## **Northwich Multisports** **Trustees Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2025** ## _**REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**_ ## **Registered Charity number (CIO)** 1156918 ## **Principal address** Northwich District Youth Club, Winnington Lane Northwich Cheshire CW8 4DE ## **Trustees** Mr J Martin Miss A Barsoum Mr A Bantock (Chair) Mr T Wilkinson ## **Independent examiner** Mrs Anita Marie Maddock MIAB ACPA Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers Certified Public Accountants Association Top Cat Accountancy Ltd Winnington House Winnington Lane Northwich Cheshire CW8 4DE pg. 1 ## _**STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**_ Northwich Multisports is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) governed by its Trustees. The CIO structure provides the charity with a separate legal identity, enabling it to enter contracts and manage its affairs in its own name. The Trustees are responsible for the overall governance and strategic direction of the charity, ensuring that it operates in accordance with its constitution, charity law, and other relevant regulations. They also have responsibility for safeguarding, financial oversight, and risk management. The Trustees meet regularly to review the charity’s activities, monitor progress towards its objectives, and oversee its financial position. Due to the size of the charity, day to day management is carried out by a small team of staff and volunteers, with Trustees providing appropriate oversight and support. Clear roles and responsibilities are in place to support effective decision making and accountability. Trustees act collectively and decisions are recorded in line with good governance practice. ## _**Trustee Recruitment and Induction**_ Trustees are appointed in accordance with the charity’s constitution. The charity recruits the Trustees with skills, experience, and knowledge relevant to its activities, particularly in relation to sport, working with children and young people, safeguarding, finance, and governance. When vacancies arise, potential Trustees are identified through local networks, community contacts, and recommendations. New Trustees are appointed by the existing Board following appropriate consideration of the charity’s needs and the candidate’s suitability. All new Trustees receive an induction which includes information about the charity’s objectives and activities, their legal responsibilities as Trustees of a CIO, key policies and procedures (including safeguarding and health and safety), and an overview of the charity’s finances and governance arrangements. Trustees are encouraged to update their skills and knowledge through ongoing learning and training where appropriate. ## _**OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**_ Northwich MultiSports was established to develop opportunities for children and young people with disabilities and their families in the Cheshire West area. The objectives for Northwich MultiSport are: - To promote the participation of disabled children and young people by improving access to sport, recreation and leisure activities. - To develop learning and development by the provision of training and resources to assist people to develop their capacity and skills as coaches, volunteers and mentors. pg. 2 This year our target has been to continue our support for the physical and mental wellbeing of our members along with building their confidence to try a range of new and varied activities. We aimed to do this through improving our provision of exciting new projects, providing nurturing sessions and more offsite activities. ## **Vision Statement** Northwich Multisports’ vision is to create an inclusive, supportive and active community where children and young people of all abilities have equal access to high quality sporting and recreational opportunities. Through sport, the charity aims to promote physical wellbeing, confidence, social inclusion and positive life experiences, enabling participants to reach their full potential and feel valued within their community. ## **Mission Statement** Northwich Multisports’ mission is to provide safe, inclusive and engaging multisport activities for children and young people, promoting physical activity, wellbeing and social inclusion. The charity is committed to removing barriers to participation, supporting individual needs, and working with families and the local community to deliver positive, meaningful experiences through sport. ## _**ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE**_ Charitable activities Saturday Club During 2024-2025, the charity continued to demonstrate strong commitment to its charitable objectives, with a particular focus on inclusive community provision. A key achievement was the continued delivery of the Saturday Club for Northwich Multisports, which provided regular, accessible sporting and social opportunities for children and young people. Despite operational challenges during the year, charitable activities were maintained with dedication and care. However, there was a decrease in grants and donations in 2025, primarily due to periods of illness which limited capacity for fundraising, grant applications, and donor engagement. While this reduction impacted on overall income, it did not diminish the Charity’s commitment to service delivery or the quality of support provided. Overall, performance in 2024-2025 reflects resilience and adaptability. The continuation of the Saturday Club and other charitable activities demonstrates the Charity’s ability to prioritise impact, even in the face of reduced funding and personal health challenges. With improved capacity moving forward, there is a strong foundation for rebuilding funding streams and expanding charitable reach in future years. pg. 3 ## Activities we have been able to provide this year include: - Painting - Messy Play - Dance - Fitness - Athletics - Baking - Sports skills practice - Quizzes All sessions are supported by committed and dedicated staff and volunteers. ## **Holiday Club** During this financial year, Northwich Multisports ran activities on Tuesdays and Thursdays for all our young people, during each school holiday. These have continued to be popular as activities which are picked, and support which is given is based on the individuals' needs to participate and get the most out of our sessions. ## **Mentoring and Volunteering** Northwich Multisports have helped develop the skills of young adults by providing volunteering opportunities. This has led to young people with disabilities being part of a community with responsibility for the club. Volunteers go through an appraisal system to develop and enhance. ## _**ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE**_ During the year ended 31 March 2025, Northwich Multisports continued to deliver high quality, inclusive sports activities for children and young people aged 4 to 18 years. The Trustees are pleased with the progress made during the year and believe the charity has continued to meet its charitable objectives. Despite the ongoing challenges faced by small charities, including pressures on funding, staffing, and access to facilities, Northwich Multisports successfully sustained its programme of activities during the year. This was achieved through the commitment of volunteers, staff, and Trustees, and through effective management of available resources. The Trustees believe that the charity’s work during 2024–2025 has had a positive impact on the children and young people it supports and has strengthened the charity’s position within the local community. pg. 4 ## _**FINANCIAL REVIEW**_ ## **Future Financial Goals** The trustees are committed to strengthening the long term sustainability and impact of Northwich Multisports. Future financial goals include growing and diversifying income through grant funding, donations and community fundraising, while actively pursuing more secure and longer term funding to support and enhance core activities, including the Saturday Club. The trustees also aspire to build stronger financial resilience by developing reserves, investing in fundraising capacity, and maintaining robust financial governance. As funding allows, the charity aims to expand and develop its activities to achieve more beneficiaries, ensuring continued responsiveness to local need while remaining financially sound and aligned with its charitable objectives. ## **Special Thanks** We would like to take this opportunity to thank our generous donors, without whom we would not be able to provide the services that we do. Approved by order of the board of trustees on 31 January 2026 **Signed on its behalf by:** **Maria Lee Trustee 31[st] January 2026** pg. 5 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of Northwich Multisport On accounts for the year 2025 Charity no 1156918 ended (if any) Set out on pages CC16a 1 – 3** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2024. - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Date:** 31/01/2026 ~~|~~ **Signed: Name:** Anita Marie Maddock ~~Cs~~ Accountant (MIAB) (ACPA) **Relevant professional** Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers & Certified Public Accountants **qualification(s) or body** Association **(if any):** Top Cat Accountancy Ltd **Address:** Winnington House, Winnington Lane, Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire, England, CW8 4DE. 1 **October 2018** **IER** **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 brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **October 2018** **IER** ||||||**Northwich Multisports**|**Northwich Multisports**|**Northwich Multisports**|**Northwich Multisports**|**Northwich Multisports**|**Northwich Multisports**|**Northwich Multisports**|||||||||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||||||||||||||**1156918**||||||||||| |||||||||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||||||||||||||||**CC16a**|||| |||||||**For the period**
**from**||||**For the period**|||01/04/2024||||||**To**||||31/03/2025|||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||||||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**|||**Endowment**
**funds**||||**Endowment**||**Total funds**||||||**Last year**|||| ||||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**||||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|| ||**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||Donations||||**2,794**|**2,794**|**2,794**|**2,794**|**2,794**||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,794**|**2,794**||||**40,850**|**40,850**|**40,850**||| ||Grants||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**8,500**|**8,500**|**8,500**||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_||_(Gross income for_|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||_AR)_|**2,794**|**2,794**|**2,794**|**2,794**|**2,794**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,794**|**2,794**||||**49,350**|**49,350**|**49,350**||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
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**_Total receipts_**
**2,794**
**-**
**-**
**2,794**
**49,350**
———~~——~~||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||Venue Hire||||**4,530**|**4,530**|**4,530**|**4,530**|**4,530**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**4,530**|**4,530**||||**780**|**780**|**780**||| ||Direct costs and materials||||**91**|**91**|**91**|**91**|**91**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**91**|**91**|**91**|**91**||**21,058**|**21,058**|**21,058**||| ||Support workers and associated costs||||**28,687**|**28,687**|**28,687**|**28,687**|**28,687**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**28,687**|**28,687**||||**23,885**|**23,885**|**23,885**||| ||Insurance||||**1,023**|**1,023**|**1,023**|**1,023**|**1,023**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,023**|**1,023**||||**952**|**952**|**952**||| ||Accountancy and legal fees||||**588**|**588**|**588**|**588**|**588**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**588**|**588**|**588**|||**610**|**610**|**610**||| ||Bank refund||||**60**|**60**|**60**|**60**|**60**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**60**|**60**|**60**|**60**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||PAYE||||**2,222**|**2,222**|**2,222**|**2,222**|**2,222**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,222**|**2,222**||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||||| ||||**_Sub total_ **||**37,201**|**37,201**|**37,201**|**37,201**|**37,201**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**37,201**|**37,201**||||**47,284**|**47,284**|**47,284**||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 **----- Start of picture text -----**
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Fixed Asset Purchases - - -
- - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 37,201 - - 37,201 47,284
Net of receipts/(payments) - 34,408 - - - 34,408 2,066
A5 Transfers between funds - 327 - - - 327 2,684
A6 Cash funds last year end 75,947 - 75,947 71,197
Cash funds this year end 41,212 - - 41,212 75,947
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
**Barclays Bank**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**41,212**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**41,212**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**-**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 3