 150. 12762.65 Total Restricted Unrestricted Total 1750.(KI 14512.65 Is￿. 4￿1.{￿) 5501.00 0.00 0.00 2061.14 96.(X) 910.85 910.85 2061.14 TOTAL 1750.CYJ 13919.50 15669.50 Is￿. 6062.14 7562.14 Expenditure Social Engagement Social Needs Heritage Schools & Education General 269.85 7836.34 269.85 9586.34 1750.(K) 58(M).98 7300.98 0.00 260.00 1896.39 260.(KI 1896.39 2842.54 2842.54 TOTAL 1750. 10262.58 12012.58 15(N).(x) 8643.52 10143.52 VarIa￿a 3656.92 3656.92 -2581.38 -2581.38 No l Account Memories Account Total Bank 11930.57 14105.35 26035.92 13152.97 9552.04 22705.01 0.00 46.99 40.00 Cash On Hand Fixed A55et5 Book Value 2022 Prepayments 373. 26448.92 45497.01 Brought forward Account Balance Total c￿dItors/DebtOrS 22792.IXI 3656.92 26448.92 25373.38 -2581.38 22792.C 26448.92 22792.(K) NAILSEA TITHE BARN TRUST INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT Name of Examiner Chris Morris Address 5 St Mary's Park Nailsea BS48 4RW Relevant Qualifications or Experience ACCA. Exams completed up to but not including final level. Financial Accountant in an industrial environment. Financial Year Endin 31 March 2022 STATEMENT State here . a) Imiether or not any matter has corne to your attention which gives you reasonable cause to believe that accounting records have not been kept or that the final accounts do not accord with those records. b) Whether any matter has come to your attention which should be stated in this report. c) Please stste if there has been any material expenditure ￿ttiCh appears not to be in accordance with the charty's objects d) Please confirrn that all information to which you are entrt￿d was made available to you. I have examined the accounting records of Nailsea Tithe Bam Trust for the year to 31 March 2022. During my examination I found nothing to give me cause to believe that the accounting reqU1￿MentS of the Charities Act had not been met and there was nothing requiring further comment for a better understanding of the accounts. All expenditure incurred in the financt81 year was in accordance with the charity's objects. All Information was made available to me and I was given full explan￿lon where further darific8tion was required. The income and expenditure account for the year to March 31 2022 and the Balance Sheet at 31" March 2022 are in accordance with the accounting records I examined. Signed rfJ Date