## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period**
**From: 15/04/2024 Period start date 16/04/2025 date**
## **To: Period end**
## **Charity name: Sansaw Mens Shed**
## **Charity registration number: 1158135**
## **Company number:**
## **Objectives and activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To provide a place in which older men can**
**meet to undertake some activities in the**
**company of others and provide help and**
**support when required.**|
|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|**The main activities of the shed may entail**
**us doing projects for the local community,**
**mending and repairing church notice**
**boards, restoring antique furniture and**
**making wooden items to sell at fetes to**
**generate much needed income**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have to sign a declaration of**
**interest before being appointed.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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||SORP reference|
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|
|Policy on social investment|Para 1.38|
|including program related||
|investment||
Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and performance**
**The shed has achieved a great deal since it was formed in 2014, completing many tasks including repairing and building a** Summary of the main Para 1.20 **variety of jobs.** achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the **We have a good working relationship with** charity’s work has made to **the local vicar who has referred us to a** the circumstances of its **variety of community projects.** beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Para 1.41 Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41 Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 Investment performance against objectives
Other
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## **Financial review**
|**Financial review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We had some very expensive utility bills**
**throughout the year but managed to not**
**go overdrawn.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22||
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|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)**
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**Annual memberships.** Para 1.47 The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) Para 1.46 Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted Para 1.46 A description of the principal risks facing the charity Other
## **Structure, governance and management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25|**Trust deed.**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
unincorporated association,
CIO|Para 1.25|**Incorporated.**|
|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|**We elect trustees when required, we try to**
**keep to a maximum of six.**|
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## **Additional information (optional)**
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Para 1.51 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 Other
## **Reference and administrative details**
|Charity name|**Sansaw Mens Shed.**|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|**1158135**|
|Charity’s principal address||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
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17|Andrew Slawson|Chairman|19/12/2015|~~**any)**~~|
||Gary Thompson|Treasurer|19/04/2023||
||Frank Buckley||10/10/2017||
||Harold Morgan||10/10/2017||
||Peter Dimelow||23/04/2025||
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
> **Director name N/A**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year N/A**
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held N/A in this capacity
Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**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 company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors**
**Signature(s)** Gary Thompson
**Full name(s)** Gary Richard Thompson
**Position (for example** Treasurer **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
Date
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Sansaw Me'n's Shed AGM 23/04/2025
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