## **SHAKESPEARE PHAB**
**TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
**Charity Number 1158274**
## **SHAKESPEARE PHAB**
## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT**
## **For the year ended 31 July 2025**
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
**Charity Name** Shakespeare PHAB **Registered charity number** 1158274 **Charity’s principal address** 99, Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7LW
## **Trustees**
The trustees who served the charity during the year were:
Mrs Wendy Strophair (chair) Ms Natalie Bell
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation governed by an ‘Association’ Constitution.
## **Trustee selection methods**
The existing trustees are the first trustees appointed when the charity was registered. When additional trustees are required, either to fill a vacancy or to enlarge the group of trustees as the charity expands, people interested in the work of the charity will be canvassed. Advertisements may also be placed in local newspapers and with organisations such as Voluntary Action Stratford-on-Avon.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objects**
The object of the charity is the provision, or assistance in the provision – in the interests of social welfare – of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation for people with and without physical disabilities resident in the area of Stratford upon Avon District.
## **SHAKESPEARE PHAB**
## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT**
## **For the year ended 31 July 2025**
## **Activities**
During the year the charity has held fortnightly meetings attended by club members with physical and learning disabilities. At club meetings activities suitable for the members have been organised and include outings and theme nights at the club venue.
The trustees, having regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, consider that the activities provided help to meet the needs and improve the lives of people with physical and learning difficulties and their families in the area of Stratford upon Avon District.
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
The charity has continued to provide a facility for people with physical and learning difficulties to meet and take part in activities together. In coming years the charity aims to extend the range of activities enjoyed by club members.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
During the year the charity had receipts of £4,535 and a deficit of receipts over payments of £2,531. The activities of the charity are organised by volunteers and hence the charity does not have any employment costs. There are also no property costs. The charity’s fixed costs are therefore limited so the trustees consider that there is no need to carry significant reserves. The reserves built up at 31 July 2025 (£2,170) will be used in part to continue the range of activities offered to it’s members. The decision has been made to finish the club at the end of the Summer programme in August 2025. The decision has been made by the Trustees to donate and residual monies at the end of the year to Shakespeare Lions who have helped subsidise Shakespeare Phab’s Christmas meal over the years.
As there are minimal fixed costs for the charity we don’t believe there are any issues with us continuing as a going concern.
During the prior year there were issues with Barclays Bank closing the account in error and the reopening it. This led to some transactions being performed by the Chair and reimbursement for these has now been checked, authorise and made by the treasurer in full. Due to timing this expenditure is shown in the 2024/25 financial year statements.
## **DECLARATION**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Wendy Strophair Chair 08 October 2025
## **SHAKESPEARE PHAB**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
## **For the year ended 31 July 2025**
## **Section A Receipts and Payments**
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Period 1.8.23 to
Total funds
31.7.24
£ £
Receipts
Subscriptions 742 1,108
Contributions to events/transport costs 1,262 1,330
Donations 0 0
Grant 0 0
Total receipts 2,004 2,438
Payments
Events and activities 2,820 1,070
Transport costs 0 0
Insurance 649 0
PHAB membership 0 0
Miscellaneous 1,066 929
Total payments 4,535 1,999
Surplus/(deficit) of receipts over payments (2,531) 439
Cash funds last period end 4,701 4,263
Cash funds this year end 2,170 4,701
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## **SHAKESPEARE PHAB**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
## **For the year ended 31 July 2025**
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 July 2025**
||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**|**Restricted Funds**
**£**|**Total funds**
**£**|**31.7.24**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Cash funds**|||||
|**Cash at bank and in**
**hand**|**2,170**|**0**|**2,170**|**4,701**|
The trustees confirm, in accordance with the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012, that at the year end the CIO did not have any debts secured on the assets of the CIO.
## **Signed on behalf of the trustees**
Becky Davies Treasurer 08 October 2025